Social groups, communities and identities Books
Oxford University Press The National Interest in Question Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies
Book SynopsisFor three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce debates. At the same time Europeans have worried, at the national level and at that of the European Union, about how to relate to a world in which their influence has been steadily reducing. But the two discussions, on society and on foreign policy, have rarely intersected. The events of 11 September 2001 did shock the citizens of Western countries into an awareness that international politics could literally explode onto their home streets, and generated fear and suspicion about and among minority groups. But the excessive focus on terrorism and on Islam which followed hardly did justice to the deeper processes of transnationally induced change which were at work. This book attempts to go beyond the emotive political debate to show how foreign policy and domestic society have been becoming more entangled with each other for some time. It focuses on the more established Member States of the European Union and the varying pTrade ReviewThe book provides one of the most thoughtful reflections on contemporary European foreign policy for a long time, and, in so doing, asserts the need for a clear (and long under-appreciated) consideration of statesociety relations in foreign policy analysis. Hills final call, for a more open and wide-ranging debate about foreign policy issues across society, is well made, and chimes closely with his observations on the diffused and variegated notion of the contemporary national interest. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and post-graduate students of foreign policy analysis, contemporary European politics and multiculturalism, as well as to academics, practitioners and policy-makers working in these and cognate areas. * Timothy Edmunds, University of Bristol, International Affairs *A pioneering and comprehensive analysis of a significant and growing issue. * Roger Morgan, Times Higher Education *Christopher Hill's The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies is an important and ambitious attempt to systematise and explain the dynamics of foreign policy in multicultural societies. The aim is not to construct and test a new model for explaining foreign policy or to engage in a gladiatorial battle over which theoretical paradigm is the 'better' one. He draws on a vast number of primary and secondary sources to activate the insights of six specialist literatures: political philosophical and sociological discussions on the nature of multiculturalism, migrationstudies, comparative European foreign policy, comparative multiculturalism studies, terrorism studies and European Union studies. This is a book, which engages with the complexity of politics rather than seeking to simplify it. * Anders Wivel, University Of Copenhagen *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. The Social Context of Foreign Policy ; 2. Multiculturalist Societies and Foreign Policy ; 3. The Integrationist Model ; 4. Parallel Societies ; 5. Identity-Friends, Enemies, and Roles in the World ; 6. Loyalty, Security, and Democracy ; 7. Interventions, Blowbacks, and the Law of Unforeseen Consequences ; 8. The European Dimension ; 9. The State, Multiculturality and Foreign Policy ; Appendix
£115.00
The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Murder
Book SynopsisThe subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title, the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity.Trade Review"The Subject of Murder is an original, superbly researched, and important work that deserves a broad readership. It will be of interest to audiences from a wide range of disciplines, from French literature to cultural studies, sexuality studies, and queer studies; from popular culture to criminology and sociology. There has never been a book quite like it." (David Schmid, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Murder Gender Exceptionality and
Book SynopsisThe subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title, the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity.Trade Review"The Subject of Murder is an original, superbly researched, and important work that deserves a broad readership. It will be of interest to audiences from a wide range of disciplines, from French literature to cultural studies, sexuality studies, and queer studies; from popular culture to criminology and sociology. There has never been a book quite like it." (David Schmid, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Forbidden Signs
Book SynopsisThis text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Doormen Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Book SynopsisDoormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. This book untangles this unusual dynamic to reveal the many ways tenants and doormen negotiate their complex relationship.Trade Review"With Doormen, Peter Bearman emerges as one the most original and dazzling chroniclers of urban society today. In this exceptionally readable book, he shows that everyday urban settings and workers are as interesting as the housing projects, street-corner men, and crack dealers that are the standard topics of contemporary urban studies." - Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk and Slim's Table"
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Mullahs on the Mainframe Islam Modernity Among
