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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A novel combination of primary sources and accessible essays, Liberty and Equality captures the unique blend of politics and philosophy at the heart of American political thought and situates it within the history of political philosophy.” George Thomas, author of The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind “By moving between primary documents and insightful contemporary interpretations, this volume gives readers a deep understanding of how the history of American political thought might illuminate an understanding of American politics today.” Russell Muirhead, Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College.

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of Youth examines the various constructions of 'youth' and 'adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of 'crises' about young people in relation to, among other things, unemployment, 'teenage pregnancy' and 'delinquency'.Trade Review".A wide-ranging review.clearly written and largely succesful in simplifying what are often far from simple arguments." Youth and Policy. "Engaging with a strong challenging text shakes up complacency and encourages the clarification of ideas. This book will facilitate such an exercise and for this reason alone should be considered essential reading for students of sociology, education, psychology and cultural studies. ... The compilation of so many research studies concerning young people, drawn from such different academic perspectives, means that the book also provides an invaluable resource for cross-disciplinary exploration of the many issues that impinge on both gender and education." Gender and Education . "It provides a review of most of the major research efforts in [Britain and America] in the last decade. More importantly it places that effort in both a political and a theoretical context. In doing so it challenges the assumptions underlying both mainstream and radical discourses." Gary Easthorpe, University of Tasmania . "Her presentation of youth research as discourses with ideological implications is thoughtful and scholarly written. ... An important book...." Educational Review .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Starting Points and Reservations: A Century of Adolescence: From 1880 to 1980 2. Schooling for the Scrap-heap: Research on the 'Transition from School to Work' 3. Constructing the Crisis: The Impact of Youth Unemployment 4. Bad Boys and Invisible Girls: Youth, Crime and 'Delinquency' 5. The Threat of 'Unstructured Free Time': Young People and Leisure in the 1980s 6. Young People and the 'Private Sphere': Family Life and Sexuality 7. Recovery and Survival: Youth Research after Thatcher and Reagan Glossary References

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Book SynopsisEuropean Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses the competing explanations of this process. The authors provide convincing evidence for the view that an ''ever closer union'' in social policy will require a much more difficult process than that which led to monetary union. The book makes a major contribution to understanding how welfare policy in Europe will develop over the next few years. It offers an original and wide-ranging account of the forces affecting the direction of policy, and stresses the role of social and political institutions in explaining why countries differ. European Welfare Futures will be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students and scholars in social policy, sociology, political science, area studies and international relations courses. It will also be of great interest to poTrade Review'[A] concise, clear introduction to western European welfare state developments ... This lucid book, which frequently includes the US in international comparisons, would work well in courses on welfare policy in several disciplines ... a very useful addition for a wide range of college libraries.' Choice "Their analysis of each of these compelling and insightful-well worth the reader's attention." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Explanations of the Growth of State Welfare. 2. New Directions in European Welfare Policy. 3. Globalization and the Welfare State. 4. Welfare Politics: The Narrowing of the National Conscience. 5. The Neo-liberal Argument for Welfare Retrenchment. 6. Squaring the Welfare Circle. 7. The Impact of Institutional Frameworks. 8. European Welfare Futures. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisBuilt on the core concepts of social justice, individual rights, equality of opportunity and public participation in decision making, this volume provides an analysis of the changing needs and demands in welfare; the debate about public and private provision and the interface between family, work and community.Trade Review"A valuable collection from IPPR for both students and the general reader interested in contemporary debates about social justice, citizenship and alternative approaches to welfare, issues which are of central political importance today." Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University "Think-tanks are the wellsprings of knowledge, research and new ideas on which all political parties draw. Reading through this stimulating collection, there is no doubt that New Labour, recreating itself over the last few years, has drawn richly on ideas that sprang first from IPPR. Indeed in much of this book, you will find the key intellectual grounding of this Government." Polly ToynbeeTable of ContentsContributors. Editor's Note. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Social Policy in Perspective. Part 1: New Frameworks for the Twenty First Century. 1. The UK in a Changing World: The Commission on Social Justice. 2. What is Social Justice? The Commission on Social Justice. 3. What are Human Needs? Ian Gough. 4. Citizenship, Rights, Welfare: Raymond Plant. 5. The Role of the Public Sector and Public Expenditure: Dan Corry. Part 2: Issues and Debates in Social Policy. . 6. Family Policy: Guidelines and Goals: Anna Coote, Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt. 7. Men and Their Children: Adrienne Burgess and Sandy Ruxton. 8. Act Local: Social Justice From the Bottom Up: David Donnison. 9. Building Social Capital: Mai Wann. 10. Racial Equality: Colour, Culture and Justice: Tariq Modood. 11. Bridging the Gap Between Them and Us: Anna Coote. 12. Citizens' Juries: Anna Coote and Jo Lenaghan. Part 3: Service Design and Delivery. 13. Understanding Quality: Anna Coote. 14. Beyond the Citizen's Charter: Ian Bynoe. 15. Better Health for All: Anna Coote and David J. Hunter. 16. Rationing and Rights in Health Care: Jo Lenaghan. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo This exciting book offers a new understanding of the relationship between issues of a racea , gender and policy within social welfare. aeo In an innovative approach, research material and theory are interwoven and a challenging analysis developed. aeo The author is well--known and widely published within social work and social policy.Trade Review'Lewis's demanding pace and unapologetic emphasis on the value of ideas, theory and analysis make this a challenging read in a positive sense.' International Social Work 'This post-structuralist analysis permits and requires a close engagement with the shifting complexities of everyday experience and connections with overarching structures of power, politics and professions ... the analysis of parliamentary debates is well-handled, tackling this well-worn ground with fresh insight ... Lewis's book provides a rigorous and invigorating analysis which demands that black and Asian women's voices be heard in debates over the provision of welfare.' Ethic and Racial Studies 'Gail Lewis's excellent contribution to this field indicates just what we have been missing. Lewis's analysis of racial formation in social welfare policy and practice provides a textured and thoughtful analysis with important implications' American Journal of Sociology 'Those aiming to shift social work in anti-racist (and anti-sexist) directions have been provided with a solid text addressing issues basic to their tasks ... Lewis provides a richly layered analysis of the complex relations between social policy, social work, 'race' and gender in Britain.' European Journal of Social Work 'Gail Lewis has produced an impressive study, (she) raises important questions about the way we think about the social, about work and about the influence that social policies have on our lives.' Feminist TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Preface. Introduction. PART I. GOVERNING RACIAL FORMATION. 1. Configuring the Terrain: Governmentality, Racialized Population and Social Work. 2. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: ‘Race’, Social Policy and the Blind Eye of Central Government. 3. Sites of Condensation: Social Services and Racial Formation at the Local Level. 4. ‘The Call of the Wild’: Contestatory Professional Discourses on ‘Race’ and Ethnicity. PART II. COMPLEX ACTS OF BECOMING: WORKING ‘RACE’ AND GENDER. 5. ‘Evidence of Things Not Seen’: The Complexities of the ‘Everyday’ for Black Women Social Workers. 6. Categories of Exclusion: ‘Race’ and Gender in the SSD. 7. Situated Voice: ‘Black Women’s Experience’ and Social Work. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* This is the first book to explore the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life. * The book offers an intergrative understanding of the dark side of family communication and a theoretical mechanism for understanding related scholarship.Trade Review"In this volume Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds shed much needed light on the dark side of family communication. By unearthing the layers of familial relating to reveal numerous caverns of darkness, they generate new landscapes for students and scholars of the dark side and family communication." Erin Willer, University of Denver "Much has been written on the ‘dark side' of communication. This is the first book actually to define what dark communication is, explain how it forms, identify what effect it has, recommend how to ‘brighten it,' and tie all this together in a Darkness Model of Family Communication." Dudley Cahn, SUNY at New PaltzTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPrologueChapter 1: Conceptualizing the "Dark Side" of Family CommunicationChapter 2: Individual Influence on the Darkness of Family CommunicationChapter 3: The Dark Side of Dyadic Family LifeChapter 4: Familial Interaction Structure and the Dark SideChapter 5: Dark Family Communication in a Context of Darkness's Sociocultural Influences on Family LifeChapter 6: Concluding ThoughtsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.Trade Review"Truly a reader's reader. Compared with other books of its type, it is unusually comprehensive, systematic and digestible."Survival"An excellent centrepiece for a graduate course on cosmopolitan thought and an excellent reference for graduate or undergraduate students seeking a single volume that draws together historical and contemporary cosmopolitan thought." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "If you want to understand cosmopolitanism - and you should - this volume is the place to go. Brown and Held have brought together the most important contributions to understanding (and assessing) cosmopolitanism as a philosophical ideal, a political project, and a practical program. It is a great collection on an important topic."Joshua Cohen, Stanford University "Two distinguished scholars have assembled a remarkable collection of essays, classical and contemporary, that challenge us all to think through what it would mean for politics, culture and economy if the world were truly one and each individual was given his or her due regard as a citizen of the globe."Michael Doyle, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors Introduction Garrett Wallace Brown and David Held I. Kant and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism Introduction Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose Immanuel Kant Kant and Cosmopolitanism Martha C. Nussbaum Kant’s Cosmopolitanism Garrett Wallace Brown A Kantian Approach to Transnational Justice Onora O’Neill II. Cosmopolitan Global Justice Introduction Justice and International Relations Charles R. Beitz International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective Brian Barry Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty Thomas Pogge International Distributive Justice Simon Caney III. Cosmopolitanism, Nationality, States and Culture Introduction Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism Martha C. Nussbaum What is Cosmopolitan? Jeremy Waldron Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Kok-Chor Tan Global Distributive Justice and the State Simon Caney IV. Cosmopolitan Politics Introduction The Cosmopolitan Manifesto Ulrich Beck Principles of Cosmopolitan Order David Held Moving from Cosmopolitan Legal Theory to Legal Practice: Models of Cosmopolitan Law Garrett Wallace Brown A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society? Jürgen Habermas V. Cosmopolitanism, Global Issues and Governance Introduction Reframing Global Governance: Apocalypse Soon or Reform! David Held The Architecture of Cosmopolitan Democracy Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention: Toward a Cosmopolitan Approach Mary Kaldor The Environment, Global Justice and World Environmental Citizenship Patrick Hayden VI. Cosmopolitan Examinations and Critiques Introduction Cosmopolitanism David Miller The Problem of Global Justice Thomas Nagel On Cosmopolitanism Jacques Derrida Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptics View Robert A. Dahl Citizenship in an Era of Globalization Will Kymlicka A Comprehensive Overview of Cosmopolitan Literature Garrett Wallace Brown and Megan Kime Index

