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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cities and Social Movements
Book SynopsisThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don't develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countlessTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments x 1 Sparks of Resistance 1 2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13 Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37 3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39 4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54 5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71 Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89 6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91 7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116 8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138 Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157 9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161 10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188 11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209 12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227 Notes 239 References 245 Index 262
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality
Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts.Trade ReviewThis Monograph would sit well in a health manager s set of reference books Congratulations to the editors and contributing authors for this contribution of knowledge and learning relevant to the needs of those of us engaged in health systems as managers, educators, researchers and reformists. - Dr DS Briggs, The Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, Volume 12 - Issue 1 - 2017Table of ContentsNotes on contributors vii 1 Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality 1Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jane Sandall and Justin Waring 2 Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research 18Justin Waring, Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Jane Sandall 3 What is the role of individual accountability in patient safety? A multi-site ethnographic study 36Emma-Louise Aveling, Michael Parker and Mary Dixon-Woods 4 Enacting corporate governance of healthcare safety and quality: a dramaturgy of hospital boards in England 52Tim Freeman, Ross Millar, Russell Mannion and Huw Davies 5 The social practice of rescue: the safety implications of acute illness trajectories and patient categorisation in medical and maternity settings 69Nicola Mackintosh and Jane Sandall 6 Sensemaking and the co-production of safety: a qualitative study of primary medical care patients 87Penny Rhodes, Ruth McDonald, Stephen Campbell, Gavin Daker-White and Caroline Sanders 7 Chains of (dis)trust: exploring the underpinnings of knowledge-sharing and quality care across mental health services 102Patrick R. Brown and Michael W. Calnan 8 Spatio-temporal elements of articulation work in the achievement of repeat prescribing safety in UK general practice 121Suzanne Grant, Jessica Mesman and Bruce Guthrie 9 Infections and interaction rituals in the organisation: clinician accounts of speaking up or remaining silent in the face of threats to patient safety 140Julia E. Szymczak Index 155
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Wiley-Blackwell The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health Illnes s Behavior and Society 2nd Edition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory
Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope of ideas that have transformed the humanities and social sciences, and the way we understand ourselves and the societies we live in today. Each chapter provides a thorough yet engaging introduction to a particular theoretical school, style or conceptual issue. Together they build up to a detailed and comprehensive critical introduction to the most salient areas of the field. The introduction reflects on the substantive themes which tie the chapters together and on what the very notions of theory' and theoretical school' bring to our understanding of anthropology as a discipline. The book tracks a core lecture series given at Cambridge University and is essential reading for all undergraduate students undertaking a courseTrade Review"In this highly original contribution, leading anthropological scholars from the University of Cambridge provide a new and compelling approach to the history of anthropological ideas.... With each chapter authored by different anthropologists at the University of Cambridge, one gets a powerful sense of the perspective of that important school and at the same time original individual contributions from well-known anthropologists on key themes or thinkers that have impacted anthropological thought over the years. Insightful, succinct but also consistently challenging, I expect that these essays will inspire students of anthropology for years to come."Adam Reed, University of St Andrews, UK"A useful antidote to the presentism of much current anthropological theorizing, this rich and variegated collection – which takes account of some of the deepest roots and freshest sprigs – especially reflects the influential view of the discipline from the venerable Cambridge tradition, which displays in these pages an impressively global and historically comprehensive reach."Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USA"Anthropological theory does not exist per se. It has been conceptualized and formulated on the basis of our own academic work, developing and sometimes changing substantially over the years and decades, influenced by very personal experiences, social settings and political constellations. In fact, theory is as much a product of time and space as it is the achievement of intellectual forebears. Likewise its reception and critique is subject to change and ongoing discussion. The authors of this book, junior and senior, offer broad contexts and detailed knowledge without hiding their personal views and sympathies. A truly committed introduction."Magnus Treiber, LMU München, GermanTable of ContentsIntroduction: Echoes of a conversation 1. Severed roots: Evolutionism, Diffusionism and (structural-)functionalism 2. Structuralism 3. Marxism and Neo-Marxism 4. From Transactionalism to Practice Theory 5. Anthropology and History 6. From the Extended-Case Method to Multi-Sited Ethnography (and Back) 7. Cognitive anthropology as epistemological critique 8. Interpretive Cultural Anthropology: Geertz and his ‘Writing-Culture’ Critics 9. The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Anthropology 10. The Anthropological Lives of Michel Foucault 11. From ‘the body’ to ‘embodiment’, with help from phenomenology 12. Feminist Anthropology and the Question of Gender 13. No actor, no network, no theory: Bruno Latour’s Anthropology of the Moderns 14. The Ontological Turn: School or Style? 15. Persons and partible persons Marilyn Strathern
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Forms of Urbanization
Book SynopsisThere is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to be able to categorise people into particular settlements types. This book brings together a leading team of social scientists to present the latest information on urbanization around the world, highlighting examples of development patterns that are not adequately captured by the UN''s type of reporting systems and drawing attention to other ways of representing current trends.Trade Review'This book is a milestone in our understanding of the way cities are developing as we head towards a post-industrial, global world. Everyone interested in what our cities will look like in the 21st century should read this book.' Professor Michael Batty, University College London, UK 'The book is indeed a valuable contribution towards conceptualising the rapid rural-urban transformation in the developing countries. The case studies from Mexico, India and China makes the book a useful tool in understanding the emerging diversity of urban forms important for urban and metropolitan planning. The book is innovative in setting the agenda for new classification of settlements relevant for human lives in the rapidly changing world.' Ram B. Bhagat, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India 'By 2020 the world will for the first time have more than 50 per cent of its population living in urban places. This will involve a huge increase of urban population. This book provides a major review of these processes of urban change. The authors are among some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this field and ensure that this book will be a seminal contribution to the study of urbanization.' Professor Terence McGee, University of British Columbia, Canada 'A deft handling of ongoing discussions about statistical methodology for measuring the populations and demographic characteristics of cities, New Forms of Urbanization tackles the issues of comparability, areal units, methods of aggregation, and measures of urban and rural in standards for the presentation of urban statistics. New Forms of Urbanization does so ably by bringing in perspectives from all over the world. This book should help address the global disparities in data, paving the way to greater efforts to streamline and coordinate approaches.' David R. Rain, US Census Bureau, Washington DC, USA 'This book should be of major interest to scholars, students and government officials interested in urban planTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction: Introduction: moving beyond the urban-rural dichotomy, Tony Champion and Graeme Hugo; Lest we re-invent the wheel: lessons from previous experience, Tony Champion; World urbanization: trends and prospects, Hania Zlotnik. Part II: Regional Perspectives on Settlement Change: The fading of city-suburb and metro-nonmetro distinctions in the United States, William H. Frey; Population dynamics and urbanization in Latin America: concepts and data limitations, Alfredo E. Lattes, Jorge RodrÃguez and Miguel Villa; Urbanization trends in Asia: the conceptual and definitional challenges, Gavin W. Jones; Analyzing urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Philippe Bocquier. Part III: Case Studies: The transformation of the urban system in Mexico, Gustavo Garza; Urban development and population redistribution in Delhi: implications for categorizing population, Véronique Dupont; Urbanization and metropolitanization in Brazil: trends and methodological challenges, José Marcos Pinto da Cunha; Changing urbanization processes and In Situ rural-urban transformation: reflections on China's settlement definitions, Yu Zhu. Part IV: Conceptualizing Settlement Systems: An evolutionary approach to settlement systems, Denise Pumain; The conceptualization and analysis of urban systems: a North American perspective, Larry S. Bourne and Jim Simmons; The nature of rurality in postindustrial society, David L. Brown and John B. Cromartie; Rethinking 'Rurality', Keith Halfacree. Part V: Moving From The Conceptual To The Operational: Multiple dimensions of settlement systems: coping with complexity, Mike Coombes; Using remote sensing and geographic information systems to identify the underlying properties of urban environments, John R. Weeks; Reflections on the review of metropolitan area standards in the United States, 1990 - 2000, James D. Fitzsimmons and Michael R. Ratcliffe. Part VI: The Way Forward: Conclusions and recommendations, Graeme Hugo and Tony Champion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crime Institutional Knowledge and Power The Rich
