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Columbia University Press On Civic Friendship
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book provides clear and thoughtful re-readings of the tradition from a feminist perspective and reincorporates a classical notion of civil society... recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface: A Paradox of Democracy Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Metaphor and Theory Change Part I. The Past 2. The Forgotten Category of Ethical Reproduction 3. The Liberal Production Model 4. The Socialist Turn: Missing Faculties Part II. The Present 5. The Possibility of a Modern Civic Friendship 6. Women, Democracy, and the U.S. Constitution 7. The State of Feminist Theory 8. Looking Outward: Beyond the National Security State Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Gendering Global Conflict Toward a Feminist
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA superb contribution to the field, this book is the first full-scale attempt to link feminist theory with the established, mainstream work on war as an empirical puzzle to be solved. -- Patrick James, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California With formidable prowess, Sjoberg engages tools from realist, liberal, constructivist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial perspectives to advance a systematic, feminist theorization of war. This stunning achievement warrants attention by all who seek to improve our understanding and alter our practices of war. -- V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona In this definitive work, Laura Sjoberg makes an incontrovertible case that feminist security studies is neither superfluous nor an oxymoron. Through her extensive command of the vast war studies literature and decades of feminist international relations scholarship, she powerfully and effectively argues that security studies, from realist to critical, fail to explain why and how states go to war without feminist theories. Exhaustively detailing how feminist perspectives and research significantly account for the propensities for, the conduct of, and lived experiences in war, she demonstrates feminism not only can but also must 'occupy' security studies for both better and transformative understandings of war. -- Anne Sisson Runyan, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati Gendering Global Conflict is a monumental work that deserves to be widely read... The work is exhaustively researched and footnoted, with an extensive literature review of current approaches to studying gender in conflict... Highly recommended. Choice Thoughtful and insightful... Well-written and accessible... Laura Sjoberg offers a convincing account as to why gender should be taken seriously when we consider both the causes and the impacts of war, whilst managing to speak to a mainstream, as well as feminist, security audience. Gender and Development Laura Sjoberg's book, Gendering Global Conflict, is extremely relevant. Through a systematic and well-argued critique, she shows how deeply embedded masculinity is in mainstream studies of war... best suited for students at the graduate level. Politics & GenderTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The (Genderless) Study of War in International Relations 2. Gender Lenses Look at War(s) 3. Anarchy 4. Relations International and War(s) 5. Gender 6. People 7. Gendered Strategy 8. Gendered Tactics 9. Living Gendered War(s) Conclusion: (A) Feminist Theory/ies of War(s) Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Who Ate Up All the Shinga
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the hardships it describes. Financial Times Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading. -- Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang List: Books from Korea Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple of works taughts in Korean literature, culture, and history courses. Journal of Asian Studies Though it feels rather like a memoir, the novel is an entertaining and sometimes heart-wrenching read as Park's brilliant use of language, as well as genuine depiction of its characters shine from the beginning to the end. Korea Herald Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a pleasure not only to read but to behold. Let us hope that although the author is no longer with us physically, her spiritual presence will be maintained through other excellent translations of her works. -- Bruce Fulton Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.netTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Days in the Wild 2. Seoul, So Far Away 3. Beyond the Gates 4. Friendless Child 5. The Triangle-Yard House 6. Grandmother and Grandfather 7. Mother and Brother 8. Spring in My Hometown 9. The Hurled Nameplate 10. Groping in the Dark 11. The Eve Before the Storm 12. Epiphany
£52.88
Columbia University Press Audience Evolution
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPhilip M. Napoli offers a rich and original synthesis of the many factors that help construct the audience, as well as the social, economic, and legal consequences of that process, and he has a real talent for creating a cohesive, interesting, and important story. Expansive and important, Audience Evolution is grounded in the relevant bodies of theory and ultimately enlightening. Anyone with a serious interest in the operation of the media industries or popular culture should read this book. -- James G. Webster, Northwestern University, author of Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research ...very concise, tightly argued and very timely volume... Communications and Strategies ...its clarity, simplicty, and systematic narrative make it appealing and useful... -- Giacomo Poderi Teachers College Record ...provides new entrees into understanding how socially constructed definitions of audiences are changing. -- Grace Jackson-Brown Journalism and Mass Communication Education The book provides an excellent overview of how new media technologies have changed the patterns of audience behavior.Journal of Communication Journal of Communication a good combination of a critical approach to audience measurement as well as a thorough review of the development of audience information systems. -- Louisa Ha AEJMC This is an important book-one of the first scholarly analyses of both commercial and academic audience research trends amidst change -- Chris Sterling Communication Booknotes Quarterly No college-level media or sociology collection should be without this. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Contextualizing Audience Evolution 2. The Transformation of Media Consumption 3. The Transformation of Audience Information Systems 4. Contesting Audiences 5. The Implications of Audience Evolution Notes References Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Robert K. Merton
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this stimulating and informative volume, leading sociologists explain the range and lasting significance of Robert K. Merton's research for contemporary social science. An important read for those who want to build on the shoulders of giants without reinventing the wheel. -- Michele Lamont, Harvard University American sociology over the past century probably owes more to Robert K. Merton than to any other scholar. He taught whole generations of us how to see the world sociologically, think about it sociologically, and study it sociologically. The essays that make up this book, opening with the masterful introduction by its editor, Craig Calhoun, approach Merton from a number of different vantage points, and together they provide a striking intellectual portrait of this very special person. -- Kai Erickson, Yale University Craig Calhoun and his colleagues delve into the vast depths of Robert K. Merton's relatively unfamiliar writings, including those that are unpublished, and present us with an astonishingly complex and germane vision of sociological inquiry. -- Margaret R. Somers, University of Michigan This collective work is a carefully crafted redescription of the intellectual 'travels and adventures' of one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. Following Robert K. Merton's definition of serendipity, the reader will find unanticipated observations yielding an unanticipated kind of new knowledge. The book succeeds brilliantly in integrating the multifaceted yet deeply interconnected sociocognitive and semantic strands of the Mertonian oeuvre. With exceptional clarity, untapped conceptual resources for contemporary and future sociology are rendered visible. -- Helga Nowotny, president, European Research Council It is refreshing when more extensive exegesis of a sociological theorist's work is developed and published in such a well-constructed volume. Contemporary Sociology This wide-ranging and thoughtfully conceived compilation opens up new and fresh perspectives on Merton's work. Acta SociologicaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: On Merton's Legacy and Contemporary Sociology, by Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council and New York University 1. Reflections on a Common Theme: Establishing the Phenomenon, Adumbration, and Ideal Types, by Alejandro Portes, Princeton University 2. Mechanisms of the Middle Range, by Charles Tilly, Columbia University 3. Eliding the Theory/Research and Basic/Applied Divides: Implications of Merton's Middle Range, by Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University 4. The Contributions of Robert K. Merton to Culture Theory, by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, City University of New York 5. Culture and Uncertainty, by Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University 6. "Paradigm for the Sociology of Science", by Thomas F. Gieryn, Indiana University 7. A Critical Reconsideration of the Ethos and Autonomy of Science, by Aaron L. Panofsky, University of California 8. Merton, Mannheim, and the Sociology of Knowledge, by Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University 9. The Ethos of Science and the Ethos of Democracy, by Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo 10. Merton's Sociology of Rhetoric, by Peter Simonson, University of Colorado 11. On Sociological Semantics as an Evolving Research Program, by Harriet Zuckerman, Mellon Foundation 12. How Merton Sociologizes the History of Ideas, by Charles Camic, Northwestern University List of Contributors Index
£22.00
Columbia University Press Moving Data
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLike the iPhone itself, Moving Data is personal, mobile, and globally networked. Established and emerging scholars from media, information, and cultural studies track the transnational trajectory of the iPhone. These essays are accessible to a general reader even while keeping in mind the telling differences between contacts and critique, apps and analysis. -- Richard Grusin, director, Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The iPhone is the first landmark twenty-first-century invention. Not only the embodiment of a 'disruptive technology,' with its 'applications' reversing the semantics of hardware to software, it also confirms that we need mobility studies to succeed-if not to supersede-cultural studies. Moving Data nimbly signals these shifts and serves as a surefooted road map to new territory. -- Thomas Elsaesser, author of The Persistence of Hollywood The well-written essays in this wonderful little book range from insightful to downright fun...Highly recommended. Choice Readers interested in the impact of digital media will find in this collection a rich source of new ideas and perspectives. PsycCritiques Like the iPhone itself, Moving Data provides a panoply of options for the interested reader. Detailed without falling into homage, this volume should appeal to technology historians and cultural critics alike. -- Ingrid Erickson Mobile Media and Communication A rich and detailed picture of the impact of the iPhone on our society. -- Zvezdan Vukanovic International Journal of Digital TV Studies of the iPhone are rare... This makes Moving Data particularly welcome. Its contents are a revelation. New Media SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau Data Archaeologies 1. With Eyes, With Hands: The Relocation of Cinema Into the iPhone, by Francesco Casetti and Sara Sampietro 2. Navigating Screenspace: Toward Performative Cartography, by Nanna Verhoeff 3. The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge, by Alexandra Schneider 4. Media Archaeology, Installation Art, and the iPhone Experience, by Jennifer Steetskamp 5. Hard Candy, by Kristopher L. Cannon and Jennifer M. Barker Politics of Redistribution 6. Personal Media in the Digital Economy, by Goran Bolin 7. Big Hollywood, Small Screens, by Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska 8. Pushing the (Red) Envelope: Portable Video, Platform Mobility, and Pay-Per-View Culture, by Chuck Tryon 9. Platforms, Pipelines, and Politics: The iPhone and Regulatory Hangover, by Jennifer Holt 10. A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest, by Pelle Snickars The App Revolution 11. iPhone Apps: A Digital Culture of Interactivity, by Barbara Flueckiger 12. Slingshot to Victory: Games, Play, and the iPhone, by Mia Consalvo 13. Reading (with) the iPhone, by Gerard Goggin 14. Ambient News and the Para-iMojo: Journalism in the Age of the iPhone, by Janey Gordon 15. Party Apps and Other Citizenship Calls, by Anu Koivunen 16. The iPhone's Failure: Protests and Resistances, by Oliver Leistert Mobile Lives 17. I, Phone-I, Learn, by Anne Balsamo 18. EULA, Codec, API: The Opacity of Digital Culture, by Lane DeNicola 19. "The Back of Our Devices Looks Better than the Front of Anyone Else's": On Apple and Interface Design, by Lev Manovich 20. Playing the iPhone, by Frauke Behrendt 21. Mobile Media Life, by Mark Deuze and The Janissary Collective Coda 22. The End of Solitude, by Dalton Conley Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Moving Data
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLike the iPhone itself, Moving Data is personal, mobile, and globally networked. Established and emerging scholars from media, information, and cultural studies track the transnational trajectory of the iPhone. These essays are accessible to a general reader even while keeping in mind the telling differences between contacts and critique, apps and analysis. -- Richard Grusin, director, Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The iPhone is the first landmark twenty-first-century invention. Not only the embodiment of a 'disruptive technology,' with its 'applications' reversing the semantics of hardware to software, it also confirms that we need mobility studies to succeed-if not to supersede-cultural studies. Moving Data nimbly signals these shifts and serves as a surefooted road map to new territory. -- Thomas Elsaesser, author of The Persistence of Hollywood The well-written essays in this wonderful little book range from insightful to downright fun...Highly recommended. Choice Readers interested in the impact of digital media will find in this collection a rich source of new ideas and perspectives. PsycCritiques Like the iPhone itself, Moving Data provides a panoply of options for the interested reader. Detailed without falling into homage, this volume should appeal to technology historians and cultural critics alike. -- Ingrid Erickson Mobile Media and Communication A rich and detailed picture of the impact of the iPhone on our society. -- Zvezdan Vukanovic International Journal of Digital TV Studies of the iPhone are rare... This makes Moving Data particularly welcome. Its contents are a revelation. New Media SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau Data Archaeologies 1. With Eyes, With Hands: The Relocation of Cinema Into the iPhone, by Francesco Casetti and Sara Sampietro 2. Navigating Screenspace: Toward Performative Cartography, by Nanna Verhoeff 3. The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge, by Alexandra Schneider 4. Media Archaeology, Installation Art, and the iPhone Experience, by Jennifer Steetskamp 5. Hard Candy, by Kristopher L. Cannon and Jennifer M. Barker Politics of Redistribution 6. Personal Media in the Digital Economy, by Goran Bolin 7. Big Hollywood, Small Screens, by Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska 8. Pushing the (Red) Envelope: Portable Video, Platform Mobility, and Pay-Per-View Culture, by Chuck Tryon 9. Platforms, Pipelines, and Politics: The iPhone and Regulatory Hangover, by Jennifer Holt 10. A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest, by Pelle Snickars The App Revolution 11. iPhone Apps: A Digital Culture of Interactivity, by Barbara Flueckiger 12. Slingshot to Victory: Games, Play, and the iPhone, by Mia Consalvo 13. Reading (with) the iPhone, by Gerard Goggin 14. Ambient News and the Para-iMojo: Journalism in the Age of the iPhone, by Janey Gordon 15. Party Apps and Other Citizenship Calls, by Anu Koivunen 16. The iPhone's Failure: Protests and Resistances, by Oliver Leistert Mobile Lives 17. I, Phone-I, Learn, by Anne Balsamo 18. EULA, Codec, API: The Opacity of Digital Culture, by Lane DeNicola 19. "The Back of Our Devices Looks Better than the Front of Anyone Else's": On Apple and Interface Design, by Lev Manovich 20. Playing the iPhone, by Frauke Behrendt 21. Mobile Media Life, by Mark Deuze and The Janissary Collective Coda 22. The End of Solitude, by Dalton Conley Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Multimodal Treatment of Acute Psychiatric Illness
