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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Welfare State Reader 3e
Book SynopsisThe Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction to the Third Edition PART I - APPROACHES TO WELFARE The First Welfare State? Thomas Paine Section 1: ‘Classical’ The Welfare State in Historical Perspective, Asa Briggs Citizenship and Social Class, T.H. Marshall Universalism versus Selection, Richard Titmuss Section 2: Perspectives on the Left What is Social Justice? Commission on Social Justice Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Claus Offe Section 3: Responses from the Right The Meaning of the Welfare State, Friedrich Hayek The Two Wars against Poverty, Charles Murray The New Politics of the New Poverty, Lawrence M. Mead Section 4: Feminism The Patriarchal Welfare State, Carole Pateman The Welfare State and Women Power, Helga Maria Hernes PART II - WELFARE REGIMES UNDER THREAT Section 1: Trajectories Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-Andersen Religion and the Western Welfare State, Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen The New Politics of the Welfare State, Paul Pierson Section 2: Constraints Globalization, the Welfare State and Inequality, Duane Swank The Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, Jon Kvist and Juho Saari Explaining Convergence of OECD Welfare States: a Conditional Approach, Carina Schmitt and Peter Starke Breaking with the Past? Why the Global Financial Crisis led to Austerity Policies but not to Modernization of the Welfare State, Klaus Armingeon Section 3: Challenges Ageing and the Welfare State: Securing Sustainability, Volker Meier and Martin Werding Very Low Fertility: Consequences, Causes and Policy Approaches, Peter McDonald Migration, Minorities and Welfare States, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen Castles The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States, Giuliano Bonoli PART III - EMERGING IDEAS, EMERGENT FORMS Section 1: Emerging Ideas The Big Society: A New Policy Environment for the Third Sector? Peter Alcock Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America, Jane Jenson The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the ‘New Social Risk’ Analysis, Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune How Climate Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework, Zahir Sadeque Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare, State Phillippe van Parijs Section 2: Emergent Forms What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective, Mary Daly Beyond Modernization? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare Governance, Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael Hughes Assessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin Radcliff Europe’s Post-Democratic Era, Jürgen Habermas
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Human Rights Enterprise
Book SynopsisWhy do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states' ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state austerity, perpetual war, and environmental crisis? How are political and civil rights undermined as part of moves to impose security and surveillance regimes? This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, bottom-up social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights focusing on the concept of the human rights enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global Trade ReviewArmaline, Glasberg, and Purkayastha use riveting and insightful examples to illustrate the character of the human rights enterprise as contested terrain. Despite its flaws, the human rights paradigm continues to empower and inspire those whose lives are most compromised by the dehumanizing forces of global capitalism.Bruce K. Friesen, University of Tampa This penetrating and provocative analysis brings the lens of critical sociology to bear on today's international human rights regime. It explores corporate and state abuses of power that constrain the protection and fulfilment of human rights, particularly within the United States. These abuses of power are being increasingly challenged by grass-roots movements aimed at ending gross human rights violations. The authors push the boundaries of political science, sociology, and human rights scholarship, and provide a rich and timely examination of contemporary attacks on human rights that will be helpful to both scholars and on-the-ground human rights advocates.Ken Neubeck, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Human Rights Enterprise and a Critical Sociology of Human Rights 2. Power and the State: Global Economic Restructuring and the Global Recession 3. The Human Rights Enterprise: A Genealogy of Continuing Struggles 4. Private Tyrannies: Rethinking the Rights of “Corporate Citizens” 5. Current Contexts and Implications for Human Rights Praxis References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Foucault Now
Book SynopsisMichel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.Trade Review"No thinker of the last generation helped shape understandings of the world more powerfully than Foucault. This splendid and up-to-date anthology shows that his work, through its various phases, retains its analytic power today."—Simon During, University of Queensland "Now is an appropriate time to reassess Foucault's work, to reflect upon its significance, relevance, and impact. These wide-ranging and challenging essays by leading figures in the field demonstrate the extraordinary breadth and depth of Foucault's contribution to the social sciences and humanities."—Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth "Foucault Now shows that 'Foucault then' is as relevant today as ever he was. The essays collected here traverse the full range of Foucault's work. In situating his concerns and methods within the politics of his times, they also connect them to the politics of the present with a compelling urgency. Foucault's originality still astonishes, and he remains simply indispensable."—Tony Bennett, University of Western SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Contributors viii Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1 James D. Faubion Part I: Object Lessons 1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23 James Laidlaw 2 Déraison 38 Ian Hacking 3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52 Lynne Huffer 4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71 Didier Eribon 5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88 Colin Koopman 6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112 John Forrester Part II: Cases in Point 7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131 Eric Fassin 8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152 Cary Wolfe 9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168 Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi 10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188 Toby Miller 11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203 Paul Rabinow 12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225 James D. Faubion References 243 Index 264
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Americas Right
Book SynopsisConservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control. But 21st century conservatism has moved far beyond even the Reagan Revolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect for tradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and the Christian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on the purported homosexual agenda, the hoax of climate change, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment of religion from the public realm. In the foreign policy arena it has tried to remake the world through the cleansing fire of violence. Contemporary American conservatism practices a politics that is disciplined, uncompromising, utopian, and enraged, seeking to take back our country. This is anti-establishment conservatism, whose origin can be traced back to the right wiTrade Review"An excellent read, essential for understanding what is happening in US politics today." Morning Star "Tea Partiers' contemptible views have little place in mainstream civil society, and Horowitz’s does a good job of laying bare their intellectual bankruptcy." LSE Review of Books Horwitz opportunely introduces the expression 'Anti-Establishment Conservatism' to distinguish the Old American Right of the 30s and 40s ... with the anti-establishment American Right born in the 60s ... . Horwitz concisely examines the two movements' characteristics with great precision. Antonio Donno, University of Salento In this richly researched, compellingly argued and lucidly written work, Horwitz offers a historical and theoretical account of the American right that traces its arc and innovations from 1950s anti-establishment conservatism to the Tea Party. He catalogs and probes the political, economic and moral formulations of the right which, he argues, have set the coordinates of American domestic and foreign policy for half a century. America's Right is vital for understanding American politics, past and present. It is also a gripping read." Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley "America's Right sheds light on a paradox: thirty years after the Reagan Revolution, many American conservatives, especially religious conservatives, still seek not to conserve but to transform modern America's established institutions, policies, and leadership. Many will do so all the more passionately after the election of 2012, so Robert Horwitz's insights will illuminate key issues in American politics." Rogers M. Smith, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Anti-statist Statism: A Brief History of a Peculiarly American Conservatism Chapter 3 Religion and Politics: The Rise of the New Christian Right Chapter 4 Two Generations of Neoconservatism: From the Law of Unintended Consequences to the Cleansing Fire of Violence Chapter 5 Richard Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style" Revisited: The Tea Party, Past as Prologue Chapter 6 Dogmatism, Utopianism, and Politics
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Can Democracy Be Saved
Book SynopsisFinancial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.Trade Review"She has certainly conducted the greatest number of inquiries and case studies on the issue, but manages not to lose sight of the theoretical and normative dimensions involved." Survival "Very few authors can rival Donatella della Porta’s ability to present - in so few pages - such a broad but accurate sweep of developments in contemporary political ideas about democracy. She moves remarkably easily between exposition of classical debates in political thought and empirical research on current new forms of protest." Colin Crouch, University of Warwick "The search for a viable conception of democracy has for decades centered on procedural criteria. Rejecting this monism, and drawing on theorists like Habermas, Held, and Pateman, as well as on her own empirical work on social movements, della Porta masterfully proposes and illustrates a fourfold typology of democratic theory - and of democracies - that challenges the canon and opens a debate to compare representational, participatory, and deliberative models of democracy." Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, author of Power in Movement "Given the current ailments of capitalist democracies, we all might be inclined to exclaim: "That is a good question!" As an answer, the author provides readers with both a nearly comprehensive inventory of causes for concern as well as her spirited and informative analysis of protest politics, the role of new media, and the potential of new democratic ambitions that are both participatory and deliberative. An overall optimistic message from one of the leading social science experts on movement politics." Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin "A timely in-depth investigation into the challenges and opportunities that shape the way we think about democracy. Answering the question of if and how democracy can be saved requires a diligent analysis of the ever-changing meaning of democracy and the distinct democratic qualities of different democratic models. Della Porta's book does just that, providing a solid foundation for beginning to tackle some of the more far-reaching questions regarding democracy." The International SpectatorTable of ContentsChapter 1. Models of Democracy: An Introduction Chapter 2. Liberal Democracy: Evolution and Challenges Chapter 3. Participatory Democracy Chapter 4. Deliberative Democracy: Between Representation and Participation Chapter 5. E-Democracy? New Technologies and Democratic Deepening Chapter 6. The Challenge of Global Governance Chapter 7. Democratization and Social Movements Chapter 8. Restricting Citizens’ Participation: The Policing of Protest Chapter 9. Deliberative Experiments inside Institutions Chapter 10. Can Democracy Be Saved? A Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Affinities
