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Taylor & Francis Ltd Back to Shared Prosperity The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The End of Welfare Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation Consequences of Federal for the Nation Economic Policy Institute S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pensions Politics and the Elderly Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Retreat from Equality Income Distribution and Economic Transition Asia the Pacific S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Taking the High Road
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Taylor & Francis Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai A Tale of Two Cities
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Taylor & Francis Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai A Tale of Two Cities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Americas Social Health Putting Social Issues Back on the Public Agenda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Americas Social Health Putting Social Issues Back on the Public Agenda
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Taylor & Francis The World of Child Labor An Historical and Regional Survey
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interpretation and Method
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Taylor & Francis The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America
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Taylor & Francis Lobbying for Social Change Third Edition
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Taylor & Francis CuttingEdge Social Policy Research
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Taylor & Francis Work and the Enterprise Culture Routledge Library Editions British Sociological Association
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Taylor & Francis Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals
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Taylor & Francis The Sociopolitical Ideas of BR Ambedkar
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Taylor & Francis Youth Technology Governance Experience
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Taylor & Francis Family and Population Changes in Singapore
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Taylor & Francis Youth in India
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Taylor & Francis Ageing Matters
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Taylor & Francis Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life
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Taylor & Francis Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Urban Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Uncommon Understanding Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension in Children
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stereotypes and Prejudice Key Readings Key Readings in Social Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Social Policy Issues of Choice and Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Postcolonial Feminism in Management and
Book SynopsisThe term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice. For postcolonial feminism, the issues of interest are not only social and cultural inequalities in terms of caste, class, color, ethnicity, gender, and religion, but also historical, political, and geographical inequalities in terms of Third World, Global South and remnants of the colonial past. Postcolonial feminism pays nuanced attention to historical diversity and local specificity of feminist issues. This book draws upon the work grounded specifically in the context of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to demonstrate the plurality of thinking.In mainstream management and organization studies, context is often understood as a present, static field. This book discusses how context is an important consideration for any management and organization study and for feminist studies in management and organization studies. It informs the way we need to understand context not just as present but aTrade Review"Excellently conceived and executed, this volume welcomes readers into a world where the postcolonial emerges through the works and experiences of MOS scholars in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Postcolonial feminism interrogates what colonialism 'left behind' and helps forward affirmative possibilities with local knowledges as decolonizing practices."Professor Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA"Bringing together lenses of postcolonial feminism, management and organization studies, and South Asia which do not often appear together in literature, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of ideas, arguments, and provocations that need to inform ongoing and future work on decolonizing management studies." Professor Nimruji Jammulamadaka, IIM Calcutta"The edited collection by Vijayta Doshi, provides a much needed anthology on important and under-researched issues that concern us all, examined through a wide-ranging and original work of postcolonial feminist theory and practice. Organizational scholars and students alike will find Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies: Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh an invaluable compendium for expanding their thinking, research, and teaching." Professor Marianna Fotaki, University of WarwickTable of Contents1. Introduction: Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies: Critical perspectives From India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Part I: Feminist Resistance to Subalternity: Deconstructing “Development” and “Social Responsibility” 2. Naila Kabeer: Deconstructing Empowerment of Poor Women Entrepreneurs in Postcolonial Bangladesh 3. The Continued Silencing of Gayatri Spivak’s Subaltern: A Critique of the Elite Nexus of NGOs, Academic, and Corporations Part II: Exposing Neocolonialism in the Post-colonies: An Urge for Ethics of Care 4: Colonialism Otherwise: Reading Uzma Falak’s Kashmir 5. Modern Slavery in Contemporary India: Addressing the Elephant in the Room – Contributions From Stringer and Samanova Part III: Decolonizing Management Education and Praxis Through Postcolonial Feminism 6. The Epistemology of the Toilet: Doing Class Work in Pakistan 7. Bringing Postcolonial Women Writers to Executive Education: Case of Women Managers’ Program in India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Complexities of Researching with Young People
