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Book SynopsisInsightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners' papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners.

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Book SynopsisArgues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade.

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Book Synopsis Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih MuehlTrade Review"... this volume offers an insightful evaluation of infrastructural complexity and an excellent starting point for thinking about amendatory futures." -- Melanie Ford * Anthropos *“Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene is an ambitious and brilliant work of ethnographic analysis…. The book is a solid source for critical scholars working on the Anthropocene, offering ways to grasp such a complex concept through those of infrastructure, environment and life.” -- Semra Akay * Local Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1 Part I. Reckoning with Ground 1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17 2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45 3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66 Part II: Lively Infrastructures 4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97 5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115 6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149 Part III: Histories of Progress 7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171 8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193 9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216 10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236 References 261 Contributors 293 Index 297

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Book Synopsis Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih MuehlTrade Review"... this volume offers an insightful evaluation of infrastructural complexity and an excellent starting point for thinking about amendatory futures." -- Melanie Ford * Anthropos *“Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene is an ambitious and brilliant work of ethnographic analysis…. The book is a solid source for critical scholars working on the Anthropocene, offering ways to grasp such a complex concept through those of infrastructure, environment and life.” -- Semra Akay * Local Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1 Part I. Reckoning with Ground 1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17 2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45 3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66 Part II: Lively Infrastructures 4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97 5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115 6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149 Part III: Histories of Progress 7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171 8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193 9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216 10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236 References 261 Contributors 293 Index 297

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Book SynopsisA new understanding of vulnerability in contemporary political cultureProgressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants and the poor. At the same time, conservatives claim that their values and communities are vulnerable to attackoften by these same groups. In turn, they craft antidemocratic representations of vulnerability that significantly influence the political landscape, restricting human and legal rights for many in order to expand them for a historically privileged few. Vulnerability Politics examines how twenty-first century political struggles over immigration, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence have created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law. By researching organizations like Trade Review"In this important and impressive book, Katie Oliviero places herself firmly in the center of the vibrant debates around the political and social implications, opportunities, and dangers of using the concept of vulnerability. Developing the powerful idea of & progressive vulnerability to articulate social justice claims, she shows how politics must be based on a sense of our collective responsibility when it comes to vexing issues, such as poverty, racism, sexual violence, and social exclusion" -- Martha Albertson Fineman,Co-editor of Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice: From International and Criminal to Al"Katie Oliviero provides a lucid and wide-ranging analysis of the powerful emotions generated through political claims to vulnerability . . . . Critiquing how conservative groups such as anti-immigrant and anti-abortion activists capitalize on the purported vulnerability of the nation and the family, Oliviero lays the groundwork for an alternate, progressive use of the concept, one thatas illustrated in the Black Lives Matter movementworks to materially address structural inequities as well as our mutual needs and desires." -- Jane Juffer,Author of Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest

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Book SynopsisA new understanding of vulnerability in contemporary political cultureProgressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants and the poor. At the same time, conservatives claim that their values and communities are vulnerable to attackoften by these same groups. In turn, they craft antidemocratic representations of vulnerability that significantly influence the political landscape, restricting human and legal rights for many in order to expand them for a historically privileged few. Vulnerability Politics examines how twenty-first century political struggles over immigration, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence have created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law. By researching organizations like Trade ReviewKatie Oliviero provides a lucid and wide-ranging analysis of the powerful emotions generated through political claims to vulnerability . . . . Critiquing how conservative groups such as anti-immigrant and anti-abortion activists capitalize on the purported vulnerability of the nation and the family, Oliviero lays the groundwork for an alternate, progressive use of the concept, one thatas illustrated in the Black Lives Matter movementworks to materially address structural inequities as well as our mutual needs and desires. -- Jane Juffer,Author of Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. MidwestIn this important and impressive book, Katie Oliviero places herself firmly in the center of the vibrant debates around the political and social implications, opportunities, and dangers of using the concept of vulnerability. Developing the powerful idea of & progressive vulnerability to articulate social justice claims, she shows how politics must be based on a sense of our collective responsibility when it comes to vexing issues, such as poverty, racism, sexual violence, and social exclusion -- Martha Albertson Fineman,Co-editor of Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice: From International and Criminal to Al

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Book SynopsisIn a world that requires knowledge and wisdom to address developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships.Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. Meeting over several years in long-weekend gatherings, in a Wabanaki-led traditional Council format, assumptions were challenged, perspectives upended, and stereotypes shattered. Alliances and friendships were formed that endure to this day.The Gatherings tells the moving story of these meetings in the words of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. Reuniting to reflect on how their lives were changed by their experiences Trade Review"The Gatherings is an unusual book in the powerful authenticity of feeling it expresses." -- Dana White * OFF RADAR, centralmaine.com *"The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers." -- Carly Smith * Cloud Lake Literary *"Calling themselves collectively 'Mawopiyane,' a Passamaquoddy word meaning 'let us sit together,' they spent several years piecing together this simply framed, but profoundly encouraging book." -- Dana Wilde, National Book Critics Circle * The Working Waterfront *"The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers." -- Carly Smith * Cloud Lake Literary *"The authors share the insights they have gained on how Natives and non-Natives can work well together by acknowledging First Peoples, honoring agreements, understanding their worldviews, and being in conversation with one another." -- David Etheridge * Friends Journal *Table of ContentsForeword With Gratitude Notes on Terminology Introduction Gathering The Talking Circle Miigam’agan Wayne Gwen Dana Alma Barb gkisedtanamoogk Shirley H. Debbie Shirley B. Wesley Marilyn Betty JoAnn The Last Gathering The Decision Hindsight The Gatherings: May 1987 to May 1993 Creating This Book The Giveaway Blanket The Circle and Ceremony The Circle and Decision Making Ceremony: Protect or Share It? Allies, Friends, Family Beginnings The Women Compare Notes The Relationship Evolves Mutuality How We Got Here The Doctrine of Discovery But What about the Treaties? The Personal Is Political Economic Self-Determination Beginning to Make Amends Some Progress ... and a Long Way to Go How It Could Be Different Being Here Legitimately Acknowledging First Peoples/Honoring the Treaties An Indigenous Worldview The Need for Gathering Spaces Creating a Gathering Space Working Together on a Cause Humility versus “White Guilt” Non-Natives Working with Our Own People Entering the Longhouse Being in the Relationship: An Afterword by Dr. Frances Hancock Appendix: How This Book Came to Be Notes Suggested Resources Contributors Map: Location of the Gatherings Reader’s Guide Index

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Book SynopsisA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five yeTrade Review“This is, perhaps, Carastathis’s greatest insight: she urges us to think about intersectionality as a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept’ whose work remains to be done. In this account, intersectionality refers to our desire to keep dreaming of a more just social world.”—Jennifer C. Nash, American Quarterly "Intersectionality follows a clear theoretical arc and stages multiple interventions throughout, making it a resource for one well versed in the field or encountering it for the first time."—Desiree Valentine, Critical Philosophy of Race"Anna Carastathis confronts an enduring obstacle to taking up intersectionality's potential: she illustrates how an ongoing, monist fragmentation of identities, communities, politics, and perceptions buttresses power hierarchies and reinforces exclusion by design."—Vivian M. May, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy“Better theory is what Carastathis wants, and that implies for her a more fundamental critique of naturalized and essentialized groups and a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept that disaggregates false unities, undermines false universalisms, and unsettles false entitlements.’”—Myra Marx Ferree, Contemporary Sociology"Carastathis’s citational practices and the subsequent conversations she generates are a vital intervention in this current moment in academia. For both novices and experts in black feminist theories, this book is a crucial review of the literature for all academics at any stage of their career, especially those scholars naming their work as 'intersectional.'"—R. Aliah Ajamoughli, Journal of Folklore Research“Anna Carastathis’s careful and sustained engagement with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work is uniquely illuminating and helpful.”—Zenzele Isoke, author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of ResistanceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing 2. Basements and Intersections 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality 5. Identities as Coalitions 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIdentity is often fraught for multiracial ‘Douglas’, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume, Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah Ranjitsingh explore the particular meanings of a ‘Dougla’ identity and examine ‘Dougla’ maneuverability both at home and in the diaspora.Trade ReviewDougla in the Twenty-First Century inquires into the ways in which Dougla identity nuances contemporary scholarship’s conventional wisdom, contending that to be Dougla is multilayered—ambiguous, decisive, or something in between. Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh also highlight the ways that forms of agency shape consciousness of self over time, across generations, and throughout the diaspora.

