Society and culture: general Books

Book SynopsisDuring the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legal containment of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism. Providing an overview of the history of knowledge societies, Nico Stehr analyses the concept of knowledge as well as the nature of post-industrial societies. Chapters examine the genealogy of social scientific theories of modern society; the role of knowledge as a capacity to act or as an intersubjective resource; and recent changes in the structure of the material economy. The book concludes by discussing the political challenges of the knowledge society, highlighting the ways in which discoveries in modern knowledge and subsequent political responses continue to generate controversies. This illuminating book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology and sociological theory, as well as science and technology studies.Trade Review‘The enormous changes of knowledge production and distribution in the last half century, extreme complexity and dangers of the social and biophysical problems that have arisen from its application, and consequent need to plot major changes of policy make this an especially important moment for reconsidering the relation of knowledge and society. Eminent scholar of modern knowledge societies, Nico Stehr’s concise yet comprehensive analysis of these matters in intellectual, socio-historical, and political-economic context provides an incisive, holistic mapping of the primary issues in hand. His Understanding Society and Knowledge will be accessible to and provoke critical thought among a wide range of readers interested in the fundamental changes of social knowledge impacting our lives and world.’ -- Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas, US‘In his new book well known sociologist Nico Stehr draws on several decades of research on the thesis that we live in a knowledge society. One of the many interesting questions he discusses is if knowledge society will turn into knowledge capitalism and what this entails.’BR> -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, US‘Nico Stehr’s Understanding Society and Knowledge is the sort of book on the sociology of knowledge that Max Weber might have written, had he lived another hundred years. Stehr mirrors and updates Weber's facility with the relevant literatures in law, politics and economics – as well as sociology – all brought together in aid of a higher-order social scientific understanding of the nature of knowledge. Both theorists and policymakers will find much food for thought here, as Stehr deftly intersperses his larger and more abstract claims with pointed illustrations from reports of recent events.’ -- Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UKeTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction: theories of modern societies 2 The lineage of knowledge society theory 3 The science of knowledge 4 Knowledge competencies 5 The knowledge wars 6 The political economy of knowledge societies 7 Modern societies as knowledge societies 8 The political economy of knowledge monopoly capitalism 9 Political challenges of knowledge societies 10 Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThere are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able to make use of that knowledge in practice and in the context of relevant professional values.This book offers broad insights into effective social work education. It provides insightful guidance to 50 aspects of the social work curriculum and warns of common pitfalls and obstacles to learning. Practical suggestions for exercises and activities are presented in a clearly written, successful blend of theory and practice.Neil Thompson is a distinguished, international scholar and brings over 30 years of experience to a wide range of case studies and transferable skills that will provide a foundation for future social workers everywhere. This guide will be essential for academics teaching social work, practice educators and workforce and freelance development officers.Trade Review‘This book offers broad insights into effective professional Social Work education and timely contribution to literature. It provides insightful guidance to the Social Work curriculum and warns of common pitfalls and obstacles of learning. Practical suggestions for exercises and activities are presented clearly, a successful blend of theory and practice. It is very comprehensible and sets things in a new perspective. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners in Social Work, social policy, community health, mental health, positive psychology, development studies, gender studies, disaster management, human rights, welfare economics and freelance development professionals. This collection will be a valuable textbook and reference manual for undergraduate, postgraduate students and doctoral fellows. The overall structure and presentation of the book are good, well-written and informative, making it an academic reference book for scholars, practitioners and policy makers.’ -- Sigamani Panneer and Udhayakumar Palaniswamy, European Journal of Social Work‘This innovative book offers social work educators a sophisticated understanding of the complexities of teaching students to successfully engage in a complex and highly demanding profession. A set of short introductory essays is followed by a discussion of key educational issues and practical advice across different areas of the curriculum. It will clarify, challenge and inspire in equal measure.’ -- Christa Fouché, The University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Paul Stepney Preface 1. Effective education 2. Laying the foundations 3. Social work in context 4. Professionalism 5. The skills base 6. Methods and tools 7. Key issues 8. Areas of practice 9. Managing risk 10. From surviving to thriving References Index

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Book SynopsisThe pineapple's discovery' by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today is a story of modern globalisation.

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Book SynopsisThis volume plays on the double meaning of network in German and European Studies: configurations of people, objects, and texts as well as network analysis, the dominant Digital Humanities (DH) method featured in the book. Contributions from art history, history of the book, history, literary studies, and musicology contemplate the strengths and weakness of treating the period 1789-1810 as either continuous with or a departure from the centuries before and after by examining different facets of the longer period 1760-1830. While many chapters investigate German material, nearly all expand into other European cultures and cover important regions, protagonists, objects and constellations of bi-and multilingual life. They intersect Italian, French, and English networks and reach across the Atlantic into New England. The period’s bookends indicate a threshold or terminus for traditions, institutions, and national identities in Europe: marking the French Revolution (and its effects across the continent culminating on the Wars again Napoleon) and at times reactionary responses with delineation of national, regional, or group identities, respectively, and perhaps most pronounced in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15). Overall, the collection of eleven chapters, introduction, and an epilogue explores European cultural histories at the turn of the nineteenth century in a nonlinear manner, that is, by accumulating critical perspectives on people, objects, and texts that test the boundaries of narratives of transmission, organization, and cohesion that often mark scholarly evaluations of this period in European history.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface and acknowledgements Editors’ Note Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800 I. Social Capital Melanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800 Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800 Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800 II. Material Cultures Sean Franzel, Serial Inventories Renata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking Europe Crystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material context III. Reading Nacim Ghanbari, First Letters Karin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839 Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooks IV. Expansive Networks Matt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literature Birgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translation Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks? Contributors Bibliography Index