Book SynopsisIntegrated, systematic interventions that focus on those suffering from schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, severe anxiety, and substance dependenceTrade ReviewThe text is very user-friendly and would be valuable for professionals, consumers, and families. It represents a nice "go-to" text for the office clinician, particularly with the emphasis on assessment and the literature reviewed for specific illness areas and treatments. -- Melissa Floyd-Pickard, University of North Carolina at GreensboroTable of ContentsPreface 1. Hospital Diversion Programs Why Do Hospital Diversion Programs Exist? Do Hospital Diversion Programs Work? 2. Integrative and Multimodal Treatment Integrative Treatment Multimodal Therapy 3. Severe Mental Illness Treatment Literature: An Overview Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar and Major Depressive Disorder PTSD and Panic Disorder Substance-Related Disorders 4. Multimodal Acute Care A Review of Crisis and Brief Intervention Models A Proposed Acute Care Approach Theoretical Basis of the Approach A Recovery-Oriented Approach Components of Multimodal Acute Care 5. Fundamental Tools and Techniques Suicide/Self-Harm Assessment Drug Screen Crisis Action Plan Contracts Improve Coping Skills Activity Scheduling Assertiveness Training Medication Adherence General Tips for Addressing Social and Environmental Issues 6. Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 7. Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 8. PTSD and Panic Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 9. Substance-Related Disorders Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 10. Important Treatment Considerations Unique Challenges Associated with the Borderline Personality Cultural Perspectives on Mental Health Treatment Religion and Spirituality as a Coping Resource Conclusion Appendix A: Crisis Action Plan Appendix B: Thought Change Worksheet Appendix C: Stress-Vulnerability Model Diagrams References Index
£80.00
Columbia University Press Multimodal Treatment of Acute Psychiatric Illness
Book SynopsisIntegrated, systematic interventions that focus on those suffering from schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, severe anxiety, and substance dependenceTrade ReviewThe text is very user-friendly and would be valuable for professionals, consumers, and families. It represents a nice "go-to" text for the office clinician, particularly with the emphasis on assessment and the literature reviewed for specific illness areas and treatments. -- Melissa Floyd-Pickard, University of North Carolina at GreensboroTable of ContentsPreface 1. Hospital Diversion Programs Why Do Hospital Diversion Programs Exist? Do Hospital Diversion Programs Work? 2. Integrative and Multimodal Treatment Integrative Treatment Multimodal Therapy 3. Severe Mental Illness Treatment Literature: An Overview Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar and Major Depressive Disorder PTSD and Panic Disorder Substance-Related Disorders 4. Multimodal Acute Care A Review of Crisis and Brief Intervention Models A Proposed Acute Care Approach Theoretical Basis of the Approach A Recovery-Oriented Approach Components of Multimodal Acute Care 5. Fundamental Tools and Techniques Suicide/Self-Harm Assessment Drug Screen Crisis Action Plan Contracts Improve Coping Skills Activity Scheduling Assertiveness Training Medication Adherence General Tips for Addressing Social and Environmental Issues 6. Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 7. Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 8. PTSD and Panic Disorder Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 9. Substance-Related Disorders Perform Assessment Establish Equilibrium Address Social and Environmental Issues Relapse Prevention 10. Important Treatment Considerations Unique Challenges Associated with the Borderline Personality Cultural Perspectives on Mental Health Treatment Religion and Spirituality as a Coping Resource Conclusion Appendix A: Crisis Action Plan Appendix B: Thought Change Worksheet Appendix C: Stress-Vulnerability Model Diagrams References Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Beyond News
Book SynopsisA provocative, historically based argument that digital-era journalists need to aspire to much more than simply reporting the news.Trade ReviewWith his customary intelligence and brio, Mitchell Stephens argues for more ambitious, more valuable journalism. Stephens embodies the virtues of his hero Benjamin Franklin, writing with pungent wit and sharp insights. He has mined United States history for telling anecdotes showing that conventional news reporting is insufficient. He boldly makes the case that the interpretation of news could redeem both journalism and journalism professionals; moreover, since wisdom journalism both produces and requires knowledge, his vision sets the course for journalism education. -- Linda Steiner, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland Persuasively written and filled with telling examples, Beyond News makes a powerful case for moving beyond the traditional five W's as guidelines for journalists to the five I's of what Stephens calls wisdom journalism: informed, intelligent, interpretive, insightful, and illuminating. -- Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern University This engaging book tells us how journalism must change in order to better serve the times-and the public. Stephens calls for interpretation and insight, intelligence, and illumination. Beyond News offers all of these and more. Thought-provoking and a delight to read. -- Geneva Overholser, senior fellow, University of Southern California, Annenberg Definitely of value to journalism students, this book will also appeal to those interested in access to informed perspectives and the fate of the "fourth estate." Library Journal ...a feast, intelligent and candidly forthright. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered 1. "Principles, Sentiments, and Affections": The Journalism Out of Which the United States Was Born 2. "Yesterday's Doings in All Continents": The Business of Selling News 3. "Circulators of Intelligence Merely": The Devaluation of News 4. "Bye-Bye to the Old 'Who-What-When-Where'?": The Return of Interpretation 5. "Much as One May Try to Disappear from the Work": The Argument Against Objectivity 6. "The World's Immeasurable Babblement": What Does and Does Not Make Journalism Wise 7. "Shimmering Intellectual Scoops": The Wisdom Journalist, the Journalism Organization, Their Audiences, and Our Politics Notes Acknowledgments Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press Mothers in Academia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe coverage in these essays is comprehensive and impressively diverse. They prove very useful to other academic mothers (and, perhaps, fathers) who feel alone and need confirmation that the problem is not personal but cultural and structural. -- Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz Deftly unpacks complex issues, emotions, and professional questions. -- Victoria Rosner, Columbia University Mothers in Academia provides much-needed first-person accounts of the impact of motherhood on those who serve and learn in the academy. Teaching Theology and Religion Mothers in Academia is unique in that it fuses personal experience with theory, resulting in a rich narrative analysis... few books are as comprehensive. European Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Speaking Truth to Power to Change the Ivory Tower (Mari Castaneda and Kirsten Isgro) Part I. Working/Learning in the Academy While Working/Learning as a Mom 1. How We Learned to Stop Worrying and to Enjoy Having It All (Michelle Kuhl, Michelle Mouton, Margaret Hostetler, Druscilla Scribner, Tracy Slagter, and Orlee Hauser) 2. Academia or Bust: Feeding the Hungry Mouths of the University, Babies, and Ourselves (Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez) 3. Diverse Academic Support for an Employee, Mother, and Nontraditional Student (Wendy K. Wilde) 4. Breaking the Glass Ceiling While Being a Mother: Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Administration (Kim Powell) 5. To Tell or Not to Tell: Single Motherhood and the Academic Job Market (Virginia L. Lewis) 6. Class, Race, and Motherhood: Raising Children of Color in a Space of Privilege (Irene Mata) Part II. Unexpected Challenges and Momentous Revelations 7. Four Kids and a Dissertation: Queering the Balance Between Family and Academia (Vanessa Adel) 8. "Tia Maria de la Maternity Leave": Reflections on Race, Class, and the Natural-Birth Experience (Susana L. Gallardo) 9. Threads That Bind: A Testimonio to Puerto Rican Working Mothers (Maura I. Toro-Morn) 10. Parenting Within the Nexus of Race, Class, and Gender Oppression in Graduate School at a Historically Black College/University (Olivia Perlow) 11. Sobreviviendo (and Thriving) in the Academy: My Tias' Counterconsejos and Advice (J. Estrella Torrez) 12. Revolving Doors: Mother-Woman Rhythms in Academic Spaces (Allia A. Matta) Part III. Creating More Parent-Friendly Institutions of Higher Learning 13. Academic Library Policies: Advocating for Mothers' Research and Service Needs (Gilda Baeza Ortego) 14. Reimagining the Fairytale of Motherhood in the Academy (Barbara A. W. Eversole, Darlene M. Hantzis, and Mandy A. Reid) 15. Tales from the Tenure Track: The Necessity of Social Support in Balancing the Challenges of Tenure and Motherhood (Sandra L. French and Lisa Baker-Webster) 16. How Higher Education Became Accessible to Single Mothers: An Unfinished Story (Summer R. Cunningham) 17. Making It Work: Success Strategies for Graduate Student Mothers (Erynn Masi de Casanova and Tamara Mose Brown) 18. Academic Mothers on Leave (but on the Clock), on the Line (and off the Record): Toward Improving Parental-Leave Policies and Practices (Colleen S. Conley and Devin C. Carey) 19. Supporting Academic Mothers: Creating a Work Environment with Choices (Brenda K. Bushouse) Epilogue: Final Reflections (Mari Castaneda and Kirsten Isgro) References List of Contributors Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMelvin Delgado achieves his goal in addressing the complex nature of the problem of obesity and its underlying social, economic, and political causes by undertaking a proactive asset-oriented approach that, at its foundation, empowers urban communities with the guidance of the social work profession to find solutions culturally tailored to specific communities. -- Mario de la Rosa, Florida International University In utilizing conceptual frameworks that are essential to understanding obesity and being overweight, Melvin Delgado effectively presents associated statistics and concepts that assist in analyzing the complexity of the problem and identify directions for addressing this epidemic. The shift to social, economic, and political actors to explain this phenomenon is direly needed in social work education. -- Betty Garcia, California State University, Fresno a valuable primer for students, scholars, and practitioners new to the field of obesity. The book offers examples of innovation and cites resources that will benefit even seasoned obesity experts. It also makes an important contribution to the field of social work, by making the topic accessible and urging social workers to apply their skills toward solutions to the problem. -- Janet M. Liechty Journal of Children and Poverty Social work students and professionals working in various practice settings and among diverse communities would benefit from reading this book. -- Christine M. Rine Health & Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part One. Setting the Context 1. Introduction 2. A Social Justice Paradigm 3. The Extent of the National Obesity Crisis 4. Health 5. Lack of Access to Healthy Foods 6. Limits to Places and Spaces for Physical Exercise 7. Food Industry Practices 8. Challenges in Measuring Overweight and Obesity Part Two. Community-Led Health Promotion Approaches 9. Health Promotion 10. Youth-Focused Interventions 11. Community Garden Interventions 12. Community-Based Food Initiatives 13. Implications for Social Work Practice and Research Epilogue References Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press LoveKnowledge
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRoy Brand steps away from the technicalities that populate the history of philosophy as an academic discipline, just as he shows himself a truly sanguine observer who stays above the fray of the different and diverging currents and debates of our days. What results is an at once greatly informative and deeply personal book, with chapters that serve as vignettes and epitomize the best of philosophical thinking about a question that matters to most. -- Hent de Vries, John Hopkins University, author of Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida Roy Brand takes the reader on a journey through the history of philosophy, examining works by Plato, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida. He does a wonderful job of showing how the relation between love/knowledge weaves its way through these various authors. -- Steven Levine, University of Massachusetts, Boston Compelling. Portland Book Review [A]n intensely personal and engrossing book that tackles several major philosophical texts, weaving connections and seeking to discover anew why philosophy, its questions, and its interplay of desire and knowledge are relevant to this day. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY May the neophyte who reads this book be drawn to the field of philosophy, and may the professional be reminded of the LoveKnowledge that sparked her interest in philosophy in the first place. -- Diana Karbonowska, University of Guelph Dialogue The greatest strength of Brand's book is that it is humble, an uncommon virtue among academic philosophers. -- Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface 1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology 2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium 3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics 4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker 5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals 6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality 7. Derrida's "Here I Am" Notes Index
£17.09
Columbia University Press Knock Me Up Knock Me Down
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA wonderful, insightful, riveting, and entertaining romp. -- Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston College Clearly written...this book could serve...as a core text in a course on women in film. Choice Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects... -- Fran Bigman Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Shameful to Sexy-Pregnant Bellies Exploding Onto the Screen 1. Academic Feminism Versus Hollywood Feminism: How Modest Maternity Becomes Pregnant Glam 2. MomCom as RomCom: Pregnancy as a Vehicle for Romance 3. Accident and Excess: The "Choice" to Have a Baby 4. Pregnant Horror: Gestating the Other(s) Within 5. "What's the Worst That Can Happen?" Techno-Pregnancies Versus Real Pregnancies Conclusion: Twilight Family Values Notes Filmography Texts Cited Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Human Trafficking Around the World
