Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while
postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus …

Drawing on posthumanist theories from geography, anthropology, and science and
technology studies (STS), this article argues that agency is shared unevenly between …

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New
York City area--two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian. At first pass, these …

Throughout the nineteenth century, Paris's police force sought to eliminate stray dogs from
the city's streets in the name of public hygiene and security. By the early twentieth century …

How do proto-state organizations achieve an initial accumulation of power, such that they
are in a position to grow (or shrink) as an organization, maintain their prestige (or lose it) …

What is “postcolonial sociology”? While the study of postcoloniality has taken on the form of
“postcolonial theory” in the humanities, sociology's approach to postcolonial issues has …

Power is the ability to send and bind someone else to act on one's behalf, a relation that
depends upon habits of interpretation. For persons attempting to complete projects, power …

Drawing on forty interviews, this article employs the framework of sexual projects to
investigate how middle-class Muslim women navigate the contradictory requirements of sex …

In this article, we propose a new direction for social theory, based on a distinction between
action and agency, a reconsideration of sociological theories of power, and a rereading of …

Deserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of
memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of …