Julaybib's Bookshelf: Social Theory

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OVERVIEW
  • Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. and Tiffin, H. [Eds.] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Routledge)
  • During, S. [Ed.] (1999) The Cultural Studies Reader (Routledge)
  • Eliot, A. and Turner, B. S. (2001) Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory (Sage)
  • Ellis, C. (2004) The Autoethnographic I (Oxford: AltaMira)
  • Gross, R. (2009) Themes, Issues, and Debates Within Psychology: Third Edition (Hodder)
  • Lambek, M. [Ed.] (2002) A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell)
  • Marris, P. & Thornham, S. [Ed.] (1999) Media Studies: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press)
  • Potter, J. (1996) Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction (Sage)
  • Smith, M. J. (1998) Social Science in Question (Sage/OUP)
  • Taylor, Mark C. [Ed.] (1998) Critical Terms for Religious Studies (Chicago University Press)

TOP TWENTY-THREE

  1. Ahmed, N. M. (2010) The User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization (London: Pluto Press)
  2. Ali, N., Kalra, V. and Sayyid, S. [Eds] (2006) A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (London: Hurst)
  3. Connell, R. W. (2002) Gender (Cambridge: Polity)
  4. Davies, N. (2009) Flat Earth News (London: Vintage Books)
  5. Dreger, A. D. (1998) Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (London: Harvard University Press)
  6. Hahnel, R. (2002) The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach (London: Pluto Press)
  7. Hobson, P. (2002) The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking (London: Pan)
  8. Jones, O. & Cloke, P. (2002) The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place (Berg)
  9. Kingsnorth, P. (2003) One No, Many Yeses (London: Free Press)
  10. Lawler, S. (2008) Identity: Sociological Perspectives (Cambridge: Polity)
  11. Lentin, A. (2008) Racism: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford: One World)
  12. Nadesan, M. H. (1997) Constructing Autism (London: Routledge)
  13. Noe, A. (2009) Out Of Our Heads (New York: Hill and Wang)
  14. Norberg-Hodge, H. (2000) Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, Revised Edition (London: Rider)
  15. Poole, E. (2002) Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims (London: I B Tauris)
  16. Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Oxford: Princeton University Press)
  17. Rose, N. (1999) Governing the Soul - Second Edition (London: Free Association Books)
  18. Sacco, J. (2003) Palestine (London: Jonathan Cape)
  19. Sardar, Z. (1999) Orientalism (Milton Keynes: Open University Press)
  20. Seabrook, J. (2007) The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty (London: Ni/Verso)
  21. Sayyid, S. & Vakil, A. [Eds.] (2010) Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives (Hurst and Co)
  22. Winn, D. (1983) The Manipulated Mind (London: Octagon Press)
  23. Young, R. (2003) Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

