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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Responding to Domestic Violence: Emerging
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include: - the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage; - emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and- barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people. By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice.Trade ReviewA particular strength is the breadth of the collection which includes incisive accounts of research processes, training, policy and service development. The book will provide an invaluable resource for all those who work or study in the field of domestic violence. -- Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Part I: The policy framework for responding to domestic violence in Europe. 1. Domestic violence - a rights-based response: Drawing on results from the FRA's violence against women survey - Joanna Goodey, Head of the Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria. 2. Development, coordination and implementation of national strategies for the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland: Lessons learned and unlearned - Philip McCormack, Cosc - The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, Dublin, Ireland. Part II: Children's experiences of domestic violence. 3. Mother-child relationships in the context of intimate partner violence - Zuzana Ocenasova, Coordination and Methodological Centre for Prevention of Violence against Women, Bratislava, Slovakia and Hana Smitkova, Department of Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4. Voice, agency power: A framework for young survivors' participation in national domestic abuse policy-making - Claire Houghton, Researcher and Expert Adviser, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5. Including children and young people in domestic violence research: When myths and misconceptions compromise participation - Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 6. Research on teenage intimate partner violence within a European context: Findings from the literature - Sibel Korkmaz, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden. 7. Fear of double disclosure and other barriers to the help seeking: An intersectional approach to address the needs of LGBT teenagers experiencing teenage relationship abuse -Maria Pentaraki, Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 8. Caring dads, safer children: Using a focus on fathering to respond to domestic violence - Nicola McConnell, Senior Evaluation Officer, NSPCC, United Kingdom, Julie Taylor, Professor of Child Protection, University of Birmingham/ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom and Matt Barnard, Head of Crime, Justice and Communities, NatCen, United Kingdom. Part III: New understandings on domestic abuse and violence. 9. Strength through solidarity: Practitioners and parents resisting child to parent violence and abuse in Ireland - Declan Coogan, Lecturer in Social Work, NUI Galway, Ireland. 10. Digital intimate partner violence and abuse among youth: A systematic review of associated factors - Per Moum Hellevik, PhD Candidate, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway. 11. Human trafficking and gender based violence: From life and limb to hearts and minds - Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Manager, Immigrant Council of Ireland and Gloria Kirwan, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 12. Female genital mutilation: Results from the Portuguese prevalence study - Dalila Cerejo, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICSNOVA- FCSH/NOVA) New University of Lisbon, Portugal. 13. Force marriage in Europe: The case of Belgium - Els Leye, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Belgium. Part IV: Responding to domestic violence and abuse. 14. Models on treatment of intimate partner violence: Gender based and trauma informed work at Alternative to Violence in Norway - Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Clinical Psychologist, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway and Marius Råkil, Director, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway. 15. Healthcare responses to domestic violence: Why and how? - Lucy Potter, Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom and Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 16. Older women's experiences of domestic abuse - Elizabeth Martin, PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Gemma Carney, Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 17. Whose movement is it anyway? Reflections from the field - Davina James-Hanman, Independent Violence Against Women Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal. Conclusion: Progressing the debate on domestic violence in Europe - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Swedenand Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Hidden Cameras: Everything You Need to Know About
Book SynopsisThe complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras to expose abuse or wrongdoing.Secret filming is no longer the preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing undercover documentaries and wearing secret cameras, this book explains covert recording for the general public, including specific advice on the practicalities of using a phone or covert camera to record evidence. It considers the legal and ethical issues and provides vital information for anyone who may use or encounter secret filming, including the people or organisations that might be filmed, regulators, social workers, local government officials and anyone who may encounter it in court. It also looks to the future of covert filming and the implications of technological advances, such as drone cameras.Trade ReviewIn the wrong hands, secret cameras can ruin lives - but they can also prove wrong-doing and do good. BBC Panorama producer Joe Plomin takes the reader through the ethical minefields in this ground-breaking book. -- John Sweeney, BBC reporterJoe Plomin is one of the most thoughtful and dedicated journalists with whom I have had the honour of working. These are qualities that shine through in this book. The stories based on his years of using secret cameras to expose wrongdoing make this a very human exploration of covert filming. It is a master-class not just in how to use the technology, but also in the ethical considerations and careful thinking that should lie behind every decision to switch on a hidden camera. -- Alison Holt, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent, Royal Television Society Specialist Journalist of the Year, 2015 and Winner of the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, 2015No one understands secret filming like Joe Plomin. This book is essential reading for all those trying to hold power to account in the digital age. -- Paul Mason, journalist and broadcasterI recommend that everyone, whether in favour, sympathetic or fundamentally opposed to covert filming, read this enlightening and incredibly human story. Plomin mixes his experiences and stories of his own undercover work with the history of covert investigative journalism from its infancy in 1997 to the present day, referencing the revelation of such injustices as the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 summit protests seven years ago. Importantly, too, he relates the stories of families, so worried about the care of their love ones that they resort to hidden cameras. There is also information for anyone with thoughts of undertaking covert filing about how to ensure it is bout legal and ethical, as well as consideration of where surveillance may be in the future. The book is easy to read, balance, professional and heartfelt. it is a very important contribution to the debate on this emotive subject. -- Lynne Phair, independent consultant nurse * The Journal of Dementia Care *Hidden Cameras is eminently readable and takes you through the history of undercover reporting, what equipment to use, and the ethical and moral issues that are raised when secretly filing vulnerable people and their carers. The section on what to do with footage obtained by secret filming is particularly thought-provoking. Covert filming is always a last resort that families feel they have reached when their concerns about quality of care have not been addressed... This is an excellent book written by someone who has been instrumental in the use of undercover cameras an secret filming. This subject is here to stay, and we need to understand and debate its use. -- Jane Buswell, independent nurse consultant * Nursing Older People *Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How Did We Get Here?: The History of Covert Recording. Undercover Tales: Real Families Doing Secret Filming. 2. 'Proper' Secret Cameras: Secret Filming Using a Covert Camera. Undercover Tales: Eek! Nearly Being Discovered. 3. Using a Phone Camera, Secretly: Covert Recording Using a Mobile or Cellular Telephone. Undercover Tales: Sneaky Phone Filming. 4. Do You Really Have To?: Ethical Dilemmas - Privacy, the Public Interest and Deception. Undercover Tales: Victorian Infiltrations: Heroes and Anti-Heroes. 5. Do People Get in Trouble?: Secret Filming and the Law. Undercover Tales: Whistleblowers: Threats and Fears. 6. What You Don't Realise...: The Challenges That Most Often Surprise People. Undercover Tales: Stories of Physical and Emotional Pain. 7. What Do You Do With It?: What Happens Next, After the Camera is Switched Off. Undercover Tales: Secret Filming in Care Homes. 8. How's It Gonna End?: The Next Generation of Covert Cameras, and the Future of Secret Filming. Undercover Tales: Back to the Future: Old Problems, New Cameras.
