Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisPlaces the design of Philippine cities within a framework of Americaâs distinct religious and racial identity, colonial politics, and local cultural expansion. In doing so, the book expands knowledge about city planning - its influence and role - within national development by providing valuable insights into the nature of Philippine society.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive reference work on this topic. `[The author takes] the Celtic world to include both the European continent and the more recent settlements in the British Isles. The entries, admirably broad in scope, conceive religion and culture as including not only the usual gods and myths but shamanic practices and totems. Maier also provides entries for important scholars of Celtic culture.' CHOICE

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Book SynopsisMythical creatures drawn largely from medieval travellers' tales, but encompassing civilisations from the Sumerians to the Wild West.A dictionary? No, this is really an astonishing ark filled with beasts from a fabulous zoo far more varied and entertaining than anything from ordinary natural history. From Abaia and Abath to Ziz and Zu, from the microscopic Gigelorum that nests in a mite's ear to the giant serpent Jormungandor who encircles the whole globe, there are beasts from every corner of man's imagination: the light-hearted Fearsome Critters of lumberjack tales find a place alongside the Sirrush of Babylon and the Winged Bulls of Assyria. Some of the fabulous beasts turn out to be real creatures in disguise - a Cameleopard is a kind of glamourised giraffe -while others are almost, but not quite, human. Among the six hundred entries are some which are full-scale essays in their own right, as on Phoenix or Giants; and just in case it seems as though the authors dreamt up the entire book, there is a detailed list of books for the would-be hunter in this mythical jungle.Trade ReviewEngagingly written and zestfully illustrated... Its six hundred entries are amusing and useful starting points. * SPECULUM *

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Book SynopsisMedieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe.This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.Trade ReviewA solid contribution to the study of modes of virginity in England. Her bibliography is excellent, and her notes judicious. I highly recommend this work. -- Thomas J. Heffernan * SPECULUM *This book will be of use and interest to all those working on medieval and early modern religion and gender. * JNL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *A book of immense importance because it has attended to the complexities of a religious discourse that is strikingly foreign to modern sensibilities. * REFORMATION *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scope of the Study; The Critical Map; Narratives of Virginity; Perpetual Incorruption in Corruptible Flesh: Towards a Theory of Virginity; Performing Virginity: The Katherine Group; Containing Virginity: The Veil and the Wall; Like a Virgin? The Book of Margery Kempe Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter One. Introduction Scope of the Study 0 The Critical Map 0 Narratives of Virginity 00 Chapter Two. Perpetual Incorruption in Corruptible Flesh: Towards a Theory of Virginity Medieval Terms 00 Modern Terms 00 Chapter Three. Performing Virginity: The Katherine Group Binaries of Sanctity 00 Virgin Martyr Legends 00 The AB Texts 00 Virgins and Romance 00 Sponsae Christi 00 Sex, Violence and Spectacle 000 More Hagiographic Virginities 000 Chapter Four. Containing Virginity: The Veil and the Wall Some Parameters 000 Gendering Nuns 000 The Monastic Self in the Community 000 The Veil and the Virgin Individual 000 The Wall and the Virgin Community 000 The Nun of Watton 000 Chapter Five. Like A Virgin? The Book of Margery Kempe Placing Margery 000 Modes and Techniques of the Book 000 Reclaiming Virginity 000 Hagiographic and Other Models 000 Margery and the Virgin Martyrs 000 Continuities and Ruptures 000 Martyrdom and Closure 000 Suffering and Penitence 000 Martyrdom by Slander 000 White Clothes 000 Relationships, Sexuality and Desire 000 Final Remarks 000 Conclusion 000 Bibliography 000 Index

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Book SynopsisCrisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.Trade Review"It may seem odd for the author of a book on human genetics and heredity to thank his travel agent in the acknowledgments, but in the case of this hybrid work of science and cross-country reportage it’s a fitting gesture… Sykes writes lucidly, creating his own unique mixture in a book that might be described as Travels With Charley meets The Double Helix." -- Abigail Meisel - New York Times Book Review"As the author of The Seven Daughters of Eve and other books, Sykes is an old hand at writing about genetics for the general public. His experience shows as he deftly introduces highly technical information in reader-friendly ways… During his journey, Sykes encounters people who embrace DNA testing as a way to clear up messy genealogical records. He also meets skeptics, who see the technology as a way to discredit their cultural heritage. Sykes doesn’t shy away from these criticisms, presenting a well-balanced view of the disparate attitudes." -- Tina Hesman Saey - ScienceNews"An authority on ancient DNA analysis, Sykes provides a nontechnical introduction to how Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA may be used to reveal ancestral heritage. Combining in-depth interviews with volunteers along with these genetic techniques, he attempts to create a biological portrait of the United States. … These DNA portraits illustrate the complexity of human inheritance and how difficult it is to assign individuals to distinct groups." -- Library Journal"Starred review. Human genetics energetically elucidated, entertaining travel writing, the fascinating personal stories of DNA volunteers, and Sykes’ candid musings on his awakening to the complex emotional and social implications of hidden biological inheritances make for a milestone book guaranteed to ignite spirited discussion." -- Donna Seaman - Booklist

