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Taylor & Francis Ltd Covid19 Responses of Local Communities around the
Book SynopsisPresenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe.Examining cases from the Americas, Europe and Asia including Mexico, Brazil, China, India, France, and Belgium Kuah, Guiheux, Lim and their collaborators look at how communities have coped with the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, as well as the public health concerns. Using a framework of risks, fear, and trust, they evaluate how the global health crisis has both revealed and exacerbated a deep crisis of confidence in institutions and systems around the world. In reaction to this they also look at how individuals, social groups and communities have faced fears and built trust at a more local level. The units of spatial analysis in these cases include urban cities, neighbourhoods, slum settlements, migrant camps, schools, markets and homes, for a broad spectrum of case types and rich empirical data.<Table of Contents1 Negotiating trust, risk and fear during Covid-19 pandemic: Responses within local communities across the world 2 Trust and Modalities of Social Action in the Pandemic 3 Practicing Safe Eating during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: A Trust in Action Perspective 4 State-led Covid-19 Governance and the Negotiation of Trust in Local Chinese Communities in the Greater Bay Area of China 5 Covid-19 responses of displaced slum dwellers in Delhi:Whom to trust and to rely on in times of sanitary and economic crisis? 6 Covid-19 responses of Women Solidarity Networks in Brazil: Levels of Protection and (Mis)Trust in a Polarized Society 7 Trust in business in times of Covid-19. The case of the Aubervilliers garment product wholesale market 8 Trust Beyond Binary Choices: Belgian Chinese Immigrants’ Localization of ‘Chinese Bubble’ in the ‘Belgian Bubble’ in the COVID-19 Pandemic 9 "Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear:" Trust and Community Cultivation for Risk Response of a Chinese Immigrant Group in the United States 10 Whom to trust? International migration, risks, and responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico and Central America
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Taylor & Francis Terrorism Awareness
Book SynopsisTerrorism Awareness: Understanding the Threat and How You Can Protect Yourself provides readers a foundational understanding of the threats that face us every day.The goal is to introduce readers to different tactics and techniques used by terroristsâboth international and domesticâto better understand personal protection concepts and, if necessary, take actions to make themselves hard targets that terrorist organizations will want to avoid. This includes providing a background on understanding how terrorists operate, and, more specifically, how to recognize the pre-incident indicators associated with terrorist operations.Coverage includes situation awareness of the phases of terrorist operations, common attacks, surveillance and targeting tactics, kidnapping and hostage situations, bombings and blast effects, hijacking, armed assaults, and more. With such awareness, readers can be alert to common cues to avoid dangerous situations, as well as fTable of Contents1. Introduction to Terrorism 2. Terrorist Operations 3. Improvised Explosive Devices 4. Hostage Survival 5. Rapport Building Techniques 6. Detecting Terrorist Surveillance 7. Individual Protective Measures 8. Riots and Protests 9. Active Incident 10. Domestic Terrorism 11. Fire Uses as a Weapon 12. Cyber Awareness Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forensic Perspectives on Cybercrime
Book SynopsisForensic Perspectives on Cybercrime is the first book to combine the disciplines of cyberpsychology and forensic psychology, helping to define this emergent area. It explores the psychological factors that influence the behaviour of all those involved in cybersecurity, drawing upon the research literatures in relevant areas including forensic, social, and cyberpsychology.Written by leading figures in the field, the book provides an introduction to the cybercrime ecosystem, before discussing the psychological manipulation of targets through social engineering techniques and highlighting the unique threats that this type of attack presents. The reasons why people become involved in hacking are explored, and the authors review research literature on risk factors of being a victim of cybercrime, along with the concept of resilience. Behaviour change and prevention strategies are also evaluated, as well as the role of emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence an
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Craft as a Creative Industry
Book SynopsisCraft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creative industry, illuminating the experiences of those working in and around craft, particularly people from marginalised groups.Shining a light on inequalities around craft work, the author examines the lived experiences of women makers of colour in the professional craft sector. Experiences of racism and microaggressions at all stages of their craft career are analysed. The author draws on innovative empirical research carried out in the UK and Australia, two countries where the resurgence in craft is apparent, yet professional craft practice is dominated by the white and relatively privileged. In interrogating hierarchies of expertise and cultural value in craft, the author employs case studies from community crafts and social enterprises.The result is a book of interest to scholars at the intersections of the creative and cultural industries, the creative economy and inequalities at work.
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Taylor & Francis AntiAtheist Nation
Book SynopsisAtheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination throughout the nationâs history. This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contemporary conspiracy ideologies, such as the atheist New World Order. Describing anti-atheist prejudices and explaining the social and psychological mechanisms behind anti-atheist attitudes, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, religious studies and history with interests in religion in the United States.
