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Book SynopsisThe majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.Trade Review"Fong and Berry examine immigrants in the United States and Canada to give us a sweeping overview of the diverse experiences of immigrants in cities, mapping the ways immigrants shape the contours of cities and cities define immigrant experiences. This book is a necessary resource to anyone interested in immigration and urban studies."—Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California "Immigration and the City provides an illuminating and comprehensive portrait of how immigrants are being incorporated in cities in the United States and Canada, and how the immigrants and their children are, in turn, transforming the urban landscape in these two countries. The book offers a strong theoretical base from which to understand these processes and the social and economic forces that shape them."—John Iceland, Penn State University "The book forms a good and concise overview for those who are new to the field [and] is very useful in courses on Immigration and the City."—Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Residential Patterns of Immigrants in Cities Chapter 3: Housing Attainment, Ownership, and the Immigrant Experience in Global Cities Chapter 4: Immigration and Ethnic Community Chapter 5: Immigrant Business and Ethnic Economies Chapter 6: Immigrants and the Foodscapes, Playscapes, and the Landscapes of Global Cities Chapter 7: Time Use among Immigrants: A Window to Acculturation into a New Society Chapter 8: Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisFounded in 2007 to fund basic research, the European Research Council (ERC) has become the most revered instrument in European science policy and one of the world s most important focal points for the funding of scientific research.Trade Review"This is so far the most thoroughly researched investigation on how the ERC came into existence and of the first seven years of its institutional life. The analysis of the different layers of what the author calls the ERC aura and its inevitable routinization – the EU formalized structures, the personalities involved, initial and current policy ambitions and the accomplishments of the ERC for science in Europe – opens a wide conceptual space to re-think the relationship between science and policy." - Helga Nowotny, Former President of the European Research Council"In just ten years since its creation, the European Research Council has made a profound mark on Europe's scientific landscape. And through a combination of mimicry, adaptation and innovation, it has risen with remarkable speed into the premier league of research funders worldwide. Drawing on his unique access to the ERC's inner workings, as a former adviser to its president, Thomas Konig has produced a definitive account of its first decade, packed with revealing insights into the political and budgetary battles that were fought along the way. Thoughtful, engaging, and rich in both data and anecdotes, it's a book that will be of interest to scientists, policymakers, funders, and anyone seeking to understand the future of global research." - James Wilsdon, Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield"In this first comprehensive history, Thomas König — former scientific adviser to ERC president Helga Nowotny — offers a multifaceted perspective. ... A story of big scientific personalities and struggles for autonomy and accountability in the charged space between policy and science." - Nature"König’s keen eyes take in everything from inspirational words about discovery printed on “cheap looking woven fabric” on a wall in its Brussels headquarters to key players’ optimism, arrogance, high ideals and wounded pride." - Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsList of tables and figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface 1. ‘The future of scientific research in Europe’ 2. ‘A radical proposal’ 2.1 ‘”Not-yet-born” sector actors’ 2.2 ‘Maybe it is time for a European Research Council in some form?’ 2.3 ‘Everybody is talking about something different’ 3. ‘European Value Added’ 3.1 ‘Clear ownership’ 3.2 ‘Lack of sufficient competition’ 3.3 ‘Credible to the scientific world’ 4. ‘The most promising opportunities’ 4.1 ‘What the ERC will need’ 4.2 ‘Internal policies’ 5. ‘State of crisis’ 5.1 ‘Deep Commission’ 5.2 ‘We are not there yet’ 5.3 ‘Flawed recommendation’ 6. ‘A rather conventional system’ 6.1 ‘A broader palette’ 6.2 ‘To promote interdisciplinarity and breadth of viewpoints’ 6.3 ‘Preventive and dissuasive actions’ 7. ‘Wide-ranging effects’ 7.1 ‘Justifying to stakeholders’ 7.2 ‘i-conomy’ 7.3 ‘Symbolic value’ 8. Summary and personal postscript Annex 1: List of archival collections used Annex 2: List of interviews

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Book SynopsisFrom selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and thoughts are documented and shared online.Trade Review"Politics is personal and the personal is political. As new media platforms enhance our ability to express ourselves and connect with others, everyday politics are performed in public spheres interconnected by social media. Tim Highfield makes this abundantly clear in Social Media and Everyday Politics, a must read volume for those interested in how the language, the practice, and the meaning of political expression evolve in contemporary societies. His approach offers rich theoretical terms, methodological insight, and analytical rigor to our understanding of how social media reorganize political realities."—Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago "This is an excellent book. It is comprehensive and up-to-date. It is a great introduction to social media in general but especially delivers handsomely on its topic of everyday politics and social media. The range of examples and cases are terrific and well-analysed. I especially like the authorial voice grounded, funny, lively, sharp.—Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney "Of special interest to sociology, journalism, and political science scholars, the internet studies encompassed in this book bridge the gap between these disciplines by showing the interaction among them."—Choice "This book is a great introduction to the everday politics of socia media, and the vibrant discussion of important issues makes it worth a read for students and scolars at any level."—Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Everyday Politics and Social Media Chapter One: Personal/Political Chapter Two: Political Rituals of Social Media Chapter Three: Media Politics Chapter Four: Breaking News, Scandals, and Crises Chapter Five: Collective and Connective Action Chapter Six: Partisan Politics and Politicians on Social Media Chapter Seven: The Everyday of Elections Conclusion: The Changing Face of Everyday Social Media and Everyday Politics Notes References

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born.Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings.Trade Review"Over the course of his exemplary career Alan Warde has emerge as an important - perhaps the important - theorist of eating and dining. In The Practice of Eating Warde provides a detailed analysis of the practice of dining and culinary production. Building on the centrality of consumption as a form of action, Warde synthesizes a wide range of theoretical approaches, applicable not only to the gastronomic world but in all corners of sociability. Warde has developed an approach to foodways as practice that belongs with the most trenchant works of contemporary theory."—Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University and author of Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work "Rejecting conventional accounts of consumer choice, Alan Warde examines the routinized and habitual character of eating as a social practice. In a field that is prone to political rhetoric and media speculation, The practice of eating offers conceptual clarity and empirical rigour, a compelling synthesis of more than a decade's research on the sociology of consumption."—Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield "In this accomplished new book, Alan Warde conducts a substantive analysis of aspects of eating situations and performances in the light of theory, paying due attention to its various contexts. The growing ranks of sociologists in the broad area of food studies will welcome this ambitious attempt to unify a hitherto dispersed and disparate field by devising an comprehensive theory of how we eat."—Christel Lane, University of Cambridge "The book serves as a solid, multi-disciplinary bibliography of food studies. It can be acclaimed for its presentation on a versatile set of themes from various levels and domains of eating (from a very close up look at the orchestration of a restaurant menu to the aggregate level phenomena such as the obesity crisis and the spreading of taste for 'exotica'), which are noteworthy and relevant for sociologists of eating."—Acta SociologicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Towards a Sociological Theory of Eating Chapter 3: Elements of a Theory of Practice Chapter 4: Elementary Forms of Eating Chapter 5: Organizing Eating Chapter 6: Habituation Chapter 7: Repetition and the Foundations of Competence Chapter 8: Conclusions: Practice Theory and Eating Out Notes References