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Book SynopsisWills from lower social status shed light on religious, social and cultural history.Lincolnshire has an extensive archive of sixteenth-century probate material, preserved in the registers of the consistory and archdeaconry courts of Lincoln, the peculiar court of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral, and thearchdeaconry court of Stow. Unlike the wills proved by the archiepiscopal probate courts of Canterbury and York, those from Lincolnshire reflect a population of lower social status. The overwhelming majority come from the ranks of husbandmen, yeomen, or tradesmen, rather than the gentry. In this respect the wills offer a valuable source for the cultural and religious preoccupations of the 'middling sort' and those lower in the social spectrum on the eve of the Reformation. Equally, the detailed bequests of property, livestock and land provide an insight into the material culture and prosperity of the testators, as well as extensive genealogical and topographical information of interest to local, regional and family historians.Trade ReviewA magnificent volume,and follows in a great tradition... a marvellous invitation to the world, the church, and the society we have lost. But, skilfully, it provides a means of finding it again. For those convinced of the usefulness of wills as a historical source, this is a professionally produced volume that will be very useful....A rich collection of primary documents. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsThe publication of Lincolnshire wills; LCC 1532-34; the testators; wills as a historical source; religious bequests; editorial method; Lincoln Wills 1532-1534. Appendix: undated or incompletely dated wills.

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Book SynopsisLife''s Work is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions. New and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. Investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity. Focuses on both theoretical and practical issues. Includes case studies on migration, education and domesticity. Trade Review"A fascinating journey through the tangled power relations and layered geographies of social reproduction. The essays are creative, diverse, and internationally thought-provoking." Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "An inspired, highly readable, and vitally significant collection of papers. In attempting to pull apart and examine "the multiple relations, spaces, practices and possibilities of life's work," it moves considerably beyond the achievements of those who have previously wed feminist, Marxist and postructural theories to address issues of social reproduction." Allan Pred, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley "A stimulating collection infused with feminist scholarship from the domestic labour debate to embodiment and gendered subjectivities. The collection powerfully documents the changing connections between employment and all those other forms of work that make up the total social organisation of labor. Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the diversity of ways of living and making a living in a globalized world." Linda McDowell, Professor of Geography, University College London "With great clarity and a fascinating range of examples, this collection promises to shift our understanding of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and class in late capitalism." Caren Kaplan, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UC Berkeley "Some of the chapters are fascinating ... What sets this book apart from others that have wrestled with the production/reproduction boundary is its distinctly multi- and transnational flavour. In the contemporary world social reproduction can be just as 'global' as production has become, and the chapters in Life's Work provide many absorbing and welcome examples." Progress in Human Geography "A wide ranging, hyper(post)modern collection of essays in social and cultural geography...It trips nicely from pen to page" Network “The book’s authors extend the social reproduction debates in Marxist, feminist, and development studies by advocating the conceptual importance of economic-social-political complexity, subjectivity, and empirical analysis. The introductory chapter is well-written and would serve as a useful and comprehensible piece for both upper level undergraduate and graduate courses.” Annals of the Association of American GeographersTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Life’s Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique. Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Cindi Katz. Part I: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject. 1. Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks: John Morgan. 2. Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes. Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe. 3. Producing the Future: Getting To Be British. Jean Lave. Part II: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity. 1. Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms. Maria Fannin. 2. Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces. Melissa Hyams. 3. Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics. Rosemary Marangoly George. Part III: Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation. 1. Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia. Geraldine Pratt. 2. Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor. Altha J Cravey. 3. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Alison Mountz. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics. Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view Considers real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to have Uses moral images' as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmas Provides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the book suitable for readers with no knowledge of genetics Creates a moral framework for assessing all new technologies Trade Review“The options for human enhancement that genetic science may eventually make possible tend to resist evaluation by traditional approaches to ethics, since the central issue is nothing less than what human nature itself shall be. Liberal Eugenics offers refreshingly sensible guidance to the possibilities of cloning, genetic therapy, and genetic enhancement by reference to our ‘moral images’ of more familiar but relevantly similar practices. At once conservative in its methodology and daring in its defiance of conventional wisdom, this book is a lively and accessible antidote to the prejudice and obscurantism that pervade public debates about these challenging issues.” Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, RutgersUniversity “With Liberal Eugenics, Nicholas Agar has given us a lively, sophisticated defense of genetic enhancement, challenging the anxious sentimentality of biotech luddites without embracing the naïve, reckless optimism of bio-tech enthusiasts. Readers may not always agree with Agar, but they will be engaged by his original and forceful arguments and his apt and delightful examples. The book is a pleasure to read and a provocative piece of applied philosophy – a rare combination.” David Wasserman, University of Maryland "A very persuasive case for an informed, liberal though not laissez-faire approach to research." The Guardian "This [is a] clear, scientifically well informed and philosophically sophisticated study." Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments.. 1. Genius Sperm, Eugenics, and Enhancement Technologies.. 2. A Pragmatic Optimism about Enhancement Technologies.. 3. Making Moral Images of Biotechnology.. 4. The moral image of therapy.. 5. The moral Image of Nature.. 6. The Moral Image of Nurture. 7. Our Postliberal Future?. 8. Enhanced Humans When?. Notes. Further Reading. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisGeoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.Trade Review"Punctures the technocratic myth of UK academics and politicians working together, identifying instead a troubling disconnect between what’s known about mobility and what’s done in the name of increasing it. An object lesson in late-industrial policymaking." David G. Grusky, Stanford University"A valuable navigation tool of thought for the exploration of mobility" - Sociological Research Online"Every public figure protests they are all for social mobility - but few have any idea what it means. Here's the definitive analysis they need to read: equal opportunity means we must live more equal lives." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian"A lively, intelligent, and well-informed discussion of the meaning, extent, and significance of social mobility in Britain. Written for both specialists and policymakers, it will be an essential source of reference for decades to come." John Scott, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroducing the Confusing World of Social Mobility; ‘There’s a Lot of it About’; Log Cabins and Field-Marshals’ Batons; The Political Re-discovery of Social Mobility; Documenting Mobility; Tracing the Origins; Why low, why now?; The Pessimism of Older Academic Mobility Analysis; The Emergence of a New Society; The New Mobility Regime; Misconceptions of Schooling and Meritocracy; Tightening Bonds and Professional Access; Moving On; References; Tables and Figures.

