Social welfare, social policy and social services Books
Stanford University Press Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of
Book SynopsisCan there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either—without yielding all hope. Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.Trade Review"By naming the arbitrary, anarchic nature of policy, Tess Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head. The sheer effectiveness of the writing speaks to her ethnographic skill in delineating bureaucratic purpose: the result is a stunning re-visioning whose implications will reach far beyond what stimulated it." -- Marilyn Strathern * University of Cambridge *"Wild Policy offers an extraordinary contribution to the anthropology of policy, settler colonialism, and infrastructural inequality. Tess Lea's profound accomplishment rests on her sharp, ethnographically innovative account of policy as a milieu, its attention to the uneven ground of policy's materiality, and its appreciation for the work involved in wresting some good from policy's consequential detritus." -- Daniel Fisher * University of California, Berkeley *"Lea is an acute observer of the everyday practices that characterise the wild, disorderly, and strange cultural world of the interventionist settler-colonial state....this is courageous scholarship. Wild Policy's blast of originality compelled me." -- Eve Vincent * Sydney Review of Books *"[There] is a poetics in Lea's anthologising of policies, one that is profoundly moored in land and relations. The efficacy and power of Lea's work, be [it] destabilising or advocating, lies in their specific and relational mode of engagement with human and more-than-human worlds." -- Jamie Wang * Sydney Environment Institute *"Wild Policy provides a nuanced take on how policy is formulated and implemented in ways that exclude Indigenous experience, and seeks to rectify this through the interludes that present Indigenous knowledge apart from scholarly theorization." -- Claire Ross and Alexander Howes * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
£75.20
Stanford University Press Manifesto for a Dream: Inequality, Constraint,
Book SynopsisA searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental, narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured for all.Trade Review"Jackson urges scientists to step up and build visions of change that support communities in their fight for justice. She sets the path for radical change that is attainable to save our society from further deterioration—and to realize the Dream of equality on which our government was founded. Change requires all of us—including academics. Let's all heed her call—we cannot afford to wait." * Dolores Huerta *"Should we bind the fates of rich and poor children together, so that if one rises or falls, the other does too? Should we outlaw practices that generate inequality? Should education be reserved for the first two decades of life or should we promote lifelong learning? These are some of the questions Michelle Jackson raises in this thought-provoking book. Manifesto for a Dream dispenses with tinkering around the edges to advocate for a social science that embraces radical reforms to reduce inequality. This is a book to wrestle with." -- Matthew Desmond * Princeton University *"A searing analysis and reckoning with what it will take to ensure the 'dream' extends to those who have been so long denied it. An exceptionally creative and hopeful vision for what America could become. Now is the time to embrace this bold vision." -- Kathryn J. Edin * author of $2.00 a Day *"Grounded in justice, this book provides an essential critique and call to arms for the academy, and social scientists, in particular, to alter our ways of facilitating the status-quo of growing inequality, and, instead, to more directly promote radical reform to a system that has generated institutions that serve the elite and constraint the rest. I applaud Michelle Jackson for setting an example and providing a blueprint for anyone who wants to understand the necessary role of academics for an authentic solution to unjust inequality." -- Darrick Hamilton * The New School *"[Manifesto for a Dream] invites readers to rethink the limited and isolated social proposals present today, and to generate large-scale policy interventions to address the larger, more complex, interconnected network of advantage and disadvantage that unfairly limits access to societal resources. Recommended." -- K. M. McKinley * CHOICE *
£19.79
Stanford University Press Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in
Book SynopsisWhat should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In Supercorporate, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal participation? As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical past, Prentice argues that the drive to redefine the meaning of corporate labor echoes a central ambiguity around corporate labor today. Even as corporations remain idealized sites of middle-class aspiration in South Korea, employees are torn over whether they want greater recognition for their work or meaningful forms of cooperation. Through an in-depth ethnography of the Sangdo Group conglomerate, the book examines how managers attempt to perfect corporate social life through new office programs while also minimizing the risks of creating new hierarchies. Ultimately, this book reveals how office life is a battleground for working out the promises and the perils of economic democratization in one of East Asia's most dynamic countries.Trade Review"A major ethnographic study, Supercorporate offers a rare glimpse into the social world within a corporation where far more than economic production takes place. Readers will be struck by the book's far-reaching implications for comprehending the conflicts between hierarchy and democracy."—Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania"Prentice's revelatory book unveils the HR practices of a Korean conglomerate as it shifts from overwork and forced conviviality to carrying out meritocratic ideals. This organization in transition reflects its society at large. A must-read for both researchers and practitioners engaged in collaborative endeavors across or within corporations."—Katherine Chen, The City College of New York, CUNY"Prentice has written an interesting and useful account of both changes in the corporate work environment in neoliberal South Korea and the continuities in its corporate organizational forms. Hierarchies are not necessarily simply flattened out: they have been morphin in ways shaped by both the profit motive and social expectations."—Vladimir Tikhonov, Asian Studies Review"Supercorporate delivers on its promises. The book clarifies the nuances involved in incentivizing employees through balancing opportunities for distinction and participation amid hierarchical infrastructures. It is in those office programs where 'post-hierarchy' South Korea could be found. Supercorporate thus offers a timely ethnography of South Korean office life and its multifaceted hierarchies."—Olga Fedorenko, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A New Tower 2. Infrastructures of Distinction 3. Old Spirits of Capitalism 4. Surveying Sangdo 5. Interrupting Democracy 6. Virtual Escapes Conclusion: Hidden Distinctions Methodological Appendix
£86.40
Stanford University Press Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in
Book SynopsisWhat should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In Supercorporate, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal participation? As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical past, Prentice argues that the drive to redefine the meaning of corporate labor echoes a central ambiguity around corporate labor today. Even as corporations remain idealized sites of middle-class aspiration in South Korea, employees are torn over whether they want greater recognition for their work or meaningful forms of cooperation. Through an in-depth ethnography of the Sangdo Group conglomerate, the book examines how managers attempt to perfect corporate social life through new office programs while also minimizing the risks of creating new hierarchies. Ultimately, this book reveals how office life is a battleground for working out the promises and the perils of economic democratization in one of East Asia's most dynamic countries.Trade Review"A major ethnographic study, Supercorporate offers a rare glimpse into the social world within a corporation where far more than economic production takes place. Readers will be struck by the book's far-reaching implications for comprehending the conflicts between hierarchy and democracy."—Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania"Prentice's revelatory book unveils the HR practices of a Korean conglomerate as it shifts from overwork and forced conviviality to carrying out meritocratic ideals. This organization in transition reflects its society at large. A must-read for both researchers and practitioners engaged in collaborative endeavors across or within corporations."—Katherine Chen, The City College of New York, CUNY"Prentice has written an interesting and useful account of both changes in the corporate work environment in neoliberal South Korea and the continuities in its corporate organizational forms. Hierarchies are not necessarily simply flattened out: they have been morphin in ways shaped by both the profit motive and social expectations."—Vladimir Tikhonov, Asian Studies Review"Supercorporate delivers on its promises. The book clarifies the nuances involved in incentivizing employees through balancing opportunities for distinction and participation amid hierarchical infrastructures. It is in those office programs where 'post-hierarchy' South Korea could be found. Supercorporate thus offers a timely ethnography of South Korean office life and its multifaceted hierarchies."—Olga Fedorenko, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A New Tower 2. Infrastructures of Distinction 3. Old Spirits of Capitalism 4. Surveying Sangdo 5. Interrupting Democracy 6. Virtual Escapes Conclusion: Hidden Distinctions Methodological Appendix
£23.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Policy
Book SynopsisHow do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by social policy today. In this introduction, Hartley Dean explains the extraordinary scope and importance of social policy. He explores its foundations and contemporary significance; the principal issues it addresses and their diverse economic, political and sociological dimensions, and concludes by looking anew at fundamental challenges facing social policy in a dramatically changing world. Introducing social policy as a broadly conceived study of human wellbeing, this revised and extensively updated third edition examines ways in which governments and peoples throughout the world attend to, promote, neglect or even undermine the things that make life worth living. These include essential services like healthcare and education; the means of livelihood – jobs and money – and sometimes intangible things such as physical and emotional security. Trying to understand these elements, which together constitute human wellbeing, is the stuff of social policy.Trade Review‘Hartley Dean’s passion for social policy shines through this work like a bright light. His lively and accessible book is a must read for anyone interested in learning more about the contemporary relevance of social policy and its possibilities in a changing world.’Mary Daly, University of Oxford ‘A lively, very interesting and thought-provoking introduction to a subject that is of increasing concern to us all.’Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsContents List of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Acknowledgements 1 What is Social Policy? 2 Where did it Come From? 3 Why on Earth does it Matter? 4 What does Human Wellbeing Entail? 5 Who Gets What? 6 Who's in Control? 7 What's the Trouble with Human Society? 8 Can Social Policy Solve Social Problems? 9 How are the Times a-Changing? 10 Where is Social Policy Going? References Index
£42.75
University of Pennsylvania Press Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics
Book SynopsisIn many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as “clientelism”). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality. In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. He draws on literature from multiple disciplines (urban planning, political science, sociology, anthropology, and others), statistical analysis of global data on urbanization, and an in-depth case study of urban Ghana. Urban planners and international development experts working in the Global South, as well as researchers, educators, and students of global urbanization will find Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics informative and thought-provoking.Trade Review"Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics provides a valuable perspective to understandand solve challenges to urban planning practices in the Global South...Deuskar has helped demonstrate [that] great opportunitiesremain for better managing informal urbanization toaccommodate population increase in these areas. The book is highly recommended for Ghanaian and Southern planning professionals, considering the hidden successes that practitioners could help uncover. It also serves as an excellent introductory book for academic and public policy–interested audiences engaging in a world of informal politics beyond the Global South." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics offers valuable insights, effectively bridging worlds of policymaking and academic pursuits. Anybody interested in the present and future of cities in the Global South should read it." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Challenge of Planning the Informal City Part I. Global Patterns 1. The Conflict Between Informal Politics and Urban Planning Around the World 2. The Global Relationship Between Clientelism and Urban Growth 3. Transitioning Away from Clientelism: Global Cases Part II. Politics and Planning in Urban Ghana 4. Urban Informality and Planning Failure in Ghana 5. How Clientelism Undermines Planning in Ghana 6. Chiefs, Thugs, and Boundaries: Other Political Constraints to Planning in Ghana 7. How Sodom and Gomorrah Survive: The Case of “Ghana's Biggest Slum” Part III. Politically Adaptive Planning 8. Seeking a Way Forward for Planning 9. A Politically Adaptive Approach to Planning Conclusion. Recognizing the Play Being Staged Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£50.40
University of Pennsylvania Press Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope,
Book SynopsisFrom 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the American justice system, from police misconduct to the death penalty. Drawing upon his encounters with tyrants, the inspiration of brave human rights heroes, and collaborations with celebrities ranging from Patrick Stewart to Salma Hayek, Schulz uses poignant narrative and amusing anecdotes to discuss the day-to-day realities of struggling with life-and-death human rights crises. In the process he ducks an assassination threat in Liberia; brings tears to the eyes of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; and bests America’s self-described “toughest sheriff” on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect. Full of reflection as well as action, Reversing the Rivers provides Schulz with the opportunity to address profound philosophical questions, such as “What is the nature of evil?”; “How do we foster the ‘better angels of our nature’?” “When may we use force to stop people from using force?” “Is the prohibition on torture as simple as it seems?” and “What’s wrong with an eye for an eye?” Most important, in an eloquent concluding chapter, he answers the quandary most frequently posed to him during his years at Amnesty, “Given all the horrors in the world you see day after day, how do you retain any hope at all in humanity?”Trade Review"Every war reporter, at core, is a human rights reporter. And I know of no better book on human rights than REVERSING THE RIVERS, by Bill Schulz, of Amnesty International. Schulz conducts a master class in both brilliant writing and being human. Read it!" * Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom *"A story of great leadership, action, kindness, and compassion, told with sharp prose and candid humor. Through his own extraordinary tale and those of the multitudes of people he met as executive director of Amnesty International, William F. Schulz’s memoir shines a bright torch on the importance of human rights and our collective power to create a safer and greater world for all." * Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers *"Former executive director of Amnesty International USA William F. Schulz has given us a powerful book that reveals profound philosophical lessons for a new generation grappling with complex human rights issues. At a time when hope seems elusive, Schulz’s human rights journey, with its horrors and victories, heroes and villains, is an intriguing story of how to retain hope in humanity." * Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation *
£30.60
Cognella, Inc Social Work Ethics in a Changing Society
Book SynopsisSocial Work Ethics in a Changing Society analyzes the challenges social workers face in applying social work values and ethics due to recent significant social, political, cultural, and technological changes. It provides readers with guidelines for ethical practice based on a philosophic foundation rooted in social justice principles. The book begins with a summary of key ethical concepts and principles. It then provides a brief history of social work ethics and analyzes their core assumptions in the context of new realities. The book provides readers with several frameworks through which to analyze a variety of contemporary ethical issues. In subsequent chapters, it applies these frameworks to situations largely derived from real world experience.Global sources provide a comparative perspective on the interpretation and implementation of social work values and ethics. The book contains extensive case examples and reflection exercises that illustrate ethical dilemmas in all areas of practice and those created or complicated by increasing social and cultural diversity. It includes content on the application of ethics to policy practice through examples drawn from the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and other current policy issues. Designed to help current and future social workers navigate a fractious, ever-evolving society, Social Work Ethics in a Changing Society is an excellent resource for students, faculty, and practitioners within the discipline.
