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University of California Press A Passion for Society How We Think about Human
Book SynopsisWhat does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Passion for Society
Book SynopsisWhat does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Unbottled
Book SynopsisAn essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols,The NationAn exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and howdiverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to grouTrade Review"In his new book, Unbottled, author Daniel Jaffee explores how bottled water’s meteoric rise has exacerbated inequality and intensified pollution." * Fast Company *"Jaffee emphasizes the resistance against bottled water’s hegemony, not just its negative effects, leaving the reader astonished but still hopeful. . . . For those wanting to fight for climate and water justice, this book is a must-read." * The Progressive Magazine *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1. A More Perfect Commodity 2. Making a Market, Fearing the Tap, Building a Backlash 3. Flint: Corroding Pipes, Eroding Trust 4. Reclaiming the Tap 5. Cascade Locks: A Decade-Long Struggle 6. Guelph and Elora: Watching Water, Broadening the Movement 7. Empty Bottles: Water Justice and the Right to Drink Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Borderland Circuitry
Book SynopsisPolitical discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s,Borderland Circuitryinvestigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands.Diving deep into a select group of information systems,Borderland Circuitryreveals how those with legal and political powerdeploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.Trade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry 2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database 3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear 4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold 5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm 6. We Make Our Own Maps 7. A Border Bleeds Out 8. A Hand Searches for a Root Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: I Demand Some Documents Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.Trade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
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University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
£999.99
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
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University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
£22.50
University of California Press Amphibious Subjects
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate menknown in local parlance as sassoresiding in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of amphibious personhood, Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the heart of homophobic darkness in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
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University of California Press Taking Privacy Seriously
Book SynopsisOther books remind us of what we already knowthat privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step planto create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. Taking Privacy Seriouslyoffers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Ruleproposes elevenkeyreformsin the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. What a privacy-deprived America needsmost is not less technology, Rule argues, butprofound political realignment.His elevenproposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal
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University of California Press Getting the Runaround
Book SynopsisGetting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the institutional circuitof parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty-fivein-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles. This runaroundis not merely a series of inconveniencesbut rather an extension of state punishment thatexacerbates material poverty and diminishescitizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of poverty, bureaucratic processing, and social control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Institutional Circuit of Prisoner Reentry 2 • Jumping through Hoops 3 • They Set You Up to Fail 4 • In Search of Respectability 5 • Becoming Professionally Poor 6 • Backsliding Conclusion: Citizenship and Social Justice in the Age of Mass Prisoner Reentry Notes References Index
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University of California Press Beyond Straw Men
Book SynopsisAddressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond hot take or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everydayTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Beyond Straw Men
Book SynopsisAddressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond hot take or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everydayTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
MP-MEL Melbourne University Seeking Justice in Cambodia Human Rights
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MP-MEL Melbourne University War on Corruption An Indonesian Experience
Book SynopsisOffers a courageous, informed, and sober insider’s account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within this fourth largest nation, by population, and vital participant in world affairs.
£25.46
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe nature of the British Welfare State, established in the 1940s through the acceptance of the Beveridge Report''s recommendations and assumption, has long been the subject of an inconclusive debate, even though knowledge of its history has increased as official papers have become open to access under the thirty year rule. What aims, interests and forces shaped its development before and after the Beveridge Report''s appearance, from the Liberal innovations in social policy before 1914 to the collapse of full employment in the 1970s? This book examines the answers to such questions provided by recent historical research and discussion, offering a critical and comprehensive study of the modernization of social policy in Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Welfare State: Definition and Interpretation. The Problems of Definition. Problems of Interpretation. 2. The Plan for Social Security. Beveridge's Recommendations and their Acceptance. The Prewar Reform Agenda. From the 1946 Act to the Fowler Review. 3. Beveridge's Assumptions. The Plan in Context. Full Employment. The National Health Service. Family Allowances. 4. Progress and Decline. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis student text introduces the main themes and issues of social policy. By examining a variety of social topics, such as leisure, work, media and information technology, the book explores the nature of inequality and the impact of social policy. It then considers the future for social policy.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Social Policy and Social Change. 2. Communicating. 