Social Research after the Cultural Turn

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Social Research after the Cultural Turn: A (Self-)Critical Introduction

   • Sasha Roseneil, Stephen Frosh

   Pages 1-15

3. Doing Feminist Social Research after the Cultural Turn: Research with Practical Intention

   • Sasha Roseneil

   Pages 16-35

4. Identity Troubles: After the Cultural Turn

   • Lynne Segal

   Pages 36-55

5. Psychoanalysis after the Turn: Relationality, Ontology and Ethics

   • Stephen Frosh

   Pages 56-72

6. Living with Two Cultural Turns: The Case of the Study of Religion

   • Gordon Lynch

   Pages 73-92

7. Squatting in History: Queer Pasts and the Cultural Turn

   • Matt Cook

   Pages 93-109

8. The Gaze of Development after the Cultural Turn

   • Karen Wells

   Pages 110-123

9. Legal Studies after the Cultural Turn: A Case Study of Judicial Research

   • Leslie J. Moran

   Pages 124-143

10. The Cultural Turn, Racialisation and Postcoloniality

    • Yasmeen Narayan

    Pages 144-159

11. Turning to Food: Geography, Food Production/Consumption and the Cultural Turn

    • Rosie Cox

    Pages 160-177

12. The Politics of Method and the Challenge of Digital Data

    • Mike Savage

    Pages 178-196

13. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200

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This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today.

• Cultural Turn
• feminism
• identity
• social research
• social theory

• Birkbeck, University of London, UK

  Sasha Roseneil, Stephen Frosh

MATT COOK Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, specialising in the history of homosexuality in the British and urban context, and Co-Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre ROSIE COX Senior Lecturer in Geography and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GORDON LYNCH Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent, UK LESLIE J. MORAN Professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK YASMEEN NARAYAN Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK MIKE SAVAGE Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK LYNNE SEGAL Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK KAREN WELLS Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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