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Book Synopsis* Synthesizes literature from a wide variety of disciplines to examine family interaction in the context of stressful situations. * Designed as a textbook within Polity s Key Themes in Family Communication series. * Looks at the topic of stress and coping across the individual, relational and family levels.Trade Review"Maguire's Stress and Coping in Families is currently the only available textbook in the family communication literature to focus exclusively on the importance of managing the wide range of stressors experienced in contemporary family life. The work provides a solid foundation to help students understand the nature of stress and the significance of communication in positive coping."Thomas J. Socha, Old Dominion University "Stress and Coping in Families weaves together a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of the processes by which families and family members experience and cope with stress. This well-balanced resource supplements research across disciplines with the bright and dark sides of communicative stress and coping, innovates a heuristic communication model, and breathes life into concepts through well-conceived examples and authentic case studies."Jody Kellas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "In this important new volume, Katheryn Maguire illustrates the complex role that family interaction plays in creating, maintaining, and relieving stress. Maguire synthesizes research from diverse fields including communication, psychology, and family sociology, and offers a unique model of communication-based coping processes. She provides fascinating analyses of stress in three distinct family contexts that will bring both laughter and tears to her readers. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners interested in stress and family interaction should read this book."Anita L. Vangelisti, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsDetailed Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I FAMILY STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCHChapter 1 Stress in the Mind and BodyChapter 2 Stress and the FamilyChapter 3 Coping with Family StressChapter 4 Communication within the Stress and Coping ProcessesPART II FAMILY STRESS AND COPING IN CONTEXTChapter 5 Stress and Coping during a Wartime DeploymentChapter 6 Stress and Coping during Catastrophic IllnessChapter 7 Stress and Coping during the Transition to ParenthoodReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings.Trade Review'Amin's unbated curiousity and inquisitiveness allow him to reinvigorate established social and political theories that aspire to formulate inclusive identities and spaces for the integration of the stranger, while acknowledging that the current economic and political conditions of imposed austerity measures and the rise of the Far Right do not favour this much-needed experimentation and disengagement.' Radical Philosophy ‘This is a brilliant and illuminating book. Ash Amin relentlessly dispels clichés about modern society in reader-friendly prose; more positively, he explores ways to manage the complexities with which we live.' Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and New York University ‘The prize is an important one: to forge a politics of belonging that does not prejudge the meaning of belonging and allows solidarity to coexist between the parties involved. After reading this brilliant book, I am convinced that such a politics is possible and could help to extend civility in ways that we are only just beginning to think about. Reviewers tend to overuse the phrase "essential reading" but this book really is.' Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick ‘An insightful and genuinely interdisciplinary exploration of the moral and material basis of how to nurture a sense of togetherness in a society of relative strangers. Both analytical and normative, the book opens up imaginative ways of building a sense of the commons in a volatile and alienated social universe.' Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of WestminsterTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Freight of Social Ties2. Collaborating Strangers3. Strangers in the City4. Remainders of Race5. Imagined Community6. A Calamitous End?EpilogueBibliography

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Book Synopsis* A major new book on the present-day forms of evil D terrorism, violence, racism and hatred. * Rather than treating evil as a supernatural force or a religious issue, Wieviorka analyses it from a sociological point of view, showing how these various forms of evil are constituted in day-to-day life.Trade Review'Wieviorka lays out the case for thinking of "evil" as "social", as opposed to theological … A work to facilitate discussion.' Review 31 'In this provocative and insightful book, Michel Wieviorka puts evil onto the agenda for the social sciences. He does this not by appealing to forces outside social life but by situating evil as an issue in social life. It is part of culturally informed understanding, sometimes directly linked to religion and sometimes not. And to ignore it in the name of objectivism is to lose touch with the world we inhabit.' Craig Calhoun, New York University 'Michel Wieviorka thinks about evil without theology. Contemporary evil is social, Wieviorka contends, and he explains how social pathologies, no matter how heinous, must be explained in sociological ways. When unequal or repressive social structures undermine conditions for autonomy, evil actions provide opportunities for restoring the experience, no matter how illusory, of meaning and control. To fight evil we must create social justice - that is the message of this leading French sociologist today.' Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University 'By reintroducing evil into social theory, Michel Wieviorka has undermined the indifference to human well-being that fed on its absence. By pulling on the thread of our universal liability to suffer he unravels the traditions of Marxist anti-humanism, Bourdieu's elimination of the Subject, and Foucault's "death of Man". Wieviorka is right to redirect us beyond the banality of evil and towards the conditions necessary for the global human Subject to thrive.' Margaret Archer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneTable of ContentsFOREWORDCHAPTER 1 Facing Evil. A sociological perspectiveCHAPTER 2 An End to ViolenceCHAPTER 3 Global TerrorismCHAPTER 4 The Return of RacismCHAPTER 5 The New Arena of the Social Sciences or, How to Raise the Level of Generalization.PART 1 The Critique of the SubjectPART 2 Thinking Globally

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Book Synopsis* A major new book on the present-day forms of evil D terrorism, violence, racism and hatred. * Rather than treating evil as a supernatural force or a religious issue, Wieviorka analyses it from a sociological point of view, showing how these various forms of evil are constituted in day-to-day life.Trade Review'Wieviorka lays out the case for thinking of "evil" as "social", as opposed to theological … A work to facilitate discussion.' Review 31 'In this provocative and insightful book, Michel Wieviorka puts evil onto the agenda for the social sciences. He does this not by appealing to forces outside social life but by situating evil as an issue in social life. It is part of culturally informed understanding, sometimes directly linked to religion and sometimes not. And to ignore it in the name of objectivism is to lose touch with the world we inhabit.' Craig Calhoun, New York University 'Michel Wieviorka thinks about evil without theology. Contemporary evil is social, Wieviorka contends, and he explains how social pathologies, no matter how heinous, must be explained in sociological ways. When unequal or repressive social structures undermine conditions for autonomy, evil actions provide opportunities for restoring the experience, no matter how illusory, of meaning and control. To fight evil we must create social justice - that is the message of this leading French sociologist today.' Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University 'By reintroducing evil into social theory, Michel Wieviorka has undermined the indifference to human well-being that fed on its absence. By pulling on the thread of our universal liability to suffer he unravels the traditions of Marxist anti-humanism, Bourdieu's elimination of the Subject, and Foucault's "death of Man". Wieviorka is right to redirect us beyond the banality of evil and towards the conditions necessary for the global human Subject to thrive.' Margaret Archer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneTable of ContentsFOREWORDCHAPTER 1 Facing Evil. A sociological perspectiveCHAPTER 2 An End to ViolenceCHAPTER 3 Global TerrorismCHAPTER 4 The Return of RacismCHAPTER 5 The New Arena of the Social Sciences or, How to Raise the Level of Generalization.PART 1 The Critique of the SubjectPART 2 Thinking Globally

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Book SynopsisTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. Its democratic traditions, moreover, remain broadly intact. How and why has this historic transformation come about? And what are its implications for the people of India, for Indian society and politics? These are the big questions addressed in this book by three scholars who have lived and researched in different parts of India during the period of this great transformation. Each of the 13 chapters seeks to answer a particular question: When and why did India take off? How did a weak state promote audacious reform? Is government in India becoming more responsive (and to whom)? DoeTrade Review"Encompassing a vast canvas succinctly and incisively, the book is a worthy addition to the scholarship on the subject." The Hindu "If you want a smart, pithy and extremely well-informed take on the central issues facing India today, as well as a guide to all the main debates, then this is the book you need." Steven Wilkinson, Yale University "Scrupulous and wide ranging in its survey of the relevant literature, sober and balanced in its judgements on the economy, polity and society, this book will prove indispensable for understanding how and why India is what it is today, and where it may be heading." Achin Vanaik, Former Professor of International Relations and Global Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi "A magisterial inter-disciplinary work that explains how pro-business reforms drove three decades of high growth in India and then explores in depth the many challenges that yet remain. India is at an exciting stage of its journey: this book captures its achievements and vulnerabilities." Mushtaq H. Khan, SOAS, University of London "This is an exceptional book that will provide a useful and up-to-date overview of contemporary India for both established scholars and those new to the field. It is also sufficiently comprehensive and clearly written to make a useful teaching resource for both graduate and advanced undergraduate courses." Trent Brown, Australian Catholic UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Abbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgements xiii 1 Making Sense of India Today 1 Part I: Economy 2 When and Why Did India Take Off? 23 3 How Have the Poor Fared (and Others Too)? 47 4 Why Hasn’t Economic Growth Delivered More for Indian Workers? 80 5 Is the Indian State Delivering on Promises of 'Inclusive Growth' and Social Justice? 100 Part II: Politics 6 How Did a 'Weak' State Promote Audacious Reform? 121 7 Has India's Democracy Been a Success? 140 8 Is Government in India Becoming More Responsive? 158 9 Has the Rise of Hindu Nationalism Halted? 177 10 Rural Dislocations:Why Has Maoism Become Such a Force in India? 197 Part III: Society 11 Does India Have a Civil Society? 221 12 Does Caste Still Matter in India? 239 13 How Much Have Things Changed for Indian Women? 258 14 Can India Benefi t From Its Demographic Dividend? 286 15 Afterword: India Today, and India in the World 302 Glossary 307 Bibliography 309 Index 361

