Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had
long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship …

The past 20 years have seen an explosion of research and theory into the emotions of
protest and social movements. At one extreme, general theoretical statements about …

Joy is a crucial element of people's everyday lives that has been understudied by
sociologists. This is particularly true for scholarship about transgender people. To address …

In a classic theory, Durkheim (1912) predicted that because of the social sharing of emotion
they generate, collective gatherings bring participants to a stage of collective effervescence …

In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics,
thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and …

In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of
sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio …

The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam
industry, also known as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes …

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the
interplay between social movements and their'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of …

Collective emotions are at the heart of any society and become evident in gatherings,
crowds, or responses to widely salient events. However, they remain poorly understood and …

The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global
citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international …