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Book SynopsisCombining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.

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Book SynopsisA collection of narratives examining the stories of three expatriates - an Iraqi, Czech and an Afrikaner - who have suffered for speaking out in opposition to the totalitarian regimes holding sway in their homeland. The book explores the nature of modern totalitarianism and exile.

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Book SynopsisBeginning a hundred years ago, this book paints an austere portrait of the conditions that early black residents found in isolated, poor suburbs. It explores how the civil rights movement emboldened more black families to purchase suburban homes and how the passage of civil rights legislation helped pave the way for today's black middle class.Trade Review"A work of exceptionally broad research, Places of Their Own does much more than simply document the presence of African Americans in suburbs. It also illustrates how black suburbanization changed over the course of the twentieth century." - Amanda Seligman, Journal of Planning History"

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Book SynopsisRichard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California, one faith-based, the other race-based. Comparing their activist techniques and acheivements, Wood argues that their alternative cultures offer a more democratic future for all Americans.Trade Review"Faith in Action is a timely and intelligent work - a penetrating look at the efficacy of faith-based community activism. Wood's creative new study will appeal to sociologists of culture, politics, and religion and to anyone interested in how social movements work and continue to prosper." - Christian Smith, author of American Evangelicalism

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Book SynopsisDiversity Leadership in Education dives into the complexities and opportunities afforded by new models of diversity leadership. The volume explores how Indigenous, Black, racialized, and collaborative leadership contributes to decolonizing educational settings through advocacy, solidarity, spirituality, relationality, and reconciliation.Trade Review“Our world is changing in transformative ways and so must the way we lead. This book offers critical reflections and pathways for educators committed to reimagining and deepening their leadership practice. The (un)learning process is ongoing and this book will inspire leaders on their journey.” Shanice Yarde, McGill University“Diversity Leadership in Education makes a major contribution, disrupting Western notions of how leadership is typically conceived. Chapters move from the historical to the contemporary, charting what is needed to move into a future of more socially just leadership.” Sheila Cote-Meek, Brock University and author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education

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Book SynopsisDiversity Leadership in Education dives into the complexities and opportunities afforded by new models of diversity leadership. The volume explores how Indigenous, Black, racialized, and collaborative leadership contributes to decolonizing educational settings through advocacy, solidarity, spirituality, relationality, and reconciliation.Trade Review“Our world is changing in transformative ways and so must the way we lead. This book offers critical reflections and pathways for educators committed to reimagining and deepening their leadership practice. The (un)learning process is ongoing and this book will inspire leaders on their journey.” Shanice Yarde, McGill University“Diversity Leadership in Education makes a major contribution, disrupting Western notions of how leadership is typically conceived. Chapters move from the historical to the contemporary, charting what is needed to move into a future of more socially just leadership.” Sheila Cote-Meek, Brock University and author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education

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Book SynopsisViolence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.Trade Review“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses how individuals, groups, and organizations develop the means to deal with problems in their interaction with institutions, exploring what methods and practices should be implemented to address various issues.

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised and updated third edition of a classic text includes seven new chapters that reflect the most recent developments in group practice. Part of the book's enduring appeal is its vivid depiction of actual group work and the challenges that arise. Using an ecosystem approach, they set forth a generic framework for practice with diverse groups.Table of Contents1. Groups in Social Work Practice 2. The Knowledge Base for Practice 3. Relationships: The Heart of Practice 4. Intervention in Groups 5. Planning 6. Pregroup Contact: Selection and Preparation of Members 7. Purpose 8. The Problem-Solving Process 9. Conflict 10. Roles of Members 11. The Use of Activity 12. Stage I: Inclusion-Orientation 13. Stage II: Uncertainty-Exploration 14. Stage III: Mutuality and Goal Achievement 15. Stage IV: Separation-Termination 16. Evaluation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDomestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice is an excellent book that addresses a serious social problem from a new and unique perspective. It is a book that should be in the professional libraries of all social workers. -- Carol A. Heintzelman, professor, Social Work Dept., Millersville University of Pennsylvania Families in SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by Fran S. Danis and Lettie L. Lockhart 1. Cultural Competence and Intersectionality: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches, by Lettie L. Lockhart and Jacquelyn Mitchell 2. Understanding Domestic Violence: A Primer, by Fran S. Danis and Shreya Bhandari 3. Our Survival, Our Strengths: Understanding the Experiences of African American Women in Abusive Relationships, by Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, Lorraine Chase, Elizabeth A. Circo, and Selena T. Anta Rodgers 4. A Lily Out of the Mud: Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities, by Mimi Kim, Beckie Masaki, and Gita Mehrotra 5. Social Work Practice with Abused Persons with Disabilities, by Elizabeth P. Cramer and Sara-Beth Plummer 6. Domestic Violence Advocacy with Immigrants and Refugees, by Rupaleem Bhuyan, Woochan Shim, and Kavya Velagapudi 7. Domestic Abuse in Later Life, by Ann Turner, Deb Spangler, and Bonnie Brandl 8. Culturally Competent Practice with Latinas, by Blanca M. Ramos, Bonnie E. Carlson, and Shanti Kulkarni 9. Outing the Abuse: Considerations for Effective Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, by Taryn Lindhorst, Gita Mehrotra, and Shawn L. Mincer 10. In Service to Our Country: Military Responses to Domestic Violence, by Delores F. Johnson and Deborah D. Tucker 11. Weaving the Past into the Present: Understanding the Context of Domestic Violence Against Native American Women, by Brenda Bussey and J. B. Whipple 12. A Commentary on Religion and Domestic Violence, by Marie M. Fortune, Salma Elkadi Abugideiri, and Mark Dratch 13. Appalachia: Addressing Domestic Violence in the Rural Environment, by Elizabeth J. Randall and Leslie E. Tower 14. Where Teens Live: Taking an Ecological Approach to Dating Violence Prevention, by Barbara Ball and Barri Rosenbluth Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDomestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice is an excellent book that addresses a serious social problem from a new and unique perspective. It is a book that should be in the professional libraries of all social workers. -- Carol A. Heintzelman, professor, Social Work Dept., Millersville University of Pennsylvania Families in SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by Fran S. Danis and Lettie L. Lockhart 1. Cultural Competence and Intersectionality: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches, by Lettie L. Lockhart and Jacquelyn Mitchell 2. Understanding Domestic Violence: A Primer, by Fran S. Danis and Shreya Bhandari 3. Our Survival, Our Strengths: Understanding the Experiences of African American Women in Abusive Relationships, by Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, Lorraine Chase, Elizabeth A. Circo, and Selena T. Anta Rodgers 4. A Lily Out of the Mud: Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities, by Mimi Kim, Beckie Masaki, and Gita Mehrotra 5. Social Work Practice with Abused Persons with Disabilities, by Elizabeth P. Cramer and Sara-Beth Plummer 6. Domestic Violence Advocacy with Immigrants and Refugees, by Rupaleem Bhuyan, Woochan Shim, and Kavya Velagapudi 7. Domestic Abuse in Later Life, by Ann Turner, Deb Spangler, and Bonnie Brandl 8. Culturally Competent Practice with Latinas, by Blanca M. Ramos, Bonnie E. Carlson, and Shanti Kulkarni 9. Outing the Abuse: Considerations for Effective Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, by Taryn Lindhorst, Gita Mehrotra, and Shawn L. Mincer 10. In Service to Our Country: Military Responses to Domestic Violence, by Delores F. Johnson and Deborah D. Tucker 11. Weaving the Past into the Present: Understanding the Context of Domestic Violence Against Native American Women, by Brenda Bussey and J. B. Whipple 12. A Commentary on Religion and Domestic Violence, by Marie M. Fortune, Salma Elkadi Abugideiri, and Mark Dratch 13. Appalachia: Addressing Domestic Violence in the Rural Environment, by Elizabeth J. Randall and Leslie E. Tower 14. Where Teens Live: Taking an Ecological Approach to Dating Violence Prevention, by Barbara Ball and Barri Rosenbluth Notes Index