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Book SynopsisHow is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities potent charges and charismatically lively connections in personal life, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant or toxify the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world through what she calls the ''socio-atmospherics of everyday life''. This book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range, and to engage in a more open, Trade Review"Affinities is a work of profound originality showing us what is to be gained from finding ways to become attuned to the effervescent, atmospheric aspects of social life. Beyond sociological clichés and comfortable academic conventions, this beautiful book is proof that sociology can be magical if we have the courage to believe in that possibility." Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London "Jennifer Mason has created a beguiling example of the contemporary sociological imagination at work. She shifts boundaries to incorporate fresh fields of vision, giving new depth to sociological enquiry. Unquestionably a delightful work of perceptive scholarship." Carol Smart, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester "This book is a guide for retraining social science's rationalistic or categorical version of reality into a more worldly realism of potencies, energies and sentience. It conjures a world in which affinities matter as a way of conceptualizing how to live." Kathleen Stewart, The University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xi Introduction: Affinities as an Invitation to Think Differently 1 Part One: Sensations of Living Why Sensations? 7 Facets of Sensation 11 1. Ashes, ghosts and the ‘sense of presence’ 11 2. ‘Grandma’s Hands’ by Bill Withers (version by Gil ScottHeron) 17 3. The sensations of others: children’s perspectives 18 Looks 21 Voices, volume and imitation 22 Size, height, weight, growing 24 Play fighting and real fighting 26 Bodily proximity with others 27 Relational traces and bodily inscriptions 27 4. The sensory-kinaesthetic intimacies of violence 29 5. Becky Tipper’s creaturely ‘moments of being’ 31 6. Meat, ‘food-animals’ and Rhoda Wilkie’s ‘sentient commodities’ 33 Layering the Argument: Sensations of Affinity 39 Life is full of sensory-kinaesthetics 40 Sensations are multiple and atmospheric, emanating in encounters 42 Sensations as sensations: not representations, adjuncts or qualities 46 A sensory-kinaesthetic attunement reveals characters 50 Affinities are charged with the energies of fascination, wondering and discordance 54 Part Two: Ineffable Kinship Why Ineffable Kinship? 59 Facets of Ineffable Kinship 63 1. Family resemblances in literature and art 63 2. Resemblance interactions 68 A familiar conversation topic and form 70 Resemblances as striking, fleeting and capricious 71 Negotiating and ‘settling’ resemblances 72 An uneasy combination of the potent and the trivial 74 3. Resemblance stories 74 4. The still-beating heart 89 5. Nordqvist and Smart’s donors as ‘enigmatic presences’ 93 6. Konrad’s ‘nameless relations’ and ‘transilience’ 97 7. Super-donors and dubious progeniture 101 8. ‘The Seed’ by The Roots, featuring Cody Chesnutt 104 Layering the Argument: Affinities of Ineffable Kinship 106 Metaphors of genetics and heritability 106 Poetics and the ‘frisson’ of ineffability 111 Wondering about what is circulating and relating 114 Part Three: Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics Why Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics? 123 Facets of Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics 126 1. Animate places and things in literature 126 Nan Shepherd’s ‘living mountain’ 126 Jon McGregor’s city that ‘sings’ 127 Haruki Murakami’s ‘pulsing’ city 129 Barbara Kingsolver’s Africa as an ‘attendance in my soul’ 130 2. Atmospheric memories of animate places and things 131 The atmospherics of a teenager’s city 131 Anat Hecht’s ‘tangible memories’ of home 133 Karin Widerberg’s atmospheric memories of ‘the homes of others’ 135 3. Animate technologies, vehicles and journeys 137 Phone feelings 137 The threaded worlds of train travel 140 Mimi Sheller’s ‘automotive emotions’ and ‘feeling the car’ 143 Lynne Pearce’s ‘autopia’ of driving and thinking 146 4. Weathery weather in social science and literature 148 5. Writing weather stories 152 6. Socio-atmospherics and the time of the floods 154 Shock: the power and magnitude of water 155 Bearing witness and being in touch 156 An atmosphere of ‘getting on with it’ 158 Legacies of the floods 159 7. Weather poetics 164 Layering the Argument: Ecologies and SocioAtmospherics 168 Ecologies as convivialities, assemblages, happenings and animated space 169 The feel of places, things, journeys and technologies 175 Enigmatic ecologies and the socio-atmospherics of living 178 From what is connected to the dynamics of connection 180 Ecological poetics 184 Conclusion: Affinities in Time 186 Three layers of the argument 187 Time: a final layering 188 Time and sensations 190 Time and ineffable kinship 193 Time, ecologies and socio-atmospherics 196 Accepting the invitation of affinities 200 Notes 203 References 204 Index 000

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Book Synopsis* This engaging book examines how the ease with which modern social and media networks create a sense of intimacy which can be exploited by media, politicians and authority * An intriguing thesis on how media creates relations where we are constant watchers of the lives of others.Trade Review"Encompassing topics as diverse as Mae West's fame and the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, Charles Dickens's novels and the dilemmas of modern democracy, Rojek's book is a tour-de-force of interdisciplinary social criticism. Ambitious in scope, brilliant in execution, it constitutes nothing less than a profound meditation on what it means to be a human being today."David Inglis, University of Exeter"Rojek has created yet another of his unique and insightful analyses of the contemporary world. As “familiar strangers” we live in a tenuous world built on presumed intimacy. One’s anger about this world builds as one progresses through the book and leads one to applaud Rojek’s call for, among other things, the veracity and emotional integrity that are increasingly being lost in our world of increasing presumed intimacy."George Ritzer, University of MarylandTable of Contents1. Living with Statistical Men and Women 2. Chimerical Risk Management 3. The Shockwaves of Trauma 4. The Lost Neighbour Proposition and the Collateral Damage Problem 5. Horizontal Frontierism: The Juggernaut of Character 6. The Accentuation of Personality 7. Vertical Frontierism: Four Case Studies 8. Cracks in the Mirror 9. The Gestural Economy 10. Institutional and Counter-Institutional Gestural Economies 11. Nuda Veritas Notes References

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Book SynopsisPresumed intimacy' refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of presumed intimacy', where audiences form strong identifications with mediated others, whether they be celebrities, political personae or online friends. Arguing that the way the media are able to manage these relationships is a significant aspect of their power structure, the core of the book is an investigation into the complicity of the media in encouraging presumed intimacy and the cultural, social and political consequences arising from this. Beyond this, it examines how intimacy is performed as a masquerade in many social settings the scripts we follow in social settings that try to manufacture a shortcut to intimacy.A compelling look into mediated relationships in the network society, Presumed Intimacy will be a key contribution to the critical analysis of society, mediaTrade Review"Encompassing topics as diverse as Mae West's fame and the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, Charles Dickens's novels and the dilemmas of modern democracy, Rojek's book is a tour-de-force of interdisciplinary social criticism. Ambitious in scope, brilliant in execution, it constitutes nothing less than a profound meditation on what it means to be a human being today."David Inglis, University of Exeter"Rojek has created yet another of his unique and insightful analyses of the contemporary world. As “familiar strangers” we live in a tenuous world built on presumed intimacy. One’s anger about this world builds as one progresses through the book and leads one to applaud Rojek’s call for, among other things, the veracity and emotional integrity that are increasingly being lost in our world of increasing presumed intimacy."George Ritzer, University of MarylandTable of Contents1. Living with Statistical Men and Women 2. Chimerical Risk Management 3. The Shockwaves of Trauma 4. The Lost Neighbour Proposition and the Collateral Damage Problem 5. Horizontal Frontierism: The Juggernaut of Character 6. The Accentuation of Personality 7. Vertical Frontierism: Four Case Studies 8. Cracks in the Mirror 9. The Gestural Economy 10. Institutional and Counter-Institutional Gestural Economies 11. Nuda Veritas Notes References

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Book SynopsisNetworks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication. In this new edition of his timely and important book, Manuel Castells examines the social, cultural and political roots of these new social movements, studies their innovative forms of self-organization, assesses the precise role of technology in the dynamics of the movements, suggests the reasons for the support they have found in large segments of society, and probes their capacity to induce political change by influencing peTrade Review�A thousand words are too few to cover the riches of this incredibly timely account of contemporary movements.� American Journal of Sociology�A must for those who are interested in how social movements communicate in the network society to realize changes of value in society.�International Journal of Public Opinion Research"This is a well-argued and lively book that will be of great interest to anyone looking for an introduction to either post-2010 social movements or Castells' work."Political Studies Review Table of ContentsPreface 2015 ix Acknowledgments 2012 xiv Opening: Networking Minds, Creating Meaning, Contesting Power 1 Prelude to Revolution: Where it All Started 20 Tunisia: “The Revolution of Liberty and Dignity” 22 Iceland’s Kitchenware Revolution: From financial collapse to crowdsourcing a new (failed) constitution 31 Southern wind, northern wind: Cross-cultural levers of social change 45 The Egyptian Revolution 54 Space of flows and space of places in the Egyptian Revolution 57 State’s response to an Internet-facilitated revolution: The great disconnection 62 Who were the protesters, and what was the protest? 67 Women in revolution 71 The Islamic question 74 “The revolution will continue” 77 Understanding the Egyptian Revolution 79 Dignity, Violence, Geopolitics: The Arab Uprising and Its Demise 95 Violence and the state 99 A digital revolution? 105 Post-Scriptum 2014 109 A Rhizomatic Revolution: Indignadas in Spain 113 A self-mediated movement 119 What did/do the indignadas want? 125 The discourse of the movement 128 Reinventing democracy in practice: An assemblyled, leaderless movement 131 From deliberation to action: The question of violence 136 A political movement against the political system 139 A rhizomatic revolution 143 Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth 159 The outrage, the thunder, the spark 159 The prairie on fire 165 A networked movement 174 Direct democracy in practice 181 A non-demand movement: “The process is the message” 187 Violence against a non-violent movement 191 What did the movement achieve? 194 The salt of the Earth 200 Networked Social Movements: A Global Trend? 220 Overview 220 The clash between old and new Turkey, Gezi Park, June 2013 227 Challenging the development model, denouncing political corruption: Brazil, 2013–14 230 Beyond neoliberalism: Student movement in Chile, 2011–13 237 Undoing the media-state complex: Mexico’s #YoSoy132 239 Networked social movements and social protests 242 Changing the World in the Network Society 246 Networked social movements: An emerging pattern 249 Internet and the culture of autonomy 256 Networked social movements and reform politics: An impossible love? 262 Networked Social Movements and Political Change 272 Overview 272 Crisis of legitimacy and political change: A global perspective 274 Challenging the failure of Italian parliamentary democracy from the inside: Beppe Grillo and hisFive Stars Movement 277 The effects of networked social movements on the political system 284 Occupying minds, not the state: Post-Occupy blues in the US 284 The streets, the Presidenta, and the would-be Presidenta: Popular protests and presidentialelections in Brazil 286 The political schizophrenia of Turkish society: Secular movements and Islamist politics 294 Reinventing politics, upsetting bipartisan hegemony: Podemos in Spain 296 Levers of political change? 308 Beyond Outrage, Hope: The Life and Death of Networked Social Movements 314 Appendix to Changing the World in the Network Society 317 Public opinion in selected countries toward Occupy and similar movements 317 Attitudes of citizens toward governments, political and financial institutions in the United States,European Union, and the world at large 318 Preface 2015