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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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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.This Advanced Introduction examines the economic, social, and political conditions that have shaped the 21st century workplace in wealthy democracies, highlighting the changes in work since the 1970s which have produced the ‘new economy’. Amy S. Wharton illuminates important aspects of today’s workplace, including the service economy, customer-facing jobs, the transformative effects of digital platforms, and the ‘opening’ of the employment relationship. Key Features: Analysis of algorithms and the gig economy in the broader context of workplace change Insight into the interconnections between gender, work, and family, as well as the sources of stability and change in these relations over time Understanding changes in the spatial, physical, and temporal aspects of work and their impacts on workers and families Foregrounds inequality, using the intersectional lenses of race, class, gender, and citizenship to explore this issue Revealing the continuities and discontinuities between the workplace of the past and the present, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for sociology researchers and advanced students. Business scholars, students and leaders will also benefit from its discussion of platform-based service work and the rise of nonstandard, contingent, and temporary jobs.Trade Review‘The prose is pitched perfectly for advanced undergraduates and was highly engaging for me as well. It feels fresh and up to date. Data-rich sections include the precarity of work, the digital economy, gender at work in international context, and the implications of COVID-19. At the same time, the chapters are firmly rooted in the historical development of capitalism and informed by sociological theory.’ -- Mary Blair-Loy, University of California San Diego, US‘Wharton’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Work hits the sweet spot most instructors look for – historically grounded political economic analyses coupled with crystal clear contemporary relevance to our students. While expected topics like emotional labor in service work and work-family conflicts are present, so too are new ones like the impact of financialization on employment and the consequences for workers of algorithmic control over their labor. Students will encounter a broad sociological perspective on the labor process and be enabled and encouraged to visualize and discuss their futures as employees and as members of households.’ -- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Sociology of Work 1. Placing work at the center of social and economic change 2. The rise of the new economy 3. Inside the frontline service workplace 4. The digital revolution and the growth of the platform economy 5. Gender, work, and family in cross-national perspective 6. Work time, wages, and inequality in the new economy Conclusion to the Sociology of Work Index

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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.This Advanced Introduction examines the economic, social, and political conditions that have shaped the 21st century workplace in wealthy democracies, highlighting the changes in work since the 1970s which have produced the ‘new economy’. Amy S. Wharton illuminates important aspects of today’s workplace, including the service economy, customer-facing jobs, the transformative effects of digital platforms, and the ‘opening’ of the employment relationship. Key Features: Analysis of algorithms and the gig economy in the broader context of workplace change Insight into the interconnections between gender, work, and family, as well as the sources of stability and change in these relations over time Understanding changes in the spatial, physical, and temporal aspects of work and their impacts on workers and families Foregrounds inequality, using the intersectional lenses of race, class, gender, and citizenship to explore this issue Revealing the continuities and discontinuities between the workplace of the past and the present, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for sociology researchers and advanced students. Business scholars, students and leaders will also benefit from its discussion of platform-based service work and the rise of nonstandard, contingent, and temporary jobs.Trade Review‘The prose is pitched perfectly for advanced undergraduates and was highly engaging for me as well. It feels fresh and up to date. Data-rich sections include the precarity of work, the digital economy, gender at work in international context, and the implications of COVID-19. At the same time, the chapters are firmly rooted in the historical development of capitalism and informed by sociological theory.’ -- Mary Blair-Loy, University of California San Diego, US‘Wharton’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Work hits the sweet spot most instructors look for – historically grounded political economic analyses coupled with crystal clear contemporary relevance to our students. While expected topics like emotional labor in service work and work-family conflicts are present, so too are new ones like the impact of financialization on employment and the consequences for workers of algorithmic control over their labor. Students will encounter a broad sociological perspective on the labor process and be enabled and encouraged to visualize and discuss their futures as employees and as members of households.’ -- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Sociology of Work 1. Placing work at the center of social and economic change 2. The rise of the new economy 3. Inside the frontline service workplace 4. The digital revolution and the growth of the platform economy 5. Gender, work, and family in cross-national perspective 6. Work time, wages, and inequality in the new economy Conclusion to the Sociology of Work Index

