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Book SynopsisThe term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice. For postcolonial feminism, the issues of interest are not only social and cultural inequalities in terms of caste, class, color, ethnicity, gender, and religion, but also historical, political, and geographical inequalities in terms of Third World, Global South and remnants of the colonial past. Postcolonial feminism pays nuanced attention to historical diversity and local specificity of feminist issues. This book draws upon the work grounded specifically in the context of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to demonstrate the plurality of thinking.In mainstream management and organization studies, context is often understood as a present, static field. This book discusses how context is an important consideration for any management and organization study and for feminist studies in management and organization studies. It informs the way we need to understand context not just as present but aTrade Review"Excellently conceived and executed, this volume welcomes readers into a world where the postcolonial emerges through the works and experiences of MOS scholars in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Postcolonial feminism interrogates what colonialism 'left behind' and helps forward affirmative possibilities with local knowledges as decolonizing practices."Professor Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA"Bringing together lenses of postcolonial feminism, management and organization studies, and South Asia which do not often appear together in literature, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of ideas, arguments, and provocations that need to inform ongoing and future work on decolonizing management studies." Professor Nimruji Jammulamadaka, IIM Calcutta"The edited collection by Vijayta Doshi, provides a much needed anthology on important and under-researched issues that concern us all, examined through a wide-ranging and original work of postcolonial feminist theory and practice. Organizational scholars and students alike will find Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies: Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh an invaluable compendium for expanding their thinking, research, and teaching." Professor Marianna Fotaki, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. Introduction: Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies: Critical perspectives From India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Part I: Feminist Resistance to Subalternity: Deconstructing “Development” and “Social Responsibility” 2. Naila Kabeer: Deconstructing Empowerment of Poor Women Entrepreneurs in Postcolonial Bangladesh 3. The Continued Silencing of Gayatri Spivak’s Subaltern: A Critique of the Elite Nexus of NGOs, Academic, and Corporations Part II: Exposing Neocolonialism in the Post-colonies: An Urge for Ethics of Care 4: Colonialism Otherwise: Reading Uzma Falak’s Kashmir 5. Modern Slavery in Contemporary India: Addressing the Elephant in the Room – Contributions From Stringer and Samanova Part III: Decolonizing Management Education and Praxis Through Postcolonial Feminism 6. The Epistemology of the Toilet: Doing Class Work in Pakistan 7. Bringing Postcolonial Women Writers to Executive Education: Case of Women Managers’ Program in India

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Complexities of Researching with Young People

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Book SynopsisCurrently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on how to' conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context.In total, five themes are examined conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts.Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of resilience', participation', risk' and voice'. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a casTable of Contents1. Complexities of Researching with Young People: Conceptualising Key Issues; 2. Researching the Lives of Young Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Creating Culturally Sensitive Methods and Theory; 3. Doing Research in Organisations: Implications of the Different Definitions of Youth; 4. They Look Before They Leap: Conceptualising Young People as Digitally Competent Risk-Takers, and its Implications for Ethical Internet Research; 5. Critical Reflections: Merits of Using Youth-Centric Technology in Keeping Young People Safe Across Europe; 6. Digital Modes of Data Collection in Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Youth Research; 7. Revealing Intimacy through Digital Media: Young People, Digital Culture and New Research Perspectives; 8. Researching Young People’s Experiences: An African-Centred Perspective of Consent and Ethics; 9. Working with Complexity: Between Control and Care in Digital Research Ethics; 10. Informed Consent as a Situated Research Process in an Ethnography of Incarcerated Youth in Denmark; 11. The Undue Burden of Methodological Warrant on the Voice of Disengaged Young People; 12. Critically Examining Participation, Power, Ethics, and the Co-construction of Knowledge in a Community-Based Photovoice Research Project with LGBTQ Former Foster Youth; 13. Participation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth; 14. Participatory Research and Political Ecology: An Evaluation of Research with Young Syrian Refugees in Turkey; 15. Youth in Voice: The Concept of Voice; 16. How Contradictory Friendships Disrupted My Study of Working-Class Girls’ Residential Instability; 17. The Multicultural Youth Australia Census: Reading Complexity and Migrant Youth Citizenship into Survey Methods; 18. The Pressures of Building Reciprocal Relationships in an Intergenerational Research Team.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crisis in the Professions

