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Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisTeaching with film is not a new approach in the social studies classroom. Different publications, such as Hollywood or History, have bridged the gap with challenges attached to using historical film and engage students through inquiry, not entertainment. To continue with the Hollywood or History strategy, this text uses television shows (sitcoms) to brings issue-centered curriculum to middle and high school classrooms. By exploring issues in specific episodes, students can learn the history behind an issue, relate it to their lives, and develop an informed decision associated with the issue.The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) framework is an integral part to the exploration of issue-centered curriculum. In each chapter, the students will work through the four dimensions and develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. My hope is that this text can play a small role in walking practicing teachers through the C3 framework while allowing students to learn about issues that affect society and the communities where they live.Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: Hollywood or History? The Introduction CHAPTER 2: Hollywood or History? The Inquiry Curriculum CHAPTER 3: Civil Rights CHAPTER 4: Gender CHAPTER 5: Immigration CHAPTER 6: Racism and Prejudice CHAPTER 7: Sectarianism CHAPTER 8: Sexism CHAPTER 9: Voting CHAPTER 10: Conclusion
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Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
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Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
£81.60
Information Age Publishing Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field – the use of evaluation information for decision-making. Chapter authors honor the contributions of Professor Marvin C. Alkin to the evaluation use literature and advance our thinking on the topic by exploring a wide range of issues related to the theoretical and practical challenges of using evaluation information to make informed, evidence-based decisions. Readers will come away from this volume with a new and clearer understanding of the theoretical, contextual, methodological, and political dimensions of use and with direction for practice. Chapters are written by leading evaluation scholars, including Ernest House; Stewart Donaldson and Tarek Azzam; Eric Barela; Richard D. Nunneley, Jr., Jean A. King, Kelli Johnson, and Laura Pejsa; Eleanor Chelimsky; Michael Quinn Patton; and Wanda D. Casillas, Rodney K. Hopson and Ricardo L. Gomez. Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin will be of great interest to evaluation students, scholars and practitioners. This volume has scholarly application for those who desire a state-of-the-art resource for the latest insights and perspectives on one of the most pressing issues that the evaluation field faces today, while also serving as a useful guide for both novice and experienced evaluation practitioners. It is appropriate for use in a variety of evaluation courses including Introduction to Evaluation and Procedural Issues in Evaluation as well as topical seminars such as Evaluation Use and Decision-Making.
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Information Age Publishing Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field – the use of evaluation information for decision-making. Chapter authors honor the contributions of Professor Marvin C. Alkin to the evaluation use literature and advance our thinking on the topic by exploring a wide range of issues related to the theoretical and practical challenges of using evaluation information to make informed, evidence-based decisions. Readers will come away from this volume with a new and clearer understanding of the theoretical, contextual, methodological, and political dimensions of use and with direction for practice. Chapters are written by leading evaluation scholars, including Ernest House; Stewart Donaldson and Tarek Azzam; Eric Barela; Richard D. Nunneley, Jr., Jean A. King, Kelli Johnson, and Laura Pejsa; Eleanor Chelimsky; Michael Quinn Patton; and Wanda D. Casillas, Rodney K. Hopson and Ricardo L. Gomez. Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin will be of great interest to evaluation students, scholars and practitioners. This volume has scholarly application for those who desire a state-of-the-art resource for the latest insights and perspectives on one of the most pressing issues that the evaluation field faces today, while also serving as a useful guide for both novice and experienced evaluation practitioners. It is appropriate for use in a variety of evaluation courses including Introduction to Evaluation and Procedural Issues in Evaluation as well as topical seminars such as Evaluation Use and Decision-Making.
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Canadian Scholars Indigenous Research Design: Transnational
Book SynopsisIndigenous Research Design is an interdisciplinary text that explores how researchers reimagine research paradigms, frameworks, designs, and methods. Building upon the theories and research teachings presented by Indigenous Peoples in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies, editors Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Nathan D. Martin present practical formations and applications of Indigenous research for a variety of community, student, professional, and educational projects.With contributions from a broad selection of Indigenous scholars across disciplines and continents, this collection shares research stories and innovations directly linked to Indigenous Peoples' lived experiences. The contributors ask researchers to rethink how their work is gathered, interpreted, and presented while providing guidance for how Indigenous knowledges and critiques inform each element and stage of the research process. This volume aims to inspire new and Indigenous-led ways of thoughtfully developing research questions, conceptualizing qualitative research paradigms, and collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data.Equipped with chapter learning objectives, critical reflection questions, a glossary, and featuring a foreword written by Manulani Aluli Meyer, this engaging text is a vital addition to the field of research methods and essential reading for any aspiring and established researchers, including university and college students who encounter qualitative and mixed-methods research in their respective disciplines.Trade Review"A unique collection that considers multiple ways of conducting Indigenous-based approaches to research and honours perspectives from various Indigenous researchers from across the globe."—Dr. Marlyn Bennett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary"Indigenous Research Design is a compelling compilation of Indigenous scholarship that calls on researchers to critically reassess and broaden their methodologies. This meticulously curated collection offers an exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, providing an in-depth investigation of Indigenous research processes. It covers a wide range of topics, from research question formulation and innovative research methodologies to researcher positionalities, ethical considerations, and research dissemination. This volume is a must-read for researchers of all disciplines and an invaluable resource for use in research methods courses."—Dr. Fenot Aklog, Director of Monitoring Evaluation and Research, Institute for Student Achievement, Adjunct Associate Professor, CUNY-CSI"This text showcases diversity of Indigenous research approaches and how together they enrich knowledge construction, application, and sharing to establish sustainable knowledge justice and positive social change locally and globally."—Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri, Sociology Professor, Social Sciences Department at Camosun College and author of First Nations Students Talk Back: Voices of a Learning PeopleTable of Contents Artist Statement ForewordPart I – Indigenous Research Designs: Methodologies, Contexts, and Visions Chapter 1 – Design for Life: Decoloniality and Research for Infinite Possibility Chapter 2 – On Reframing or Transcending Colonial and Other Patterns in Life Chapter 3 – Shaping Research Preparation and Design Through Indigenous Storywork Chapter 4 – Deciding in Relation with Community: An Indigenous Studies Critique of the Canadian Indigenous Methodologies FieldPart II – Research Questions: Origins of Thought, Epistemologies, and Purposes Chapter 5 – Killing Kin/Haunting Life: Towards Indigenous Vocabularies of Loss and Repair Chapter 6 – Re-imagining Two Laws within Indigenous Research: Truth Telling Beyond Australia's Climate Crisis in South West Gulf Country, Northern Territory Chapter 7 – Ngā hua o te wānanga: The Fruits of wānanga Chapter 8 – Kakala Research Framework: a Garland in Celebration of a Decade of Re-educating, Reconceptualizing, Re-thinking, and RedesigningPart III – Research Lenses and Research Approaches: Relationships, Innovations, and De-linkings Chapter 9 – Naagdowendiwin as a Methodological Approach to Research Chapter 10 – Māori Data is a Taonga Chapter 11 – Pueblo Reclamation of Indigenous Research Design Chapter 12 – Indigeneity as Analytic: Recentring Ethnography through Indigenous Experience Chapter 13 – Using A Guarani-Window to Decolonize Qualitative Research in Rural ParaguayPart IV – Researcher Positionalities and Ethics: Ontologies Beyond Identity Chapter 14 – Putting Research into the Heart: Relationality in Lakota-Based Research Chapter 15 – Walking in My Mother's Footsteps: Nêhiýaw Resurgence Research Chapter 16 – Afrocentric Research Ethics: Decolonial Possibilities for Indigenous Research and Research Design Chapter 17 – Confronting Academic Colonialism: Reflections on my Role as an Ainu ResearcherPart V– Research Partnerships and Research Applications: Holographic Epistemologies and Pluriversalities Chapter 18 – Marriage of Emancipation by Turning to the Tindanam: Research that Moves with the Movement in Indigenous Resistance to Large-Scale Mining in Upper East Region of Ghana Chapter 19 – Engaged Ethnographic Research with Indigenous Communities: Insights from a Language Policy Study in Nepal Chapter 20 – Tribal-University Partnership Methodology for Re-Searching with Manoomin/Psiŋ Chapter 21 – Full Scientific and Indigenous Rigor: Lessons from a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial with Two Tribal Nations Chapter 22 – "You Walk with People, Not Above, Not Below, with Them": Designing Indigenous Teacher Research for Tribal Nation Building Epilogue
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Arcler Education Inc Sustainable Development for Public Administration
Book SynopsisThis book examines the sustainability agenda of development as it applies to the principles and practices of public administration. This also observes the definitions and theories about sustainable development and public administration and as well as about the application of sustainable development for the public administration. This also explain the relationship of sustainable development with other disciplines or departments by focusing the public administration.The book is divided into 12 thematic chapters that include a range of topics such as: core concepts of sustainable development and public administration in which the definitions and primary concepts are illuminated. Second chapter is about principles of sustainable development which have a look on theoretical view about the principle of sustainable development, the third chapter described public administration theory and practice, then the fourth chapter is going to explain a brief look on critical issues in the sustainability agenda, and then it described the importance of people and communities, participatory frameworks, the reform agenda, capacity building, oversight, collaborative working and internationalization vs. localization. The last chapter is about to described the sustainable development for public administration in which the role of sustainable while making public policy and public administration which is also the last chapter of the book.The book is meant to be an introductory text for undergraduates who seek to incorporate issues of sustainable development into their practice of public administration. Some of the key issues raised in the book may be relevant to professionals who are already in the field and adjusting to the sustainability agenda.