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Book SynopsisNinigret (c. 16001676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biography of Ninigret, Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman assert that he was the most influential Indian leader of his era in southern New England. As such, he was a key to the balance of power in both Indian-colonial and intertribal relations.Ninigret was at the center of almost every major development involving southern New England Indians between the Pequot War of 163637 and King Philip''s War of 167576. He led the Narragansetts'' campaign to become the region''s major power, including a decades-long war against the Mohegans led by Uncas, Ninigret''s archrival. To offset growing English power, Ninigret formed long-distance alliances with the powerful Mohawks of the Iroquois Trade ReviewNinigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts sheds powerful new light on a major figure and the tumultuous world he helped to shape. It is a must-read for anyone interested in colonial and/or Native American history. * American Historical Review *Ninigret adds layers to a crucial period in regional and early American history, and it invites future conversations about cross-cultural power brokers and the nature of indigenous authority and adaptation in the midst of English settler colonialism. -- Christine DeLucia * The New England Quarterly *Fisher (graduate student, Univ. of Delaware) and Silverman (George Washington Univ.)... provide an excellent study of the region's politics and diplomacy from the Pequot War to King Philip’s War. They carefully detail Ninigret’s role as a skillful leader who forged strategic and often shifting alliances during this period.The authors’ meticulous examination of diplomacy and war is accompanied by a wealth of insight into Native American society and culture. This book makes an important contribution to understanding early New England and Native American history, and reveals Ninigret as an active and skillful agent in shaping the history of the period. As such, this book takes its place as essential reading for scholars of 17th-century New England. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- J.C. Arndt * CHOICE *This book is a sympathetic political and diplomatic biography of an important sachem who has rarely received adequate historiographical attention. It is an important contribution to our understanding of Indian diplomacy in southern New England between the Pequot War and King Philip's War. Students of colonial New England will find the nuanced understandings of Native community and kinship networks illuminating, and scholars of early America at all levels will discover in its pages a model for a Native-centered interpretation of on-the-ground colonial diplomacy. -- Linford D. Fisher * William and Mary Quarterly *This is a good book about an extremely difficult and important time in the history of this country. Buy it and read it. I am very grateful to the authors for having written it. * Northeast Anthropology *This volume's unique contribution is a reinterpretation that puts Indians at the center of how we look at the politics and conflicts of New England in the seventeenth century. It not only shows diverse interests among Indians, but as a corollary, highlights diversity among the English as well. The evidence is substantial and convincing, and the authors have thankfully added Ninigret to the woefully short list of Indians from the colonial era whom we can say that we know in some detail Fisher and Silverman’s biography is written as crisply and clearly as the complicated and ambiguous story will allow. The first chapter especially would make an excellent introduction to eastern Native societies and early colonial contact for undergraduates. -- Jonathan DeCoster * Itinerario *[T]he authors, convinced of the sachem's importance, follow every possible path in the materials and have produced a volume of great insight and historical ingenuity.... These historians succeed in their task, almost more than the limitations in their material should really allow.... This work deserves a wide audience, one interested in native biography, native–imperial interaction, and the tactics, strategies and deployment of political and military power in the seventeenth century. -- Christopher Bilodeau, Dickinson College * History: Journal of the Historical Association *Table of ContentsPreface vii A Chronology of Key Events in the Life of Ninigret xxi 1. Being and Becoming a Sachem 1 2. "To obtaine it by force" 31 3. "I doe but Right my owne quarrell" 54 4. A Time of Decision 87 5. Ninigret's Narragansett War 113 Epilogue: The Small Matter of Eltwood Pomeroy’s Mare

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Book SynopsisIn the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another. This fascinating book shows how people from various societies learn to live with social diversity and cultural difference, and considers how the concepts of identity formation, diaspora and creolization shed light on the processes and geographies of encounter.Robin Cohen and Olivia Sheringham reveal how early historical encounters created colonial hierarchies, but also how conflict has been creatively resisted through shared social practices in particular contact zones including islands, port cities and the ‘super-diverse’ cities formed by enhanced international migration and globalization. Drawing on research experience from across the world, including new fieldwork in Louisiana, Martinique, Mauritius and Cape Verde, their account provides a balance between rich description and insightful analysis showing, in particular, how identities emerge and merge ‘from below’.Moving seamlessly between social and political theory, history, cultural anthropology, sociology and human geography, the authors point to important new ways of understanding and living with difference, surely one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This is one of those rare books which is both erudite, eloquent and existentially engaging. The authors embark on a journey through culturally variegated landscapes, addressing the human condition and the contemporary world as they go along, asking how people are able to live with diversity; and they generously invite the reader to take part in this conversation, which is so crucial for the future of humanity on this shrinking planet of ours."Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo "This book offers a fresh perspective in shifting the focus from human conflict to how people 'make a life together'. To navigate the difficult terrain of a diverse world, it provides readers with a pair of carefully articulated concepts as guiding lights: while diaspora looks backwards to shared heritage and homeland, creolization gives weight to the forward-looking, creative energies inherent in culture contact."Brenda S. A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore "With exceptional range of coverage and strong conceptual engagement, alongside a peppering of informative photographs, this book offers something for research, teaching, and general reading alike. [�] an important launchpad for rethinking how we approach the challenging topic of living with, in, despite, and through difference in divided times."Geography "This book is a delightful read. It succeeds because it grounds empirically rich case studies in a well thought-out theoretical framework, moving beyond bland and uninspiring liberal nostrums that �all cultures matter�. The volume demonstrates that understanding cultural encounters necessitates more than simply acknowledging differences, but requires delving into how coexisting identities complement rather than contradict one another."Barney Warf, Social & Cultural GeographyTable of Contents Framing the question: a preamble 1. Shaping the tools: three concepts 2. Exploring difference: early interactions 3. Locating identity formation: contact zones 4. Expressing merged identities: music 5. Celebrating and resisting: carnival 6. Constructing heritage 7. Marking identities: the cultural politics of multiple loyalties 8. Encountering difference: a conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another. This fascinating book shows how people from various societies learn to live with social diversity and cultural difference, and considers how the concepts of identity formation, diaspora and creolization shed light on the processes and geographies of encounter.Robin Cohen and Olivia Sheringham reveal how early historical encounters created colonial hierarchies, but also how conflict has been creatively resisted through shared social practices in particular contact zones including islands, port cities and the ‘super-diverse’ cities formed by enhanced international migration and globalization. Drawing on research experience from across the world, including new fieldwork in Louisiana, Martinique, Mauritius and Cape Verde, their account provides a balance between rich description and insightful analysis showing, in particular, how identities emerge and merge ‘from below’.Moving seamlessly between social and political theory, history, cultural anthropology, sociology and human geography, the authors point to important new ways of understanding and living with difference, surely one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This is one of those rare books which is both erudite, eloquent and existentially engaging. The authors embark on a journey through culturally variegated landscapes, addressing the human condition and the contemporary world as they go along, asking how people are able to live with diversity; and they generously invite the reader to take part in this conversation, which is so crucial for the future of humanity on this shrinking planet of ours."Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo "This book offers a fresh perspective in shifting the focus from human conflict to how people 'make a life together'. To navigate the difficult terrain of a diverse world, it provides readers with a pair of carefully articulated concepts as guiding lights: while diaspora looks backwards to shared heritage and homeland, creolization gives weight to the forward-looking, creative energies inherent in culture contact."Brenda S. A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore "With exceptional range of coverage and strong conceptual engagement, alongside a peppering of informative photographs, this book offers something for research, teaching, and general reading alike. [�] an important launchpad for rethinking how we approach the challenging topic of living with, in, despite, and through difference in divided times."Geography "This book is a delightful read. It succeeds because it grounds empirically rich case studies in a well thought-out theoretical framework, moving beyond bland and uninspiring liberal nostrums that �all cultures matter�. The volume demonstrates that understanding cultural encounters necessitates more than simply acknowledging differences, but requires delving into how coexisting identities complement rather than contradict one another."Barney Warf, Social & Cultural GeographyTable of Contents Framing the question: a preamble 1. Shaping the tools: three concepts 2. Exploring difference: early interactions 3. Locating identity formation: contact zones 4. Expressing merged identities: music 5. Celebrating and resisting: carnival 6. Constructing heritage 7. Marking identities: the cultural politics of multiple loyalties 8. Encountering difference: a conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of young people who gathered in the Lycée Henri-IV and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris to hear him speak, Alain Badiou argues that we are still firmly rooted in the Neolithic era, subjugated by the structures of political power – property, family, and state. He calls for a second revolution to restore to each person their freedom and agency. Through an analysis of recent attempts at political organisation, including the Arab Spring, Occupy, and Nuit debout, Badiou shows that progress toward this goal will only be achieved through an emphasis on sameness, not difference. This rallying cry to the young from one of France’s most renowned radical thinkers will appeal to the many who read and follow his work, and to the millions of young people around the world who are passionate about redressing the deeply entrenched inequalities and divisions in our societies today.Trade Review"The main function of ideology today is not to crush actual resistance – this is the job of repressive state apparatuses – but to crush hope, to immediately denounce every critical project as opening a path at the end of which is something like the Gulag. At this precise point, Badiou’s wonderful short book intervenes: it brings hope, especially to the young whose situation is often without any prospects."—Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana

