Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter, Axford, Brisbourne, Halperi..

Taylor & Francis

Political Sociologies of the Cultural EncounterEssays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalization\nAuthor(s): Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, Sandra Halperin, Claudia Lueders\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367347314, 978-0367347314\nSynopsis\nThis book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields. \n\nIt builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a perspective that rejects the limitations imposed by established boundaries, whether disciplinary, conceptual, symbolic or material. Established and early career academics explore and embrace contemporary political sociology following the global and cultural turns of recent decades. Categories such as state, civil society, family, migration, citizenship and identity are interrogated and sometimes found to be ill-su.