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Routledge The Routledge Handbook of Social Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fair Trial Rules of Evidence
Book SynopsisThis book examines how the European Court of Human Rights approaches the matter of evidence, and how its judgments affect domestic law. The case law of the Court has affected many areas of law in Europe. One of these areas is the law of evidence, and especially criminal evidence. This work examines the key defence rights that may touch upon evidence, such as the right to adduce evidence, the right to disclosure, the privilege against self-incrimination and access to a lawyer, entrapment, and the right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses. It explains the relevant assessment criteria used by the Court and introduces a simple framework for understanding the various assessment models developed by the Court, including the Perna test, the Ibrahim criteria, and the sole or decisive rule. The book provides a comprehensive overview on the relevant case law, and will be a valuable asset for students and researchers, as well as practitioners, such as judges, prosecutors, and lawyers, working i
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Sense of Expertise
Book SynopsisCurrent debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a more nuanced understanding of the role of expertise in contemporary society.Too often different meanings of experts and expertise are implied without making them explicit. Grundmann's approach to expertise is based on a synthesis of approaches that exist in various fields of knowledge. The book aims at dispelling much of the confusion by offering a comprehensive and rigorous framework for the study of expertise. A series of in-depth case studies drawn from contemporary issues, including the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, provide the empirical basis of the author's comprehensive approach.This thought-provoking book will be of great interests to students, instructors and researchers in a range of fieldTrade Review"This book is a sophisticated attempt to provide a theory of expertise that defines it as a category in the social and organizational worlds. it engages a variety of literatures that are segregated from one another, which students should be exposed to. The discussions of different traditions in the expertise literature, in different chapters, serves any reader well." Stephen Turner, author of The Politics of Expertise (Routledge, 2013), and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Social & Political Thought, University of South Florida, USA"In this book Grundmann offers new theoretical insights into the nature and operation of expertise in society. He combines his theoretical framework with an empirical application to highly relevant examples, making fascinating discoveries along the way. He is analytically sharp and applies his insights to cases that are highly relevant in current debates, such as Covid-19, Climate Change, or Artificial Intelligence. He manages to resolve the confusion surrounding the role of expertise in these debates. The reader is rewarded with new insights, based on a ground-breaking approach." Nico Stehr, author of Knowledge Capitalism (Routledge, 2022) and Emeritus Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies, Zeppelin University, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. A General Concept of Expertise 2. Expertise in STS 3. The Power of the Professions 4. Predicting the Future 5. The Politics of Knowledge 6. Expertise and Economics 7. Discussion and Conclusion Part II 8. The IPCC: A Chameleon of Expertise 9. COVID, Expertise, and Society: Stepping out of the Shadow of Epidemiology 10. The Challenge to Professional Expertise Part III 11. Conclusion 12. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Domesticating International Criminal Law
Book SynopsisThis book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute. It discusses the most recent proposals for reform of the German Code of Crimes under International Law, the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch, 20 years after its entering into force and introduces the project for an Italian code of international crimes drafted by the Committee of experts established in 2022 by the Ministry of Justice.Following the adoption of the ICC Statute, many States, including Germany with the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch, introduced specific legislation to incorporate international criminal law into their domestic legal systems and a considerable number of them have been investigating and prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and even aggression ever since. Twenty-five years later, however, the process is not completed as other countries, likTable of ContentsForeword (Marta Cartabia, Former Minister of Justice)Preface (Rosario Aitala, Judge International Criminal Court)1. Obligations, Options and Obstacles: Implementing the Rome Statute Revisited (Chantal Meloni and Florian Jeßberger)2. Italian Perspectives on the Domestic Implementation of International Criminal Law 2.1. The Domestic Codification of International Crimes: the Private Initiative "Cariplo Project" (Fausto Pocar)2.2. Previous Italian Legislative Drafts (Marco Pedrazzi) 2.3. Implementation of Substantive Rules of International Criminal Law in Italy: between International Obligations and Constitutional Law Principles (Alessandra Annoni) 2.4. International Criminal Law Implementation and Constitutional Law (Francesco Viganò) 2.5. The Way Forward: an Overview on the Draft "Palazzo-Pocar" of 2022 (Nicola Selvaggi)3. The Adoption of Domestic Laws on International Criminal Justice: the German Code of Crimes Against International Law (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch) and the Global Perspective 3.1. Domestic and International Criminal Justice: Challenges Ahead (Andreas Zimmermann and John Schabedoth)3.2. Between International Solidarity and ‘No Safe Haven’: the German Völkerstrafgesetzbuch 20 Years On (Boris Burghardt) 3.3. Shortcomings and Proposals for Reform of the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch (Leonie Steinl) 3.4. Domesticating the ICC Statute: a Global Perspective (Antonio Coco) 3.5. Other Examples of Domestic Implementation of the ICC Statute (Kalika Metha) 4. Defining International Crimes in the Domestic Legislation4.1. How to Implement Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide in the Italian System (Maria Crippa) 4.2. The Italian Legislation on War Crimes: Obligations to Implement and Principle of Legality (Giulio Bartolini and Marco Longobardo)4.3. Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide as Ordinary Offences: What Consequences? (Luigi Prosperi)4.4. Domesticating the Sidelined Crime of Aggression (Annegret Hartig)5. Individual Criminal Responsibility, Sanctions and Sentencing in the Domestic Legislation 5.1. How to Domesticate the Modes of Liability for International Crimes in the Italian System (Chantal Meloni) 5.2. The Implementation of International Criminal Law in Germany: the Approach to Modes of Liability (Volker Nerlich) 5.3. Sanctions and Sentencing for International Crimes in Domestic Legal Systems (Epik Aziz) 5.4. Applying the ‘International’ Rationales of Sanctioning into the Domestic Criminal System (Alice Riccardi) 6. Immunities, Jurisdiction and Prosecutorial Discretion6.1. Prosecuting International Crimes Before Domestic Courts and the Question of Immunities (Chiara Ragni) 6.2. The Rejection of Immunities for International Crimes: a Solution for the Survival of the International Criminal Justice Project? (Valeria Vegh Weis) 6.3. Justice of the Powerful: Abusing Prosecutorial Discretion in the Punishment of International Crimes? (Triestino Mariniello) Annex:The Italian Ministry of Justice Proposal for a Code of International Crimes of 2022 ("Palazzo-Pocar Draft") (EN)Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Life After Death Today in the United States Japan
Book SynopsisThis book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these three societies, the book presents and compares personally held beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Include, but are certainly not limited to, the enduring tradition of Japanese ancestor veneration, China's transition from state-sponsored materialism to the increasing belief in some form of afterlife, as well as the diversity in senses of, or disbelief in, life after death in the United States. Through these diverse first-hand testimonies the book reveals that underlying these changes in each society there is a shift from collective to individual belief, with people developing their own visions of what may, or may not, happen after death. This book will be valuable reading for students of AnthropoloTrade Review"This is an insightful often compelling exploration into a topic that seldom receives the attention it deserves. Exceptionally important and enduring, it is a delight to read. The comparative aspect elevates the philosophical anthropology investigation into an analysis that is as satisfying as it is memorable."William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA"This research contributes to evolving concepts of death, afterlife, and immortality in the contemporary world, and how they mediate with the working of cultures. Its extensive examination of death, immortality, and afterlife crosses the boundaries of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and religious studies. The magnitude of ethnographic data collected by the authors will also impress academic or non-academic readers alike."Hikaru Suzuki, Editor of Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan (Routledge: 2012)Table of Contents1. Senses of Life After Death Past and Present 2. The United States: Life After Death in a Christian/Post-Christian Nation 3. Japan: The Strictures of Life Before Death and the Freedom of Life After Death 4. China: The Loss of a This-World Utopia, and the Lure of a World Beyond 5. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages
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Routledge The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving
Book SynopsisThe Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records.Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data to easy user access. However, digitization also poses challenges for archival practitioners worldwide. Bringing together contributions from practitioners and academics to offer a range of international case studies, this book offers practical solutions for archivists in terms of governance, technologies and processes. It highlights and analyses the cornerstones of the Nordic model of archiving: reliance on standards; powerful regulatory instruments - especially in public sector archiving, including legislation; and collaboration between archivists and government agencies, and among different tiers of central and local government. While showcasing work in the Nordic region for the benefit of archivists and record keepers globally, this volume also challenges the limits of the Nordic model with insights drawn from international archival theory.The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving offers a new perspective on archiving that will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students of archiving, digital archives and records management.
