More-than-Human Sociology

Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and 'the Social' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Gift and its Paradoxes (2014), and Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, with Veijola et al).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Bringing Imagination Back In.- Chapter 2. Turn to Relations.- Chapter 3. Matters of Scale.- Chapter 4. More-Than-Human.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Promise of Sociology?

"Olli Pyyhtinen's stunningly original book dares us to think against the grain of the professional pathologies of sociology including its fixation on static substances and the micro/macro split by thinking with the dynamic relationships and heterogeneous collectives that make up our experience of social life on multiple scales. Drawing creatively from both classical and contemporary theorists and elaborating on a variety of readily accessible examples, this manifesto fulfills its promise to bring the imagination to bear on the most urgent tasks of social science." - Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia, Canada