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Book SynopsisThe history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of young people who gathered in the Lycée Henri-IV and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris to hear him speak, Alain Badiou argues that we are still firmly rooted in the Neolithic era, subjugated by the structures of political power – property, family, and state. He calls for a second revolution to restore to each person their freedom and agency. Through an analysis of recent attempts at political organisation, including the Arab Spring, Occupy, and Nuit debout, Badiou shows that progress toward this goal will only be achieved through an emphasis on sameness, not difference. This rallying cry to the young from one of France’s most renowned radical thinkers will appeal to the many who read and follow his work, and to the millions of young people around the world who are passionate about redressing the deeply entrenched inequalities and divisions in our societies today.Trade Review"The main function of ideology today is not to crush actual resistance – this is the job of repressive state apparatuses – but to crush hope, to immediately denounce every critical project as opening a path at the end of which is something like the Gulag. At this precise point, Badiou’s wonderful short book intervenes: it brings hope, especially to the young whose situation is often without any prospects."—Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana

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Book SynopsisVolume 1 of Research in Community Sociology focuses on "Community of the Streets".

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Book Synopsis"Philadelphia" is a patchwork of the political and economic changes dating back to 1683. Having been re-created repeatedly, each era of the city's development includes elements of the past. In this book, the authors describe the city's evolution into a post-industrial metropolis of old communities and newly expended neighborhoods, in which remnants of 19th-century industries can be seen in today's residential areas. This book explores a wide range of issues impacting upon Philadelphia's post-industrial economy trends in housing and homelessness, the business community, job distribution, a disintegrating political structure, and increased racial, class, and neighborhood conflict. The authors examine the growth of the service sector, the disparity in the city's urban renewal program that has enriched center city but left most neighborhoods in need, and they evaluate the realistic prospects for regional solutions to some of the problems facing Philadelphia and its suburbs. Author note: Carolyn Adams teaches in the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University. David Bartelt teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at Temple University. David Elesh is Professor of Sociology, Temple University. Ira Goldstein teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies, Temple University. Nancy Kleniewski teaches Sociology at State University of New York, Geneseo. William Yancey is Professor of Sociology, Temple University.Trade Review"[This book] is an exploration, by a team of geographers and sociologists, of the effects of national economic trends on one Rust Belt city... The book offers a detailed description of the city's history and current condition, including race relations." --Planning "The multidisciplinary team of locally active urban researchers assembled for this book concisely explores and interrelates issues of uneven intra-urban development, white middle-class suburbanization, residential segregation of races and social classes, disinvestment, minority political power, and the concentration of nonwhites and the poor as they apply in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Four decades ago, Philadelphia was viewed as a model of urban renewal; its subsequent economic decline and the intensifying divisions that bedevil its social fabric dominate this thoughtful analysis... Bibliographic notes are a thorough and up-to-date guide to the considerable scholarly literature on this metropolis. Tables, graphs, and more than a dozen excellent maps further enhance the presentation. Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface Series Preface 1. The Legacy of the Industrial City Population and Settlement Patterns * Machine Politics in the Industrial Era * The Transition to Postindustrialism * Declining Economic Opportunity and Racial Conflict * The Central Argument of the Book 2. Economic Erosion and the Growth of Inequality The National Context * Philadelphia's Special Vulnerability to National Trends * The Changing Distribution of Jobs in the Postindustrial Economy * The Changing Earnings Profile * Who Gains? Who Loses? * Workforce Participation * Family Wage Earners * Conclusion 3. Housing and Neighborhoods Housing in Philadelphia: An Overview * Housing Conditions at the End of World War II * Postwar Reorganization * The Decline of the City: Despair and Exodus, 1955-1975 * The Paradox of Revitalization and Decay, 1975-1985 * Race and the Regional Housing Market * Housing the City * Conclusion and Prospects 4. Philadelphia's Redevelopment Process Continuous Redevelopment * Why Redevelop? * Trends in Redevelopment * Two Case Studies * The Political Economy of Redevelopment * The Outcomes: Who Pays? Who Benefits? * Conclusions 5. Race, Class, and Philadelphia Politics The Dissolution of the Ruling Postwar Coalition * Why the Fragmentation? * The Business Community and Philadelphia Politics * Populism and Minority Politics * Conclusion 6. The Prospects for City-Suburban Accommodation Barriers to Political Cooperation * Opportunities for Regional Cooperation * Transportation * Port Facilities * Solid Waste * How Realistic Are the Prospects for Regionalism? 7. Alternative Scenarios for Philadelphia's Future Appendix A: The Index of Dissimilarity Appendix B: Economic Transition: Further Data Appendix C: Income Differentials by Race Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHonoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spacesFrom their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland's Cultural Gardens holds a rich history. John J. Grabowski guides readers through this story, using both archival images and Lauren R. Pacini's stunning contemporary photography to illustrate their development and importance. The effect is a comprehensive view of the factors that made the Cultural Gardens possible, from Cleveland's geographical features to international conflicts.First erected as the Shakespeare Garden in 1916, the land bordering Doan Brook slowly began to incorporate tributes to immigrants, reflecting Cleveland's role as a key location for eastern European immigrants. Through this chronicle of the gardens' changing landscapes, Grabowski shapes a gripping narrative of shifting attitudes toward immigration, both locally and nationally. Throughout both world wars, the Cold War, and more recent events, the gardens' composition has changed to reflect more diversity, now encompassing 33 individual gardens that honor cultures and countries with connections to Cleveland. Today, each garden features plants native to the corresponding culture, from German to Vietnamese and from Ethiopian to Finnish. This vast cultural inclusivity makes Cleveland's Cultural Gardens a forerunner in the push for greater representation of cultures and people of color in memorials and public spaces.The gardens also highlight a growing emphasis on collaboration and coexistence among cultures, as symbolized in the Peace Garden of the Nations and its crypt of intermingled soil from historic shrines around the world. This book will be of interest to field specialists and nonexperts alike for its excellent illustrations and for its discussion of culture, inclusion, and diversity both on a local and national scale.Trade Review"Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos…of special and particular interest…for both its excellent illustrations and for its informative discussion of culture, inclusion, and diversity both on a local and a national scale." —Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisA fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War. In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr. piloted a small skiff across the Charleston Harbor and delivered the fateful order to open fire on Fort Sumter—the first shots of the Civil War. In The Man Who Started the Civil War, Anna Koivusalo offers the first comprehensive biography of Chesnut and through him a history of honor and emotion in elite white southern culture. Koivusalo reveals the dynamic, and at times fragile, nature of these concepts as they were tested and transformed from the era of slavery through Reconstruction. Best remembered as the husband of Mary Boykin Chesnut, author of A Diary from Dixie, James Chesnut served in the South Carolina legislature and as a US senator before becoming a leading figure in the South's secession from the Union. Koivusalo recounts how honor and emotion shaped Chesnut's life events and the decisions that culminated in the cataclysm of civil war. Challenging the traditional view of honor as a code, Koivusalo illuminates honor's vital but fickle role as a source for summoning, channeling, and expressing emotion in the nineteenth-century South.