Book SynopsisHow is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless.In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities potent charges and charismatically lively connections in personal life, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant or toxify the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world through what she calls the 'socio-atmospherics of everyday life'. This book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility.Trade Review"Affinities is a work of profound originality showing us what is to be gained from finding ways to become attuned to the effervescent, atmospheric aspects of social life. Beyond sociological clichés and comfortable academic conventions, this beautiful book is proof that sociology can be magical if we have the courage to believe in that possibility." Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London "Jennifer Mason has created a beguiling example of the contemporary sociological imagination at work. She shifts boundaries to incorporate fresh fields of vision, giving new depth to sociological enquiry. Unquestionably a delightful work of perceptive scholarship." Carol Smart, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester "This book is a guide for retraining social science's rationalistic or categorical version of reality into a more worldly realism of potencies, energies and sentience. It conjures a world in which affinities matter as a way of conceptualizing how to live." Kathleen Stewart, The University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xi Introduction: Affinities as an Invitation to Think Differently 1 Part One: Sensations of Living Why Sensations? 7 Facets of Sensation 11 1. Ashes, ghosts and the ‘sense of presence’ 11 2. ‘Grandma’s Hands’ by Bill Withers (version by Gil ScottHeron) 17 3. The sensations of others: children’s perspectives 18 Looks 21 Voices, volume and imitation 22 Size, height, weight, growing 24 Play fighting and real fighting 26 Bodily proximity with others 27 Relational traces and bodily inscriptions 27 4. The sensory-kinaesthetic intimacies of violence 29 5. Becky Tipper’s creaturely ‘moments of being’ 31 6. Meat, ‘food-animals’ and Rhoda Wilkie’s ‘sentient commodities’ 33 Layering the Argument: Sensations of Affinity 39 Life is full of sensory-kinaesthetics 40 Sensations are multiple and atmospheric, emanating in encounters 42 Sensations as sensations: not representations, adjuncts or qualities 46 A sensory-kinaesthetic attunement reveals characters 50 Affinities are charged with the energies of fascination, wondering and discordance 54 Part Two: Ineffable Kinship Why Ineffable Kinship? 59 Facets of Ineffable Kinship 63 1. Family resemblances in literature and art 63 2. Resemblance interactions 68 A familiar conversation topic and form 70 Resemblances as striking, fleeting and capricious 71 Negotiating and ‘settling’ resemblances 72 An uneasy combination of the potent and the trivial 74 3. Resemblance stories 74 4. The still-beating heart 89 5. Nordqvist and Smart’s donors as ‘enigmatic presences’ 93 6. Konrad’s ‘nameless relations’ and ‘transilience’ 97 7. Super-donors and dubious progeniture 101 8. ‘The Seed’ by The Roots, featuring Cody Chesnutt 104 Layering the Argument: Affinities of Ineffable Kinship 106 Metaphors of genetics and heritability 106 Poetics and the ‘frisson’ of ineffability 111 Wondering about what is circulating and relating 114 Part Three: Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics Why Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics? 123 Facets of Ecologies and Socio-Atmospherics 126 1. Animate places and things in literature 126 Nan Shepherd’s ‘living mountain’ 126 Jon McGregor’s city that ‘sings’ 127 Haruki Murakami’s ‘pulsing’ city 129 Barbara Kingsolver’s Africa as an ‘attendance in my soul’ 130 2. Atmospheric memories of animate places and things 131 The atmospherics of a teenager’s city 131 Anat Hecht’s ‘tangible memories’ of home 133 Karin Widerberg’s atmospheric memories of ‘the homes of others’ 135 3. Animate technologies, vehicles and journeys 137 Phone feelings 137 The threaded worlds of train travel 140 Mimi Sheller’s ‘automotive emotions’ and ‘feeling the car’ 143 Lynne Pearce’s ‘autopia’ of driving and thinking 146 4. Weathery weather in social science and literature 148 5. Writing weather stories 152 6. Socio-atmospherics and the time of the floods 154 Shock: the power and magnitude of water 155 Bearing witness and being in touch 156 An atmosphere of ‘getting on with it’ 158 Legacies of the floods 159 7. Weather poetics 164 Layering the Argument: Ecologies and SocioAtmospherics 168 Ecologies as convivialities, assemblages, happenings and animated space 169 The feel of places, things, journeys and technologies 175 Enigmatic ecologies and the socio-atmospherics of living 178 From what is connected to the dynamics of connection 180 Ecological poetics 184 Conclusion: Affinities in Time 186 Three layers of the argument 187 Time: a final layering 188 Time and sensations 190 Time and ineffable kinship 193 Time, ecologies and socio-atmospherics 196 Accepting the invitation of affinities 200 Notes 203 References 204 Index 000
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Global Rise of China
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.Trade Review"A comprehensive assessment of "where China stands today" in terms of technological innovation, the resilience of Communist Party rule, and debates about environmental sustainability and global hegemony. A wonderful book for a broad audience!"David Smith, University of California Irvine"So and Chu are keen observers of China’s economy and society. In The Global Rise of China they capture the drama of China’s rise and inject a powerful new concept into the China debate: ‘state neoliberalism.’ All future writing on China’s economy and society will have to grapple with So and Chu’s approach. Essential reading for sociologists, political scientists, and sinologists of all ideological persuasions."Salvatore Babones, Sydney University"With considerable analytical rigor and clarity in exposition, So and Chu delineate the role of the Chinese party-state in the dramatic rise of China from a poor ‘third world’ state to an economic and political super-power in less than four decades. This compelling narrative will be an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes on China, East Asia, and development studies courses."Ravi Palat, Binghamton University"In exploring the phenomenal economic transformation of China, Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu provide a 'state-centered explanation' when they argue that the 'communist party-state' released or constrained marketisation by means of ‘state neoliberalism’ […]. Despite this, unlike many other commentators, the authors emphasise the continuities with the Great Leap Forward and other periods of socialist experimentation."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of ContentsMapChronologyPreface1 IntroductionSECTION ONE: The Chinese Development Miracle2 Socialist Foundation and the Critical Transition to State Neoliberalism3 State Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of the Rise of China4 Global Economic Crisis and the Deepening of State NeoliberalismSECTION TWO: Challenges of China's Global Rise5 The Challenge of Catching Up: Technological Upgrading and Moving up the Value Chain6 The Challenges of Staying in Power7 The Challenges of Sustainability: Environmental Degradation and Resource Depletion8 The Challenges of Global Rivalry: Resource Competition and Territorial Disputes9 ConclusionNotesReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Global Rise of China
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.Trade Review"A comprehensive assessment of "where China stands today" in terms of technological innovation, the resilience of Communist Party rule, and debates about environmental sustainability and global hegemony. A wonderful book for a broad audience!"David Smith, University of California Irvine"So and Chu are keen observers of China’s economy and society. In The Global Rise of China they capture the drama of China’s rise and inject a powerful new concept into the China debate: ‘state neoliberalism.’ All future writing on China’s economy and society will have to grapple with So and Chu’s approach. Essential reading for sociologists, political scientists, and sinologists of all ideological persuasions."Salvatore Babones, Sydney University"With considerable analytical rigor and clarity in exposition, So and Chu delineate the role of the Chinese party-state in the dramatic rise of China from a poor ‘third world’ state to an economic and political super-power in less than four decades. This compelling narrative will be an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes on China, East Asia, and development studies courses."Ravi Palat, Binghamton University"In exploring the phenomenal economic transformation of China, Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu provide a 'state-centered explanation' when they argue that the 'communist party-state' released or constrained marketisation by means of ‘state neoliberalism’ […]. Despite this, unlike many other commentators, the authors emphasise the continuities with the Great Leap Forward and other periods of socialist experimentation."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of ContentsMapChronologyPreface1 IntroductionSECTION ONE: The Chinese Development Miracle2 Socialist Foundation and the Critical Transition to State Neoliberalism3 State Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of the Rise of China4 Global Economic Crisis and the Deepening of State NeoliberalismSECTION TWO: Challenges of China's Global Rise5 The Challenge of Catching Up: Technological Upgrading and Moving up the Value Chain6 The Challenges of Staying in Power7 The Challenges of Sustainability: Environmental Degradation and Resource Depletion8 The Challenges of Global Rivalry: Resource Competition and Territorial Disputes9 ConclusionNotesReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Offshoring
Book SynopsisThe concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.Trade Review"An informative accounting of the consequences of an offshoring world and an impassioned critique of the offshored condition." Theory, Culture & Society"Offshoring shines a light on yet another of the shadowy realms upon which contemporary capitalist normalities rest." Times Higher Education "Urry writes with clarity and offers very useful examples to explain points.I would strongly recommend this book for teachers to purchase copies to be placed in their school/college/department libraries so that students can pursue the negative side of Globalisation in detail and be aware of lots of contemporary examples." The Sociology Teacher ''Exposing capitalism’s expanding economy of secrecy, John Urry reveals a terrifying picture of catastrophes waiting to happen, of global inequalities difficult to comprehend, and of human rights violations on an appalling scale. Sociology at its best, warning us of the worst. Offshoring should be required reading for all undergraduates.'' Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley ''This is one point of John Urry’s thought provoking book: the outside suggested by the concept of ‘offshoring’ no longer exists. Therefore politics of offshoring today are simultaneously domestic and global. And like Urry so excitingly does we have to ask: how can the ‘outsourced’ citizen of the world be included in decisions which affect their survival?'' Ulrich Beck, University of MunichTable of ContentsPreface Chap 1: What is Offshoring? Chap 2: Secrets Chap 3: Work Offshored Chap 4: Taxing Offshored Chap 5: Leisure Offshored Chap 6: Energy Offshored Chap 7: Waste Offshored Chap 8: Security Offshored Chap 9: Out to Sea and Out of Sight Chap 10: Bringing it all Back Home Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Offshoring
Book SynopsisThe concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.Trade Review"An informative accounting of the consequences of an offshoring world and an impassioned critique of the offshored condition." Theory, Culture & Society"Offshoring shines a light on yet another of the shadowy realms upon which contemporary capitalist normalities rest." Times Higher Education "Urry writes with clarity and offers very useful examples to explain points.I would strongly recommend this book for teachers to purchase copies to be placed in their school/college/department libraries so that students can pursue the negative side of Globalisation in detail and be aware of lots of contemporary examples." The Sociology Teacher ''Exposing capitalism’s expanding economy of secrecy, John Urry reveals a terrifying picture of catastrophes waiting to happen, of global inequalities difficult to comprehend, and of human rights violations on an appalling scale. Sociology at its best, warning us of the worst. Offshoring should be required reading for all undergraduates.'' Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley ''This is one point of John Urry’s thought provoking book: the outside suggested by the concept of ‘offshoring’ no longer exists. Therefore politics of offshoring today are simultaneously domestic and global. And like Urry so excitingly does we have to ask: how can the ‘outsourced’ citizen of the world be included in decisions which affect their survival?'' Ulrich Beck, University of MunichTable of ContentsPreface Chap 1: What is Offshoring? Chap 2: Secrets Chap 3: Work Offshored Chap 4: Taxing Offshored Chap 5: Leisure Offshored Chap 6: Energy Offshored Chap 7: Waste Offshored Chap 8: Security Offshored Chap 9: Out to Sea and Out of Sight Chap 10: Bringing it all Back Home Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Crisis of Expertise
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This impressive piece of scholarship explores contemporary debates about the nature of expertise and their relationship to politics in novel ways. Eyal writes with verve and a great eye for metaphor, which makes the book a great read.”Harry Collins, Cardiff University “Gil Eyal thinks that the present-day crisis of expertise is substantial and serious but that it has not yet been properly described. His attempt to supply that description is necessary reading for our troubled times.”Steven Shapin, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The Crisis Chapter 1 Expertise Chapter 2 The Debate about Expertise Chapter 3 Trust Chapter 4 Risk Chatper 5 Crisis, Take 2 Chapter 6 Inside the Vortex Chapter 7 Balaam’s Blessing Conclusions, or, Trans-science as a Vocation
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Protest Inc.