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Taylor & Francis Embracing the Messy Complexities of CoCreation
Book SynopsisCo-creation in participatory, qualitative research has become commonplace. It supports a myriad of collaborative practices â from service-user involvement in health and social care, to community capacity-building, to bottom-up climate change projects. With its democratic ambitions, transformative power and (in some contexts) goals of social justice, co-creation has much to offer, particularly in these challenging timesâ but it is also complex and full of tensions.This book offers an approach which recognises - and embraces - the messy complexities of co-creation. The approach is constructive â it revolves around creating openings for multiple voices; and, in particular, the voices of people with lived experience. And it is critical â it involves integrating critical, reflexive analyses of the intrinsic tensions in co-creation into the practice of research. The book brings participatory research into dialogue with poststructuralist, so
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Meaning in Funerals
Book SynopsisCreating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a backdrop of what is culturally appropriate, even when their choices might make little economic sense to those outside the culture. The culmination of these customs and practices, this book maintains, is how bereaved individuals, families, and communities are drawn into significant meaning making in early bereavement. Readers will be repeatedly challenged to suspend their own biases, observe the customs and beliefs of others thoughtfully, and provide counseling support and encouragement to bereaved individuals for whom funerals were or were not effective means of coping with their loss.Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make the book useful for educational settings such as funeral service classroom instruction, thanatology classes, and grief counseling courses. Each chapter is also accompanied by its own reference list to
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Taylor & Francis Art and Enchantment
This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the activity of art itself. With attention to the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject, the author draws on the thought of a diverse range of philosophers, sociological theorists and artists, to offer an understanding of art through the idea of enchantment, and enchantment through art. An accessible study, richly illustrated with experience â both that of the author and others â Art and Enchantment will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and anyone with interests in the nature of aesthetic expe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist
Book SynopsisThis book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly conducted in online environments,post-truth' performances become evermore central to democratic processes. It is therefore essential to reconsider the political potency of performance and theatricality in order to effectively reinvigorate democracy in the 21st century. Drawing on applied theatre practices, this book shows that performance is inherently concerned with cooperative and collaborative encounters across difference, and performance might therefore support effective responses to digital populism. The analysis addresses the performative aspects of populist political movements in the United States and United Kingdom. The chapters engage with aspects of performance and theatricality not commonly broached in IR scholarship, including interpersonal engagement, creative embodimentTable of ContentsPart I: Political Populism through the Lens of Performance 1.Performance and Politics 2.Populism and Performance 3.Encounter and Engagement Part II: Political Embodiment in Digital Populist Contexts 4.Embodiment and Perception: Bringing the Inside Out 5.Embodiment and Relationality: Bringing the Outside In Part III: The Affective and Aesthetic Dimensions of Populism and Performance 6.Fear and Failure 7.Pleasure and Beauty
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Case Against Paramilitary Policing
Book SynopsisThe argument of this book, originally published in 1990, demonstrates that paramilitarism, thought to deal quickly and effectively with outbreaks of public disorder, far from being maximally effective, substantially contributed to the very problem it claimed to minimize.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critics Not Caretakers
Book SynopsisThe essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.The book begins with several essays that outline the basis of an alternative, sociorhetorical approach to studying religion, before moving on to a series of discrete dispatches from the ongoing theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, Benson Saler, and Jacob Neusner as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field's future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarshipa role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to go Trade Review"The issues discussed in the first edition have not gone away; they are here now with a vengeance. This second edition rises to the occasion with new provocative chapter introductions that are not to be missed. But what is most remarkable is how the old and new come together in a way that will have us read the field—its history, its challenges, and its potential--with fresh perspective and the vigor to make it better."Richard Newton, The University of Alabama, U.S.A."Russell T. McCutcheon’s Critics Not Caretakers was one of a small handful of key works from the last thirty years that helped to bring about a paradigm shift in the academic study of religion, a shift that opened up space for all-new avenues of research on the political history of the concept of religion. The material new to this second edition helps readers—both old and new—situate the book in relation to the history of the discipline, the debates that were taking place at the time of its publication, and the scholarship since that has participated in the book’s trajectory; along the way, McCutcheon points to where his hopes for the discipline remained as yet unfulfilled. Critics is now essential reading for any scholar writing on the contested history of "religion.""Craig Martin, St. Thomas Aquinas College, U.S.A."What McCutcheon does so masterfully in this work is to provide clarity on what religious studies as a discipline has the power to do so well: to analyze how people both create and respond to ideas of unquestionable authority, the driving concept behind so many movements we call “religion” today. However, this book’s longevity and relevance lies in its central claim that scholars of religion also have these unquestionable authorities with which they must grapple. This is a must-read for anyone who takes seriously the social and political dynamics that define the academic study of religion."Leslie Smith, Avila University, U.S.A."In Critics Not Caretakers, McCutcheon offers a way of writing about and teaching contentious topics, not only in the study of religion but also in the wider humanities and social sciences since it is not really about ‘religion’ but the critical study of a category that has been taken for granted. This augmented second edition is a reminder of what it is a scholar of religion is studying: the ways in which humans categorise, classify, divide the world around them into sacred/secular, insider/outsider and so on, bringing to our attention the scholarly assumptions privileging the ‘sacred’ and the ‘insider’ in these bifurcations. McCutcheon gives attention to both theoretical concerns and pedagogy, and thus this book has a practical application for those researching and teaching the study of religion."Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, UK.Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Copyright Permissions Introduction to the Second Edition Part I. Background1. "Not Nearly Critical Enough": Studying Religion as Part of the Humanities Part II. Redescribing Religion as Something OrdinaryIntroduction to Chapter 22. More than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering Through the Academy with the Study of Religion Introduction to Chapter 33. Redescribing "Religion" as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion Part III. Dispatches from the Theory WarsIntroduction to Chapter 44. Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go" Introduction to Chapter 55. Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century Introduction to Chapter 66. "We’re All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Trans-Cultural Understandings Introduction to Chapter 77. The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the Parliament of Religions Introduction to Chapter 88. "My Theory of the Brontosaurus...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion Part IV. Culture Critics and CaretakersIntroduction to Chapters 9 and 109. A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual 10. Talking Past Each Other: Public Intellectuals Revisited Part V. Going Public: Teaching TheoryIntroduction to Chapters 11–1411. Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance12. Redescribing "Religion and..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem 13. Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals 14. Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources Part VI. This Messy Mix of Historical Human PerformanceAfterword to the Second Edition BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crime and Psychology
