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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book outlines the pedagogical value of African storytelling. It demonstrates that African wisdom has historically been part of violent colonial elimination, leading to the ontological expendability of these stories and them being excluded, forgotten, and devalued in academic circles.

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America's indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government Separation, Concentration, and Americanization and interrogates their repercussions Provides detailed dTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The “Indian Question” 1 In Need of a Solution 1 Breaching the Ohio Country Barrier 7 The Shooting Star and the Prophet 18 2 The Initial Solution 35 The Relocation Debate 35 Tribal Strategies in the South 40 The Cherokee–Georgia Conundrum 46 Removing the Southern Tribes 52 The Indian Territory and Its People 65 Undermining Forces 74 Dashed Hopes 81 3 The Travails of Mid Century 89 Western Troubles and the New Solution 89 Making Way for the Railroads 98 The Texas Challenge 102 Whether or Not to Be a Confederate 108 Civil War in the Indian Territory 117 Unrest in Minnesota 127 Colorado and Sand Creek 137 4 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration 151 Those Who Resisted: An Inescapable Fate? 153 Indian Policy and Who Controlled It 159 Defending the Powder River Country 166 Dualism: Peace and Force Policies 176 Commotion in Kansas 180 Implementing Concentration 187 With the Olive Branch and the Sword 195 5 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration 209 Again, Indian Affairs and Who Controls Them 210 The Grant Peace Policy 214 At the Watershed 221 The Red River War 228 The Peace That Slipped Away 236 The Great Sioux War Commences 246 The Great Sioux War Concludes 259 6 The Search for a New Order 269 Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes 270 Reappraising the Concentration Policy 279 The Government’s Newest “Solution” 293 Ending “Old and Injurious Habits” 301 Americanization: White Rationalizations and Tribal Responses 306 Dead Dreams 314 Bibliographical Essay 326 Index 338

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America's indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government Separation, Concentration, and Americanization and interrogates their repercussions Provides detailed dTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The "Indian Question" 1 In Need of a Solution 1 Breaching the Ohio Country Barrier 7 The Shooting Star and the Prophet 18 2 The Initial Solution 35 The Relocation Debate 35 Tribal Strategies in the South 40 The Cherokee–Georgia Conundrum 46 Removing the Southern Tribes 52 The Indian Territory and Its People 65 Undermining Forces 74 Dashed Hopes 81 3 The Travails of Mid Century 89 Western Troubles and the New Solution 89 Making Way for the Railroads 98 The Texas Challenge 102 Whether or Not to Be a Confederate 108 Civil War in the Indian Territory 117 Unrest in Minnesota 127 Colorado and Sand Creek 137 4 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration 151 Those Who Resisted: An Inescapable Fate? 153 Indian Policy and Who Controlled It 159 Defending the Powder River Country 166 Dualism: Peace and Force Policies 176 Commotion in Kansas 180 Implementing Concentration 187 With the Olive Branch and the Sword 195 5 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration 209 Again, Indian Affairs and Who Controls Them 210 The Grant Peace Policy 214 At the Watershed 221 The Red River War 228 The Peace That Slipped Away 236 The Great Sioux War Commences 246 The Great Sioux War Concludes 259 6 The Search for a New Order 269 Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes 270 Reappraising the Concentration Policy 279 The Government's Newest "Solution" 293 Ending "Old and Injurious Habits" 301 Americanization: White Rationalizations and Tribal Responses 306 Dead Dreams 314 Bibliographical Essay 326 Index 338

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Book SynopsisThe rise of mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy—solutions lie in the endless creativity of social movements.

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Book SynopsisA significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field. Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematic discourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discrete themes into a larger, more comprehensive framework Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape the many discourses on contemporary citizenship inclusion, erosion, withdrawal, and expansion Includes a thorough introduction to the subject Trade Review"The scope and depth of the literature which Kivisto and Faist present is admirable." (The Kelingrove Review, October 2008) “This work would be a useful primer for a class in political sociology or for any class that deals with ‘citizenship.’” (Choice) Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Inclusion. 3. Erosion. 4. Withdrawal. 5. Expansion. 6. Future Trends. References

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Book SynopsisA significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field. Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematic discourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discrete themes into a larger, more comprehensive framework Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape the many discourses on contemporary citizenship inclusion, erosion, withdrawal, and expansion Includes a thorough introduction to the subject Trade Review“Citizenship has emerged as one of the crucial issues in sociology, uniting such topics as globalization, immigration, multiculturalism and ethnic conflict, the future of the welfare state, and the meaning of contemporary national politics. Kivisto and Faist provide a lively introduction and show why the question of citizenship has come to supplant many of the traditional concerns of both the Left and Right.” Stephen Turner, University of South Florida “An impressive achievement. A comprehensive but concise account of the field of citizenship studies, delivering a decisive challenge to re-thinking citizenship.” Bryan S. Turner, National University of Singapore “Citizenship should be a central concern for sociology. Kivisto and Faist offer a concise and clear review of conceptual frameworks, historical trends, the current situation and future directions, which will be helpful to students and teachers alike.” Craig Calhoun, New York University “This work would be a useful primer for a class in political sociology or for any class that deals with ‘citizenship.’” Choice Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 Expansion or Erosion? 3 Four Themes 6 The Future of Citizenship 13 2 Inclusion 15 The Dialectic of Inclusion and Exclusion 17 Multiculturalism as a Mode of Inclusion 34 The Lesson to Be Drawn from Existing Theory and Praxis 47 3 Erosion 49 Dimensions of Citizenship 50 T. H. Marshall and the Expansion of Citizenship Rights 51 Critiques of the Welfare State 56 The Triumph of the Market over Citizenship? 66 4 Withdrawal 75 Individualism and Its Discontents: Tocqueville Revisited 77 Enter Putnam 84 The Third Way and Social Democracy 96 5 Expansion 102 Dual Citizenship 103 Which Nations Permit and Which Prohibit Dual Citizenship? 111 Nested Citizenship 122 Toward Global Citizenship? 128 6 Future Trends 130 Internal Factors Shaping Citizenship Regimes 131 Citizenship and Globalization 138 References 141 Index 161

