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Bristol University Press The AgriFood System in Question
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Brookes Publishing Co Positive Behavioral Support: Including People
Book SynopsisThis book provides positive behavioural supp ort techniques that can be used to facilitate inclusion at h ome, at school and in the community. It covers important fam ily concerns, soialisation issues and related matters in edu cational systems. '
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Property Taxes in South Africa – Challenges in the Post–Apartheid Era
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Politics of Human Nature
Book SynopsisThe effort to understand human nature in a political context is a daunting challenge that has been undertaken in a variety of ways and by a myriad of disciplines through the ages. From Plato to Hobbes and Burke, to Wallas and Oakeschott in our era, efforts have been made to provide some organic framework for the political study of mankind. What has added greatly to the complexity of the task is the increasing denial, even rejection, in the positivist and behaviorist traditions, of the very notion of a human nature.The work can be described as a series of interlocking propositions: the proverbial view of human nature can be explained by evolutionary theory. Biological differences between men and women are responsible for family, community and group life. Social evolution goes through stages which are recapitulated in the moral life of individuals. A well-defined federal system mirrors human development. And finally, for Fleming, most problems in social and political life stem from violations of this federalist system.Fleming's volume takes up a variety of issues: sex and gender differences, democracy and dictatorship, individual and familial patterns of association. He does so in the context of showing how forms of legitimate authority such as families, communities and nations establish such authority by appeals to human nature, and that these appeals, while presumably resting on empirical evidence, also confirm the existence of normative structures. Fleming's work is an effort of synthesis that is sure to arouse discussion and debate. It represents a serious addition to a literature retrieved from the historical dustbins to which it has been repeatedly consigned.Table of Contents1: The Part and the Whole; 2: Against the Grain; 3: Natural Law and Laws of Nature; 4: “Male and Female Created He Them”; 5: The Natural Family; 6: In the Beginning; 7: Order Without Law; 8: The Federal Principle; 9: Natural Remedies
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Taylor & Francis Inc Sociological Worlds: Comparative and Historical Readings on Society
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Histria LLC The Death Drive
Book SynopsisSigmund Freud?s death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have actualized the interest in the death drive as political upheavals and turmoil lead to societal breakdowns that, according to reigning academic theory, should not exist. It has become a burning and contentious topic.Existing conflict theories generally unmask structural factors considered as explanatory root causes, whether social, economic, or political in nature, but, typically, these factors may have been in place for decades. These models consistently fail to identify the triggers that ignite abrupt change and what heralds it. Anecdotally, a certain self-destructive sentiment seems to suddenly hold sway, where the established order, the status quo, simply must be destroyed, and the psychological urges to do so are too great to resist. But why would individuals or collectives elect a self-destructive path, which on a superficial level seems to conflict with the survival instinct and the assumption of perpetual human progress? Thus, the question must be posed: are these manifestations of the death drive?The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct offers an explanatory framework and methodology to predict periods of destruction that often have grim effects on societies, taking as its starting point the controversial death drive concept. The book provides a model to understand and forecast the seemingly irrational destructive human forces that hold such great and sinister influence on world affairs.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Liberty Reader
Book SynopsisFor centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of liberation through preemption. What is this liberty that is so fervently pursued? Does it mean a private space for individuals, the capacity for free and rational choice, or collective self-rule? What is the difference between positive and negative liberty, or the relationship between freedom and coercion? Reflecting on these questions reveals a surprisingly rich landscape of ideas-and further questions. The Liberty Reader collects twelve of the most important and insightful essays on issues of freedom currently available. It is essential reading for students of social and political theory, political philosophy, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the variety of ideas and ideals behind perennial human strivings for liberty. Contributors Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, G. A. Cohen, T. H. Green, F. A. Hayek, Nancy Hirschman, Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., David Miller, Phillip Pettit, Quentin Skinner, Hillel Steiner, Charles Taylor.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract; 2: Two Concepts of Liberty; 3: Freedom and Politics; 4: Freedom and Coercion; 5: Negative and Positive Freedom; 6: Individual Liberty; 7: What’s Wrong With Negative Liberty; 8: Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat; 9: Constraints on Freedom; 10: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom; 11: The Republican Ideal of Freedom; 12: A Third Concept of Liberty
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Taylor & Francis Inc Do We Need Religion?: On the Experience of
Book SynopsisThe old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus it is now a favorable moment for a new perspective on religion. This book takes human experiences of self-transcendence as its point of departure. Religious faith is seen as an attempt to articulate and interpret such experiences. Faith then is neither useful nor a symptom of weakness or misery, but an opening up of ways of experience. This book develops this basic idea, contrasts it with the thinking of some leading religious thinkers of our time, and relates it to the current debates about human rights and universal human dignity.Trade Review“At a time when public discussion of religion seems polarized between religious fundamentalists and hard secularists, who in their own way are equally fundamentalist, it is refreshing to have a book that reminds us that religion is not a kind of primitive and false scientific theory, but a kind of experience, the experience of self-transcendence. Joas’s reflections on religious experience and the ways it can be articulated are developed in dialogue with major contemporary thinkers such as Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, and Jürgen Habermas. Open-minded and sensitive both to religious claims and to secular criticisms, Joas has made an enormous contribution to the serious discussion and understanding of religion.” —Robert Bellah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California–Berkeley and coauthor of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society. “Joas offers a prescient collection of essays on the contemporary relevance of religion. … [He] is a clear writer, and the appeal of the topics discussed should hold the interest of any reader interested in the phenomenon of religion. Joas’s work deserves a large audience.” —Anglican Theological Review Table of ContentsPart 1 Religious Experience; Chapter 1 Do We Need Religion?; Chapter 2 Religion in the Age of Contingency; Chapter 3 On the Articulation of Experience; Part 2 Between Theology and Social Science; Chapter 4 Sociology and the Sacred: Key Texts in the Sociology of Religion; Chapter 5 Sophisticated Fundamentalism from the Left? On John Milbank; Chapter 6 A Catholic Modernity? Faith and Knowledge in the Work of Charles Taylor; Chapter 7 God in France: Paul Ricoeur As Theoretical Mediator; Chapter 8 Post-Secular Religion? On Jürgen Habermas; Part 3 Human Dignity; Chapter 9 Decency, Justice, Dignity: On Avishai Margalit; Chapter 10 Respect for Indisposability: A Contribution to the Bioethics Debate; Chapter 11 Human Dignity: The Religion of Modernity?;
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Left Coast Press Inc Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting
Book SynopsisAngela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman uses her experiences and those of other oral historians to show how community projects are organized, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for future community needs. Included are a variety of sample documents and case studies designed to ease the process for the uninitiated.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Value of Stories Chapter One: History and Benefits of Oral History Chapter Two: Project Overview Chapter Three: Preparation Chapter Four: Bring on the Youth Chapter Five: Interviews Chapter Six: Archiving Chapter Seven: Assimilation Appendices About the Author
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Left Coast Press Inc Counter-Narrative: How Progressive Academics Can
