TCS Centre
The TCS Centre was established in 1996 at Nottingham Trent University to develop a programme of activities around the journal Theory, Culture & Society . The main focus of the centre is to provide an editorial hub for Theory, Culture & Society . Body & Society and the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series.
The journal Theory, Culture & Society currently in its 26th year, has been widely acclaimed for its innovative editorial policy, typified by its agenda-setting special issues and sections on topics such as:
- consumer culture
- the fate of modernity
- global culture
- postmodernism
- the body
- ethics and difference
- love and eroticism
- recognition and difference
- inventive life
- Islamic authority
- love and eroticism
- automobilities
- complexity
- cosmopolis
- problematizing global knowledge.
The journal has regularly published articles by many of the leading twentieth century intellectuals and social scientists. The Theory, Culture & Society Book Series has published over 120 titles by major figures such as:
- Jean Baudrillard
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Ulrich Beck
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Christine Buci-Glucksmann
- Norman Denzin
- Norbert Elias
- Scott Lash
- Michel Maffesoli
- Roland Robertson
- Nigel Thrift
- Bryan Turner
- John Urry.