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This new book is a vital corrective to the conservative claim that immigrants ‘take jobs’ from American workers. Milkman's careful historical research shows that de-unionization and job degradation, on the one hand, and rising inequality on the other, are the key drivers of rising low-wage immigration over the past half-century — not vice versa. Understanding that employers and political elites are to blame for the plight of U.S.-born workers — not immigrants — can help to build bridges across racial and ethnic lines to mount a unified challenge to the toxic politics of right-wing populism.”Pramila Jayapal, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus “Ruth Milkman addresses the central claim of contemporary nativism, that immigrants ‘take’ the jobs of ‘Americans.’ She persuasively shows that immigrant labor is not the cause of wage degradation, but its consequence. An important and timely book.”Mae Ngai, Columbia University “This carefully documented and forcefully argued book is a convincing counter to conventional immigration narratives.”Michael J. Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"In her four-plus decades of pioneering research, Ruth Milkman has profoundly changed the way we approach gender, immigration, and work. . . . Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat does much to capture the policy and political-economic changes that have formed the backdrop of Milkman’s equally pioneering work on immigrant labor organizing."ILR Review "A cogent historical sociological argument regarding the main driver of low wage migration to the USA since the 1970s. […] Milkman provides a concise, readable, evidence-based counter-narrative to the 'immigrant threat narrative.'"SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Brown-Collar Jobs: Low-Wage Immigrant Workers in the 21st Century 2 Immigration and Labor in Historical Perspective 3 The Eclipse of the New Deal: Labor Degradation, Union Decline, and Immigrant Workers 4 Growing Inequality and Immigrant Employment in Paid Domestic Labor and Service Industry Jobs 5 Immigrant Labor Organizing and Advocacy in the Neoliberal Era Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMulticulturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.Trade Review"With characteristic verve and acumen, Joppke shows, in an illuminating comparison of gay rights in the United States and Muslim accommodation in Europe, that liberal constitutional states protect different (sexual or religious) preferences without having to acknowledge rights of groups. A crucial contribution to one of the most important debates of our times."—Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University "When every politician pours scorn on multiculturalism, you can trust Christian Joppke, the most interesting voice in migration and citizenship studies, who never pulled a punch against group rights, to revive the concept. Did he change his mind? Spoiler: not really. But the result – as always – is endlessly stimulating."—Per Mouritsen, Aarhus UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is Dead and What is Alive Chapter 1: Multiculturalism: Not One but Many Things Chapter 2: Retreat of Multiculturalism and Civic Integration Chapter 3: Why Multiculturalism is Necessary: Liberal Law and the Empowerment of Gays and Muslims Chapter 4: Multiculturalism v. Antidiscrimination Conclusion: What Remains: A Multiculturalism of the Individual

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Book SynopsisMulticulturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.Trade Review"With characteristic verve and acumen, Joppke shows, in an illuminating comparison of gay rights in the United States and Muslim accommodation in Europe, that liberal constitutional states protect different (sexual or religious) preferences without having to acknowledge rights of groups. A crucial contribution to one of the most important debates of our times."—Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University "When every politician pours scorn on multiculturalism, you can trust Christian Joppke, the most interesting voice in migration and citizenship studies, who never pulled a punch against group rights, to revive the concept. Did he change his mind? Spoiler: not really. But the result – as always – is endlessly stimulating."—Per Mouritsen, Aarhus UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is Dead and What is Alive Chapter 1: Multiculturalism: Not One but Many Things Chapter 2: Retreat of Multiculturalism and Civic Integration Chapter 3: Why Multiculturalism is Necessary: Liberal Law and the Empowerment of Gays and Muslims Chapter 4: Multiculturalism v. Antidiscrimination Conclusion: What Remains: A Multiculturalism of the Individual

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Book Synopsis'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the major music labels, this book provides a critique of the ways these companies have successfully adapted to digital challenges and what is at stake for music makers and for culture.Trade Review"This is a truly excellent book. Based on a wealth of original research, including interviews with music and brand personnel, plus analysis of trade magazines and conventions, it makes a powerful argument about the way popular music has become subsumed under branding and advertising. Important." Jason Toynbee, formerly of The Open University "Leslie Meier asks hard questions about what music is for, at a time when corporate brands own, produce and distribute what we listen to. Her analysis of contemporary licensing, digital marketing and artist-brands brings new depth and subtlety to the ongoing tensions between art and commerce. Popular Music as Promotion makes a valuable contribution to critical scholarship on our thoroughly promotional culture." Melissa Aronczyk, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Popular Music, Branding, and Promotional Culture 1 From Commodities to Commercials? The Rise of Promotion in the Music Industries 2 Capitalizing on Music: From Sound Recordings to 'Artist-Brands' 3 Brands: The New Gatekeepers 4 'Flexible' Capitalism and Popular Music: Branding Culture, Designing 'Difference' 5 Conclusions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals. Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries' leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their political budgets' which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuildingÑand it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, Trade Review"The foremost Western analyst of the Horn of Africa, Alex de Waal provides a superb account of the region's highly interdependent and often troubling politics. He combines an anthropologist's attention to local contexts with a political economist's analysis of transnational entanglements of markets, power struggles, and war. Often disturbing, even though de Waal seeks reasons to be hopeful, but a must read." Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science "An outstanding book. The author's knowledge of the topic and region is unrivalled, and enlivened and enlightened by his personal experience and anecdotes" Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College, DublinTable of Contents Introduction: Observing the business of power The Political Marketplace: Politics is Business and Business is Politics The Horn of Africa: Subcontinental war in three acts Darfur: The auction of loyalties Sudan: Managing the unmanageable South Sudan: The boom and bust of a speculative bubble Somalia: A post-apocalypse workshop Somaliland: A business-social contract Eritrea: A museum of modernism Ethiopia: Is state-building still possible? Transnational Patronage: Shadow globalization and the regional marketplace The Politics of Ideas: Perplexed intellectuals and policymakers