Book SynopsisGoodall portrays a world caught up in the middle of a narrative arms race, where the message of the political right has outflanked the message of the political left. It is a world where narratives used by the far right inch ever closer to those employed by right-wing extremists in the Muslim world. Rather than dismiss the use of political narratives as a shallow tactic of the opposition, Goodall promotes their usefulness and outlines a number of ways that liberal academics can retake the public discourse from the extremist opposition. This is an essential text for the aspiring public intellectual and will appeal to students and scholars of qualitative methods, communications and media, and political science alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction Before We Begin…; Chapter 1 The Battle of Narratives; Chapter 2 Binary Opposites and Narrative IEDs; Chapter 3 Birthers, Social Justice & the Texas Textbook Massacre; Chapter 4 Left at the War; Chapter 5 The Academic Dilemma; Chapter 6 Learning from Obama and Learning from Our Enemies; Chapter 7 The Core Counter-Narrative;
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Left Coast Press Inc Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative
Book SynopsisInvolving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co-authors, even many “progressive” methods fail to produce truly equal partnerships. This book offers a comprehensive and global overview of the theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of co-management. The authors critically evaluate the range of management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous peoples and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model. They provide detailed case studies and concrete details for application in a variety of contexts. Broad in coverage and uniting robust theoretical insights with applied detail, this book is ideal for scholars and students as well as for professionals in resource management and policy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction: The Way Forward, 1. Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge, 2. Untangling the Historical Origins of Epistemological Conflict, 3. Barriers to Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Natural Resource Management, 4. Exploring Obstacles in Action: Case Studies of Indigenous Knowledge and Protected-Areas Management, 5. Joint Management and Co-Management as Strategies for Indigenous Involvement in Protected-Areas Management, 6. The Indigenous Stewardship Model, 7. Conclusion, References, Index, About the Authors
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University of Alaska Press Community–Based Monitoring in the Arctic
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Left Coast Press Inc The Carbon Fix: Forest Carbon, Social Justice,
Book SynopsisGiven the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world’s forests—and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them—at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance.Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical context. The book then challenges perceptions of forest carbon initiatives through in-depth, field-based case studies assessing projects, policies, and procedures at various scales, from informed consent to international carbon auditing. While providing a mixed assessment of the potential for forest carbon initiatives to balance carbon with social goals, the authors present compelling evidence for the complexities of the carbon offset enterprise, fraught with competing interests and interpretations at multiple scales, and having unanticipated and often deleterious effects on the resources and rights of the world’s poorest peoples—especially indigenous and rural peoples.The Carbon Fix provides nuanced insights into political, economic, and ethical issues associated with climate change policy. Its case approach and fresh perspective are critical to environmental professionals, development planners, and project managers; and to students in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology and geography, environmental and policy studies, international development, and indigenous studies.Trade Review“The Carbon Fix provides a much-needed update on the world of REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) globally. Only now are studies of actual impacts beginning to emerge. This collection provides timely assessments of the impacts of REDD+ in its current incarnation. The authors identify the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches and mechanisms, offer a number of practical suggestions for better future implementation of REDD+, and provide practical warnings about things that can go awry. This collection, something of a cautionary tale, contributes significantly to efforts to mitigate climate change.” Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia"Climate Change is a ‘wicked’ problem for which there are no simple answers. REDD and REDD+ approaches have been touted as win-win strategies for making headway toward a lower carbon world, but the complex problems with the implementation of these tools have not--until now-- received the critical attention needed to determine if and how they might achieve their purpose. The Carbon Fix is a very important book and essential reading for policymakers, students, and interdisciplinary scholars concerned about effective ways to combat climate change in the real world, as it forces us all to consider the significant social justice issues that surround these new accounting processes." Sarah Strauss, University of Wyoming"This book, compiled by Stephanie Paladino and Shirley J. Fiske, is an important addition to the REDD+ literature. The carefully reviewed chapters in a coherent manner depict the work experience of the editors and authors in a coherent manner. The book has 19 chapters divided into five sections. Most of the chapters authors are anthropologists by profession; and their contribution emphasizes the societal implications of carbon offsetting."S. Suresh Ramanan, writing for Agriculture and Human ValuesTable of ContentsFOREWORDThe Carbon Offsetting Dilemma Esteve CorberaINTRODUCTIONCarbon Offset, Markets, and Social Equity: Trading in Forests to Save the Planet Shirley J. Fiske and Stephanie PaladinoSECTION I: FRAMING THE CARBON REGIME IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL TRENDS1. A Genealogy of Exchangeable Nature James Igoe 2. Profits and Promises: Can Carbon Trading Save Forests and Aid Development? Kathleen McAfee 3. Forest Carbon Sinks Prior to REDD: A Brief History of their Role in the Clean Development Mechanism María Gutiérrez4. Justice and Equity in Carbon Offset Governance: Debates and Dilemmas Mary Finley-BrookSECTION II: ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY 5. The Limitations of International Auditing: The Case of the Norway-Guyana REDD+ Agreement Janette Bulkan 6. Corporate Carbon Footprinting as Techno-political Practice Ingmar Lippert7. Regulating Fairness in the Design of California’s Cap-and-Trade Market Patrick Bigger SECTION III: NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL FRAMINGS8. Carbon, Carbon Everywhere: How Climate Change is Transforming Conservation in Costa Rica Robert Fletcher9. Customary Landowners, Logging Companies, and Conservationists in a Decentralized State: The Case of REDD+ and PES in Papua New Guinea David Lipset and Bridget Henning10. Interrogating Public Debates over Jurisdictional REDD+ in California’s Global Warming Solutions Act: Implications for Social Equity Libby Blanchard and Bhaskar Vira 11. Doing REDD+ Work in Vietnam: Will the New Carbon Focus Bring Equity to Forest Management? Pamela McElweeSECTION IV: REDD, RIGHTS, AND EQUITY 12. Renegotiating REDD: Beyond Social Safeguards to Social Contracts Michael Brown13. A Win-Win Scenario? The Prospects for Indigenous Peoples in Carbon Sequestration: REDD Projects in Brazil Janet Chernela and Laura Zanotti 14. Equity Concerns During REDD+ Planning and Early Implementation: A Case from Malawi Heather Yocum15. Lessons from Community Forestry for REDD+ Social Soundness Janis B. Alcorn SECTION V: ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS OF COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE16. Empowering Forest Dependent Communities: The Role of REDD+ and PES Projects Mark Poffenberger 17. Climate Mitigation Based in Adaptation: El Salvador's Restoration of Mangrove Ecosystems, 2011-2013 Fiona Wilmot18. A Critical Reflection on Social Equity in Ugandan Carbon Forestry Adrian Nel
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Left Coast Press Inc The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of
