Social attitudes Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vexed
Book SynopsisIn Vexed, James Mumford tackles the polarization of civil society across the democratic West, taking a fresh look at the existential questions and hot button issues that are an essential part of the politics of the Left and Right. In examining issues like the right-to-die movement and assisted suicide, family values and economic injustice, sexual liberation and consent, gun-control and abortion, the environment and technology, criminal justice and reform, Mumford questions the basic assumptions of our political groups. His challenge is simple: Why should believing strongly about one topic mean the automatic adoption of so many others?With this refreshing and eye-opening book, James Mumford, a public thinker and independent commentator, has written an essential and provocative account that will appeal to anyone of independent thought, and a welcome call for new reflection on the moral issues most relevant to our modern way of life.Trade ReviewMumford demonstrates an admirable ability to zero in on things too often missing from political conversations … A plea for nuance and ambivalence, in a world that often seems to be in danger of mislaying both. -- John Harris * Observer *James Mumford has written the most intriguing and original reflection on political tribalism that I have ever read ... Vexed is an intellectual page-turner. -- David Goodhart * author of The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics *Mumford is a subtle, supple and frequently ingenious thinker. His style is abrasive enough to make readers sit up when needed, but never enough to make us feel as if we are being hectored or bullied … A memorable and illuminating assault on what happens when ideology shuts down thought. * Catholic Herald *A thought-provoking exploration of some of the most contentious problems of our time * Sunday Times *An important contribution to understanding the polarization of our global politics from one of the most exciting young ethicists working today -- James Davison Hunter, Labrosse-Levenson Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia and author of Culture WarsLively, well argued ... help[s] us understand aspects of tribalism * Financial Times *Fascinating ... Supplies readers with ample food for thought and opportunities to reconsider and broaden their own perspective. * Vision *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Package-Deal Ethics 1 Inclusivity: Should Liberals Back Assisted Suicide? 2 Family Values: Why Social Conservatives Should Raise Wages 3 Sufficiency: Why the Left and Sexual Liberation Make Bad Bedfellows 4 The Sanctity of Life: What's Pro-Life about an AR-15? 5 Reverence for Nature: Why Greens Shouldn't Become Cyborgs 6 Personal Responsibility: Why the Right Should Release Ex-Offenders Conclusion: Moral Imagination Acknowledgements Notes Permissions Index
£15.29
University of Toronto Press Power and Everyday Practices Second Edition
Book SynopsisThis unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By "unpacking the centre" students are encouraged to turn their social worlds inside out and explore alternatives to the dominant social order.The text is divided into three parts. In Part One students learn how to use theory and methodology, which are blended seamlessly throughout the text. It shows how to position Michel Foucault as a companion to theorists such as Karl Marx and Stuart Hall, while signaling the importance of non-western and Indigenous knowledges, experiences, and rights. In Part Two, students explore – and challenge – normativity; the normal body, heterosexuality, whiteness, the two-gender system, aging, and the under-side of citizenship. In Part Three, Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Unpacking the Centre Part One: Foundations 1. Thinking about Power Deborah Brock, York University 2. Assembling Our Toolkit Andrea Noack, Ryerson University and Aryn Martin, York University Part Two: The Centre, Normalization, and Power 3. Fashioning the Normal Body Anne McGuire, University of Toronto and Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University 4. Trans/Gender Dan Irving, Carleton University 5. Thinking "Straight" Alix Holtby, York University 6. Whiteness Invented Melanie Knight, Ryerson University 7. Being "Middle Class" Mark P. Thomas, York University 8. Growing Up, Growing Old Rebecca Raby, Brock University 9. Citizenship and Borders Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Manoa Part Three: Everyday Practices 10. Science and the "Matter" of Power Aryn Martin, York University 11. Are You "Normal"? Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg and Deborah Brock, York University 12. Going Shopping: The Politics of Everyday Consumption Dennis Soron, Brock University 13. Are You Financially Fit? Mary Beth Raddon, Brock University 14. Let’s Get a Coffee Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary’s University and Erika Koss, Saint Mary’s University 15. Indigenous Youth: Representing Themselves Margot Francis, Brock University 16. Being a Tourist Gada Mahrouse, Concordia University Conclusion
£52.70
MY - University of Toronto Press Power and Everyday Practices Second Edition
Book SynopsisRather than view social inequality as a problem for marginalized populations, Power and Everyday Practices turns the spotlight on the ways power and privilege are produced and reproduced in our everyday worldsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Unpacking the Centre Part One: Foundations 1. Thinking about Power Deborah Brock, York University 2. Assembling Our Toolkit Andrea Noack, Ryerson University and Aryn Martin, York University Part Two: The Centre, Normalization, and Power 3. Fashioning the Normal Body Anne McGuire, University of Toronto and Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University 4. Trans/Gender Dan Irving, Carleton University 5. Thinking "Straight" Alix Holtby, York University 6. Whiteness Invented Melanie Knight, Ryerson University 7. Being "Middle Class" Mark P. Thomas, York University 8. Growing Up, Growing Old Rebecca Raby, Brock University 9. Citizenship and Borders Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Manoa Part Three: Everyday Practices 10. Science and the "Matter" of Power Aryn Martin, York University 11. Are You "Normal"? Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg and Deborah Brock, York University 12. Going Shopping: The Politics of Everyday Consumption Dennis Soron, Brock University 13. Are You Financially Fit? Mary Beth Raddon, Brock University 14. Let’s Get a Coffee Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary’s University and Erika Koss, Saint Mary’s University 15. Indigenous Youth: Representing Themselves Margot Francis, Brock University 16. Being a Tourist Gada Mahrouse, Concordia University Conclusion
£105.40
Adams Media Corporation Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on
Book Synopsis“An invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies…obvious and necessary” (Library Journal, starred review) information for everyone who wants to learn more about how to navigate gender diversity in today’s families, communities, and workplaces.The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men nor women, instead living outside of the binary. Gender is changing, and this change is gaining momentum. We all want to do and say the right things in relation to gender diversity—whether at a job interview, at parent/teacher night, and around the table at family dinners. But where do we begin? From the differences among gender identity, gender expression, and sex, to the use of gender-neutral pronouns like singular they/them, to thinking about your own participation in gender, Gender: Your Guide serves as “a warm, inviting guide to a complicated area” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). Professor and gender diversity advocate Lee Airton, PhD, explains how gender works in everyday life; how to use accurate terminology to refer to transgender, non-binary, and/or gender non-conforming individuals; and how to ask when you aren’t sure what to do or say. It provides the information you need to talk confidently and compassionately about gender diversity, whether simply having a conversation or going to bat as an advocate. Just like gender itself, being gender-friendly is a process for all of us. As revolutionary a resource as Our Bodies, Ourselves, Gender: Your Guide is “greatly needed…an impactful tool for creating a world more supportive of people of all genders” (INTO! Magazine).Trade Review"This guide is unlike anything else available today, and an obvious and necessary item for collections of all kinds." —Library Journal (starred review)"Lee Airton’s book ‘Gender: Your Guide’ is a vital resource toward understanding and inclusiveness.... A must-have for everyone, and not only those who are trans, gender non-conforming or non-binary—or who have someone trans in their life." —The Washington Post"What I like most about how the author writes is how they combine their knowledge about gender, language and identity with a warm and caring tone. I feel like Airton is both my smartest and best friend on this subject matter." —TED"A helpful primer for those who need help negotiating gender situation and issue at work, in a social situation, and within their families. … The book may just change your thinking and the way you deal with gender diversity." —The Advice Sisters“A wealth of information useful for creating safe and welcoming space for all gender expressions.” —TD Magazine