Book SynopsisCurrently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on how to' conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context.In total, five themes are examined conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts.Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of resilience', participation', risk' and voice'. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a casTable of Contents1. Complexities of Researching with Young People: Conceptualising Key Issues; 2. Researching the Lives of Young Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Creating Culturally Sensitive Methods and Theory; 3. Doing Research in Organisations: Implications of the Different Definitions of Youth; 4. They Look Before They Leap: Conceptualising Young People as Digitally Competent Risk-Takers, and its Implications for Ethical Internet Research; 5. Critical Reflections: Merits of Using Youth-Centric Technology in Keeping Young People Safe Across Europe; 6. Digital Modes of Data Collection in Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Youth Research; 7. Revealing Intimacy through Digital Media: Young People, Digital Culture and New Research Perspectives; 8. Researching Young People’s Experiences: An African-Centred Perspective of Consent and Ethics; 9. Working with Complexity: Between Control and Care in Digital Research Ethics; 10. Informed Consent as a Situated Research Process in an Ethnography of Incarcerated Youth in Denmark; 11. The Undue Burden of Methodological Warrant on the Voice of Disengaged Young People; 12. Critically Examining Participation, Power, Ethics, and the Co-construction of Knowledge in a Community-Based Photovoice Research Project with LGBTQ Former Foster Youth; 13. Participation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth; 14. Participatory Research and Political Ecology: An Evaluation of Research with Young Syrian Refugees in Turkey; 15. Youth in Voice: The Concept of Voice; 16. How Contradictory Friendships Disrupted My Study of Working-Class Girls’ Residential Instability; 17. The Multicultural Youth Australia Census: Reading Complexity and Migrant Youth Citizenship into Survey Methods; 18. The Pressures of Building Reciprocal Relationships in an Intergenerational Research Team.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crisis in the Professions
Book SynopsisCrisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing inequalities, and increasing amounts of cultural and political mistrust are but a few major changes undermining the people seen as essential in society and needed to compete in a globalized, highly skilled world.The authors explore this profound dilemma through a variety of methods, each one allowing them to identify significant areas of change and concern. They address macro-level social, political, and economic forces at the root of these changes and pair these explanations with illustrative vignettes of young, would-be professionals to paint a comprehensive, albeit complicated picture of professional work in the 21st century. Amid a backdrop of increasing globalization, technological advance, and cultural devaluation of expertise, the authors point attention to the mounting implications theseTrade ReviewThe precarious situation found within professional work raises questions about how society will organize expert knowledge. This book provides valuable insights about the reasons for and implications of the decline of these elite occupations. – Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis well-written and engaging book demonstrates how economic, social and political changes have undermined professional work and career opportunities in the United States. Long considered among the very best jobs in the economy – secure, well-paid, autonomous and fulfilling – professional work has become more precarious and hence less appealing. Leicht and Fennell document these changes, masterfully linking economic, social, and political trends to the changing labour market for professional workers, demonstrating how social change has implications for current and future professional workers. In so doing, they provide rich insights of interest to a broad audience. – Tracey L. Adams, Professor, Western UniversityLeicht and Fennell marshal evidence from many sources to document the declining prospects for the traditional professions – and the glimmers of hope for students who are hoping to become scientists, academicians, attorneys, or physicians. – Teresa A. Sullivan, President Emerita and University Professor, the University of Virginia Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables and Box Inserts Part I: Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age 1. Introduction 2. The Context: Disinvestment in Jobs and Cultural Fragmentation 3. Technological Change, Globalization and Professional Work Part II: Change in the Professions 4. The Value of Professions and Diversity within Professions 5. The Emergence of the Professional Precariat 6. New Professionals and New Professions? Part III: Younger Workers and their Career Expectations 7. The Work life of Millennials and Other Generations 8. The New Dark Age: Rediscovering Knowledge as the Proper Basis of Authority 9. Epilogue: "This is not a Drill..."