Book SynopsisThe conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian explanation of events in ancient Central America and posit a radical alternative theory. The authors-show that ancient Maya farmers developed ingenious, sustainable woodland techniques to cultivate numerous food plants (including the staple maize);-examine both contemporary tropical farming techniques and the archaeological record (particularly regarding climate) to reach their conclusions;-make the argument that these ancient techniques, still in use today, can support significant populations over long periods of time.Trade Review"The Maya Forest Garden is an excellent addition to the New Frontiers in Historical Ecology series. Ford and Nigh’s book presents readers a thorough, accessible, and holistic anthropological introduction to the nature of Maya agricultural practices, a review of past and present ecological and conservation conditions, and a convincing theory for adopting an interdisciplinary approach to studying this unique relationship between a people and its environment. This work should be of interest to Maya scholars; students in the fields of cultural ecology, sustainability, and archaeology; and others interested in the dynamics of sustainable ecological practices of complex societies." - Jeffrey L. Brewer, University of Cincinnati, USA, in American Anthropologist"Ford and Nigh bring decades of field research to this book and draw on ethnography, agroecology, ethno- and paleobotany, archaeology, historical climate data, and ethnohistory. Even today, Maya forest gardeners cultivate sustainably but are threatened by Euro-informed models of agriculture that view tropical lowlands as suitable mainly for destructive pasturing. Scholars interested in tropical swiddeners and Mesoamericans in particular should read this discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended."- A. E. Adams, Central Connecticut State University, CHOICE"The book is a timely multidisciplinary exploration of not only the rich historical ecology of the Maya forest garden, but also of Maya culture, history and knowledge – and the risk of loosing all of it. The value of explorations like the one offered by this study need to be — for the future of any form of sustainable humanity and in my modest opinion — continued."- Alessandro Questa, Anthropology Book Forun (American Anthropological Association)"An excellent contribution to the world literature on sustainable, indigenous land management. After rigorous paleo-botanical, archaeological and ecological research and on the ground consultation with existing practitioners, the authors conclude that the widely assumed cause of the collapse of the Mayan civilization due to deforestation and environmental degradation is not true... I’d recommend Ford and Nigh’s book to anyone interested in permaculture and forest gardens."- Michael Pilarski, Friends Of The Trees Society"A groundbreaking new book co-authored by a UC Santa Barbara researcher... asserts the Maya not only survived their presumed apocalypse, they thrive today using farming techniques that are thousands of years old. The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands by UCSB’s Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh demonstrates that the Maya milpa system is sustainable, sophisticated and highly productive."- Jim Logan, The UCSB Current"Ford’s book, The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands, co-authored with Ronald Nigh, a professor at the Centro Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Chiapas, Mexico, published in June, is the result of 44 years of excavation and research into El Pilar’s domestic architecture, gardens and traditional forest crops."- Joan Koerper, Inlandia Literary Journeys"We have been reading The Maya Forest Garden by Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh. It tells the tale of a civilization that weathered many climate changes, foreign conquests and failed attempts at cultural genocide. That civilization is still there today, after 8,000 years."- Albert Bates, Resilience "For years, archaeologist Anabel Ford has been arguing the case that the ancient Maya knew well how to manage their tropical forest environment to their advantage, eventually sustaining large populations even beyond the time when many archaeologists suggest the Maya declined and abandoned their iconic Classic period pyramidal and temple constructions and monumental inscriptions during the 8th and 9th centuries CE. She challenges the popular theories long held by many scholars that the Maya declined because of overpopulation and deforestation from increased agricultural production, perhaps aggravated by draught and climate change."- Popular Archaeology"In 2001, I traveled to the Belize-Guatemala border to report on UCSB archaeologist Anabel Ford’s many discoveries at El Pilar, the Maya monument complex she uncovered in 1983. That’s where she developed revolutionary theories that threatened to rock the academic world, namely that the Maya did not “disappear” due to an overpopulation cataclysm, but merely dwindled with time."- Matt Kettmann, Santa Barbara Independent "The book makes use of a wide range of data sources, including texts, ethnographic and archaeological research, pollen cores and a variety of climate proxies. The first two chapters after the introduction provide a useful summary of the archaeology, history and historical ecology of the Maya region. These sections are clearly written and well illustrated, and will mean that the book is accessible to those not familiar with recent research in Mesoamerica."- Antiquity 92 361 (2018): 267–274"the book fulfills a longstanding need to reevaluate the ecological relationship of the Maya people and the forest which they have managed and maintained over millennia. The book will be of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, as well as conservation biologists, paleoclimatologists, and those concerned with development strategies in the tropics."- Scott L. Fedick, University of California, Riverside, USA, in Latin American AntiquityTable of ContentsIntroduction Prosperity across Centuries; Chapter 1 The Context of the Maya Forest; Chapter 2 Dwelling in the Maya Forest: The High-Performance Milpa; Chapter 3 Environmental Change and the Historical Ecology of the Maya Forest; Chapter 4 Maya Land Use, the Milpa, and Population in the Late Classic Period; Chapter 5 The Forested Landscape of the Maya; Chapter 6 Maya Restoration Agriculture as Conservation for the Twenty-first Century;
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Taylor & Francis Inc Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and
Book SynopsisCharles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and readable volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important oeuvre, covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and social change; war, state making, and organized crime; democratization; durable inequality; political violence; migration, race, and ethnicity; narratives and explanations.The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest, influential, and out of print writings, including The Vendée; Coercion, Capital and European States; the classic "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime;" and his more recent and lesser-known work, including that on durable inequality, democracy, poverty, economic development, and migration. Together, the collection reveals Tilly’s complex, compelling, and distinctive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors abridge key texts and, in their introductory essay, situate them within Tilly’s larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together, they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields of sociology, political science, history, and international studies. This book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political analysts, cultural critics, and activists.Trade ReviewCharles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years. He was the most important analyst of social movements and contentious politics, but also shaped inquiry into cities, inequality, and the understanding of social processes. Social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists. -- Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Berggruen InstituteOver the course of several decades, Charles (Chuck) Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port to see what Chuck would send by. "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change" serves as an amazing guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend. From revolutions to narratives, from theories to methods - it is all there. Like the guidebook to "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," now we can revisit work that we thought we knew, visit works that we have heard about but never fully engaged with as well as see work that we didn’t even know that Chuck was doing. -- Christian Davenport, University of MichiganNo scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped historical and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings together a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand collective violence, contentious politics, and social change. -- William Roy, UCLACastañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly's most influential and compelling pieces. By reading his analyses of cities, protest, wars, states, democracy and inequality - one sees the way that empirical research can be critical for understanding patterns in historical and contemporary contexts. In this moment of great change, Tilly offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This collection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly's work. -- Lesley J. Wood, York UniversityCharles Tilly shaped the thinking of several generations of scholars and activists. He was both prolific in his writing and generous in his engagement with the work of colleagues and students. He reached across disciplines, subfields and regions, diving deeply into empirical cases while working towards a more dynamic and relational conceptualization of political process. Precisely because his work is so far-reaching, it can be a challenge for emerging scholars to get a handle on the scope and evolution of his work. This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides the ideal entryway into Tilly's work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better explanations. -- Ann Mische, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsI. Revolutions and Social Change1. The Vendeé2. Strikes in France 1830–19683. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 4. From Mobilization to Revolution 5. Contentious Performances 6. Eight Pernicious PostulatesII. State Making7. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime8. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990–1990 III. Democratization9. Democracy Is a Lake10. Where Do Rights Come from?11. Democratization and De-democratization12. Trust and Democratic RuleIV. Durable Inequality13. Durable Inequality 14. Poverty and the Politics of ExclusionV. Political Violence15. Contentious Conversation16. The Politics of Collective Violence 17. Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists VI. Migration and Race and Ethnicity18. Transplanted Networks19. Social Boundary Mechanisms 20. From Segregation to Integration VII. Narratives and Explanations21. Why Give Reasons?22. Credit, Blame and Social Life