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Book SynopsisThis book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.Trade ReviewThis particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases. -- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College * Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3) *Table of ContentsForeword / Kevin D. HaggertyIntroduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg1 The Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh GreenbergPart 1: Stigma, Morality, and Social Control2 Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care / Charlene D. Elliott3 Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby4 A Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott ThompsonPart 2: Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy5 Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed6 Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy / Joseph Scanlon7 Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects / Sheryl N. HamiltonPart 3: Genetics, Security, and Biometrics8 From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice / Neil Gerlach9 Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations “Blowback” in the Global War on Terrorism / Dwayne Winseck10 Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System / Shoshana MagnetPart 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché12 Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements / Simon J. Kiss13 Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance / Laura HueyReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisPuts the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials under the microscope Reviews the turbulent events of the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials from a social and political framework of race relations and police misconduct. This thought-provoking book shows that the issue of race was at the very heart of both of these emotionally charged cases. Psychologist and scholar Jewelle Taylor Gibbs shows how King and Simpson have been transformed by their trials into symbols of the different worlds inhabited by blacks and whites in America. Gibbs''s compelling analysis of the issues that permeated these trials will challenge even the most cynical observer to rethink any previously held assumptions about race and the criminal justice system.Trade Review"Gibbs' book, an in-depth analysis of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases, is bold, courageous scholarship. Penned by a talented clinical psychologist, the study rises above superficiality and even now stands out from the large body of opportunistic, commercial Simpson-King literature. . . . An instant classic." "An excellent manual. . . . Offers constructive insights into both trials from intellectuals, educators and lawyers as well as social workers and community support counselors." "Gibbs finds context and meaning in this first serious, scholarly study of Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases." ?Race and Justice penetrates the searing headlines of two of the most celebrated criminal trials in American history to ponder their broader implications for our society. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, the wise and insightful author, offers trenchant observations about the future of race relations in Los Angeles that Americans everywhere should heed, and in a hurry.? -- Hugh B. Price, president, National Urban League ?Must reading for those who want to reinvent the jury system, improve race relations, and make sense of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson verdicts and their racially polarized aftermaths. Drawing on history, sociology, and psychology, the author analyzes these controversial verdicts and concludes that they are the legacy of racial injustice and police violence.? --Eddie N. Williams, president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies ?Sensitive and gripping. Essential for anyone who wants to understand police and racial tension in America.? --Joseph D. McNamara, retired police chief of San Jose, California, research fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University ?Sensitive and gripping. Essential for anyone who wants to understand police and racial tension in America? --Joseph D. McNamara, retired police chief of San Jose, research fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University "An important, thoughtful analysis." "This book is brilliant, dramatic and appalling....Her book is carefully documented, but written in an easy and attractive style." "Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, the wise and insightful author offers trenchant observations about the future of race relations in Los Angeles that Americans everywhere should heed, and in a hurry." --Hugh B. Price, President, National Urban League "Careful and provocative analyses . . . essential for anyone interested in a broader perspective of the issues." --Phillip Young Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Library, Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword Part One: Rodney King 1. Los Angeles: from Watts to South Central 2. Rodney King: Gentle Giant or Gorilla in the Mist? 3. The Color of Justice, I: The Trial, the Victim, the Verdict 4. Days of Rage: No Justice, No Peace 5. Two Commissions and Three Trials: Community Conflict and Concepts of Justice Part Two: O. J. Simpson 6. O. J. Simpson: The Man, the Myth, the Marriage 7. The Crime, the Chase, the Arrest 8. The People V. O.J. Simpson: The Trial Begins 9. Ambushing the Prosecution: Playing the Race Card 10. The Color of Justice, II: The Verdict, the Response, the Aftermath Part Three: Race and Justice 11. ?Bad Blood?: Conspiracy Theories and the Black Community 12. A House Divided: Healing the Wound, Restoring the Dream AppAndix A: Research Note AppAndix B: People Interviewed

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Book SynopsisMany local and community non-profits now shoulder an increasing share of society's mandate to care for those in need. This work is a collection of advice from both researchers and service providers offering leaders the practical guidance they need for the rapidly evolving future.Trade Review"With government at all levels initiating collaborations with religious organizations, there could hardly be a more timely or useful book for board members and volunteers of faith-based social service providers. This important volume highlights the challenges such providers face and offers specific, useful advice for meeting those challenges while remaining true to the provider's religious mission." (Sheila Suess Kennedy, assistant professor, law and public policy, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis) "While this book deals primarily with Christian organizations, the principles used by faith-based organizations are essentially the same. Anyone involved with the management or leadership of a Muslim nonprofit organization should read this book." (Shariq A. Siddiqui, director, community development and fundraising, Islamic Society of North America)Table of ContentsIntroduction, The Meaning of Faith-Based Human Services (Edward Queen). PREPARING FOR SERVICE. 1. Religion and the Emerging Context of Service Delivery (Edward Queen). 2. Congregations and Social Ministry-Preparation and Development (Carl Dudley). 3. Congregations and Communities Working Together (John Kretzmann). CAPACITY BUILDING. 4 .Building and Sustaining Lay Leadership: Boards and Mission (James B. Lemler). 5. Funding the Dream (Sara Ann Robertson). 6. Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Faith-Based Organizations (Mary Tschirhart & Eric Knueve). 7. Developing Financial Accountability and Controls (John Zietlow). 8. Volunteerism and Organized Religion (Ram A. Cnaan & Gaynor I. Yancey). 9. Finding Help and Advice at the School Next Door: Working with Academic Institutions (Art Farnsley). 10. Money with (Some) Strings (Stephen Monsma). 11. Working with Foundations (Edward Queen). BEYOND BASIC NEEDS. 12. Community-Based Economic Development (Eric Clay & Elliott Wright). 13. The Role of Local Congregations in Facilitating the Delivery of Health Care Services (Sandra Burgener). 14. Religion in the `Hood: Faith-based Initiatives with High Risk Youth (Harold Dean Trulear).

