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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mothers and Schooling
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the free education policy'.Based on a prize-winning study examining mothers' attitudes to education in a rural Kenyan community, this vividly nuanced ethnographic work draws upon African feminist perspectives to describe the livelihoods and aspirations of 32 mothers responsible for over 180 children. It explores the effects of mothers' school histories and the constraining effects of land practices and patriarchal culture on their actions. Their school choice and engagement strategies reflect different facilitating environments, their educational values, the use of social mothering practices and reliance on kinship reciprocity. The findings illustrate the importance of recognising the diversity oTrade Review"Mothers matter. Here is the close-focus story of how women make ends meet, and shape children's schooling, in a world of poverty and gender inequality. This is more than a fine ethnography of village life. It breaks new ground, especially in showing how 'social-mothering' extends beyond immediate kinship to include other children; and in showing the daily struggles that affect engagement with school. Tracing the varied, often tense relationships between women and men, adults and children, families and schools, Fibian Lukalo's approach to the dilemmas of education, development and social justice is relevant far beyond East Africa."Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, Australia."This book offers an extraordinary account of children’s access to schooling in the context of rural life in Kenya. Focusing on women as mothers, the narrative reveals how multiple dynamics unfold to make mother’s agency regarding their children’s education, particularly that of daughters, a residual rather than an explicit decision. A must read for those seeking to understand the complex and tortuous connections among gender, poverty, culture, and educational attainment—connections that defy easy synthesis."Nelly P. Stromquist, Emerita Professor, University of Maryland, USA."Mothers and Schooling provides a deep, nuanced reflection on the interplay between poverty, patriarchy and policy when it comes to educational decision-making on the African continent. Fibian Lukalo offers a thoroughly researched exposition on how mothers and motherhood chart educational directions for their children amidst socio-economic, cultural and gender dynamics that have all too frequently been considered alone. She offers a welcome contribution to the debate on individual versus collective agency, and the multiple roles women play in the lives of children, not only their own. Most importantly the book shows how educational policy, developed by global agencies in New York or Geneva, land in small rural villages– in this case in Kenya. It asks pertinent questions regarding the limits and possibilities of social reform through education, and how women contest power in the context of Education for All." Sharlene Swartz, Executive Director of Inclusive Economic Development, Human Sciences Research Council and Professor of Philosophy, University of Fort Hare, South Africa. "Lukalo’s detailed account of educational decision making by mothers in rural Kenya introduces us to "maternal pedagogies" and how they shape the schooling trajectories of their children. Through ethnographically-rich longitudinal research, Lukalo brings mothers’ voices to the fore as they reflect on their own educational experiences and the effects of gender, poverty, and policy on the decisions they make for their offspring. Their life histories complicate assumptions about Education for All and illustrate the importance of mothers’ agency in policy implementation."Frances Vavrus, Professor of Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota, USA.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1 Mothers and school decision-making: An introductionAn introductionSituating the studyThe structure of the bookPART IUncovering spaces for mothers’ voices2 Gendered households and mothering Contextualising schoolingAfrican feminist perspectivesReflections3 Researching mothers’ lives in situLiving in WelaThe ethics of naming, hearing and valuingResearch dynamics and validations Concluding commentsPART IIMothers’ school choices: educational histories, aspirations and constraints 4 Education in Wela - ‘the hunched-back village’Children: education, domestic life and resourcesFamily patterns of schoolingConclusion 5 Schooling in mothers’ lives: childhood memories of support, silence and denialGendered memories: the marginalising of girls’ educationPersonal resilience: the pursuit of ‘becoming educated’ Self-blame: the guilt associated with insufficient schoolingReflections 6 Mothers at the heart of decision-making‘Possessing certificates': mothers as teachers‘We reached’: choice dilemmas of mothers with some schoolingArduous school encounters: disability and infirmityMothers’ approaches to schooling 7 Schooling ‘all’ children? The challenges of social motheringGrandmothers in charge of schoolingSocial mothering: contingency schooling plansPaternity: mothers keeping their own children closeFostering children: paternities and reciprocal arrangementsThoughts on social mothering PART IIIMothers’ agency: Decisions, discourses and school engagement strategies 8 A typology of mothers’ educational decision-making: from aspirations to school engagementsSchooling, poverty and social advancement: fractured possibilities Mothers’ aspirations and school engagements Facilitating environments and mother - school strategies Schooling gains in mothers’ worlds9 Epilogue: mothers’ educational agencyWho are you?Schooling for all?Looking to the future GlossaryIndex