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Steiner Books The Tension Between East and West: (Cw 83)
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University of Massachusetts Press Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966
Book SynopsisWith skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New England's fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock fleet - one of the region's largest and most heavily industrialized - rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion before the arrival of foreign competition in 1961. This fleet also embodied the industry's change during this period, as it shucked its sail-and-oar, hook-and-line origins to embrace mechanized power and propulsion, more sophisticated business practices, and political engagement.Books, films, and the media have long portrayed the Yankee fisherman's hard-scrabble existence, as he faced brutal weather on the open seas and unnecessary governmental restrictions. As McKenzie contends, this simplistic view has long betrayed commercial fisheries' sophisticated legislative campaigns in Washington, DC, as they sought federal subsidies and relief and, eventually, fewer constricting regulations. This clash between fisheries' representation and their reality still grips fishing communities today as they struggle to navigate age-old trends of fleet consolidation, stock decline, and intense competition.
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Humanix Books Course of Destruction: Social Justice and the End
Book Synopsis“A harrowing journey through the corridors of the twenty-first century totalitarianism that goes by the name of progressivism. Must read!”— DINESH D’SOUZA“David Horowitz is a modern legend. This book is critical to understanding the left and how we defeat them.”— CHARLIE KIRKAMERICA IS HEADING TOWARD THE ABYSSTHE RADICAL MIND is both a stark warning and call to arms to protect the country from decline, ruin, and disgrace. It identifies the crisis facing the nation as a crisis of faith — faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in individual freedom and accountability, faith in the principle of equality before the law. At stake? Nothing less than the American way of life and the liberty and freedoms all Americans enjoy.In his latest broadside against the radical left, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz pulls back the curtain of secrecy and lies and exposes the dangerous methods and agendas of a woke left mob, and identifies what a decent society needs to do to keep the country from slipping away, including:Defend families against the intrusion of outside forces, ideological and governmental, which seek to capture the hearts and minds of children to serve their destructive agendas.Stop radicals from debasing Judeo-Christian values and silencing Christian communities and voices in favor of political state control.Reject progressive blindness, including false racist narratives that America is a racist country. Challenge the existential threat to American democracy from a Democratic Party that has made dialogue, compromise, and bipartisanship impossible and uses a corrupt and compliant media to unleash a constant tsunami of hate toward conservatives and ordinary Americans alike.Renew faith in the Constitution and in individual freedom.Read THE RADICAL MIND and join the fight against the destructive plans of the woke left: “The hour is late, and the forces of darkness are upon us. To save our freedoms, Americans must renew their faith in their country, relearn its history, reacquaint themselves with the wisdom of the founders, and reject the siren songs of the envious, the resentful, and the haters of human diversity who have malice in their hearts.”— DAVID HOROWITZTrade ReviewPraise for THE RADICAL MIND: THE DESTRUCTIVE PLANS OF THE WOKE LEFT by David Horowitz:“David Horowitz is a modern legend. This book is critical to understanding the left and how we defeat them.” — Charlie Kirk, Founder and President of Turning Point USA, and New York Times bestselling author of The MAGA Doctrine“Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we are witnessing in this country an astonishing revival of the Marxist totalitarian mindset, and it is taking over our institutions. Raised by Communists, David Horowitz understands this tyrannical worldview better than anyone, and his new book THE RADICAL MIND is a harrowing journey through the corridors of the twenty-first century totalitarianism that goes by the name of progressivism. Must reading!” — Dinesh D’Souza, New York Times bestselling author and filmmaker “Many sober and dedicated patriots, throw up their hands when it comes to describing Woke ideas and agendas which are systematically eating away the foundations of our democracy, calling them “crazy” and “deranged.” David Horowitz, who was once one of their intellectual leaders knows differently. His new book, THE RADICAL MIND unveils the sinister logic of their strategy and how it has already undermined the foundations of our American system, which they hate.” — Mark R. Levin, New York Times bestselling author of Unfreedom of the Press“David Horowitz has written an insightful, compelling, and ultimately troubling book about the leftist mindset. An important read.” — Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of RED-HANDED“Once again, David Horowitz makes it clear why, for over half a century, he has been the preeminent explainer and documentarian of the American left and its attempt to destroy America. Unlike any other country, America is not not a race or an ethnicity. It is an idea. Therefore, it is in some ways easier to destroy America than it is to destroy most other countries. All you have to do is destroy its ideas. How and why the left is doing this is brilliantly and concisely set forth in this book. If Aladdin granted me three wishes, one of them would be that every American read this book.” — Dennis Prager, Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host, Co-Founder of PragerU, and bestselling author of The Rational Bible“David Horowitz has written eloquently for the last half-century about the dangers the Left poses to America, especially the legacy bequeathed by the destructive 1960s generation. Now he astutely shows that the current woke era of radical cultural Marxism is an even greater threat to America, given our revolutionaries are not just in the street, but now are the establishment and control all the major levers of institutional power and influence. A chilling, incisive, and timely warning to America to wake up before it’s too late from our most knowledgeable analyst of the America Left.” — Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution and New York Times bestselling author of The Dying Citizen“A brilliant take down of the Democrat party—the party of slavery; the confederacy; Jim Crow; Dred Scott; the Southern Manifesto; that, as a percentage of the House and Senate, voted LESS for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Republicans; that, due to the “war on poverty,” launched in the mid 1960’s, has devastated the nuclear family and created an epidemic of fatherlessness; and the party that opposes school choice.” — Larry Elder, Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host, and bestselling authorTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS to THE RADICAL MIND: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left by David HorowitzHeading Towards the AbyssIdeology Uber AllesWhite Skin PrivilegeExistential ThreatA Tsunami of HateProgressive BlindnessCoda: Defense of the Republic
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Beyond Publishing Letters from My Students
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Rowman & Littlefield ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United
Book SynopsisThe Statistical Abstract of the United States has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, demographic, and economic conditions of America since 1878. This 2020 edition continues the heritage begun so long ago by the U.S. government, with the U.S. Census Bureau being the last agency to produce the compendium at government expense. Now in our eighth annual edition, Rowman & Littlefield and ProQuest carry on the proud tradition and responsibility of creating the statistical portrait of America.Librarians value the Statistical Abstract as both an answer book and a guide to statistical sources. It is the best-known statistical reference publication in the country. As a comprehensive collection of statistics, it is a snapshot of America and its people. Our editors are committed to updating the long-standing, historical statistics as new data becomes available, as well as finding new topics to cover.