Book SynopsisMass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based solutions. The past decade has seen nongovernmental organizations partner with oil companies like ExxonMobil, discount retailers like Walmart, fast-food chains like McDonald's, and brand manufacturers like Nike and Coca-Cola. NGOs are courting billionaire philanthropists, branding causes, and turning to consumers as wellsprings of reform. Are career activists selling out to pay staff and fund programs? Partly. But far more is going on. Political and socioeconomic changes aTrade Review"A gloomy, gripping, book, full of disheartening statistics. The essential message of the book is pretty clear - 'the rich are winning'."The Ecologist"A tremendous book - hard-hitting, passionate, and beautifully written - that deserves to be read by everyone who is interested in social change. The authors investigate how corporate values and behaviors are weakening the impact of global citizen action. We must heed their call."Michael Edwards, Demos, New York, and editor of Transformation"This original and compelling book provides a much needed wake-up call about the creeping de-radicalizing influence of big business on activism in the contemporary world."Michael Maniates, Professor of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS, Singapore"Speaking the truth to power risks leaving you with the truth and them with the power. Much as the corporate model of organizing production affects and infects so much else in modern society, this fine analysis shows how it has done the same to many of its social critics."Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1 Where are the Radicals? 1 2 Seeing Like a Corporation 29 3 Securitizing Dissent 55 4 Privatizing Social Life 82 5 Institutionalizing Activism 108 6 A Corporatized World Order 134 Notes 157 Index 193
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consumption in China How Chinas New Consumer
Book SynopsisConsumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace.Trade Review"What makes Consumption in China most enjoyable is that Yu continually offers up fascinating factual tidbits: In 1979 there were no skyscrapers in Shanghai; today, the city has twice as many as New York." (Studies of Asia 2016)"This is an extremely readable insight into the forces that drive consumer trends in what will one day become the world's largest consumer market. It's a book for any CEO hoping for a slice of the action."South China Morning Post"A valuable resource"China Daily''An informative combination of firsthand observations, extensive interviews, and social theory allows readers to follow Chinese consumers into a new world of goods and services. This book provides up-to-date coverage of key aspects of Chinese consumerism, including the impact of the internet, the influence of China's one-child households, and the implications of new private and commercial spaces."Karl Gerth, author of As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything ''The transformation of Chinese consumers in the last three decades, a dazzling subject, is presented in this book with rich ethnographic evidence and clear historical contextualization. The author has skilfully weaved consumer voices and her own experience with a wide range of academic theories and business insights.''Mag Wong, Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Oracle Added Value, Hong Kong"Consumption in China is a timely contribution to the growing literature on the emerging Chinesemiddle class. Its engaging writing style makes it a good read for undergraduates and a general audience who are interested in China�s new social landscape at large."The American AnthropologistTable of ContentsMap Chronology Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Spaces Chapter 3: Status Chapter 4: Lifestyles Chapter 5: Commodification Chapter 6: Awareness Chapter 7: Consumption with Chinese Characteristics Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Negotiating Identity
Book SynopsisIdentity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman s dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of interaction through which identities are created, maintained, challenged and reinvented.Trade Review"Casting identity as lived and negotiated, Scott extends a pragmatist orientation to symbolic interaction, dramaturgy, and ethnomethodology. Pertinent and interesting case material grounds theory in everyday circumstances, making for accessible reading. The book is highly recommended for courses on self and society and on social control."Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri [and author of The Self We Live By] "Susie Scott has already established herself as one of our leading exponents of interactionist sociology. Here she has again assimilated and synthesised a impressive array of material in a scholarly overview of the sources and enactments of social identity. At a time when issues of identity are written about loosely in many quarters, we need Scott’s careful, systematic and disciplined review. She clearly establishes the continuing relevance of symbolic interactionism for sociology today." Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University"With the lucidity we have come to expect, Susie Scott draws from her remarkable command of micro social theory to provide a profound exploration of social identity. Illuminating this through a glittering variety of real-world illustrations, she reveals the artistry, the fragility, and the poignancy of the everyday processes by which we negotiate who we are."Rob Stones, University of Western SydneyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Interacting selves: Symbolic Interactionist approaches to identity Chapter 2. Relating in public: Rudeness, civility and polite fictions Chapter 3. Framing pictures: Definitions, accounts and motive talk Chapter 4. Managing faces: Roles, performance and self-presentation Chapter 5. Casting members: Teamwork, collusion and dramaturgical loyalty Chapter 6. Spoiling careers: Deviance, stigma and moral trajectories Chapter 7. Reinventing futures: Organizations, power and institutionalized identities Chapter 8. Faking identity: Secrecy, deception and betrayal
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Knowledge Corrupters
Book SynopsisIn principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy. Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public knowledge and use it for their own ends, often at the cost of other stakeholders in society. Meanwhile the transfer of similar practices to professional public services undermines professional skills and ethics - especially when these services are out-sourced to the private sector. Attempts to extricTrade Review"Accessible to all, here's a book to be read by all who rely on increasingly beleaguered 'public services'. We can see how reliant our politicians have become on what some have called 'policy - based evidence' rather than 'evidence-based policy'. Crouch shows with his customary incisive clarity why this hasn't worked and just what's wrong with relying so heavily on markets and neo-liberalism."Sir Tim BrighouseTable of ContentsList of abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Neoliberalism and the problem of knowledge 2. Knowledge and the problem of capitalism 3. The corrosion of the public service ethos 4. Knowledge for citizens, customers or objects? 5. Citizens, customers, professionals, politicians and moneymen References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Knowledge Corrupters
Book SynopsisIn principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy. Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public knowledge and use it for their own ends, often at the cost of other stakeholders in society. Meanwhile the transfer of similar practices to professional public services undermines professional skills and ethics - especially when these services are out-sourced to the private sector. Attempts to extricTrade Review"Accessible to all, here's a book to be read by all who rely on increasingly beleaguered 'public services'. We can see how reliant our politicians have become on what some have called 'policy - based evidence' rather than 'evidence-based policy'. Crouch shows with his customary incisive clarity why this hasn't worked and just what's wrong with relying so heavily on markets and neo-liberalism."Sir Tim BrighouseTable of ContentsList of abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Neoliberalism and the problem of knowledge 2. Knowledge and the problem of capitalism 3. The corrosion of the public service ethos 4. Knowledge for citizens, customers or objects? 5. Citizens, customers, professionals, politicians and moneymen References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football s World Cup demonstrate, sport s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more apparent across the world.Trade Review"Richard Giulianotti is one of the world’s leading sport sociologists. In this new edition he once again proves that he is not only a very accomplished expert in the field but also a brilliant writer. The book provides an insightful overview of important sociological theories and their application to relevant phenomena of modern sport. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in sport and cultural studies or social scientific studies of sports."Ansgar Thiel, University of Tübingen, Germany"Rigorous and clearly organized, this second edition stands out among the many introductory texts to sport sociology. Giulianotti’s critical sociological perspective is embedded in a solid discussion of social theory and pays close attention to the multiple meanings that individuals’ everyday actions bring to sport. The book inspires much-needed critical reflection on power inequalities in sport while exploring alternative forms of sporting practice. It is an essential text for any reader interested in understanding the complexities of contemporary sport."Pirkko Markula, University of Alberta, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrologue1. Functionalist Theories of Sport: Constructing Social Orders, Solidarities and Systems2. Weberian and Microsociological Approaches to Sport: Interpreting Meanings, Identities and Rationalization3. Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories of Sport: Challenging Capitalism, Alienation and Class Conflict4. Cultural Studies Approaches to Sport: Contesting Domination and Celebrating Resistance5. ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Sport: Competing against Racism and Intolerance6. Gender and Sexuality in Sport: Playing Against Patriarchy7. The Body in Sport: Embodying Discipline, Experience and Risk8. Sporting Places and Spaces: Fields of Affection, Commerce and Fantasy9. Elias on Sport: Figurations, Civilization and Interdependence10. Bourdieu on Sport: Domination, Distinction and the Public Intellectual11. Postmodern Sport: Fragmentation, Consumption and Hyperreality12. Globalization and Sport: Political Economy, Cultural Creativity and Social DevelopmentEpilogue: Towards A Critical Sociology of Sport
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigrant Families
Book SynopsisImmigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families.Trade Review"Comprehensive, well-researched, and clearly-written, Immigrant Families fills a unique niche in both the fields of immigration and family literature. The authors bring wisdom, empathy, and clarity to the complex political, economic, legal, sociological, and gendered forces shaping immigrant families' lives."Carola Suárez-Orozco, UCLA"In Immigrant Families, Menjivar, Abrego , and Schmalzbauer give us an excellent analysis of the factors that shape migration and family formation. They bring into focus how changing immigration laws, class, deportation practices, gender, and generation in the United States interact in the lives of immigrant families. With immigration sure to be an important part of life well into the future, Immigrant Families provides a wealth of information and analysis for a concerned public, policy-makers and students."Leo Chavez, University of California IrvineTable of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Families and Immigration LawChapter 3: Immigrant Families and Social ClassChapter 4: Gender and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 5: Generations and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 6: Institutions, Policy, and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 7: ConclusionReferencesNotes
£47.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigrant Families