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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. This Advanced Introduction to Youth Studies analyses the historical development of the sociology of youth in the context of changing population demographics. Howard Williamson and James Côté explore competing paradigms underlying current understandings of youth with reference to key philosophical, theoretical and methodological debates.Young people’s transitions to adulthood and youth cultural behaviour are then explored. The authors conclude with a consideration of youth policies and how, in the future, these may be better informed by sociological research. Key Features: Fact-based analysis of key debates Sociological perspectives informed by multidisciplinary analyses Concise coverage of complex topics Policy recommendations informed by years of experience in the field This Advanced Introduction will provide essential reading for scholars and researchers of sociology and sociological theory, as well as youth workers and students looking for an excellent introduction to youth studies. Trade Review‘Wow, a brief, yet concise overview on youth studies in 200 pages. Showcasing the key areas the reader will find a rich view on primarily Anglo-Saxon youth sociology and an intriguing input for multifarious academic and non-academic discussions and debates in the field of youth research.’ -- Hans Dietrich, Institute for Employment Research, Germany‘This timely book provides a fresh outlook on youth sociology, using historical perspectives to highlight the contrasts between different theories in the field while critically analysing contemporary scientific and methodological debates. This important book will help to illustrate how youth studies contributes to the social sciences.’ -- Helena Helve, University of Tampere and University of Helsinki, Finland‘Williamson and Cote cover philosophical, epistemological, and political underpinnings of youth studies in a highly accessible manner. Their historical, cross-national, multidisciplinary, and multimethod perspectives distinguish this book from works arising from distinct academic “silos.” Fresh insights on school-to-work transitions, youth culture and policy illuminate difficulties confronting young people today.’ -- Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A brief history of youth in the life course 2. A brief history of the sociology of youth 3. Critical issues and debates in youth studies 4. Youth as a transitional period of the life course 5. Youth as a cultural experience 6. Understanding youth policy from a sociological perspective Conclusion References Index

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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. This Advanced Introduction to Youth Studies analyses the historical development of the sociology of youth in the context of changing population demographics. Howard Williamson and James Côté explore competing paradigms underlying current understandings of youth with reference to key philosophical, theoretical and methodological debates.Young people’s transitions to adulthood and youth cultural behaviour are then explored. The authors conclude with a consideration of youth policies and how, in the future, these may be better informed by sociological research. Key Features: Fact-based analysis of key debates Sociological perspectives informed by multidisciplinary analyses Concise coverage of complex topics Policy recommendations informed by years of experience in the field This Advanced Introduction will provide essential reading for scholars and researchers of sociology and sociological theory, as well as youth workers and students looking for an excellent introduction to youth studies. Trade Review‘Wow, a brief, yet concise overview on youth studies in 200 pages. Showcasing the key areas the reader will find a rich view on primarily Anglo-Saxon youth sociology and an intriguing input for multifarious academic and non-academic discussions and debates in the field of youth research.’ -- Hans Dietrich, Institute for Employment Research, Germany‘This timely book provides a fresh outlook on youth sociology, using historical perspectives to highlight the contrasts between different theories in the field while critically analysing contemporary scientific and methodological debates. This important book will help to illustrate how youth studies contributes to the social sciences.’ -- Helena Helve, University of Tampere and University of Helsinki, Finland‘Williamson and Cote cover philosophical, epistemological, and political underpinnings of youth studies in a highly accessible manner. Their historical, cross-national, multidisciplinary, and multimethod perspectives distinguish this book from works arising from distinct academic “silos.” Fresh insights on school-to-work transitions, youth culture and policy illuminate difficulties confronting young people today.’ -- Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A brief history of youth in the life course 2. A brief history of the sociology of youth 3. Critical issues and debates in youth studies 4. Youth as a transitional period of the life course 5. Youth as a cultural experience 6. Understanding youth policy from a sociological perspective Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from top scholars in the field, this cutting-edge Handbook critically examines the effects of glocalisation on various subdisciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Broad and innovative, it provides a fresh take on the different forms of the glocal in contemporary culture.Using engaging case studies, humanities scholars examine how glocalisation has impacted archaeology, art, literature, philosophy, law and food; social science experts discuss the impact on tourism, religion, urban studies, criminology, education and sports. Forward-thinking, the volume engages with new developments in media and communication, considering how technological innovation, digitisation and the mediatised world affect interrelations in consumer culture. It concludes with an examination of new research frontiers, considering translocality, world science theory, and post-colonialism to expand the field by developing original approaches and suggesting new directions for research.Featuring practical insights from a wide range of disciplines, this Handbook is invaluable for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. It will also benefit policy makers within cultural domains concerned with glocalisation.Trade Review‘This Handbook is a comprehensive guide to glocalization, in themes (archeology to digital turn), regions (across the world) and theoretically, a valuable resource.’ -- Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California, Santa Barbara, US‘The Handbook of Culture and Glocalization is a must-read for those interested in the phenomenon of glocalization and cultural adaptation. At the macro level, the volume is important to understand the role of technologies, news production, translocality, and citizenship in modern society. At the micro level, readers will appreciate the significance and meaningfulness of phenomena such as glocal sports, cinema, literature, and art. Taken as a whole, the Handbook is breaking so much new ground that it will become indispensable for both academics and practitioners alike.’ -- Jonathan Matusitz, University of Central Florida, US‘This massive and erudite collection is the first systematic attempt to situate crucial glocalization dynamics within a broader cultural context ranging from media and communication to law, education, sports, and much more. Cutting across academic disciplines and geographic regions, the contributors engage the central cultural themes of our unsettled age in an intellectual tour de force that should not be missed by any serious student of globalization.’ -- Manfred B. Steger, University of Hawaii-Manoa, US and Western Sydney University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Culture and glocalization: an introduction 1 Victor Roudometof and Ugo Dessì Humanities 27 2 From bronzization to ‘world system’: globalization and glocalization across the globe (2000 bce–1500 ce) 28 Matthew Adam Cobb 3 Weaving literary narratives: world literature and its glocal moment 45 Sandhya Rao Mehta 4 The universal and the individual, the global and the local: philosophy’s diverse debts and duties 61 Bruce B. Janz 5 Law and glocalization 76 Salvatore Mancuso 6 Cosmos from the global south: from glocal to decolonial perspectives on art 92 Nikos Papastergiadis 7 Food and glocalization 105 Franciscu Sedda and Simona Stano Social sciences 122 8 Glocalization and tourism experiences 123 Joelle Soulard and Noel B. Salazar 9 Glocalization and the religious field 138 Ugo Dessì 10 Glocalization, the city and variegated age-friendly urbanism: case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan 156 Sun Yi, Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao and Jia Ling 11 Glocalization and crime: not just a question of variable geometry 171 Gema Varona Martinez 12 Glocal education: theories, research and implications 186 Jean-Francois Emmanuel, Claire Ramsey and Nowfal Samkari 13 Glocal sports 200 Habibul Haque Khondker Communication and media 216 14 Digital glocalization 217 Barrie Axford 15 Glocalizing cultures and organizations: a humanistic, complex and multiparadigmatic model 235 Fabrizio Maimone 16 From globalization to glocalization: configuring Korean pop culture to meet glocal demands 256 Ingyu Oh & Wonho Jang 17 The glocalization of films and the cinema industry 272 Bala A. Musa 18 Glocalization and news production 289 Jonathan Ilan 19 Glocalization processes and new centrifugal dynamics in the international entertainment landscape: the Netflix Case in Italy 305 Paolo Sigismondi and Giovanni Ciofalo New research frontiers 321 20 Translocality and glocalization: a conceptual exploration 322 Victor Roudometof and Nico Carpentier 21 World society theory and glocalization: culture between transnationality, structuration, rationalization and actorhood 337 Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman and Gili S. Drori 22 The challenges of methodology in a glocal world 354 Giampietro Gobo 23 Unpacking youth cosmo-cultures: global pop culture and the example of its Korean glocalization 371 Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 24 Glocalization and the post/decolonial perspectives: a critical dialogue 386 Viviane Riegel Index

