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Book SynopsisErich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an inspiration for the New Left. As the rise of global right-wing populism and Trumpism creates new interest in the kind of psycho-social writing and popular sociology that Fromm pioneered in the 1930s, this timely book tells the story of the rise, fall and contemporary revival of Fromm’s theories. Drawing from empirical work, this is an invaluable contribution to popular debates about current politics, the sociology of ideas and the prospect of a truly global public sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Erich Fromm’s Global Public Sociology 1 Sociology in a World at War: Escape from Freedom 2 How Optimal Marginality Created a Public Sociologist 3 The Cold War, Conformity, and the 1960s 4 How Fromm Became a Forgotten Public Sociologist 5 Fromm’s Political Activism in the 1960s 6 Studying Social Character and Theorizing Violence Conclusion: The Revival of a Global Public Sociologist

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Book SynopsisNostalgia, a complex and multi-layered emotion, has gained interest since the turn of the century in both society and academic circles. Written by an international group of scholars, this volume investigates the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary social issues from a multidisciplinary perspective. From history and political theory to marketing and media, each chapter discusses the way nostalgia has been presented within a disciplinary context and shows how it has evolved over time as a topic of research. Casting light on many recent changes in society and culture, this is an important contribution to the study of nostalgia and emotions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Many Different Faces of Nostalgia – Exploring a Multifaceted and Multidisciplinary Emotion - Michael Hviid Jacobsen 1. Philosophy and Nostalgia: ‘Rooting’ within the Nostalgic Condition - Giulia Bovassi 2. History and Nostalgia: Historicizing a Multifaceted Emotion - Tobias Becker 3. Political Theory and Nostalgia: The Power of the Past in the History of Political Thought - Andrew R. Murphy 4. Sociology and Nostalgia: Micro- , Meso- and Macro-level Dimensions of an Ambiguous Emotion - Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Janelle L. Wilson 5. Psychology and Nostalgia: Towards a Functional Approach - Tim Wildschut and Constantine Sedikides 6. Anthropology and Nostalgia: Between Hegemonic and Emancipatory Projections of the Past - Michael Herzfeld 7. Media Studies and Nostalgia: Media Philosophy and Nostalgizing in Times of Crisis - Katharina Niemeyer 8. Marketing and Nostalgia: Unpacking the Past and Future of Marketing and Consumer Research on Nostalgia - Ela Veresiu, Thomas Derek Robinson and Ana Babić Rosario 9. Literature and Nostalgia: Vestiges of Paradise - Niklas Salmose and Eric Sandberg 10. Architecture and Nostalgia: The End of History, the End of the Future and the Prospect of Nostalgia - Fernando Quesada and Andrés Carretero Postscript: On Nostalgia of the Future and the Future of Nostalgia – Some Scattered Concluding Observations - Michael Hviid Jacobsen

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.Table of Contents1 Introduction - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, Eva Magdalena Stambøl 2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of `Liberated Africans´ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808-1860 - Laura Rosanne Adderley and Sharla M. Fett 3 Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918 - Ella Fratantuono 4 Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta & Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania - Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui and Elsa Tyszler 5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa - Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Leonie Jegen 6 Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection - Lina Ewert 7 Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission - Lucy Mayblin 8 The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya - Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 9 Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands - Peter Teunissen and Penny Koutrolikou 10 The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India - Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil 11 Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity - Phillip Cole 12 Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia - Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Jerónimo Botero Marino 13 The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement - Felicity Atieno Okoth 14 Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambøl

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Book SynopsisThe first book to approach the study of memory and the past with an explicit focus on expounding and bridging modes of interpretation in the social sciences.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past - Thomas DeGloma and Janet Jacobs Part 1: Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention 2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality - Edna Lomsky-Feder 3. Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity - Nicole Fox 4. Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004) - Roberto Vélez-Vélez 5. The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders - Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal Abbo Part 2: Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict 6. Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans - Sofya Aptekar 7. Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change - Claire Whitlinger 8. Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum - Amy Sodaro Part 3: Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma 9. Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany - Werner Bohleber 10. Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing - Carol A. Kidron 11. Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts - Selma Leydesdorff 12. How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda - Jacob Caponi and Fatma Müge Göçek 13. Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies - Janet Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma

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Book SynopsisNeopaganism is the fastest growing new religion in the West. Between the World: Readings in Contemporary Neopaganism provides an engaging and well-rounded introduction to this often misunderstood spiritual tradition.This provocative new volume breaks away from the negative doomsday cult focus of existing books on new religious movements and provides a clear focus on feminist spirituality, women and religion, and goddess worship. It offers a spiritual context for paganism and introduces the ""language"" of paganism and earth religions. This book examines contemporary paganism — not just the ""streams"" from the 1970s and 1980s, but also the increasingly important ""streams"" of Druidry and Heathenry.For the first time ever, this book unites essential readings by leading academics and well-known practitioners from all over the world, including Canada. It features the work of Starhawk, Ronald Hutton, Michael York, Graham Harvey, Helen A. Berger, and Wendy Griffith, alongside contemporary Canadian scholars including Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne, Lori G. Beaman, and Barbara Jane Davy.Trade ReviewThis is a very important anthology to publish. No other anthology addresses Canadian Paganism to this extent. This volume certainly reflects the need to address the growing popularity of Paganism as a new religious movement in Canada."" - Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Part I: The Voices That Inspired Chapter 1: Charge of the Goddess - Doreen Valiente Chapter 2: Sacred Narratives - Starhawk Chapter 3: I Am a Pagan - Selena Fox Chapter 4: A Religion without Converts - Margot Adler Chapter 5: Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections - Carol P. Christ Part II: Introduction to Nature or Earth Religions Chapter 6: We Cast Our Circles Where the Earth Mother Meets the Sky Father - Sarah Pike Chapter 7: Definitions and Expressions of Nature Religion in Shamanic Traditions and Contemporary Paganism - Barbara Jane Davy Chapter 8: Paganism as a World Religion - Michael York Part III: Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft Chapter 9: Druidry - Graham Harvey Chapter 10: To the Tribe Let There Be Children Born - Helen A. Berger Chapter 11: Wicked Witches of the West: Exploring Court Treatments of Wicca as a Religion - Lori G. Beaman Chapter 12: In Defence of Magic: Philosophical and Theological Rationalization - Tanya Luhrmann Chapter 13: Witch Wars: Factors Contributing to Conflict in Canadian Witchcraft Communities - Sian Ried Chapter 14: Constructing Identity and Divinity: Creating Community in an Elder Religion within a Postmodern World - Jenny Blain Chapter 15: Weaving a Tangled Web? Pagan Ethics and Issues of History, ""Race,"" and Ethnicity in Pagan Identity - Ann-Marie Gallagher Part IV: Feminist Spirituality and Goddess Worship Chapter 16: Mother and Goddess: The Ideological Force of Symbols - Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne Chapter 17: The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity - Wendy Griffin Chapter 18: Finding a Goddess - Ronald Hutton Chapter 19: The Roots of Feminist Spirituality - Cynthia Eller Chapter 20: The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft - Chris Klassen

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Book SynopsisHow should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions?How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-modernity?Is a neo-Orientalism emerging in today's world?These are questions Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen ask a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that discuss culture, ideology, history, Marxism, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today' society.Trade ReviewThis collection distinguishes itself from other collections of interviews . . . the editors offer an insightful sampling of illuminating dialogues, which also make the volume particularly valuable for classroom use in courses in cultural studies. Robert Wess, University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of Contents Introduction Interview Questions Arif Dirlik Teresa Ebert Barbara Foley Frederic Jameson Pamela McCallum J. Hillis Miller Masao Miyoshi Bruce Robbins John Carlos Rowe Henry Schwarz Richard Terdiman Hayden White Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of original essays by sociologists and intellectual historians who have been leading figures in recent scholarship on the classical sociological theorists.Trade Review"This is the most enjoyable and important book on social theory that I have read in a long time." BSA Network October 1998 Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: Classical Sociological Theory as a Field of Research: Charles Camic (University of Wisconsin at Madison). 1. A New Look at Auguste Comte: Mary Pickering (San Jose State University). 2. Rethinking Marx: Moishe Postone (University of Chicago). 3. Spencer and His Critics: Valerie A. Haines (University of Calgary). 4. Classical Social Theory with the Women Founders Included: Lynn MacDonald (University of Guelph). 5. The Other Durkheim: History and Theory in the Treatment of Classical Sociological Thought: Robert Alun Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana). 6. Simmel Reappraised: Old Images, New Scholarship: Donald N. Levine (University of Chicago). 7. Max Weber's Sociology: Research Strategies and Modes of Analysis: Stephen Karlberg (Boston University). 8. W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park: Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Investigating Social Process: Martin Bulmer (University of Surrey). 9. George Herbert Mead and the Renaissance of American Pragmatism in Social Theory: Hans Joas (University of Berlin). 10. Acclaiming the Reclaimers: the Trials of Writing Sociology History: Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of original essays by sociologists and intellectual historians who have been leading figures in recent scholarship on the classical sociological theorists.Trade Review"This is the most enjoyable and important book on social theory that I have read in a long time." BSA Network October 1998 Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: Classical Sociological Theory as a Field of Research: Charles Camic (University of Wisconsin at Madison). 1. A New Look at Auguste Comte: Mary Pickering (San Jose State University). 2. Rethinking Marx: Moishe Postone (University of Chicago). 3. Spencer and His Critics: Valerie A. Haines (University of Calgary). 4. Classical Social Theory with the Women Founders Included: Lynn MacDonald (University of Guelph). 5. The Other Durkheim: History and Theory in the Treatment of Classical Sociological Thought: Robert Alun Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana). 6. Simmel Reappraised: Old Images, New Scholarship: Donald N. Levine (University of Chicago). 7. Max Weber's Sociology: Research Strategies and Modes of Analysis: Stephen Karlberg (Boston University). 8. W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park: Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Investigating Social Process: Martin Bulmer (University of Surrey). 9. George Herbert Mead and the Renaissance of American Pragmatism in Social Theory: Hans Joas (University of Berlin). 10. Acclaiming the Reclaimers: the Trials of Writing Sociology History: Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University). Index.

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Book SynopsisA shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing most Americans believe in God or a higher power. This new volume highlights even more hot-button issues of religious life in our country. A must-read for anyone interested in Americans' religious beliefs and practices.Trade ReviewAn indispensable resource for understanding the American public. - George H. Gallup Jr., American Public Opinion StatisticianAll who find in statistics precise food for thought owe Stark and his colleagues at Baylor gratitude. -Publisher's WeeklyA worthy addition to the burgeoning survey data literature in the sociology of religion. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- CHOICETable of Contents List of Tables Introduction The Stability and Diversity of American Faith Part I Congregations 1 Church-going Labels Matter 2 Church Growth Competing for Members 3 Strict Churches The Reasons for their Popularity 4 The ""Scattered"" Church Traditional Congregations are not Going Away 5 Megachurches Supersizing the Faith Part II Beliefs and Practices 6 Religious Experiences God Told Me to Go to Church 7 Gender Women Believe More, Pray More 8 Heaven We are All Going There 9 God Love Makes a Difference 10 Evil Did Sin Cause the Hurricane? 11 Spirituality Religion and Spirituality Are Not Mutually Exclusive 12 Giving The Rich, the Poor, and the Widow's Mite 13 Personality Are We Hard-Wired for God? Part III Atheism and Irreligion 14 Atheism Godless Revolution Never Happened 15 Credulity New Age Believers in Big Foot 16 New Age Adherents Well-Educated, Formerly Irreligious Elites 17 The Irreligious Simply Unchurched not Atheists Part IV The Public Square 18 Faith and Politics Is There a Secret Plot of Evangelicals to Take over the American Government? 19 Merry Christmas, Jesus It's Okay to Put Sacred Symbols in the Public Square 20 Incivility Talking about Faith in Public 21 Religious Media Consumption The DaVinci Code Effect 22 Civic Participation Faith as Social Capital 23 Going to College, Getting a Job What Happens when Mom and Dad Take Their Kids to Church Epilogue The Institute for the Study of Religion Contributors Notes

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of violence are often said to generate cathartic effects, but what does “catharsis” mean? And what theory of the unconscious made this concept so popular that it reaches from classical antiquity to the digital age? In Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious, Nidesh Lawtoo reframes current debates on (new) media violence by tracing the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical vicissitudes of the “catharsis hypothesis” from antiquity to modernity and into the present. Drawing on theorists of mimesis from Aristotle to Nietzsche, Bernays to Breuer, Freud to Girard to Morin, Lawtoo offers a genealogy of the relationship between violence and the unconscious with at least two aims: First, this study gives an account of the birth of the Oedipal unconscious—out of a “cathartic method.” Second, it provides new theoretical foundations to solve a riddle of (new) media violence that may no longer rest on Oedipal solutions. In the process, Lawtoo outlines a new theory of violence, mimesis, and the unconscious that does not have desire as a via regia, but rather, the untimely realization that all affects spread contagiously and thus mimetically.

