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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.

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

18/11/2025

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17/11/2025

Check out “The History of Korean Popular Culture” by Chang-nam Kim and translated by Oul Han and Jiyoung Suh now available in our Youth in a Globalizing World Book Series!

📚 "The History of Korean Popular Culture" is a landmark study that combines solid historical data with critical analysis, tracing the growth and development of Korean popular culture on the foundations of modern history. It goes beyond individual subgenres like film, music, and television to explore the broader cultural landscape, including the texts, authors, industries, markets, institutions, politics, technology, and media that shaped each era. The book also examines ideological struggles, generational differences, and the everyday lives and emotions of the public, offering a rich and nuanced interpretation of how popular culture both reflects and influences society.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/72617

14/11/2025

Check out “The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations” by Madalitso Phiri now available in our New Scholarship in Political Economy Book Series!

📚 "The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil" offers a radical departure by pivoting quotidian encounters of the historically oppressed ‘black racialised underclass’ within South Africa’s and Brazil’s social policy architectures that have been shaped by transhistorical trajectories of hierarchical citizenships. Phiri provides two interventions to scholarship, one on ‘the epistemic question’ and the second on ‘the social question’, by offering a critique of a racialised neoliberal global political economy that permeates the two countries’ social policies. In this volume, Phiri answers the following questions. First, can social policy resolve the residuals and contradictions of transhistorical inequalities that have become systemic features of these aspirant democracies that aim to forge a new social contract under the epoch of a hierarchical racialised neoliberal capitalism? Second, cognisant that both South Africa’s and Brazil’s socio-political formations are enmeshed in histories of imperial violence, and a hierarchical racialised global political economy carved through the Trans-Atlantic slavery, what paradigmatic and theoretical tools can be deployed to think about social policy as reparations? Third, cognisant of South Africa’s and Brazil’s oppressed black majorities, which institutions will create conducive conditions for the flourishing and political aesthetics for those racialised as black? The author's contribution to this oeuvre is first to define ‘social policy as reparations’ through a process of ‘worldmaking’.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/73168

10/11/2025

Check out “Class, Race, and the US South: American Politics and Society through the Lens of Michael Goldfield's Work” edited by Cody R. Melcher, Olivier Maheo, and Esther Cyna now available in our Book Series!

📚 This book, a Festschrift for labour militant and political scientist Michael Goldfield, features original contributions from the most prominent contemporary historical-materialist social scientists and historians. The collection’s uniting theme is that class, race, and the South are the most important mainsprings of American society. Combining labour history, southern history, and theoretical critiques of mainstream conceptualisations of racism, this work emphasises the working class as the primary driver of both reactionary and potentially revolutionary change.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/72401

10/11/2025

The New Yorker recently ran a profile of Zohran Kwame Mamdani mentioning our author Marc Kagan and his book "Take Back the Power."

The brother of US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Marc was one of Mamdami's favorite teachers in high school. His forthcoming book is a firsthand account of his years as an organizer in the city's transit union from the 1970s until the early 2000s.

Learn more on our website! The book is out in mid-December: https://brill.com/display/title/73488

07/11/2025

We love seeing our authors and translators with their books in hand! Congratulations to Terry Rugeley, who brilliantly translated "The Laboratory of the Revolution: Tabasco under Tomás Garrido Canabál, 1922-1935" by Carlos Martínez Assad.

📚 "Laboratory of the Revolution" is the first-ever professional study of Tomás Garrido Canabal, revolutionary strongman of Tabasco state between 1922 and 1935. He dreamed of turning Tabasco—an isolated backwater and the quintessential “banana republic”—into a beacon of progress. Garrido’s recipe for that progress consisted of ridding the state of religion, prohibiting alcohol and other vices, championing science, and boosting agriculture and ranching. He only fell from power when a shoot-out in Tabasco furnished the pretext for subordinating the state to President Lázaro Cárdenas’s centrally governed political machine, the forerunner of Mexico’s long-lived one-party system.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/72706

03/11/2025

🎧 A new podcast episode is now available: "Driving Productivity – Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany".

Anthony J. Knowles, hosted by Jenna Pittman, explores productivity, technology, and labor in a comparative perspective.

Listen here ➡️ https://newbooksnetwork.com/driving-productivity

For more inspiring conversations with Brill authors, check out our podcast channel De Gruyter Brill on the Wire: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-partners/brill

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