Book SynopsisThe values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity.Trade Review"This is a groundbreaking work.... This brilliant study is both academically rigorous and a welcome introduction to the real success of this Islamic community in the modern world. Highly recommended." - Library Journal; "[A] model piece of scholarship, the kind of work you want to give to younger scholars so as to awaken them to the wonders and the variety of the world.... Here is one brilliant venture by a young, superbly trained American social scientist who delves into the world of Indian Muslims, and renders that world with artistry, precision, and detail." - Fouad Ajami, author of Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey; "[Blank's] book should be read for his portrait of a group trying to carve out a place for their practices while maintaining peaceful relations with religious activists and secularists alike, a delicate tightrope act that he chronicles well." - John R. Bowen, Washington Post Book World
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press The Anatomy of Architecture
Book SynopsisBlier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she explores the role of vernacular architecture as an expression of culture.Table of ContentsIllustrations Linguistic Note Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Ch. 1: Imagines Mundi: Narrative, Ritual, and Architectural Exemplars of Cosmogony Ch. 2: Architectural Archetypes: Reflections on Housing in "Paradise" Ch. 3: House Temples: Architecture for the Gods Ch. 4: Houses Are Human: Architectural Self-images Ch. 5: At Home: The Complementarity of House, Family, and Tomb Ch. 6: The Power of Architecture: Politics, Protection, and Jurisprudence in House Design and Use Ch. 7: "The Dance of Drums": Notes on the Architecture and Staging of Funeral Performances Conclusions: Architectural Exegesis: On Building Ontology, Metaphor, and Multiplexity Notes Bibliography
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Trading Democracy for Justice
Book SynopsisThe United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. The author presents evidence that living in a high-imprisonment neighborhood significantly decreases political participation.Trade Review"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"
£23.75
The University of Chicago Press Class Warfare Class Race and College Admissions
Book SynopsisFrom the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel, with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. The authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Inclusion
Book SynopsisArgues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Trade Review"Epstein's use of theory to demonstrate how public policies in the health profession are shaped makes this book relevant for many academic disciplines.... Highly recommended." - Choice "A balanced analysis of the positive and negative effects of institutional changes on groups that are traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research." - New England Journal of Medicine"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Protecting the Vulnerable A ReAnalysis of our
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£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Under the Kapok Tree
Book SynopsisIn this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Minima Ethnographica Intersubjectivity the
Book SynopsisRejecting abstractions of culture, this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life. Michael Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical concerns.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The One and the Many The Intersubjective Turn Seven Types of Intersubjective Ambiguity Vita Activa Balance/Control Life Stories The Itinerary of an Idea Playing with Reality Writing Intersubjectivity Borderlines Distance Lends Enchantment Penis Snatchers Auctoritas Chiasmus Sacrifice Fetish Color Triad Roads and Bridges The Other Island First Contact The Women Who Became the Pleiades Losing the Straight Way Myths/Histories/Lives Clearing the Ground The Bag of Clothes Ghosts An Etiology of Storms Jarramali Bajaku Storying Fugue Where Thought Belongs An Island in the Stream References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Minima Ethnographica Intersubjectivity and the
Book SynopsisRejecting abstractions of "culture", this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life. Michael Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical concerns.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press On Social Organization and Social Control
Book SynopsisIn the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban and political sociology, race and ethnic relations, and the study of armed forces and society. His research was deeply rooted in the traditions of philosophical pragmatism and the Chicago school of sociology, influences which led him to reject grand theories and mechanistic explanations of social life. Yet he remained confident in the capacity of sociological reason to come to grips with central aspects of the human condition. On the basis of his studies, Janowitz came to believe that the transition from early to advanced industrial society radically altered institutional organization to make democratic social control more difficult, though not impossible, to achieve. The task of his pragmatic sociology was to identify fundamental trends in the social organization of industrial societies, to indicate their substantive implications for social control, and to cl
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Throughout your Generations Forever Sacrifice
Book SynopsisWhy does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Intersectional Inequality Race Class Test Scores
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£22.80
The University of Chicago Press City Trenches
Book SynopsisIn City Trenches, Ira Katznelson looks at an important phenomenon of the sixtiesthe resurgence of community activismand explains its sources, challenges, and failure. Katznelson argues that the American working class perceives workplace politics and community politics as separate and distinct spheres, a perception that defeats attempts to address grievances or raise demands that break the rules of local politics or of bread-and-butter unionism. He supports his thesis with an absorbing case study of Washington Heights-Inwood, a multiethnic working-class community in Manhattan.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Class and Conformity A Study in Values Midway