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Book SynopsisThe Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition.Trade Review"Benefiting from his exceptional cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary background, Gabowitsch looks at the Russian polity from below. Highly informed by personal observations, interviews and a systematic database of protest events, the book offers a completely new view of the promise and challenges of protest in the context of the authoritarian temptation that has come back to haunt the entire European continent." Laurent Thévenot, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris "This book sheds new light on the forces and conditions that have shaped the anti-Putin protests in Moscow and elsewhere, examining in unprecedented detail the events, personalities and ideas that have changed Russian and global politics in recent years. There is little doubt that mass protests will occur in Russia again, though in new and unpredictable forms. This book helps us understand their fateful crescendos." Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, Florence, author of Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience "Gabowitsch’s seminal study is of interest to the specialist as well as the general reader. It is a meticulously researched volume that throws light on the diverse protests that swept Russia in the wake of the 2011 Duma election. While they failed to prevent Putin's return to the presidency, the protests may well have heralded potentially momentous social change." Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Cambridge"Protest in Putin’s Russia combines stirring reportage with conceptual sophistication, taking readers into sites of protest not only in Moscow but in cities across Russia."The New York Review of Books"...an extremely important and rare contribution to the scholarship on social movements and political mobilisation in Russia and around the world"Europe-Asia StudiesTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: March of Millions Chapter 2. Putin�s Regimes Chapter 3. Insurgent Observers Chapter 4. Scenes and Solidarities: Opposition and Grassroots Protest Before 2011-13 Chapter 5. Crossed Purposes: Opposition and Grassroots Protestors in the 2011-13 Protest Wave Chapter 6. Pussy Riot and Beyond: Art, Religion and Gender Regimes in Russian Protest Chapter 7. Cognitive Spaces of Protest Chapter 8. The Transnational Dimension Chapter 9. Conclusion: Protest in Putin�s third term

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Book SynopsisThe Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa Gabowitsch challenges these journalistic clichés, showing that they stem from wishful thinking and media bias rather than from accurate empirical analysis. Drawing on a rich body of material, he analyses the biggest wave of demonstrations since the end of the Soviet Union, situating them in the context of protest and social movements across Russia as a whole. He also explores the legacy of the protests in the new era after Ukraine?s much larger Maidan protests, the crises in Crimea and the Donbass, and Putin?s ultra-conservative turn. As the first full-length study of the Russian protests, this book will be of great value to students and scholars of Russia and to anyone interested in contemporary social movements and Trade Review"Benefiting from his exceptional cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary background, Gabowitsch looks at the Russian polity from below. Highly informed by personal observations, interviews and a systematic database of protest events, the book offers a completely new view of the promise and challenges of protest in the context of the authoritarian temptation that has come back to haunt the entire European continent." Laurent Thévenot, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris "This book sheds new light on the forces and conditions that have shaped the anti-Putin protests in Moscow and elsewhere, examining in unprecedented detail the events, personalities and ideas that have changed Russian and global politics in recent years. There is little doubt that mass protests will occur in Russia again, though in new and unpredictable forms. This book helps us understand their fateful crescendos." Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, Florence, author of Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience "Gabowitsch’s seminal study is of interest to the specialist as well as the general reader. It is a meticulously researched volume that throws light on the diverse protests that swept Russia in the wake of the 2011 Duma election. While they failed to prevent Putin's return to the presidency, the protests may well have heralded potentially momentous social change." Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Cambridge"Protest in Putin’s Russia combines stirring reportage with conceptual sophistication, taking readers into sites of protest not only in Moscow but in cities across Russia."The New York Review of Books"...an extremely important and rare contribution to the scholarship on social movements and political mobilisation in Russia and around the world"Europe-Asia StudiesTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: March of Millions Chapter 2. Putin�s Regimes Chapter 3. Insurgent Observers Chapter 4. Scenes and Solidarities: Opposition and Grassroots Protest Before 2011-13 Chapter 5. Crossed Purposes: Opposition and Grassroots Protestors in the 2011-13 Protest Wave Chapter 6. Pussy Riot and Beyond: Art, Religion and Gender Regimes in Russian Protest Chapter 7. Cognitive Spaces of Protest Chapter 8. The Transnational Dimension Chapter 9. Conclusion: Protest in Putin�s third term

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a reasoned, unflinching analysis of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual and empirical foundation needed to understand key issues surrounding both race and work.Trade Review“Race and Work offers an engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the connections between race, ethnicity, and work opportunities and experiences. The book counteracts color-blind myths by situating persistent work-related race inequities in structures as well as interactions, invisible as well as visible racist practices. Loscocco invites readers to the discussion by skilfully creating a narrative based in logic and evidence. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in how and why race inequality persists.” Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University and 2018 President of the American Sociological Association “Loscocco brings much-needed attention to the complex relationship between race and work. Not only does she bring historical evidence to bear on current-day workplace racial inequalities, but she goes beyond the usual conversation about black–white differences, discussing the work experiences of Native American tribe members and emphasizing differences among Asian and Hispanic subgroups.” Julie Kmec, Washington State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction 1. Race and Work: Laying the Conceptual Groundwork 2. The Roots of Race-Based Work Inequalities 3 Activism and Entrepreneurship 4. The Past is in the Present: Persistent Work Inequalities 5. Explaining Race Differences in Work Outcomes 6. Trending Race and Work Issues 7. Reducing Racial Inequities at Work

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a reasoned, unflinching analysis of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual and empirical foundation needed to understand key issues surrounding both race and work.Trade Review“Race and Work offers an engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the connections between race, ethnicity, and work opportunities and experiences. The book counteracts color-blind myths by situating persistent work-related race inequities in structures as well as interactions, invisible as well as visible racist practices. Loscocco invites readers to the discussion by skilfully creating a narrative based in logic and evidence. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in how and why race inequality persists.” Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University and 2018 President of the American Sociological Association “Loscocco brings much-needed attention to the complex relationship between race and work. Not only does she bring historical evidence to bear on current-day workplace racial inequalities, but she goes beyond the usual conversation about black–white differences, discussing the work experiences of Native American tribe members and emphasizing differences among Asian and Hispanic subgroups.” Julie Kmec, Washington State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction 1. Race and Work: Laying the Conceptual Groundwork 2. The Roots of Race-Based Work Inequalities 3 Activism and Entrepreneurship 4. The Past is in the Present: Persistent Work Inequalities 5. Explaining Race Differences in Work Outcomes 6. Trending Race and Work Issues 7. Reducing Racial Inequities at Work