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Book SynopsisGeoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.Trade Review"Punctures the technocratic myth of UK academics and politicians working together, identifying instead a troubling disconnect between what’s known about mobility and what’s done in the name of increasing it. An object lesson in late-industrial policymaking." David G. Grusky, Stanford University"A valuable navigation tool of thought for the exploration of mobility" - Sociological Research Online"Every public figure protests they are all for social mobility - but few have any idea what it means. Here's the definitive analysis they need to read: equal opportunity means we must live more equal lives." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian"A lively, intelligent, and well-informed discussion of the meaning, extent, and significance of social mobility in Britain. Written for both specialists and policymakers, it will be an essential source of reference for decades to come." John Scott, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroducing the Confusing World of Social Mobility; ‘There’s a Lot of it About’; Log Cabins and Field-Marshals’ Batons; The Political Re-discovery of Social Mobility; Documenting Mobility; Tracing the Origins; Why low, why now?; The Pessimism of Older Academic Mobility Analysis; The Emergence of a New Society; The New Mobility Regime; Misconceptions of Schooling and Meritocracy; Tightening Bonds and Professional Access; Moving On; References; Tables and Figures.

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Book SynopsisThis unique atlas uses the 2011 Census data, alongside more recent data sources, to identify national and local trends and provide up-to-date analysis and discussion of the implications of current trends for future policy. This is the only social atlas of the 2011 Census that explains so much about how all of the UK is changing.Trade Review"a comfortable, accessible style that makes palatable what could have been a dry recitation of material. The resource will be useful for those in a number of fields of study who follow demographics of the UK." CHOICE"The great value of the book is that in an era where expertise can be casually dismissed and where facts can be treated with disdain, it supplies the necessary tools to combat many misconceptions within much contemporary public discourse." Chartist"a fascinating work" Future First"Beautifully clear and endlessly informative, this atlas provides a fascinating yet sobering picture of the changing nature of the UK’s population." Dr Alexander J. Kent, President of the British Cartographic Society"A superb and utterly fascinating insight into what our country actually looks like, and how it's changing. Both authors brilliantly and meticulously dissect society. A must if you want to understand modern Britain." Owen Jones, author and Guardian columnist"Dorling and Thomas' narrative helps the reader navigate the changing landscape of society effectively, highlighting interesting points and emphasising those areas which have seen the most change or continuity." Fran Darlington-Pollock, British Society for Population Studies"Using their trademark maps - hallucinatory visions that properly reflect populations - the authors tell us about the distribution of everything from wealth to same-sex couples, and what changes have occurred in recent years. An extraordinary and graphically gripping resource." David Spiegelhalter, President Elect of the Royal Statistical Society"This is a brilliantly informative overview of UK society today, highlighting not only important national changes and trends but also the 'who' and 'where'. It should be a starting point for any discussion of social policy." Professor Diane Coyle, University of Manchester and founder of Enlightenment Economics“A delightfully accessible yet thoroughly researched piece of work, People and Places is a reasoned and informed contribution to our understanding of some of the big and indeed less big changes in British society in recent years.” Mary O’Hara, journalist and author of Austerity BitesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Sex, Age and Marriage; Religion and Ethnicity; Birthplace and Nationality; Qualifications and Employment; Occupation and Industry; Families, Caring and Health; Homes and Commuting; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how population ageing and globalisation - two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred - interact.Trade Review"This pioneering work demonstrates the urgency to conceptualize the different dynamics and layers of globalisation as they contextualize emerging forms of ageing." Jan Baars, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands“At last a book that offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of ageing and globalisation while using empirical data to nuance our understandings of these phenomena.” Sandra Torres, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction of key terms and debates; Age, ageing and later life; Gerontological approaches to globalization; Global geographies of health in later life; The family life of older people in a global context; Pensions, work and poverty. The financial landscapes of ageing and later life; A global Third Age? Identities in later life; The global politics and policies of ageing; Conclusion: The necessity of understanding globalization for studying later life.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how population ageing and globalisation - two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred - interact.Trade Review"This pioneering work demonstrates the urgency to conceptualize the different dynamics and layers of globalisation as they contextualize emerging forms of ageing." Jan Baars, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands“At last a book that offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of ageing and globalisation while using empirical data to nuance our understandings of these phenomena.” Sandra Torres, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction of key terms and debates; Age, ageing and later life; Gerontological approaches to globalization; Global geographies of health in later life; The family life of older people in a global context; Pensions, work and poverty. The financial landscapes of ageing and later life; A global Third Age? Identities in later life; The global politics and policies of ageing; Conclusion: The necessity of understanding globalization for studying later life.

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration.

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Book SynopsisExamines the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese tracks the ways transnational food corporations have shaped food availability.

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Book SynopsisBringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America’s capital.

