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Bristol University Press Civil Society and the Family
Book SynopsisThis enlightening book challenges conventional distinctions between the family and civil society as it uncovers how civic values and practices are inherited and fostered within the home.Table of ContentsStarting points The paradoxical positioning of the family and civil society The challenges of researching the ‘private sphere’ of the family The uncertain business of raising citizens Keeping the faith? Secularisation, the family and civic engagement Mothers, grandmothers and civic engagement Family arguments: finding one’s voice Politicising family food practices The upward transmission of civic ‘virtues’ Reframing civil society and the family
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Bristol University Press Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which communities are responding today's society as government policies are increasingly promoting privatisation, deregulation and individualisation of responsibilities, providing insights into the efficacy of these approaches through key policy issues including access to food, education and health.Table of Contents1. Islands of Hope in a Sea of Despair: Civil Society in an Age of Austerity 2. The North East of England: Place, Economy and People Part 1: The Public Sector and Civil Society 3. The Public Sector and Civil Society: Introduction 4. Innovation Outside the State: The Glendale Gateway Trust 5. The Byker Community Trust and the ‘Byker Approach’ 6. Café Society: Transforming Community Through Quiet Activism and Reciprocity 7. ‘Computer Says No’: Exploring Social Justice in Digital Services 8. Drive to Thrive: A Place-Based Approach to Tackling Poverty in Gateshead 9. City of Dreams: Enabling Children and Young People’s Cultural Participation and Civic Voice in Newcastle and Gateshead 10. Are We ‘All in This Together?’: Reflecting on the Continuities Between Austerity and COVID-19 Crises Part 2: The Civic University 11. The Civic University: Introduction 12. Reinventing a Civic Role for the 21st-Century: The Cathedral and the University 13. Realising the Potential of Universities for Inclusive, Innovation-Led Development: The Case of the Newcastle City Futures Urban Living Partnership Pilot 14. Future Homes: Developing New Responses Through New Organisations 15. The Good, the Bad and the Disconcerting: A Week in the Life of University Project Based Learning for Schools 16. The Containment of Democratic Innovation: Reflections from Two University Collaborations 17. Citizen Power, the University and the North East 18. So What is a University in Any Case?: A Grass-roots Perspective on the University and Urban Social Justice 19. Conclusion: Hope in an Age of Austerity and a Time of Anxiety
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Bristol University Press Critical Gerontology for Social Workers
Book SynopsisThis original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform social work research, policy and practice. Engaging with key debates on age-related human rights, the conceptual focus addresses the current challenges and opportunities facing those who work with older people.Trade Review“This book will help prepare future generations of social workers to serve and advocate for the older adult population. I highly recommend this book to social workers with an interest in working with older adults or those educating future social workers to practice in the aging field.” Journal of Gerontological Social WorkTable of ContentsSocial work and critical gerontology: why the former needs the latter ~ Sarah Donnelly and Sandra Torres Part I: Critical gerontology as guiding principles for social work for older people The life course and old age ~ Alisoun Milne Human rights and older people ~ Joan R. Harbison Agency and autonomy ~ Paul Higgs Poverty and late-life homelessness ~ Amanda Grenier and Tamara Sussman Sexuality and rights in later life ~ Paul Willis and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Ethnicity, race and migrancy ~ Sandra Torres Part II: Applying the critical gerontological lens to social work research, policy and practice Assessment, care planning and decision making ~ Anna Olaison and Sarah Donnelly Elder abuse ~ Lorna Montgomery and Gemma M. Carney Dementia: a disability and a human rights concern ~ Suzanne Cahill User involvement ~ Peter Beresford Opportunities and future prospects for gerontological social work with a critical lens ~ Marjaana Seppänen and Mo Ray
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Bristol University Press Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New
Book SynopsisDrawing on first-hand accounts from those living under the systems, this novel study explores the impact of Australia and New Zealand's income management policies and asks whether they have caused more harm than good.Table of Contents1. Framing welfare conditionality 2. Why Income Management? 3. Barriers to implementing Compulsory Income Management 4. Identity and emotion 5. Procedural, consumer and contractual rights, and access to justice 6. Resistance and reform: individual and collective agency 7. Voluntary Income Management and financial education 8. Recalibrating social security and reimagining work
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Bristol University Press Experiences of Punishment Abuse and Justice by
Book SynopsisShedding light on the challenges and experiences of women and families within the criminal justice system, this book considers issues of intersectionality, violence and gender. Accessible to both academics and practitioners and with real-world policy recommendations, this collection demonstrates how positive change can be achieved.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Anita Dockley 1. Keeping the conversation going: the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network ~ Natalie Booth, Isla Masson and Lucy Baldwin Part I: Punishing women in the criminal justice system 2. Pregnancy and new motherhood in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic ~ Laura Abbott 3. Empowerment or punishment? The curious case of women’s centres ~ Gemma Ahearne 4. Silent victims: uncovering the realities of the criminal justice system for families of prisoners ~ Zobia Hadait, Somia R. Bibi and Razia Tariq Hadait Part II: Violence, abuse and justice 5. Recognising and responding to domestic violence and abuse in LGB and/or T+ people’s relationships: towards a ‘relationships services’ approach ~ Rebecca Barnes and Catherine Donovan 6. “Throwing the first punch before I got hurt”: the experiences of imprisoned women who have perpetrated intimate partner violence and abuse ~ Jenny Mackay 7. “It feels like a mini victory”: alternative routes to justice in experiences of online misogyny ~ Jo Smith 8. The conversation isn’t over: gaining justice for women and families ~ Natalie Booth, Isla Masson and Lucy Baldwin
