'Why the Social Sciences Matter: More Than Ever'—edited by Jonathan Michie and @profcarycooper.bsky.social—explores the defining challenges of our time, from #ClimateChange and inequality to migration and global conflict. bit.ly/4rRObwZ#ClimateChange#SocSci #MigrationResearch #ResearchPublishing #BookSky

#JustPublished on our #SocSciMatters blog: Rohini Balram, author of Young #Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces: An #Arts-Based Approach (shorturl.at/0ckid), on South Asian Women Transforming #Sport in #Oceania: shorturl.at/XSUEo. @hss.springernature.com #sportsociology

#JustPublished in 'New Directions in Islam': The Pivot 'Muslim Youth in Southeast Asia', ed. by Mohd Al Adib Samuri and @peterhopkins.bsky.social . Read, download or purchase the e-book/hardcopy here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 20% off with discount code PALAUT. @hss.springernature.com

#JustPublished in 'Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship': The volume 'Communities of Care in Migration', ed. by @leahmouse.bsky.social and Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. Read, download or purchase the e-book/hardcopy here: shorturl.at/YQThC 20% off with discount code PALAUT. @hss.springernature.com

All set up at #SAANZ2025 in the Alan MacDairmid building right near the registration @ Victoria Uni of Wellington, New Zealand. Come say hi and browse new books! #sociology #PalgraveMacmillan

#SAANZ2025 in Wellington, New Zealand is just around the corner and I will be there with new books! Want to have a 1:1 chat? Book a meeting: calendly.com/jessica-faec... #Sociology #PalgraveMacmillan @hss.springernature.com rnature.com

First day #TASA2025 @ Narrm/Uni of Melbourne done and dusted. Busy first day as usual but always nice to see familiar faces again and to meet new ones, hence, a belated #Palgrave book booth pic! Congrats, Rohini Balram, Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar to successful book launches!

#TASA2025 @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social in Melbourne is just around the corner and I will be there with new books! I will also host an interactive author workshop: shorturl.at/hvXNs. Want to have a 1:1 chat? Book a meeting: shorturl.at/k4B9V #Sociology #PalgraveMacmillan @hss.springernature.com

Our new Palgrave Macmillan hub is finally online! All #Palgrave books, book series and journals in one place: link.springer.com/brands/palgr... #AcademicSky #SocialSciences #Sociology @hss.springernature.com

#JustPublished – ‘Long Covid and Society: International Perspectives’, edited by Deborah Lupton. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Chapters 1 and 14 are free to read in #OpenAccess. #Sociology #LongCovid #PublicHealth @hss.springernature.com

Announcing the launch of a new Palgrave book series: ‘Platform Societies’. Check out the website and get in touch if you have a book idea for the series: bit.ly/3WFVppn. @jessicafaecks.bsky.social

#HalloweenSale is here! Enjoy a 30% sitewide discount on @springernature.com #books and #eBooks. Apply code HAL30 at checkout. Hurry, the sale is live until October 31st. bit.ly/47hhQHv#HalloweenSale#books#eBooks#BookSky #AcademicSky

#JustPublished in #OpenAccess - 'Growing Up Rural: Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries', ed. by Kaisa Vehkalahti et al. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com #YouthStudies

#JustPublished in 'Studies in Childhood and Youth' - The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children's Rights in Australia, ed. by @camillanelson.bsky.social et al. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology #Palgrave

A new edited volume #JustPublished in #Migration, #Diasporas and #Citizenship: 'Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights - Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance, eds. @itiraladaggorentas.bsky.social, @buketozdemirdal.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Tune in today! Please note the new link to the Zoom meeting to celebrate the publication of "The Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia", hosted by the Joya Art Gallery, UP Cebu, and DeZIM-Institut, Berlin: Webinar ID : 974 5373 7527 Passcode: 15719185 up-edu.zoom.us/j/9745373752...

A new #PalgravePivot just published in #OpenAccess: 'Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation' by Changzoo Song. Read, download or purchase the hardcover here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hssf415.bsky.social #sociology #migration

#JustPublished in link.springer.com/series/15874: 'Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces - An Arts-Based Approach' by Rohini Balram. Read, download or purchase the book here (HC, e-book, MyCopy): link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology @hss.springernature.com

A new #PalgravePivot #JustPublished: 'Neighbourhood Ecologies - Creative Ethnographies of Urban Environments' by Ilaria Vanni and Alexandra Crosby. Read, download or purchase the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... (or ask your trusted librarian!) @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

Check out our new series Palgrave Studies in Disability in Asia and the Pacific: bit.ly/3HiR4V6 If you have a book idea or would like to know more about publishing opportunities in our new #DisabilityStudies programme, contact me at [email protected]

Hybrid #BookLaunch Alert 'The #Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia' (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...), hosted by the University of the Philippines Cebu. When? 3 Sep 2025, 10:00 AM CEST; 4:00 PM PhST; 5:00 AM GMT. Join via Zoom (995 4172 2980 / UPCebuCCAD) and celebrate with the editors!