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Book SynopsisWe hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future.In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about race within the context of history, geography, government, economics, and the behavioral sciences. Race Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies addresses the space between the theoretical and the practical and provides teachers and teacher educators with concrete lesson ideas for how to engage learners with social studies content and race. Oftentimes, social studies teachers do not teach about race because of several factors: teacher fear, personal notions of colorblindness, and attachment to multicultural narratives that stress assimilation. This volume will begin to help teachers and teacher educators start the conversation around realistic and practical race pedagogy. The chapters included in this volume are written by prominent social studies scholars and classroom teachers. This work is unique in that it represents an attempt to use Critical Race Theory and inquiry pedagogy (Inquiry Design Model) to teach about race in the social science disciplines.Table of Contents Using Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge to Reimagine Social Studies Teaching and Learning, Prentice T. Chandler and Todd S. Hawley. Section I: Foundations Of Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Race and Racism in the Social Studies: Foundations of Critical Race Theory, Andrea Hawkman. The Inquiry Design Model, Kathy Swan, SG Grant and John Lee. “Do You Feel Me?”Affectively and Effectively Engaging RPCK in Social Studies Classrooms, Christina Villarreal. Section II: Inquiry Based Race Lessons In Social Studies. Teaching Racial Inequity Through the California Gold Rush (US history), Christopher C. Martell, Jennifer R. Bryson, and William C. Chapman?Hale. Africans in New Amsterdam (US history), Jane Bolgaz, Tamar Brown and Emily Zweibel. Settler Schooling: A TribalCrit Approach to Teaching Boarding School Histories in Elementary Social Studies, Sara Shear. But “Ain’t I a Woman?” An Inquiry on the Intersectionality of Race and Gender During the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement (US history), Lauren Colley. Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott as Citizen Action for Racial and Economic Justice (economics), Todd S. Hawley, Andrew Hostetler and Prentice T. Chandler. Does Geography Have a Violence? (geography), Ken Carano. Do People Get to Choose Where They Live?: A Case Study of Racial Segregation in Austin, TX (geography), Tori Davis and Ryan Crowley. Stories, Counterstories, and Tales of Resistance: Family History Inquiry Projects in World History Classrooms (world history), Juan Gabriel Sánchez and Raquel Y. Sáenz. Toward Latin@ Critical Race Theory a: Examining Race, Racism, and Afro?Latinidad in World History and Human Geography(world History), Chris Busey. Are U.S. Citizenship Test Racially Motivated?: Analyzing the Racial Implications of Citizenship “Tests,” Historically and Today (Government), William L. Smith. Countering Single Stories: Inquiring into the Confederate Battle Flag with Students (US history OR civics), Jessica F. Kobe and Ashley A. Goodrich. What is Race?: A Compelling Question with a Complex Response (psychology/behavioral sciences), Samina Hadi?Tabassum. On the Matter of Black Lives: Using CRT and C3 Inquiry to Examine Current Events (current events), John P. Broome and Jason Endacott. Has Social Media Provided Communities of Color a Platform for Sharing Counternarratives? Jennifer Killham. Examining the Power Structures That Impact Friendships, Jennifer Burke. Section III: Voices From The Field. Notes on Understanding and Valuing the Anger of Students Marginalized by the Social Studies Curriculum, Lisa Gilbert. Counter?Narratives in U.S. History: Race Lessons in a Social Studies Methods Course, Emilie M. Camp. Teacher Professional Development and CRT: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Using Teacher Professional Learning Communities to Promote CRT/RPCK, Jenice L. View. Race Autobiographies in the Social Studies Classroom: Possibilities and Potential, Adam W. Jordan and Dacario Poole.

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Book SynopsisWe hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future.In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about race within the context of history, geography, government, economics, and the behavioral sciences. Race Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies addresses the space between the theoretical and the practical and provides teachers and teacher educators with concrete lesson ideas for how to engage learners with social studies content and race. Oftentimes, social studies teachers do not teach about race because of several factors: teacher fear, personal notions of colorblindness, and attachment to multicultural narratives that stress assimilation. This volume will begin to help teachers and teacher educators start the conversation around realistic and practical race pedagogy. The chapters included in this volume are written by prominent social studies scholars and classroom teachers. This work is unique in that it represents an attempt to use Critical Race Theory and inquiry pedagogy (Inquiry Design Model) to teach about race in the social science disciplines.Table of Contents Using Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge to Reimagine Social Studies Teaching and Learning, Prentice T. Chandler and Todd S. Hawley. Section I: Foundations Of Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Race and Racism in the Social Studies: Foundations of Critical Race Theory, Andrea Hawkman. The Inquiry Design Model, Kathy Swan, SG Grant and John Lee. “Do You Feel Me?”Affectively and Effectively Engaging RPCK in Social Studies Classrooms, Christina Villarreal. Section II: Inquiry Based Race Lessons In Social Studies. Teaching Racial Inequity Through the California Gold Rush (US history), Christopher C. Martell, Jennifer R. Bryson, and William C. Chapman?Hale. Africans in New Amsterdam (US history), Jane Bolgaz, Tamar Brown and Emily Zweibel. Settler Schooling: A TribalCrit Approach to Teaching Boarding School Histories in Elementary Social Studies, Sara Shear. But “Ain’t I a Woman?” An Inquiry on the Intersectionality of Race and Gender During the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement (US history), Lauren Colley. Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott as Citizen Action for Racial and Economic Justice (economics), Todd S. Hawley, Andrew Hostetler and Prentice T. Chandler. Does Geography Have a Violence? (geography), Ken Carano. Do People Get to Choose Where They Live?: A Case Study of Racial Segregation in Austin, TX (geography), Tori Davis and Ryan Crowley. Stories, Counterstories, and Tales of Resistance: Family History Inquiry Projects in World History Classrooms (world history), Juan Gabriel Sánchez and Raquel Y. Sáenz. Toward Latin@ Critical Race Theory a: Examining Race, Racism, and Afro?Latinidad in World History and Human Geography(world History), Chris Busey. Are U.S. Citizenship Test Racially Motivated?: Analyzing the Racial Implications of Citizenship “Tests,” Historically and Today (Government), William L. Smith. Countering Single Stories: Inquiring into the Confederate Battle Flag with Students (US history OR civics), Jessica F. Kobe and Ashley A. Goodrich. What is Race?: A Compelling Question with a Complex Response (psychology/behavioral sciences), Samina Hadi?Tabassum. On the Matter of Black Lives: Using CRT and C3 Inquiry to Examine Current Events (current events), John P. Broome and Jason Endacott. Has Social Media Provided Communities of Color a Platform for Sharing Counternarratives? Jennifer Killham. Examining the Power Structures That Impact Friendships, Jennifer Burke. Section III: Voices From The Field. Notes on Understanding and Valuing the Anger of Students Marginalized by the Social Studies Curriculum, Lisa Gilbert. Counter?Narratives in U.S. History: Race Lessons in a Social Studies Methods Course, Emilie M. Camp. Teacher Professional Development and CRT: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Using Teacher Professional Learning Communities to Promote CRT/RPCK, Jenice L. View. Race Autobiographies in the Social Studies Classroom: Possibilities and Potential, Adam W. Jordan and Dacario Poole.

