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Book SynopsisIt's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking advantage of these networks, we can boost our happiness, success and influence. But there are also wider lessons to be learnt. Drawing on concepts from economics, mathematics, sociology, and anthropology, Jackson reveals how the science of networks gives us a bold new framework to understand human interaction writ large - from banking crashes and viral marketing to racism and the spread of disease. Filled with counter-intuitive ideas that will enliven any dinner party - e.g. how can our popularity in school affect us for the rest of our lives? - The Human Network is a "big ideas" book that no one can afford to miss.Trade ReviewCompelling... Professor Jackson manages not only to present a lot of complex research engagingly but to show how the key concepts of network theory relate to a wide range of contemporary issues, from financial contagions to the spread of fake news. * New York Times *Beautifully readable and fascinating * Eric S. Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics *This thought-provoking book explains how and why human networks matter so much, and why they can be a source of strength and fragility. A must-read. * Daron Acemoglu, bestselling author of Why Nations Fail *Matthew Jackson leads us through a brilliantly insightful tour of how the structures of social networks shape our lives and indeed our very humanity * Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in Economics *Spanning a rich array of topics, including the spread of epidemics and financial crises, political polarization, and economic inequality, The Human Network is a highly readable yet deeply informed survey of social life viewed through the lens of networks. * Duncan Watts, author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age *The study of networks is one of the liveliest and most interesting topics in contemporary economic theory... Timely and beautifully written. * Eric S. Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics, on Social and Economic Networks *Very engaging and worthwhile. * The Enlightened Economist *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Networks and Human Behavior 2: Power and Influence: Central Positions in Networks 3: Diffusion and Contagion 4: Too Connected to Fail: Financial Networks 5: Homophily: Houses Divided 6: Immobility and Inequality: Network Feedback and Poverty Traps 7: The Wisdom and Folly of the Crowd 8: The Influence of Our Friends and Our Local Network Structures 9: Globalization: Our Changing Networks

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Book SynopsisDespite growing numbers of international academics globally, there is a dearth of works exploring success stories, and the barriers and opportunities of being an international academic. Academic Mobility and International Academics offers personal experiences and guidance from a truly international suite of scholars exploring their academic journeys and addressing intersectional topics on academic mobility including perspectives from early career researchers, university leaders, mentors, LGBTIQ scholars, and more. Throughout this timely collection, chapter authors offer insight into overall academic employment experiences, including their motivations and challenges in steering their academic career. They offer guidance on how international academics can harness their career aspirations, across both leadership and non-leadership positions and how internationality in academic careers is evolving in these current times. Essential reading for any scholar or postgraduate student looking to work outside of their home nation, this hopeful and insightful text will provide guidance, inspiration, and real-life examples of how to survive and thrive as an international scholar. Trade ReviewA must-read volume that captures the academic journey and contribution of international academics to global higher education! All scholars including faculty, students, and administrators will benefit from reading this book. -- Krishna Bista, Morgan State University, Maryland (USA)This is such an important book for everyone working in Higher Education. The personal reflections of international academics around the globe throughout are both thought provoking and inspiring. Understanding the personal journeys of nternational academics who forms part of our diverse academic community. -- Hannah-Louise Holmes, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí Introductory Chapter; Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh Section 1 - Leadership Chapter 1. Breaking through the glass ceiling: Navigating towards leadership positions as a woman international academic; Ashleigh-Jane Thompson Chapter 2. Virtuous Like Water --International Academic in a Leadership Position; Yuhang Rong Section 2 - Experiences of esteemed and young scholars Chapter 3. Life lessons for aspiring international academics: What my experience suggests about how to thrive; Vijay Mallan Chapter 4. My academic path as an international academic from MENA to Canada: Good, better, best. Never let it rest; Jinan Issa Chapter 5. Being an International Academic in a Malaysian University: Challenges, Opportunities and Way forward; Muhammad Muftahu Chapter 6. Facets of academic life- Perspective of an international visiting scholar; Amrita Kaur Chapter 7. An international early-career academic journey in Australia; Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh Chapter 8. Moving in and coming home: Insights from early career researchers in Japan; Shannon Mason and Yusuke Sakurai Section 3 - Personal and family experiences in long and short term mobilities Chapter 9. International academic experiences in Japan; Ariunaa Enkhtur and Sainbayar Gundsambuu Chapter 10. Short-term International Mobility among Academics; Jisun Jung Chapter 11. International academic mobility: Categories of difference and narratives of possibility; James Burford and Mary Eppolite