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Taylor & Francis Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice
Book SynopsisThis book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:â What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness? â How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act? â How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline wo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Explosive Conflict
Book SynopsisThis sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.Trade Review"This book is a major contribution to Collins’ influential theories of violence. It has a breadth and novelty of argument that can’t be found elsewhere." -- Ralph Schroeder, Oxford University"Collins offers a fresh and provocative perspective on the sociology of violence and grand theory."--Elijah Anderson, Yale University"Collins offers a way forward for sociology free of moralizing, doctrine, and prejudice that infects the work of others. Although instructors of a very wide range of courses teach Collins’s many books, this book is clearly a great choice for courses on sociological theory, historical sociology, political sociology, sociology of violence and conflict, and courses on public order/crowds/movements."--Anthony King, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: Emergent and Self-Propelling Conflicts, Part 1. Time-Dynamics, 1 C-Escalation and D-Escalation: A Theory of the Time-Dynamics of Conflict, 2 Time-Bubbles of Nationalism, 3 Tipping Point Revolutions and State Breakdown Revolutions: Why Revolutions Succeed or Fail, 4 Time-Dynamics of Violence from Micro to Macro, Part 2. The Eye of the Needle: Emotional Processes, 5 Material Interests Are Ambiguous, So Interaction Rituals Steer Political Movements, 6 Mood-Swings in the Downfall of the English Revolution, 7 When History Holds Its Breath: The Take-Off of the French Revolution, 8 Assault on the Capitol: 2021, 1917, 1792, Part 3. War and Sport: Dynamics of Winning, Losing, and Stalemate, 9 The Micro-Sociology of Sport, 10 Battle Dynamics: Victory and Defeat, 11 High-Tech War in Theory and Reality, 12 Terrorist Tactics: Symbiosis with High-tech, Part 5. Violence in Everyday Life, 13 Emotional Domination and Resistance to Sexual Aggression, 14 Clues to Mass Rampage Killers, 15 Cool-Headed Cops Needed (and Cool Heads on the Street): Heart-Rate Monitors Can Help, Conclusion: Optimistic Discoveries in the Sociology of Violence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Children in Social Movements
Children's participation in social movements is presented through a theoretical typology consisting of strategic participants, participants by default and active participants. This range of participation accounts for the social location of children historically and internationally, calling for their inclusion into social movement research.Children are unresearched and untheorized participants within social movement literature. Providing rich detail of children's participation through illustrative case studies, this book presents the ideal types of participation as grounded in their social movement activity. These cross cultural, historical and contemporary case studies include, whenever possible, children's perspective in their own words. Utilizing insights from childhood studies on agency and rights of children enhances the understanding of social movement strategies and mobilization. Following the chapters on each type of participation, suggestion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class
Book SynopsisThis accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.Class has long been a key focus of sociological and political studies. This book explores what it might mean today in a twenty-first century context. Is class really disappearing? Is class morally justifiable? What impact has globalisation and neoliberalism had on the restructuring of class-based social relationships? These questions and others are explored in this short but lively book. Stevenson reviews a number of normative traditions including anarchist, Marxist, social democratic and citizenship-based forms of understanding of class in order to shed light on the themes of class-based experiences, health and inequality, work, class struTable of Contents1. Class as a Key Sociological Concept 2. Class Struggles 3. Class, Human Needs and Morality 4. Class Politics 5. Class and the Commons 6. Class, Work and the Labour Movement 7. Concluding Thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Suburbia in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisThe majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the urban age. However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments.Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism.This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continTrade Review'Though urban studies has long been preoccupied with the inner city, suburbanisation continues to be the dominant form of urban development, with COVID accelerating the demand for suburbs regarded as more spacious and salubrious than their inner city counterparts. Recognising this, Suburbia in the 21st Century questions the privileging of suburbia, and explores the underside of the suburban dream, taking us into a non-place realm that is often debt-ridden, alienating and environmentally damaging. The wide range of international case studies in this collection nonetheless highlights the diversity of suburban forms, and deftly avoids dystopian stereotypes to provide a more nuanced and balanced analysis. An important and timely book that represents the state-of-the-art in critical urban scholarship.'Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King’s College London, UK'This definitive collection provides a rich compendium of research and writing on the suburbs by leading scholars in the field. Challenging reductionist views of the suburb as subordinate to the city, the contributions in this book present suburbia as diverse, complex and dynamic. Theoretically informed but empirically detailed, the chapters offer broad ranging insights into the nature, character and transformations taking place within suburban environments across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada as well as a number of European nations. An essential reference for urban geographers, planners, and sociologists, Suburbia in the 21stCentury: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? is an important and timely volume which demands to be widely read.'Nicole Gurran, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Henry Halloran Trust, The University of Sydney, Australia 'The edges of our cities have become central to discussions about how and where we will live in the future. Suburbia in the 21st Century assembles a cutting-edge collection that injects evidence to these deliberations. In a series of critical essays leading analysts take the pulse of these new urban heartlands, variously diagnosing spaces of opportunity and despair, spotting signs of policy failure and social utopia. These investigations help to correct popular ideas of the suburbs as simply sterile or affluent spaces, highlighting instead their variability of form, myriad lifestyles, resident groups, problems and potential. This exciting and timely collection brings insight, energy and critique to a subject that concerns us all. In the post-pandemic context and as these centres of increasing urban gravity continue to grow this collection helps us to understand the problems and possibilities of our new (sub)urban condition.'Rowland Atkinson, Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK 'A remarkable book that makes a compelling case for urban studies and planning to reconsider the suburbs. This outstanding edited collection is accessible reading for scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Its contributors mount clear and persuasive arguments about why we ought to take the suburbs seriously, exploring myriad issues including suburban diversity and disadvantage. The book demolishes a longstanding fallacy that the suburbs are banal 'blandscapes'. Using international case examples, its contributors convincingly illustrate how the suburbs are places characterised by ethno-racial, sexual and socio-economic diversity. Overturning the cartoonish caricatures of low-density housing, golf courses and shopping malls that occupy the imaginary of some urban theorists, this book shows how suburbs are heterogeneous spaces of social (re)production. The book masterfully redresses a longstanding asymmetry in (sub)urban writing, research, and theorising.'Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania, Australia‘This fine collection presents a wide-ranging assessment of Suburbia in the 21st Century. In the wake of recent economic, ecological and social disruptions, most recently the Covid pandemic, this re-evaluation of the ‘suburban project’ is timely and challenging. Long considered a haven from the rigours of city life, the suburb has not escaped the many injuries visited on the wider global patterns of urbanisation in recent years. It bears witness to human dreams and nightmares. This book brings together analyses from leading contributors to suburban scholarship who make sense of these harms, as well as the continuing meaning and gratification that many people find in the suburban setting. The editors are to be congratulated for the wide international sweep of the book which takes us beyond the more familiar urban terrains of the anglosphere.’Brendan Gleeson FASSA, Professor of Urban Policy Studies and Director of the Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia‘Maginn and Anacker provide us with a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning and much-needed scholarly work on suburbs across the globe. With chapters from leading suburban scholars, this volume takes us to countries such as Australia, Finland, Ireland and France, to name a few, to demonstrate the varied and dynamic processes of suburbanization and the suburban experience. Engaging theory and undergoing empirical analyses of the dreamscape and discord that is suburbia, Maginn and Anacker achieve their goal of rightly placing these places at metaphorical center of urban scholarship. This book is a necessary read for real engagement beyond the current city focus of urban studies.’Bernadette Hanlon, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University, USATable of Contents1. Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? Part I: Representations of Suburbia 2. Fixing Post-suburbia: Recalibrating the Way we Think, Speak, and Act Upon Toronto’s Periphery 3. Master Planned and Active Lifestyles Developments in Australia: Gerotopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? 4. Suburban Shopping Malls in Melbourne, Australia: Changing Roles and Impacts as New Town Centres for Diverse Communities 5. Liminal Space, Film Noir, and the Production of the (American) Suburb Part II: To Suburbia and Beyond 6. The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada’s Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods 7. Place Attachment in Non-Place Spaces? Community, Belonging and Mobilities in ‘Post-Suburban’ South East England 8. Does Galicia Experience Suburbanisation? (Sub)Urban Processes, Morphologies, and Planning on the Morrazo Peninsula 9. Suburban Housing Estates in Finland: Historic Development and Contemporary Challenges Part III: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? 10. Worlds Away in Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighbourhoods in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area 11. End of the (Sub)Urban Dream? The Foreclosure Crisis and Unmarried Partnered, Same-Sex Households in the United States 12. Between the Suburbs and the Banlieue 13.No Soft Landing for the Suburbs: Credit, Debt, and the Fracturing of the Suburban Dream in Ireland Conclusions 14. Covid-19 (Sub)Urbanisms: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Engaging Children and Young People in Planning