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Book SynopsisCrossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This skillfully marshalled and elegantly recounted history opens up new pathways into the European cultural and intellectual past whilst underlining the mystical, mesmeric power of the Cape, that 'master link of connection between the western and eastern world.'"— The Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa "For European visitors who called at the Cape in past centuries its "otherness" - the iconic mountain, the unusual fauna and flora, the indigenous people and their alien culture - was forever the subject of wonder. This sense of awe is strongly evoked in Malcolm Jack's new book."— Cape Times "Anyone interested in travellers’ accounts will want to read Malcolm Jack’s lively and well-researched discussion of how visitors, from the Portuguese in the late 15th century to Lady Herschel in the 1830s, viewed the Cape and its people. Along with the sometimes colourful accounts the travelers gave of what they saw as the exotic landscape, fauna and flora of the Cape, Malcolm Jack focuses on their perceptions of the indigenous Khoisan, perceptionsthat helped shape the way the early colonial society developed."— Chris Saunders, Professor of History Emeritus, UCT "This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland."— PEN South Africa "This book is a gift for anyone who is interested in the people of the world living together. It is written in elegant prose and makes its concern pointedly clear. Apart from the people, it is the impressive landscape and nature of South Africa which fascinates the author and for which he finds heavenly words. It is essential to see these features of the overall picture because they gave the people living there for thousands of years a functioning place to live. The book points out strongly that the unity between people and the land was destroyed by the Europeans, but the author avoids any moral indignation and lets the facts alone speak for themselves. The reader who is less familiar with the history of South Africa feels at least at this point the wish to know the country more intensely."— Jahrbuch fur Europäische Überseegeschichte "Malcolm Jack identifies three broad themes in the history of travel literature to the Cape: the Adamastor myth invented by the Portuguese epic poet de Camoëns; the myth of Paradise Lost and of the Noble Savage (a preoccupation of French writers); and the Arcadian image created by British colonial diarists transported by the beauty of the unfamiliar land. To guide the reader Malcolm Jack has chosen a select number of these adventurous authors. He charts their experiences and records their anecdotes and insights — subjective insights seldom to be found in the pages of conventional history books."— Jeremy Lawrence, PEN South Africa "Cape Encounters," by Malcolm Jack— CABO Fine Music Radio "People of Note" interview with Malcolm Jack— Fine Music Radio "People of Note" "Beginning with hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Jack focuses on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland."— The Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter "Following a wide selection of visitors to the Cape, ranging from scientists to missionaries, this ground-breaking study centres in the experience of cross-cultural encounter in the colony covering the period from Van Riebeeck’s momentous importation of slaves to the official abolition of slavery in the 1830s. An authority on the European enlightenment and on constitutional law, Malcolm Jack brings exceptional critical resources to bear on a body of writing that is uniquely rich and full of implication. Crammed with new insights, and enlivened by arresting detail, this is a book that will appeal to the general reader as much as to the scholar."— Peter Knox-Shaw, author of Jane Austen and the EnlightenmentTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1 Ancient and Mythical Place 2 Adamastor's Reign 3 Paradise Lost 4 Enlightenment Visitors 5 Ennobling the Savage 6 Paradise Regained 7 A Call for Freedom Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAs Australians, we traditionally see ourselves as friendly, relaxed and connected people. But is this an outdated stereotype? The data from our census and countless other surveys show that Australian society is shifting rapidly. These days, chances are you never quite get around to talking to your neighbours. Youre always too busy to give blood. Youre so tired on Sunday mornings, you just never make it to church. And as for those after work local community meetings...If this sounds like your life, you might find that youve become Disconnected that like most Australians, youve lost touch with your community. Andrew Leigh guides us through the causes of this corrosion of relationships, and toward a vision for a better civic and personal life.

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into themes including social network theory, computational methods, data analysis, and the application of network models to understand complex social systems. Undergraduate students studying social sciences gain insights into network analysis, equipping them with valuable skills for analyzing social relationships and structures. Practitioners in fields such as sociology, anthropology, and data science expand their data analysis skills, making it a valuable resource for professionals engaged in social network analysis. Policymakers can draw from this knowledge to inform policies and interventions that leverage social network insights, and the general public gains awareness of the role of computational models in understanding human behavior and social networks.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to Social Network Analysis Chapter 2 Network Data Collection and Representation Chapter 3 Centrality and Influence Measures Chapter 4 Community Detection and Analysis Chapter 5 Diffusion and Information Spread in Social Networks Chapter 6 Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis Chapter 7 Link Prediction and Recommender Systems Chapter 8 Social Network Simulation and Modeling

