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The University of Michigan Press The Impracticality of Practical Research
Book SynopsisExamines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences
£27.50
The University of Michigan Press Coronavirus Politics
Book SynopsisIdentifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. The book's coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies.
£35.10
The University of Michigan Press Greenland in Arctic Security
Book SynopsisGreenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland.Table of Contents List of illustrations and tables Preface 1. Introduction: Analyzing Greenland in Arctic security Marc Jacobsen, Ole WÆver and Ulrik Pram Gad 2. Dangerous ice: Exploring the scales of climate change macrosecuritization through the Greenland Ice Sheet Kristian SØby Kristensen and Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard 3. Security transfigurations across sectors: Animals, climate, and self-determination in Greenland Ulrik Pram Gad, Lill Rastad BjØrst and Marc Jacobsen 4. From Peary to Pompeo: The history of United States’ securitizations of Greenland Marc Jacobsen and Sara Olsvig 5. (De)securitizing discourse and action in political talk and media presentation: The announcement of the Russian Honorary Consul’s appointment in Greenland Julia Zhukova Klausen 6. How China left Greenland: Mutually reinforcing securitization policies and Chinese mining plans in Greenland Patrik Andersson and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen 7. Denmark’s security perspectives on USA, China, and Russia in Greenland: How great power threats made Danish politicians talk about independent Greenlandic agency Marc Jacobsen and Signe Lyngholm Lindbjerg 8. Greenland's desecuritization of security and defense Ulrik Pram Gad, Sophie Rud, Marc Jacobsen and Rasmus KjÆrgaard Rasmussen 9. Infrastructural (re)configurations and processes of (de)securitization: the fluctuating roles and positions of airports in Greenland Frank Sejersen 10. (De)securitization, independence, and normal politics in Kalaallit Nunaat and Inuit Nunangat Nicholas Andrews, Joe Crowther and Wilfrid Greaves 11. Conclusion: Learning from Greenland in Arctic security Ulrik Pram Gad, Ole WÆver and Marc Jacobsen
£39.85
The University of Michigan Press Social Science and PolicyMaking
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£26.55
The University of Michigan Press Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform
Table of ContentsHistory -- Race and the limits of solidarity : American welfare state development in comparative perspective / Robert C. Lieberman -- Ghettos, fiscal federalism, and welfare reform / Michael K. Brown -- ""Laboratories of democracy"" or symbolic politics? :the racial origins of welfare reform / Richard C. Fording -- Mass media and mass attitudes -- How the poor became black : the racialization of American poverty in the mass media / Martin Gilens -- Race matters : the impact of news coverage of welfare reform on public opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley -- Racial context, public attitudes, and welfare effort in the American states / Martin Johnson -- Discourse -- Queens, teens, and model mothers : race, gender, and the discourse of welfare reform / Holloway Sparks -- Putting a black face on welfare : the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram -- Policy choice and implementation -- The hard line and the color line : race, welfare, and the roots of get-tough reform / Joe Soss ... [et al.] -- Contemporary approaches to enduring challenges : using performance measures to promote racial equality under TANF / Susan Tinsley Gooden -- Beyond welfare reform : race and social policy in the states -- Race/ethnicity and referenda on redistributive health care policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel -- Racial/ethnic diversity and states' public policies : social policies as context for welfare policies / Rodney E. Hero -- Commentary -- Why welfare is racist / Frances Fox Piven.
£30.35
LUP - University of Michigan Press Mongrel Nation
Book SynopsisArgues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age.Trade ReviewThe success of Mongrel Nation stems from Dawson's rigorous attention to the depth and richness of contextual frames: how all of the texts he reads are deeply interwoven in social, political, and cultural contexts whose racial and national lines criss-cross and spiral out transnationally." —Omaar Hena, The Minnesota Review
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Greenland in Arctic Security
Book SynopsisGreenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland.Table of Contents List of illustrations and tables Preface 1. Introduction: Analyzing Greenland in Arctic security Marc Jacobsen, Ole WÆver and Ulrik Pram Gad 2. Dangerous ice: Exploring the scales of climate change macrosecuritization through the Greenland Ice Sheet Kristian SØby Kristensen and Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard 3. Security transfigurations across sectors: Animals, climate, and self-determination in Greenland Ulrik Pram Gad, Lill Rastad BjØrst and Marc Jacobsen 4. From Peary to Pompeo: The history of United States’ securitizations of Greenland Marc Jacobsen and Sara Olsvig 5. (De)securitizing discourse and action in political talk and media presentation: The announcement of the Russian Honorary Consul’s appointment in Greenland Julia Zhukova Klausen 6. How China left Greenland: Mutually reinforcing securitization policies and Chinese mining plans in Greenland Patrik Andersson and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen 7. Denmark’s security perspectives on USA, China, and Russia in Greenland: How great power threats made Danish politicians talk about independent Greenlandic agency Marc Jacobsen and Signe Lyngholm Lindbjerg 8. Greenland's desecuritization of security and defense Ulrik Pram Gad, Sophie Rud, Marc Jacobsen and Rasmus KjÆrgaard Rasmussen 9. Infrastructural (re)configurations and processes of (de)securitization: the fluctuating roles and positions of airports in Greenland Frank Sejersen 10. (De)securitization, independence, and normal politics in Kalaallit Nunaat and Inuit Nunangat Nicholas Andrews, Joe Crowther and Wilfrid Greaves 11. Conclusion: Learning from Greenland in Arctic security Ulrik Pram Gad, Ole WÆver and Marc Jacobsen
£65.50
The University of Michigan Press The Impracticality of Practical Research
Book SynopsisExplores the idea that practical and useful knowledge historically changes over time under the guises of educational reform, instructional improvement, and professionalisation. Thomas Popkewitz explores how the research to correct social wrongs paradoxically is entangled with the inscription of differences in its efforts to be inclusive.Trade ReviewThe book contributes to a broad intellectual program of rethinking the taken-for-granted terms and ideas of education. Showing the historical development of practical-oriented educational research pushes readers to consider a different epistemology regarding knowledge production around teacher education and schooling." —Nancy Lesko, Columbia University
£73.10
University of California Press A Piece of the Pie
Book SynopsisStates that there is little question that the descendants of the new European immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe have done very well in the United States, reaching levels of achievement far above blacks. This book focuses on the historical origins of the current differences between the groups.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Problem: Black-New European Differences Part I: Structural Background 2. The Initial Conditions 3. Government: Black Participation and Power 4. Government: The New European Groups 5. Legal and Political Issues Part II: Socioeconomic Conditions 6. Education 7. Education in the North 8. Further Analyses of Education in the North 9. Residential Segregation 10. Earning a Living: 1900 11. Occupational Trends Earlier in this Century Part III: Conclusions 12. Conclusions References Index
£27.90
University of California Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Book SynopsisAfter September of 1921, membership declined and morale in the UNIA began to weaken. The final failure of the Black Star Line resulted when negotiations with the United States Chipping Board for the purchase of the long proposed African ship collapsed in March 1922. Deals with the period of crisis in the UNIA's political and economic fortunes.