Book SynopsisEngaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners' skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing several projects delivered or supported by planning students to young people in the Northeast of England. Urban or town and country planning is a largely unfamiliar concept to children and young people. Moreover, in England, the environment in which young people live, play and go to school is shaped by a local planning process which lacks their input. This book explores the nature of the gap between that planning process and the voice of the younger members of the community, as well as the barriers that impede this engagement. It highlights why an engagement process is beneficial for those young people, for the wider community and for the planning process itself. At a time when our relationship with and impact on, the environment is being re-examined, this book challenges the planning professional to identify, develop and reflect up
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Against Cybercrime
Book SynopsisThis book advances a theoretically informed realist criminology of computer crime. Looking beyond current strategies of online crime control, this book argues for a new sort of policy that addresses the root causes of computer crime and criminality, reduces the harms experienced by the victims of such crimes, and does not unduly contribute to state and corporate power and surveillance.Drawing both on the proponents of realist criminology and on those who have leveled critiques of the approach, Steinmetz illustrates the contours of a realist criminology of computer crime by considering definitions of harm with online crime, the idiosyncrasies of online locality and community, the social relations of computer crime, the tension between piecemeal reform and structural changes, and other matters. Furthermore, Steinmetz surveys the methodological dimensions of computer crime research, offers a critique of positivist computational criminology, and posits an agenda for computer crimTrade Review'Steinmetz performs two impressive feats here – revitalizing realist criminology through an incisive engagement with pragmatism, and then mobilizing it to develop a digital criminology that is both realistic about online harms and critical about the workings of power. The result? A major advance in our understanding of crime and technology.'Majid Yar, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Lancaster University 'Intellectually generous and seductively synthetic, Steinmetz’s Against Cybercrime dares to imagine a new criminology of online worlds. Rejecting rigidity and abstraction, he offers instead a powerful mix of realist criminology, cultural criminology, and pragmatism designed to situate the particulars of digital crime within larger contemporary forces.'Jeff Ferrell, Author of Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge.'Against Cybercrime is well-thought-out, provocatively written, and provides a timely and exciting contribution to an under-theorized area in criminology. Steinmetz’s "realist criminology of computer crimes" implores us to address the root causes of crime through harm-reduction strategies that avoid increasing state power and surveillance. This is an important book - a must-read for academics and policymakers, alike.' Jayne Mooney, Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, CUNY'Against Cybercrime engages readers in a frank, compelling, and accessible conversation about the need to take computer crimes seriously while taking privacy, freedom, and related matters seriously. Readers will walk away with a greater understanding of the challenges associated with computer crime and demand more concrete solutions, as Steinmetz proposes, than what other cybercriminology perspectives currently provide.'Jordana Navarro, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, The CitadelTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: FoundationsRealist Criminology: An OverviewEschewing Critical RealismEmbracing PragmatismPART II: A Realist Criminology of Computer CrimeToward a Realist Criminology of Computer CrimeThe Mundanity of Computational CriminologyRealist Criminological Methods What Is to be Done about Computer Crime?Where Do We Go from Here?Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marginalities and Mobilities among Indias Muslims
Book SynopsisThis book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of citizenship, collective violence, and issues of civil and criminal jurisprudence. It explores the linkages between development, marginality, and citizenship the three critical issues for modern democracies today. Going beyond the singular narrative of a community on a continuous slide, the chapters in this volume present diversities of the Muslim experience of exclusion and participation. It discusses themes such as violence and marginality among minorities; Indian Muslims and the ghettoized economy; employment aspirations of low-income Muslim men; intergenerational social mobility of Muslims; the nature of the middle class; and the question of Islam, development, and globalization to showcase the living conditions of Muslims in India.<Table of ContentsList of Tables List of FiguresAuthor BiographiesPreface Introduction: The Muslim Question in Contemporary India Tanweer Fazal, Divya Vaid and Surinder S. JodhkaSECTION IDevelopment Trajectories 1 Post-Sachar Indian Muslims: Facets of Socio-Economic Decline Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyarasan A.2 Islam, Development and Globalization: Transformation of a Traditionalist Muslim Group in Kerala M. S. Visakh and R. Santhosh3 Degrees of Disadvantage: Education as Social Equalizer in India’s Labour Market? Mohd. Sanjeer AlamSECTION IIMobile Landscapes 4 Social Mobility Patterns, Opportunities, and Barriers: Muslims in Contemporary India Divya Vaid5 In the Middle of the Ocean and Land: Muslims of Mangalore Shaunna Rodrigues6 The Old and the New Muslim Middle Class: Classificatory Practices and Social Mobility Tanweer Fazal7 Delayed and Depleted: In Search of the Missing Muslim Middle Class in India Amir Ali8 Aspirations of Muslim Men in Delhi: Importance of Self-Employment in Jamia Nagar Aashti SalmanSECTION IIIQuest for Citizenship: Marginality, Mobility, and Violence 9 Swan Song: Muslim Musicians in Contemporary Banaras: Stories of Survival and Denial Zarin Ahmad10 Indian Muslims and the Ghettoised Economy: The Role of Negative Emotions on Occupational Choices in the Urban Labour Markets Sumeet Mhaskar11 From the Bigoted Julaha to the Terrorist: Stigma and Identity in Azamgarh Manisha Sethi12 Marginality among Muslims in Kerala: The Case of Marakkayar Community Salah PunathilIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fire Safety Law