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Book SynopsisDigital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions.Trade Review"With all the hype about education technologies and their potential for 'disruption', it's vital to scrutinize what these technologies promise and what they can and cannot do. Selwyn's book offers a much-needed critical analysis of education technology, moving beyond the overly simplified positions that ed-tech is good or ed-tech is bad or ed-tech is even inevitable.' Audrey Watters, Education Writer and author of the blog Hack Education "Neil Selwyn is one of the most informed and incisive writers on technology in education today. This short, accessible book provides a powerful antidote to the inflated cyber-hype that is spun by educationalists, politicians and technology marketers alike." David Buckingham, Loughborough University "Many policy-makers, educators and providers have assumed technology is good for education. In this incisive and provocative book, Selwyn insists they think again - not because technology is inherently problematic, but because our society is, designing and deploying technology to serve some interests more than others." Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science "The book opens up �new� ways of thinking and conceptualising digital education. All those in education, whether they are �technophiles� or �technophobic�, must read this book." Educational FuturesTable of ContentsPreface 1. Digital Technology and Educational Change 2. Making Education More Democratic? 3. Making Education More Personalized? 4. Making Education More Calculable? 5. Making Education More Commercial? 6. Education "Good" and the Digital Ð So What Needs To Change? Notes

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Book SynopsisContemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an imperative in many parts of society.In this new book, cultural sociologist Andreas Reckwitz investigates how the ideal of creativity has grown into a major social force, from the art of the avant-garde and postmodernism to the creative industries' and the innovation economy, the psychology of creativity and self-growth, the media representation of creative stars, and the urban design of creative cities'. Where creativity is often assumed to be a force for good, Reckwitz looks critically at how this imperative has developed from the 1970s to the present day. Though we may well perceive creativity as the realization of some natural and innate potential within us, it has rather to be understood within the structures of a very specifTrade Review"Whether you think you are creative or not, you should read on. In carefully dissecting the social and historical constitution of this concept, Andreas Reckwitz provides a compelling account of how creativity has become a defining feature of contemporary society."Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University"Reckwitz’s The Invention of Creativity is not a "creative industries" book. It is instead a sociology that addresses not so much the aestheticization of society as the societalization of the aesthetic – of the pervasion of what Reckwitz, with Foucault, calls the aesthetic dispositif. Neither a dismissal nor a celebration, the book is instead a genealogy of creativity – of how homo economicus has metamorphosed into homo aestheticus."Scott Lash, Goldsmiths, University of London "An impressive study." Die Zeit "With great intelligence and an argument grounded in scholarship, cultural sociologist Andreas Reckwitz shows just why we perceive creativity as a 'natural' human ability, and one that we feel is absolutely essential in order for us to develop and grow as individuals." Frankfurter Rundschau"A fascinating and ambitious book with a provocative thesis."Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface to the English edition Introduction: The Inevitability of Creativity 1. Aestheticisation and the creativity dispositif: The social regime of aesthetic novelty 2. Artistic creation, the genius and the audience: The formation of the modern artistic field 3. Centrifugal art: Dissolving the boundaries of art practices 4. The rise of the aesthetic economy: Permanent innovation, creative industries and the design economy 5. The psychological turn in creativity: From the pathological genius to the normalisation of the self as resource 6. The Genesis of the star system: The mass media construction of expressive individuality 7. Creative cities: Culturalising urban life 8. Society of creativity: Structures, dissonance, alternatives Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAs the twenty-first century unfolds, computers continue to change the way we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities. In a world of Big Data, Google Books, digital archives, real-time streaming systems and smart phones, our use of culture has been changing dramatically.Trade Review"This important book addresses significant questions about the role of digital humanities in scholarship today. Concise and comprehensive, it is essential reading and a major addition to the emerging critical appraisal of the field." Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow "This is a compelling and exciting analysis of the ways in which the encounter between the humanities and computers is reshaping and remediating our shared cultural and intellectual world. David Berry and Anders Fagerjord present an inspiring manifesto for a pluralistic and critical digital humanities and provide an essential roadmap for anyone seeking to understand our emerging digital cultures."Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow "This book covers excellent ground. It draws together and analyses developments and critical moments in the growth of Digital Humanities in ways that clearly show their importance and impact." Kathryn Eccles, University of Oxford"As a clearly articulated, accurate, and concisely critical introduction, this book is exemplary. … I would recommend this volume to any newcomer who wanted a fair and true institutional history of the digital humanities. … a benignly deceptive introductory overview that also serves as a guiding critical compass for the future of the digital humanities."Martin Paul Eve, New Formations Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Genealogies of the Digital Humanities 3. Computational Thinking 4. Knowledge Representation and Archives 5. Research Infrastructures 6. Digital Methods and Tools 7. Digital Scholarship and Interface Criticism 8. Towards a Critical Digital Humanities Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition ofGender and Popular Cultureexamines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms including popular music, social media, television and magazines to illustrate how femininity and masculinity are produced, represented, used and consumed.Blending primary and secondary research, Milestone and Meyer introduce key theories and concepts in gender studies and popular culture, which are made accessible and interesting through their application to topical examples such as the #MeToo campaign, intensive mothering and social media, discourses about women and binge drinking, and gender and popular music.Included in this revised edition is a new chapter on digital culture, examining the connection between digital platforms and gender identities, relations and activism, as well as a new chapter on cultural work in digital contexts. All chapters have been updated to acknowledge recent changes in gender images and relations as well as media culture. Additionally, there is new material on the Fourth Wave Women's Movement, audiences and prosumers, and the role of social media.Gender and Popular Cultureis the go-to textbook for students of gender studies, media and communication, and popular culture.Trade Review�The second edition of this useful volume broadens its already expansive terrain and impressive list of examples to include up-to-the minute developments particularly in digital and social media. This heightens its relevance and readability for those who want to develop a better understanding of critical media studies through a gendered lens.� Diane Negra, University College Dublin �Offering an extensive overview of the gendered experience cultural production (including digital performativity and labour), representation and media discourse, and lived lives, Gender and Popular Culture remains essential reading for scholars and students of contemporary culture.� Susan Luckman, University of South AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction PART I: GENDER AND THE PRODUCTION OF POPULAR CULTURE 2 Gender and Cultural Work: Post-War to the Late Twentieth Century 3 Gender and Cultural Work in the Digital Age PART II: DISCOURSES, GENDER AND POPULAR CULTURE 4 Discourses and Femininity 5 Discourses and Masculinity PART III: MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE, GENDER AND POWER 6 Consumer Culture, Audiences and Identity 7 Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender 8 Gender and Popular Culture in Everyday Spaces 9 Conclusion: Prisoners of Gender? References Index