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Society Publishing The Politics and Economics of International
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Society Publishing Social Theory and Social Movements
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Society Publishing Governance in Small States
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Arcler Education Inc Current Approaches in Social Sciences
Book SynopsisCurrent Approaches in Social Sciences: An Explorative is a comprehensive and insightful book that provides a broad overview of the current trends and approaches in social science research. The book is divided into different sections, each of which covers a different aspect of social science research. The first section focuses on theoretical and conceptual approaches to social science research, including topics such as critical theory, postmodernism, and feminist theory. This section provides a solid grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of social science research and provides a useful framework for understanding the various approaches to social science research. The book covers research methods and techniques, including both qualitative and quantitative methods. This section includes chapters on topics such as case study research, survey research, and content analysis, as well as more specialized techniques such as discourse analysis and digital ethnography. The authors provide detailed explanations of each method and offer practical advice on how to apply them in social science research. The final section of the book focuses on specific areas of social science research, including sociology, psychology, education, and communication studies. Each chapter provides an overview of the current research in the field and highlights key findings and trends. The authors also discuss the challenges and opportunities facing researchers in each field, as well as the potential implications of their research for policy and practice. Overall, Current Approaches in Social Sciences: An Explorative is an excellent resource for social science students, researchers, and practitioners. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the current trends and approaches in social science research, as well as practical guidance on how to conduct research in various fields. The book is well-written and accessible, making it an invaluable reference for anyone working in the field of social science research.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to Social Sciences Chapter 2 The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities Chapter 3 Sciences and Interdisciplinarity Chapter 4 Statistics in the Social Sciences: Current Methodological Developments Chapter 5 Qualitative Analysis: Approach for the Social Sciences Chapter 6 Citizenship Participation and Sustainable Communities Chapter 7 Theory Development in the Social Sciences Chapter 8 Public Engagement and Social Science
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Peter Wall Institute Memory
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Wits University Press Decolonising the Human: Reflections from Africa
Book SynopsisDecolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human.Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies.Table of Contents Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1 The Trouble with the Human - William Mpofu and Melissa Steyn Chapter 2 The Invention of Blackness on a World Scale - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky Nkete Chapter 3 To What Extent Are We All Humans? Of Culture, Politics, Law and LGBT Rights in Nigeria - Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare and Jojolola Fasuyi Chapter 4 Humanness and Ableism: Construction and Deconstruction of Disability - Sibonokuhle Ndlovu Chapter 5 Doing the Old Human - Cary Burnett Chapter 6 Being a Mineworker in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Decolonial Perspective - Robert Maseko Chapter 7 Meditations on the Dehumanisation of the Slave- Tendayi Sithole Chapter 8 'Language as Being' in the Politics of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Brian Sibanda Chapter 9 The Underside of Modern Knowledge: An Epistemic Break from Western Science - Nokuthula Hlabangane Chapter 10 The Fiction of the Juristic Person: Reassessing Personhood in Relation to People - C.D. Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara Chapter 11 The Cultural Village and its Idea of the 'Human' - Morgan Ndlovu Chapter 12 A Fragmented Humanity and Monologues: Towards a Diversal Humanism - Siphamandla Zondi Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and
Book SynopsisOn the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty fictional and non-fictional literary texts (novels, biographical narratives, memoirs, plays, poems, and travel writing), are given detailed attention alongside journalism, geo-political-historical accounts of the status quo on the island, and striking visual interventions (films, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos and artistic performances), many of which are sustained and complemented by different forms of writing (newspaper cuttings, graffiti, captions, song lyrics, screenplay, tattoos). Dominican, Dominican-American, Haitian and Haitian-American writers and artists are put in dialogue with authors who were born in Europe, the rest of the Americas, Algeria, New Zealand, and Japan in order to illuminate some of the processes and histories that have woven and continue to weave the texture of the borderland and the complex web of border relations on the island. Particular attention is paid to the causes, unfolding, and immediate aftermath of the 1791 slave revolt, the 1937 massacre of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Northern borderland as well as to recent events and topical issues such as the 2010 earthquake, migration, and environmental degradation. On the Edge is an invaluable multicultural archive for those who want to engage fully with the past and present of Hispaniola and refuse to comply with the idea that an acceptable future is unattainable.Trade ReviewReviews On The Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic focuses on the border region of the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, delivering a ground-breaking literary and cultural history of magisterial scale. Bridget Wooding'Maria Cristina Fumagalli’s remarkable On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic offers the most richly nuanced study of the Haiti-Dominican border to date. Anchored in a detailed understanding of the history of this complex and deeply conflicted contact zone, and offering insightful readings of the broadest possible range of literary and artistic works, the book challenges static representations of the border, offering in their stead innovative and multi-layered interpretations of the role of mobility and permeability in creating a multi-ethnic transnational territory that both bridges and separates the peoples of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The book’s depth of research and analysis will make it the must-read study for anyone interested in this often-misunderstood contact zone.' Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College'This exhaustively researched book is a must read for literary scholars and historians of Hispaniola, the Caribbean, and the Latin American borderlands, and serves as a crucial reminder that the current wave of anti-Haitianism is not the only narrative of Haitian–Dominican relations.'Lauren Derby, Journal of Borderland StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations and maps A note on translations Introduction: On the edge: border-crossing, borderland-dwelling and the music of what happens Chapter One: Landscaping Hispaniola: Landscaping Hispaniola: Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry and border politics Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description Topographique et Politique de la partie espagnole de l’Isle Saint-Domingue (1796) and Description Topographique, Physique, Civile, Politique et Historique de la partie française de l’Isle Saint-Domingue (1797). Chapter Two: The 1791 Revolt and the borderland from below Récit Historique sur les Évenemens qui se sont succédés dans les camps de la Grande-Rivière, du Dondon, de Ste.-Suzanne et autres depuis le 26 Octobre 1791 jusqu’au 24 Decembre de la même année par M. Gros, Procureur-Syndic de Valière, fait prisonnier par Jeannot, chef des Brigands, AUGMENTÉ du Récit historique du citoyen Thibal, Médecin et Habitant de la Paroisse Sainte-Suzanne, détenu prisonnier, par les Brigands, depuis 16 mois et de la Déclaration du Citoyen Fauconnet, faite à la Municipalité le 16 Joun 1792 (1793), Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal (1819 and 1826) and ‘The Saint Domingue Revolt’ (1845), Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Adonis, ou le bon nègre (1798) and Zoflora, ou la bonne negrèsse (1801), Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising (1995). Chapter Three: This place was here before our nations: Anacaona’s Jaragua Salome Ureña de Henriquez, Anacaona (1880); Jean Métellus, Anacaona (1986); Edwidge Danticat, Anacaona: Golden Flower: Haiti, 1490 (2005). Chapter Four: Servants Turned Masters: Santo Domingo and the black revolt Carlos Esteban Deive, Viento Negro, Bosque del Caimán: Novela (2002). Chapter Five: A fragile and beautiful world: the northern borderland and the 1937 massacre José Martí, War Diaries (1895), Manuel Rueda, Bienvenida y la noche: Crónicas de Montecristi (1994), Freddy Prestol Castillo, El Masacre se pasa a pie (1937;1973) and Paisajes y meditaciones de una frontera (1943), Manuel Rueda, La criatura terrestre (1963). Chapter Six: The dream of creating one people from two lands mixed together: 1937 and borderland Utopia Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, El hombre del acordeón (2003), Jacques Stephen Alexis, ‘Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians’ (1956) and Compère Général Soleil (1955), René Philoctète, Le peuple des terres mêlée (1989), Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (1998). Chapter Seven: A geography of living flesh: bearing the unbearable Sergio Reyes, Cuentos y Leyendas de la Frontera (1996), La Fiesta de los Reyes y otros cuentos de la frontera (2004), and ‘La Vigía: destellos del “Sol Naciente” en la frontera’ (2009), Kenzaburo Oe, Sayonara, watashi no yon yo! (2005), Anthony Lespès, Les semences de la colère (1949), Jesús María Ramírez, Mis 43 años en La Descubierta (2000), Luis Vencedor Bello Mancebo, Memorias de Pedernales: Vencedor Bello y Alcoa Exploration Co (2013), Bernard Diederich, Seeds of Fictions: Graham Greene Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 (2012) and Graham Greene, The Comedians (1966). Chapter Eight: The forgotten heart-breaking epic of border struggle Diego D’Alcalá, La Frontera (1994), Manuel Rueda, La criatura terrestre (1963) and Las metamorfosis de Makandal (1998), Perico Ripiao (2003) directed by Ángel Muñiz and written by Reynaldo Disla and Ángel Muñiz, Maurice Lemoine, Sucre Amer: Esclaves aujourd’hui dans les Caraïbes (1981), Gary Klang, L’île aux deux visages (1997). Chapter Nine: Some are born to endless night: structural violence across-the-border Hulda Guzmán, Some are born to sweet delight (2011), Máximo Avilés Blonda, Pirámide 179 (1968), Alanna Lockward, Un Haití Dominicano: Tatuajes Fantasmas y Narrativas Bilaterales -1994-1998 (2011), Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s L’Autre Face de la mer (1998), Evelyne Trouillot, Le bleu de l’île (2005), Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Montecristi (2009), Jean Gentil (2010) written and directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán. Chapter Ten: Borderlands of the mind: present, past, and future Frank Báez , ‘Ahora es nunca’ (2007), Jacques Stephen Alexis, Les Arbres Musiciens (1957), Carlos Mieses, El día de todos (2008), Junot Díaz, ‘Monstro’ (2012) Chapter Eleven: The writing is on the wall: towards an open island and a complete structure Francisco (Pancho) Rodríguez, Que si fuere mil veces (2012), Rita Indiana Hernández and Los Misterios, ‘Da pa lo do’ (2010) and ‘Da pa lo do,’ video directed by Engel Leonardo, Jean-Philippe Moiseau, Palm Mask (2009), Metal Mask (2011) and Les rêves du cireur de bottes / Los sueños del limpia botas / Yon chanj kap reve (2012), David Pérez -Karmadavis, Isla Cerrada (2010), Isla Abierta (2006), Lo que dice la piel (2005), Trata, (2005), Simétrico (2006), Al tramo izquierdo (2006), Estructura Completa (2010). Conclusion: The rejection of futures past: on the edge of an attainable acceptable future? Polibio Díaz, Manifiesto (2013) Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
Book SynopsisDuring the 1990s Rio de Janeiro earned the epithet of ‘divided city', an image underscored by the contrast between its upper-class buildings and nearby hillside ‘favelas.’ The city’s cultural production, however, has been shaped by porous boundaries and multi-ethnic encounters. Drawing on a broad range of historical, theoretical and literary sources, Porous City generates new ways of understanding Rio’s past, its role in the making of Brazilian culture, and its significance to key global debates about modernity and urban practices. This book offers an original perspective on Rio de Janeiro that focuses on the New City, one of the most compelling spaces in the history of modern cities. Once known as both a ‘Little Africa’ and as a ‘Jewish Neighborhood,’ the New City was an important reference for prominent writers, artists, pioneering social scientists and foreign visitors (from Christian missionaries to Orson Welles). It played a crucial role in foundational narratives of Brazil as ‘the country of carnival’ and as a ‘racial democracy.’ Going back to the neighborhood’s creation by royal decree in 1811, this study sheds light on how initially marginalized practices –like samba music– became emblematic of national identity. A critical crossroads of Rio, the New City was largely razed for the construction of a monumental avenue during World War II. Popular musicians protested, but ‘progress’ in the automobile age had a price. The area is now being rediscovered due to developments spurred by the 2016 Olympics. At another moment of transition, Porous City revisits this fascinating metropolis.Trade ReviewReviews 'Every page bursts with insights... This is a wonderfully erudite but also congenial work, inviting the reader to a deeper understanding of Rio de Janeiro’s history over the past centuries through close investigation of the neighborhood of Cidade Nova, its changing population and architecture, and the many works of literature, visual arts, and popular song connected to those histories. A groundbreaking perspective on Rio's history.' Bryan McCann'This brilliant cultural history of Rio de Janeiro, while focusing on the specific neighborhood of Cidade Nova, is anything but insular in its methodology and scope. Drawing on a dazzling array of sources-- urban theories, literature, painting, popular music and film, but also city plans, censuses, oral testimonies, memoirs, letters and travel accounts--Bruno Carvalho offers incisive readings of texts, including canonical ones. His argument for Rio de Janeiro as a porous city, defined by social and racial mixtures and cultural inclusions, proposes the concept of porosity over others, such as syncretism or miscegenation, the better to keep in sight ways in which those mixtures can coexist and even abet other forms of discrimination and exclusion. Lively, judicious, and erudite, Porous City makes a fundamental contribution to debates about urban modernism and cultural formations, of interest to both beginning and seasoned scholars of Brazil and Latin America. It asks a still open question, pertinent since the nineteenth century: "How does a culture and self-image defined by mixture coexist with stark socio-economic disparity?' Marta Peixoto'Bruno Carvalho’s Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Rio’s ‘‘multi-ethnic, multiracial, and multilayered’’.'Rosana Barbosa, Canadian Journal of History'Bruno Carvalho’s Porous City helps readers see Rio anew through his meticulously researched microhistory of Cidade Nova, the once culturally vibrant carioca neighbourhood where samba was born. As this masterful study bears out, Cidade Nova is a fascinating microcosm for examining certain paradoxes that have come to define Rio, and Brazil more generally, particularly the co-existence of the celebration of racial mixture and the persistence of dramatic racial inequality.'Rebecca J. Atencio, Bulletin of Spanish Studies'Bruno Carvalho’s Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro is a highly recommended read for those with a moderate-to-strong foundation in Brazilian history and culture, and its chapters could serve as useful supplemental material for the graduate classroom. The author does a fine job of moving at an appropriate pace, and his conclusions never seem hastily formulated or exaggerated. Most of all, the considerable research that has gone into the work is commendable and offers plenty of jumping off points for those who would seek to build upon Carvalho’s reading of porosity.' Andrew Frederick Milacci, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American StudiesTable of Contents List of Maps List of Figures A Note on Translation Preface Introduction: In Search of Things Past: Mapping Rio 1 At the Centre of an Imperial Capital: Swamps, Yellow Fever, and Gypsy Parties 2 A Master on the Periphery of a Periphery: Popular Music, Streetcars, and the Republic 3 Beyond the Belle Époque: On the Border of a ‘Divided City’ 4 Afro-Jewish Quarter and Modernist Landmark 5 Writing the ‘Cradle of Samba’: Race, Radio, and the Price of Progress 6 ‘It’s (Mostly) All True’: The Death of a Neighbourhood and the Life of Myths Conclusion: The Future Revisited: Where Has the Past Gone and Where Will it Go? Acknowledgements Works Cited Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Heritage and Peacebuilding