Book SynopsisImmigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families.Trade Review"Comprehensive, well-researched, and clearly-written, Immigrant Families fills a unique niche in both the fields of immigration and family literature. The authors bring wisdom, empathy, and clarity to the complex political, economic, legal, sociological, and gendered forces shaping immigrant families' lives."Carola Suárez-Orozco, UCLA"In Immigrant Families, Menjivar, Abrego , and Schmalzbauer give us an excellent analysis of the factors that shape migration and family formation. They bring into focus how changing immigration laws, class, deportation practices, gender, and generation in the United States interact in the lives of immigrant families. With immigration sure to be an important part of life well into the future, Immigrant Families provides a wealth of information and analysis for a concerned public, policy-makers and students."Leo Chavez, University of California IrvineTable of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Families and Immigration LawChapter 3: Immigrant Families and Social ClassChapter 4: Gender and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 5: Generations and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 6: Institutions, Policy, and Immigrant FamiliesChapter 7: ConclusionReferencesNotes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Work and Disability
Book SynopsisSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature.Trade Review �Simcock and Castle offer a critical but balanced account of the role, function and context of social work with disabled people. The book is clear in asserting that social workers have an important and often positive role in the lives of disabled people. Countering some earlier texts which tended to be anti-social work and anti-professional, the authors make plain the barriers to enabling social work and the way the policy environment makes life challenging for disabled people and social workers. Optimistic in tone and practical in orientation, I would recommend it for practice and policy audiences alike.�Alan Roulstone, University of Leeds �This book is a very welcome addition to the limited literature on social work practice with disabled people. Its strength lies in linking a social model discourse with contemporary challenges for social work practice in this area. As such it �bridges the gap� between theoretical concepts and practice realities. It will serve as an excellent resource for discussion and debate with social work students.�David Mercer, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of Contents Introduction PART I Perspectives: Understanding Disability 1 Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work 2 Theories and Models of Disability 3 Disability from a Life Course Perspective 4 The Legal and Policy Perspective PART II Diversity, Inequality and Disability 5 Inequality, Oppression and Disability 6 Disability and Diversity PART III Disability and Social Work Practice 7 Communication and Engagement 8 Working with Disabled Children 9 Working with Disabled Adults 10 Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability 11 Collaborative Practice Conclusion Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Childhood Studies Making Young Subjects
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups.Trade Review"Wells offers an interesting, astute and highly accessible analysis of the interconnections between liberalism, racism and the creation of the child subject. Her work compels Childhood Studies to become more self-critical." Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University "This original and provocative book has the potential to shift several key paradigms within Childhood Studies and set the agenda for future debates. Focusing on the interplay between the biological and the social, the book offers new and challenging ways of theorizing childhoods." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of Contents 1 Making young subjects 2 The disciplines 3 Governing through race, governing through childhood 4 Policing gender 5 Class discrimination in childhood 6 Disability in Childhood Studies 7 Children’s bodies matter 8 Development psychology and Social Identity Theory 9 Consuming childhoods 10 Conclusion Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Childhood Studies Making Young Subjects
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups.Trade Review"Wells offers an interesting, astute and highly accessible analysis of the interconnections between liberalism, racism and the creation of the child subject. Her work compels Childhood Studies to become more self-critical." Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University "This original and provocative book has the potential to shift several key paradigms within Childhood Studies and set the agenda for future debates. Focusing on the interplay between the biological and the social, the book offers new and challenging ways of theorizing childhoods." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of Contents 1 Making young subjects 2 The disciplines 3 Governing through race, governing through childhood 4 Policing gender 5 Class discrimination in childhood 6 Disability in Childhood Studies 7 Children’s bodies matter 8 Development psychology and Social Identity Theory 9 Consuming childhoods 10 Conclusion Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Causes of Structural Unemployment
Book SynopsisThere is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that jobless recoveries could become a permanent feature of Western economies.Trade Review''The authors deftly integrate sociological, political, and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets that are responsible for the upsurge in the structural unemployment and economic inequality that haunt the contemporary United States.''Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ''The Causes of Structural Unemployment is a comprehensive look at the causes of long-term structural unemployment in affluent industrialized nations. It combines and illustrates how individual biographies are tied up to larger social and economic processes - how the single-minded focus on shareholder value and market manipulations destroys the labor market for good jobs.''Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa"This is a well-researched book with detailed references. It successfully links globalisation to the rise of long-term unemployment in the advanced Western countries."Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsTables, Figures, and Boxes viii Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 26 3 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 53 4 Technological Change and Job Loss 82 5 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 113 6 Fixing Structural Unemployment 142 7 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173 Notes 179 References 190 Subject Index 214 Name Index 223
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Causes of Structural Unemployment Four
Book SynopsisThere is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that jobless recoveries could become a permanent feature of Western economies.Trade Review''The authors deftly integrate sociological, political, and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets that are responsible for the upsurge in the structural unemployment and economic inequality that haunt the contemporary United States.''Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ''The Causes of Structural Unemployment is a comprehensive look at the causes of long-term structural unemployment in affluent industrialized nations. It combines and illustrates how individual biographies are tied up to larger social and economic processes - how the single-minded focus on shareholder value and market manipulations destroys the labor market for good jobs.''Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa"This is a well-researched book with detailed references. It successfully links globalisation to the rise of long-term unemployment in the advanced Western countries."Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsTables, Figures, and Boxes viii Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 26 3 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 53 4 Technological Change and Job Loss 82 5 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 113 6 Fixing Structural Unemployment 142 7 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173 Notes 179 References 190 Subject Index 214 Name Index 223
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Labor Movements Global Perspectives
Book SynopsisFewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world.Trade Review''Stephanie Luce gives us an informed and wise assessment of the crucial role of unions in resisting the forces unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. She deals unblinkingly with the opposition that unions confront today and with their own internal weaknesses as well. Yet she concludes that rolling back an unbridled capitalism cannot be accomplished without a revived and innovative labor movement. A sobering yet refreshing antidote, and one that inspires both hope and hard work.''Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, City University of New York ''Stephanie Luce's "Labor Movements" is must read book for those who are interested in workers' rights, unionization and the future of labor movements. Luce provides a critical review on neo-liberal gobalization, global financial crisis, illusion of economic growth, and assess the effect on the role of unions and workers' struggles. By debunking the myth of mobile and global capitalism, the book calls for changes on the existing system and new ways of workers' emancipation worldwide.''Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Background 2. A Role for Unions? 3. Why Unions Decline: External Challenges on the Macro Level 4. Adding to Further Decline: Labor Market Changes Part II: Union Response 5. Changing from Within 6. Union Power 7. Rebuilding the Movements 8. New Directions – Going Global Notes References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Labor Movements Global Perspectives
Book SynopsisFewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world.Trade Review''Stephanie Luce gives us an informed and wise assessment of the crucial role of unions in resisting the forces unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. She deals unblinkingly with the opposition that unions confront today and with their own internal weaknesses as well. Yet she concludes that rolling back an unbridled capitalism cannot be accomplished without a revived and innovative labor movement. A sobering yet refreshing antidote, and one that inspires both hope and hard work.''Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, City University of New York ''Stephanie Luce's "Labor Movements" is must read book for those who are interested in workers' rights, unionization and the future of labor movements. Luce provides a critical review on neo-liberal gobalization, global financial crisis, illusion of economic growth, and assess the effect on the role of unions and workers' struggles. By debunking the myth of mobile and global capitalism, the book calls for changes on the existing system and new ways of workers' emancipation worldwide.''Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Background 2. A Role for Unions? 3. Why Unions Decline: External Challenges on the Macro Level 4. Adding to Further Decline: Labor Market Changes Part II: Union Response 5. Changing from Within 6. Union Power 7. Rebuilding the Movements 8. New Directions – Going Global Notes References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Life Transitions in America
Book SynopsisWe celebrate, talk about, and worry a great deal about transitions in life. Going to college, having a first child, losing a job, and retiring constitute just a few of the pivotal moments in the lives of many. Sociologists and psychologists have devoted considerable attention to life transitions.Trade Review''Sociological insight comes from personal circumstance. Duina is at once Italian and American, and neither completely. In trying to understand himself he has given us a great book on the nature of American culture –rigorous, empirically driven and able to explain the extraordinary capacity of Americans to reinvent themselves.''John A. Hall, McGill University ''Life Transitions in America is a thoughtful, beautifully written and carefully researched treatment of eight major transitions from adolescence through the end of life. Each transition is treated in a separate chapter in which Duina combines sociological and psychological research, his own theoretical framing, and expert opinion to understand how American culture sees this change. The result is a pleasure to read, thought provoking, and ultimately satisfying.''Linda Waite, University of Chicago ''This is an exciting project, part of a larger return in sociology to telling big stories about individuals and society. This sorely needed book asks weighty questions about why and how we focus on, define, and respond to major life transitions. Duina analyzes a rich range of data sources, from popular culture to surveys, to better understand the social shaping of life's milestones.''Kelly Joyce, Drexel UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables vi Acknowledgments vii I Introduction 1. Discourse and Transitions in Life 3 II Eight Transitions 2. Starting College 23 3. Getting Married 41 4. The First Child 62 5. Losing a Job 85 6. Surviving a Life-Threatening Disease 106 7. Divorce 125 8. Parents’ Death 143 9. Retirement 160 III Conclusion 10. Transitions in America 181 Appendix: Data Sources Overview 194 Notes 205 References 230 Index 255