£67.20
University of California Press Planning in the Face of Power
Book SynopsisWhy do our best-laid plans often over-reach and under-achieve? Why do our attempts to solve problems in some rational way often run afoul of politics and power? Why do we so often accomplish so little, even as we sense that so much more is possible? By looking closely at the work of city planners, Planning in the Face of Power addresses these questions and provides a new way of thinking about the practical and inevitably political work of improving our neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and the public institutions that shape our lives. Power and inequality are realities that planners of all kinds must face in the practical world. In Planning in the Face of Power, John Forester argues that effective, public-serving planners can overcome the traditional--but paralyzing--dichotomies of being either professional or political, detached and distantly rational or engaged and change-oriented. Because inequalities of power directly structure planning practice, planners who are blind to relations of power will inevitably fail. Forester shows how, in the face of the conflict-ridden demands of practice, planners can think politically and rationally at the same time, avoid common sources of failure, and work to advance both a vision of the broader public good and the interests of the least powerful members of society. This book provides a systematic reformulation of the politics of professional practice in the arena of city planning, public policy making, and public administration and management. It has immediate implications for the study of administration and management and for students of administration and planning in schools of social work, education, and public health. While focusing concretely on problems of planning practice (e.g. planners' sources of influence, their difficulties of listening critically, their understandings of the politics of organizations), Planning in the Face of Power brings to bear a wide range of theoretical insights and so integrates social and political theory with the demands of actual practice. Accordingly, the book will be important to practitioners who seek to understand the pressures they face at work as well as social theorists who wish to integrate theory and practice more powerfully, but will also appeal to the general reader interested in gaining an understanding of the practice of planning in the face of the realities of social equality and power.Table of Contents List of Tables Preface Part One. Recognize Problems, Seize Opportunities 1. The Challenges of Planning Practice 2. What Do Planning Analysts Do? Planning and Policy Analysis as Organizing Part Two. To Be Rational, Be Political 3. Planning in the Face of Power 4. The Politics of Muddling Through Part Three. Anticipate Organizational Power and Conflict 5. Three Views of Planning Organizations 6. Planning in the Face of Conflict: Mediated Negotiation Strategies in Practice Part Four. Focus on What Counts: Planning and Design as Practical Communicative Action 7. Listening: The Social Policy of Everyday Life 8. Designing as Making Sense Together Part Five. Use Planning Theory to Anticipate and Respond to Problems of Practice 9. Understanding Planning Practice 10. Supplement on Planning Education: Teaching Planning Practice Notes Bibliography Index
£24.30
University of California Press Friendship
Book SynopsisA study that synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction: The Adaptive Significance of Friendship 1. An Outline of Friendship 2. Friendships across Cultures 3. Friendship and Kinship 4. Sex, Romance, and Friendship 5. Friendship: Childhood to Adulthood 6. The Development of Friendships 7. Friendship, Culture, and Ecology 8. Playing with Friends Conclusion Appendix A: Ethnographic Data and Coding Appendix B: Mathematical Models for Chapter 8 Appendix C: D-Statistics for Studies Cited Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Friendship
Book SynopsisA study that synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction: The Adaptive Significance of Friendship 1. An Outline of Friendship 2. Friendships across Cultures 3. Friendship and Kinship 4. Sex, Romance, and Friendship 5. Friendship: Childhood to Adulthood 6. The Development of Friendships 7. Friendship, Culture, and Ecology 8. Playing with Friends Conclusion Appendix A: Ethnographic Data and Coding Appendix B: Mathematical Models for Chapter 8 Appendix C: D-Statistics for Studies Cited Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Activists Handbook
Book SynopsisHow should activists use new media tools to expose issues and mobilize grassroots support? When should activists form coalitions, and with whom? How are students - be they Dreamers seeking immigration reform or college activists battling ever-increasing tuition costs - winning major campaigns? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"It's a remarkable, unsentimental record of modern Bay Area politics and causes, yet hardly belongs to a niche readership." -- Steven Mikulan Capital & MainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Don't Respond, Strategize 2. Elected Officials: Inspiring Fear and Loathing 3. Coalition Activism: Rounding Up the Unusual Suspects 4. Ballot Initiatives: The Rules of the Game 5. The Media: Winning More Than Coverage 6. The Internet and Social Media: How Activists Should Harness the Information Superhighway 7. Direct Action: Acting Up, Sitting In, Taking to the Streets 8. Lawyers: Allies or Obstacles to Social Change? 9. Student Activists Offer Roadmaps for Social Change Conclusion Notes Index
£15.29
University of California Press Race Place and Suburban Policing
Book SynopsisTells the story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context.This title examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.Trade Review"Boyles brings two fresh perspectives to the table of policing literature. First, her focus is on suburbia rather than the more traditional policing milieu of cities. Second, she expands the conversation from the police to the body politic as a whole. This latter novelty is arguably the most important addition Boyles makes to the policing literature." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Rarely do we scrutinize the persistent inequalities between white and black America at the root of these social problems. It is in this context that Andrea Boyles' book Race, Place, and Suburban Policing is so timely... informative." Contemporary Sociology "Boyles presents a unique and innovative understanding of the relationship between race, place, and policing." Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology "Sounding the call for more research into suburbs is Andrea Boyles's very timely Race, Place, and Suburban Policing." Sociological ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, by Rod K. Brunson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Race, Place, and Policing in the United States 2 • “You’re nothing but trash over here . . .”: Black Faces in White Places 3 • There’s a New Sheriff in Town: Th e Police Making Contact 4 • “It’s the same song . . .”: The Tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles “Cookie” Thornton 5 • The Road to Reconciliation Conclusion and Discussion Epilogue Appendix: Study Participants Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a compassionate, caring person in Russia? This book explores how, following the retreat of the Russian state from social welfare services, Russians' efforts to do the right thing for their communities have forged new modes of social justice and civic engagement.and secular.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Note on Transliteration 1. Compassion 2. Faith in a Secular Humanism 3. Practical Love 4. Developing Faith in a More Civil Society 5. Living a Life of Service 6. The Business of Being Kind 7. The Defi cits of Generosity 8. Conclusion: Precarious Faith Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press A Passion for Society How We Think about Human