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1969 and augmented by the author with a new essay in 1977, Class and Conformity remains a model of sociological craftsmanship. Kohn's work marshals evidence from three studies to show a decided connection between social class and values. He emphasizes that occupation fosters either self-direction or conformity in people, depending upon the amount of freedom from supervision, thecomplexity of the task, and the variety of work that the job entails. The extent of parents' self-direction on the job further determines the value placed on self-direction for their children; thus, Kohn finds, is the most critical and pervasive factor distinguishing children raised in different socioeconomic classes.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Religion Order and Law
Book Synopsis"The issue of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism has been debated endlessly, but few scholars have seriously continued Weber's own research into the Reformation sources of seventeenth-century England. David Little's study was one of the first to do so, and remains an important contribution." Guenther Roth, University of Washington"
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Oppositional Consciousness The Subjective Roots
Book SynopsisHow can people be induced to sacrifice even one minute of their lives for the group's sake? These essays conceptualize the patterns of negotiation, struggle, and crafting that characterize "oppositional consciousness", a mental state that prepares an oppressed group to undermine a dominant system.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Anthropology as Cultural Critique An
Book SynopsisUsing cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study.
£21.85
The University of Chicago Press Karl Marx on Society and Social Change
Book SynopsisThis volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. The first section, The Structure of Society, contains Marx's writings on the material basis of classes, the basis of the state, and the basis of the family. Among the writings included in this section are Marx's well-known summary from the Preface of A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy and his equally famous observations on the functional significance of religion in relation to politics. The second section is titled The Sweep of Historical Change. The first selection here contains Marx's first statement of the main precapitalist forms of production. The second selection focuses on capitalism, its contradictions, and its impending destruction. Two brief final selections treat the nature of communism, particularly its freedom from the kinds of contradictions that have plagued all earlier forms of societies. The last section, The Mechanisms of Change, reproduces several parts of Marx's analysis of the mechanisms by which contradictions develop in capitalism and generate group conflicts. Included is an analysis of competition and its effects on the various classes, a discussion of economic crises and their effects on workers, and Marx's presentation of the historical specifics of the class struggle. In his comprehensive Introduction to the selections, Professor Smelser provides a biography of Marx, indentifies the various intellectual traditions which formed the background for Marx's writings, and discusses the selections which follow. The editor describes Marx's conception of society as a social system, the differences between functionalism and Marx's theories, and the dynamics of economic and political change as analyzed by Marx.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Ghetto at the Center of the World
Book SynopsisThere is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. This title shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions that reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization.Trade Review"In this wonderful book Gordon Mathews takes on an intriguing project: daily life as it is lived, articulated, dreamed, denied, regretted, and defended in a rather run-down but very public building in Hong Kong. The residents of Chungking Mansions are economically blocked from the rest of the city and often racially discriminated against, so how do such marginalized people survive, much less prosper? This is the conundrum at the heart of Ghetto at the Center of the World. Mathews tackles it by providing a vivid description of the people who live their lives in the building's dimly lit hallways, restaurants, and shops, and by analyzing the larger material and political forces at work." -William Jankowiak, author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City"
£18.05
The University of Chicago Press Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality
Book SynopsisArguing that parental actions are important sources of wealth inequality, this book examines the transmission of economic status from one generation to another by constructing a model of parental preferences. It offers evidence on the intergenerational transfer of consumption, earnings and wealth.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Rise of the West
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The University of Chicago Press My Blue Heaven Life Politics in the Working
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s thousands of migrants settled in the Los Angeles suburb of South Gate. Blue collar workers built the suburb literally from the ground up. 'My blue heaven' demonstrates the ethic of self-reliance and homeownership which formed the core of South Gate's identity.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Making Our Neighborhoods Making Our Selves
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of how we create neighborhoods—and how they in turn give definition to our lives.