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cosmopolitan Sexualities
Book SynopsisHow are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. In this compelling and original study, Ken Plummer argues the need for a practical utopian project of hope that he calls cosmopolitan sexualities'. He asks: how can we connect our differences with collective values, our uniqueness with multiple group belonging, our sexual and gendered individualities with a broader common humanity? Showing how a foundation for this new ethics, politics and imagination are evolving across the world, he discusses the many possible pitfalls being encountered. He highlights the complexity of sexual and gender cultures, the ubiquity of human conflict, the difficulties of dialogue and the problems with finding any common gTrade Review"Plummer has given us a new sexology for our age… Warning us not to take our stereotypes for granted, he takes us through sexualities in China, in Africa and in Middle Eastern societies, and organises sexualities into global zones, regional discrepancies and local eruptions."Times Higher Education "Ken Plummer's new work on sexualities is a carefully constructed book designed to captivate students and scholars with an interest in sexuality studies...a thoroughly enjoyable read which leaves the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of sexualities and a hopeful perspective for a humanistic world." James Pickles, Network Review "This is a book of deep knowledge and passionate commitment. It is the culmination of a lifetime’s work on the sociology, culture and politics of sexuality, and is suffused with a critical humanism that offers a guide for the perplexed troubled by our contemporary sexual labyrinth. It is a landmark of sexual scholarship." Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University "Ken Plummer helped define the field of sexuality studies, and now he pushes well beyond its boundaries, taking on big questions of social theory. Cosmopolitan Sexualities uses the lens of sexuality studies to grapple with debates about belonging and difference in our rapidly globalizing world. Plummer has read absolutely everything, and in this book he offers a comprehensive, often dazzling road map of the myriad changes which are simultaneously remaking intimate life and macro worlds, and what they tell us about what it means to be human." Arlene Stein, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsBoxes x Website xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 A troubled world 3 A tale to tell 5 An infinity of lists 8 Part One: Humanism and the Making of Cosmopolitan Sexualities 11 1 Plural Sexualities: Making Valued Human Lives 13 Plural lives 14 Contingency and the varieties of sexual experience 16 Critical humanism 20 Humanist troubles 22 Vulnerability and the dignity of the self 26 Plural values, valued lives 29 Search for common humanities 30 A world ethics for critical humanism? 32 Valued sexual lives 36 2 Transformational Sexualities: Making Twenty-First-Century Sexual Lives 39 Transformational sexualities 40 Reproductive sexualities, techno sexualities 44 Mediated sexualities 45 Electronic sexualities 47 Familial sexualities 50 Gendered sexualities 52 Violent sexualities 53 Post-honour sexualities 54 Secular, sacred and fundamentalist sexualities 56 Commodified sexualities 58 Urban sexualities and their assemblages 61 AIDS and sexualities 63 Divided sexualities, pauperized sexualities 64 Individualized, reflective sexualities 65 Migrating, diasporic and hybrid sexualities 67 Global sexualities/mobile sexualities 68 Conclusion: Making sexual politics 69 3 Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Living With Different Lives 71 On cosmopolitanism 72 Constructing cosmopolitan sexualities in a global arena 74 Troubles ahead: the contradictions and limits of cosmopolitanism 88 The (very) long walk to cosmopolitan sexualities 101 Part Two: Inclusive Sexualities: Nudging Towards a Better World 103 4 Cultural Sexualities: Cultivating Awareness of Complexity 105 Global sexualities and research 107 World cultures and macro sexualities 110 Impure cultures and subterranean sexualities 116 Local cultures and micro sexualities 123 Conclusion: complex cultures 130 5 Contested Sexualities: Inventing Enemies, Making Boundaries 131 Scaling the battlegrounds 133 Divisive sexualities, agonistic politics 135 The fault line of contested sexualities 141 On boundaries, belonging and the vulnerabilities of normativity 143 Normative sexualities 145 Vulnerable sexualities 150 Looking ahead 153 6 Communicative Sexualities: On the Hope and Empathy for a Common Global Humanity 155 Empathic sexualities 156 Narrative sexualities 161 Dialogic sexualities 164 Ethical sexualities 167 Democratic sexualities 175 Bleak sexualities 179 Hopeful sexualities 182 The little grounded everyday ‘utopian’ processes of global hope 183 In the end 187 Epilogue: Contingent Sexualities – Dancing into the Sexual Labyrinth 190 Personal tales 193 Textual tales 194 Research tales 196 Troubled tales 198 Mobile tales 200 Notes 202 References 232 Index: 100 Samples of Multiple Sexualities 268 Index: General 270
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cosmopolitan Sexualities
Book SynopsisHow are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences.Trade Review"Plummer has given us a new sexology for our age… Warning us not to take our stereotypes for granted, he takes us through sexualities in China, in Africa and in Middle Eastern societies, and organises sexualities into global zones, regional discrepancies and local eruptions."Times Higher Education "Ken Plummer's new work on sexualities is a carefully constructed book designed to captivate students and scholars with an interest in sexuality studies...a thoroughly enjoyable read which leaves the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of sexualities and a hopeful perspective for a humanistic world." James Pickles, Network Review "This is a book of deep knowledge and passionate commitment. It is the culmination of a lifetime’s work on the sociology, culture and politics of sexuality, and is suffused with a critical humanism that offers a guide for the perplexed troubled by our contemporary sexual labyrinth. It is a landmark of sexual scholarship."Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University"Ken Plummer helped define the field of sexuality studies, and now he pushes well beyond its boundaries, taking on big questions of social theory. Cosmopolitan Sexualities uses the lens of sexuality studies to grapple with debates about belonging and difference in our rapidly globalizing world. Plummer has read absolutely everything, and in this book he offers a comprehensive, often dazzling road map of the myriad changes which are simultaneously remaking intimate life and macro worlds, and what they tell us about what it means to be human."Arlene Stein, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsBoxes x Website xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 A troubled world 3 A tale to tell 5 An infinity of lists 8 Part One: Humanism and the Making of Cosmopolitan Sexualities 11 1 Plural Sexualities: Making Valued Human Lives 13 Plural lives 14 Contingency and the varieties of sexual experience 16 Critical humanism 20 Humanist troubles 22 Vulnerability and the dignity of the self 26 Plural values, valued lives 29 Search for common humanities 30 A world ethics for critical humanism? 32 Valued sexual lives 36 2 Transformational Sexualities: Making Twenty-First-Century Sexual Lives 39 Transformational sexualities 40 Reproductive sexualities, techno sexualities 44 Mediated sexualities 45 Electronic sexualities 47 Familial sexualities 50 Gendered sexualities 52 Violent sexualities 53 Post-honour sexualities 54 Secular, sacred and fundamentalist sexualities 56 Commodified sexualities 58 Urban sexualities and their assemblages 61 AIDS and sexualities 63 Divided sexualities, pauperized sexualities 64 Individualized, reflective sexualities 65 Migrating, diasporic and hybrid sexualities 67 Global sexualities/mobile sexualities 68 Conclusion: Making sexual politics 69 3 Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Living With Different Lives 71 On cosmopolitanism 72 Constructing cosmopolitan sexualities in a global arena 74 Troubles ahead: the contradictions and limits of cosmopolitanism 88 The (very) long walk to cosmopolitan sexualities 101 Part Two: Inclusive Sexualities: Nudging Towards a Better World 103 4 Cultural Sexualities: Cultivating Awareness of Complexity 105 Global sexualities and research 107 World cultures and macro sexualities 110 Impure cultures and subterranean sexualities 116 Local cultures and micro sexualities 123 Conclusion: complex cultures 130 5 Contested Sexualities: Inventing Enemies, Making Boundaries 131 Scaling the battlegrounds 133 Divisive sexualities, agonistic politics 135 The fault line of contested sexualities 141 On boundaries, belonging and the vulnerabilities of normativity 143 Normative sexualities 145 Vulnerable sexualities 150 Looking ahead 153 6 Communicative Sexualities: On the Hope and Empathy for a Common Global Humanity 155 Empathic sexualities 156 Narrative sexualities 161 Dialogic sexualities 164 Ethical sexualities 167 Democratic sexualities 175 Bleak sexualities 179 Hopeful sexualities 182 The little grounded everyday ‘utopian’ processes of global hope 183 In the end 187 Epilogue: Contingent Sexualities – Dancing into the Sexual Labyrinth 190 Personal tales 193 Textual tales 194 Research tales 196 Troubled tales 198 Mobile tales 200 Notes 202 References 232 Index: 100 Samples of Multiple Sexualities 268 Index: General 270
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jerusalem
Book SynopsisJerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem's other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict. The battle over who owns and controls Jerusalem is intensely disputed on a global basis. Few cities rival Jerusalem in how its divisions are expressed in the political sphere and in ordinary everyday life. Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis is about this constellation of competing on-the-ground interests: the endless set of claims, struggles, and debates over the land, neighborhoods, and communities that make up Jerusalem. Spatial politics explain the motivations and organizing around the battle for Jerusalem and illustrate how space is a weapon in the Jerusalem struggle. These are the windows to the world of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Based on ninety interviews, years oTrade Review"Jerusalem is the main obstacle and battlefield in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the 2000 Camp David Summit, I can testify that this was the main reason why the talks failed. This book by two excellent scholars is an excellent introduction for anyone who wants a deep understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what is happening politically on the ground in Jerusalem."Moshe Amirav, The Hebrew University Jerusalem"Jerusalem introduces the city as a battleground where the usual conflicts over land and housing cannot be separated from contested citizenship of residents and broad issues of class and ethnic inequality that appear most concretely at the local scale. Jerusalem is at the same time a neoliberal city, a divided city, and a postcolonial city, and Shlay and Rosen skillfully show how the theories associated with each of these depictions can be used to interpret its development."John Logan, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables vi Acknowledgments viii Map of Central Jerusalem x 1 Introduction: The Politics of Space 1 2 The Jerusalem Story: Theory and Methods 18 3 What Is Jerusalem? 40 4 Who Is Jerusalem? 89 5 The Palestinian Challenge and Resistance in Arab Jerusalem 137 6 Downtown Place Making and Growth in Israeli Jerusalem 164 7 Conclusion 185 Notes 195 References 197 Index 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jerusalem