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the intersectionality of gendered, religious identity among Muslim women in Catalonia, and illustrates how this identity is brokered through language use in a multilingual and diasporic context. Drawing on a mixed methods study of 1st and 2nd generation immigrant women, this book also examines how acculturation is a transgenerational process reflected in linguistic behavior. Through the use of questionnaire and interview data, the author constructs a story about informants’ experiences navigating life vis-à-vis language use; specifically through the use of Spanish, Catalan and native/heritage languages. This book offers a unique lens through which we can further our understanding of the role of language in the acculturation process in Catalonia. It adds to the ongoing discussion about language and migration in Catalonia and provides a valuable contribution to debates about immigrant women’s language learning and use.Trade ReviewThis book is a great and engaging work on Muslim immigrant women living in Catalonia. One of the most interesting aspects is the sources used in this research, since it is based on real data from fieldwork. It will be an important milestone for an under-researched area of sociolinguistic studies on women's linguistic attitudes. * Ángeles Vicente, University of Zaragoza, Spain *With tenacity, rigor, and originality, Dr Farah Ali explores the intersectionally complex lives of Muslim immigrant women in Catalonia – lives that are too often ignored or misrepresented. Empirically rich, the volume illuminates how several generations of these women creatively use their multilingual repertoires to carve out spaces for belonging and to fight their own marginalization. * Inmaculada Ma García-Sánchez, UCLA, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Language Use and Language Policy in Catalonia Chapter 3. Acculturation and Negotiating Identity Chapter 4. Research Design Chapter 5. Spaniard on Purpose: Narratives of First Generation Informants Chapter 6. In Two Worlds: Narratives of Second Generation Informants Chapter 7. Catalan, Spanish and Heritage Languages: Reported Language Use and Attitudes Chapter 8. Implications for Sociolinguistic Research Chapter 9. Implications for Language and Immigrant-Targeted Policies Appendix A: Questionnaire Appendix B: Interview Questions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. The action focuses on the staff room in the library, where the fictionalised characters of four customer experience assistants, threatened with redundancy, take their lunch and tea breaks. The ethnographic drama is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations and observations. It tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.Trade ReviewIf Brecht had done ethnography, it might well have turned out like this. Blackledge and Creese have always put the human centre-stage, here literally so: fieldwork becomes playscript to explore contexts personal and political in ways both inspired and inspirational for anyone seeking new ways to do research. I can’t wait for their next production! * Frank Monaghan, The Open University, UK *Carefully distilled from ethnographic data, a multivoiced scenario unfolds that vividly captures the liminal moment of the dismantling of a public sociocultural institution under the conditions of neoliberal policies. A riveting reading experience and a milestone in the quest for new ways of presenting research findings. * Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria *Blurring the personal and the political on the page as in life, this creative curation of ethnographic data captures people in the middle of life-changing events. From debating stroganoff recipes to political party leadership candidates, this drama of the everyday traces the human cost of the largest award-winning library in Europe disintegrating into “a body without a soul.” It’s impossible not to be moved. * Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Leeds, UK *A familiar scene. A weary academic enters, stage left. Walks to table in centre stage, picks up book and begins to read. WEARY ACADEMIC: [engrossed] I’ve never read an ethnographic research output like this...one that immerses the reader in everyday conversations through which we come to know both the characters and their understanding of the social and political changes around them...Exit right still reading book, pursued by a renewed sense of excitement. * Caroline Tagg, The Open University, UK *The dialogues in this book are...simple, easy and fun to read. We can understand the characters through their conversations, from the frustration of having to leave their jobs at the library to the uncertainty of the future and how these reflections get intertwined with conversations about food or TV shows. -- Rommy Anabalon Schaaf, IOE, UCL, UK * Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2022 *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Setting and Characters Act I Act II Act III Act IV

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Book SynopsisThis book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others. Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations. Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere To Post-Austerity Europe 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions 3 (Re)imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations 4 The Coloniality of Belonging 5 The Coloniality of Brexit Conclusion Methodological Appendix References