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Book SynopsisRenowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg assembles a diverse group of experts to examine how hate originates, develops, manifests, and spreadsand how it can be counteracted.Trade ReviewIn this newly edited volume Sternberg (Cornell Univ.) again brings together an impressive cadre of scholars in the attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time (perhaps to be known as "human time"), namely, how and why people hate…. The work is theoretically grounded but practical in tone and provides methods of application to help readers discuss and reduce hate and hate-based actions…. The book will be appreciated by all readers but especially by teachers and researchers in this important area. * choice *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. FLOTSAM: A Theory of the Development and Transmission of Hate. Robert J. Sternberg.I. Defining Hate Chapter 2. Hate, Dehumanization, and “Hate.” Nick Haslam and Sean C. Murphy. Chapter 3. The Essence of Hate and Love. Clark McCauley. Chapter 4. What Is Hate? Thomas Brudholm.II. Cognitive and Emotional Processes that Lead to Hateful Behavior Chapter 5. Theorizing Hate in Contemporary USA. Susan Opotow and Sara I. McClelland. Chapter 6. Channeling Anger and Hate for Protecting Human Life. Israel W. Charny. Chapter 7. Hate in Contemporary America: Pathology or Opportunism? Richard M. Lerner and Paul A. Chase. Chapter 8. FLOTSAM: The Theory in Practice: Understanding the Reawakening of Hate in the Modern World. Robert J. Sternberg.III. Hate Crimes Chapter 9. Hate Crimes in Transition. Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt. Chapter 10. “Hate Speech,” Free Speech, and Group Violence. David Moshman. Chapter 11. Tolerating Hate: Racial Bias, Freedom of Speech, and Responses to Hate Crimes. Gina Roussos and John F. Dovidio. Chapter 12. “Message” Crimes: Understanding the Community Impacts of Bias Crime. Rebecca L. Stotzer and Adriano Sabagala. Chapter 13. Should Misogyny Be a Protected Characteristic in Hate Crime Legislation? Amanda Haynes and Jennifer Schweppe.IV. Conclusion Chapter 14. FLOTSAM Themes in the Volume. Robert J. Sternberg.