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Book SynopsisModern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.Trade ReviewThis is an exceptional book on an inherently interesting topic. Most students of human origins agree that fully modern humans represent the surviving tip of an evolutionary lineage that emerged in Africa, probably beginning at least 300,000 years ago. This was a time when other lineages, including the one that led to the Neanderthals, were evolving in Eurasia. Most specialists also agree that fully modern Africans expanded to Eurasia around 50,000 years ago, where they replaced and sometimes interbred with the Neanderthals and other non-modern people. Much has been written on the ‘Out-of-Africa’ dispersal, but now the emphasis is increasingly on indications that invading Africans acquired some genes from resident Eurasians. Fossils are then valued mostly for their ancient DNA and only incidentally for their form and geographic distribution, while relevant archaeological observations are completely ignored, even though they underlie the most plausible explanations for modern human success. John F. Hoffecker considers everything and ignores nothing, and his synthesis is extraordinary not only for its breadth but for its clarity. Modern Humans will satisfy both curious lay readers and specialists who seek a readily intelligible, authoritative update on where we came from. -- Richard G. Klein, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, author of The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third EditionJohn F. Hoffecker has produced an exhaustively researched but highly accessible account of the evidence—from paleontology, archaeology, material culture, and genomics—for one of the greatest stories ever told: how, from an unremarkable origin in Africa, our species Homo sapiens began behaving in extraordinary and unprecedented ways, and rapidly took over the entire habitable world—with consequences with which we are still grappling. Modern Humans is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how modern humans came to be the amazing creatures they are. -- Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, author of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human EvolutionEvery so often, a benchmark volume is needed to slow things down a bit and walk readers through the evidence, reminding them of what it all means. This is just such a volume, and, happily Hoffecker's writing style makes the evidence come alive for almost all levels of readers, from the lay public to seasoned professionals. * Choice *An erudite, meticulously researched, and well-presented account of the Spencerian process as applied to deep history. -- Clive Gamble * American Antiquity *Essential reading for anyone involved in human origins research, Modern Humans is a detailed, fact-dense work. -- John J. Shea * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of Contents1. Information, Complexity, and Human Evolution2. Modern Human Origins and Dispersal: The Synthesis3. An Evolutionary Context for Homo sapiens4. Recent African Origin5. Global Dispersal: Southern Asia and Australia6. Global Dispersal: Northern Eurasia7. Global Dispersal: Beringia and the AmericasNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisAxel Honneth is known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced a theory of modern politics based on disagreement. In a rare dialogue, these philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change.Trade ReviewWhen two hard stones are rubbed against each other, it produces sparks and light: this is what happens with this encounter 'in the real' between two major 'critical' philosophers of our time, both committed to democratizing democracy but addressing its current limits from opposite angles. A synthesis is not possible, though a commuting is immensely fruitful in order to elaborate one's own choices. The conversation is perfectly staged and commented upon by the editors. This book will be a point of reference. -- Etienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy What form should critical theory take today? This is the question at stake in this encounter between two influential social and political philosophers. The editors expertly situate this dialogue within the terrain of contemporary critical theory, producing a text that will spark new conversations in the field. -- David Owen, author of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality After repeated failed efforts over the preceding decades to manufacture a debate or force an encounter between the putative representatives of German critical theory and French post-structuralism, this book may be the first to succeed at staging a genuine engagement between two preeminent figures in contemporary critical thought. This mise en scene ultimately produces its own mesentente-since each author says 'equality' and 'recognition' yet there is never the same understanding-but perhaps that is the book's greatest strength: to bring this dis-agreement into animacy, to attempt the distorting translation of these untranslatable terms, and in the process to allow the reader to experience the power of Honneth and Ranciere's thought. -- Samuel A. Chambers, author of Bearing Society in Mind: Theories and Politics of the Social Formation This timely and important book brings together for the first time two of the leading practitioners of what can be termed 'critical theory,' the borderland where critical approaches to social and political theory, philosophy, and other fields as dispersed as history, aesthetics, and psychology meet. In so doing, Recognition or Disagreement will help to revive critical theory as a politically engaged and philosophically rigorous intellectual endeavor that extends across disciplines, approaches, and traditions, and to renew the long but disjointed dialogue between German and French approaches to the field. It is a major contribution. -- James Ingram, author of Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism In this fascinating and groundbreaking exchange, the eminent thinkers Axel Honneth and Jacques Ranciere discuss the differences between their respective paradigms of recognition and disagreement. Is social struggle driven by the desire for inclusion within established democratic forms or by a more radical impulse to challenge the legitimacy of the dominant order itself? Is the task of the theorist to reveal hidden forms of social suffering or to bear witness to the agency of the oppressed in the fight for equality? As well as clarifying their differences, the thinkers converge on the shared conviction that the experience of injustice must be of paramount concern for political theorizing rather than, as is more often the case nowadays, being regarded as a surprising deviation from the norm of justice. For anyone interested in the continuing encounter between French and German critical theory, this is an indispensable and thought-provoking read. -- Lois McNay, author of Bearing Society in Mind: Theories and Politics of the Social FormationTable of ContentsPart I. Setting the Stage 1. Jacques Ranciere and Axel Honneth: (Two?) Critical Approaches to the Political, by Katia Genel 2. Between Honneth and Ranciere: Problems and Potentials of a Contemporary Critical Theory of Society, by Jean-Philippe Deranty Part II. A Critical Encounter 3. Critical Questions: On the Theory of Recognition, by Jacques Ranciere 4. Remarks on the Philosophical Approach of Jacques Ranciere, by Axel Honneth 5. A Critical Discussion Part III. The Method of Critical Theory: Propositions 6. The Method of Equality: Politics and Poetics, by Jacques Ranciere 7. Of the Poverty of Our Liberty: The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Doctrine of Ethical Life, by Axel Honneth Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe free love Oneida Community, founded in New York state during the turbulent decades before the Civil War, practiced an extraordinary system of complex marriage as part of its sustained experiment in creating the kingdom of heaven on earth. This work shows how complex marriage was introduced among previously monogamous Oneida Community members.Trade Review"Focusing on the formative years of the durable 'free love' Oneida, New York, commune, founded by John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86), Foster, a leading authority on Oneida, edited this heretofore unpublished compilation of primary documents, personal diaries, and letters that Noyes' nephew ... had prepared for publication... These primary sources show how J.H. Noyes and his core band of followers sought to live in sinless perfection, and how Noyes developed and controlled Oneida's famed system of 'complex marriage,' where members selected sexual partners based on attraction rather then traditional marriage." -- Choice ADVANCE PRAISE: "Free Love in Utopia reproduces a tremendously important compilation of previously unavailable primary materials about the early Oneida Community, supplemented by Foster's extensive introduction. Our understanding of the workings and daily life of this remarkable community will thereby be much enhanced. And the book is an excellent read, engrossing throughout." -- Timothy Miller, author of The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America "This is the most important Oneida Community primary source material to become available in many years, and it has found the perfect editor in Lawrence Foster. Graced by impeccable scholarship, this volume is a boon to all students of communal societies." -- Michael Barkun, author of Crucible of the Millennium: The Burned-over District of New York State in the 1840s "We are most fortunate that Lawrence Foster, a leading historian of nineteenth-century utopian communities, has succeeded in making public and interpreting these extraordinary primary documents on the early years of the Oneida Community. Beautifully edited and contextualized, here is Oneida descendant George Wallingford Noyes's fascinating typescript compilation of the group's most sensitive early records, especially on complex marriage. Foster's patient persistence in bringing to light this remarkable document--based on a large collection of primary Oneida records that were deliberately burned after George Wallingford Noyes's death--makes a unique and exciting contribution to understanding this fascinating chapter in American religious reform and sexual experimentation." -- Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine "An exciting and sophisticated investigation into the complex transitions necessary to forge a successful 'free love' communal society." -- Susan Jean Palmer, author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions "George Wallingford Noyes's record, finally available in print, adds significant and fascinating sources to our understanding of the Oneida Community." -- Klaus J. Hansen, author of Mormonism and the American Experience