Book SynopsisCase-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation. This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building andsites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps towards reclaiming the history, theory, and practice of peacebuilding as serious issues for heritage in contemporary society. The geographical scope of the book includes contributions from Europe, notably the Balkans andNorthern Ireland, the Middle East, and Kenya. Diana Walters is an International Heritage Consultant and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter; Daniel Laven is Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Tourism Studies and Geography/European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University; Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology, Newcastle University. Contributors: Tatjana Cvjeticanin, PeterDavis, Jonathan Eaton, David Fleming, Seth Frankel, Timothy Gachanga, Alon Gelbman, Felicity Gibling, Will Glendinning, Elaine Heumann Gurian, Lejla Hadzic, Feras Hammami, Lotte Hughes, Bosse Lagerqvist, Daniel Laven, Bernadette Lynch, Elena Monicelli, Yongtanit Pimonsathean, Saleem H. Ali, Sultan Somjee, Peter Stone, Michèle Taylor, Peter van den Dungen, Alda Vezic, Jasper Visser, Diana Walters.Trade ReviewThe need for all cultural and educational institutions to respond to UNESCO's call for 'moral and intellectual solidarity' in support of peace and reconciliation at every level, from the local to global, becomes more evident by the day. This volume is hopeful, in that it contains inspiring accounts drawn from a vast network of cultural institutions and workers who are indeed doing this every day. Some in the face of almost insuperable odds...Highly readable. * MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND CURATORSHIP *The volume offers a broad spectrum of means engagement of museum and heritage actors with peace-building aims. Its greatest strength is the variety of expertise represented, these include museum curators, academics, and activists but also a business psychologist, an exhibition designer, an architect, an environmental planner and consultants in innovative training, participation design as well as persons leading NGO work. * HERITAGE AND SOCIETY *[T]he book is an encouraging collection of ideas and initiatives that explore the constructive role of heritage in making peace in the minds of humankind. * ANTIQUITY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diana Walters and Daniel Laven and Peter Davis The Heritage of Peace: the Importance of peace museums for the development of a culture of peace - Peter van den Dungen A conversation with Seth Frankel: designing exhibitions for peace - Seth Frankel Public spaces for strangers: the foundation for peacebuilding and implications for heritage institutions - Elaine Gurian Can museums build peace? The role of museums in peacebuilding and internationalism - Diana Walters Information and Communication Technologies for heritage and peacebuilding - Jasper Visser A conversation with David Fleming: the role of National Museums Liverpool in social justice and peacebuilding - David Fleming A conversation with Sultan Somjee: conflict and peacebuilding in Kenya - Sultan Somjee Museum, peace and reconciliation: the impact of the Balkan Museum Network - Aida Vezic Diversity, leadership and peacebuilding in museums in the Western Balkans - Felicity Gibling and Michèle Taylor Disturbing the peace: museums, democracy and conflict avoidance - Bernadette Lynch Transforming conflict through peace cultures - Timothy Ndaruga Rethinking heritage from peace: reflections from the Palestinian-Israeli context - Feras Hammami and Daniel Laven A conversation with Will Glendinning: diversity challenges in Northern Ireland - Will Glendinning A conversation with Yongtanit Pimonsathean: managing conflict in Thailand - Yongtanit Pimonsathean Challenging the roots of prejudice: the Monte Sole case study - Elena Monicelli Mau Mau: the divisive heritage of liberation struggle in Kenya - Lotte Hughes The heritage of geopolitical borders as peace tourism attractions - Alon Gelbman Rebuilding the broken: regional restoration camps as a meeting platform in the Western Balkans - Lejla Hadzic Rebuilding the broken: regional restoration camps as a meeting platform in the Western Balkans - Jonathan Eaton Conservation or reconciliation? Industrial heritage practices at a turning point - Bosse Lagerqvist A conversation with Saleem Ali: environmental challenges and conflict resolution - Saleem Ali List of contributors
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on In-Work Poverty
Book SynopsisThere has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty.Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings, policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches.Academically rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new angles.Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M. Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S. Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M. Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann, J.-d. Lue, B. Maître, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I. Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S. Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R. Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V. Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R. Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. YehTrade Review'A handbook on ''in-work poverty'' research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low-income status from a world-class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!' --Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx PART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The concept and measurement of in-work poverty Henning Lohmann 3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty Wiemer Salverda 4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty Henning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz 5. Gender and in-work poverty Sophie Ponthieux 6. In-work poverty among migrants Eric Crettaz PART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY 7. Demographic drivers of in-work poverty Brian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability Bertrand Maître, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan 9. Atypical employment and in-work poverty Jeroen Horemans 10. Single-parent families and in-work poverty Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado 11. The dynamics of in-work poverty Leen Vandecasteele and Marco Giesselmann PART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 12. Income support policies for the working poor Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist 13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty Amy Horton and Jane Wills 14. Activation and in-work poverty Daniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel 15. Childcare policies and in-work poverty Wim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans 16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe Lucia Pradella PART IV EUROPE AND THE US 17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe 18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer 19. In-work Poverty in the United States Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx PART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA 20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries Armando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan 21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trends Roxana Maurizio 22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013 Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres 23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt 24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011 Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov 25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states Chung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue 26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in India David Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. Blankenship Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change,
Book Synopsis'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfailingly thought-provoking, as all good scholarship should be. Highly recommended.'- Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK 'Gough applies his trademark scholarship on universal human needs to the urgent question of social policy for the transition to a de-carbonised world. Based on a clear-eyed analysis of a wide swathe of the social science literature, and an eco-social political economy perspective, his approach is both pragmatic and deeply rooted in ethics and social justice. Highly recommended and suitable for teaching at all levels.'- Juliet B. Schor, Boston CollegeThis exceptional book considers how far catastrophic global warming can be averted in an economic system that is greedy for growth, without worsening deprivation and inequality. The satisfaction of human needs - as opposed to wants - is the only viable measure for negotiating trade-offs between climate change, capitalism and human wellbeing, now and in the future.The author critically examines the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees, while also improving equity and social justice. A three-stage transition is proposed with useful practical policies. First, 'green growth': cut carbon emissions from production across the world. Second, 'recompose' patterns of consumption in the rich world, cutting high-energy luxuries in favour of low-energy routes to meeting basic needs. Third, because the first two are perilously insufficient, move towards an economy that flourishes without growth. Heat, Greed and Human Need is vital for researchers and students of the environment, public and social policy, economics, political theory and development studies. For those advocating political, social and environmental reform this book presents excellent practical eco-social policies to achieve both sustainable consumption and social justice.Trade Review'Ian Gough has done something no one else has yet achieved. He has brought together theoretical and empirical analysis in four different fields - economy, ecology, social policy and politics - to produce a coherent and convincing analysis of why climate change is occurring, its human and social consequences, and how it can be addressed. Gough attaches the rigour of social science to a deeply humanitarian ethical framework; he provides at once a profound understanding of how serious climate change is and a clear-eyed realism about the kind of political and economic programme which might be able to stop it. This is a very important book.' --Michael Jacobs, University College London, UK'Ian Gough has hit the sweet spot. He has shown us how it is possible to reduce inequality, satisfy human needs in culturally diverse ways and reduce the risks of dangerous climate change. What's more, his commanding and wide-ranging critical engagement with the theory and practice of managing the transition to a safer climate demonstrates that, far from being a diversion from this project, prioritising human needs and reinventing the welfare state are critical to its political success.' --Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia'A profoundly original intervention in the ongoing debate about climate change. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the way in which the author brings his expertise on welfare to bear on climate policy. Sustainable wellbeing is his guiding principle.; --Anthony Giddens, Member of the House of Lords and former Director of the LSE, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I CONCEPTS AND GLOBAL ISSUES 1. The Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. Human needs and sustainable wellbeing 3. Climate capitalism: emissions, inequality, green growth 4. Sustainable wellbeing, necessary emissions and fair burdens PART II TOWARDS ECO-SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICH WORLD 5. From welfare states to climate mitigation states? 6. Decarbonising the economy and its social consequences 7. Decarbonising consumption: Needs, necessities and eco-social policies 8. Post-growth, redistribution and wellbeing 9. Conclusion: A three-stage transition References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change,
Book Synopsis'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfailingly thought-provoking, as all good scholarship should be. Highly recommended.'- Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK 'Gough applies his trademark scholarship on universal human needs to the urgent question of social policy for the transition to a de-carbonised world. Based on a clear-eyed analysis of a wide swathe of the social science literature, and an eco-social political economy perspective, his approach is both pragmatic and deeply rooted in ethics and social justice. Highly recommended and suitable for teaching at all levels.'- Juliet B. Schor, Boston CollegeThis exceptional book considers how far catastrophic global warming can be averted in an economic system that is greedy for growth, without worsening deprivation and inequality. The satisfaction of human needs - as opposed to wants - is the only viable measure for negotiating trade-offs between climate change, capitalism and human wellbeing, now and in the future.The author critically examines the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees, while also improving equity and social justice. A three-stage transition is proposed with useful practical policies. First, 'green growth': cut carbon emissions from production across the world. Second, 'recompose' patterns of consumption in the rich world, cutting high-energy luxuries in favour of low-energy routes to meeting basic needs. Third, because the first two are perilously insufficient, move towards an economy that flourishes without growth. Heat, Greed and Human Need is vital for researchers and students of the environment, public and social policy, economics, political theory and development studies. For those advocating political, social and environmental reform this book presents excellent practical eco-social policies to achieve both sustainable consumption and social justice.Trade Review'Ian Gough has done something no one else has yet achieved. He has brought together theoretical and empirical analysis in four different fields - economy, ecology, social policy and politics - to produce a coherent and convincing analysis of why climate change is occurring, its human and social consequences, and how it can be addressed. Gough attaches the rigour of social science to a deeply humanitarian ethical framework; he provides at once a profound understanding of how serious climate change is and a clear-eyed realism about the kind of political and economic programme which might be able to stop it. This is a very important book.' --Michael Jacobs, University College London, UK'Ian Gough has hit the sweet spot. He has shown us how it is possible to reduce inequality, satisfy human needs in culturally diverse ways and reduce the risks of dangerous climate change. What's more, his commanding and wide-ranging critical engagement with the theory and practice of managing the transition to a safer climate demonstrates that, far from being a diversion from this project, prioritising human needs and reinventing the welfare state are critical to its political success.' --Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia'A profoundly original intervention in the ongoing debate about climate change. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the way in which the author brings his expertise on welfare to bear on climate policy. Sustainable wellbeing is his guiding principle.; --Anthony Giddens, Member of the House of Lords and former Director of the LSE, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I CONCEPTS AND GLOBAL ISSUES 1. The Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. Human needs and sustainable wellbeing 3. Climate capitalism: emissions, inequality, green growth 4. Sustainable wellbeing, necessary emissions and fair burdens PART II TOWARDS ECO-SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICH WORLD 5. From welfare states to climate mitigation states? 6. Decarbonising the economy and its social consequences 7. Decarbonising consumption: Needs, necessities and eco-social policies 8. Post-growth, redistribution and wellbeing 9. Conclusion: A three-stage transition References Index