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Book SynopsisEquality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) have become features of organizations as a result of both legal and societal advances as well as neoliberal economic reasoning and considerations. While current research approaches frequently fall short of addressing the challenges faced in EDI research, this benchmark Handbook brings coverage of research methods in EDI up to date, and advances the development of research in the field.Bringing together well-known academics and researchers, this Handbook is a distillation of current and novel research in the field of EDI. Chapters present groundbreaking new research and methodological perspectives on international, regional and national issues, from equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming to managing diversity in legal, political and socio-economic contexts. Alongside this, the authors discuss new analytic directions to advance empirical EDI research. This Handbook will help to shape the present and future EDI discourse.The book is an invaluable addition to the current literature, particularly for students of EDI and researchers working in the fields of human resource management, strategic management and organization, and culture and change management as well as entrepreneurship and marketing.Contributors include: D. Atewologun, C. Baron, I. Bleijenbergh, E.H. Buttner, H.A. Downs, H. Eberherr, D. Foley, K.M. Hannum, E. Henry, J. Hofbauer, R. Hofmann, E.L. Holloway, C.A. Houkamau, M. Janssens, D. Jones, A. Klarsfeld, K. Kreissl, M. Lansu, J. Louvrier, K. Lowe, R. Mahalingam, A.J. Mills, J.H. Mills, S. Mooney, E. Ng, B. Poggio, N. Rumens, I. Ryan, B. Sauer, H.L. Schwartz, C.G. Sibley, A. Striedinger, P. van Arensbergen, I. Wasserman, J. Wergin, P. ZanoniTrade Review'Despite the depth and volume of research on diversity in organizations, very little attention is given to research methods. The Handbook of Research Methods in Diversity Management, Equality and Inclusion at Work breaks new ground, providing a comprehensive volume of not just methods but also the social and political context in which diversity research is embedded. Particularly impressive is the ''diversity'' of epistemological perspectives so critical to today's global and transnational context.' --Stella Nkomo, University of Pretoria, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Lize A.E Booysen, Judith K. Pringle and Regine Bendl Part I Research Dilemmas in EDI 1. Contextualizing the EDI Research Agenda in the Larger Social Sciences Research Landscape Judith K. Pringle and Lize A.E. Booysen 2. Finding the Right Design for EDI Research Jon F. Wergin 3. Evaluation Research in the EDI Field Kelly M. Hannum and Holly A. Downs 4. Negotiating, Gaining and Maintaining Access: What Can We Learn About Diversity? Jonna Louvrier 5. Queered Methodologies for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Researchers Nick Rumens 6. Comparative and Multi-Country Research in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Eddy S. Ng and Alain Klarsfeld Part II Methodology and Methods for collecting EDI Material 7. Intersectionality as a Methodological Tool in Qualitative Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Research Doyin Atewologun and Ramaswami Mahalingam 8. Theorizing Diversity and (In)equality Through the Lens of Critical Discourse Analysis Patrizia Zanoni and Maddy Janssens 9. Feminist Methods and the Study of Gendering of Organizations Over Time Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills 10. Indigenous Research: Ontologies, Axiologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies Ella Henry and Dennis Foley 11. Autoethnography: Adding Our Stories to EDI Research Irene Ryan and Shelagh Mooney 12. Participants as Collaborators: Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) as Collaborative Research Method Ilene C. Wasserman 13. Chameleons Change Colour: Studying Academic Careers in Gendering Contexts - A Case for Multilevel Analysis Johanna Hofbauer, Katharina Kreissl, Birgit Sauer and Angelika Striedinger Part III Methods and Techniques for EDI data analysis 14. Surveys and Scales in EDI Research Carol Baron 15. Meta-Analytic Research in the Field of EDI: A Review of Some Current Findings and Identification of Opportunities for Future Research Kevin B. Lowe and E. Holly Buttner 16. Queering Quantitative Research: Dealing with Processes of Categorization in EDI Research Roswitha Hofmann 17. Participatory Action Research to Support Diversity and Inclusion Inge Bleijenbergh, Pleun van Arensbergen and Monic Lansu 18. Routinized Practices: Using the Documentary Method to Research Incorporated Knowledge Helga Eberherr 19. Deconstructing and Challenging Gender Orders in Organisations Through Narratives Barbara Poggio 20. Diversity Trouble: Feminist Foucauldian Discourse Analysis Deborah Jones 21. Mixed Methods and the Scientific Study of Māori Identity: The Story Behind the Multi-Dimensional Model of Māori Identity and Cultural Engagement Carla A. Houkamau and Chris G. Sibley 22. Drawing from the Margins: Grounded Theory Research Design and EDI Studies Elizabeth L. Holloway and Harriet L. Schwartz Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides a multidisciplinary institutional approach to social protection, combining insights from economics, law, philosophy, political science, and sociology. It examines the role of institutions in the effective functioning of social protection systems and explores the factors driving or hindering institutional change.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society. Beginning with a concise historical review of civil society research over the last four decades, the book provides a critical insight into the future of research, taking into account the domestic outcomes of major geopolitical changes and the increasing shift towards authoritarian and populist systems of governance. Exploring the norms and values of civil society, as well as key topics such as voluntourism, civil society mapping, democratization, and civic agency, chapters offer a unique overview of civil society research themes and agendas. Its comprehensive analysis of canonical civil society research provides a fertile basis from which novel research can be conducted.A wide audience of development professionals, including NGO staff, consultants, evaluators, and public servants, will benefit from the forward-looking perspectives advanced in this dynamic Research Agenda. It will also be an essential resource for academics and researchers in the field.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Civil Society provides a much needed synopsis of the antecedents, internal contradictions, and promises of civil society within a comparative African-Global Southern Context. At a time of pervasive political and epistemological uncertainty, the book throws precious critical light on a subject of increasing academic and policy relevance.’ -- Ebenezer Obadare, Council on Foreign Relations, US‘This book represents an important effort to diversify our thinking about civil society and challenge common assumptions about its processes, constituent parts, and effects. It will be an essential addition to university libraries and courses worldwide.’ -- Michael Edwards, writer and activist, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 A research agenda for civil society: introduction and overview 1 Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler PART I STUDYING CIVIL SOCIETY 2 Funding civil society research 17 David Sogge 3 Epistemologies of civil society 33 Patricia Maria E. Mendonça 4 Civil society studies in Brazil: from third sector to uncivil society? 45 Mário Aquino Alves 5 Civic deviance and lawlessness: the aftermath of January 6, 2021 55 Roseanne Mirabella and W. King Mott 6 Measuring the values of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa regions 69 Ali Bakir Hamoudi 7 Mapping civil society 83 Susan Appe PART II CIVIL SOCIETY TYPOLOGIES 8 Human rights organizations and civil society 99 Antoine Buyse and Verónica Gómez 9 From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy: a research agenda 111 Dorothea Hilhorst and Margit van Wessel 10 NGOs and innovation 127 Ana Luisa Silva 11 Emergent agency in a time of Covid 143 Irene Guijt, Duncan Green, Filippo Artuso and Katrina Barnes 12 Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering 161 Lucas Meijs and Stephanie Koolen-Maas 13 The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy and voluntourism 173 Philine S.M. van Overbeeke and Malika Ouacha 14 New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering 189 Cristine Dyhrberg Højgaard 15 Public administration as a site of struggle for social justice 201 Chris McInerney PART III HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY 16 Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South 215 John C. H. Godfrey 17 Connecting African civil society to its roots 229 Alan Fowler and Shauna Mottiar 18 Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society 243 Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan 19 The Polish case: from darling to endangered species? 255 Galia Chimiak 20 Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America 271 Pablo Marsal Baraldi 21 The future of civil society research in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam 283 Mark Sidel PART IV CONCLUSIONS 22 Civil society research: future perspectives 295 Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart Index

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Book SynopsisItaly is Out is the fruit of the collaboration between Mario Badagliacca, the established documentary photographer, and the research team of ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014-16). This ARHC-funded project explored the implications of Italian migration in a global perspective tracing cultural transformations across borders, generations, and language. Badagliacca visited some of the project’s key locations conducting interviews with Italians or people of Italian descent before photographing them in familiar locations. The subjects of the portraits were invited to bring along three objects representing their attachment to Italy. The sheer variety of the objects which appear alongside the portraits suggest the diversity of the migrant experience. Photographs shot in London, New York, and Buenos Aires feature members of the historical Italian community, but also first generation migrants in search of opportunities not offered at home. A similar complexity emerges, more unexpectedly, in the postcolonial Italian communities of Tunis and Addis Abeba. The photographs are accompanied by essays written by members of the research team and people who have in some way participated in the project. Fiction, autobiography and academic reflection sit side by side adding to Badagliacca’s multifaceted exploration of Italians abroad.Trade Review‘Italy is Out, as the title suggests, oversteps the dichotomy of inside-outside by dismissing the idea of Italian migrants as inhabitants of a periphery far from the geographical centre... being Italian means to be part of this collective act of making kin between people and cultures, as the volume itself does by encompassing images and words authored by scholars, artists and migrants themselves. In an ongoing process of mirroring faces, stories and objects, Italy is Out is able to picture, also literally, the complex and dynamic culture of Italy throughout the last two centuries.’ Anna Finozzi, Annali d’ItalianisticaTable of ContentsMario Badagliacca and Derek Duncan: Introductory Note1) Mario Badagliacca, Myth proposes2) Nicoletta Vallorani, Magical Objects: pictures of Italians across the world3) Derek Duncan, 77214) Donna Gabbaccia, Seeing Diaspora5) Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo, Tracciando fili del passato (Tracing threads of the past)6) Edvige Giunta, Llammicu7) Charles Burdett, The Italian Community of Addis Ababa8) Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, My Beloved Stepmother9) Georgia Wall, Italian Migration/Personal Effects10) Barbara Spadaro, Italian Mobilities: A View from Tunis11) Jacopo Colombini, Fare l’italiano12) Margaret Hills de Zárate, The Multiple Lives of ThingsNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThrough the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. This macro-level institutional approach requires a precise definition of the specific ways in which community-level challenges can negatively affect a larger voting public.The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. Examples include The Federalist Papers, written in defense of the US Constitution, New Deal institutions created during the Great Depression, the post-World War II European Union, and more recent macro-level institutional changes that are assisting, in varying degrees, rural community sustainability in the US, Kenya, Rwanda and Russia.O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.Trade Review‘Practitioners and researchers will appreciate the author's wide experience in community-level institution building and his positive approach to community empowerment and change.’ -- A A Hickey, CHOICETable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: globalization and the community challenge 1. Conceptualizing community within the public goods paradigm 2. Sources of resistance to defining community as a larger public goods problem 3. An institutional approach to building sustainable communities 4. Examples of top-down formal institutional adjustments on community sustainability and inter-community conflict 5. Location, informal institutions and social network effects on rural American community responses to globalization 6. Revisiting the quest for community References Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge rather than nature, violence, or power provides the basis of and the driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legally enforced restricted use of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive guide to JÃrgen Habermasâs prodigious body of work, bringing together contributions from leading specialists. It explores his main areas of study in chronological order, including topics such as the public sphere and the history of philosophy, to which he has returned in his recent books.

