Handbook on Politics and Society

This ground-breaking Handbook decentres theories of social and political arrangements originating from parochial histories of Europe and North America. It provides critical perspectives on capitalism, states and political mobilisation, adopting an interdisciplinary approach to key contemporary issues in politics and society. Chapters address decolonial notions of scholarship that build on alternative conceptualisations of political and social practices. Authors explore topics ranging from post-socialist economies and social reproduction to sex testing in sports; black beauty and blackness in a black majority world to conceptualisations of land, property and extraction through an Indigenous lens; the geopolitics of cities to #meToo in India; queer and labour politics of migration to the non-end of marriage; and human rights to care to gendered, raced and classed articulations of violence, before turning to rethinking futures. Including insights from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, the Handbook connects the politics of race, class, sexuality and gender. The Handbook on Politics and Society is an invaluable resource for students and academics in international political science and political sociology. Researchers, policymakers and practitioners in politics and anthropology will also benefit from its forward-thinking insights.