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Embarrassment of Product Choices 2: Towards a
Book SynopsisProduct information is excessively commercial and technical. There is no single best product for all, and the price/quality ratio can be deceptive. Word of mouth is growing with opinions shared on the internet. This book calls for the reinvention of a new economy based on real requirements, not only for profit or “technology” but for qualities of use and the environment. A product’s use is its purpose. An innovation must always be an improvement to qualities of use. The emergence of new technologies, such as connected objects and the autonomous car, form a new trap for innovation, and progress has been limited to the perfection of technique. Marketing must no longer confuse the consumer (the customer) and the user. Complete with methodology for the reader to follow, this book describes how the ecology of use can become the main wealth of an economy based on quality of life and well-being. Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xi Chapter 1. Understanding the Economic World 1 1.1. A consumer society pushed to its limits 1 1.1.1. A faltering economic system 1 1.1.2. An economic shock for consumers? 3 1.1.3. Making what sells, to sell 3 1.1.4. The production society 4 1.1.5. The commodification of the world: finance 4 1.1.6. Globalization 6 1.1.7. GDP: no longer the right indicator 8 1.2. Economic and political approach 11 1.2.1. The act of consumption 11 1.2.2. The act of purchasing 13 1.2.3. The economic act 14 1.2.4. The political act 15 1.2.5. Greenwashing 15 1.2.6. Buying: a way to have fun 16 1.2.7. Economic theories 18 1.2.8. Modes of consumption 20 1.2.9. Supply and demand 21 1.2.10. Purchasing power 23 1.3. Desirable development 24 Chapter 2. Cultural Approach 29 2.1. Cultural facts 29 2.1.1. The culture of choice: choices as a cultural fact 29 2.1.2. Cultural choices 30 2.1.3. Cultural diversity 31 2.1.4. Objects as signals, ostentations 32 2.1.5. Groupthink, fashion and social evidence 34 2.1.6. Socio-culture 36 2.1.7. Trends and behaviors 37 2.2. The desire for products 37 2.3. The image society and the virtual society 41 2.3.1. The image society 41 2.3.2. The virtual society 42 2.4. Qualities of life 43 2.4.1. Well-being with products 43 2.4.2. Ways of life 50 2.4.3. Lifestyles 52 2.4.4. Standards of living 53 2.4.5. Over-consumption 54 Chapter 3. What Information Do We Need to Pick the Right Product? 57 3.1. Choice of products. 57 3.1.1. The problem with choice 57 3.1.2. The process of choice 59 3.1.3. The frustration of choice 62 3.2. What is usage? 65 3.2.1. The problem with usage 65 3.2.2. The field of use 66 3.3. The indispensable: usage and environmental factors 73 3.3.1. Usage qualities 73 3.3.2. Environmental qualities 75 3.4. Evaluating the usage requirements and performances for choice 80 3.4.1. The analysis of usage/the criteria of evaluation 80 3.4.2. How to evaluate usage qualities 82 3.4.3. The price and cost of usage 91 3.4.4. Habitual suitability 92 3.5. Proposals for product information 97 3.5.1. Conditions and information requirements on products 97 3.5.2. Proposal of product information systems: dust removal method study 99 3.5.3. Information in the instructions for use 105 3.5.4. Proposals for distributors and major buyers 106 3.5.5. Information systems for users 108 3.5.6. Help with product selection: product typologies 110 3.5.7. Case study: creation of an information system for toys 110 Conclusion 117 Appendices 123 Appendix 1. Information Sheet on Toys 125 Appendix 2. Information System for Products – CCI 129 Appendix 3. The Risks of Domestic Accidents Related to Products and Equipment 131 Appendix 4. User Impairment: Risks and Difficulties 151 Appendix 5. Information Sheet on Products 159 Appendix 6. Interior Space for Showering while Standing Up or Sitting Down 163 Appendix 7. Information Sheet on Products 165 Appendix 8. Study on Vacuum Cleaners 169 Appendix 9. Facades of Appliances (Case Study) 177 Appendix 10. Shower Heads: What Sprays and Handles to Choose? 181 References 189 Index 193
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Media in Arab Countries: From Development
Book SynopsisIn early research work on international communication, the countries of North Africa and the Middle East were seen as part of the “Third World”, and the media had to be at the service of development. However, this situation is changing due to the transnationalization and liberalization of the media. Indeed, since the 1990s, the entry of the South – and Arab countries in this case – into the “information society” has become the dominant creed, although the vision is still globalizing and marked by stereotypes. Representations of these societies are closely associated with international relations and geopolitics, characterized by tensions and conflicts. However, a force has come to disrupt the traditional rules of the game: Arab audiences. Digital media, the dissemination of which has been enabled by the implementation of the “information society”, empowers them to participate fully in a media confluence. This liberation from the discourse has two major consequences: the media and journalism sector has become more strategic than ever, and action toward development must be reinvented. Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction xi List of Acronyms xix Chapter 1 International Communication and Arab Countries: Studies on Media Development and Media Geopolitics 1 1.1 Communication for development in France: an imported subdiscipline? 2 1.2 Development and geopolitics: two distinct matters? 3 1.3 In the beginning: (Arab) media and development 5 1.4 Academic publications on Arab media: from scarcity to profusion 5 1.5 Arab media: from official speeches to the domination of the Anglo-American pragmatic school 10 1.6 The 2000s: renewal of research or “Al Jazeerazation” of the academic literature? 12 1.7 The uninhibited liberalization of the media 15 1.8 An interest in Arab public opinion, a rarity of work on audiences 16 1.9 Has the media and development relationship been abandoned to think-tanks in the Internet age? 17 1.10 The renewal of a field of study or journalism for the development of investigative journalism 19 Chapter 2 The Obsolescence of Classical Theories of International Communication 23 2.1 Modernization by the media or “westoxification”? 24 2.2 Development is not an exportable product 26 2.3 The dependency theory 28 2.4 Impetus for a NWICO 30 2.5 The “too sage” report of the Sages 32 Chapter 3 The Information Society or the Liberal Remodeling of Development Theories 37 3.1 A global trend: the paradigm of a more “inclusive” information society 39 3.2 Progress: an accounting measure? 41 3.3 Arab countries in the “information society” 46 3.4 Young graduates – and connected in a precarious economic context 50 3.5 The use of digital media and social networks 55 3.6 The advertising market, between certain delay and rapid growth 58 Chapter 4 In the Field: Liberalization Under the Control of Governments and Businessmen 63 4.1 Businessmen and the media in Egypt: a typology 64 4.2 Reforms and routines 68 4.3 The confluence of the media 70 Chapter 5 The “Arab Street” in the Press: a Specific Frame of the South 73 5.1 From public opinion to the “Arab street” 74 5.2 The “Arab street” in the French press: presentation of general trends 76 5.3 Original matrices and perspectives for the appreciation of the “Arab street” 82 5.4. The use of “Arab street” in the press: from the beginning to today 83 5.5 The media “spawning” of September 11, 2001 86 5.6 2011: revolutions and the Arab street 94 5.7 Conclusion: the Arab street, Arab “revolutions” and “embedded” social movements 96 Chapter 6 Geopolitics of the Arabic-speaking Media and Politics of Influence 99 6.1 Media geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa: radio propaganda warfare 100 6.2 From the Gulf War to 9/11 as triggers for new media geopolitics 102 6.3 Paradigm shifts in cooperative action in the field of media and journalism 107 6.4 Public policies under pressure 108 Chapter 7 Cooperation and Training of Journalists in the Digital Media Era 113 7.1 “All equal in the face of innovation?” 114 7.2 Training of journalists in Arab countries 117 Chapter 8 Development Policy and Journalism: Between Standards Competition and Cooperation 121 8.1 Different visions and cooperation agencies 123 8.2 Cooperation policies “from the bottom up” 131 8.3 Media development assistance: the convergence of practices and standards 133 8.4 Concerted actions and expertise: the case of Canal France International 134 8.5 Conclusion 138 Conclusion 139 References 149 Index 171
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Innovation and Agility in the Digital Age:
Book SynopsisAfrica is a laboratory for managerial and societal innovations built out of pragmatic arrangements. Some African companies offer products and services that go beyond the standard practices of their international counterparts, based on original and inventive managerial characteristics. Such success stories outline a new model of management and innovation for companies in the digital era.The African innovations that have emerged over the past ten years are directly linked to a managerial model that perfectly meets the demands of the digital era. These new organizations indicate that good managerial practices and innovation models also come from the Global South and no longer exclusively from the East Coast of the United States. Understanding these dynamics is of great theoretical and practical interest for the many companies struggling to seize the opportunities for growth in Africa.Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Disrupters, Breadcrumbs and the Managerial Revolution 1 1.1 Digital disruptions of management 3 1.2 New and fundamental insights 8 1.3 From pyramid to platform 10 1.4 Motivation by profit and especially by purpose 11 Chapter 2 The African Continent: Laboratory Tomorrow’s World 15 2.1 The frog’s leap, the leopard’s run and agility 16 2.2 Rebel talents and serial learners in dynamic rootedness 26 2.3 Rooted leaders/entrepreneurs, adventurers and hustlers at the service of African singularities 30 2.4 An African citizen educated and trained to think within organizations, who can speak and must be listened to 49 Chapter 3 The Mediterranean: Marrying the Future without Divorcing the Past 59 3.1 The Mediterranean: crossroads of civilizations, one-way street or dead-end street 61 3.2 Drawing from the Mediterranean thanks to people of transposition 74 3.3 Neither adoration, nor submission, but self-realization 94 3.4 Zones of fertility in “layer-cake” societies 115 Conclusion 129 Postface 131 References 137 Index 149
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy
Book SynopsisDigital Identities in Tension deals with the ambivalence of universal digitalization. While this transformation opens up new possibilities, it also redistributes the interplay of constraints and incentives, and tends insidiously to create a greater malleability of individuals. Today, companies and states are increasingly engaged in the surveillance and management of our digital identities. In response, we must study the effects that the new industrial, economic and political logics have on ethical issues and our ability to act. This book examines the effects of digitalization on new modes of existence and subjectivation in many spheres: digital identity management systems, Big Data and machine learning, the Internet of Things, smart cities, etc. The study of these transformations is one of the major conditions for more responsible modes of data governance to emerge. Table of ContentsForeword ix Chapter 1. Identity as an Issue of Constraint and Recognition: A Question of Fundamental Ethics 1Pierre-Antoine CHARDEL 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Digital ethics in context 2 1.3. Identification, corporality and recognition issues 6 1.4. Digital metamorphosis, subjectivation and liquid societies 9 1.5. Narrative identities and self-expressions 11 1.6. Identity as an ethical issue 14 1.7. Traceability and fetishism of form 18 Chapter 2. Digital Regimes of Identity Management: From the Exercise of Privacy to Modulation of the Self 23Armen KHATCHATOUROV 2.1. Introduction 23 2.2. From identity to digital identity: Historical and conceptual elements 28 2.2.1. Historical premises 28 2.2.2. About identification 33 2.2.3. Contemporary liquidity 38 2.2.4. Implementation of the approach: From narrative to writing 41 2.3. The digital and the appropriation of meaning 45 2.3.1. Digital transformation of meaning 45 2.3.2. Digital technology and the construction of identity: First elements 48 2.4. Transformations of existential territories 50 2.4.1. The relationship with the state and institutions 50 2.4.2. The relationship with market services 54 2.4.3. Social relations and production of the self 60 2.4.4. Sketch of the articulation between existential territories 64 2.5. From autonomy to modulated identity 66 2.5.1. The inadequacy of the concept of autonomy 66 2.5.2. Historical perspective: Discipline and control 67 2.5.3. Sketch of a typology of data production and control 75 2.5.4. Big Data as a minimum of control and initiative (exemplary case 1) 77 2.5.5. Quantified Self as maximum of control and initiative (exemplary case 2) 96 2.5.6. The illusion of control: Cross-domain aspects 104 2.5.7. The four trends at work in identities 109 2.6. Conclusion: Privacy in question in the digital transformation 113 2.6.1. The social value of privacy 114 2.6.2. Modulated identity and its private life 120 Chapter 3. Individuals, Normativity and Urban Spaces: Critical Perspectives on Digital Governance 127Gabriel PÉRIÈS 3.1. Introduction 127 3.2. Identity-identification as a social fact: the systemic construction of digital identity 132 3.2.1. Identity and identification 132 3.2.2. From algorithmic rationality to the human body 133 3.2.3. The e-individual: Between systemic analysis and redefinition of the social field 136 3.3. e-Identity under construction in the smart city space 141 3.3.1. The smart city and the state 141 3.3.2. The interactive city and its actors 142 3.3.3. Some structuring elements of governance of the smart city 148 3.4. Conclusion: Identified citizen participation 152 Chapter 4. Wait a minute, dystopia has not arrived yet? – Digital Identities and the Ability to Act Collectively, an Interview with Andrew Feenberg 155Andrew FEENBERG, Armen KHATCHATOUROV and Pierre-Antoine CHARDEL References 177 List of Authors 195 Index 197
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press