£9.49
Bristol University Press Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone, regardless of their politics. But how is this happening, and why with such speed? The shocking answer turns out to be aggrieved manhood gone viral, disguised as right-wing populism. Taking a fresh approach to global politics, Wronged and Dangerous refocuses divisions towards shared human interests. If you care about our common future, discover new ways to engage with the challenges of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Gender as an Acquired Taste 1. Reality in Hard and Soft 2. Strongmen versus Sober Women 3. From Binary to Biodiversity 4. Of Masks and Men 5. Gender as a Matter of Life and Death Part 2: The Feel of New Populisms 6. This Is Populism 7. Crash Course 8. New Populism 9. Anger, Downrising 10. The Problem with Anger Management Part 3: Probable Cause 11. Class and Culture, of Course 12. Aggrieved Masculinity as Animation 13. Perish the Thought of Gender 14. Identity Politics for the Universal Human 15. Not Another Masculinity Crisis Part 4: Virality and Virility 16. Culture Wars Can Kill 17. Dear Manosphere 18. Metaphor Matters: Poison or Pandemic? 19. Identity Politics 2.0 20. We the Sleepwalkers
£72.25
Bristol University Press Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone, regardless of their politics. But how is this happening, and why with such speed? The shocking answer turns out to be aggrieved manhood gone viral, disguised as right-wing populism. Taking a fresh approach to global politics, Wronged and Dangerous refocuses divisions towards shared human interests. If you care about our common future, discover new ways to engage with the challenges of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Gender as an Acquired Taste 1. Reality in Hard and Soft 2. Strongmen versus Sober Women 3. From Binary to Biodiversity 4. Of Masks and Men 5. Gender as a Matter of Life and Death Part 2: The Feel of New Populisms 6. This Is Populism 7. Crash Course 8. New Populism 9. Anger, Downrising 10. The Problem with Anger Management Part 3: Probable Cause 11. Class and Culture, of Course 12. Aggrieved Masculinity as Animation 13. Perish the Thought of Gender 14. Identity Politics for the Universal Human 15. Not Another Masculinity Crisis Part 4: Virality and Virility 16. Culture Wars Can Kill 17. Dear Manosphere 18. Metaphor Matters: Poison or Pandemic? 19. Identity Politics 2.0 20. We the Sleepwalkers
£18.99
Encounter Books,USA Wrath: America Enraged
Book SynopsisAnger now dominates American politics. It wasn’t always so. “Happy Days Are Here Again” was FDR’s campaign song in 1932. By contrast, candidate Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige’s “Work That” (“Let ‘em get mad / They gonna hate anyway”). Both the left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their supporters. Post-election, both sides became even more indignant. The left accuses the right of “insurrection.” The right accuses the left of fraud. This is a book about how we got here—about how America changed from a nation that could be roused to anger but preferred self-control, to a nation permanently dialed to eleven. Peter W. Wood, an anthropologist, has rewritten his 2007 book, A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America, which predicted the new era of political wrath. In his new book, he explains how American culture beginning in the 1950s made a performance art out of anger; how and why we brought anger into our music, movies, and personal lives; and how, having step by step relinquished our old inhibitions on feeling and expressing anger, we turned anger into a way of wielding political power. But the “angri-culture,” as he calls it, doesn’t promise happy days again. It promises revenge. And a crisis that could destroy our republic.Trade Review“What can you do when your rulers choose as their lifestyle wrathful hate of you, apart from any actual grievance? Peter Wood shows how, though countering them with equally forceful wrath is essential for survival, it may be possible to wield that wrath not wholly divorced from reason about good and evil. This deeply thought-out reflection by a master scholar offers intellectual and moral guidance to Americans who hope that resisting our oligarchy’s campaigns on our way of life will not lead to civil war.” —Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University“This is a book that engages with anger and wrath but hardly celebrates it. Rather, Peter Wood's newest book reminds us of Aristotle’s counsel in his Ethics that we should strive to be the person who ‘is angry at the right things and toward the right people, and also in the right way.’ Woods is an anthropologist who understands the social forces involved in the kind of anger many of us are feeling right now as our social institutions are attacked and our freedoms threatened. Engaging and accessible to all readers, this book reassures us that although we may have the ‘right’ to be angry, we need to direct our anger in positive and life-affirming ways to confront the dark forces determined to destroy everything that is good and true and beautiful in this country.” —Anne Hendershott, professor of sociology and director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life, Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH “Beware offending the honor of a Greek warrior, especially if his mother is a goddess. And beware angering the once-stolid American middle class. With the cool vision of a social scientist, Peter Wood warns us that the boiling cauldron of rage at the center of twenty-first-century American politics is only too likely to overflow. The book is essential: Read, learn, and ponder.” —Rusty Reno, editor of First Things “Peter Wood is becoming our foremost ‘angerologist.’ But his advice about how to channel the ‘wrath’ of traditional Americans over the hijacking and destruction of their culture is quite different from ‘anger management.’ Wood shows why conservatives are justifiably seething at the frequent hysterics of the even angrier left—but, more importantly, how they can focus and hone their anger to restore America. An insightful, timely, and splendidly written call to arms.” —Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of The Dying CitizenBuilding on his previous book, A Bee in the Mouth, Peter Wood has penned a sober, and sobering, assessment of modern America’s decline from anger into wrath, and given us an insightful preview of the consequences should we fail to comprehend and address the underlying causes. Well worth the read for anyone (and that should be everyone) who is concerned about the “destroy them” divide that now plagues our country. —John Eastman "The 2020 presidential election was the most compromised in American history. Pandemic-justified federal guidance satisfied long sought-after Democratic Party election laws such as absentee voting, drop boxes, and lax verification. Big Tech and the national media conspired to silence criticism of mail-in voting and suppress damning information about the Biden family. After November 3, 2020, state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Justice Department refused to consider probable cases of election fraud in states that swung from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. All of this and more is why nearly a year later, tens of millions of Americans do not believe Biden won enough legitimate votes to win the presidency." —Julie Kelly, senior writer for American Greatness, author of Disloyal Opposition“Peter Wood is one of the most incisive observers of contemporary American politics and one of the few public intellectuals who’s proud to call himself a deplorable.” —Toby Young