Book SynopsisJerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict.Trade Review"Jerusalem is the main obstacle and battlefield in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the 2000 Camp David Summit, I can testify that this was the main reason why the talks failed. This book by two excellent scholars is an excellent introduction for anyone who wants a deep understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what is happening politically on the ground in Jerusalem."Moshe Amirav, The Hebrew University Jerusalem"Jerusalem introduces the city as a battleground where the usual conflicts over land and housing cannot be separated from contested citizenship of residents and broad issues of class and ethnic inequality that appear most concretely at the local scale. Jerusalem is at the same time a neoliberal city, a divided city, and a postcolonial city, and Shlay and Rosen skillfully show how the theories associated with each of these depictions can be used to interpret its development."John Logan, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables vi Acknowledgments viii Map of Central Jerusalem x 1 Introduction: The Politics of Space 1 2 The Jerusalem Story: Theory and Methods 18 3 What Is Jerusalem? 40 4 Who Is Jerusalem? 89 5 The Palestinian Challenge and Resistance in Arab Jerusalem 137 6 Downtown Place Making and Growth in Israeli Jerusalem 164 7 Conclusion 185 Notes 195 References 197 Index 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All
Book Synopsis* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of out time. * Renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, reflects upon the startling and worrying facts of social inequality of which we have become so conscious in the last decade.Trade Review' Bauman lists and scrutinizes the tacit assumptions and unreflected-upon convictions upon which such opinions are grounded, finding them one by one to be false, deceitful and misleading.' ExpofairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Just how unequal are we today? 6 2 Why do we put up with inequality? 20 3 Some big lies on which a bigger one floats 27 4 Words against deeds: an afterthought . . . 90 Notes 97
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Presumed Intimacy Parasocial Interaction in Media
Book Synopsis* This engaging book examines how the ease with which modern social and media networks create a sense of intimacy which can be exploited by media, politicians and authority * An intriguing thesis on how media creates relations where we are constant watchers of the lives of others.Trade Review"Encompassing topics as diverse as Mae West's fame and the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, Charles Dickens's novels and the dilemmas of modern democracy, Rojek's book is a tour-de-force of interdisciplinary social criticism. Ambitious in scope, brilliant in execution, it constitutes nothing less than a profound meditation on what it means to be a human being today."David Inglis, University of Exeter"Rojek has created yet another of his unique and insightful analyses of the contemporary world. As “familiar strangers” we live in a tenuous world built on presumed intimacy. One’s anger about this world builds as one progresses through the book and leads one to applaud Rojek’s call for, among other things, the veracity and emotional integrity that are increasingly being lost in our world of increasing presumed intimacy."George Ritzer, University of MarylandTable of Contents1. Living with Statistical Men and Women 2. Chimerical Risk Management 3. The Shockwaves of Trauma 4. The Lost Neighbour Proposition and the Collateral Damage Problem 5. Horizontal Frontierism: The Juggernaut of Character 6. The Accentuation of Personality 7. Vertical Frontierism: Four Case Studies 8. Cracks in the Mirror 9. The Gestural Economy 10. Institutional and Counter-Institutional Gestural Economies 11. Nuda Veritas Notes References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Going Viral
Book SynopsisWe live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight. Virality: individuals create it, governments fear it, companies would die for it.Trade ReviewGoing Viral has won the 2014 Best Book Award by ASIS&T (Association of Information Science and Technology), and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine (Association of College and Research Libraries). "This concise and insightful book targets a niche topic in the studies of digital media that is becoming increasingly relevant to the public. It considers many questions and successfully accomplishes what it sets out to do. Students of media, digital worlds, and information will not be disappointed."—LSE Review of Books "Virality is what make societies click at the pulse of the Internet. It is at the heart of the new forms of commerce, culture, media, social movements, and politics. This pathbreaking book explains what it is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change. It is a major contribution to network theory and to the understanding of the network society."—Manuel Castells, University of Southern California "Ever wonder why a video, meme, or idea spreads like wildfire online? In 'Virality', Nahon and Hemsley examine the technology, social practices, and cultural conditions that enable media to go viral. This illuminating book gets beyond marketing hype to provide critical insights for understanding the powerful phenomenon of virality. This is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of how information flows in a networked world."—Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research "From Rosa Parks to Gangham style--a fascinating look at a defining phenomena of our age- virality, spreading, winner-take-all success. It is more than a fad-- Going Viral offers a compelling argument that viral processes are here to stay, and they are an essential feature of the online fabric."—Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Prolog Cover Art 1 Introduction: Virality of pets and presidents 2 What Virality is: I know it when I see it 3 What Makes Something Viral I: The control of networks through Gatekeeping 4 What Makes Something Viral II: What is everyone looking at? 5 What Makes Something Viral III: Caught in the Viral Net! 6 Networked changed societies 7 Afterlife Bibliography Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Exits to the Posthuman Future
Book Synopsis* The latest work of Arthur Kroker, internationally renowned theorist, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria.Trade Review"Kroker’s long-awaited Exits to the Posthuman Future presents us with a much more complex, and definitely more profound, analysis of the emerging posthuman condition. Motivated neither by a nostalgic yearning for what has been left behind nor by an unbridled optimism for what the fully realized technological society will bring, Kroker seeks to draw closer attention to the essentially elusive character of a future shaped by technologies that thrive on the liminal, the uncertain, and the indeterminate."Cultural Politics"With remarkable range and acuity, Arthur Kroker defines the posthuman condition of the twenty-first century as 'drift culture,' exploring its ramifications through genetics, data archives, and a variety of other cultural and technological sites. This is an exciting and crucially important synthesis of recent trends that anyone interested in where we are going should read." N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University "This book, on the thorny, arid issue of the posthuman, turns out to be Arthur Kroker’s most humane, personal, and deeply felt work. It is so vast, dark, mythic and oracular that every haunted page should be read aloud by the ghosts of Nietzsche and McLuhan." Bruce Sterling, The Well "Arthur Kroker is a founding figure of posthuman futural studies. He is philosopher of the vectors of speed, theorist of the live data feed, and thinker of our need to ‘drift’ beyond today’s codes, archives, and screens as post-historical mediators of a self-induced techno- catastrophe. A contemporary tour de force, Kroker’s Exits to the Posthuman Future helps transform our understanding of technopolitics and war, consciousness, and power as theoretical categories and futural practices of disappearance." John Armitage, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1 Accelerate 29 2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma, and History in the Data Feed 31 Drift 47 3 Code Drift 49 4 History Drift 60 5 Archive Drift 80 6 Screen Drift 90 7 Media Drift 97 Crash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse 109 8 After the Drones 111 9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the “Just War” 122 Crash: Traversal Consciousness 153 10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected Itself 155 11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173 12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195 Notes 199 Index 207
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Planetary Gentrification
Book SynopsisThis is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.Trade Review"This is an exciting and illuminating documentation of the ideologies and practices of gentrification in different parts of the globalizing world. Theoretically inspirational and empirically comprehensive, this book provides an excellent role model to show how critical comparative studies can be done for fruitful knowledge production. It makes a timely contribution that will be highly appreciated by all from the global North and South, East and West."George C. S. Lin, Hong Kong University "The authors are leading urban scholars from three continents, who advance the thesis of global gentrification and its attendant injustices through the informative lens of comparative urbanism. In doing so, they critically engage with 'both academic globalization and the globalization of capital'."David Ley, University of British Columbia "This book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification from its London-based origins to a globalizing urban world. Using a comparative perspective, the authors examine urban restructuring and displacement not as the spread of Western social-spatial forms, but as a process of planetary globalization. This book is the most lucid, nuanced and theoretically coherent treatment of gentrification and its manifestation to date."Fulong Wu, University College London"The stellar achievement of this book is its success in making sense of a planetary mélange of contemporary case studies of urban growth and development. The three coauthors bring perspectives steeped in Anglo American, Asian, and Hispanic cultural identities, yielding a densely textured portrayal of the sociopolitical dimensions of land development."Journal of Urban Affairs"[The authors] unlearn existing conceptualizations/theories, ideologies and practices/policies around gentrification, and question how experience from around the globe may enrich gentrification theory and concepts […]. Overall, they argue that the study of gentrification can help us to understand the complexity of urbanization processes […and] that the differences they identify are not radical enough to warrant dilution or dismissal of the term."Environment and Urbanization "[The authors] not only provide the reader with significant material that should start new and stimulating discussions in gentrification studies, but also challenge the way of understanding and investigating processes of gentrification. This book proves itself to be an important addition to further gentrification theory and an answer for the long-due desire to expand gentrification to the cities of the Global South."Urban GeographyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. New Urbanizations3. New Economics4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint?6. Slum Gentrification7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement8. ConclusionReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Culture of Surveillance