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show mutual trust is the only glue that holds societies together; people are giving beings and they can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing personal gain in capitalism is broken. Acknowledging the role of women, nature, and workers in the Global South in transforming society, this book proposes a politics of conviviality, (from the Latin con-vivere: living together) for global and environmental justice as an alternative to the pursuit of profit, growth, and consumption.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Capitalism’s Crises to a Convivial Society Part 1: An Anthropology of Giving 1. Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift 2. Mauss’ Gift 3. 'Homo donator': A Different Anthropology Part 2: Society’s Gifts 4. Locating the Gift in Society 5. The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism 6. Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts Part 3: Crossing the Borders 7. Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality 8. Gifts of Nature 9. Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia Part 4: Worlds of Conviviality 10. Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art 11. Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are grouped into six, topical groupings that range widely: the growing need for moderate voices in policy debates; the nature of American exceptionalism; the challenge of civic discourse; the depredations of the Trump years; and policies concerning immigration, citizenship, and refugees.Trade Review“In this book, Peter Schuck demonstrates compellingly that being a ‘moderate’ need not mean being wishy-washy. He rejects cant from all quarters, demands disciplined examination of factual evidence, and comes to provocative conclusions. Ideologues of all stripes should be forewarned: this book exemplifies intellectual independence.” — Richard Fallon, Story Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.“In this welcome sequel to his superb ‘Meditations of a Militant Moderate,’ Peter Schuck gives an object lesson in the two traits which our intellectual discourse desperately needs: common sense and wise judgment. His verve and passion dispatch the myth that moderates are milquetoasts. Slaying shibboleths about everything from abortion and immigration to cancel culture and campus crybullies, Schuck shows again why his voice is unique and necessary.” — Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Suffering from low blood pressure? Peter Schuck’s More Meditations of a Militant Moderate is the perfect cure. Whether you are politically left, right, or center, you will find thrilling support for and infuriating refutation of positions you embrace. But most of all, you will revel in the pleasure of reading the muscular prose of a vigorous intellect wrestling honestly with issues that will surely matter deeply to you.” — Henry J. Aaron, Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Fellow, the Brookings Institution.Table of ContentsPart 1: Preface and Part 1; Part 2: American Exceptionalism; Part 3: Civic Discourse; Part 4: The Misbegotten Trump Presidency; Part 5: Campus Follies; Part 6: Immigrants, Citizens, and Refugees

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Book SynopsisHow was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture.Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues.Trade Review“The reader, thanks to the author’s deep dive into the literary works she brings forward to make her case, will come away from this book with a recognition and appreciation of the work of a number of well-regarded (although not widely known) authors, whether resident in Russia, Israel, the US or elsewhere, concerned with Jewish identity as shaped and perceived through Soviet and Russian experience. … Reinventing Tradition is a distinguished contribution to the understanding of this revitalization and rediscovery, looking to make the search by Soviet and Russian Jewish authors more widely known and a source of insight and wisdom to be brought near.”— Mindy C. Reiser, AJL News & Reviews“It is well known that a driving force for the formation of underground cultures in former republics of the USSR was the national revival. In her excellent monograph, Klavdia Smola, a prominent scholar of the Soviet nonconformism, focuses on underground literature born by Jewish national revival—a decentralized process that engaged Jews from all republics and regions of the Soviet Union. She meticulously reconstructs a cultural dimension of the political movement for Jewish immigration from the USSR and through the analysis of Russophone Jewish underground literature, traces the development of its main myths and discourses, from their emergence in the 1960s prose of exodus to their ironic deconstructions in postmodernist writings of the 1980s-90s and essentialization in neo-Zionist narratives in the 2000s. This book will be invaluable not only for students of Jewish cultural history but also in courses on national revival in the late Soviet Union and on Russophone literature as a growing new field of studies. Klavdia Smola’s book is pioneering in all these directions.”— Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University“Klavdia Smola’s superbly researched and deeply illuminating book is a must have for anyone interested in the pathways of Jewish creativity in Russian during the late Soviet and post-Soviet epochs. Especially noteworthy are Smola’s intricate readings of the little known writers who were part of the underground scene in the Soviet Union and later immigrated to Israel. With its breadth of the material covered and innovative theoretical approaches, Smola’s volume makes an invaluable contribution to the study of Russian Jewish literature and culture.”— Marat Grinberg, Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College, Author of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity between the Lines“The course of Russian-Jewish literature never did run smooth: not when most Russian-speaking Jews were forced by the Tsars to live within the Pale of Settlement; not under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev et al.; not after the collapse of the Soviet Empire—how much less so with the successive waves of mass Jewish emigration to Israel, Germany, and North America. Only an expert cartographer like Klavdia Smola, therefore, could see what no one else has seen: that it was through prose fiction and storytelling that three generations of Russian-Jewish writers have constructed their own ‘bridge of longing’ across the historical abyss. As this densely argued book demonstrates, the story doesn’t end with those who experienced corporate Jewish life first-hand. Rather, through all the tricks of the literary trade and by drawing creatively from a century of modern Yiddish writing, they succeeded in fashioning a complex new identity and a new Jewish mythology.”— David G. Roskies, Emeritus Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture, the Jewish Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Tradition and Innovation in Judaism—Text and CommentarySemantics of the Posthuman Era: The (Re)Invention of Jewishness Semiotic Context Cultural-Historical Context Poetics of (Anti-)Imperial (Anti-)Assimilation Research Approaches Research Trends and Research Deficits State of the Art Perspective and Boundaries of the StudyAbove the Ground Refocusing Jewish StudiesLiterary History, Poetics, and Cultural StudiesText Selection: Time and Geography Russian Jewish Literature as a Bicultural Phenomenon Jewish Dissent of the Late Soviet Era: Underground, Exodus, Literature Soviet Jews: Collective Images and MythsJews as Translators: Literary MimicryPolitical Context and Literary Reflections of Jewish Counter-Culture: An Overview Emigration, Literary Institutions, and Readers Prose of Exodus “The Excitement of Memory”: Efrem Baukh’s Jacob’s LadderThe Martyrdom of Refusal: David Shrayer-Petrov’s Herbert and NelliMysticism of the Exodus: Eli Liuksemburg“The Third Temple” The Tenth HungerEducation of the New Jew: David Markish’s PreambleLate Soviet Exodus Novels: Poetics and MessageBipolar Models: The Zionist and the Socialist-Realist NovelAxes of Nonconformist Jewish Literature Iuz Aleshkovskii: “Carousel” Grigorii Vol′dman: Sheremetyevo Feliks Kandel′: The Gates of Our Exodus and Semen Lipkin: Pictures and VoicesIakov Tsigel′man: The Funeral of Moishe DorferIuliia Shmukler: “This Last Day”Negated Dichotomies: The Failed Utopia of Aliyah Efraim Sevela’s Zionist Counter-Narratives Iakov Tsigel′man’s Novel-Palimpsest Time and Space Structures in Nonconformist Jewish Literature Reinvention of Yiddish Storytelling Jewish Narrative and Semiotics of YiddishShlemiels and Rogues: Efraim Sevela’s The Legends of Invalidnaia Street An Old Jewess in a Monologue with the Reader: Filipp Isaak Berman’s “Sarra and the Little Rooster”Conclusion: Yiddish as a QuoteAftermath and Impact of Jewish Counter-Culture Neo-Zionist Essentialist Narratives Jewish Revival Russian Jewish Literature after Communism (Post)Memorial Literature: Palimpsests, Residuals, Reinvention (Post)Memorial Jewish WritingMemory as Obsession and Fragment: Izrail′ Metter’s “Family Tree” (Post)Memorial Topographies: Grigorii Kanovich’s “Dream about the Disappeared Jerusalem” Jewish Deconstruction of the Empire Archaic Language of the Dictatorship: Mikhail Iudson’s Dystopia The Ladder onto the Closet Postcolonial Mimic Man: Aleksandr Melikhov’s The Confession of a JewOleg Iur′ev’s Hybrid Poetics: Peninsula ZhidiatinIakov Tsigel′man’s Postmodern Midrash: Shebsl the MusicianConclusion Bibliography Literary WorksResearch Literature Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of this long-established guide offers an invaluable, authoritative and concise introduction to community development. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance.Trade Review"It's an extremely useful publication, which presents some refreshingly straightforward observations, whilst acknowledging the complexity of the politics and the practice. I will recommend it to students". Mae Shaw, Institute of Education, University of Edinburgh "Great book. I really relied on it in class as language was accessible and practical examples connected with the students." Sharon Mallon, Staffordshire University"A great resource — so well written and informative." Sarah Banks, Professor of Community and Youth Work at Durham University"The Short Guide to Community Development is a valuable and concise contemporary account of community development." Community Development Journal"An extremely useful introductory text, which covers all of the essential building blocks for an up-to-date understanding of the practice of community development work in the United Kingdom" Dr Rosemary Moreland, University of UlsterTable of ContentsIntroduction What is community development? The changing context of community development Theoretical concepts Effective and ethical community development: what’s needed? Applying community development in different service areas Challenges for practice Current and future trends