Book SynopsisClear and accessible in style, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice and forensic mental health and the ways in which they intersect.Assuming no prior exposure to the field of criminal forensic psychology, the book reviews ten areas where mental health professionals contribute regularly to the due process of law: comprehension of rights, competency to stand trial, transfer of juveniles to adult court, risk assessment, mitigation, sentencing, sexually violent predators, insanity, and capital punishment of persons with mental illness and with intellectual disability. The book also explores the major categories of mental disorders, how they contribute to criminal behavior, and what problems they present in courts and corrections. Landmark cases from the United States and United Kingdom are also reviewed in detail to develop a thorough understanding of the court's decision-making process. Bridging the gap between abstraction and practice throughTrade Review“Dr Jonathan Venn has written a tour de force. In four decades of practice as a forensic psychologist, I have never seen such a comprehensive, clear, and deeply thoughtful textbook on the science and practice of forensic psychology.” J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., ABPP, Former President at the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and Fellow at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, USA“This comprehensive textbook by Dr. Venn is long overdue for the field. He does an excellent, thorough job of explaining clearly some of the most complex challenges to the forensic psychologist as in Chapter Two on preparing for and serving as an expert witness in court. The bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide a list of outstanding resources on each subject covered. Bravo!” Florence Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP, Founding President, American Board of Forensic Psychology, USA“Dr. Venn has accomplished a remarkable task: integrating legal history, case law, statutes and clinical applications. I think it could be subtitled: “Everything you ever wanted to know about criminal forensic psychology." Its focus on the controversies in many different substantive areas, is quite original, and gives a sense of the realities of forensic practice, rather than a series of abstract observations. The organization is excellent, in that it looks at the major components of each substantive issue. These significant components have often been overlooked in previous texts I have seen. Finally, the writing style is easy to follow, and one looks forward to the next part of each issue being discussed.”David L. Shapiro, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus, College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University, USA"This excellent text is intended to thoroughly introduce mental health professionals into forensic practices. It is clearly dedicated to criminal issues, such as insanity, Miranda waivers, and the death penalty. Succinct chapters highlight the interesting backgrounds of defendants in landmark legal cases. Regarding the science of forensic psychology, important advances in forensic tests are featured. Students and professionals interested in the practice of criminal forensic psychology should read this book from cover to cover." Richard Rogers, Ph.D., ABPP, Regents Professor of Psychology and Eminent Faculty, University of North Texas, USA"In Crime and Psychology: Foundations of Forensic Practice, Jonathan Venn has generated the “missing book” that many experts in mental health law would have given their eye teeth for when they were first starting out. Dr. Venn explains “everything you wanted to know” about why things are the way they are in the American criminal justice system. Crime and Psychology includes a treasury of “back stories” of famous cases, exhaustive references to case law, and wisdom earned through years of expert practice. The book is readily accessible for undergraduates and graduates trying to decide on a career path in psychology. Dr. Venn provides not only a workman’s view of how the system operates, but he provides a compassionate take on how mental illness plays a central role in the lives of many criminal defendants. I plan to read this book once a year to remind myself of the foundations of my forensic practice."Richard Frederick, Ph.D., ABPP, Private Practice, Minneapolis, USA"In this engaging, comprehensive, and deeply scholarly text, Dr. Venn has done a remarkable job of weaving together historical and contemporary case law and its philosophical and political underpinnings, psychological research, clinical issues, practical concerns, and detailed case studies. Dr. Venn’s readers – whether students or established professionals – will find their knowledge of forensic psychology, its underlying concepts, and its controversies tremendously enriched." Carol E. Holden, Ph.D., ABPP, University of Michigan, USA"I have known Dr. Jonathan Venn for many years and he is a thorough and thoughtful neuropsychologist with decades of forensic experience. He is also an excellent witness. These skills are all evident in his new book, Crime and Psychology: Foundations of Forensic Practice, which will surely be an important resource tool for those studying and practicing forensic psychology." John H. Blume, J.D., Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, Cornell Law School, USA"Dr. Venn has written an important, thoughtful, scholarly, and thoroughly-researched textbook that will greatly enhance our understanding of the origins, history, case law, and forensic psychological practice involved in the complex intricacies of criminal procedural law and mental illness. His text reflects his decades-long experience as a criminal forensic psychologist who has evaluated and given expert testimony in hundreds of adolescent and adult cases at every stage of prosecution from pre-trial issues such as competency to stand trial to at-trial issues of mental state at the time of offense (e.g., insanity) to post-trial issues of sentencing including the death penalty to appellate issues of competency to be executed. Faculty teaching in introductory and advanced forensic psychology and forensic psychiatry training programs will find this textbook a valuable resource for their students and themselves." Geoffrey R. McKee, Ph.D, ABPP, Diplomate in Forensic Psychology and American Board of Professional Psychology, USA"The author is a highly respected Board Certified Forensic Psychologist who has managed to present complex topics in an easy to digest, yet thorough fashion. The style of writing is clear and articulate, and the frequent use of case examples is particularly helpful. I highly recommend this book for graduate students as well as early career practitioners interested in forensic psychological practice in the criminal justice system." Ira K. Packer, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA"Most of the chapters begin with nuggets of historical background for the relevant legal question. How did the legal concept evolve to become embedded in our modern case law, and how is that relevant for your forensic mental health assessments? Not on the tip of the tongue for many forensic examiners. But history deepens your appreciation of your assessment’s purpose and importance."Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA"Perhaps the greatest compliment I could give a book such as this is that it does exactly what the author set out to do. It provides an honest picture of the career of a forensic psychologist. Case examples give life to legal principles and processes, and complex questions are explained in clear, thoughtful language that is easily digested. The list of topics covered is comprehensive, and the resulting discussions are practical...Perhaps you are someone who has wondered about the practice of forensic psychology. Or perhaps you have contemplated a career in this field or started down the path that Jonathan Venn has described so well. In either case, this book is for you. I hope you enjoy reading it and learning about this fascinating profession."From the Foreword by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Co-Founder, Heroes Active Bystandership Training, Former President, American Psychology-Law Society, USATable of ContentsPART 1: Foundational concepts of law and mental health 1. Due process of law 2. Mental health professionals in court 3. Expert testimony 4. Pleas and verdicts 5. Three standards of evidence 6. Four goals of sentencing 7. The doctrine of mens rea 8. Applications of mens rea PART 2: Due process before trial 9. Waiver of 5th and 6th Amendment rights during police interrogations: Miranda v. Arizona (U.S. 1966) 10. Competency to stand trial (CST) 11. Transfer of juveniles to adult court: Kent v. United States (U.S. 1966) PART 3: Due process after conviction 12. Assessing risk of violence 13. Risk assessment and the death penalty 14. Mitigation testimony in capital sentencing has no limits: Lockett v. Ohio (U.S. 1978) 15. Juvenile Sentencing: Miller v. Alabama (U.S. 2012) 16. Civil commitment of sexually violent predators (SVPs) 17. Executing persons who have intellectual developmental disorder (IDD) 18. Competency to be executed: Ford v. Wainwright (U.S. 1986) PART 4: The insanity defense 19.The three incapacities 20. Foundational cases in the United Kingdom from Rex v. Arnold (1724) to Regina v. M’Naghten (1843) 21. A middle road for the insanity defense: Diminished responsibility / diminished capacity / diminished actuality 22. U.S. cases that narrowed the insanity defense 23. Case Study #12: The death penalty for a defendant with serious mental illness and volitional incapacity: State v. Wilson (S.C. 1992) 24. The abolitionist states PART 5: Mental disorders and crime 25. Neurodevelopmental Disorders 26. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 27. Bipolar and Related Disorders 28. Depressive disorders 29. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders 30. Dissociative disorders 31. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders 32. Substance-Related and Addictive 33. Neurocognitive Disorders Disorders 34. Personality disorders 35. Paraphilic Disorders 36. Mental disorders less commonly associated with crime 37. Epilogue: The future of forensic mental health
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto
Book SynopsisThis social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.The study focuses on three aspects of urban life, beginning with individual and household relations with the neighborhood communities that comprised the institutional framework of urban administration and provided financial and legal resources for residents. It then moves to the lives of ordinary people, taking a life-course approach to analyze life-cycle work: marriage, divorce, blended families, fertility, adoption, migration, mobility, and mortality. The final theme discusses households people lived in, headship succession and devolution of property; family business as a network of household shops and workshops; and the roles women played, while testing the patriarchy theories commonly used in this field and finding new explanations.Written for all levels of expertise and including many stories of everyday people, this book will appeal to undergraduate students and general readers interested in historical Kyoto.
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CRC Press The Science of People and Office Design
Book SynopsisThe Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design. Practitioner-researcher disconnects often arise due to a lack of meaningful connection between their professional worlds. This book seeks to rectify this disconnect and make it clear that research can significantly affect the likelihood that design projects achieve the objectives outlined in their briefs, and that practitioners need to have a real influence on research conducted.The book consists of 16 chapters,each grouped into three major sections, with an overview chapter and a conclusion drawn together by the editors. Each chapter addresses a real-world workplace design-related issue. The first part of each chapter presents the editors' overview of the problem in practice and the objectives that must be achieved via design solutions. The second portion of each chapter presents peer-reviewed research related to the chapterâs topic, written by a researcher focused on practical issues. The final part of each chapter is written by a workplace design practitioner and details their efforts to resolve the sectionâs real-world workplace design-related concern by applying relevant peer-reviewed research.The book is aimed at professionals working in business, interior design, architecture, surveying, facilities management, building services engineering, human resources and psychology who are key stakeholders in the design and delivery of modern office spaces. Postgraduates studying design, architecture, engineering, facilities management, environmental psychology and wellbeing will also find the book useful.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A New Economic Anthropology
Book SynopsisTraditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics, despite the prominence given to the individual in microeconomics. And there is very little in the way of dialogue between the two sides. This book argues for a new economic anthropology which goes beyond the conflict of economics and anthropology to show the complementarity of the two approaches. Economics needs to go beyond the stage of homo oeconomicus and be open to broader ideas about the person. Equally, anthropology can be enriched through the methods and models of economic theory. This new economic anthropology goes beyond a simple observation of societies. It is new because it introduces the responsible person with a wider range of characteristics, in particular vulnerability and suffering, as a subject of economics. It is
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China and Europe Relations in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisThis book argues that although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, especially when considered in the context of long-term historical linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for future progressive collaborative exchanges. Approaching the subject in a balanced way, giving equal weight to the perspectives of both sides, the book examines China and Europe's shared experiences of age-old civilizations, of the disorienting effects of the economic, social and political upheavals triggered by the late eighteenth century creation of the modern world, and of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries era of European empires, warfare and the Cold War. It contends that although China and Europe appear superficially to have followed different paths, with many problems in their relationship resulting, they in fact have a very gTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements[1] Introduction: Changing perceptions of the relationship between China and Europe[2] China, Europe and the creation of the modern world [3] China and Europe in the twenty-first century: New linkages[4] China: The structure of government and the role of the law [5] The EU: Politics, law and decision-making [6] China and the EU: Peaceful rising [7] The EU and China: Evolving policy towards China [8] China: Recent problems[9] The EU: Managing recent problems AfterwordIndex
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Taylor & Francis State Political Power and Criminality in Civil
