Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisCurrent population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioural ecology.The book begins by looking at population from a long term perspective and considers the ecological influences before going on to examine the economics of population growth. Reproduction decisions of the family are then analysed, and the welfare effect of these decisions on society as a whole are considered. Anup Shah pays particular attention to policies which could try to prevent or cure overpopulation. He asks whether there is a case for intervening in order to prevent overpopulation, and suggests that one way of reducing the effects of population growth is through technological advances which can help compensate for the adverse external effects. Finally, he examines the future of urban centres in the light of population growth.The book is written from a multidisciplinary approach and will have a wide readership throughout the social sciences. It will have particular appeal for economists, geographers, earth scientists, ecologists, environmentalists and those working in the area of development studies.Trade Review'Shah makes clear the need for a discourse on population between biologists and economists. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Ecological Analysis 2. The Ecological Foundations of Fertility 3. Moving Down the Eltonian Pyramid Part II: Economic Analysis 4. Malthusian Economics Versus the Demographic Transition 5. The Demographic Transition to Smaller Families 6. The Third World Couple Part III: Normative Analysis 7. Overpopulation 8. Self-regulation of Family Size in a Community 9. Indirect Intervention 10. Direct Intervention Part IV: Wherein lies the Future? 11. An Urban Future 12. Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisThe field of economic demography has expanded in recent years because of the perceived relevance of economic constraints to family formation and to demographic behaviour. [The increased availability of household surveys from countries at all levels of development and the advances of methods for analysing such data have encouraged empirical extensions and the testing of household demand theories.]This authoritative collection presents in two volumes some of the influential ideas which have helped to adapt economic theory and methods to analysing the determinants and consequences of demographic behaviour and to relating such behaviour to the investments in human capital which account for much of modern economic growth.It focuses on the following topics: the estimation of wage functions - a key building block for economic demography because it explains how human capital formation affects human productivity and contributes to economic growth; health and longevity, the second most notable source of human capital accumulation; the evolution of the household production model; cooperative and bargaining approaches to the household entity; models dealing with fertility and female labour supply; models which examine the problems of fertility and investments in child quality; an exploration of how gender affects schooling, health and wage-earning potential; the effect on wages of the size and skill of the labour supply; some historical aspects of economic demography; the effects of population growth on economic development; and questions of savings, inheritance and the economic consequences of an aging population.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Volume I: Part I: Estimation of Wage Functions and Returns to Human Capital Part II: Health: Length of Life, Stature and Sickness Part III: Individual and Household Behavior: Production and Consumption Part IV: Family Coordination: Unified and Bargaining Approaches Volume II: Part I: Life Cycle Choices: Marriage, Fertility, and Postschooling Training Part II: Quality-Quantity Trade-Off: Fertility and Investments in Child Quality Part III: Gender Gap in Human Capital Part IV: Wage Structures by Cohort Size and Skills: Supplies and Demands Part V: Pre-Industrial Economic-Demography Equilibrium Part VI: Economic-Demography Interactions in Today’s Low-Income Countries Part VII: Savings, Intergenerational Exchange and Aging

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic developments in Syria during the late twentieth centuryTable of ContentsSources for Syrian demographic trends and development; population growth - natural increase, mortality rates and life expectancy, marriage and divorce, economic consequences of high rates of natural increase, contraceptive use; the spatial distribution of the population - rural-to-urban migration, economic consequences of the rapid urbanization process); Syrian migration abroad; demographic policies of the Syrian authorities; demography - economy and political change under Asad.

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Book SynopsisWritten specifically for classroom and student use, with more than 35 tables and figures, this book sets out the political demographic of the Arab countries by: Examining the sources for demographic research of the Arab countries; Explaining the nature of the population growth in the Arab countries in comparison with other developing countries world-wide; Examining the development of structural unemployment in the non oil-based and oil-based Arab countries since the mid-1980s, and investigating the natal policies of both the oil and the non-oil Arab countries, and attempting to answer the crucial question of why some Arab countries succeed more than others in implementing fertility decline. A concluding chapter examines the political dilemmas arising from the different demographies and economies in the Arab states. During the 20th century, worldwide population increased more rapidly than ever before, with the world's population amounting to 6.1 billion by the year 2000. The main contributors to the rapid worldwide population growth were the developing countries, including the Arab countries. During the second half of the 20th century, the demographic issue became the most acute socio-economic problem of the non-oil Arab countries, bringing with it a variety of political implications, both internal and external.Trade Review"Onn Winckler has been for a number of years a leading light in the field of demographic studies on particular Arab countries; with Arab Political Demography, Winckler integrates new research with his already existing compendium of knowledge on the subject to produce an outstanding and timely examination of an important aspect of development in the Arab world." -- David W. Lesch, Professor of Middle East History, Trinity University."Fresh, focused, and provocative, Arab Political Demography reaffirms Winckler's reputation as the most reliable and engaging writer on demographic and population policies in the Middle East. This book is must reading for scholars and policy makers concerned with the Middle East, and offers a model for regional demographic studies elsewhere." -- Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College,s coauthor (with James Piscatori) of Muslim Politics (2nd edition, 2004)."Winckler expertly shows how natalist and macroeconomic policies need to go hand-in-hand if Arab countries ever hope to emerge from their underdeveloped status, and he offers an invaluable political, cultural and economic history of how the Arab demographic dilemma reached this point." -- David W. Lesch, Professor of Middle East History, Trinity University and author of The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Methodological Framework; The Emergence of "Poor and Rich" Arab States; The Concept of Arab Political Demography. Part 1 -- Sources for Demographic Research of the Arab States; The Demographic Records History of the Arab States; Case Studies in Demographic Records History; The "Missing" Ethno-Religious Composition of the Arab States; The Lacuna of Accurate Official Employment Data; The "Informal (Hidden) Economy"; Conclusions. Part 2 -- Beyond the Expectations: Arab Population Growth in the Twentieth Century; Worldwide Population Growth in Retrospect; Demographic Transition Theory and the Arab Countries; Population Growth in the Arab Countries; The Revolution of Mortality Rates in the Arab Countries; Conclusions 69. Part 3 -- "Jobs for the Boys (and Girls)": The Emergence of the Employment Dilemma; The Consequences of the Young Age Structure; Arab Employment Developments in Retrospect; The Increase in Disguised Unemployment and Underemployment; Unemployment as a Differentiating Factor between the Arab Countries and the Developed Countries; Conclusions. Part 4 -- Between Pro-Natalist and Anti-Natalist in the Arab Countries; The Attitudes Toward Population Growth in Historical Perspective; The "Population Policy" Definitions; The Natalist Approach of the Arab Countries: A Historical Analysis; Evaluation of the Family Planning Programs in the Arab Countries; Why Tunisia and Lebanon?; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisWhithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of a largely cashless economy based on trust, frugality and the skilled labour and strategies of its residents to remain independent of the rest of the world while keeping closely connected to each other. Between 2012 and 2013 Julia Muir Watt interviewed twenty-nine individuals from Whithorn and the Machars about their memories. From those interviewed we learn what it was like to grow up, to go to school, and to work and to play in Whithorn in the twentieth century, before and after the Second World War. A great strength of oral history is that it can provide a direct insight into a lived life. In this collection, we have many such insights into life in and around the burgh of Whithorn. In telling of their experiences, those interviewed also provide an understanding into what it felt like to live those lives. Co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre based on the research undertaken by them in their programme Dumfries and Galloway:A Regional Ethnology – part of a wider research programme the Regional Ethnology of Scotland Project (RESP).Trade Review' … presents a fascinating picture of life in a particular part of Scotland, and the transcripts and extracts from oral testimonies included offer insight into a number of themes and issues about the experiences of the inhabitants of the area, relevant to a range of existing academic work … a welcome addition to the body of research examining 20th-century Scotland.' Scottish ArchivesTable of ContentsWhithorn Manse by Alistair Reid Acknowledgements Preface Editorial note Lost of Illustrations Introduction WHITHORN: AN ECONOMY OF PEOPLE, 1920-1960 1. Leaving and Returning: Nostalgia of the Writers 2. Outside-In: the Rural Town 3. Outside: the Farms 4. Work and rest: The Timing of Pleasures 5. Up and Down: Wealth and Poverty 6. Here and There 7. Here and Hereafter 8. Incursion and Dispersion: Second World War Index

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Book SynopsisIn this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details that country's campaign of peaceful persistence that led to breaking ties with Sweden—and suggests that Canada and Canadians should be inspired by the example. An essential component of Jacobs's urban activism, this new edition of the book incorporates and expands the 1979 Massey Lectures, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty-Association, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Also included is a previously unpublished exclusive interview with Jane Jacobs in her Toronto home in 2005, 25 years after the book appeared and 10 years after the 1995 Quebec referendum. In these musings, she reasserts and updates her thoughts on Separatism—and addresses new issues such as tar sand development in Alberta, the finance of gambling, and the future of the Euro and of Europe.Trade ReviewJacobs’s thought and writing comprise a resounding symphony of lessons and ideas; they compose a life’s work about economic, social, and environmental justice." —Nation

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Book SynopsisDemographic transition, along with the economic and geopolitical re-emergence of Asia, are two of the largest forces shaping the twenty-first century, but little is known about the implications for innovation. The countries of East Asia have some of the oldest age structures on the planet: between now and 2050, the population that is age 65 and older will increase to more than one in four Chinese, and to more than one in three Japanese and Koreans. Other economies with younger populations, like India, face the challenge of fully harnessing the “demographic dividend” from large cohorts in the working ages.This book delves into how such demographic changes shape the supply of innovation and the demand for specific kinds of innovation in the Asia-Pacific. Social scientists from Asia and the United States offer multidisciplinary perspectives from economics, demography, political science, sociology, and public policy; topics range from the macroeconomic effects of population age structure, to the microeconomics of technology and the labor force, to the broader implications for human well-being. Contributors analyze how demography shapes productivity and the labor supply of older workers, as well as explore the aging population as consumers of technologies and drivers of innovations to meet their own needs, as well as the political economy of spatial development, agglomeration economies, urban-rural contrasts, and differential geographies of aging.

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Book SynopsisA Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.Trade ReviewThis is an engaging and well-written account of the design and construction of two radically different bridges. Stephen Mikesell is excellent at telling a hugely complex and technical story in an approachable and engaging way. The propulsive narrative is unfailingly entertaining and takes us behind the scenes of two defining and contrasting projects in the history of California."" - Luis G. Hoyos RA, Professor of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona""Stephen Mikesell is one of the most prominent professional historians working in the state of California today. During his long and distinguished career, Mikesell has developed a special expertise in the history of bridge design, engineering, and construction. Today he is widely recognized as the leading authority on the history of bridges in California. Consequently, there is no one better qualified to write a history of the spectacular and controversial San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges."" - Michael Magliari, Professor of History, California State University, Chico

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Book SynopsisAcross the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte’s stories published in The Cincinnati Enquirer over a twenty-five-year period beginning in 1993. With hard-won insights gained from years of community reporting, Curnutte describes experiences of African-Americans living in Cincinnati through individual and neighborhood profiles, explorations of community institutions, historical perspectives, and issue stories. The anthology tells a sweeping narrative of a city suffering and maturing through turn-of-the-century racial growing pains and increased racial sophistication and diversity. These stories are complimented by excerpts from Curnutte’s personal journal, providing his reflection on his role as a white man and reporter making the intentional decision to work and live across the color line.