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge Research Agenda demonstrates how social network analysis can be used to address problems of social resilience and advance knowledge and policy intervention in the face of the existential crises that threaten our contemporary societies.Highlighting the role of social networks in supporting social resilience, contributions from experienced and innovative thinkers across the social sciences encourage readers to think in network terms about issues of social change and survival in situations of vulnerability. Chapters apply innovative social network thinking and analyses to a diverse range of existential societal challenges, including marginalized communities, emerging labour markets, governments, food systems, educational establishments, online social media, and the environment. The book further advances critical research frontiers that will inform the building of more resilient societies and ecosystems and ultimately strengthen our capacity to project ourselves into the future. Combining network-based critical analysis with in-depth knowledge of policy design and intervention, this dynamic Research Agenda will be an essential tool for postgraduate students carrying out research in the social sciences. Its provision of state-of-the-art research agendas in eighteen vital domains of social life will benefit analysts and consultants designing, implementing, and evaluating policy in these areas.Trade Review‘A stimulating read that has left me – as any good book on a developing topic should – with more questions raised than answered. Its mix of perspectives is truly inspiring because it is unusually rich and still necessarily incomplete.’ -- Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland‘This timely book persuasively illustrates the importance of a social network perspective in unpacking, understanding and improving social resilience at this critical point in our history. With contributions from a diversity of expert social network scholars, this is a must-read for anyone looking to understand social resilience and enact social change.’ -- Dean Lusher, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia‘Climate change, pandemics, misinformation, food and natural resource scarcity and mass migration all pose existential threats to the stability of social systems. Resilience as a context-transcending concept is an exciting idea, and this book's proposal to use network analysis as a unifying method and common language for studying it makes total sense.’ -- Arnout van de Rijt, European University Institute, Italy‘If you are one of the many people now interested in the topic of “resilience,” this is a book of perspectives you will want to read. The chapters are independent explorations of how the social network around a person or group affects resilience — and few things matter as much as the people around us for who is held down versus who is response enabled. The introductory overview chapter is a gem. I have my favorites among the chapters, but that just reflects my own thinking. This book is much broader than that, so I do not offer what could be taken as invidious applause. Let me just say that the book is a seedbed of promising ideas; so many new directions for research. Bravo to editors and authors.’ -- Ronald Burt, Bocconi University, Italy and University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to social networks and social resilience ix Emmanuel Lazega, Rafael P.M. Wittek and Tom A.B. Snijders 1 Social networks and the resilience of marginalized communities 1 Miranda J. Lubbers 2 Gender, social networks and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic 17 G. Robin Gauthier and Kelly L. Markowski 3 Social networks and resilience in work teams 31 Birgit Pauksztat 4 Social networks and resilience in emerging labor markets 45 Paola Tubaro 5 Inter-ethnic relationships in social networks and their effect on the resilience of ethnically diverse societies 59 Tobias H. Stark and Verena Seibel 6 Ethnic diversity, social networks, and the social resilience of schools 73 Clemens Kroneberg 7 Criminal networks and social resilience 87 Paolo Campana 8 A framework for resilience of and in international networks 101 James Hollway 9 Resilience in political networks 115 Karin Ingold, Dimitris Christopoulos and Manuel Fischer 10 Protest networks, mobilization, and resilience 131 Isabelle Langrock and Sandra González-Bailón 11 Resilience of socio-semantic bubbles 145 Camille Roth 12 Food systems between resilience and change: a social network analysis perspective 165 Laura Prota 13 Social networks to support food and nutrition security: a case study in the United States 181 Kayla de la Haye 14 The importance of seed circulation networks in the resilience of seed systems 197 Mathieu Thomas, Christian Leclerc, Isabelle Goldringer, Baptiste Rouger, Vanesse Labeyrie and Sélim Louafi 15 Community resilience under rural development projects and technocratic interventions: agenda for social network research 211 Petr Matous 16 The social safety net: implications for resilience in old age 223 Lea Ellwardt 17 Spatial opportunity structures for resilient social networks: the role of architectural and urban form 239 Kerstin Sailer and Xiaoming Li 18 An integrative network approach for understanding resilience to environmental change 257 Michele L. 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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the central concepts and ethical considerations of cyberpsychology. Presenting a holistic exploration of the discipline, it moves beyond relational and psychological issues to examine a wide range of topics from leisure and entertainment to education and the workplace.