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Book SynopsisIn a new introduction Miller provides an overview of the history of Indian- white relations over five centuries, and in the conclusion he draws together the themes discussed in the volume.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of why acceptance into America's most prestigious colleges remains beyond the reach of most students except those from high-income professional families.Trade Review"[Soares] provides an interesting perspective on the evolution of admissions policies and the impact these policies have on higher education." -- CHOICE"The Power of Privilege is a welcome addition to the literature on elite colleges, educational stratification, and the meritocratic myth in college admissions. This is a story not just of SAT scores, but also of admissions processes that favor legacies, athletes, and nebulous qualities of leadership and character in which the interests of the wealthy and professional classes in securing advantages for their children indeed are well served! Fundamental change may be unlikely anytime soon, but Soares nevertheless advances some interesting proposals for opening the gates a bit wider." -- Karl Alexander * Johns Hopkins University *"The Power of Privilege clarifies the dynamics of elite reproduction, shows how privilege and social inequality are deeply embedded in institutions, and demonstrates the important role that meritocratic schools plays in society. This book is masterful. Joseph Soares has established himself as one of the most promising social critics." -- Judith Blau * author of Justice in the United States, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina *"[An] excellent 'sociological account' of a highly selective institutional gatekeeper: Yale University... Soares's history of Yale admissions is tragically amusing. He chronicles an embarrassing past that includes Yale's enthusiasm for the early SAT as a tool of eugenics and the college's participation, until 1968, in the Ivy League practice of taking nude pictures of freshmen men to study the relationship between body type and ability." -- Chronicle of Higher Education"Soares has become something of an expert on the social transformations of universities. His first book, also from Stanford, was The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University, which traced the way Oxford evolved from its Brideshead Revisited image to an institution that had meritocratic values. In an interview, Soares said he wanted to do an American companion and started off assuming he would find the same sort of evolution in the United States. But with a focus at Yale, that's not what he found. Given that Yale has described itself repeatedly as having gone through such an evolution, this was surprising to Soares, and he argues that the differences between myth and reality point to important steps for a number of colleges to consider today." -- Inside Higher Ed"The Power of Privilege is a provocative critique of theories of meritocracy in admission decisions at elite American universities. Distinguishing between factors that influence who applies to elite schools and those that increase the odds of admission, Soares draws nuanced inferences about class reproduction. This is must reading for anyone interested in understanding admission policies and practices in elite universities." -- Francisco Ramirez * Stanford University *"'Even Americans unfamiliar with the word embrace meritocracy as if it were a birthright,' writes Soares, who taught sociology at Yale and uses the university as a test case for a stinging indictment of how far Yale and similar colleges fall short of the meritocratic ideal. He also offers provocative suggestions for reform." -- Yale Alumni Magazine"This close examination of admissions, always carefully contextualized in the broad historical trends in elite higher education of which they were a part (just a few of the connections that the book fruitfully explores are anti-Semitism, forays into eugenics, the rise of standardized tests, and the quantification of character), draws our focus to the hidden mechanisms by which reproduction is effected. This is important work and will likely be the book's most lasting contribution... This well-written and often fascinating book exhorts readers to look vigilantly behind the rhetoric of meritocracy and to pay closer attention to the real effects of admissions policies." -- American Journal of Sociology"[The Power of Privilege] shows to anyone without experience in college admissions the ambiguity of constructing admissions policies and converting how someone is presented 'on paper' into a judgment of that individual's potential for future success. One of the book's strengths is Soares' engaging writing style, which captures the complexity of the issue but is nonetheless highly readable. This broadens its appeal beyond experts in the field to an audience perhaps less familiar with the scholarly body of work pertaining to questions of meritocracy and social reproduction.... The Power of Privilege provides an engaging counterargument to claims by Lemann (1999) and others that pure academic merit prevails over socioeconomic privilege in current college admissions." -- Teachers College Record"Soares presents compelling evidence that the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT, later renamed the Scholastic Achievement Test) not only opened ivy-covered doors to a more academically talented and diverse student body but also assured the continued selection of students from the highest economic stratum... He provides an interesting social history of admissions at one institution and a window into a world that, if Soares is correct, most readers likely were never intended or permitted to set foot." -- Review of Higher EducationTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables xxx Foreword and Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:Chapter one: Meritocracy and Its Discontents 1 Chapter two: Elite Colleges and the Search for Superior Students 000 Chapter three: Social-Class Diversity at Yale after 1950? 000 Chapter four: The Brewster Years, Meritocracy in Power? The New Administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark 000 Chapter five: The Old Machinery of Meritocracy Is Discarded: No More Predicting Grades, No More Verbal Analogies 000 Chapter six: Top-Tier Colleges and Privileged Social Groups 000 Conclusions 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first detailed study of why the number of unmarried Japanese mothers has hardly changed since 1955, despite the prevalence of certain factors in Japan (more later marriages, higher divorce rate, and so on) that have brought about significant increases in lone mothers in even the most conservative western industrialized countries.Trade Review"In recent years Japan has seen dramatic demographic changes, but extramarital childbirth remains taboo. Hertog convincingly demonstrates the remarkable staying power of the norm of the two-parent family, as conveyed in the poignant words of women who, for myriad reasons, gave birth out of wedlock." -- Glenda S. Roberts * Waseda University *"I found Hertog's book to be an excellent study of unwed mothers' perspectives and social conditions. It contributes to a growing body of studies that explore changing Japanese families, and demonstrates how ethnography can enhance understanding of family formation and life choices." -- Lynne Nakano * Asian Anthropology *"Tough Choices carefully avoids any kind of reductionism . . . [Hertog] carefully and skillfully unpacks the critical differences between being responsible for one's own actions and being responsible for one's own reproduction and children, and how much conceptions and perceptions of responsibility lead to particular feelings of insecurity and guilt as well as aspirations and expectations." -- Nana O. Gagne * Social Science Japan Journal *"Ekaterina Hertog's Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan is a thoughtfully structures, clearly state book that offers insight to scholars and policy makers who are interested in family formation in Japan, its low rate of illegitimate births, and its lowest-low fertility . . . Tough Choices can be recommended for, among other things, providing a rare and graphic description of Japanese women's decisions on marriage and birth." -- Hideki Nakazato * American Journal of Sociology *"Considering illegitimate children and their mothers as a minority group in Japan provides a most interesting frame in which to portray the choices of women who endure the stigma of single motherhood. Their poignant, emotionally raw stories fill the gaps of understanding usually left empty in renderings of culture and social 'pathologies.'" -- Merry White * Boston University *"Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan is a poignant observation of the contemporary configuration of the Japanese family institution from the perspective of the women at its margins . . . The book makes an important contribution to the many historical, sociological, and anthropological explorations of the Japanese family and gender system and of the contemporary Japanese politics of reproduction . . . This fresh and compelling look from the margins of the Japanese family is testimony to the persistent dominance in Japanese society of the model of childbearing within marriage." -- Journal of Japanese Studies"Hertog's work offers a detailed analysis of her own extensive qualitative study over three years, comprising in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 68 diverse women already or about to become unmarried mothers. The book comprehensively and engagingly addresses what the author identifies as a puzzling dearth of scholarly interest in unwed motherhood in Japan . . . The work deftly combines a statistical and theoretical discussion of the situation in Japan as compared with other countries with apt examples from Hertog's own extensive fieldwork interviews. The voices of her informants enliven her arguments throughout the richly interesting narrative." -- Leonie Stickland * Japanese Studies *"This book provides a thoughtful analysis of a phenomenon that has long been used as evidence of Japan's extreme difference. Although Japan's extra-marital birthrate is much lower then other industrialized nations, Hertog convincingly attributes it to social norms about maternity, families, and gendered roles, rather than legal or financial motivations . . . Readers with interest in contemporary Japan, family and gender studies, and public health will surely find it a welcomed addition to the literature." -- Allison Alexy * Contemporary Sociology *

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Book SynopsisThis book is a no-nonsense look at the business, economics, and culture of college sports.Trade Review"Mark Yost lays bare the sordid details of the corrupting influence big money has on college athletics and academic integrity at many of our institutions of higher learning. The writing is entertaining, the facts disturbing." -- Dennis Coates, Department of Economics * UMBC *"According to veteran sports-business journalist Yost, there never was a 'golden era' of college sports, when gentlemen scholars learned sportsmanship and teamwork; rather, sports have always been a means for colleges to earn money, power, and esteem, too often resulting in illiterate college athletes and corrupt athletic programs. ...(T)his intelligent critique of the U.S. college athletics makes a captivating examination of America's infatuation with money, celebrity, and sports." -- Publishers Weekly"In Varsity Green, Mark Yost joins the voices outside the stadium or fieldhouse who decry the hypocrisy and corruption in college athletics, and in weaving together the many aspects and actors he demonstrates that the madness is not just confined to March." -- Allen R. Sanderson * University of Chicago *"Mark Yost ranks among the elite of 'sport and business of sport' writers. Honest and fearless, Varsity Green will excite both the hard core fan, as well as the casual NCAA observer. A Great read!" -- Roy Green, nationally syndicated radio talk show host * Canada *"This provocative look at college athletics by sports and business journalist Yost is sure to start some conversations. In no uncertain terms, Yost accuses the NCAA of being morally bankrupt and exploiting poor, inner-city youth as chattel that feeds a protection racket lining the pockets of the rich and powerful. ...Yost's book focuses primarily on football but will appeal widely to anyone with an interest in high school or college athletics. Though clearly opinionated, it is an excellent primer on the business of college sports." -- Library Journal"The most informed, most dogged analyst of the finances of sports is clearly Mark Yost. Are the hand-wringing, issue-concerned administrators of college sports ready for him? He's ready for them." -- Bob Boyles"Mark Yost tells a readable story that presents recent research on college athletics in a very stimulating manner. The title of the opening chapter on the student athlete says it all: 'The Entertainment Product.'" -- Phil Miller, Minnesota State University * Mankato *

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Book SynopsisEpinets fleshes out a new language for talking about the knowledge and beliefs that underpin communication in social networks. This book better enables readers to explain, predict, and intervene in the epistemic fabric of social interactions.Trade Review"Epinets is a demanding and brilliant book. It demands and deserves from its audience a very close read . . . Moldoveanu and Baum not only engage in an act of intellectual brokerage between epistemic game theory (and related fields) and network analysis to introduce what they refer to as spinets (networks of agents' beliefs); they also seek - staying with Burt's (2005) theory - to 'seed and catalyze closure' among diverse researchers committed to the epistemic turn in social science that they propose . . . [A] remarkably smart and creative book that is likely to shape the intellectual landscape far into the future. We strongly encourage others to read and especially to use it."—Matthew S Bothner and Henning Piezunka, Administrative Science Quarterly"By articulating the power of attending tot he epistemic 'glue' underlying social networks, Epinets reveals the way in which social relationships become a rich substrate for cognition, belief, and evaluation in the world. This book persuades that together, appropriate measurement of social and epistemic ties will not only explain but anticipate many social phenomena beyond the current purview of network analysis . . . I highly recommend this book."—James A. Evans, American Journal of Sociology"Moldoveanu and Baum fill a gap in the field of network analysis with their book concerning the epistemic underpinnings of social networks . . . What people's contacts on social networks really know is indeed a tantalizing issue. The authors portray this knowledge about others as a sort of epistemic glue as they delve into the truth of human relationships mediated over networks. The book is surprisingly easy to read and is meant to be helpful in the accessible way that a smartphone app is . . . Recommended."—C. Wankel, CHOICE"Epinets offers a really exciting new lens for social network analysis, grounded in excellent scholarly work. Joel Baum and Mihnea Moldoveanu's ideas are both intriguing and demanding, yet always presented in clear and accessible language."—Woody Powell, Stanford University, Co-author of The Emergence of Organizations and Markets"Cognition and behavior are increasingly used as variables in social network theory, but Moldoveanu and Baum leapfrog evolution to analyze the purely cognitive underpinnings of social networks. Your epinet refers to your understanding of how other people see you and one another within your network. Combining network analysis with the reflected self- and emotional intelligence, Epinets serves up a buffet of innovation and insight."—Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business"With Epinets, Joel Baum and Mihnea Moldoveanu have created a comprehensive epistemic paradigm challenging the mechanisms behind well-established ideas in social network theory and research. It is a brilliant, fully thought-through tour-de-force complete with theory, constructs, models, language, and empirics. Especially interesting for me is the conjoining of trust with epinets, producing original and sometimes startling findings regarding traditional network roles and trust."—Aks Zaheer, Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota"What your contacts really know remains one of the most intriguing and mysterious quandaries of a powerful social network. Baum and Moldoveanu offer a treasure of insights for solving this puzzle and one thing more—a system, called the Epinet, that illuminates how to grasp and authenticate hidden network knowledge and the competitive benefits of making the unknown known."—Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents1. Introducing Epinets: Why do we need an Epistemic Model of Social Networks? 2. An Epistemic Description Language for Social Interactions and Networks 3. "What Do You Think I Think You Think About It?" Epinets as a Tool for the Study of Network Structure 4. "I Think You Think I Think You're Lying" Trust, Secrecy, Covertness and Authentication in Social Networks 5. "I Know You Think She Thinks I Trust You - But, I Don't" Moves, Tactics, and Strategies Defined and Played on Epinets 6. By Way of Conclusion: "What You May Think We Think We Are Doing Here"