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Book SynopsisPublished with a new preface, this innovative case study from Nova Scotia analyzes the relationship between rural communities and contemporary education. Rather than supporting place-sensitive curricula and establishing networks within community populations, the rural school has too often stood apart from local life, with the generally unintended consequence that many educationally successful rural youth come to see their communities and lifestyles as places to be left behind. They face what Michael Corbett calls a mobility imperative, which, he shows, has been central to contemporary schooling. Learning to Leave argues that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of economic, social, and cultural development, then it must adapt and respond to the specificity of its locale, the knowledge practices of the people, and the needs of those who struggle to remain in challenged rural places.Trade Review“A major research contribution—one that will join a relatively short list of first-rate books aimed at helping the education research community, as well as the general public, understand the convoluted phenomenon known as rural education.”Journal of Research in Rural Education “An engrossing, theoretically sophisticated, and important piece of community sociology.”Rural SociologyTable of Contents Preface to the 2020 Edition Foreword Acknowledgment Chapter 1 Introduction Migration and Regional Dependency: The Brain Drain The Migration Imperative in Rural Education Challenges to the Migration Imperative in Rural Schooling Why Would Young People Stay? Schooling and Migration in Atlantic Canada Notes Chapter 2 Reconceptualizing Resistance Habitus, Discourse and Place Resistance Theory in the Sociology of Education Bourdieu's Logic of Practice Poststructural Resistance Theory Resistance and Community Rural Identity Politics The Organized Rural Community as a Resistant Site Conclusion: To Choose and to Move Notes Chapter 3 Who Stays, Who Goes and Where Education and Migration on Digby Neck, 1963-1998 The Economy Education Levels Mobility The Education/Mobility Connection Summary Notes Chapter 4 Parallel Education Systems The Classes of 1963-1974 Family and Work: An Education for Staying The Hand on the Shoulder: Socialization for Leaving Formal Education: Streaming for Leaving in the 1960s and early 1970s Learning to Do: The Construction of Intelligence and Identity in a Coastal Community They Wanted Me to Go to School: Schooling, Identity and Family Leaving Home: Education and Occupational Pioneering I Didn't Want to End Up Resisting Displacement Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 The Boom Years The Classes of 1975-1986 Gender, Work and Schooling Defining Security: Education, Identity and Work Family/Class The Mobile Family Becoming a Stranger Conclusion Notes Chapter 6 Surviving the Crisis The Classes of 1987-1998 What Is There For the Young Ones? Quitting in the 1990s: Finding Something to Do When There's Nothing to Do The New Reserve Army of Labour Getting Out: Class, Gender and Education Survival and Family Back to the Future: Surviving in the New Economy Resistance Conclusion: The Mobile Discourse of Schooling Notes Chapter 7 Conclusion Place Matters Migration, Education and Ambivalence: Mobility Capital Ambiguity, Mobility and Resistance Resistances Rural Schooling and Community Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.Trade Review"The street scenes in this book provide a literal 'field guide' of inequality evidence, visualizing the codes, metaphors, policies and social exchanges involved in characterizing and contesting inequality. The authors’ arguments are compelling and provocative." -- Emily Talen * Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *"[The Street] includes a number of informative essays about aspects of inequality, including infant mortality, policing, and fast food. Readers will undoubtedly agree with much that is written here and find the endnotes a useful guide to recent scholarship." * The Metropole *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care Part II Symbols and Sentiments No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering No. 6 Dissonance No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food Part IV Safety and Security No. 12 Persistence of Black/White Inequities in Infant Mortality No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.Trade Review"The street scenes in this book provide a literal 'field guide' of inequality evidence, visualizing the codes, metaphors, policies and social exchanges involved in characterizing and contesting inequality. The authors’ arguments are compelling and provocative." -- Emily Talen * Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *"[The Street] includes a number of informative essays about aspects of inequality, including infant mortality, policing, and fast food. Readers will undoubtedly agree with much that is written here and find the endnotes a useful guide to recent scholarship." * The Metropole *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care Part II Symbols and Sentiments No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering No. 6 Dissonance No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food Part IV Safety and Security No. 12 Persistence of Black/White Inequities in Infant Mortality No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisSan Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way? In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of the current situation back to 1978, when three key events occurred: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants. Through these three strands, Mitchell explores the rifts between the city’s pro-business and progressive-left politicians, the emergence of Dianne Feinstein as a political powerhouse, the increasing prominence of the city’s LGBT community, punk’s reinvigoration of the Bay Area’s radical cultural politics, and the ways that the Giants helped unify one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the nation. Written from a unique insider’s perspective, San Francisco Year Zero deftly weaves together the personal and the political, putting a human face on the social upheavals that transformed a city. Trade Review"Lincoln Mitchell presents a new and brilliant understanding of San Francisco, America's most progressive city, by describing and interpreting its culture through the extraordinary prism of politics, baseball, and the punk rock scene in the seventies. The reader learns how and why San Francisco, frequently chided derisively by President Trump and other right wing politicians for our ‘San Francisco values,’ developed those values that eventually become an indelible part of American values everywhere.” -- Art Agnos * Mayor of San Francisco, 1988-1991 *"San Francisco Year Zero parses the year 1978--the annus horribilis and nadir--of San Francisco's 'time of troubles.' Mitchell's brilliant political analysis has, as a counterpoint,an analysis of the 1978 Giants season. This creative mixture makes San Francisco Year Zero an extraordinarily important contribution to the historiography of San Francisco." -- Charles A. Fracchia Sr. * Historian, author, founder and president emeritus of the San Francisco Historical Society *"Mitchell's comprehensive portrayal of the zeitgeist of 1978 San Francisco is illuminated by a prism sided by the unlikely trio of baseball, punk, and our city’s political traumas. His writing manifests the passion of a participant with the certainty of a historian. He has perfectly captured that dark uncertain moment when San Francisco was seen in black and white, between the psychedelic era of hippies and the city's reemergence as a diverse cultural Mecca." -- Penelope Houston * singer and songwriter, the Avengers *"The 1978 Giants were a truly special, exciting and fun team. Mitchell does a wonderful job telling the story of that team, but what makes this book truly compelling is that he shows why baseball and the Giants were so important to the extraordinary period in San Francisco