£43.20
The University of Chicago Press Medusas Hair
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£21.85
The University of Chicago Press Strong Interaction
Book SynopsisBlending physiology and psychology with historical examples of social change and a model of social systems, this work examines how societies are made possible. The influences of love relationships, attachments, and addictive behaviours in society are also discussed here.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Minoritarian Liberalism A Travesti Life in a
Book SynopsisA mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rightsusually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeoisat the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom minoritarian liberalism, a concept that stands in for overlapping, alternative modes of freedombe they queer, favela, or peasant. Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves queer, others are treated as abnormal simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.Trade Review“Lino e Silva’s remarkable book fulfills its ambition to decolonize the freedom at liberalism’s heart. Equal parts erudite political theory and delicate anthropology, it roams a favela in Rio for stories and imaginaries across Blackness, queerness, gender, and class, where it discovers everywhere the bubbling of minoritarian desires and practices of freedom. This beautifully written work does nothing less than bring liberalism—as theory and practice—into the twenty-first century.” * Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley *“A contemplative and engaging ethnography of life in one of Rio de Janeiro’s infamous favelas, Minoritarian Liberalism is an exploration of alternative freedoms, distinctive bodies, and surprising pleasures. Best of all, the book features travestis: feisty, gritty, dazzling individuals who never cease to enchant and disquiet.” * Don Kulick, author of 'Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes' *"Pretty much the perfect ethnography: a rich set of narratives, properly self-aware, strong descriptions of place and situation, and some really useful theoretical and conceptual frames that go beyond the context of the inquiry itself." * Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College *"Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela presents a rich ethnographic study of queer residents of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum, deftly crafting a tale of migration, survival and complex social relations against a backdrop of violence and poverty. . . . Lino e Silva offers radical readings of bodily, sexual, social and religious practices as means to liberation outside the familiar technologies of the liberal state." * Radical Americas *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Through Pleasures and Pain 2 Laws of the Hillside 3 Northeastern Hinterlands 4 Queer Kids and the Favela Closet 5 Encountering Demons and Deities 6 Roman Slavery 7 As If There Is No Tomorrow Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£72.20
The University of Chicago Press Minoritarian Liberalism A Travesti Life in a
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lino e Silva’s remarkable book fulfills its ambition to decolonize the freedom at liberalism’s heart. Equal parts erudite political theory and delicate anthropology, it roams a favela in Rio for stories and imaginaries across Blackness, queerness, gender, and class, where it discovers everywhere the bubbling of minoritarian desires and practices of freedom. This beautifully written work does nothing less than bring liberalism—as theory and practice—into the twenty-first century.” * Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley *“A contemplative and engaging ethnography of life in one of Rio de Janeiro’s infamous favelas, Minoritarian Liberalism is an exploration of alternative freedoms, distinctive bodies, and surprising pleasures. Best of all, the book features travestis: feisty, gritty, dazzling individuals who never cease to enchant and disquiet.” * Don Kulick, author of 'Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes' *"Pretty much the perfect ethnography: a rich set of narratives, properly self-aware, strong descriptions of place and situation, and some really useful theoretical and conceptual frames that go beyond the context of the inquiry itself." * Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College *"Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela presents a rich ethnographic study of queer residents of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum, deftly crafting a tale of migration, survival and complex social relations against a backdrop of violence and poverty. . . . Lino e Silva offers radical readings of bodily, sexual, social and religious practices as means to liberation outside the familiar technologies of the liberal state." * Radical Americas *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Through Pleasures and Pain 2 Laws of the Hillside 3 Northeastern Hinterlands 4 Queer Kids and the Favela Closet 5 Encountering Demons and Deities 6 Roman Slavery 7 As If There Is No Tomorrow Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£20.90
The University of Chicago Press Making Our Neighborhoods Making Our Selves
