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De Gruyter Brill Social Sciences publishes cutting-edge research in the social sciences to address global challenges.

Our books and journals explore pressing issues — from inequality and migration to climate change, conflict and global governance.

22/12/2025

Check out "'Like Men They Stood': Black Male Vulnerability as Resistance to Stereotypes in Fiction Written by African American Women” by JTuula Kolehmainen now available in our European Perspectives on the United States book series!

What if vulnerability could reshape how we understand Black masculinity? This book reveals how late twentieth-century African American women authors represent Black men in ways that disrupt familiar readings of their portrayals as purely stereotypical. Through reframed interpretations, the book uncovers how Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor deploy Black male vulnerability as a powerful mode of resistance, troubling public and literary debates of stereotypical depictions of Black men in their fiction. By bringing Black male studies into dialogue with Black feminist and womanist thought, “Like Men They Stood” opens new ways of interpreting race, gender, and power in African American literature—and invites you to rethink how Black masculinity is represented, read, and understood.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73351

19/12/2025

Check out “The Organisation of Irresponsibility? Reassessing COVID-19 in Europe” by wan Kerr, Emina Bužinkić, and James Foley now available in our Studies in Critical Social Sciences Book Series!

📚 The COVID-19 pandemic challenged us to rethink how contemporary states navigate crises. Despite the extraordinary transformations of 2020–22, existing inequalities and power imbalances proved remarkably resilient. This volume argues that post-neoliberal states and governing classes were unequal to the historical moment, learning little about how to adapt to wider political, socio-economic, and ecological challenges. Bringing together critical perspectives, the book highlights how decision-making, leadership, and policy responses were inseparable from political power structures and societal contexts. The volume shows how crisis governance is actively contested, resisted, and shaped by social groups - and how social cleavages are either deepened or challenged in times of crisis.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73405

18/12/2025

Hello Denver👋 Join author of “Putting Women in Their Place,” Hilary Matfess at the Tattered Cover Bookstore on January 7th. Check out the Eventbrite link for information on purchasing tickets 👇

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15/12/2025

Check out “Transnational Post-Westerns” by Jesús Ángel González now available in our European Perspectives on the United States book series!

This book examines an emerging subgenre of films produced in various countries that make critical references to American Westerns while addressing the social, racial, and political contexts of the societies in which they were made. Drawing on Neil Campbell’s definition of post-Westerns as films “coming after and going beyond the traditional Western,” the book broadens the scope through a transnational perspective. It analyzes films from former European colonies (Australia and Argentina) and from European countries (France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain) that engage in dialogue with the Western genre and challenge its underlying values and assumptions.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73345

12/12/2025

Check out “Marxism and the Socialist Transition: Volume I: State, Power and Bureaucracy” by Roberto Sáenz (translated by Ian Barnett) now available in our Studies in Critical Social Sciences Book Series!

📚 We have before us the immeasurable historical laboratory of the Russian Revolution, the greatest revolution of our time, and also the most terrible bureaucratic counterrevolution. The working class fought, won, seized power, and expropriated the capitalists: a remarkable anti-capitalist feat. But it was then politically expropriated by the bureaucracy—that “tissue of practical illusions” which became a “political class”, degenerated the character of the state into a bureaucratic one, and blocked the socialist transition. This experience is ours to grasp and draw radical conclusions from. Socialist transition is a social, economic, and political process, in which real workers’ power is essential to lead the way.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73375

10/12/2025

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09/12/2025

Check out “Defeated Nation and Contested Womanhood: The Impact of the U.S. Occupation on the Reconstruction of National Identity in Postwar Japan” by Masako Endo now available in our Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race Book Series!

📚 This book investigates the impact of the U.S. occupation of Japan on the discursive remaking of Japanese womanhood. While exploring historical dynamics of Japanese femininity, it focuses on the context of the occupation in which meanings of gender, sexuality, race, and social class became particularly fluid.
Drawing on insights from studies of gender, sexuality, race, and nation, Masako Endo considers how the occupation overtly sexualized and situationally or essentially racialized certain groups of people. She argues that they, by challenging traditional Japanese gender roles and sexual mores, shaped national discourses of Japanese womanhood and nationhood in occupied and post-occupation Japan.

Learn more about the book: https://brill.com/display/title/71883

Learn more about the book series: https://brill.com/display/serial/GTPW

05/12/2025

Check out “Limits and Ambiguities of Social Policy under Neoliberalism in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina” by Fabiana de Oliveira now available in our New Scholarship in Political Economy Book Series!

📚 In today’s Latin America, social policy is a battleground. At stake is not just poverty relief, but the very meaning of citizenship and whether transformation is still possible in times of austerity and conservative backlash.
This book investigates the evolution of poverty reduction strategies in Brazil and Argentina over the past two decades, focusing on programmes like Bolsa Família and Asignación Universal por Hijo. Through a critical and comparative lens, it reveals how political agendas, institutional legacies, and economic crises have shaped—and undermined—social protection systems. It reveals the dilemmas faced by social policy in times of democratic erosion, economic crisis, and rising inequality across the Latin American region.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73306

03/12/2025

Cliff Young of Ipsos Public Affairs talked about his book, [Nativist Nation: Populism, Grievance, Identity, and the Transformation of American Politics].

28/11/2025

Check out “Altruism, Gifts and Symbolic Exchange: From Comte, to Durkheim, Mauss and Bourdieu” by Philippe Steiner (translated by Peter Hamilton) now available in our Theory Workshop Book Series!

📚 Altruism, gifts and symbolic exchange refer to a vast set of practices deeply embedded in our market societies. They were successively theorized by Auguste Comte, Marcel Mauss, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book follows the outline of a history that has hitherto been glimpsed only as a series of fragments and which needs to be reassembled in order to see its full scope. This history is structured in terms of three stages: a critique of political economy, a theoretical construction backed by empirical practices, and, finally, an assessment of the social effects of the dissemination of economic knowledge.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/56861

24/11/2025

Check out “Everyday Rituals in Contemporary Settings: The Semiotics of Space and Places of Consumption” by Alice Giannitrapani now available in our Popular Culture Book Series!

📚 A boutique, a cruise ship, a museum and a hotel all have something in common. But what? They are all places of consumption—not just in the narrow economic sense, but also as part of a broader cultural, emotional, and symbolic phenomenon.
Drawing on a semiotic approach, this book explores how designed environments from foodscapes to memorials convey meanings and guide everyday rituals, helping us to understand how space works as a language that structures practices, communicates values, and expresses identities.
If you're curious about how places work, why they affect us, and what they say, this book gives you the tools to decode them.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73524

21/11/2025

Check out “Studying Russia and its Wars: Academic Stocktaking in Times of Insecurity” by Yuliia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev now available on Brill.com!

📚 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took by surprise not only politicians in many countries, but also experts who, for many years after the end of the Cold War, were confident of the growing mutual interdependence between Russian and European economies, and in the changing function of borders - from dividing to connecting. Most scholars have not only overlooked the aggressive potential inherent in the seemingly innocent calls for multipolarity carried out by the Russian leadership. This book discusses how the current war in Ukraine makes the scholarly community reconsider previous assumptions of Russia’s domestic regime and security policies, and think of novel approaches to study the Russia-produced insecurities. This edited volume calls for a scholarly audit of the academic legacy that has prevented most researchers and public intellectuals from not only predicting, but also considering as a serious possibility the full-scale war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73283

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