that 1978 was. By doing that, Mitchell provides an indispensable perspective and resource not only for baseball fans, but for anybody who wants to understand how San Francisco got to be the city it is today. Mitchell has woven a tale of politics, murder, cults, punk rock and baseball together to provide an entertaining, powerful, cohesive and holistic picture of San Francisco during the year that changed everything in our city." -- Bob Lurie * San Francisco Giants Owner, 1976-1992 *"From the perspective of an adolescent growing up in post-hippie San Francisco, Lincoln Mitchell brings a totally new and riveting perspective to every facet of San Francisco in 1978 from Major League Baseball, to the early days of punk rock to the tragic, tumultuous and violent politics. San Francisco Year Zero sheds new light on how the events of that pivotal year shaped politics in San Francisco and the rest of our country for the next four decades and to this day. And it’s a gentle reminder that it’s still not too late for us to once again chart the progressive political course that was cut short by the political assassinations and messianic violence that rocked San Francisco and America 40 years ago." -- San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin"The book is both rigorous political science that would be very useful to scholars of urban politics generally and San Francisco more specifically, but is also a highly readable and fun book that gives a deeper perspective into San Francisco in 1978. Mitchell captures both the larger political issues that defined the city then and continue to impact it now as well as the feel of what it meant to be growing up in San Francisco at the time.” -- Kenneth Sherrill * Professor Emeritus of political science, Hunter College, CUNY *"1978 was a year that shook and reshaped San Francisco just as brutally and profoundly as 1906 had, though the changes it wrought were due to cultural, social and political upheaval instead of shifting tectonic plates. In San Francisco Year Zero, Lincoln Mitchell paints a cinematic and insightful portrait of a year in which such disparate characters as Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, Johnny Rotten, Jello Biafra, Jerry Garcia, Bill Graham, Dianne Feinstein, Penelope Houston, Vida Blue and Jack Clark all left lasting marks on The City By The Bay. If you love San Francisco, urban history, baseball and/or punk rock, this is an essential read." -- Dan Epstein * author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s *"This freewheeling narrative captures the chaos of 1978 well, with a decade’s worth of highs and lows packed into one memorable calendar year....San Francisco Year Zero is still a rollicking look at a very unique year in a very unique city." * Foreword Reviews *The Page 99 Test: Lincoln A. Mitchell's "San Francisco Year Zero" http://page99test.blogspot.com/2019/10/lincoln-mitchells-san-francisco-year.html * The Page 99 Test *"Dead Kennedys in the West: The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco - The New Punk Generation Made the Hippies Look Past Their Prime" excerpt from San Francisco Year Zero https://lithub.com/dead-kennedys-in-the-west-the-politicized-punks-of-1970s-san-francisco/ * Literary Hub *"Lincoln Mitchell connects the dots of the last 41 years of San Francisco" - California Sun podcast http://californiasun.libsyn.com/lincoln-mitchell * California Sun podcast *"‘Year Zero’ uses baseball, politics to explain how 1978 forever changed SF" by Brandon Yu https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/year-zero-uses-baseball-politics-to-explain-how-1978-forever-changed-sf * San Francisco Chronicle *Sports Byline interview with Lincoln Mitchell * Sports Byline *"The Year That Was: 1978 and the Making of Contemporary San Francisco" https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/year-was-1978-and-making-contemporary-san-francisco * The Commonwealth Club Podcast *"What does baseball have to do with punk rock and politics?" by Victoria Ivie http://pcccourier.com/main-story/what-does-baseball-have-to-do-with-punk-rock-and-politics.html * PCC Courier *"Lincoln A. Mitchell writes fluidly and skillfully about his old home with wistful nostalgia. A reconciliation of the good times with the worst times are difficult but nevertheless compelling. A+ narrative." * San Francisco Book Review *"New Books Network--New Books in the American West" interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://newbooksnetwork.com/lincoln-mitchell-san-francisco-year-zero-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *Baseball by the Book podcast interview with Lincoln Mitchellhttps://baseballbythebook.libsyn.com/episode-229-san-francisco-year-one * Baseball by the Book podcast *Bergino Baseball Clubhouse podcast interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://berginobaseballclubhouse.podbean.com/e/san-francisco-year-zero-with-lincoln-mitchell/ * Bergino Baseball Clubhouse *KCRW "Press Play" interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/how-rep-karen-bass-sees-impeachment-playing-out/1978-shaped-san-francisco-into-a-modern-city * "Press Play," KCRW *"All in all it is a very interesting book. Well worth purchasing for not only punk rock fans but also for people interested in the history of San Francisco." * Punk Globe *Lincoln Mitchell discusses San Francisco Year Zero on Bar Crawl Radio https://player.acast.com/bar-crawl-radio/episodes/san-francisco-1978-murder-gay-rights-jonestown-no-end-trump * Bar Crawl Radio *"What lessons can the US learn from the British election results?" interview with Lincoln Mitchell * Al Jazeera English *Drinks with Tony podcast interview with Lincoln A. Mitchell http://www.drinkswithtony.com/lincoln-a-mitchell-65/ * Drinks with Tony *Infinite Inning podcast - Episde 130 "A Death in the Family" interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://www.spreaker.com/user/11343337/infinite-inning-130-a-death-in-the-famil * Infinite Inning podcast *"1978: the year that changed San Francisco forever" by Lincoln A. Mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/05/san-francisco-1978-changed-city * The Guardian *"Sound On: Impeachment, 2020 Fundraising, Vaping Ban" podcast interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-01-03/sound-on-impeachment-2020-fundraising-vaping-ban-podcast * Bloomberg Radio *"For those who aren’t as politically inclined, Mitchell covers the key cultural components of San Francisco in 1978. Whether it is cheering on a mediocre Giants team at an awful stadium, a growing concern for fellow San Franciscans who had left for Guyana with Jim Jones, or the evolving music scene, Mitchell paints a vivid picture of the city in 1978. I learned a lot from this book and came away with a much better view of the complexities of San Francisco. If you are looking for an interesting read, I would suggest picking up a copy." * Start Spreading the News *"Essential reading for newcomers and old-timers alike." * The Frisc *Lincoln Mitchell interview on "The Chip Franklin Show," KGO 810 https://omny.fm/shows/the-chip-franklin-show/january-28-2020-how-san-francisco-became-san-franc * "The Chip Franklin Show," KGO 810 *"Lincoln Mitchell on His Love of Baseball and Politics" https://www.storiedsf.com/episodes/s3e5-part-1-lincoln-mitchell-on-his-love-of-baseball-and-politics * Storied SF *"Lincoln Mitchell on San Francisco in 1978," Part II https://www.storiedsf.com/episodes/s3e5-part-2-lincoln-mitchell-on-san-francisco-in-1978 * Storied SF *Lincoln Mitchell interview on the Marty Lurie Show http://www.loveofthegameproductions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Mitchell_Lincoln041820.mp3 * Marty Lurie Show - KNBR *"How San Francisco's quirky politics gave California an edge in the Covid-19 fight" by Lincoln Mitchell https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/opinions/san-francisco-california-covid-19-response-mitchell/index.html * CNN.com *"Mitchell writes with clarity, effortlessly switching between the main parts of the narrative while simultaneously bringing in other peripheral