Book SynopsisThis unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations.Trade ReviewStephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon make an effective case that while the specifics of trafficking vary depending on its focal point, there are certain constants. In their review of a range of countries, they demonstrate that economics, geography, civil unrest, societal inequality, and gender disparities play a major role in how trafficking manifests itself. -- Christa Stewart, New York State Office of Human Trafficking, Office of Temporary Disability Assistance I recommend this comprehensive study to anyone wanting to understand the fight against the modern-day slavetrade. The book stands apart by augmenting nation-by-nation accounts of trafficking realities with critiques of existing local anti-trafficking measures and consideration of local obstacles. Supported by diverse sources, the authors set forth clear policy recommendations to combat trafficking. -- Lori J. Johnson, staff attorney, Farmworker Unit, Legal Aid of North Carolina Human trafficking and sexual exploitation are complex issues which differ in nature from country to country, and very often accounts of human trafficking are based on anecdotal evidence. Hepburn and Simon managed to delve beneath the surface of policies and legislation within the various countries that they studied by involving those who are involved at a grass root level and have come up with a fascinating account of these practices in the various countries covered in their book. -- Carol Bews, assistant director, Johannesburg Child Welfare Society This volume demonstrates ways in which global migration policies and programs facilitate human trafficking by focusing on law enforcement rather than promoting uniform labor standards. Its broad focus helps readers compare practices among countries and understand the transnational impact of national legislation and policies on human trafficking around the globe. -- Gretchen Kuhner, author of the American Bar Association's Human Trafficking Assessment Tool Report Immensely well-documented and useful. Kirkus Reviews an immensely learned and informative piece of work, much needed to prod and set aright the misperceptions and lethargy that beset this disturbing issue. -- John Tirman Washington Post Superior and well-written, this is the rare resource that is both scholarly and approachable, making it a must-read Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Work Visa Loopholes for Traffickers 1. United States 2. Japan 3. United Arab Emirates Part II: Stateless Persons 4. Thailand 5. Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories Part III: Unrest, Displacement, and Who Is in Charge 6. Colombia 7. Iraq 8. Syria Part IV. Conflation 9. Canada Part V: Conflicting Agendas 10. Italy 11. France Part VI: Gender Apartheid 12. Iran Part VII: Social Hierarchy 13. India 14. Niger 15. China Part VIII: Muti Murder 16. South Africa Part IX: Hard-To-Prove Criterion and a Slap on the Wrist 17. Australia 18. United Kingdom 19. Chile 20. Germany Part X: Transparent Borders 21. Poland Part XI: Fear Factor 22. Mexico Part XII. Poverty and Economic Boom 23. Russia 24. Brazil Conclusion Notes References Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Baby Boomers of Color
Book SynopsisMelvin Delgado provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of colorTrade ReviewBaby Boomers of Color is an important exposure of the impending ethical and practice issues confronted by gerontologists who must now take concerted efforts to train and support social workers who reflect the racial and ethnic composition of baby boomers of color. Furthermore, the book provides pertinent advice to social work educators for preparing the next generation of gerontologists and social workers in the aging society of America. -- Heung Bong Cha, president of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics This book looks more deeply into so-called minority groups and the impact of aging. It is important because of its attempt to address the intersection of aging and minority or marginalized status and will hopefully prompt more work in this important area. -- Jay Poole, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Outstanding... A powerful addition to the social work literature on baby boomers. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part 1. Setting the Context 1. Overview 2. Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers 3. Boomer Demographic Profile and Trends 4. A Demographic Focus on Baby Boomers of Color 5. Health Needs 6. Financial Indicators Part 2. Cultural Assets 7. Baby Boomer Assets: A Conceptual Foundation 8. Family-Focused Assets 9. Neighborhood/Community-Focused Assets Part 3. Implications for Policy 10. Classification of Asset-Driven Interventions 11. Policy, Practice, and Research Implications Epilogue References Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA brilliant venture in the lost art of bringing theoretical insight to bear on popular culture. Finding Ourselves at the Movies defends another relationship between the thinker and the public, enacting what it theorizes in illuminating commentaries on films. Kahn makes us reconsider movies as reflections of our collective imagination and public commitments. -- Samuel Moyn, Columbia University This is a terrific book, bursting with ideas, and seamlessly blending discussions of love, war, freedom, faith-in short, of the human condition-with talk about movies. Drawing on everything from war movies to romantic comedies, from horror films to family dramas, Kahn shows us how the movies mirror the ways we communally invest our lives and our world with meaning. His readings of popular films and the shared world these films reflect are at once astute and provocative. -- Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What an astonishing book, a marriage between film and philosophy written without pretension or technical language. Fifty years ago, Pauline Kael famously 'lost it at the movies'; now Paul Kahn has found it. Film, Kahn explains, is not just about losing your innocence, it is about finding your 'self'-and that is and always has been the project of philosophy. You may not agree with Kahn's interpretation of particular films, but you will always be enlightened. -- Alan A. Stone, Harvard University Writing with wisdom and philosophical insight, Kahn seeks to reclaim for philosophy the task of helping us discover who we are. Drawing on the narratives compellingly depicted in movies, he helps us reclaim our ability to act as intelligent agents. The humanity that pervades this book makes what Kahn has done significant for anyone who continues to hope that what we are and do matters. -- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School Informed, thought-provoking,, and insightful. Midwest Book Review Crisply document[s] and provide[s] a provocative theoretical account of an important feature of America's distinctiveness. -- Mark S. Weiner Telos [Finding Ourselves at the Movies] is rich, thought provoking, and will inspire much further discussion. [Kahn] has written a book that is both sophisticated in its philosophical argument and accessible to an intelligent, non-specialist readership. Notre Dame Philosophical Review Kahn's work is rich, thought provoking, and will inspire much further discussion... Finding Ourselves at the Movies will be of keen interest to scholars working in the field of film and philosophy, and constitutes a valuable addition to this area of scholarship. -- Sarah Cooper Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews With ease and clarity, Kahn effectively calls nonprofessional audiences' attention to the role of philosophy in examining our struggle with identity and its engagement with the lived experiences. -- Mi Young Park Journal of Popular Culture A thoughtful and often thought-provoking book. -- Tony McKibbin Senses of Cinema A valuable read. -- Nicole Talmacs Media International AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: From Philosophy to Film 1. Philosophy, Democracy, and the Turn to Film 2. Freedom and Persuasion 3. On Interpretation Part II: Film and the Social Imaginary 4. Violence and the State 5. Love, Romance, and Pornography Conclusion: Film, Faith, and Love Notes Bibliography: Essays on Sources Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA brilliant venture in the lost art of bringing theoretical insight to bear on popular culture. Finding Ourselves at the Movies defends another relationship between the thinker and the public, enacting what it theorizes in illuminating commentaries on films. Kahn makes us reconsider movies as reflections of our collective imagination and public commitments. -- Samuel Moyn, Columbia University This is a terrific book, bursting with ideas, and seamlessly blending discussions of love, war, freedom, faith-in short, of the human condition-with talk about movies. Drawing on everything from war movies to romantic comedies, from horror films to family dramas, Kahn shows us how the movies mirror the ways we communally invest our lives and our world with meaning. His readings of popular films and the shared world these films reflect are at once astute and provocative. -- Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What an astonishing book, a marriage between film and philosophy written without pretension or technical language. Fifty years ago, Pauline Kael famously 'lost it at the movies'; now Paul Kahn has found it. Film, Kahn explains, is not just about losing your innocence, it is about finding your 'self'-and that is and always has been the project of philosophy. You may not agree with Kahn's interpretation of particular films, but you will always be enlightened. -- Alan A. Stone, Harvard University Writing with wisdom and philosophical insight, Kahn seeks to reclaim for philosophy the task of helping us discover who we are. Drawing on the narratives compellingly depicted in movies, he helps us reclaim our ability to act as intelligent agents. The humanity that pervades this book makes what Kahn has done significant for anyone who continues to hope that what we are and do matters. -- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School Informed, thought-provoking,, and insightful. Midwest Book Review Crisply document[s] and provide[s] a provocative theoretical account of an important feature of America's distinctiveness. -- Mark S. Weiner Telos [Finding Ourselves at the Movies] is rich, thought provoking, and will inspire much further discussion. [Kahn] has written a book that is both sophisticated in its philosophical argument and accessible to an intelligent, non-specialist readership. Notre Dame Philosophical Review Kahn's work is rich, thought provoking, and will inspire much further discussion... Finding Ourselves at the Movies will be of keen interest to scholars working in the field of film and philosophy, and constitutes a valuable addition to this area of scholarship. -- Sarah Cooper Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews With ease and clarity, Kahn effectively calls nonprofessional audiences' attention to the role of philosophy in examining our struggle with identity and its engagement with the lived experiences. -- Mi Young Park Journal of Popular Culture A thoughtful and often thought-provoking book. -- Tony McKibbin Senses of Cinema A valuable read. -- Nicole Talmacs Media International AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: From Philosophy to Film 1. Philosophy, Democracy, and the Turn to Film 2. Freedom and Persuasion 3. On Interpretation Part II: Film and the Social Imaginary 4. Violence and the State 5. Love, Romance, and Pornography Conclusion: Film, Faith, and Love Notes Bibliography: Essays on Sources Index
£20.90
Columbia University Press Chop Suey USA The Story of Chinese Food in
Book SynopsisAmerican diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. Chop Suey, USA offers a comprehensive chronicle of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape.Trade ReviewWell organized and breathtakingly broad in its geographic scope, Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and significant contribution to the field. Yong Chen has done a superb job. No one has attempted anything like this. -- Hasia Diner, New York UniversityA thoroughly researched, highly readable account of the development of Chinese American food, this book fills important gaps in the literature of ethnic and food studies, while incorporating an appealing personal memoir into the narrative. -- Jeffrey Pilcher, University of TorontoFood is not just about sustenance and taste. It is also about culture, economics, race, and identity. This is made abundantly clear in this fascinating account of the history of Chinese food in America. Chop Suey, USA is a wonderful American story, and a tasty one at that! -- Gordon H. Chang, Stanford UniversityA perceptive view of an America built on abundance and consumption... Well-researched... * Kirkus *A compelling and provocative contribution to the burgeoning field of American food studies. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Significantly contribute[s] to our understanding of the global history and importance of Chinese foodways. . . . Especially significant in examining the transmission of food habits across cultures and considering how the processes of empire building and globalization influence culinary traditions around the world. * American Historical Review *Groundbreaking. . . . [This] ambitious and important work [makes] a crucial contribution not only to the historical understanding of Chinese cuisine in the United States but also to the study of food in general. * Journal of Chinese Overseas *Chop Suey, USA was meticulously researched with a very extensive bibliography, the content is well organized with linking points and arguments, and the text is written with clarity and purpose. -- Alfred Yee * Journal of American History *Chen's study provides a sharp critique and rebuke to the degraded status accorded to Chinese American food and its creators. * American Quarterly *A critical reflection on the history of Chinese bodies and food in the ongoing story of U.S. expansion. * Gastronomica *Reading Yong Chen's new book is an education. In some ways, it seems more like an encyclopedia or a peak into the brain of a man who has read and retained an almost overwhelming number of books Readers can learn much from Chen's in depth analysis and framing. * 8Asians *This well-researched book comes with seventy-eight pages of notes and a thirty-one page bibliography. It is seasoned with interested recipes, most of them chosen for their personal significance An exciting intellectual endeavor. * H-Environment *Chop Suey is an engaging combination of research and food writing blended into a unified read. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface: The Genesis of the BookAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Chop Suey, the Big Mac of the Pre-McDonald's Era1. Why Is Chinese Food So Popular?2. The Empire and Empire Food3. Chinese Cooks as Stewards of Empire4. The Cradle of Chinese Food5. The Rise of Chinese Restaurants6. The Makers of American Chinese Food7. "Chinese-American Cuisine" and the Authenticity of Chop Suey8. The Chinese Brillat-SavarinConclusion: The Home of No ReturnAfterword: Why Study Food?NotesBibliographyIndex
£19.00
Columbia University Press Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