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University of Texas Press Kuxlejal Politics
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and Tojolabal community members helping to design and evaluate her fieldwork. The result of that collaboration—a work of activist anthropology—reveals how Zapatista kuxlejal (or life) politics unsettle key racialized effects of the Mexican neoliberal state.Through detailed narratives, thick descriptions, and testimonies, Kuxlejal Politics focuses on central spheres of Zapatista indigenous autonomy, particularly governing practices, agrarian reform, women’s collective work, and the implementation of justice, as well as health and education projectTrade ReviewRemarkable…Mora does not limit her analysis to examine Zapatista indigenous autonomy from a de-colonial framework, but also decolonizes her own research methods...Kuxlejal Politics contributes to expand the discussion on the various autonomous projects underway in Latin America and to challenge the research methodology of the anthropology in contact with indigenous peoples. * European Review of Latin American and Carribean Studies *A brilliant ethnography of a movement from below that simply refused to accept the prevailing ideological, social, and political structures of oppression. * Latin American Perspectives *[An] innovative book…decolonial approaches are needed to reframe research and knowledge production in geography; such a reframing should be attentive to multiple and diverse ontologies and epistemologies…Kuxlejal Politics is exemplary of how the work of reframing might be done. More than that, it is a vision of a life politics that gives me hope. * Journal of Latin American Geography *Mora’s project is a model of collaborative research with the communities she did research in....Mora does not romanticise the Zapatista movement; rather, she allows her research subjects to step out of the background of data collection. In this way, her conceptualisation helps us to understand the historical roots and current practices of Zapatista communities by placing them centre stage. * ALMA Reviews *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. A Brief Overview of the First Years of the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (1996–2003) Two. The Production of Knowledge on the Terrain of Autonomy: Research as a Topic of Political Debate Three. Social Memories of Struggle and Racialized (E)states Four. Zapatista Agrarian Reform within the Racialized Fields of Chiapas Five. Women’s Collectives and the Politicized (Re)production of Social Life Six. Mandar Obedeciendo; or, Pedagogy and the Art of Governing Conclusion: Zapatismo as the Struggle to Live within the Lekil Kuxlejal Tradition of Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index
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Teachers' College Press Telling the Story in the Data Narrative Writing
Book SynopsisTraditional dissertations aiming to illuminate the landscapes of education are often too turgid and poorly written to have far-reaching readership. This book examines the inner workings of a doctoral course focused on teaching qualitative researchers strong narrative writing.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Susan Groundwater-Smith vii Introduction: Student Voice: Reframing School Change by Repositioning Educational Research 1 Marc Brasof and Joseph Levitan PART I: The Student Voice Research Framework and Philosophical Underpinnings 1. The Student Voice Research Framework 13 Marc Brasof and Joseph Levitan 2. Epistemological Issues in Student Voice Research 38 Joseph Levitan and Marc Brasof PART II: Preparing for Student Voice Work 3. The Ethics of Student Voice Research 57 William C. Frick 4. Considering Space and Time: Power Dynamics and Relationships Between Children and Adults 68 Kate Wall, Claire Cassidy, Carol Robinson, Mhairi C. Beaton, Lorna Arnott, and Elaine Hall 5. Student Voice: Assessing Research in the Field 84 Lindsay Lyons, Ellen MacCannell, and Vanessa Gold 6. Reflection and Reflexion on Student Participation and System Change 100 Pat Thomson PART III: Student Voice Methods in Action 7. Making Meaning and Planning Change with Students Using Photo-Cued Interviewing 117 Kayla M. Johnson 8. Participatory Visual Data Analysis: Tools for Empowering Students Toward Social Change 138 Lisa J. Starr 9. Listening to Relations of Power and Potential with Material Methods 153 Eve Mayes 10. Balancing Breadth and Depth: Using Mixed Methods in Scale Development Research 168 Lindsay Lyons 11. Intersecting Voices: An Integrative Approach to Applying the Student Voice Research Framework in Teacher Education 183 Alison Cook-Sather, Heather Curl, and Chanelle Wilson Conclusion: The Past, Present, and Future of Student Voice Research 201 Joseph Levitan and Marc Brasof References 207 About the Editors and Contributors 231 Index 235
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University of Minnesota Press The Parasite
Book SynopsisInfluential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
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Zone Books Perspective as Symbolic Form
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University of California Press Experimental Times
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Harvard University Press The Return of Inequality Social Change and the
Book SynopsisSociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the framework of liberal democracy. By fracturing social bonds, inequality turns back the clock, reviving conditions we have struggled for centuries to escape, including empire, dynastic elitism, and explosive ethnic division.Trade ReviewA major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class. A must-read. -- Thomas Piketty, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, author of Capital and IdeologyWith a wide-ranging, original, and visionary argument and engagingly written, The Return of Inequality is a major contribution, the crowning of an exceptionally productive career focused on the sociology of inequality, social change, and culture in the UK, Europe, and the world. -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, past president of the American Sociological AssociationEmpirical analyses have documented increasing inequality over recent decades. There have been passionate calls to action. But the analyses and the action need to be linked by careful consideration of just how to think about inequality, including its locations, dimensions, forms, and visceral experiences. The Return of Inequality responds to that need with insight, deep thought, and important new perspective. -- Craig Calhoun, Arizona State UniversityFor Savage, there is a link between the rise of an ‘inequality