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Book SynopsisTraces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers.Trade ReviewWell researched and organized, this is a major social and economic study on Luanda's past. Oliveira examines new sources and convincingly demonstrates the central role African women played in the social and economic organization of Luanda. Mandatory reading for those interested in urban slavery, slave trade, and African's urban past."" - Mariana P. Candido, University of Notre Dame""In describing women's urban work in relation to food production, land ownership, legal issues regarding marriage and inheritance, and the shift from the international slave trade to 'legitimate' trade while continuing to rely on slave labor, Oliveira brings new insights to African history with her focus on nineteenth-century Luanda."" - Kathleen Sheldon, University of California, Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisTraces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers, acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people.

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Book SynopsisSocial Exclusion and the Way Out focuses on the key issues which promote an understanding of the development of integrative models of care and resettlement. Consideration is given to the role of statutory and non-statutory agencies in facilitating the development of the individual to become included in the community.Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. About This Book. PART I: INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION. Chapter 1 Exclusion from Society. Chapter 2 Individual Functioning. Chapter 3 Life-Cycle Perspectives on Social Exclusion. PART II: HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN SOCIAL GROUPS. Chapter 4 Physical Health. Chapter 5 Stress and Socially Excluded Groups. Chapter 6 Mental Illness. Chapter 7 The Neurobiological Basis of Maladaptive Behaviours. Chapter 8 Alcohol and Drug Problems. Chapter 9 Nutrition in Vulnerable Groups. PART III: ADDRESSING SOCIAL EXCULSION: THE WAY OUT? Chapter 10 Needs Assessment of Social Excluded Populations. Chapter 11 Interventions: Changing Behaviour. Chapter 12 Interventions: Supporting Vulnerable People. Chapter 13 Health and Social Care in the Community. Chapter 14 Social Exclusion: Is There a Way Out? Conclusion. Appendix A International Statistics of The Salvation Army (SA) (with Permission from the Salvation Army Year Book, 2006). Appendix B Summary of Assessments for Socially Excluded Population. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults - whether intentional or unintentional - which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely on their maginalized group membership.Table of ContentsPreface vii About the Editor xiii Part I Microaggressions and Marginality 1 Microaggressions, Marginality, and Oppression: An Introduction 3Derald Wing Sue Part II Racial/Ethnic Manifestation of Microaggressions 2 Black Undergraduates’ Experiences with Perceived Racial Microaggressions in Predominately White Colleges and Universities 25Nicole L. Watkins, Theressa L. LaBarrie, and Lauren M. Appio 3 Microaggressions and the Life Experience of Latina/o Americans 59David P. Rivera, Erin E. Forquer, and Rebecca Rangel 4 Racial Microaggressions Directed at Asian Americans: Modern Forms of Prejudice and Discrimination 85Annie I. Lin 5 The Context of Racial Microaggressions Against Indigenous Peoples: Same Old Racism or Something New? 105Jill S. Hill, Suah Kim, and Chantea D. Williams 6 Multiracial Microaggressions: Exposing Monoracism in Everyday Life and Clinical Practice 123Marc P. Johnston and Kevin L. Nadal 7 Microaggressions and the Pipeline for Scholars of Color 145Fernando Guzman, Jesus Trevino, Fernand Lubuguin, and Bushra Aryan Part III Other Socially Devalued Group Microaggressions: International/Cultural, Sexual Orientation and Transgender, Disability, Class, and Religious 8 Microaggressions Experienced by International Students Attending U.S. Institutions of Higher Education 171Suah Kim and Rachel H. Kim 9 The Manifestation of Gender Microaggressions 193Christina M. Capodilupo, Kevin L. Nadal, Lindsay Corman, Sahran Hamit, Oliver B. Lyons, and Alexa Weinberg 10 Sexual Orientation and Transgender Microaggressions: Implications for Mental Health and Counseling 217Kevin L. Nadal, David P. Rivera, and Melissa J. H. Corpus 11 Microaggressive Experiences of People with Disabilities 241Richard M. Keller and Corinne E. Galgay 12 Class Dismissed: Making the Case for the Study of Classist Microaggressions 269Laura Smith and Rebecca M. Redington 13 Religious Microaggressions in the United States: Mental Health Implications for Religious Minority Groups 287Kevin L. Nadal, Marie-Anne Issa, Katie E. Griffin, Sahran Hamit, and Oliver B. Lyons Part IV Microaggression Research 14 Microaggression Research: Methodological Review and Recommendations 313Michael Y. Lau and Chantea D. Williams About the Contributors 337 Author Index 343 Subject Index 355

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Book SynopsisPlacemaking is the way in which all human beings transform theplaces they find themselves into the places where they live. In this groundbreaking new book, landscape architect Lynda H.Schneekloth and architect and planner Robert G. Shibley challengethe most fundamental assumptions about the ways human beingstransform the places in which they live. A call to action for amore inclusive, democratic approach to the design of human spaces,the authors use stories from their own practice to cast a new lighton the relationship between communities, design professionals, andthe shaping of their physical places. The stories they tellreveal techniques for generating a collaborative spirit that willhelp designers, planners, and community development professionalsunderstand the human values that lie at the heart of theirprofessions. To decide to be someplace as members of a community demands thatwe become active placemakers again, that we participate with othersin our communities iTable of ContentsThe Power of Stories: The First Baptist Church. Organizational Development Through Design: The InternationalBanking Institute. The Practice of Democracy: The Roanoke NeighborhoodPartnership. Redefining Excellence in the Urban Development: The Rudy BrunerAward Program. Epilogue: A Critical Practice. Appendix. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe paperback edition of the critically-acclaimed, pioneering book on successful urban recovery. Two urban experts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown change across the country to identify a flexible, effective approach to urban rejuvenation.Trade ReviewIn Cities Back from the Edge, Gratz and Mintz offer a love song for the city...their volume, attractively packaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtown revitalization. It turns out the most valuable contribution to urban understanding of the year isn't only a book, it's also a bumper sticker: Think globally, act locally."--The Wall Street Journal Cities Back From the Edge was featured again in The New York Times. Frank Rich writes, "In their new book persuasively arguing for less grandiose, more indigenous urban renewal, Roberta Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz write that a 'collection of visitor attractions does not add up to a city' whether those attractions are cultural centers, convention centers, aquariums, stadiums or enclosed malls."--The New York Times "...provides a fascinating insight into the US Urban Design scenario..." (Urban Design, Autumn 2001)Table of ContentsWHERE ARE WE? Mansfield, Ohio--Getting Off the Big Project Merry-Go-Round. The Mess We Have Made. Project Planning or Urban Husbandry--The Choice. TRANSPORTATION AND PLACE. Death and Rebirth of the Public Realm. Rebuilding Place, Valuing Transit. Undoing Sprawl. BIG, LITTLE, AND PREDATOR. Free Competition or No Competition? You Don't Have to Be Wal-Mart to Be Wal-Mart. To Market, To Market. DOWNTOWN ESSENTIALS. Public Buildings, Public Policies. Back to Basics. Investing in People. IT'S HAPPENING. The SoHo Syndrome. Conclusion: Back from the Edge. Index.