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego. Rather than being the product of a solipsistic discovery, the unconscious turns out to have haunted philosophers, psychologists, and artists for a long time. This book proposes a genealogy of untimely philosophical physicians that goes from Plato to Nietzsche, Bernheim to FÉrÉ, Freud to Bataille, Arendt to Girard, affect theory to the neurosciences. In their company, Lawtoo promotes the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies by reevaluating the unconscious actions and reactions of homo mimeticus. As a new theory of mimesis emerges, Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious offers a searching diagnosis as to why the pathos of (new) media violence—from film to video games, police murders to the storming of the U.S Capitol—continues to cast a material shadow on the present and future.Trade ReviewIn this impressive sequel on violence and the unconscious, Nidesh Lawtoo accounts for the horrorism at play in new forms of contemporary media violence that generate contagious pathologies in the digital age. Sensitive to the pathos of vulnerable subjects in terms of age, gender, race, and education, this remarkable study reloads Plato’s ancient question on the influence of art for mimetic studies from Nietzsche to Arendt, affect theory to the neurosciences, Greek tragedy to video games to the storming of the U.S. Capitol." - Adriana Cavarero, honorary professor of political philosophy, University of Verona, and author of Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence"To grasp the speed, complexity, and contagiousness of violence today, as it crosses daily experience, the new media, neofascist movements, and circles back again, Lawtoo finds it imperative to supplant the Freudian unconscious with a mimetic unconscious that is at once collective, differentiated, porous, and suggestible. The result is an innovative, courageous, and powerful study that is indispensable today." - William E. Connolly, author of Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class"In this latest installment of his long-standing inquiry into the “will to mime” that drives humans at an unconscious level, Lawtoo moves mimetic theory into the present, in order to confront what he calls the “hypermimetic crises” associated with contemporary media. Moving from the ancients and Nietzsche to pop culture and the most up-to-date scientific work on the operation of mirror neurons in the human brain, this fascinating book suggests that maybe Plato was right, after all, and representations of violence—fictional or real—pose a threat of "mimetic contamination," of an irrationally compelled imitation of the represented acts." - Henry Staten, professor in the humanities at University of Washington, and the author of Techne Theory: A New Language for Art

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Book SynopsisSantería, also called Lucumi or Orisha Worship by its practitioners, originated in Nigeria among the Yoruba people. It took shape in Cuba during and after the slave trade and reached North America through Afro-Caribbean immigration. As the fastest growing African-based religion in the United States, Santería has stimulated many publications, but none prior to this book noted the special significance of its art and artists.In Santería Garments and Altars, for the first time, two distinguished folklorists and practitioners of the faith focus upon the artistry of garments and altars that are intrinsic to the worship. Detailed here is information about their design and creation, the artists who make them, and the importance of aesthetics as text in the religious celebration.

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the draft in the United States, the nation's wars have been fought by all-volunteer forces, creating an enormous divide between the civilian public and its military. Recent wars have taken place during the information age, allowing cable news and the ""new media"" of the internet to change, sometimes on a daily or even hourly basis, the way wars are understood. As a result, a multitude of competing and often flawed narratives have emerged that, ultimately, merely explain events in terms of self-serving political and cultural perspectives. Author Caleb S. Cage, a veteran of the war in Iraq, brings a unique perspective to the understanding of how we talk about war. Why does the American public believe that those who served are somehow both heroes and victims, while the typical service member rarely embraces either identity? How does what happens on the front line get communicated to those back home, and what happens to that information as it travels? Is it possible that works of fiction are telling the most ""real"" versions of what is happening ""over there""?War Narratives is a tightly packed and provocative book containing a series of connected essays on the many competing narratives—both fiction and nonfiction—that are used to explain recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, how those narratives are perceived through preexisting social, political, and literary lenses, and how they often fall short. As Cage points out, narratives are not merely the stories shared or even how they are told; these expressions reflect choices.

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Book SynopsisThis book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse about ideas seriously, far more seriously than they are often taken within many of to day's universities, since doing so is the key to achieving this purpose. Specifically, we assert that the best way for universities to take ideas seriously, and so to best achieve their purpose, is to consciously recognize and conserve the entire range of available ideas. Though the current emphasis upon factors such as student headcounts, increased efficiency and job creation are undoubtedly important, far more is at stake in universities than only these factors.From this premise, we deduce insights and arguments about academic freedom, as well as factors such control and monitoring of the market place of ideas, the structure of information flows within universities, the role of language in university governance, and relationships between administrators, faculty members and students. We identify impediments to achieving the core purpose of universities, including the idea vetting systems of authoritarianism, corporatism, illiberalism, supernaturalism and political correctness. We elucidate how these impediments inhibit successful achievement of the core purpose of the university. In response to these impediments we prescribe relatively autonomous universities characterized by openness, transparency, dissent, and the maintenance of balance between conflicting perspectives, values, and interests.

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Book SynopsisThis book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse about ideas seriously, far more seriously than they are often taken within many of to day's universities, since doing so is the key to achieving this purpose. Specifically, we assert that the best way for universities to take ideas seriously, and so to best achieve their purpose, is to consciously recognize and conserve the entire range of available ideas. Though the current emphasis upon factors such as student headcounts, increased efficiency and job creation are undoubtedly important, far more is at stake in universities than only these factors.From this premise, we deduce insights and arguments about academic freedom, as well as factors such control and monitoring of the market place of ideas, the structure of information flows within universities, the role of language in university governance, and relationships between administrators, faculty members and students. We identify impediments to achieving the core purpose of universities, including the idea vetting systems of authoritarianism, corporatism, illiberalism, supernaturalism and political correctness. We elucidate how these impediments inhibit successful achievement of the core purpose of the university. In response to these impediments we prescribe relatively autonomous universities characterized by openness, transparency, dissent, and the maintenance of balance between conflicting perspectives, values, and interests.

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education, and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished. Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between black and white realities, it has become more difficult to articulate racial issues. Some deem ""race"" an increasingly unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously ""post-racial"" times.The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the extent to which a church's contemporary response to race consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an accurate public account of race.

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Book SynopsisBy most accounts, Europe has been mired in a "demographic crisis" since about 1970. By a demographic crisis is meant that Europe's dependency ratio is increasing, and the net result has been declining populations and fewer workers to sustain society. However, there are certain issues that need attention. Two topics seem to capture some of these issues: The implications of the possible crisis, and the crisis' assessment. The present volume is organized around both topics (implications and assessment). There are at least three contributions being made by the proposed volume. To begin with, while there are other issues related to the demographic crisis in Europe the present volume should motivate additional research. Secondly, the research in the proposed volume does not necessarily assume that there is a demographic crisis in Europe nor that it is consistent across national lines. Thus, each chapter, in essence, examines a different issue associated with the proposal that there is a crisis. Finally, the present volume makes several methodological contributions. For example, the chapter by David Swanson uses non-Bayesian modeling in studying infant mortality. Richard Verdugo examines the dependency ratio and selected factors on economic growth in selected European nations, Kposowa and Ezzat conduct an assessment, Martins examines variation in the path toward a crisis, Johnson examines humanitarian migration and the crisis, Edmonston examines the association between geopolitics and the crisis.Table of Contents Preface - David A. Swanson Introduction Part I: Evaluating The Demographic Crisis Estimating the Underlying Infant Mortality Rates for Small Populations: A Case Study of Counties in Estonia - David A. Swanson Population Aging in Europe: Demographic Lessons - Barry Edmonston European Demographic Risks, Immigration, Aging, and Social Recession - Augustine J. Kposowa and Kevin D. Breault Demographic Crisis or Demographic Adaptation? An Examination of Two Competing Paradigms - Richard R. Verdugo Part II: The Demographic Crisis, Its Consequences, And Possible Solutions Socioeconomic Pathways of Shrinking Societies: Italy and Japan - Jo. M. Martins Multiple Expulsions: A Case Study of the Precipitation of an International Humanitarian Migration Crisis in Europe - Karin A. C. Johnson Family Policies and Fertility in Europe: Research Elements - Gérard-François Dumont and Richard R. Verdugo About the Editor

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Book SynopsisBy most accounts, Europe has been mired in a "demographic crisis" since about 1970. By a demographic crisis is meant that Europe's dependency ratio is increasing, and the net result has been declining populations and fewer workers to sustain society. However, there are certain issues that need attention. Two topics seem to capture some of these issues: The implications of the possible crisis, and the crisis' assessment. The present volume is organized around both topics (implications and assessment). There are at least three contributions being made by the proposed volume. To begin with, while there are other issues related to the demographic crisis in Europe the present volume should motivate additional research. Secondly, the research in the proposed volume does not necessarily assume that there is a demographic crisis in Europe nor that it is consistent across national lines. Thus, each chapter, in essence, examines a different issue associated with the proposal that there is a crisis. Finally, the present volume makes several methodological contributions. For example, the chapter by David Swanson uses non-Bayesian modeling in studying infant mortality. Richard Verdugo examines the dependency ratio and selected factors on economic growth in selected European nations, Kposowa and Ezzat conduct an assessment, Martins examines variation in the path toward a crisis, Johnson examines humanitarian migration and the crisis, Edmonston examines the association between geopolitics and the crisis.Table of Contents Preface - David A. Swanson Introduction Part I: Evaluating The Demographic Crisis Estimating the Underlying Infant Mortality Rates for Small Populations: A Case Study of Counties in Estonia - David A. Swanson Population Aging in Europe: Demographic Lessons - Barry Edmonston European Demographic Risks, Immigration, Aging, and Social Recession - Augustine J. Kposowa and Kevin D. Breault Demographic Crisis or Demographic Adaptation? An Examination of Two Competing Paradigms - Richard R. Verdugo Part II: The Demographic Crisis, Its Consequences, And Possible Solutions Socioeconomic Pathways of Shrinking Societies: Italy and Japan - Jo. M. Martins Multiple Expulsions: A Case Study of the Precipitation of an International Humanitarian Migration Crisis in Europe - Karin A. C. Johnson Family Policies and Fertility in Europe: Research Elements - Gérard-François Dumont and Richard R. Verdugo About the Editor

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at exploring the profound effects of Covid-19 on people's ways of life at home and at work, and offers strategies and expert advice for 'survival' as the world finds itself in a new reality that has formed by the pandemic. At the very core of Back to a New Normal is the premise that the virus, which continues to infect more than 137 million individuals worldwide and has caused millions of deaths, has also triggered radical changes within individual and organizational levels.At the same time, it opened opportunities that ignited human ingenuity and tested human adaptation. Taming the pandemic is urgent and essential but it is just the first step. Just as critical, is the need to be better prepared for future pandemics that are sure to occur. Focusing primarily on the latter, the book's chapters follow a how to approach by exposing the severity of Covid-19's impact on the behaviors of people and organizations, and effective ways for managing the pandemic's unfolding consequences with an eye on the future.For that purpose, we asked a group of experts from the academia and practitioners from various fields to share their know how and experience dealing with the consequences of the pandemic, and offer strategies for coping with its harmful effects. This book follows in that vein.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at exploring the profound effects of Covid-19 on people's ways of life at home and at work, and offers strategies and expert advice for 'survival' as the world finds itself in a new reality that has formed by the pandemic. At the very core of Back to a New Normal is the premise that the virus, which continues to infect more than 137 million individuals worldwide and has caused millions of deaths, has also triggered radical changes within individual and organizational levels.At the same time, it opened opportunities that ignited human ingenuity and tested human adaptation. Taming the pandemic is urgent and essential but it is just the first step. Just as critical, is the need to be better prepared for future pandemics that are sure to occur. Focusing primarily on the latter, the book's chapters follow a how to approach by exposing the severity of Covid-19's impact on the behaviors of people and organizations, and effective ways for managing the pandemic's unfolding consequences with an eye on the future.For that purpose, we asked a group of experts from the academia and practitioners from various fields to share their know how and experience dealing with the consequences of the pandemic, and offer strategies for coping with its harmful effects. This book follows in that vein.