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AK Press Nine-tenths Of The Law: Property and Resistance
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AK Press Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the
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AK Press Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from
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AK Press Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the
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Tufnell Press Youth And Work Transitions In Changing Social
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Bookmarks Publications Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Option
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Bookmarks Publications A Very Capitalist Condition: A history and
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Ig Publishing Part Of The Family?: Nannies, Housekeepers,
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Simon And Schuster Group USA This Wasnt on the Syllabus
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Qualitatsmanagement - Qualitatsentwicklung
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Bloomsbury Academic Before Their Crimes
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Disability and Social Justice in Kenya
Book SynopsisPresents the first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today, in light of the country’s longer history of disability and the wide range of local practices and institutions.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface (Kimani Njogu) “Kinga na kinga ndipo moto huwakapo”: Disability in Kenya (Rebecca Monteleone and Nina Berman) From Human Rights to Disability Rights Disability and Social Justice: Persons with Disabilities and the Quest for Inclusion and Constitutional Reforms in Kenya (Patrick “Paddy” Onyango) Access to Justice as a Tool for Social Inclusion: An Overview of Legal Frameworks for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya (Fredrick Collins Omondi) International and Domestic Legal Protection Against Violence for Girls and Women with Disabilities in Kenya (Arlene S. Kanter and Everlyn Milanoi Koiyiet) Disability Activism and Medical Genetics: Shaping the Emerging Landscape (Rebecca Monteleone) Access and Inclusion Claiming our Space: A Political Economy of the Dis-Citizenship of Disabled Kenyans (Theodoto Ressa) Disability and Poverty in Kenya (Samuel Odawo) Anayevaa kiatu, hujua kinapomfinya (The wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches) (Christopher Odinga) Education and the Media Special Needs Education in Kenya: Progress since Independence (Sheilah Mukholi Lutta) Girl Child Network’s Best Practices for Inclusive Education: Access to Education for Learners with Disabilities (Nathaniel Murungi and Collins Ombajo, with Mercy Musomi and Dennis Mutiso) Children with Disabilities in Kenyan Media: Lessons from the Abled Differently Programme (John Ndavula and Jackline Lidubwi) Reconceptualizing Advocacy Work Toward Improving Educational Provisions for Children with Disabilities (Lubna Mazrui and Margaret Murugami) Stigma and Culture Psychosocial-Economic Challenges of Parents of Children with Disabilities and Psychological Well-Being in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya (Prisca Kiptoo-Tarus, William Kurumei, and Stephen Ngososei) Heroin Addiction as Socially Induced Disability (Nina Berman) Changing Cultural Perceptions of Disability through Empowerment of Families and Local Leaders (Cynthia Rose Bauer and Leonard Mbonani, with Jessica Charles) Epilogue
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University of California Press How We Forgot the Cold War
Book SynopsisHours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era is being remembered. The author's journey provides a history of the Cold War, one that turns many conventional notions on their heads. In an engaging travelogue that takes readers to sites such as the life-size recreation of Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie at the Reagan Library, the fallout shelter display at the Smithsonian, and exhibits about Sgt. Elvis, America's most famous Cold War veteran, Wiener discovers that the Cold War isn't being remembered. It's being forgotten. Despite an immense effort, the conservatives' monuments weren't built, their historic sites have few visitors, and many of their museums have now shifted focus to other topics. Proponents of the notion of a heroic Cold War victory failed; the public didn't buy the official story. Lively, readable, and well-informed, this book expands current discussions about memory and history, and raises intriguing questions about popular skepticism toward official ideology.Trade Review“As popular reading, it's got the humor and wit of Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation and James Loewen's Sundown Towns and DJ Waldie's Holy Land. By which I mean it's witty and kinda mean, and exhilarating bad fun.” -- Andrew Tonkovich * Oc Weekly: Orange County News, Arts & Ent *“Wiener’s wit and deft grasp of geopolitics make for one of the season’s most intriguing historical books.” -- Andrew Milner * Philadelphia City Paper *“Who knew the Cold War was funny? Wiener’s adventures in American historical memory are surprisingly lively.” -- Sarah Rothbard * Zocalo Public Square *“A provocative and fascinating new book.” -- Andrew Gumbel * Los Angeles Review Of Books *“A political argument masquerading as a travel yarn. . . . Wiener’s accounts of his trips to nuclear test sites, missile-launching control centers and fallout shelter exhibits contrast the guides’ cheerful patter with the prospect of Armageddon.” -- Joshua Hammer * New York Times Book Review *“A splendid tour de farce of the museums and other memory palaces established largely by the American right in honor of the greatest triumph in human history, the winning of the... oh, remind me, what was it?” * Tomdispatch *"...An account of memory laced with irony and wit..." -- Kevin Temple * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture *"Wiener is a sharp observer." -- Patrick Hagopian * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War Part One. The End 1. Hippie Day at the Reagan Library 2. The Victims of Communism Museum: A Study in Failure Part Two. The Beginning: 1946--1949 3. Getting Started: The Churchill Memorial in Missouri 4. Searching for the Pumpkin Patch: The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark 5. Naming Names, from Laramie to Beverly Hills 6. Secrets on Display: The CIA Museum and the NSA Museum 7. Cold War Cleanup: The Hanford Tour Part Three. The 1950s 8. Test Site Tourism in Nevada 9. Memorial Day in Lakewood and La Jolla: Korean War Monuments of California 10. Code Name "Ethel": The Rosenbergs in the Museums 11. Mound Builders of Missouri: Nuclear Waste at Weldon Spring 12. Cold War Elvis: Sgt. Presley at the General George Patton Museum Part Four. The 1960s and After 13. The Graceland of Cold War Tourism: The Greenbrier Bunker 14. Ike's Emmy: Monuments to the Military-Industrial Complex 15. The Fallout Shelters of North Dakota 16. "It Had to Do with Cuba and Missiles": Thirteen Days in October 17. The Museum of the Missile Gap: Arizona's Titan Missile Memorial 18. The Museum of Detente: The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda Part Five. Alternative Approaches 19. Rocky Flats: Uncovering the Secrets 20. CNN's Cold War: Equal Time for the Russians 21. Harry Truman's Amazing Museum Conclusion: History, Memory, and the Cold War Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Coastal Sage Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save