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Book SynopsisThis book examines what happens to individuals after they initially engage in protest or social movement organizations, offering a reconceptualization of social movement participation.Trade Review"The book is necessary reading for scholars who are interested in understanding what motivates entry into and exit from social activism. Corrigall-Brown's work will hopefully encourage a wave of new research that analytically demarcates and empirically evaluates the nuances of involvement as people engage in various challenges to the powers that be." -- Kraig Beyerlein * American Journal of Sociology *"Through a skillful use of quantitative and qualitative evidence, Patterns of Protest explains who is more likely to be a lifetime activist and who is more likely to be an intermittent participant or disengage from activism. This is a significant theoretical and empirical addition to our understanding of the dynamics of contentious citizenship across the life course." -- Russell J. Dalton, University of California * Irvine *"Patterns of Protest is a path breaking examination of participation in social movements. Rather than focusing on the correlates of initial engagement, as most movement participation studies have done, Corrigall-Brown takes us on a journey, based on life history interviews with participants in four different movements, that elaborates the various degrees and trajectories of participation in a more thorough and nuanced fashion than has been done heretofore. A most welcome contribution to the study of social movements in general and participation in particular." -- David A. Snow, University of California * Irvine *"This work is destined to become the authoritative text on the variety of ways individuals participate in social activism. Very few studies move beyond initial engagement to explore life-course trajectories of protest participation. While some research explores the social psychology behind decisions to protest, this book reveals the significant ways in which the organizational context of activist groups shapes participation." -- Holly McCammon * Vanderbilt University *"For all the studies we have of movement recruitment, we know next to nothing about what happens after that. Or rather we knew nothing until this exceptional book came along. Corrigall-Brown's rich study is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the longer-term ebb and flow of participation that tend to define activist lives." -- Doug McAdam * Stanford University *Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements [...] is a welcome addition to the literature on social movement participation . . . [Corrigall-Brown] makes a compelling case that her typology remains useful, positing that we will be more likely to see the transfer and abeyance trajectories, with fewer participants disengaging . . . This book jumps right into the dense social movements literature and claims its rightful place." -- Katrina Kimport * Social Forces *"Sociologist Corrigall-Brown (Univ. of Western Ontario) breaks new ground in presenting a major systematic study of how individuals particiapte in or stop participating in protest activism . . . The author artfully combines quantitative analyses of panel data and qualitative life-history interviews and writes in a vivid, provocative manner. The end product is a theoretically rich, empirically rigorous book that students of contentious politics cannot afford to ignore. Summing Up: Essential." -- J. Li * CHOICE *"Patterns of Protest is an original contribution, rich with theoretical insights and practical implications. It succeeds in providing constructive knowledge and new aspects on the study of social movement organisations." -- Alexios Alecou * Political Studies Review *"Patterns of Protest carefully investigates various dimensions of political activists' lives, including the duration of their engagement, the strength of their activist identities, and the significance of social interactions within the social movement organizations." -- Marguerite G. Rosenthal * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *

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Book SynopsisThis is a survey of the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal reforms. Lowitt focuses upon the operations of various agencies and programmes in the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and California, during the period from 1932 to 1940.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1933, this study on race and state was motivated by the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It analyzes contemporary race theories and traces the rise of the modern race idea, analyzing why race ideas became successful in Germany.Trade ReviewThe best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a `history of ideas." —Hannah Arendt from Origins of Totalitarianism

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Book SynopsisPhrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.

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Book SynopsisAs the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's black population have failed. This book addresses the revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena.Trade Review"Sets a new standard for effectively placing planning issues in their larger social and political context." * Planning Perspectives *"Howard Gillette is our leading expert on the politics of planning for Washington, DC. . . . Between Justice and Beauty is the best introduction to the political choices that have shaped our national city." * American Planning Association Journal *"Between Justice and Beauty is written for readers who do not necessarily have a deep interest in Washington, although the wealth of detailed historical information contained in its pages will provide plenty for a student of the city to digest. The historical narrative provides insight into the development of the city and could be used as a case study text in a graduate seminar in urban planning or geography." * Urban Geography *"Gillette's clear focus on government gives thematic coherence to his insightful and engaging history, highlighting matters of physical development such as slum clearance, public housing construction, urban renewal, commercial development, transportation, and the planning of the monumental core." * Journal of Urban History *

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Book SynopsisPolitical Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.Trade Review"The breadth of the chapters assembled by the editors is impressive, covering a wide array of topics across the traditional political science subfields. The discipline of political science sorely needs this book in order to move beyond the agency/structure dichotomy that has stymied theorizing and beyond ad hoc accounts of agency that have weakened explanation." * Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah *"Original and timely. Political Creativity will offer a needed advance to scholarly creativity within academic institutional discourse." * Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and Change PART I. RELATIONALITY Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change —Gerald Berk and Dennis C. Galvan Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation —Chris Ansell Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading —Gary Herrigel, Volker Wittke, and Ulrich Voskamp Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies —Steven Amberg PART II. ASSEMBLAGE Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in Botswana —Ato Kwamena Onoma Chapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant —Adam Sheingate Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution —Yoshiko M. Herrera Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence —Rudra Sil PART III. TIME Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification —Victoria Hattam and Joseph Lowndes Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States —Kevin Bruyneel Chapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria —Deborah Harrold Conclusion: An Invitation to Political Creativity Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating, thorough, and highly readable study of divorce in the history of 20th Century U.S. feminism...Divorce, American Style provides a rigorously-documented narrative of a uniquely American feminism at a pivotal point in history. It provides important new leverage for understanding how both feminism and social welfare policy got where they are today by focusing on the key intersections between them, as drawn through the legislative and policy debates Kahn explores in correspondence, drafts, committee reports, feminist meeting minutes, news reports, statistical data, and politicians’ pronouncements." * Society for U.S. intellectual History *Table of ContentsContents Introduction. Divorce, 1970s Style Part I. The Divorce Revolution Chapter 1. From Alimony Drones to Breeding Cows: Women and the Divorce Law Revolution Chapter 2. From the Altar to the Grave: The Beginnings of the Feminist Divorce Reform Movement Part II. A Galaxy of Laws Chapter 3. Partners or Parasites? Class, Race, and Credit Rights Chapter 4. The Privileges of Marriage: Divorced Women and Selective Entitlements to HealthCare Chapter 5. Marriage as Work, Marriage as Partnership: Divorced Women's Fight for Social Security Chapter 6. "How You Lose Money by Being a Woman": Divorce in an Age of Proliferating Retirement Savings Options Chapter 7. An Expensive Endurance Test: Compromising Toward Success in the 1980s Part III. Stable Divorce Rates and Unstable Politics Chapter 8. "Responsibility, Equity; Not Cruelty": Changing Venues for Feminist Divorce Reformers Chapter 9. "Saving the Next Generation": The Changing Politics of Divorce Conclusion. No-Fault Divorce in a Morality-Based Welfare System Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIncluding examples from a host of criminal cases and familiar figures, this book presents evidence that forensic science has a long way to go before it lives up to its potential and the public's expectations.Trade Review"Well-written and captivating—a fine book." -- Captain Robert L. Snow * author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation *"This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." -- Richard Saferstein, * author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science *"Well-written and captivating—a fine book." -- Captain Robert L. Snow * author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation *"This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." -- Richard Saferstein, * author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science *Table of ContentsForensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death The sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide? Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints? Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice. Trade Review"Cox provides important and compelling insights about young people involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems and about these systems themselves.Trapped in a Vice is a significant contribution to the field, filled with unique and comprehensive knowledge." -- Jamie Fader * author of Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth *"Trapped in a Vice is an excellent piece of scholarship from start to finish. Cox weaves together stories, policy data, and literature in a seamless fashion to expose the paradox of 'ungovernable' children. This brilliant, well written work is guaranteed to become a landmark piece in the field." -- Laura Abrams * author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C *"Alexandra Cox's Trapped in a Vice will deepen the juvenile justice reform discussion. Fundamental to her work is an argument that is essential as it is true: reform must be broader than moving juveniles from adult prisons to juvenile prisons and rehabilitation efforts must have outcomes that extend beyond the walls of incarceration." -- Reginald Dwayne Betts * author of A Question of Freedom and Bastards of the Reagan Era *"Trapped in the juvenile justice system" spotlight * Gates Cambridge *Book Excerpt: Their Former Offense Keeps Blocking Them from Moving Ahead * JJIE.org *"The Past Repeats Itself in New York's Juvenile Justice System" interview with Alexandra Cox * NYN Media *Alexandra Cox's Trapped in a Vice on The Page 99 Test * The Page 99 Test *Pg. 99 Alexandra Cox's "Trapped in a Vice" * Campaign for the American Reader *"Youth incarceration comes to the North Country" by Alexandra Cox * Adirondack Daily Enterprise *"Alexandra Cox’s Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People is a profound piece of scholarship with the potential to rattle the field of youth justice." * Critical Criminology *Community Calendar: April 6, 2018 Trapped in a Vice event listing * Press Republican *"Author opposes converting local prison to youth facility" by Glynis Hart * Adirondack Daily Enterprise *"New Books in Sociology" podcast interview with Alexandra Cox * New Books in Sociology Podcast *"Teens imprisoned: Vice as vise: Research book sparks discussion, questions effectiveness of juvenile incarceration" by Kim Dedam * Sun Community News *"ON THE SCENE: Challenges of incarcerating youth in New York," by Naj Wikoff * Lake Placid News *Black and Highly Dangerous Podcast with Alexandra Cox * Black and Highly Dangerous Podcasr *"An insightful, original examination, rich with details of the often confounding details of troubled young peoples’ lives, of the challenges and difficulties of constructively intervening in these lives." * Journal of Community Corrections *"Superpredator: The Criminalization of Youth," by Alex S. Vitale * Jacobin *"Sociologist Questions Justice of Juvenile Incarcerations," by The Elm staff * The Elm *"Building a “Kinder” Justice System: Youth Experiences with Incarceration" interview with Alexandra Cox * Abolition *"Written in an accessible, graceful style, and grounded in rich, hard-won data from the ground-level, Trapped in a Vice will be of great interest to a wide-range of punishment and society scholars, and it is required reading for juvenile justice researchers, policy makers, and advocates for reform." * Crime and Punishment *"An important book...Trapped in a Vice is a reminder that human existence is contingent, inherently contradictory, and fragile. This insight, while obvious, has been forgotten as the system tries to fit children into a simplistic mould of evidence-based interventions. More than anything, Trapped in a Vice is a cautionary tale for anyone who believes that solutions for inherently complex social problems are easy to come by." * The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice *"Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People illustrates the problematic nature that is imprisoning youth and the issues with which the juvenile justice system currently operates. As such, it breaks new ground for researchers focusing on the development of offending and responses to offenders." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"This book is an extraordinary piece of social science research." * American Journal of Sociology *"[Cox] applies a strong sociological viewpoint, rooted in Foucault, to the story of juvenile justice-a view that is lacking in other texts. This theoretical strength comes through in how Cox relates her rich stories to larger discourses of neo-liberal control. Importantly, Cox addresses racial disparities head on as part of the larger picture of who is seen as 'worthy' and redeemable and who it not....[The book] is an important piece to read and ponder in the current wave of reform." * Social Forces *"A beautifully crafted book." * Social Justice *"Trapped in a Vice is likely to be of interest to a number of audiences. Students and scholars of juvenile justice, the sociology of punishment, youth, and inequality will appreciate the deeply human stories of the youth trapped in this system." * Theoretical Criminology *"The Critical Criminologist" interview with Alexandra Cox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqCg2UlDqmE * The Critical Criminologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Reproducing Reforms 13 2 Ungovernability and Worth 33 3 Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at the Edges of the System 61 4 The Responsibility Trap 98 5 Change from the Inside 127 Conclusion 160 Methodological Appendix 167 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 183 Index 211