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Book SynopsisWhenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin’s personal views: on formative moments in his education and exile, his reaction to the Revolution, his impressions of political, intellectual, and theatrical figures during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and his non-conformist opinions on Russian and Soviet poets and musicians. Bakhtin's passion for poetic language and his insights into music also come as a surprise to readers of his essays on the novel. One remarkable thread running through the conversations is Bakhtin's love of poetry, masses of which he knew by heart in several languages. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here from the complete transcript of the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now famous texts. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Bahktin is one of the giants of 20th Century social and cultural theory." * Voice Literary Supplement *“Bakhtin was never interested in writing his memoirs, nor in making out of himself a work of art. Or even a good story. In his view, we have great novels for that. But Viktor Duvakin, who shared Bakhtin’s deep love of poetry, found just the right tone and timing to put his subject at ease. The result, in this full and fluent rendering of the taped sessions, is as close as we can come to the master’s nimble, irreverent, freely-roaming voice.” -- Caryl Emerson * Princeton University *“The Duvakin recordings were a surprise gift to Bakhtin scholars: a series of intimate but vigorous conversations, led by an expert interviewer, in which Bakhtin described his life and times in striking detail. Now available in a marvelously readable English translation, they are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Bakhtin and his historical-cultural context, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and cultural politics of the Soviet Union.” -- Ken Hirschkop * University of Waterloo *“This book is an extraordinary contribution to cultural and intellectual history. Bakhtin’s conversations with Duvakin capture a succession of epochs and dramatic events; they reveal a Bakhtin who is both vulnerable and sovereign, anchored in his time and breaking free of its constraints.” -- Galin Tihanov * Queen Mary University of London *While some readers may not relish working through the thicket of allusions and references that occasion these interviews, there are many rewards to be had for doing so, especially for intellectual historians of twentieth-century Russia, and for Bakhtin scholars everywhere. I recommend it highly. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations IntroductionSlav N. Gratchev Translator’s IntroductionMargarita Marinova Interview One, February 22, 1973 Interview Two, March 1, 1973 Interview Three, March 8, 1973 Interview Four, March 15, 1973 Interview Five, March 22, 1973 Interview Six, March 23, 1973 Afterword: Six Interviews about the Death and Resurrection of the WordDmitriy Sporov Acknowledgments Bibliography, of the Introductions and Afterword ...IndexAbout the Editors and Translator

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Book SynopsisSexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It’s hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully understood as obstacles to women’s equality, yet that was Australia in 1975.It was in this climate that Anne Summers identified ‘damned whores’ and ‘God’s police’, the stereotypes that characterised all women as being either virtuous mothers whose function was to civilise society or bad girls who refused, or were unable, to conform to that norm and who were thus spurned and rejected by mainstream Australia. These stereotypes persist to this day, argues Anne Summers in this updated version of her classic book which, in the 40 years since it was first published, has sold well over 100,000 copies and been set on countless school and university syllabuses. Who are today’s damned whores? And why do women themselves still want to be God’s Police? And although sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape are well understood today they are nevertheless still with us and seem to be increasing. The fight is far from over.

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Book SynopsisAdventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects of overtourism have become increasingly apparent, with cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona experiencing barriocide, the death of neighbourhoods, as they host overwhelming numbers of visitors.Small tourism, especially creative tourism, not only reduces the actual and potential negative impact of guests on local culture but actively seeks to strengthen and revive local communities by weaving together the experiences of guest and host. Participatory, respectful, and celebratory methods and manners of tourism, rooted in community and cultural networks, has the potential to strengthen cultural bonds, support economic development, and increase sustainability.Focusing on the provision of small-scale creative tourism experiences, Adventures in Small Tourism explores possibilities for local empowerment through community-based tourism. With stories and studies from Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Japan, Australia, and beyond, this collection tells stories of visitors and residents coming together to co-create place in walks and workshops, gastronomy and art, festivals, markets, and more. This is a book that dares to ask what the future can be.With contributions by: Diana Guerra Amaya, Katja Bek Kos, Keith Lewis Bradbury, Nancy Duxbury, Darcen David Esau, Mohammadreza Gohari, John S. Hull, Vid Kmetič, Attila Komlós, Donald Lawrence, Sylvia M. Leighton, Alison Lullfitz, Moira A.L. Maley, Courtney W. Mason, Una McMahon-Beattie, Mateja Meh, Emese Panyik, Carol Pettersen, André Luis Quintino Principe, Meng Qu, Donna M. Senese, M. Jane Thompson, Spencer J. Toth, J. Eddy Wajon, Josie Vayro, Ian Yeoman, Simona Zollet, and Diana Marcela Zuluaga Guerra

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Book SynopsisIn our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study.A major contribution of this collection is the merging of theory with praxis, resulting in invaluable research tools for postgraduate students. These include applying 'gendered labour' practices among workers in South Africa, reading 'racial capitalism' through agrarian debates, using 'relational comparison' in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking 'multiple socio-spatial trajectories' in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa's 'second economy', revisiting 'development' processes and 'Development' discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci's 'conjunctures' geographically, finding divergent 'articulations' in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring 'nationalism' as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Together, the chapters show how important the ongoing reworking of radical concepts is to ethnographic critiques of power.Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for social and environmental change towards a collective future.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart —Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter and Melanie Samson Chapter 1 The Politics of ‘Gendered Labour’: Gillian Hart’s Relational ‘Conjunctures’ —Bridget Kenny Chapter 2 Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’: ‘Interlocking Transactions’ —Sharad Chari Chapter 3 ‘Relational Comparison’ and Geography’s Question of Method —Mark Hunter Chapter 4 ‘Multiple Trajectories of Globalisation’ —Jennifer Devine Chapter 5 A Conversation with Gillian Hart about Mbeki’s ‘Second Economy’ —Ahmed Veriava Chapter 6 ‘D/developments’ after the War on Terror —Jennifer Greenburg Chapter 7 ‘Articulation’, ‘Translation’, ‘Populism’: Gillian Hart’s Engagements with Gramsci —Michael Ekers, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus Chapter 8 Make ‘Articulation’ Gramscian Again —Zachary Levenson Chapter 9 What is ‘Nationalism’? Thinking Alongside Hart at a South African Landfill —Melanie Samson Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInsatiable exposes the damaging effects of greed in both public and private life, showing how the actions of a socially-irresponsible 'greedocracy' are systematically undermining our democratic institutions.