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Book SynopsisDelivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Jason Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.Trade ReviewCaptures the reader's attention with a cavalcade of astoundingly detailed accounts of the exploits and adventures of a cornucopia of outstanding people who have left an enduring mark on New Orleans and the conflicts that have forged its distinctive urban culture." - Ed Conroy, The Houston Chronicle"A bold, witty, character-driven history of New Orleans, just in time for its tricentennial.--Larry Blumenfeld, The Wall Street Journal A hypnotic biography of a unique American city. . . . City of a Million Dreams is history writing at its best, in which high-caliber prose manages to be as interesting as its subject." - Foreword Reviews"Berry not only traces . . . overlaps of sound and spectacle; he uses overlapping narratives. . . . We see New Orleans, after another of its near-death experiences, still stubbornly not knowing how to die when it ought to." - Garry Wills, New York Review of Books"City of a Million Dreams is a well-informed, masterfully-written, encapsulation of everything, good and bad, that makes New Orleans one of the most unique and adored cities in the world; it is a welcomed addition to the literature on the city." - Louisiana History"A powerful narrative about the making of a place, against all odds." - January Magazine"Every major city should have such a guide to its past." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Book SynopsisIn this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the US-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire.Trade ReviewKim is deft in tying together the histories of Mexico, the US-Mexican borderlands, and the US West. This engaging and timely book is a welcome addition to the literature on these various subjects." - CHOICE "An ambitious, highly original, and captivating study. Kim's wide range of U.S. and Mexican archival sources allows her to present a fine-grained contrapuntal history that carefully heeds the making, operating, and unmaking of empire on the ground in both Los Angeles and several Mexican regions. Written in a compelling, engaging style, it is is an outstanding history of Los Angeles that convincingly demonstrates thatthe "city of quartz" is also a city of empire." - H-Diplo ""Imperial Metropolis places Mexico at the center of a conversation on the changing state of American expansion, a historical reality that scholars of American empire—drawn to Hawaii and the Philippines in the 1890s—have generally missed. It will certainly spark new and important conversations related to the borderlands and Southern Californian historiography ... and explains how Los Angeles became a city with global reach and power via its unique history and positioning in the borderlands." - Diplomatic History "Offers useful andthought-provoking insights for historians interested in imperialism, urban development, capitalism, and race, as well as for scholars of revolutionary Mexico and U.S.-Latin American relations." - Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era "Kim’s authoritative research in U.S. and Mexican archives will be useful for historians of empire, capitalism, race, the U.S.-Mexico border, and cities. Graduate seminars should be eager to use it as an exemplary model of a new type of borderlands history." - Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists

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Book SynopsisDocuments the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. The book emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighbourhoods.

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Book SynopsisDocuments the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. The book emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighbourhoods.

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1970s, states across the US have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws.

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1970s, states across the US have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws.

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Book SynopsisArgues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the US’s rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote business, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favoured causes - often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol.

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Book SynopsisDocuments the growth of celebrity humanitarianism, viewing the phenomenon through the lens of feminist ethnography to understand how elite philanthropy is raced, classed, and gendered.

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Book SynopsisUnpapered brings together personal narratives of Indigenous writers to explore the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins.Trade Review“This remarkable collection of stories and essays about Indigenous identity shakes off the tired tropes established under colonial dominion to bring urgency and honesty to a divisive topic. Each of the contributors brings an incredible wealth of personal narratives and emotional integrity to a much-needed conversation that is a necessary balm to the vitriol of our internet age.”—Lee Francis, executive director of Native RealitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction by Diane Glancy Show Your Papers Paperwork Kim Shuck Things You Can Do with Your Chart for Calculating Quantum of Indian Blood Deborah Miranda The White Box Kimberly L. Becker Seeking the Indian Gravy Train Steve Russell Unpapered Diane Glancy Finding the Way On Chumash Land Terra Trevor A Salmon-Fishing Story Abigail Chabitnoy Confessions of a Detribalized Mixed-Blood Jeanetta Calhoun Mish Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage: Cryptogenealogical Reflections Carter Meland Identity Wars “You Don’t Look Indian” Michele Leonard Pretend Indian Exegesis: The Pretend Indian Uncanny Valley Hypothesis in Literature and Beyond Trevino Brings Plenty Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. Ron Querry The Animals’ Ballgame Geary Hobson We Never Spoke Linda Boyden Why We Matter On Being Chamorro and Belonging to Guam Craig Santos Perez Aunt Ruby’s Little Sister Dances Kimberly Wieser Buffalo Heads in Diners: Remnant Populations Denise Dotson Low And Thus the Tribes Diminish Linda Rodriguez Source Acknowledgments Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Great Depression emboldened Americans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to seemingly overwhelming economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those was rural southern poverty. In Trouble in Goshen, Fred C. Smith focuses on three communities designed and implemented to meet that challenge.Trade ReviewThis is the most intimate and intricate study available of the visionary economic experiments that Americans undertook in the rural South during the Great Depression. Three careful case studies open up a vast range of theory and practice. The New Deal spawned two of the three; Christian socialists tried to move to the left of the New Deal in launching the third. With great learning and often sparkling wit, Fred Smith places these experiments in the long-term historical context of agricultural reform in American ideology and society. He sifts through the voluminous data of how the most ambitious and thoughtful plans for economic recovery worked out on the ground in the 1930s. He painstakingly narrates the often gripping story of why those plans failed: poverty and desperation did not extinguish the striving of ordinary Americans for individual freedom in their day-to-day working lives. Economic crisis did not cure the catastrophic arrogance of the privileged classes, even when they had benevolent motives and the best educations money could buy. It is a story full of thought-provoking surprises. Smith avoids both nostalgia and the condescension of hindsight in his unflinchingly non-partisan investigation of the human dimensions of America's greatest economic failure. While granting the justifiably popular successes of New Deal programs and their often tragically disappointing limitations and undeniable waste, he challenges the blithe blindness that unites left, right, and middle to this day in their faith that their ideas will be able to get modern capitalism out of the trouble it keeps getting into. If you want ammunition to advance your side's brilliant solutions, don't read this book. If you are willing to learn that we all need to go back to the drawing board, and start with a little humility, you may be ready for the tough truths this book has to teach."" - David L. Chappell, author of A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow and Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr..""This is history with a purpose: to learn from the efforts of federal government and Christian and social reformers, who established agricultural and biracial cooperative communities in Mississippi and Arkansas in the mid-1930s. Grounded in intensive research and informed by broad historiographical familiarity, the book is clear in its conclusion: the effort to shape and limit the aspirations of community members and would-be members undercut the good intentions of the New Deal reformers; future efforts must keep this in mind. The judgment is driven home in rich prose and anecdotes."" - David Moltke-Hansen, past president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and past director of the Southern Historical Collection and the Center for the Study of the American South