Book SynopsisWhat does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press A Passion for Society
Book SynopsisWhat does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Unbottled
Book SynopsisAn essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols,The NationAn exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and howdiverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to grouTrade Review"In his new book, Unbottled, author Daniel Jaffee explores how bottled water’s meteoric rise has exacerbated inequality and intensified pollution." * Fast Company *"Jaffee emphasizes the resistance against bottled water’s hegemony, not just its negative effects, leaving the reader astonished but still hopeful. . . . For those wanting to fight for climate and water justice, this book is a must-read." * The Progressive Magazine *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1. A More Perfect Commodity 2. Making a Market, Fearing the Tap, Building a Backlash 3. Flint: Corroding Pipes, Eroding Trust 4. Reclaiming the Tap 5. Cascade Locks: A Decade-Long Struggle 6. Guelph and Elora: Watching Water, Broadening the Movement 7. Empty Bottles: Water Justice and the Right to Drink Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Borderland Circuitry
Book SynopsisPolitical discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s,Borderland Circuitryinvestigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands.Diving deep into a select group of information systems,Borderland Circuitryreveals how those with legal and political powerdeploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.Trade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry 2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database 3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear 4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold 5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm 6. We Make Our Own Maps 7. A Border Bleeds Out 8. A Hand Searches for a Root Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: I Demand Some Documents Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.Trade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
£64.00
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
£22.50
University of California Press Amphibious Subjects
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate menknown in local parlance as sassoresiding in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of amphibious personhood, Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the heart of homophobic darkness in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
£27.00
University of California Press Taking Privacy Seriously
Book SynopsisOther books remind us of what we already knowthat privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step planto create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. Taking Privacy Seriouslyoffers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Ruleproposes elevenkeyreformsin the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. What a privacy-deprived America needsmost is not less technology, Rule argues, butprofound political realignment.His elevenproposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal
£56.80
University of California Press Getting the Runaround
Book SynopsisGetting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the institutional circuitof parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty-fivein-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles. This runaroundis not merely a series of inconveniencesbut rather an extension of state punishment thatexacerbates material poverty and diminishescitizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of poverty, bureaucratic processing, and social control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Institutional Circuit of Prisoner Reentry 2 • Jumping through Hoops 3 • They Set You Up to Fail 4 • In Search of Respectability 5 • Becoming Professionally Poor 6 • Backsliding Conclusion: Citizenship and Social Justice in the Age of Mass Prisoner Reentry Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Beyond Straw Men
Book SynopsisAddressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond hot take or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everydayTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Beyond Straw Men
Book SynopsisAddressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond hot take or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everydayTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
MP-MEL Melbourne University Seeking Justice in Cambodia Human Rights
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£29.96
MP-MEL Melbourne University War on Corruption An Indonesian Experience
Book SynopsisOffers a courageous, informed, and sober insider’s account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within this fourth largest nation, by population, and vital participant in world affairs.
£25.46
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe nature of the British Welfare State, established in the 1940s through the acceptance of the Beveridge Report''s recommendations and assumption, has long been the subject of an inconclusive debate, even though knowledge of its history has increased as official papers have become open to access under the thirty year rule. What aims, interests and forces shaped its development before and after the Beveridge Report''s appearance, from the Liberal innovations in social policy before 1914 to the collapse of full employment in the 1970s? This book examines the answers to such questions provided by recent historical research and discussion, offering a critical and comprehensive study of the modernization of social policy in Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Welfare State: Definition and Interpretation. The Problems of Definition. Problems of Interpretation. 2. The Plan for Social Security. Beveridge's Recommendations and their Acceptance. The Prewar Reform Agenda. From the 1946 Act to the Fowler Review. 3. Beveridge's Assumptions. The Plan in Context. Full Employment. The National Health Service. Family Allowances. 4. Progress and Decline. Bibliography. Index.
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis student text introduces the main themes and issues of social policy. By examining a variety of social topics, such as leisure, work, media and information technology, the book explores the nature of inequality and the impact of social policy. It then considers the future for social policy.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Social Policy and Social Change. 2. Communicating. 3. Viewing. 4. Travelling. 5. Shopping. 6. Working. 7. Playing. 8. Consumers or Citizens?. Glossary. Index.