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Book SynopsisR for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide is a handbook for political scientists new to R who want to learn the most useful and common ways to interpret and analyze political data. It was written by political scientists, thinking about the many real-world problems faced in their work. The book has 16 chapters and is organized in three sections. The first, on the use of R, is for those users who are learning R or are migrating from another software. The second section, on econometric models, covers OLS, binary and survival models, panel data, and causal inference. The third section is a data science toolbox of some the most useful tools in the discipline: data imputation, fuzzy merge of large datasets, web mining, quantitative text analysis, network analysis, mapping, spatial cluster analysis, and principal component analysis.Key features: Each chapter has the most up-to-date and simple option available for each task, assuming minimaTrade Review"Urdinez and Cruz provide a thorough and pedagogically sound introduction to working with political science data in R, complete with modern R code to reproduce every figure and analysis presented. The breadth of statistics and data science methods presented in the book is impressive. The datasets used in examples are real, contemporary, and engaging, which makes the book accessible to anyone interested in quantitative approaches in political science." - Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, University of Edinburgh, Duke University, and RStudio. "This book is a great resource for students learning methods as well as for researchers migrating to R. The volume introduces a wide range of topics, including foundations of R, conventional statistical models, text analysis, networks, maps, and web mining. And there is more! The examples based on Latin America make the book substantively interesting and enjoyable."- Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Notre Dame "As others who lacked the capacity to work in R, I was lagging behind regarding my capacity to produce cutting edge empirical analyses for my research. This textbook and its applied pedagogy and examples, significantly reduced the costs of catching up. I highly recommend it, both as a textbook and as a guideline for anyone interested in learning R on their own."- Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile"With its tutorial approach, R for Political Data Science builds readers’ R literacy without assuming any prior experience with the language. By the end, your practical political data science toolkit will be well-stocked, you will be more motivated to take the next step and study the mathematical underpinnings of the methods discussed throughout, and using R professionally will no longer feel like a pipe dream (pun intended!)."- Santiago Olivella, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill "If you have a background in Political Science, this is THE BOOK you need to start your journey into R. Using up-to-date tools, this book guides you step-by-step through the process of translating data analysis into political questions. R for Political Data Science not only covers a wide range of techniques and R packages, but also uses Latin American datasets that make the topics covered interesting for a broader audience."- Riva Quiroga, co-founder of R-Ladies Santiago and R-Ladies Valparaíso, editor of The Programming Historian and chair of the Latin-R Conference "The monograph belongs to The R Series, and presents a reference textbook on R language with a semester course on statistics with application to estimations on real political data...Each chapter suggests references on the recent sources, exercises, and links to numerous websites with data, packages and other R facilities. The book is convenient as a textbook for students, and is equally helpful for researcher and practitioners. The main material in the book consists of R codes, that supplies the readers with amazingly useful tools of modeling not only in political but in a wider area of applied social and other sciences, wherever the statistical analysis is required."- Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, April 2021 Table of ContentsI Introduction to R1. Basic R2. Data Management3. Data Visualization4. Data Loading II Models5. Linear Models6. Case Selection Based on Regressions7. Panel Data8. Logistic Models9. Survival Models10. Causal Inference III Applications11. Advanced Political Data Management12. Web Mining13. Quantitative Analysis of Political Texts14. Networks15. Principal Component Analysis16. Maps and Spatial Data
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Taylor & Francis Totemism and HumanAnimal Relations in West Africa
Book SynopsisThis book explores humanâanimal relations amongst the Bebelibe of West Africa, with a focus on the establishment of totemic relationships with animals, what these relationships entail and the consequences of abusing them. Employing and developing the concepts of presencing and the ontological penumbra to shed light on the manner in which people make present and engage in the world around them, including the shadowy spaces that have to be negotiated in order to make sense of the world, the author shows how these concepts account for empathetic and intersubjective encounters with non-human animals. Grounded in rich ethnographic work, Totemism and HumanâAnimal Relations in West Africa offers a reappraisal of totemism and considers the implications of the ontological turn in understanding humanâanimal relations. As such, it will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and anthrozoologists concerned with humanâanimal interaction.Table of Contents1. An Historical Review of Totemism 2. Penumbras, Ontons and Presencing 3. Hunting and Domestication 4. Killing and Consumption 5. Body-Shifting 6. Totem Crocodiles and Pythons 7. Ontology of Human–Animal Relations
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Taylor & Francis In Praise of Historical Anthropology Perspectives Methods and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism 35 Routledge Approaches to History
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