£18.89
Encounter Books Disappearing the President
Book Synopsis"Lee Smith is a great American patriot who has understood, from the very beginning, that the radical left is the true THREAT TO DEMOCRACY."?Donald Trump, former president of the United StatesFrom Lee Smith, bestselling author of,The Permanent Coup and The Plot Against the President,comes another riveting exposéof the secret war against President Trump and American democracy.Even before a would-be killer tried to murder President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a clique of political assassins set about eliminating him from public life entirely.InDisappearing the President,New York Timesbestselling author Lee Smith exposes how a shadow network of powerful partisan activists has waged a years-long, scorched-earth war to eradicate President Trump and any vestige of his influence.Resorting to an unprecedented campaign of domestic spying, election rigging, brute-force censorship, and political violence, anti-Trump zealots have undermined the federal government and sabotaged countless other vital institutions in their relentless quest to crush the former president.In this alarming book, Lee Smith reveals:How U.S. intelligence services, trained to sabotage foreign governments and leaders, have turned their expertise against Americans.How the Shadow Network exploited Covid to censor dissidents and rig the 2020 election.Why Big Tech firms hired hundreds of former intelligence officials after 2018.How Barack Obama, widely viewed as a benign elder statesman, created and leads the anti-Trump operation.Finally, Smith shows how censorship of Trump supporters has provoked a free-speech backlash.The hour is late, and the stakes are high. Including exclusive interviews with President Trump, Devin Nunes, Dan Bongino, and many others,Disappearing the Presidentis an unsettling expose of a rogue cabal that will pay any price to annihilate the one man who threatens their agenda.
£24.74
Berghahn Books PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising
Book Synopsis This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics in Sweden, the book examines cases, some in which the author was himself involved, but also comparative material from other countries.Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction: Why Political Correctness? Chapter 1. PC Worlds: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Chapter 2. The Rhinoceros II Chapter 3. Rhinoceros II: Proof of the Pudding Chapter 4. Umeå: Nazism in the Far North Chapter 5. Three Years Later: La Lutte Continue Chapter 6. Changing Places: A Curious History of Swedish Political Culture Chapter 7. Aspects of the Inversion of Ideology Chapter 8. The New Respectability Conclusion: Understanding the Context and Logic of Contemporary Political Correctness Postscript: Weekend Update References Index
£99.00
Biteback Publishing 'I STILL Find That Offensive!'
Book SynopsisNEW AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED THE TERM `SNOWFLAKE' When you hear that now ubiquitous phrase `I find that offensive', you know you're being told to shut up. While the terrible murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists demonstrated that those who offend can face the most brutal form of censorship, it also served to intensify the pre-existing climate that dictates we all have to walk on eggshells to avoid saying anything offensive - or else. Indeed, competitive offence-claiming is ratcheting up well beyond religious sensibilities. So, while Islamists and feminists may seem to have little in common, they are both united in demanding retribution in the form of bans, penalties and censorship of those who hurt their feelings. But how did we become so thin-skinned? In this ned and updated edition of her book `I Find That Offensive!' Claire Fox addresses head on the possible causes of what is fast becoming known as `Generation Snowflake' in a call to toughen up, become more robust and make a virtue of the right to be offensive.
£9.50
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing:
Book SynopsisAs human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides an essential foundation for understanding the complex and manifold approaches to medicine and health around the world. An awareness of this diversity moreover allows healthcare professionals to better engage with their patients and offer them satisfactory care and support in the future.Trade ReviewWestern medical science is in the midst of a massive re-evaluation of the nature of consciousness and how it manifests in the lives of humans. A key aspect of this movement is the role of spirituality in mental and physical health, and how these effects vary in different cultures. Natalie Tobert's Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing is a brilliant foray into this domain. This excellent treatise will be talked about for years to come by professionals and laypersons alike. -- Larry Dossey, MD, author of ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It MattersThis is an important study highlighting the human and philosophical inadequacy of scientific and medical materialism, which is taken for granted when educating young scientists and doctors. This consensus leads to the categorisation of many human experiences as anomalous in terms of this limited if powerful understanding. When one questions and puts aside the assumption that consciousness is produced by the brain, many of the experiences discussed by Natalie become explicable and point towards a wider and deeper scientific and medical outlook, which has been the mission of the Scientific and Medical Network for over 40 years. I would encourage all health professionals to read this book with an open mind. -- David Lorimer, Programme Director, Scientific and Medical NetworkDr. Tobert brings many arguments and data to highlight the transient way humans accept knowledge, set laws, and then change their minds about what is 'correct'. She notes a gap between the perspectives of physicians and their patients: what is normal in one geographical location is not normal in another. A shift is needed - towards a more culturally universal paradigm. The author argues for the need to address questions of spirituality and religion, materialistic and spiritual perspectives and their importance for health. The book contains chapters on death and dying and shows how various experiences, among them near-death and end-of-life experiences, can radically cause a shift in worldview. This is a thoughtful medical anthropology book that takes a penetrative look at the variability of human views of life. -- Erlendur Haraldsson, author of At the Hour of DeathIn seventeen neat chapters, each helpfully introduced and then summarised for clarity, the author tackles pertinent subjects including 'cultural beliefs about health and illness', 'beliefs about conception and human identity', 'women's bodies and human behaviour', and 'cultural knowledge on death and dying'. This is a worthwhile book, making an ideal companion to two College publications: 'Spirituality and Psychiatry' (Cook et al, 2009) and 'Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice' (Cook et al, 2016). Members of the Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG will certainly find it rewarding. Others might find it surprisingly beneficial, both accessible and enlightening, too. -- Larry Culliford * British Journal of Psychiatry *Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. Part 1: Introduction. 1. Consensual Reality, Spirituality and Religion. 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity. 3. Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness. 4. The Human Body. 5. Beliefs about Conception and Human Identity. 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour. 7. Cultural U-turns and Changing Responses to Consensus. Part 2: 8. Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying. 9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death. 10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual Experiences. 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. NDE, OBE, ELE. 12. Anomalous Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health. 13. Anomalous Experiences: D. Popular Uprising and Spiritual Awakening. 14. Anomalous Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness. 15. Why Address Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?. 16. Acknowledging Dissonance as a Way Forward. 17. Towards Positive Change. Bibliography.