Book SynopsisHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this knowledge to navigate life's most perplexing problems, ethics becomes second nature. Ogien explores, through experimental philosophy and other methods, the responses nineteen real-world conundrums provoke. Is a short, mediocre life better than no life at all? Is it acceptable to kill a healthy person so his organs can save five others? Would you swap a natural life filled with frustration, disappointment, and partial success for a world in which all of your needs are met, but through artificial and mechanical means? Ogien doesn't seek to show how difficult it is to determine right from wrong Trade ReviewHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants is Ruwen Ogien at his very best. The book's richness lies in Ogien's endeavor to do philosophy from the reality of lived experience rather than the kind of imaginary reflection that is characteristic of so much of philosophy. -- Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University A lucid translation of a wide-ranging intellectual foray. Booklist (starred review)Table of ContentsPreface: An Antimanual of Ethics Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Use of Thought Experiments? Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles 1. Emergencies 2. The Child Who Is Drowning in a Pond 3. A Transplant Gone Mad 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd 5. The Killer Trolley 6. Incest in All Innocence 7. The Amoralist 8. The Experience Machine 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All? 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them? 12. The Utility Monster 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health 15. Who Am I Without My Organs? 16. And If Sexuality Were Free? 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance 19. Monsters and Saints Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral "Cuisine" 20. Intuitions and Rules 21. A Little Method! 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions? 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone? 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument Conclusion Glossary Notes Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
Book SynopsisHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this knowledge to navigate life's most perplexing problems, ethics becomes second nature. Ogien explores, through experimental philosophy and other methods, the responses nineteen real-world conundrums provoke. Is a short, mediocre life better than no life at all? Is it acceptable to kill a healthy person so his organs can save five others? Would you swap a natural life filled with frustration, disappointment, and partial success for a world in which all of your needs are met, but through artificial and mechanical means? Ogien doesn't seek to show how difficult it is to determine right from wrong Trade ReviewHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants is Ruwen Ogien at his very best. The book's richness lies in Ogien's endeavor to do philosophy from the reality of lived experience rather than the kind of imaginary reflection that is characteristic of so much of philosophy. -- Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University A lucid translation of a wide-ranging intellectual foray. Booklist (starred review)Table of ContentsPreface: An Antimanual of Ethics Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Use of Thought Experiments? Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles 1. Emergencies 2. The Child Who Is Drowning in a Pond 3. A Transplant Gone Mad 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd 5. The Killer Trolley 6. Incest in All Innocence 7. The Amoralist 8. The Experience Machine 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All? 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them? 12. The Utility Monster 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health 15. Who Am I Without My Organs? 16. And If Sexuality Were Free? 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance 19. Monsters and Saints Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral "Cuisine" 20. Intuitions and Rules 21. A Little Method! 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions? 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone? 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument Conclusion Glossary Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Wombs in Labor
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning... recommended to anyone interested in the subject of surrogacy and will please all readers. LSE Review of Books Wombs in Labor is an important book that sheds light on the workings of transnational commercial surrogacy in India... This book is a valuable read for anyone interested in commercial surrogacy, global inequality and women's labor. -- Koh Sin Yee Asian Review of Books A theoretically sophisticated and nuanced ethnography of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, women's studies, reproductive health, and labor studies. Choice At times heart-wrenching, Pande's ethnographic research provides a detailed and empathetic look at the business of India's surrogacy industry... Journal of International Womens Studies an excellent contribution to undergraduate or graduate classes on globalization, reproduction, gender, or work. -- Anna Curtis Gender and Society a fascinating look at the world of the Indian surrogate and the choice she makes in an effort to better her and her family's economic status. -- Sarah Thomas Journal of International Women's Studies Wombs in Labor is foundational. -- Rajani Bhatia Womens Review of Books Wombs in Labor is a valuable and timely contribution to the steadily increasing scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies and is a fascinating addition to the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work Review A must-read for students of labor, gender, and reproductive politics. -- Sumit Guha H-AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World? Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill Appendix B. Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates Appendix C. Descriptive Tables Notes Works Cited Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press We Are All Cannibals
Book SynopsisThe foremost anthropologist of the twentieth century uses compelling examples from history and contemporary life to challenge the criteria by which we judge others. Claude Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom.Trade ReviewClaude Levi-Strauss invites us to think through the persistence of primitive thought in the rapid growth of rituals and forms of worship. By giving accounts of structure and history, he celebrates the architecture of mind, empowering facts not only for the pleasure of thinking but also for the diagnosis of unseen social transformations. The globalized celebration of Santa Claus-that commercialization of the sacred-has its origins in the Latin Saturnalia and Native American kachinas; the political philosophy of the French Revolution owes its foundations to the cannibals of New Guinea; and the mythic thinking of societies without writing rivals the most audacious fables of modern astrophysics. Levi-Strauss was the austere author of The Elementary Structures of Kinship, but did he also become, with age, a novelist of ideas, like those French philosophes of the Enlightenment? I am not sure he would have appreciated this suggestion, but I can give him no higher praise: We Are All Cannibals reads like a novel. -- Julia Kristeva Essential. CHOICETable of ContentsForeword, by Maurice Olender Part 1: Santa Claus Burned as a Heretic, 1952 Part 2: We Are All Cannibals, 1989-2000 1. "Topsy-Turvydom" 2. Is There Only One Type of Development? 3. Social Problems: Ritual Female Excision and Medically Assisted Reproduction 4. Presentation of a Book by Its Author 5. The Ethnologist's Jewels 6. Portraits of Artists 7. Montaigne and America 8. Mythic Thought and Scientific Thought 9. We Are All Cannibals 10. Auguste Comte and Italy 11. Variations on the Theme of a Painting by Poussin 12. Female Sexuality and the Origin of Society 13. A Lesson in Wisdom from Mad Cows 14. The Return of the Maternal Uncle 15. Proof by New Myth 16. Corsi e ricorsi: In Vico's Wake Notes Index About the Author
£16.19
Columbia University Press Way Too Cool
Book SynopsisFollows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal societyTrade ReviewWay Too Cool constitutes a significant and entirely original intervention into the literature on neoliberalism and biopolitics. The book's range, depth, and precision are breathtaking. -- Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Se With keen, deliberate intellectual insight and daring, Winnubst elevates the discussion of cool to its rightful place in the pantheon of critical theory, highlighting aspects of popular culture and its impact on mainstream thought. -- bell hooks, activist and author Shannon Winnubst makes more sense of neoliberalism than any writer I have read. Mapping how neoliberalism in the United States de-racializes difference in its quest for cool, she theorizes race outside the parameters of identity politics by way of the Lacanian real. This wickedly smart and profoundly ethical book deserves a very wide readership. -- Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking For Winnubst, the dehistoricization of cool produces an ethical crisis as it detaches coolness from efforts to imagine and produce a better social world. Way Too Cool is one of the most provocative texts that I have read on race, philosophy, and ethics in a long time. -- Roderick Ferguson, author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference In this intellectually vibrant text that reads economic doctrines, racialized class inequities, and the lasting residue of popular culture with equal grace, Winnubst uses the genealogy of cool to pen a riveting treatise on race, ethics, and the commodification of social difference. Winnubst's arguments are precise and persuasive, as rigorously crafted as they are creatively composed. This book is poised to shake up how we think, talk and teach about neoliberalism. -- Juana Maria Rodriguez, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley A provocative and field-changing book... This is an account to be reckoned with. HypatiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Very Uncool Book 1. Excavating Categories: Foucault's Birth of Biopolitics Interlude 1: Old School Cool 2. Rethinking Difference: The Limits of Interpellation Interlude 2: Instant Cool! 3. From Instant Karma to Instant Wealth: The Fantasies and Cathexes of These Neoliberal Times Interlude 3: Neoliberal Cool 4. "How Cool Is That?": Gender and the Neoliberal Imaginary Interlude 4: The Birth of Cool 5. Reading Race as the Real: The Securities and Punishments of Neoliberal Cool Interlude 5: Real Cool, Now 6. Stop Making Sense: The Aporia of Race and Ethics Notes Bibliography Index
£68.00
Columbia University Press Way Too Cool
Book SynopsisFollows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal societyTrade ReviewWay Too Cool constitutes a significant and entirely original intervention into the literature on neoliberalism and biopolitics. The book's range, depth, and precision are breathtaking. -- Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Se With keen, deliberate intellectual insight and daring, Winnubst elevates the discussion of cool to its rightful place in the pantheon of critical theory, highlighting aspects of popular culture and its impact on mainstream thought. -- bell hooks, activist and author Shannon Winnubst makes more sense of neoliberalism than any writer I have read. Mapping how neoliberalism in the United States de-racializes difference in its quest for cool, she theorizes race outside the parameters of identity politics by way of the Lacanian real. This wickedly smart and profoundly ethical book deserves a very wide readership. -- Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking For Winnubst, the dehistoricization of cool produces an ethical crisis as it detaches coolness from efforts to imagine and produce a better social world. Way Too Cool is one of the most provocative texts that I have read on race, philosophy, and ethics in a long time. -- Roderick Ferguson, author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference In this intellectually vibrant text that reads economic doctrines, racialized class inequities, and the lasting residue of popular culture with equal grace, Winnubst uses the genealogy of cool to pen a riveting treatise on race, ethics, and the commodification of social difference. Winnubst's arguments are precise and persuasive, as rigorously crafted as they are creatively composed. This book is poised to shake up how we think, talk and teach about neoliberalism. -- Juana Maria Rodriguez, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley A provocative and field-changing book... This is an account to be reckoned with. HypatiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Very Uncool Book 1. Excavating Categories: Foucault's Birth of Biopolitics Interlude 1: Old School Cool 2. Rethinking Difference: The Limits of Interpellation Interlude 2: Instant Cool! 3. From Instant Karma to Instant Wealth: The Fantasies and Cathexes of These Neoliberal Times Interlude 3: Neoliberal Cool 4. "How Cool Is That?": Gender and the Neoliberal Imaginary Interlude 4: The Birth of Cool 5. Reading Race as the Real: The Securities and Punishments of Neoliberal Cool Interlude 5: Real Cool, Now 6. Stop Making Sense: The Aporia of Race and Ethics Notes Bibliography Index
£20.00
Columbia University Press Exiled in America
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewExiled in America is a keen, well-written study of the powerful social forces of inequality as they are shaped by cultural issues and social institutions. Christopher P. Dum provides an unusual glimpse of a unique population living in a difficult and hazardous place-a nuanced and important work. -- Terry Williams, author of The Con Men: Hustling in New York City Living in a poverty motel that houses the most marginalized and scrutinized populations in the United States, Dum documents the lived drama of managed stigma, the eruptive proclivities of a caring fragile community of 'social refugees,' the tragedy of public indifference, and the humanity of capitalism's newly rendered 'huddled masses.' It is a story that can only be told through immersive ethnography. -- Timothy Black, author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets It is not often, after forty years in the field, that I actually get excited by a new scholar's tone-that I find it so fascinating, so rich, so theoretically and analytically thick, that I go agog over it. Such is the case with Dum's work. -- Peter Adler, University of Denver Dum digs down deep inside the darkness of marginality and exclusion to find the lives that others willfully ignore. Amidst that darkness he discovers hard living and plenty of hurt but something else as well: little flowerings of courage and community. An exemplar of engaging ethnography, Exiled in America is a book that I've now read twice and will no doubt read again-it's that good. -- Jeff Ferrell, author of Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging Exiled in America is a compelling and compassionate look at people living at society's margins. Dum details the evolution of the 'no tell' Boardwalk Motel, the people who live there, and the social dynamics among themselves and the surrounding community, illustrating our 'dystopian cultural response to inequality.' Ethnography at its best! -- Andrea Leverentz, author of The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance [A] revealing, rigorously academic work... [Dum] places the painful experiences of these residents in the larger societal context: rising rates of incarceration, foreclosures, evictions, and homelessness have in recent years turned many nonchain motels into shelters for the marginalized. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [A] fine, vivid and disturbing ethnography. Times Higher Education This book, Dum's debut, is a lively evocation of a precarious, misunderstood community's rhythms, textures, and tools for living together. It also contains a nicely potted history of American motels, once symbols of freedom for car-owning travelers, now disreputable, last-ditch options for the transient and marginalized-living monuments to what happens when massive social problems run up against a national desire for Band-Aid solutions. -- Peter C. Baker Pacific Standard Eye-opening, necessary work Lit Rant Exiled in America is on the whole an exemplary piece of social reportage and analysis. Inside Higher Ed Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Biography of a Residential Motel 2. Pathways to Motel Life 3. Managing Stigma and Identity 4. Community, Conflict, and Fragility 5. Interactions with the Community Conclusion: Policy Failure in the Age of Social Sanitization Appendix 1. List of Participants Appendix 2. A Reflection on Method Notes Bibliography Index