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Book SynopsisBritain in 2010: The New Business Landscape focuses on the continuities and discontinuities in the changing social structure of Britain. This text is a landmark vision of the county's future at a time of unprecedented opportunity. It asserts that by 2010 traditional family forms will no longer be the foundation of society; 1001 lifestyle tribes will replace age and income gorups; self-centred, self-indulgent and hedonistic citizens will be freed from traditional obligations, making them restless consumers.Table of ContentsPreface (Barbara Beckett). Acknowledgements. About the Author. Towards 2010: Some General Themes. Living in the Future: Three Scenarios. Demographics, Households and Families. Work, Employment and Occupations. Schools, Universities and Education. Lifestyles and Leisure. Cities and Communities. Politics, Government and the State. Towards the Future. Commentary on the Trends. Index.

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Book SynopsisExploring the Tomato engages with an apparently simple fruit in order to reveal major changes to society and economy. It treats the tomato as an object of fascination and as a probe into major historical changes in twentieth century capitalism.From first domestication to genetic modification, from Aztec salsa to supermarket pizza, the tomato has been continually transformed in the ways it has been produced, exchanged and consumed. This book explores what brings about a variety that is at once biological, historical and socio-economic. A conceptual framework of 'instituted economic process' demonstrates how different tomato forms are an expression of dynamic processes in capitalist economies and societies during the twentieth century. As both an early pioneer in mass production and a contemporary contributor to the creation of global cuisines, the tomato has been subject to intense innovation. Computerised total ecologies under glass, producing fresh tomatoes of all shapes, colours and sizes, compete with sun and southern climates across the world. To enter the variety of tomato worlds is to discover the variety of capitalism.Written in an accessible style, this book makes a major contribution to the emerging field of economic sociology and to our understanding of the innovation process. It should be read by anyone concerned with social science, particularly economists and sociologists, as well as those interested in food and the history of food.Trade Review'. . . this volume is a fascinating interdisciplinary study, and well worth reading.' -- Long Range Planning'Exploring the Tomato is a fascinating and stimulating read,interweaving human stories provided by avowedly economic agents within an explicitly relational analytical framework.' -- Tony Gore, Economic Issues'The authors of this book claim that the tomato's history mirrors a fundamental shift in how we produce, process, market, and consume our food. To make the case, they combine historical research with organizational analysis, case studies, and interviews with growers, seed producers, warehouse operatives, food processors, and store managers. The results are impressive.' -- James J. Lang, Technology and Culture'Exploring the Tomato is a wonderful study of contemporary capitalism, as mirrored through the tomato. The authors explore social, economic, historical and biological aspects of the tomato in what deserves to become a minor classic. Read it and enjoy!' -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Human Tomato Part I: From Domestication to Genetic Modification 2. From Nature into Culture and Economy 3. Broken Glass 4. The Round European Tomato 5. The Fabrication of Nature 6. The Rise and Fall of the Genetically Modified Tomato Part II: Twentieth-Century Tomato Configurations 7. Tomato: A Pioneer of Mass Production 8. The Battle of Tomato Identities: The Rise of Supermarket Own-Label 9. Growing New Routes 10. Supermarket Tomato 11. Tomato Variations or Plus C’est la Même Chose, Plus ça Change Bibliography Appendix: List of Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent proliferation. Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to become the country with the highest number of museums in the world. But why have museums become so important? This book, based on extensive research in a number of the museums themselves, examines recent changes in their display methods, narratives, actors and architectural style. It also considers their representations of Chinese national identity, millenarian history and extraordinary cultural diversity. Through an analysis of the changes affecting not only what we observe through museums, but also the very medium of observation (i.e. museums themselves), this book provides a unique, original and timely exploration of the ongoing changes affecting Chinese society, and an evaluation of their consequences. Dr Marzia Varutti is apost-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Museum Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.Trade ReviewVarutti has done a great service by tackling the enormous topic of museums in China and bringing together a considerable Western secondary literature with her own observations of museums. * JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *The book provides a valuable theoretical introduction for scholars and students of museology and heritage studies. * THE CHINA JOURNAL *There's much to learn from Varutti's detailed and readable study. * MUSEUMS JOURNAL *As the subtitle of Varutti's work indicates, Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao, offers an analysis of how Chinese museums today are involved in purposeful representation, above all of the new national identity 'organically' founded on heritage, history, and glorious art. * MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Cultural Heritage in China Museums in China: Origins and Development New Actors in the Chinese Museum World Museum Objects and the Chinese Nation The Nation in the Museum The Politics of the Past The Representation of the Past in China's Museums The Politics of Identity The Museum Representation of Ethnic Minorities Techniques and Sites of Display of Ethnic Minorities Conclusions: the New Museums of China Appendix: List of museums in China visited by the author Bibliography and References

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Book SynopsisOffers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. MEDIEVAL REVIEW Introduction by Derek Brewer. This book discusses the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where it was once claimed that they originated. The subject of the fairy tale is a controversial one: problems discussed here include the relationship between tales recorded from story-tellers and literary works, the importance of printed worksfor the spread of the tales, the growth of recent examples with a feminine approach, the spread of popular tales like Cinderella, special types like the cumulative tales, possible effects of TV, and the nature of traditional plots and characters. Above all, the collection is concerned with the distribution and long survival of these tales, and the nature of their appeal. SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATHARINE BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD 2004. Contributors: GRAHAM ANDERSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER, DEREK BREWER, MARY BROCKINGTON, ANNA CHAUDHRI, HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON, ROBIN GWYNDAF, BENGT HOLBEK, DAVID HUNT, REIMUND KVIDELAND, PATRICIA LYSAGHT, NEIL PHILIP, JAMES RIORDAN, PAT SCHAEFER, TOM SHIPPEY, JOYCE THOMAS.Trade ReviewThis latest collection of fine essays brings a new dimension to the existing body of recent scholarship. [...] This collection of essays truly enhances what we already know about the phenomenon of fairy tales by tackling core issues raised by the exploration of the genre, and by suggesting new perspectives and insights based on amazingly rich global research. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING *Sometimes refreshingly inventive, sometimes simply confirming the well known, but, in its personal refractions, always stimulating, even for the cognoscenti. * FABULA *Once upon a time, there was a clever, nuanced book. * THE FORTEAN TIMES *A remarkable store of incisive commentary, a wise review of relevant primary and secondary literature, a reminder to folklorists and readers alike of how varied this field is, and at the price a real bargain. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *Deploy[s] a detailed knowledge of publishing histories in the western world to give a fascinatingly fresh understanding of the lively interpretation of oral, literary and commercial traditions. * SCHOOL LIBRARIAN JOURNAL *Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[A] collection to be greatly welcomed, as it brings together a diversity of material and discourse concerning the meaning of 'the fairy tale'.... Allows for a variety of viewpoints to be explored and the result is a deepening and a widening of knowledge and insight into this most eternal of art forms. * BÉALOIDEAS *

