Willem Schinkel

Imagined Societies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Imagined Societies analyses how discussions of immigrant integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107129733
• ISBN-10: 1107129737
• Artikelnr.: 46481933

Autorenporträt

Willem Schinkel is Professor of Social Theory at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. He is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a well-known intellectual in the Dutch public sphere.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Immigrant integration imaginaries in Western Europe
2. Imagining society: social theory and/as social imagination
3. Measuring society: moral monitoring and the social science of 'immigrant integration'
4. Transformations of racism: the rise of culturism
5. Traditionally modern: contemporary frameworks of sexuality and religion
6. The uses of citizenship
7. Social science: between moral monitoring and public sociology.