£33.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThis authoritative and innovative reader collects twenty-seven articles that are essential for a thorough, comparative and theoretically-informed approach to the study of race and ethnicity. Collects together 27 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on race and ethnicity. The contributors provide an international focus, and are all recognized leaders in their field. Includes an analytical preface by the editors. Provides coverage of current trends, theoretical perspectives, and policy issues. Topics include ethnic conflict, migration, citizenship, identity, genocide, transnationalism, and ethnic justice. Trade Review"This ground-breaking volume tackles the hard issues – war, genocide, ethnic conflict, and violence – as well as why ethnic cooperation, assimilation, and accommodation occurs. Global in its scope, this book provides an important overview of the complexity of ethnicity and brings together the very best social science thinking on the topic. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand this central problem of our times." Mary C. Waters, Harvard University "This theory-rich, globally oriented, and well-organized volume adds to our knowledge of ethnoracial issues. A significant contribution to the literature, Race and Ethnicity is highly recommended." Milton Vickerman, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknoweldgments. Introduction: Race Against Time: The Ethnic Divide in the Twentieth Century: John Stone and Rutledge Dennis. Part I: Setting the Agenda: Du Bois, Weber and Park:. Introduction to Part I. 1 W.E.B. Du Bois and Double Consciousness: Rutledge Dennis. 2 Max Weber on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism: John Stone. 3 R.E. Park's Approach to Race and Ethnic Relations: Barbara Ballis Lal. Part II: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives:. Introduction to Part II. 4 Rethinking Ethnicity: Identity, Categorization and Power: Richard Jenkins. 5 Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the New World Disorder: Kevin Avruch. 6 Postindustrialism, Postmodernism and Ethnic Conflict: Anthony H. Richmond. Part III: The Diversity of Ethnic Patterns:. Introduction to Part III. 7 Skin Color, Race and Racism in Nicaragua: Roger Lancaster. 8 The Verzuiling Puzzle: Understanding Dutch Intergroup Relations: Thomas F. Pettigrew and Roel W. Meertens. 9 The Discourse of Race in Modern China: Frank Dikötter. Part IV: Conflicting Ethnonational Claims:. Introduction to Part IV. 10 Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond: Walker Connor. 11 Nationalism and Modernity: Anthony D. Smith. 12 Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of Liberalism: John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary. Part V: Violence, Genocide and War:. Introduction to Part V. 13 Rioting Across Continental Divides: Beth Roy. 14 Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide: Rene Lemarchand. 15 The Creation and Dissolution of the Multi-national State: The Case of Yugoslavia: Dusko Sekulic. Part VI: Migration in a Transnational World:. Introduction to Part VI. 16 Assimilation and its Discontents: Ruben G. Rumbaut. 17 Transnational Communities: Peggy Levitt. 18 Blood, Sweat and Mahjong: Ellen Oxfeld. Part VII: Boundaries, Citizenship and Identity:. Introduction to Part VII. 19 Toward a Postnational Model of Membership: Yasemin Soysal. 20 The Transformation of Miami: Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick. 21 Russia and the Russian Diasporas: Igor Zevelev. Part VIII: The Policy Debate: Levelling the Playing Field:. Introduction to Part VIII. 22 The Shape of the River: William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. 23 Ethnic Economies and Affirmative Action: Daniel J. Monti. 24 Multicultural Citizenship in Germany: Christian Joppke. Part IX: Toward Ethnic and Racial Justice?. Introduction to Part IX. 25 The Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor. 26 Reconciliation without Justice: Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley. 27 The International Defence of Racial Equality: Michael Banton. Index.
£41.75
Wiley Handbook of Public Services Management
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Public Services Management brings together twenty leading contributors to cover all the key issues affecting public services management. It is organized in a practical way to help students and professionals approach strategic issues.Trade Review"A welcome and timely continuation ... the breadth and choice of examples provide a solid sense of the major developments of the last 13 years across the public sector." MR and AMA News "Highly recommended." Asian Journal of Public Administration.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Evaluating Public Services. . 1. Evaluating the Performance of Central Government: John Brown. 2. Assessing the Performance of Schools: Brian Wilcox. 3. Evaluating Health Services: from Value for Money to the Valuing of Health Services: Andrew F. Long. 4. The Audit Commission: Mary Henkel. 5. An Overview of the Use of Performance Indicators in Local Government: David Burningham. Evaluating Public Services: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part II: Controlling Public Service Professionals. . 6. Controlling Doctors: Brain Edwards. 7. The Case of Local Authority Social Workers: Alan Butler. 8. The Management of Staff: the Case of the London Fire Brigade: Graham Salaman. Controlling Public Service Professionals: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part III: New Approaches to Resource Management. . 9. Local Management of Schools; a New System of Resource Allocation and Accountability: Rosalind Levacic. 10. Resource Management in Universities: John Sizer. 11. The Civil Service and The Financial Management Initiatives: Andrew Grey and Bill Jenkins. 12. Changes in Resource Management in the Social Services: Norman Warner. 13. Resource Management in the National Health Service: David Symes. 14. New Approaches to Resource Management: Reflections. Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part IV: Strategic Management. 15. Organizational Design and Development: the Civil Service in the 1980s: Kate Jenkins. 16. Organizing the Strategic Management: the Personal social Services: Gerald Wistow. 17. Strategic Management in Local Government and the NHS: Rodney Brooke. 18. The Organizational Structure of the Police: Roy Wilkie. 19. Strategic Management in the Prison Service: Chris J. Train and Christine Stewart. 20. Strategic Management in Social Service: Norman Tutt, Jean Neale and William Warburton. 21. Strategic Management: Reflections: Stephen Harris and Christopher Pollitt.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Social Policy
Book SynopsisProviding students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, this text conveys issues involved in conducting the research, examining the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, and discussing prevailing concepts and methodological difficulties.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part I: Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy: . 2. Trends and Developments in Welfare States: Catherine Jones Finer (University of Birmingham). 3. Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy: Deborah Mabbett (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). Part II: Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields: . 4. Comparative Housing Policy: John Doling (University of Birmingham). 5. Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe: Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh). 6. Comparing Family Policies in Europe: Linda Hantrais. 7. Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?: John Ditch (University of York). 8. Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults: Susan Tester (University of Stirling). 9. Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part III: Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy: . 10. The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective: Jane Lewis (University of Nottingham). 11. Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU: Simon Roberts (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). 12. Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany: Katherine Rake (London School of Economics). Bibliography. Index.