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Book SynopsisThroughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.Trade Review“A sustained argument about the repeated and resilient assertion of public democracy in American cities, and the forces that inhibited and subverted its full expression.”—Mary Ryan, John Martin Vincent Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University"As long ago as the 1920s Frederick Jackson Turner suggested an urban interpretation of American history; John Fairfield takes up that challenge. A hope long since abandoned to monographic specialization in the field has been happily realized in the powerful work of synthesis crafted by John Fairfield. The Public and Its Possibilities is a smart, imaginatively conceived and researched, well written, and passionately told history of the challenges and possibilities of a lively urban democratic public."—Thomas Bender, New York University "A work of historical synthesis and political criticism, John Fairfield’s book is a powerful reminder of the indispensable role of American cities in fostering a more expansive civic culture. Fairfield writes in the tradition of Lewis Mumford, Paul and Percival Goodman, and Jane Jacobs—alert to the ever-changing landscape of streets and plazas, public institutions, and informal associations that have enabled city residents of different backgrounds to imagine themselves as citizens and act accordingly. And like those urbanist critics, Fairfield is acutely aware that the market fundamentalism that has devastated many American cities has had equally devastating consequences for our capacity for democratic self-government. His concluding call for a new ‘ecology of the city’ could not be more timely."—Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: The Public and Its Possibilities Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values An Urban ThesisPart I. Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution 1.Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era Seaport Cities: Crucibles of Market and Public The People Out of Doors and the Imperial Crisis A More Democratic Public: Consumer Boycotts Politicize the Household The Threat of Enslavement and the Need for Virtue: The Unifying Myth of the American Revolution Virtue and Vice in an Overheated Market Redeeming the Revolution: Virtues or Mechanisms? Citizen-Proprietors and the Democratization of Competence Revolutionary Legacies, Democratic Futures 2. Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: Market 33 Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812–1873 The Origins of the Free Labor Ideal The Market Revolution and the Public Purpose Labor Politics in the Jacksonian City: Unjust Government and a Conspiracy to Enslave A Crippled Democracy: Jacksonian Fears and Whig Paternalism The Free Labor Ideology and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery Positive Liberty: Turning Slaves into Citizens The Limits of Radical Republicanism 3. The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age Big Business and Small Politics in the Gilded Age Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture The Liberal Reformers’ Encounter with the City Civic Murder: Liberal Reformers and Public Opinion “This Word Culture”: An Industrial Tragedy at PullmanPart II. Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public 4. The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery Constructing a Public Realm In the Streets: Law and the Public Realm To the Park: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Jacksonian Public Popular Culture, Political Culture Young America and Democratic Culture The Republic of the Streets and Fields The Astor Place Riot Fatal Flaw: Young America and Negrophobia Cultural Laissez-Faire versus the Evangelical United Front Antislavery: Passion and Rationality in the Antebellum Public Lincoln’s Rhetorical Revolution 5. The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850–1872 “The Most Radical City in America” Nativism and the Erosion of Municipal Autonomy The New York City Draft Riots Draconian Justice: Reconstructing New York City The Spectacular Rise and Precipitous Fall of Boss Tweed Postwar Republicanism: Labor Revolt and Metropolitan Capital Retrenchment and Reform 6. Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse Highbrow/Lowbrow and an Incompetent Citizenry Don’t Get Out the Vote Municipal Counterrevolution: Dillon’s Rule and the Benevolent Expert Domesticating the City Civic Vertigo: The City Biological and Pathological The Degeneration of Popular Politics Mob Mind, Befuddled PublicPart III. The Public in Progressivism and War 7. The Republican Moment: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era The City Beautiful and Intelligent The Georgists and the City Republic Democracy as Cooperative Inquiry: The Social Centers Movement Mass Media and the Socialization of Intelligence Nickel Madness or the Academy of the Working Man? The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Mutual Decision The Rise of Hollywood and the Incorporation of Movie Culture 8. The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back: Requiem for a Participatory Democracy The War Intellectuals and The New Republic The War for the American Mind From Mastery to Drift Trusting the Public Too Much or Too Little? A Democrat on the Defensive Participatory Democracy and Urban Culture: From Public Opinion to Public RelationsPart IV. A Democracy of Consumers 9. From Economic Democracy to Social Security: The Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare/Warfare State Industrial Democracy, Industrial Discipline The Syndicalist Moment From the New Freedom to the New Nationalism: War and the Triumph of the Corporate State Labor’s War From Welfare Capitalism to Moral Capitalism Democratic Unions, Labor Party The Second New Deal: Consumerist Democracy and the End of Antimonopoly From New Deal to New War: Liberals and Labor Abandon Reform Taming Labor in the Welfare/Warfare State 10. Constructing a Consumer Culture: Redirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire The Popular Demand for Leisure and the Rise of the Saloon The Leisure Question and Cheap Amusements The Discovery of Play Captains of Consciousness, Land of Desire Exit the Saloon, Enter the Bijou Shaping Character, Inculcating Values The Incorporation of the Consumer Culture Mass Culture, Mass Media, and the Consumerization of Politics 11. Private Vision, Public Resources: Mass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City New Deal Urban Policy and the Suburban-Industrial Complex The Origins of the Urban Crisis I: Eroding the Tax and Employment Base The Origins of the Urban Crisis II: Homeowner Pop u lism and the Fragmentation of Metropolitan Government Central City Housing: The Racial Time Bomb Dispossession: Urban Redevelopment and Urban Renewal Confronting the Reverse Welfare State: From Civil Rights to Black Power Two Societies, Separate and Unequal Suburban Secession and Farewell to the Public Realm Conclusion: The Future of the City: Civic Renewal and Environmental Politics/i> The Great Unfinished Tasks of American Civilization Private City, Public Crisis Visions of Fear and Hope Toward an Ecology of the CityAcknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.Trade Review“A sustained argument about the repeated and resilient assertion of public democracy in American cities, and the forces that inhibited and subverted its full expression.”—Mary Ryan, John Martin Vincent Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University"As long ago as the 1920s Frederick Jackson Turner suggested an urban interpretation of American history; John Fairfield takes up that challenge. A hope long since abandoned to monographic specialization in the field has been happily realized in the powerful work of synthesis crafted by John Fairfield. The Public and Its Possibilities is a smart, imaginatively conceived and researched, well written, and passionately told history of the challenges and possibilities of a lively urban democratic public."—Thomas Bender, New York University "A work of historical synthesis and political criticism, John Fairfield’s book is a powerful reminder of the indispensable role of American cities in fostering a more expansive civic culture. Fairfield writes in the tradition of Lewis Mumford, Paul and Percival Goodman, and Jane Jacobs—alert to the ever-changing landscape of streets and plazas, public institutions, and informal associations that have enabled city residents of different backgrounds to imagine themselves as citizens and act accordingly. And like those urbanist critics, Fairfield is acutely aware that the market fundamentalism that has devastated many American cities has had equally devastating consequences for our capacity for democratic self-government. His concluding call for a new ‘ecology of the city’ could not be more timely."—Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: The Public and Its Possibilities Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values An Urban ThesisPart I. Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution 1.Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era Seaport Cities: Crucibles of Market and Public The People Out of Doors and the Imperial Crisis A More Democratic Public: Consumer Boycotts Politicize the Household The Threat of Enslavement and the Need for Virtue: The Unifying Myth of the American Revolution Virtue and Vice in an Overheated Market Redeeming the Revolution: Virtues or Mechanisms? Citizen-Proprietors and the Democratization of Competence Revolutionary Legacies, Democratic Futures 2. Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: Market 33 Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812–1873 The Origins of the Free Labor Ideal The Market Revolution and the Public Purpose Labor Politics in the Jacksonian City: Unjust Government and a Conspiracy to Enslave A Crippled Democracy: Jacksonian Fears and Whig Paternalism The Free Labor Ideology and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery Positive Liberty: Turning Slaves into Citizens The Limits of Radical Republicanism 3. The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age Big Business and Small Politics in the Gilded Age Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture The Liberal Reformers’ Encounter with the City Civic Murder: Liberal Reformers and Public Opinion “This Word Culture”: An Industrial Tragedy at PullmanPart II. Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public 4. The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery Constructing a Public Realm In the Streets: Law and the Public Realm To the Park: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Jacksonian Public Popular Culture, Political Culture Young America and Democratic Culture The Republic of the Streets and Fields The Astor Place Riot Fatal Flaw: Young America and Negrophobia Cultural Laissez-Faire versus the Evangelical United Front Antislavery: Passion and Rationality in the Antebellum Public Lincoln’s Rhetorical Revolution 5. The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850–1872 “The Most Radical City in America” Nativism and the Erosion of Municipal Autonomy The New York City Draft Riots Draconian Justice: Reconstructing New York City The Spectacular Rise and Precipitous Fall of Boss Tweed Postwar Republicanism: Labor Revolt and Metropolitan Capital Retrenchment and Reform 6. Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse Highbrow/Lowbrow and an Incompetent Citizenry Don’t Get Out the Vote Municipal Counterrevolution: Dillon’s Rule and the Benevolent Expert Domesticating the City Civic Vertigo: The City Biological and Pathological The Degeneration of Popular Politics Mob Mind, Befuddled PublicPart III. The Public in Progressivism and War 7. The Republican Moment: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era The City Beautiful and Intelligent The Georgists and the City Republic Democracy as Cooperative Inquiry: The Social Centers Movement Mass Media and the Socialization of Intelligence Nickel Madness or the Academy of the Working Man? The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Mutual Decision The Rise of Hollywood and the Incorporation of Movie Culture 8. The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back: Requiem for a Participatory Democracy The War Intellectuals and The New Republic The War for the American Mind From Mastery to Drift Trusting the Public Too Much or Too Little? A Democrat on the Defensive Participatory Democracy and Urban Culture: From Public Opinion to Public RelationsPart IV. A Democracy of Consumers 9. From Economic Democracy to Social Security: The Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare/Warfare State Industrial Democracy, Industrial Discipline The Syndicalist Moment From the New Freedom to the New Nationalism: War and the Triumph of the Corporate State Labor’s War From Welfare Capitalism to Moral Capitalism Democratic Unions, Labor Party The Second New Deal: Consumerist Democracy and the End of Antimonopoly From New Deal to New War: Liberals and Labor Abandon Reform Taming Labor in the Welfare/Warfare State 10. Constructing a Consumer Culture: Redirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire The Popular Demand for Leisure and the Rise of the Saloon The Leisure Question and Cheap Amusements The Discovery of Play Captains of Consciousness, Land of Desire Exit the Saloon, Enter the Bijou Shaping Character, Inculcating Values The Incorporation of the Consumer Culture Mass Culture, Mass Media, and the Consumerization of Politics 11. Private Vision, Public Resources: Mass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City New Deal Urban Policy and the Suburban-Industrial Complex The Origins of the Urban Crisis I: Eroding the Tax and Employment Base The Origins of the Urban Crisis II: Homeowner Pop u lism and the Fragmentation of Metropolitan Government Central City Housing: The Racial Time Bomb Dispossession: Urban Redevelopment and Urban Renewal Confronting the Reverse Welfare State: From Civil Rights to Black Power Two Societies, Separate and Unequal Suburban Secession and Farewell to the Public Realm Conclusion: The Future of the City: Civic Renewal and Environmental Politics/i> The Great Unfinished Tasks of American Civilization Private City, Public Crisis Visions of Fear and Hope Toward an Ecology of the CityAcknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communitiesTrade Review"A Midwestern Mosaic makes important contributions to several literatures. To political scientists, the book offers insights about the roles of time and racial context in the political socialization of adolescents and the importance of systematically analyzing rural politics. Contributions to immigration research focusing on non-traditional destinations includes information about how quickly adolescents can adapt to demographic change, the emphasis on political socialization, and the formal comparison of immigrant-receiving communities that, on their face, might appear to be quite similar. [Lay's] qualitative data also yield important insights about what high schools and other institutions in rapidly changing communities can do to encourage positive relationships between long-time residents and newcomers. For all of these reasons, this book will be of great interest to scholars, community leaders, policymakers, and others."