Book SynopsisThere are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. Coastal Sage chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving executive director of the California Coastal Commission. For nearly three decades, Douglas fought to keep the California coast public, prevent overdevelopment, and safeguard habitat. In doing so, Douglas emerged as a leading figure in the contemporary American environmental movement and influenced public conservation efforts across the country. He coauthored California's foundational laws pertaining to shoreline management and conservation: Proposition 20 and the California Coastal Act. Many of the political battles to save the coast from overdevelopment and secure public access are revealed for the first time in this study of the leader who was at once a visionary, warrior, and coastal sage.Trade Review"A succinct, engaging analysis of the issues that define California coastal preservation." * Environmental History *"Coastal Sage will be of great interest to scholars working on California environmental history and coastal history and, perhaps more importantly, to California environmental activists." * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1 • Few Safe Harbors: Peter M. Douglas’s Formative Years 2 • California’s Coast: Its Origins and Pre-Commission Development 3 • Sea Change: California’s Environmental Surge 4 • Coastal Conservation, Politics, and a New Commission 5 • High Tide: Th e Executive Director Years 6 • Ebb Tide: Th e Receding Years 7 • Footprints in Sand: Peter Douglas’s Legacy Appendix A: A Selected Time Line: California Coastal Conservation and Peter Douglas Appendix B: A Selected List of Peter Douglas’s Accomplishments and Honors Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press From Mission to Microchip A History of the
Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX
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University of California Press From Mission to Microchip A History of the
Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX
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University of California Press The Tide Was Always High
Book SynopsisIn 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album, and along with it, the cover The Tide Is High originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. With percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran L.A. session musician Alex Acuna and horns and violins that were pure L.A. mariachi by way of Mexico, The Tide Is High demonstrates just one example of the ways in which the music of Los Angeles and Latin America have been intertwined since the birth of the city in the 18th century. The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and analysis from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, the book shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city's culture, from Hollywood film sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Perez Prado and Juan Garcia Esquivel.Trade ReviewBest Latino/Latin American History Books of 2017 * Remezcla *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Tide Was Always High Josh Kun 1. Mexican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles before 1950 John Koegel 2. Rumba Emissaries Alexandra T. Vazquez 3. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music Walter Aaron Clark 4. Walt Disney’s Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and the Propaganda of Authenticity Carol A. Hess 5. A Century of Latin Music at the Hollywood Bowl Agustin Gurza 6. Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock’s Wilshire: Hearing Yma Sumac from Southern California Carolina A. Miranda 7. Musical Anthropology: A Conversation with Elisabeth Waldo Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker 8. Esquivel! Hans Ulrich Obrist 9. Listening across Boundaries: Soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle Heights David F. Garcia 10. Studio Stories: Interviews with Session Musicians Betto Arcos and Josh Kun 11. From Bahianas to the King of Pop . . . : A Speculative History of Brazilian Music into Los Angeles Brian Cross 12. Heroes and Saints Luis Alfaro 13. Staging the Dance of Coalition with Versa-Style and CONTRA-TIEMPO Cindy García 14. Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles: Gender and the Transnational Zapotec Philharmonic Brass Bands Xóchitl C. Chávez 15. Caminos y Canciones en Los Angeles, CA Martha Gonzalez List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Badges without Borders
Book SynopsisFrom the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistanceand how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A smoking gun book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, law and order politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.Trade Review"In his distressing and erudite history, Schrader documents how many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. His argument, which Badges Without Borders persuasively demonstrates, is that the era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state." * Bookforum *"Badges Without Borders helps us to better understand the nature of police power and the dangerous allure of reform." * Punishment & Society *"Shows how the logic of policing and counterinsurgency, as developed in interlinked ways both and home and abroad, were and remain inseparable from racialized logics that see empowerment of non-whites as inherently subversive of the established order." * Small Wars Journal *“This is a meaningful addition to the literature on law, criminology, sociology, political science, and history. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Schrader’s new history of the carceral state is an important resource for scholars, public policy reformers, and political activists alike." * Boston Review *"Badges without Borders makes a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on the carceral state." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Rethinking Race and Policing in Imperial Perspective 2 • Byron Engle and the Rise of Overseas Police Assistance 3 • How Counterinsurgency Became Policing 4 • Bringing Police Assistance Home 5 • Policing and Social Regulation 6 • Riot School 7 • The Imperial Circuit of Tear Gas 8 • Order Maintenance and the Genealogy of SWAT 9 • “The Discriminate Art of Indiscriminate Counter-revolution” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Tiny You A Western History of the AntiAbortion
Book SynopsisCaroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History David J. Weber Prize 2021, Western History Association W. Turrentine Jackson Prize 2021, Western History AssociationTiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states since the 1960sturning to the fetal pins passed around church services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the fetus dolls given to children in schoolshe argues that activists made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.Trade Review"Holland’s work is full of both brand-new insights and sideways confirmation of aspects of the history of reproductive rights that a few experts have previously brought to light. . . . a remarkable study." * California History *"Tiny You is now required reading for those seeking to understand the incremental losses of bodily autonomy in a dying democracy." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1 • Rolling across Party Lines 2 • Imagining Life 3 • Claiming Religion PART TWO 4 • Redefining Women’s Rights 5 • Politicizing the Young 6 • Making Family Values Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Empires Tracks Indigenous Nations Chinese