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and ‘democratised’ in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and organised around a theoretical framework for understanding migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently developed through discussions of state and structural discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in Europe.Trade ReviewDealing with something as contentious and problematic as identities in Europe today makes this book a valuable and timely contribution to the literature. * The Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 17, Issue 3 *The book aims at scholars of social and cultural studies but its contribution to the European and national debates on migration and belonging makes it interesting background reading for those working in related fields, including socio-legal studies and legal practitioners. * Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol 26, No 1 *Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe Gerard Delanty, Paul Jones and Ruth Wodak I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging 1. Belonging and European Identity Bo Strath 2. Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing ‘Others’ Paul Jones and Michal Krzyzanowski 3. ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Inclusion and Exclusion – Discrimination via Discourse Ruth Wodak 4. Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem of Pluralism Gerard Delanty II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination 5. Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State Alana Lentin 6. What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism? Cagla E. Aykac 7. Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human Rights Issues Irene Bellier 8. Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the ‘European Dilemma’ Tom R. Burns 9. On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination: Migrants and National Labour Markets Helena Flam 10. Non-Place Identity: Britain’s Response to Migration in the Age of Supermodernity David Ian Hanauer III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion 11. Symbolic Violence Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy 12. Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance Lena Sawyer (with Paul Jones) 13. Transformations of ‘Dutchness’: From Happy Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen 14. Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and Social Closure in Madrid Schools Luisa Martin Rojo Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy Masoud Kamali Index

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Book SynopsisExamines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession. Dispossession of land on a small scale can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents the loss of people's livelihoods inthese areas of extreme land scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those in African Studies, but for those in development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers worldwide. An Ansoms is assistant professor in development studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Thea Hilhorst is a senior advisor at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - An Ansoms Introduction: Causes and risks of dispossession and land grabbing in the Great Lakes region - Thea Hilhorst Land grabbing and development history: The Congolese experience - Jean-Philippe Peemans This land is my land: Land grabbing in Ituri (DRC) - Daniel Fahey Land grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Sara Geenen Land grabbing by mining companies: Local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) - Jana Hönke Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Klara Claessens Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga Competition over soil and subsoil: Land grabbing by local elites in South Kivu (Eastern DRC) - An Ansoms The continuities in contested land acquisitions in Uganda by Mathijs van Leeuwen, Ilse Zeemeijer, Doreen Kobusingye, Charles Muchunguzi, Linda Haartsen and Claudia Piacenza Land grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - Aymar Nyenyezi Land grabbing and power relations in Burundi: Practical norms and real governance - An Ansoms Land grabbing and land tenure security in post-genocide Rwanda - Chris Huggins The reorganization of rural space in Rwanda: Habitat concentration, land consolidation and collective marshland cultivation by An Ansoms, Giuseppe Cioffo, Chris Huggins and Jude Murison "Modernizing Kigali": The struggle for space in the Rwandan urban context - Vincent Manirakiza and An Ansoms Conclusion - An Ansoms and Thea Hilhorst

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Book SynopsisA timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically. How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personallives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives. Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.Trade ReviewVery helpful in understanding the multifaceted subject of developmental aid in a country that was once seen as one of the poorest in the world. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Readers familiar with Tanzania will find much of interest and much to ponder in this book. * TANZANIAN AFFIARS *'Will have a major impact in anthropology, development, science and technology and policy studies. ... [and] a significant influence on international development practitioners, policy makers and students of development. -- Professor Steven Robins, Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, University of StellenboschTable of ContentsIntroduction Tanzania: A Development State Participating in Development: Projects and Agency in Tanzania Decentralising Development Globalising Development through Participatory Project Management Making Development Agents: Nationalising Participation in Tanzania Localising Development: Civil Society as Social Capital after Socialism Anticipatory Development: Building Civil Society in Tanzania Development Templates: Modernising Anti-Witchcraft Services in Southern Tanzania Making Middle Income: New Development Citizenships in Tanzania Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInterrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy. Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab" in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for "green" energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods being transformed as a result? And who will control its land and agricultural futures? The case studies explore the processes through which land deals are being made; the implications for agrarian structure, rural livelihoods and food security; and the historical context of changing land uses, revealing that these land grabs may resonate with, even resurrect, forms of large-scale production associated with the colonial and early independence eras. The book depicts the striking diversity of deals and dealers: white Zimbabwean farmers in northern Nigeria,Dutch and American joint ventures in Ghana, an Indian agricultural company in Ethiopia's hinterland, European investors in Kenya's drylands and a Canadian biofuel company on its coast, South African sugar agribusiness in Tanzania's southern growth corridor, in Malawi's "Greenbelt" and in southern Mozambique, and white South African farmers venturing onto former state farms in the Congo. Ruth Hall is Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre; Dzodzi Tsikata is Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon.Trade ReviewThis collection of essays is the finest to be published on the broad debates of land grabbing in Africa. It covers empirically rich and diverse case studies. These are framed in an introduction of immense analytical heft that should be read by everyone who thinks they know what is often called in short hand the land grab in Africa. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *[T]here has been a great need for the detailed case study approach and the kind of integrated, informed assessment presented in this collection. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *This anthology provides up to date political economy perspectives of large-scale cases of land acquisitions in eight African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa). . . . [C]ompelling but not altogether comforting reading. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *The most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa. - Prof Adebayo Olukoshi, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Institute for Development and former director of * CODESRIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Contexts and Consequences of Africa's Land Rush - Ruth Hall and Ian Scoones and Dzodzi Tsikata State, Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Kwara State, Nigeria - Joseph Ariyo and Michael Mortimore Recent Transnational Land Deals and the Local Agrarian Economy in Ghana - Dzodzi Tsikata and Joseph Yaro Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Maru Shete Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Marcel Rutten Land Deals and Pastoralist Livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya - John Letai Land Deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya - Abdirizak Nunow The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Emmanuel Sulle The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Rebecca Smalley Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Blessings Chinsinga Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Michael Chasukwa Agrarian Struggles in Mozambique: Insights from Sugarcane Plantations - Gaynor Paradza and Emmanuel Sulle South African Commercial Farmers in the Congo - Ruth Hall and Ward Anseeuw and Gaynor Paradza