Book SynopsisCriminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential and widely cited criminologists of his generation, producing monumental and pathbreaking works on how the criminal justice system and other key institutions attempt to control crime, manage risk and produce security. This volume, edited by three of Professor Ericson''s colleagues and co-authors, presents a sampling of Ericson''s acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice, policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry, and national security. The book is required reading for scholars interested in understanding the dynamics of crime, risk and security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field''s most important and innovative researchers and scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Being free; Social distance and reaction to criminality; The occupational environment of detective work; Dealing with victim-complainants; Order out of court II: the position of the accused and the plea decision (with Patricia M. Baranek); Patrolling the facts: secrecy and publicity in police work; Media and markets (with Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B.L. Chan); How journalists visualize fact; The moral hazards of neo-liberalism: lessons from the private insurance industry (with Dean Barry and Aaron Doyle); The policing of risk (with Kevin D. Haggerty); Uncertainties of earthquakes: absorbing risk, mitigation, and infrastructure (with Aaron Doyle); National security; Name Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern Couples
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Security Interests in Mobile Equipment
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays marks the formal launch of the Centre for Instalment Credit Law at the University of Wales, Swansea. Divided into three sections, it examines the concept of security within domestic law; considers the choice of law rules; and ponders development of uniform law.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Oversharing Presentations of Self in the
Book SynopsisPeople overshare' when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online dating, and internet porn are vehicles of this oversharing, which blurs the boundary between public and private life. This book examines these presentations of self', acknowledging that we are now much more public about what used to be private. With this second edition, Agger adds a new chapter on whether privacy is possible that addresses selfies, job loss due to oversharing, the surveillance state, and examples of when the private should go public. Table of Contents1. Thanks for Sharing 2. Texting, Tweeting, and Blogging 3. Social Media 4. Online Dating 5. Internet Pornography 6. A Non-Pornographic Public Sphere 7. Is Privacy Possible?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Egypt Routledge Revival
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions A dissertation on the political union and
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions The speech of Sir John Sinclair Bart MP c on the
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Gale ECCO, Print Editions Four letters on important national subjects
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions The Judgment of Whole Kingdoms and Nations
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Cambridge University Press Women and Society in the Roman World
Book SynopsisOffers a lively view into a wide range of activities, occupations and social and family roles of women in the cities of the Roman West on the basis of translated inscriptions. Makes this material accessible for students, scholars and anyone interested in the history of women and gender.Trade Review'Hemelrijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has produced a remarkably informative and useful work … what makes the book particularly valuable to scholars as well as students is the separate downloadable PDF (available on the publisher's website) of the original Greek and Latin texts of all the inscriptions, edited in accordance with modern epigraphical conventions. Anyone interested in the ancient world will learn much from this excellent work … Highly recommended.' M. J. Johnson, Choice Magazine'There is a great deal of pleasure and a wealth of information to be derived from Women and Society in the Roman World … Hemelrijk's carefully curated and annotated collection of inscriptions fill a longstanding lacuna. Her sourcebook places front and centre the integral role of epigraphy as a rich reservoir of socio-historical and cultural detail about women extending beyond the strictly delimited stratum of elite and imperial households into all sectors of the ancient – and, in this case, Roman – world.' Peter Keegan, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family Life; 2. Legal Status, Citizenship and Ethnicity; 3. Occupations; 4. Social Relations, Travel and Migration; 5. Religion; 6. Public Life; 7. Imperial Women
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Cambridge University Press A Social Psychology of Protest
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, we have witnessed increasing incidents of collective action. Collective action is a matter of demand by citizens who are aggrieved, supply by protest organizations/individuals, and mobilization through effective communication networks. This volume elaborates on the processes and mechanisms responsible for these dynamics.Trade Review'A Social Psychology of Protest: Individuals in Action examines the critical question of why some people protest while others (who are often equally sympathetic) do not. Employing the authors' signature individual-level focus, this book is the modern definitive statement on how we can understand the dynamics of 'contextual contestation' through examining how individuals perceive and interpret their structural conditions and move from sympathy to action. This book is sure to revolutionize the field like its predecessor, the groundbreaking Social Psychology of Protest (1997).' Catherine Corrigall-Brown, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The Legacy of the Past; 3. What is Contextualized Contestation?; 4. Dynamics of Demand; 5. Dynamics of Supply; 6. Dynamics of Mobilization; 7. Context Matters, but how?; 8. Should I Stay or Should I Go?; 9. Politicization, Polarization and Radicalization; Conclusion: Taking Stock; References.