£29.11
Oneworld Publications Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Book Synopsis‘Without free speech there is no true thought.’ –Jordan Peterson ‘If you’re white, this country is one giant safe space.’ –Michael Eric Dyson The Munk debate on political correctness Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, sparking needless conflict? Or is it a weapon in the fight for equality, restoring dignity to the downtrodden? How should we talk about the things that matter most in an era of rapid social change? Four thinkers take on one of the most heated debates in the culture wars of the twenty-first century.
£8.54
Peter Lang Ltd Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting
Book SynopsisIn 2003, Wendy Luttrell posed an important question: what might result if we were able to turn questions of judgement about pregnant and parenting teenagers into questions of interest about their sense of self and identity-making? This book takes up the challenge, offering a re/assemblage of what is, can be and perhaps should be known about teenage pregnancy and parenting in the context of the twenty-first century. The collection presents original contributions from leading commentators in four key contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland, all sites of elevated incidence of and/or concern around what is commonly articulated as the problem of teenage pregnancy and parenting. In offering a multi-disciplinary reading of the narratives of young men and women, this volume engages with the ambiguity shared by all of us in confronting the life transition that is pregnancy and parenting.
£72.09
Emerald Publishing Limited Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty
Book SynopsisThis book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, how they define ageing and beauty, and the meaning of appearance, beauty, and identity. The book draws from a variety of sources from ageing research, history and gender studies and a diverse group of interviewees. The longevity revolution and shifting notions of identity coalesce as older women and men seek to find new modes of self-presentation as they age. Ageing is a profoundly embodied process, yet older people's concerns about appearance and beauty is perceived, by many, as trivial or a function of consumer society. Investigating notions of appearance and beauty as a core human concern, the author explores Western cultural notions of beauty. What then is beauty in old age? Is it even a possibility given the history of youth and aesthetic preference? The book seeks to bring forward ideas of age and beauty as defined by baby boomers, how they see themselves and how they are seen.Trade ReviewWoodspring, a visiting research fellow at University of the West of England, presents her findings after interviewing baby boomers from both the US and UK about aging, beauty, and society's expectations of older adults. Interview excerpts, along with current research on issues like attractiveness, sexuality, and longevity are included. The material is divided into particular topics such as men's take on appearance, women and appearance, mortality, and passion. Of particular note is the chapter discussing how the rest of us "see" older people, especially women. What assumptions do we make? How are the elderly portrayed in our art and entertainment? -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *'I would recommend it as a timely prompt for class discussion, future research questions and further inquiry, personal pondering, and thoughtful conversation, especially among Baby Boomers.' -- Ruth Ray KarpenTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Shaping Appearance and Beauty Chapter 2. Women on Appearance Chapter 3. Men on Appearance Chapter 4. What We Know and What We See Chapter 5. Living with Mortality Chapter 6. The Appearance of Beauty Chapter 7. A Passion for Life.
£24.99
Imprint Academic ZAP: Free Speech and Tolerance in the Light of
Book SynopsisWe''re all in favour of free speech except when we're not! Often it's a case of ''free speech for me, but not for thee'. The regulation of speech is a matter that is typically dealt with arbitrarily without there being any obvious principled basis for the decisions that are made. Is hate speech, so-called, a form of free speech? What of blasphemy, in either its ancient or contemporary forms? Should certain forms of speech be mandatory?As with free speech, we're all in favour of tolerance except when we''re not! Tolerance is increasingly coming to seem, well, intolerable and new and improved forms of intolerance are everywhere on the rise, not least as embodied in the currently fashionable doctrines of diversity, inclusion and equality.In ZAP, Gerard Casey presents a critical and unified approach to both free speech and tolerance based on the Zero Aggression Principle, keeping the critical discussion topical and grounded by reference to current events.
£17.63
Imprint Academic After #MeToo: Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic
Book SynopsisIn After #MeToo, Gerard Casey provides a critical assessment of the #MeToo movement, situating it in the context of the radical feminism of which it is just the latest manifestation. Apart from its legitimating an indiscriminate attack on men and masculinity, Casey argues that the #MeToo movement has exposed a conceptual fault-line in radical feminist anthropology. Are women fully-developed moral agents, able to exercise moral choice and to take responsibility for what they do; or are women elements of a collective made up of the victims of sexual crimes, whose suffering is not just that of any one individual woman but of the group as a whole?Casey''s analysis of the #MeToo movement is prefaced by a brief typology of forms of feminism and by an account of the supposedly universal oppression of women by a malign patriarchy. He argues that if there is such a thing as the patriarchy, it is singularly and spectacularly ineffectual in its operation inasmuch as women, on the whole, are not only not oppressed in comparison to men but are rather the beneficiaries of legal and social privileges.After #MeToo concludes with a consideration of the changing legal definitions of rape. Once understood to be essentially a crime of violence, rape has now come to be regarded as a violation of personal autonomy. In common law systems, a certain conception of consent is now central to the definition of rape, a conception that, Casey argues, is unworkable, at once infantilising women and, at the same time, potentially criminalising every sexual encounter in which a man is involved.