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Book SynopsisCommunity Psychology Theory and Practice Jim Orford, University of Exeter, UK Community psychology is a comparatively new area within psychology. Its perspective is that people and their problems can only be understood by considering the social settings and systems of which they are part and with which they interact continuously over time.Trade ReviewFrom a published review '...Orford's book is written in a measured, cautious and scholarly style, does not exaggerate what community psychology has actually achieved so far, yet inspires with its vision of what community psychology could become. I used it as a core text for teaching a final year option on community psychology. The undergraduate group was wildly enthusiastic about the book. Indeed, the only complaint, raised equally energetically by the students, was that they had not been given access to such exciting material until the final year. The book is essential reading.' The Psychologist 1993Table of ContentsTHEORY. What Is Community Psychology?. Theories of Person-In-Context. Psychological Problems in the Community. Social Resources 1: Social Support. Social Resources 2: Power and Control. Research Methods. PRACTICE. Sharing Psychology with Workers in Human Services. Prevention. Understanding and Changing Organizations. Self-Help and Non-Professional Help. Empowering the Community. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisLooks at the the emergence of new forms of marginality as part of the new map of Europe. The contributors focus on regions, cities, and social groups which at first sight are missing out; the people and places on the edge of dominant economic, political and cultural systems which carry the stigma of marginality.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: New Aspects of Marginality in Europe (E. Mingione). GENDER, RACE, CULTURE. Women of the South After, Like Before, Maastricht? (D. Vaiou). New International Migrations and the "European Fortress" (E.Pugliese). Culture and Marginality in the New Europe (K. Robins & A.Aksoy). CAPITAL, LABOUR, STATE POLICIES. Remote Rural Areas: Villages on the Northern Margin (J.Oksa). New Forms of Transport and Communication, New Patterns ofDisadvantage (J. Gaspar). Growth at the Margins: Contract Labour in a Core Region (J. Allen& N. Henry). CONCLUDING COMMENTS AND OPEN QUESTIONS. Where Have Urban Movements Gone? (C. Pickvance). Thinking About the Edge: The Concept of Marginality (A. Bailly& E. Weiss-Altaner). Index.

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Book SynopsisIn many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Transcription and Transliteration Note on Kinship Terms Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India (AGG and GGR) 1. Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India (GGR) 2. Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs (AGG) 3· On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin (GGR) 4· On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality (GGR) 5· Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case (AGG) 6. Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story (AGG) 7· Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions (GGR with AGG) Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a comprehensive treatment of Salvadoran immigration, this text gives a detailed account of the inner workings of the networks by which immigrants leave their homes in Central America to start new lives in the Mission District of of San Francisco.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Structure of Opportunities, Social Networks, and Social Position 2. Background to Migration 3· The Long Journey through Mexico 4· The Context of Reception in the United States 5· The Dynamics of Social Networks 6. Gendered Networks 7· Informal Exchanges and Intergenerational Relations 8. Immigrant Social Networks and the Receiving Context Appendix A. Crossing Boundaries: A Personal Note on Research Appendix B. Study Participants Notes References Index Map

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Book SynopsisChallenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj Abdellah Hammoudi 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit Lisa Stevenson 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India Leo Coleman 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania Sally Falk Moore 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation Stefan Senders 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) Eugene Raikhel 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat John Borneman 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman Biographical Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on an everyday item - blue jeans - to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative.Trade Review"Blue Jeans provides a useful introduction to sociological theories and methodologies; it would be an ideal text for students." -- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell OrnamentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Life 2. Relationships 3. Fashion 4. Comfortable 5. Ordinary 6. The Struggle for Ordinary 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more.Trade Review"Recommended." -- B. Weston ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 1. Coming Home Elinor Ochs and Belinda Campos 2. At Home Anthony P. Graesch 3. Dinner Elinor Ochs and Margaret Beck 4. Mountains of Things Jeanne E. Arnold 5. Housework Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury 000 6. Chores Wendy Klein and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 7. Homework and Recreation Tamar Kremer-Sadlik and Kris Gutierrez 8. Nurturing Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles Goodwin 9. Stress Rena Repetti, Darby Saxbe, and Shu-wen Wang 10. Health as a Family Matter Linda C. Garro 11. Time for Family Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 12. The Good Enough Family Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik Appendix: The CELF Study References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more.Trade Review"Recommended." -- B. Weston ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 1. Coming Home Elinor Ochs and Belinda Campos 2. At Home Anthony P. Graesch 3. Dinner Elinor Ochs and Margaret Beck 4. Mountains of Things Jeanne E. Arnold 5. Housework Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury 000 6. Chores Wendy Klein and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 7. Homework and Recreation Tamar Kremer-Sadlik and Kris Gutierrez 8. Nurturing Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles Goodwin 9. Stress Rena Repetti, Darby Saxbe, and Shu-wen Wang 10. Health as a Family Matter Linda C. Garro 11. Time for Family Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 12. The Good Enough Family Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik Appendix: The CELF Study References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be.Trade Review"An inspiring book which advocates a challenging new approach of how to act and live together in ethnically diverse communities... Offers an attractive vision of how to increase tolerance." Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Story of Practice 2. A Pedagogy of Community 3. A Community of Pedagogy 4. Ethnographies of Difference 5. Living with Difference 6. On Boundaries, Difference, and Shared Worlds Conclusion Appendix A. Signposts for Organizers Appendix B. Guide for Evaluators Appendix C. Study Questions for Discussion Appendix D. Further Readings Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.Trade Review"...a well written and researched textbook for the turn of the millenium....refreshing, readable, topical and relevant." Elsbeth Robson, Keele University "Culture and Development is an important text for introductory nd midlevel undergraduate classes and development practitioners looking for a comprehensive, critical and interdisciplinary alternative to "business as usual" Economic Geography "Overall, the book is an excellent introduction to anthropological and development studies literature on representations, power and culture. While this literature boomed in the 1990s, its theoretical language and disciplinary dispersal made it difficult for students and practitioners to keep up with the debates. Culture and Development provides just such a readable account for student and teacher alike." Progress in Human Geography "Culture and development takes a wide-ranging, yet in-depth approach to its subject which lends it both coherence and authority. As an innovative introduction to these themes, this book is to be highly recommended." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Preface: The Cross-overs of Culture and Development ix 1 Investing in the Asian snake pit ix 2 Culture and development xi 3 Points of contact xii 4 Outline of the book xiii Acknowledgments xvii 1 Thinking about Culture and Development 1 1 Overview and introduction 1 2 What do we mean by development? 2 3 What do we mean by culture? 16 4 Summary 29 2 Bringing Culture and Development Together 33 1 Introduction 33 2 Third World models of development 40 3 The crisis of development and the new neo-liberal hegemony 50 4 Summary 53 3 Globalization and the Politics of Representation 57 1 Introduction 57 2 Globalization, culture, and development 58 3 Postcolonial challenges 66 4 The deconstruction of development discourse 72 5 Problems of deconstruction 77 6 Hybrid modernities and post-development discourse 79 7 Summary 81 4 Feminism, Development, and Culture 85 1 Introduction 85 2 Women, development, and feminist development theory 87 3 Postcolonial feminisms and feminist development theory 102 4 "Chucking the baby out with the bath water": counter-arguments 109 5 Building bridges 110 6 Summary 113 5 Inventing Traditions, Constructing Nations 118 1 Introduction 118 2 Fixed traditions? 121 3 Inventing traditions 128 4 Contesting traditions 136 5 Globalization and the politics of identity 142 6 Summary 150 6 Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Globalization 154 1 Introduction 154 2 The human rights discourse and the discourse of development 158 3 Human needs and human rights -- a trade-off? 162 4 Gender, cultural difference, and the universality of human rights 171 5 Human rights of ethnic minority groups 179 6 Summary 188 7 Culture, Development, and the Information Revolution 192 1 Introduction 192 2 Media and modernity 196 3 Cultural imperialism revisited 202 4 Communication technologies, knowledge, and development discourse 206 5 Communicating modernization 208 6 Knowledge and development 210 7 Wired for change 214 8 Summary 216 Index 220