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies.

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Book SynopsisPolitics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely ignored the Holocaust despite the centrality of these tragic events to many of their own concepts and theories. In Politics, Violence, Memory the editors bring together contributions to understanding the Holocaust from a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, and public health. The chapters examine the sources and measurement of antisemitism; explanations for collaboration, rescue, and survival; competing accounts of neighbor-on-neighbor violence; and the legacies of the Holocaust in contemporary Europe. Politics, Violence, Memory brings new data to bear on these important concerns and shows how older data can bTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Response Delayed 1. Can – Or Should – There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust? 2. Histories in Motion: The Holocaust, Social Science Research, and the Historian Part I: Sites of Violence 3. Pogrom Violence and Visibility during the Kristallnacht Pogrom 4. Historical Legacies and Jewish Survival Strategies during the Holocaust 5. A Common History of Violence? The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in Comparative Perspective 6. Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania Part II: New Uses for Old Data on Antisemitism and the Holocaust 7. Territorial Loss and Xenophobia in the Weimar Republic: Evidence from Jewish Bogeymen in Children's Stories 8. Defeating Typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Scientific Look at Historical Sources 9. Holocaust Survival among Immigrant Jews in the Netherlands: A Life Course Approach 10. Normalizing Violence: How Catholic Bishops Facilitated Vichy's Violence against Jews 11. Using the Yad Vashem Transport Database to Examine Gender and Selection during the Holocaust 12. Addressing the Missing Voices in Holocaust Testimony Part III: Legacies of the Holocaust 13. Remembering Past Atrocities: Good or Bad for Attitudes toward Minorities? 14. Legitimating Myths and the Holocaust in Postsocialist States 15. The International Relations of Holocaust Memory Conclusion: From the Micro to the Macro

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.Trade Review"Perceptive and chilling"London Review of BooksTable of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: A religious crisis The terminal crisis in Catholicism Religious decline and the rise of xenophobia Catholic France and secular France: 1750-1960 The two Frances and equality From the One God to the single currency François Hollande, the Left, and zombie Catholicism 2005: a missed opportunity in class struggle? Difficult atheism CHAPTER TWO: Charlie Charlie: middle class and zombie Catholics Neo-republicanism 1992-2015: from pro-Europeanism to neo-republicanism The neo-republican reality: the ‘social state’ of the middle classes Charlie is anxious Secularism versus the Left Catholicism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism CHAPTER THREE: When equality fails The difficulties of secular, egalitarian France The anthropology of a capitalism in crisis The Europe of inequality France, the Germans and the Arabs Germany and circumcision The great pro-European happening of 11 January 2015 Russia: an exceptional case The mystery of Paris The memory of places The four stages of the crisis CHAPTER FOUR: The French of the Far Right The slow march of the National Front towards la France central A perversion of universalism Republican anti-Semitism Le Pen, Sarkozy and equality The Socialist Party and inequality: the concept of objective xenophobia Mélenchon and inequality The insignificance of human beings and the violence of ideologies CHAPTER FIVE: The French Muslims The disintegration of North African cultures Mixed marriages: Jews and Muslims Ideologues and exogamy The crushing of young people and the jihad factory Scottish fundamentalism Moving beyond the fear of religion Islam and equality The inequality of the sexes The anti-Semitism of the suburbs CONCLUSION The real republican past The neo-republican present Future 1: Confrontation Future 2: the return to the Republic: an accommodation with Islam A foreseeable deterioration The secret weapon of the republican revival