CELEBRATIONS

  • Ahmad, E., Barsamian, D. (2000) Confronting Empire (Cambridge: South End Press)
  • Ahmed, N. M. (2005) The War on Truth: Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (London: Arris)
  • Ahmed, N. M. (2006) The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (London: Duckworth)
  • Ali, A. (2000) Islamism: Emancipation, Protest and Identity, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.11-28
  • Allan, C. (2006) Defining moment, Society Guardian April 19th, p.1-2
  • Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso)
  • Asad, T. (1993) 'The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category', in M. Lambek [Ed.] (2001) A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (London: Blackwell)
  • Asad, T. (2003) Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (California: Stanford University Press)
  • Ashcroft, B., Griffen, G.& Tiffin, H. (2002) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature (London: Routledge)
  • Bauman, Z. (1993) Postmodern Ethics (London: Blackwell)
  • Bauman, Z. (2004) Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (London: Open University Press)
  • Begg, M (2006) Enemy Combatant (London: Simon & Schuster)
  • Bhabha, H. (1988) Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Bhabha, H. (1994) The Location of Culture (London: Routledge)
  • Black, M. (2002) No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (London: NI/Verso)
  • Blaut, J.M. (2000) Eight Eurocentric Historians (London: The Guilford Press)
  • Brah, A., Hickman, M. and Mac an Ghail, M. [Eds] (1998) Thinking Identities: ethnicity, racism and culture (London: Macmillan)
  • Butler, C. (2002) Postmodernism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Chomsky, N. (1999) Profit Over People (London: Seven Stories Press)
  • Chomsky, N. (2004) Hegemony or Survival (London: Penguin)
  • Cockburn, A. & St. Clair, J. (2003) The Politics of Anti-Semitism (California: Counterpunch and AK Press)
  • Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J. (2001) The Colonization of Consciousness, in M. Lambek [Ed.] (2001) A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (London: Blackwell)
  • Connell, R. W. (1995) Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity)
  • Crang, M. (1998) Cultural Geography (London: Routledge)
  • Critchley, S. (2008) Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Community, Politics of Resistance (London: Verso)
  • Davis, C. (1996) Levinas: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity)
  • Dean, M. (1999) Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London: Sage)
  • During, S. (1995) Postmodernism and Post-colonialism today, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Eickelman, D. F. and Piscatori, J. (1996) Muslim Politics (New Jersey: Princeton University Press)
  • Ellwood, W (2001) No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (London: NI/Verso)
  • El-Zein, A. H. (1977) Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for an Anthropology of Islam, Annual Review of Anthropology 6, p.227-254
  • Fairclough, N. (2003) Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research (London: Routledge)
  • Fanon, F. (1952) The Fact of Blackness, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Fanon, F. (1952/1986) Black Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto Press)
  • Foucault, M., Howard, R. [Trans] (1989) Madness and Civilization  (London: Routledge)
  • Foucault, M., Sheridan, A. M. [Trans] (1989) The Birth of the Clinic (London: Routledge)
  • Foucault, M., Sheridan Smith, A. M. [Trans] (1989) The Archaeology of Knowledge  (London: Routledge)
  • Foucault, M., Sheridan, A. [Trans] (1991) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London: Penguin)
  • Feyerabend, P. (1993) Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (London: Verso)
  • Fisher, M. (2009) Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (O Books)
  • Frank, (1998) ReORIENT (University of California Press )
  • Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Weinsheimer, J. & Marshall, D. G. [Trans] (2004) Truth and Method: Second Revised Edition (London: Continuum)
  • du Gay, P. [Ed.] (2000) Identity: A Reader (Open University/Sage)
  • Gilroy, P. (1997) Diaspora and Detours of Identity, in K. Woodward [Ed] Identity and Difference (London: Sage)
  • Gilroy, P. (2004) After Empire: Multiculture or Postcolonial Melancholia (London: Routledge)
  • Goffman, E. (1959/1971) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (London: Pelican)
  • Hall, S. (1980) 'Encoding and decoding', in S. Hall et al [Eds] (1980) Culture, Media and Language (London: Unwin Hyman)
  • Hall, S. (1989) 'New Ethnicities', in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Hall, S. (1993) The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power, in S. Hall and Bram Gieben [Eds] (1993) Formations of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity)
  • Hall, S. (1996) When was 'the Post-colonial?' Thinking at the Limit', in L. Curti and I Chambers [ed.] (1996) The Post-colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons (London: Routledge)
  • Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2001) Empire (Harvard: Harvard University Press)
  • Harvey, D (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity (London: Blackwell)
  • Harvey, D (2005) A Brief History of Neo-liberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Hobson, J. M. (2006) The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
  • Inda, J. X. & Rosaldo, R. [Eds.](2001) The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader (Blackwell)
  • Inda, J. X. [Ed.] (2005) Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Government and Life Politics (London: Blackwell)
  • Innes, C. L. (2002) A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
  • Jenkins, R. (2004) Social Identity: Second Edition (Routledge)
  • Johnson, C. (2006) The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic (London: Verso)