Book SynopsisThis book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply political and hotly contested processes. The shifting movements towards the separation -or convergence- between criminality and politics are part of the processes of constitution of both political power and state. The chapters in the volume flesh out the mechanisms and social dynamics through which this takes place.This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics, and researchers in Politics, History and Criminology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Political Power. Table of ContentsIntroduction—State, political power and criminality in civil war: an editorial revisiting old debates from different angles 1 Power and crime: a theoretical sketch 2 Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and statebuilding in the Colombian conflict 3 The difference mafias make: a triadic model of organized crime in ethnic conflicts 4 Illicit economies and political opportunity: the case of the Colombian paramilitaries (1982–2007) 5 Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars 6 Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrillanarcoterrorist discourses 7 The varieties of paramilitaries paper present to Dublin zoom conference June 10, 2021 8 Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century? 9 Crime, violence, and coercive power 10 The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Web of Violence
Book SynopsisSome of the most frightening and harmful violence in modern society takes place inside the family. Wives, children, grandparents, all of them can be subject to attacks that range from mild roughing up' to assaults that leave the victim physically or psychologically crippled.What causes this violence? What sort of people are the attackers and the victims? What can we do to diminish it and to help those who suffer? Originally published in 1978, Jean Renvoize author of the highly praised Children in Danger traces the web of violence along many different strands. She covers baby battering and child abuse, violent husbands and wives, granny bashing' and incest. She looks at the psychological roots and the social patterns; she also surveys the agencies that act to prevent family violence, from social workers and those who run refuges to police and doctors. She suggests a number of positive steps that could and should be taken to improve society's response. As in ChTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Janet’s Story 2. Battered Wives 3. Children of Violence 4. The Law 5. Refuge 6. Granny Bashing 7. Baby Battering 8. Incest 9. The Search for Answers. Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Uncovering the Act of Maternal Infanticide from a
Book SynopsisUsing a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, Laufer examines the topic of maternal infanticide through the lens of Jungian theory and presents an integrated and forensic view of this issue as an aggregate of personal and political moments, and as a feminine and feminist outcry urging human evolution.The first part of the book will dissect the identity of the infanticidal mother and the Death Mother archetype, with the author providing firsthand accounts of patients that she has worked with in her professional career. The second part of the book focuses on interpreting that act of maternal infanticide, and these chapters will look to the construct of patriarchal Motherhood as a way of explaining the drive and actions of an infanticidal mother. The third and final section of the book takes the concept of evolution and transmutation a step further and addresses what is required in our modern state for the event of maternal infanticide.This is an important new book for
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Housing and Young Families in East London
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985, Anthea Holme focuses her study on Bethnal Green in East London and Wanstead and Woodford in outer East London, the areas covered by Michael Young and Peter Willmott in their celebrated books Family and Kinship in East London and Family and Class in a London Suburb. Her aim was to discover how things had changed in the twenty-five years or so since the publication of these classic studies. She makes a four-way comparison, between then and now and between two neighbourhoods of the present, a relatively prosperous outer London suburb and a London East End district carrying its full quota of inner-city problems.The book takes as its starting point a crucial event in a family's history the birth of the first child. Housing may contribute to the happiness or the stress of the family at this time. The author looks at the present housing and the housing history of families who have just had their first child and discusses their satisfactioTable of ContentsForeword by Michael Young. Acknowledgements. Notes on Names, Places and Terms. Introduction. 1. The Neighbourhoods 2. The Families 3. Housing History 4. Family Building and Housing 5. The Homes 6. Ways of Life 7. Housing Aspirations 8. The Main Issues Discussed. Appendices. Notes and References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Abortion in the United States
Book SynopsisThis book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which dramatically changed the constitutional standing of abortion decisions set in place by Roe v. Wade fifty years earlier. The authors describe the history of US Supreme Court decision-making around abortion and some of its attendant considerations, including the constitutional right to privacy, moral obligations to protect life, and determinations about when life begins.When Dobbs was decided, legal control over abortion was returned to the states, resulting in wildly divergent access to abortion across the nation. As important, Dobbs raised a host of additional legal and moral questions that will no doubt be the focus of many future courtroom and legislative debates.This text is designed for undergraduate students across a range of academic disciplines. It lays bare the complicated moral dimensions of the competing arguments abo
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Taylor & Francis Studying Islam in the Arab World
Book SynopsisAddressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue.Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers, this study is the sum of five years of field research observing the curricula and teaching styles of colleges in the Shariah sciences. The author provides critical insight into these curricula by focusing on case studies in Lebanon and Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait and Qatar, and in Malaysia. In doing so, the book aims to answer the following questions: What is the aim of religious education? Does it aim to create people who specialize solely in religious affairs, or does it aim to form the student according to a comprehensive human framework? What is the nature of the relationship between the social sciences and the Shariah sciences? The book concludes by examining three pioneering institutions which have introduced alternative curricula in teaching Shariah studies.The book has wide geographic and ideological coverage, and will appeal to university students, academics, and policy analysts working across a range of disciplines, including the philosophy of knowledge, Islamic law and education, and sociology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resolving the Climate Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis.Despite efforts for mitigation, global emission levels continue to increase annually and the world's wealthiest nations, including all of the G20 countries, have failed to meet their Paris Climate Goals. In the absence of political will, many have called for individuals to act on climate change by mitigating their own carbon footprint through having fewer children, driving less, using LED lightbulbs, or by becoming vegetarians. While compelling, individual lifestyle changes on this scale are unlikely to prevent climate disaster. Resolving the Climate Crisis presents informed solutions for social change that center human behavior and emotions, political systems, and societal structures. Across a series of concise and accessible chapters, authors e
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Textbook of Health Psychology
This book examines the concept of health psychology following its trajectory from ancient to contemporary times. It analyses the theories, practice and research in health psychology from both Indian and Western perspectives. The volume brings together knowledge diversified across various narrow subfields. It expounds upon physiological psychology; chronic illnesses associated with physiological systems; and biopsychosocial approaches to treatment and management with therapeutic interventions integrated throughout the book. It further discusses health promotive and health risk behaviour with reference to health policies and databases at national and global levels. This book will be beneficial to the students, researchers and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, public health, public policy, community health, and medical and paramedical studies. It will also be indispensable to the policy-makers and NGOs working in the field of public health.
