Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

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Luisa T. Schneider is an anthropologist whose work focuses on intimacy, violence, law, and everyday ethics. She is Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research in Europe and West Africa, her work examines how carceral abandonment shapes personal relationships and institutional practices. Her recent publications include Love and Violence in Sierra Leone (2025), Let Me Take a Vacation in Prison Before the Streets Kill Me! (2021), and Sexual Violence During Research (2020).

Robbert Dillema is completing his PhD in Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. He works on urban segregation in neoliberal welfare states, particularly the so dubbed participatory state of the Netherlands. There, he conducts ethnographic research with young adults and their support networks in Southeast Amsterdam. His research engages with the phenomenology, ideo-pedagogy, and political economy of urban disenfranchisement. He published People don't fall for it any longer (2025).

Paola Rebughini is Professor of Sociology and currently Director of the PhD program in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan, Italy. Her main fields of expertise are social and cultural theory, sociology of youth, cultural pluralism, and agency in everyday practices. She is the author of more than 150 publications, including Framing Social Theory (2022) eds. with E. Colombo; Sociology of difference: Gender, Culture, Nature (2022) in Italian. Youth and the Politics of the Present (2019) eds. with E. Colombo.