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition ofGender and Popular Cultureexamines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms including popular music, social media, television and magazines to illustrate how femininity and masculinity are produced, represented, used and consumed.Blending primary and secondary research, Milestone and Meyer introduce key theories and concepts in gender studies and popular culture, which are made accessible and interesting through their application to topical examples such as the #MeToo campaign, intensive mothering and social media, discourses about women and binge drinking, and gender and popular music.Included in this revised edition is a new chapter on digital culture, examining the connection between digital platforms and gender identities, relations and activism, as well as a new chapter on cultural work in digital contexts. All chaptTrade Review�The second edition of this useful volume broadens its already expansive terrain and impressive list of examples to include up-to-the minute developments particularly in digital and social media. This heightens its relevance and readability for those who want to develop a better understanding of critical media studies through a gendered lens.� Diane Negra, University College Dublin �Offering an extensive overview of the gendered experience cultural production (including digital performativity and labour), representation and media discourse, and lived lives, Gender and Popular Culture remains essential reading for scholars and students of contemporary culture.� Susan Luckman, University of South AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction PART I: GENDER AND THE PRODUCTION OF POPULAR CULTURE 2 Gender and Cultural Work: Post-War to the Late Twentieth Century 3 Gender and Cultural Work in the Digital Age PART II: DISCOURSES, GENDER AND POPULAR CULTURE 4 Discourses and Femininity 5 Discourses and Masculinity PART III: MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE, GENDER AND POWER 6 Consumer Culture, Audiences and Identity 7 Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender 8 Gender and Popular Culture in Everyday Spaces 9 Conclusion: Prisoners of Gender? References Index

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Book SynopsisDemography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives. ' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before.Trade Review"Demographers threaten us with a world population explosion, an unsupportable burden of pensioners, migration run wild, even a eugenic threat! But Dorling and Gietel-Basten give us heart. Some threats turned into blessings while other proved as hopelessly inaccurate as economic forecast."Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level "Dorling and Gietel-Basten demonstrate how much we don't know when it comes to demographics. With encyclopedic incision, the authors enjoin readers to consider the meaning, measurement, and manipulation of demographics, eschewing hyperbole for common sense. Rejecting demographic fear mongering and cloudy statistical thinking, Why Demography Matters provides a critical assessment of who counts and why, and the meaning of one of the world's most important drivers of change."Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"As authors Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten remind us in their excellent text, [the] misinterpretation of demographic work is not uncommon. They remind us that the work of demographers is inherently political. […] Ultimately, Dorling and Gietel-Basten ask, can demography be optimistic and personal? And their convincing response is yes. This is why I think this book should be a required supplemental text to any demography class as well as an essential read for anyone involved in demographic work."Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Populations 3. Destiny and Determination 4. Population ‘Explosion’ 5. Why No Children? 6. Population Ageing 7. Population and the Global Economy 8. Population and Politics 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.Trade Review"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read." Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTable of Contents Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat Stress and Freedom The Reaction of the Real On the Source of Committed Freedom

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Book SynopsisA compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.Trade ReviewA timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University * Atlantis, Volume 28.1 *Table of ContentsAcronyms; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Gender, Prostitution, and the “Standards of Civilization”2 Peasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s3 Elite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem4 Women’s Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy5 The Politics of Prostitution and the “New Man”: The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity6 The Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women7 The Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and NationAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.Trade ReviewA timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University * Atlantis, Volume 28.1 *Table of ContentsAcronyms; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Gender, Prostitution, and the “Standards of Civilization”2 Peasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s3 Elite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem4 Women’s Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy5 The Politics of Prostitution and the “New Man”: The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity6 The Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women7 The Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and NationAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last twenty years, the feminist ethic of care has had a significant impact on the study of ethics and political philosophy. Hankivsky develops the concept of a publicly viable ethic of care, and applies it to several Canadian social policy issues.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 First-Generation Care Theorists and Liberal Assessments of Care2 Second-Generation Care Theorists and the Moral Principles of Care3 The Interpretation of Equality: A Study of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms4 Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Care-Informed Approach for Compensating Victims of Institutional Abuse5 Economic Costing in Social Policy: The Ethics of Quantifying Intangible Losses6 Caregiving: Reconceptualizing the Public/Private Divide ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 Laying the Foundation 3 The Everyday Lives of Our Heroes 4 From Blueprint to Reality: Challenges at the Job Site 5 Measuring Success 6 "A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out": Let’s Get SeriousAbout Retraining Appendices Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.Trade Review"An outstanding book. It will be widely used by those interested in the welfare state and labour market issues, as well those in urban Aboriginal studies, where it has much to say that is very valuable." -Jim Silver, Chair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba"Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 Laying the Foundation 3 The Everyday Lives of Our Heroes 4 From Blueprint to Reality: Challenges at the Job Site 5 Measuring Success 6 "A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out": Let’s Get SeriousAbout Retraining Appendices Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEstablished in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several decades to the benefit of the rights of the unemployed, the mid-1970s saw the first stirrings of a counterattack as the federal government's Keynesian strategy came under siege. Neo-liberalists denounced unemployment insurance and other aspects of the welfare state as inflationary and unproductive. Employment was increasingly thought to be a personal responsibility and the handling of the unemployed was to reflect a free-market approach. This regressive movement culminated in the 1990s counter-reforms, heralding a major policy shift. TTrade ReviewCampeau’s detailed account is concise, thorough and easy to follow. -- Alvin Finkel, Athabasca University * Labour/Le Travail, Issue 58, Fall 2005 *Campeau’s book is without question a useful survey of the history of employment insurance in Canada. For those interested in the legislation itself, Campeau offers a detailed and esoteric look at its adoption and development over the years. For those interested in the constitutional skirmish that has been fought through the years over employment insurance, Campeau also charts out how that battle has progressed over time ... In sum, anyone with an interest in labour law, and in particular the past, present and future of employment insurance in Canada, would likely find From UI to EI an interesting perspective and an informative read. -- Robert Neilson * Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 69, 2006 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Why UI?2 The British Act of 19113 Developing a Canadian System 4) The UI Act of 19405 UI Expansion, 1940-756 Vision under Siege, 1975-887 Rights Enshrined in Case Law, 1940-908 The System Hijacked, 1989-969 Onward to EI10 Case Law in the Neoliberal Riptide of the 1990sConclusionEpilogue: Bill C-2, February 2001NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhile poverty persists as a major social problem, Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty and its consequences as issues of human rights and citizenship. This volume examines the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.Trade ReviewDry legal scholarship is rarely as infused with compassion as it is in this book. The 18 individually authored chapters are written by legal scholars and practitioners, social activists and professionals who are waging an ongoing struggle against Canadian poverty. …the chapters are thoughtful, insightful, and often compelling as well as Canadian-centric. -- A. F. Johnson, Bishop's University * Choice, Vol. 45, No. 05 *In this volume, editors Margot Young, Susan B. Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, and Shelagh Day bring together a collection of essays intended to stimulate continued social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism or social justice. […] In total, this volume is an indispensable resource for scholars endeavoring to widen their understanding of social citizenship, poverty, and rights in ways that intertwine social policy and law. As well, some or all of the chapters will make valuable additions to graduate course syllabi n poverty, social movements, social policy, and he welfare state. -- Amber Gazso, York University * Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol.33, No. 3, 2008 *This collection transitions effortlessly between legal analysis, political commentary, and human rights advocacy. Featuring twenty different authors representing a range of interests and expertise, this collection provides a wide breadth of review on this topic ... This collaboration presents an important discussion on the range of barriers to equality which are found in Canadian society, particularly the Canadian judicial system. -- Alison Forbes * Saskatchewan Law Review, Vol.71, 2008 *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Poverty and Rights: Reading Gosselin1 Reality checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases / Martha Jackman2 But It’s for Your Own Good / Diane Pothier3 Social Rights and Judicial Competence / David SchneidermanPart 2: Social Citizenship and the State4 Claiming Adjudicative space: Social Rights and Citizenship / Bruce Porter5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Charter Equality Litigation to Advance Women’s Rights / Sharon McIvor6 Welfare Reformed: The Re-making of the Model Citizen / Janet Mosher7 The “Made in Québec” Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion / Lucie Lamarche8 Trade Regime Federalism: An Assessment of the Social Union Framework Agreement / Barbara CameronPart 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of post-National Capital Control / Marjorie Griffin Cohen10 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal / Gráinne McKeever and Fionnuala Ni Aoláin11 Minding the Gap: Treaty Commitments and Government Practice / Shelagh Day12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go? / Karrisha PillayPart 4: Beyond Gosselin: Legal Theory Emboldened13 Taking Competence Seriously / David Wiseman14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights / Denise Réaume15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Roll Backs: A Meditation on “Justice as Fairness” as a “Bedrock Value” of the Canadian Democratic Project / Ken NormanPart 5: Legal Activism Revived16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation / Margot Young17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case / Melina Buckley18 Charter Rights and Government Choices / Gwen Brodsky

