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Contents

Diagrams, Figures, and Tables viii
Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiv
Reviewers xvi

About the Contributors xix
INTRODUCTION 1

1 Introduction 3
Ann Denis and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

PART ONE: ANALYSES OF APPROACHES TO RESEARCH 7

2 Alienation: Critique and Alternative Futures 9
Lauren Langman and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

3 Identity, Citizenship and Contemporary, Secure, Gendered Politics of
Belonging 29
Nira Yuval-Davis

4 Sociological Practice and the Sociotechnics of Governance 42
Kjeld Hogsbro, Hans Pruijt, Nikita Pokrovsky, and George Tsobanoglou

5 Law Through Sociology’s Looking Glass: Conflict, and Competition
in Sociological Studies of Law 58
Reza Banakar

6 New Ways of Relating Authority and Solidarity: Theoretical
and Empirical Explorations 74
Elisa P. Reis

7 New Collaborative Forms of Doing Research 91
Jaime Jiménez