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Indies United Publishing House, LLC America: Standing Strong
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Dio Press Inc Duoethnographic Encounters: Opening Spaces for
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Dio Press Inc Flyings Kites: Narratives of Prison Literacies in
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Dio Press Inc The Epicenter / L' Épicentre / El Epicentro
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Information Age Publishing Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on
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ARC Manor Damn! a Book of Calumny
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Cascade Books Suffering Well and Suffering With
Book SynopsisWe live in a society that has little tolerance for suffering. Suffering is not only unpleasant. Profound, innocent suffering can upend our sense of identity. Yet, we push suffering people to the periphery to avoid an uncomfortable truth: We are all subject to suffering. In a time when Christian churches suffer the loss of authority, influence, and membership, Patterson challenges the idea that we need such power to live on earth as in heaven. Only God can transform suffering into joy. Drawing on her experience with cancer, Patterson claims Christians hold certain responsibilities while we wait for this transformation. Revisiting the story of Job, she confronts the problem of suffering and what it takes to suffer well. This sets the scene for what a fleshy, wounded Jesus Christ calls us to do: use suffering to build compassionate relationships with others who suffer.
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Brandeis University Press Holy Rebellion
Book SynopsisAn in-depth study of Jewish religion and law in Israel from a gendered perspective. In Holy Rebellion, Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks examine social change in Israel through a rigorous analysis of the shifting entanglements of religion, gender, and law in times of cultural transformation. They explore theological, halakhic, political, and sociological processes and show how they interact with one another in ways that advance women's rights, as well as how they are met with a conservative backlash in the discourses and actions of the rabbinic establishment. Irshai and Zion-Waldoks build on legal philosopher Robert Cover's 1982 paper Nomos and Narrative, which explained how cultural narratives and legal norms are reciprocally enforced or transformed. Expanding on this notion, Irshai and Zion-Waldoks propose a narrative ripeness test, an analytic tool that evaluates the relationship between culture and law to assess how and when change within a minority cultural community may be
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Trafford Publishing The Covid Con: The Global Totalitarians' Secret
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Authorhouse UK Being British Muslims: Beyond Ethnocentric
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CCB Publishing Morpheus' Challenge: Beyond the Dreams
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Diana Frizell Hello, My Name is Ken
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Page Two Books, Inc. Ally Is a Verb
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Manchester University Press Scotland: The New State of an Old Nation
Book SynopsisScotland’s future in the Union is in question. Since Devolution in 1997, there has been a sea-change in Scotland’s sense of itself. A distinct Scottish political culture has emerged: confident, assertive and increasingly divergent from that of its southern neighbours. Yet, as this timely and perceptive book shows, Scottish nationalism has been on the rise since the Second World War. Today, the Scottish National Party are in the ascendant, winning nearly half of all votes cast in the 2019 General Election and most of the seats. The Scottish Parliament has been a legislative trail-blazer, enacting progressive legislation well before England and Wales. And Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union, putting it at odds with much of the rest of the United Kingdom on the most important political decision this century. The country has transformed from the socially and politically conservative climate of the post-war period to a nation contemplating, for the second time, a move to independence – for all the uncertainty and turmoil that would bring. At a time when the country’s future has topped the agenda in Britain and abroad, this book unpicks the complex weave of Scottish politics, society and culture, providing an essential insight into Scotland’s present – and its future.Trade Review‘For those who wish to understand Scotland today, this very readable book, based on the best recent research, offers information, insight and understanding across a range of key topics. It is an important and reliable guide to the past and present of an ancient nation facing a challenging future.’Sir Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus, The University of Edinburgh'Contemporary Scotland needs informative one-volume guides which take the reader through the state of our politics, society and the economy. This is an accessible and illuminating book, worthy of a wide audience and discussion.'Scottish Review, Gerry Hassan -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction2 When was Scotland?3 Scotland’s identity4 Images of Scotland5 Learning and working Scotland6 Scotland and gender7 ‘Ethnic’ Scotland8 Political Scotland – Duncan McTavish9 Elites in Scotland – David Torrance10 Scotland abroad11 Scotland in England12 Art and culture in Scotland13 Scotland, tourism and heritage14 Scotland and sport15 Conclusion: Contemporary ScotlandNotesBibliographyIndex
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Anthem Press Process Philosophy: A Synthesis
Book SynopsisThe book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, and employs insights from economics, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology. The book aims to give a coherent synthesis of ideas about change and aims to see how one can take a process view of various features of humanity, such as knowledge, relations between people, language and morality, and how, vice versa, that might contribute to process philosophy. Trade Review’Bart Nooteboom has made award-winning contributions to our understanding of trust, learning, cognition, governance and innovation. In this exciting new book, Nooteboom weaves these threads together by offering a fresh philosophical look at the linguistic, epistemic and ethical foundations of the underlying social processes. Process Philosophy: A Synthesis is essential reading for social scientists and organisation theorists of all stripes.’ — David Gindis, Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire, UK‘In his new book, Bart Nooteboom has once again excellently succeeded in enriching and questioning existing insights in his own discipline of science, economics, on the basis of insights gained in other scientific disciplines. His book is a wonderful example of how interdisciplinarity enriches both economics and the sciences that help this discipline to sharpen questions. Nooteboom shows very well that economists also help practitioners of other scientific disciplines to ask more precise questions about themes that play a role in their own discipline.’— Paul van Geest, Full Professor of Economics and Theology at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands“Bart Nooteboom has made award-winning contributions to our understanding of trust, learning, cognition, governance and innovation. In this exciting new book, Nooteboom weaves these threads together by offering a fresh philosophical look at the linguistic, epistemic and ethical foundations of the underlying social processes. Process Philosophy: A Synthesis is essential reading for social scientists and organisation theorists of all stripes.” — David Gindis, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Hertfordshire, UK“In his new book, Bart Nooteboom has once again excellently succeeded in enriching and questioning existing insights in his own discipline of science, economics, on the basis of insights gained in other scientific disciplines. His book is a wonderful example of how interdisciplinarity enriches both economics and the sciences that help this discipline to sharpen questions. Nooteboom shows very well that economists also help practitioners of other scientific disciplines to ask more precise questions about themes that play a role in their own discipline.” — Paul van Geest, Full Professor of Economics and Theology at the Erasmus School of Philosophy (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Full Professor of Church History and History of Theology at Tilburg University; Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of LeuvenTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword by Patricia de Sá Freire; Introduction: Definition of Terms, Purpose and Summary; 1. Evolution; 2. Learning and Truth; 3. Language; 4. Individual and Society; 5. Morality and Ethics; References; Index.