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth century.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Building Walls, Bounding Nations3 Between Two Worlds4 Dismantling White Canada5 Guest Workers into Germans6 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of family allowances offers inventive insights into Canada’s welfare state and social policy over the past half century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Dawning of a New Era in Social Security, 1929-432 Family Allowances Comes to Canada, 1943-453 The 1944 Family Allowances Debate and The Politics of It All4 Sharing the Wealth: The Registration for Family Allowances Begins, 19455 The Impact of Family Allowance to the 1960s6 Poverty, Politics, and Family Allowances, 1960-707 Family Allowances and Constitutional Change, 1968-728 Wrestling with Universality, 1972-839 The Demise of Family Allowances, 1984-99ConclusionNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.Trade ReviewAcademic Careers and the Gender Gap is an original study that offers valuable new insights on the gendering of academic work, especially with respect to the changing nature of the university context and the academic profession. A particular strength lies in the rich qualitative data that sheds valuable light on ongoing debates in the sociology of gender, work, and family. -- Karen D. Hughes, Professor of Sociology and Business (Strategic Management and Organization), University of AlbertaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Setting the Scene2 Gendered Patterns of Education, Work, and Family Life3 University Restructuring and Global Markets4 Social Capital and Gendered Responses to University Practices5 Gendered Families and the Motherhood Penalty6 Subjectivities and the Gender Gap7 Explaining the Academic Gender GapMethodological AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how, in the post-9/11 era, Arab Canadians have become “targeted transnationals” through racialized immigration and security policies as well as negative media representations that legitimize their homogenization and racialization.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Arab Canadians as Targeted Transnationals / Jenna Hennebry and Bessma MomaniPart 1: State Practices and Policies1 “Arab” Migration to Canada: Far from Monolithic / Jenna Hennebry and Zainab Amery2 The Securitization and Racialization of Arabs in Canada’s Immigration and Citizenship Policies / Zainab Amery3 Creeping beyond Balance? Reconciling Security and Human Rights in Uncertain Times / Andrew S. Thompson4 On the Borderlines of Human and Citizen: The Liminal (italics) State of Arab Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-LabanPart 2: Intersecting Discourses (this should be in italics) and Representations5 Multiculturalism and Discrimination in Canada and Quebec: The Case of Arabs and Muslims / Rachad Antonius, Micheline Labelle, and François Rocher6 A Mediated Relationship: Media Representations of Arabs and Muslims as a Political Process / Rachad Antonius7 “Framing” the Toronto 18: Government Experts (this should be in italics, too), Corporate Media, and the Orientalizing of the Other / Jeremy D. KowalskiPart 3: Voices and Resistance8 Contesting Arab and Muslim Representations in Private Television and Radio in Canada: The Role and Decisions of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council / Dina Salha9 Media and the (De)Construction of Al-Ghorba for Arab Canadians / Aliaa Dakroury10 “How Do We Speak?” The Casting Out of the Canadian Arab Federation / Wafaa HasanConclusion: From Targeted Transnationals to Transnational Citizens / Jenna HennebryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisStrong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the “British world” beginning in the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland 2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand 3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia 4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada 5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn essential primer for readers interested in tracing the development and dynamics of Canada’s immigration program and understanding the impact of recent federal reforms on Canadian society.Trade ReviewWith careful attention to the disparate and often contradictory arguments about the usefulness of immigration – and by extension immigrants – to the nation, Immigration Canada rethinks and reframes notions of citizenship and settlement in an increasingly transnational age. -- Rachel Wong, York University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Reappraising Migration1 Twenty-First-Century Migration: Canada in the New Global Reality2 Global Migration, International Migrants: Patterns, Perspectives, ParadoxesPart 2: Immigration Canada3 Who Got In? Who Gets In? Continuity and Change in Canada’s Immigration Program4 Recalibrating Canada’s Immigration Program: Customizing Immigrants, Commodifying Migrant Labour5 Canada’s Refugee Status Determination Process: Controversies, Challenges, Changes6 American Exceptionalism: Contesting Immigration, Confounding ImmigrantsPart 3: Experiencing Immigration, Immigrant Experiences7 Assessing Immigration: Costs and Benefits, Impacts and Effects, Perceptions and Realities8 Immigrant Experiences: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful9 Integrating Immigrants: Inclusive Multiculturalism as Immigrant GovernancePart 4: Repositioning Immigrant Governance – Negotiating a New Global Migration Order10 Rethinking Immigrant Governance: The Challenges of Complex Diversity11 Customizing Citizenship: Recalibrating Identity and Belonging in a Postnational Canada12 Rethinking Immigration, Reframing Immigrants: Evolving Realities, Emerging Challenges, Shifting DiscoursesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisSo They Want Us to Learn French examines how and why Canadians both embraced and virulently opposed the ideal of personal bilingualism over the past fifty years, detailing and analyzing the strategies that social movements on both sides used to advance their goals.Trade ReviewHayday’s work is solid, carefully researched, and written in an accessible style … [T]he entire book is worthwhile reading, for it tells an important story of efforts, not by political decision-makers or paper-pushers but by grassroots activists, to transform English Canada’s linguistic identity one classroom at a time. -- Bruce Douville, Algoma University * Canadian Journal of History *Hayday’s work is a careful account of the English Canadian response to the Official Languages Act and French immersion programming that effectively illustrates the divisions of public opinion on these controversial programs. It is a valuable addition to our understanding of the evolution of English Canadian opinions regarding Canadian identity, official bilingualism, and national unity. -- Jack Cecillon, Glendon College * Historical Studies in Education *...So They Want Us to Learn French. Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-speaking Canada est à la fois informatif mais aussi symptomatique d’un problème profond et souvent occulté que peu de politiciens canadiens osent regarder en face. -- Yves Laberge * The Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsForeword / Graham FraserPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Canada’s Bilingualism Conundrum1 Bilingualism and Official Languages in Canada2 From Chez Hélène to the First French Immersion Experiments3 Playing Games with the Language Czar: The First Commissioner of Official Languages4 Social Movement Activism, 1969-765 Canadian Parents for French and its Adversaries, 1977-866 Internationalization and Higher Education: The Second Commissioner of Official Languages7 Canadian Parents for French and Local Activism, 1977-878 Shifting Priorities in the Commissioner’s Office9 Squaring off the Foes of Bilingualism in the Meech Lake Years, 1986-9010 Constitutional Crises and Economic Challenges in the Early 1990s11 A Millennial ReprieveConclusion: We Learned French! Well, Many Canadians DidAppendicesNotesList of Unpublished Primary SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisA renowned sociologist gains unprecedented access to Canadian immigration offices and reveals how visa officers determine who gets into Canada – and who stays out.Trade ReviewThis carefully researched and well-written book makes a major contribution to the field of immigration policy and its implementation. -- D.A. Chekki * CHOICE, February 2016 *Satzewich’s first-hand account of the inner workings at the Department of Immigration is not merely timely, it is excellent. Satzewich visited 11 Canadian visa offices abroad, interviewed 128 staff and witnessed 42 interviews with immigrants. It was unprecedented access … Points of Entry is crisp and compelling, written with objectivity and an extraordinary eye for detail. To read it is to understand why Syrian boys died on a beach, and why politicians lament that “doing the right thing is not always easy” — and then feel slightly ashamed. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter, September 2015 *Points of Entry is an ethnographically rich study which brings to life, at times sympathetically, the remote experiences of immigration officers. While offering an entree to the broader implications of how discretionary powers and the organizational culture of visa offices oscillate alongside experiential accounts of racism within Canada’s immigration system, the study also calls for further research into the motivations and intentions of immigration officers. -- Sonia D'Angelo, York University * International Journal, Vol. 71 No. 4, December 2016 *Points of Entry is a well-written, accessible volume. It makes transparent the formerly hidden exercise of decision making on the part of Canada’s admissions officers and, in so doing, challenges an often critical literature that has presumed entry bias without the test of evidence. -- David Ley, University of British Columbia * BC Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Stated and Hidden Agendas2 Delegated Discretion3 Immigration Policy4 Visa Offices and Officers5 Approval and Refusal Rates6 Spousal and Partner Sponsorships7 Federal Skilled Workers8 Visitor Visas9 The InterviewConclusionAppendixNotes, References, Index