Book SynopsisEmpire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, ManuKaruka situates the railroad within the violent global histories ofcolonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative,military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains theimperialfoundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisitedinterdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionaryborder policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism.This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how thetranscontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire. Trade Review"Empire’s Tracks comes at a critical juncture, which only compounds its appeal. It is a moment where monopolies breathe new life as seemingly benevolent multinational, e-commerce corporations; when oil pipelines continue to cut through North America despite opposition from Indigenous peoples (amongst others); and when threats of mass deportations emanate from the highest political offices. . . .Karuka’s sincere meditation on the historicity of war, finance and countersovereignty is deeply welcomed as it sensitises readers to the tragically unexceptional reality of the present." * LSE Review of Books *"A timely and provocative book, creating new ideas with which to re-examine the well-worn story of the railroad." * Society & Space *".Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history. Karuka concludes with a meditation on present-day U.S. imperialism and a call for Indigenous, feminist modes of decolonization: an urgent project with deep roots in Indigenous histories, cultures, and economies. Historians would do well to pay close attention." * Western Historical Quarterly *"This is an impressive piece of scholarship. While Karuka’s argument that US imperialism predates 1898 is not new, his sophisticated interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on the historical intersection of capitalism and imperialism. It will prompt readers to think critically about historical interpretation and responsibility, and the future consequences of our exploitative political economy." * Journal of Cultural Economy *"Empire’s Tracks powerfully and effectively portrays how US countersovereignty uses the railroad to stop the unraveling of its own claims to land and space through an unceasing campaign of extirpation and violence. Its contributions to critiques of settler colonialism and racial capitalism are substantial and are sure to be influential in years to come." * Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Challenges existing scholarship and fields of study in profound ways. He transforms what, on its surface, appears to be a national American story into one of international, imperialist, and colonial history by reading contingency against assumed outcomes; decentering national creation myths; and foregrounding alternative Indigenous, Chinese, and other voices. In this, Karuka offers a case study for scholars of diplomatic history or international relations to turn inward to national histories they might otherwise overlook and consider new ways of bringing their expertise to seemingly domestic stories." * H-Net *"This fascinating, sophisticated book on the transcontinental railroad will produce more critical thinking on the part of readers than any railroad history they have ever read. Manu Karuka exposes the pageant of American exploration, expansion, engineering, and entrepreneurship as an imperialist project fueled by disturbing historical processes—Indigenous land expropriation, immigrant labor exploitation, and a “war-finance nexus”—but mythologized for a century thereafter as national destiny and Yankee ingenuity." * Journal of Arizona History *"Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Empire’s Tracks serves as an invitation to recontextualize colonial narratives within the silences and erasures inherent in these narratives, uncovering and decolonizing communities of knowledge and relationship through the careful study of archives, rumors, oral histories, literary representations, maps, and collective memories." * Great Plains Quarterly *"Karuka provides an essential critique of U.S. political economy, adding layers to Asian settler colonial history and the Chinese railroad worker narrative." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Karuka’s account refuses the more familiar liberal historiography of American exceptionalism that promises freedom through liberal democracy and progress through capitalist development, and in doing so, the author advances a number of bold arguments." * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1 • The Prose of Countersovereignty 2 • Modes of Relationship 3 • Railroad Colonialism 4 • Lakota 5 • Chinese 6 • Pawnee 7 • Cheyenne 8 • Shareholder Whiteness 9 • Continental Imperialism Epilogue: The Significance of Decolonization in North America Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Braided Waters Environment and Society in
Book SynopsisBraided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resourcesespecially waterin a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern erasa case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.Trade Review"Compellingly argued, theoretically robust, and deeply researched, Braided Waters is an invaluable contribution to the historical literature about Molokai and the Hawaiian Islands in general that deserves a wide readership. Hopefully, it will spark more research into the environmental history of these stunningly beautiful and ecologically ravaged islands." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Braided Waters represents the first deeply researched history of Molokai (or Moloka‘i), whose enigmatic history fully merits the supple treatment Graham gives it." * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000–1778 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange,and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778–1848 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845–1869 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870–1893 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai‘i: Making an American Molokai, 1893–1957 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of “the Most Hawaiian Island” Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Nationality of Her Own
Book SynopsisIn 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and immigration policy in the United States during the late Progressive and interwar years, placing the history and impact of derivative citizenship within the broad context of the women's suffrage movement. Making impressive use of primary sources, and utilizing original documents from many leading women's reform organizations, government agencies, Congressional hearings, and federal litigation involving women's naturalization and expatriation, Candice Bredbenner provides a refreshing contemporary feminist perspective on key historical, political, and legal debates relating to citizenship, nationality, political empowerment, and their implications for women's legal status in the United States. This fascinating and well-constructed account contributes profoundly to an important but little-understood aspect of the women's rights movement in twentieth-century America. This title is part of UC Press'sVoices Revivedprogram, which commemorates University of California Press'smissionto seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,Voices Revivedmakes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.This title was originally published in 1999.