3. Viewing. 4. Travelling. 5. Shopping. 6. Working. 7. Playing. 8. Consumers or Citizens?. Glossary. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThis authoritative and innovative reader collects twenty-seven articles that are essential for a thorough, comparative and theoretically-informed approach to the study of race and ethnicity. Collects together 27 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on race and ethnicity. The contributors provide an international focus, and are all recognized leaders in their field. Includes an analytical preface by the editors. Provides coverage of current trends, theoretical perspectives, and policy issues. Topics include ethnic conflict, migration, citizenship, identity, genocide, transnationalism, and ethnic justice. Trade Review"This ground-breaking volume tackles the hard issues – war, genocide, ethnic conflict, and violence – as well as why ethnic cooperation, assimilation, and accommodation occurs. Global in its scope, this book provides an important overview of the complexity of ethnicity and brings together the very best social science thinking on the topic. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand this central problem of our times." Mary C. Waters, Harvard University "This theory-rich, globally oriented, and well-organized volume adds to our knowledge of ethnoracial issues. A significant contribution to the literature, Race and Ethnicity is highly recommended." Milton Vickerman, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknoweldgments. Introduction: Race Against Time: The Ethnic Divide in the Twentieth Century: John Stone and Rutledge Dennis. Part I: Setting the Agenda: Du Bois, Weber and Park:. Introduction to Part I. 1 W.E.B. Du Bois and Double Consciousness: Rutledge Dennis. 2 Max Weber on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism: John Stone. 3 R.E. Park's Approach to Race and Ethnic Relations: Barbara Ballis Lal. Part II: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives:. Introduction to Part II. 4 Rethinking Ethnicity: Identity, Categorization and Power: Richard Jenkins. 5 Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the New World Disorder: Kevin Avruch. 6 Postindustrialism, Postmodernism and Ethnic Conflict: Anthony H. Richmond. Part III: The Diversity of Ethnic Patterns:. Introduction to Part III. 7 Skin Color, Race and Racism in Nicaragua: Roger Lancaster. 8 The Verzuiling Puzzle: Understanding Dutch Intergroup Relations: Thomas F. Pettigrew and Roel W. Meertens. 9 The Discourse of Race in Modern China: Frank Dikötter. Part IV: Conflicting Ethnonational Claims:. Introduction to Part IV. 10 Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond: Walker Connor. 11 Nationalism and Modernity: Anthony D. Smith. 12 Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of Liberalism: John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary. Part V: Violence, Genocide and War:. Introduction to Part V. 13 Rioting Across Continental Divides: Beth Roy. 14 Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide: Rene Lemarchand. 15 The Creation and Dissolution of the Multi-national State: The Case of Yugoslavia: Dusko Sekulic. Part VI: Migration in a Transnational World:. Introduction to Part VI. 16 Assimilation and its Discontents: Ruben G. Rumbaut. 17 Transnational Communities: Peggy Levitt. 18 Blood, Sweat and Mahjong: Ellen Oxfeld. Part VII: Boundaries, Citizenship and Identity:. Introduction to Part VII. 19 Toward a Postnational Model of Membership: Yasemin Soysal. 20 The Transformation of Miami: Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick. 21 Russia and the Russian Diasporas: Igor Zevelev. Part VIII: The Policy Debate: Levelling the Playing Field:. Introduction to Part VIII. 22 The Shape of the River: William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. 23 Ethnic Economies and Affirmative Action: Daniel J. Monti. 24 Multicultural Citizenship in Germany: Christian Joppke. Part IX: Toward Ethnic and Racial Justice?. Introduction to Part IX. 25 The Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor. 26 Reconciliation without Justice: Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley. 27 The International Defence of Racial Equality: Michael Banton. Index.
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Wiley Handbook of Public Services Management
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Public Services Management brings together twenty leading contributors to cover all the key issues affecting public services management. It is organized in a practical way to help students and professionals approach strategic issues.Trade Review"A welcome and timely continuation ... the breadth and choice of examples provide a solid sense of the major developments of the last 13 years across the public sector." MR and AMA News "Highly recommended." Asian Journal of Public Administration.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Evaluating Public Services. . 1. Evaluating the Performance of Central Government: John Brown. 2. Assessing the Performance of Schools: Brian Wilcox. 3. Evaluating Health Services: from Value for Money to the Valuing of Health Services: Andrew F. Long. 4. The Audit Commission: Mary Henkel. 5. An Overview of the Use of Performance Indicators in Local Government: David Burningham. Evaluating Public Services: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part II: Controlling Public Service Professionals. . 6. Controlling Doctors: Brain Edwards. 7. The Case of Local Authority Social Workers: Alan Butler. 8. The Management of Staff: the Case of the London Fire Brigade: Graham Salaman. Controlling Public Service Professionals: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part III: New Approaches to Resource Management. . 9. Local Management of Schools; a New System of Resource Allocation and Accountability: Rosalind Levacic. 10. Resource Management in Universities: John Sizer. 11. The Civil Service and The Financial Management Initiatives: Andrew Grey and Bill Jenkins. 12. Changes in Resource Management in the Social Services: Norman Warner. 13. Resource Management in the National Health Service: David Symes. 14. New Approaches to Resource Management: Reflections. Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part IV: Strategic Management. 15. Organizational Design and Development: the Civil Service in the 1980s: Kate Jenkins. 16. Organizing the Strategic Management: the Personal social Services: Gerald Wistow. 17. Strategic Management in Local Government and the NHS: Rodney Brooke. 18. The Organizational Structure of the Police: Roy Wilkie. 19. Strategic Management in the Prison Service: Chris J. Train and Christine Stewart. 20. Strategic Management in Social Service: Norman Tutt, Jean Neale and William Warburton. 21. Strategic Management: Reflections: Stephen Harris and Christopher Pollitt.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Social Policy