--International Migration Review, Spring 2013 "A Midwestern Mosaic is well ahead of the curve. This book provides a comparative community case study of the implications of new minority growth in two new Hispanic rural destinations in Northwest Iowa... A Midwestern Mosaic provides an empirical benchmark on an important topic... [I]t is as much about racial and ethnic attitudes as it is about rural political socialization or the potential casual mechanisms that contribute to evolving attitudes (movement along the continuum between political left and right) among native-born rural youth and adolescents. In the end, A Midwestern Mosaic probably raises more (good) questions than it answers, but this is a positive feature of this short book." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsA Midwestern Mosaic: Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America; J. Celeste Lay; Table of Contents; Prologue and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Places and Political Learning; 1: Transformation of Small Town America; 2: A Natural Experiment in Iowa Towns; 3: Seeing Race: Attitudes toward Immigrants and Symbolic Racism; 4: No Retreat: Civic Withdrawal and Immigration; 5: Gradual Progress; 6: What Happened to My Town?; Conclusion: The Implications of a New Normal; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHow native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communitiesTrade Review"A Midwestern Mosaic makes important contributions to several literatures. To political scientists, the book offers insights about the roles of time and racial context in the political socialization of adolescents and the importance of systematically analyzing rural politics. Contributions to immigration research focusing on non-traditional destinations includes information about how quickly adolescents can adapt to demographic change, the emphasis on political socialization, and the formal comparison of immigrant-receiving communities that, on their face, might appear to be quite similar. [Lay's] qualitative data also yield important insights about what high schools and other institutions in rapidly changing communities can do to encourage positive relationships between long-time residents and newcomers. For all of these reasons, this book will be of great interest to scholars, community leaders, policymakers, and others."--International Migration Review, Spring 2013 "A Midwestern Mosaic is well ahead of the curve. This book provides a comparative community case study of the implications of new minority growth in two new Hispanic rural destinations in Northwest Iowa... A Midwestern Mosaic provides an empirical benchmark on an important topic... [I]t is as much about racial and ethnic attitudes as it is about rural political socialization or the potential casual mechanisms that contribute to evolving attitudes (movement along the continuum between political left and right) among native-born rural youth and adolescents. In the end, A Midwestern Mosaic probably raises more (good) questions than it answers, but this is a positive feature of this short book." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsA Midwestern Mosaic: Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America; J. Celeste Lay; Table of Contents; Prologue and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Places and Political Learning; 1: Transformation of Small Town America; 2: A Natural Experiment in Iowa Towns; 3: Seeing Race: Attitudes toward Immigrants and Symbolic Racism; 4: No Retreat: Civic Withdrawal and Immigration; 5: Gradual Progress; 6: What Happened to My Town?; Conclusion: The Implications of a New Normal; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisShows how Muslims strive to gain recognition of their diverse views and backgrounds and find full equality as French citizens.Trade Review"With xenophobia and anti-immigrant narratives gaining currency is Europe and elsewhere, Fredette’s study is extremely pertinent in its unraveling of the bleak underbellies of republicanism, democracy and the modern nation state in itself. Rightly locating the anti-Muslim discourse as a narrative and affirmative ideology in France, what earmarks Fredette’s study is her intersectional positionality – addressing simultaneously race, gender and ethnic locations of immigrants. Breaking through the homogeneity of official claims on Muslim religiosity, Fredette has moved beyond – with the interviewees at times appropriating or even negating their hybrid identities."--Anthropology Book Forum Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Why Do We Ask Whether Muslims Can Be French? 2 Elusive Citizenship: The Consequences of an Undesirable Public Identity 3 Claiming Membership: French Muslim Identities, Political Goals, and Repertoires of Contention 4 Education: The (Undelivered?) Promise of Republican Equality 5 Employment: The Muslim Experience in (and out of) the Workplace 6 Housing: The Banlieues as a Geographic and Socially Constructed Place 7 The Contentious Concept of Frenchness: French Muslims Embracing, Reimagining, but Not Rejecting the Republican Triad Appendix: Sample Questionnaire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisShows how Muslims strive to gain recognition of their diverse views and backgrounds and find full equality as French citizens.Trade Review"With xenophobia and anti-immigrant narratives gaining currency is Europe and elsewhere, Fredette’s study is extremely pertinent in its unraveling of the bleak underbellies of republicanism, democracy and the modern nation state in itself. Rightly locating the anti-Muslim discourse as a narrative and affirmative ideology in France, what earmarks Fredette’s study is her intersectional positionality – addressing simultaneously race, gender and ethnic locations of immigrants. Breaking through the homogeneity of official claims on Muslim religiosity, Fredette has moved beyond – with the interviewees at times appropriating or even negating their hybrid identities."--Anthropology Book Forum Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Why Do We Ask Whether Muslims Can Be French? 2 Elusive Citizenship: The Consequences of an Undesirable Public Identity 3 Claiming Membership: French Muslim Identities, Political Goals, and Repertoires of Contention 4 Education: The (Undelivered?) Promise of Republican Equality 5 Employment: The Muslim Experience in (and out of) the Workplace 6 Housing: The Banlieues as a Geographic and Socially Constructed Place 7 The Contentious Concept of Frenchness: French Muslims Embracing, Reimagining, but Not Rejecting the Republican Triad Appendix: Sample Questionnaire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. InThe Muslim Question in Europe,Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigrationwhich continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and terrorismare a clash between Islam and the West. Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolvedintra-Europeantensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and postmodernism. These three broadly understood philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently dTrade Review“Reflecting a stunningly broad range of erudition resulting from decades of research, The Muslim Question in Europe provides an antidote for those grappling to understand the myriad migration-related challenges faced by Europeans. O’Brien contends that the complexities are best explicated by viewing the issues through a Kulturkampf lens pitting liberal, nationalist, and post-modernist insights against or complementary to one another. Of special interest is the timely chapter on terrorism and security. Here, too, he discerns a pattern of normative Kulturkampf and policy messiness. He views this outcome as very European. Islam, after all, is of Europe too.”—Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware and co-author of The Age of Migration“Peter O’Brien discusses the huge amount of research on the major controversies surrounding Islam and Muslims in Europe when it comes to secularism, women’s rights, citizenship, and terrorism. He shows how and why these controversies reveal the inherent contradictions and dilemmas of European identities as much as they shed light on the so called ‘exceptionalism’ of Islam. The Muslim Question in Europe will be very relevant to students and scholars of religion, comparative politics, and immigration.”— Jocelyne Cesari, author of The Awakening of Muslim Democracy“A thought-provoking and fresh look at the history of ideas that have shaped Europeans’ encounter with the historic settlement of Muslim minorities in Western Europe. O’Brien is an able guide to the best research in philosophy and the social sciences as he explores the nuances of western cultural contexts. The Muslim Question in Europe combines rich normative and empirical analyses that shed light on unresolved conflicts in European nation-states.”—Jonathan Laurence, author of The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims and Integrating IslamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Kulturkampf3 Citizenship4 Veil5 Secularism6 Terrorism 7 ConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. InThe Muslim Question in Europe,Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigrationwhich continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and terrorismare a clash between Islam and the West. Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolvedintra-Europeantensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and postmodernism. These three broadly understood philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently dTrade Review“Reflecting a stunningly broad range of erudition resulting from decades of research, The Muslim Question in Europe provides an antidote for those grappling to understand the myriad migration-related challenges faced by Europeans. O’Brien contends that the complexities are best explicated by viewing the issues through a Kulturkampf lens pitting liberal, nationalist, and post-modernist insights against or complementary to one another. Of special interest is the timely chapter on terrorism and security. Here, too, he discerns a pattern of normative Kulturkampf and policy messiness. He views this outcome as very European. Islam, after all, is of Europe too.”—Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware and co-author of The Age of Migration“Peter O’Brien discusses the huge amount of research on the major controversies surrounding Islam and Muslims in Europe when it comes to secularism, women’s rights, citizenship, and terrorism. He shows how and why these controversies reveal the inherent contradictions and dilemmas of European identities as much as they shed light on the so called ‘exceptionalism’ of Islam. The Muslim Question in Europe will be very relevant to students and scholars of religion, comparative politics, and immigration.”— Jocelyne Cesari, author of The Awakening of Muslim Democracy“A thought-provoking and fresh look at the history of ideas that have shaped Europeans’ encounter with the historic settlement of Muslim minorities in Western Europe. O’Brien is an able guide to the best research in philosophy and the social sciences as he explores the nuances of western cultural contexts. The Muslim Question in Europe combines rich normative and empirical analyses that shed light on unresolved conflicts in European nation-states.”—Jonathan Laurence, author of The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims and Integrating IslamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Kulturkampf3 Citizenship4 Veil5 Secularism6 Terrorism 7 ConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politics