£28.90
University of California Press America Becomes Urban
Book SynopsisAmerica's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
£28.90
University of California Press The Red Scare The States Indigenous Terrorist
Book SynopsisHow the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives Matter and NoDAPL movements in the United States. These do not represent new demands for social justice and treaty rights, which Indigenous groups have sought for centuries. But owing to the extraordinary visibility of contemporary activism, Indigenous people have been newly cast as terroristsa designation that justifies severe measures of policing, exploitation, and violence.Red Scare investigates the intersectional scope of these four movements and the broader context of the treatment of Indigenous social justice movements as threats to neoliberal and imperialist social orders. In Red Scare, Joanne Barker shows how US and Canadian leaders leverage the fear-driven discourses of terrorism to allow for extreme responses to Indigenous activists, framing them as threats to social stability and national security. The alignment of Indigenous movements with broader struggles against sexual, police, and environmental violence puts them at the forefront of new intersectional solidarities in prominent ways. The activist-as-terrorist framing is cropping up everywhere, but the historical and political complexities of Indigenous movements and state responses are unique. Indigenous criticisms of state policy, resource extraction and contamination, intense surveillance, and neoliberal values are met with outsized and shocking measures of militarized policing, environmental harm, and sexual violence.Red Scare provides students and readers with a concise and thorough survey of these movements and their links to broader organizing; the common threads of historical violence against Indigenous people; and the relevant alternatives we can find in Indigenous forms of governance and relationality.Trade Review"Illuminating and interesting." * American Indian Quarterly *Table of ContentsOverview Prologue Scared Red The Murderable Indian: Terror as State (In)Security The Kinless Indian: Terror as Social (In)Stability Radical Alterities from Huckleberry Roots Acknowledgments Appendix I: A Chronology Appendix II: Cherokee Treaties and Membership/Census Rolls Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Taking Children A History of American Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a formidable book, one that cuts against the Trump exceptionalism that suffuses much mainstream liberal discourse." * Boston Review *“An incisive history of kidnapping as American policy. . . . Connects these into a seamless tale of torment, torture and arrogance; a description of US history if there ever was one. It is a history that demands a reckoning.” * CounterPunch *“A forceful and captivating book that readers won’t be able to put down, and that listeners from all sort of backgrounds will definitely want to hear more about.” * New Books Network *Briggs . . . recounts outrages that are only a few decades old. Resurrecting this forgotten history, she demonstrates its continuity with the recent separation of migrant families.” * Reason *“A meticulously-researched, humane, and highly readable work of scholarship. . . . Essential reading for all those with an interest in human rights, social justice issues, child welfare, immigration and American history. It should inspire a generation to challenge and resist the cruel practice of taking children for political ends.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide- ranging and uncomfortably revealing account of what might be called the tradition of family separation." * New York Review of Books *"Briggs’ storytelling style in this incisive and well-researched text will keep readers engaged and moving quickly through its pages. . . .Taking Children is an important read for social work students considering a career in child welfare or family services and for professionals and lawmakers interested in movements to reform systems that have historically served to control and police the behavior of individuals and communities of color." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Taking Children serves as a powerful manifesto. . . .to promote greater solidarity and activism among many different groups that have been so unjustly targeted for child removal." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"Briggs’ sympathy is clear. . . . A useful background resource for courses on immigration issues." * Religious Studies Review *"Taking Children[’s]… accessible and engaging language would serve undergraduate gender and women’s studies classes well. Pedagogical discussions inspired by this book might explore historical memory and mythmaking, grassroots activism, and the symbolic significance of children in the American imagination." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Amnesia 1. Taking Black Children 2. Taking Native Children 3. Taking Children in Latin America 4. Criminalizing Families of Color 5. Taking the Children of Refugees Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press An Archive of Skin an Archive of Kin Disability
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface: Encountering the Photographs Note on Language Chronology of Significant Events Map of Hawaiian Islands Introduction: An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin 1 • Ocular Experiments and Unruly Technologies of the Body 2 • A Criminal Archive of Skin 3 • Dressing the Body: Laundry and the Intimacy of Care 4 • Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern Family Albums Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1939.
£64.00
University of California Press A Nationality of Her Own
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe nature of the British Welfare State, established in the 1940s through the acceptance of the Beveridge Report''s recommendations and assumption, has long been the subject of an inconclusive debate, even though knowledge of its history has increased as official papers have become open to access under the thirty year rule. What aims, interests and forces shaped its development before and after the Beveridge Report''s appearance, from the Liberal innovations in social policy before 1914 to the collapse of full employment in the 1970s? This book examines the answers to such questions provided by recent historical research and discussion, offering a critical and comprehensive study of the modernization of social policy in Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Welfare State: Definition and Interpretation. The Problems of Definition. Problems of Interpretation. 2. The Plan for Social Security. Beveridge's Recommendations and their Acceptance. The Prewar Reform Agenda. From the 1946 Act to the Fowler Review. 3. Beveridge's Assumptions. The Plan in Context. Full Employment. The National Health Service. Family Allowances. 4. Progress and Decline. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Peoples Home
Book SynopsisExamines the development of social rented housing over the years in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA. This work shows how social housing policies and outcomes have been shaped by broader societal forces - political conflict, economic modernisation, and, also the growth of inequality and social polarization.Trade Review"This book presents the most authoritative comparative account of the origins of social rented housing and its subsequent development. By setting housing development. By setting housing developments in the context of historical changes in economies, politics and the development of the welfare state, it provides an important contribution to key debates in housing and social policy. The result is a text which is likely to be a key reference for those seeking to analyse and understand the housing situation and influences on its change." Alan Murie, Heriot-Watt University "Michael Harloe's review of social rented housing in six countries draws on research extending over 20 years. It will be welcomed by all students of housing and social policies." David Donnison, University of Glasgow "This book deserves to be acclaimed on at least two counts. It offers a penetrating explanation and not just a descriptive account of the developments of social rented housing in capitalist countries and therefore provides a much needed-basis for the evaluation, or introduction of new policies. Its coverage of international evidence is without peer, and it will be a source of inspiration to scholars and housing directorates for many years to come. But the book is also a major sociological contribution to the understanding of social policy in general. Housing has always been the odd man out in the apparatus of the national welfare state and has not always been given sufficient priority in accounts of social change. Michael Harloe places housing at the centre of public and scientific attention and this is bound to change a lot of ideas about the present welfare state. With the international breadth of his approach Michael Harloe shows what sociologists can do for the understanding of social policy - and perhaps therefore lay the basis for the construction of an international welfare state. Covering a wide range of international evidence the book is a tightly controlled theoretical exposition of social rented housing within general social policy. It is a formidable achievement." Peter Townsend, University of Bristol "This book is the boldest comparative study of housing policies I have ever read, and of a kind we all were waiting for. Detailed first-hand findings fit remarkably well in broad, analytical perspectives. Michael Harloe offers us both an account and an epic of the welfare state in that field, its premises and promises, its fulfillments and shortcomings, its looming demise." Christian Topalov, Harvard University "This is the closest thing to a definitive study of social rented housing in advanced capitalist countries currently available, and I do not expect it to be superseded for many years to come." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism. 1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reform before 1914. 2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War. 3. Social Housing in the Depression. 4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth. 5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era. 6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Social Policy
Book SynopsisProviding students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, this text conveys issues involved in conducting the research, examining the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, and discussing prevailing concepts and methodological difficulties.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part I: Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy: . 2. Trends and Developments in Welfare States: Catherine Jones Finer (University of Birmingham). 3. Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy: Deborah Mabbett (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). Part II: Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields: . 4. Comparative Housing Policy: John Doling (University of Birmingham). 5. Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe: Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh). 6. Comparing Family Policies in Europe: Linda Hantrais. 7. Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?: John Ditch (University of York). 8. Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults: Susan Tester (University of Stirling). 9. Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies: Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling). Part III: Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy: . 10. The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective: Jane Lewis (University of Nottingham). 11. Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU: Simon Roberts (University of Brunel) and Helen Bolderson (University of Brunel). 12. Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany: Katherine Rake (London School of Economics). Bibliography. Index.