Book SynopsisDigital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent employment of bots and artificial intelligence. The book adopts an original and multidisciplinary approach to this topic: combining the science of media economics with the experience of a practicing journalist of a major daily newspaper. The result is an essential guide to the opportunities of the media to respond to a changing global digital landscape. Independent news reporting is vital in the contemporary democracy; the media must itself become a new “smart press”. Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction xv Chapter 1. How Do the Economy and the Press Influence Each Other? 1 1.1. The concept of media 1 1.2. The concept of information 3 1.3. The economy 7 1.4. A brief history of the media and press economy 7 1.4.1. The discreet beginnings of the media economy 8 1.4.2. The renewal of the media economy since the 2000s 10 1.5. The two “meanings” of media economics 17 1.5.1. Does media have an influence on the economy? 17 1.5.2. Does the economy influence the media sector? 25 1.6. Summary 32 Chapter 2. Can We Trust the Press? 35 2.1. The credibility of media and journalists 35 2.1.1. Distrust of the Internet is growing 36 2.1.2. But criticism of journalists remains strong 37 2.2. Is there an informational or ideological bias in the press? 38 2.2.1. The measurement of an informational bias 38 2.2.2. Tests on U.S. media 44 2.2.3. The case of the Asian and European press 47 2.2.4. The impact of newspaper owners 48 2.2.5. Pluralism and competition 50 2.3. Summary of challenges 54 Chapter 3. What are the Links between the Press and Politics? 55 3.1. A diminishing influence 58 3.2. The notion of collusion between the media and politicians 60 3.3. Do newspapers run elections? 62 3.4. The importance of press freedom 64 3.5. Differences between local and national press 67 3.5.1. The local press is more influential 67 3.5.2. The Internet confirms this influence 68 3.5.3. The case of Japan 68 Chapter 4. Does the Press Need Advertisers? 71 4.1. Advertising-free newspapers? 73 4.2. Pressure from advertisers and readers 74 4.2.1. When advertisers apply the pressure 74 4.2.2. When readers put pressure on advertising 76 4.3. Can media say everything? 77 4.3.1. Seducing advertisers 77 4.3.2. Can media oppose an advertiser? 81 4.3.3. The impact of taxation 84 Chapter 5. Is the Printed Newspaper Gamble Crazy? 87 5.1. Is it the end of printed papers in the United States? 88 5.1.1. Preparing for a change of era? 89 5.1.2. Digital reading exceeds paper reading 91 5.1.3. Difficult print launches 93 5.2. Among pure players: the free model is crumbling 95 5.3. The online press mainly chooses the paid model 97 5.4. Managing the model change 99 5.4.1. Absorbing the negative effects of the Web on print 100 5.4.2. The copy/paste temptation 101 5.5. The press in start-up mode 104 5.5.1. Is the future in code? 104 5.5.2. The hope of finding new resources 106 5.6. Understanding the algorithmic agenda 109 Chapter 6. Are There Dangerous Links between Media and Social Networks? 115 6.1 The indispensable social networks. 115 6.1.1. Strategies to take advantage of social networks 117 6.1.2. Media at the mercy of networks 118 6.1.3. The media brand is fading away behind the social network brand 119 6.1.4. The problem of revenue sharing between media and social networks 120 6.2. The social network eco-system 122 6.2.1. The influence of social networks 122 6.2.2. The way in which we inform ourselves is not unbiased 125 6.2.3. The influence of social networks on decisions 128 6.3. Social networks are transforming the information business 131 6.3.1. Journalists in networks 131 6.3.2. The role of social network algorithms 133 6.3.3. The impact of social network development on the quality of information 136 Chapter 7. Will Fake News Kill Information? 139 7.1. From media and network initiatives to a law 141 7.2. Fake news and post truth 143 7.2.1. Misinformation circulates very quickly 145 7.2.2. Fake news and social networks 146 7.3. Why fake news? 149 7.3.1. The impact of fake news and rumors 150 7.3.2. Fact checking versus fake news 152 7.3.3. Bad news 153 7.3.4. Fake news and economic expectations 154 Chapter 8. Are Robots and AI the Future of the Media? 161 8.1. Robot journalists are already in action 162 8.2. What is artificial intelligence? 164 8.3. Research on automatic journalism 165 8.3.1. From quantitative journalism to robot journalism 166 8.3.2. Do readers and advertisers enjoy articles that have been written automatically? 168 8.3.3. The impact of robotization 168 8.3.4. What do human journalists think about it? 169 8.4. How do these editorial algorithms work? 174 References 179 Index 205
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Carousel of Time: Theory of Knowledge and
Book SynopsisBased around the image of a carousel, this book uses epistemological theory to tackle the paradoxical acceleration and deceleration of time that is experienced by many. The consequence of this paradox is the observance of the past, present and future coinciding, where acceleration is combined with perfect immobility. The Carousel of Time proposes a model that focuses on a complex network of individual actors, and their relation to the analysis, structure and evolution of our socio-cognitive space–time. The first part of the book, "Foundations", presents the key bases of this model, as well as the notions that must be understood and integrated. The book then analyzes the concept of "Space", defining the parameters of the network’s boundaries, and finishes with an exploration of "Time". This third part links the temporality of the network to its spatial characteristics and studies its evolution.Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part 1. Foundations 1 Chapter 1. Information, Communication and Learning 3 1.1. Claude Shannon’s model 4 1.1.1. Ralph Vinton Hartley, Claude Shannon’s forerunner 5 1.1.2. Claude Shannon’s formula and the two fundamental theorems of telegraphic communication 6 1.1.3. The eight main characteristics of the Shannonian theory of communication 9 1.2. Gregory Bateson’s model 11 1.2.1. The immanent mind and the Batesonian definition of information 11 1.2.2. The Batesonian categorization of learning 13 1.2.3. The eight main characteristics of Batesonian communication theory 16 Chapter 2. Self-organization and Natural Complexity 23 2.1. Self-organization and information creation 23 2.2. Meaning of information in a hierarchical system 31 2.2.1. Order from noise versus organizational noise 31 2.2.2. Complexity and complication 33 2.2.3. Meaning of information in a hierarchical system 36 Chapter 3. Human Memory as a Self-organized Natural System 41 3.1. The theory of functional localization or invented memory 42 3.1.1. The theory of functional localization 42 3.1.2. Against functional localization 45 3.2. Neural Darwinism and inventive memory 47 Chapter 4. Hypotheses Linked to the Model 63 4.1. Six hypotheses relating to the structure of the network 64 4.2. Eight hypotheses relating to the evolution of the network 70 4.2.1. Assumptions related to inter-individual communication 71 4.2.2. Hypotheses related to intra-individual cognition 74 Part 2. Space 81 Chapter 5. Scope, Dimensions, Measurements and Mobilizations 83 5.1. Inter-individual communication and learning 85 5.2. Categorization and learning 92 5.2.1. The creative analogy of weak novelty: the example of Planck’s formula 95 5.2.2. The creative analogy of radical novelty: Gregory Bateson’s “grass syllogism” 101 Chapter 6. Provisional Regionalization and Final Homogenization 113 6.1. Formation of clusters of actors and regionalization of the network space 114 6.2. Instability and erasure of regions within the network 124 6.3. Evolution of information production at the level of the global network and at the level of each cluster of actors 132 Part 3. Time 141 Chapter 7. Propensities to Communicate, the Specious Present and Time as Such, the Point of View from Everywhere and the Ancestrality’s Paradox 143 7.1. Propensities to communicate and the specious present 144 7.2. Subjective time, objective time and time as such 151 7.3. A point of view from nowhere or a point of view from everywhere? 156 7.4. On an alleged “ancestrality’s paradox” 161 Chapter 8. Déjà-vu and the Specious Present 171 8.1. A history of interpretations of the déjà-vu phenomenon 172 8.2. Déjà-vu and the specious present: an interpretation 179 Chapter 9. The Acceleration of Time, Presentism and Entropy 187 9.1. Historical time, irreversibility and end of time 188 9.2. On the sensation of acceleration of time and presentism 193 9.2.1. A psychological interpretation of the acceleration of time 193 9.2.2. A socio-historical interpretation of the acceleration of time 197 9.3. Irreversibility of time and entropy of the network 202 9.3.1. A brief presentation of the genesis of the entropy concept 203 9.3.2. The entropy law and network trajectory 205 9.3.3. Entropy theory and trajectory of the complex socio-cognitive network of individual actors 209 Chapter 10. Temporal Disruptions 213 10.1. The translation of beliefs 216 10.2. Revisions of beliefs and the possible worlds semantics 219 10.3. The weak transformation of beliefs: learning and normal science 222 10.4. The radical transformation of beliefs: learning and scientific revolution 226 Conclusion 235 References 249 Index 269
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Digitalization of Society and Socio-political
Book SynopsisDigitalization is a long and constant sociohistoric process in which all areas of society�s activities are reconfigured. Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues 1 examines the transformations linked to the development of digital platforms and social media, which affect the cultural and communicational industries. It analyzes the formation of Big Data, their algorithmic processing and the societal changes which result (social monitoring and control in particular). Through critical views, it equally presents the various ways in which technology participates in relations of power and domination, and contributes to possible emancipatory practices.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiiiÉric GEORGE Introduction xvÉric GEORGE Part 1. Digital Technology, Big Data and Societal Transformations 1 Chapter 1. For an Archaeology of the Cult of the Number 3Armand MATTELART 1.1. Governing by numbers: an old and a new figure 4 1.2. The invention of the calculable individual 5 1.3. Control as a mass phenomenon 6 1.4. The techno-security paradigm 8 1.5. The fascination for Big Data 10 1.6. The shadows of the number cult 12 1.7. References 13 Chapter 2. Big Data as a Device for Generalized Decoding of the Social Field 15Fabien RICHERT 2.1. Coding, decoding and axiomatization 16 2.2. The role of Big Data 20 2.3. Semiocapitalism 21 2.4. Digital labor 22 2.5. Conclusion 23 2.6. References 25 Chapter 3. Algorithmic Management, Organizational Changes and the Digitalization of HR Practices: A Critical Perspective 27Yanita ANDONOVA 3.1 Digital transformations and business developments 28 3.2. Digitalization of the HR function: practices and tools 31 3.3. Which communication approach for studying these phenomena and their social consequences? 33 3.4. References 36 Chapter 4. Nanotargeting and Automation of Political Discourse 39Samuel COSSETTE 4.1. On nanotargeting 39 4.1.1. Segmentation 39 4.1.2. Microtargeting 40 4.1.3. Nanotargeting 41 4.2. On algorithmic governance 43 4.3. Public space and communicative capitalism 44 4.4. On the automation of political discourse 46 4.5. References 47 Chapter 5. Digital Practices, Cultural Practices, Under Surveillance 51Robert PANICO and Geneviève VIDAL 5.1. Social acceptability of the digital injunction, monitoring devices and digital control 51 5.2. Dilution of cultural practices in digital technology 54 5.3. Conclusion 56 5.4. References 57 Chapter 6. The Hypothesis of the Privacy of Ancients and Moderns 61Julien ROSSI 6.1. Privacy under discussion 62 6.2. The invention of the right to privacy 63 6.3. The emergence of informational self-determination and the privacy of the Modern 65 6.4. Conclusion 66 6.5. References 67 Chapter 7. Very Precious Memories: Digital Memories and Data Valorization 71Rémi ROUGE 7.1. The high dependency of start-ups 73 7.1.1. Capturing dormant content 74 7.1.2. Confirming their value 75 7.2. Tagging traffic: the response of dominant platforms 75 7.2.1. Limiting external traffic 75 7.2.2. Introducing new types of data circulation 77 7.3. Conclusion 78 7.4. References 78 Part 2. Digital Technology and Changes in Cultural and Communication Industries 81 Chapter 8. Capital as Power: Facebook and the Symbolic Monopoly Rent 83Maxime OUELLET 8.1. The debate on value production in social media: digital labor versus affective labor 84 8.2. Capital as power: accumulation through symbolic monopoly rent 85 8.3. The institutional transformations of advanced capitalism: the financialization of the economy and the commodification of knowledge 86 8.3.1. Accumulation on intangible assets and patents 87 8.3.2. Control of communication risks 88 8.3.3. Facebook and the imperial expansion logic of the knowledge monopoly 89 8.4. Conclusion: Facebook and the contradictions of capitalism in the digital age 90 8.5. References 91 Chapter 9. On the “Platformization” of the Culture and Communication Industries 95Jacob MATTHEWS 9.1. Towards a dilution of the specificities of the culture and communication industries? 96 9.2. The notion of uses of digital intermediation platforms 97 9.3. Strategies of digital intermediation platforms 98 9.4. Conclusion 104 9.5. References 105 Chapter 10. Digital Audiovisual Platforms, Between Transnational Flows and National Frameworks 107Philippe BOUQUILLION 10.1. Industrial strategies: a trend towards the weakening of national historical audiovisual actors 108 10.2. Public policies: between transnational logic and national policy development 112 10.3. Conclusion 114 10.4. References 114 Chapter 11. Scientific Publishing: Coexistence Between New Entrants and Traditional Players 117Édith LAVIEC 11.1. Questioning, hypotheses and methodology 118 11.2. Scientific publishing and new entrants in the Rhône-Alpes region 119 11.2.1. Elements of definition 119 11.2.2. About new entrants 120 11.2.3. Some examples of new entrants 120 11.3. Legitimacy and interactions with traditional players in Rhône-Alpes 122 11.3.1. Tendency to circumvent new entrants 122 11.3.2. Legitimacy and collaboration 123 11.3.3. Particularity of GAFA 125 11.4. Conclusion 125 11.5. References 126 Chapter 12. A Digital Redefinition of the Pornography Industries 129Arnaud ANCIAUX 12.1. Socio-economics of pornography markets and industries: a brief review of the scientific literature 130 12.2. Mobilizing discourse analysis and socio-economic analysis to understand markets and industries 132 12.2.1. Cross-questioning to be carried out 132 12.2.2. An example of deployment: the erased construction of a sexcam industry 133 12.3. Conclusion 135 12.4. References 135 Chapter 13. Cultural Policies 2.0: Rebuilding the Intervention of Public Authorities 139Maud BOISNARD, Destiny TCHÉHOUALI and Michèle RIOUX 13.1. The transformation of cultural industries; regulatory challenges 140 13.2. Priority issues and possible solutions 142 13.2.1. Financing culture 142 13.2.2. Digital taxation 142 13.2.3. Telecommunications regulation and net neutrality 143 13.2.4. Competition regulation, anti-competitive practices and dominant positions 144 13.2.5. The importance of data: algorithms, metadata and discoverability in support of the diversity of cultural expressions 145 13.3. Conclusion 146 13.4. References 147 Chapter 14. The Digitalization of Cultural Policies in France 149Anne BELLON 14.1. Digital technology at the Ministry of Culture: a perspective 150 14.2. Opposing coalitions 152 14.3. An industry policy instead of a user policy 154 14.4. Conclusion 155 14.5. References 155 Part 3. Digital Technology and Cultural and Communicational Practices 157 Chapter 15. The Digitalization of Society and a New Form of Connected Sociability in Tunisia 159Alma BETBOUT 15.1. Research purpose, hypotheses and working methodology 160 15.2. Research results 160 15.2.1. Forms of online sociability among adolescents 161 15.2.2. Sociability around hybrid writing 164 15.3. Conclusion 166 15.4. References 167 Chapter 16. Digitalization and Knowledge at University: Study of Collaborative Student Practices 169Marie DAVID 16.1. Knowledge as a result of collective work 169 16.2. The survey on the knowledge taught and learned at university 170 16.3. The discovery of digital student practices 170 16.4. Digital uses and collective work of knowledge 171 16.5. Digital exchanges, one dimension among others of students’ collective activity 174 16.6. Conclusion 177 16.7. References 177 Chapter 17. Towards a Generalization of Digital Technology in Education? 179Cathia PAPI 17.1. The place of technology in education: an old issue that is still relevant today 180 17.2. Field and survey methodology 181 17.3. Towards techno-pedagogical evolutions but not without limits 183 17.4. The development of active pedagogies that integrate digital technologies 183 17.5. Non-generalized practices 185 17.6. Barriers and levers to the widespread use of digital technology in education 186 17.7. Conclusion 187 17.8. References 188 Chapter 18. French Pensioners Facing the Digitalization of Society 191Lucie DELIAS 18.1. Contemporary digital culture and its implications for the identity and social integration of retired people 192 18.1.1. Digital culture, seniors and “successful aging” 192 18.1.2. The identity dimension of the use of connected computing: getting started and staying involved 194 18.2. E-government: a de facto obligation to use digital tools 196 18.2.1. Outlines of the dematerialization of administrative services 196 18.2.2. Working class pensioners and digital dependency 197 18.3. Conclusion 199 18.4. References 199 Chapter 19. From the Digitalization of Society to the Production of a Biomedicalized Food Culture 201Myriam DUROCHER 19.1. The biomedicalization of society 202 19.2. The emergence of a biomedicalized food culture 203 19.3. References 207 Conclusion 209Éric GEORGE List of Authors 215 Index 217