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Book SynopsisEveryday Citizenship and People with Dementia prioritises the ordinary lives of people with dementia, and thereby broadens the agenda towards everyday citizenship. The contributors bring to the fore the idea that a person living with dementia has multiple opinions, identities and a stake in society. The notion of everyday citizenship is used to shift the focus away from care settings and diagnostic and post-diagnostic support - all of which are important, of course - to the ‘normal’ everyday routines and settings of a person’s life. The notion of citizenship is mobilised within a range of contexts from dealing with the welfare system to living and being a part of a neighbourhood. Each chapter focuses on everyday citizenship from the perspective of people living with dementia and shows how citizenship is a necessity for a vibrant, inclusive society. The discussion is informed by empirically based work and authored by experts from different parts of the world, including Canadian and Scots citizens who are living with dementia. The stress, throughout the book, is that the everyday and mundane is not only important in a practical sense but also in a political one. The book is thus for all interested in current debates about equality and the rights of people with dementia.Trade Review'This small book claims that individuals with dementia have a right to experience 'everyday citizenship'. By drawing on evidence from informal collaboration with individuals who have dementia, the book's arguments achieve a powerful authenticity. Reading the book helped me to realise that I had unwittingly fallen into the trap of viewing dementia as a disease that causes a swift and sudden end to individual capabilities. The book helped me to think again, and to acknowledge that dementia is a progressive disease. Individuals who receive a dementia diagnosis may retain considerable mental capability for a number of years after their diagnoses; therefore social workers need to respect their personhood and right to everyday citizenship. The book provides a good, easily graspable tool for acquiring increased understanding of dementia and developing practice that promotes inclusion as part of citizenship.'European Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsEditor biographies. Preface. 1. Everyday Citizenship: A way to broaden our view of life with dementia (Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Ruth Bartlett and Charlotte L. Clarke): 2. Recognition Reconsidered: It is about time (Karen Barrie); 3. A Social Citizenship Lens to Describe One Person’s Experience of Living with Dementia in Scotland (James McKillop and Fiona Kelly); 4. Sharing and Acknowledging Snapshots of Everyday Citizenship: Experiences from a Swedish dementia-friendly initiative in Norrköping municipality (Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Elzana Odzakovic, Ingrid Hellström and Agneta Kullberg); 5. Art as the Great Equaliser: Everyday citizenship and participation in an art programme for people with dementia (Elaine C. Wiersma, Jim Berry, Jane Glover and Colleen Vogt); 6. The Price of Citizenship: The costs and benefits of activism as a route to everyday citizenship (Heather Wilkinson, Agnes Houston, James McKillop and Liz Taylor); 7. The Meaning of ‘Collaboration’: A candid conversation between a researcher and a dementia advocate (Deborah O’Connor and Jim Mann); 8. Recognising Everyday Citizenship and Dementia: What is known and what more needs to be done (Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Ruth Bartlett and Charlotte L. Clarke). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe, Colin Crouch mounts an impressive comparative analysis to uncover the contrasting ways in which different countries have sought to address the exacerbated social risks, both 'new' and 'old', unleashed by the financial and economic crisis. It demonstrates that growing recourse to market forms of governance in social and labour market policy is inversely related to the strength and influence of organised labour across countries and, in turn, to the degree of security provided for workers and their dependents. The three main patterns identified for governing social risks in the current era - neo-liberal, social democratic and traditional - are shown to exhibit a clear lineage reaching back to the early 20th century.'- Paul Marginson, University of Warwick, UK'Crouch's new book offers an empirically based up-to-date theory relating governance, egalitarianism, and labor market security in contemporary post-industrial societies. It provides a highly sophisticated, original assessment of modes of governance in Europe in terms of their social and economic performance, drawing on extensive comparison of European countries including the new Eastern democracies. Contrasting in particular neoliberalism and social democracy, Crouch shows that the social-democratic model of state and associational intervention in markets performs much better than its neoliberal opponent, raising the question why it is the latter rather than the former that has become the leading model for the post-crisis capitalist political economy.'- Wolfgang Streeck, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, GermanyHow can a capitalist system reconcile its need to combine workers on uncertain incomes and conditions with consumers confident that they can spend? The approaches of different national economies to this conundrum have had varying degrees of success, as well as diverse implications for social inequality. Through the study of European societies, and comparisons with experience from the rest of the world, Colin Crouch scrutinizes this diversity, and looks at how the 2008 global financial crisis has impacted it.Crouch identifies three broad approaches that countries adopt in response to this central dilemma of a capitalist economy, and examines these across three different contexts: time, place, and the role of inclusion and exclusion. This primarily statistical study embraces all except the smallest European countries, with comparative material on Japan, Russia and the United States. Countries are grouped according to differences found in them in the roles of governance by market, state, and community.This important book will appeal to academics, policy makers and others interested in comparative employment relations, European political economy and social policy. Undergraduate and postgraduate students alike will also find this a compelling, jargon-free insight into social policy and the 2008 global financial crisis in Europe.Trade Review‘. . . the book is a very strong scientific effort to shed light on questions that are, or arguably should be, at the center of discussions about how our economies ought to function. It provides a valuable framework for structuring those discussions, and it generates insights that are rooted in meticulously analyzed empirical data.’ -- Niall Michelsen, Western Carolina University, International Social Science Review‘Crouch’s new book offers an empirically based up-to-date theory relating governance, egalitarianism, and labor market security in contemporary post-industrial societies. It provides a highly sophisticated, original assessment of modes of governance in Europe in terms of their social and economic performance, drawing on extensive comparison of European countries including the new Eastern democracies. Contrasting in particular neoliberalism and social democracy, Crouch shows that the social-democratic model of state and associational intervention in markets performs much better than its neoliberal opponent, raising the question why it is the latter rather than the former that has become the leading model for the post-crisis capitalist political economy’ -- Wolfgang Streeck, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany‘In Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe, Colin Crouch mounts an impressive comparative analysis to uncover the contrasting ways in which different countries have sought to address the exacerbated social risks, both 'new' and 'old', unleashed by the financial and economic crisis. It demonstrates that growing recourse to market forms of governance in social and labour market policy is inversely related to the strength and influence of organised labour across countries and, in turn, to the degree of security provided for workers and their dependents. The three main patterns identified for governing social risks in the current era – neo-liberal, social democratic and traditional – are shown to exhibit a clear lineage reaching back to the early 20th century.’ -- Paul Marginson, University of Warwick, UK'Social risks are presented along a continuum that is not easily packaged between labour market and social policies. Crouch presents us with the concept of tradable risks. But the capacity to trade, or protect against these risks, is sharply demarcated by class positions, politics and resource ownership. This is an important, impressive, comprehensive and original contribution to comparative political economy in its simultaneous analysis of how producers and consumers absorb risks under different macro economic circumstances.' -- Jacqueline O'Reilly, Centre for Research on Management and Employment (CROME), University of Brighton, UK‘In this illuminating book Colin Crouch examines the diverse approaches presented by advanced societies in their attempts to resolve a central dilemma of a capitalist economy: the need to combine buoyant mass consumption with insecure workers, subject to and responsive to, the fluctuations of an unregulated global economy. He demonstrates that the approaches of different national economies have varying degrees of success and diverse implications for social inequality. Through the study of European societies, and comparisons with experience from the rest of the world, Crouch scrutinizes this diversity, and looks at how the 2008 global financial crisis has impacted it.’ -- Hans W. Micklitz, Journal of Consumer Policy‘What are the benefits from reading this book? It can be recommended as an attempt to provide a comprehensive account of social policy developments in a wide variety of different countries. It offers an abundance of findings that are all very important for assessing the status quo in the particular welfare state in question.’ -- Eberhard Eichenhofer, European Journal of Social Security‘The book is to be commended on a number of counts. First, the book engages risk and uncertainty broadly, proposing an analytical framework which both covers the institutional landscape of social risks more fully than is usual and also serves as an integrative analytical tool by connecting approaches to risk management across institutions. Crouch utilizes this fully, skilfully connecting the different institutional domains into a master narrative of regional and national trajectories of risk management strategies founded in class relations and the institutionalization of state, market, associations, and community. Secondly, the amount and diversity of empirical evidence amassed and analysed in this book is impressive as Crouch sets out to provide in-depth investigations of all the relevant aspects of institutions and practices identified by the analytical framework. The reader is provided with a masterful tour of available statistics of both within-country change and between-country differences across Europe. Thirdly, the analysis employs a more differentiated typology of eastern and central European countries than is usual in both industrial relations and welfare research. In particular, Crouch’s highly differentiated treatment of the Baltic states, the Visegra´d cluster, and the other central eastern European countries is informative and analytically efficient. Finally, the ambitious proposition of three major governance profile zones in Europe is both bold and efficient in combining themes otherwise treated in separate literatures into one empirical categorization. . . This is a highly informative and rigorous work which engages the issue of social risk and the consequences of the financial crisis in an engaging and thought-provoking manner.’ -- Acta SociologicaTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Risk, Uncertainty and Class in European Societies 2. Widening the Perspective: An Analytical Scheme 3. Modes of Economic Governance and Class Relations 4. Separating Workers from Consumers 5. Separating Consumption from Labour Income 6. Integrating Consumption and Labour Income 7. Drawing the Threads Together 8. Governance, Class Challenge, Inequality, Innovation, and Capacity for Solidaristic Collectivity Statistical Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisWelfare State, Universalism and Diversity is a thought-provoking book dealing with key ideas, values and principles of social policies and asking what exactly is meant by universal benefits and policies? Is the time of post-war universalism over? Are universalism and diversity contradictory policy and theory framings? Well-known scholars from different countries and fields of expertise provide a historically informative and comprehensive view on the making of universal social policies. Universalism is defined and implemented differently in the British and Scandinavian social policies. Service universalism is different from universalism in pensions. The book underlines the multiple and transformative nature of universalism and the challenge of diversity. There certainly is need for a greater diversity in meeting citizen s needs. Yet, universalism remains a principle essential for planning and implementing sustainable and legitimate policies in times characterized by complex interdependences and contradictory political aims. This impressive book is an attempt to untangle the multiple meanings of universalism and clarify the concept's relevance to contemporary policy debates. It will prove invaluable for students, researchers and practitioners in social policy, public policy, social administration, social welfare, social history, social work, sociology and political sciences. Policy makers and administrators involved with social and public policies, social services, social welfare, and social work will also find this book groundbreaking. Contributors: A. Anttonen, A. Borchorst, J. Clarke, J. Goul Andersen, L. Haikio, B. Hvinden, M. Kautto, J. Newman, J. Sipila, K. Stefansson, M. Szebehely, M. VaboTrade Review’This book is a most timely academic intervention. The concept of universalism is central to social policy and welfare state development yet it is rarely explored with such attention to its time and place specificities as in this book. Nordic and British authors investigate the different dimensions and meanings of universalism and the challenges it has faced. Buffeted by markets and choice on the one side and diversity on the other, can universalism survive? To find out, read on...’- Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK ’Universalism in social policy is politically challenged and normatively contested. This book examines how the principle of universalism can be understood and how it has been put into practice in various national contexts. Universalism is contrasted with the idea of diversity which has gained strength as a result of growing affluent middle classes and of multiculturalism in highly developed welfare states. The book deals with varieties of universalism and inspires a re-thinking of the normative basis of the welfare state.’ - Stein Kuhnle, University of Bergen, Norway and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Universalism and the Challenge of Diversity Anneli Anttonen, Liisa Häikiö, Kolbeinn Stefánsson and Jorma Sipilä 2. Universalism in the British and Scandinavian Social Policy Debates Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä 3. What is in a Word? Universalism, Ideology and Practice Kolbeinn Stefánsson 4. Finding the Way between Universalism and Diversity: A Challenge to the Nordic Model Liisa Häikiö and Bjørn Hvinden 5. Brave New World? Anglo-American Challenges to Universalism John Clarke and Janet Newman 6. Reassessing Woman-friendliness and the Gender System: Feminist Theorizing About the Nordic Welfare Model Anette Borchorst 7. A Caring State for all Older People? Mia Vabø and Marta Szebehely 8. The Pension Puzzle: Pension Security for all Without Universal Schemes? Mikko Kautto 9. Universalization and De-universalization of Unemployment Protection in Denmark and Sweden Jørgen Goul Andersen 10. The Future of Welfare State: Rethinking Universalism Anneli Anttonen, Liisa Häikiö and Kolbeinn Stefánsson Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.'- Satvinder Juss, King s College London, UK'An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.'- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceMigration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in Europe. Brad Blitz draws upon European and international law, political theory, economics, history and contemporary studies of migration to provide an original account of the opportunities and challenges associated with the right to free movement in Europe and beyond.Integrating over 160 interviews with individuals in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, the UK and Russia, this book provides a unique focus on both internal and inter-state mobility and a re-evaluation of the concept of freedom of movement. The author documents successful and unsuccessful settlement and establishment cases and records how both official and informal restrictions on individuals' mobility have effectively created new categories of citizenship and exclusion within Europe.This book is an original study aimed at academics, students and government officials interested in migration, international studies, public and social policy, and politics.Contents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion BibliographyTrade Review‘. . . throughout Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship and Exclusion, Blitz takes great care in detailing the influence of national laws, the European Charter, international customs and principles, and social factors on the freedom of migration movement. . . . The book is suitable for students and academics of several fields including political science, international studies, and law as it discusses the efficcies of - as well as deterrants to - freedom of movement in an evolving global society.’ -- Patricia M. Muhammad, International Social Science Review‘In this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.’ -- Satvinder Juss, King’s College London, UK‘An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.’ -- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.'- Satvinder Juss, King s College London, UK'An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.'- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceMigration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in Europe. Brad Blitz draws upon European and international law, political theory, economics, history and contemporary studies of migration to provide an original account of the opportunities and challenges associated with the right to free movement in Europe and beyond.Integrating over 160 interviews with individuals in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, the UK and Russia, this book provides a unique focus on both internal and inter-state mobility and a re-evaluation of the concept of freedom of movement. The author documents successful and unsuccessful settlement and establishment cases and records how both official and informal restrictions on individuals' mobility have effectively created new categories of citizenship and exclusion within Europe.This book is an original study aimed at academics, students and government officials interested in migration, international studies, public and social policy, and politics.Contents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion BibliographyTrade Review‘. . . throughout Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship and Exclusion, Blitz takes great care in detailing the influence of national laws, the European Charter, international customs and principles, and social factors on the freedom of migration movement. . . . The book is suitable for students and academics of several fields including political science, international studies, and law as it discusses the efficcies of - as well as deterrants to - freedom of movement in an evolving global society.’ -- Patricia M. Muhammad, International Social Science Review‘In this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.’ -- Satvinder Juss, King’s College London, UK‘An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.’ -- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPsy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social theory contributions to how we think about human agency and subjectivity. The reviews together set out the unfolding context for the debate, and situate the texts under discussion in the cross-cutting debates that define critical psychology today. It also provides an accessible introduction to how psychoanalysis and social theory, with a particular focus on the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek, bears upon work carried out by a new generation of researchers. Ian Parker's book is written from the perspective of a critical insider to the discipline of psychology, psychoanalysis and social theory, and it will serve as a primer for those new to the ideas searching for compass points and radical arguments, as well as examples of how to write and how not to write a book review.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook uses methodologies and cases to discover how and when to evaluate social policy, and looks at the possible impacts of evaluation on social policy decisions. The contributors present a detailed analysis on how to conduct social policy evaluation, how to be aware of pitfalls and dilemmas and how to use evidence effectively. Organized into three thematic sections, this new resource includes contributions from a variety of researchers from a range of disciplines and countries. The first section explores evaluation and examples of methods used; the second focuses on the intersection between evaluation and policy-making; and the third delves into current social policy in order to discover the use of evaluation within central welfare state policies. One conclusion found is that welfare states are increasingly using evidence, but that it varies from and within different welfare areas. Researchers and students with an interest in evaluation and social policy analysis, as well as policy-makers and administrators in need of evidence and analysis on the subject, will find much value in this clear and precise overview of the use and misuse of evidence.Contributors include: K. Bakhai, M. Barnard, A.E. Boardman, R. Boruch, K.N. Breidahl, C. Brown, M. Calnan, E. Cassells, M. Costa, C. Deeming, P. Dahler-Larsen, T. Douglass, J. Edbrooke-Childs, W. Eichhorst, D. Etherington, S. Evans-Lacko, J.-E. Furubo, H. Gaus, M. Gerressu, H. Gleeson, D. Gondek, B. Greve, A. Hagelund, A. Halvorsen, M.B. Hansen, T. Haux, M.A. Hussain, J.M. Hyatt, C. Irish, J. Jacob, H.C. Kavli, M. Knapp, R. Konle-Seidl, M. Lakhanpaul, K. Liket, N. McHugh, C.E. Mueller, L. Richardson, R. Rodrigues, M.J. Roy, S. Sinclair, K. Smith, T. Sundberg, H. Turner, W. Van Lancker, A.R. Vining, J. Warren, I. Whelan, J. Wistow, M. Wolpert, R. YangTrade Review'This is an important collection that carefully and critically explores the challenges researchers face in conducting social policy evaluation and gives clear guidance on the full range of different approaches along with practical examples of their use. It should be essential reading for anyone trying to evaluate social policy.' --(Ian Greener, University of Strathclyde, UK)'This book is a useful addition to the library of works relating to evaluation. It embraces a range of approaches that can be employed in undertaking evaluations, delivers a breadth of methodologies, depending on context and constituencies, and provides a wide selection of applications that will be helpful to new entrants in the field of evaluation and also to experienced practitioners.' --(Ceri J. Phillips, Swansea University, UK)Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: Evaluation as an instrument in social policy Bent Greve PART I WHAT IS EVALUATION – AND EXAMPLES OF METHODS 2. Randomized Controlled Trials Robert Boruch, Rui Yang, Jordan M. Hyatt and Herbert Turner III 3. Quasi-Experimental Comparison Group Designs for Social Policy Evaluation Christoph E. Mueller and Hansjoerg Gaus 4. Social Return on Investment (SROI), Including Elements on Cost–Benefit Analysis Massimo Costa 5. There are many (well, more than one) paths to Nirvana: The economic evaluation of social policies Anthony E. Boardman and Aidan R. Vining 6. Systematic reviews in Social Policy Evaluation Trude Sundberg 7. Participatory evaluation Liz Richardson PART II EVALUATION AND POLICY 8. Evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) Kat Smith and Tina Haux 9. Use and misuse of evaluation in social policy Christopher Deeming 10. Challenges for Policy Makers: Accountability and Cost-effectiveness Kellie Liket 11. Policy, practice and difference within welfare regimes: Evidence from the UK Jon Warren and Jonathan Wistow 12. Performance Management and Evaluation Morten Balle Hansen 13. Critical Perspectives on using evidence in social policy Peter Dahler-Larsen 14. Social Impact Bonds – Evidence-based policy or ideology? Michael J. Roy, Neil McHugh and Stephen Sinclair PART III EVALUATION OF CONCRETE SOCIAL POLICY AREAS 15. Heath Care – Evaluating the Overall System Sara Evans-Lacko and Martin Knapp 16. The Evaluation of New Medicines Michael Calnan and Tom Douglass 17. Evaluating long-term care policies: challenges and advancements Ricardo Rodrigues 18. Labour Market Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl 19. Ideology or evidence base? The role of work capability assessments for people with disabilities in UK welfare to work programmes David Etherington 20. Integration Anniken Hagelund and Hanne Cecilie Kavli 21. Evaluating interventions for children, young people, and families: Theory, evidence, policy, and lessons learnt Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Dawid Gondek, Isabelle Whelan, Jenna Jacob, Matt Barnard, Helen Gleeson, Makeda Gerressu, Monica Lakhanpaul, Caroletha Irish, Emma Cassells, Khyati Bakhai and Miranda Wolpert 22. The Matthew Effect Redux. Going beyond the mean in evaluating family policies Wim Van Lancker 23. Eight attention points when evaluating large-scale public sector reforms Morten Balle Hansen, Karen Nielsen Breidahl, Jan-Eric Furubo , Anne Halvorsen 24. Poverty interventions M. Azhar Hussain 25. How understanding research as consumer object can shed new light on evidence informed policy and practice in education Chris Brown 26. Conclusion Bent Greve Index