£99.86
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Crime and Social Exclusion
Book Synopsisaeo Begins a new series of books designed to reflect and contribute to the new thinking on social policy. (Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy). aeo Addresses topical issues, in view of worldwide concerns about rising crime rates and European concerns about social policy.Trade Review"This collection provides a thoughtful and incisive commentary on key current developments relating to crime and social exclusion. This is strongly recommended reading for both practitioners and policy makers." Paul Cavadino, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders "Seven professors plus seven other eminent academics provide a penetrating analysis of the causes and possible remedies for the social malaise which many of us consider is sharply worsening throughout the social spectrum in every continent." Noel G Hustlet, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley Monthly Meeting "Crime and Social Exclusionis the first in a s series of books especially intended to stimulate fresh thinking by bringing a wide range of disciplines and approaches to bear on the social policy debate. It explores aspects of social exclusion and the measures taken to reduce its impact from the perspectives of criminology and social policy." Gordon Hughes, University of Wales, Cardiff "Crime and Social Exclusion is an excellent collection of essays which together provide a timeley introduction to important aspects of current debates about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, community and neighbourhood decline, youth crime and criminal justice systems, and the way that state politics and policies intervene in all this. It should be read widely in policy and academic circles and is likely to appear on some quite diverse student reading lists." Robert MacDonald, University of TeessideTable of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Catherine Jones Finer and Mike Nellis. 2. Creating a Safer Society: David Donnison. 3. Linking Housing Changes to Crime: Alan Murie. 4. The Local Politics of Inclusion: the State and Community Safety: John Pitts and Tim Hope. 5. Dangerous Futures: Social Exclusion and Youth Work in Late Modernity: Alan France and Paul Wiles. 6. Anti-racism and the Limits of Equal Opportunities Policies in the Criminal Justice System: David Denney. 7. Probation and Social Exclusion: David Smith and John Stewart. 8. Criminal Policy and the Eliminative Ideal: Andrew Rutherford. 9. Framing the Other: Criminality, Social Exclusion and Social Engineering in Developing Singapore: John Clammer. 10. The New Social Policy in Britain: Catherine Jones Finer.
£21.61
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Local Authority Social Services
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the context in which UK social work is practised, Local Authority Social Services. The book is based on the realities of work in a modern social services department and addresses the major changes that have taken place. It also looks at the prospects for personal social services.Trade Review"The writing is accessible, well balanced and up to date student texts is a difficult task, of which in the field of social policy Michael Hill is the incomparable past-master. Here he has spotted a gap in the market, the lack of a book covering all the manifold and rather baggy activities performed by local authority social service departments...this is a timely book." --Tony Rees, University of Southampton "The strength of this book lies in the quality of analysis and its ability to capture and discuss critically the impact of the government's modernization agenda. It should have a place in all departmental libraries." -- Terry Bamford, Community Care "This book is unique in providing a clear framework for understanding the relationship between social policy and social services, and the complex structures and roles of the different organizations involved in the operation of social services ... It is one of the few texts that provide a clear picture of how to make sense of the bureaucratic organizational structures that surround social services ... in all the book is an important text for the social worker or student in understanding the relationship between social services, local authority and the central state." (Journal of Social Work)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Establishing the Main Concerns of the Book. 1. What are Local Authority Social Services? (Michael Hill). Introduction. Social Services Work. Social Services and Other Areas of Social Policy. Social Services and Health. Social Services as Last Resort Services. Conclusions. 2. Origins of the Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). Introduction. Personal Social Services before 1948. Developments in the 1940s. 1948 to 1971. 1971 to 1990. Conclusions. 3. The Contemporary Social Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Basic Demographic Picture. More Complex Demographic Issues. Economic Stresses and Strains. Ill health and Disability. Conclusions: Social Pathology and Social Services. Part II: The Local Authority Social Services Task. 4. Child Care (Jane Tunstill). Introduction. A Brief Historical Perspective on Social Services Provision for Children. The Legal and Administrative Framework. Services and Settings. Key Service Issues. The Role of Training. Conclusions. 5. Adult Care (Bob Hudson). Introduction. Services for Older People. Services for People with a Learning Disability. Services for Physically Disabled People. Conclusions. 6. Mental Health (Ian Shaw). Introduction. Mental Illness and the New Community Care. Mental Health and Social Work. Problems with Community Care. Managing Dangerousness. Conclusions. 7. Social Services and Social Security (Michael Hill). Introduction. Cash and Care in the Years after the End of the Poor Law: an Evolving Relationship. Cash Benefits and Welfare Rights. The Welfare Responsibilities and Concerns of Social Security Agencies. The Impact of the 1986 Social Security Act. Disability, Community Care and Local Authority Means-Testing. Conclusions. Part III: Organization: Present and Future:. 8. The Central and Local Government Framework (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Role of the Department of Health. The Audit Commission. The Local Government Context. The Collective Representation of Local Authorities. Local Government Finance and the Social Services Function. Policy Making in Local Government. Organizational Issues about Health Service Collaboration. Conclusions. 9. Organization within Local Authorities (Michael Hill). Introduction. The Organization of Social Services: The Model after Seebohm. Elaborating the Model: Preoccupations in the 1970s and 1980s. The 'Big Bang' of the 1990s - Community Care and the Children Act. Contemporary Models of Social Services Organization. Staffing of Social Services Authorities. Conclusions. 10. Modernizing Social Services: The Management Challenge of the 1998 Social Services White Paper (Stephen Mitchell). Introduction. Background: the 1997 Inheritance. Why Modernize?. Modernizing Adult Services. Modernizing Children's Services. Strengthening Regulation of Services and the Workforce. Improving Performance. Conclusion: The Key Challenges. 11. Conclusions: The Future of Local Authority Social Services (Michael Hill). References. Index.