£39.78
Columbia University Press Judge Thy Neighbor Denunciations in the Spanish
Book SynopsisFrom the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.Trade ReviewOverall, Judge Thy Neighbor is full of rich details and thoughtful observations on a phenomenon that sociologists pay little attention to, despite the prevalence of denunciation in the past and present. * American Journal of Sociology *An important illustration of how much we can learn from combining middle-range theory and comparisons within well contextualized historical case studies. Bergemann skillfully moves beyond the work of historians by forging theoretical connections between denunciation and different forms of social control across space and time. * Social Forces *A terrific book. It greatly improves our understanding of repressive structures and social conflict. It is also an excellent example of comparative thinking, with some very good data, providing fresh insight to historical cases on which a lot of ink has been spilled. * Contemporary Sociology *Social scientists neglect negative interpersonal ties. While lab experiments on the willing assumption of malevolent authority open a window on this topic, Bergemann is the first to examine betrayal and denunciation to the authorities in natural settings, and to theorize the common causes and patterns over the centuries. A fascinating opening into a dark side of human behavior. -- Mark Granovetter, Joan Butler Ford Professor, Stanford UniversityThe nastiest feature of living in oppressive regimes is the pressure to denounce other people. But Bergemann shows some surprising patterns. Regimes can be inundated with unreliable information and petty grievances, and some incentives have more costs than others. This history is highly relevant in today’s era of whistleblowers, snitching, and online accusations. -- Randall Collins, author of Interaction Ritual ChainsDenunciation is more pervasive than we think, yet remains poorly studied and understood. Using three case studies, Bergemann advances new hypotheses and helps shed light on this intriguing social phenomenon. -- Stathis N. Kalyvas, author of The Logic of Violence in Civil WarResearch on deviance typically focuses on those who violate prevailing norms. Bergemann turns the camera around: What if the real deviants are the accusers, not the accused? By applying alternative theoretical models to three historical cases, Bergemann identifies the viral strains in epidemics of denunciation, with stunning new insights. This exquisitely crafted study is a must-read not only for students of social control but for anyone who wonders if law enforcement should be crowdsourced. -- Michael Macy, Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell UniversityThere have been case studies of the Inquisition and lots of work on the Gestapo, but the explanations in all of those are ad hoc and make no effort to generalize beyond their single cases. Judge Thy Neighbor offers a theory that I expect will both transform future work on these and other cases of denunciations and influence broader social-science analyses of group dynamics, social movements, and microsocial relations. -- Richard Lachmann, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A Theory of Denunciation2. The Spanish Inquisition3. Romanov Russia4. Nazi Germany5. Denunciations: Present and FutureNotesReferencesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press The Corsairs of SaintMalo
Book SynopsisHenning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. He combines rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century.Trade ReviewHillmann’s book is a fascinating analysis of the networks of merchants and investors who traded overseas and launched privateering expeditions from the bustling Atlantic port of Saint-Malo. Based on extensive archival research, it is historical sociology at its best and will appeal to readers from history to economics and beyond. -- Philip T. Hoffman, Axline Professor of Business Economics and History, California Institute of TechnologyWith his unique combination of mastery of detailed historical material, rigorous network analysis, and a compelling theoretical vision, Hillmann offers us a remarkable view of the nexus of economic, social, and political relations in the early modern period. A landmark in historical sociology. -- John Levi Martin, author of Social StructuresThis is a terrific book. Full of historical detail about an interesting hybrid form of commercial-military 'market'—the early modern French privateers. Plus network analysis of the evolution of voyage partnership networks over one hundred years. The dynamic duality of market and city elite is thereby highlighted. -- John F. Padgett, coauthor of The Emergence of Organizations and MarketsIn this multilayered book, Hillmann combines a rollicking tale of colorful privateers plying the high seas with detailed evidence revealing temporal overlaps in trade networks. It's a great read, filled with deep sociological insights about the relational basis of elite cohesion and social mobility. -- Katherine Stovel, University of WashingtonThis book was a pleasure to read. It tells the fascinting story of French privateers (corsaires, in French) who were legaly sanctioned by the French government during wartime. * Economic Growth in History *I can definitely recommend adding it to your reading list. Hillman offers a captivating sociological take on over 100 years of conflict, trade, and personal fortune with this enjoyable study. * East India Blogging Co. *Breaks new ground as an organizational and network analysis with broad implications for the evolution and cohesion of economic activity during mercantile capitalism. * Social Forces *Hillmann’s contribution is an important one: he highlights the diversity of the merchant class, and describes a possible way in which a specialized local type of trade could help structure a local merchant community. Beyond its study of the course and of Saint-Malo, the book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. * Economic History Review *Hillmann provides an exceptionally well researched examination and perhaps an example of how to model future research on privateering partnerships throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. * Mariners Mirror *The book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. -- Pierre Gervais, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle * The Economic History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Saint-Malo in the French Atlantic Economy3. Social Sources of Economic Growth4. The Course: Its Origins and Organization5. Returns to Privateering6. Dynamics of Partnership Networks7. The Rise of New Men8. The Coming of the RevolutionAppendix TablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction2. International Migration Policies3. United States Immigration and Refugee Policies4. Human Services Delivery SystemsPart II. Problem Areas and Best Practices 5. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice6. Health Issues7. Mental Health8. Family Dynamics9. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being10. Intergroup Relations11. Additional Populations of Concern12. Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndex
£32.30
Columbia University Press What Slaveholders Think
Book SynopsisRare interviews with contemporary slaveholders reveal how they justify their actions and resist challenges to their authority.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone-raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves The exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford University Choi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy-and human rights campaigners-a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets 2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets 3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery 4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation 5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats 6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India 7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement 8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients 3e
Book SynopsisIn an update to this classic text, Ronald H. Rooney and Rebecca G. Mirick explore the best ways to work with unwilling clients. This book provides a framework for understanding the legal, ethical, and practical concerns, offering theory, treatment models, and specific practice strategies to facilitate collaborative, effective working relationships.Trade ReviewHooray! The much-anticipated third edition of Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients builds on the superb previous editions, adding depth and breadth to a uniquely useful presentation of practice strategies for working with individuals and families. Ronald H. Rooney and Rebecca Mirick provide insightful guidelines for legal and ethical issues and a new chapter on the ‘involuntary’ practitioner. An invaluable resource for both students and professionals. -- Alex Gitterman, University of Connecticut School of Social WorkIn this substantive and helpful collection of essays, the editors and the contributors manage to convey that we can be respectful of a client’s rights while not being too easily put off by understandable resistance. In the end, real change is always in the control of the clients, even those who didn’t have a choice in engaging in the service. -- Lawrence Shulman, SUNY BuffaloThis comprehensive and accessible text will be plundered for its insightful observations coupled with practical suggestions across a range of service areas. It is timely, as emphasis is shifting from identifying problems/risks to looking at how work can be undertaken with different types of involuntary clients to effect the required change. Best read from cover to cover, this is a genuine candidate for the authoritative guide in this challenging area of work. -- Martin C. Calder, director, Calder Training and ConsultancyThis book helped me define who is involuntary and how to approach a client who is defined that way. It presents cases, data, research, and questions that will shift our way of thinking about clients and therapist that are ‘forced’ to be in treatment. -- Elizabeth Misener, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part I: A Foundation for Work with Involuntary Clients1. Introduction to Involuntary Practice, by Ronald Rooney2. Legal and Ethical Foundations for Work with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney3. Effectiveness with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney 4. Influencing Behaviors and Attitudes, by Ronald Rooney5. Oppression and Involuntary Status, by Glenda Dewberry Rooney and Joan Blakey6. Trauma Informed Care with Legally Mandated Involuntary Clients, by Joan BlakeyPart II: Practice Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients7. Assessing Initial Contacts in Involuntary Transactions, by Rebecca Mirick8. Initial Phase Work with Individual Involuntary Clients, by Rebecca Mirick9. Task-Centered Intervention with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney10. Work with Involuntary Families, by Rebecca Mirick11. Work with Involuntary Groups, by Michael ChovanecPart III: Practice Applications with Involuntary Problems and Settings 12. Work with Men in Domestic Abuse Treatment, by Michael Chovanec13. Integrated Health Care and Health Disparities, by Tamara Davis and Adriane Peck 14. Strengths-Based Strategies for Improving Quality of Life Among Dementia-Affected Older Adults, and Their Care Partners, by Justine McGovern15. Substance Abuse Treatment: A Field in the Midst of Change, by Katherine van Wormer and Laura Parker16. Work with Unmotivated Clients, by Per Revstedt 17. Bringing Up What They Don’t Want to Talk About: Use of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Alcohol and Depression in a Community College Health Center, by Melinda Hohman, Christine Kleinpeter, and Tamara Strohauer18. Involuntary Clients in Public Schools: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Interventions, by Cynthia Franklin, Laura Hopson and Samantha Guz19. Work with Involuntary Clients in Child Welfare Settings, by Rebecca Mirick, Julie Altman, and Debra Gohagan20. Work with Involuntary Clients in Corrections, by Chris Trotter21. Applying the Involuntary Perspective to Supervision, by Carol Jud and Tony Bibus22. The Nonvoluntary Practitioner and the System, by Ronald RooneyAppendixAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press To Fulfill These Rights
Book SynopsisIn To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and informative yet provocative contribution to post-civil rights scholarly literature. * Social Policy and Administration *Essential reading for anyone interested in open admissions. * Choice *This work is part of an ambitious and broad research agenda. Regardless of its shortcomings, it provides a wealth of information that can be used for many types of analysis in different areas of sociological inquiry. I am looking forward to reading the author’s future related work. -- Martha A. Martinez, DePaul University * American Journal of Sociology *A college education is crucial for living a productive and comfortable life. Yet, in To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu reveals disturbing truths: access to college education is rapidly decreasing for Black and Brown Americans given the dismantling of affirmative action and open admission, and racialized disparities are likely to increase. This book should be read because it sheds lights on deeply entrenched inequalities threatening American democracy. -- Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern UniversityI learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging. -- Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial JusticeIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu provides a provocative and engaging account of racialized conflict over affirmative action and open admissions. Highlighting the radical activism of Black and Puerto Rican students as well as opposition to racial justice from liberals and conservatives alike, Okechukwu unveils how the rhetorics of diversity and colorblindness in higher education reproduce white supremacy. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling systemic racism in the twenty-first century. -- Crystal Marie Fleming, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial DivideA truly unique, compelling, and expansive account of how both elite and grassroots political actors define, challenge, and transform admissions policies and practices. Chronicling political contestation across different sites, Amaka Okechukwu advances key concepts to help us understand and situate competing racial logics, discourses, and mobilizing strategies. An essential read for an unsettled debate. -- Michael Omi, University of California, BerkeleyIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu illuminates the shifting political landscape and policy retrenchment in the wake of the dismantling of affirmative action. Despite the use of 'diversity' and 'adversity' as proxies for race, Black representation in American universities has fallen precipitously. Okechukwu demonstrates how the original logic of affirmative action has been subverted by two recent ideological movements—neoliberalism and colorblindness. Given the unrelenting mobilization of conservatives, the erosion of liberal support, and the absence of a vehement black protest movement that provided the original impetus for affirmative action policy, Okechukwu reaches the conclusion that the end of affirmative action is imminent. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and PolicyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Right of Postwar Citizenship: The Emergence of Mass Higher Education and Race- and Class-Inclusive Admissions2. Legal Mobilization: Racial Political Strategy and Affirmative Action Retrenchment in the Federal Courts3. Board Votes and Ballot Initiatives: Racial Political Strategy in Trustee Decision-Making and State Elections4. A Force of Nature: Student Resistance to Policy Elimination5. The Limitations of Diversity: Defensive Innovation After the End of Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsConclusionAppendix A: Situating Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAppendix B: Research MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex
£75.00
Columbia University Press To Fulfill These Rights
Book SynopsisIn To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and informative yet provocative contribution to post-civil rights scholarly literature. * Social Policy and Administration *Essential reading for anyone interested in open admissions. * Choice *This work is part of an ambitious and broad research agenda. Regardless of its shortcomings, it provides a wealth of information that can be used for many types of analysis in different areas of sociological inquiry. I am looking forward to reading the author’s future related work. -- Martha A. Martinez, DePaul University * American Journal of Sociology *A college education is crucial for living a productive and comfortable life. Yet, in To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu reveals disturbing truths: access to college education is rapidly decreasing for Black and Brown Americans given the dismantling of affirmative action and open admission, and racialized disparities are likely to increase. This book should be read because it sheds lights on deeply entrenched inequalities threatening American democracy. -- Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern UniversityI learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging. -- Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial JusticeIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu provides a provocative and engaging account of racialized conflict over affirmative action and open admissions. Highlighting the radical activism of Black and Puerto Rican students as well as opposition to racial justice from liberals and conservatives alike, Okechukwu unveils how the rhetorics of diversity and colorblindness in higher education reproduce white supremacy. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling systemic racism in the twenty-first century. -- Crystal Marie Fleming, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial DivideA truly unique, compelling, and expansive account of how both elite and grassroots political actors define, challenge, and transform admissions policies and practices. Chronicling political contestation across different sites, Amaka Okechukwu advances key concepts to help us understand and situate competing racial logics, discourses, and mobilizing strategies. An essential read for an unsettled debate. -- Michael Omi, University of California, BerkeleyIn this timely book, Amaka Okechukwu illuminates the shifting political landscape and policy retrenchment in the wake of the dismantling of affirmative action. Despite the use of 'diversity' and 'adversity' as proxies for race, Black representation in American universities has fallen precipitously. Okechukwu demonstrates how the original logic of affirmative action has been subverted by two recent ideological movements—neoliberalism and colorblindness. Given the unrelenting mobilization of conservatives, the erosion of liberal support, and the absence of a vehement black protest movement that provided the original impetus for affirmative action policy, Okechukwu reaches the conclusion that the end of affirmative action is imminent. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and PolicyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Right of Postwar Citizenship: The Emergence OF Mass Higher Education and Race- and Class-Inclusive Admissions2. Legal Mobilization: Racial Political Strategy and Affirmative Action Retrenchment in the Federal Courts3. Board Votes and Ballot Initiatives: Racial Political Strategy In Trustee Decision-Making and State Elections4. A Force of Nature: Student Resistance to Policy Elimination5. The Limitations of Diversity: Defensive Innovation After the End of Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsConclusionAppendix A: Situating Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAppendix B: Research MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press A Haven and a Hell
Book SynopsisLance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane.Trade Review[An] informative sociohistorical analysis . . . For readers of urban history and black history, this is an excellent look at the ghetto’s multifaceted place in American history. * Publishers Weekly *Immensely valuable. -- Prentiss A. Dantzler, Georgia State University * Journal of Urban Affairs *A critical read at a time when gentrification is viewed as threatening the black identity of many urban neighborhoods, this book offers a rich and nuanced history of the ghetto’s role in black American life from the late nineteenth century to the present. Resisting a simple characterization, Freeman shows that while the ghetto has sometimes served as an instrument of subjugation and institutional neglect, it has also offered a refuge that has helped to nurture black culture, institutions, and ideas. -- Ingrid Gould Ellen, coeditor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and OpportunityThrough rigorous sociohistorical analysis, Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed and then changed over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America. A Haven and a Hell is a highly accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban black America. -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American LifeWith diligent care, Lance Freeman weighs the hurts and capacities of ghetto life in the United States. In a field grown thick with pronouncement, his steadfast empirical commitment and reasoned analyses correct past misperceptions and open new vistas. -- Harvey Molotch, coauthor of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of PlaceIn A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman seeks to amplify the relationship between 'the ghetto' as a place, policy, and idea and as a black experience, source of resistance, and community. Using multiple places and narratives, this book renders 'the ghetto' as not only multifaceted but also critical to understanding the contemporary conditions of urban black America. -- John Hipp, University of California, IrvineFreeman’s rich historical account illustrates how pernicious processes of racial domination and exclusion created predominantly Black neighborhoods in Northern U.S. cities. Yet he also shows how these same processes created the conditions of possibility for autonomous Black social institutions and collective identities. Freeman seamlessly combines statistical and archival data with the voices of Black artists, activists, intellectuals, and business and political leaders across nearly 150 of U.S. history for an account that is at once soaring and surprisingly intimate. -- Adam Reich, co-author of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at WalmartFor those wholly unfamiliar with the history of the formation of the African-American ghetto, this book is an essential read. Its prosaic style makes it very reader friendly. As such, its biggest draw may be for undergraduate students and others who have little understanding of the historical and social conditions that gave rise to what appear today as blighted urban spaces. * American Journal of Sociology *Freeman adds necessary perspective to our understanding of the role of the ghetto in American life. * Contemporary Sociology *An eloquently written and captivating book. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Embryonic Ghetto2. The Age of the Black Enclave3. The Federally Sanctioned Ghetto4. World War II and the Aftermath: The Ghetto Diverges5. The Ghetto Erupts: The 1960s6. The Last Decades of the Twentieth Century7. The Ghetto in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: How to Have a Haven but No Hell in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesReferencesIndex
£17.99
Columbia University Press Ecce Humanitas
Book SynopsisThrough a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.Trade ReviewEvans does an excellent job of keeping a real political and social agenda in view. The book is full of wonderful insights and examples culled from a wide range of thinkers, artists, and writers, from Dante (a major figure in the text) to Gaston Bachelard and from Rodin to Rothko and Basquiat. And there is a powerful political message at the core of the book. -- James R. Martel * Los Angeles Review of Books *[An] excellent new book. -- Nicholas Michelsen * New Perspectives *This is a bold and brave intervention that clear-mindedly attempts to think the human in our current inhuman conditions of plague, ultra-violence, and the fading out of liberalism. If philosophy is its time comprehended in thought, then Evans has comprehended our time philosophically. Highly recommended. -- Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and UsA breathtaking exploration of violence and monstrosity by one of our leading political philosophers. How to make sense of the void that is, whether we want it or not, always gazing back at us? Brad Evans has courageously thrown himself into the void and as a result we can read this outstanding book that offers not only a fierce critique of liberal humanism but also points toward poetic alternatives that are more necessary than ever. -- Srećko Horvat, author of After the ApocalypseIn Ecce Humanitas, Brad Evans has given us a manifesto for how to effectively address the cryptotheology that lies at the heart of Western modernity. Whereas we tend to think of the sacred as an archaic concept, Evans shows how it remains central to our lives; unrecognized, it wreaks havoc (violent havoc) upon subject populations. Evans proposes that we rethink the void that is at the heart of the sacred as a place of power and creativity and, in that way, both reaffirm the sacred and redeploy it against the very violent forces that it is ordinarily instantiates. In so doing, Evans has capped a highly successful career of studying violence with a way out and through its dangerous entanglements. This is a brave and extraordinarily timely work in a period when the threat of violence is particularly acute and ubiquitous. -- James Martel, author of Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the DeadTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword: An Obituary for the Liberal, by Jake ChapmanPreface: Encountering the VoidPart I: The Sacrifice1. Humanity Bound2. The Sacred Order of Politics3. The Shame of Being HumanPart II: The Fall of Liberal Humanism4. A Higher State of Killing5. The Death of the Victim6. A Sickness of ReasonPart III: Into the Void7. Annihilation8. The Transgressive Witness9. Wounds of LoveNotesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Open to Reason
Book SynopsisOpen to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Souleymane Bachir Diagne explains their relevance to our own time.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable and interesting book. Open to Reason is tremendously valuable on two levels: first, as an account of the place of philosophy in Muslim history; and, second, as a philosophical proposal of some depth and substance that could orient Muslims and others in understanding Islam today. -- Charles Taylor, author of A Secular AgeThis remarkable book asks questions that only a philosopher could ask: How does a religion yield a vast and long and rich philosophical tradition? How do its doctrines and practices come to require one to develop a philosophical temperament so as to ask rather than shun a wide range of philosophical queries? How does its language evolve to become the carrier of such a philosophical quest? With his immense learning, his wise judgment, and his probing analytical skills, Souleymane Bachir Diagne does not merely provide answers to these questions in relation to Islam, he—in doing so—also reveals something of the highest importance: that a proper pursuit of these questions can offer to us today critical possibilities in two opposing directions. On the one hand, to probe and question from the point of view of our modernity the fixities of our doctrinal past, but equally to present how Islam and the philosophy it has yielded over the centuries may offer critical resources by which to understand and criticize many aspects of our modernity. -- Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia UniversityThis elegant and enjoyable book neatly summarizes the importance of philosophy in Muslim civilization, both in medieval times and in the present. Vividly written and framed with illuminating encounters, Open to Reason is highly recommended for anyone interested in the intellectual history of Islam. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDiagne’s animated presentations of seminal Islamic philosophers range across centuries, continents, and languages as creative Muslim voices from Damascus, Baghdad, Spain, South Asia, and Mali reject 'closure' and 'literalism' and continue to offer the resources for a reconstructed Islamic intellectual tradition able to meet contemporary challenges of personal faith, ecological ethics, and political and social justice. -- Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University ChicagoHe emphasizes that Islam itself has changed with the world around it, and argues that Muslims should be open to this change. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Succeeds admirably in showing that Islam has a long tradition both of philosophizing and of positive engagement with other traditions. * Reading Religion *What makes the volume particularly valuable is a self-conscious theoretical reflection that is often missing in global philosophical accounts. * Critical Inquiry *
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Columbia University Press Social Work Practice
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Social Work Practice builds on the first edition’s success at synthesizing the latest theories and practice models; helping and change processes; empirical findings; and practice skills, and demonstrates how these interlinked dimensions contribute to the EPAS 215-endorsed model of holistic competence.Trade ReviewBogo has written a second edition to her successful and remarkably insightful book. While there is much new in this second edition, a key feature is the discussion of the notion of holistic competence introduced in the first two chapters that is then linked to the competencies articulated in 2015 EPAS throughout the rest of the book. This state-of-the-art book reflects the synthesis of her many years of practice experience and is informed by extant empirically supported knowledge and its application to social work practice. I strongly recommend this stimulating and well-written book. -- Andrew W. Safyer, Adelphi University School of Social WorkThis book integrates theory, research, practice principles, and interviewing skills into a core framework that will be useful to students, supervisors, and experienced clinicians. Among the notable additions to the second edition are a discussion of the components of holistic competence, the implications of neuroscience research for practice, and findings from the author’s recent practice research. Written in a clear, accessible style, this text is likely to remain as a standard reference on the bookshelves of social workers for years to come. -- Goldie Kadushin, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeDrawing on a wealth of experience, Marion Bogo provides a definitive understanding of holistic social work competence. She reminds us that skills form the foundation and are the central component of professional practice. Most importantly, she shows us how. This book serves as a roadmap to the history and the future of the profession and should be required reading for every social work educator, student, and professional. -- Debra M. McPhee, Fordham UniversityMarion Bogo's Social Work Practice offers the reader a comprehensive, integrative approach to direct practice in social work. With equal attention to the theoretical frameworks that guide contemporary social work practice, the processes of helping, and specific components of the social worker-client relationship (such as the transference-countertransference matrix, diversity and difference, and the facilitative conditions), Bogo's contribution is both