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Book SynopsisExamines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politicsTrade Review“In Asian American Connective Action in the Age of Social Media, James Lai convincingly shows why he is a leading scholar on Asian American and ethnic politics. Exploring the causal linkage between social media use and offline political mobilization in the immigrant-majority community, Lai breaks new ground in studying Asian American political behavior by combining case studies and elite interviews with Twitter hashtag analysis. Smartly labeling it as connective action, Lai argues that this relatively new form of political action has afforded the largely foreign-born and politically marginalized population a new tool to influence policy and politics.”—Pei-te Lien, Professor of Political Science and of Asian American Studies, Feminist Studies, and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Making of Asian America through Political Participation"Lai finds that Asian Americans have used social media to mobilize swiftly and effectively, overcoming barriers to political participation that might otherwise pose major stumbling blocks to largely immigrant populations.... Lai’s case studies examine both conservative and liberal causes, deftly expanding understanding of the political diversity of Asian Americans. Students will be fascinated to see how media familiar to them can be politically potent and how important timing is.... This work is a major contribution to the understanding of political participation, new media, and racial and ethnic studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Lai does a remarkable job of encouraging the reader to focus on understanding how connective action played a role for Asian Americans on either side of the dividing line.... [F]or those who are interested in better understanding the broadening landscape of Asian American activism—both progressive and conservative strands—and the ways that they utilize social media for activist purposes, Lai’s book is a fruitful and extensive starting point."—Mobilization"[A]n informative, detailed portrait of the many complicated layers that characterize Asian American politics in the twenty-first century.... One of the most useful resources that can be taken from this book is the collection of six case studies of recent political activism exercised by Asian Americans.... Lai uses these cases to help readers better understand the complex modes in which Asian Americans have entered political debates on racial justice in recent years."—Perspectives on Politics"Lai’s Asian American Connective Action in the Age of Social Media advances [Pei-te] Lien’s groundbreaking insight by showing how social media has created greater opportunities for both pan-Asian American alliances and intra-Asian divides.... Drawing on interviews, hash tag analyses, media reports, and other documents, Lai’s case studies document how a high level of digital connectivity among Asian Americans has enabled them to overcome many hurdles to political mobilization."—Political Science Quarterly“Lai’s timely book provides a nuanced analysis of the ideological and other divisions among Asian Americans, scrupulously refusing to homogenize or essentialize them. He uses the generative concept of ‘connective action’ to enhance our understanding of how social media participation has transformed Asian American civic engagement. Charting the political mobilization of first-generation, affluent Chinese Americans in support of conservative political causes, Lai’s argument that social media enables this largely foreign-born population with limited English proficiency to bypass formal organizations, develop new forms of collective action, and grow new subjectivities as political actors is persuasive and important.”—Claire Jean Kim, Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age