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Anthem Press Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Trade Review"Tracking the rise of identity systems technologies and their inevitable abuses, Dr Hayes de Kalaf unsettles the standard binary of migrant/citizen and by focusing on the case of the Dominican Republic, uncovers a growing threat to our planetary commonwealth. Brilliant and urgent, this is a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in questions of national belonging - which is more or less everyone.” — Junot Díaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a MacArthur Fellow and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.“In this important book, Eve Hayes de Kalaf explores the murky discrepancies between citizenship and legal identity in a powerful interrogation of contemporary forms of statecraft that strip minoritized citizens of their legal status and render them stateless in the only country they have ever known. Focused on the predicament of native-born citizens of the Dominican Republic who have been branded as ‘Haitians’ and ‘illegal immigrants,’ this book is a study with profound worldwide ramifications and crucial lessons for the study of citizenship, statelessness, and identity.” — Nicholas De Genova, University of Houston, US“An innovative look at the politics of legal citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Hayes de Kalaf's deft analysis shows how ‘soft’ strategies of legal exclusion by the Dominican state have come to replace the ‘hard,’ problematic repression of the past.” — Ernesto Sagás, Colorado State University, US“Dr. Hayes de Kalaf brilliantly exposes the exclusionary, discriminatory and racist practices taking place in the Dominican Republic, highlighting the struggles citizens born in the country are now facing as they battle with the state to acquire essential paperwork and obtain access to welfare, education and health services.” — Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC, SpainTable of ContentsList of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. ID: An Underappreciated Revolution; 2. Permanently Foreign: Haitian- Descended Populations in the Dominican Republic; 3. Including the ‘Excluded’: International Organisations and the Administrative (Re)Ordering of Dominicans; 4. Citizens Made Foreign: The Battle for a Dominican Legal Identity; 5. Dominican or Not Dominican? Citizens and Their Experiences of Legal Identity Measures; 6. Towards a Digital Era: Closing the Global Identity Gap; Glossary of Dominican Terms and Phrases; Bibliography; List of Stakeholder Interviews; Index.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About Compassion?: A Helpful
Book SynopsisMeet Sam. Like most kids his age, Sam loves sport. His class have arranged a special football match to raise money for a charity which helps children who are suffering. Sam finds out more about how the money is spent and asks his mum for this week's pocket money early, so he can donate to the charity. His mum says he does this because he's such a kind boy. But when he asks his teachers about it at school the next day, they say it's because he's compassionate.Sam now has lots of questions about what this means. What is compassion? How can we become more compassionate? And what effects - both good and bad - does being compassionate have? Join Sam as he learns answers to these, and many more, questions about this important part of character education.Table of Contents1. Introduction: character and values. 2. Introducing Sam. 3. Learning about what compassion means. 4. The difference between kindness and compassion. 5. Exploring values. 6. Which values link closely to compassion? 7. The difference between compassion and justice. 8. Self-compassion. 9. Noticing compassion in the world around us? 10. How can we become more compassionate to ourselves and to others. 11. When it's difficult to be compassionate. 12. Compassion is good for your mind and body. 13. The match! 14. What can you do? 15. Recommended reading, organisations and websites.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre
Book SynopsisThe entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Black Lives Matter protests against Gandhi statues to Kamala Harris's historic election, this relationship--notwithstanding moments of common struggle--seethes with conflicts that reveal important lessons about race in the modern world. Shobana Shankar's groundbreaking intellectual history tackles the controversial question of how Africans and Indians see their differences. Drawing on archival and oral sources from seven countries, she traces how economic tensions surrounding the Indian diaspora in East and Southern Africa collided with the twentieth century's widening Indian networks in West Africa and the Black Atlantic. Decolonisation brought a reckoning with Euro-American racial hierarchies, as well as discord over caste, religion, sex and skin colour, simmering beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Indian solidarity. This book illuminates how postcolonial peoples remade race by reinvigorating cultural movements, from Pan-Africanism to popular devotionalism, in Africa, India and the United States. This new race consciousness was meant as a redemption from the moral dangers of economic rivalry. Yet rising wealth and nationalist amnesia now threaten this postcolonial ethos. Calls to dismantle statues, from Accra to Washington DC, are not merely symbolic. They seek to preserve dissenting histories, and the possibility of alternative futures.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the International Studies Association's Global Development Section Book Award'A deeper, democratised vision of Afro-Indian collaboration' -- The Wire'A timely, wide-ranging and compelling text that deserves wide attention and is sure to provoke debate.' -- Africa is a Country[A] must-read for all scholars interested in histories of Africa-India connections and those who seek evidence that ideas from the past continue to exist with the potential to forge pathways toward solidarity and progress in the Global South.’ -- The Journal of African History‘An immensely readable account of some lesser-known connections between the Indian subcontinent and the African(a) world, which engages constructively with historical and sociological themes in both African and South Asian studies.’ -- Canadian Journal of African Studies'Shobana Shankar is a first-rate academic and this book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the Indian Ocean world. Thought-provoking, properly researched and well written, An Uneasy Embrace pushes the academic boundaries.' -- Goolam Vahed, Professor of History, University of KwaZulu Natal, and author of 'History of the Present: A Biography of Indian South Africans, 1994-2019''"An Uneasy Embrace" is an ingenious narrative and a meticulously researched account of the unexplored cultural, political and racial conversations between Indians and West Africans. Unique in its interdisciplinary methodology and subject matter, it will have an appeal across disciplines.' -- Renu Modi, Professor and Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai'In this original, rich and captivating book, Shobana Shankar brilliantly illuminates the complex and multilayered cultural economy and circulations between India and Africa, the Black Atlantic and Indian Ocean, and African and Indian diasporas.' -- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Vice Chancellor, United States International University-Africa'This brave book is a welcome addition to the growing intellectual exploration of race-caste theories. Original in scope and informed by passionate research, it will become one of the most sought-after works on African-Indian studies.' -- Suraj Yengde, Harvard University, author of 'Caste Matters'
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Berghahn Books Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and
Book Synopsis Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.Trade Review “Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world”. • Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent “It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones”. • Marc Brightman, University of BolognaTable of Contents List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Olivia Angé and David Berliner Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape Roy Ellen Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind Kirsten Hastrup Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives Madeleine Sallustio Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia Casey High Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru) Olivia Angé Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together Perig Pitrou Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia Richard D.G. Irvine Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive Cymene Howe Afterword Dominic Boyer Index
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Karnac Books Getting Lost