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Book SynopsisThis volume synthesizes the author's exploration of the subject of poverty as presented at the 12th Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture at the University of Helsinki. This three lecture collection confronts the questions surrounding the persistence of poverty in rich countries.Table of ContentsPreface. List of Tables. List of Figures. Introduction: Poverty in Rich Countries. Part I: Political Arithmetic: Financial Poverty in the European Union:. 1. The Measurement of Poverty: A Cautionary Tale of Comparing France and the United Kingdom. 2. Absolute and Relative Standards. 3. Expenditure versus Income, Households versus Families, and Choice of Equivalent Scale. 4. Differing Judgements and Dominance Criteria. 5. National Studies of Poverty. Part II: Economics of Poverty and Exclusion:. 6. Unemployment and Exclusion in the Labour Market. 7. Pricing and Exclusion from the Goods Market. 8. Exclusion, Rising Living Standards and the Availability of Products. 9. Household Production, Time and the Take-Up Problem. Part III: Political Economy of Poverty:. 10. The Political Economy of an Official Poverty Line. 11. Macro-Economic Policy and Poverty. 12. Targeting and Efficiency in Alleviating Poverty. 13. The Limits of Targeting via Means Tests. 14. Towards a European Minimum. Envoi: Poverty, Policy and Mainstream Economics. Appendix on Statistical Sources.

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Book SynopsisOffers a political narrative of the rise and fall of the Tudor monarchy. This book begins with the factional quarrels which was the political life of England under Henry VI in the 1450s and then examines the rebuilding of the strength of royal government under Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII.Trade Review"A subtle and persuasive narrative, lucidly and judiciously presented. The work is a continuously interesting narrative of two centuries in transition." The Times (review of the previous edition)Table of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Preface to the Third Edition. Introduction. Part I: The Eclipse of the Medieval Monarchy, 1450-1521:. 1. The Lack of Governance. 2. The Collapse of Obedience. 3. The Restoration of Authority. 4. The Foundation of the Tudor Monarchy. Part II: The Establishment and Testing of the Tudor Monarchy, 1521-1570:. 5. The Administration of Cardinal Wolsey. 6. Thomas Cromwell and the Crisis of Authority. 7. Henry VIII and his Legacy. 8. Religious Reaction and the Spanish Marriage. 9. A New Queen and a New Identity. Part III: The Decline of the Tudor Monarchy, 1571-1629:. 10. The Years of Stability. 11. The Stresses of War. 12. The New King and the Old Problems. 13. The Ascendancy of the Duke of Buckingham. Part IV: The Collapse of Traditional Government, 1630-1660:. 14. The Failure of Communication. 15. Constitutional Stalemate and Civil War. 16. The Fall of the Monarchy, and Military Dictatorship. Historiographical Appendix. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers a political narrative of the rise and fall of the Tudor monarchy. This book begins with the factional quarrels which was the political life of England under Henry VI in the 1450s and then examines the rebuilding of the strength of royal government under Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII.Trade Review"A subtle and persuasive narrative, lucidly and judiciously presented. The work is a continuously interesting narrative of two centuries in transition." The Times (review of the previous edition)Table of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Preface to the Third Edition. Introduction. Part I: The Eclipse of the Medieval Monarchy, 1450-1521:. 1. The Lack of Governance. 2. The Collapse of Obedience. 3. The Restoration of Authority. 4. The Foundation of the Tudor Monarchy. Part II: The Establishment and Testing of the Tudor Monarchy, 1521-1570:. 5. The Administration of Cardinal Wolsey. 6. Thomas Cromwell and the Crisis of Authority. 7. Henry VIII and his Legacy. 8. Religious Reaction and the Spanish Marriage. 9. A New Queen and a New Identity. Part III: The Decline of the Tudor Monarchy, 1571-1629:. 10. The Years of Stability. 11. The Stresses of War. 12. The New King and the Old Problems. 13. The Ascendancy of the Duke of Buckingham. Part IV: The Collapse of Traditional Government, 1630-1660:. 14. The Failure of Communication. 15. Constitutional Stalemate and Civil War. 16. The Fall of the Monarchy, and Military Dictatorship. Historiographical Appendix. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality. * Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories.Trade Review"This smart collection of important essays reminds us how profoundly identity questions infuse the politics of the everyday. An eminently useful reader!" John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, author of New York Before Chinatown: The Shaping of American Orientalism, 1776–1882 "A landmark reader in the borderlands of our ‘post’ and ‘trans’ existences. Identities demonstrates the historical centrality of identity to Western philosophy and explores the philosophical dimensions of our contemporary struggle with identity, politics, and culture. Alcoff and Mendieta's selections provide a profound critique as well as a generative overview for anyone interested in difference, power, and construction of the individual and social self." Johnnella Butler, University of Washington, editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic StudiesTable of ContentsNotes on Authors. Introduction: Identities: Modern and Postmodern Linda Martín Alcoff. Part I: Foundations. 1. Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: G.W.F. Hegel. 2. On the Jewish Question: Karl Marx. 3. Consciousness and What is Unconscious: Sigmund Freud. 4. The Self: George Herbert Mead. Part II: Race/Ethnicity/Ethnorace. 5. The Conservation of Races: W.E.B. Du Bois. 6. The New Negro: Alain Locke. 7. Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle: Amilcar Cabral. 8. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon. 9. Whiteness as Property: Cheryl I. Harris. 10. New Ethnicities: Stuart Hall. 11. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity: Juan Flores. Part III: Class and Identity. 12. Class Consciousness: Georg Lukács. 13. Class Consciousness in History: E. J. Hobsbawm. 14. Preface from The Making of the English Working Class: E.P. Thompson. 15. Introduction from Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India: Ranajit Guha. Part IV: Gender/Sexuality. 16. Introduction from The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir. 17. One Is Not Born a Woman: Monique Wittig. 18. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality: Iris Marion Young. 19. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color: Kimberlé Crenshaw. 20. Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse: Judith Butler. 21. Revolutions, Universals and Sexual Categories: John Boswell. 22. Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens: David M. Halperin. 23. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation: Teresa de Lauretis. 24. Transsexual Discourses and Languages of Identification: Jason Cromwell. Part V: National/Transnational Identities. 25. National Identity and Citizenship: Ross Poole. 26. On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The US Latina/o – ‘Latin” American Case: Daniel Mato. 27. Globalization as a Problem: Roland Robertson. 28. Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity: R. Rhadakrishnan. Part VI: Reconfigurations. 29. The Clash of Definitions: Edward W. Said. 30. Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism: Renato Rosaldo. 31. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity: Mike Featherstone. 32. Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau. 33. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s: Donna Haraway. 34. The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: Satya P. Mohanty. Afterword: Identities: Postcolonial and Global: Eduardo Mendieta. Subject Index. Name Index.