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Book SynopsisCaring for Children interrogates Canadian public policies on the care of children, asking why the burden of care falls so heavily on women as mothers and caregivers, and what social movements are doing to try to redesign the politics of caring for children.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Movements and Policies – The Troubles of Caring for Children / Susan Prentice, Patrizia Albanese, and Rachel LangfordPart 1: The Canadian Policy Environment1 Mad Men Social Policy: Families, Social Reproduction, and Childcare in a Conservative Canada / Kate Bezanson2 The Politics of Income Splitting, Sex Equality, and Sex Role Stereotypes: Caring for Children or Keeping Women in Their Place? / Kathleen A. Lahey3 Changing Early Childhood Care and Learning for Aboriginal Children / Angela Mashford-Pringle4 Parental Leave, Class Inequalities, and “Caring With”: An Ethics of Care Approach to Canadian Parental-Leave Policy / Andrea Doucet and Lindsey McKayPart 2: Care Campaigns – Crossing Boundaries and Policy Challenges5 Taking Stock of Corporate Childcare in Alberta: Licensing Inspection Data in Not-for-Profit and Corporate Childcare Centres / Brooke Richardson6 Policy Making and Unlicensed Childcare: Lessons from Ontario / Michal Perlman, Petr Varmuza, and Linda White7 The Crisis of Social Reproduction under Global Capitalism: Working-Class Women and Children in the Struggle for Universal Childcare / Rachel Rosen, Suzanne Baustad, and Merryn Edwards8 Crossing Boundaries: In-Home Childcare and Migration in Canada / Elizabeth Adamson9 Nurturing Social Movement Intersectionality: Childcare Policy Advocacy in Canada / Tammy FindlayConclusion: Moving Forward, Lessons Learned / Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice, and Rachel LangfordIndex

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Book SynopsisDisabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement.Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers' compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.Trade ReviewDisabled Barriers is an intricate and thorough analysis of the interaction between labour histories and disability rights. The collection introduces a focus that has been largely ignored in the literature but would be quite valuable to researchers of labour and disability studies. -- Sara Klein, Research and Learning Services Librarian, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 *Table of ContentsForeword / Bryan D. PalmerIntroduction: Bringing History and Law to Disability Studies / Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin IsittPart 1: Historical Debates on Work and Disability1 Bearing the Marks of Capital: Solidarities and Fractures in E.T. Kingsley’s British Columbia / Mark Leier2 Employers, Disabled Workers, and the War on Attitudes in Late Twentieth-Century Canada / Dustin Galer3 Gender and the Value of Work in Canadian Disability History / Geoffrey ReaumePart 2: Debates in Disability Studies4 Dancing with a Cane: The Public Perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Disability / Anne Finger5 Disability in Motion: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Sensation, and the Emergence of Modern Vestibular Science in the Nineteenth Century / Mark Walters6 “Of Dark Type and Poor Physique”: Law, Immigration Restriction, and Disability in Canada, 1900–30 / Jen Rinaldi and Jay DolmagePart 3: Legal Debates7 Battling the Warrior-Litigator: An Exploration of Chronic Illness and Employment Discrimination Paradigms / Odelia R. Bay8 Towards Full Inclusion: Addressing the Issue of Income Inequality for People with Disabilities in Canada / Megan A. Rusciano9 Compensating Work-Related Disability: The Theory, Politics, and History of the Commodification-Decommodification Dialectic / Eric TuckerIndex