Book SynopsisWith contributions from Matthew H. Bowker, Amy Buzby, Jack Fong, Evangelia Galanaki, Jill Gentile, Nathan Gerard, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Dan Livney, Elliott Schwebachand, and Michael J. Thompson. The prime example or idée clef that unites the chapters of this volume is the experience of the global Covid-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2023, in which we witnessed forms of isolation and withdrawal that meant something more than separation. Withdrawal and isolation work on the self, although they may not do so consciously. Whereas it is possible to be separated from others simply as a matter of fact and from the outside,' Getting Lost focuses on complex internal and psychopolitical processes involving retreat or removal of selves from the worlds of politics, society, and culture. When we feel isolated or we withdraw ourselves, something tends to arise in our place: be it a defense system, a constellation of symptoms, or the deeply repressed psychic material giving rise to either or both. Thus, it was not coincidental that, as millions died from Covid, and as millions more experienced severely broken sociality' in the Covidian world of risk, quarantine, and/or lockdown, we also found ourselves witnessing explosions of extremism in popular discourse, in large-scale border closures, in encroachments on women's and reproductive rights, in physical attacks on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, in domestic and spousal violence and youth suicide, in a war of aggression waged by Russia on Ukraine, and much more. We advance the term psychopolitical isolation and withdrawal' in order to capture not only temporary periods of isolation but also detachments from reality and perverse attachments to unreality, visible on small and large scales. This partial or perverse facing of our self-experience and shared experience suggests the possibility that the post-Covidian era brings with it altered relationships to both the private and the public home, and, with them, the meanings of citizenship, sociality, publicity, thinking, and being. Plainly put, the impact of Covid-19 worldwide has damaged people's relationship to reality and we are still coming to terms with and uncovering the many ways in which this manifests. This book aims to signal an immediate, existential threat to psychosocial and political life and to inspire further thinking, debate, and work on these vital topics that affect us all.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production,
Book SynopsisDecades of stagnating demand for beer and the emergence of global brewing conglomerates had seen many of Britain’s longstanding breweries disappear and a decline in the diversity of beer styles on offer. However, following similar developments in the USA and Australia, the emergence of new craft breweries in the UK, producing small batch beers in an ever-increasing range of styles has re-vitalised the industry. Supporting employment both within brewing and hospitality while contributing to the cultural and economic fabric of society, the emergence of this craft beer revolution deserves greater scholarly attention than it has received to date. Researching Craft Beer enhances theoretical and practical understandings of craft beer both within the UK and beyond. This edited collection is interdisciplinary in nature and will appeal to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts of craft beer. Chapters authored from a range of business, sociology and law perspectives examine the production, sale, values, serving and cultural significance of craft beer. The volume offers insights for aspiring and present owners of breweries, those looking to open a craft beer bar as well as other beer researchers the volume offers a prescient assessment of historic, present, and likely future developments within the sector.Table of ContentsForeword; Thomas Thurnell-Read Chapter 1. Introduction: Researching Craft Beer; Holly Patrick-Thomson, Daniel Clarke, Vaughan Ellis, and David Weir Part 1. Making and Selling Craft Beer Chapter 2. Behind the Beer: An Examination of ‘Entrepreneurial’ Motives for Starting a Craft Brewery; Vaughan Ellis and James Richards Chapter 3. Strategies for Success? Market Entry Strategies of New Craft Beer Producers; Des Quinn, Vaughan Ellis, and James Richards Chapter 4. Illuminating Craft Brewers’ Experiences of Dealing with Covid-19 and Making Fresh Sense of what Covid-19 can do To/For Craft Beer: An Intègraphic Approach; Daniel Clarke, James Bowden, and Keith Dinnie Chapter 5. The Artful Science of Crafting Ale: Discussing the Finer Nuances of Making and Selling Beer; Victoria Ellis-Vowles Part 2. Values of Craft Beer Production Chapter 6. Collaborative Resistance: How a Craft Beer Scene was built through Sharing and Nurturing Relationships; James Cunningham and Simon S. Fraser Chapter 7. The Promise and Perils of taking Craft Beer International; Pavlina Jasovska Chapter 8. Talking Equity, Taking Action: A Conversation with Jess Griego of Bosque Brewing; Eli R. Wilson Part 3. Serving Craft Beer Chapter 9. Assessing Quality in Craft Beer: Style Guides and Taste Descriptions in Beer Judging Practice; Steven Wright Chapter 10. From ‘Wet Led’ to ‘Dry Led’: Food and the Contested Framing of Alcohol Establishments; Jed Meers Chapter 11. From Connoisseur to Community: The Evolution of the Brewery Tap Room; Phil Mellows Part 4. Craft Beer Communities Chapter 12. Come One, Come All? The Impact of Craft Breweries on Revitalisation and Community-Building; Perttu Salovaara Chapter 13. Motivations Behind Craft Beer Online Buying Habits among Italian Millennials; Sergio Rivaroli, Martin Hingley, and Roberta Spadoni Chapter 14. Instagram Vs Reality: Chatting Craft Beer Communities with Roy Herd of The Blunt Chisel Brewery; Holly Patrick-Thomson
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Swift Press Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made
Book SynopsisBOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial TimesHave you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma behind these ideas, from its origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognisable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media pile-ons, as by its assertions, which are all too often taken as read: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As they warn, the unchecked proliferation of these beliefs present a threat to liberal democracy.While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalised communities it claims to champion.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman: A Permanently
Book SynopsisThe world we live in is increasingly malleable and fluid, especially in regards to being human - rendering the self into a permanent beta version, co-constituted within agglomerations of platforms, devices, physical infrastructures, entities pertaining to physical and biological nature. This book proposes a posthumanist research methodology for future research in this area, providing a novel explanatory and methodological framework for studying today's world. Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman studies four areas: the economy, the human self, politics, and research ethics and methodology. In the economic domain, Kalpokas focuses on the emergence of the attention economy and the ensuing shift towards personalisation and experience, shaping the (digital) environment for optimised user interaction. Consequently, the datafication and algorithmisation of the social world necessitates an art and craft of the self, establishing a co-constitutive interaction between the self and digital infrastructures. These changes also strongly affect politics, primarily through datafied management of the political and employment of predictive analytics in preparing ground for political action, thereby rendering collective identities and political leadership malleable and open to relentless beta testing. With unique insights and an innovative framework, this book is essential reading for researchers in the areas of media and communication studies, politics and social theory.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Malleable Environment: Attention, Sensing, and Wrapping Chapter 2. The Malleable Self: Immersion, Self-Optimisation, and Gamification Chapter 3. The Malleable Political: Ascription, Shareability, and Ventriloquism Chapter 4. The Posthuman: False Centrism, Flat Ontology, and Immersive Methodology
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Four Courts Press Ltd House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven BenShems War
Book SynopsisThe book explores how history and politics were expressed in the war writings of Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem, inmates at the Warsaw Ghetto. Each produced different accounts in purpose and style, Ringelblum''s diary was a historical record whereas Ben-Shem wanted to inform the world what had happened to his family. Despite political differences, Jewish history defined both men? s personal identity, and they derived moral and political inspiration from it. The range of topics and how they were recorded reflects traditional approaches to appropriacy, focussing predominantly on the public sphere, leaving us to speculate the private. The book examines relationships between physical spaces in the Ghetto, and how they were conceived: how writing reflected the disruption of Jewish spaces by blurring boundaries between the private and public spheres resulting in abjection. The more Jews were crowded into the dwindling space, the more the private became public.Nizan? s innovation is creating a model using historical records, philosophy and literature to understand the interactions between people, spaces and conditions in the Ghetto, and the effect on its inhabitants and outsiders.