  • Kalra, V., Kaur, R. and Hutnyk, J. (2005) Diaspora and Hybridity (London: Sage)
  • Klein, N. (2000) No Logo (London: Flamingo)
  • Klein, N. (2005) No War: Americas real Business in Iraq (Gibson Square Books: Flamingo)
  • Klein, N. (2008) The Shock Doctrine (London: Penguin)
  • Kose, A. (1999) The Journey from the Secular to the Sacred: Experiences of Native British Converts to Islam, Social Compass, Sep 1999: 46, p.301 - 312
  • Kramer, G. (2000) On Difference and Understanding: The Use and Abuse of the Study of Islam, ISIM [International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World] Newsletter 5/00 p.6
  • Kundnani, A. (2007) The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (London: Pluto Press)
  • Lamming, G. (1960) The Occasion for Speaking, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Lukes, S. (2004) Power (London: Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Malak, A. (2005) Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English (State of New York University Press)
  • Marris, P. and Thornham, S. [Eds.] (2005) Media Studies: A Reader: Second Edition (Edinburgh University Press)
  • Mason, P. (2007) Live Working, Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global (London: Harvill Secker)
  • Madood, T. (1998) 'Anti-Essentialism, multiculturalism and the recognition of religious groups', Journal of Political Philosophy 6:4 p.178-199
  • MacIntyre, A. (2007) After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: 3rd Revised Edition (Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd)
  • McClintock, A. (1994) Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (London: Routledge)
  • McLaughlin, S. (2008) Representing Muslims: Religion, Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity  (London: Pluto Press)
  • McCutcheon, R. T. (2005) Religion and the Domestication of Dissent  (London: Equinox)
  • McLennan, G. (2003) Sociology, Eurocentrism and Postcolonial Theory, European Journal of Social Theory 6(1): 69–86
  • McRobbie, A. (2005) The Uses of Cultural Studies: A Textbook (Sage Publications)
  • Memmi, A. (1965/2003) The Colonizer and the Colonized (London: Earthscan)
  • Mitchell, W. J. T. (1992) Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Mohanty, C. T. (1986) Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, in Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner [Eds] (2006) Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks (London: Blackwell)
  • Monbiot, G. (2000) Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (London: Pan)
  • Modood, T. (2005) Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
  • Modood, T. (2007) Multiculturalism (Cambridge: Polity)
  • Morris, B. (1994) Anthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective (London: Pluto Press)
  • Morton, S. (2002) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (London: Routledge)
  • Nandy, A. (1983) The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (India: Open University Press)
  • Nandy, A. (1987) Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness (London: Oxford University Press)
  • Narayan, U. (1997) Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism (London: Routledge)
  • Nkrumah, Kwame (1970/2005)  Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (Monthly Review Press)
  • Parry, B. (1983) Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 (London: Verso)
  • Pilger, J. (2002) The New Rulers of the World (London: Verso)
  • Pilger, J. (2006) Freedom Next Time (London: Transworld)
  • Poole, E. and Richardson, E. [Eds] (2006) Muslims in the Media (London: I B Tauris)
  • Pryor, F. (2004) B.C. Britain: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans: New Edition (Harper Perennial)
  • Reitan, E. (2008) Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers (London: Wiley-Blackwell)
  • Roy, A. (2002) The Algebra of Infinite Justice (London: Flamingo)
  • Said, E. (2004) Culture and Imperialism (London: Vintage)
  • Said, E. (2000) Orientalism (London: Pantheon)
  • Sardar, Z., Nandy, A. & Davies, M. W. (1993) Barbaric Others: A manifesto on western racism (London: Pluto)
  • Sardar, Z. & Davies, M. (2004) Why Do People Hate America: New Updated Edition (London: Icon Books)
  • Savage, M. (2000) Class Analysis and Social Transformation (London: Open University Press)
  • Sayyid, S. (2003) A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentricism and the Emergence of Islamism: Second Edition (London: Zed Books)
  • Shilling, C. (1997) The Body and Difference, in K. Woodward [Ed] (1997) Identity and Difference (London: Sage)
  • Scott, J. C. (1992) Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (Yale University Press)
  • Scott, D. (2005) Colonial Governmentality, in Inda, J. X. [Ed.] (2005) Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (London: Blackwell)
  • Spivak, G. C. (1988) Can the subaltern speak? in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Stalker, P. (2001) No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration (London: NI/Verso)
  • Stiglitz, J. (2002) Globalization and its Discontents (Penguin, 2002)
  • Suleri, S. (1992) Women Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition, in B Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin [Eds] (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
  • Varisco, D. (2004) Islam Obscured (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan)
  • Wallerstein, I. (2006) European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power (The New Press)
  • Werbner, P. (2004) Theorising Complex Diasporas: Purity and Hybridity in the South Asian Public Sphere in Britain, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 30:5 pp.895-911
  • Young, G. (2010) Who We Are - and should it matter in the 21st century (London: Viking)
  • Young, R. (2001) Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (London: Blackwell)

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