£94.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to provide a concise guide to 400 topics relevant to the practice of social work in the 21st Century. It brings together top authors in the field and draws on their detailed knowledge of politics, psychology, social policy and sociology.Trade Review" Reading this handsome new encyclopaedia it is hard not to feel renewed conviction in the social work mission. From cover to cover the commitment and depth of understanding, the skills and interventions come tumbling out in an exciting, revivifying cascade-effective tonic for jaded cynicism. Throughout the volume the vision and achievement of the editor are evident in the emphasis on constructive thinking and diversity of opinion." John Pierson, Staffordshire University "Davies's well designed encyclopedia surveys the field of social work and is related discipline." Choice "The Encyclopaedia does fulfill its aim: 'to provide accurate, up-to-date and lively explications of key topics in social work and in fields that are closely related to social work theory or practice.' The Encyclopaedia successfully encompasses both the value base of social work and its evidence base ... I think it is a very useful and innovative volume ... It is a rich source of information about the broad church which is social work." Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsEditorial Advisers vi Preface vii Lexicon ix List of Tables xvii List of Figures xviii A–z Entries 1 List of Contributors 381 References 389 Index of Names 395 Index of Subjects 404
£33.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis encyclopaedia introduces the major issues and debates in British social policy. Although the focus is on Britain, entries also cover major international concepts and comparative study. The book features larger entries on key debates and short definitions for minor terms.Trade Review"A valuable resource for all who study social policy at whatever level – not only for reference and guidance but for stimulation, provocation and inspiration." Adrian Sinfield, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh "A reliable guide through the jungle of terms, concepts, institutions and reformers that make up modern social policy. The short entries serve as a handy reference for students and practitioners alike while the longer entries depict complex theoretical concepts in a most accessible and lucid way." Professor Lutz Leisering, Bielefeld UniversityTable of ContentsList of Contributors and Editors. Editorial Advisory Board. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy A–Z. Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Environmental Issues and Social Welfare
Book SynopsisThis topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare. * Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues. * Presents a challenging socio--environmental agenda for social policy.Table of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Michael Cahill (Reader in Social Policy, University of Brighton) and Tony Fitzpatrick (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Nottingham). 2. Rethinking Politics for a Green Economy: A Political Approach to Radical Reform: Douglas Torgerson (Professor, Trent University, Canada; director of Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture & Politics). 3. Green Citizenship: Hartley Dean (Professor of Social Policy, University of Luton). 4. Making Welfare for Future Generations: Tony Fitzpatrick (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Nottingham). 5. The Sustainable Use of Resources on a Global Scale: Meg Huby (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of York). 6. Food, Social Policy and the Environment: Towards a New Model: Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University), David Barling (Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University) and Martin Caraher (Reader in Food and Social Policy, Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University). 7. People, Land and Sustainability: Community Gardens and the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development: John Ferris (director, Community Policy Research Ltd, Nottingham), Carol Norman (freelance garden consultant & former teacher & occupational therapist) and Joe Sempik (independent environmental researcher). 8. Turning the Car Inside Out: Transport, Equity and Environment: Juliet Jain (PhD student, Centre for Science Studies, Lancster University) and Jo Guiver (PhD student, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds). 9. The Greens & Social Policy: Movements, Politics & Practice?: John Barry (Reader in Politics, Queen's University, Belfast) and Brian Doherty (Lecturer in Politics, Keele University). 10. Democracy, Social Relations and Ecowelfare: Paul Hoggett (Professor of Politics & director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England). 11. The Implications of Consumerism for the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Michael Cahill (Reader in Social Policy, University of Brighton).
£22.80
Wiley Excellence in Health Care Management
Book SynopsisThis is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to practice today. Central issues, including people management and workplace education, are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives.Trade Review"The book is lucid, scholarly and particularly well referenced. It is reasonably priced and is thus essential reading to all students of health policy and management and will be found refreshing by those intending to spend their working lives in the field of health care. It should therefore be added to the collection of each NHS trust and each university library."Journal of Advanced Nursing "Excellence in Health care Management fills a void in the present literature on the more strategic, conceptual and thought-provoking issues around nursing and nursing ethics...A must for your NHS, MBA reading list, but also for students of power, politics and feminism. It is a must, too, for nurses who see themselves going into a career structure in the millennium."Health Service JournalTable of ContentsList of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I - Excellence in Human Resources Management: Organisational change - implications for HRM; Health careers in the 21st century; Dimensions of Orgnisational Health; Section II - Key Concepts in Quality, Fianance and Information Management: Quality management in health care, Key conepts in finance and information management; Section III - Education and Training for Health Care: A critique of alternative pathways in professional and vocational education; Funding issues in education and training; "Credentialling" in health care and its implications; Section IV - Managing Paradox - The Politics of Health Care The paradox of health care provision; The paradox of caring (an art or a science?); The paradox of welfare; The paradox of technological arrogance; The paradox of human communication; The paradox of public "charterism"; Index
£49.35
Wiley Patterns of Adoption
Book SynopsisThis text provides coverage of the major research and theoretical perspectives on adoption, reviewing the work of several disciplines within psychology, sociology and social work. It also looks at the development of children once adopted.Trade Review“An easy-to-read book which covers a broad range of research on the social and psychological development of adopted children…likely to be particularly helpful to both parents and workers. It is therefore recommended reading.” Children AustraliaTable of ContentsNature and nurture; outcomes studies of children adopted as babies; children adopted as babies: genetic influences; children adopted as babies: environmental influences; outcome studies of older children placed for adoption; older children placed for adoption: pre-placement environmental influences; older children placed for adoption: post-placement environmental influences; heredity, environment and adoption; attachment, relationship-based theories and adoption pathways; secure patterns; anxious patterns; angry patterns; avoidant patterns; nonattached patterns; patterns of practice
£46.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Family Group Conferences in Child Welfare
Book Synopsisaeo promotes importance of involving family members in planning better care for children aeo based on both research and practical experience aeo supported by international studies aeo authors are widely acclaimed for their work with Family Group Conferences.Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Care Services and Families:; Families, services and child welfare problems; Deciding seriousness; Engaging in the debate; Gaining agreement; Developing services; The Family Gorup Conference programme; Conclusions; 2 Families and Child Welfare:; Families in the UK; Help and the family; The meaning of family; Conclusions; 3 Family Group Conferences: Policy and Practice:; The background of Family Group Conferences; Key dimensions of a Family Group Conference; The process of Family Group Conferencs; A rough guide to co-ordinating Family Group Conferences; Conclusions; 4 Establishing Family Group Conferences:; Implementation in child welfare; Training; A rough guide to training for family group conferences; The projects in action; Conclusions; 5 International Developments and Research:; The international dimension; The research data; International research: key themes; Conclusions; 6 The Process: Family Group Conferences in Action:; The conference members; The process; Participants' view of the model; Conclusions; 7 Co-ordinators' Work:; Experiences of the "rough guide" traveller; Thinking of the conference as a special, theatrical event; The co-ordinator's conclusions; 8 Outcomes:;The plans; Implementation; Outcomes; Comparing outcomes; Unplanned outcomes; Conclusions; 9 The Next Stages: Child welfare, partnership and Family Group Conferences; Costs and benefits; Implementation; The way forward;; References; Index.