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Book SynopsisIn the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, having a much higher percentage of young people. Against this backdrop, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci examines the implications of this disproportionate demographic development for domestic social stability, international migration flows, the balance of power among nations and the natural environment. Covering 10,000 years of human history from the Stone Age to the present, Livi Bacci shows how the space available for every inhabitant of the planet has decreased by a factor of a thousand. The notion of limits to the world's capacity - which once seemed a remote matter - is now among the most pressing issues we face, and the need to create effective global mechanisms for sustainable development is now more urgent than ever. An indispensable book for anyone concerned with the moral and political implications of our ever more crowded planet.Trade Review"A welcome reminder of how geographical differences in demography have a profound affect on people's lives."New Scientist"In this succinct and eclectic essay one of the great demographers of our time reflects on past, present, and likely future trends in population, migration, and aging and on their impacts on the environment, on politics, and on much more besides. A timely tour de force."J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University "Livi Bacci thinks deeply and writes broadly about population in the context of our planet's history, environmental constraints, and the future - from a constructive rather than alarmist perspective. He is concerned equally with unsustainably low fertility in rich countries and high fertility in poor ones, and with the global tensions that result."Ronald D. Lee, University of California, Berkeley"Ib this authoritative, beautifully synthesized analysis of global population, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci pinpoints a planet-sized problem"NatureTable of Contents Author’s note Introduction Chapter One Growing and shrinking Eros, Thanatos and the demographic balance in the ancient world. From biological-instinctual conditions to individual choice. The world’s changeable geodemography. Demographic transition and demographic revolution: from 1 to 10 billion in two centuries. Chapter Two Land, water, air Simeon Stylites and his environmental footprint. The cabal of the 10 x 2 x 7. More than half the planet changed by human intervention. Population and fragile regions: coasts, forests and urbanisation. From the London smog of the seventeenth century to the greenhouse effect in the twenty-first. Chapter Three Adaptation and self-regulation Demographic systems’ adaptation and self-regulation. Examples from history. The possibility of regulating modern populations: reproduction levels and migration. Biological and social change. Italy after the crisis: a system-change? Chapter Four SustainableÉ for whom? Zeus, the Brundtland Report and sustainability. The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals: isn’t population a priority any more? Demographic explosion, demographic decline: both unsustainable. The parable of Tycoonia and Pauperia. Chapter Five Geodemography and geopolitics Mussolini Ð numbers mean power. The pendulum of fear, between growth and decline. Geodemography and geopolitics. The weight of numbers within states: ethnicities, religions, minorities and majorities. Power rankings. Chapter Six Homo sapiens, Homo movens Shipwrecks and barriers. International migration grows despite obstacles. Demographic and economic pressures. Three past globalisation processes, and the fourth one to come. The unsustainability of politics without international rules. Chapter Seven Long lifespans have their cost A woman from Arles lived to 122 years of age. In the rich countries a life expectancy of 90 is not far off. The sustainability of long lifespans. The profile of a 100 year society. Rigid ages, flexible roles. Four generations under one roof. Chapter Eight Few prescriptions for many ills Poverty and hunger: the Millennium Development Goals reached. But the numbers of poor and hungry in Africa increase. The burden of 168 objectives. The Malthusian trap. Nuclear-armed India with one in five children wasted. Political mission: concentrate efforts, dismantle the trap. Epilogue Our shrinking planet A thousand times more crowded, a thousand times smaller. Still today a pendulum of fear, between overpopulation and depopulation. Seven demographic and political notes. Awareness of limits. Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, having a much higher percentage of young people. Against this backdrop, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci examines the implications of this disproportionate demographic development for domestic social stability, international migration flows, the balance of power among nations and the natural environment. Covering 10,000 years of human history from the Stone Age to the present, Livi Bacci shows how the space available for every inhabitant of the planet has decreased by a factor of a thousand. The notion of limits to the world's capacity - which once seemed a remote matter - is now among the most pressing issues we face, and the need to create effective global mechanisms for sustainable development is now more urgent than ever. An indispensable book for anyone concerned with the moral and political implications of our ever more crowded planet.Trade Review"A welcome reminder of how geographical differences in demography have a profound affect on people's lives."New Scientist"In this succinct and eclectic essay one of the great demographers of our time reflects on past, present, and likely future trends in population, migration, and aging and on their impacts on the environment, on politics, and on much more besides. A timely tour de force."J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University "Livi Bacci thinks deeply and writes broadly about population in the context of our planet's history, environmental constraints, and the future - from a constructive rather than alarmist perspective. He is concerned equally with unsustainably low fertility in rich countries and high fertility in poor ones, and with the global tensions that result."Ronald D. Lee, University of California, Berkeley"In this authoritative, beautifully synthesized analysis of global population, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci pinpoints a planet-sized problem."NatureTable of Contents Author’s note Introduction Chapter One Growing and shrinking Eros, Thanatos and the demographic balance in the ancient world. From biological-instinctual conditions to individual choice. The world’s changeable geodemography. Demographic transition and demographic revolution: from 1 to 10 billion in two centuries. Chapter Two Land, water, air Simeon Stylites and his environmental footprint. The cabal of the 10 x 2 x 7. More than half the planet changed by human intervention. Population and fragile regions: coasts, forests and urbanisation. From the London smog of the seventeenth century to the greenhouse effect in the twenty-first. Chapter Three Adaptation and self-regulation Demographic systems’ adaptation and self-regulation. Examples from history. The possibility of regulating modern populations: reproduction levels and migration. Biological and social change. Italy after the crisis: a system-change? Chapter Four SustainableÉ for whom? Zeus, the Brundtland Report and sustainability. The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals: isn’t population a priority any more? Demographic explosion, demographic decline: both unsustainable. The parable of Tycoonia and Pauperia. Chapter Five Geodemography and geopolitics Mussolini Ð numbers mean power. The pendulum of fear, between growth and decline. Geodemography and geopolitics. The weight of numbers within states: ethnicities, religions, minorities and majorities. Power rankings. Chapter Six Homo sapiens, Homo movens Shipwrecks and barriers. International migration grows despite obstacles. Demographic and economic pressures. Three past globalisation processes, and the fourth one to come. The unsustainability of politics without international rules. Chapter Seven Long lifespans have their cost A woman from Arles lived to 122 years of age. In the rich countries a life expectancy of 90 is not far off. The sustainability of long lifespans. The profile of a 100 year society. Rigid ages, flexible roles. Four generations under one roof. Chapter Eight Few prescriptions for many ills Poverty and hunger: the Millennium Development Goals reached. But the numbers of poor and hungry in Africa increase. The burden of 168 objectives. The Malthusian trap. Nuclear-armed India with one in five children wasted. Political mission: concentrate efforts, dismantle the trap. Epilogue Our shrinking planet A thousand times more crowded, a thousand times smaller. Still today a pendulum of fear, between overpopulation and depopulation. Seven demographic and political notes. Awareness of limits. Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.Trade Review"This short and brilliant synthetic work successfully reconfigures the study of international migration as a facet of global inequality. […] It is one of the most essential books to have been published in the field in a number of years." Adrian Favell, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi’s book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today’s bewilderingly unequal and diverse world."Roger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration"Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines."Michèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel"Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation – create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often."Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "[Moving] between concepts and empirical research at the macro, meso, and micro levels, [and] literature across disciplines and national contexts [… Safi] touches upon many of the most pressing concerns around migration today, including narratives of a migrant 'crisis', citizenship rights, and ever-present racial and ethnic inequalities. […] Safi provides a thoughtful approach to bridging migration and social stratification research, and the reader is sure to gain a richer understanding of connections between migration and forms of inequality."Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 From National to Migration Societies Chapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual framework Chapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of Labor Chapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratification Chapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial Classification Struggles Conclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.Trade Review"This short and brilliant synthetic work successfully reconfigures the study of international migration as a facet of global inequality. […] It is one of the most essential books to have been published in the field in a number of years."Adrian Favell, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi’s book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today’s bewilderingly unequal and diverse world."Roger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration"Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines."Michèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel"Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation – create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often."Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "[Moving] between concepts and empirical research at the macro, meso, and micro levels, [and] literature across disciplines and national contexts [… Safi] touches upon many of the most pressing concerns around migration today, including narratives of a migrant 'crisis', citizenship rights, and ever-present racial and ethnic inequalities. […] Safi provides a thoughtful approach to bridging migration and social stratification research, and the reader is sure to gain a richer understanding of connections between migration and forms of inequality."Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 From National to Migration SocietiesChapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual frameworkChapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of LaborChapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratificationChapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial ClassificationStrugglesConclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice

