Throughout my career so far, I have published seven books. In the following, I briefly describe each of these. To find out more, please click on their cover images.

Affective Capitalism in Academia

Nehring, D. and Brunila, K. (eds.) (2023) Affective Capitalism in Academia, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

My latest book, published in early 2023. I co-edited this together with Kristiina Brunila (University of Helsinki). The books brings together a group of great scholars from around the world, to explore the affectively charged dynamics of everyday academic labour under conditions of academic capitalism in a range of international settings. In so doing, the book develops dialogues between affect theory and scholarship on academic capitalism, two areas of enquiry that have so far remained largely discrete.

The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures

Nehring, D., Cabanas, E., Kerrigan, D., Madsen, O. J. and Mills, C. (eds.) (2020) The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures, Abingdon: Routledge.

This book was published in late 2020. Across 40 contributions, the handbook brings together leading scholars on therapeutic cultures and global mental health, from across the social sciences and from around the world. The book is meant to showcase cutting-edge scholarship in this field, and to contribute to its integration and to dialogue across disciplinary and geographic boundaries.

Imagining Society

Nehring, D. and Kerrigan D. (2020) Imagining Society: The Case for Sociology, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Imagining Society offers an invitation to sociology from a critical and global perspective. Written for both students and professional sociologists, the book reconsiders the role of the sociological imagination in the contemporary world. In doing so, it revisits the discipline's historical and contemporary development, and it engages with its key concerns in a global and postcolonial world.

Neoliberalism and Post-neoliberalism in Latin America

Nehring, D., López, M. and Gómez, G. (eds.) (2019), A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? Revisiting Cultural Paradigms. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Just as Intimacies and Cultural Change (see below), this book is the result of my early postdoctoral research on globalisation and socio-cultural change in Latin America. In A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?, scholars from across the humanities and social sciences seek to re-theorise recent social, cultural and political developments in the region, drawing on a diverse set of case studies.

Therapeutic Worlds: Popular Psychology and the Social Organisation of Intimate Life

Nehring, D. and Kerrigan, D. (2019), Therapeutic Worlds: Popular Psychology and the Social Organisation of Intimate Life, Abingdon: Routledge. Nominated for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (UK) 2020.

In Therapeutic Worlds, Dylan Kerrigan and I set out an innovative account of the everyday uses of therapeutic narratives. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean, we explore how people draw on popular therapeutic discourses, gleaned from a range of online media and real-world encounters, to make sense of their experiences of intimate life. We situate these everyday encounters with psychotherapy's popular forms in Trinidad's colonial and post-colonial development. In doing so, we seek to offer an innovative perspective on therapeutic cultures in the Global South.

Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

Nehring, D., Alvarado, E., Hendriks, E. and Kerrigan, D. (2016), Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

This book explores the transnational diffusion of popular therapeutic discourses. While most research on therapeutic cultures focuses on specific national settings, particularly in the Global Northwest, Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry adopts a cross-cultural perspective. Looking at the self-help book industry, the book analyses how popular therapeutic narratives are produced, circulated, and consumed at the transnational level.

Intimacies and Cultural Change: Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico

Nehring, D., Esteinou R. and Alvarado E. (eds.) (2014), Intimacies and Cultural Change: Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico, Abingdon: Routledge.

This book is a direct offshoot of my doctoral research on socio-cultural transformations of intimate life in contemporary Mexico. In it, scholars from across the social sciences consider key processes that have re-made families and intimate relationships in Mexican society across the 20th and early 21st century.

Sociology: An Introductory Textbook and Reader

Nehring, D. (2013), Sociology: An Introductory Textbook and Reader, London: Pearson and Routledge.

Somewhat unusually, my first book is a textbook. Sociology integrates an original textbook narrative with excerpts from key texts of classical and contemporary sociological enquiry. Adopting a global focus and combining canonical and non-canonical perspectives on the sociological imagination, the book is meant to introduce students to the discipline.