£58.40
University of Minnesota Press Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir
Book SynopsisHow a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment Why do you continue to work on issues of justice? young Black people ask Josie Johnson today, then, perhaps in the same breath, How do you maintain hope? This book, a lifetime in the making, is Josie’s answer. A memoir about shouldering the cause of social justice during the darkest hours and brightest moments for civil rights in America—and, specifically, in Minnesota—Hope in the Struggle shines light on the difference one person can make. For Josie Johnson, this has meant making a difference as a Black woman in one of the nation’s whitest states.Josie’s story begins in a tight-knit community in Texas, where the unfairness of the segregated South, so antithetical to the values she learned at home, sharpened a sense of justice that guides her to this day. From the age of fourteen, when she went door to door with her father in Houston to campaign against the Poll Tax, to the moment in 2008 when, as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president, she has been at the forefront of the politics of civil rights. Her memoir offers a close-up picture of what that struggle has entailed, whether working as a community organizer for the Minneapolis Urban League or lobbying for fair housing and employment laws, investigating civil rights abuses or co-chairing the Minnesota delegation to the March on Washington, becoming the first African American to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents or creating the university’s Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with a focus on minority affairs and diversity. An intimate view of civil rights history in the making, Hope in the Struggle is a uniquely inspiring life story for these current dark and divisive times, a testament to how one determined soul can make the world a better place.Trade Review"Josie R. Johnson has always been a champion of fairness and decency, and this book shows us that while there is still work to be done, with her help, there will always be hope."—Walter Mondale"Like other institutions, like our society, like human life itself, universities are based on hope—on the belief that a struggle is worth it and that it can, and will, be won. Once in a while, someone comes along to help a university define hope in the midst of struggle. Dr. Josie Johnson, my admired colleague Josie, helped teach a generation of us at the University of Minnesota that the struggle for human and civil rights is worth it and that it can—and will—be won. Yes, she always taught us that there is ‘hope in the struggle’!"—Nils Hasselmo, former president, University of Minnesota"Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir poignantly captures nearly sixty years of the struggle for Civil Rights between 1950 and the election of President Barak Obama in 2008. Written from the perspective of a community activist, parent, scholar, and university administrator, Johnson has articulated well the issues confronting the movement for social justice in the United States. The breadth of her political contacts and the impact of her life’s work are breathtaking. This is a must read for those interested in American social history."—David Vassar Taylor, former dean, General College of the University of Minnesota"This is a must read for civil rights historians, public policy practitioners, women advocates, and anyone looking to be inspired. It chronicles Josie Johnson’s lifelong commitment to the struggle of the Black community to triumph over racism and discrimination. She gives us a more intimate understanding of the motivation behind her courageous work in Mississippi, at the Urban League in north Minneapolis, and at the University of Minnesota. Hope in the Struggle reminds us of the power of faith, the promise of hope, and the resilience that stems from love. Thank you, ‘Mama Josie,’ for sharing your love of family and community with all of us."—Sharon Sayles Belton, former mayor of Minneapolis "Johnson tells the city’s history, from the early 1950s until now, by placing its tiny but vibrant black community at the center. This is a memoir of Minneapolis. That it is told by an African-American woman makes it rare and necessary. That she is not afraid to identify and call out the ways in which white supremacy excluded black people from their full rights as Minnesotans—from exclusionary housing covenants to employment discrimination—is important. It’s a book that might help newcomers understand the city’s racial history and one that long-timers might find revelatory."—Star Tribune "Johnson’s memoir covers a lot of difficult territory, but one thing rings clear throughout: She has met these myriad challenges and difficulties with intelligence, energy, and hope."—Minnesota Alumni "Josie Johnson. The term ‘living legend’ might well understate her stature in the community. She is a beloved lady with a warmhearted smile and serious political clout who has made history."—Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder "This inspiring memoir describes how one person, a black woman from Texas, has made a difference in one of the whitest states in the country."—Minnesota History "A captivating book that explores the history of racial inequality in the United States."—The Corresponder
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University of Minnesota Press Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays
Book SynopsisThe compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community Carolyn Holbrook’s life is peopled with ghosts—of the girl she was, the selves she shed and those who have caught up to her, the wounded and kind and malevolent spirits she’s encountered, and also the beloved souls she’s lost and those she never knew who beg to have their stories told. “Now don’t you go stirring things up,” one ghostly aunt counsels. Another smiles encouragingly: “Don’t hold back, child. Someone out there needs to hear what you have to say.” Once a pregnant sixteen-year-old incarcerated in the Minnesota juvenile justice system, now a celebrated writer, arts activist, and teacher who helps others unlock their creative power, Holbrook has heeded the call to tell the story of her life, and to find among its chapters—the horrific and the holy, the wild and the charmed—the lessons and necessary truths of those who have come before. In a memoir woven of moments of reckoning, she summons stories born of silence, stories held inside, untold stories stifled by pain or prejudice or ignorance. A child’s trauma recalls her own. An abusive marriage returns to haunt her family. She builds a career while raising five children as a single mother; she struggles with depression and grapples with crises immediate and historical, all while countenancing the subtle racism lurking under “Minnesota nice.” Here Holbrook poignantly traces the path from her troubled childhood to her leadership positions in the Twin Cities literary community, showing how creative writing can be a powerful tool for challenging racism and the healing ways of the storyteller’s art. Trade Review"Carolyn Holbrook’s remarkable book testifies to the power of the arts to heal her own life traumas, both historical and more recent. We see and hear her learn to speak up, and to claim space, in a world designed to keep silent or remove people like her."—Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies"Carolyn Holbrook is steadfast in her work to break free of constrictions that harm one’s spirit, knowing them to be racially, economically, and culturally imposed. Honest and perceptive stories of her experiences illuminate how her basic acts to create, over and over again, make for a life whose purpose and meaning resonate with her readers."—Cindy Gehrig, retired president, Jerome Foundation"Carolyn Holbrook's evocative essays show how experience shapes—across generations and within a single lifespan—both writing and the writer. There are important stories here, stories of single parenting, stories of struggle and connection, stories of colorism and of age. There are stories of Black south Minneapolis and the land where Prince emerged, stories of generations that hurt and heal together, and stories of how stories are shaped by all of these things. This is a book about writing, and it is a book about a writer's life that is chaptered by its connection to other lives. Read it."—Susan Raffo, writer, cultural worker, and community organizer"Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify is a powerful portrait of a life fueled by hope and faith in art and the artfulness of self, others, and community. Carolyn Holbrook’s social observations and personal remembrances cut across lines of race, class, and generational divides, deep into the heart of who we all are to one another at our most fundamental level of creative being. You will shiver, laugh, cry, cheer, stomp, want to sing, and, perhaps most indelibly of all, by the grace of this bold book and its author’s beautiful invocation, you too will feel inspired and empowered to write what lives deepest within you back into its vibrant fullness."—Ed Bok Lee, author of Mitochondrial Night"Carolyn Holbrook’s stories are a necessary telling of the history of our city and the roots of its literary community, creating new entrances where there previously were the usual monsters of exclusion and marginalization. These stories blend sincere accounts of her own personal survival, clutching tightly to family and history at every blow, with the contributions of all of these experiences to make a single fascinating lifetime. She teaches us how art and the human survive what was meant to suppress them and that our greatest creations as artists may be found in the ways we care for each other. I am astounded by her generosity of spirit in this book and in her work with those of us fortunate enough to cross her path."—Zeke Caligiuri, author of This Is Where I Am"The organization of the essays is also quite brilliant. It feels like a conversation—albeit one with the most eloquent person I’ve ever talked to."—The Bookish Feminist"This ultimately uplifting collection is candid, vibrant and powerful."—Ms. Magazine"The memoir of Twin Cities writer Carolyn Holbrook is one of fortitude and resilience. . . . During a time when this country seems to be in the midst of a historic reckoning, Holbrook’s story should be read as more than a memoir. She sets out to personalize and underscore the resilience that goes into surviving and thriving without resources."—Star Tribune"Carolyn Holbrook has accomplished wonderful and amazing things—not the least of which is raising five children on her own and earning a doctorate. She encountered obstacles, prejudice, and sexism, and overcame them all, and her story is empowering, uplifting, and inspiring."—Tomorrow Is Another Day"Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify is powerful, touching, and igniting in its messages, its structure, and its reflections."—The Bookish FeministTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: Liza1. My Roots2. Coming Clean3. Tania’s Birthday4. The “Award”5. Finally Independent6. Reflections on Teaching7. Expectations and Assumptions8. How Long Does it Take?9. I Want to Know My Name10. The Bank Robbery11. Neighborhood Watch12. My Daughter, Myself13. Sex and the Single Grandma14. Say What?15. Earth Angels16. Stones and SticksAcknowledgmentsPublication History
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University of Minnesota Press Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from
Book SynopsisThe mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone’s child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor’s daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals like Sara Jane Olson (aka Kathleen Soliah) in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles Police in May 1974. How could a “good girl” like Camilla become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Rachael Hanel tells her story here, revealing both the deep humanity and the extraordinary circumstances of Camilla Hall’s life.Camilla’s childhood in a tight-knit religious family was marred by loss and grief as, one after another, her three siblings died. Her path from her Minnesota home to her final, radical SLA family featured years as an artist and activist—in welfare offices, political campaigns, union organizing, culminating in a love affair that would be her introduction to the SLA. Through in-depth research and extensive interviews, Hanel pieces together Camilla’s bewildering transformation from a “gentle, zaftig, arty, otherworldy” young woman (as one observer remarked), working for social change within the system, into a gun-wielding criminal involved in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.During this time of mounting unrest and violence, Camilla Hall’s story is of urgent interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Hanel ventures ever further into Camilla’s past, searching out the critical points where character and cause might intersect, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving journey into the dark side of America’s promise.Trade Review "Who are the shadows in the background of shocking events? Rachael Hanel’s compelling exploration of Camilla Hall, a likable Minnesota social worker turned Berkeley lesbian artist turned player in the most notorious political kidnapping of its time, grippingly illuminates the barely perceptible line between an unrelenting passion for justice and devastating choices from which one can’t return."—Barrie Jean Borich, author of Apocalypse, Darling and Body Geographic "In this captivating work of narrative journalism, Rachael Hanel explores how people can become radicalized in the face of governmental failure, charting the path from idealism to violence to tragedy. At its heart, this is a book about womanhood and belonging—and one woman’s quest to understand another, to find the empathy and humanity that live beyond the headlines if we only try hard enough to see."—Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland: Essays "In this affecting account, creative writing professor Hanel delves into the life of Camilla Hall, who was raised in rural Minnesota by religious parents and died at 29 in a 1974 shoot-out between members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, and the Los Angeles police. This nuanced portrait will resonate with many."—Publishers Weekly "The story’s relevant connections to the happenings in today’s political world will linger with you. You will keep thinking about Camilla’s life and her family long after you finish the book."—KYMN Radio "Hanel breathes new life and understanding into Hall, who was often ridiculed in mainstream media, and invites readers to understand one woman’s story through a lens less viewed."—Mankato Free Press
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Bristol University Press Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to
Book SynopsisIn this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments to reinforce their penal powers. It shows how ‘tough on crime’ messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This is an important addition to the debate around the complex and interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Thatcherism and its Legacy Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979– 2015) Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration Exploring the Punitive Turn The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy New Labour, New Realism? Austerity and the Big Society Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State
£76.00
Bristol University Press Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to
Book SynopsisIn this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments to reinforce their penal powers. It shows how ‘tough on crime’ messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This is an important addition to the debate around the complex and interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Thatcherism and its Legacy Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979– 2015) Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration Exploring the Punitive Turn The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy New Labour, New Realism? Austerity and the Big Society Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State
£25.64
Bristol University Press Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass
Book SynopsisWhy do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill, frequently poor people of color? Via multiple re-framings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a "persecution of the prophetic" at the heart of the contemporary criminal justice system. This interdisciplinary book draws on criminology, theology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and psychiatric history to consider the increasingly intractable issue of mass incarceration. Inviting a new, collaborative conversation on penal reform as a fundamentally "life-affirming" project, it defends the dignity of those diagnosed as mentally unstable and their capacity for spiritual transcendence.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of the Problem of Mental Illness and Incarceration 2. How We Think About the Mentally Ill 3. Why Do We Punish the Mentally Ill? 4. A Profile of the "Mad" Prophet 5. Prophetic Types and the Penal Sanctuary Conclusion
£76.50
Fordham University Press Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the
Book SynopsisProvides unique insight into Reconstruction’s downfall and Jim Crow’s emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people’s steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran– abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism’s racial justice history and legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History | 1 1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform | 19 2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism | 45 3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism’s Grand Old Party | 72 4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields | 100 5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism | 125 6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism | 154 7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women | 191 Coda: Complicated Legacies | 219 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 269
£95.20
Fordham University Press Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the
Book SynopsisProvides unique insight into Reconstruction’s downfall and Jim Crow’s emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people’s steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran– abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism’s racial justice history and legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History | 1 1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform | 19 2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism | 45 3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism’s Grand Old Party | 72 4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields | 100 5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism | 125 6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism | 154 7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women | 191 Coda: Complicated Legacies | 219 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 269
£26.99
Brookes Publishing Co Make the Day Matter!: Promoting Typical
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the volume addresses the background and evolution of day services, national trends, and guiding principles for meaningful daytimes. Chapters discuss: transition from school to meaningful lives, how individuals have used their own initiative to create work and work alternatives, lifelong learning/adult education, promoting community relationships and connections, self-advocacy, promoting meaningful daytimes for older people, organizational issues (innovative organizational structures and practices, organizational conversion from facility-based to community-based services), and policy and practice in promoting quality daytime supports. Focus will be placed on examples, case studies, and practical strategies, themes of self-determination, cultural diversity, and collaboration.