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Book SynopsisReflexive Labour Law in the World Society investigates trends in labour and employment law from the perspective of modern social systems theory.It uses Niklas Luhmann's theory of the world society and Gunther Teubner's reflexive law concept for an analysis of modern employment law and industrial relations. Areas investigated include: reflexive employment protection; the reflexive regulation and deregulation of labor market policies and labour law; reflexivity in labor and employment conflict resolution; reflexive coordination and implementation of EU social and employment law; and reflexive global labor law.Contents: Preface Part I: Theory 1. The World Society Context: The Globalisation of Labour Law 2. Reflexive Labour Law: A General Introduction 3. Industrial Relations as a Social System Part II: Reflexive Trends in Modern Labour Law 4. Reflexive Employment Protection 5. Reflexive Regulation of Labour Market Policies 6. Reflexive Deregulation of Labour Market Policies and Labour Law 7. Reflexive Regulation of Labour and Employment Conflict Resolution Part III: Reflexive European and International Labour Law 8. Reflexive Coordination of European Social and Employment Policies 9. Reflexive Implementation of EU Employment Law - A Case Study of the Working Time Directive 10. Reflexive Global Labour Law Bibliography IndexTrade ReviewThis book addresses the major issue of the nature and future of labour law and employment regulation. It transcends current traditional scientific and policy debates in two related ways. First by exploring the potential of labour law as reflexive (re)regulation and second by putting labour law in the global context - i.e. the World Society. The book convincingly indicates how labour law can indeed successfully operate among the different societal systems and between global, national and local levels. --Ton Wilthagen, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsRogowski's challenging book offers readers a rigorous but accessible introduction to the theory of reflexive law, important and original insights into current issues in industrial relations and labour law and a fascinating preview of how a broad-based system of transnational law might one day emerge. Building on foundations laid down by Luhmann and Teubner, and on his own twenty-plus years of pioneering work, Rogowski firmly establishes reflexive labour law as a plausible and useful approach to the discipline. --Harry Arthurs, Osgoode Hall Law School, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Theory 1. The World Society Context: The Globalisation of Labour Law 2. Reflexive Labour Law: A General Introduction 3. Industrial Relations as a Social System Part II: Reflexive Trends in Modern Labour Law 4. Reflexive Employment Protection 5. Reflexive Regulation of Labour Market Policies 6. Reflexive Deregulation of Labour Market Policies and Labour Law 7. Reflexive Regulation of Labour and Employment Conflict Resolution Part III: Reflexive European and International Labour Law 8. Reflexive Coordination of European Social and Employment Policies 9. Reflexive Implementation of EU Employment Law – A Case Study of the Working Time Directive 10. Reflexive Global Labour Law Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology expands access to cultural production, popular culture continues to play an important role as an egalitarian vehicle for promoting ideological dissent and social change. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture ? from literature to film and music to digital culture ? in order to address the ways in which popular culture shapes and is shaped by leaders around the globe as they strive to change their social systems for the better.Now is an exceptional time to explore the synergy between leadership, popular culture and social change. With analyses that span time, genre and space, the book?s contributors investigate works of popular culture as objects of leadership that help us to both reinforce and question our understandings of who we are and how we want to reshape the world around us.This dynamic examination of leadership presents a useful model of analysis not only for scholars of leadership and popular culture but also for cultural historians and educators across the humanities.Contributors include: K.M.S. Bezio, V.K. Bratton, P.D. Catoira, H. Connell Schaaf, L. DelPrato, S.J. Erenrich, K. Ganesan, S. Guenther, E.M. Holowka, K. Klimek, M.A. Menaldo, N.O. Warner, K. YostTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change Kristin M.S. Bezio PART I WRITTEN LEADERSHIP 1. Marlowe’s violent reformation: religion, government and rebellion on the Elizabethan Stage Kristin M.S. Bezio 2. Abdullah Munsyi’s nineteenth-century travelogue and its continued influence on Malaysian Literature in English Kavitha Ganesan 3. Totalizing tyranny: Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat Mark A. Menaldo 4. Harry Potter and the leadership of resistance Kimberly Yost PART II AURAL LEADERSHIP 5. Women troubadours, horizontal leadership and the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964: a missing chapter in Civil Rights movement history Susan J. Erenrich 6. El Chapo for Presidente: an examination of leadership through Mexico’s Narcoculture Patricia D. Catoira and Virginia K. Bratton 7. An idol leader: David Bowie, self-representation, otherness and sexual identity Shawna Guenther PART III VISUAL LEADERSHIP 8. A two-way street: the leader-follower dynamic in Glory and Twelve O’Clock High Nicholas O. Warner 9. Becoming other: self-transformation and social change in Neill Blomkamp films Kimberly Yost 10. Ready, aim, feel: empathy, identification and leadership in video games Kristin M.S. Bezio 11. “War. War never changes”: using popular culture to teach traumatic events Kimberly Klimek PART IV DIGITAL LEADERSHIP 12. Between artifice and emotion: the “sad girls” of Instagram Eileen Mary Holowka 13. How light painters lead change through popular culture Laura DelPrato 14. Beyond bans and beyond the classroom: Wikipedia, leadership and social change in higher education Holly Connell Schaaf Epilogue Kimberly Yost Index