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice. Trade Review"Cox provides important and compelling insights about young people involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems and about these systems themselves.Trapped in a Vice is a significant contribution to the field, filled with unique and comprehensive knowledge." -- Jamie Fader * author of Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth *"Trapped in a Vice is an excellent piece of scholarship from start to finish. Cox weaves together stories, policy data, and literature in a seamless fashion to expose the paradox of 'ungovernable' children. This brilliant, well written work is guaranteed to become a landmark piece in the field." -- Laura Abrams * author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C *"Alexandra Cox's Trapped in a Vice will deepen the juvenile justice reform discussion. Fundamental to her work is an argument that is essential as it is true: reform must be broader than moving juveniles from adult prisons to juvenile prisons and rehabilitation efforts must have outcomes that extend beyond the walls of incarceration." -- Reginald Dwayne Betts * author of A Question of Freedom and Bastards of the Reagan Era *"Trapped in the juvenile justice system" spotlight * Gates Cambridge *Book Excerpt: Their Former Offense Keeps Blocking Them from Moving Ahead * JJIE.org *"The Past Repeats Itself in New York's Juvenile Justice System" interview with Alexandra Cox * NYN Media *Alexandra Cox's Trapped in a Vice on The Page 99 Test * The Page 99 Test *Pg. 99 Alexandra Cox's "Trapped in a Vice" * Campaign for the American Reader *"Youth incarceration comes to the North Country" by Alexandra Cox * Adirondack Daily Enterprise *"Alexandra Cox’s Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People is a profound piece of scholarship with the potential to rattle the field of youth justice." * Critical Criminology *Community Calendar: April 6, 2018 Trapped in a Vice event listing * Press Republican *"Author opposes converting local prison to youth facility" by Glynis Hart * Adirondack Daily Enterprise *"New Books in Sociology" podcast interview with Alexandra Cox * New Books in Sociology Podcast *"Teens imprisoned: Vice as vise: Research book sparks discussion, questions effectiveness of juvenile incarceration" by Kim Dedam * Sun Community News *"ON THE SCENE: Challenges of incarcerating youth in New York," by Naj Wikoff * Lake Placid News *Black and Highly Dangerous Podcast with Alexandra Cox * Black and Highly Dangerous Podcasr *"An insightful, original examination, rich with details of the often confounding details of troubled young peoples’ lives, of the challenges and difficulties of constructively intervening in these lives." * Journal of Community Corrections *"Superpredator: The Criminalization of Youth," by Alex S. Vitale * Jacobin *"Sociologist Questions Justice of Juvenile Incarcerations," by The Elm staff * The Elm *"Building a “Kinder” Justice System: Youth Experiences with Incarceration" interview with Alexandra Cox * Abolition *"Written in an accessible, graceful style, and grounded in rich, hard-won data from the ground-level, Trapped in a Vice will be of great interest to a wide-range of punishment and society scholars, and it is required reading for juvenile justice researchers, policy makers, and advocates for reform." * Crime and Punishment *"An important book...Trapped in a Vice is a reminder that human existence is contingent, inherently contradictory, and fragile. This insight, while obvious, has been forgotten as the system tries to fit children into a simplistic mould of evidence-based interventions. More than anything, Trapped in a Vice is a cautionary tale for anyone who believes that solutions for inherently complex social problems are easy to come by." * The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice *"Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People illustrates the problematic nature that is imprisoning youth and the issues with which the juvenile justice system currently operates. As such, it breaks new ground for researchers focusing on the development of offending and responses to offenders." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"This book is an extraordinary piece of social science research." * American Journal of Sociology *"[Cox] applies a strong sociological viewpoint, rooted in Foucault, to the story of juvenile justice-a view that is lacking in other texts. This theoretical strength comes through in how Cox relates her rich stories to larger discourses of neo-liberal control. Importantly, Cox addresses racial disparities head on as part of the larger picture of who is seen as 'worthy' and redeemable and who it not....[The book] is an important piece to read and ponder in the current wave of reform." * Social Forces *"A beautifully crafted book." * Social Justice *"Trapped in a Vice is likely to be of interest to a number of audiences. Students and scholars of juvenile justice, the sociology of punishment, youth, and inequality will appreciate the deeply human stories of the youth trapped in this system." * Theoretical Criminology *"The Critical Criminologist" interview with Alexandra Cox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqCg2UlDqmE * The Critical Criminologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Reproducing Reforms 13 2 Ungovernability and Worth 33 3 Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at the Edges of the System 61 4 The Responsibility Trap 98 5 Change from the Inside 127 Conclusion 160 Methodological Appendix 167 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 183 Index 211

