Explores the human subject in the first decade of the 21st century in relation to changing social circumstances, globalisation and postmodern theory.

Chapter 1 Subjects in the Margins, Leonor Arfuch; Chapter 2 Sociologizing Global Youth Cultures, Tina (A. C.) Besley; Chapter 3 Becoming Selves with/in Landscapes and across Borders, Bronwyn Davies, Bodil Halvars-Franzén, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Farzaneh Moinian, Kajsa Ohrlander, Anna Palmer; Chapter 4 And the Debate on Subjectivity Does Not End, Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos; Chapter 5 Fantasies of Chineseness and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian, Pheng Cheah; Chapter 6 Cultural Contact and the Turn to the Subject, Alicia de Alba; Chapter 7 Not Neo-Marxist, Not Post-Marxist, Not Marxian, Peter McLaren; Chapter 8 Bodies of Knowledge and Knowledges of the Body, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 9 The Subject in Hönigswald's New Kantian Transcendental Philosophy¿or Why Culture and Subject Are One, Monika Witsch; Chapter 10 The Nomadic Existence of the Eternal Improviser and Diasporic Co-poiesis in the Era of Mega-speed, llan Gur-Ze¿ev; Chapter 11 Ernesto Laclau. Interview, Alicia de Alba;