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Book SynopsisThe ancient moral philosophy of Epicureanism offers many valuable lessons for the modern world. How to Live Well updates and modifies Epicurean philosophy to offer an exciting new framework for contemporary social reform.How To Live Well provides a synopsis of the key facets of Epicureanism and offers a history of Epicureanism across the past twenty centuries. Fitzpatrick identifies the core criticisms of Epicureanism and compares it with Aristotelian thought. In light of these criticisms, he proposes a ?new epicureanism?, based around four key subjects: liberty and freedom, justice and community, our obligations to other humans and nonhumans, and social justice and reform. Rejecting classical Epicurean hostility towards public intervention, How To Live Well proposes that ?new Epicureans? must promote and defend social fairness, and equate personal with communal well-being. An ethos of ?social guarantee? could help rethink our social welfare systems, our use of public spaces, economic and employment systems, contextualising all of these in terms of the need for long-term ecological sustainability. Relating Epicurus to contemporary ideas and debates in politics and social reform, this book will be of interest to students of applied philosophy, ethics and social policy, as well as those with an interest in social theory and welfare.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Epicurus: in Outline and in History 2. From Five Puzzles to Three Objections 3. Aristotle to the Rescue? Interlude: Rowing for Beginners 4. Being Free 5. Being Just 6. Being Green 7. Being Better Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisSocial capital is fundamentally concerned with resources in social relations. This Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world to address important questions on the determinants, manifestations and consequences of social capital. Various mechanisms of formal and informal social involvement, its relationship with other forms of social exclusion and its role in civic, instrumental and expressive domains of our socio-economic and community lives are explored. This unique Handbook:* combines cutting-edge theory with appropriate data and methods* explores the mechanisms of formal and informal social involvement including the role of parental class and cultural influence, and the consequences for our personal and community lives* links social capital with other domains of social inequality such as cultural practice and philanthropic behaviour in an in-depth examination of the social stratification processes* conducts a thorough analysis of formal and informal social involvement, and bonding and bridging social ties on trust, tolerance, community cohesion, educational attainment, labour market position, quality of life and ethnic entrepreneurism* analyzes social capital as both an outcome and as a mediating variable at the micro, meso and macro levels.Accessible yet rigorous, this Handbook presents a challenge to both social capital researchers interested in explaining social inequality and to policy-makers with responsibility for designing effective measures for combating social exclusion. It will also be essential reading for students in sociology, political science, developmental economics and management studies.Contributors: N. Allum, R. Andersen, L. Bécares, Y. Bian, F. Buscha, C. Cheng, R.R. Côté, D. Cutts, N. Demireva, F. Devine, J.K. Dhillon, L. Donato, B.H. Erickson, J. Fiel, J. Field, E. Fieldhouse, A. Gamoran, A. García-Macías, D. Griffiths, A. Heath, X. Huang, P.S. Lambert, J. Laurence, Y. Li, M. Lubbers, J.L. Molina, J. Nazroo, J. Pampalona, R. Patulny, J. Rodríguez Menés, M. Savage, M. Shoji, P. Sturgis, E.M. Uslaner, H. Valenzuela-García, P.-P. Verhaeghe, W. Wang, A. Warde, M. Western, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. ZhangTrade Review'This is a wonderful and inspiring book. It integrates the latest research results on social capital and includes contributions by influential western and eastern scholars. It will provide a unique reference for researchers and students in this field.' --Haifeng Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China'This Handbook, edited by Yaojun Li, one of the leading scholars on social capital, is a timely and comprehensive collection of chapters on social capital by some of the most important contributors from North America, Europe and Asia. The introduction, in which Professor Li provides an extensive and in-depth review and evaluation of the theory, measurement and research on social capital, is by itself one of the most significant, state-of-the-art contributions on social capital available today. It is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in social capital from a comparative perspective.' --Nan Lin, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Social Capital in Sociological Research: Conceptual Rigour and Empirical Application Yaojun Li 2. Social Stratification, Social Capital and Cultural Practice in the UK Yaojun Li, Mike Savage and Alan Warde 3. The Flow of Soul: A Sociological Study of Generosity in England and Wales (2001 – 2011) Yaojun Li 4. The Roots of Trust Eric M. Uslaner 5. Social Connectedness and Generalized Trust: A Longitudinal Perspective Patrick Sturgis, Roger Patulny, Nick Allum and Franz Buscha 6. Social Capital and Ethnic Tolerance: The Opposing Effects of Diversity and Competition Rochelle R. Côté, Robert Andersen and Bonnie H. Erickson 7. Diversity and Social Capital in the US and UK: The Role of Bridging Friendships David Cutts and Edward Fieldhouse 8. Informal, Associational Bonding and Associational Bridging: Which Ties Matter Most for Minority Involvement and Integration? Neli Demireva and Anthony Heath 9. The Efficacy of Neighbourhood Attitudes as Measures of Social Capital: Returning to Norms and Values and the Centrality of Networks James Laurence 10. The Position Generator Approach to Social Capital Research: Measurements and Results Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and Yaojun Li 11. Formal and Informal Social Connections in the UK Yaojun Li, Anthony Heath and Fiona Devine 12. Social Capital and the Social Relations of Occupational Structure Dave Griffiths and Paul S. Lambert 13. Social Capital and Life Satisfaction in Australia Xianbi Huang and Mark Western 14. Social Capital, Ethnic Density and Mental Health Among Ethnic Minority People in England: A Mixed-methods Study Laia Bécares and James Nazroo 15. An Intervention Approach to Building Social Capital: Effects on Grade Retention Jeremy Fiel, Megan Shoji, and Adam Gamoran 16. Social Ties, Agency, and Change: Education and Social Capital in Adult Life John Field 17. Social Capital in Inter-organisational Partnership Research Jaswinder K Dhillon 18. Social Capital, Social Cohesion and Cognitive Attainment Jorge Rodríguez Menés and Luisa Donato 19. Institution-Spanning Social Capital and its Income Returns in China Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, Wenbin Wang and Cheng Cheng 20. Social Capital and Marketization in the Chinese Labour Market Wenhong Zhang and Li Zhang 21. Social Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: Indians in Lloret de Mar, and Pakistanis in Barcelona José Luis Molina, Hugo Valenzuela-García, Alejandro García-Macías, Miranda Lubbers and Judith Pampalona Index

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Book SynopsisComplex knowledge, in many different forms, is generated, shared and accessed globally. Andrea Cerroni turns to this knowledge society to offer a comprehensive social theory of its processes and specificities, outlining controversies of knowledge and bridging the gap between knowledge and democracy. Proposing a systematic and interdisciplinary typology to deal with multitudes of knowledge types, the author builds a theoretically grounded framework around the sociology of knowledge. This book offers a panorama of the extant literature on knowledge types and takes advantage of suggestions from different scientific disciplines, from neurosciences and epigenetics, to anthropology and physics. Drawing on a long-term historical perspective, Cerroni assembles a cultural matrix, comprising ancient myths on nature, society and knowledge and modern myths of reductionism, individualism and relativism to inspire contemporary sociological imagination. Comprising an innovative and authoritative approach, this eclectic book will appeal to advanced scholars seeking a new theoretical framework for understanding the knowledge society. Students of sociology and epistemology will also benefit from its insights into the origins and philosophical background of the sociology of knowledge.Trade Review'Sometimes regarded as blurry in its contours, sometimes overshadowed by science studies, the sociology of knowledge is faced today with the challenge of an ever-more knowledge-centred society. An overview and a personal outlook at the same time, Andrea Cerroni's book represents a valuable entry point into a crucial dimension of contemporary life.' --Luigi Pellizzoni, Università di Pisa, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Acknowledgments 2. Approaching the knowledge society 3. Rise and fall in one quick step 4. In search of a theory 5. Recent topics 6. Imagining the complex society. A theoretical schema 7. Knowledge. A socio-cognitive ideal-typology 8. Knowledge Circulation: theory and applications 9. A new paradigm for sociology of knowledge 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mobilities Paradox: A Critical Analysis asks how the mobilities paradigm, arguably one of the most influential theoretical innovations of the 21st century, holds up against the empirical realities of a deeply unequal world. Korstanje's provocative analysis pairs a sweeping overview of the theoretical landscape with specific instances of tourism, terrorism, hospitality, automobility, digital technologies, and non-places to put mobilities theory to the test.'- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USThe theory of mobilities has gained great recognition and traction over recent decades, illustrating not only the influence of mobilities in daily life but also the rise and expansion of globalization worldwide. But what if this sense of mobilities is in fact an ideological bubble that provides the illusion of freedom whilst limiting our mobility or even keeping us immobile? This book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the mobilities paradigm and reminds us that today only a small percentage of the world?s population travel internationally. In doing so the author?s insightful analysis constructs a bridge between Marxism and Cultural theory.Offering a critical discussion of the theory of mobilities, the book explores the concept in the context of colonialism, nation states, consumption, globalization, fear and terrorism. This unique book presents an alternative viewpoint that is vital reading for cultural theorists, sociologists, anthropologists and Marxist scholars seeking a different understanding of the theory of mobilities.Trade Review'In his book, Korstanje sets himself the ambitious task of joining cultural critique and materialist dialectics to show how the great social evolution of globalization underpins changes in human mobility. He succeeds brilliantly in his ambition. This book offers a thought-provoking argument that calls for a re-thinking in many fields.' --Geoffrey R Skoll, Buffalo State SUNY, US’'In this influential work, Maximiliano Korstanje makes a radical proposal: fear places an epistemological barrier around our quest for truth, making us blind to reality. Look no further than 9/11 to discern the inner workings of this truth machine. Oligarchically controlled corporate mass media has historically been the primary instrument for advancing this objective. This book is essential reading for anyone who is curious to know what lies beyond the matrix of manufactured truths about our social lives.' --Babu George, Fort Hays State University, US'This book offers a very deep and important discussion around the nature and evolution of mobility. The progressive approach adopted in this book makes it easy to read and facilitates the understanding of some of the underpinning issues our society is facing. In so doing, the book explores how the world has changed after 9/11, as well as the different visions of mobility and hospitality. Case studies are used to illustrate the discussions. This book can be of interest for advanced researchers and students in tourism as geopolitics and sociology are quite central in this field particularly in our day and age.' --Hugues Seraphin, University of Winchester UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The theory of Mobilities 2. The manipulation of emotions 3. The rise of the Nation-state and hospitality 4. The life in the Island: metaphors of immobilities 5. Leashing the Dogs of War 6. The Life of Mary and Roger 7. Towards an Epistemology of Emotions, Written in Collaboration with Adrian Scribano Conclusion: Dialogue with Marc Augé References Index