observations and facts. I am sure San Fransicans will reveal in this, while those who have never ventured to the city should find the events of 1978 captivating." * Scanner Zine *"Mitchell charts the tensions in San Francisco's politics between the struggle for progressive policies—led by the emergent political force of the LGBT community and influenced by the radicalism of punk rock—and the pro-business policies that were ultimately implemented. His recounting of the Giants 1978 season, which unified the city, is meticulous. This book is a good starting point to understand today's San Francisco. Recommended." * Choice *"SSTN Interview with Lincoln Mitchell" * Start Spreading the News *"Talkin' Yankees" interview with Lincoln Mitchell * Talkin' Yankees *"7 Questions on San Francisco, Social Movements, and Politics with Author Lincoln Mitchell" https://www.thecampaignworkshop.com/blog/7-questions/social-movements?utm_content=131047336utm_medium=socialutm_source=twitterhss_channel=tw-1012407859831820291 * The Campaign Workshop *Jeff Santos Show - 6/19/20 HR-3 Joe Sanberg Lincoln Mitchell interview https://soundcloud.com/ron-crider/61920-hr-3-joe-sanberg-lincoln-mitchell * Jeff Santos Show *"The Jeff Santos Show" interview with Lincoln Mitchell https://soundcloud.com/ron-crider/72920-hr-3-joe-williams-lincoln-mitchell * Jeff Santos Show *"San Francisco Year Zero makes a welcome contribution to the urban history of this left-coast city and will be an engaging read for those interested in the city’s political, musical, and baseball past." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Harvey Milk's murder is a stark reminder of the persistence of police brutality" by Lincoln Mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/27/harvey-milk-assassination-police-brutality * The Guardian *"The author’s enthusiasm for [baseball] and the [Giants] come through, both in the minute detail in which he reports statistics that only a hardcore fan will understand, but in making us care about a baseball season in which the Giants finish, after all, only in third place. Here, the mix of the author’s own memories of going to games as an 11-year-old with his scholarly reflections on the team’s 1978 season pay off." * Urban History *"1978 was a harrowing year of tragedy and political upheaval in San Francisco, but there were also some bright spots — including a burgeoning punk rock scene and a Giants team that spent much of the summer atop the NL West — and Mitchell ties it all together in this compulsively readable tome." * Los Angeles Daily News *28 all-star books about California baseball including the Giants, Dodgers, A’s and more: "1978 was a harrowing year of tragedy and political upheaval in San Francisco, but there were also some bright spots — including a burgeoning punk rock scene and a Giants team that spent much of the summer atop the NL West — and Mitchell ties it all together in this compulsively readable tome." * San Jose Mercury News *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables Preface 1 New Year’s 1978 2 San Francisco in 1978 3 Spring Training 4 Heading to the ‘Stick 5 Harvey Milk 6 The Band is Called What? 7 The Pennant Race 8 A Month Like No Other 9 The Long Shadow of 1978 10 Neighborhoods, Natives and Those Hills Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisMakris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrification and the experiences of longtime residents in this beach-community city. They demonstrate how the racial inequality in the founding of Asbury Park is reverberating a century later. This book tells an important and nuanced tale of gentrification using an intersectional lens to examine the history of race relations, the too often overlooked history of the postindustrial city, the role of the LGBTQ population, barriers to employment and access to amenities, and the role of developers as the city rapidly changes. Makris and Gatta draw on in-depth interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observation, as well as data analysis to tell the reader a story of life on the West Side of Asbury Park as the East Side prospers and to point to a potential path forward.Trade Review"Focusing on historical segregation both residentially and in the labor market, Makris and Gatta’s rich qualitative work and presentation of intersectionality in Gentrification Down the Shore sheds light on the experiences of living in Asbury Park from the perspective of people who were there long ago during the music heyday, and more recently during its revitalization." -- Kathe Newman * Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"From Venice, California, to the Rockaway Peninsula, beach towns like Asbury Park are changing from funky, diverse communities to pricey, sanitized tourist zones of hipster cool. Gentrification Down the Shore documents the tragic consequences of this kind of redevelopment, which bypasses longtime residents in favor of seasonal visitors and deprives them of access to nature, culture, and civic life." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"Greetings from Asbury Park. Now Let’s Talk About Gentrification and Racism" * SUM *Indoor Voices podcast interview with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * Indoor Voices podcast *"Rescue Our Cities and Towns" by Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * The Progressive *"Makris and Gatta present an informative and compelling portrait of a storied city undergoing its latest transformation even as long-committed businesses and residents struggle to find a place within it. Gentrification Down the Shore deserves a place on the reading lists of cultural historians, gentrification scholars, and above all fans of Asbury Park." * The Metropole *"[A] groundbreaking ethnography...Gentrification Down the Shore is an important book that sheds light on the impact of gentrification on African Americans living in Asbury Park, New Jersey, as the first such text on the subject." * NJ Studies *"Focusing on historical segregation both residentially and in the labor market, Makris and Gatta’s rich qualitative work and presentation of intersectionality in Gentrification Down the Shore sheds light on the experiences of living in Asbury Park from the perspective of people who were there long ago during the music heyday, and more recently during its revitalization." -- Kathe Newman * Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"From Venice, California, to the Rockaway Peninsula, beach towns like Asbury Park are changing from funky, diverse communities to pricey, sanitized tourist zones of hipster cool. Gentrification Down the Shore documents the tragic consequences of this kind of redevelopment, which bypasses longtime residents in favor of seasonal visitors and deprives them of access to nature, culture, and civic life." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"Greetings from Asbury Park. Now Let’s Talk About Gentrification and Racism" * SUM *Indoor Voices podcast interview with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * Indoor Voices podcast *"Rescue Our Cities and Towns" by Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * The Progressive *"Makris and Gatta present an informative and compelling portrait of a storied city undergoing its latest transformation even as long-committed businesses and residents struggle to find a place within it. Gentrification Down the Shore deserves a place on the reading lists of cultural historians, gentrification scholars, and above all fans of Asbury Park." * The Metropole *"[A] groundbreaking ethnography...Gentrification Down the Shore is an important book that sheds light on the impact of gentrification on African Americans living in Asbury Park, New Jersey, as the first such text on the subject." * NJ Studies *Table of ContentsContentsChapter 1: Seasonal GentrificationChapter 2: Racial Segregation, Sex, Gender and Rock n Roll: The History of Asbury ParkChapter 3: Working While BlackChapter 4: Owning a Business—The Employers SideChapter 5: A West Side StoryChapter 6: Cats are the New Dogs (and Other Stuff That Makes Asbury Cool…and Can It Stay Cool?)Chapter 7: Land of Hope and DreamsMethodological AppendixReferences