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Book SynopsisCrisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing inequalities, and increasing amounts of cultural and political mistrust are but a few major changes undermining the people seen as essential in society and needed to compete in a globalized, highly skilled world.The authors explore this profound dilemma through a variety of methods, each one allowing them to identify significant areas of change and concern. They address macro-level social, political, and economic forces at the root of these changes and pair these explanations with illustrative vignettes of young, would-be professionals to paint a comprehensive, albeit complicated picture of professional work in the 21st century. Amid a backdrop of increasing globalization, technological advance, and cultural devaluation of expertise, the authors point attention to the mounting implications theseTrade ReviewThe precarious situation found within professional work raises questions about how society will organize expert knowledge. This book provides valuable insights about the reasons for and implications of the decline of these elite occupations. – Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis well-written and engaging book demonstrates how economic, social and political changes have undermined professional work and career opportunities in the United States. Long considered among the very best jobs in the economy – secure, well-paid, autonomous and fulfilling – professional work has become more precarious and hence less appealing. Leicht and Fennell document these changes, masterfully linking economic, social, and political trends to the changing labour market for professional workers, demonstrating how social change has implications for current and future professional workers. In so doing, they provide rich insights of interest to a broad audience. – Tracey L. Adams, Professor, Western UniversityLeicht and Fennell marshal evidence from many sources to document the declining prospects for the traditional professions – and the glimmers of hope for students who are hoping to become scientists, academicians, attorneys, or physicians. – Teresa A. Sullivan, President Emerita and University Professor, the University of Virginia Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables and Box Inserts Part I: Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age 1. Introduction 2. The Context: Disinvestment in Jobs and Cultural Fragmentation 3. Technological Change, Globalization and Professional Work Part II: Change in the Professions 4. The Value of Professions and Diversity within Professions 5. The Emergence of the Professional Precariat 6. New Professionals and New Professions? Part III: Younger Workers and their Career Expectations 7. The Work life of Millennials and Other Generations 8. The New Dark Age: Rediscovering Knowledge as the Proper Basis of Authority 9. Epilogue: "This is not a Drill..."

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Taylor & Francis Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:â What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness? â How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act? â How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline wo

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Explosive Conflict

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Book SynopsisThis sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.Trade Review"This book is a major contribution to Collins’ influential theories of violence. It has a breadth and novelty of argument that can’t be found elsewhere." -- Ralph Schroeder, Oxford University"Collins offers a fresh and provocative perspective on the sociology of violence and grand theory."--Elijah Anderson, Yale University"Collins offers a way forward for sociology free of moralizing, doctrine, and prejudice that infects the work of others. Although instructors of a very wide range of courses teach Collins’s many books, this book is clearly a great choice for courses on sociological theory, historical sociology, political sociology, sociology of violence and conflict, and courses on public order/crowds/movements."--Anthony King, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: Emergent and Self-Propelling Conflicts, Part 1. Time-Dynamics, 1 C-Escalation and D-Escalation: A Theory of the Time-Dynamics of Conflict, 2 Time-Bubbles of Nationalism, 3 Tipping Point Revolutions and State Breakdown Revolutions: Why Revolutions Succeed or Fail, 4 Time-Dynamics of Violence from Micro to Macro, Part 2. The Eye of the Needle: Emotional Processes, 5 Material Interests Are Ambiguous, So Interaction Rituals Steer Political Movements, 6 Mood-Swings in the Downfall of the English Revolution, 7 When History Holds Its Breath: The Take-Off of the French Revolution, 8 Assault on the Capitol: 2021, 1917, 1792, Part 3. War and Sport: Dynamics of Winning, Losing, and Stalemate, 9 The Micro-Sociology of Sport, 10 Battle Dynamics: Victory and Defeat, 11 High-Tech War in Theory and Reality, 12 Terrorist Tactics: Symbiosis with High-tech, Part 5. Violence in Everyday Life, 13 Emotional Domination and Resistance to Sexual Aggression, 14 Clues to Mass Rampage Killers, 15 Cool-Headed Cops Needed (and Cool Heads on the Street): Heart-Rate Monitors Can Help, Conclusion: Optimistic Discoveries in the Sociology of Violence