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Book SynopsisWhat, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada’s assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country’s vast territory? Why should Canada’s original inhabitants have to ask for rights to what was their land when non-Aboriginal people first arrived? The question lurks behind every court judgment on Indigenous rights, every demand that treaty obligations be fulfilled, and every land-claims negotiation.Addressing these questions has occupied anthropologist Michael Asch for nearly thirty years. In On Being Here to Stay, Asch retells the story of Canada with a focus on the relationship between First Nations and settlers.Asch proposes a way forward based on respecting the “spirit and intent” of treaties negotiated at the time of Confederation, through which, he argues, First Nations and settlers can establish an ethical way for both communities to be here to stay.Trade Review'Michael Asch argues his points with elegance and logic. His work is always a pleasure to read...This important reflection on the state of Indigenous/settler relations in Canada merits a wide readership.' -- Neil Vallance BC Studies issue 186, summer 2015 'Asch provides compelling evidence that demonstrates the need to alter our relationship with Indigenous peoples... His position is well founded, legitimately defended and in my opinion, a genuine way to reconcile "our being here to stay" with Indigenous peoples.' -- Emily-Jean Gallant The Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol34:02:2014 'In a work relating to treaty rights, there is much here that will contribute to better understandings across a range of Aboriginal and treaty rights issues. Asch has here extended yet again his lifetime of contributing to discussions on section 35 rights, and we should all immensely appreciate his contribution.' -- Dwight Newman Review of Constitutional Studies vol 19:02:2015 'For academic law libraries with collection interests in aboriginal law, this title is an essential addition.' -- Mary Hemmings Law Library Journal vol 106:04:2014 'On Being Here to Stay is a thought provoking read. Michael Asch provides a different perspective on treaty relations not found in most law-oriented texts.' -- Jon Ponath Saskatchewan Law Review vol 78:2015Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution Chapter 3: Aboriginal Rights and Temporal Priority Chapter 4: Aboriginal Rights and Self-Determination Chapter 5: Treaty Relations Chapter 6: Treaties and Co-Existence Chapter 7: Treaties and Sharing Chapter 8: Spirit and Intent Chapter 9: Setting the Record Straight Appendix I: Proportionality Appendix II: Treaty Map Notes References