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Book SynopsisRising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.Trade ReviewThis is an older, more classical, and well-informed political economy analysis. -- T. M. Bateman, St. Thomas University * CHOICE Connect *Table of Contents1 Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages / Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowellPart 1: The "Standard" Employment Relationship: Low-Wage Work2 The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages / Stephen McBride, Sorin Mitrea, and Mohammad Ferdosi3 Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labor Movement / Biko Koenig and Deva Woodly4 Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement / Carlo Fanelli and A.J. WilsonPart 2: The Fight for Living Wages in Canada5 The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada’s Northern Territories / Kendall Hammond6 Getting By but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott7 The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of "Illegalized" Migrant Workers / Charity-Ann Hannan, John Shields, and Harald Bauder8 Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes / Mary-Dan Johnston and Christine Saulnier 9 The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building / Catherine Ludgate 10 Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan’s Living Wage Debate / Andrew StevensPart 3: Resistance and Alternatives11 The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach / David Goutor12 Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta 1999–2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson13 The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can be Done? / Tom McDowell, Sune Sandbeck, and Bryan EvansList of Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThe High North is a groundbreaking collection of essays that shakes up widely accepted narratives about marijuana legalization in Canada. In 2018, Canada became only the second country in the world to legalize cannabis. Once shunned, cannabis users are now eagerly courted as customers. What has cannabis legalization meant for the general public, governments, and the Canadian legal system? The contributors, cannabis scholars and practitioners, activists and advocates, examine public policy on cannabis, analyze consumer perceptions, and recount the history of the legalization movement. From the first appearance of cannabis in Canada and the advent of current-day dispensaries, to the mental health implications of legal weed and the plight of workers in the cannabis economy, The High North offers a comprehensive critique of the many aspects of legalization. To quote the Grateful Dead: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Can Someone Tell Me What Just Happened? / Andrew D. Hathaway and Clayton James Smith McCannPart 1: Cannabis in Context: Historical, Political, and Economic Factors1 From Prohibition to Legalization: Cannabis Use and the Law / Catherine Carstairs2 Cannabis-Policy Integration and Alignment: Missed Opportunities and Obstacles to Collaborative Governance / Jared J. Wesley3 Displacing the Illicit Cannabis Market: Challenges and Trade-offs / Jason Childs and George Hartner4 Medical Cannabis Dispensaries: A Conduit for Change? / Jenna VallerianiPart 2: Cannabis and Public Health: A Multidisciplinary View5 Cannabis Legalization: Déjà Vu All over Again? / Michael DeVillaer 6 Cannabis Substitution: The Canadian Experience / Michelle St. Pierre, Sarah Daniels, and Zach Walsh7 Cannabis and Mental Health: A Sociological Perspective / Andrew D. Hathaway8 Help Wanted: The Plight of Workers and Consumers under Canada’s Legal Cannabis Production Regime / Clayton James Smith McCannPart 3: Cannabis Subjectivities: An Array of Voices9 Women in Corporate Cannabis WorkFrom a Good House to Good Farm / An interview with Jeannette VanderMarelBuilding Consumer Trust in a Nascent Industry / Karina LahnakoskiCannabis Jobs in Canada / Alison McMahon10 Last Stop Before Hopeless / Kelly Insley11 Dusting Off the Path – Tsi Nionkwarihotens / Kanenhariyo Seth LeFort12 Slow Cannabis / Kelly Coulter13 Illicit Cannabis Market FolkloreGuilty Republic / Clayton James Smith McCannFor the Discriminating Traveller / “Sal”14 Cannabis Activism in Canada: Reflections on a Movement in Transition / Jodie EmeryPostscript: “Craft” Cannabis and a New Kind of Canadian Farm / Andrew D. Hathaway and Clayton James Smith McCannList of Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisSurvivors of conversion practices interventions meant to stop gender transition have likened these to torture. In the last decade, bans on these deeply unethical and harmful processes have proliferated, and governments across the world are considering following suit.Banning Transgender Conversion Practices considers pivotal questions for anyone studying or working to prevent these harmful interventions. What is the scope of the bans? How do they differ across jurisdictions? What are the advantages and disadvantages of legislative approaches to regulating trans conversion therapy? How can we improve these prohibitions? Florence Ashley answers these questions and demonstrates the need for affirmative health care cultures and detailed laws that clearly communicate which practices are banned.Banning Transgender Conversion Practices centres trans realities to rethink and push forward the legal regulation of conversion therapy, culminating in a carefully Trade ReviewFlorence Ashley does a magnificent job putting theory into practice. -- Rebecca Sanaeikia, University of Rochester * Medical Law International *Authored by an award-winning legal scholar, this book has an obvious home beyond academic law library collections. -- Alexandra Kwan, University of Toronto * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction1 What Are Trans Conversion Practices?2 Interpreting the Scope of Bans3 Legal Variants Across the Globe4 Opposition and Constitutional Challenges to Bans5 Policy Analysis 6 Developing an Affirmative Professional Culture7 Annotated Model Law for Prohibiting Conversion PracticesConclusionAppendix: Professional Organizations Opposing Trans Conversion PracticesNotes; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisThis deeply personal account of recent developments in the Canadian North tells the story of a region that leaders in Oslo, Ottawa, Moscow, and Washington often refuse to see and that only insiders fully know.Trade ReviewThere are tantalizing snippets of memoir in this book—Penikett is an excellent writer, and there’s one especially lovely description of his presence as honorary pallbearer at his former mother-in-law’s funeral and potlatch. But it is largely a comprehensive review of issues such as governance, international relations (a history and critique of the Arctic Council), resource management, climate change, and social issues like poverty, education, and health. Chapters on climate change, the “hungry ghost,” and the complex issue of sovereignty are especially good, as Penikett honours traditional knowledge (known colloquially as TK), and the slow integration of traditional knowledge into scientific research and analysis in the Arctic. -- Marian Botsford Fraser * Literary Review of Canada *Hunting The Northern Character is an eloquent appeal to end condescending treatment of the one uniquely Canada region best known to the outside world. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *This is an insider’s view of Canada’s North and the Arctic world generally, informed by decades of experience in all aspects of northern life – social, environmental, and economic. It is astonishingly wide-ranging and comprehensive in its approach to topics, as well as lighthearted and anecdotal. It is difficult to think of anyone who knows more, or as much, about this subject as Penikett, which makes his book indispensable reading for anyone interested in the North. Summing Up: Essential. -- W. R. Morrison * CHOICE, April 2018 *Table of ContentsPrologueContours1 Who, What, Where? Arctic Peoples and Places2 Pawns: The Cold War3 Born in the Northern Bush: Indigenous Government4 No Settler Need Apply: The Arctic CouncilCommunity5 What You Eat and Where You Live: Poverty in the North6 Knowing Yourself: Education and Health7 Underfoot: Resources, Renewable and Non-renewableConflict8 Arctic Security: Control or Cooperation?9 Hungry Ghost: Climate Change10 Boomers and Lifers: A New DivideNotes; Bibliography; Index

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