£17.63
Multilingual Matters Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.Trade ReviewIn this useful and illuminating collection, contributors methodically demonstrate whether specific norms affect language change and how prescriptive attitudes index group or individual identities—multilingual, postcolonial, national, religious, professional. Indeed, linguists should be led to question their identification with ‘descriptivism’, as binaries like ‘descriptive vs prescriptive’ are examined and dismantled. * Carol Percy, University of Toronto, Canada *In linguistics, prescription is usually opposed to description. But this volume explores a variety of ways in which this binary can be seen to function as only one of many. Several of these represent truly innovative perspectives, and will serve to inspire further study in this highly topical field of research. * Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands *A rich and diverse collection exploring competing and overlapping values represented in prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language. With historical and contemporary data from English and other languages, the authors demonstrate that the continuum of complex values between the poles undercuts a binary distinction and much else that has handicapped analyses couched in antipodal terms. * Edward Finegan, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, USA *The editors of this volume have drawn together a really interesting set of papers that show the range of approaches that can be taken when accommodating a prescriptive perspective in a descriptive study of language. I have not even scratched the surface of these interesting contributions in this all-too-brief review. Readers working in the field of prescriptivism will find some of the contributions familiar, but having the range of approaches gathered together, with each chapter containing its own list of references, makes this a very useful resource. Newcomers to the field will find it an invaluable starting point for any number of investigations. -- Adrian John Stenton, Leiden University, Netherlands * LINGUIST List 32.2267 *Table of ContentsContributors Jacob D. Rawlins and Don Chapman: Introduction Part 1: Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary Chapter 1. John E. Joseph: Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, Linguistics, and Standards of Language Chapter 2. Marla Perkins: Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation Chapter 3. Don Chapman: Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of those Who Use it Part 2: Prescriptivism vs. Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary Chapter 4. Lieselotte Anderwald: The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism Chapter 5. Viktorija Kostadinova: Examining the Split Infinitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change Chapter 6. Marten van der Meulen: Language Should be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917–2016 Chapter 7. Loreta Vaicekauskienė: Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity Chapter 8. Carmen Ebner: “Good Guys” vs “Bad Guys”: Constructing Linguistic Identities on the Basis of Usage Problems Chapter 9. Alyssa A. Severin and Kate Burridge: What do “Little Aussie Sticklers” Value Most? Chapter 10. Nola Stephens-Hecker: Grammar Next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel Chapter 11. Kate Burridge: Linguistic Cleanliness is Next to Godliness—But Not for Conservative Anabaptists Part 4: Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation Chapter 12. Giuliana Russo: Fowler’s values: Ideology and a Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) Chapter 13. Linda Pillière: US Copy-Editors, Style Guides, and Usage Guides and their Impact on British Novels Chapter 14. Jonathon Owen: Practicing Prescriptivism: How Copyeditors Treat Prescriptive Rules Index
£107.96
Lexington Books Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women,
Book SynopsisIn Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics, Sofia Betancourt constructs a transnational ecowomanist ethic that reclaims inherited environmental cultures across multiple sites of displacement. Betancourt argues that as survivors of the inconceivable, as carriers of cultural values and communal accountability, and as those who have never been allowed to reject or forget our their own embodiment, women in the African diaspora have a unique understanding of how a moral refusal to compromise their humanity provides the very understanding needed to survive what was once an inconceivable level of environmental devastation. That wisdom redefines our ideas of survival itself, and in doing so gives us new knowledge on what it means to live a value-centered, human life. This understanding of human nature and its interrelatedness with all of creation draws from the moral wisdom of women in the African diaspora. Most specifically, this work is guided by the experiences of West Indian women, imported to Panamá by the United States from across the Caribbean, whose labor supported the building of the Panamá Canal—the so-called silver men and women who faced mud, mosquitoes, and malaria while building a literal pathway to American empire.Trade ReviewUsing the voices of displaced women on the Panamá Canal, Betancourt develops a robust ecowomanist moral anthropology based on dignity, relationality, and environmental justice. She takes the early work of ecowomanism to its next stage and invites us to join her in the challenge of stopping the environmental devastation that threatens us all. A compelling new primer for environmental justice. -- Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt UniversitySofia Betancourt’s account of ecocreolization – shared understandings of self forged across generations and communities in the face of violence and displacement – is at once a necessary intervention in North American environmental thought and a tremendously hopeful reception of ancestral wisdom for “surviving the unimaginable". -- Willis Jenkins, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Ecowomanism at the Panamá CanalChapter 2: Geography, Countermemory, and ResistanceChapter 3: The Silver Sisters: Ecocreolization at the Panamá CanalChapter 4: Dignity and Striving: An Ecowomanist Moral Anthropology
£65.70
Lexington Books Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women,
Book SynopsisIn Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics, Sofia Betancourt constructs a transnational ecowomanist ethic that reclaims inherited environmental cultures across multiple sites of displacement. Betancourt argues that women in the African diaspora have a unique understanding of how a moral refusal to compromise their humanity provides the very understanding needed to survive what was once an inconceivable level of environmental devastation. This work is guided by the experiences of West Indian women, imported to Panamá by the United States from across the Caribbean, whose labor supported the building of the Panamá Canal—the so-called silver men and women who faced mud, mosquitoes, and malaria while building a literal pathway to the American empire.Trade ReviewUsing the voices of displaced women on the Panamá Canal, Betancourt develops a robust ecowomanist moral anthropology based on dignity, relationality, and environmental justice. She takes the early work of ecowomanism to its next stage and invites us to join her in the challenge of stopping the environmental devastation that threatens us all. A compelling new primer for environmental justice. -- Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt UniversitySofia Betancourt’s account of ecocreolization – shared understandings of self forged across generations and communities in the face of violence and displacement – is at once a necessary intervention in North American environmental thought and a tremendously hopeful reception of ancestral wisdom for “surviving the unimaginable". -- Willis Jenkins, University of VirginiaEcowomanism at the Panamá Canal is a healing balm in this time of climate disruption. Reclaiming the power of inherited and indigenous environmental cultures, Betancourt constructs a transnational ecowomanist ethic that holds humanity accountable, recognizes moral authority in the non-human world and offers us new hope. A deep, thought-provoking and insightful voice in ecowomanist thought, Betancourt guides us along the path of undoing harm, and recommitting our hearts to the work and practice of earth justice. -- Melanie Harris, Wake Forest University and Author of EcowomanismBetancourt’s transnational ecowomanist method illustrates artistry and vibrancy with its fresh insights and tracing of deep connective moral memory, mapped across diverse scholarly interrogations of culture and experiential histories of laborers. The intercultural vision of black decoloniality centered on Panama reveals an ethics of “ecocreolization” highlighting black women’s ritual practices, sexual embodiment, and innovation. This is a stunning expansion of the womanist canon. -- Traci C. West, Drew UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Ecowomanism at the Panamá CanalChapter 2: Geography, Countermemory, and ResistanceChapter 3: The Silver Sisters: Ecocreolization at the Panamá CanalChapter 4: Dignity and Striving: An Ecowomanist Moral Anthropology