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Ethics International Press Ltd Religion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday
Book SynopsisReligion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday Life takes a spirited conceptualist look back into the history of our development. The book sets out to explore the ways in which a punditry of human equality continues to lock in unassailably assured logical postures, enabled by the historically intertwined roles played by power and the passage of time, towards the invention and sustenance of social truth. Religion, race, and multiculturalism have been written about many times, and from a variety of academic, discipline-specific perspectives. Nonetheless, these social issues remain ever relevant to any sincere bid to understand the inegalitarian aspects of modern society. Religion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday Life was primarily written with serious students of philosophy, sociology, the humanities, and history in mind. The author contends that we should never be too afraid to explore contentious or difficult philosophical and social questions.
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Ethics International Press Ltd Pandemic Reflections: Saint Francis and the
Book SynopsisSt Francis of Assisi, one of the most acclaimed and enduring of saints, is particularly significant when reflecting upon the COVID pandemic. Francis lived, and ministered, amid a leprosy pandemic. How he lived in relation to that pandemic makes him a source of insight to as well as a potential critic of contemporary responses to COVID. In turn, one can use COVID to question Francis. Did he exhibit a harmful form of religious devotion, perhaps fanaticism, by exposing himself and others to a lethal pathogen? This edited collection examines a highly visible and impactful religious figure with the intent of bringing him into conversation with one of the defining issues of the early 21st Century.Trade Review"These timely essays help us, who strive to live by Franciscan values, do more than ponder our role in a world of easy sickness. What are we called to do? What does it mean to be responsible to God, ourselves, and others? I m thankful for these writers." Jon M. Sweeney, editor of The Complete Francis of Assisi and author of Feed the Wolf
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Emerald Publishing Limited Gender Inequality and its Implications on
Book SynopsisGender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health explains the different implications of gender inequality and finds solutions to our most pressing issues. The authors of these collected studies show that though in various contexts around the globe, girls and women are discouraged and prevented from receiving quality education, proper health care, women empowerment and social justice, if this exclusion is eliminated it produces many additional socio-economic gains that benefit entire societies. Focusing largely on India to explore firstly the implications of gender inequality on education and health and then gender inequality and its implications to other SDGs, the chapters extend globally to analyse countries from Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. Raising awareness among stakeholders and institutions to recognise the importance of gender inequality throughout the world and its various implications – especially on education and health – Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health provides strategies to achieve gender equality.Table of ContentsSection I. Implications of Gender Inequality on Education and Health Chapter 1. Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India: The Role of Women’s Agency An Empirical Analysis; Antara Bhattacharyya and Sushil Kr. Haldar Chapter 2. Do Government Expenditures on Education and Health Reduce Gender Inequality? The case of the Least Developed and Developing Countries; Gizem Kaya Aydin Chapter 3. Is there any relationship between gender inequality and nutrition? Experience from India; Kavitha Kasala, Rudra Prosad Roy, and Abhishek Das Chapter 4. Gender Discrimination in Education Expenditure in Public Primary School in Rural India among Religious Groups: An Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Analysis; Puja Biswas and Amit Kundu Chapter 5. Can gender inequality in school enrolment hinder the efficiency of education sector?; Sangita Choudhury and Arpita Ghose Chapter 6. Understanding Gender Through an Educational Construct; Manisha Subba Chapter 7. Gender inequality in India intertwined between education and employment; Dyuti Chatterjee and Pallabi Banerjee Chapter 8. A Critique of Gender Inequality: Study of Education and Health in North Bengal Region; Bishal Rai Chapter 9. Gender Bias in Child Deprivation: A Study in the context of West Bengal, India; Satyanarayan Kumbhakar and Pinaki Das Chapter 10. Is Dropout in Schools related to Gender and Birth Order?; Chayanika Mitra and Indrani Sengupta Chapter 11. Investigating the role of air quality and the nexus between female health status and their labour force participation rate: Evidence from rural India; Kaushiki Banerjee and Arpita Ghose Section II: Gender Inequality and its implications to Other SDGs Chapter 12. Only Development or Gender Norm? Explaining Gender Inequality in Emerging Market Economies; Amrita Chatterjee Chapter 13. Women Empowerment as A Key to Support Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and Global Sustainable Development; Begum Sertyesilisik Chapter 14. Linkage Between Women Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence in India: Evidence from NFHS-5 Data; Susobhan Maiti, Tanushree Gupta, and Govind Singh Rajpal Chapter 15. Public Social Expenditures and Outcomes in Nigeria: A Look Through Gender Lens; Nkechinyere Rose Uwajumogu, Ebele Stella Nwokoye, Kingsley Chike Okoli, and Mgbodichimma K. Okoro Chapter 16. Equitable pathways for a Sustainable Future:The Case for Mainstreaming Gender across Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Ananya Chakraborty and Sreerupa Sengupta Chapter 17. Sustainable Environment and Urbanization Policies to Enhance Gender Equality and Women Empowerment; Egemen Sertyesilisik Chapter 18. Understanding Gender, Poverty and Social Justice: A New Look from the Perspectives of Indian Experience; Asim K. Karmakar, Sebak K. Jana, and Sovik Mukherjee Chapter 19. Twitter imparting and reinforcing gendered based identities of the Aboriginal Australia women; Ali Saha Chapter 20. The Impact of Pandemic on the Female Unorganized Sector Workers: A Study in Rural Backdrop of West Bengal; Srimoyee Datta and Tarak Nath Sahu Chapter 21. A Gender Sustainable Development Index for Italian Regions; Marianna Bartiromo and Enrico Ivaldi Chapter 22. Association between Crime Against Women and Income Inequality: A Study on Indian States; Debarati Nandigrami and Ramesh Chandra Das Chapter 23. Gender Responsive Budgeting Approach to Combating Climate Change; Gamze Yıldız Şeren
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