Social Sciences

AI Futures

AI FUTURES is the first book series which presents a critical analysis of Artificial Intelligence with a particular emphasis on its implication for society. It connects current research into the ethics of AI, to research initiatives focused on the variegated impacts of Artificial Intelligence, including on marginalised communities and on the Global South. As such, AI FUTURES encompasses a unique...

Alternative Sinology

This series provides a dedicated outlet for monographs and edited volumes in all fields of humanities and social sciences from medieval to contemporary on East and Southeast Asia. It is particularly interested in those that take alternative views on China; use alternative research methodologies to achieve unique outcomes; focus on otherwise understudied or marginalised aspects, Chineseness, or the...

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography

This series provides a new forum for authors and practitioners from across the digital humanities and social sciences to explore the rapidly developing opportunities offered by visual, acoustic and textual media for generating ethnographic understandings of social, cultural and political life. The series addresses both established and experimental fields of visual anthropology, including film,...

Contemporary Anarchist Studies

This series promotes the study of anarchism as a framework for understanding and acting on the most pressing problems of our times. The series publishes cutting-edge, socially engaged scholarship from around the world – bridging theory and practice, academic rigor and the insights of contemporary activism. ...

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Law and Medical Humanities

This series focuses on the strong foundations and reputation of the University of Manchester's world-leading scholars in bioethics. It includes internationally respected works on bioethics and the humanities, which consider contemporary, historical and future bioethical questions of the highest social and moral concern and interest. ...

Critical Powers

Critical Powers is dedicated to constructing dialogues around innovative and original work in social and political theory. The series welcomes work from different philosophical traditions and theoretical orientations, ranging from abstract conceptual argument to concrete policy-relevant engagements, and encourages dialogue across the diverse approaches that populate the field of social and...

Critical Theory and Contemporary Society

The Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series aims to demonstrate the continuing relevance of multi-disciplinary research in explaining the causes of pressing social problems and indicating possible paths towards a libertarian transformation of 21st century society. It builds on the ideas of first-generation critical theorists, including Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse and Fromm, but...

Global Icons

The Pluto Educational Trust is proud to support the Global Icons series. Books published in this series will celebrate and honour individuals whose thought, activism and enduring work ‘changed the world’. The Global Icons series will publish books in honour of Walter Rodney, who wrote and struggled for the freedom of black and colonised peoples. Our goal is publish Icons who have become...

Global Studies of the Far Right

We are living in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty and chaos. The edifice of the old liberal order is starting to crack and a new, illiberal order is appearing on the horizon. The complexity and seriousness of these changes is such that now more than ever scholars are needed to weigh in on – and make sense of – these ‘shifting sands’. ...

Global Urban Transformations

Global Urban Transformations is a new series that brings a fresh perspective to the field of interdisciplinary urban studies. Books are international, working within a global frame of reference, whether comparatively or through focused cases demonstrating transnational processes. The series is informed by the past but future-oriented, addressing the challenges faced by emergent cities of the...

Globalizing Sport Studies

'In my mind, this series is the most significant development in the sociology of sport in many years.' ...

Governing Intimacies in the Global South

Governing Intimacies in the Global South deploys the categories of intimacy and governance to offer novel insights into the subjects, politics and cultures of the global south. The series showcases work that speaks to the affective and intimate worlds of subjects located in Asia, Africa and Latin America while remaining attuned to governmental, social and other regulatory frames that undergird...

Human Remains and Violence

Our Human Remains and Violence series aims to question the social legacy of mass violence by studying how different societies have coped with the dead bodies resulting from war, genocide and state sponsored brutality. However, rather paradoxically, given the large volume of work devoted to the body on the one hand, and to mass violence on the other, the question of the body in the context of mass...

Inscriptions: writing the social studies of science

Since the very earliest studies of scientific communities, we have know that texts and worlds are bound together. One of the most important ways to stabilise, organise and grow a laboratory, a group of scholars, even an entire intellectual community, is to write things down. As for science, so for the social studies of science: Inscriptions is a space for writing, recording and inscribing the most...

Irish Society

The Irish Society series provides a critical, interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of Ireland that reveals the processes and forces shaping social, economic, cultural and political life, and their outcomes for communities and social groups.  The books seek to understand the evolution of social, economic and spatial relations from a broad range of perspectives, and explore the challenges facing...

Lund University Press

Lund University Press publishes high-quality and rigorously peer-reviewed books in the Humanities, Theology and Social Sciences. The press was set up in 2015 to bring world-wide exposure to important research produced at Lund University. In collaboration with Manchester University Press, who produce, market and sell our books, Lund University Press publishes a couple of volumes a year. All are in...

Manchester Capitalism

Manchester Capitalism is a series of books which follows the trail of money and power across the systems of our failing capitalism. The books make powerful interventions about who gets what and why in a research based and solidly argued way that is accessible for the concerned citizen. They go beyond critique of neo liberalism and its satellite knowledges to re-frame our problems and offer...

Materialising the Digital

Materialising the Digital seeks to interrogate the infrastructures, relationships and imaginaries of digital technologies through situated, empirical analyses of the production, circulation and use of digital devices and systems. ...

Music and Society

Music and Society aims to bridge the gap between music scholarship and the human sciences. A deliberately eclectic series, its authors are nevertheless united by the contention that music is a social product, social resource and social practice. ...

New Ethnographies

New Ethnographies stimulates interest in ethnographic research methods across the social sciences. It places particular emphasis on work that engages with ethnography in new and interesting ways, exploring how the study of certain kinds of new cultural and social phenomena demand imaginative reconfigurations of more traditional approaches to ethnographic fieldwork. ...

Pocket Politics

Pocket politics presents short summaries of complex topics on socio-political issues both in Britain and overseas. Academically sound, accessible and aimed at the interested general reader, the series addresses a subject range including political ideas, economics, society, the machinery of government and international issues. Authors are encouraged, should they choose, to offer their own...

Racism, Resistance and Social Change

Racism, Resistance and Social Change is committed to providing a forum for the publication of challenging and innovative scholarship on questions about race, racism and ethnic relations. We have seen intense debate about these issues both globally and within particular geopolitical environments. This series provides a forum for scholars...

Rethinking Borders

Crossing to the other side has many meanings, depending on what is crossing, where, when and why. Yet it always involves borders: there can be no other side without a marker between the sides, something that gives the sense of a difference between here and that other place. Equally, refusing to cross, or refusing to accept the crossers, also requires a marker between different sides. ...

Theory for a Global Age

Globalisation is widely viewed as a current condition of the world, but there is little engagement with how this changes the way we understand it. This series addresses the impact of globalisation on the social sciences and humanities. Each title focuses on a particular theoretical issue or topic of empirical controversy and debate, addressing theory in a comprehensive and interconnected manner....

Universities and Lifelong Learning

Universities and Lifelong Learning analyses the external engagement activities of universities and third-level institutions and is concerned with the range of activity that lies beyond the traditional mission of teaching and research. This is an area that until now has seldom been explored in depth and has rarely if ever been treated in a holistic manner. ...

Women on the Move

Women on the Move is a transdisciplinary book series that focuses on unveiling the presence and multiplicity of experiences of women in migration processes. The series bridges the gap between historical and contemporary approaches, its objective being to publish books on women’s migration from a wide variety of perspectives, time frames and geographical outlooks, with a combination of...

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