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Book SynopsisThis unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors develop a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship.Trade Review“This book provides an innovative and critical approach to thinking about citizenship as a key word always in dispute, whose ethnographic orientation will appeal to many undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to researchers.” Dr Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University of Manchester"A major contribution to critical thinking about citizenship that takes its political, contentious, and cultural aspects seriously and playfully, through brilliantly nuanced discussions." Engin Isin, Professor of Citizenship, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Recentering citizenship; Decentering citizenship; Imagining the ‘communities’ of citizenship; Conclusion: Disputing citizenship.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors develop a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship.Trade Review“This book provides an innovative and critical approach to thinking about citizenship as a key word always in dispute, whose ethnographic orientation will appeal to many undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to researchers.” Dr Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University of Manchester"A major contribution to critical thinking about citizenship that takes its political, contentious, and cultural aspects seriously and playfully, through brilliantly nuanced discussions." Engin Isin, Professor of Citizenship, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Recentering citizenship; Decentering citizenship; Imagining the ‘communities’ of citizenship; Conclusion: Disputing citizenship.

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Book SynopsisPresenting unique and critical reflections on international policy and practice, this book addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism. It examines the extent to which community development practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence.Trade Review"full of analytical power, and hopeful stories of how community development can support political change...the book has managed to stretch the imagination beyond the gaze of the minority North." Community Development“Bringing an appropriately political focus to bear on the discussion around community development, this interesting and stimulating collection provides an inclusively international and critical overview of the complex and constant interplay between the processes of community development, politics and power.” Fred Powell, University College CorkTable of ContentsPolitics, power and community development: An introductory essay ~ Rosie Meade, Mae Shaw and Sarah Banks; Part 1: Thinking politically; The politics of deploying community ~ Janet Newman and John Clarke; Changing community development roles: The challenges of a globalizing world ~ Sue Kenny; Part 2: Practising politics; Community organising and political agency: Changing community development subjects in India ~ Manish K. Jha; Identity politics, community participation and the making of new places: Examples from Taiwan ~ Yi-Ling Chen; Community development, venture philanthropy and neoliberal governmentality: A case from Ireland ~ Niamh McCrea; A shifting paradigm: Engendering the politics of community engagement in India ~ Martha Farrell & Rajesh Tandon; The politics of diversity in Australia: Extending the role of community practice ~ Helen Meekosha, Alison Wannan and Russell Shuttleworth; The politics of environmental justice: Community development in Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia ~ María Teresa Martínez and Eurig Scandrett; Part 3: Politicising the future; The politics of democracy and the global institutions: Lessons and challenges for community development ~ Niamh Gaynor; Disability arts: The building of critical community politics and identity ~ Colin Cameron; Service delivery protests in South Africa: A case for community development? ~ Lucius Botes; Community development and commons: On the road to alternative economics? ~ Brigitte Krazwald.

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Book SynopsisPresenting unique and critical reflections on international policy and practice, this book addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism. It examines the extent to which community development practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence.Trade Review"full of analytical power, and hopeful stories of how community development can support political change...the book has managed to stretch the imagination beyond the gaze of the minority North." Community Development“Bringing an appropriately political focus to bear on the discussion around community development, this interesting and stimulating collection provides an inclusively international and critical overview of the complex and constant interplay between the processes of community development, politics and power.” Fred Powell, University College CorkTable of ContentsPolitics, power and community development: An introductory essay ~ Rosie Meade, Mae Shaw and Sarah Banks; Part 1: Thinking politically; The politics of deploying community ~ Janet Newman and John Clarke; Changing community development roles: The challenges of a globalizing world ~ Sue Kenny; Part 2: Practising politics; Community organising and political agency: Changing community development subjects in India ~ Manish K. Jha; Identity politics, community participation and the making of new places: Examples from Taiwan ~ Yi-Ling Chen; Community development, venture philanthropy and neoliberal governmentality: A case from Ireland ~ Niamh McCrea; A shifting paradigm: Engendering the politics of community engagement in India ~ Martha Farrell & Rajesh Tandon; The politics of diversity in Australia: Extending the role of community practice ~ Helen Meekosha, Alison Wannan and Russell Shuttleworth; The politics of environmental justice: Community development in Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia ~ María Teresa Martínez and Eurig Scandrett; Part 3: Politicising the future; The politics of democracy and the global institutions: Lessons and challenges for community development ~ Niamh Gaynor; Disability arts: The building of critical community politics and identity ~ Colin Cameron; Service delivery protests in South Africa: A case for community development? ~ Lucius Botes; Community development and commons: On the road to alternative economics? ~ Brigitte Krazwald.

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Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.