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Book SynopsisMakris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrification and the experiences of longtime residents in this beach-community city. They demonstrate how the racial inequality in the founding of Asbury Park is reverberating a century later. This book tells an important and nuanced tale of gentrification using an intersectional lens to examine the history of race relations, the too often overlooked history of the postindustrial city, the role of the LGBTQ population, barriers to employment and access to amenities, and the role of developers as the city rapidly changes. Makris and Gatta draw on in-depth interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observation, as well as data analysis to tell the reader a story of life on the West Side of Asbury Park as the East Side prospers and to point to a potential path forward.Trade Review"Focusing on historical segregation both residentially and in the labor market, Makris and Gatta’s rich qualitative work and presentation of intersectionality in Gentrification Down the Shore sheds light on the experiences of living in Asbury Park from the perspective of people who were there long ago during the music heyday, and more recently during its revitalization." -- Kathe Newman * Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"From Venice, California, to the Rockaway Peninsula, beach towns like Asbury Park are changing from funky, diverse communities to pricey, sanitized tourist zones of hipster cool. Gentrification Down the Shore documents the tragic consequences of this kind of redevelopment, which bypasses longtime residents in favor of seasonal visitors and deprives them of access to nature, culture, and civic life." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"Greetings from Asbury Park. Now Let’s Talk About Gentrification and Racism" * SUM *Indoor Voices podcast interview with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * Indoor Voices podcast *"Rescue Our Cities and Towns" by Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * The Progressive *"Makris and Gatta present an informative and compelling portrait of a storied city undergoing its latest transformation even as long-committed businesses and residents struggle to find a place within it. Gentrification Down the Shore deserves a place on the reading lists of cultural historians, gentrification scholars, and above all fans of Asbury Park." * The Metropole *"[A] groundbreaking ethnography...Gentrification Down the Shore is an important book that sheds light on the impact of gentrification on African Americans living in Asbury Park, New Jersey, as the first such text on the subject." * NJ Studies *"Focusing on historical segregation both residentially and in the labor market, Makris and Gatta’s rich qualitative work and presentation of intersectionality in Gentrification Down the Shore sheds light on the experiences of living in Asbury Park from the perspective of people who were there long ago during the music heyday, and more recently during its revitalization." -- Kathe Newman * Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"From Venice, California, to the Rockaway Peninsula, beach towns like Asbury Park are changing from funky, diverse communities to pricey, sanitized tourist zones of hipster cool. Gentrification Down the Shore documents the tragic consequences of this kind of redevelopment, which bypasses longtime residents in favor of seasonal visitors and deprives them of access to nature, culture, and civic life." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"Greetings from Asbury Park. Now Let’s Talk About Gentrification and Racism" * SUM *Indoor Voices podcast interview with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * Indoor Voices podcast *"Rescue Our Cities and Towns" by Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris * The Progressive *"Makris and Gatta present an informative and compelling portrait of a storied city undergoing its latest transformation even as long-committed businesses and residents struggle to find a place within it. Gentrification Down the Shore deserves a place on the reading lists of cultural historians, gentrification scholars, and above all fans of Asbury Park." * The Metropole *"[A] groundbreaking ethnography...Gentrification Down the Shore is an important book that sheds light on the impact of gentrification on African Americans living in Asbury Park, New Jersey, as the first such text on the subject." * NJ Studies *Table of ContentsContentsChapter 1: Seasonal GentrificationChapter 2: Racial Segregation, Sex, Gender and Rock n Roll: The History of Asbury ParkChapter 3: Working While BlackChapter 4: Owning a Business—The Employers SideChapter 5: A West Side StoryChapter 6: Cats are the New Dogs (and Other Stuff That Makes Asbury Cool…and Can It Stay Cool?)Chapter 7: Land of Hope and DreamsMethodological AppendixReferences

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport, and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas’s concept of a public sphere, the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian “counter” public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning.Trade Review"Mullan is to be commended for his very impressive original study of Irish Philadelphia and the way that the people who migrated there from Ireland drew from their past to build their present. I strongly believe that readers will profit from his insights."— Timothy McMahon, author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 "In this path-breaking work, Michael Mullan demonstrates the importance of studying the many links between the Irish American community in 1890s Philadelphia and the Irish cultural revival in Ireland. Mullan gives us a novel perspective with the concept of a Gaelic public sphere resulting from the meeting between the American milieu and the Irish roots. This is a compelling study, which should be required reading for all those who wish to understand how to write innovatively transnational cultural history."— Enrico Dal Lago, Author of Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Outlines of a Gaelic Public Sphere 2 Inserting the Gaelic in the Public Sphere 3 Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic Sphere 4 Transatlantic Origins of Irish American Voluntary Associations 5 A Microanalysis of Irish American Civic Life: Ireland’s Donegal and Cavan Emerge in Philadelphia 6 The Forging of a Collective Consciousness: Militant Irish Nationalism and Civic Life in Gaelic Philadelphia 7 Sport, Culture, and Nation among the Irish of Philadelphia Conclusion: A Gaelic Public Sphere—Its Rise and Fall Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport, and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas’s concept of a public sphere, the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian “counter” public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning.Trade Review"Mullan is to be commended for his very impressive original study of Irish Philadelphia and the way that the people who migrated there from Ireland drew from their past to build their present. I strongly believe that readers will profit from his insights."— Timothy McMahon, author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 "In this path-breaking work, Michael Mullan demonstrates the importance of studying the many links between the Irish American community in 1890s Philadelphia and the Irish cultural revival in Ireland. Mullan gives us a novel perspective with the concept of a Gaelic public sphere resulting from the meeting between the American milieu and the Irish roots. This is a compelling study, which should be required reading for all those who wish to understand how to write innovatively transnational cultural history."