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Children in Social Movements

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Children's participation in social movements is presented through a theoretical typology consisting of strategic participants, participants by default and active participants. This range of participation accounts for the social location of children historically and internationally, calling for their inclusion into social movement research.Children are unresearched and untheorized participants within social movement literature. Providing rich detail of children's participation through illustrative case studies, this book presents the ideal types of participation as grounded in their social movement activity. These cross cultural, historical and contemporary case studies include, whenever possible, children's perspective in their own words. Utilizing insights from childhood studies on agency and rights of children enhances the understanding of social movement strategies and mobilization. Following the chapters on each type of participation, suggestion

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class

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Book SynopsisThis accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.Class has long been a key focus of sociological and political studies. This book explores what it might mean today in a twenty-first century context. Is class really disappearing? Is class morally justifiable? What impact has globalisation and neoliberalism had on the restructuring of class-based social relationships? These questions and others are explored in this short but lively book. Stevenson reviews a number of normative traditions including anarchist, Marxist, social democratic and citizenship-based forms of understanding of class in order to shed light on the themes of class-based experiences, health and inequality, work, class struTable of Contents1. Class as a Key Sociological Concept 2. Class Struggles 3. Class, Human Needs and Morality 4. Class Politics 5. Class and the Commons 6. Class, Work and the Labour Movement 7. Concluding Thoughts

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Suburbia in the 21st Century