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Taylor & Francis What Brexit Means
Book SynopsisWhat Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition. It explains how populism is expressed in terms of ritually renewing social order and solidarity. Rejecting the notion that the territory of populism studies belongs to political science, this book shows how it is in the realm of anthropology - myth, ritual, alterity, consciousness, selfhood - that we witness the most compelling examples of how a phenomena as modern as populism depends upon the same symbolic logics that we find in the premodern world. What Brexit Means is a demonstration of the power of anthropology to explain momentous and poorly predicted transformations in the global order. It will become a benchmark text for those eager for anthropologyâs contribution to understanding the political turbulence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conducting Contextual Research
Book SynopsisThis innovative book proposes an entirely new approach to social research, presenting practical ways to discover people's life contexts in order to understand why they do what they do, which is essential for any forms of research that need to understand people.Taking a novel approach that goes beyond traditional categorisations of qualitative and quantitative research, the book starts by discussing the real basis of all research methods in social relationships, before detailing the methods for finding out about a person's life contexts in very practical terms, accompanied by suggested questions, advice, and research tricks to help you progress. The various life contexts are then worked through chapter by chapter. Drawing on the rich and varied research experiences of all the authors, examples are given throughout, with later chapters focusing on specific research areas.Conducting Contextual Research is essential reading for postgraduate students an
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forensic Justice
Book SynopsisForensic science is playing an increasingly important role in criminal investigations, as it provides scientific methods and techniques to gather and analyse evidence from crime scenes. Forensic evidence can be crucial in identifying suspects, linking them to the crime scene, and helping to secure convictions in court. In this sense, forensic science is seen as an aid to criminal investigation, providing reliable and objective evidence that can be used to uncover the truth behind criminal activities.The integration of forensic science with law and criminology is creating a new era of progressive thinking, where advanced techniques are being developed to better understand the nature of crime and the behaviour of criminals. With the help of forensic science, investigators can obtain speedy justice and bring criminals to book. However, this requires appropriate measures to be taken for the efficient execution of forensic investigations, including the use of modern technology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Webers Sociology
Book SynopsisThis volume outlines Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology of interpretive understanding (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus. Presenting the central features of his methodology, it demonstrates the strengths of his research strategies through discussions of his major works and overarching concerns. Among other themes, this study addresses the origins of the American political culture, the longevity of its civic sphere, and the multiple causes behind the unique historical pathways followed by several civilizations. Indeed, through summaries of Weber's procedures and their application in his own empirical studies, Max Weber's Sociology sustains a simultaneous orientation to his big picture themes and his rigorous manner of analysis. It demonstrates in so doing the capacity of Weber's sociology to ground firmly both ideal-type theorizing and empirically oriented investigations. This volume will appeal to sc
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Taylor & Francis Ltd American Farming Culture and the History of
Book SynopsisPresenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing about change and ignore how people embed technology with social meaning. This book, however, shows how farmers use technology to express their identities in unspoken ways and provides a framework for bridging the current rural-urban divide by presenting a fresh perspective on rural cultural practices. Focusing on German and Jeffersonian farmers in the 18th century and Corn Belt producers in the 1920s, the Cold War, and the recent period of globalization, this book traces how farmers formed their own versions of rural modernity. Rural people use technology to contest urban modernity and debunk yokel stereotypes and women specifically employed technology to resist urban gender concept
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CRC Press GIS and Housing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Eastern Land and the Western Heaven
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the structure of a unity with diversity developed in the Qing imperial formation (16361912) by a case study of the Qing-Tibetan encounters in the eighteenth century.By analyzing historical and ethnographical materials, the book investigates the translation of Chinese histories and stone inscriptions into Tibetan, the transformation of the landscapes at Mount Wutai and Lhasa, and the transplantation of Chinese deities and medical practices to Tibet. It demonstrates the processes in which the cosmopolitan interlocutors reified imperial integrity while expressing their diverse longings and belongings. It concludes that the Qing's rule over its cultural others was neither simply Sinicizing nor colonizing, but a translational process in which multivocalic actors shared narratives, landscapes, and practices, while the emperor and tantric masters performed cosmic power over humans and metahumans.This book cuts across the fields of anthropology, historTable of Contents1. Introduction: Narratives, Landscapes, and Practices at Qing-Tibetan Interface PART I Narratives 2. Discovering the Western Treasure: Tibet in Qing Cosmopolitan Historiography 3. Taming the Eastern Land: China in Tibetan Buddhist Historiography PART II Landscapes 4. Hierarchizing Spaces: Cosmopolitanism and “Our Holy Dynasty” 5. Maṇḍalizing Landscape: The Cosmopolitics of Tantric Masters PART III Practices 6. Local and Translocal Beings: The Guandi Cult in Tibet 7. The Edicts and the Edible: Digesting Imperial Sovereignty in Lhasa 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Holy Waters
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine the relationship between religion and alcohol.It examines the historical, social, ritual, economic, political, and cultural relationship between religion and alcohol across time periods and around the world. Twelve chapters are tied together by two major themes: first, gender identity, and its intersection with religion and alcohol; second, identity construction in religious communities, demonstrating how alcohol can be used as a distinguishing factor for religious, ethnic, and national identity. A key focus of the volume is how alcohol can bridge and divide the point at which the sacred and secular meet.With its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style, this book is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students in religion departments and appeals to scholars of material culture, food, and alcohol. Additionally, the book is of interest to professionals in the alcohol ind
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Taylor & Francis The Heredity Hoax
Book SynopsisThis innovative and thought-provoking book integrates both new, authored material and reprints of existing literature that, together, provide a compelling narrative that reveals the fatally flawed science associated with genetic reductionist accounts of human behavior and development.Through an interdisciplinary lens, it illuminates the dynamic nature of human development, empowering readers to question established notions, and embrace the complexity of our potential. Across the book, the work of top-tier scientists, from developmental, comparative, educational, and biological science illuminates theory and research converging on the conclusion that the multiple egregiously flawed work of genetic reductionists should be expunged from research pertinent to human development. The book challenges the prevailing reductionist narratives and their application to social policies, programs, and uses in media. Theoretically based and empirically rigorous, this multidisciplinary approa
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Taylor & Francis Occupational Therapy in East Asia
Book SynopsisThis is the first major textbook on occupational therapy (OT) aimed at students and practitioners based in Asia.Written by a team of authors mainly based in Hong Kong, the book is divided into four sections. Section 1 presents the history of OT in the region as well as those key theories which underpin it, before Section 2 introduces the essentials of OT practice. From assessment through to evaluation and intervention, these chapters cover five key therapeutic areas in which occupational therapists work: providing support for sensory and motor functions, providing support for cognitive and perceptual issues, providing support for psychosocial issues, providing support for returning to home and the community (including the use of assistive technology), and providing support for returning to the workplace. Section 3 then details a range of case studies to show occupational therapists in action, while Section 4 looks at how the field is developing, including the increasing use of AI and other technologies. Throughout the book, cultural factors specific to the region are highlighted.An ideal resource for any student in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan or Singapore, this outstanding text is also a key reference work for practitioners in the region.
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Taylor & Francis Who Owns Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book uniquely reverses todayâs MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real âœdeeper stateâ is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.Class and caste-based elites and their political allies have held dominant power in the US. Large corporations, Wall Street, and other sectors of the capitalist class outsource day-to-day governance to the mainstream political parties, which can compete vigorously and create a credible veneer of civil liberties and electoral democracy, disguising and legitimating the deep state. But it is a âœshallow democracy,â since the deep state sets boundaries on policies and choices to serve itself. It also denies a universal franchise and obstructs the voting rights of people of color, the poor, and other communities threatening to the deep state. Moreover, the deep state constrains civic governance in the workplace and community, denying virtually all working people democratic control over their economic and social life.Shallow democracy has a long history. Two embryonic deep states â a Northern capitalist deep state and a Southern slave-based deep state â came together in a tense and unstable union to create and govern the US. While the Confederate deep state, which we call proto-American fascism, was defeated in the Civil War, it left a deep imprint on the culture and politics of millions of Americans, and has resurged again in Trumpism. The shallow democracy of the capitalist deep state has survived previous challenges, but it lacks the deep roots that guarantees its survival.The authors point to prospects for meaningful change arising from the extreme economic chasm dividing the nation economically and racially, and from existential crises of the survival of democracy and of a sustainable planet. They discuss strategy that might finally move the nation beyond MAGA toward deep democracy.