— Enrico Dal Lago, Author of Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Outlines of a Gaelic Public Sphere 2 Inserting the Gaelic in the Public Sphere 3 Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic Sphere 4 Transatlantic Origins of Irish American Voluntary Associations 5 A Microanalysis of Irish American Civic Life: Ireland’s Donegal and Cavan Emerge in Philadelphia 6 The Forging of a Collective Consciousness: Militant Irish Nationalism and Civic Life in Gaelic Philadelphia 7 Sport, Culture, and Nation among the Irish of Philadelphia Conclusion: A Gaelic Public Sphere—Its Rise and Fall Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisClimate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America’s most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England’s iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked. Trade Review"The Real Problem With Michael Moore’s New Film: Planet of the Humans," by Shaun Golding https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/real-problem-michael-moores-new-film-planet-humans— Common Dreams "Well-written, incredibly informative, and sharply argued, Electric Mountains will be an important contribution to critical environmental scholarship on energy transitions."— Jesse Goldstein, author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitali "Electric Mountains is a timely and well researched book. Grounding an array of sociological thought about the environment and environmental behavior in rich ethnographic narrative, the book is both insightful and artfully written. Electric Mountains is a must read by anyone seeking to understand the social complexities surrounding wind energy."— Brent Z. Kaup, College of William & Mary "The world’s quickening energy transition is heralded by iconic changes to our landscapes and exciting new modes of transit, heating, and cooling. And yet society’s shift away from climate-harming energy is far from the urgent transformation warranted by climate change predictions. Electric Mountains explores the dissonance between electricity transition and energy transformation through the story of a region’s renewable energy policies and the popular backlash against them. Contextualizing narratives commonly dismissed as NIMBYism, Electric Mountains engages with the themes of rurality, risk, justice, and Ecological Modernization in predominantly white and ecologically progressive Northern New England. It encourages students and practitioners of Environmental Sociology to discern nuance across different regional political economies of energy and to recognize the imprints of energy hegemons, as well as our own biases and privileges, in our energy realities and energy transition roadmaps."— ASA Environmental NewsletterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Windy Ridgelines, Social Fault Lines 3. For the Love of Mountains: The Green Politics of Place 4. But What If…? Wind and the Discourse of Risk 5. Following Power Lines: A Regional Political Economy of Renewables Part I. The Money Part II. The People 6. Scripted in Chaos 7. Why We Follow the Slow Transition Road Map 8. Ecological Modernizations or Capitalists Treadmills? 9. Energy and “Justice” in the Mountains 10. Reimagining Energy Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisClimate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America’s most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England’s iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked. Trade Review"Well-written, incredibly informative, and sharply argued, Electric Mountains will be an important contribution to critical environmental scholarship on energy transitions." -- Jesse Goldstein * author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitali *"Electric Mountains is a timely and well researched book. Grounding an array of sociological thought about the environment and environmental behavior in rich ethnographic narrative, the book is both insightful and artfully written. Electric Mountains is a must read by anyone seeking to understand the social complexities surrounding wind energy." -- Brent Z. Kaup * College of William & Mary *"The Real Problem With Michael Moore’s New Film: Planet of the Humans," by Shaun Golding https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/real-problem-michael-moores-new-film-planet-humans * Common Dreams *"The world’s quickening energy transition is heralded by iconic changes to our landscapes and exciting new modes of transit, heating, and cooling. And yet society’s shift away from climate-harming energy is far from the urgent transformation warranted by climate change predictions. Electric Mountains explores the dissonance between electricity transition and energy transformation through the story of a region’s renewable energy policies and the popular backlash against them. Contextualizing narratives commonly dismissed as NIMBYism, Electric Mountains engages with the themes of rurality, risk, justice, and Ecological Modernization in predominantly white and ecologically progressive Northern New England. It encourages students and practitioners of Environmental Sociology to discern nuance across different regional political economies of energy and to recognize the imprints of energy hegemons, as well as our own biases and privileges, in our energy realities and energy transition roadmaps." * ASA Environmental Newsletter *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Windy Ridgelines, Social Fault Lines 3. For the Love of Mountains: The Green Politics of Place 4. But What If…? Wind and the Discourse of Risk 5. Following Power Lines: A Regional Political Economy of Renewables Part I. The Money Part II. The People 6. Scripted in Chaos 7. Why We Follow the Slow Transition Road Map 8. Ecological Modernizations or Capitalists Treadmills? 9. Energy and “Justice” in the Mountains 10. Reimagining Energy Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial PrizeTrade Review Table of Contents1. Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels.- 2. Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts.- 3. Your Papers, Please: the Temporal and Territorial Demands of Welfare State Inclusion.- 4. Home / Sick: the Health–Migration Order.- 5. Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict.- 6. Getting One’s Bearings: Re-integration in the Home Community.- 7. Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage.- 8. Conclusion: the Returns from Theory and a New Approach to Home.- Appendix: notes on method.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sciences. Following an in-depth analysis of the potential impact of these methods on social science and social theory, the text provides substantive examples of the application of agent-based models in the field of demography. This work offers a unique combination of applied simulation work and substantive, in-depth philosophical analysis, and as such has potential appeal for specialist social scientists, complex systems scientists, and philosophers of science interested in the methodology of simulation and the practice of interdisciplinary computing research.​Table of ContentsPart I Agent-Based Models: 1 Introduction.- 2 Simulation and Artificial Life.- 3 Making the Artificial Real.- 4 Modelling in Population Biology.- Part II Modelling Social Systems: 5 Modelling for the Social Sciences.- 6 Analysis: Frameworks and Theories.- 7 Schelling: A Success for Simplicity.- 8 Conclusions Part III Case Study: Simulation in Demography.- 9 Modelling in Demography: From Statistics to Simulations.- 10 Model-Based Demography in Practice: I.- 11 Model-Based Demography in Practice: II.- 12 Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand.Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. This title provides a clear and comprehensive examination of Malthus’s economic and social thought. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Induction and Deduction.- Chapter 3: The Law of Population.- Chapter 4: Public Policy.- Chapter 5: The Poor Laws.- Chapter 6: Balanced Growth.- Chapter 7: Tariffs and Bounties.- Chapter 8: The Circular Flow.- Chapter 9: Circular Flow and Social Class.- Chapter 10: Society and State.- Chapter 11: Foreign Trade.- Chapter 12: Money.- Chapter 13: God’s Design.- Chapter 14: Malthus’s Legacy: A System of Ideas.