£46.50
Wiley Disabled Children
Book SynopsisThere is ample evidence that disabled children are less valued members of society than able-bodied children. Child welfare practitioners are increasingly looking at not only the child''s impairment and suffering but also the child''s needs in a wider context--to be included as an equal member of society. Laura Middleton''s book aims to provide sound guidance for social workers, community carers, teachers and health visitors, and her book gives them a better understanding of the disabled child''s experiences and needs. She covers such key themes as discrimination, bullying, appeasement, abuse, communication issues, family support, and children''s rights. Methods for generating a better, more effective service for the child are fully explained and illustrated.Trade Review"This is a well-written and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which disabled children are treated and marginalised in our society. It should be read by all those who work with children, as well as those who have an interest in disability generally." (Adoption & Fostering) "The strength of this book lies in its description of disabled children as active participants in society…This book makes a significant contribution to our knowledge about disabled children’s lives." (Health and Social Care in the Community) "The book makes for compulsive reading once begun and has a clarity of style which makes complex issues accessible. …I would recommend the book to lecturers, practitioners and students within the social care fields and to disabled individuals, their carers and groups who are eager to identify with the political debate which informs their social exclusion" (Child & Family Social Work) "Any book about disabled children that starts with the experience of disabled young people is doing something right." (Community Care) "It is particularly useful in making practical suggestions for more inclusive provision and will be an invaluable text for all childcare professionals." (Aslib Book Guide) "This excellent book is a courageous, cogent and challenging look at how to translate a social model of disability into action." "[Middleton's] perspective is of tremendous importance for social work practice with children." (British Journal of Social Work)Table of ContentsForeword. Preface.. 1. Children's Voices; Hopes, Wishes and Dreams. Families. Making Friends. "It chips away at you inside': the experience of bullying. Adult Abusers. Failure to Protect. Growing up in care: Alice's story. Education. Choices and rights. Medical Interventions. Images of disability. Messages. Discussion: a disability rights issue?. Ways forward. Summary and conclusion.. 2. Building Disadvantage. Introduction. The political lead.. Section I: Abnormalisation - the creation of special need. Health care services. Education. Welfare services. The independent/statutory divide.. Section II: Explanations for the exclusion of disabled children. The survival of the fittest. Conclusion.. 3. Conceptual Frameworks. The SEAwall. The NVQ model. The 3-D Jigsaw.. 4. The Professional and Personal Challenge. Introduction. Attitudes and values. Working with disabled children. Changing professional behaviour. Good practitioners/good practice. Conclusion.. 5. Organisational Change. Introduction.. Section I: Valued-based organisations. Consulting service users. Valuing staff.. Section II: The seamless service. Community care: health and social services. working together. Towards inclusive education. Conclusion.. 6. Disabled Children: Excluded Citizens?. Introduction. Disabled children and citizenship. Strategies for change. the research relationship. The role of disabled adults. Conclusion. Appendix 1. Research Studies Cited in the text. Appendix 2. Letter to the Social Exclusion Unit. Appendix 3. The Process of Assessment. References. Index.
£56.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Evidence Based Practice
Book SynopsisEvidence--based practice is an idea whose time has come. Few concepts can have achieved the status of unchallengeable common sense in such a short space of time, and across such a broad range of professional activity.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. 1 Introduction: The Context of Evidence-Based Practice.(Liz Trinder). 2 The Anatomy of Evidence-Based Practice: Principles and Methods.(Shirley Reynolds). 3 Evidence-Based Practice in General Practice and primary care. (Toby Lipman). 4 Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health. (John Geddes). 5 Evidence-Based Public Health.(J.A. Muir Gray). 6 Evidence-Based Nursing Practice. (Richard Blomfield and Sally Harding). 7 Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work and Probation. (Liz Trinder). 8 Evidence-Based Practice in Education and the Contribution of Educational Research. (Martyn Hammersley). 9 Evidence-Based Human Resource Management. (Rob Briner). 10 A Critical Appraisal of Evidence-Based Practice. (Liz Trinder). Index.
£54.10
Wiley Learning Disabilities in Children
Book SynopsisThis text provides the necessary resource for bringing together the psychological, social and health issues of the child with learning disabilities. It should be a useful text for students and practitioners in child welfare.Trade Review"This is an easily read book which I found both interesting and useful....[which] provides a useful resource for professionals wanting to improve their practice." British Journal of Learning Disabilities “This is a useful resource for those specialising in child welfare and community care” Aslib Book Guide “Peter Burke and Kathy Cigno succeed in providing a resource which serves those whose interests may be more professional or personal than academic.” “This is a well written and well researched book which is easy to read. The text is sound and realistic in its approach – a welcome addition to the promotion of positive practice for children with learning disabilities and their families.” Learning Disability PracticeTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Learning Disability: Theory and Practice. 2. Children, Young People with Learning Disabilities and their Carers. 3. Learning Disabilities and Child Development (Peter Randall). 4. Family Matters: Informal Support. 5. Family Matters: Formal Support. 6. Brothers and Sisters. 7. Life Transitions and Barriers to Change. 8. Child Protection: Prevention and Risk. 9. Giving Power to Children and Families. 10. Multi-agency Practice. 11. Promoting Positive Practice. 12 Postscript. References. Bibliography. Index.
£49.35