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Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides succinct yet robust definitions and explanations of core concepts and themes in relation to state power, liberties and human rights. Laid out in a user-friendly A-Z format, entries have with clear direction to related entries and further reading. It will be suitable for students on a variety of courses.Trade Review"An interdisciplinary toolbox of theories, concepts, perspectives and institutional insights that are fundamental to grasping the complexities of human rights, civil liberties and their relationship to state activity and inactivity” Ross McGarry, University of Liverpool"An insightful volume by an international team of scholars, worth reading by anyone concerned with state power and responsibility for civil liberties and human rights." Sheying Chen, Pace University"A comprehensive and critical engagement with state power that will be of use to undergraduate students”. Roy Coleman, University of Liverpool"The concision and insightfulness of this volume will be of tremendous value to all those who need a compact account of the topics listed." Brice Dickson, Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University BelfastTable of ContentsA-Z of terms.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides succinct yet robust definitions and explanations of core concepts and themes in relation to state power, liberties and human rights. Laid out in a user-friendly A-Z format, entries have with clear direction to related entries and further reading. It will be suitable for students on a variety of courses.Trade Review"An interdisciplinary toolbox of theories, concepts, perspectives and institutional insights that are fundamental to grasping the complexities of human rights, civil liberties and their relationship to state activity and inactivity” Ross McGarry, University of Liverpool"An insightful volume by an international team of scholars, worth reading by anyone concerned with state power and responsibility for civil liberties and human rights." Sheying Chen, Pace University"A comprehensive and critical engagement with state power that will be of use to undergraduate students”. Roy Coleman, University of Liverpool"The concision and insightfulness of this volume will be of tremendous value to all those who need a compact account of the topics listed." Brice Dickson, Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University BelfastTable of ContentsA-Z of terms.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by transcending ethnonational categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it provides a constructive agenda for critical nationalism studies.Trade Review'A thrilling, passionate and timely book that takes us from Europe to Pacific Asia and back again to consider the frightening, fascinating power of nationalist ideology'. Angharad Closs Stephens, Swansea University“A timely and provocative consideration of the recent trends in exclusivist nationalism.” - CHOICE ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Brexit Nation 2. Home and Belonging 3. ‘The Europe we want’ 4. Sea as a Political Space 5. Representation beyond the Nation 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how responses by the state shape a woman's citizenship long after she has escaped from a violent partner. It investigates the effects of intimate partner violence on everyday life including housing, employment, mental health and social participation and offers critical insights for the development of social policy and practice.Trade Review"This book shines a light on the ugly underbelly of patriarchal society, exposing the violence that negates women's citizenship and freedom. The writers and editors are to be congratulated for this addition to published literature - and hence to our understanding - of a system that facilitates violence." Margaret Alston, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsThe sexual politics of gendered violence and women’s citizenship; The problem of citizenship, violence and gender; The challenges of researching gendered violence; Living the connected effects of violence; Gendered violence and the self; Re-engaging lives; The campaigns for women's freedom from violence; Tranforming sexual politics.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how responses by the state shape a woman's citizenship long after she has escaped from a violent partner. It investigates the effects of intimate partner violence on everyday life including housing, employment, mental health and social participation and offers critical insights for the development of social policy and practice.Trade Review"This book shines a light on the ugly underbelly of patriarchal society, exposing the violence that negates women's citizenship and freedom. The writers and editors are to be congratulated for this addition to published literature - and hence to our understanding - of a system that facilitates violence." Margaret Alston, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsThe sexual politics of gendered violence and women’s citizenship; The problem of citizenship, violence and gender; The challenges of researching gendered violence; Living the connected effects of violence; Gendered violence and the self; Re-engaging lives; The campaigns for women's freedom from violence; Tranforming sexual politics.

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Book SynopsisChallenging conventional thinking, leading academics explore how individuals' relationships with civil society change over time as different lifecourse events and stages trigger and hinder civic engagement and political participation, and highlight the implications for those promoting greater civic and political engagement.Table of ContentsExploring Civil Society Through a Lifecourse Approach ~ Sally Power Civic Participation over the Lifecourse ~ Chris Taylor Young People’s Civil and Political Participation ~ Sally Power Graduating into Civil Society ~ Ceryn Evans, Esther Muddiman and Chris Taylor Parenthood and Civic Engagement ~ Esther Muddiman Volunteering in Later Life ~ Martijn J A Hogerbrugge Grandparenting and Participation in Civil Society ~ Jennifer May Hampton and Esther Muddiman Retiring into Civil Society ~ Laura Jones, Jesse Heley and Sophie Yarker Leaving a Legacy for Civil Society ~ Rhian Powell Civil Society through the Lifecourse ~ Sally Power

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Book SynopsisRich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing city regions in Britain, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Onward devolution and city regions Northern powerhouses Metro governance dynamics Precarious city regions Elite city deals Beyond cities in regions City- region limits Conclusions: City- regional futures

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Book SynopsisAdult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. This book meticulously charts this shift, challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider political thinking and policy change literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Before the market 2 The emergence and consolidation of the market 3 Dilemmas in the commissioning of adult social care 4 Dilemmas in the provision of adult social care 5 State or market? 6 Context: funding and administration 7 Looking ahead: an ethical future for adult social care 8 COVID-19: the stress test of adult social care 9 Conclusion: making it change – morals, markets and power

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Book SynopsisIn this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of US prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the power of the state in people's lives.

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Book SynopsisIn 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign.Trade ReviewAn examination of the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century." - Law & Social Inquiry"Raises fundamental philosophical questions that are sure to inspire conversation and debate." - Missouri Historical Review"A highly readable, well argued, and ultimately convincing reappraisal of the significance of restrictive covenant cases in modern American history." - Journal of Social History"Gonda's valuable contribution underscores the formidable movement to counter housing discrimination, an area of research long neglected." - Journal of Southern History"Well written and argued, Unjust Deeds add important details to the story of the black freedom struggle." - Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisIn this meticulously researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organised, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states.

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Book SynopsisIn this first narrative history of one of the longest boycott campaigns in US history, Allyson Brantley draws from a broad archive as well as oral history interviews with long-time boycotters to offer a compelling, grassroots view of anti-corporate organising and unlikely coalitions.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. The book reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle.

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Book SynopsisUnearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutionary force for Black liberation. In telling this story, Anthony Siracusa challenges the idea that nonviolent freedom practices faded with the rise of the Black Power movement.

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Book SynopsisCombining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoliberalism to find the origin of today’s education woes in Great Society reforms.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements. At the heart of this book is the story is the National Lawyers Guild.

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Book SynopsisThrough the prism of Joan Little’s rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and 1970s and 1980s social movements.

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Book SynopsisUnearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions.Trade Review[Smith] shows how the struggles of the region's Black communities laid the groundwork for the modern food justice movement. Sadly, access to fresh, unprocessed meals still elude many Black Americans today, but this little-known narrative reconstructed by Smith offers key lessons that could inform the current challenges."—Civil Eats

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