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Book SynopsisThe work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives explains how surveillance is expanding—mostly unchecked—into every facet of our lives. Although many Canadians are aware that government agencies are able to conduct mass surveillance using phone and online data, relatively few of us recognize the extent to which our privacy has been invaded by routine forms of monitoring. We cannot walk down a city street, attend a class, pay with a credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a phone call without data being captured and processed. Where does such information go, and who makes use of it? Who gains, and who loses? The New Transparency Project set out to investigate the myriad of ways in which both government and private sector organizations gather, monitor, analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens.This research, which extended over several years, culminated in the identification of nine key trends in the contemporary practice of surveillance—trends that, together, raise urgent questions of both privacy and social justice. Perhaps the loss of control over our personal information is merely the price we pay for using social media and other forms of electronic communication. Or should we instead be wary of systems that make us visible, and thus vulnerable, to others as never before? Transparent Lives is intended to inform policymakers, journalists, civil liberties groups, and educators about the current state of surveillance in Canada. Above all, though, it aims to alert unsuspecting citizens to the ubiquitous and largely invisible practices of monitoring that surround them.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: How Canadian Lives Became Transparent to Watching EyesTrend 1: Expanding Surveillance: From the Atypical to the RoutineTrend 2: Securitization and Surveillance: From Privacy Rights to Security RisksTrend 3: The Blurring of Sectors: From Public Versus Private to Public with PrivateTrend 4: The Growing Ambiguity of Personal Information: From Personally Identified to Personally IdentifiableTrend 5: Expanding Mobile and Location-Based Surveillance: From Who You Are to Where You AreTrend 6: Globalizing Surveillance: From the Domestic to the WorldwideTrend 7: Embedding Surveillance in Everyday Environments: From the Surveillance of People to the Surveillance of ThingsTrend 8: Going Biometric: From Surveillance of the Body to Surveillance in the BodyTrend 9: Watching by the People: From Them to UsConclusion: What Can Be Done?APPENDIX 1: Surveillance and Privacy Laws: FAQSAPPENDIX 2: Surveillance MoviesAPPENDIX 3: How to Protect Your Privacy Online: FAQSAPPENDIX 4: Canadian NGOs Concerned with Surveillance, Privacy, and Civil LibertiesAPPENDIX 5: Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThis volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of care for people with Alzheimer's disease, the way residents cope with the limitations, indignities, and opportunities of nursing home life, the roles of family members and nursing home employees, and the formulation of assisted living.The authors offer sustained examinations of the settings, flow, and structure of life relationships in geriatric long-term care institutions, as well as significant innovations in ethnographic methods. Researchers, caregivers, and those attentive to their own quality of life as they age will find this book essential reading.

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Book SynopsisSoaring immigration to the United States in the past few decades has reawakened both popular and scholarly interest in this important issue. American Arrivals highlights the important insights of anthropology for the field of migration studies. The authors reflect on anthropological approaches, methods, and theories and seek to develop a research program for the future. Placing contemporary immigration in the perspective of globalization and transnational social fields, their essays demonstrate the importance of gender and urban contexts to understanding immigrants' lives. Addressing issues of health care, education, and cultural values and practices among Mexicans, Haitians, Somalis, Afghans, and other newcomers to the United States, the authors illuminate the complex ways that immigrants adapt to life in a new land and raise serious questions about the meaning and political uses of ideas about cultural difference.

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Book SynopsisWitches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians by the renowned West Virginia folklorist and former West Virginia University English professor Patrick W. Gainer not only highlights stories that both amuse and raise goosebumps, but also begins with a description of the people and culture of the state. Based on material Gainer collected from over fifty years of field research in West Virginia and the region, Witches, Ghosts, and Signs presents the rich heritage of the southern Appalachians in a way that has never been equaled. Strange and supernatural tales of ghosts, witches, hauntings, disappearances, and unexplained murders that have been passed down from generation to generation from as far back as the earliest settlers in the region are included in this collection that will send chills down the spine.