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Book Synopsis Written by the 2018 Mindel C. Sheps Award winner, this textbook offers a unique method for teaching how to model spatial (multiregional) population dynamics through models of increasing complexity. Each chapter in this programmed workbook starts with a descriptive text, followed by a sequence of exercises focused on particular multiregional models, of increasing complexity, and then ends with the solutions.It extends the current developments in the spatial analysis of social data towards improving our understanding of dynamics and interacting change across multiple populations in space. Frameworks for analyzing such dynamics were first proposed in multiregional demography, over 40 years ago. This book revisits these methods and then illustrates how they may be used to analyze spatial data and study spatial population dynamics.Topics covered include spatial population dynamics, population projections and estimations, spatial and age structure of migration flows and much more. As such this innovative textbook is a great teaching and learning tool for teachers, students as well as individuals who want to study demographic processes across space.Table of Contents1 Uniregional Models With No Age Dependence.- 2 Spatial Population Dynamics: Location Without Age.- 3 Uniregional Population Dynamics: Age Without Location.- 4 Multiregional Population Dynamics: Age With Location.- 5 Multiregional Projection and Stable Growth.- 6 Birthplace-Specific Life Tables and Projections.- 7 The Spatial Patterns and Structures Of Migration.- A: Sample Datasets and Figures.- B: An Introduction To Matrix Algebra.

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Book SynopsisThe decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant into a geographic location. By constitutional mandate, census data are the basis for reapportioning the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The states use census data to redistrict their state legislatures and often to redraw boundaries for local elections. Census data inform the distribution of over $1.5 trillion in federal funding during the decade. This book details the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 Census for the non-specialist reader. It covers why the Census is the only statistical activity required by the US Constitution, the challenges of working towards an accurate and complete count, and what political ramifications flow from this process. Concise, timely, and comprehensible, this book provides helpful real-life examples while also offering an overview of the entwined statistical and political issues that surround the Census. Table of Contents1. The Census: A Pillar of American Democracy and American Society.- 2. Who, What, When, Where of the Census.- 3. Who’s Missing: Undercounting and Underreporting.- 4. The Citizenship Issue and Gerrymandering.- 5. Privacy and Data Protection. 6. Are There Alternatives to the Census?.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical custody, legal frames regulating custody arrangements, stability and changes in arrangements across the life course of children, socio‐economic, psychological, social well-being of various family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an interdisciplinary collaboration, it is interesting read for social scientists in demography, sociology, psychology, law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody arrangements.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Advances in research on Shared Physical Custodyby interdisciplinary approaches.- Part I: Interdisciplinary overviews.- Chapter 2. Alternating homes – a new family form - The family sociology perspective.- Chapter 3. Psychological Perspectives on Joint Physical Custody.- Chapter 4. A European Model for Harmonizing the Law on Parental Responsibilities.- PART II: Parents and JPC.- Chapter 5. Are “Part-Time Parents” Healthier Parents? Correlates of Shared Physical Custody in Switzerland.- Chapter 6. Linkages Between Children's Living Arrangements After Divorce and the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship; Father involvement as important underlying mechanism.- Chapter 7. Who cares? An event history analysis of co-parenthood dynamics in Belgium.- PART III: Children and JPC.- Chapter 8. The SOHI: Operationalizing a new model for studying teenagers’ sense of home in post-divorce families.- Chapter 9. The Socioeconomic Gradient of Shared Physical Custody in two Welfare States: comparison between Spain and Sweden.- Chapter 10. Shared parenting after divorce and child outcomes.- PART IV: Dynamic view on JPC.- Chapter 11. The Different Ways of Implementing Shared Physical Custody in the French Context.- Chapter 12. Coparenting interventions and shared physical custody: Insights and challenges.- PATR V: Legal frameworks of Child Support.- Chapter 13. Shared Physical Custody After Parental Separation: Evidence from Germany.- Chapter 14. Shared physical custody and child maintenance arrange-ments: A comparative analysis of 13 countries using a model family approach.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population. To counter this neglect, the monograph (i) includes original graphs showing population size and growth since 1920 in the world as a whole and the United States; (ii) assembles evidence tying the increasing number of people to ecosystem deterioration and its societal consequences; and (iii) analyzes sample-survey data to ascertain whether the current disregard of population pressures by U.S. environmentalists reflects the thinking of Americans generally. However, even if a nation took steps primarily intended to lower childbearing and immigration, the findings of social science research indicate that the steps would not have a substantial, lasting impact. The discussion, which suggests an indirect way by which government may reduce fertility, underlines for environmental scholars the importance of studying their subject in a multidisciplinary, collaborative setting.Table of Contents1.​The Population Factor.- 2. An Empirical Study of Americans’ Attitudes.- 3. Environmentalism and Interdisciplinarity.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link between migration and development. The book examines in depth the arguments against "brain drain", namely the loss of skilled labor, wasted public investment in higher education, and reduced tax revenues. It also presents the arguments in favor, emphasizing on the transfer of scientific knowledge, the incentive effect of increased education spending, and participation in international networks. It addresses the central issue of emigration of medical personnel from developing countries and its consequences on the population.The book focuses on the effects of remittances on poverty and inequalities. They improve health conditions, raise education levels and empower women. Positive effects include the stabilizing function of remittances and the improvement of external accounts. Other effects are subject to conflicting assessments such as the reduction of labor supply and the "Dutch disease". The focus is on institutions who integrate economic, social and political incentives in order to establish remittances at the heart of development policies.The book provides a reference for students and research centers devoted to development economics, centers for international migration studies, and research units focusing on population, migration, and development.Table of ContentsChapter 1 MAJOR TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS PART I EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED LABOR FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 2 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION TRENDS OF HIGHLY SKILLED WORKERS CHAPTER 3 EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL FROM THE PVD, OR THE "BRAIN   DRAIN". GOOD OR BAD FOR DEVELOPMENT? CHAPTER 4 EMIGRATION OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PART II REMITTANCES TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 5 VOLUME OF REMITTANCE FLOWS AND PREVAILING TRENDS CHAPTER 6 THE DECISION TO REMIT: DETERMINANTS AND ACTORS CHAPTER 7 REMITTANCES AND HOUSEHOLD WELFARE CHAPTER 8 THE IMPACT OF REMITTANCES ON THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRIES OF EMIGRATION CHAPTER 9 REMITTANCES, AN INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY CONCLUSION

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