£99.86
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Social Policy
Book SynopsisContributions from a number of leading academics with experience of different areas within comparative social policy research as well as undergraduate teaching. Covers conceptual, methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of cross-national research in social policy.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part I: Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy: . 2. Trends and Developments in Welfare States: Catherine Jones Finer (University of Birmingham). 3. Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy: Deborah Mabbett (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). Part II: Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields: . 4. Comparative Housing Policy: John Doling (University of Birmingham). 5. Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe: Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh). 6. Comparing Family Policies in Europe: Linda Hantrais. 7. Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?: John Ditch (University of York). 8. Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults: Susan Tester (University of Stirling). 9. Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part III: Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy: . 10. The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective: Jane Lewis (University of Nottingham). 11. Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU: Simon Roberts (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). 12. Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany: Katherine Rake (London School of Economics). Bibliography. Index.
£56.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It aims to give an overview of contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of race as well as present a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
£99.86
Wiley Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding or race (focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, Sartre and Schutz) as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Local Authority Social Services
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the context in which UK social work is practised, Local Authority Social Services. The book is based on the realities of work in a modern social services department and addresses the major changes that have taken place. It also looks at the prospects for personal social services.Trade Review"The writing is accessible, well balanced and up to date student texts is a difficult task, of which in the field of social policy Michael Hill is the incomparable past-master. Here he has spotted a gap in the market, the lack of a book covering all the manifold and rather baggy activities performed by local authority social service departments...this is a timely book." --Tony Rees, University of Southampton "The strength of this book lies in the quality of analysis and its ability to capture and discuss critically the impact of the government's modernization agenda. It should have a place in all departmental libraries." -- Terry Bamford, Community Care "This book is unique in providing a clear framework for understanding the relationship between social policy and social services, and the complex structures and roles of the different organizations involved in the operation of social services ... It is one of the few texts that provide a clear picture of how to make sense of the bureaucratic organizational structures that surround social services ... in all the book is an important text for the social worker or student in understanding the relationship between social services, local authority and the central state." (Journal of Social Work)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Establishing the Main Concerns of the Book. 1. What are Local Authority Social Services? (Michael Hill). Introduction. Social Services Work. Social Services and Other Areas of Social Policy. Social Services and Health. Social Services as Last Resort Services. Conclusions. 2. Origins of the Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). Introduction. Personal Social Services before 1948. Developments in the 1940s. 1948 to 1971. 1971 to 1990. Conclusions. 3. The Contemporary Social Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Basic Demographic Picture. More Complex Demographic Issues. Economic Stresses and Strains. Ill health and Disability. Conclusions: Social Pathology and Social Services. Part II: The Local Authority Social Services Task. 4. Child Care (Jane Tunstill). Introduction. A Brief Historical Perspective on Social Services Provision for Children. The Legal and Administrative Framework. Services and Settings. Key Service Issues. The Role of Training. Conclusions. 5. Adult Care (Bob Hudson). Introduction. Services for Older People. Services for People with a Learning Disability. Services for Physically Disabled People. Conclusions. 6. Mental Health (Ian Shaw). Introduction. Mental Illness and the New Community Care. Mental Health and Social Work. Problems with Community Care. Managing Dangerousness. Conclusions. 7. Social Services and Social Security (Michael Hill). Introduction. Cash and Care in the Years after the End of the Poor Law: an Evolving Relationship. Cash Benefits and Welfare Rights. The Welfare Responsibilities and Concerns of Social Security Agencies. The Impact of the 1986 Social Security Act. Disability, Community Care and Local Authority Means-Testing. Conclusions. Part III: Organization: Present and Future:. 8. The Central and Local Government Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Role of the Department of Health. The Audit Commission. The Local Government Context. The Collective Representation of Local Authorities. Local Government Finance and the Social Services Function. Policy Making in Local Government. Organizational Issues about Health Service Collaboration. Conclusions. 9. Organization within Local Authorities (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Organization of Social Services: The Model after Seebohm. Elaborating the Model: Preoccupations in the 1970s and 1980s. The 'Big Bang' of the 1990s - Community Care and the Children Act. Contemporary Models of Social Services Organization. Staffing of Social Services Authorities. Conclusions. 10. Modernizing Social Services: The Management Challenge of the 1998 Social Services White Paper (Stephen Mitchell). Introduction. Background: the 1997 Inheritance. Why Modernize?. Modernizing Adult Services. Modernizing Children's Services. Strengthening Regulation of Services and the Workforce. Improving Performance. Conclusion: The Key Challenges. 11. Conclusions: The Future of Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). References. Index.
