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The term `critical finance studies¿ remains largely unfocused and undefined. Against this backdrop, the key rationales of The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies are to provide a coherent notion of this emergent field and to demonstrate its analytical usefulness across a wide range of central aspects of contemporary finance.

The term 'critical finance studies' remains largely unfocused and undefined. Against this backdrop, the key rationales of The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies are to provide a coherent notion of this emergent field and to demonstrate its analytical usefulness across a wide range of central aspects of contemporary finance"--

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion sheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and characterized by mimetic patterns.

A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets. Just as urban inhabitants are prone to being caught up in the city's flux, the same dynamic can cause traders on financial exchanges and even the algorithms of present-day financial markets to be captured by the maelstrom of the market.

A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets. Just as urban inhabitants are prone to being caught up in the city's flux, the same dynamic can cause traders on financial exchanges and even the algorithms of present-day financial markets to be captured by the maelstrom of the market.

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion sheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and characterized by mimetic patterns.

Der Franzose Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) war einer der bedeutendsten und originellsten Soziologen seiner Zeit, wurde aber im 20. Jahrhundert weitgehend vergessen. Dieser Sammelband präsentiert Tarde nicht nur als zu Unrecht vernachlässigten Klassiker, sondern zeigt auch das große Potential seiner Soziologie der Differenz für die aktuelle soziologische Theoriebildung. Die internationalen und interdisziplinären Beiträge beschäftigen sich insbesond...

Offers an introduction to the sociology of Niklas Luhmann. This book presents the key concepts in Luhmann's systems theory, including social systems, autopoiesis, self-reference, and second-order observation. It also introduces to his analysis of modern society as differentiated into a number of distinctive function systems.

Architecture is increasingly understood to be a sensual, spatial experience, which means that the experience of buildings and spatial constellations is also a perception of atmospheres that are rated as positive or negative. Architects, planners, investors, and politicians must produce effects such as these according to intersubjective and communicable criteria, and not intuitively or randomly. Architectural Atmospheres addresses the growing a...

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It considers how crime has been conceived as problem and, by scrutinising the responses that have been adapted to deal with crime, demonstrates how a range of power modalities have evolved throughout the twentieth century. Christian Borch shows how the tendency of criminologists to focus on either disciplinary power or governm...

This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity - its atmospheres, modes of exclusion, self-organization and governance - on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban theory, even though the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Consequently, this book aims to rethink what a city might be by studying how th...

This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity ¿ their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed ¿ on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban theory, given that the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Consequently, the proposed book aims to rethink what a c...

Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann¿s multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman. The book pays particular attention to introducing and discussing Luhmann¿s original sociological systems theory. It presents a thoroug...