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WW Norton & Co Discourses of the Elders
Book SynopsisA philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife or individualism, but in a rooted communal life
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WW Norton & Co Discourses of the Elders
Book SynopsisA philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife or individualism but in a rooted communal life
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political
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Blurb, Inc. Substance Abuse and Substance Use Disorders. A Global Pandemic among Teenagers and Youths
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Wiley-Blackwell Liquid Democracy
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Wiley-Blackwell Realizing the Metaverse A Communications and
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Not Stated Contemporary Social Movements
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Wiley-Blackwell Esport and Society
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Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to Feminist Geography
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Wiley-Blackwell Sociological Realism How Society Shapes Who and W hat You Are
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Pallo Books Drifting in Paradise
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Diana Hieb Eighth Circle of Hell
Book SynopsisLies, injustice, and prejudice: the story of one woman's battle for justice in the English family courts. In her memoir, Diana Hieb recounts every detail of her experiences as a domestic abuse survivor and portrays the adversarial divorce case that followed.
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Treason of the Intellectuals
Book SynopsisJulien Benda''s classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The treason of the intellectuals is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a universal humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society. According to Benda, this all began to change in the early twentieth century. In Europe in the 1920s, intellectuals began abandoning their attachment to traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals, and instead glorified particularisms and moral relativism.The treason of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation, ushering the wTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Transaction EditionTranslator’s NoteAuthor’s Foreword1 The Modern Perfecting of Political Passions2 Significance of this Movement—Nature of Political Passions3 The “Clerks”—The Great Betrayal4 Summary—PredictionsNotes
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Reconstruction of Space and Time
Book SynopsisOne of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change, human interaction. Now, instead of agreeing on a particular time well beforehand, we can iteratively work out the most convenient time and place to meet at the last possible moment--on the way to the meeting or once we arrive at the destination.In their early days, mobile devices were primarily used for various types of emergency situations and for work. In some cases, the device was an essential element in various business operations or used so that overseas workers could communicate with their families. The distance between a remote posting and the people back home was suddenly and dramatically reducedTable of ContentsIntroduction The Reconstruction of Space and Time through Mobile Communication Practices; 1: Tailing Untethered Mobile Users: Studying Urban Mobilities and Communication Practices; 2: Migrant Workers and Mobile Phones: Technological, Temporal, and Spatial Simultaneity; 3: Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places; 4: New Reasons for Mobile Communication: Intensification of Time-Space Geography in the Mobile Era; 5: Nonverbal Cues in Mobile Phone Text Messages: The Effects of Chronemics and Proxemics; 6: Mobile Phones: Transforming the Everyday Social Communication Practice of Urban Youth; 7: Trust, Friendship, and Expertise: The Use of Email, Mobile Dialogues, and SMS to Develop and Sustain Social Relations in a Distributed Work Group; 8: Negotiations in Space: The Impact of Receiving Phone Calls on the Move; 9: Mobile Phone Work: Disengaging and Engaging Mobile Phone Activities with Concurrent Activities; 10: Beyond the Personal and Private: Modes of Mobile Phone Sharing in Urban India; Conclusion Mobile Communication in Space and Time Furthering the Theoretical Dialogue
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Xlibris Civil Society and Its Discontents
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Xlibris Social Revolution . . . .
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