£94.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis encyclopaedia introduces the major issues and debates in British social policy. Although the focus is on Britain, entries also cover major international concepts and comparative study. The book features larger entries on key debates and short definitions for minor terms.Trade Review"A valuable resource for all who study social policy at whatever level – not only for reference and guidance but for stimulation, provocation and inspiration." Adrian Sinfield, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh "A reliable guide through the jungle of terms, concepts, institutions and reformers that make up modern social policy. The short entries serve as a handy reference for students and practitioners alike while the longer entries depict complex theoretical concepts in a most accessible and lucid way." Professor Lutz Leisering, Bielefeld UniversityTable of ContentsList of Contributors and Editors. Editorial Advisory Board. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy A–Z. Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Risks New Welfare
Book SynopsisThis exceptional collection, the third in the Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy series, explores the profound changes currently underway which will have significant implications for the future of social policy. New Risks, New Welfare provides a look at the likely developments in social policy and welfare that will occur in the twenty-first century. Taking an historical as well as a speculative perspective, this book looks at social change, types of welfare systems and changes in work - including welfare work - to navigate a likely course in the new millennium.Trade Review"If essay collections were ranked like boxes of chocolate assortments, New Risks, New Welfare would deserve a place among the hand-made connoisseur collections. It is packed with delights." Professor Robert Pinker, London School of Economics and Political Science "Provides a view of the likely developments in social policy and welfare that will occur in the twenty-first century. Taking a historical as well as speculative perspective, looks at social change, types of welfare systems and changes in work - including welfare work." International Social Security ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Millennium and Social Policy: Nick Manning and Ian Shaw (University of Nottingham). 2. The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in its Primary Functions, Scale and Modes of Coordination: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University). 3. Resources for Social Policy: Ian Shaw (University of Nottingham). 4. Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections: Nicola Yeates (Queen's University of Belfast). 5. The Welfare Modelling Business: Peter Abrahamson (University of Copenhagen). 6. Social Security in a Rapidly Changing Environment: The Case of the Post-communist Transformation: Gaspar Fajth (Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF). 7. Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Policy: New Life in an Old Connection: Colin Crouch (European University Institute, Florence). 8. Culture: The Missing Variable in Understanding Social Policy? John Baldock (University of Kent at Canterbury). 9. 'Risk Society': the Cult of Theory and the Millennium? Robert Dingwall (University of Nottingham).
£19.71
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Readings in Social Welfare
Book SynopsisIn Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy, Robert E. Kuenne packages postwar classics with contemporary discussions to examine the impact of social welfare theory on policy development. The book introduces students to frameworks developed by scholars to monitor the market''s inefficiencies, to modify its income distribution and resource allocation, and to make decisions for social investment. The readings cover practical issues of national and international concern, such as income and wealth distribution, the measurement of social welfare, recent movements in government regulation theory and practice, the economics of drug prohibition, and the role of the public''s risk aversion in the determination of public investment. This book and its complement, Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions, are part of the Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics series.Table of ContentsList of Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: STATIC AND LIFE CYCLE VIEWS. Introduction. 1. Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth (Edward N. Wolff). 2. The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform (Martin Feldstein). PART II. SOCIAL JUDGMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS. Introduction. 3. The General Theory of Second Best (R. G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster). 4. An Economic Theory of Clubs (James M. Buchanan). 5. Consumer’s Surplus Without Apology (Robert D. Willig). 6. The Social Costs of Monopoly Power (Keith Cowling and Dennis C. Mueller). 7. Rationality and Social Choice (Amartya Sen). PART III. WHEN MARKETS FAIL OR FALTER. Introduction. 8. The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin). 9. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism (George A. Akerlof). PART IV. SOCIAL REGULATION. Introduction. 10. Behavior of the firm Under Regulatory Constraint (Harvey Averch and Leland L. Johnson). 11. Theories of Economic Regulation (Richard A. Posner). 12. Surprises of Airline Deregulation (Alfred E. Kahn). 13. The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition (Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel). 14. Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts (W. Kip Viscusi). PART V. PUBLIC GOODS AND INVESTMENT. Introduction. 15. The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure (Paul A. Samuelson). 16. Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions (Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert C. Lind). 17. Selling Spectrum Rights (John McMillan). 18. Analyzing the Airwaves Auction (R. Preston McAFee and John McMillan). Index.
£58.85
Wiley Collaborative Care
Book SynopsisPractitioners of all professions recognize the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. This book provides insights and understandings into the complexities of collaborative relationships so that individuals and groups can take constructive action to detect hindrances and attempt to overcome them.Table of ContentsPart I - Introduction:. Difficulties in working together; A relational approach to collaboration; Provision of help and helping relationships - Collaboration framework I; Primary collaboration; Secondary and participatory collaboration; Facework structures and the resource pool - Collaborative framwork II; Practitioners, carers and volunteers;. . Part II - Identity and boundaries:. The importance of identity and role; Working-identity and collaboration; Working-Identity - The defended position; Professional and agency identity - The separatist position; Province, domain and facework functions: Collaborative framework III - Developing collaborative practice; Working together - Towards a collaborative ethos; Consequences of institutional anxiety:. . Part III - Organisations and contexts:. The environment of collaborative care; The three collaborative frameworks.