Book SynopsisFrom 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only ''done to us'' it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data. At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order to supervise children, monitor other road users, and safeguard our property. Social media allow us to keep tabs on others, as well as on ourselves. This is the culture of surveillance. This important book explores the imaginaries and practices of everyday surveillance. Its main focus is not high-tech, organized surveillance operations but our varied, mundane experiences of surveillance that range from the casual and careless to the focused and intentional. It insists that it is time to stop using Orwellian metaphors and find ones suited to twenty-first-century surveillance froTrade Review‘A timely exposition of the surveillance imaginaries which run through the contemporary digital realm. Students, scholars, activists and the interested lay reader will find inspiration within its pages.’ Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews‘David Lyon holds up a mirror to our rapidly developing surveillance society. And if we look hard enough, we can see ourselves. Surveillance culture provides plenty of reasons for concern, but also, as he usefully argues, a possible resource for hope.’Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College "This book manages to be comprehensive and authoritative in approach, whilst providing a very convincing and accessible account of key shifts in technology and society that underpins the concept of surveillance culture. This makes it both an original and high-quality contribution to the field."Lina Dencik, Cardiff University, UK"The Culture of Surveillance provides a nuanced account of contemporary surveillance practices."Daniel Trottier, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands "David Lyon has long been a powerful witness to the corrosive consequences of contemporary surveillance. This latest work warns how digital modernity’s surveillance regimes insinuate themselves into our lives and shape the most intimate qualities of experience. Lyon explores the threat of normalization, calling for resilience and agency against such surveillance and suggesting alternatives. Once again, we are in his debt." Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School"Compelling… The Culture of Surveillance offers an unprecedented insight into how complex and consequential the monitoring of human action has truly become.”Ed Bryan, Social & Cultural Geography'Written in an accessible style, The Culture of Surveillance offers a neat and concise overview of a vast array of surveillance literature, distilled into an analysis of the emergent surveillance culture in surveillance capitalism.'Amanda Glasbeek, York University "In The Culture of Surveillance, David Lyon has provided a potential roadmap for the future of surveillance scholarship, and as such, the book may prove to be his most important and influential yet." Benjamin J. Goold, Surveillance & Society
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Migrant Labor in China
Book SynopsisLong known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success.Trade Review"This book lucidly exposes the underside of the Chinese economic miracle, revealing the plight of the migrant laborers who are part of the world's largest working class. Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as careful political and economic analysis, Pun Ngai examines the conditions these workers face daily both on the job and in the dormitories. She also documents their recent radicalization and militancy, suggesting that, in China at least, working-class struggle is alive and well, contrary to popular belief. An authoritative overview that will be useful for students and general readers alike." Ruth Milkman, City University of New York "The re-making of the Chinese working class is one of the greatest stories of contemporary world history. With her well-grounded account of the struggles of migrant workers, Pun Ngai has given us a generous and insightful version of this vast transformation." Andrew Ross, New York University, author of Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai "In a series of engaged and engaging studies of China's massive transformation, Pun Ngai exposes the despotic worlds of dormitory regimes, militarized factories, and subcontracted workers, creating a terrifying vision of an insurgent proletariat. Anyone interested in the future of planet Earth must take her findings into account." Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley"Pun Ngai, one of the most cited scholars in this field, will again fascinate the readers with her recent book […]. Her book covers a topic that has received wide coverage, yet this work displays the vigour and passion of an activist scholar who used to complete her ethnography by working and living as a factory worker."Journal of Contemporary Asia ”Stepping away from Marx’s classical approach of capitalist production, Pun Ngai employs cultural class analysis through a theoretical lens by situating her research in the working labourers’ living experience. This methodology provides a vivid portrait of the working labour of China.”Asian Journal of Social ScienceTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements 1. China and its Labor in the Neoliberal World 2. Capital Meets State: Re-emergence of the Labor Market and Changing Labor Relations 3. Building China: Struggle of Construction Workers 4. Making and Unmaking of the New Chinese Working Class 5. Spatial Politics: Production and Social Production of the Dormitory Labor Regime 6. Monopoly Capital in China: Foxconn Experience and Chinese Workers 7. Radicalization and Collective Action of the New Chinese Working Class References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Migrant Labor in China
Book SynopsisLong known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success.Trade Review"This book lucidly exposes the underside of the Chinese economic miracle, revealing the plight of the migrant laborers who are part of the world’s largest working class. Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as careful political and economic analysis, Pun Ngai examines the conditions these workers face daily both on the job and in the dormitories. She also documents their recent radicalization and militancy, suggesting that, in China at least, working-class struggle is alive and well, contrary to popular belief. An authoritative overview that will be useful for students and general readers alike." Ruth Milkman, City University of New York "The re-making of the Chinese working class is one of the greatest stories of contemporary world history. With her well-grounded account of the struggles of migrant workers, Pun Ngai has given us a generous and insightful version of this vast transformation." Andrew Ross, New York University, author of Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai "In a series of engaged and engaging studies of China’s massive transformation, Pun Ngai exposes the despotic worlds of dormitory regimes, militarized factories, and subcontracted workers, creating a terrifying vision of an insurgent proletariat. Anyone interested in the future of planet Earth must take her findings into account." Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley"Pun Ngai, one of the most cited scholars in this field, will again fascinate the readers with her recent book […]. Her book covers a topic that has received wide coverage, yet this work displays the vigour and passion of an activist scholar who used to complete her ethnography by working and living as a factory worker."Journal of Contemporary Asia”Stepping away from Marx’s classical approach of capitalist production, Pun Ngai employs cultural class analysis through a theoretical lens by situating her research in the working labourers’ living experience. This methodology provides a vivid portrait of the working labour of China.”Asian Journal of Social ScienceTable of Contents Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Philosophy? Part One: A Generic Introduction Chapter 1: Theory of the Philosophical Decision Chapter 2: The Style of Non-Philosophy Part Two: Unified Theories and the Waves of Non-Philosophy Chapter 3: Politics, or a Democracy (of) Thought Chapter 4: Science, or Philosophy’s Other Chapter 5: Ethics, or Universalizing the Stranger-Subject Chapter 6: Aesthetics, or Non-Philosophy as Philo-Fiction Chapter 7: Religion, or a Rigorous Heresy Conclusion: The Future of Non-Philosophy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Research
Book SynopsisThis unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it and to do so requires research with 'eyes philosophically wide open'.Trade Review"Norman Blaikie and Jan Priest have written a first-rate book on methodology and, as with Blaikie’s previous work, it is comprehensive, clear and erudite. It will appeal both to students who want to make sense of social research paradigms and the seasoned methodologist who will find much to inspire and consider." - Malcolm Williams, Cardiff University "Thoughtful, creative and groundbreaking, Blaikie and Priest have written a text that fills a core gap in many discussions of research. This is the importance of building in, from the outset, the role of explanation as much as description of social processes. A hugely informative read for those new to social research as well as seasoned professionals like myself!" - Christina Hughes, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Fundamental Choices in Social Research2. Road Maps for Research3. Principles of Neo-positive Research4. Two Illustrations of the Neo-positive Research Paradigm in Action5. Principles of Interpretive Research6. Two Illustrations of the Interpretive Research Paradigm in Action7. Principles of Critical Realist Research8. Two Illustrations of the Critical Realist Research Paradigm in Action9 Multiple Paradigm Research10. And Another Thing ÉAppendix: Review Questions
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Whiteness in America
Book SynopsisWhen Americans think about race, white is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life in the United States, from the organization and maintenance of social structures to an individual's sense of self. White has long been the invisible default category against which other racial and ethnic groups are silently compared and marked out as different. At the same time, whiteness is itself an active marker that many bitterly fight to keep distinctive, and the shifting boundaries of whiteness reflect the nation's history of race relations, right back to the earliest period of European colonization. One thing that has remained consistent is that whiteness is a definitive mark of privilege. Yet, this privilege is differentially experienced across a broad and eclectic spectrum, as is white identity itself. In order to uncover the ways in which its rigid structures and complicated understandings permeate American life, this book examines some of the many varieties of what it means to be white across geography, class, and social context and the culture, social movements, and changing demographics of whiteness in America.Trade Review"With whiteness studies at a crossroads, McDermott patiently walks us through the sociological research that reveals how whiteness is now both visible and invisible, a source of identity and mobilization as well as of hidden privilege and cultural normativity."—Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota "In her unique, insightful, and impeccably timed book, McDermott unpacks the layered, contingent, and ever changing definition of whiteness at a time when colorblind narratives of race, white nationalism, and white resentment have moved center stage in American politics. Her book is essential reading for anyone interested in American race relations."—Charles Gallagher, La Salle University "An accessible guide to the field of whiteness and to white identity in the United States. Few texts cover this much ground without oversimplifying concepts or losing sight of both social structure and human agency."—Mary Romero, 110th President of the American Sociological AssociationTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Invisible Privilege of Whiteness 3 Whiteness Visible 4 Attitudes and Culture 5 Whiteness Mobilized 6 The Future of White Racial Identity
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Making Capitalism Fit For Society
Book SynopsisCapitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies.Trade Review"Crouch has offered another powerful contribution to the debate about the choices that we face."LSE Review of Books"A lively argument, sometimes sour, sometimes hopeful, but always backed up by telling facts on the future of capitalist society."Richard Sennett, London School of Economics ''A new book explains why attempts by western countries to 'ring fence' themselves against immigration are failing''John Moore, Morning Star "Faced by a dominant neo-liberal ideology and stripped of a historic agent, social democracy needs to transform itself. Colin Crouch is unique in his ability to dissect the dilemmas and suggest positive strategies. Making Capitalism Fit For Society is the best book so far for anyone wanting to start the journey of renewal."Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass"A very good book with many thoughts for a more social policy in Europe"CLRTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements xi 1 From a Defensive to an Assertive Social Democracy 1 2 We Are All (Partly) Neoliberals Now 23 3 Marketization and Market Inadequacies 49 4 Capitalism and the Welfare State 63 5 The Welfare State of Assertive Social Democracy 91 6 Confronting Threats and Enemies 113 7 Social Democracy as the Highest Form of Liberalism 134 8 What About the Party? 163 9 A Feasible Prospectus? 175 Index 193
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Making Capitalism Fit For Society