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Book SynopsisBy 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth century’s most bitterly contested issues, is being debated once again. In this compelling book, Diana Coole examines some of the profound political and ethical questions involved. Are ethical objections to government interference with individuals’ reproductive freedom definitive? Is it possible to limit population in a non-coercive way that is consistent with liberal-democratic values? Interweaving erudite original analysis with an accessible overview of the crucial debates, Coole argues that a case can be made for reducing our numbers in ways that are compatible with human rights. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important questions facing our planet, from concerned citizens to students of politics, sociology, political economy, gender studies and environmental studies.Trade Review‘This important and accessible work persuasively addresses difficult normative questions about population control, philosophically rejecting common arguments which seek to put any discussion of population policy “off the table” while remaining sensitive to the historical and political context motivating such concerns.’ Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh‘An informed, subtle and revealing analysis.’ Sarah Conly, author of One ChildTable of Contents Contents Introduction Chapter One Should Population be Controlled? Chapter Two The Ethics of Population Control: Reproductive Freedom and Human Rights Chapter Three The Means of Population Governance Notes

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Book SynopsisBy 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth century’s most bitterly contested issues, is being debated once again. In this compelling book, Diana Coole examines some of the profound political and ethical questions involved. Are ethical objections to government interference with individuals’ reproductive freedom definitive? Is it possible to limit population in a non-coercive way that is consistent with liberal-democratic values? Interweaving erudite original analysis with an accessible overview of the crucial debates, Coole argues that a case can be made for reducing our numbers in ways that are compatible with human rights. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important questions facing our planet, from concerned citizens to students of politics, sociology, political economy, gender studies and environmental studies.Trade Review‘This important and accessible work persuasively addresses difficult normative questions about population control, philosophically rejecting common arguments which seek to put any discussion of population policy “off the table” while remaining sensitive to the historical and political context motivating such concerns.’ Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh‘An informed, subtle and revealing analysis.’ Sarah Conly, author of One ChildTable of Contents Contents Introduction Chapter One Should Population be Controlled? Chapter Two The Ethics of Population Control: Reproductive Freedom and Human Rights Chapter Three The Means of Population Governance Notes