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Book SynopsisInvestigating the late 16th through the 19th century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Choson state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions. It counters the static view of the Korean Confucian state and elucidates its relationship to the wider Confucian community and religious groups.

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Book SynopsisHaney López tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts of 1968. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy.Trade ReviewRacism on Trial is a fascinating and thought-provoking study that adds much to our understanding of the Chicano movement and points to the centrality of race in America. By arguing that racism is common sense, Haney López provides a useful model that can be applied to American history as a whole and in so doing redirect our notions of the construction of race and racism in the United States… [A] fine book that will have a profound influence on the study of legal, ethnic, and American history for years to come. -- Ernesto Chavez * American Journal of Legal History *At the heart of this book is a compelling examination of the ways in which their treatment by the police and the courts persuaded Chicanos to abandon the claim to be white and to fashion their own racial identity. -- M. J. Heale * History *Haney López’s evidentiary presentation is the highlight of the book. Unlike many social scientists, he realizes he has the burden of proof… Ian F. Haney López’s work contributes significantly to the understanding of the period. -- Rodolfo F. Acuña * Journal of American History *Haney López transcends the history and politics of the Chicano movement and exposes the underlying ‘common sense racism’ on which he blames the extraordinary rate of exclusion of Latinos from grand jury service in L.A.… Racism on Trial bridges the issues of race relations, protest movements, and the law with conviction and clarity. -- José Luis Sánchez * Multicultural Review *No one has better explained how court practices, educational inequities, and police behavior ignited a ‘brown power’ movement that took its grievances to the courts as well as to the streets. A must-read for those interested in the racial place of Hispanics in a black and white nation. -- Neil Foley, University of TexasAn astonishingly lucid and significant contribution to current discussions of race, Racism on Trial underscores our common reliance on everyday racial ideas that remain unquestioned. This fine book could well blast through the racial impasse which our country faces and lead, in the end, to real transformation and equality. -- Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries, Los AngelesLocating his argument in distinctly American ideas about racial identity, [Haney López] looks closely at pivotal events in the development of Chicano racial consciousness and illuminates the subversive role that common sense plays in racism and racial prejudice. This book is essential reading for people looking for a way out of the black–white conception of race that has dominated social discourse, without resorting to colorblindness. -- Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, authors of The Miner’s CanaryRacism on Trial is an absolutely dazzling piece of legal scholarship that chronicles the rise of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and explains the Mexicans’ transformation into a brown race from one that had long asserted its whiteness. Haney López deftly seeks the movement’s roots in poverty, urban violence, segregation, and educational neglect, elaborating a robust theory of a common sense racism that greatly illuminates our understanding of discrimination. -- Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of California, San DiegoHaney López invites us to confront our hauntingly evocative past and the pernicious nature of common sense racism in our legal institutions. He underscores just how much racial prejudice still greets Mexicans and Chicanos across the United States, and how it must be met by renewed efforts to gain fully equal citizenship. -- Gerald P. López, New York University Law SchoolIn Racism on Trial, Ian Haney López dissects two prominent legal cases handled by controversial lawyer-activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in the late 1960s—the trials of the East LA Thirteen and the Biltmore Six—in order to reconstruct and interpret the Chicano Movement period in Los Angeles. The result is a provocative and engaging mix of legal analysis, civil rights history, and the sociology of legal violence and racial identities. This is essential reading for those interested in Anglo–Mexican relations in California and the Southwest. -- David Montejano, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPrologue Part One: Litigating Mexican Identity 1. The Chicano Movement Cases 2. Proving Mexicans Exist 3. The Mexican Race in East L.A. Part Two: Common Sense and Legal Violence 4. Judges and Intentional Racism 5. Race and Racism as Common Sense 6. Law Enforcement and Legal Violence Part Three: The Chicano Race 7. The Chicano Movement and the East L.A. Thirteen 8. From Young Citizens to Brown Berets 9. Inventing Chicanos Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisA solution to inequalitiesin health care, retirement, education, recreation, communicationis as close as the public library, post office, community pool, or elementary school. The Public Option shows that opportunities to develop reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options are all around us.Trade ReviewWe are so accustomed to arguments that government only infringes upon freedom that we forget how government, when intelligently deployed, can expand our choices—and yes, make us more free. In this important book Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott make a brilliant, clear, and accessible case for how public options in areas such as banking, health care, and child care can improve lives, especially for those whom the marketplace marginalizes. We already celebrate many public options, such as our great public universities and libraries. Sitaraman and Alstott urge us to think inventively about other areas where public options could make our nation both better and fairer. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr., coauthor of One Nation After Trump and author of Our Divided Political HeartTimely, important, and convincing, this book is pretty much the definition of ‘fresh thinking.’ Key reading for a political generation that is on the search for new ideas for old problems. -- Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded AgeAt a time of widespread debates about the role of public provision, Sitaraman and Alstott make a vibrant case for developing and preserving public options in education, health care, child care, broadband access, banking, and retirement benefits. To get beyond slogans and move toward real and practical proposals to improve the daily lives of Americans, and strengthen our commitments to others, read this book. -- Martha Minow, author of Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public GoodIn this timely and stirring call for reform, two of our nation’s smartest policy thinkers recapture our past to chart our future. Sitaraman and Alstott remind us that Americans have long supported policies that offer a choice between government and the private sector, and they show us how this model—the public option—could provide innovative solutions to perennial challenges facing child care, retirement savings, higher education, and much more. -- Jacob S. Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American DreamFilled with ingenious ideas for strengthening the public sector and also bolstering our democracy…Demonstrate[s] that true public institutions, such as public schools and public child care, are more efficient as well as more equitable than private ones trying to carry out public purposes. -- Robert Kuttner * American Prospect *I hope every 2020 presidential candidate—yes, I’m being optimistic about President Trump—reads the policy book of the summer… The two law professors are not interested in government taking over everything. On the contrary, what they seek is to expand choice. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr. * Washington Post *Their proposal is not that the public sector should displace the private sector, but rather that offering a publicly-run alternative would expand everyone’s choices and ensure that no one is left too far behind. -- Simon Johnson * Project Syndicate *An enthusiastic, accessible, and convincing case that more ‘public option’ government services would significantly improve the quality of life for average Americans. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Makes a compelling case for affordable government-funded services that coexist with private options. * ProMarket *

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Book SynopsisA reassessment of New Deal policymaking, arguing that the major constraints on and catalysts for FDR's policies were rooted in class conflict. The author analyzes the balance of class forces during the Great Depression and the ways in which they influenced federal policies.