£27.00
Emerald Publishing Limited Public Relations for Social Responsibility:
Book SynopsisThis inaugural edited collection for the Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series presents new critical discourse alongside cutting-edge practical work at the crossroads of PR, CSR, and DEI. The collection explores the active promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a public relations responsibility and provides new avenues for critiquing the ways in which power operates through public relations work and theory building. Featuring contributions from leading scholars from across the PR, CSR, and DEI fields, Public Relations for Social Responsibility explores key issues including the legal and economic frameworks thwarting authentic social responsibility and DEI, the unique social responsibility style of women and people of color managing organizations, and expanding the social responsibility critique to include non-human stakeholders and the environment. Chapters illuminate international and industrial contexts at the intersection of PR, CSR and DEI, including historical perspective on DEI roadblocks in the U.S., PR in the time of COVID-19 crises, organizational bullying, DEI, AI and PR ethics, animals as stakeholders, inclusion as CSR component, CEO activism on the African continent, and PR’s responsibility in transforming society. The collection will introduce new conceptual and practical approaches highly relevant to scholars of Communication, Management and Corporate Social Responsibility in a global context.Table of ContentsPART I: LEGAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS THWARTING AUTHENTIC SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DEIChapter 1. Breaking Down Barriers of the Past and Moving Toward Authentic DEI Adoption; Nneka Logan Chapter 2. Ethical Public Relations, Communities of Color, and COVID-19 Crises in Summer 2020; Moronke Oshin-Martin Chapter 3. Putting the Pharmaceutical Industry’s SR Reports Under the Microscope; Susan Grantham and Edward T. Vieira, Jr. PART II: UNIQUE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STYLE OF WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS Chapter 4. Diversity at the Big Table: A Snapshot of Fortune 500 Boards of Directors; Donnalyn Pompper, Tugce Ertem-Eray, Eric Adae, Elinam Amevor, Layire Diop, and Samantha Nadel Chapter 5. Addressing Workplace Bullying Behaviors Through Responsible Leadership Theory: Essential Skills for Strategic Communicators; Michelle T. Violanti Chapter 6. Brewed in the African Pot: Examining the Influences of Caritas, Ubuntu, Africapitalism and Postmodern Values on CEO Activism in Ghana; Eric Kwame Adae PART III: EXPANDING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CRITIQUE TO INCLUDE NEW KINDS OF STAKEHOLDERS WHEN CONSIDERING DEI Chapter 7. Circle of Responsibility: Animals as Stakeholders; Debra Merskin Chapter 8. The Social Responsibility of AI: A Framework for Considering Ethics and DEI; Constance Elizabeth Kampf and Oludotun Kayode Fashakin PART IV: INCREASING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC RELATIONS SKILL SETS NECESSARY FOR MARSHALLING AUTHENTIC DEI AS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ORGANIZATIONS Chapter 9. Rethinking Campaign Management to Include a “SMART+IE” Mindset; Richard Waters, Zifei Fay Chen, and Lorena Gomez-Barris Chapter 10. Inclusion as Component of CSR and a Brand Connection Strategy; Alexander V. Laskin and Katie M. Kresic Chapter 11. Community Relations in Professional Sport Organizations: A View through the Lens of Social Anchor Theory; Antoaneta M. Vanc and Kaitlyn M. Masler Chapter 12. Until the Sirens Sound: A Community Advisory Council’s Resiliency in Emergency Planning in a Diverse Community; Ann D. Jabro Chapter 13. (P)Rebels Needed! Transformative Potential of Problematization for Social Change; Franzisca Weder
£70.29
Berghahn Books How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of
Book Synopsis Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.Trade Review “Accounts of kinship terminology evolution either have mostly focused on single, or a few, regions without placing the account into a larger context… Parkin provides a far more complete account based on extensive empirical evidence regarding the world-wide variations among kinship terminologies.” • Dwight Read, UCLATable of Contents List of Figures Introduction Part I: Terminological change Chapter 1. Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of change Chapter 2. Terminology and alliance in India: tribal systems and the north-south problem Chapter 3. From tetradic society to dispersed alliance Chapter 4. Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage? Chapter 5. Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia Chapter 6. Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectories of change Part II: Crow-Omaha Chapter 7. On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies Chapter 8. Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem Chapter 9. The evolution of kinship terminologies: non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia Conclusion Glossary Appendix: Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the
Book Synopsis Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.Trade Review “This is groundbreaking work in all terms – ethnographically, conceptually, analytically. The kind of book that will become a classic in more than one field.” • Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University “This is an insightful and gripping account of a troubling undercurrent in Greece as depicted in the personal narratives by men and women who still struggle to build lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of the 2009 crash of the country’s state economy.” • Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Vertigo: Temporalities and Inconstancies Chapter 1. Mairi: The Nausea of Unknowingness Chapter 2. Dimitris: Rebuilding from Rubble Chapter 3. Antonis: Technology and the Elsewhen Chapter 4. Alexia: Life in Suspension Chapter 5. Aphrodite: Captivity of Chronic Crisis Conclusion: Parting Shots Epilogue: A Note on Crisis References Index
£80.10
Berghahn Books Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life
Book Synopsis Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.Trade Review “This is a stimulating collection that generatively engages an emerging area across multiple disciplines. The volume's structure is tightly conceptualized, and the essays often provocative. The volume is well poised to earn a committed readership.” • James Bielo, Miami UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction David Henig and Anna Strhan Part I: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World? Joel Robbins Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere Michael Lambek Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice Owen Abbott Chapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It Iain Wilkinson Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory Victor Jeleniewski Seidler Part I: Commentary Steven Lukes Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life Chapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church Gordon Lynch Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China Kimberly Chong Chapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London Anna Strhan Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies Rachael Shillitoe Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography Ruth Sheldon Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina David Henig Part II: Commentary Maeve Cooke Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books Morality, Crisis and Capitalism: Anthropology for
Book Synopsis 'May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law crisis' in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.Trade Review “This is a high-quality volume… Without exception its chapters are interesting, original, and thought-provoking. Each examines different dimensions of the book’s main themes.” • Christopher Houston, Macquarie UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Anthropology and its Crises Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Jon P. Mitchell Chapter 1. Moralities, Engagement, Capitalism: Current Challenges for Critical Anthropology John Gledhill Chapter 2. Between Conspiracy and Catastrophe: The Political Unconscious in Malta Paul Sant Cassia Chapter 3. Crisis State of Mind: Spaces for Self-Determination in Permanently Troubled Times Daniel M. Knight Chapter 4. The Moria Catastrophe in Greece: An Anthropologically Informed Disaster Analysis of Refugee Reception in Europe Jutta Lauth Bacas Chapter 5. Relevance, Ethics and the ‘Good’ in Anthropology: Moving beyond the Anthropology of Crisis to the Ethical Crises in Anthropology Jean-Paul Baldacchino Chapter 6. Higher Education Crisis, Academic Personhood and Moral Labour Matthew Doyle and James McMurray Chapter 7. Dilemmas of Sexuality in Malta: Reconciling Catholic and LGBTQ+ Identities Jon P. Mitchell Chapter 8. The Will to Risk: Why the Moral Economy Is Not What You Think A. David Napier Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic
