Mapping Political Sociology

Ambiguities and Complexities for Unpredictable Futures
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7048-5
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Mapping Political Sociology explores the evolving field of political sociology, offering innovative frameworks and approaches to understand its past, present, and future.

Offering cutting-edge insights into political sociology, including decolonial, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives, as well as new methodologies and concepts, this book guides readers through provocative and resonant ideas that redefine the discipline. Structured in three parts – 1) Sociology frameworks and concepts: revision and recuperation; 2) Political Sociology speaks to the future: crises old and new and 3) Political sociologists: intellectual pathways and conceptual epiphanies – the contributors trace their experiences in engaging with the political that reveals overlooked approaches, their embrace of “new” objects in the discipline, revisioning through decolonial/ feminist anti-racist treatment of well-trodden concepts and the development of new lenses to revise heterodox areas.

A valuable resource for both pedagogical and research purposes, the book offers an understanding of the field and engages with its most innovative and transformative approaches. It will be ideal for scholars, educators, and students of political sociology.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cullen, Pauline

Giorgi, Alberta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Content

Mapping Political Sociology. Ambiguities and Complexities for Unpredictable Futures

The Future and Political Sociology.

Pauline Cullen, Alberta Giorgi

Part 1 – Political Sociology frameworks and concepts: revision and recuperation

- Exploring Desire as a Political Concept: A Queer-feminist Ride

Stefanie Claudine Boulila

- Quilting the movement. A metaphor for engaging with social movement hybridity

elena pavan

- A Political Sociology of Care: Care Imaginaries and Care Pantomimes

Pauline Cullen

- Feminism and the Study of Institutions: Gendering the Analysis of Institutions from the Inside-Out

Cherry Miller

- Rethinking the Far Right Through a Social Movement Lens

Manuela Caiani

- Why and how territory in political sociology

Oscar Mazzoleni

- Charisma and Charismatic Leadership in Contemporary Democracies

Lorenzo Viviani

Part 2 – Political Sociology speaks to the future: crises old and new

- Politically Incorrect Humour in the Manosphere: A Pathway to Anti-Genderism?

Hande Eslen-Ziya

- The Political Sociology of Post-Truth Politics

Hans-Jörg Trenz

- The political sociology of emotions in the age of affective machines

Rosa M. Sanchez Salgado

- Reflections on Video Games in Far-Right Studies and Meaning-Making in Technocultural Worlds.

Briar Dickey

- Democratic backsliding in the EU: causes and means of diffusion

Carlo Ruzza

- In/visibilities in the political sociology of religion: epistemic responsibilities

Alberta Giorgi

- Rethinking power and privilege in political sociology. Averse co-production in studying far-right actors

Elzbieta Korolczuk

Part 3 – Political sociologists: intellectual pathways and conceptual epiphanies

- Journeying with Human Rights

Michele Grigolo

- Understanding Politics with the Sociology of Knowledge: from optimistic beginnings to austerity and digitalised de-democratisation

Rosalind Cavaghan

- Feminist political economy: A companion on a journey from gender equality policy to economic governance

Anna Elomäki

- Abolitionist Futures of Intersectionality

Anna Carastathis

- Political sociology, collective action, and the roots of transformative environmental governance

Louisa Parks

A political sociology of and for the future.

Pauline Cullen, Alberta Giorgi

Über Autor(innen)

Pauline Cullen is Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, researching civil society and feminist analysis of inequalities in representation and care. Her recent book is Pathways to Political Candidacy for Minoritised Women in Ireland (2025).

Alberta Giorgi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Her work explores boundaries and classifications, at the intersection of politics, gender, religion, science. Recent publications include (Un)silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts (Routledge, 2026, with with H. Eslen-Ziya) and The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe (2026, with E. Fokas).