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Evolution of Social Innovation: Building
Book SynopsisAt a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. Exciting and promising ideas seem to die out as often as they take flight, and market mechanisms, which go a long way towards contributing to successful technical innovations, play an insignificant role in social innovations. The cases in this book explore the evolution of successful social innovation through time, from the ideas which catalyzed social and system entrepreneurs to create new processes, platforms, projects, and programs to fundamental social shifts in culture, economics, laws, and policies which occurred as a result. In doing so, the authors shed light on how to recognize transformative potential in the early stage innovations we see today. This comparison of multiple historical cases across problem domains creates a map of social innovation over time - shifting our thinking on both current issues and established programmes. From the American national parks and the joint stock company to the intelligence test and the financial derivatives that led to the 2008 crash, this book acts as a useful reflection and a cautionary tale, looking back to gain insight and inform the vibrant discussion of social innovation's future. This book pushes theoretical and methodological boundaries of the field through approachable narratives, making it an ideal resource for social innovation students, scholars, instructors, and practitioners.Contributors include: E. Alexiuk, N. Antadze, J. Blacklock, S. Geobey, D. McCarthy, K. McGowan, M.-L. Moore, P. Olsson, O. Tjornbo, F. WestleyTable of ContentsContents: 1. The History of Social Innovation Katharine McGowan, Frances Westley and Ola Tjörnbo 2. National Parks in the United States Nino Antadze 3. The Intelligence Test Katharine McGowan 4. Synthesis: Agency And Opportunity Per Olsson 5. The Legalization of Birth Control in North America Nino Antadze and Jaclyn Blacklock 6. The Duty to Consult and Accommodate in Canada Erin Alexiuk 7. The Internet: A Dynamic History Ola Tjörnbo 8. Synthesis: Self-Organization, Strange Attractors and Social Innovation Daniel McCarthy 9. The Global Derivatives Market as Social Innovation Sean Geobey 10. Indian Residential Schools Katharine McGowan 11. “A Fever for Business”: Dutch Joint Stock Companies Katharine McGowan 12. Synthesis: Tracking Transformative Impacts and Cross-scale Dynamics Michele-Lee Moore 13. Conclusion: Recognizing Transformative Potential Frances Westley Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Policy After the Financial Crisis: A
Book SynopsisIncorporating insights from political economy and behavioural psychology, this radical book provides an up-to-date account of the dilemmas facing social policy this decade: where did we go wrong, and what we can do about it?Ian Greener reconsiders one of the leading analyses by Jessop of the relationship between the economic and the political, combining it with insights from behavioural science. Covering the economy, healthcare, education and social security, detailed case studies show that the tensions and contradictions in present policy stem from the relationship between government and corporations and a resulting growth in inequality. The author presents a new, unified and effective framework to consider where social policy has come from, where it is now, and what what can we do about it?This book is ideal for those who want the bigger picture of politics and social policy, including advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of social policy, welfare studies, politics, or other social science disciplines.Trade Review'Ian Greener has written a stimulating book, not only with a strong analytical focus, but also looking into how to move forward and reduce the inequalities of present days societies. The combination of, and extension of, work by especially Galbraith and Jessop is an important new contribution to social policy analysis.' --Bent Greve, University of Roskilde, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Where have we come from? The failure of progressive politics 3. The governance of welfare – understanding where we are now 4. Who are we? – why the enlightenment model of who we are won’t do 5. A framework for understanding economic and social policy governance after the financial crisis 6. Economic governance and social policy 7. Health and healthcare policy 8. Education policy 9. Social Security 10. Conclusion References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Understanding the Knowledge Society: A New
Book SynopsisComplex knowledge, in many different forms, is generated, shared and accessed globally. Andrea Cerroni turns to this knowledge society to offer a comprehensive social theory of its processes and specificities, outlining controversies of knowledge and bridging the gap between knowledge and democracy. Proposing a systematic and interdisciplinary typology to deal with multitudes of knowledge types, the author builds a theoretically grounded framework around the sociology of knowledge. This book offers a panorama of the extant literature on knowledge types and takes advantage of suggestions from different scientific disciplines, from neurosciences and epigenetics, to anthropology and physics. Drawing on a long-term historical perspective, Cerroni assembles a cultural matrix, comprising ancient myths on nature, society and knowledge and modern myths of reductionism, individualism and relativism to inspire contemporary sociological imagination. Comprising an innovative and authoritative approach, this eclectic book will appeal to advanced scholars seeking a new theoretical framework for understanding the knowledge society. Students of sociology and epistemology will also benefit from its insights into the origins and philosophical background of the sociology of knowledge.Trade Review'Sometimes regarded as blurry in its contours, sometimes overshadowed by science studies, the sociology of knowledge is faced today with the challenge of an ever-more knowledge-centred society. An overview and a personal outlook at the same time, Andrea Cerroni's book represents a valuable entry point into a crucial dimension of contemporary life.' --Luigi Pellizzoni, Università di Pisa, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Acknowledgments 2. Approaching the knowledge society 3. Rise and fall in one quick step 4. In search of a theory 5. Recent topics 6. Imagining the complex society. A theoretical schema 7. Knowledge. A socio-cognitive ideal-typology 8. Knowledge Circulation: theory and applications 9. A new paradigm for sociology of knowledge 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and
Book SynopsisOn the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty fictional and non-fictional literary texts (novels, biographical narratives, memoirs, plays, poems, and travel writing), are given detailed attention alongside journalism, geo-political-historical accounts of the status quo on the island, and striking visual interventions (films, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos and artistic performances), many of which are sustained and complemented by different forms of writing (newspaper cuttings, graffiti, captions, song lyrics, screenplay, tattoos). Dominican, Dominican-American, Haitian and Haitian-American writers and artists are put in dialogue with authors who were born in Europe, the rest of the Americas, Algeria, New Zealand, and Japan in order to illuminate some of the processes and histories that have woven and continue to weave the texture of the borderland and the complex web of border relations on the island. Particular attention is paid to the causes, unfolding, and immediate aftermath of the 1791 slave revolt, the 1937 massacre of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Northern borderland as well as to recent events and topical issues such as the 2010 earthquake, migration, and environmental degradation. On the Edge is an invaluable multicultural archive for those who want to engage fully with the past and present of Hispaniola and refuse to comply with the idea that an acceptable future is unattainable.Trade ReviewReviews On The Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic focuses on the border region of the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, delivering a ground-breaking literary and cultural history of magisterial scale. Bridget Wooding'Maria Cristina Fumagalli’s remarkable On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic offers the most richly nuanced study of the Haiti-Dominican border to date. Anchored in a detailed understanding of the history of this complex and deeply conflicted contact zone, and offering insightful readings of the broadest possible range of literary and artistic works, the book challenges static representations of the border, offering in their stead innovative and multi-layered interpretations of the role of mobility and permeability in creating a multi-ethnic transnational territory that both bridges and separates the peoples of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The book’s depth of research and analysis will make it the must-read study for anyone interested in this often-misunderstood contact zone.' Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College'This exhaustively researched book is a must read for literary scholars and historians of Hispaniola, the Caribbean, and the Latin American borderlands, and serves as a crucial reminder that the current wave of anti-Haitianism is not the only narrative of Haitian–Dominican relations.'Lauren Derby, Journal of Borderland StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations and maps A note on translations Introduction: On the edge: border-crossing, borderland-dwelling and the music of what happens Chapter One: Landscaping Hispaniola: Landscaping Hispaniola: Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry and border politics Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description Topographique et Politique de la partie espagnole de l’Isle Saint-Domingue (1796) and Description Topographique, Physique, Civile, Politique et Historique de la partie française de l’Isle Saint-Domingue (1797). Chapter Two: The 1791 Revolt and the borderland from below Récit Historique sur les Évenemens qui se sont succédés dans les camps de la Grande-Rivière, du Dondon, de Ste.-Suzanne et autres depuis le 26 Octobre 1791 jusqu’au 24 Decembre de la même année par M. Gros, Procureur-Syndic de Valière, fait prisonnier par Jeannot, chef des Brigands, AUGMENTÉ du Récit historique du citoyen Thibal, Médecin et Habitant de la Paroisse Sainte-Suzanne, détenu prisonnier, par les Brigands, depuis 16 mois et de la Déclaration du Citoyen Fauconnet, faite à la Municipalité le 16 Joun 1792 (1793), Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal (1819 and 1826) and ‘The Saint Domingue Revolt’ (1845), Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Adonis, ou le bon nègre (1798) and Zoflora, ou la bonne negrèsse (1801), Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising (1995). Chapter Three: This place was here before our nations: Anacaona’s Jaragua Salome Ureña de Henriquez, Anacaona (1880); Jean Métellus, Anacaona (1986); Edwidge Danticat, Anacaona: Golden Flower: Haiti, 1490 (2005). Chapter Four: Servants Turned Masters: Santo Domingo and the black revolt Carlos Esteban Deive, Viento Negro, Bosque del Caimán: Novela (2002). Chapter Five: A fragile and beautiful world: the northern borderland and the 1937 massacre José Martí, War Diaries (1895), Manuel Rueda, Bienvenida y la noche: Crónicas de Montecristi (1994), Freddy Prestol Castillo, El Masacre se pasa a pie (1937;1973) and Paisajes y meditaciones de una frontera (1943), Manuel Rueda, La criatura terrestre (1963). Chapter Six: The dream of creating one people from two lands mixed together: 1937 and borderland Utopia Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, El hombre del acordeón (2003), Jacques Stephen Alexis, ‘Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians’ (1956) and Compère Général Soleil (1955), René Philoctète, Le peuple des terres mêlée (1989), Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (1998). Chapter Seven: A geography of living flesh: bearing the unbearable Sergio Reyes, Cuentos y Leyendas de la Frontera (1996), La Fiesta de los Reyes y otros cuentos de la frontera (2004), and ‘La Vigía: destellos del “Sol Naciente” en la frontera’ (2009), Kenzaburo Oe, Sayonara, watashi no yon yo! (2005), Anthony Lespès, Les semences de la colère (1949), Jesús María Ramírez, Mis 43 años en La Descubierta (2000), Luis Vencedor Bello Mancebo, Memorias de Pedernales: Vencedor Bello y Alcoa Exploration Co (2013), Bernard Diederich, Seeds of Fictions: Graham Greene Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 (2012) and Graham Greene, The Comedians (1966). Chapter Eight: The forgotten heart-breaking epic of border struggle Diego D’Alcalá, La Frontera (1994), Manuel Rueda, La criatura terrestre (1963) and Las metamorfosis de Makandal (1998), Perico Ripiao (2003) directed by Ángel Muñiz and written by Reynaldo Disla and Ángel Muñiz, Maurice Lemoine, Sucre Amer: Esclaves aujourd’hui dans les Caraïbes (1981), Gary Klang, L’île aux deux visages (1997). Chapter Nine: Some are born to endless night: structural violence across-the-border Hulda Guzmán, Some are born to sweet delight (2011), Máximo Avilés Blonda, Pirámide 179 (1968), Alanna Lockward, Un Haití Dominicano: Tatuajes Fantasmas y Narrativas Bilaterales -1994-1998 (2011), Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s L’Autre Face de la mer (1998), Evelyne Trouillot, Le bleu de l’île (2005), Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Montecristi (2009), Jean Gentil (2010) written and directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán. Chapter Ten: Borderlands of the mind: present, past, and future Frank Báez , ‘Ahora es nunca’ (2007), Jacques Stephen Alexis, Les Arbres Musiciens (1957), Carlos Mieses, El día de todos (2008), Junot Díaz, ‘Monstro’ (2012) Chapter Eleven: The writing is on the wall: towards an open island and a complete structure Francisco (Pancho) Rodríguez, Que si fuere mil veces (2012), Rita Indiana Hernández and Los Misterios, ‘Da pa lo do’ (2010) and ‘Da pa lo do,’ video directed by Engel Leonardo, Jean-Philippe Moiseau, Palm Mask (2009), Metal Mask (2011) and Les rêves du cireur de bottes / Los sueños del limpia botas / Yon chanj kap reve (2012), David Pérez -Karmadavis, Isla Cerrada (2010), Isla Abierta (2006), Lo que dice la piel (2005), Trata, (2005), Simétrico (2006), Al tramo izquierdo (2006), Estructura Completa (2010). Conclusion: The rejection of futures past: on the edge of an attainable acceptable future? Polibio Díaz, Manifiesto (2013) Bibliography Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge: Women in The
