About our Publications
Staff regularly publish field-defining books, journal articles and special issues.
In the 2012 QS world rankings Sociology at Lancaster has a per capita citation score of 68.9; this is the 29th highest citation ranking in the world, and the 4th highest cited department outside north America.
Journals
The Mobilities journal is edited by John Urry from the department. Other journal edited by staff in the department include:
- Feminist Theory (Celia Roberts)
- Gender, Work and Organization (Sylvia Walby)
- New Genetics and Society (Richard Tutton)
- Social Studies of Science, Collaborating Editor (Lucy Suchman)
- Science as Culture, Reviews Editor (David Tyfield)
- Social Science and medicine, Associate Editor (Maggie Mort)
An Archive of Online papers from 2005-2008 can be downloaded from our website. Details of more recent publications can be found in the Lancaster University Research Portal or in staff profiles.
A selection of Recent Books
![Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban](images/books/cronin_ad_commercial.gif)
Anne Cronin -
Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban 2010 |
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Tim Dant - Television and the Moral Imaginary 2012
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Bulent Diken - Reolt, Revolution, critique 2011 |
![Nihilism](images/books/diken_nihilism.jpg)
Bulent Diken -
Nihilism 2011 |
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Debra Ferreday - Online belongings 2009 |
![Multicultural Horizons](images/books/fortier_multicultural_horizons.gif)
Anne-Marie Fortier -
Multicultural Horizons 2008 |
Bob Jessop with Ngai Ling Sum - Towards A Cultural Political Economy 2013
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Adrian Mackenzie - Wirelessness 2011 |
![](images/books/McNeil_Human_Cloning_in_the_Media.jpg)
Maureen McNeil - Human cloning in the media 2008
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![Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology](images/books/mcneill_feminist_cultural_studies.gif)
Maureen McNeil -
Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology 2007 |
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Karenza Moore - Key Concepts in Drugs and Society 2013
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Maggie Mort and Celia Roberts - Aging, technology and home care 2008
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![Animal Disease and Human Trauma](images/books/Mort_animal_disease_and_human_trauma.jpg)
Maggie Mort -
Animal Disease and Human Trauma 2001 |
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Ian Paylor – Social work and drug use 2012
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Andrew Sayer - Why things matter to people CUP 2011 |
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Elizabeth Shove - The Dynamics of Social Practice, Sage 2012
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David Tyfield - The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview 2012
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David Tyfield - The Economics of Science:A Critical Realist Overview 2012
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Imogen Tyler - Revolting subjects 2013 |
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John Urry, with Kingsley Dennis - After the Car 2009
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John Urry - Mobile Lives 2010
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![](images/books/urry-climate-change.jpg)
John Urry - Climate Change and Society 2011 |
![](images/books/urry-tourist-gaze.jpg)
John Urry - The Tourist Gaze 3.0 2011 |
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John Urry - Societies Beyond Oil 2013 |
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Sylvia Walby - The Future of Feminism 2011 |
![Globalisation and Inequalities](images/books/walby_globalization_and_inequalities.jpg)
Sylvia Walby -
Globalisation and Inequalities 2009 |
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Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne - Barcoding Nature: shifting taxonomic practices in an age of biodiversity loss 2013
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Richard Tutton-
Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalized Medicine 2014
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Recent Edited Books and Special Issues
![Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work](images/books/Buscher_ethnographies_of_diagnostic_work.jpg)
Monika Buscher -
Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work 2009 |
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Monika Buscher - Design research: synergies from interdisciplinary perspectives 2011 |
![Consuming the Entrepreneurial City](images/books/Cronin_consuming_the_entrepreneurial_city.jpg)
Anne Cronin -
Consuming the Entrepreneurial City 2008 |
Debra Ferreday - Hope and feminist theory 2011
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![Education and the Knowledge Based Economy in Europe](images/books/jessop_education_and_kb_economy.jpg)
Bob Jessop -
Education and the
Knowledge-Based
Economy in Europe 2008 |
![](images/books/Mackenzie Cinema.jpg)
Adrian Mackenzie - Cinema and technology 2009 |
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Celia Roberts - Special issue of Feminist Theory on 'Nonhuman feminisms' 2011
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![](images/books/shove-spurling-sustainable.jpg)
Elizabeth Shove - Sustainable Practices: Social theory and climate change 2013
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Elizabeth Shove - Comfort in a lower carbon society 2009 |
![Time, Consumption and Everyday Life](images/books/Shove_time_consumption_and_everyday_life.jpg)
Elizabeth Shove -
Time, Consumption
and Everyday Life 2009 |
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David Tyfield - Special issue of Journal of knowledge-based innovation in China on 'Low-carbon innovation in China’ 2009
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Imogen Tyler - The special issue of Citizenship Studies on 'Immigrant protest' 2013
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John Urry - Cities and Fascination 2011
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Bronislaw Szerszynski and John Urry - Special issue of Theory Culture and Society on 'Changing Climates' 2010
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Monika Buscher and John Urry - Mobile Methods 2011
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![](images/books/urry-mobilities-perspectives.jpg)
John Urry - Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society 2012
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John Urry - Special issue of City & Community on ‘Aeromobilities: theory and methods’ 2010
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Full publication list
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