Book SynopsisDrawing on economics, sociology, geography, and psychology, Galsterdelivers a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they come to beand what they should be. Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define themhow do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their residents? In Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, George C. Galster delves deep into the question of whether American neighborhoods are as efficient and equitable as they could besocially, financially, and emotionallyand, if not, what we can do to change that. Galster aims to redefine the relationship between places and people, promoting specific policies that reduce inequalities in housing markets and beyond.Trade Review“Highly recommended. . . Impressive in its scholarship and scope, this is a major addition to the literature on neighborhoods. . . Galster brings clarity and precision to this literature through a unified framework of neighborhood change.” * Choice *“Galster’s key argument—that we make our neighborhoods and then they make us—marks a critical contribution to the scholarship on neighborhood effects. . . He leads us through the maze and helps us find connections between seemingly disparate findings via a compelling theoretical framework.” * Social Forces *"Galster goes further than other behavioral economists in that he offers actual policy strategies for what might make a more socially desirable neighborhood in America. He is interested in collective action, in policy change, and in influencing, in a dramatic way, our attitudes and perceptions about the importance of neighborhood. I urge planners to read this book and cheer him on . . . . Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves is his most definitive statement yet on the neighborhood integration theme." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"Galster’s work represents the cutting edge of our understanding of neighborhood change. His work needs to be the state of the art of community development practice. This book should make a significant contribution toward advancing our understanding and practice of community development." -- Kirk McClure * Journal of Urban Affairs *"For scholars and policy analysts with an in depth interest in understanding what neighborhoods are, and how and why they develop and change as they do, it is undoubtedly a very rich source of information, ideas and analytical frameworks. A particularly welcome feature of the book is the way in which it uses diagrams to highlight the relationships between different factors affecting behavior and outcomes, as well as patterns of connections and circular causation. It builds on research from multiple disciplines over several decades (with sections of the book drawing on published articles) and as such is able to provide a detailed holistic multilevel perspective on neighborhood development which is strong on conceptualization and measurement. It is this holistic perspective – and the way in which academic insights are tied to policy and practice recommendations - that is the key contribution of this book." * Housing Studies *“Bringing together frameworks and extensive evidence from across the social sciences, this important and unique book helps us understand how and why neighborhoods form and change, the many ways in which they shape our lives and opportunities, and how policies can help to make them both vibrant and inclusive. Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves is the rare book that offers not only critical insights for scholars but also concrete guidance for policymakers.” -- Ingrid Gould Ellen * author of Sharing America's Neighborhoods *“In Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, Galster draws upon decades of research to illustrate the multiple paths through which we make our neighborhoods and, in turn, are shaped by the neighborhoods we make. Galster develops sophisticated arguments, but the logic is easy to follow. This book unifies a large body of interdisciplinary literature on neighborhood dynamics that Galster was instrumental in creating, moves that literature forward by developing testable empirical hypotheses about neighborhood change, and offers a menu of strategies that are designed to create a spatial opportunity structure defined by high-quality, diverse, and stable neighborhoods.” * Casey Dawkins, University of Maryland *
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The University of Chicago Press Peasant Uprisings in Japan A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisCombining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Calamities of Exile Three Nonfiction Novellas
Book SynopsisA collection of narratives examining the stories of three expatriates - an Iraqi, Czech and an Afrikaner - who have suffered for speaking out in opposition to the totalitarian regimes holding sway in their homeland. The book explores the nature of modern totalitarianism and exile.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Places of Their Own African American
Book SynopsisBeginning a hundred years ago, this book paints an austere portrait of the conditions that early black residents found in isolated, poor suburbs. It explores how the civil rights movement emboldened more black families to purchase suburban homes and how the passage of civil rights legislation helped pave the way for today's black middle class.Trade Review"A work of exceptionally broad research, Places of Their Own does much more than simply document the presence of African Americans in suburbs. It also illustrates how black suburbanization changed over the course of the twentieth century." - Amanda Seligman, Journal of Planning History"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Faith in Action Religion Race and Democratic