Book SynopsisFire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.V. Charles Ward addresses in practical legal terms the responsibilities on building-owners to ensure that buildings are fire-safe for people who are living, working, or visiting those buildings and explains what protections are available to leaseholders faced with the costs of making their buildings fire-safe. The book begins with a summary of the lessons which have come from the Grenfell Inquiry, before providing a practical overview of current fire-safety legislation relating to residential and commercial buildings. This legislative overview will include not only the 2005 FirTable of Contents1. The Problem 2. The Grenfell Inquiry 3. The Fire Safety Order (FSO) 4. PAS 9980:2022 Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall Construction and Cladding of Existing Blocks of Flats – Code of Practice 5. Fire-Safety and Leasehold Frameworks 6. The Defective Premises Act 1972 (DPA) 7. Fire Safety and The Building Regulations 2010 8. Building Warranties and Fire Safety 9. Government Assistance to Remove Defective Cladding 10. Buying a Flat in a High-Rise Block 11. The EWS1 Form 12. Private Landlord Responsibilities Relating to Fire-Safety
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Populism as Governmental Practice
Book SynopsisPopulism as Governmental Practice illustrates how populism functions as a phenomenon of power and draws attention to the brighter and darker consequences of populist rule for ordinary people across the world via bottom-up analyses of populist experiences of government in remarkably different national contexts including Turkey, Venezuela, Greece, India, Philippines, Egypt, and the United States.By proposing an understanding of politics that is broader than the one embraced in current populism research, it focuses on a realm stretching beyond the electoral high politics of ideas/ideologies, discourses, public performances/styles, and mobilization efforts. The book theorizes populism as a responsive political/governmental practice in congruence with the material and symbolic expectations of populist audiences and analyses it as a rich praxis of governing people and things that is blurring the boundaries between public and the private as well as formal and the informal while embracing swiftness in temporal terms.Through an interpretive perspective focusing on the bounded rationalities and moral economies embedded in the populist rule and popular obeyance to it, this book would appeal to researchers and students of politics and its sub-disciplines as well as to the non-expert audience curious about the micro dynamics of populist rule.
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Taylor & Francis Children Young People and Dark Tourism
Book SynopsisThis book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of childrenâs dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.Presently, tourism research, and in dark tourism specifically, relies primarily on adult-centered theories and data collection methods. However, these approaches are inadequate for understanding and developing childrenâs experiences and perspectives. This book seeks to inform and inspire research on childrenâs experiences of dark tourism. Designed to appeal to students and scholars, it brings together insights from leading experts. The book focuses on five themes, to explore the conceptual and historic origins of childrenâs dark tourism, developmental contexts, child perspectives, specific contexts relevant to childrenâs encounters, and methodological approaches. This book is aimed at an international array of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homo Ecophagus
Book SynopsisHome Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but all other species on Earth due to human activities over the past tens of thousands years. The title of the book indicates Hern's new name for the human species: The man who devours the ecosystem. Over the course of its evolution, Hern observes, humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant and that the human species, at the global level, has all the major characteristics of a malignant neoplasm converting all plant, animal, organic, and inorganic material into human biomass or its adaptive adjuncts and support systems. Hern contends that this process is incompatible with continued survival of the human species and most other species on the planet, offering a diagnosis and prognosis of the current environmental impasse. Trade Review"I recently read Dr. Warren Hern's fascinating new book Homo Ecophagus: A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth and was taken in by accolades from diverse and renowned researchers and his unique physician's view—basically doing a differential diagnosis—of what we are doing to our planet and how we can change our ways from the point of view of a practicing physician." Marc Beckoff in Psychology TodayEcologist Marc Beckhoff interview/review of Homo Ecophagus for Psychology Today. Full text:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202211/homo-ecophagus-species-who-devours-global-ecosystems"What a book! Homo Ecophagus is truly wonderful to read. It is a galvanizing chronicle, a clear-eyed look at human decisions that have altered our world, its species and ecosystems in the past, and how this knowledge is highly relevant to decisions we must now make on climate change and biodiversity. These insights are all told through Warren Hern’s scientific knowledge and vivid personal experiences with these issues. Hern’s book both inspires and emboldens us to make urgent decisions to conserve our biosphere that we all rely on. This book is a wonderfully insightful read for students in a wide range of