Book SynopsisThe intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting exposé on the lives of the women of Ambridge. In this new book, the Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and real-life Academic Archer Dr Charlotte Connor (a.k.a. Susan Carter), to examine the power of gossip in Ambridge, portrayals of love, marriage, and motherhood, female education and career expectations, women's mental health and the hard-won right of women to play cricket. Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge gives the reader a deeper understanding of the real life issues covered in the programme, an insight into the residents of Ambridge, and validation that hours of listening to The Archers is, in fact, academic research.Trade ReviewResearchers working in areas ranging from philosophy to psychology to education in the UK, New Zealand, and Canada provide 14 essays that examine social, political, economic, and cultural issues in the radio show The Archers and its characters and how they support or challenge tropes of feminist or post-feminist lives. They discuss the informal networks of the women characters’ talk and gossip as sites of power and resistance when men are in charge of more formal arenas; the gendered implications of the home in the show, including decisions about unexpected pregnancies and the underrepresentation of mental health problems; and gendered implications beyond the home as women in the show participate in the workforce, including in science, sports, and entrepreneurship, as well as whether the show reflects contemporary values on gender and sexuality diversity. Other essays share insights into the making of the show. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsPreface: What are the Women of Ambridge Telling us?; Nicola Headlam and Cara Courage Section One - Inside Ambridge Chapter 1. In Conversation with Alison Hindell; Nicola Headlam and Cara Courage Chapter 2. 'I'm Not One to Gossip': Roots, Rumour and Mental Well-Being in Ambridge; Charlotte Connor, The University of Warwick, Aka Charlotte Martin, Actor, Susan Carter in BBC Radio 4 The Archers Section Two - Women's Talk: Informal Information Networks that Sustain the Village Chapter 3. Neighbourhood Watch: Gossip, Power and the Working-Class Matriarch in The Archers; Claire Mortimer Chapter 4. In Praise of Gossip - Why Tongue-Wagging and the Rumour Mill are Important in Ambridge; Louise Gillies Chapter 5. 'Almost Without Exception they are Shown in their Relation to Men': Ambridge Women and their Conversations; Sarah Kate Merry Chapter 6. Foucault, Freda Fry and the Power of Silent Characters on the Radio; Rebecca Wood Section Three - Gendered Expectations: Within the Home Chapter 7. 'This Isn't About Curry, Alistair': Shula Hebden-Lloyd and Iris Murdoch on Love; Hannah Marije Altorf Chapter 8. Oh Baby! Unplanned Pregnancy and a Woman's Right to Choose; Carolynne Henshaw Chapter 9. Women's Work?: Civil Society Networks for Social Stability or Social Change in Ambridge; Nicola Headlam Chapter 10. Strong or Silenced? The Under-Representation of Mental Health Problems in Ambridge's Women; Elizabeth Campion Section Four - Gendered Expectations: Beyond the Home Chapter 11. 'What Would the Neighbours Say?': Gender and Sexual Diversity in The Archers; William Pitt Chapter 12. Ambridge: Keeping The Pipeline of Uk Female Scientists Flowing; Jane Turner and Clare Warren Chapter 13. I Am Woman Hear Me Roar - And Now Watch Me Play Cricket; Katharine Hoskyn Chapter 14 - Sow's Ears and Silk Purses: Upcycling and The Archers; Madeleine Lefebvre
£15.19
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Society and Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook provides a unique examination of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century. Featuring both wide-ranging coverage of major issues and detailed analysis of social policies in different countries, the Handbook explores key concepts, policy areas and institutions, considering welfare and social policy in the context of wider socio-economic and cultural divisions. In addition to examining specific policy areas, contributors engage with the social divisions and complex infrastructures that underpin them on both local and global scales. Chapters also discuss significant challenges to contemporary social policy, including the threats to human and societal wellbeing posed by austerity, migration and the climate crisis, as well as the opportunities these present to reshape policy conceptually, ideologically and practically in the future in response to these issues. Scholars and students in social policy, sociology and political science looking for a comprehensive overview of the field of social policy will find this Handbook an invaluable resource. It will also prove useful to researchers and practitioners seeking in-depth analyses of particular countries or policy areas covered. Contributors include: E. Adamson, H. Bochel, D. Byrne, M. Calnan, B. Cantillon, H. Dean, C. Deeming, A. Dinham, F. Dukelow, B. Ebbinghaus, D. Edmiston, N. Ellison, K. Farnsworth, D. Finn, J.L. Garritzmann, M. Griffiths, P. Hall, K. Hamblin, T. Haux, A.J. He, E. Hogg, G. Huang, B. Hvinden, G.-J. Hwang, J. Javornik, R. Jawad, J. Jenson, H. Johannson, A. Kaasch, M. Kitzmann, M. Koch, K. Kuitto, S. Kuivalainen, Z. Li, E.V. Lomelí, N. Meer, N. Morel, K. Nakray, C. Needham, T. Newburn, L. Panico, T. Papadopoulos, N. Pleace, T. Reeskens, E. Righard, A. Roumpakis, M.A. Schoyen, C.B. Solano, M. Spång, A. Vlachantoni, Y. YangTrade Review'The editors and contributors to the Handbook on Society and Social Policy are to be congratulated for producing a wide-ranging and important overview of the field which will serve as a standard reference work for many years to come. Dealing with many diverse aspects of social policy, it is particularly noteworthy for moving beyond the standard Western 'welfare state' approach which has characterized the subject in the past to incorporate valuable material from other parts of the world as well.' --James Midgley, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Nick Ellison/Tina Haux Section One: Ideas and concepts 1. Poverty and inequality Bea Cantillon 2. Needs and Rights Hartley Dean 3. Citizenship Daniel Edmiston 4. Social Investment: Polysemy in Perspective Jane Jenson Section Two: Social Policy and Social Divisions 5. Class David Byrne 6. Gender Elizabeth Adamson 7. Religion, Belief and Public Policy Adam Dinham 8. Race and Ethnicity Nasar Meer 9. Disability Miro Griffiths 10. Generations and the Life Course Athina Vlachantoni and Yazhen Yang Section Three: Welfare systems 11. Western and Northern Europe Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen 12. Eastern Europe Jana Javornik 13. Southern Europe Theo Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis 14. Liberal welfare systems Christopher Deeming 15. Latin America: Inertia and Transformation in Five Dual Welfare Regimes Carlos Barba Solano and Enrique Valencia Lomelí 16. India: Welfare/Disfare from Nehru’s Imagination to Modi’s Dirigiste Reforms Keerty Nakray 17. China: Social Policy and Reforms Alex Jingwei He, Zilin Lee and Genghua Huang 18. East Asia Gyu-Jin Hwang 19. The Middle East and North Africa Rana Jawad Section Four: Contemporary Social Policies 20. Pensions Kati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen 21. Changing Work and Welfare: Unemployment and Labour Market Policies Bernhard Ebbinghaus 22. Health Policy: In Sickness and in Health Mike Calnan 23. Social Care Patrick Hall, Catherine Needham and Kate Hamblin 24. Housing Policy Nicholas Pleace 25. Education Policy Julian L. Garritzmann 26. Family Policies and Child Wellbeing Lidia Panico and Morgan Kitzmann 27. Criminal justice Tim Newburn Section Five: Institutions and Welfare Delivery 28. The State Hugh Bochel 29. Public-Private Partnerships: The Delivery of Public Employment Services Dan Finn 30. The Third Sector and the Welfare State Eddy Hogg 31. Fiscal Welfare Nathalie Morel 32. Social, Corporate, Occupational: The ‘Whole Economy’ of Welfare Kevin Farnsworth 33. Global Institutions Alexandra Kaasch Section Six: Contemporary Challenges 34. Debt, Austerity Capitalism and the Welfare State Fiona Dukelow 35. Transnational Social Vulnerabilities and Reconfigurations of ‘Social Policy’ Erica Righard and Mikael Spång 36. Welfare States, Social Policies and the Environment Håkan Johansson and Max Koch 37. Migration and the Welfare State: Welfare Magnets and Welfare Chauvinism Tim Reeskens Conclusion: Looking Ahead Tina Haux and Nick Ellison Index
£242.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizations Evolving: Third Edition
Book SynopsisOrganizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory. Key features of the third edition include: A sophisticated analytic comparison of six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and their evolution An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management and entrepreneurship research Supplementary materials from academic journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an online companion Extensive case examples that illustrate key evolutionary processes Study questions designed for extended and reflective learning. Offering key insights and critical learning opportunities, this book is crucial reading for classes covering macro-organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations. Students of management studies and entrepreneurship, particularly those with a focus on organization theory, will also benefit from its interdisciplinary approach.Trade Review'Organizations Evolving is an instant classic. The go-to book for information about the future, as well as what s current in organizations studies. It follows Aldrich's pioneering work on entrepreneurship, with great cases, on-line supplements, and updates on digital technology and inequality. For the best primer on the study of organizations, Organizations Evolving is the clear winner.' --Paul M. Hirsch, Northwestern University, USOrganizations evolve and emerge. Aldrich, Ruef and Lippmann introduce a generic framework for understanding organizational and social change. The authors are in this third edition informatively and beautifully integrating evolving knowledge about organizations. The previous edition of Organizations Evolving was my favorite book about organization. This edition is even better.' --Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway'Organizations Evolving synthesizes in an excellent way the evolution of organizations, and clarifies the elegance of the evolutionary approach in using a few distinct concepts to explain broad and complex phenomena. In the third edition of the book, the authors have significantly updated the book, and made it more teaching friendly, which makes it a great textbook for understanding entrepreneurship and organizations.' --Hans Landström, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and Themes PART I AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 2. The Evolutionary Approach 3. How the Evolutionary Approach Relates to Other Approaches PART II CONCEPTUALIZING ORGANIZATIONAL EMERGENCE 4. Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations 5. Organizational Boundaries 6. Organizational Forms PART III TRANSFORMATION AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND POPULATION LEVELS 7. Organizational Transformation 8. Organizations and Social Change PART IV POPULATION-LEVEL DYNAMICS 9. Emergence of New Populations of Organizations 10. Reproducing Populations: Foundings and Disbandings 11. Community Evolution References Index
£144.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Energy Cultures: Technology, Justice, and
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores the concept of energy cultures as a means of understanding social and political relations and how energy injustices are created. Using Eastern Europe as an example, it examines the radical transition occurring as the region leaves behind the legacy of the Soviet Union, and the effects of the resulting power struggle between the energy cultures of Russia and the European Union.In this timely study, Michael Carnegie LaBelle applies an energy justice framework to an analysis of different national energy cultures, exposing both the domestic and international power relations that influence geopolitics in Eastern Europe. He assesses the entire energy value-chain in the region in this context, providing a radical critique of power dynamics within the energy system with the aim of fostering a just energy transition. Scholars interested in energy justice, conflict, policy and culture from across disciplines including law, politics, public policy, sociology and geography will find this book a fascinating read. It will also be useful to scholars of international relations and geopolitics for its analysis of the impact of EU energy policy on the countries examined, as well as of the relationship between the EU and Russia.Trade Review'LaBelle's unique book is a herculean effort of research, writing and balancing the thin line of central European politics. Meticulously researched, masterfully written and politically just, this exciting new volume provides an important contribution to the literature on energy justice and transition in central and eastern Europe. This commanding work is relevant, interesting and a necessary read for all those interested in Europe's energy future.' -- Tina Soliman Hunter, Macquarie University, Australia'Michael Carnegie LaBelle's book is a great contribution to understanding how societal values, norms and practices shape the physical energy realities in Eastern Europe. Energy Cultures points to a crucial aspect determining the unfolding energy transformation in the region, from everyday practices to geopolitics.' -- Andreas Goldthau, University of Erfurt, Germany'This is a welcome exploration into energy culture in Eastern Europe, and combines the unique and growing perspective of energy justice in the analysis. It is written by one of the most esteemed professors working in energy policy across Eastern Europe at this moment and will be of immense value for a whole range of interdisciplinary scholars. A highlight is the interactive analysis that focuses on Hungary, Poland and Lithuania and the energy challenges ahead!' -- Raphael Heffron, University of Dundee, UK'This book offers a novel and comprehensive perspective on the intersections among energy justice and political transformation in a part of the world that has experienced - and is continuing to experience - rapid economic and infrastructural change. It is a state-of-the-art resource for the wide range of scholars and practitioners interested in these topics, in the region and beyond.' -- Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Energy culture in an age of transformation 2. Combustion of Energy Cultures in Eastern Europe 3. Lithuania: The Lithuanian Battle for the Independence 4. Hungary: The Geopolitics of household utility bills 5. Poland: The other side of the European energy transition 6. The power of energy cultures 7. Justice and Equity in the Energy System 8. Conclusion: Building a culture of justice in the energy transition References Index
£83.00
ISTE Ltd. Digital Presences of Organizations
Book SynopsisOrganizations communicate in complex and various ways, and the context is mainly characterized by the pervasiveness of the digital ecosystem, including the Web, social networks and the Internet of data. However, its information delivery cannot overlook the requirements of multicultural communications at a variety of levels. Digital Presences of Organizations highlights the communication roadblocks faced by organizations as they emerge, arising not only from issues encountered on their own websites, but also as they construct online narratives. This multi-faceted and multi-strategy digital presence of organizations is addressed via three main thematic axes. The first focuses on differentiated strategies (content, services, interaction) that can be observed depending on the types of organizations and their users. The second examines the cultural dimension of websites, ranging from the local to the global. Finally, the third focuses on the role of narration in organizations' online
£118.80
ISTE Ltd Geographical Places in Transportation
Book SynopsisIn the entanglement of practices, protagonists, techniques and infrastructures that enable mobility, transportation places play a crucial role. While transportation is often approached through the prism of networks, Geographical Places in Transportation invites us to shift our focus toward the places that link transportation and facilitate the movements of people, objects and materials. Through the myriad activities that unfold there, transportation places play an active role in the interdependencies that shape our daily lives. This book looks at transportation production and experience sites as placesprocesses, where a considerable proportion of society's challenges and the habitability of territories are at stake: ecological transition; social inequalities; roles of minorities and living beings; access to employment and other resources; role of atmospheres and ambiances; commercial strategies and security concerns; expansion of digital capitalism; and relations with both the near and the distant.