Book SynopsisProviding students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, this text conveys issues involved in conducting the research, examining the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, and discussing prevailing concepts and methodological difficulties.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part I: Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy: . 2. Trends and Developments in Welfare States: Catherine Jones Finer (University of Birmingham). 3. Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy: Deborah Mabbett (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). Part II: Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields: . 4. Comparative Housing Policy: John Doling (University of Birmingham). 5. Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe: Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh). 6. Comparing Family Policies in Europe: Linda Hantrais. 7. Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?: John Ditch (University of York). 8. Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults: Susan Tester (University of Stirling). 9. Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part III: Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy: . 10. The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective: Jane Lewis (University of Nottingham). 11. Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU: Simon Roberts (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). 12. Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany: Katherine Rake (London School of Economics). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Social Policy
Book SynopsisContributions from a number of leading academics with experience of different areas within comparative social policy research as well as undergraduate teaching. Covers conceptual, methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of cross-national research in social policy.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part I: Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy: . 2. Trends and Developments in Welfare States: Catherine Jones Finer (University of Birmingham). 3. Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy: Deborah Mabbett (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). Part II: Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields: . 4. Comparative Housing Policy: John Doling (University of Birmingham). 5. Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe: Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh). 6. Comparing Family Policies in Europe: Linda Hantrais. 7. Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?: John Ditch (University of York). 8. Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults: Susan Tester (University of Stirling). 9. Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part III: Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy: . 10. The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective: Jane Lewis (University of Nottingham). 11. Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU: Simon Roberts (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). 12. Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany: Katherine Rake (London School of Economics). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It aims to give an overview of contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of race as well as present a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
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Wiley Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding or race (focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, Sartre and Schutz) as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Local Authority Social Services
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the context in which UK social work is practised, Local Authority Social Services. The book is based on the realities of work in a modern social services department and addresses the major changes that have taken place. It also looks at the prospects for personal social services.Trade Review"The writing is accessible, well balanced and up to date student texts is a difficult task, of which in the field of social policy Michael Hill is the incomparable past-master. Here he has spotted a gap in the market, the lack of a book covering all the manifold and rather baggy activities performed by local authority social service departments...this is a timely book." --Tony Rees, University of Southampton "The strength of this book lies in the quality of analysis and its ability to capture and discuss critically the impact of the government's modernization agenda. It should have a place in all departmental libraries." -- Terry Bamford, Community Care "This book is unique in providing a clear framework for understanding the relationship between social policy and social services, and the complex structures and roles of the different organizations involved in the operation of social services ... It is one of the few texts that provide a clear picture of how to make sense of the bureaucratic organizational structures that surround social services ... in all the book is an important text for the social worker or student in understanding the relationship between social services, local authority and the central state." (Journal of Social Work)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Establishing the Main Concerns of the Book. 1. What are Local Authority Social Services? (Michael Hill). Introduction. Social Services Work. Social Services and Other Areas of Social Policy. Social Services and Health. Social Services as Last Resort Services. Conclusions. 2. Origins of the Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). Introduction. Personal Social Services before 1948. Developments in the 1940s. 1948 to 1971. 1971 to 1990. Conclusions. 3. The Contemporary Social Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Basic Demographic Picture. More Complex Demographic Issues. Economic Stresses and Strains. Ill health and Disability. Conclusions: Social Pathology and Social Services. Part II: The Local Authority Social Services Task. 4. Child Care (Jane Tunstill). Introduction. A Brief Historical Perspective on Social Services Provision for Children. The Legal and Administrative Framework. Services and Settings. Key Service Issues. The Role of Training. Conclusions. 5. Adult Care (Bob Hudson). Introduction. Services for Older People. Services for People with a Learning Disability. Services for Physically Disabled People. Conclusions. 6. Mental Health (Ian Shaw). Introduction. Mental Illness and the New Community Care. Mental Health and Social Work. Problems with Community Care. Managing Dangerousness. Conclusions. 7. Social Services and Social Security (Michael Hill). Introduction. Cash and Care in the Years after the End of the Poor Law: an Evolving Relationship. Cash Benefits and Welfare Rights. The Welfare Responsibilities and Concerns of Social Security Agencies. The Impact of the 1986 Social Security Act. Disability, Community Care and Local Authority Means-Testing. Conclusions. Part III: Organization: Present and Future:. 