paradigm’ (focused especially on wealth, rather than income) and movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which seek to address the economic legacy of historical injustices. The spotlight that has fallen on Russian oligarchs since the invasion of Ukraine is another manifestation of the inequality paradigm, emphasizing the links between present injustices (not to say humanitarian catastrophes) and political-economic maneuvering dating back to the 1990s. -- William Davies * London Review of Books *This highly original book deploys a unique combination of history, classic sociology, cultural sociology, and contemporary economics. Savage makes a compelling argument about how the legacy of the past combines with capitalist accumulation to affect inequalities of race, gender, and class around the world. His sophisticated reflections about the visual representation of inequality inform a broader inquiry into how the achievements and limits of social science shape the new politics of inequality. The book defines the emerging field of comparative global inequality. -- Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative PoliticsSavage’s provocative book compels us to seek organizational answers. -- Mitchel Y. Abolafia * Administrative Science Quarterly *A much-needed and highly insightful intellectual history of the concept and analysis of inequality…Extremely well written, engaging, and learned…It should be read carefully by social scientists who study inequality. -- Richard Lachmann * American Journal of Sociology *
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Princeton University Press Citizen Marx
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Princeton University Press Doubled Up
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Harvard University Press Slaves in Paris Hidden Lives and Fugitive
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Princeton University Press The Dean of Shandong
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Louisiana State University Press The New View from Cane River
Book SynopsisThe New View from Cane River features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin''s first novel, At Fault. While much critical work on the author prioritizes her famous, groundbreaking second book, The Awakening, its 1890 predecessor remains a fascinating text that presents a complicated moral universe, including a plot that involves divorce, alcoholism, and murder set in the aftermath of the Civil War. Edited by Chopin scholar Heather Ostman, the essays in The New View from Cane River provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era and its effects on race, gender, and economics in Louisiana. Original perspectives introduced by the contributors include discussions of Chopin''s treatment of privilege, sexology, and Unitarianism, as well as what At Fault reveals about the early stages of literary modernism and the reading
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Louisiana State University Press Before Fanfiction
Book SynopsisInvestigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.Trade ReviewBefore Fanfiction significantly expands, extends, revises, and reanimates our understanding of the multiple histories of fandom and, in particular, fan writing, through a consideration of other transformative literary practices. Edwards's boldly revisionist approach makes this book essential reading, decentering the white male science fiction fan conventions from fandom's origin stories, in favor of women's clubs, circles, and magazines of the early twentieth century." - Henry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture"A vivid investigation of the historical bonds that link fandom, criticism, and creative practice. Edwards shows how the fan cultures of today are rooted in a matriarchal and thoroughly literary lineage that extends well beyond our contemporary mediaverse." - Sheila Liming, author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books"Before Fanfiction reenergizes fan studies in exciting new directions that promise to revolutionize the field. Revising the 'fandom creation myth,' Edwards establishes a lineage of fan audiences through varied genealogies, including early literary fan communities, letter columns in literary magazines, and fan mail. Exploring an intersectional history of fan culture, Edwards changes our understanding of fandom today and, relevantly, what fandom can be in the future. A must-read for fan scholars and audiences alike." - Paul Booth, professor of media and popular culture at DePaul University and author of Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
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Johns Hopkins University Press Outbreak Behind Bars
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Teachers College Press Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and
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University of California Press Industrial Islamism How Authoritarian Movements
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University of California Press Disabled Ecologies
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Princeton University Press Slow Burn The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
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Johns Hopkins University Press Raiding the Heartland
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Princeton University Press Police Against the Movement
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University of California Press We Are Internationalists Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
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Princeton University Press Political Rumors
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University of Texas Press Concrete Encoded
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University of California Press Food Justice Undone Lessons for Building a Better Movement
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University of California Press Trans Pleasure
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University of California Press Making Our Beasts Paleontology in the United States
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Harvard University Press Reinventing Examination and the State in TwentiethCentury China and Taiwan
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Princeton University Press Elites and Democracy
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John Wiley & Sons Teaching and Learning on the Verge Democratic Education in Action
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University of Hawaii Press Transfiguring Women in Late TwentiethCentury Japan
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University of North Carolina Press Reclaiming Clio
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