£118.80
ISTE Ltd. Global Settlement Dynamics How People Inhabit
Book SynopsisThere are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how did we arrive at the current distribution of humans on the planet? What shape is it taking, and how will it evolve? This book proposes an original answer to this, which is based on the explicit desire to place settlement at the heart of its questioning, by varying the level of analysis from global to local. After recalling how humans colonized the entire planet, this book presents their current distribution, which is predominantly urban. Population dynamics (birth rate, death rate and migration) are driving changes including the demographic decline of certain regions which are presented and explained from the angle of residential mobility and international migration, as well as the impact of ongoing climate change. Global Settlement Dynamics concludes with a discussion of the future of these settlements, based on data from the United Nations, and the question of the sustainability of human settlements on Earth.
£118.80
ISTE Ltd Science and Technology in Society
Book SynopsisScience and technology profoundly shape the world today. Over the last two centuries, they have become powerful engines of change, accounting for some of the most important forms of human activity, inseparable from social, political and economic life. Analyzing their modes of production, the dynamics of their dissemination, the different forms of their use and opposition to them is a major academic and political challenge. Science and Technology in Society offers a broad overview of work carried out in France, in the international multi-disciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and is the product of a collaboration between some thirty authors. It aims to provide an introduction to this field of research, its development, benefits and the new perspectives that are emerging. This book presents and discusses studies that are still little-known in France, even though, paradoxically, many researchers from French institutions make decisive contributions to international work in this field.
£118.80
ISTE Ltd. Wellbeing at School
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, children's well-being, particularly at school, has become a major political and academic issue that has gained importance both in public policy and in the social sciences. Well-being at School uncovers and discusses the different ways in which school well-being has been defined and evaluated, by outlining the international and interdisciplinary state of the art. It presents recent and diversified empirical evidence in different European and non-European countries, which bring together perspectives that have often been arbitrarily and artificially opposed in the literature: objective well-being versus subjective well-being; adult-centered perspective versus child-centered perspective; and analysis of family determinants versus analysis of school determinants of child well-being. This book's originality lies in simultaneously considering the multiple dimensions of children's well-being at school and understanding how these different determinants interact and combine, depending on the (geographical, social and family) contexts in which the children live.
£118.80
Inter-Varsity Press Rumours of a Better Country: Searching for trust
Book SynopsisHyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any kind of moral standards. Is it even possible to find a vision for goodness that can bring us together? Rumours of a Better Country addresses our hunger for justice and a better way of living by awakening our moral imagination to the potential of a trusting community. Drawing on ancient wisdom and looking through the lens of daily reality, it shows how trust and trustworthiness must be the foundation for any kind of meaningful freedom. Through the questions and mysteries of the ‘Café Now and Not Yet’, readers will experience chance encounters with Palestinians in a pub in communist Czechoslovakia, appreciate an intriguing sculpture from Romania and hear post-communist Ukrainians struggling to imagine a better life. Each of these encounters provides a real-life context for a rich and provocative journey into the heart of goodness and why it matters.
£17.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on In-Work Poverty
Book SynopsisThere has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty.Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings, policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches.Academically rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new angles.Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M. Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S. Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M. Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann, J.-d. Lue, B. Maître, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I. Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S. Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R. Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V. Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R. Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. YehTrade Review'A handbook on ''in-work poverty'' research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low-income status from a world-class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!' --Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx PART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The concept and measurement of in-work poverty Henning Lohmann 3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty Wiemer Salverda 4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty Henning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz 5. Gender and in-work poverty Sophie Ponthieux 6. In-work poverty among migrants Eric Crettaz PART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY 7. Demographic drivers of in-work poverty Brian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability Bertrand Maître, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan 9. Atypical employment and in-work poverty Jeroen Horemans 10. Single-parent families and in-work poverty Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado 11. The dynamics of in-work poverty Leen Vandecasteele and Marco Giesselmann PART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 12. Income support policies for the working poor Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist 13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty Amy Horton and Jane Wills 14. Activation and in-work poverty Daniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel 15. Childcare policies and in-work poverty Wim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans 16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe Lucia Pradella PART IV EUROPE AND THE US 17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe 18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer 19. In-work Poverty in the United States Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx PART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA 20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries Armando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan 21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trends Roxana Maurizio 22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013 Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres 23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt 24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011 Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov 25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states Chung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue 26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in India David Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. Blankenship Index
£44.60
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Shanyang Zhao provides a unique examination of this evolving topic with a framework to address the common questions: What is self? How is self formed? and Why does self matter? Drawing a fascinating distinction between self and self-concept, Zhao regards both as part of a larger constellation named the ‘self-phenomenon.’ He separates social determinants of self from neurocognitive prerequisites of self. Focusing on the social determinants, he reviews how social schemas shape self-concept through three intertwined mechanisms and how social resources affect self-conscious action through social position and social capital.Key Features: A clear distinction between self and self-concept A study of the self as both a social product and a social force A new framework for the sociology of the self, built on the foundation of classic works A close examination of three mechanisms of self-concept formation with specifications of the scope conditions under which each mechanism operates An analysis of the distinctiveness of human normative selves through cross-species comparison This Advanced Introduction will provide essential reading for scholars and researchers in sociology, social psychology, and social policy. Trade Review‘Shanyang Zhao has written a high-level, but very accessible, Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self. The emphasis, rightly, is on the relationship between individual and societal conceptions of the self: The self cannot exist without society and, conversely, society cannot exist without the self. The student is offered a clearly delineated and extremely useful framework for thinking about, and doing additional work on, the self and its relationship to society.’ -- George Ritzer, University of Maryland, College Park, US‘The self is one of the most fundamental units in sociology. It is also one of the most confused as successive scholarly generations have tried to disentangle our experience as individuals from our experience as social beings. Professor Zhao serves us all well in bringing some order to this chaos.’ -- Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK‘Study of the self has been a central part of American sociology since the beginning. Shanyang Zhao shows how this research has become even more sophisticated, including the influence of mass media on the self and the active role of human selves in shaping and changing society. Of special interest are comparisons with animal societies, some of which recognize other members of their species; others which recognize individuals and create alliances because they have self-recognition. Zhao’s book brings us to the frontier of the field.’ -- Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, US‘Shanyang Zhao’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self is a textbook case of how to write a textbook case. Zhao, admired as a social psychologist and theorist, has written a clear and concise summary of why the self is one of the core concepts of the discipline. Used in conjunction with empirical studies, the text provides the advanced student with creative ways to think about identity and the self-phenomenon in its communal context. Zhao’s chapter on animal selves is especially innovative and is certain to provoke lively discussion.’ -- Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the sociology of the self 2. Sociological and related perspectives 3. Emic conception of the self 4. Social determinants of the self 5. Social functions of the self 6. Self and animal societies 7. Epilogue to the sociology of the self Index
£98.67
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Shanyang Zhao provides a unique examination of this evolving topic with a framework to address the common questions: What is self? How is self formed? and Why does self matter? Drawing a fascinating distinction between self and self-concept, Zhao regards both as part of a larger constellation named the ‘self-phenomenon.’ He separates social determinants of self from neurocognitive prerequisites of self. Focusing on the social determinants, he reviews how social schemas shape self-concept through three intertwined mechanisms and how social resources affect self-conscious action through social position and social capital.Key Features: A clear distinction between self and self-concept A study of the self as both a social product and a social force A new framework for the sociology of the self, built on the foundation of classic works A close examination of three mechanisms of self-concept formation with specifications of the scope conditions under which each mechanism operates An analysis of the distinctiveness of human normative selves through cross-species comparison This Advanced Introduction will provide essential reading for scholars and researchers in sociology, social psychology, and social policy. Trade Review‘Shanyang Zhao has written a high-level, but very accessible, Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self. The emphasis, rightly, is on the relationship between individual and societal conceptions of the self: The self cannot exist without society and, conversely, society cannot exist without the self. The student is offered a clearly delineated and extremely useful framework for thinking about, and doing additional work on, the self and its relationship to society.’ -- George Ritzer, University of Maryland, College Park, US‘The self is one of the most fundamental units in sociology. It is also one of the most confused as successive scholarly generations have tried to disentangle our experience as individuals from our experience as social beings. Professor Zhao serves us all well in bringing some order to this chaos.’ -- Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK‘Study of the self has been a central part of American sociology since the beginning. Shanyang Zhao shows how this research has become even more sophisticated, including the influence of mass media on the self and the active role of human selves in shaping and changing society. Of special interest are comparisons with animal societies, some of which recognize other members of their species; others which recognize individuals and create alliances because they have self-recognition. Zhao’s book brings us to the frontier of the field.’ -- Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, US‘Shanyang Zhao’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self is a textbook case of how to write a textbook case. Zhao, admired as a social psychologist and theorist, has written a clear and concise summary of why the self is one of the core concepts of the discipline. Used in conjunction with empirical studies, the text provides the advanced student with creative ways to think about identity and the self-phenomenon in its communal context. Zhao’s chapter on animal selves is especially innovative and is certain to provoke lively discussion.’ -- Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the sociology of the self 2. Sociological and related perspectives 3. Emic conception of the self 4. Social determinants of the self 5. Social functions of the self 6. Self and animal societies 7. Epilogue to the sociology of the self Index
£21.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Contemporary Sociological Theology: The
Book SynopsisThis book examines how ancient myths have developed and still survive in the collective public imagination in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the individual, society and historical heritage: On what basis do we form our opinion and develop attitudes about key issues? What is, and how should, the relationship between ourselves and nature be oriented? And what is the relationship between ourselves and others?Advancing a critical analysis of myths, Andrea Cerroni reveals the inconsistencies and consequences of our contemporary imagination, addressing neoliberalism in particular. The book elaborates a sociological theology from historical reconstruction, drawing together analytical concepts such as political theology and sociological imagination. It brings into focus a cultural matrix comprising ancient myths about nature, society and knowledge, in opposition to modern myths built around reductionism, individualism and relativism. Providing suggestions for deconstructing these myths, Contemporary Sociological Theology explores concepts of reflexive complexity, Gramscian democratic politics and a general relativisation of knowledge.Highly interdisciplinary, this book will be an insightful read for sociology and social policy scholars, for students with a particular interest in sociological theory, cultural sociology and innovation policy and for all those who seek awareness of the imagination that rules our world.Trade Review‘This book serves as testimony to the power of the historical imagination. Cerroni demonstrates a remarkable ability to navigate between the Ancient and Modern Canon. His reconstruction of the Greek myths compels us to rethink the sociology of modernity.’ -- Frank Furedi, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Contemporary Sociological Theology PART I THE ANCIENT CANON: THE OLYMPIC NOMOS 1. Introduction to the Ancient Canon 2. Pathos and harmony: community within the Gaia-hypothesis 3. Nomos and Kronos: slippery slopes 4. Olympic Logos: Athena and the angelic science PART II THE MODERN CANON: NARCISSUS ENCHAINED 5. Introduction to the Modern Canon 6. Scientistic reductionism: the mad race for the atom 7. Sociological narcissism: the wasted land of homo clausus 8. Absolute relativism: the fight for decision power References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Defining Public Goods: An Institutional Approach
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. This macro-level institutional approach requires a precise definition of the specific ways in which community-level challenges can negatively affect a larger voting public.The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. Examples include The Federalist Papers, written in defense of the US Constitution, New Deal institutions created during the Great Depression, the post-World War II European Union, and more recent macro-level institutional changes that are assisting, in varying degrees, rural community sustainability in the US, Kenya, Rwanda and Russia.O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.Trade Review‘Practitioners and researchers will appreciate the author's wide experience in community-level institution building and his positive approach to community empowerment and change.’ -- A A Hickey, CHOICETable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: globalization and the community challenge 1. Conceptualizing community within the public goods paradigm 2. Sources of resistance to defining community as a larger public goods problem 3. An institutional approach to building sustainable communities 4. Examples of top-down formal institutional adjustments on community sustainability and inter-community conflict 5. Location, informal institutions and social network effects on rural American community responses to globalization 6. Revisiting the quest for community References Index
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Liverpool University Press The Process of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe historiographical concept Enlightenment has for a long time wavered between the idea of a single unified Enlightenment and the notion of multiple competing enlightenments. This volume revisits this seeming contradiction by asserting that the Enlightenment should be understood as a shared process of communication, seeking ways to accommodate and mediate rival ideologies and orient enlightenment projects towards the betterment of humankind. Taking the work of the eminent Enlightenment scholar Hans Erich Bödeker as their point of departure, the different chapters seek to explore this perspective through specific case studies of political communication. Readers are offered a selection of Bödeker's texts never previously translated into English, along with a series of contributions from his former colleagues, students, and collaborators. In doing so the book displays the broad scope of Bödeker's own work, as well as the multiplicity of themes captured within the framework of the Enli
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