8. The Central and Local Government Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Role of the Department of Health. The Audit Commission. The Local Government Context. The Collective Representation of Local Authorities. Local Government Finance and the Social Services Function. Policy Making in Local Government. Organizational Issues about Health Service Collaboration. Conclusions. 9. Organization within Local Authorities (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Organization of Social Services: The Model after Seebohm. Elaborating the Model: Preoccupations in the 1970s and 1980s. The 'Big Bang' of the 1990s - Community Care and the Children Act. Contemporary Models of Social Services Organization. Staffing of Social Services Authorities. Conclusions. 10. Modernizing Social Services: The Management Challenge of the 1998 Social Services White Paper (Stephen Mitchell). Introduction. Background: the 1997 Inheritance. Why Modernize?. Modernizing Adult Services. Modernizing Children's Services. Strengthening Regulation of Services and the Workforce. Improving Performance. Conclusion: The Key Challenges. 11. Conclusions: The Future of Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis encyclopaedia introduces the major issues and debates in British social policy. Although the focus is on Britain, entries also cover major international concepts and comparative study. The book features larger entries on key debates and short definitions for minor terms.Trade Review"A valuable resource for all who study social policy at whatever level – not only for reference and guidance but for stimulation, provocation and inspiration." Adrian Sinfield, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh "A reliable guide through the jungle of terms, concepts, institutions and reformers that make up modern social policy. The short entries serve as a handy reference for students and practitioners alike while the longer entries depict complex theoretical concepts in a most accessible and lucid way." Professor Lutz Leisering, Bielefeld UniversityTable of ContentsList of Contributors and Editors. Editorial Advisory Board. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy A–Z. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Risks New Welfare
Book SynopsisThis exceptional collection, the third in the Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy series, explores the profound changes currently underway which will have significant implications for the future of social policy. New Risks, New Welfare provides a look at the likely developments in social policy and welfare that will occur in the twenty-first century. Taking an historical as well as a speculative perspective, this book looks at social change, types of welfare systems and changes in work - including welfare work - to navigate a likely course in the new millennium.Trade Review"If essay collections were ranked like boxes of chocolate assortments, New Risks, New Welfare would deserve a place among the hand-made connoisseur collections. It is packed with delights." Professor Robert Pinker, London School of Economics and Political Science "Provides a view of the likely developments in social policy and welfare that will occur in the twenty-first century. Taking a historical as well as speculative perspective, looks at social change, types of welfare systems and changes in work - including welfare work." International Social Security ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Millennium and Social Policy: Nick Manning and Ian Shaw (University of Nottingham). 2. The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in its Primary Functions, Scale and Modes of Coordination: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University). 3. Resources for Social Policy: Ian Shaw (University of Nottingham). 4. Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections: Nicola Yeates (Queen's University of Belfast). 5. The Welfare Modelling Business: Peter Abrahamson (University of Copenhagen). 6. Social Security in a Rapidly Changing Environment: The Case of the Post-communist Transformation: Gaspar Fajth (Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF). 7. Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Policy: New Life in an Old Connection: Colin Crouch (European University Institute, Florence). 8. Culture: The Missing Variable in Understanding Social Policy? John Baldock (University of Kent at Canterbury). 9. 'Risk Society': the Cult of Theory and the Millennium? Robert Dingwall (University of Nottingham).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Readings in Social Welfare
Book SynopsisIn Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy, Robert E. Kuenne packages postwar classics with contemporary discussions to examine the impact of social welfare theory on policy development. The book introduces students to frameworks developed by scholars to monitor the market''s inefficiencies, to modify its income distribution and resource allocation, and to make decisions for social investment. The readings cover practical issues of national and international concern, such as income and wealth distribution, the measurement of social welfare, recent movements in government regulation theory and practice, the economics of drug prohibition, and the role of the public''s risk aversion in the determination of public investment. This book and its complement, Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions, are part of the Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics series.Table of ContentsList of Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: STATIC AND LIFE CYCLE VIEWS. Introduction. 1. Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth (Edward N. Wolff). 2. The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform (Martin Feldstein). PART II. SOCIAL JUDGMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS. Introduction. 3. The General Theory of Second Best (R. G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster). 4. An Economic Theory of Clubs (James M. Buchanan). 5. Consumer’s Surplus Without Apology (Robert D. Willig). 6. The Social Costs of Monopoly Power (Keith Cowling and Dennis C. Mueller). 7. Rationality and Social Choice (Amartya Sen). PART III. WHEN MARKETS FAIL OR FALTER. Introduction. 8. The Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin). 9. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism (George A. Akerlof). PART IV. SOCIAL REGULATION. Introduction. 10. Behavior of the firm Under Regulatory Constraint (Harvey Averch and Leland L. Johnson). 11. Theories of Economic Regulation (Richard A. Posner). 12. Surprises of Airline Deregulation (Alfred E. Kahn). 13. The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition (Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel). 14. Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts (W. Kip Viscusi). PART V. PUBLIC GOODS AND INVESTMENT. Introduction. 15. The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure (Paul A. Samuelson). 16. Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions (Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert C. Lind). 17. Selling Spectrum Rights (John McMillan). 18. Analyzing the Airwaves Auction (R. Preston McAFee and John McMillan). Index.