Book Synopsis Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?Trade Review “There are many compelling, evocative, and insightful contributions here that will appeal to a very broad readership from undergraduates to specialist researchers.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “Anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers and STS scholars who research the affective expressions of brokenness and repair will find this book particularly helpful. In discussing social identities and relationships, ethical stances, as well as novel aesthetic and affective formations, this book offers a holistic take on the dialectics of breaking and fixing that is not only intellectually stimulating but also politically timely.” • Social Anthropology “What I like about this book is its richness in ideas; it opens up a wide range of issues and associations, it invites the reader to see surprising linkages and new aspects of the seemingly trivial everyday. There is a lot of inspiration here for a number of research fields.” • Orvar Löfgren, University of Lund “This is a very original, interesting and critical piece of work. It manages to bring the political in touch with the existential in an enlightening and, at moments, moving way.” • Paolo SH Favero, University of AntwerpTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown Francisco Martínez Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair Caitlin DeSilvey Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship Joshua O. Reno Beyond the Sparkle Zones Kathleen Stewart Chapter 2. “Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects Tomás Errázuriz “The Lady is Not There”: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User Tomás Sánchez Criado Chapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home Martin Demant Frederiksen Undisciplined Surfaces Mateusz Laszczkowski Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia Tamta Khalvashi Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farías Chapter 5. What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia Francisco Martínez Maintaining Whose Road? Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe Repairing Russia Michał Murawski Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism Sarah Holst Kjær A Story of Time Keepers Jérôme Denis and David Pontille Chapter 8. Keeping Them “Swiss”. The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong Hervé Munz Lost Battles of De-bobbling Magdalena Crăciun Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair Eeva Berglund Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra Aimar Ventsel Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – For Free Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo Siobhan Kattago Chapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors Katja Seidel Living Switches Wladimir Sgibnev Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture Adam Drazin And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland) Jason Pine Epilogue: This Mess We’re In, Or Part Of Patrick Laviolette Index
£26.55
Emerald Publishing Limited Cultures of Authenticity
Book SynopsisThis volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of ‘authentic’ experiences, global brands fight to be seen as ‘authentic’ and social media platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this post or that vlogger. But what do we mean by authenticity? And why have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades? This collection explores the complex and at times controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases, the authors bring together the latest empirical and conceptual scholarship addressing authenticity and its centrality to debates about contemporary culture, media and society. In this way, the authors are able to pinpoint the growing significance of the concept of authenticity, the various ways in which different disciplines approach the topic, and possible ways of advancing the field across disciplines. With sections covering travel and tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, social media and political communication this exciting and innovative collection will make fascinating and crucial reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, and helps to define what these different disciplines mean by authenticity.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Cultures of Authenticity; Thomas Thurnell-Read, Michael Skey, and Marie Heřmanová Part I: Tourism, Heritage and Place Chapter 2. Authenticity in Tourism Studies; Jillian M. Rickly Chapter 3. Negotiating the Spirit of Place: Towards a Performative Authenticity of Historic Buildings; Jonathan Djabarouti Chapter 4. Authenticity Issues in Nüshu Cultural Heritage in China: Authentication, Discourse, and Identity-Making; Xihuan Hu Chapter 5. Permanent Souvenirs: Traditional Tattoos and the Search for Authenticity in the Northern Philippines; Sam Pack and Justin Sun Part II: Branding, Consumption and Commodities Chapter 6. Authenticity in Material Culture, Consumption and Branding; Valerie Gannon and Andrea Prothero Chapter 7. Past and Present in Branding Authenticity: The taste of history; Iben Bredahl Jessen Chapter 8. One Brand, Multiple Authenticities: The Case of the World’s First Pay-Per-Minute Café; Alexandra Kviat OPEN ACCESS Chapter 9. Authentic Sports Branding in the Digital Age; Sian Rees Chapter 10. Authenticity, Distinction and Value in the Narratives of Chinese Consumers of Vintage Costume Jewellery; Jingrui Hu and Thomas Thurnell-Read Part III: Popular Culture Chapter 11. Introduction: Gender and Authenticity in Contemporary Popular Culture & Advertising; By Jilly Boyce Kay Chapter 12. Authenticity after Cock Rock: Emo and the Problem of Femininity; Judith Fathallah Chapter 13. ‘The Best a Man Can Be?’: Finding a Place for the ‘Real’ Man in Grooming Advertisements; Kai Prins Chapter 14. Keeping it Real? Dynamics of authenticity and branding in RuPaul’s Drag Race; Mads Møller Tommerup Andersen Part IV: Social Media Chapter 15. What I Talk About When I Talk About Authenticity: An Auto-Bibliographic Inquiry; Crystal Abidin Chapter 16. The Authenticity Gap: How Influencers Commodify Authenticity on Instagram; Lucy Frowijn, Frank Harbers, and Marcel Broersma Chapter 17. ‘I’m Always Telling You My Honest Opinion’: Influencers and Gendered Authenticity Strategies on Instagram; Marie Heřmanová Chapter 18. Liquid Figures, Solid Structures: The pursuit of an Authentic ‘Consumer Steward’ Identity in Online Communities; Yan Han Wang, Hélène de Burgh-Woodman, and Keri Spooner Part V: Politics and Political Communication Chapter 19. Authenticity in Politics and Political Communication Research: Analytic Concept and Political Issue; James Stanyer Chapter 20. Strategic Political Authenticity. How Populists Construct an Authentic Self; Christina Holtz-Bacha Chapter 21. Right Wing Co-option of the Perceived Authenticity of Citizen Journalism; Jessica Roberts Chapter 22. Post-authentic Engagement with Alternative Political Commentary on YouTube and Twitch; Daniel Jurg, Dieuwertje Luitse, Saskia Pouwels, Marc Tuters, and Ivan Kisjes Chapter 23. Exploring ‘the Authentic’ in Taiwanese Politics: An Intergenerational Analysis; Ssu-Han Yu and Miaoju Jian
£70.29
Imprint Academic The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of
Book SynopsisFrom Islamist terror to feminist equal pay campaigns and the apparent Brexit hate crime epidemic, identity politics seems to be everywhere nowadays. This is not entirely an accident. The progressive liberal-left, which dominates our public life, has taken on the politics of race, gender, religion and sexuality as a key part of its own group identity and has used its dominance to embed them into our state and society.In The Tribe, Ben Cobley guides us around the ''system of diversity'' which has resulted, exploring the consequences of offering favour and protection to some people but not others based on things like skin colour and gender. He looks at how this system has almost totally captured the Labour Party and is spreading relentlessly around our other major institutions. He also looks at how it is capturing our language, appropriating key terms like equality', tolerance' and inclusion', while denying a voice to those who do not play along.The system of diversity makes a challenge to us all: submit, or risk exclusion from society itself.