£55.05
Harvard University Press The Banks Did It
Book SynopsisTo understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages—originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearly collapsed the economy.Trade ReviewNeil Fligstein’s new book reads like a financial crime novel, but with a twist. Instead of asking ‘who done it?’ we are told up front that the banks did it, and the real mystery concerns why they did it, when they did it, and how it produced a global crisis in 2008. Why did US banks become so deeply involved in industrial-scale origination and securitization of home mortgages? Who would loan money to borrowers that almost certainly couldn’t repay? Why didn’t banks change course when it became clear that the bubble was about to burst? Fligstein weaves together a huge amount of evidence as he identifies key turning points, refutes simplistic explanations, and presents a coherent and sophisticated account of an extraordinarily consequential sequence of events. -- Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern UniversityFligstein is the most influential economic sociologist at work today. Hands down. He is also one of the most successful sociological discipline-spanners, with wide influence outside of sociology. This eminently readable book will be of great interest beyond sociology, to historians, political scientists, and economists. The Banks Did It is erudite, carefully researched, and powerfully argued. It does not disappoint. -- Frank Dobbin, Harvard UniversityWell-structured, well-evidenced, attractively written, and based on over a decade of research, The Banks Did It is a brilliant work by a scholar who has reshaped how we should think about markets. -- Donald MacKenzie, University of EdinburghIn this incisive and exceptionally clear book, Neil Fligstein describes how government action unwittingly helped shift the business model of American banks from long-term customer relations towards fee-based activities anchored in mortgage origination and securitization. By the mid-2000s, every part of US financial organizations was oriented to maintaining this pipeline, at the cost of considerable risk-taking and even fraud. By offering a long-term view of the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis, Fligstein shows exactly how the banks, really, ‘did it’—and also lays blame at the feet of monetary experts and authorities, who never saw it coming. -- Marion Fourcade, University of California, BerkeleyA rich, deep, and comprehensive account of the financial crisis, arguing that the world the banks constructed and how they profited from it are at the core of what happened…Represents an important advance in our understanding of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Readers, be they organizational theorists or anyone who has a stake in preventing the next financial crisis, will walk away better informed of how the crisis was produced, why it spread so fast and so deeply, and how regulators missed what was happening. -- Lori Yue * Administrative Sciences Quarterly *
£32.36
Harvard University Press The Revolution That Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.Trade ReviewSchradie demonstrates in great detail [how] Facebook and Google work better for top-down, well-funded, disciplined, directed movements. Those adjectives tend to describe conservative groups more than liberal or leftist groups in the United States. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan * The Atlantic *Schradie explains that, while Black Lives Matter and #MeToo capture headlines, it’s traditionally powerful conservative groups who have used digital tools to create tangible change. Hers may not be the internet culture take you want…but it’s likely the one you need. * Wired *The Revolution That Wasn’t reveals the textured reality of contemporary activism, challenging widespread assumptions about technology’s role in social movements. Beautiful storytelling and grounded insights make this book a delightful and important read for anyone who is concerned about politics today. -- danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensTrump has no overt presence in The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. But the compulsive tweeter comes constantly to mind as French sociologist Jen Schradie persuasively argues her counterintuitive case: digital organizing—once complacently thought by progressives to advantage their grassroots uprisings—has turned out to be another ‘weapon in the arsenal of the powerful.’ -- Brian Bethune * Maclean’s *Schradie shifts the political conversation away from moral questions and toward questions of power, asking…how the tools of the web work in the very ordinary and unexceptional realm of electoral politics. Social media becomes a lens through which we can understand power, not an instance of power itself…We wish it was bots, that we could locate the problem inside nefarious digital practices emerging from Russia and other phantasms. Instead, as Schradie makes clear, the problem is within our borders, produced by legacies of racial and class-based terror that are as virulent—or more—in the digital age. -- Emily Drabinski * Los Angeles Review of Books *This well-researched and provocative text is likely to make uncomfortable reading for anyone who believes that the internet has gifted us a political ‘digital utopia.’ -- John Gilbey * Times Higher Education *The powers of persuasion, unregulated, have changed our political landscape profoundly…The right is simply better at this than the left, and Schradie’s study explores why that is…A fascinating book that adds new insights to our understanding of the information landscape we live in today. -- Barbara Fister * Inside Higher Ed *Offers detailed analyses of the ways in which digital inequality manifests…Schradie's superb study—easily one of the most important yet on social media's impact on democracy—makes for grim but insightful reading. -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *Articulates society’s creeping apprehensions about the digital world. It is not only in surveillance and fake news that digital platforms marketed for our pleasure are harming us. Even in digital activism—the use of digital technology for social change—those who support the status quo have the upper hand…Schradie…quashes the idea that digital tools aid the powerless more than the powerful. -- Mary Joyce * Stanford Social Innovation Review *[An] excellent and important book…Schradie has written an essential contribution to current conversations around not only the use of technology for political purposes, but also about the politics of technology…This book puts forth a nuanced argument about the need for activists to really think critically about whether they’re using digital tools, or whether the digital tools are using them. -- Zachary Loeb * b2o *Shows that it was conservatives who most effectively seized the digital tools at their fingertips. Like a peat fire burning undetected for a long time, right-wing individuals and groups were able to develop and formulate a clear ideology surrounding such concepts as Freedom and Truth while honing their digital media skills. This happened outside the gaze of popular pundits and academics alike…[This] also partly explains the largely unforeseen (by the same pundits) results of the 2016 U.S. elections. -- Rik Smit * American Journal of Sociology *Schradie suggests [that] the image the words ‘digital activist’ should conjure is not of a left-wing student or labor activist but instead a well-heeled think-tank denizen or technologically adept Tea Party member. * Kirkus Reviews *An extraordinary read bringing together knowledge about social activism and the digital divide…A full portrait of digital activism and its variable impact on emboldening grassroots organizing and maintaining the interests of the powerful. * Choice *Don’t believe the mythology of what works in digital activism, or the hyped advice that all voices can simply count. This book lays out the real deal. Perfect for change agents aiming to turn their wild ideas into new realities. -- Nilofer Merchant, author of The Power of OnlynessThe Revolution That Wasn’t synthesizes a wealth of accumulated knowledge to launch a new phase of scholarly endeavor. Blending ethnographic methods with quantitative assessments, Jen Schradie’s work shows that the claims of both digital optimists and pessimists miss the mark. She reveals that successful digital activism is linked to more traditional resources that give well-endowed groups a natural advantage, but one that can be acquired by their progressive opponents. A pleasure to read, and packed with vibrant interactions with activists of both types, Schradie’s book will take the study of digital activism to a new level. -- Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in MovementSimply put, The Revolution That Wasn’t overturns our reigning assumptions about digital activism. Schradie demonstrates how resources, organizations, and ideology shape the potentials for and outcomes of digital activism, and reveals the dynamics behind the conservative digital organizing resurgence in the U.S. since 2010. This highly readable and richly detailed book will become the first stop for those seeking to understand why the internet failed to live up to the ideals of democratic dreamers. -- Daniel Kreiss, University of North CarolinaSchradie carefully outlines how a confluence of factors help conservatives—not liberals—use digital technologies to seize state government and effect political change…Clearly illustrates that the use of technology is stratified along class lines, and finds that working-class, predominately liberal groups are at a disadvantage in the digital activism game…Timely, important, and challenges how we think about movements on the left and right. -- Deana Rohlinger * Mobilization *