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Book SynopsisThe rapid and formative rise in research on social innovation and entrepreneurship means that theoretical frameworks are still being created, while traditional notions of economic efficiency and social welfare are tested. The field is progressing fastest in the measurement and measuring of social entrepreneurial effectiveness. Social innovators, who draw from philanthropy, as well as capital markets, for financial resources, have adopted the lean start up as a paradigm for their organization logics. This collection showcases the myriad emerging philosophical, methodological, and theoretical approaches, many of which are led by practitioners. It is organized into five sections. The first section reports on theoretical approaches to researching sustainable entrepreneurship that are less familiar. The second section reports on research focusing on the entrepreneurial responses to problems of climate change. The third and fourth sections report on research investigating social entrepreneurial processes, and how opportunities are formed and exploited. The fifth section reports on the ethical dimensions of social innovation.Researchers, scholars, educators and policymakers will find this book a useful reference, with novel ideas for future research and discourse.Contributors include: S.G.S. Abdelgawad, P. Bruner, R. Cortina-Cruz, M. Cortina-Mercado, R. Defiebre-Muller, P.F. Diochon, A.G. Earle, H.D. Fountaine, R. Harrison, R.T. Herko, K. Joensuu, K. Kaesehage, L. Katz, M. Leyshon, S. Lopez-Palau, M. Mäkelä, S.D. Ocampo, T. Onkila, M. Pasquini, B. Rivera-Cruz, M.A. Tietz, Y.W. Turell, D. van der Horst, F.I. Viola, D. Windsor, M. ZhangTrade Review‘My favourite chapters were Michael Zhang’s article on the entrepreneurial journey of Geely’s founder, which provided a well-contextualised case study of the use of institutional voids as a source of business opportunities, and Turell and Earle’s piece Social Entrepreneurs and Field Level Change, which was a rigorous presentation of the interconnectedness of social and institutional entrepreneurship. I believe both would make for inspiring reading for undergraduate students and academic scholars alike.’ -- Satu Aaltonen, International Small Business Journal‘The aim of the ‘social entrepreneurship’, ‘social innovation’ and ‘sustainable entrepreneurship’ is to create waves of change that would influence. . . the way non-profit enterprises, public services and businesses are delivered. The work of Espina et al. (2018) help us focus on . . . such concepts [in] environmental and climate change; besides the ethical issues relevant to such practices. They show how the market impact measures are shifting from ‘percentage of market share’, or ‘sales growth’, . . . towards ‘sustainable entrepreneurship’ and ‘sustainability innovation’. The book is recommended as an extra reference for MBA, innovation and entrepreneurship courses; besides being a library reference for researchers, scholars and educators in the area of sustainability entrepreneurship. The book carries many novel ideas which open doors for more in-depth future research.’ -- Mohamed Buheji, American Journal of EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION Part I Theoretical Approaches to Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research 1. Environmental Dystopia versus Sustainable Development Utopia: Roles of Businesses, Consumers, Institutions, and Technologies Duane Windsor 2. The Entrepreneurial Journey of Geely’s Founder: From Institutional Voids to Opportunity Discovery Michael Zhang 3. Contradictory Stakeholder Expectations for Sustainability Reporting: A Social Contract Theory Approach Kristiina Joensuu, Marileena Mäkelä and Tiina Onkila Part II Climate Change 4. The Political Economy of Climate Change and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Phillip Bruner, Richard Harrison and Dan van der Horst 5. Breaking Traditions. How Entrepreneurs create Communities to Address Climate Change Katharina Kaesehage and Michael Leyshon 6. Water Rights in California: Competition and Coopetition in a Dynamic Environment Richard Thomas Herko, H. Drew Fountaine and Lee Kats Part III Social Innovation Processes 7. Social Entrepreneurs and Field-Level Change: An Institutional Process Model of Social Entrepreneurship Yusi W. Turell and Andrew G. Earle 8. “Make love, not war?” A process-based approach to social innovation Renaud Defiebre-Muller, Federico Ignacio Viola, Pauline Fatien Diochon and Sebastian Duenas Ocampo 9. Social Innovation – Combining Profits and Progress Matthias A. Tietz, Sondos Gamaleldin Sobhy Abdelgawad and Martina Pasquini Part IV The Ethics of Social Innovation 10. Bioethical Reasoning and the Propensity of Millenials to Adopt Sustainable Development Behaviors Silvia López-Paláu and Beatriz Rivera-Cruz 11. Sustainable Consumption Practice: The effect of eco-friendly packaging on Buying Behavior Based on Generations Melissa Cortina-Mercado and Rafael Cortina-Cruz Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe success of the Nordic welfare state is well known, but the key drivers of its remarkable expansion are not. This book explores the relationships between citizens that constitute the normative groundwork of Nordic societies, arguing that the quality of relations steers welfare development. Chapters explore relations of reciprocity, trust and equality that characterize the relational Nordic welfare state. Through an interdisciplinary approach, expert contributors consider the establishment and growth of welfare institutions in Nordic countries and evaluate the neoliberal challenge that these institutions have faced since the 1980s. This book reveals how and why Nordic societies may find a path of balanced and sustainable development. Timely and insightful, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of social and political sciences, as well as jurisprudence, especially those interested in welfare states. Contributors include: M. Berg, S. Blomgren, P. Borioni, S. Hänninen, M. Jokela, P. Kettunen, M. Kivipelto, T. Kotkas, P.H. Kristensen, K.-M. Lehtelä, K. Lilja, E. Moen, M. Perlinski, P. Saikkonen, S.F. Schram, K. Tuori, N. WitoszekTrade Review‘The volume is a timely contribution, and through concrete examples also very helpful to understand how forty years of reform have fared in this corner of the world. Through their choice of perspectives, the authors demonstrate that there is still a particularly Nordic outlook whose arrangements are the result of concrete, interest-based struggles and thus not as continuous or robust as some might like to believe – along with the dawning realisation that not only our states, but also the ecological systems are not necessarily sustainable.’ -- Ingerid Straume, Nordicum-Mediterraneum'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this is an excellent - diverse yet coherent - collection on the changing Nordic welfare state, which I highly recommend.' --Ray Kiely, Queen Mary University of London, UK'Most studies of the Nordic welfare states concentrate on specific policies. The contributors to this book probe far deeper than this, examining the deeper cultural and social roots of these distinctive systems, as well as of the changes now taking place in them.' --Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany'Excellent and novel, the chapters in this book offer an incisive analysis of the historical paths and contemporary challenges for Nordic welfare states. The relational perspective gives a theoretically fresh and insightful understanding of these states as states of civilization. A must-read for anyone interested in the past, present and future of the welfare state.' --Åsa Lundqvist, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: the Nordic welfare state as a state of civilisation 1 Sakari Hänninen, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä and Paula Saikkonen PART I AUTONOMY 1 Neoliberal relations of poverty and the welfare state 15 Sanford F. Schram 2 The Nordic welfare state and the challenge of difference 29 Sakari Hänninen 3 The profits and pitfalls of prosociality: cultural-evolutionary perspectives on Scandinavia 50 Nina Witoszek PART II PARTICIPATION 4 The Nordic model in ordo-liberal Europe: from welfare parity to social hierarchy? 74 Paolo Borioni 5 The rise and fall of the Nordic utopia of an egalitarian wage work society 95 Pauli Kettunen PART III INCLUSION 6 Nordic welfare states, trust and the rights discourse: the history of the children’s day care system in Finland 120 Toomas Kotkas 7 A social constitution of Europe? 138 Kaarlo Tuori PART IV SUSTAINABILITY 8 The eco-social Nordic welfare state – a distant dream or a possible future? 162 Monika Berg and Paula Saikkonen 9 Social sustainability and the organization of social work from the perspective of Finnish adult social work practitioners 184 Minna Kivipelto, Merita Jokela, Sanna Blomgren and Marek Perlinski 10 Civilizing business enterprises: the search for a new Nordic growth and development model 202 Peer Hull Kristensen, Eli Moen and Kari Lilja Epilogue: the Nordic welfare state beyond ideology and utopia 224 Sakari Hänninen, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä and Paula Saikkonen Index 251

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Book SynopsisThis unique and insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary cultural policy and its discourses, influences, and consequences. It examines the factors that have led to a narrowing of cultural policy and suggests new ways of thinking about cultural policy beyond economics by reconnecting it with the practices of work, value, and the social. With a particular focus on Australia and the UK, and with reference to transnational bodies including UNESCO, this book identifies and examines influential national and international factors that have shaped cultural policy, including its implementation of an economic agenda. Deborah Stevenson retraces the foundations of contemporary cultural policy, with chapters exploring the hierarchies of legitimacy that form the basis of value and excellence, the increased hegemony of the economy within the art world complex, and the notions of class and gender as two key factors of social inequality that shape access to the arts. Analysing cultural value, work, and the social as important points of tension and potential disruption within contemporary cultural policy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of arts and cultural management, cultural policy studies, cultural sociology, economics, and leisure and urban studies. It will also be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across the humanities and the social sciences.Trade Review‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focused on the colonization of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the art world complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity, and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focussed on the colonisation of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the Art World Complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social is both an outstanding introduction to key issues in cultural policy, as well as a major contribution to the field. Thinking through issues of place, work, education, and value, Stevenson argues for a new vision of cultural policy grounded in the need to remember, and then to rethink, the social basis of culture.’ -- David O'Brien, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: culture is social 1. Understanding ‘art worlds’ 2. Art, excellence, market 3. Questions of value 4. Proxies, discourses, and contexts 5. The social art of engagement 6. Creativity, vocation, career Conclusion: culture, policy, and beyond Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour. Bringing together contributions from leading family sociologists, the Research Handbook examines important questions: have family patterns across different countries become more similar, or have differences between countries and social groups increased over time? How diverse are family forms across different countries? How do conventional theories explain these patterns? And what are the major innovations in theorising and describing family behaviour? In order to resolve these key points, the chapters provide an overview of past and present developments in scholarly work on European families. They also present concise overviews of theories, methods, critical debates, empirical findings and pathways for future research. Its analysis of important areas of research in the field will make this Research Handbook a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology, demography, and family and gender policy. It will also be beneficial for policy experts in these fields.Trade Review'The Research Handbook brings together contributions from leading international experts within the field of the sociology of the family, drawing on disciplinary backgrounds in theoretical and empirical sociology, demography, economics, political science and wider social sciences. By providing a comprehensive overview of the key issues and debates within contemporary European family sociology, ranging from the gendered division of work within families, intimate and intergenerational relationships, through to the role of family policies and different welfare regimes, it will be critical reading for all scholars interested in how families are coping and how they are evolving. The list of contributors reads like a ''who’s who'' and the book will rightly gain a place on the bookshelves of family researchers, practitioners and policy makers across the globe.' -- Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton, UK'The contributors to this book are an impressive group of scholars who have conducted leading research on European families. Individual chapters provide clear and comprehensive roadmaps to an extensive variety of topics in family research. Especially impressive are several thoughtful discussions of classic and emerging theory that should be required reading for anyone embarking on a sociological study of family life. A particular strength of the theoretical discussions and research reviews is their engagement with innovative understandings of gender in families and societies.' -- Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University, Sweden and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: The sociology of the family – towards a European perspective 2 Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld PART II THEORETICAL ADVANCES IN FAMILY RESEARCH 2 Welfare state regimes, family policies, and family behaviour 22 Gerda Neyer 3 Cross-cultural perspectives in family research 42 Bernhard Nauck 4 Family diversity in a configurational perspective 60 Eric D. Widmer 5 Life course sociology: Key concepts and applications in family sociology 73 Dirk Konietzka and Michaela Kreyenfeld PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES IN FAMILY RESEARCH 6 Digital family research 89 Nicolas M. Legewie and Anette E. Fasang 7 Qualitative longitudinal research in family sociology 107 Laura Bernardi 8 Families from a network perspective 125 Gil Viry and Andreas Herz PART IV FAMILY DIVERSITY AND FAMILY CHANGE 9 A historical perspective on family change in Europe 143 Josef Ehmer 10 Demography of family change in Europe 162 Tomáš Sobotka and Caroline Berghammer 11 Living arrangements across households in Europe 187 Chia Liu and Albert Esteve 12 Living arrangements in later life 205 Pearl A. Dykstra PART V FAMILY TRANSITIONS IN THE LIFE COURSE 13 Partner choice and partner markets 219 Jan Van Bavel 14 Causes and consequences of family dissolution in Europe and post-divorce families 232 Dimitri Mortelmans 15 Fertility desires, intentions, and behaviour 248 Ann Berrington 16 Family behaviour of migrants 263 Gunnar Andersson PART VI INTIMATE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 17 Grandparent status and multigenerational relationships 278 Jan Skopek 18 Children and parents after separation 300 Ulrike Zartler 19 Emotions, love, and sexuality in committed relationships 314 Karl Lenz and Marina A. Adler PART VII NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE DIVISION OF WORK IN FAMILIES 20 Gender and labour market outcomes 329 Anna Matysiak and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska 21 The gender division of housework and child care 342 Oriel Sullivan 22 Couples’ transitions to parenthood: Why the female partner’s earnings advantage fails to predict efficient specialisation 355 Daniela Grunow 23 Family sociological theories questioned: Same-sex parent families sharing work and care 373 Marie Evertsson, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, and Allison Geerts 24 ‘Plus ça change’? The gendered legacies of mid-twentieth-century conceptualisations of the form and function of the family 386 Wendy Sigle 25 Poverty and the family in Europe 400 Jonathan Bradshaw and Rense Nieuwenhuis 26 Medically assisted reproduction in developed countries: Overview and societal challenges 417 Jasmin Passet-Wittig and Martin Bujard 27 Key developments and future prospects in the study of transnational families 439 Laura Merla, Majella Kilkey, Raelene Wilding, and Loretta Baldassar Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a 'wellbeing lens' for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals.Synthesising wellbeing research from multiple disciplines, including sociology, public health, urban and social planning, moral philosophy and development studies, chapters illustrate how the wellbeing lens promotes positivity, understanding of a variety of viewpoints and systematic appreciation of lives in their social contexts. Encouraging appreciative learning and aspirational planning, Neil Thin looks beyond the implicit 'OK' line of minimal decent standards in order to appreciate and promote moral progress.As an illuminating summary of the field, offering new avenues for employing social wellbeing research across multiple disciplines, this book will be key reading for scholars and students of sociology, development studies and anthropology. It will also benefit practitioners, such as planners, evaluators and social workers in need of practical insights into social wellbeing issues.Trade Review'Now more than ever it is vitally important for us to understand that wellbeing is not a solo job. Neil Thin has written an original, masterful book on the good life as a social endeavor. Lively and full of insight and optimism, it will help set the agenda for research and action on wellbeing.' -- Dan Haybron, Saint Louis University, US'This book is needed right now. Planners, policy makers and politicians ought to read it. It's a serious new look at wellbeing that goes beyond the usual individualistic notions to appreciate the social dimensions of a good and fulfilling life.' -- Stephen Joseph, University of Nottingham, UK'The idea of wellbeing, while often controversial, has never been of more interest to academics, citizens and decision-makers alike. Written in a highly engaging and accessible manner, this book provides a thoughtful and provocative examination of efforts to document, interpret and appreciate the social dimensions of wellbeing and to promote reforms that pay more explicit attention to our ultimate personal and collective aspirations. It deserves to be read by all who seek to deepen their understanding of wellbeing and its contemporary relevance.' -- Ian Bache, The University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements Introduction PART I: WELLBEING, SOCIAL FLOURISHING, AND MORAL PROGRESS 1. The wellbeing lens 2. Social flourishing and self-transcendence 3. Moral progress PART 2: APPRECIATIVE LEARNING 4. Appreciative social enquiry 5. Positive social epidemiology PART 3: ASPIRATIONAL SOCIAL PLANNING 6. Motivational and anticipatory wellbeing 7. Convivial society: living well together 8. Fair society: Justice, inequality, and mobility 9. Conclusions: Wellbeing literacy as a private and public good References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives.¬†Exploring the threats to wellbeing from the environments we inhabit and the situations societies create and endure, chapters particularly look at wellbeing inequalities and the experiences of marginalised groups, demonstrating the connection between wellbeing and political struggle. Provocative commentaries from leading scholars plus chapters on original theoretical developments and research studies across diverse world regions reveal wellbeing research based on situated practices, social differences and specific cultural contexts. This Modern Guide assesses the influence and impact of wellbeing research on policy and practice across a range of sectors and spaces, including: wellbeing budgeting, nature-based interventions, urban design, environmental resource management, prisons, housing, international migration, and post-conflict situations.¬†This will be a useful read for scholars of human geography, social policy, urban studies, anthropology, political science and environmental economics. Policy makers will also appreciate the suggestions for improvement to wellbeing policies and practices.Trade Review'A powerful, thought-provoking and timely contribution, offering new insights that will greatly enhance our understanding of well-being and its determinants.' -- Dimitris Ballas, University of Groningen, the Netherlands'Wellbeing has been a vibrant field of research across a number of disciplines for several years. However, the experience of the pandemic, which has exposed deeply ingrained inequalities and injustices, makes the concept more relevant than ever. The pandemic raises the possibility of transformational change that could lead to a refocusing of policy goals away from narrowly-defined economic indicators to those focused on a multidimensional conception of wellbeing. As such, this volume is incredibly well timed. It brings together contributions from across the social sciences to demonstrate how understanding the ways in which wellbeing is mobilised as a concept in research, practice and policy is central to these endeavours. In highlighting practice-based approaches the volume reflects on how wellbeing could form the foundation of a post-pandemic world. In doing so, it provides a rich and valuable contribution not only to wellbeing scholarship but also to practical debates on how to take this agenda forward most effectively.' -- Ian Bache, University of Sheffield, UK'An essential practical aide for charting the challenges facing us today with the ambition they merit, A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research offers guidance for actions and policies to improve wellbeing while casting some light on the different understandings of this important, but complex concept.' -- Katherine Trebeck, Wellbeing Economy Alliance'Wellbeing is the overarching aim of social science and needs a multidisciplinary dialogue and approach. For sustainable, inclusive well-being as both a goal and process we need to draw on the strengths of all academic disciplines. You won‚Äôt agree with everything here, I don‚Äôt, but that‚Äôs the point as we work out what really matters, how we can study it and how to use that knowledge in practice.' -- Nancy Hey, Executive Director, What Works Centre for Wellbeing, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Katherine Trebeck, Wellbeing Economy Alliance 1 Introduction to wellbeing research 1 Beverley A Searle, Jessica Pykett and Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds PART I APPROACHING WELLBEING 2 Commentary to Part I: reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing 23 Sarah Atkinson 3 Towards a queer epistemological framework for wellbeing research 29 Julia Zielke 4 A Marxian approach to wellbeing: human nature and use value 51 David Watson 5 Developing qualitative, biographical research into happiness and wellbeing: a sociological perspective 68 Mark Cieslik 6 Practicing wellbeing through community economies: an action research approach 84 Thomas SJ Smith and Kelly Dombroski PART II PRACTICING WELLBEING 7 Commentary to Part II: a wellbeing lens in practice 104 Neil Thin 8 Prisoners’ rehabilitation and wellbeing: a psychosocial perspective 110 Fabio Tartarini 9 Gender and wellbeing in post-war Sri Lanka 129 Fazeeha Azmi 10 Wellbeing and inclusion: a place for religion 148 Laura Kapinga and Bettina Bock 11 Children experiencing happiness in the city 164 Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds 12 Housing inequalities and wellbeing: a critical analysis of narratives from stakeholders in Luxembourg 184 Magdalena Górczyńska-Angiulli, Elise Machline 13 Woodlands and wellbeing: evaluating the ‘Actif Woods Wales’ programme 205 Heli Gittins, Sophie Wynne-Jones and Val Morrison PART III WHERE NEXT FOR WELLBEING? 14 Commentary to Part III: wellbeing: a means for informed policy-making 227 Susan J Elliott 15 Who benefits and who suffers from international migration? Global evidence from the science of happiness 232 Martijn Hendriks 16 Human wellbeing in environmental management 245 Kelly Biedenweg and David J Trimbach 17 Budgeting for wellbeing 266 Arthur Grimes 18 Subjective wellbeing and transformation 282 Beverley A Searle Index