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Taylor & Francis Group The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence 16001850
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Taylor & Francis The Future of Governance
Book SynopsisThis book offers a radically different introduction to law, one that reflects the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid technological developments of our time.Traditionally, law has been about historic principles and rules and their application to a particular set of facts; and courts, judges, and disputes have been central to the legal enterprise. Against this approach, this book highlights four radical and revisionist ideas: by bringing modern technologies into the foreground; by presenting law as one particular mode of governance in a larger picture of governance that now includes technological modalities; by insisting that we have to think outside the traditional doctrinal box to engage with a broad range of governance questions; and by emphasising that human communities cannot flourish without good governance to which both lawyers and law are central. These four radical threads are woven into a discussion of the modern landscape of law, and together they of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Countering Terrorist Finance
Book SynopsisRegulation and control of the financial industry has become the weapon of choice for governments struggling to control the rise in global crime and terrorism. Tim Parkman and Gill Peeling''s Countering Terrorist Finance - A Training Handbook for Financial Services is a practical, specialist guide for training staff in financial institutions in the processes and skills needed to respond to terrorist financing activities. The book explains international legal responses and obligations (with particular jurisdictional emphasis on the US, the UK, and Hong Kong); dissects the financing typologies behind terrorist attacks including September 11th, Madrid, Bali and other non al-Qaeda examples; analyzes potential causes for suspicion and offers an overview of the main issues and considerations affecting compliance professionals, in their efforts to protect against terrorist financing. The accompanying collection of eight training activities, with supporting materials and presentation slides, pr
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Taylor & Francis Dissertation Practice
Book SynopsisDissertation Practice: A Journal for Learning is an interactive resource that promotes journaling to engender key dissertation practices, through activities and exercises. It is rooted in the view that students can use journaling to promote thought, and that the privacy of journal entries ensures comfort and familiarity. This personal context, along with the bookâs open prompts, allows students to engage in extended and alternative thinking.The practices suggested here offer opportunities to imagine, create, explain, rethink, analyze, and argue for a study. The book includes blank space for students to enter short pieces of writing â such as reflections, examples, range of topics, and sample annotations â to generate and review thought, and includes features such as self-assessment questions, working with your chair boxes, revision practices, and examples of studentsâ work. As a journal of thinking, it allows students to record their thoughts as they materialize into w
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Cambridge University Press The Material World
Book SynopsisChina's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and Table of ContentsPart I. Social Institutions: 1. Families, kinship and relatedness; 2. Marriage, intimacy, sex; 3. Citizenship, household registration and migration; 4. Community institutions; 5. Work; Part II. Cultures, Socialization and the Formation of Identities: 6. Religion, ritual and religiosity; 7. Ethnicity; 8. Education and the cultivation of citizens; 9. Modernity, youth identities and popular culture; Part III. Inequalities, Injustices and Social Responses: 10. Class and stratification; 11. Regional, rural/urban and within-community inequalities; 12. The 'woman question' and gender inequalities; 13. Collective action and social change.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dantes Deadly Sins
Book SynopsisDante's Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante's master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Focusing on Inferno and Purgatorio, Belliotti examines the puzzles and paradoxes of Dante's moral assumptions, his treatment of the 7 deadly sins, and how 10 of his most powerful moral lessons anticipate modern existentialism. Analyzes the moral philosophy underpinning one of the greatest works of world culture Summarizes the Inferno and Purgatorio, while underscoring their moral implications Explains and evaluates Dante's understanding of the Seven Deadly Sins' and the ultimate role they play as the basis of human transgression. Provides a detailed discussion of the philosophical concepts of moral desert and the law of contrapasso, using character case studies within Dante's work Connects the poem's moTrade Review“In this thought-provoking book Belliotti draws Dante’s Commedia into conversation with existentialist philosophy. . . Despite these questions, Belliotti’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in Dante. In it the reader will find a refreshingly different take on the moral vision underscored by Dante’s Commedia.” (The Heythrop Journal, 24 July 2015) Table of ContentsAbout the Author x Preface xii The Rationale xii The Origin xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 The Historical Context 1 The Life of Dante 3 Later Writings 8 The Commedia 12 Dante’s Death 14 Aims of this Book 15 Dante as Moral Philosopher 17 1 Inferno 19 Dante’s Mission 19 The Journey Begins 20 Vestibule (Ante-Hell): The Indecisive Neutrals 21 Upper Hell: Sins of Unrestrained Desire (the Wolf) 23 River Styx, Walls of the City of Dis 28 Lower Hell: Sins of Malice Leading to Violence (the Lion) 30 Lower Hell: Sins of Malice Leading to Fraud (the Leopard) 34 Dante’s Existential Lessons in Hell 46 2 Purgatorio 48 Purgatory in a Nutshell 48 The Journey Continues 50 Ante-Purgatory: Late Repentants 50 Gate of Purgatory 56 The First Three Terraces: Misdirected Love 57 The Fourth Terrace: Deficient Love of the Good 62 The Final Three Terraces: Excessive Love of Secondary Goods 64 Dante’s Existential Lessons in Purgatory 71 3 The Notion of Desert and the Law of Contrapasso 73 The Notion of Desert 73 The Contrapasso 81 The Problem of Proportionality 87 First Case Study: Francesca 90 Second Case Study: Brutus and Cassius 92 Third Case Study: Epicurus 99 Dante’s Moral Conception 102 4 Paradoxes and Puzzles: Virgil and Cato 104 The Paradox of Virgil 105 Summary of the Paradox of Virgil 111 The Strange Case of Cato 116 “The Perfect Stoic” 117 Dante’s Decision 120 Dante and Conflict 123 5 The Seven Deadly Sins 124 Historical Background 124 Superbia (Pride) 127 Invidia (Envy) 129 Ira (Wrath) 133 Acedia (Sloth) 137 Avaritia (Avarice) 138 Gula (Gluttony) 139 Luxuria (Lust) 140 The Antidote: Righteous Love 142 The Bridge to Salvation 148 6 Dante’s Existential Moral Lessons 149 Dante and Existentialism 149 Jean-Paul Sartre and Hell 150 Dante’s Ten Existential Lessons 157 Individualism and Community 176 Personal Strategies 179 Bibliography 185 Index 193
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