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Harvard University Press More than Medicine
Book SynopsisAmerican science produces the best medical treatments in the world. Yet U.S. citizens lag behind in life expectancy and quality of life. Robert Kaplan marshals extensive data to make the case that U.S. health care priorities are sorely misplaced—invested in attacking disease, not in solving social problems that engender disease in the first place.Trade ReviewKaplan…argues that our enthusiasm for biomedical science has inflated health-care costs while encouraging us to neglect more fundamental determinants of ill health, such as behavior and social conditions. -- Chris Pope * Wall Street Journal *Many Americans are already aware of the extraordinary cost of health care in the United States. This fact is frequently explained away by asserting that such is the price to be paid for the best health care system in the world. Kaplan’s book shatters that comforting myth and exposes the American health care system for what it is: below average in quality and therefore way above average in cost. -- Joseph Q. Jarvis * American Interest *More than Medicine makes a clear and compelling case for why America’s overspending on medical care contributes to poor health outcomes. To improve health and well-being in current and future generations, we must heed Kaplan’s call to prioritize financial support for the social determinants of health. -- Jonathan Fielding, UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthThis is the right book, by the right author, at the right time. Kaplan asks a simple question that should concern all of us: why do we spend so much on health but have such poor results? He challenges the fundamental premise that has guided much of American biomedicine for the past half century: that we will achieve health through medical intervention. He makes a convincing argument that we need to think differently—that the promotion of health and prevention of disease should motivate our spending. -- Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public HealthFrom one of the world’s leading experts on public health, a brilliant data-driven examination of the mismatch between the pathways to optimal health and the narrow focus of legacy medicine. More than Medicine offers a new vision to advance health, science, and public policy. -- Howard S. Friedman, author of The Longevity ProjectBy combining scientific and clinical evidence with rare insight into political funding processes, Kaplan argues persuasively that the vast amount of money we spend on health care is not worth the cost. More than Medicine challenges us to reincorporate the essential element of human care back into medicine. -- Rose McDermott, Brown UniversitySharp, authoritative, and intensely data-driven…The argument is deeply compelling. * Kirkus Reviews *Kaplan’s call to ‘rethink’ how health-care costs could be lowered through greater attention to disease prevention and social and behavioral risk factors is worth noting. * Publishers Weekly *
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Princeton University Press Reproducing Gender Politics Publics and Everyday
Book SynopsisPresents detailed evidence about women's and men's various circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation.Trade Review"... unusually sophisticated and subtle."--Foreign Affairs "The particular strength of the volume is that it includes many essays by scholars who are living what they analyze; eastern Europe is not viewed from within universities across the Atlantic, rather it is assessed by a number of scholars who are working in the countries they describe."--Robert G. Moeller, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 3 PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS 21 CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland - Eleonora Zielinska 23 CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics - Sharon L. Wolchik 58 CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende - Eva Maleck-Lewy and Myra Marx Ferree 92 CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? - Irene Dolling, Daphne Hahn, and Sylka Scholz 118 PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE 149 CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? - Mira Marody andAnna Giza-Poleszczuk 151 CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary - Katalin Kovacs and Monika Varadi 176 CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work - Julia Szalai 200 CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach - Adriana Baban 225 PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION 257 CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s - Malgorzata Fuszara 259 CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary - Joanna Goven 286 CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania - Laura Grunberg 307 CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria - Krassimira Daskalova 370 CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report - Zorica Mrsevic 370 CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia - Jasmina Lukic 393 CONCLUSION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 424 CONTRIBUTORS 427 INDEX 429
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Princeton University Press The War of the Sexes
Book SynopsisAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, this title shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation.Trade ReviewOne of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013 "[A] witty, informative and cogent new book."--Jonathan Ree, Guardian "Seabright zooms out and across history in an accessible mix of scholarly prose and chatty anecdote to explain why inequalities and disagreements persist beyond potty-training... Turning to today, Seabright investigates everything from the effects of technology on gender-bias, to the various benefits of tallness, talent, and charm in the workplace."--PublishersWeekly.com "Throughout the book, Seabright is terrific company--entertaining and convincing."--John Whitfield, Nature "Right off the bat, I can say that this book should not be collecting dust on your shelf... [I]s War of the Sexes a challenging and interesting read? Undoubtedly so."--Sander Van Der Linden, LSE Politics and Policy blog "The War of the Sexes is a fascinating read. I love its interdisciplinarity."--Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "Seabright, an economist familiar with evolutionary modelling, synthesises several disciplines in asking what our evolutionary heritage teaches us about men's and women's rights and roles in the modern labour market. Judicious in bringing Darwinism to bear on contemporary mores, he avoids the vulgar reductionism that often plagues this kind of popular science."--Camilla Power, Times Higher Education "Seabright is unusual among economists in being a thoroughgoing Darwinian, and in this fascinating book he takes an evolutionary perspective to explore why there are still inequalities in economic power between men and women."--Jon Wainwright, SkepticTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One Prehistory Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Sex and Salesmanship 27 Chapter 3: Seduction and the Emotions 40 Chapter 4: Social Primates 60 Part Two Today Chapter 5: Testing for Talent 93 Chapter 6: What Do Women Want? 111 Chapter 7: Coalitions of the Willing 126 Chapter 8: The Scarcity of Charm 141 Chapter 9: The Tender War 157 Notes 183 References 211 Index 233
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