scholarly and practical. There is additional emphasis on the stages of social work intervention and specific clinical skills associated with direct social work treatment, as well as the infusion of relevant content derived from the prevailing Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) now required of all social work graduate programs in the United States. Clearly and authoritatively written, this book will be most useful to graduate students and practicing professionals alike. -- Jerrold R. Brandell, Wayne State UniversityA clear, well organized, and comprehensive resource for social work students and early career social workers, Social Work Practice emphasizes the significance of the client/worker relationship and the complex socioeconomic and cultural factors in which it is embedded. The book is also unique in that it is based on an extensive research project with social work students in the classroom and in the field. These students’ reflective responses contribute illuminating and poignant perspectives on the issues addressed in this volume. This book is a timely and relevant educational resource. -- Shoshana Ringel, University of MarylandThe author's choice of generic theoretical conceptual frameworks, evidence-based processes, and direct clinical social work practice principles and interviewing skills unite to create a digestible whole. The use of self vividly emerges through the practice examples as a core principle buttressed by theory, concepts of diversity, and commitment to social justice. In this way, the text provides students and teachers of social work with a solid platform from which to build. -- Jeanne Finch, Stony Brook UniversityBogo has done a superb job in presenting the complexities of social work practice, while simultaneously demystifying it for those who teach and learn. This textbook is much more strongly grounded in recent empirical work from both social work and other allied disciplines than other similar textbooks on direct social work practice. -- Kenta Asakura, Carleton UniversityA thoughtful and practical guide to implementing evidenced-based processes within the social worker–service userrelationship that will be of value to students and experienced social workers alike. -- Mel Hughes * The British Journal of Social Work *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Conceptual Frameworks for Social Work Practice1. A View of Holistic Competence2. Holistic Competence: Cognitive and Affective Processes3. Learning to Practice4. The Helping Relationship: Conceptual and Empirical Contributions5. Engage Diversity and Difference6. The Helping Relationship: From Theory to Practice7. Contemporary Practice IssuesPart II: The Process of Helping in Social Work Practice8. Beginnings9. Toward Developing Shared Understanding: Assessment and Formulation10. The Social Worker as Process Expert 11. Change Processes Continued12. EndingsPart III: Interviewing in Social Work Practice13. Communication and Interviewing SkillsReferencesIndex
£107.35
Columbia University Press Art Monster
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Columbia University Press The Life Model of Social Work Practice
Book SynopsisThe Life Model of Social Work Practice was the first textbook to introduce the ecological perspective into social work practice. This fourth edition brings it up to date by expanding and deepening this perspective, integrating contemporary theory and research findings with numerous case illustrations drawn from a wide range of practice contexts.Trade ReviewAlthough a lengthy effort with 756 pages, [this fourth edition of The Life Model of Social Work Practice] is an enjoyable book made possible through the authors' treatment practicality and use of many practice vignettes and practical case examples. Social workers in general will find this book useful with an array of client examples, and the social group workers will equally find the book helpful along with the identification of some impediments that the latter practitioners uniquely face. -- Maurice S. Fisher Outpatient Services, P.C., Roanoke, Virginia * Social Work with Groups *This welcome new edition of The Life Model of Social Work Practice does an excellent job of assessing and sharing recent advances without losing the integrity of the life model approach. The practice examples, dilemmas, and scenarios are highly engaging, drawing readers into the application of key skills and strategies. -- Carol S. Cohen, board member, Council on Social Work EducationThe efficacy of The Life Model of Social Work Practice spans generations. In 1999, as a doctoral student, I used it to examine Black gay men’s management of HIV. Today, my MSW students use it to examine oppression, COVID-19, and other impediments to environmental fit. This book is helpful in understanding the human condition. -- Robert Miller, editor of The Qualitative Research in Social WorkThe fourth edition of The Life Model of Social Work Practice, a towering classic in the field, remains highly relevant for contemporary issues facing society and social workers. This text should be required in all schools of social work as it elegantly integrates the levels of practice that distinguish our profession. -- Marion Bogo, author of Social Work Practice: Integrating Concepts, Processes, and SkillsThis thoughtfully updated fourth edition of The Life Model of Social Work Practice provides a transactional bridge between the person and the social environment that honors the profession’s commitment to individual change and social reform. The critically relevant integrated practice model in this text will serve as a much-needed compass for social work in unprecedented and complex times. -- Manny John González, Florida Atlantic UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceNote to InstructorsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Overview1. Social Work Practice and Its Historical Traditions2. The Ecological Perspective3. The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An Overview4. Culturally Competent and Diversity-Sensitive Practice and Cultural Humility5. Assessment, Evidence-Guided Practice, and Practice EvaluationPart II. The Helping Process in Life-Modeled PracticeInitial Phase6. Preparation: Settings, Modalities, Methods, and Skills7. Beginnings: Settings, Modalities, Methods, and SkillsOngoing Phase8. Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups with Stressful Life Transitions and Traumatic Events9. Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups with Environmental Stressors10. Helping Family Members with Maladaptive Communication and Relationship Patterns11. Helping Group Members with Maladaptive Communication and Relationship Patterns12. Helping with Maladaptive Relationship and Communication Patterns between Social Workers and ClientsEnding Phase13. Endings: Settings, Modalities, Methods, and SkillsPart III. Life-Modeled Practice at the Community, Organizational, and Political Levels14. Influencing Community and Neighborhood Life15. Influencing the Practitioner’s Organization16. Influencing Legislation, Regulations, and Electoral PoliticsAppendix A: Individual, Family, and Group AssessmentsAppendix B: Practice Monitoring—Records of ServiceAppendix C: Practice Monitoring—Critical IncidentsAppendix D: Force Field AnalysisNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Views from the Streets The Transformation of
Book SynopsisViews from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago’s South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.Trade ReviewI am very excited about Views from the Streets. It addresses central questions in contemporary gang research: What’s going on in Chicago? Why have the highly touted interventions there had little effect? Why are there so many killings? It does so by offering what is deeply needed but rarely accomplished in this field: a grounded analysis providing a convincing, cogent understanding of local history and social dynamics. Moreover and most refreshingly, it appreciates rather than ironicizes and pathologizes the voices of gang members. This is the book I’ve been waiting for: a nuanced explanation that matters. -- Robert Garot, author of Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the StreetsThe most important book on Chicago gangs in decades, Views from the Streets vividly describes how and why African American gangs in Chicago fractured and radically transformed. In recounting this story, Roberto R. Aspholm gives voice to the anguished cries of young men trying desperately to create meaning in impossible conditions. -- John Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta CultureIn this path-breaking book, Roberto R. Aspholm reminds us that our understandings of contemporary gang culture remain mired in nostalgia and urban legend. Views from the Streets provides an unprecedented look at the new social dynamics resulting from public housing demolitions, displacement, and pervasive carceral control. It is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary gangs and for all who hope to end urban violence. -- Cedric Johnson, author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American PoliticsIn Views from the Streets, Aspholm brings research on Chicago gangs into the twenty-first century where social media, cell phones, and an unabashed sense of individualism and democracy have brought about the demise of the city’s once monolithic corporate gangs. Aspholm's nuanced study provides a new—and much needed—theoretical lens on contemporary gang life that will set the stage for a new generation of gang scholars. -- Andrew Papachristos, Northwestern UniversityAspholm dares to tell a complex and layered story of life in Chicago. By dismissing the commonplace deficit-based narratives on Black life in street organizations (gangs), readers are challenged to confront the residual affects of disinvestment and displacement. Instead of a 'gang problem,' Chicago has a white supremacy problem rooted in tactics of fracture, isolation, marginalization, and containment. -- David Stovall, University of Illinois at ChicagoRoberto Aspholm is to be commended for his excellent study of the remarkable transformation of gang violence among Chicago's street gangs. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Shattering of Chicago’s Black Street Gangs2. From Street Organizations to Cliques: Black Street Gangs in Chicago Today3. The Anatomy of Contemporary Gang Violence in Chicago4. Understanding the Persistence of Gangs and Violence in Chicago5. A Critical Appraisal of Violence Prevention FailuresConclusion: Reducing Gang Violence from the Streets UpAppendix: Notes on Positionality, the Politics of Representation, and Research MethodologyA Partial Glossary of Chicago Gang SlangNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Psychiatric Casualties How the Military Ignores
Book SynopsisThe trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. The book offers actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.Trade ReviewMark C. Russell and Charles Figley provide a thorough and thoughtful analysis of how the U.S. military has historically failed to adequately manage the mental health problems that inevitably occur during and in the aftermath of military action, and they suggest potential solutions to prevent repeating such failures in the future. -- Brian Bride, former editor in chief of Traumatology: An International JournalAs promised, Russell and Figley once again deliver a thorough history of a neglected but critical topic. The authors continue to highlight what is most needed in behavioral health treatment for our military warriors who serve our country. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of Maryland and principal investigator, Family Informed Trauma Treatment CenterRussell and Figley provide a blood-stirring and much needed examination of the many reasons that behavioral health concerns continue to affect the ranks of the military. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the care and well-being of America’s forces, from indoctrination to discharge and beyond. -- Col. Jeffrey S. Yarvis, PhD, U.S. Army (retired)Russell and Figley provide a stark yet riveting investigation into the history and current status of behavioral health care in the military. Psychiatric Casualties is a must-read for all senior military and civilian leaders who have the responsibility of putting men and women in combat. -- Col. M. C. Boone, United States Marine CorpsAn impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. * Library Bookwatch *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Genesis of the Military’s Mental Health Dilemma1. A War to Die For: Casualty Trends of Modern Warfare2. The Dark Side of Military Mental Health: A History of Self-Inflicted Wounds3. Cruel and Inhumane Handling: The First Dark-Side Strategy4. Legal Prosecution, Incarceration, and Executions of Mental Illness: The Second Dark-Side Strategy5. Humiliate, Ridicule, and Shame into Submission: The Third Dark-Side Strategy6. Denying the Psychiatric Reality of War: The Fourth Dark-Side Strategy7. Purging Weakness: The Fifth Dark-Side Strategy8. Delay, Deceive, and Delay Again: The Sixth Dark-Side Strategy9. Faulty Diagnosis and Backdoor Discharges: The Seventh Dark-Side Strategy10. Avoiding Responsibility and Accountability: The Eighth Dark-Side Strategy11. Inadequate, Experimental, or Harmful Treatment: The Ninth Dark-Side Strategy12. Perpetuating Neglect, Indifference, and Self-Inflicted Crises: The Tenth Dark-Side Strategy13. Toward a Resilient and Mentally Healthy Military14. Transforming Military Mental Healthcare: Three Options for ChangeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Working for Respect
Book SynopsisAdam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.Trade ReviewI am obsessed with this book! The prose is riveting. The blend of disparate methods is spectacular. The sheer adventure of student organizers fanning out across the country in a manner reminiscent of Freedom Summer will keep you turning the pages. Taken together, the portrait wrought is simply devastating. Walmart not only demands your labor and your loyalty, it claims your pride and strips you of dignity. -- Kathryn Edin, coauthor of $2 a Day: The Art of Living on Virtually Nothing in AmericaWalmart—the largest U.S. employer—is a symbol for high inequality in America. Its many shop-floor employees are paid as little as possible and have never shared in the huge success and profits of the company. Why can’t Walmart workers get a bigger share of the pie they helped create? This book, based on extensive interviews with Walmart workers, helps us understand why a job at Walmart might be the least bad option for many, how workers make sense of their job, and the challenges of organizing work at Walmart. Working for Respect is essential reading for a rich sociological understanding of the struggles of low-paid workers pitted against all-powerful corporations in America today. -- Emmanuel Saez, University of California, BerkeleyHow do people find and flex their own power to improve their workplaces? What lessons can all of us learn from dogged and creative efforts to organize workers at Walmart, the biggest private employer in the world? What kinds of relationships between organizers and their communities are most likely to lead to organizing breakthroughs? Working for Respect is a gripping read—a thoughtful, perceptive, and accessible work that takes a multi-layered approach, from in-depth interviews with Walmart workers to brain scans to a crash course in front-line organizing and beyond. This is a book for students of organizing, for academics interested in helping to counter rampant economic inequality, and for anyone who cares about winning material gains and respect for all workers in the age of Trump. -- Anna Galland, Executive Director, MoveOn.orgWorking for Respect is an extraordinary book, both in its deft and original intertwining of multiple research methods and in the insights it generates. -- Erik Olin Wright, author of Envisioning Real UtopiasWorking for Respect is at once a brilliant analysis of the lives of Walmart workers and an original effort to bridge the tension between scholarly work and activism. Along the way, Reich and Bearman raise the bar for mixed-method research in the social sciences. -- Mitchell