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Book SynopsisThe majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the urban age. However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments.Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism.This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continTrade Review'Though urban studies has long been preoccupied with the inner city, suburbanisation continues to be the dominant form of urban development, with COVID accelerating the demand for suburbs regarded as more spacious and salubrious than their inner city counterparts. Recognising this, Suburbia in the 21st Century questions the privileging of suburbia, and explores the underside of the suburban dream, taking us into a non-place realm that is often debt-ridden, alienating and environmentally damaging. The wide range of international case studies in this collection nonetheless highlights the diversity of suburban forms, and deftly avoids dystopian stereotypes to provide a more nuanced and balanced analysis. An important and timely book that represents the state-of-the-art in critical urban scholarship.'Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King’s College London, UK'This definitive collection provides a rich compendium of research and writing on the suburbs by leading scholars in the field. Challenging reductionist views of the suburb as subordinate to the city, the contributions in this book present suburbia as diverse, complex and dynamic. Theoretically informed but empirically detailed, the chapters offer broad ranging insights into the nature, character and transformations taking place within suburban environments across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada as well as a number of European nations. An essential reference for urban geographers, planners, and sociologists, Suburbia in the 21stCentury: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? is an important and timely volume which demands to be widely read.'Nicole Gurran, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Henry Halloran Trust, The University of Sydney, Australia 'The edges of our cities have become central to discussions about how and where we will live in the future. Suburbia in the 21st Century assembles a cutting-edge collection that injects evidence to these deliberations. In a series of critical essays leading analysts take the pulse of these new urban heartlands, variously diagnosing spaces of opportunity and despair, spotting signs of policy failure and social utopia. These investigations help to correct popular ideas of the suburbs as simply sterile or affluent spaces, highlighting instead their variability of form, myriad lifestyles, resident groups, problems and potential. This exciting and timely collection brings insight, energy and critique to a subject that concerns us all. In the post-pandemic context and as these centres of increasing urban gravity continue to grow this collection helps us to understand the problems and possibilities of our new (sub)urban condition.'Rowland Atkinson, Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK 'A remarkable book that makes a compelling case for urban studies and planning to reconsider the suburbs. This outstanding edited collection is accessible reading for scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Its contributors mount clear and persuasive arguments about why we ought to take the suburbs seriously, exploring myriad issues including suburban diversity and disadvantage. The book demolishes a longstanding fallacy that the suburbs are banal 'blandscapes'. Using international case examples, its contributors convincingly illustrate how the suburbs are places characterised by ethno-racial, sexual and socio-economic diversity. Overturning the cartoonish caricatures of low-density housing, golf courses and shopping malls that occupy the imaginary of some urban theorists, this book shows how suburbs are heterogeneous spaces of social (re)production. The book masterfully redresses a longstanding asymmetry in (sub)urban writing, research, and theorising.'Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania, Australia‘This fine collection presents a wide-ranging assessment of Suburbia in the 21st Century. In the wake of recent economic, ecological and social disruptions, most recently the Covid pandemic, this re-evaluation of the ‘suburban project’ is timely and challenging. Long considered a haven from the rigours of city life, the suburb has not escaped the many injuries visited on the wider global patterns of urbanisation in recent years. It bears witness to human dreams and nightmares. This book brings together analyses from leading contributors to suburban scholarship who make sense of these harms, as well as the continuing meaning and gratification that many people find in the suburban setting. The editors are to be congratulated for the wide international sweep of the book which takes us beyond the more familiar urban terrains of the anglosphere.’Brendan Gleeson FASSA, Professor of Urban Policy Studies and Director of the Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia‘Maginn and Anacker provide us with a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning and much-needed scholarly work on suburbs across the globe. With chapters from leading suburban scholars, this volume takes us to countries such as Australia, Finland, Ireland and France, to name a few, to demonstrate the varied and dynamic processes of suburbanization and the suburban experience. Engaging theory and undergoing empirical analyses of the dreamscape and discord that is suburbia, Maginn and Anacker achieve their goal of rightly placing these places at metaphorical center of urban scholarship. This book is a necessary read for real engagement beyond the current city focus of urban studies.’Bernadette Hanlon, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University, USATable of Contents1. Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? Part I: Representations of Suburbia 2. Fixing Post-suburbia: Recalibrating the Way we Think, Speak, and Act Upon Toronto’s Periphery 3. Master Planned and Active Lifestyles Developments in Australia: Gerotopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? 4. Suburban Shopping Malls in Melbourne, Australia: Changing Roles and Impacts as New Town Centres for Diverse Communities 5. Liminal Space, Film Noir, and the Production of the (American) Suburb Part II: To Suburbia and Beyond 6. The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada’s Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods 7. Place Attachment in Non-Place Spaces? Community, Belonging and Mobilities in ‘Post-Suburban’ South East England 8. Does Galicia Experience Suburbanisation? (Sub)Urban Processes, Morphologies, and Planning on the Morrazo Peninsula 9. Suburban Housing Estates in Finland: Historic Development and Contemporary Challenges Part III: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? 10. Worlds Away in Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighbourhoods in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area 11. End of the (Sub)Urban Dream? The Foreclosure Crisis and Unmarried Partnered, Same-Sex Households in the United States 12. Between the Suburbs and the Banlieue 13.No Soft Landing for the Suburbs: Credit, Debt, and the Fracturing of the Suburban Dream in Ireland Conclusions 14. Covid-19 (Sub)Urbanisms: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Engaging Children and Young People in Planning

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Book SynopsisEngaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners' skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing several projects delivered or supported by planning students to young people in the Northeast of England. Urban or town and country planning is a largely unfamiliar concept to children and young people. Moreover, in England, the environment in which young people live, play and go to school is shaped by a local planning process which lacks their input. This book explores the nature of the gap between that planning process and the voice of the younger members of the community, as well as the barriers that impede this engagement. It highlights why an engagement process is beneficial for those young people, for the wider community and for the planning process itself. At a time when our relationship with and impact on, the environment is being re-examined, this book challenges the planning professional to identify, develop and reflect up

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