£17.63
Scribe Publications Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the
Book SynopsisA timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism. Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians rail against ‘the elite’. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, the populist mood has benefited reactionaries rather than reformers. The status quo might be in crisis, but the emerging voices are those of hate and violence. Where is the progressive alternative? In Trigger Warnings, Jeff Sparrow sympathetically but critically examines key progressive ideas. How does a billionaire position himself as anti-elitist? Are the culture wars worth fighting? What's at stake in the battles over political correctness? Should progressives defend it — and, if so, how? Sparrow traces the evolution of the Left and Right to explain the origins of this strange evolution, untangling some of the thorniest controversies of our time and arguing that the future needn't only belong to nihilists and bigots.Trade Review‘In the age of fake news and the seeming triumph of political populism, Jeff Sparrow’s Trigger Warnings is a vital book for our times. With the integrity of political thought and action under threat from social media sloganeering, with Donald Trump holding court in the White House and “political correctness” the catch-all suffocation of dissent, Jeff Sparrow challenges us to respond with intelligence and conviction.’ -- Tony Birch, author of Ghost River‘Standing on the front line of the culture war it’s clear the right are winning. In this new book, Jeff Sparrow draws lessons from contemporary debates and historical struggles to argue for an alternative to the seemingly oppositional binary of class or identity that dominates liberal discourse. Instead, Sparrow calls for a return to a “direct politics” approach that doesn’t rely on mainstream leaders but argues that a rebuilding of an activist left that sees strength in solidarity and strives for liberation is the only answer. In a time that increasingly feels like it’s now or never, this book is an urgently needed intervention. Don’t just read it, do it.’ * Roz Ward, co-founder of Safe Schools Coalition *‘A crisp, elegant and timely analysis of exactly how the world and everything in it turned to wallaby poop, also whose fault it is and how we might actually be able to do something about it.’ -- First Dog On The Moon, political cartoonist for the Guardian‘Sparrow writes with a unique combination of dignified sensitivity and a concrete commitment to solidarity and movement building.’ * Sam Wallman, political cartoonist *‘He’s one of Australia’s most crucial political thinkers … Trigger Warnings is perhaps his most polemic [book] yet, written with clear activist goals in mind: to intervene in the present, he insists we must understand the complex history that led us here.’ * The Saturday Paper *‘Australian writer Jeff Sparrow succinctly explains in Trigger Warnings how Trump cleverly skewered his political enemies by appealing to their anger at the elite political and media classes (despite being a member of the elite himself) … Trigger Warnings is a rare book that takes a necessary scalpel to the leftist political persuasion of its author as much as, if not more than, the right-wing agenda he opposes.’ -- Antony Loewenstein * Weekend Australian *‘Sparrow’s book is a provocative reading of the culture wars that develops a distinction between ‘direct’ and ‘delegated’ politics.’ -- James Ley * ‘ABR’s Books of the Year 2018’ *‘It’s a highly interesting polemic, dense with information, but well written and full of provocative and challenging views.’ -- Graeme Barrow * Horowhenua Chronicle *‘Trigger Warnings is a brave book, best read as a call for the left to re-examine its strategies during a period of immense danger, to take stock of its key resources and to align itself with the experience of ordinary people without lessening its focus on sexism, racism or homophobia.’ -- Gary Pearce * Overland *
£13.49
Wilkinson Publishing The Dictionary of Woke: How Orwellian Language
Book SynopsisIn these Orwellian times of language control and group think destroying free speech, rational thought and independent judgment it''s time to strike a blow for rationality and reason and defend what is best in Western civilisation. Not a week goes by without yet another example of books being banned, ideas being censored, the past being rewritten, statues being demolished and authors and academics being vilified and publicly shamed. Now rebadged as being ''woke'', political correctness represents an existential threat to Western societies including concepts like rationality and reason, freedom of expression and religious freedom. We have entered an Orwellian world like 1984 where Big Brother and the Party control how citizens think and where anyone who questions the thought police is victimised, punished and silenced. THE DICTIONARY OF WOKE contains 365 woke words and expressions with definitions, plus chapters on the dangers and origins of wokeness and what can be done to counter this language and mind control and group think. From A is for Ableism and Alt-right to Z for Ze and Zie -- this is the only dictionary you will need to navigate this Brave New World of political correctness and know all the words and terms to fight the woke invasion.
£15.29
Monash University Publishing 21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our
Book Synopsis
£13.29
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The congress of the people and freedom charter: A
Book SynopsisThis is a popular history of one of the most inspiring campaigns ever launched by the ANC and its allied organisations in Kliptown, Soweto, on 26 June 1955. It celebrates the fact that the Freedom Charter is deeply embedded in the Constitution of a free and democratic South Africa. In commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Charter and the 103rd anniversary of the ANC, the South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that, ""It is therefore a matter of great significance that we stand poised to realise the call made in the Freedom Charter for a national minimum wage,"" at the International Minimum Wage Experiences Workshop. This forms part of the ANC plans to reclaim the Freedom Charter which was initiated in 1953 by the ANC, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and the South African Congress of Democrats (SACOD) as the basis for its future plans.Trade ReviewComing as it does on the 40th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Vadi's history of the Congress of the people is timely and most welcome. I must commend him on a magnificent effort and I strongly recommend that the book be widely read. - Walter Sisulu, May 1995.Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Forewords – Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada; Introduction; Historical overview of black resistance, 1932–1952; Origins and nature of the campaign for the Congress of the people and freedom charter; National campaign for the Congress of the
£13.29
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Wortgebunden: Zur Verbindlichkeit Von Versprechen
Book Synopsis
£43.50
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Hass
Book Synopsis
£20.52
Hatje Cantz Rainer Fetting: Blumen &
Book SynopsisRainer Fetting achieved international recognition with the “New Wild Ones” in the early 1980s. With its elements of Expressionist painting, his art formed in opposition to the conventions of Abstract and Conceptual Art toward the end of the 1970s is highly topical again today. Fetting’s painting is a significant precursor for the “queer” discourses on gender, identity, the individual, and power that not only shape the works of younger generations in our globalized art world but also current mainstream debates. His “expressive” portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes as well as the still lifes and flower paintings on which this publication focuses capture psychosocial energies that are evident in every painterly decision he makes. Works from four decades are presented here, some of them unpublished, early drawn studies and paintings from the time Fetting was commuting between New York and Berlin the 1980s and 1990s in addition to recent paintings, works on paper, and sculptures. The illustrated book is published in conjunction with the exhibition in the spaces of the Miettinen Collection in Berlin.
£30.40
Verlag Barbara Budrich Female Social Entrepreneurship – Challenging
Book SynopsisThe confluence of entrepreneurship, gender, sustainability and especially the social dimension is intricate and underestimated. This book analyses social entrepreneurship through a gender lens by portraying German female social entrepreneurs and their political, social and economic contexts. Within a descriptive qualitative research design, a secondary analysis of different dimensions of the social entrepreneurship system and twenty-five in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs and experts were conducted. The author shows that this sector entails potential to re-do gender and reframe the economy, challenging norms and borders towards systemic change.
£27.20
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Photo Peshawar
Book Synopsis
£23.75