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Habermas retraces the emergence and development of the bourgeois public sphere, focusing on Europe in the early modern period. He examines the writing of political theorists and the specific institutions and social forms in which the public sphere was realized.Trade Review'Why is this such a vital study? Its significance rests in its analysis of one of the central notions on which both our political life and our political theories rest: 'public opinion'. Presidential candidates worry about it, the press talks about it, political scientists try to measure it, but Habermas is one of the few people to have actually sat down and tried to think about it, to ask what it means to have an 'opinion' that is not private, not idiosyncratic, but rather 'public'.' James Schmidt, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction by Thomas McCarthy. Part I. Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere. Part II. Social Structures of the Public Sphere. Part III. Political Functions of the Public Sphere. Part IV. The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology. Part V. The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Part VI. The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. The book begins by asking: what do people need from one another; what do they need to survive and how do these needs make them dependent upon others? Subsequent chapters deal with the ties that bind people, the expectations they entertain of one another, their means of distinguishing themselves from others, the ways they have of moulding and teaching the young, and what they believe, know and invent. De Swaan also explores the ways in which people organize their activities, from foraging bands of only a few dozen members to contemporary societies that can effectively co-ordinate a billion people or more. Human Societies traces this huge increase in the scale of social life which occurred as new forms of human co-ordination emerged: from reciprocal obligation and cTrade Review"As an introductory text, Human Societies stands out as an exemplary work of scholarship. Professor de Swaan's approach is grounded in the best tradition of historical and institutional sociology. His style is lucid and jargon-free. His analysis is cogent and engaging throughout. His coverage extends from the micro-concerns of human relationships to the macro-issues of social change and globalization." —Robert Pinker, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents1. What People Need From Each Other. 2. How People Are Connected To One Another. 3. What People Expect Of One Another. 4. How People Distinguish Themselves From One Another: Stratification. 5. How People Form One Another: Socialization and Civilization. 6. What People Believe, Know And Think: Orientation. 7. How People Attune Their Efforts To One Another: Competition and Coordination. 8. How People Perform Tasks Together: Collective Action. 9. How People Produce For Others and Exchange Goods: Division Of Labour, Market Formation and Payment. 10. How People Cooperate On The Basis Of Rules and Instructions: Organization. 11. How People Form States and States Form People: State Formation And State Intervention. 12. Globalization: Towards A Worldwide Society?. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography. an outstanding and original work on the experience of immigration and the kind of suffering involved in living in a society and culture which is not one's own; describes how immigrants are compelled, out of respect for themselves and the group that allowed them to leave their country of origin, to play down the suffering of emigration; Abdelmalek Sayad, was an Algerian scholar and close associate of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu - after Sayad's death, Bourdieu undertook to assemble these writings for publication; this book will transform the reader's understandingTrade ReviewA brilliant excavation of the condition we usually describe as immigration. Sayad brings to light aspects of that condition typically camouflaged or neutralized by the language itself of most academic research on immigration. He juxtaposes to this language the apparent opacity of the language of immigrants’ lived experience and helps us see its transparence and what it communicates.’ – Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and AliensTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. A Note on Terminology. Preface. Sources. Introduction. 1 The Original Sin And The Collective Lie. 2 The Three Ages Of Emigration. 3 An Exemplary Immigration. 4 Nationalism And Emigration. 5 The Backlash On The Society Of Origin. 6 A Relationship Of Domination. 7 The Wrongs Of The Absentee. 8 The Immigrant: ‘Os For Life’. 9 Illness, Suffering And The Body. 10 The Weight Of Words. 11 ‘Naturalisation’. Appendix: Three Interviews About Identity. 12 Immigration And ‘State Thought’. 13 Recapitulation. Notes. References. Bibliography: The Writings Of Abdelmalek Sayad