Book SynopsisRichard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California, one faith-based, the other race-based. Comparing their activist techniques and acheivements, Wood argues that their alternative cultures offer a more democratic future for all Americans.Trade Review"Faith in Action is a timely and intelligent work - a penetrating look at the efficacy of faith-based community activism. Wood's creative new study will appeal to sociologists of culture, politics, and religion and to anyone interested in how social movements work and continue to prosper." - Christian Smith, author of American Evangelicalism
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Faith in Action Religion Race and Democratic
Book SynopsisRichard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California, one faith-based, the other race-based. Comparing their activist techniques and acheivements, Wood argues that their alternative cultures offer a more democratic future for all Americans.Trade Review"Faith in Action is a timely and intelligent work - a penetrating look at the efficacy of faith-based community activism. Wood's creative new study will appeal to sociologists of culture, politics, and religion and to anyone interested in how social movements work and continue to prosper." - Christian Smith, author of American Evangelicalism
£26.60
John Wiley & Sons Population Control Theorizing Institutional
Book SynopsisViolence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.Trade Review“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada
£91.80
John Wiley & Sons Diversity Leadership in Education Embedding
Book SynopsisDiversity Leadership in Education dives into the complexities and opportunities afforded by new models of diversity leadership. The volume explores how Indigenous, Black, racialized, and collaborative leadership contributes to decolonizing educational settings through advocacy, solidarity, spirituality, relationality, and reconciliation.Trade Review“Our world is changing in transformative ways and so must the way we lead. This book offers critical reflections and pathways for educators committed to reimagining and deepening their leadership practice. The (un)learning process is ongoing and this book will inspire leaders on their journey.” Shanice Yarde, McGill University“Diversity Leadership in Education makes a major contribution, disrupting Western notions of how leadership is typically conceived. Chapters move from the historical to the contemporary, charting what is needed to move into a future of more socially just leadership.” Sheila Cote-Meek, Brock University and author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education
£77.35
McGill-Queen's University Press Diversity Leadership in Education
Book SynopsisDiversity Leadership in Education dives into the complexities and opportunities afforded by new models of diversity leadership. The volume explores how Indigenous, Black, racialized, and collaborative leadership contributes to decolonizing educational settings through advocacy, solidarity, spirituality, relationality, and reconciliation.Trade Review“Our world is changing in transformative ways and so must the way we lead. This book offers critical reflections and pathways for educators committed to reimagining and deepening their leadership practice. The (un)learning process is ongoing and this book will inspire leaders on their journey.” Shanice Yarde, McGill University“Diversity Leadership in Education makes a major contribution, disrupting Western notions of how leadership is typically conceived. Chapters move from the historical to the contemporary, charting what is needed to move into a future of more socially just leadership.” Sheila Cote-Meek, Brock University and author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education
£31.50
John Wiley & Sons Population Control Theorizing Institutional
Book SynopsisViolence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.Trade Review“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Natural Resources and Social Conflict Towards Critical Environmental Security International Political Economy Series
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.Trade Review'This is an exciting contribution that advances theories of environmental security. The chapters fuse critical perspectives on environmental security with evidence from developing and developed regions to offer a coherent perspective on the discursive practices of environmental security and their material consequences. Spanning global to local scales, and weaving together theories about justice, power, security and the state, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in critical environmental security studies.' - Jon Barnett, Professor of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia 'The very ideas of environmental security and environmental conflict have been controversial from their inception. In mapping the complex connections between the biophysical world, natural resources and collective violence, the devil is always in the details. The great strength of this book is that it approaches the field with a critical eye and a refusal to accept conventional wisdom by always being attentive to what the editors call rethinking security from the bottom up. Whether tackling the challenges of the Canadian tar sands or coltan in Congo, this volume represents an important challenge to the old environmental world order of the first Earth Summit in Rio and offers us instead a compelling vision of how to grasp the radical environmental insecurities confronting the global underclasses.' - Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Development Studies, University of California-Berkeley, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards Critical Environmental Security; M.Schnurr & L.Swatuk What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-violence to Environmental Injustice; P.Stoett Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System; C.Russill Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States; W.Greaves Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities; L.Swatuk Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options; P.Arthur Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; S.Whitman 'The Elephant in the Room?' Peak Oil on the Security Agenda; S.Mulligan Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence; P.Le Billon & A.Carter Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An analysis of oil patch sabotage in British Columbia, Canada; C.Arsenault Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang; S.Wiebe Afterward: Ecoviolence, Security, Geopolitics; S.Dalby