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Book SynopsisHighlighting the global scale of the major classes of voluntary movements - commodities and people, capital, information and technology - Aharon Kellerman offers a contemporary and synthesizing perspective on global spatial mobilities. This wide-ranging book sheds new light on each of the mobility types individually as well as globalization and spatial mobilities more broadly through detailed comparative analysis. This important work is set in the context of current conflicting global trends towards growing globalization of information and technology on the one hand and pressures to limit the globalization of the movements of immigrants and commodities on the other. By its nature, the book will appeal to a wide international readership and is of particular value to students and researchers in a variety of fields that focus on mobility and globalization, namely, geography, business administration, economics, sociology and political science.Trade Review'This is an impressive grand sweeping book about the globalization and spatial mobility of people, capital, information and technology. It requires a great scholar such as Kellerman to bring such wide-ranging topics together in a single book.' --Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization and Mobility 2. Ports and Ships 3. The Global Mobility of Commodities (Exports and Imports) 4. Airports and Airplanes 5. Global Tourism and Relocation 6. International Banking and Investment Organs 7. The Global Mobility of Capital 8. Digital Media: Telephony, Radio, Television, and the Internet 9. Global Information Mobility 10. Global Transfers of Technology and Knowledge 11. Global Mobilities: Patterns and Relationships 12. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisWhereas rational choice theory has enjoyed considerable success in economics and political science, due to its emphasis on individual behavior sociologists have long doubted its capacity to account for non-market social outcomes. Whereas they have conceded that rational choice theory may be an appropriate tool to understand strictly economic phenomena - that is, the kinds of social interactions that occur in the gesellschaft- many sociologists have contended that the theory is wholly unsuitable for the analysis of the kinds of social interactions in the gemeinschaft - such as those occurring in families, in social groups of all kinds, and in society at large. In a variety of non-technical chapters, Rational Choice Sociology shows that a sociological version of rational choice theory indeed can make valuable contributions to the analysis of a wide variety of non-market outcomes, including those concerning social norms, family dynamics, crime, rebellion, state formation and social order. 'Michael Hechter is one of the major proponents of rational actor theory in the social sciences. The book is a useful collection of some of the major articles that cover important issues that are of general interest - in particular collective action and social order. The book shows the wide range of application of the theory and, hopefully, will contribute to further increase its recognition as an important tool to explain social phenomena.' - Karl-Dieter Opp, University of Leipzig, Germany and University of Washington, US 'An early pioneer of sociological rational choice, Michael Hechter has made seminal contributions to rational choice theory over a career spanning nearly 50 years. This book brings those contributions together in a single volume. Although the chapters address a range of substantive topics--fertility decisions, the value of children, collective action, the genesis of mutiny, and state formation--at its core is a deep concern with a fundamental question for social science: How is social order, solidarity, and control possible in human societies? This book provides a compelling answer from a rational choice perspective.' - Ross L. Matsueda, University of Washington, USTrade Review'Throughout his long career, Michael Hechter has been one of the discipline's most creative and exacting theorists. This volume pulls together some of his most important publications, showing an extraordinary range of contributions to a variety of substantive problems--from the foundations of social order, to the formation of group solidarity, civil war, rebellion, state structures, and the foundations of class versus identity politics.' --Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University, US'This is one of the finest collections of papers in sociological theory. Michael Hechter's work on sociological rational choice theory captivates with its creative application to a multitude of different topics among them the key questions of solidarity, social change, and social order. Hechter shows that sociological rational choice theory is much more than a utility maximization device. By adding ''value'' to rational choice he elegantly comes to innovative and often surprising explanations of social phenomena. Dealing with the work of this most eminent theorist is a must for any scholar interested in sociological theory and its applications.' --Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and University of Leipzig, Germany'Michael Hechter has pioneered the application of rational choice theory to sociology. The range of his contributions--and the extent to which he has refined the theory--is well represented in this collection of seminal essays on key sociological topics, such as demography, nationalism, historical sociology, collective action, state formation and social norms. If the discipline has now acquired firm analytical foundations, it is to a great extent thanks to Hechter's scholarship. No student of sociology can afford to ignore such an extraordinary body of work.' --Federico Varese, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Michael Hechter PART I THEORY 1 Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1997), ‘Sociological Rational Choice Theory’, Annual Review of Sociology , 23 , 191–214 2 2 Debra Friedman, Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1994), ‘A Theory of the Value of Children’, Demography , 31 (3), August, 375–401 26 3 Debra Friedman, Michael Hechter and Derek Kreager (2008), ‘A Theory of the Value of Grandchildren’, Rationality and Society , 20 (1), February, 31–63 53 PART II COLLECTIVE ACTION 4 Michael Hechter (1978), ‘Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labor’, American Journal of Sociology , 84 (2), September, 293–318 87 5 David Siroky and Michael Hechter (2016), ‘Ethnicity, Class, and Civil War: The Role of Hierarchy, Segmentation, and Cross-cutting Cleavages’, Civil Wars , 18 (1), January, 1–17 113 6 Michael Hechter (2004), ‘From Class to Culture’, American Journal of Sociology , 110 (2), September, 400–445 130 7 Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff and Patrick Underwood (2016), ‘Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820’, American Sociological Review , 81 (1), February, 165–89 176 8 Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter and Katie E. Corcoran (2016), ‘The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797’, Social Science History , 40 (2), Summer, 247–70 201 PART III SOCIAL ORDER 9 Michael Hechter and William Brustein (1980), ‘Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe’, American Journal of Sociology , 85 (5), March, 1061–94 226 10 Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1993), ‘Group Solidarity and Social Order in Japan’, Journal of Theoretical Politics , 5 (4), October, 455–93 260 11 Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter (1998), ‘A Theory of the State and of Social Order’, Homo Oeconomicus , XV (1), 1–26 299 12 Michael Hechter (2018), ‘Norms in the Evolution of Social Order’, Social Research: An International Quarterly , 85 (1), Spring, 23–51 325 Index

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