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The Sociological Review Monographs

The Sociological Review Monograph Series

Editor, Professor Chris Shilling, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

The key international journal The Sociological Review is home to a prestigious Monograph Series that publishes collections of outstanding and original scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest.*

Dedicated to showcasing the very best and most innovative sociologically informed work, and to promoting emerging as well as established academics, the series has for over fifty years produced intellectually stimulating, coherent volumes of the highest quality. The books are available to buy separately, but are also included as part of The Sociological Review journal subscription price.

We are always interested in proposals for new books in the series and you may email your proposal for consideration to the Book Series Editor, Professor Chris Shilling, at C.Shilling@kent.ac.uk.

*All articles published within the monographs are included within the ISI Journal Citation Reports® Social Science Citation Index.

Our latest Monographs are:

  • Norbert Elias and Figurational Research: Processual Thinking in Sociology (edited by Norman Gabriel and Stephen Mennell)
  • Sociological Routes and Political Roots (edited by Michaela Benson and Rolland Munro) forthcoming
  • Nature After the Genome (edited by Sarah Parry and John Dupre)
  • Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis (edited by Bob Carter and Nickie Charles)
  • Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism (edited by David Bell and Martin Parker)
  • Un/knowing Bodies (edited by Joanna Latimer and Michael Schillmeier)
  • Remembering Elites (edited by Mike Savage and Karel Williams)
  • Market Devices (edited by Michel Callon, Yuval Millo and Fabian Muniesa)
  • Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects (edited by Chris Shilling)
  • Sports Mega-Events: Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon (John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter)
  • Against Automobility (edited by Steffen Bohm, Campbell Jones, Chris Land and Matthew Paterson),
  • A New Sociology of Work (edited by Lynne Pettinger, Jane Parry, Rebecca Taylor and Miriam Cluckman)
  • Contemporary Organization Theory (edited by Campbell Jones and Rolland Munro)
  • Others include Feminism
  • After Bourdieu (edited by Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs),
  • After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (edited by Nick Crossley and John Michael Roberts),
  • Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance (edited by Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton),
  • Masculinity and Men’s Lifestyle Magazines (edited by Ethan Benwell),
  • Emotions and Sociology (edited by Jack Barbalet)
  • Utopia and Organization (edited by Martin Parker),
  • The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences (edited by Jane Parish and Martin Parker),
  • The Consumption of Mass (edited by Nick Lee and Rolland Munro),
  • Reading Bourdieu on Society and Culture (edited by Bridget Fowler),
  • Whose Europe? (edited by Dennis Smith and Sue Wright)
  • Actor Network Theory and After (edited by John Law and John Hassard).

We are keen to receive innovative collections of work in sociology and related disciplines with a particular emphasis on exploring empirical materials and theoretical frameworks which are currently under-developed.

If you wish to discuss ideas for a Monograph then please contact Chris Shilling, e-mail c.shilling@kent.ac.uk

The Sociological Review Monograph Series - Call for Proposals

Submit before 2nd December, 2011.

The international refereed journal The Sociological Review is home to the Sociological Review Monograph Series. This series publishes edited collections of outstanding and original scholarly articles on issues of wide sociological interest and is dedicated to promoting emerging as well as established academics. For more information, see http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-324292.html

We are currently seeking proposals for the second monograph of 2013. The deadline for proposals is Friday 2nd December 2011, and the completed edited collection will be delivered to the series editor, Professor Chris Shilling, in March 2013.

Proposals should be no more than seven pages long (double spaced, Times 12 font) and should include names and details of editors and contributors, rationale for and aims of the collection, provisional titles and abstracts of papers, and marketing justification for the collection (e.g. distinctiveness of collection in relation to existing publications).

All articles published within the monographs are fully refereed, have the status of journal articles, and are included within the ISI Journal Citation Reports and the Social Science Citation Index. The usual length of final completed collections is approximately 80,000 - 90,000 words.

Please send completed proposals to the series editor at C.Shilling@kent.ac.uk