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Book SynopsisThe book examines how an organisation originating in late eighteenth-century Ireland became a significant and controversial element in Liverpool history. Using a wide range of sources including rarely accessed Orange Order records it places the Order within an early nineteenth-century Liverpool context of apocalyptic evangelical Protestantism, a labour market dominated by irregular dock work, a growing influx of immigrant Catholic Irish, marked residential segregation and sporadic civil conflict. It explores how the Order survived official disapproval, dissolution and schism to become deeply rooted within Protestant working-class communities. It analyses the attractions of lodge life, the appeal of ritual, colourful regalia and 12th July processions, the intense social bonding within lodges, the mutual support provided in adversity and measure taken to guard and transmit their world view. The intense royalism and patriotism of the Order and its troubled relationship with the Church of England are examined plus its role in sustaining the working class Tory vote which contributed to a century long Conservative hegemony in city politics. The book concludes with the cultural and socio-economic changes in British society which marginalised the core concerns of the Order, triggering decline in strength, visibility and significance in civic life.Trade Review'Busteed’s interrogation of England’s most important centre of Orangeism is brilliantly illuminated by the discovery of a rich seam of lost archive material and his deft reading of those records. Covering the city’s history, the place of Orangeism in Liverpool’s civic history, the social and economic aspects of the organisation, and its political, imperial, and religious manifestations, this is a strikingly revealing and original work.' Professor Don MacRaild, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Structure, Literature and Data Sources Chapter 1: History and Heritage Chapter 2: The Liverpool Context Chapter 3: The Lodge: Structure, Ritual, Regalia and Performance Chapter 4: Class, Origin, Sociability and Mutuality Chapter 5: Royalism, Patriotism, Empire and Commemoration Chapter 6: Defending Protestantism Chapter 7: Politics: Local and Irish Chapter 8: Facing Modern Times Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTo understand why some regions grow and others stagnate, we need to understand the interactions between economic growth, economic geography and the economics of innovation. Each of these individual approaches has strengths and weaknesses, but when integrated it is possible, as evidenced by this volume, to develop an appropriate model of technology-led regional economic development.This authoritative collection presents a selection of key previously published articles which investigate these three perspectives. The volume explores the importance of human capital, entrepreneurship, clusters, and competition and public policy to the growth of cities. The editor has written a new introduction which highlights the contribution of each article, and calls for a closer collaboration between economics and regional science in order to develop a new approach to the study of the growth of cities.Trade Review'Contemporary cities are of at least two kinds: those that are vibrant and growing and those that are lagging. While this is nothing new the reasons are, at least in part, different than in past generations. This book is a collection of 'modern classics' about the forces of growth in the late 20th and early 21st century in general and more specifically in agglomerated concentrations including cities. Human capital, agglomeration, knowledge spread or spillovers, industrial clusters, concentration of creative people, and global competition driven by a huge expansion of low cost labor and explosive innovation all play a role. The book provides most of the best material that has been published on these topics and their role in city growth and decline. It is a collection all students of the city and growth should have in their personal library.' -- Roger Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Zoltan J. Acs PART I ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW 1. Edward L. Glaeser (2000), ‘The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth’ 2. Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot (1998), ‘Spatial Perspectives on New Theories of Economic Growth’ PART II NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 3. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’ 4. Paul Krugman (1993), ‘First Nature, Second Nature, and Metropolitan Location’ 5. Paul Krugman (1996), ‘Urban Concentration: The Role of Increasing Returns and Transport Costs’ PART III NEW GROWTH THEORY 6. Paul M. Romer (1986), ‘Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth’ 7. Paul M. Romer (1990), ‘Endogenous Technological Change’ 8. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1988), ‘On the Mechanics of Economic Development’ PART IV KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER IN CITIES 9. Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg and Rebecca Henderson (1993), ‘Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations’ 10. David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1996), ‘R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production’ 11. Luc Anselin, Attila Varga and Zoltan Acs (1997), ‘Local Geographic Spillovers between University Research and High Technology Innovations’ PART V HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 12. Curtis J. Simon and Clark Nardinelli (1996), ‘The Talk of the Town: Human Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861 to 1961’ 13. Edward L. Glaeser, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1995), ‘Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities’ 14. James E. Rauch (1993), ‘Productivity Gains from Geographic Concentration of Human Capital: Evidence from the Cities’ 15. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), ‘Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity’ PART VI DIVERSITY VS SPECIALIZATION IN CITIES 16. Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992), ‘Growth in Cities’ 17. Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro and Matt Turner (1995), ‘Industrial Development in Cities’ 18. Maryann P. Feldman and David B. Audretsch (1999), ‘Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition’ PART VII ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 19. Claudio Michelacci (2003), ‘Low Returns in R&D due to the Lack of Entrepreneurial Skills’ 20. Zoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington (2004), ‘The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates’ 21. Sam Youl Lee, Richard Florida and Zoltan J. Acs (2004), ‘Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Formation’ PART VIII CLUSTERS AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 22. Timothy Bresnahan, Alfonso Gambardella and AnnaLee Saxenian (2001), ‘“Old Economy” Inputs for “New Economy” Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys’ 23. Philip Cooke (2002), ‘Biotechnology Clusters as Regional, Sectoral Innovation Systems’ 24. Claus Steinle and Holger Schiele (2002), ‘When do Industries Cluster? A Proposal on How to Assess an Industry’s Propensity to Concentrate at a Single Region or Nation’ PART IX COMPETITION AND PUBLIC POLICY 25. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), ‘Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources For Invention’ 26. Michael E. Porter (1998), ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition’ 27. William J. Baumol (2004), ‘Entrepreneurial Enterprises, Large Established Firms and Other Components of the Free-Market Growth Machine’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisHow people can be persuaded to take more control of their own lives continues to be a subject of policy and academic debate, and the contribution of active citizens to improving societal well-being is high across different policy agendas. But the promotion of community self-help raises a wide range of questions - for people working in neighbourhoods, for policy makers, for politicians, and for residents themselves - about how we promote engagement, what would motivate people to become active, and more fundamentally about the ongoing relevance and value of community activity. "DIY Community Action" offers thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. It presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on contested debates, and proposes ways forward for community building. This timely publication is an engaging resource for policy makers, practitioners, academics, students and general readers interested in exploring community engagement and active citizenship. Its insightful analysis will be of interest to students of social policy, sociology, community work, housing and regeneration, local government studies and public policy.Trade Review"Excellent and engaging publication - highly suitable for a wide audience (academic/non-academic) at all levels." Richard White, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Talking to communities; Why neighbourhoods and communities matter to residents; Community action: so what?; The value of volunteering; How the groups organise themselves; What gives residents the right to take charge; Obstacles and limits, supports and potential; Conclusions - championing community self-help.

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Book SynopsisHow people can be persuaded to take more control of their own lives continues to be a subject of policy and academic debate, and the contribution of active citizens to improving societal well-being is high across different policy agendas. But the promotion of community self-help raises a wide range of questions - for people working in neighbourhoods, for policy makers, for politicians, and for residents themselves - about how we promote engagement, what would motivate people to become active, and more fundamentally about the ongoing relevance and value of community activity. "DIY Community Action" offers thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. It presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on contested debates, and proposes ways forward for community building. This timely publication is an engaging resource for policy makers, practitioners, academics, students and general readers interested in exploring community engagement and active citizenship. Its insightful analysis will be of interest to students of social policy, sociology, community work, housing and regeneration, local government studies and public policy.Trade Review"Excellent and engaging publication - highly suitable for a wide audience (academic/non-academic) at all levels." Richard White, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Talking to communities; Why neighbourhoods and communities matter to residents; Community action: so what?; The value of volunteering; How the groups organise themselves; What gives residents the right to take charge; Obstacles and limits, supports and potential; Conclusions - championing community self-help.

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Book SynopsisAs the Arab Spring continues to work through changes, the Occupy Movement is agitating for change and many are looking for alternatives in the face of global financial and political challenges, community organising offers a realistic way forward for many communities: a tried and tested way of improving people’s lives. This book is the first to explore the diverse history of community organising, telling stories of how it developed, its successes and failures, and the lessons that can be applied today. It analyses contemporary examples of practice from the USA, UK, India, South Africa, Cambodia and Australia against both wider theoretical frameworks and their ability to contribute to sustainable social change. It will be useful for a wide range of practitioners, students and researchers engaged in the struggle to develop new ways of doing community.Trade Review"As a long time community organizer working internationally with ACORN International, we have been waiting eagerly for Beck and Purcell's book. Community organizations are gaining important and potentially powerful footholds all over the globe, and Beck and Purcell's book is going to be at the front of every organizer's shelf in trying to understand this phenomena, avoid the easy mistakes, and face the critical challenges. Thanks in advance!" Wade Rathke, Chief Organizer & Founder, ACORN International“Community organising has come centre stage, promoted from varying perspectives - governments seeking to manage and social movements, including trade union organisations, seeking to challenge manifestations of social inequality and social injustice. This book will be particularly valuable in this context, stimulating reflection on differing experiences of community organising internationally.” Professor Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths University of London"This is an impressive and much needed analysis of community organising internationally. It is a timely reminder of an activity that can effectively challenge the politically and economically powerful organisations that oppress communities everywhere." Professor Keith Popple, London South Bank University.Table of ContentsSection 1 - Context: Urban development, growth of slums and marginalised communities, climate change and sustainability; Wellbeing and quality of life; Section 2 - Theory: Saul Alinsky and the early years of community organising; Gramsci, Freire and Community Organising; Power and Organisation Building; Section 3 - Case Studies: Case Study Methodology; Case Studies - USA; Case Studies - UK; Case Studies - India; Case Studies - South Africa; Case Studies - Australia; Section 4 - Analysis and Implications: Analysis; Implications for practice; The way forward.

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