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Book SynopsisSegregation is one of the starkest social realities of contemporary societies. Though often associated with explicitly racist laws of the past, it is a phenomenon that persists to this day and is a crucial element for understanding group relations and the wellbeing of different populations in society. In this book, Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya, and Brent Berry provide a thorough discussion of the evolving complexity of segregation in its variety and variations. The authors focus not only on past trends and the development of segregation measures, but also the current state of affairs, and demonstrate the connections between the segregation of racial/ethnic groups and immigrant communities, along with poverty concentration. By taking a wide, cross-cutting view, the authors identify commonalities and differences in the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of segregation. Spatial and social segregation together perpetuate and reinforce the unequal distribution of resources among racial and ethnic groups, which in turn can have positive and negative consequences for individuals and groups. This critical overview of segregation will be a valuable and insightful resource for students of sociology, geography, and ethnic studies, as well as those keen to get a handle on this persistent challenge to equal and inclusive societies.Trade Review"accessible, well-written, and thorough. . . . a great primer"Ethnic and Racial Studies“In their book Segregation, Fong, Shibuya and Berry offer a concise, masterful, and eminently readable summary of social science knowledge about patterns, trends, causes, and consequences of social and spatial segregation in the world’s growing urban population. I highly recommend it.”Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University“Segregation offers a rigorous analysis, based on well-formulated models and rich empirical data, of the spatial arrangement of urban neighborhoods in modern multicultural cities. It explains what segregation is, how it is measured, and what consequences it produces from historical, contemporary, and comparative perspectives. The study sheds important light on how urban patterns are shaped by class, race, nativity or immigration status and make a valuable contribution to the fields of urban sociology, urban studies, and human geography.”Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS SEGREGATION? CHAPTER 3 THE MEASUREMENT OF SEGREGATION CHAPTER 4 RACIAL AND ETHNIC RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS CHAPTER 5 INCOME SEGREGATION CHAPTER 6 ETHNIC COMMUNITIES CHAPTER 7 RESIDENTIAL AND SOCIAL SEGREGATION OF IMMIGRANTS CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisSegregation is one of the starkest social realities of contemporary societies. Though often associated with explicitly racist laws of the past, it is a phenomenon that persists to this day and is a crucial element for understanding group relations and the wellbeing of different populations in society. In this book, Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya, and Brent Berry provide a thorough discussion of the evolving complexity of segregation in its variety and variations. The authors focus not only on past trends and the development of segregation measures, but also the current state of affairs, and demonstrate the connections between the segregation of racial/ethnic groups and immigrant communities, along with poverty concentration. By taking a wide, cross-cutting view, the authors identify commonalities and differences in the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of segregation. Spatial and social segregation together perpetuate and reinforce the unequal distribution of resources among racial and ethnic groups, which in turn can have positive and negative consequences for individuals and groups. This critical overview of segregation will be a valuable and insightful resource for students of sociology, geography, and ethnic studies, as well as those keen to get a handle on this persistent challenge to equal and inclusive societies.Trade Review"accessible, well-written, and thorough. . . . a great primer"Ethnic and Racial Studies“In their book Segregation, Fong, Shibuya and Berry offer a concise, masterful, and eminently readable summary of social science knowledge about patterns, trends, causes, and consequences of social and spatial segregation in the world’s growing urban population. I highly recommend it.”Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University“Segregation offers a rigorous analysis, based on well-formulated models and rich empirical data, of the spatial arrangement of urban neighborhoods in modern multicultural cities. It explains what segregation is, how it is measured, and what consequences it produces from historical, contemporary, and comparative perspectives. The study sheds important light on how urban patterns are shaped by class, race, nativity or immigration status and make a valuable contribution to the fields of urban sociology, urban studies, and human geography.”Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS SEGREGATION? CHAPTER 3 THE MEASUREMENT OF SEGREGATION CHAPTER 4 RACIAL AND ETHNIC RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS CHAPTER 5 INCOME SEGREGATION CHAPTER 6 ETHNIC COMMUNITIES CHAPTER 7 RESIDENTIAL AND SOCIAL SEGREGATION OF IMMIGRANTS CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION

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Book Synopsis“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory, uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRT’s targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting white minority rule.Trade Review“No one who cares about our multiracial democracy can afford to ignore the coordinated, well-funded, and fabricated attack against Critical Race Theory. David Theo Goldberg tells us exactly what we need to know to understand what is at stake, why everyone should pay attention, and what must be done to recover the promise of a livable future.”Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law“In this breathtaking exposé of the war on Critical Race Theory, David Theo Goldberg probes the orchestrated outrage, intellectual make-believe, and sloppy architecture of ideas espoused by those seeking desperately to maintain the racist status quo.”Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, and author of Race After Technology and Viral Justice“David Theo Goldberg does a masterful job of investigating the public conversation on Critical Race Theory. Through an extremely coherent and well-articulated set of analyses, he shows that many of CRT’s challengers stand on faulty intellectual ground and have dubious motivations for questioning it.​”Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan, President of the Association of Black Sociologists“I suppose the most hysterical anti-CRT folks are more likely to ban Goldberg’s book than read it. But for those thinking people that may have heard rumours about the evils of CRT and aren’t sure what to think, it’s well worth picking up.”Earthbound Report“Clearly indignant at the involuntary politicization of an entire field of research, Goldberg takes the reader on a tour de force of the misunderstandings that have permeated the debate on critical race theory, to then counter them. […] Goldberg delivers a highly compelling and nuanced response to how a group of people desperately try to hold onto or reproduce their old world while a new one is in its infancy.”NY TIDTable of ContentsPreface 1. What’s Going On? PART I: PRINCIPLES AND PRINCIPALS 2. The Headliners 3. Critical Race Theory PART II: FABRICATIONS 4. A Method of Misreading 5. Structural Racism? 6. The Gospel of Colorblindness 7. Fictive Histories 8. Sounds of Silencing PART III: THE POLITICS OF “CRT” 9. Deregulating Racism 10. Executing Critical Race Theory

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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