£25.46
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Politics of Health Policy: The U.S. Reforms,
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the federal health policies followed by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton and by the Democratic-controlled Congress. The book shows the connection between the crisis of health care and the correlation of class forces in America. Addresses one of the key areas of contemporary public policy in the US, challenging complacent assumptions and demonstrating the enduring popularity of the welfare state The author was part of the Clinton team responsible for health reform Trade Review"The Politics of Health Policy constitutes an important contribution to the debate of a crucial issue. However, the reach of Professor Navarro's book goes well beyond health policy: it is also a powerful and well-documented rebuttal of the many obfuscations which mask the reality of politics in the United States. It offers a sustained and effective challenge to conventional thinking and deserves very close attention." Ralph Miliband "This book should become a very interesting reference in the growing literature of the welfare state. Navarro's way of analyzing health and social policy issues, while well accepted in Europe, is not frequently heard in the US. His is a strong voice of a committed social reformer speaking with the force of an empirical scientist." Professor Goran Therborn, Gothenburg UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of the US Welfare State. 1. The 1980 and 1984 US Elections and the New Deal: An Alternative Interpretation. 2. Class Politics and Social Movements in the US. 3. The 1988 US Elections - The Primaries: The Rediscovery of the National Health Program by the Democratic Party, A Chronicle of the Jesse Jackson Campaign. 4. The 1988 Presidential Election. 5. The Welfare State and Its Redistributive Effects: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?. 6. Production and the Welfare State: The Political Context of Reforms. 7. Why Some Countries have National Health Insurance, Others Have National Health Services, and the US Has Neither. 8. The 1992 Presidential Election and the Clinton Adminstration Policies: The Politics of Health Care Reform.
£38.90
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness
Book SynopsisIn the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client relationships. This volume explores ethical issues specific to working with deaf clients, which include matters of confidentiality, managing multiple relationships, and the clinician's competency to provide services - particularly in communicating with and understanding deaf people without any subliminal bias. Led by Editor Virginia Gutman, this book is a unique collection of respected mental health professionals' experiences and knowledge in working with deaf clients and is sure to become a standard resource for therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals working with deaf people.
£53.68
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of original essays by leading experts on social and econmic policy including Frances Fox Piven, Harvey Molotch, Jill Quadagno, James Petras, and Judith Stacey. This volume challenges the conservative notion that the fundamental problem plaguing America is dependancy on government and further cuts only lead to a cycle of recision. Newly published articles by the leading experts in social and economic policy Explores conservative social policy of the late twentieth century Contains articles on welfare reform, health care, military spending and economic policy Trade Review"This is an impressive volume. It is filled with original insights on recent federal policies on domestic issues. I can think of no work that sheds more light on why the conservative political movement was able to seep through the Clinton administration and influence its economic and social policies." William Julius Wilson, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Not just during the Reagan and Bush presidencies, but under Clinton's, social policy has veered rightwards. This excellent collection of smart, sassy, analytically-grounded essays by a first-rate group of scholars offers detailed policy analyses--spanning issues of race, the welfare state, sexuality, and the military, among other topics--and provides broad, provocative overviews of the politics of our time. It is certain to provoke fresh considerations and challenge settled views." Ira I Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Went Right?. Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter The Conservative Trajectory in Federal Policy: Michael Schwartz (SUNY-Stony Brook). Part I: Welfare, Social Security, and the State of Austerity:. 1. Welfare and the Transformation of American Politics: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY-Graduate Center). 2. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Ron Walters (University of Maryland). 3. Urban America: Crushed in the Growth Machine: Harvey Molotch (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Rhetoric, Recision, and Reaction: The Development of Homelessness Policy: Cynthia Bogard (Hofstra), and J. Jeff McConnell (SUNY-Stony Brook). 5. Social Security Policy and the Entitlement Debate: The New American Exceptionalism: Jill Quadagno (Florida State University). Part II: Welfare-Warfare Spending, Technology, and the Global Economy:. 6. Wealth and Poverty in the National Economy: The Domestic Foundations of Clinton's Global Policy: Morris Morley (Macquarie University) and James Petras (SUNY - Binghampton). 7. America's Military Industrial Make-Over: Ann Markusen (Council on Foreign Relations). 8. Big Missions and Big Business: Military and Corporate Dominance of Federal Science Policy: Gregory Hooks (Washington State) and Gregory McLauchlan (University of Oregon). 9. Active-competitive Industrial Policy: From Elite Project to Logics of Action: J. Kenneth Benson and Nick Paretsky (University of Missouri). 10. Where Are All the Democrats?The Limits of Economic Policy Reform: Patrick Akard (Skidmore College). 11. Failure of Health-Care Reform: The Role of Big Business in Policy Formation: Beth Mintz (University of Vermont). Part III: Acting Out Conservative Ideology:. 12. The Malignant Masses on CNN: Media Use of Public Opinion Polls to Fabricate the "Conservative Majority" against Health-Care Reform: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). 13. Popular Consensus or Political Extortion?Making Soldiers the Means and Ends of U. S. Military Deployments: Jerry Lee Lembcke (Holy Cross College). 14. Theorizing and Politicizing Choice in the 1996 election: Zillah Eisenstein (Ithica College). 15. The Right Family Values: Judith Stacey (University of Southern California). 16. Contradictions in the Conservative Agenda: Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics on a Collision Course: Carole Joffe (University of California - Davis). Conclusion. Business Action, Conservative Acting, and Institutional Enactment: Economic Constraints on Social Policy: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). List of Contributors. Index.
£91.15
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of original essays by leading experts on social and econmic policy including Frances Fox Piven, Harvey Molotch, Jill Quadagno, James Petras, and Judith Stacey. This volume challenges the conservative notion that the fundamental problem plaguing America is dependancy on government and further cuts only lead to a cycle of recision. Newly published articles by the leading experts in social and economic policy Explores conservative social policy of the late twentieth century Contains articles on welfare reform, health care, military spending and economic policy Trade Review"This is an impressive volume. It is filled with original insights on recent federal policies on domestic issues. I can think of no work that sheds more light on why the conservative political movement was able to seep through the Clinton administration and influence its economic and social policies." William Julius Wilson, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Not just during the Reagan and Bush presidencies, but under Clinton's, social policy has veered rightwards. This excellent collection of smart, sassy, analytically-grounded essays by a first-rate group of scholars offers detailed policy analyses--spanning issues of race, the welfare state, sexuality, and the military, among other topics--and provides broad, provocative overviews of the politics of our time. It is certain to provoke fresh considerations and challenge settled views." Ira I Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Went Right?. Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter The Conservative Trajectory in Federal Policy: Michael Schwartz (SUNY-Stony Brook). Part I: Welfare, Social Security, and the State of Austerity:. 1. Welfare and the Transformation of American Politics: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY-Graduate Center). 2. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Ron Walters (University of Maryland). 3. Urban America: Crushed in the Growth Machine: Harvey Molotch (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Rhetoric, Recision, and Reaction: The Development of Homelessness Policy: Cynthia Bogard (Hofstra), and J. Jeff McConnell (SUNY-Stony Brook). 5. Social Security Policy and the Entitlement Debate: The New American Exceptionalism: Jill Quadagno (Florida State University). Part II: Welfare-Warfare Spending, Technology, and the Global Economy:. 6. Wealth and Poverty in the National Economy: The Domestic Foundations of Clinton's Global Policy: Morris Morley (Macquarie University) and James Petras (SUNY - Binghampton). 7. America's Military Industrial Make-Over: Ann Markusen (Council on Foreign Relations). 8. Big Missions and Big Business: Military and Corporate Dominance of Federal Science Policy: Gregory Hooks (Washington State) and Gregory McLauchlan (University of Oregon). 9. Active-competitive Industrial Policy: From Elite Project to Logics of Action: J. Kenneth Benson and Nick Paretsky (University of Missouri). 10. Where Are All the Democrats?The Limits of Economic Policy Reform: Patrick Akard (Skidmore College). 11. Failure of Health-Care Reform: The Role of Big Business in Policy Formation: Beth Mintz (University of Vermont). Part III: Acting Out Conservative Ideology:. 12. The Malignant Masses on CNN: Media Use of Public Opinion Polls to Fabricate the "Conservative Majority" against Health-Care Reform: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). 13. Popular Consensus or Political Extortion?Making Soldiers the Means and Ends of U. S. Military Deployments: Jerry Lee Lembcke (Holy Cross College). 14. Theorizing and Politicizing Choice in the 1996 election: Zillah Eisenstein (Ithica College). 15. The Right Family Values: Judith Stacey (University of Southern California). 16. Contradictions in the Conservative Agenda: Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics on a Collision Course: Carole Joffe (University of California - Davis). Conclusion. Business Action, Conservative Acting, and Institutional Enactment: Economic Constraints on Social Policy: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). List of Contributors. Index.
£40.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities
Book SynopsisExamines economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings to forge a new agenda for community economic development in minority neighborhoodsTrade Review"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." Journal of American Ethnic History "Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities provides a state-of-the-art compilation of current thinking on the issue of minority economic development. Given the economic distress that continues to plague minority communities in the United States, the book will be of interest to a broad array of urban planners and scholars." The Journal of Planning Education and Research "The compendium's most valuable contribution is its challenge to prevailing assumptions about the regional character of job markets and best practices in workforce and enterprise development...Practitioners and applied scholars will find useful frameworks for promoting, designing, and implementing holistic, community-based metropolitan economic development plans. The collection's challenges to status quo thinking about 'best practices' translate into reasoned approaches for nongentrifying, nondisplacing, and economically and socially effective economic development." Economic Development Quarterly "[A]n extremely valuable addition to debates focused on stimulating jobs and economic development in minority communities. It importantly -- and quite correctly -- emphasizes the need to sensitize community development activities according to geographical, cultural, and socio-political contexts and the need for interventions to be both cross-cutting and multi-dimensional." - Journal of Town Planning Review, issue 4, 2008Table of Contents1: Introduction: Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities Realities, Challenges, and Innovation (Ong, P. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A.) Part I: The Context 2: Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity: Implications for Community Economic Development (Blumenberg, E.); 3: Impacts of the New Social Policy Regime (Houston, D. and Ong, P.); Chapter 4: The Regional Nexus: The Promise and Risk of Community-Based Approaches to Metropolitan Equity (Pastor, M., Benner, C., and Matsuoka, M.) Part II: Labor Market Development 5: Workforce Development in Minority Communities (Stoll, M.); 6: Employment Opportunities Beyond the 'hood: African American and Hispanic Applicants in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia (Zonta, M.); 7: Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers (Valenzuela, A) Part III: Business Development 8: The Role of Black-owned Businesses in Black Community Development (Boston, T.); 9: New York City's Asian Immigrant Economies: Community Development Needs and Challenges (Hum, T.); 10: Indian Gaming as Community Economic Development (Jojola, T. and Ong, P.) Part IV: Complementary Strategies 11: Social Networks and Social Capital: Latinos in Pico Union (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Hutchinson, J.); 12: Linking Housing to Community Economic Development with Community Benefits Agreements: The Case of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice (Leavitt, J.); 13: Synchronizing Social Services with Labor Market Participation: Implications for Community Economic Development in Minority Neighborhoods (Takahashi, L); 14 Conclusion: Lessons for Community Economic Development (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Ong, P.)