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Book Synopsis* Giddens' latest policy manifesto, which takes further some of the arguments of 'The Third Way'. * Publication to be timed before the next general election. * Comprises a collection of essays from globally renowned thinkers, as well as Anthony Giddens and senior New Labour figures.Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors. Acknowledgements. Editor's Introduction. 1. Inequality of Incomes and Opportunities. (Gøsta Esping-Anderson). 2. Does Inequality Matter (Ed Miliband). 3. Inequality in the New Knowledge Economy (Robert Atkinson). 4. Opportunity and Life Chances: the Dynamics of Poverty (Robert Walker). 5. Where are the poor? The changing Patterns of Inequality and the. Impact of Attempts to Reduce It. (Anne Power). 6.The New Egalitarianism: Economic Inequality in the UK (Patrick Diamond and Anthony Giddens). 7.Inequality and Recognition; Pan-European social conflicts and their political dynamic (Ulrich Beck). 8. New Global Classes: Implications for Politics (Saskia Sasson). 9. Britain's Glue: the Case for Liberal Nationalism (David Goodhart). 10. Why gender equality? (Magdalena Andersson). 11. Social Corrosion, Inequality and Health (Robert Wilkinson). 12. Inequality, Choice and Public Services (Julian Le Grand). Notes. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Giddens' latest policy manifesto, which takes further some of the arguments of 'The Third Way'. * Publication to be timed before the next general election. * Comprises a collection of essays from globally renowned thinkers, as well as Anthony Giddens and senior New Labour figures.Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors. Acknowledgements. Editor's Introduction. 1. Inequality of Incomes and Opportunities. (Gøsta Esping-Anderson). 2. Does Inequality Matter (Ed Miliband). 3. Inequality in the New Knowledge Economy (Robert Atkinson). 4. Opportunity and Life Chances: the Dynamics of Poverty (Robert Walker). 5. Where are the poor? The changing Patterns of Inequality and the. Impact of Attempts to Reduce It. (Anne Power). 6.The New Egalitarianism: Economic Inequality in the UK (Patrick Diamond and Anthony Giddens). 7.Inequality and Recognition; Pan-European social conflicts and their political dynamic (Ulrich Beck). 8. New Global Classes: Implications for Politics (Saskia Sasson). 9. Britain's Glue: the Case for Liberal Nationalism (David Goodhart). 10. Why gender equality? (Magdalena Andersson). 11. Social Corrosion, Inequality and Health (Robert Wilkinson). 12. Inequality, Choice and Public Services (Julian Le Grand). Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity.Trade Review"Bradley successfully combines political critique and trenchant scholarship in this up-to-the minute revision of her now classic text. Her focus is firmly on increasing inequality and polarization, in all their dimensions, in the context of globalization and the entrenchment of austerity and individualism. Her arguments are accessible, engaging and convincing. The book makes an important contribution to the resurgence of class analysis, and will be widely read." Miriam Glucksmann, University of Essex"Harriet Bradley’s new edition of Fractured Identities synthesises the changes consequent upon globalisation, the War on Terror, and changing demographics since the first edition with her clear and coherent account of the classic sociological work. Any student using the book will be extremely fortunate: it is innovative, current, and classic."Sara Delamont, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction to Second edition1 Introductory: Inequality and Identity 2 Inequality, Fragmentation and Identity3 Capitalism, Modernity and Global Change4 The Death and Rebirth of Class5 Gender: Rethinking Patriarchy6 �Race� and Ethnicity: �Travelling in the West�7 Age: Generations and Gaps8 Emergent Identities and Inequalities: Disability, Sexual Orientation and Religious Affiliation9 Conclusion: Fractured Identities: Processes of Fragmentation and Polarization in Globalizing Capitalist SocietiesBibliography and SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to belong to a group or community - from peer groups and local communities to ethnic groups and nations - is a pervasive and enduring feature of modern social life. The power of belonging stems from the potential to generate an emotional attachment capable of fostering a shared identity, loyalty and solidarity among members of a given community. It is this strong emotional dimension that enables belonging to act as a trigger for political mobilization and, in extreme cases, to underpin collective violence. Among the topics examined in this book are identity as a political instrument; emotions and political mobilization; the return of authoritarianism and the rise of the new radical right; symbols and the rituals of belonging; loyalty, the nation and nationalism. It includes case studies from Britain, Spain, Catalonia,Trade Review"A well-written and wide-ranging overview of many important ideas about belonging."Journal of Social Policy "A thought-provoking book on fundamentally important issues."Sociology "A rich, sound and consistent book within the classical political science tradition."Journal of Catalan Intellectual History "In Belonging Professor Guibernau skilfully deconstructs the many differing elements that determine the individual's identity. In a world where conflicting trends, tendencies and tensions compete to define us, it is a timely analysis of the increasing complexities influencing much of the contemporary human predicament. It will become a standard work on the subject."Lord Smith of Clifton "Montserrat Guibernau reformulates the concept of belonging through an in-depth exploration of mechanisms of solidarity and psychological connections between citizens and communities. The author takes us beyond debates on national identity and nationalism by deepening our understanding of loyalty, freedom and trust - three dimensions that have been neglected for too long by social scientists and political authorities - in divided polities. This book is theorerically rich and highly accessible."Alain Gagnon, Université du Québec à Montréal "How to define and interpret the relationship between the individual and community? Guibernau demonstrates possibilities of new understanding of this almost secular problem by introducing the newly defined term belonging in mutual tension with identification and nationalism. Theoretical reflections are connected with pressing political problems of our times. This approach is rich on inspiration and intellectual challenge for all social sciences."Miroslav Hroch, Charles University, PragueTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Outline of the book 2 1 Identity as a Political Instrument 7 Conflicting identities 7 The role of boundaries 10 Traditional versus modern societies 15 The construction and meaning of identity 16 The consequences of globalization 19 Summary 24 2 Belonging by Choice 26 Belonging and emotion 26 The conditions of belonging 32 Collective identity and the power of symbols 35 Belonging to the nation 43 Collective identity and political mobilization 44 Summary 48 3 Freedom and Constraint 50 Immanuel Kant 51 Michel Foucault 55 Erich Fromm 58 The freedom to belong 61 Alienation, fear of irrelevance and group membership 64 Escaping into new dependencies: addiction 65 Summary 69 4 The New Radical Right and the Resurgence of Authoritarian Politics 71 The rise of authoritarianism 71 The new radical right versus traditional fascism 75 Who votes for the new radical right? 79 ‘White resistance’ as a transnational movement 80 The rise of ethno-politics 83 On racism 84 The nation: conflicting views 86 From biological to cultural exclusion 88 Summary 90 5 The Rituals of Belonging 92 The power of symbols 92 The meaning of symbols 97 Ritual and power 98 Ritual and emotions 103 Rituals of ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ 105 Rites of belonging in modern society 108 Rites of passage 110 ‘Exclusive’ and ‘inclusive’ groups and associations 112 Summary 116 6 Loyalty, Citizenship and the Nation 118 On loyalty 118 Three types of loyalty 120 Loyalty, the nation and nationalism 123 National loyalty in peacetime and wartime 128 Loyalty programmes in the USA 130 Scapegoating and dissent 134 Freedom versus conformity 135 ‘Authoritarian’ versus ‘democratic’ loyalty 137 The great challenge: turning immigrants into Americans 140 Summary 142 7 Emotion and Political Mobilization 144 Emotion and social action 144 Emotion and the rational imperatives of market capitalism 147 ‘Taming’ emotion and the construction of ‘healing spaces’ 153 Emotion and political mobilization 154 Summary 170 Conclusion 172 Notes 181 Bibliography 200 Index 211

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to belong to a group or community - from peer groups and local communities to ethnic groups and nations - is a pervasive and enduring feature of modern social life.Trade Review"A well-written and wide-ranging overview of many important ideas about belonging."Journal of Social Policy "A thought-provoking book on fundamentally important issues."Sociology "A rich, sound and consistent book within the classical political science tradition."Journal of Catalan Intellectual History "In Belonging Professor Guibernau skilfully deconstructs the many differing elements that determine the individual's identity. In a world where conflicting trends, tendencies and tensions compete to define us, it is a timely analysis of the increasing complexities influencing much of the contemporary human predicament. It will become a standard work on the subject."Lord Smith of Clifton "Montserrat Guibernau reformulates the concept of belonging through an in-depth exploration of mechanisms of solidarity and psychological connections between citizens and communities. The author takes us beyond debates on national identity and nationalism by deepening our understanding of loyalty, freedom and trust - three dimensions that have been neglected for too long by social scientists and political authorities - in divided polities. This book is theorerically rich and highly accessible."Alain Gagnon, Université du Québec à Montréal "How to define and interpret the relationship between the individual and community? Guibernau demonstrates possibilities of new understanding of this almost secular problem by introducing the newly defined term belonging in mutual tension with identification and nationalism. Theoretical reflections are connected with pressing political problems of our times. This approach is rich on inspiration and intellectual challenge for all social sciences."Miroslav Hroch, Charles University, PragueTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Outline of the book 2 1 Identity as a Political Instrument 7 Conflicting identities 7 The role of boundaries 10 Traditional versus modern societies 15 The construction and meaning of identity 16 The consequences of globalization 19 Summary 24 2 Belonging by Choice 26 Belonging and emotion 26 The conditions of belonging 32 Collective identity and the power of symbols 35 Belonging to the nation 43 Collective identity and political mobilization 44 Summary 48 3 Freedom and Constraint 50 Immanuel Kant 51 Michel Foucault 55 Erich Fromm 58 The freedom to belong 61 Alienation, fear of irrelevance and group membership 64 Escaping into new dependencies: addiction 65 Summary 69 4 The New Radical Right and the Resurgence of Authoritarian Politics 71 The rise of authoritarianism 71 The new radical right versus traditional fascism 75 Who votes for the new radical right? 79 ‘White resistance’ as a transnational movement 80 The rise of ethno-politics 83 On racism 84 The nation: conflicting views 86 From biological to cultural exclusion 88 Summary 90 5 The Rituals of Belonging 92 The power of symbols 92 The meaning of symbols 97 Ritual and power 98 Ritual and emotions 103 Rituals of ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ 105 Rites of belonging in modern society 108 Rites of passage 110 ‘Exclusive’ and ‘inclusive’ groups and associations 112 Summary 116 6 Loyalty, Citizenship and the Nation 118 On loyalty 118 Three types of loyalty 120 Loyalty, the nation and nationalism 123 National loyalty in peacetime and wartime 128 Loyalty programmes in the USA 130 Scapegoating and dissent 134 Freedom versus conformity 135 ‘Authoritarian’ versus ‘democratic’ loyalty 137 The great challenge: turning immigrants into Americans 140 Summary 142 7 Emotion and Political Mobilization 144 Emotion and social action 144 Emotion and the rational imperatives of market capitalism 147 ‘Taming’ emotion and the construction of ‘healing spaces’ 153 Emotion and political mobilization 154 Summary 170 Conclusion 172 Notes 181 Bibliography 200 Index 211

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