Social and ethical issues Books
Hawthorn Press Re-Imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult
Book SynopsisChristopher Schaefer Ph.D. taught international politics and economics at Tufts University and M.I.T. before becoming an organizational development consultant. He co-founded the Waldorf School in Lexington, Mass. and the Centre for Social Development at Emerson College in England as well as Social Ecology Associates, an international consultancy group.He wrote Partnerships of Hope : Building Waldorf School Communities. A grandfather and activist, he calls for a free, equal and mutual society in a new Covenant between the American people and its government that engages both conservatives and progressives
£18.13
University of Hertfordshire Press Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk
Book SynopsisAt the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, Hadleigh, Suffolk—a thriving woolen cloth center with a population of roughly 3,000—offered a complex array of assistance to many of its residents who could not provide for themselves: orphaned children, married couples with more offspring than they could support or supervise, widows, people with physical or mental disabilities, some of the unemployed, and the elderly. Hadleigh's leaders also attempted to curb idleness and vagrancy and to prevent poor people who might later need relief from settling in the town. Based upon uniquely full records, this study traces 600 people who received help and explores the social, religious, and economic considerations that made more prosperous people willing to run and pay for this system. Relevant to contemporary debates over assistance to the poor, the book provides a compelling picture of a network of care and control that resulted in the integration of public and private forms of aid.Trade Review'I am exceptionally impressed by this splendid case study, the like of which barely exists for the well-documented Old Poor Law era and certainly not for the pre-1601 period. McIntosh's ability to reconstruct the family circumstances and other demographic attributes of those receiving relief is unparalleled in any study of Tudor poor relief. This remarkable local study will be of interest to a large number of both local and national historians.' Professor Richard M. SmithTable of Contents1 The context of poor relief in Hadleigh 2 Hadleigh's system of assistance 3 Recipients of relief and their households 4 The care and training of poor children 5 Aid to ill, disabled and elderly people 6 Why?
£34.68
Demeter Press Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering
Book SynopsisAs the fastest growing prison population worldwide, more and more women are living in cages and most of them are mothers. This alarming trend has huge ramifications for women, children and communities across the globe. Empathy for mothers behind bars and concern for criminalized mothers in the community is in short supply. Mothers are criminalized for their vulnerabilities and for making unpopular but difficult choices under material and ideological conditions not of their own choosing. Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering shines a spotlight on mothers who are, by law or social regulation, criminalized and examines their troubles and triumphs. This book offers a critical and compassionate lens on social (in)justice, mass incarceration, and collective miseries women experience (i.e., economic inequality, gendered violence, devalued care work, lone-parenting etc.). This book is also about mothers’ encounters with systems of control, confinement, and criminalization, but also their experiences of care.
£27.90
Baraka Books The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the
Book SynopsisIn this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details that country's campaign of peaceful persistence that led to breaking ties with Sweden—and suggests that Canada and Canadians should be inspired by the example. An essential component of Jacobs's urban activism, this new edition of the book incorporates and expands the 1979 Massey Lectures, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty-Association, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Also included is a previously unpublished exclusive interview with Jane Jacobs in her Toronto home in 2005, 25 years after the book appeared and 10 years after the 1995 Quebec referendum. In these musings, she reasserts and updates her thoughts on Separatism—and addresses new issues such as tar sand development in Alberta, the finance of gambling, and the future of the Euro and of Europe.Trade ReviewJacobs’s thought and writing comprise a resounding symphony of lessons and ideas; they compose a life’s work about economic, social, and environmental justice." —Nation
£16.96
Ballast Books Remaking the Space Between Us
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Myers Education Press The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for
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£121.60
Myers Education Press The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for
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£34.00
Myers Education Press Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International
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Myers Education Press Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International
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£40.00
Brepols N.V. Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society,
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£87.47
Harrassowitz Das Vermachtnis Des Christlichen Orients: Eine
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£65.55
MIT Press Trevor Paglen
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£12.82
Prh Grupo Editorial Lo que nos está pasando 121 ideas para escudriñar
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£19.51
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La ruta del pragmatismo The Path of Pragmatism
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Editorial Anagrama Soy Yo Normal?
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PRH Grupo Editorial esta Casa No Es Un Hotel Manual de Educacin
Book SynopsisEducación emocional para padres y adolescentes para despertar la consciencia y la asunción de la responsabilidad personal como pilares de la felicidad.Si has cogido este libro, probablemente sea porque te suena la frase del título. Quizás porque la has oído muchas veces en casa, o porque últimamente no paras de decirla. Si es así, estas páginas están escritas para ti. Y para todos los padres y madres -héroes anónimos- que se enfrentan todos los días con el titánico, desgastante y, en ocasiones, delirante desafío de intentar educar a sus hijos adolescentes.El objetivo de este libro es construir un puente entre ambos a través de reflexiones y herramientas útiles para lograr enterrar el hacha de guerra. Si no queremos que nuestra casa se convierta en un hotel, siempre podemos aprender a construir un auténtico refugio. Y el mejor modo de empe
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NIAS Press Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of
Book SynopsisWhat does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of “childhood” in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. Giuseppe Bolotta’s analysis employs “childhood” as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok’s poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people’s efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. The book shows how “marginal childhoods” and the “cultural technologies of childhood” – schools, religious agencies, NGOs – reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand’s larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people’s increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society’s generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that “childhood” is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state’s rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societies.Trade ReviewThis splendidly original and meticulously documented exploration of the constricted life chances of Bangkok’s slum children illuminates the problems of youth and class in a world shaped by karmic concepts of destiny and hierarchy. Gracefully written and resonant with compassionate insight, it deserves a wide readership. – Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Siege of the Spirits
£20.66
Peeters Publishers Transnationality, Internationalism and
Book SynopsisNew means of transport and communication allowed unprecedented mobility of people, goods and ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which contributed to far-reaching economic, social and political changes in a first wave of globalisation. In its genuine transnationality, the European historical avant-garde can be seen as a product of this development. Cosmpolitanism, internationality and internationalism became emblems of the avant-garde in its pursuit of a 'new', modern international culture trangressing 'old' borders and limitations dictated by conceptions of nationhood, linguistic restrictions, and state boundaries. Simultaneously, national and nationalist reflexes can be traced in the avant-garde as well - in a European context marked by a plethora of competing nationalisms. This collection of essays focuses on the transnationality and inter-nationalisms in the European avant-garde as well as on conflicts, paradoxes and debates in the avant-garde as genuinely transnational configuration of artistic movements, which possessed nevertheless many nationalist edges. The book presents a panorama of the historical avant-garde oscillating and operating between transnationality, internationalism and nationalisms of different kinds, both in national cultural fields and a transnational European arena - from Iceland to Greece and from the Pale of Settlement to the Atlantic.
£64.34
Nordic Academic Press Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the
Book SynopsisHistorical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, and educational reformers. Yet the theoretical currents that have left their mark on the historical and sociological studies of knowledge since the 1960s have emphasized structures over actors, collectives over individuals. By contrast, Knowledge Actors stresses the importance of historical actors and re-engages with their actions from fresh perspectives. The objective of this volume is thus to foster a larger discussion among historians of knowledge about the role of knowledge actors. Do we want individuals and networks to take centre stage in our research narratives? And if so, which ones do we want to highlight and how are we to conduct our research? What are the potential pitfalls of pursuing that actor-centric trajectory? This the third volume in a trilogy about the history of knowledge from the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).
£45.95
World Health Organization Heptachlor
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