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Wiley Collaborative Care
Book SynopsisPractitioners of all professions recognize the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. This book provides insights and understandings into the complexities of collaborative relationships so that individuals and groups can take constructive action to detect hindrances and attempt to overcome them.Table of ContentsPart I - Introduction:. Difficulties in working together; A relational approach to collaboration; Provision of help and helping relationships - Collaboration framework I; Primary collaboration; Secondary and participatory collaboration; Facework structures and the resource pool - Collaborative framwork II; Practitioners, carers and volunteers;. . Part II - Identity and boundaries:. The importance of identity and role; Working-identity and collaboration; Working-Identity - The defended position; Professional and agency identity - The separatist position; Province, domain and facework functions: Collaborative framework III - Developing collaborative practice; Working together - Towards a collaborative ethos; Consequences of institutional anxiety:. . Part III - Organisations and contexts:. The environment of collaborative care; The three collaborative frameworks.
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Harvard University Press The Banks Did It
Book SynopsisTo understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages—originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearly collapsed the economy.Trade ReviewNeil Fligstein’s new book reads like a financial crime novel, but with a twist. Instead of asking ‘who done it?’ we are told up front that the banks did it, and the real mystery concerns why they did it, when they did it, and how it produced a global crisis in 2008. Why did US banks become so deeply involved in industrial-scale origination and securitization of home mortgages? Who would loan money to borrowers that almost certainly couldn’t repay? Why didn’t banks change course when it became clear that the bubble was about to burst? Fligstein weaves together a huge amount of evidence as he identifies key turning points, refutes simplistic explanations, and presents a coherent and sophisticated account of an extraordinarily consequential sequence of events. -- Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern UniversityFligstein is the most influential economic sociologist at work today. Hands down. He is also one of the most successful sociological discipline-spanners, with wide influence outside of sociology. This eminently readable book will be of great interest beyond sociology, to historians, political scientists, and economists. The Banks Did It is erudite, carefully researched, and powerfully argued. It does not disappoint. -- Frank Dobbin, Harvard UniversityWell-structured, well-evidenced, attractively written, and based on over a decade of research, The Banks Did It is a brilliant work by a scholar who has reshaped how we should think about markets. -- Donald MacKenzie, University of EdinburghIn this incisive and exceptionally clear book, Neil Fligstein describes how government action unwittingly helped shift the business model of American banks from long-term customer relations towards fee-based activities anchored in mortgage origination and securitization. By the mid-2000s, every part of US financial organizations was oriented to maintaining this pipeline, at the cost of considerable risk-taking and even fraud. By offering a long-term view of the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis, Fligstein shows exactly how the banks, really, ‘did it’—and also lays blame at the feet of monetary experts and authorities, who never saw it coming. -- Marion Fourcade, University of California, BerkeleyA rich, deep, and comprehensive account of the financial crisis, arguing that the world the banks constructed and how they profited from it are at the core of what happened…Represents an important advance in our understanding of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Readers, be they organizational theorists or anyone who has a stake in preventing the next financial crisis, will walk away better informed of how the crisis was produced, why it spread so fast and so deeply, and how regulators missed what was happening. -- Lori Yue * Administrative Sciences Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press The Revolution That Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.Trade ReviewSchradie demonstrates in great detail [how] Facebook and Google work better for top-down, well-funded, disciplined, directed movements. Those adjectives tend to describe conservative groups more than liberal or leftist groups in the United States. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan * The Atlantic *Schradie explains that, while Black Lives Matter and #MeToo capture headlines, it’s traditionally powerful conservative groups who have used digital tools to create tangible change. Hers may not be the internet culture take you want…but it’s likely the one you need. * Wired *The Revolution That Wasn’t reveals the textured reality of contemporary activism, challenging widespread assumptions about technology’s role in social movements. Beautiful storytelling and grounded insights make this book a delightful and important read for anyone who is concerned about politics today. -- danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensTrump has no overt presence in The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. But the compulsive tweeter comes constantly to mind as French sociologist Jen Schradie persuasively argues her counterintuitive case: digital organizing—once complacently thought by progressives to advantage their grassroots uprisings—has turned out to be another ‘weapon in the arsenal of the powerful.’ -- Brian Bethune * Maclean’s *Schradie shifts the political conversation away from moral questions and toward questions of power, asking…how the tools of the web work in the very ordinary and unexceptional realm of electoral politics. Social media becomes a lens through which we can understand power, not an instance of power itself…We wish it was bots, that we could locate the problem inside nefarious digital practices emerging from Russia and other phantasms. Instead, as Schradie makes clear, the problem is within our borders, produced by legacies of racial and class-based terror that are as virulent—or more—in the digital age. -- Emily Drabinski * Los Angeles Review of Books *This well-researched and provocative text is likely to make uncomfortable reading for anyone who believes that the internet has gifted us a political ‘digital utopia.’ -- John Gilbey * Times Higher Education *The powers of persuasion, unregulated, have changed our political landscape profoundly…The right is simply better at this than the left, and Schradie’s study explores why that is…A fascinating book that adds new insights to our understanding of the information landscape we live in today. -- Barbara Fister * Inside Higher Ed *Offers detailed analyses of the ways in which digital inequality manifests…Schradie's superb study—easily one of the most important yet on social media's impact on democracy—makes for grim but insightful reading. -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *Articulates society’s creeping apprehensions about the digital world. It is not only in surveillance and fake news that digital platforms marketed for our pleasure are harming us. Even in digital activism—the use of digital technology for social change—those who support the status quo have the upper hand…Schradie…quashes the idea that digital tools aid the powerless more than the powerful. -- Mary Joyce * Stanford Social Innovation Review *[An] excellent and important book…Schradie has written an essential contribution to current conversations around not only the use of technology for political purposes, but also about the politics of technology…This book puts forth a nuanced argument about the need for activists to really think critically about whether they’re using digital tools, or whether the digital tools are using them. -- Zachary Loeb * b2o *Shows that it was conservatives who most effectively seized the digital tools at their fingertips. Like a peat fire burning undetected for a long time, right-wing individuals and groups were able to develop and formulate a clear ideology surrounding such concepts as Freedom and Truth while honing their digital media skills. This happened outside the gaze of popular pundits and academics alike…[This] also partly explains the largely unforeseen (by the same pundits) results of the 2016 U.S. elections. -- Rik Smit * American Journal of Sociology *Schradie suggests [that] the image the words ‘digital activist’ should conjure is not of a left-wing student or labor activist but instead a well-heeled think-tank denizen or technologically adept Tea Party member. * Kirkus Reviews *An extraordinary read bringing together knowledge about social activism and the digital divide…A full portrait of digital activism and its variable impact on emboldening grassroots organizing and maintaining the interests of the powerful. * Choice *Don’t believe the mythology of what works in digital activism, or the hyped advice that all voices can simply count. This book lays out the real deal. Perfect for change agents aiming to turn their wild ideas into new realities. -- Nilofer Merchant, author of The Power of OnlynessThe Revolution That Wasn’t synthesizes a wealth of accumulated knowledge to launch a new phase of scholarly endeavor. Blending ethnographic methods with quantitative assessments, Jen Schradie’s work shows that the claims of both digital optimists and pessimists miss the mark. She reveals that successful digital activism is linked to more traditional resources that give well-endowed groups a natural advantage, but one that can be acquired by their progressive opponents. A pleasure to read, and packed with vibrant interactions with activists of both types, Schradie’s book will take the study of digital activism to a new level. -- Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in MovementSimply put, The Revolution That Wasn’t overturns our reigning assumptions about digital activism. Schradie demonstrates how resources, organizations, and ideology shape the potentials for and outcomes of digital activism, and reveals the dynamics behind the conservative digital organizing resurgence in the U.S. since 2010. This highly readable and richly detailed book will become the first stop for those seeking to understand why the internet failed to live up to the ideals of democratic dreamers. -- Daniel Kreiss, University of North CarolinaSchradie carefully outlines how a confluence of factors help conservatives—not liberals—use digital technologies to seize state government and effect political change…Clearly illustrates that the use of technology is stratified along class lines, and finds that working-class, predominately liberal groups are at a disadvantage in the digital activism game…Timely, important, and challenges how we think about movements on the left and right. -- Deana Rohlinger * Mobilization *
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Harvard University Press More than Medicine