Duneier, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton UniversityWorking for Respect is an engaging read that bristles with fresh insights into both the experience of low-wage service sector work and the dilemmas facing the labor movement. It offers an ethnography of what the authors dub 'Walmartism' as well as an argument about the ways in which social ties centered on trust have the potential to jumpstart social change. A must-read for any sociologist of labor. -- Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate CenterWith Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman issue a rare invitation. To go with them to Walmart, to listen with them to the workers and to the managers who roam the stores, to take in the culture of low-wage work in America, and also to listen to the students who participated in what became the Summer for Respect. This is a gripping book about the relationship between social ties and social change, remarkable for its intelligence and the subtlety of its distinctions. We learn that in the end it is trust rather than good feeling that inspires collective action for social change. -- Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different VoiceWhile Walmart plays enormous economic, symbolic, and employment roles nationwide, the interplay of these dynamics has not been fully explored. Working for Respect makes great progress in understanding Walmart as a social institution and therefore in understanding work at Walmart as a unique bellwether of contemporary work. -- Andrew Perrin, University of North CarolinaThe use of interview excerpts amplifies the voices of low-wage workers not often heard in public discourse. This is an insightful examination of the inner workings of the 'country's largest corporate employer.' * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *No one has analyzed the experiences and aspirations of Walmart workers as thoughtfully as Adam Reich and Peter Bearman do in their captivating new book. * American Prospect *What differentiates and recommends it for close reading are the anecdotes and perspectives of workers who face down enormous personal and social challenges and barriers, only to have their goals to contribute and thrive in American society tempered or more often dashed by what they (and the authors) see as corporate measures of compliance, coercion, and control. * Choice *The labor movement still has life, and Reich and Bearman provide a valuable reminder regarding where we need to look to find it. * Social Forces *A vital perspective. Analytically exhilarating. Fascinating. * Contemporary Sociology *A compelling case study of one of the most important labor organizing efforts in twenty‐first‐century America. . . . Working for Respect will pique the interest of scholars, students, and activists keyed into the economic contradictions of late neoliberalism and searching for both explanations and practical solutions. * British Journal of Sociology *Adam Reich and Peter Bearman provide insight for both the conditions and experiences of working at a place like Walmart, as well as the relationship between community engagement and feelings of social solidarity. * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Real, Real Walmart1. Pathways2. The Shop Floor3. The Structure of Domination and Control4. Making Contact5. Social Ties and Social Change6. OUR Walmart on the Line7. Our WalmartAppendix: The Neural Signatures of Group LifeNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Research Exposed How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age
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Columbia University Press Research Exposed
Book SynopsisResearch Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in the era of digital communication. Through firsthand descriptions of innovative research projects, it shares lessons learned from over a dozen scholars’ cutting-edge work.Trade ReviewWith candor and clarity, contributors to this invaluable collection describe the newest research pathways as well as the tangents and hurdles that arise along the way. This revelatory book should be required reading for all social researchers and for anyone seeking deeper insight into the trailblazing scholarship that is making headlines and illuminating contemporary society. -- Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study, president of the Social Science Research CouncilEszter Hargittai’s work places her without a doubt at the top of the field of internet research methods. For this edited volume, she has convened a group of experts who together bring alive the extraordinary opportunities and thorny challenges facing those using and studying digital media as serious researchers. Hargittai’s commitment to thorough work and exciting scholarship makes this study of methods a must-read for the internet-era researcher. -- John Palfrey, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationResearch Exposed is a gem. It is a timely and important collection. It pushes our collective thinking about methods and designs, and, by implication, the substantive conclusions we can draw. It is inclusive and comprehensive and the contributions are strong, reflective, and honest, provided by a stellar lineup. Bravo! -- Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam, president of the International Communication AssociationResearch Exposed contributes significantly to extant literature, demystifying aspects of social scientific research methods that involve digital technologies. -- Kirsten Foot, coeditor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Media, and SocietyThere are valuable insights to be found throughout....Overall, readers will find something of use in every chapter. If you have an interest in digital issues of any shape and size and want to know how any research here gets done you will not go far wrong with this collection. * Qualitative Research *A well-written volume that reveals many behind-the-scenes experiences of social scientific researchers in the digital age. * International Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Eszter Hargittai1. When Social Media Data Disappear, by Deen Freelon2. The Needle in the Haystack: Finding Social Bots on Twitter, by Tobias R. Keller and Ulrike Klinger3. Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, by Erin Fordyce, Michael J. Stern, and Melissa Heim Viox4. Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research, by Lee Humphreys5. Behind the Red Lights: Methods for Investigating the Digital Security and Privacy Experiences of Sex Workers, by Elissa M. Redmiles6. Using Unexpected Data to Study Up: Washington Political Journalism (and the Case of the Missing Press Pass), by Nikki Usher7. Social Media and Ethnographic Relationships, by Jeffrey Lane8. Ethnographic Research with People Experiencing Homelessness in the Digital Age, by Will Marler9. Going Rural: Personal Notes from a Mixed-Methods Project on Digital Media in Remote Communities, by Teresa Correa and Isabel Pavez10. Stitching Data: A Multimodal Approach to Learning About Independent Artists’ Social Media Use, by Erin Flynn Klawitter11. A Measurement Burst Study of Media Use and Well-Being Among Older Adults: Logistically Challenging at Best, by Matthias Hofer12. Community-Based Intervention Research Strategies: Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Populations, by Hyunjin SeoList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Trauma
Book SynopsisAn expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It features coverage of the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups.Trade ReviewWith the inclusion of excellent chapters on LGBTQ clients, clients who have been incarcerated, combat trauma, the effects of bullying, and cultural trauma, this second edition of Trauma becomes very relevant to vulnerable and at-risk populations. Social workers will appreciate the depth of multiple perspectives and the artful integration of clinical practice throughout. This is an important book for every social work student and practitioner. -- Joan Berzoff, professor emerita, Smith CollegeBy exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the psychosocial impact of trauma, the authors provide the reader with clear mechanisms for understanding how trauma affects people. An excellent survey of the many facets of trauma and surely the best textbook for teaching. -- Eileen Dombo, Catholic University of AmericaOriginating from the editors’ rich experience, this is a comprehensive book bringing a diversity of theories and tools centered on new developments in the conceptualization of attachment trauma and trauma-related interventions. This is a must-read, and its scope should prove pertinent to undergraduates and clinicians from all modalities of psychotherapy. -- Orit Badouk Epstein, editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational PsychoanalysisThe second edition of Trauma is a must-have for mental health clinicians. The book provides expert descriptions of the leading forms of trauma therapy and how to apply them with diverse populations. I encourage any therapist who works with traumatized clients to study this amazing book. -- Russell Carr, M.D.The editors offer an expanded view on the topic of trauma through an excellent collection of chapters addressing theory, application, intervention, and research. Environmental issues are addressed, special populations are highlighted, and discussions are research-informed. Students, practitioners, and researchers will find this an excellent resource. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History and Development of Trauma Theory: Discussion of Main Concepts, by Shoshana Ringel2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, by Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Stella Resko, and Caitlin Cassady3. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 1, by Jerrold R. Brandell4. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 2, by Shoshana Ringel5. Attachment Theory, by Shoshana Ringel6. Mindfulness-Oriented Approaches to Trauma Treatment, by Shoshana Ringel7. Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans, by Shelly A. Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard8. Art Therapy with Traumatically Bereaved Youth, by Laura V. Loumeau-May9. The Effects of Bullying on Schoolchildren, by Jun Sung Hong and Jeoung Min Lee10. Combat Trauma, by Kathryn Basham11. Trauma and Incarceration: Historical Relevance and Present-Day Significance for African American Women, by Laverne D. Marks12. Working with LGBTQIA+ Clients in the Context of Trauma, with a Focus on Transgender Experiences, by David Byers, Kai Z. Thigpen, and Sara Wolfson13. The Effects of Trauma Treatment on the Therapist, by Brian RasmussenList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Organizing for Power and Empowerment
Book SynopsisThis second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.Trade ReviewThis book is an urgently needed account of how people can act together through organizing to realize a shared vision of a more just world. The organizations profiled in this book teach us how to make real the most fundamental promises of democracy. -- Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins UniversityMondros and Minieri break important new ground in this timely second edition, examining the evolution of progressive social-action organizing over the past twenty-five years. They broaden, deepen, and strengthen the original analysis with special focus on intersectional injustice, expanded corporate power, inequality, and a multiracial, feminist framework for organizing. -- Lee Staples, Boston UniversityThe organizing work profiled in this book represents our best hope at defeating the rising tides of racial intolerance and corporate malfeasance. Filled with lessons learned from organizing in cities, towns, and suburbs across the United States, Organizing for Power and Empowerment offers a roadmap out of the isolation and marginalization so many individuals face toward collective racial, gender, and economic transformation. -- Zach Norris, author Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and PunishmentTable of ContentsPreface1. The Evolution of Social Action Organizing2. Organizing Against Corporate Power3. Intersectional Injustice4. Women and Gender Frames5. The Organization as a Sustained Vehicle for Change and as a Political Home6. Righteous Anger: Building the Base and Developing Leadership for Power7. Issues: The Rubik’s Cube of Organizing8. Campaign Strategy: Fundamentals and Innovation9. Using Information and Communication Technologies10. Conclusions: The Next Evolution of OrganizingPostscript: Reckoning and ResolveAppendix: Study MethodsAcknowledgmentsAdditional ResourcesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Art of Useless
Book SynopsisThe Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.Trade ReviewA sophisticated analysis that is ambitious in its historical and textual scope. * The China Quarterly *From Never Forget, a 1964 socialist film intent on educating a factory worker who longs for a fancy suit, to the forty dazzling costume changes in 1980’s Romance on Lu Mountain, to the white-collar fashion presentations in 2010’s Go! Lala Go!, the politics of how one dresses has been a crucial coordinate for navigating cultural identity in contemporary China. In The Art of Useless, Calvin Hui takes us on a fascinating cultural tour that remaps our understanding of the relationship among fashion, politics, and visual culture during an era of unprecedented social transformation. -- Michael Berry, author of Speaking in Images and A History of PainA cutting-edge work of cultural studies, this book shines a penetrating light on the rise of a middle class in China. Examining the powers of mass media, film, and fashion industry, Calvin Hui offers us fascinating scenarios and critical insights into how consumerist fantasies raise the pretensions of a status-seeking “bourgeoisie” while opening up dream spaces for alienated labor. -- Ban Wang, author of Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern ChinaBy closely examining a broad selection of documentaries, feature films, and other artistic works and cultural products, Hui illuminates not only the works themselves but also the sociocultural environments that have nurtured these works and in turn been shaped by them. A useful and enlightening perspective on Chinese middle-class consumer culture. -- Tze-lan D. Sang, author of Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New DocumentariesA superbly original study of the media construction of the middle-class sensibility in post-1949 China, Calvin Hui’s The Art of Useless demonstrates the indisputable value of Western Marxism and cultural studies in Chinese-language film studies. The ingenious tripartite structure moving from consumption to its underside affords an irresistible riveting read. -- Yiman Wang, author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and HollywoodThe Art of Useless is notable for its innovative methodologies of cultural studies [. . .] The study of social class is an important field, but in China studies, this subject is dominated by sociological methodologies. This book makes a welcome contribution by bringing in humanistic concerns and a cultural studies perspective. * Journal of Asian Studies *This book will be of great use to anyone exploring consumer culture in China as well as the cultural changes that have taken place in the transition from a socialist to a post-socialist China. It is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand fashion’s role in shaping culture or in understanding the role of consumption in shaping social class. * Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context *[This] book tells a compelling story about the waning of proletarian culture and the rise of middle-class consumer culture. * Chinese Literature and Thought Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang (裝)1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964)3. “Mao’s Children Are Wearing Fashion!” Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo’s Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980)4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang’s Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010)NotesWorks CitedIndex
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