Book SynopsisCapitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies.Trade Review"Crouch has offered another powerful contribution to the debate about the choices that we face." LSE Review of Books ''A new book explains why attempts by western countries to 'ring fence' themselves against immigration are failing'' John Moore, Morning Star "A lively argument, sometimes sour, sometimes hopeful, but always backed up by telling facts on the future of capitalist society." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics "Faced by a dominant neo-liberal ideology and stripped of a historic agent, social democracy needs to transform itself. Colin Crouch is unique in his ability to dissect the dilemmas and suggest positive strategies. Making Capitalism Fit For Society is the best book so far for anyone wanting to start the journey of renewal." Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass "A very good book with many thoughts for a more social policy in Europe" CLRTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements xi 1 From a Defensive to an Assertive Social Democracy 1 2 We Are All (Partly) Neoliberals Now 23 3 Marketization and Market Inadequacies 49 4 Capitalism and the Welfare State 63 5 The Welfare State of Assertive Social Democracy 91 6 Confronting Threats and Enemies 113 7 Social Democracy as the Highest Form of Liberalism 134 8 What About the Party? 163 9 A Feasible Prospectus? 175 Index 193
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Demanding the Impossible
Book Synopsis* Slavoj Zizek is one of the world s most widely read and controversial philosophers and social critics.Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in several decades."—Terry Eagleton "Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."—The Observer "... an excellent introduction to both the breadth and depth of Zizek's ideas, made all the better to follow his arguments via an imaginative format of short thematic interviews."—The SubstantiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1) Politics and Responsibility 2) Obsession for Harmony / Compulsion to Identify 3) Politicization of Ethics 4) Means Without End: Political Phronesis 5) “May you live in interesting times” 6) Communism The Ethico-political Fiasco 7) Who is Afraid of a Failed Revolution? 8) Another World is Possible 9) For They Know Not What They Do 10) Parallax View on Post-modern Globalization 11) The Public Use of the Scandal 12) The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and Performatives 13) Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism 14) The Subversive Use of Theory 15) Becoming Proletarian Position 16) New Forms of Apartheid 17) Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space 18) Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes 19) Café Revolution 20) To Begin from the Beginning 21) The Fear of Real Love 22) Dialectic of Liberal Superiority 23) The Day After 24) The Universality of Political Miracles 25) Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking 26) Politicization of Favelas 27) Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation 28) Violent Civil Disobedience 29) Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence 30) Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence 31) No Moralization But Egotism 32) Possibility of Concrete Universality 33) Common Struggle for Freedom 34) The Impossible Happens
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism
Book SynopsisIndigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence.Trade Review"The question of indigenous peoples is perhaps one of the most important political matters of recent decades in many parts of the world. Peoples and communities that seemed to have disappeared have returned to the political arena, sometimes taking centre-stage. This book unpacks in detail this social and political phenomenon, presenting a diverse range of timely and relevant voices and perspectives." José Bengoa, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile "Samson and Gigoux present an impressive, global account of the colonization of many indigenous peoples. They demonstrate how colonialism, modernism and Western liberalism are intertwined as prime movers of their subjugation. Their account shows why these colonial processes are harmful to all of us, not just to indigenous peoples." Thomas D. Hall, DePauw University“Samson and Gigoux have scoured through the vast empirical and theoretical literature on colonialism and Indigenous peoples to highlight the pattern of striking similarities of violence against Indigenous peoples in the varied contexts of colonialism and cultural diversity. […] This book is indispensable for anyone, be it a student, research scholar, policy-maker, or social activist, wishing to learn about Indigenous peoples, especially how colonialism has destroyed their lives and cultures. […] Presented in an accessible and engaging style, this book is also suitable as a textbook in university courses on development, human rights, minority politics, and race and ethnicity.”Alberto Gomes, Anthropological ForumTable of ContentsPreface1. Identity2. Colonization3. Land4. Environment5. Rights6. CultureReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Family Support Prevention Early Intervention and
Book SynopsisFamily Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.Underpinning the book is an analysis of how family support is changing, having moved from prevention' through to contemporary debates about family support', early intervention' and early help'. The authors draw on their own practice experiences to ensure the discussion remains highly relevant to everyday realities.The book consists of three parts: Part I examines the history and context of family support; Part II outlines a number of practice approaches to family support; and Part III suggests how family support work can be further developed. The book provides think points' and case studies to support the reader in reflecting on the material presented and how this can be best applied, as weTrade Review"The authors offer a highly accessible account of the key features of family support and a very timely reminder of its importance to families and those working with them. Excellent and highly recommended."Brigid Featherstone, The Open University"For all professionals with an interest in best practice, this book delivers in terms of ‘understanding and doing’ Family Support in the real world. The reader is brought from policy contexts to direct work practices in a most informative fashion and with ease."Pat Dolan, National University of IrelandTable of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: Understanding Family SupportChapter One. The Historical, Social and Political Context of Family SupportChapter Two. The Contemporary Policy Context of Family Support: Conceptualizing Family SupportChapter Three. Researching Family Support: Process and OutcomesPART TWO: Delivering Family SupportChapter Four. Community-Based Projects: The Universal Provision of Family SupportChapter Five. Home Visiting: A Key Process in Providing Family Support Chapter Six. Parenting Education: A Universal or Targeted Service?Chapter Seven. Targeted Approaches: The ‘Troubled Families’ InitiativeChapter Eight. Relationship-Based Family Support: An Underpinning Approach to Family SupportChapter Nine. Family Group Conferences: Involving and Empowering Families PART THREE: Overarching Issues in Developing a Sustainable Approach to Family Support Chapter Ten. Multi-Disciplinary Working: Holistic Work with Families and ChildrenChapter Eleven. Developing the Family Support WorkforceConclusion: Family Support Past, Present and Future
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Youth Cultures in China
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures? This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines their experiences, the ways in which they are represented in the media, and their interactions with old and, especially, new media. The authors describe and analyze complex entanglements among family, school, workplace and the state, engaging with the multiplicity of Chinese youth cultures. Their case studies include, among others, the romantic fantasies articulated by pop idols in TV dramas in contrast with young students working hard for their entrance exams and dream careers. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of youth culture, the sociology of youth and China studies more broadly. By showing how Chinese youth negotiate these regimes by carving out their own temporary spaces from becoming a goldfarmer in a virtual economy to performing as a cosplayer this book ultimately poses the question: Will the current system be able to accommodate this rapidly increasing diversity?Trade Review“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California “In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster "Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction: Youth in China No More Revolution Youth Scapes Changing Youth Values The Chapters Creative Warfare Chapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the State Introduction Political Values and Party Membership Family and Familism Pedagogy and Education Conclusion Chapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth Today Introduction Global Inauthenticities Fashion Styles Sonic Styles Digital Styles Conclusion Chapter 3: Localization of Regional Culture Introduction Localizing TV format from without Regional TV Formats and Class Re-imagination Running Man: The Turn to Gamification Popular Music and Fandom The Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politics TFBoys and Korean Imagination Conclusion Chapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its Discontents Introduction Chinese Genders? Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey Findings Heteronormative Aspirations II: Media Representations Unsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance Comedy Unsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer China Unsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and Feminism Conclusion Chapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and Desire Introduction Migrant Youth, Representation and Desire Migrant Youth as Media Producers Migrant Youth and New Media Technologies Gaming and Immaterial Labour Goldfarming versus Farming From Village to Art Village: New Spaces and Mobility Conclusion Conclusion: Youth and Hope References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Youth Cultures in China
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures? This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines their experiences, the ways in which they are represented in the media, and their interactions with old and, especially, new media. The authors describe and analyze complex entanglements among family, school, workplace and the state, engaging with the multiplicity of Chinese youth cultures. Their case studies include, among others, the romantic fantasies articulated by pop idols in TV dramas in contrast with young students working hard for their entrance exams and dream careers. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of youth culture, the sociology of youth and China studies more broadly. By showing how Chinese youth negotiate these regimes by carving out their own temporarTrade Review“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California “In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster"Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction: Youth in China No More Revolution Youth Scapes Changing Youth Values The Chapters Creative Warfare Chapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the State Introduction Political Values and Party Membership Family and Familism Pedagogy and Education Conclusion Chapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth Today Introduction Global Inauthenticities Fashion Styles Sonic Styles Digital Styles Conclusion Chapter 3: Localization of Regional Culture Introduction Localizing TV format from without Regional TV Formats and Class Re-imagination Running Man: The Turn to Gamification Popular Music and Fandom The Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politics TFBoys and Korean Imagination Conclusion Chapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its Discontents Introduction Chinese Genders? Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey Findings Heteronormative Aspirations II: Media Representations Unsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance Comedy Unsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer China Unsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and Feminism Conclusion Chapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and Desire Introduction Migrant Youth, Representation and Desire Migrant Youth as Media Producers Migrant Youth and New Media Technologies Gaming and Immaterial Labour Goldfarming versus Farming From Village to Art Village: New Spaces and Mobility Conclusion Conclusion: Youth and Hope References
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