£65.60
New Village Press The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of
Book SynopsisIn this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes this within American urbanism and human origins, making profoundly personal both African American and American urban histories as well as planetary origins and environmental issues, to not only bring a new worldview to people of color, but to set forth a truly inclusive vision of our shared planetary future. The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race connects the logics behind slavery, community disinvestment, and environmental exploitation to address the most pressing issues of our time in a cohesive and foundational manner. Most books dealing with these topics and periods silo issues apart from one another, but this book contextualizes the connections between social movements and issues, providing tremendous insight into successful movement building. Anthony's rich narrative describes both being at the mercy of racism, urban disinvestment, and environmental injustice as well as fighting against these forces with a variety of strategies. Because this work is both a personal memoir and an exposition of ideas, it will appeal to those who appreciate thoughtful and unique writing on issues of race, including individuals exploring their own African American identity, as well as progressive audiences of organizations and community leaders and professionals interested in democratizing power and advancing equitable policies for low-income communities and historically disenfranchised communities.
£17.09
New Village Press Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell
Book SynopsisA vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly's paintings, as well as profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history, but most importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward. Starting with Michelle Alexander and ending with Dave Zirin, the diverse array of fifty full-color portraits spans multiple generations and struggles. This volume also includes four original opening essays on racial justice in the United States by Ai-jen Poo, Dave Zirin, Sherri Mitchell, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., which provide an intersectional response to the long-term goal of diversity and inclusion. As Shetterly says, “without activism, hope is merely sentimental.” Portraits of Racial Justice, Shetterly’s homage to transformative game-changers and status-quo fighters, provides the inspiration necessary to spark social change.Trade Review"The work of Robert Shetterly is the work of a brilliant artist who cares about a living, breathing democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people—and not being saddled to a brittle history of the past. Inspired by vibrant paths of engagement, Shetterly’s Portraits of Racial Justice is a loving chronicle of charismatic change in the name of transformative and passionate leadership across disciplines, race, gender, and beliefs. This project is more than a series of spirited portraits, it is a masterpiece of revolutionary ideas." -- Terry Tempest Williams"I'm lucky enough to know some of these great heroes, and can testify that Robert Shetterly has captured not just their likeness but their essence. These portraits inspire and comfort, reminding us of how many fine people have built our history, and how possible it is for the rest of us to emulate them." -- Bill McKibben"Situated powerfully and beautifully at the intersection of art and history, Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth inspires, teaches, and captivates. The visually spectacular work highlighting the courage of Americans past and present who dared to advocate for a more just world serves as a reminder of the roads we have traveled and offers hope for future generations in the ongoing struggle for justice, human rights, equality, and equity. The individuals featured in this series and book demand integrity and compel us all to carry forward the work of past generations." -- LaVonda N. Reed"What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? Robert Shetterly’s dazzling portraits cut through the gauzy cotton wool that entangles us, shake us awake from the deep American sleep of denial, and invite us to question the taken-for-granted as we rise up and move beyond the United States of Amnesia. Here are the peace-makers and the freedom fighters, the dissidents and dissenters, the loving rebels and the justice-seeking radicals—those who know that in an era of ‘alternate facts,’ duplicity and fraud, the simple truth can itself be revolutionary, and the fundamental, first questions can become our guide: Who are your people? Who do you claim? Where do we want to go?" -- Bill Ayers"This book is a fierce concentration of moral truth. It breaks down the borders of false supremacy—white, male, and otherwise—that too many people too easily accept as ‘reality.’ The heart of a sane future beats within." -- Bob Koehler"If you want inspiration in these challenging times, you could do no better than the portraits of patriots in Americans Who Tell the Truth. From leaders in the early days of the civil rights movement to the heroes and heroines in the current fight for racial justice, Rob Shetterly brings to life people whose work has been to build a more just world, and to whom we are all indebted." -- Cecile Richards"Teachers: Introduce your students to Robert Shetterly’s magnificent portraits of racial justice and invite young people to join the current of conscience that flows through our history. How can one not feel hope when surrounded by these defiant truth-tellers—painted by Shetterly with love and respect. This book is a gift to educators; it belongs in every classroom in the United States." -- Bill Bigelow
£26.99
New Village Press Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell
Book SynopsisFive compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly's magnificent color portraits and profiles of fifty environmental and climate activists—people who diagnose the truth of the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted and take action. The book also features original essays by revered environmentalists Bill McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Bill Bigelow, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose words illuminate the plight and its causes, and point a way forward. Along with the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the institution of slavery, the third tragic and persistent mistake of the leaders of this country was to attempt to separate economic and political culture from the laws of nature—to operate on the basis that nature could be exploited endlessly for profit. The damage done to the Earth and to the future of life on the planet is incalculable. The people portrayed here have bought warnings, offered solutions, and organized movements to restore ecological sanity.Trade Review"Americans Who Tell the Truth offers much-needed rays of hope in times made dark by the climate crisis and deep inequality. It provides uplifting portraits, both verbal and pictorial, of courageous activists who have devoted their lives to the fight for climate justice. " -- —David M. Driesen, University Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; author, The Specter of Dictatorship"Portraits of Earth Justice illuminates the humanity of forward-thinking advocates taking critical bold actions on the challenge of our lifetime: the climate crisis. At a time when democracy and the very life support systems of humanity are threatened, let these beautiful faces and works inspire you to keep rising up, or rise up for the first time, to preserve our rights and this beautiful and sustaining planet for all of our children and future generations. " -- Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust"Through Robert Shetterly'ss masterful portraits of brilliant women and men activists in the work of doing justice to the soil and the plants and animals we need to nurture, and through their passionate essays imploring us to cherish instead of despoil the only Earth we have, this book empowers us. Like the words of Sandra Steingraber inscribed in her portrait, 'We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony.' " -- Peter Davis, Academy Award winning filmmaker, author of Girl of My Dreams"It is rare that you come across a book as stunningly impactful as Portraits of Earth Justice. The essays by this diverse cast of environmental protagonists are riveting and Rob Shetterly’s portraits of people who love and care for the earth are piercing in their beauty and depth of character. I can’t think of a better way to move people, particularly young people, from despair about the climate crisis to empowerment and inspiration than sharing this gift to Mother Earth that Rob Shetterly has created. " -- Medea Benjamin, author and cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace
£26.99
Information Age Publishing Transformative Learning in Healthcare and Helping
Book SynopsisTransformative Learning in Healthcare and Helping Professions Education: Building Resilient Professional Identities is a co-edited book (Carter, Boden, and Peno) with invited chapters from educators who share our passion for learning in healthcare and the helping professions. The purpose of the book is to introduce professional learners (students, residents, and others in professional training) to transformative learning for building resilient professional identities amid practice environments that include widespread burnout and compassion fatigue. With a diverse set of authors engaged in clinical and educational practice in academic medicine, nursing, dentistry, physical therapy, mental health counseling, science education, psychology, social work, and inter-professional collaborative practice, we offer strategies for building resilience throughout the years of professional training and into professional practice. We do so through the experiences of authors involved in healthcare and the helping professions to illustrate how some are coping with the challenges of burnout and compassion fatigue through learning that can be transformative.This book explores the nature of professional identity formation by examining ways that professionals in training can thrive amid the challenges of today’s stressful practice environments. First-hand stories of resilience illustrate how learners, as well as educators in these professions, are addressing adversity, career decision-making, service to the underserved, and the self-care needed to provide excellent care for others. The prominence of transformative learning within adult learning theory is illustrated for its potential to revise the meaning that learners make of their experiences and open up new possibilities for renewed vitality in professional education and practice environments.The book has two primary audiences: professional learners in healthcare and helping professions education, and their educators who are often professional practitioners themselves. These educators have a significant role in influencing the next generation of professionals by serving as mentors, role models, and teachers. The importance of fostering learning that is transformative has never been more important than it is today for those who will work in these demanding professions. We invite readers to discover experiences and strategies for achieving individual wellbeing, as well as opportunities for building a culture within professional education and practice settings that will foster resilience.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Transformative Learning in Healthcare and Helping
Book SynopsisTransformative Learning in Healthcare and Helping Professions Education: Building Resilient Professional Identities is a co-edited book (Carter, Boden, and Peno) with invited chapters from educators who share our passion for learning in healthcare and the helping professions. The purpose of the book is to introduce professional learners (students, residents, and others in professional training) to transformative learning for building resilient professional identities amid practice environments that include widespread burnout and compassion fatigue. With a diverse set of authors engaged in clinical and educational practice in academic medicine, nursing, dentistry, physical therapy, mental health counseling, science education, psychology, social work, and inter-professional collaborative practice, we offer strategies for building resilience throughout the years of professional training and into professional practice. We do so through the experiences of authors involved in healthcare and the helping professions to illustrate how some are coping with the challenges of burnout and compassion fatigue through learning that can be transformative.This book explores the nature of professional identity formation by examining ways that professionals in training can thrive amid the challenges of today’s stressful practice environments. First-hand stories of resilience illustrate how learners, as well as educators in these professions, are addressing adversity, career decision-making, service to the underserved, and the self-care needed to provide excellent care for others. The prominence of transformative learning within adult learning theory is illustrated for its potential to revise the meaning that learners make of their experiences and open up new possibilities for renewed vitality in professional education and practice environments.The book has two primary audiences: professional learners in healthcare and helping professions education, and their educators who are often professional practitioners themselves. These educators have a significant role in influencing the next generation of professionals by serving as mentors, role models, and teachers. The importance of fostering learning that is transformative has never been more important than it is today for those who will work in these demanding professions. We invite readers to discover experiences and strategies for achieving individual wellbeing, as well as opportunities for building a culture within professional education and practice settings that will foster resilience.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing a Paradigm of Care
Book SynopsisRemember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be widowers for their wives and teachers for their students, but also for the ranchers for their cattle and the contemplative world for our environment. This is a book to think more closely of the support for care, individual as it so often will be, to be woven more closely together in a paradigm of care. Care is always prominent. Care for others, of the family, care for those of the tribe, care for animals and homes and gardens and properties, self-care. And the purse. Even without teaching, compensation, or legislation, care survives, but even with these helpings, it falls short of the need. We live in a crisis of care. Thinking explicitly and beyond health care. There is no mechanism of state and conscience that delivers care to all the venues of need, and seldom in the amounts needed. The reservoirs of care are far from empty, but at a mark that needs topping up. There is need for care advocacy, a care ethic, a paradigm. This book is about that paradigm. A care paradigm may bring comfort and recovery more fully to the people and organic creations of the world. The paradigm hears the moan of indifference. It draws upon the eyes of the heart. The paradigm is about how we see the need for care. The care paradigm, the grand beholding, is manifest in how we provide for others, how we nurture them, give succor, how we are disposed, and are not, to sacrifice to relieve their hurt. It is not only caring for those visibly needing care, unable to care for themselves, but caring for all. It is having a disposition that the hurts, large and small, that all of us carry, arouse concern and appreciation from and for each individual, the community and the world.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing a Paradigm of Care
Book SynopsisRemember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be widowers for their wives and teachers for their students, but also for the ranchers for their cattle and the contemplative world for our environment. This is a book to think more closely of the support for care, individual as it so often will be, to be woven more closely together in a paradigm of care. Care is always prominent. Care for others, of the family, care for those of the tribe, care for animals and homes and gardens and properties, self-care. And the purse. Even without teaching, compensation, or legislation, care survives, but even with these helpings, it falls short of the need. We live in a crisis of care. Thinking explicitly and beyond health care. There is no mechanism of state and conscience that delivers care to all the venues of need, and seldom in the amounts needed. The reservoirs of care are far from empty, but at a mark that needs topping up. There is need for care advocacy, a care ethic, a paradigm. This book is about that paradigm. A care paradigm may bring comfort and recovery more fully to the people and organic creations of the world. The paradigm hears the moan of indifference. It draws upon the eyes of the heart. The paradigm is about how we see the need for care. The care paradigm, the grand beholding, is manifest in how we provide for others, how we nurture them, give succor, how we are disposed, and are not, to sacrifice to relieve their hurt. It is not only caring for those visibly needing care, unable to care for themselves, but caring for all. It is having a disposition that the hurts, large and small, that all of us carry, arouse concern and appreciation from and for each individual, the community and the world.
£82.80
Academica Press The Devil and Dr. Fauci: The Many Faces of
Book SynopsisThe Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the "Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex," or DTLM. Quietly dominating America's healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift's, Driscoll eviscerates the DTLM's avatar Dr. Anthony Fauci, our age's version of the archetypal Dr. Faustus. He exposes Fauci's pivotal position in the DTLM, at whose core is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, Driscoll asserts, has long played Mephistopheles to Fauci's Faustus, with grave consequences for American healthcare.Dr. Driscoll's book is the first to upbraid the DTLM, FDA, and Fauci for exacerbating the Covid-19 crisis. Seeking to maximize profits from patentable vaccines, they rigorously suppressed off patent prophylaxis and treatment alternatives. This was but one of many DTLM follies that raised Covid's death toll and increased its socio-economic devastation. Other prominent follies were the mask posturing, arbitrary lockdowns, and closing of churches and schools that the DTLM and its political allies used to distract from their sacrifice of public health to their own agendas.We may never know if the Chinese deliberately released the Covid-19 virus, or if they created it. Yet the world now knows the destructive potential of gain of function technology. Similar epidemics or worse will strike us. To survive next time, we will need radical reforms in the FDA and transparency for the DTLM. But the opaque FDA bureaucracy, Driscoll concludes, is only one instance in our greater problem of deficient oversight within all of our increasingly powerful and ever less accountable federal bureaucracies.