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Book SynopsisHow do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history?Trade Review‘Excellent. Katwala is an elegant and exuberant writer. This lovely book is both polemic and user’s manual.’ The Spectator ‘Eloquent and engaging.’ TLS ‘A really great read about how we can have an open and inclusive patriotism.’ Baroness Sayeeda Warsi ‘Really, really thought-provoking and nuanced. I suggest that anyone who an interest in the future of this country should read it.’ Nihal Arthanayake ‘Well-written, thought-provoking and insightful in its analysis, How to Be a Patriot is essential reading.’ Nick Thomas-Symonds ‘This important book is predominantly about searching for common ground.’ Eric Kaufmann, Literary Review ‘Fantastic. I’ve been waiting for a Sunder Katwala book.’ Geoff Lloyd, Reasons to be Cheerful ‘Ever my go-to guy when trying to make sense of this ferociously polarised issue.’ Tom Holland ‘Sunder Katwala has helped to lead the public conversation on national identity.' David Lammy MP ‘There are few better judges of the state of the national debate. Landmark.’ Daniel Finkelstein ‘Wide ranging, wise and humane. Fizzing with energy, ideas and passion.’ Rob Ford, author of Brexitland ‘Deeply persuasive. … Katwala deals with reality rather than caricatures.’ Jewish Chronicle ‘Compelling and passionate. Truly insightful.’ Bobby Duffy, author of The Generation Divide ‘Excellent, thought-provoking and wise.’ Colin Yeo, author of Welcome to Britain

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