Series: Key Ideas

Renewable Energies usually refers to usable energy sources that serve as alternatives to traditional fuel sources, but without the negatively evaluated consequences of the replaced fuels. Although energy issues have a long tradition in sociology and other social sciences, it may now be high time to conceptualise these in sociological terms as the lynchpin in our understanding of the way...

The increasing atomisation of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the...