£28.01
Canadian Scholars Child and Youth Care Across Sectors, Volume 2:
Book SynopsisChild and Youth Caracross Sectors aims to reflect the changing field by capturing a diverse array of themes and issues through an inclusive framework. In Volume 2, the contributors continue the discussion on sectors and contexts of child and youth care, with an emphasis on giving space and voice to different ways of thinking about and describing the field. Focusing on acknowledging and confronting the complex issues within child and youth care, this new volume includes groundbreaking chapters on pertinent topics from homelessness to immigration, antiracism, African-centred praxis, and Indigenous ways of being. Expanding from the first volume, this text explores additional settings of child and youth care, including hospitals, schools, day treatment programs, and the complicated youth criminal justice sector.As the field of child and youth care continues to evolve, this timely and thought-provoking text will be vital for students, scholars, and practitioners in child and youth care, in Canada and abroad.Features: Incorporates discussions on Canada’s northern provinces and territories,specifically Labrador and Nunavut, in child and youth care contexts and regions typically neglected in the field. Includes chapters centering Indigenous ways of being and thinking, written by Indigenous scholars.
£42.26
Liverpool University Press Child Protection, Public Health and Nursing
Book SynopsisHighlighting and examining the vital role of nurses in protecting children from maltreatment, this book explores the input of nurses from different disciplines to the work of protecting children and young people. It draws on relevant theoretical, research and policy literature but focuses in particular on the evidence base for the value of their work.While orientated towards UK practice, the book includes some comparative material to add a wider European perspective. The text includes discussion of specialist public health nursing roles such as health visiting and school nursing, as well as the contribution of those who have more general nursing roles but whose work brings them into contact with children, young people and their families.This volume will inform all qualified nurses working in acute care and primary care settings who have contact with children, young people and their families. It will also be of use to those undertaking post-qualifying and post-graduate courses and is particularly relevant for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHNs) many of whom, once qualified, have significant child protection roles in practice.Trade Review‘This book is an interesting addition to the safeguarding literature as it looks specifically at the role of the public health nurse in safeguarding children and preventing abuse. It was developed from a series of papers forming a symposium that was delivered at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect European regional conference held in 2013. There are a range of expert contributors from the safeguarding and nursing fields. The book provides an overview of safeguarding and child protection, with an outline of current policy and legislation, followed by a series of chapters from a variety of contributing authors considering ideas such as the importance of early detection, international approaches to public health nurses in child protection and the challenges of leading child protection in acute services.The chapter on the health visiting contribution to child protection is particularly useful for all health visitors, but especially those studying health visiting and safeguarding or those leading health visiting or safeguarding services. The chapter gives examples of the contribution of health visiting to safeguarding in all tiers of practice identified in the Health Visitor Implementation Plan. The chapter also discusses recent research and learning from serious case reviews.A clear argument from the book, that is not always highlighted in many texts around safeguarding, is that the health visitor’s role in safeguarding is more than identifying concerns and referring them to appropriate agencies. The authors highlight the vast amount of safeguarding work completed thatis preventive in nature and, as such, is often not seen as being ‘safeguarding’. For example, building early attachments between infants and parents, and increasing an understanding of healthy sexual relationships in young people are both roles of public health nurses that are preventive or an earlyintervention. This highlights the wider and sometimes less tangible public health role in safeguarding; as such, the text is relevant for those involved in the commissioning and design of services, especially during current commissioning changes where the need to articulate the vital role of the health visitor in safeguarding is so important.’ Journal of Health Visiting'An engaging and informative text which would be a valuable purchase for many practitioners, particularly those undertaking specialist community public health nursing courses.' Nursing Children and Young People (Royal College of Nursing)Table of ContentsAcknowledements. The Contributors. Glossary of Abbreviations. Foreword. 1: Child protection, public health and nursing (Appleton & Peckover); 2: Child maltreatment: An issue for public health nursing (Peckover); 3: The unique contribution of British health visiting to child protection practice (Appleton); 4: Looking beyond the UK (Bradbury-Jones, Paavilainen and Taylor); 5: Safeguarding and child protection: The important contribution of the wider nursing and midwifery workforce (Powell); 6: Small signs, big risks: The importance of early detection (Bradbury-Jones and Taylor); 7: Safeguarding services in NHS acute hospitals: The challenge of leadership (Smith); 8: Child protection, public health and nursing: Final thoughts (Appleton & Peckover). References. Index.
£38.36
Liverpool University Press Asset-Based Approaches: Their Rise, Role and
Book SynopsisTo achieve a fair and just society with positive outcomes for all, there is an imperative to examine both the structural causes of poverty and inequality and the role that public services play in mitigating and reducing their impacts. A ‘deficit approach’ to the provision of public services has evolved in which services are designed to fill gaps and fix problems. This leads to individuals and communities becoming disempowered and dependent. An alternative lies in asset-based approaches. These change the relationship between the citizen and the state; between those supported by services and those doing the supporting. Asset-based approaches have implications for the structures and culture of public services.The debate is not confined to one specific policy area. The authors consider asset-based approaches as they are developing in Scotland from three broad perspectives: those of public health, community development and social services. They make the case that the fundamental principles underpinning asset-based approaches are common to all three areas and that they all share ambitions concerned with improving health and wellbeing, reducing the inequality gap and improving life circumstances for all.In providing a critical overview of the evidence for asset-based approaches, including the background and rationale for the approach; the current policy, political and economic context; and the implications and opportunities for the workforce, this book will be of interest and use to all those seeking change and improvement in the provision of public services whether from policy, practice or academic perspectives.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary of Abbreviations. Author Biographies. Introduction. PART 1 The Rise of Asset-Based Approaches:1. Setting the Scene: Asset-based approaches, why now? 2. Defining Asset-Based Approaches. PART 2 The Role of Asset-Based Approaches: 3. What Difference Do Asset-Based Approaches Make? 4. Exploring the Nature of Evidence for Asset-BasedApproaches. PART 3 The Reality of Asset-Based Approaches: 5. Creating the Conditions: What helps? 6. Key Challenges: What is stopping us? Reflections. References. Index.
£38.36
Liverpool University Press Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and
Book SynopsisDomestic abuse is a global health and social problem. This edited volume considers Scottish responses in a wide comparative context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary of Abbreviations. Contributor Biographies. Foreword (Marsha Scott): It's Different in Scotland. 1: (Oona Brooks-Hay, Michele Burman and Clare McFeely) Introducing Scotland's Approach to Domestic Abuse; 2 (Oona Brooks-Hay and Michele Burman): Understanding, Defining and Measuring Domestic Abuse; 3: (Oona Brooks-Hay) Policing Domestic Abuse: The gateway to justice? 4: (Michele Burman) Domestic Abuse: A continuing challenge for criminal justice; 5: (Clare McFeely and Katie Cosgrove) Domestic Abuse and Health: Meeting the duty of care; 6: (Nancy Lombard and Roy Harris) Another Brick in the Wall? Preventative education in Scottish schools; 7: (Fiona Morrison and Anna Mitchell) Domestic Abuse and the Role of Children and Families' Social Work; 8 (Clare McFeely, Michele Burman and Oona Brooks-Hay): Conclusion: Looking back, moving forward ('Ahin/gang forward'). References. Index.
£38.36
Liverpool University Press Human Rights and Social Care: Putting Rights into
Book SynopsisSam Smith explores the development of a human rights based approach to social care, thus she contributes to the development of a culture of awareness of human rights that challenges the perception of human rights law and practice being solely the preserve of lawyers. By approaching human rights in an accessible and informative manner, Sam Smith demystifies human rights in their social care context.Starting with a brief historical summary of the development of human rights from the UN Charter 1945 through to the development of the European Convention on Human Rights, Sam Smith explores the differing approaches to the development of Civil and Political Rights and Economic Social and Cultural Rights. Particular attention is given to the development of specific convention rights such as those embodied in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the implications that these convention rights have for social care policy and practice.The book is structured to explore particular areas of social care (client groups) and makes use of thought-provoking practical examples and case studies to illustrate how human rights theory can enhance social care in practice. While the focus of the book is on the development of Human Rights and Social Care in Scotland, a review of international policy developments is undertaken in each area, to provide scope for comparative analysis and the cross-jurisdiction applications of its key themes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1: Towards Human Rights and Social Care; 2: The Rights of the Child (with Juliet Harris); 3: The Rights of Women; 4: The Rights of Disabled People; 5: The Rights of Older Persons; 6: Conclusion: The Way Forward. Appendix 1: European Convention on Human Rights. Appendix 2: UK Human Rights Commitments. References. Index.
£38.36
Liverpool University Press Working with Children and Young People Who Have
Book SynopsisIn providing clear practice messages for practitioners, contemporary issues such as problematic online sexual behaviour and adolescent harmful sexual behaviour are covered and a formulation-based, trauma-informed and multi-systemic approach to working with children and their families is proposed.Trade Review'At a time when a better-informed picture about the realities of child sexual abuse is urgently needed, this book provides a vital part of this complex jigsaw' from the Foreword by Professor Simon Hackett.'Had I been observed whilst reading this very welcome book by Allardyce and Yates, the following behaviours would have been noted:*Enthusiastic nodding of head*furious underlining of text*enthusiastic nodding of head*folding down of pages for future reference*enthusiastic nodding of head...Ad infinitum...This response speaks volumes about the accessibility and usefulness of this text for anyone working in the field of children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. Having worked in the field as a Senior Social Worker for 8 years, my knowledge base has been informed by a variety of reading materials, training opportunities, practice experience and expert supervision. What makes this such an essential text is the fact that the authors have successfully provided a coherent narrative of my learning over this time as well as introducing me to newer ideas and concepts. This includes broadly plotting the evolving nature of this area of work from the 90's to the present day, complimented by the exploration of many contemporary themes including sociological explanations of the behaviour; work with special populations, including girls; and harmful sexual behaviour online. The authors describe their intention that this book serve as a "map" to aid navigation of this field. This aim has been triumphantly achieved.' NOTA News Summer 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. The authors. Foreword. Introduction. 1: Attitudes and values; 2: Childhood sexualities; 3. Prevalence, characteristics and backgrounds; 4. Aetiology; 5. Assessment; 6. Interventions; 7. Special populations; 8. Harmful sexual behaviour online; 9. Prevention. References. Index.
£42.68
Liverpool University Press Homelessness, Social Exclusion and Health: Global
Book SynopsisIn a globalised world, the wealthy elite and the rough sleeper negotiate the same streets, jostling for space in the doorways of shops selling luxury goods, thus the winners and losers of global capitalism meet in the same urban spaces. While the visibility of rough sleepers has become a shorthand to frame poverty and inequality, homelessness is not confined to the doorways of cities. It is experienced in a multitude of different ways: as single homeless people living in hostels, shelters and temporary supported accommodation, as those 'sofa-surfing' and living in overcrowded accommodation and as those who are termed 'statutory homeless', waiting for a house from a social housing provider. Homelessness is recognised as a multi-dimensional phenomenon. The issue of homelessness and social exclusion has received increasing attention in the wider arena of health and social care policy and practice, the issue of homelessness and health has been the focus of recent Public Health attention in Scotland. Positioned within a health inequalities framework, homelessness is understood to be 'both a consequence and a cause of poverty, social and health inequality'. Homeless people experience poorer physical and mental health than the general population and present a higher prevalence of physical, mental and substance misuse issues. The main aim of this book is to support readers wishing to understand issues of homelessness, social exclusion and health at a local level but to do so by framing these issues in a global context. It expands notions of health by drawing on disciplines outside the fields of housing and health to better comprehend the ways that stigma, identity and urban geographies shape, frame and present homelessness, especially for those who are rough sleeping.Trade Review'The book raised questions for me about whether separate services (charities, health services, social services, housing, etc.) could address the issues of homelessness satisfactorily, and whether British society is willing to spend the money to develop and deliver co-ordinated, comprehensive, inclusive services that acknowledge the complexities that result in homelessness, and the additional complexities of reaching out to help homeless people in constructive ways. I recommend this book for its thoughtfulness and insight on the problems of homelessness.' European Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary of Abbreviations. 1: Framing homelessness: Strangers on the streets; 2: Contemporary Urban Marginality: Health inequalities in a globalising world; 3: People on the Move: Migration, urbanisation, homelessness and health; 4: Keeping Strong: Resilience and resistance as health assets; 5: Prevention, Policy and Practitioners: A public health response (Neil Hamlet and Katy Hetherington); 6: Pathways into and out of Homelessness: Lessons to be learnt; 7: Relationships Matter: Psychologically informed approaches (Conversation with Adam Burley); 8: Conclusion. References. Index.