Book SynopsisAmerican science produces the best medical treatments in the world. Yet U.S. citizens lag behind in life expectancy and quality of life. Robert Kaplan marshals extensive data to make the case that U.S. health care priorities are sorely misplaced—invested in attacking disease, not in solving social problems that engender disease in the first place.Trade ReviewKaplan…argues that our enthusiasm for biomedical science has inflated health-care costs while encouraging us to neglect more fundamental determinants of ill health, such as behavior and social conditions. -- Chris Pope * Wall Street Journal *Many Americans are already aware of the extraordinary cost of health care in the United States. This fact is frequently explained away by asserting that such is the price to be paid for the best health care system in the world. Kaplan’s book shatters that comforting myth and exposes the American health care system for what it is: below average in quality and therefore way above average in cost. -- Joseph Q. Jarvis * American Interest *More than Medicine makes a clear and compelling case for why America’s overspending on medical care contributes to poor health outcomes. To improve health and well-being in current and future generations, we must heed Kaplan’s call to prioritize financial support for the social determinants of health. -- Jonathan Fielding, UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthThis is the right book, by the right author, at the right time. Kaplan asks a simple question that should concern all of us: why do we spend so much on health but have such poor results? He challenges the fundamental premise that has guided much of American biomedicine for the past half century: that we will achieve health through medical intervention. He makes a convincing argument that we need to think differently—that the promotion of health and prevention of disease should motivate our spending. -- Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public HealthFrom one of the world’s leading experts on public health, a brilliant data-driven examination of the mismatch between the pathways to optimal health and the narrow focus of legacy medicine. More than Medicine offers a new vision to advance health, science, and public policy. -- Howard S. Friedman, author of The Longevity ProjectBy combining scientific and clinical evidence with rare insight into political funding processes, Kaplan argues persuasively that the vast amount of money we spend on health care is not worth the cost. More than Medicine challenges us to reincorporate the essential element of human care back into medicine. -- Rose McDermott, Brown UniversitySharp, authoritative, and intensely data-driven…The argument is deeply compelling. * Kirkus Reviews *Kaplan’s call to ‘rethink’ how health-care costs could be lowered through greater attention to disease prevention and social and behavioral risk factors is worth noting. * Publishers Weekly *
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Princeton University Press Reproducing Gender Politics Publics and Everyday
Book SynopsisPresents detailed evidence about women's and men's various circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation.Trade Review"... unusually sophisticated and subtle."--Foreign Affairs "The particular strength of the volume is that it includes many essays by scholars who are living what they analyze; eastern Europe is not viewed from within universities across the Atlantic, rather it is assessed by a number of scholars who are working in the countries they describe."--Robert G. Moeller, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 3 PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS 21 CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland - Eleonora Zielinska 23 CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics - Sharon L. Wolchik 58 CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende - Eva Maleck-Lewy and Myra Marx Ferree 92 CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? - Irene Dolling, Daphne Hahn, and Sylka Scholz 118 PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE 149 CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? - Mira Marody andAnna Giza-Poleszczuk 151 CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary - Katalin Kovacs and Monika Varadi 176 CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work - Julia Szalai 200 CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach - Adriana Baban 225 PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION 257 CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s - Malgorzata Fuszara 259 CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary - Joanna Goven 286 CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania - Laura Grunberg 307 CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria - Krassimira Daskalova 370 CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report - Zorica Mrsevic 370 CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia - Jasmina Lukic 393 CONCLUSION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 424 CONTRIBUTORS 427 INDEX 429
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Gender after Socialism
Book SynopsisProvides an understanding of gender relations and their significance in social and institutional transformations. This work offers a comparison of East Central European gender relations with those of western welfare states. It examines how states and political-economic processes are gendered, and how states and markets regulate gender relations.Trade ReviewWinner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eurasian/East European Women's Studies "The contributors not only show what has and has not changed since the old order's collapse; they create another vantage point from which to judge the whole process of postsocialist and economic transformation."--Foreign Affairs "In this insightful and accessibly written edited volume, Susan Gal and Gail Kligman have collected a diverse group of essays analyzing the democratization and marketization processes occurring in east central Europe through a gendered lens... Not only have women and men been affected differently by the economic and political changes under postcommunism, but, as this volume's case studies show, gendered analysis lends insight into the process of transition itself."--Valerie Sperling, Slavic Review "Breathtaking in scope and beautifully written, The Politics of Gender After Socialism is a compelling look at the ways in which women and men, states and markets, negotiate the politics of gender in a changing social world. Gal and Kligman have made a vital contribution not only to the literature on the transition in East Central Europe but also to the study of gender, economy and politics. A stunning analysis."--Nancy Weiss Hanrahan, Journal of Social History "Gal and Kligman have produced a tour de force of political exegesis and scholarship. The Politics of Gender after Socialism is destined to become a classic in studies of gender and political sociology as well as 'transition.' Scholars of political culture and institutions, whether they focus upon gender or not, East or West, will find this book important and stimulating."--Mabel Berezin, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. After Socialism 3 2. Reproduction as Politics 15 3. Dilemmas of Public and Private 37 4. Forms of States, Forms of "Family" 63 5. Arenas of Political Action 91 6. Gender and Change 109 Notes 119 Bibliography 141 Index 163