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Book SynopsisToday, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call “grandfamilies”—households in which children are being raised by their grandparents. Drawing on data gathered from New York grandfamilies, Rachel Dunifon analyzes their unique strengths and distinct needs. Trade Review“You’ve Always Been There for Me makes a significant contribution to the field of family studies and gerontology. Dunifon’s arguments are unique, sound, and focused, and shed new light into the roles of grandchildren in grandfamilies.” -- Christine A. Fruhauf * associate professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University *"Dunifon masterfully addresses an understudied type of family–grandchildren raised by grandparents–and offers insightful policy recommendations for how to promote the well-being of these families. Her research is a model combination of survey techniques, open-ended interviews, and videotaped observations of interactions. As we learn about the financial hardships, the health challenges, and emotional demands experienced by grandparents, we also see the extraordinary bonds between these parental figures and their adolescent grandchildren. Dunifon’s superb volume will inspire other scholars to pursue this compelling topic." -- P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale * Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction 1 What Leads to the Formation of Grandfamilies? 2 “I Couldn’t Be Prouder to Be the Caregiver of You”: How Do Grandparents Define Their Roles in Grandfamilies? 3 “I Get All the Love I Need”: How Do Youth Define Their Roles in Grandfamilies? 4 “I Love My Daughter, But I Don’t Like Her Right About Now”: The Role of Parents in Grandfamilies 5 Policies and Programs to Address Grandfamilies’ Needs 6 Postscript—Where Are They Now? Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Embodying the Problem presents a refreshing and original argument that provides analysis of the language and visual rhetoric of public campaigns framing teenage motherhood as a problem and provides, in dramatic response, the unexplored concerns and resistant voices of teenage mothers themselves." -- Barbara Tomlinson * author of Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument *“This myth-busting work rejects stigmatizing statistics and narratives about young motherhood that depict the young pregnant or parenting body as always only a problem. Young and young-of-color mothers emerge as fierce advocates for themselves and their children. Vinson includes voices and visions from within to tell new stories and to reveal new needs and possibilities for reproductive justice.” -- Adela C. Licona * Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona *" A considerably impressive work of original and erudite scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"Draws on feminist and rhetorical theory in a study of the creation, circulation, and reception of often-stigmatizing discourse on teenage pregnancy and motherhood; also analyzes the narratives, in resistance, of teen mothers themselves." * Chronicle *"Far From ‘Tragic’: Author Jenna Vinson on the Misrepresentation of Young Mothers" by Gloria Malone * Rewire *"Jenna Vinson's Embodying the Problem" spotlight * The Page 99 Test *"Jenna Vinson's Book Counters Doom-and-Gloom Narrative" by Katharine Webster QA with author * UMass Lowell News *"English professor publishes new book on shaming young mothers" by Jessica Kergo feature on book * UMass Lowell Connector *"Through analyzing various ways that young mothers resist the harmful narratives about them and their children, Vinson’s work binds data and stories to highlight how young parents simultaneously live within a stereotype and defy it at the same time." * Rewire *"Vinson’s book reveals how feminist rhetorical activism shifts conversations at local and national levels about what society considers to be an “appropriate” age for motherhood and in doing so, provides a rewarding reading experience both for scholarly purposes and for the simple pleasure of enjoying a well-written and carefully researched book." * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *"All in all, Embodying the Problem is a powerful and important contribution to feminist rhetorical studies and to medical rhetoric." * Rhetoric Review *"A strong contribution to feminist work in the field... Embodying the Problem engages with theory in an accessible way, carefully guiding readers toward an understanding of the theoretical context in both how she sets up and concludes her analyses. This book will be a valuable text in a graduate or upper-level undergraduate class on reproduction, women’s studies, health rhetorics, rhetorics of age, and/or rhetorical or qualitative methodology." * Peitho *Table of ContentsPreface: Embodying the Problem 1. The Role of the Teen Mother in Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy 2. Seeing Is Believing: How Visual Representations of Women Established the Problem of Teenage Pregnancy 3. Challenging Experts, Commonplaces, and Statistics: Teen Mothers’ Counter-narratives 4. Resisting Stigmatizing Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives: The #NoTeenShame Campaign 5. Confronting the Stranger on the Street: Embodied Exigence in Everyday Rhetorical Situations Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Embodying the Problem presents a refreshing and original argument that provides analysis of the language and visual rhetoric of public campaigns framing teenage motherhood as a problem and provides, in dramatic response, the unexplored concerns and resistant voices of teenage mothers themselves." -- Barbara Tomlinson * author of Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument *“This myth-busting work rejects stigmatizing statistics and narratives about young motherhood that depict the young pregnant or parenting body as always only a problem. Young and young-of-color mothers emerge as fierce advocates for themselves and their children. Vinson includes voices and visions from within to tell new stories and to reveal new needs and possibilities for reproductive justice.” -- Adela C. Licona * Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona *" A considerably impressive work of original and erudite scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"Draws on feminist and rhetorical theory in a study of the creation, circulation, and reception of often-stigmatizing discourse on teenage pregnancy and motherhood; also analyzes the narratives, in resistance, of teen mothers themselves." * Chronicle *"Far From ‘Tragic’: Author Jenna Vinson on the Misrepresentation of Young Mothers" by Gloria Malone * Rewire *"Jenna Vinson's Embodying the Problem" spotlight * The Page 99 Test *"Jenna Vinson's Book Counters Doom-and-Gloom Narrative" by Katharine Webster QA with author * UMass Lowell News *"English professor publishes new book on shaming young mothers" by Jessica Kergo feature on book * UMass Lowell Connector *"Through analyzing various ways that young mothers resist the harmful narratives about them and their children, Vinson’s work binds data and stories to highlight how young parents simultaneously live within a stereotype and defy it at the same time." * Rewire *"Vinson’s book reveals how feminist rhetorical activism shifts conversations at local and national levels about what society considers to be an “appropriate” age for motherhood and in doing so, provides a rewarding reading experience both for scholarly purposes and for the simple pleasure of enjoying a well-written and carefully researched book." * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *"All in all, Embodying the Problem is a powerful and important contribution to feminist rhetorical studies and to medical rhetoric." * Rhetoric Review *"A strong contribution to feminist work in the field... Embodying the Problem engages with theory in an accessible way, carefully guiding readers toward an understanding of the theoretical context in both how she sets up and concludes her analyses. This book will be a valuable text in a graduate or upper-level undergraduate class on reproduction, women’s studies, health rhetorics, rhetorics of age, and/or rhetorical or qualitative methodology." * Peitho *Table of ContentsPreface: Embodying the Problem 1. The Role of the Teen Mother in Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy 2. Seeing Is Believing: How Visual Representations of Women Established the Problem of Teenage Pregnancy 3. Challenging Experts, Commonplaces, and Statistics: Teen Mothers’ Counter-narratives 4. Resisting Stigmatizing Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives: The #NoTeenShame Campaign 5. Confronting the Stranger on the Street: Embodied Exigence in Everyday Rhetorical Situations Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Jersey Shore tells the story of this famous region, from the 1600s to the present, and from Sandy Hook to Cape May, with particular attention to its history, culture, and varied landscapes. This book is an enthusiastic and comprehensive portrait by a native son, whose passion is shared by millions of beachgoers.Trade Review“This engaging and impressively documented work captures the distinctive cultures of shore areas that make the Jersey shore important to U.S. history and to families who live and play there.” -- Karen M. O’Neill * coeditor of Taking Chances: The Coast After Hurricane Sandy *"It's about time that someone wrote this book! Mazzagetti makes the Shore come alive to anyone who wants to explore these places. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in a readable but detailed overview of the history of the Shore." -- Diane Bates * author of Superstorm Sandy: The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore *The Jersey Shore by Dominick Mazzagetti event listing * Gloucester City News *"Shifting Sands" by Tom Wilk * New Jersey Monthly *"Don’t Miss Out on These 2018 Summer Must-Haves" by Heather DiNuzzo * Girl Gone Mom *"An enlightening history of a popular vacation spot and a revealing probe into how it came to be seen as a national treasure. Both regional collections and those interested in American development will find The Jersey Shore well-detailed and nicely integrated with broader American issues and developments." * Donovan's Literary Services *"Mazzagetti has taken a sprawling, complicated topic and presented it in an intelligent, eminently readable book. Highly recommended." * Choice *Excerpt of The Jersey Shore by Dominick Mazzagetti * The History Girl *"With its statewide appeal and treatment of current-day issues facing New Jersey beaches and coastal settlements, those researching the development of the shore will find the book to be a useful reference and guidebook. The book is certainly a welcome addition to New Jersey collections at public and academic libraries, as well as for those readers interested in the history of and problems facing their favorite Jersey Shore community." * New Jersey Studies *"Author Pens History of the Jersey Shore," by Kara Sibilia * Elegant Lifestyles Magazine *Table of ContentsMaps Photographs & Illustrations Introduction 1 The Ever-Changing Shore 2 1664-1774: A Few Desolate Beaches Native Americans at the Shore The English Replace the Dutch Whaling Pirates Smugglers, Privateers, and the United States Navy 3 1765-1850: The Rise of Resorts Sandy Hook, “Squan,” Deal, and Toms River “Sea Bathing” at the Jersey Shore Tucker’s Island and Long Beach Cape May Long Branch 4 1850-1900: Railroads, Atlantic City, and Long Branch The Coming of Railroads and the Concept of “Vacation” Atlantic City Long Branch as the Nation’s Premier Resort Cape May, Tucker’s Island, and Beach Haven 5 Religion at the Jersey Shore Traveling Preachers and Camp Meetings Ocean Grove Asbury Park Ocean City “Sea Grove,” Dry Towns, Retreats, and Ethnics 6 The Rise of Resorts, Monmouth County Railroads and New Resorts Monmouth County 7 Shipwrecks, Life-Saving, and Lighthouses Early Wrecks A Mysterious Death Leads to an Iconic Grounding Collisions on a Vast Sea Shipwrecks as Fact and Fiction US Life-Saving Service Lighthouses 8 The Rise of Resorts, Ocean County Point Pleasant to Island Beach State Park Long Beach Island 9 Fires, Storms, and War Fires Hurricanes, Tropical Storms, and Nor’easters World War 10 The Rise of Resorts, Atlantic County Atlantic County Atlantic City, Politics, and Prohibition 11 Fish, Fish, and Boats Commercial Fishing and New Jersey’s Major Ports The Lady Mary and the Dangers of Commercial Fishing Sport Fishing, Gunning, and Recreational Boating The Intracoastal Waterway “Jaws” 12 The Rise of Resorts, Cape May County and the Lore of the Shore The Personalities of Jersey Shore Communities The Look, Lure, and Lore of the Shore Cape May County 13 The 20th Century: Transformation Transportation Again Transforms the Shore Economic Development and the Great Depression The Garden State Parkway Building Booms Gambling at the Jersey Shore Race Relations 14 The 21st Century Shore The “Public Trust” Doctrine and Eminent Domain State Action, Federal Funding, and University Support Revival: Cape May, Long Branch, Asbury Park, and Atlantic City Superstorm Sandy The Future of the Jersey Shore Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe autobiography of Chief Rickard, who fought for the recognition of his Tuscarora nation throughout his life. He led his people in the Indian resistance to federal policies, and founded the Indian Defense League of America.Trade ReviewRickard (1882-1971) was one of the greatest Indian leaders of this century. Had he lived in another century he might have been a Sitting Bull, a Black Hawk, or a Chief Joseph, for he was cut from the same cloth as these leaders. But Clinton Rickard lived and fought in this century, and the weapons he used were the law, public indignation, and diplomacy. . . . One of the most significant books published on the contemporary American Indian. Its rare insights into contemporary Indian problems make the book essential reading for anyone interested in understanding 20th century Indian politics and history.' No less important than the recorded words of Wooden Leg, Black Elk, Black Hawk, and other articulate Indian leaders. The life of Rickard is a fascinating one. . . . Fighting Tuscarora is an example of oral history at its best. Highly readable. . . . The appeal of the book is enhanced by useful maps and a large selection of photographs.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. It examines the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

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Book SynopsisAdding a new dimension to the historiography of World War I, Maksudyan explores the variegated experiences and involvement of Ottoman children and youth in the war. Rather than simply passive victims, children became essential participants as soldiers, wage earners, farmers, and artisans.

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Book SynopsisAlthough possessing a common physical heritage, the Sonoran Desert has taken on highly contrasting forms in its American and Mexican portions. This work does not, therefore, attempt a regional study in the usual sense of the term, but is rather an examination of disparate economic development.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits.Trade Review“Are children true citizens under the Constitution? Timothy Barouch provides a detailed and subtle analysis drawing on clusters of cases to explore the principal models addressing child citizenship. Because children are ‘in between’ noncitizenship and full citizenship, Barouch deftly uses his analysis to develop important insights into the promise of an ‘inclusive citizenship.’ This book will be a critical resource for theorists of democracy, legal rhetoricians, and constitutional scholars.”- Francis J. Mootz III, author of Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory;“Children make trouble for the law. Not by virtue of what they do, but by virtue of who they are. Law is challenged to recognize and acknowledge both their humanity and their distinctiveness. The Child before the Court offers an unusual and insightful analysis of those challenges. Its attention both to judicial opinions and public discourse make it a very valuable resource for interdisciplinary exploration. It is theoretically sophisticated, and it uses that sophistication to offer a compelling illumination of the ways law comprehends childhood.”- Austin Sarat, editor of Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture and Knowing the Suffering of Others: Legal Perspectives on Pain and its Meanings;""The Child Before the Court: Citizenship and the Constitution demonstrates how judicial representations of the ‘child’ serve as a representative anecdote for understanding and negotiating the problem of ‘judgment’ in modern and late-modern US liberal-democratic public culture. The analysis of judicial discourse is both careful and deft, and the conclusions regarding the affordances of legal decision making and the crafting of judgment in public culture writ large are compelling. More than just a study of the rhetoric of legal discourse it is a model for how we might engage challenges to the legitimacy of liberal-democracy in contemporary times.”- John Louis Lucaites, coauthor of The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship

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