£38.36
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Capital in Europe: A Comparative Regional
Book Synopsis'This book is a must for anyone interested in the concept of social capital.'- Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, University of Oxford, UK The book investigates the determinants of social capital across 85 European regions capturing the renewed interest among social capital theorists for the importance of active secondary groups in supporting the correct functioning of society and its democratic institutions. Robert Putnam merged quantitative and historical analyses, suggesting that the lack of social capital in the south of Italy was mainly due to a peculiar historical development rather than being the product of a mix of structural socio-economic factors, a conclusion that has been the subject of fierce criticism and debate. Emanuele Ferragina analyzes the influence of income inequality, economic development, labor market participation and national divergence. By complementing these socio-economic explanations with a comparative historic-institutional analysis between two deviant cases (Wallonia and the south of Italy) and two regular cases (Flanders and the north east of Italy), the findings suggest that income inequality, labor market participation and national divergence are important factors in explaining the lack of social capital. Furthermore, the traditional historical determinism is refuted with the formulation of the sleeping social capital theory. Sociologists, political scientists, economic historians and scholars interested in comparative methods and European politics and policy will find this informative book invaluable.Trade Review'The quantitative survey of social capital at the regional level is an original contribution that opens a fresh geographic perspective on the literature in this field. Moving beyond the statistical representation of regional patterns his use of case studies illuminates how local culture and historical contexts influence the manifestations of social capital. This volume breaks new ground challenging conventional analysis to advance our understanding of social capital.' --Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, US'Social Capital in Europe dismantles Robert Putnam's theoretical model by critically discussing the most prominent international literature in the field and by analyzing a large bulk of empirical and historical evidence. According to Putnam, the lack of social capital in the South of Italy dates back to medieval history. His ''historical determinism'', that seems to erase every influence of contemporary social phenomena, is largely contradicted by Ferragina.' --Piero Bevilacqua, University of Rome, Italy'The concept of social capital has enjoyed increasing vogue among social scientists. Historians have been mobilized to support the importance of this concept in various ways, and in turn they have increasingly relied on it. The historian will find in this book both a definitive guide to the theoretical debate behind this controversial concept and an impressive demonstration of how it can be used to produce comparative historical analysis.' --Agostino Inguscio, Yale University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Methodological Toolbox 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Social Capital 3. Why We Need a Regional Analysis Part II: The Socio-Economic Analysis 4. Social Capital in European Regions 5. The Determinants of Social Capital 6. Explaining Social Capital Variation Across Europe Part III: The Divergent Cases 7. Why Does Social Capital ‘Sleep’? 8. Fraternal Twins: Institutional Evolution and Social Capital 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£93.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Big Society Debate: A New Agenda for Social
Book Synopsis'Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron placed the ''Big Society'' at the heart of his efforts to rebuild Britain's ''broken society''. The essays in this volume probe the historical origins of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both historical and contemporary evidence. They raise profound questions about the provenance of the ''Big Society'' and its relevance to contemporary social concerns. They should be of interest to anyone who cares about the past, present or future of British social policy.'- Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK 'There is nothing new about the notion of a Big Society. This book combines historical scholarship, international research and grassroots experience to shine a critical spotlight on the rhetoric behind the coalition government's big idea.' - Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth, UK 'Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's fascinating book provides important insights into the way political elites use slogans and imagery to sway public opinion on social policy issues. This highly original work will be a major scholarly resource for years to come.' - James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, US The expert contributors to this detailed yet concise book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big Society Agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it poses for policy makers and practitioners. The book is divided into two sections, history and policy, which together provide readers with a historically grounded, internationally informed, and multidisciplinary analysis of the Big Society policies. The introduction and conclusion tie the strands together, providing a coherent analysis of the key issues in both sections. Various chapters in this study examine the limitations and consider the challenges involved in translating the ideas of the Big Society agenda into practice. By drawing on international examples, from developed and developing countries in order to analyze and discuss Big Society policies, this book will prove invaluable for students, academics and policy makers. Contributors: M. Albrow, K. Bradley, L. Charlesworth, R. Fries, J. Harris, M. Hill, M. Hilton, J. Holgate, A. Ishkanian, M. Ketola, D. Leat, D. Lewis, R. McGill, N. Ockenden, J. Page, C. Pharoah, L. Richardson, J. Stuart, S. Szreter, D. WeinbrenTrade Review[T]he collection provides valuable insights into the use of rhetorical devices and how ''real life'' examples are distorted and disguised to provide evidence of ''what works''. At the time of writing, the Big Society seems to have disappeared from government's central platform, but if the debate is rekindled in the future or elsewhere in the world, then I strongly recommend the book as a source of criticism and counter-evidence.' --Alison Gilchrist, Community Development Journal'[T]his book offers an absorbing, scholarly and highly readable critique of ''Big Society'' and is to be recommended to students, academics and readers who want to learn more about current British social policy.' --Catherine Forde, Voluntas'This text is a worthwhile contribution to a burgeoning field we may wish to call ''Big Society studies''. The breadth of the discussion, not only regarding the topics covered but in encompassing both sociological and social policy perspectives, makes this text relevant to a variety of readers. The editors have delivered contributions with historical and contemporary claims, as well as providing space for critical writers seeing the Big Society as neoliberal rhetoric alongside those engaged in more detailed perspective on the government's policy agenda.' --Matt Dawson, Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: What is Big Society? Contemporary Social Policy in a Historical and Comparative Perspective Simon Szreter and Armine Ishkanian PART I: HISTORY 1. ‘Big Society’ and ‘Great Society’: A Problem in the History of Ideas Jose Harris 2. Britain’s Social Welfare Provision in the Long Run: The Importance of Accountable, Well-financed Local Government Simon Szreter 3. Big Society, Legal Structures, Poor Law and the Myth of a Voluntary Society Lorie Charlesworth 4. Mutual Aid and the Big Society Daniel Weinbren 5. Big Society and the National Citizen Service: Young People, Volunteering and Engagement with Charities c.1900–1960 Kate Bradley 6. Charities, Voluntary Organisations and Non-governmental Organisations in Britain Since 1945 Matthew Hilton 7. Charity and Big Society Richard Fries PART II: POLICY 8. ‘Big Society’ as a Rhetorical Intervention Martin Albrow 9. Funding and the Big Society Cathy Pharoah 10. Government, Foundations and Big Society: Will You be my Friend? Diana Leat 11. Can we ‘Nudge’ Citizens Towards More Civic Action? Liz Richardson 12. The Big Society and Volunteering: Ambitions and Expectations Nick Ockenden, Matthew Hill and Joanna Stuart 13. European Perspectives on the Big Society Agenda Markus Ketola 14. From ‘Shock Therapy’ to Big Society: Lessons from the Post-Socialist Transitions Armine Ishkanian Conclusion: The Big Society and Social Policy David Lewis Bibliography Index
£95.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Big Society Debate: A New Agenda for Social
Book Synopsis'Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron placed the ''Big Society'' at the heart of his efforts to rebuild Britain's ''broken society''. The essays in this volume probe the historical origins of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both historical and contemporary evidence. They raise profound questions about the provenance of the ''Big Society'' and its relevance to contemporary social concerns. They should be of interest to anyone who cares about the past, present or future of British social policy.'- Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK 'There is nothing new about the notion of a Big Society. This book combines historical scholarship, international research and grassroots experience to shine a critical spotlight on the rhetoric behind the coalition government's big idea.' - Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth, UK 'Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's fascinating book provides important insights into the way political elites use slogans and imagery to sway public opinion on social policy issues. This highly original work will be a major scholarly resource for years to come.' - James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, US The expert contributors to this detailed yet concise book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big Society Agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it poses for policy makers and practitioners. The book is divided into two sections, history and policy, which together provide readers with a historically grounded, internationally informed, and multidisciplinary analysis of the Big Society policies. The introduction and conclusion tie the strands together, providing a coherent analysis of the key issues in both sections. Various chapters in this study examine the limitations and consider the challenges involved in translating the ideas of the Big Society agenda into practice. By drawing on international examples, from developed and developing countries in order to analyze and discuss Big Society policies, this book will prove invaluable for students, academics and policy makers. Contributors: M. Albrow, K. Bradley, L. Charlesworth, R. Fries, J. Harris, M. Hill, M. Hilton, J. Holgate, A. Ishkanian, M. Ketola, D. Leat, D. Lewis, R. McGill, N. Ockenden, J. Page, C. Pharoah, L. Richardson, J. Stuart, S. Szreter, D. WeinbrenTrade Review[T]he collection provides valuable insights into the use of rhetorical devices and how ''real life'' examples are distorted and disguised to provide evidence of ''what works''. At the time of writing, the Big Society seems to have disappeared from government's central platform, but if the debate is rekindled in the future or elsewhere in the world, then I strongly recommend the book as a source of criticism and counter-evidence.' --Alison Gilchrist, Community Development Journal'[T]his book offers an absorbing, scholarly and highly readable critique of ''Big Society'' and is to be recommended to students, academics and readers who want to learn more about current British social policy.' --Catherine Forde, Voluntas'This text is a worthwhile contribution to a burgeoning field we may wish to call ''Big Society studies''. The breadth of the discussion, not only regarding the topics covered but in encompassing both sociological and social policy perspectives, makes this text relevant to a variety of readers. The editors have delivered contributions with historical and contemporary claims, as well as providing space for critical writers seeing the Big Society as neoliberal rhetoric alongside those engaged in more detailed perspective on the government's policy agenda.' --Matt Dawson, Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: What is Big Society? Contemporary Social Policy in a Historical and Comparative Perspective Simon Szreter and Armine Ishkanian PART I: HISTORY 1. ‘Big Society’ and ‘Great Society’: A Problem in the History of Ideas Jose Harris 2. Britain’s Social Welfare Provision in the Long Run: The Importance of Accountable, Well-financed Local Government Simon Szreter 3. Big Society, Legal Structures, Poor Law and the Myth of a Voluntary Society Lorie Charlesworth 4. Mutual Aid and the Big Society Daniel Weinbren 5. Big Society and the National Citizen Service: Young People, Volunteering and Engagement with Charities c.1900–1960 Kate Bradley 6. Charities, Voluntary Organisations and Non-governmental Organisations in Britain Since 1945 Matthew Hilton 7. Charity and Big Society Richard Fries PART II: POLICY 8. ‘Big Society’ as a Rhetorical Intervention Martin Albrow 9. Funding and the Big Society Cathy Pharoah 10. Government, Foundations and Big Society: Will You be my Friend? Diana Leat 11. Can we ‘Nudge’ Citizens Towards More Civic Action? Liz Richardson 12. The Big Society and Volunteering: Ambitions and Expectations Nick Ockenden, Matthew Hill and Joanna Stuart 13. European Perspectives on the Big Society Agenda Markus Ketola 14. From ‘Shock Therapy’ to Big Society: Lessons from the Post-Socialist Transitions Armine Ishkanian Conclusion: The Big Society and Social Policy David Lewis Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Policy in a Developing World
Book SynopsisThis volume makes a valuable contribution to the dynamic and expanding field of scholarship on social policy in developing countries. In combining analytical frameworks used in comparative social policy analysis with an examination of key areas of policy and provision in selected countries, it will be a key resource for anyone interested in current debates in international social policy and welfare.'- Nicola Yeates, Open University, UKThere is increasing interest in the significance of social policy in the management of welfare and risk in the developing world.This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global South, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the text explores the extent to which the analytic models and concepts for the study of social policy in the industrialised North are relevant in a developing country context. The volume analyzes the various institutions, actors, instruments and mechanisms involved in the welfare arrangements of developing countries and provides a study of the contexts, development and future trajectory of social policy in the global South.The book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach will be of interest to anyone involved in social policy research and analysis and current welfare debates.Contributors: B. Deacon, J. Doherty, P. Dornan, D. Lewis, A. McCord, D. McIntyre, C. Meth, A. Nicholls, S. Pellissery, C. Porter, R. Surender, M. Urbina-Ferretjans, A. Vetterlein, R. WalkerTrade Review‘This volume makes a valuable contribution to the dynamic and expanding field of scholarship on social policy in developing countries. In combining analytical frameworks used in comparative social policy analysis with an examination of key areas of policy and provision in selected countries, it will be a key resource for anyone interested in current debates in international social policy and welfare.’ -- Nicola Yeates, Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 1. Introduction Rebecca Surender 2. The Role of Historical Contexts in Shaping Social Policy in the Global South Rebecca Surender PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS 3. The Role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Poverty Reduction: Limits of Policy Change Antje Vetterlein 4. Building the Welfare Mix or Sidelining the State? Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing Countries as Social Policy Actors David Lewis 5. The Informal Economy: Dilemmas and Policy Responses Sony Pellissery 6. Addressing the Failings of Public Health Systems: Should the Private Sector be an Instrument of Choice? Jane Doherty and Diane McIntyre PART III: INSTRUMENTS AND MECHANISMS 7. Social Security: Risks, Needs and Protection Robert Walker 8. The Implications of Conditionality in Social Assistance Programmes Paul Dornan and Catherine Porter 9. Work and Welfare in the Global South: Public Works Programmes as an Instrument of Social Policy Anna McCord and Charles Meth 10. The Social Entrepreneurship–Social Policy Nexus in Developing Countries Alex Nicholls PART IV: SCENARIOS AND TRAJECTORIES 11. Globalization and Social Policy in Developing Countries Bob Deacon 12. South–South Cooperation: A New Paradigm for Global Social Policy? Rebecca Surender and Marian Urbina-Ferretjans 13. Conclusion: Towards the Analysis of Social Policy in a Developing World Robert Walker Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public:
Book SynopsisIn democracies, the attitudes and behaviour of citizens should influence future public policies. Yet in some instances the reverse of this is true, and public attitudes and behaviour are in fact the result of past policies. Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen bring together political scientists and sociologists from different and frequently separated research communities to examine policy feedback in European welfare states. In doing so, they offer a rich menu of methodological approaches. The book demonstrates how long-term policy legacies and short-term policy changes affect the public, but also shows that such processes are contingent on individual characteristics and political context.This comprehensive study will appeal to academics interested in political behaviour and attitudes, or in welfare state policy and its consequences for national societies and economies. It will also be of value to policy intellectuals and activists involved in the politics of the welfare state.Trade Review‘Welfare states do indeed shape the democratic public, but they do it in highly contingent and contextually dependent ways. This is the main message from this meticulously researched and lucidly presented volume. By showing how and under what conditions policy feedback takes place it makes a major contribution to the welfare state literature. A must-read for any scholar in the field.’ -- Stefan Svallfors, Umeå University, Sweden‘Every chapter of this book is full of rigorous research and interesting results, and its contents should be carefully absorbed by any policy-maker contemplating a transition from means-tested to universal benefits.’ -- Citizens Income‘This crucial volume significantly advances the study of policy feedbacks. With contributions from many subfields and methodological approaches, it offers both sophisticated theorizing and new empirical examples that show how policies make politics in a variety of ways. Innovative research designs provide more convincing inference than ever. And the normative questions engaged about welfare performance, evaluation, participation, and accountability could not be more important or timely in this era of austerity and discord over the future of welfare states.’ -- Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Citizens, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen PART II: PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT 2. Empowering Cuts? Austerity Policies and Political Involvement in Spain Jordi Muñoz, Eva Anduiza and Guillem Rico 3. How Welfare States Shape Participatory Patterns Jennifer Shore 4. Varieties of Capitalism, Education and Inequalities in Political Participation Marius Busemeyer and Achim Goerres PART III: VOTING BEHAVIOUR AND ELECTIONS 5. Structuring the Vote: Welfare Institutions and Value Based Vote Choices Jane Gingrich 6. Labour Market Policies and Party Preferences of Fixed-term Workers Paul Marx and Georg Picot 7. The Electoral Consequences of Reforming a Bismarckian Welfare State Christoph Arndt 8. Waking up the Giant? Hospital Closures and Electoral Punishment in Sweden Anders Lindbom PART IV: ATTITUDES AND EVALUATIONS 9. Policy Feedback in Political Context: Unemployment Benefits, Elections Campaigns, and Democratic Satisfaction Staffan Kumlin 10. Social Policy, Legitimation and Diverging Regional Paths in Belgium Claire Dupuy and Virginie van Ingelgom 11. Raising the Retirement Age: Retrenchment, Feedback and Attitudes Elias Naumann 12. Popular Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Context of Welfare State Policies, Economic Conditions and Cultural Climate Wim van Oorschot and Bart Meuleman 13. How Proximate and Visible Policies Shape Self-interest, Satisfaction and Spending Support: The Case of Public Service Production Troels Fage Hedegaard and Christian Albrekt Larsen 14. Informed Performance Evaluation of the Welfare State? Experimental and Real-world Findings Staffan Kumlin PART V: CONCLUSIONS 15. How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Borrowing Strength across Research Communities Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Changing Welfare State in Europe: The
Book SynopsisThe financial sustainability of the welfare state, its efficiency in covering new risks and to effectively reallocate resources in a fair way are now classic issues for debate. This book explores the more understated question of the democratic legitimacy of a 'quasi' European policy in a field which is subjected to the contradictory impact of ever tighter European economic governance. With the wide vision of a comparative perspective and the deep knowledge of social policy scholars, the authors of this book offer inspiring insights into different facets of democratic governance which are likely to inform European decision makers in the coming decade.'- Agnes Hubert, member of the Bureau for European Policy Advisors - European CommissionThe welfare state in Europe has been reformed gradually over the past two decades, with the intensification of the economic and monetary union and the addition of fifteen new members to the EU. This book explores the pressures that have been placed on the welfare state through a variety of insightful and thought-provoking contributions.As the standard of living has increased, aspirations and financial constraints have required major rethinking. There is considerable disparity between European countries in how they approach the welfare system, with differing concern over aspects such as income, employment and the ability to participate in society. Choices over welfare lie at the heart of the democratic system; this book explores the tensions this has produced and the innovative responses in policy content and institutions.The Changing Welfare State in Europe has a wide appeal, which will have relevance to economists, scholars in public and social policy, public and private finance experts, policymakers and also academics with an interest in the impact of financial and economic development.Contributors: T. Altman, C. Cheyne, K. Lyons, D.G. Mayes, A. Michalski, Z. Mustaffa, C. Shore, M. ThomsonTrade Review‘The financial sustainability of the welfare state, its efficiency in covering new risks and to effectively reallocate resources in a fair way are now classic issues for debate. This book explores the more understated question of the democratic legitimacy of a “quasi” European policy in a field which is subjected to the contradictory impact of ever tighter European economic governance. With the wide vision of a comparative perspective and the deep knowledge of social policy scholars, the authors of this book offer inspiring insights into different facets of democratic governance which are likely to inform European decision makers in the coming decade.’ -- Agnes Hubert, member of the Bureau for European Policy Advisors, European Commission‘This volume should ?nd agood readership among economists, scholars in public and social policy and private ?nance experts and indeed anyone who seeks to engage with the increasing clamour between sceptics, phobes and enthusiasts which will absorb us all in the next few years.’ -- Derek Hawes, Journal of Contemporary European StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Changing Welfare State Anna Michalski and David Mayes 2. Social Models in the Enlarged European Union David Mayes and Zaidah Mustaffa 3. The Economic Crisis and Prospects for European Social Insurance and Democratic Governance Katherine Lyons and Christine Cheyne 4. Active Social Policies, Inclusion and Democracy in the European Union Mark Thomson 5. Democratic Boundaries in the US and Europe: Inequality, Localization and Voluntarism in Social Welfare Tess Altman and David G. Mayes 6. Privatizing Welfare. Changing the Face of Social Protection and Democracy in Europe Tess Altman and Cris Shore 7. The Rise of the Unelected. The UK Health System and the Rise and Fall of Arm’s Length Bodies David Mayes and Zaidah Mustaffa 8. Democratic Governance and Policy Coordination in the EU Anna Michalski References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second
Book SynopsisThe current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond the boundaries of the state. It is in this context that this Handbook brings together the work of key commentators in the field of comparative analysis in order to provide comprehensive coverage of contemporary debates and issues in cross-national social policy research.Organized around five themes, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition explores the contextual, conceptual, analytical and processual aspects of undertaking comparative social research. The contributions highlight specific areas of comparative social policy including child poverty and well-being, patterns of housing provision and housing inequalities, and social protection in East Asia as well as crime and criminology in a global context. The authors of the Handbook explore continuing and emerging themes as well as issues which are of particular relevance to understanding the contemporary social world.International in scope, this authoritative Handbook presents original cutting-edge research from leading specialists and will become an indispensable source of reference for anyone interested in comparative and international social research. It will also prove a valuable study aid for undergraduate and postgraduate students from a range of disciplines including social policy, sociology, politics, urban studies and public policy.Contributors include: D. Bainton, J. Billiet, J. Bradshaw, J. Clasen, G. Crow, R. Forrest, N. Ginsburg, I. Gough, L. Hantrais, B. Jessop, P. Kennett, H.-j. Kwon, N. Lendvai, S. Mangen, J. Midgley, R. Mishra, D. Nelken, J. O'Connor, A. Perez-Baltodano, A. Walker, C.-k. WongTrade Review'This extensively revised edition of A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy provides up-to-date and valuable insights on key concepts and issues, such as globalization, crime, diversity, housing, child poverty, gender inequality, and social policy regimes. To write about these topics, editor Patricia Kennett has gathered an excellent team of researchers, who deal with both the developing and the advanced industrial world. Students of comparative social policy would benefit from engaging with this illuminating Handbook.' --Daniel Béland, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Changing Context of Comparative Social Policy Patricia Kennett PART I: THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD 1. Hollowing Out the ‘Nation-State’ and Multi-Level Governance Bob Jessop 2. Globalization, Human Security and Social Policy: North and South Andrés Pérez-Baltodano 3. Globalization and the Decline of ‘Social Protection by Other Means’: The Transformation of Welfare Regimes in Australia, Japan and Eastern Europe Ramesh Mishra PART II: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 4. Defining Comparative Social Policy Jochen Clasen 5. Conceptualizing State and Society Graham Crow 6. The Ethnocentric Construction of the Welfare State Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong 7. Translation: Towards a Critical Comparative Social Policy Agenda Noemi Lendvai and David Bainton PART III: COMPARING AND CATEGORIZING SOCIAL POLICY PROVISION AND REDISTRIBUTION 8. Gender, Citizenship and Welfare State Regimes in the Early Twenty-first Century: ‘Incomplete Revolution’ and/or Gender Equality ‘Lost in Translation’ Julia S. O’Connor 9. Structured Diversity: A Framework for Critically Comparing Welfare States? Norman Ginsburg 10. Social Development and Social Welfare: Implications for Comparative Social Policy James Midgley 11. Social Policy Regimes in the Developing World Ian Gough PART IV: THE RESEARCH PROCESS 12. Crossing Cultural Boundaries Linda Hantrais 13. Cross-National Qualitative Research Methods: Innovations in the New Millennium Steen Mangen 14. Quantitative Methods with Survey Data in Comparative Research Jaak Billiet PART V: THEMES AND DEBATES 15. Child Poverty and Child Well-being in Comparative Perspective Jonathan Bradshaw 16. The Contours of the Housing Question Ray Forrest 17. Global Economic Downturn and Social Protection in East Asia: Coping with Crisis and Reducing Poverty Huck-ju Kwon 18. Globalization, Crime and Comparative Criminal Justice David Nelken Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on East Asian Social Policy