college classes."Diana H. Wall, Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, CSU University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biology, Colorado State University"Warren Hern develops a deep and unsettling comparison between metastatic cancer and the expanding footprint of humanity, as we consume and degrade the environment that sustains us. His readable and accessible account weaves facts, insights, and personal history into a compelling narrative that will leave you sadder but wiser about the inescapable human predicament that lies ahead. The book is a must read for all of us who are concerned about the environment and our collective future."John W. Terborgh, The James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University "Homo Ecophagus is a fascinating analysis by the physician scientist who pioneered the idea that humanity is performing like a metastatic skin cancer on our planet. Read it and act!"Paul and Anne Ehrlich, authors of The Population Bomb"Homo Ecophagus has the facts, personal experiences, and very vital messages. I hope lots of people read it and modify their behavior." P. Dee Boersma, Director, Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science, and Co-Chair Penguin Specialist Group for IUCN, University of Washington"Homo Ecophagus is a comprehensive and in-depth view of the global problems we face as a species. Hern, a highly respected and brave physician and humanitarian, offers an alarming diagnosis of our planet’s self-inflicted pathology that we must understand and treat immediately." Timothy E. Wirth, U.S. Senate, Colorado (Ret.), President Emeritus, The United Nations Foundation"Homo Ecophagus is the most significant book I have read in ten years." Wayne Lynch, Canadian naturalist, natural history photographer, and Fellow, Arctic Institute of North America Table of ContentsPART ONEOverview – what’s the problem? "Save that. We might need it someday" Public health and politics in West Africa Medical school and the Amazon: "You are very keen in your diagnosis" Brazil, Chile, and abortion Public health; research; and revelation A new calling Threat to the Holy Cross Wilderness Family planning, Amazon style "You may not ask that question" "As you know, the human population has just doubled for the first time" PART TWOManifestations of malignancy What the fractal is this? Malignant expansion and retroactive heterotrophicity in modern urbanizations Effects of malignant human activity on small, local ecosystems Human contact and island ecosystems Effects of human activities on regional ecosystems Effects of human activity on continental ecosystems The oceans Toxic trash, oncometabolites, and cow farts Effects of human activity on biodiversity Effects of human activity on the global ecosystem PART THREEAnalysis and policy choices Humans as cancer: Metaphor, model, analogy, hypothesis, or diagnosis? Human activities and malignant entropy Human culture and the ecophagic imperative "What will be the limiting factor for the human population?" "We have met the enemy, and he is us" Epilogue: "Great Bringer of Death to Paradise"
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Race and Social Policy
Social policy is not blind. It has been at the forefront of perpetuating structural inequality in many of the systems charged with serving and protecting. The impact of race on social policy is linked to historical (intended and unintended) patterns of discrimination that have resulted in disparate impact for many across their life course. This book uses critical race theory to examine key social policies. The chapters give primacy to addressing the experiences of African Americans in navigating systems that are flawed by structural racism and yet too often attribute individual pathology rather than systemic injustice to the worsening life circumstances they find themselves in. Using scholarship, personal, and professional experiences, the contributors offer valuable insight on differential treatment and the resulting missed opportunities to address historical barriers that, if not addressed, will continue the cycle of harm for marginalized members in society.The Cov
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Taylor & Francis Ltd For Public Service
Book SynopsisThis book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty, government, office and reason of state can shed light on current problems, failings and ethical dilemmas in politics, government and political administration.Simply put, public service is an activity involving the constitution, maintenance, projection and regulation of governmental authority. Public service therefore has a distinctive character because of the singularity of its official' object or core task' namely, the activity of governing in an official capacity through and on behalf of a state. In pursuing this activity, public servants civil, juridical and military have a range of tasks to perform. It is only once the nature of those tasks is appreciated that we are able to identify the unique character of public service. The authors employ early modern political concepts and doctrines oTrade Review"Despite its sober title, this book makes a vivid intervention into contemporary debates over the nature and justification of the state’s public authority and the role played by public officials in its exercise. To do so, it launches a series of daring raids on early modern political thought, recovering a series of key concepts—state, sovereignty, office, and reason of state—in support of a crucial practical and political objective. This is nothing less than to deliver into the hands of contemporary statesmen and officials an almost lost ethical and political vocabulary, one that is vital for understanding and defending their roles in the face of a widespread and multi-faceted anti-statism. Paul du Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth have thus written a tract for the times in the manner of their exemplars Thomas Hobbes and Samuel Pufendorf. By turns learned and passionate, historically informed and politically attuned, For Public Service delivers classical tools for thinking about public authority in a form suited to their immediate use by all those engaged in its exercise or dependent on it."Ian Hunter, Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia"Impersonality, reason of state, prudence, ethics of office: if someone had told me that one of the most spirited and penetrating arguments for the ideal of public service would come from such a tired repertoire, I would have wished them good luck. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Resourcing themselves in the history of political thought, Paul Du Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth breathe new life into a dusty constellation of concepts to remind us what there is to love about the state at a time when everyone seems eager to dismiss it. They argue that public service is not just about acting diligently in the public interest, but also about constituting and safeguarding the authority of the state, and they explain under what conditions such authority warrants our respect. Criss-crossing the fields of international relations, political sociology, intellectual history, public administration, and organizational theory, this brilliant book is a feast of erudition. Above all, it is a moving paean to the impersonal structure of offices we have inherited and to the civil servants whose vocation it is to keep it afloat, and whose primary merit is—against the incantations of new managerialism—to think well within the box."Bernardo Zacka, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"This is a timely, scholarly, compelling and important book which defends the role of the public service as an essential institution for preserving liberty and protecting our common life against populist politicians from both the left and the right. Exercising the objective, critical detachment they seek to reinvigorate in the idea of public service itself, the authors remind us of the ethics of office and the importance of duty and responsibility, as distinct from the predominantly individualistic ethics of contemporary times. They explain the value of public bureaucracy as a crucial cornerstone of constitutional rule."Janet McLean KC, Professor of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand"This book is very compelling. It exhibits a critical ethical dimension in its defense of the plurality of value-spheres, and its resistance to sweeping, 'epochal' critiques of modernity that suggest that there is nothing those of us who regret the decline of state service and its ethic can do but bemoan the misfortunes of our era. In providing a useable set of early modern 'classics' by whose lights we can rehabilitate key concepts of state, office, and reason of state, and thus escape both the post-1970s enervation of the state throughout the West and the unhelpfully totalizing (and thus paralyzing) critiques of the former by theorists of the left and right, it strikes me as a vital help to overcoming our collective impasse."Blake Smith, Harper Schmidt Fellow at University of Chicago Society of Fellows, USA"What du Gay and Lopdrup-Hjorth have done in this book is to provide a genuine public service. Their sober assessment of the present state of disarray in the public sector and the arguments for how this might be addressed represent a real contribution to current debates about re-establishing some sense of stabilised order in the public domain."Grahame Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Open University, UK, in the Political Quarterly"Sociologist Paul du Gay and his co-author, Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, seek to recover our appreciation for the state and its bureaucratic servants. Over the last few decades, they argue, it has become particularly difficult for observers in the West to understand security as the essential function of the state and bureaucracy as the indispensable means to this end. The state, the authors insist, must be seen as critically different from both the government—the group of elected leaders who at any given time set policy—and the public whose will elections are intended to express. The state, rather, is a set of administrative institutions imagined to constitute a sui generis collective personhood, which endures across changes in leadership. The state’s primary, constant obligation is to ensure its own survival and the security of the citizenry—and only secondarily to translate into policy the desires of the government and people.Bringing forth insights from political theorists of early modernity like Thomas Hobbes and Samuel von Pufendorf, and from contemporary scholars like Quentin Skinner and Ian Hunter, du Gay and Lopdrup-Hjorth argue that the state must be neutral—but also absolute. These adjectives together express the distinctiveness of the modern state as it emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries out of the chaos of Europe’s wars of religion. To escape confessional conflicts, in which large, opposing sections of the population saw themselves as morally bound to impose their own way of life on their fellow citizens, political theorists elaborated on the concept of "reason of state," the overriding obligation of the public administration to ensure peace and order by restraining these conflicts. To do so, the state—crucially distinct from the individual monarch or party that might be ruling at any given moment—had to overawe the armed religious leagues and factions and show itself as indifferent to their claims to transcendent moral authority.This was the only way the state in that earlier era could bring peace to a society still divided by religious difference centuries ago. But this forgotten history bears important lessons for our own turbulent moment. Social peace might never be restored in the West until the absolute power of bureaucracy, in the sense conveyed by this history, is restored as well."Foreign PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The State 2. On Office 3. The Bureaucratic Vocation 4. Whatever Happened to 'Administrative Statesmanship'? 5. Reason of State as an Official Comportment Conclusion: To Serve a State
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