I'm excited to be hosting an interactive author workshop at this year's @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social's conference in Melbourne: Academic book publishing – From proposal to publication. More info in the online programme which has just been released: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74508/...

New week, new books: #JustPublished - 'Visual Culture in the #Philippines', ed. Veronica L. Gregorio and published in our 'Social Visualities' book series. Read, download or purchase the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology #PalgraveMacmillan @hss.springernature.com

#JustPublished: 'South Asians in Southern Europe: Exploring #Labour, #Identity, and #Desire', edited by Reena Kukreja. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #migration #diaspora #SouthAsia #SouthernEurope @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

#JustPublished: 'Diaspora and Soft Power: Influence of Indian American Elites in US Foreign Policy' by Eva Loreng. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #diaspora #migration #ForeignPolicy #IR @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

#AcademicSky: Are you a social scientist researching the future of #work and #care? Do consider submitting an abstract for a contributed volume, edited by a stellar team: docs.google.com/forms/d/11V0... #sociology @hss.springernature.com @lutfunlata.bsky.social @drshereegregory.bsky.social

🏄 Behind the headlines on Australia's major tourism deal with #China. What does Chinese #tourism in #Australia looks like in the 21st century? This book by John Connell, Phil McManus and Xuesong Ding explains link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com

My coauthored book with Rosario Rizzo Lara, Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences, has just been published! Please let me know if you're interested. @jessicafaecks.bsky.social @springernature.com #sociology link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#JustPublished: 'Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences', by @vilahen.bsky.social and Rosario Rizza Lara. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #sociology #socialsciences @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

#SaveSociology: Please endorse @isa-sociology.org's 'A Time for Sociology' Declaration #ISAForum - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#JustPublished in our cross-imprint #SustainableDevelopmentGoals book series (#SDG5): 'Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises', ed. by Dale Dominey-Howes et al. Download or purchase it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hss.springernature.com #PalgraveMacmillan

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

2025 marks 25 years since Palgrave Macmillan revived the Palgrave name, continuing a long Macmillan tradition of publishing leading thinkers in Humanities, Social Sciences & Business 🎉. We caught up with Christina Brian, VP, Books: bit.ly/3HaHoeZ #PalgraveMacmillan25

📢 In a new podcast with @choicereviews.bsky.social, we reflect on 25 years of Palgrave Macmillan and explore why Humanities & Social Sciences are essential to shaping today’s AI research landscape. 🎧 Listen to Part 1: bit.ly/4easRwl, and Part 2: bit.ly/3FMBdxv. #AcademicSky #AI

And another one #JustPublished by#Palgrave: Reshaping #Rohingya Futures - Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies, edited by Nasir Uddin, explores unaddressed aspects of #post-genocide Rohingya lives in #Bangladesh's camps while shedding light on their #resilience, survival strategies and #agency.

#JustPublished: The Palgrave Handbook on #Decoloniality in #Asia, edited by Phoebe Sanchez, Regletto Imbong, Matthew Ming-tak Chew, Caroline Schöpf: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... includes more than 25 contributions by humanities and social science scholars from the Global North and Global South

#JustPublished in #OpenAccess: Claudine Burton-Jeangros' 'Experiences of Health Risks' in our 'Critical Studies in #Risk and #Uncertainty' book series: shorturl.at/ozyAg for sociologists of #health and #illness, #risk studies, as well as health professionals and policymakers.

@springernature.com's key title of the month: Robert Bartholomew's and Paul Weatherhead's 'Social Panics & Phantom Attackers': shorturl.at/XpzLL. Listen to the author interviews here: shorturl.at/CcqWt (BBC Radio Leeds), shorturl.at/WCQKA (New Zealand Radio), shorturl.at/QRY5p (New Zealand Radio).

Happy Friday, #AcademicSky: Is a special book project on your agenda for this year? Have you ever wanted to launch a new book series, edit a handbook/reference work or write a textbook in #sociology (APAC), #migration (global) or #childhood, #family and #youth studies (global)? Do get in touch!