Book SynopsisDramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been substantial developments and reforms in social policy in the region but the development paths have been uneven. Until recently, comparative analysis of East Asian social policy tends to have focused on the established welfare state of Japan and the emerging welfare regimes of four 'Tiger Economies'. Much of the recent debate indeed preceded China's re-emergence onto the world economy. In this context, this Handbook brings China more fully into the contemporary social policy debates in East Asia. Organized around five themes from welfare state developments, to theories and methodologies, to current social policy issues, the Handbook presents original research from leading specialists in the fields, and provides a fresh and updated perspective to the study of social policy.Providing a comparative international approach, this Handbook will appeal to academics, researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels working in the fields of social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners who are interested in social policy lessons from other societies.Contributors: K. Caraher, H.M. Chan, K.W. Chan, R.K.H. Chan, Y.-f. Chang, Y.J. Choi, R. Forrest, J. Hudson, G.-J. Hwang, M. Iwata, M. Izuhara, D. Jung, P. Kennett, Y.-w. Ku, M. Lau, S. Liu, W.Y.W. Lo, T.-l. Lui, K.K. Mehta, K.H. Mok, L.L.-S. Ngan, K. Ngok, C.-u. Park, R. Ronald, N. Soma, S. Sung, S. Takegawa, A. Walker, C.-k. Wong, L. Wong, J. YamashitaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Misa Izuhara PART I: SHAPING WELFARE STATES IN EAST ASIA: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT PATHS 1. Pathways of Welfare State Development in East Asia John Hudson and Gyu-Jin Hwang 2. Between Western Europe and East Asia: Development of Social Policy in Japan Shogo Takegawa 3. Social Policy and its Implications to Structural Shifts: A Comparison between Taiwan and Korea in the Colonial Era Yu-fang Chang and Yeun-wen Ku 4. Past Policies, Current Arrangements: The Enduring Influence of British Colonial Social Policy in Malaysia and Hong Kong Kevin Caraher 5. Shaping Social Policy in the Reform Era in China Kinglun Ngok PART II: DEMOGRAPHY, ECONOMY AND SOCIAL POLICY 6. After the Regional and Global Financial Crises: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Hong Kong and Macau Ka Ho Mok 7. Exploring Social and Generational Equity in the Context of China’s Socio-economic and Demographic Transition Maggie Lau 8. Transitional Generations? The Contrasting Experiences of the 30-Somethings in China and Japan Ray Forrest and Misa Izuhara 9. The Shaping of Social Policies in Relation to Demographic Ageing in East Asia Kalyani K. Mehta PART III: EAST ASIA AND WELFARE REGIME DEBATES 10. Developmentalism and Productivism in East Asian Welfare Regimes Young Jun Choi 11. Ethnocentrism, the Developmental State and East Asian Welfare Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong 12. Social Protection, Governance and the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in East Asia Patricia Kennett, Kam Wah Chan and Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan 13. Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Women between Tradition and Equality Sirin Sung PART IV: RESEARCH AND SOCIETY 14. Presence of the State: Probing the Middle Class and Civic Organizations in Chinese Societies Tai-lok Lui and Shuo Liu 15. The Role of Philosophy and Ethics in Social Policy and Research: A Case Study of Hong Kong and Other Chinese Societies Ho Mun Chan 16. Challenges and Directions: Building a Comparative Quantitative Dataset for East Asian Social Policies Chan-ung Park and Dongchul Jung 17. Qualitative Research on Family Generations in Changing East Asian Societies Misa Izuhara and Ray Forrest PART V: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY CHALLENGES IN EAST ASIA 18. Housing Policy in East Asia Richard Ronald 19. From Apartheid to Semi-citizenship: Chinese Migrant Workers and their Challenge to Social Policy Linda Wong 20. Poverty, the Working Poor and Social Policy in East Asia: Exploring the Second Safety Net Proposal in Japan Masami Iwata 21. The Political Economy of Cross-border Higher Education: The Intra-national Flow of Students in Greater China William Yat Wai Lo 22. Re-examining Family-centred Care Arrangements in East Asia Junko Yamashita, Naoko Soma and Raymond K.H. Chan Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Juridification and Social Citizenship in the
Book SynopsisJuridification refers to a diverse set of processes involving shifts towards more detailed legal regulation, regulations of new areas, and conflicts and problems increasingly being framed in legal and rights-oriented terms. What impact do these international and national regulations have upon vulnerable groups in terms of inclusion, exclusion and social citizenship? The nature and effects of current juridification processes are hotly debated amongst social scientists and legal scholars.Bringing empirical analysis and multidisciplinary, comparative perspectives to the previously fragmented and largely theoretical debate on juridification in the welfare state, this book asks key questions such as: To what extent do international human rights norms secure basic welfare services to vulnerable groups?; How do different regulations affect democratic participation?; What is the role of professionals in the distribution of welfare services?Researchers, students and academics with an interest in law, human rights, social policy and the role of professionals in the welfare state will find much of value in this book.Contributors: H.S. Aasen, S. Bothfeld, L. Brandt, B. Bringedal, S. Bygnes, K. Bærøe, C. Cappelen, T. Eidsvaag, K.J. Fredriksen, O. Ferraz, R. Gargarella, S. Gloppen, E. Le Bruyn Goldeng, A. Kjellevold, S. Kremer, I.R. Lundeberg, A.-M. Magnussen, K. Mjåland, O. Mæstad, E. Nilssen, L. Rakner, P. Stephens, H. Stokke, W. van RossumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Henriette Sinding Aasen, Siri Gloppen, Anne-Mette Magnussen and Even Nilssen 2. Activation Policies and Proceduralization of Law in Britain, Denmark and Norway Even Nilssen 3. Reflexive Rregulation of Employment Conditions: A Good Way to Reconcile Economic Efficiency with Social Protection? Silke Bohtfeld and Stefanie Kremer 4. Unemployment Compensation and the Trade-off Between Equality and Personal Responsibility Cornelius Cappelen and Eskil Le Bruyn Goldeng 5. The Activation Line in Social Securitiy and Social Assistance Law – A Human Rights Perspective Tine Eidsvåg 6. Individual Rights and Prioritization of Health Care Anne-Mette Magnussen and Lene Brandt 7. Judging the Price of Life: Cost Considerations in Right to Health Litigation Siri Gloppen, Octavio Ferraz, Ottar Mæstad and Lise Rakner 8. Professionalism, Discretion and Juridification: Social Inequality in Health and Social Citizenship Berit Bringedal and Kristine Bærøe 9. “Undocumented” Migrants´ Access to Healthcare Services in Europe: Tensions between International Human Rights, National Law and Professional Ethics Henriette Sinding Aasen, Alice Kjellevold and Paul Stephens 10. Penal Hybridization: Staff–prisoner Relationships in a Norwegian Drug Rehabilitation Unit Kristian Mjåland and Ingrid Lundeberg 11. Ad hoc Multiculturalism: Prison Staff Approaches to Cultural and Religious Diversity Susanne Bygnes 12. How Legal Professionals in the Netherlands and in Norway Deal with Ccultural Diversity (and How that Affects Social Citizenship) Katja Jansen Fredriksen and Wibo van Rossum 13. Rethinking Social Citizenship: the Case of the Finnmark Act Hugo Stokke 14. International Courts, Social Rights and a Dialogic Approach to Justice: Experiences from Latin America Roberto Gargarella 15. Juridification and Social Citizenship - International Law, Democracy and Professional Discretion. Henriette Sinding Aasen, Siri Gloppen, Anne-Mette Magnussen and Even Nilssen Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice,
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational justice. Contributing new insights about the preconditions for designing sustainable, inclusive policies for all of society, the authors expose the possibilities of supporting egalitarian principles in an ageing society through balanced generational welfare contracts. Welfare states are largely structured around social risks that appear in distinct phases of human life, including childhood, working age and old age. By empirically analyzing the causes and consequences of social policy in a large number of countries, the authors show that balanced generational welfare contracts - in which age-related social protection is more evenly distributed across different stages of life - is to the advantage of all age groups, therefore contributing to social justice and welfare state sustainability. The authors offer a combination of descriptive data analysis and statistical regressions to provide robust evidence that countries can avoid generational trade-offs in policymaking and find positive-sum solutions. Appealing to academics, researchers and students of politics and social policy, The Generational Welfare Contract gives expert insight into the possibilities for success in future welfare states.Trade Review'Adopting a life course perspective, this book is the first ever to systematically analyse the degree of generational balance in nations' social policies. This is a fundamental issue, not only from a social justice perspective, but also for the political legitimacy and long-term sustainability of a welfare state. The Generational Welfare Contract is arguably the single most important welfare state study in our times. And it is one of those rare groundbreaking contributions that is destined to (re-)define social policy research for many years to come.' --Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain`The Generational Welfare Contract provides an innovative conceptualization of social policy that is extremely well suited to the study of individual life courses and demographic change.' --Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University, Sweden and University of Wisconsin-Madison, US'This deeply insightful book blends perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to generate theoretical insights on generational justice to guide a nuanced empirical analysis of 18 economically developed OECD countries. It demonstrates the significance of the generational welfare contract, reflected in welfare state institutional structures, as a mediating factor linking demographic, socio-economic and political drivers with outcomes. Importantly, it incorporates a generational justice focus in welfare state analysis without downplaying other factors including social class and gender.' --Julia O'Connor, Ulster University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Three dimensions of generational justice 3. The generational welfare contract 4. Profiling the generational welfare contract 5. Contracts against poverty 6. Contracts for life satisfaction and happiness 7. Contracts for trust 8. Contracts for or against employment? 9. Politics of generational welfare contracts 10. The generational welfare contract on the agenda Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Welfare in China
Book SynopsisThis Handbook is a timely compilation dedicated to exploring a rare diversity of perspectives and content on the development, successes, reforms and challenges within China's contemporary welfare system. It showcases an extensive introduction and 20 original chapters by leading and emerging area specialists who explore a century of welfare provision from the Nationalist era, up to and concentrating on economic reform and marketisation (1978 to the present). Organised around five key concerns (social security and welfare; emerging issues and actors, including gender issues, NGOs, and philanthropy; gaps; and future challenges, such as population ageing and environmental pressures) chapters draw on original case-based research from diverse disciplines and perspectives, engage existing literature and further key debates. Key historical insights into welfare provision in the Chinese context serve as a starting point with the remaining chapters combining a review of the literature with original case studies. The book offers novel empirical research and includes topics often not discussed in the literature on welfare in China, including: mental health, highly educated rural-to-urban migrants, NGOs as welfare providers, China's overseas welfare aid, environmental challenges and welfare, amongst others. This comprehensive and multidisciplinary Handbook will be of immense value to researchers and scholars in the fields of China Studies, social policy, the welfare state, politics and related areas. Accessible to a non-specialist audience interested in China's welfare development and welfare states more broadly, it will also serve as a useful resource for undergraduates.Contributors Include: E. Baum, M. Blaxland, O. Bruun, B. Carrillo, J. Chen, S. Cook, X.-y. Dong, T.D. DuBois, M.W. Frazier, K.R. Fisher, R. Hasmath, T. Hesketh, J. Hood, J.Y.J. Hsu, H. Jia, E. Jeffreys, P.I. Kadetz, B. Li, Y. Li, J. Liu, S.-h. Liu, Y. Liu, A.W. MacDonald, A. Saich, X. Shang, D.J. Solinger, K. Suda, Y. Zeng, J. Zhao, Z. ZhaoTrade Review'In this book, Carrillo, Hood and Kadetz have assembled a distinguished cast of academics to examine social welfare in China. The result is a sweeping review that covers Chinese welfare through various historical eras, across differing models of welfare provision and from a range of perspectives. Evolving aspects of welfare provision by the central state, by local states, by employers, by NGOs, by individual philanthropists and by families are all considered. The authors also make useful comparisons across historical divides and between China and other countries, including both developed economies in Europe and other developing countries. While the authors diverge in terms of their degree of optimism or pessimism towards Chinese welfare regimes, they all manage to illuminate aspects of its provision. The book will become a starting point for all interested in this topic.' --Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University'This is a needed book, bracing in its diversity and scope. As a collection of authoritative studies of welfare in China, it is a handbook in the best sense of the word: China researchers, and others concerned with global health and social inequality, will want to keep it ready to hand, to consult as a reservoir of up-to-date facts, carefully analyzed. All of these scholars challenge the liberal term ''welfare'' through the experience of Chinese socialism, even as they make the category useful for comparative and critical research.' --Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago, US'Handbook of Welfare in China is an impressive book, written by scholars from a range of disciplines. Covering everything from public welfare provision under the Qing and leprosy control in the collective era, to contemporary urban housing welfare policies and Sino-African health diplomacy, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the historical development of modern China's welfare regime. It will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in welfare in China for many years to come.' --Tamara Jacka, The Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood and Paul I. Kadetz Part I Welfare in the Chinese context: an historical perspective 1. Welfare provision in China from late empire to the People’s Republic Thomas David DuBois 2. Leprosy welfare: entrenched stigma and policy formation Shao-hua Liu 3. Chinese psychiatric welfare in historical perspective Emily Baum Part II The welfare system in reform era China 4. The politics of welfare policy: towards social citizenship? Tony Saich 5. Health inequalities, medical insurance and medical financial assistance Zhongwei Zhao, Hongbo Jia and Jiaying Zhao 6. Housing welfare policies in urban China Bingqin Li 7. The urban minimum livelihood guarantee: social assistance (just) to stave off starvation Dorothy J. Solinger 8. Geographical stratification and the provision of education in contemporary China Ye Liu 9. The social welfare of ethnic minorities: rationale, impact and outcomes Reza Hasmath and Andrew W. MacDonald Part III Gaps in the welfare system 10. Rural-to-urban migrants: access to welfare services and integration into urban life Juan Chen 11. Urban welfare and social justice: individual perspectives of highly educated rural-to-urban migrants in the city of Guangzhou Kimiko Suda 12. Disability and welfare services Karen R. Fisher, Xiaoyuan Shang and Megan Blaxland 13. Gender, welfare and the economy of care in reform era China: How the welfare system shapes women’s opportunities and gender equality Sarah Cook and Xiao-Yuan Dong 14. Ageing in rural China: State, family and gendered care responsibilities Jieyu Liu Part IV Engaging non-State welfare providers domestically and abroad 15. Chinese NGOs as welfare providers: challenges and constraints Jennifer Y.J. Hsu and Reza Hasmath 16. Entrepreneurs, celebrities and charitable foundations: elite philanthropy in China Elaine Jeffreys 17. Outsourcing China’s welfare: Unpacking the outcomes of ‘sustainable’ self-development in Sino-African health diplomacy Paul Kadetz and Johanna Hood Part V Future challenges of welfare provision 18. Climate, environment and State-society relations in the mobilisation for welfare in China Ole Bruun 19. The impacts of the universal two-child policy and strategies to face the challenges of population ageing Yi Zeng and Therese Hesketh 20. Stemming the tide of demographic transformation through social inclusion: Can universal pension rights help finance an ageing population? Mark W. Frazier and Yimin Li Index
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