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Identity in the 21st Century New Trends in Changing Times Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, 'race', faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class.Trade Review'This important collection of original essays, using state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative methods, offers fascinating insights into the complex ways that power relations inscribe contemporary social identities.' - Professor Mike Savage, the University of Manchester, UK 'This is an important book on multicultural Britain. It grounds theoretical debates in richly textured empirical analyses, and parts of the book read like a good novel, with real lives and histories unfolding in front of our eyes. Students and professional academics interested in the changing dynamics of social identities in contemporary societies especially culturally diverse societies such as the U.S, Brazil, South Africa, or India - should read this book. Humanists in particular will find this work done by their colleagues in the social sciences very illuminating, and it will suggest ways that humanists and social scientists can work together to explore topics of common interest. Social identity, the focus of this volume, is clearly one such topic.' - Satya P. Mohanty Professor of English, Cornell University, and Director of the International Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute (www.fmsproject.cornell.edu), USA '...this edited collection delivers the greatest beneficial impact when read in themed sections; however, it is certainly flexible if the reader only wishes to focus on a specific research project. An essential read for all those interested in contemporary formations of identity in the 21st century.' - Michelle Addison, Newcastle University UK, SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction - Negotiating Liveable Lives: Intelligibility and Identity in Contemporary Britain; M.Wetherell Part I: CLASS AND COMMUNITY Individualisation and the Decline of Class Identity; A.Heath, J.Curtice & G.Elgenius 'I Don't Want to be Classed, But We Are All Classed': Making Liveable Lives Across Generations; B.Rogaly & B.Taylor Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town; V.Walkerdine White Middle-Class Identity Work Through 'Against the Grain' School Choices; D.James, D.Reay, G.Crozier, F.Jamieson, P.Beedell, S.Hollingworth & K.Williams Part II: ETHNICITIES AND ENCOUNTERS Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach; R.Harris & B.Rampton 'Con-Viviality' and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men's Prison; R.Earle & C.Phillips Imagining the 'Other'/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications; S.Clarke, S.Garner & R.Gilmour The Subjectivities of Young Somali: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal; G.Valentine & D.Sporton Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Post-Colonial City; R.Cox, S.Jackson, M.Khatwa & D.Kiwan Part III: Popular Culture and Relationality The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity; R.Thomson, M.J.Kehily, L.Hadfield & S.Sharpe The Allure of Belonging: Young People's Drinking Practices and Collective Identification; C.Griffin, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Hackley, W.Mistral & I.Szmigin The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television; B.Skeggs & H.Wood
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Columbia University Press Community Organizing A Holistic Approach
Book SynopsisThis book discusses how individuals, groups, and organizations develop the means to deal with problems in their interaction with institutions, exploring what methods and practices should be implemented to address various issues.
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Columbia University Press The Wages of Writing Per Word Per Piece or
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Columbia University Press Differentiation Theory
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Columbia University Press Social Work with Groups 3e
Book SynopsisThis fully revised and updated third edition of a classic text includes seven new chapters that reflect the most recent developments in group practice. Part of the book's enduring appeal is its vivid depiction of actual group work and the challenges that arise. Using an ecosystem approach, they set forth a generic framework for practice with diverse groups.Table of Contents1. Groups in Social Work Practice 2. The Knowledge Base for Practice 3. Relationships: The Heart of Practice 4. Intervention in Groups 5. Planning 6. Pregroup Contact: Selection and Preparation of Members 7. Purpose 8. The Problem-Solving Process 9. Conflict 10. Roles of Members 11. The Use of Activity 12. Stage I: Inclusion-Orientation 13. Stage II: Uncertainty-Exploration 14. Stage III: Mutuality and Goal Achievement 15. Stage IV: Separation-Termination 16. Evaluation
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