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Princeton University Press The War of the Sexes
Book SynopsisAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, this title shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation.Trade ReviewOne of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013 "[A] witty, informative and cogent new book."--Jonathan Ree, Guardian "Seabright zooms out and across history in an accessible mix of scholarly prose and chatty anecdote to explain why inequalities and disagreements persist beyond potty-training... Turning to today, Seabright investigates everything from the effects of technology on gender-bias, to the various benefits of tallness, talent, and charm in the workplace."--PublishersWeekly.com "Throughout the book, Seabright is terrific company--entertaining and convincing."--John Whitfield, Nature "Right off the bat, I can say that this book should not be collecting dust on your shelf... [I]s War of the Sexes a challenging and interesting read? Undoubtedly so."--Sander Van Der Linden, LSE Politics and Policy blog "The War of the Sexes is a fascinating read. I love its interdisciplinarity."--Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "Seabright, an economist familiar with evolutionary modelling, synthesises several disciplines in asking what our evolutionary heritage teaches us about men's and women's rights and roles in the modern labour market. Judicious in bringing Darwinism to bear on contemporary mores, he avoids the vulgar reductionism that often plagues this kind of popular science."--Camilla Power, Times Higher Education "Seabright is unusual among economists in being a thoroughgoing Darwinian, and in this fascinating book he takes an evolutionary perspective to explore why there are still inequalities in economic power between men and women."--Jon Wainwright, SkepticTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One Prehistory Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Sex and Salesmanship 27 Chapter 3: Seduction and the Emotions 40 Chapter 4: Social Primates 60 Part Two Today Chapter 5: Testing for Talent 93 Chapter 6: What Do Women Want? 111 Chapter 7: Coalitions of the Willing 126 Chapter 8: The Scarcity of Charm 141 Chapter 9: The Tender War 157 Notes 183 References 211 Index 233
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University Press of Kansas Liberty and Equality The American Conversation
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Representations of Youth
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Welfare Futures
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Policy and Social Justice The IPPR Reader
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Gender Social Welfare
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Dark Side of Family Communication
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cosmopolitanism Reader
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Stress and Coping in Families
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Land of Strangers
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Evil
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Evil
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Human Rights
Book SynopsisLong the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists.Trade ReviewMark Frezzo invites sociologists to join others (political scientists, economists, anthropologists) to engage human rights both empirically and theoretically. We should have been there all along as human rights are embedded in societies, communities, and social relations. His invitation is especially attractive, because he challenges us to take on such cutting-edge issues as global inequalities, environmental sustainability, and the social implications of climate change. Judith Blau, University of North Carolina Through careful theoretical and pedagogic reflections, Mark Frezzo introduces us to the concepts of rights conditions, rights claims, rights effects, and rights bundles as a way to think sociologically about rights in the era of globalization. And, by expanding the epistemic community of human rights, he encourages us all to participate in defining and solving the human rights puzzles of our time. Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut Mark Frezzo adds a sociological voice to the human rights conversation, which has so far been dominated by the disciplines of law and international relations. If readers wish to study rights claims of social and global movements, sociological tools remain indispensable to assess their progress. The Sociology of Human Rights defends a nuanced form of universalism in an age of skepticism and upholds people’s capacity for change. Frezzo’s refreshing engagement is a significant contribution to the field of human rights. Micheline Ishay, University of DenverTable of ContentsBackground to the Book Introduction: Thinking Sociologically about Human Rights Chapter 1: Defining the Sociology of Human Rights Chapter 2: Classifying Human Rights Chapter 3: Civil and Political Rights Chapter 4: Economic and Social Rights Chapter 5: Rights to Culture, the Environment, and Sustainable Development Chapter 6: Rights Bundles Conclusion: An Agenda for the Sociology of Human Rights Suggestions for Further ReadingInternet Resources for ConsultationTerminologyBibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd India Today
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Affinities
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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