38 Sociology Introduction to Sociology Food & Society Principles and Paradoxes, 2nd Edition Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton & Betsy Lucal ●● This popular and engaging text, now revised in a second edition, offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system ●● It engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular ●● With updates and enhancements throughout reflecting the latest thinking and scholarship, the new edition provides an empirically rich, multi-faceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field ●● In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout Print ISBN: 978-1-509-50183-0 (Cloth) US$109.95 / 978-1-509-50184-7 (Paper) US$35.95 Dec 2016 • 264PP ISBN 978-1-5095-0184-7 9 781509 501847 e ISBN 978-1-5095-0183-0 9 781509 501830 Political Sociology Nature is a Battlefield Towards a Political Ecology Razmig Keucheyan ●● In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time ●● But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is very different. Just take the case of the siting of toxic waste landfills in the United States: if you want to know where waste is most likely to be dumped, ask yourself where Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and other racial minorities live and where the poorest neighbourhoods are. This kind of ‘environmental racism’ is by no means restricted to the United States: it is very much a global phenomenon ●● Through a sharp critique of the way capitalism responds to environmental disaster, this innovative book provides a fresh perspective on some of the most critical issues confronting our societies today ISBN 978-1-5095-0377-3 Print ISBN: 978-1-509-50377-3 (Cloth) US$69.95 / 978-1-509-50378-0 (Paper) US$24.95 • Sep 2016 • 220PP Nature is a Battlefield ISBN 978-1-5095-0378-0 9 781509 503780 9 781509 503773 Prison Worlds An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition Didier Fassin ●● The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there? ●● To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to their release ●● He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain security and order ●● At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies ISBN 978-1-5095-0754-2 Print ISBN: 978-1-509-50754-2 (Cloth) US$79.95 / 978-1-509-50755-9 (Paper) US$28.95 • Nov 2016 • 400PP ISBN 978-1-5095-0755-9 9 781509 507559 e 9 781509 507542
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