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Book SynopsisIn Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting. Racial shifters, as described by Sturm, are people who have changed their racial self-identification from non-Indian to Indian on the US Census. Many racial shifters are people who, while looking for their roots, have recently discovered their Native American ancestry. Others have family stories of an Indian great-great-grandmother or grandfather they have not been able to document. Still others have long known they were of Native American descent, including their tribal affiliation, but only recently have become interested in reclaiming this aspect of their family history. Despite their differences, racial shifters share a conviction that they have Indian blood when asserting claims of indigeneity. Becoming Indian explores the social and cultural values that lie behind this phenomenon and delves into the motivations of these Americans—from so many different walks of life—to reinscribe their autobiographies and find deep personal and collective meaning in reclaiming their Indianness. Sturm points out that "becoming Indian" was not something people were quite as willing to do forty years ago—the willingness to do so now reveals much about the shifting politics of race and indigeneity in the United States.Trade ReviewCirce Sturm is among the most influential, innovative scholars of Native American experience today. Becoming Indian examines the phenomenon of race shifters sometimes derided as wannabes and fake Indians who have claimed Native identity by the many thousands in recent decades. It s a tricky, touchy topic, and yet one that Sturm handles with characteristic empathy and insight. Her book gives us a new understanding of the struggle over who will count as Native American and the tangled politics of heritage, blood, and belonging in twenty-first century America." —Orin Starn, author of Ishi s Brain: In Search of America s Last Wild Indian"Becoming Indian is an utterly absorbing study of Cherokee associational life in the age of multicultural America. With her engaging style and crystal clear understanding of complex race and social relations, Circe Sturm unveils the intricate motivations of individuals and groups with newly claimed Cherokee identities, as well as the reactions to their claims by members of the three federally recognized Cherokee nations. Sturm develops a novel vocabulary and fresh conceptualizations to describe these racial shifters and citizen Cherokees, revealing that while often at odds, they do share common epistemological ground." —Tiya A. Miles, University of Michigan"Sturm...explores the identity politics of becoming Indian. Sturm...offers thoughtful profiles of the various groups...who form quasi-tribes. Insightful and thought provoking, this volume is unique in its approach. Highly recommended." —C.R. Kasee, Choice, Nov. 2011, vol. 49, no. 03"The book examines the shifting politics of race and Indian identity in the United States and reveals important insights concerning the link between competing claims to indigenous identity and tribal sovereignty." —Plains Anthropologist, vol. 57, no. 221, 2012

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Book SynopsisThe challenges to health, wellness, and health equity in the United States are massive. No matter what side of the discussion health care leaders are on, insufficient mental health care, adverse childhood experiences, substance use disorders, high infant mortality rate, and declining life expectancy for women are issues that leadership can rally around. The second volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health series explores hands-on approaches that leaders can take in their community. Creating Culture through Health Leadership focuses on the practitioner’s view of community engagement and how health care leaders can build a culture of health through community-grown solutions. Volume editor Lina Svedin invites contributors from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leaders program to share transformative leadership skills that advance health and equity for all. Svedin’s contributors span the fields of business, technology, architecture, education, urban farming, and the arts, and represent subject matter experts, mentors, and coaches in the private, public, nonprofit, and social sectors. The volume is a collection of innovative, engaging case studies that illuminate how health care administrators and managers can collaborate to lead change within their organization, in their regional system, and throughout the nation.

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Book SynopsisA concise review of the major events, social movements, politics, and economics of the seven countries that comprise Central America. Given the strategic location of Central America, its importance to US foreign policy, and the migration from the region to other parts of the world, this succinct summary of the countries of Central America is an essential resource for those working in, studying, writing about, or traveling to the region. Promoting increased understanding of the region’s governance, economics, and structures of power, Imagining Central America highlights the many ways that Central American countries are connected to the United States through resettling, economic investment, culture flows, and foreign policy. Each of the seven chapters focuses on a different country within Central America—Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama—and includes a map, regional introduction, timeline, and history of each country from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. Each chapter also provides a substantial recommended reading list of novels and academic sources for readers who want to learn more about the key events and themes within individual countries. A QR code within each chapter links to online resources that walk readers through each country in full color.Trade Review“This is an invaluable text for students, instructors, policymakers, and journalists. I would welcome it as a key introductory text for my own undergraduate courses and I also believe it provides a much-needed resource for graduate students who are embarking on new projects and who may not know the region.” * Irina Carlota Silber, City College of New York *

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Book SynopsisYour child has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and you are feeling overwhelmed and alone. Suddenly you need to become an expert in treatment, diet, language development, social skills, special education law, insurance and a million other things! What you'd really like to know is how to deal with Aunt Martha's questions at the family reunion! Autism: Parent to Parent is your guide to all of this and more. Veteran parent Shannon Penrod hosts Autism Live, the #1 rated Autism Podcast worldwide, now she is giving you all her best resources, strategies, tips and information to help you and your child survive and thrive. Autism: Parent to Parent covers everything you need to know such as: What do you say to pushy relatives? How do you get the best treatment options? How do you deal with school? Most importantly, how do you deal with all the emotions that come with day-to-day life? Ms. Penrod covers all a parent of an individual with ASD needs to know, with honesty, humor and humility while empowering you to rise to meet all the challenges and triumphs on your journey.

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Book SynopsisOriginal voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.Almanac for the Anthropocene collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more—all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action.Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice, Almanac for the Anthropocene unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.Table of Contents Introduction: The Situation So Far Phoebe Wagner and BrontË Christopher Wieland Part 1: Generativity Not Just Solar: Creating Our Own Powers, Stories, and Spaces BrontË Christopher Wieland 1.Solarpunk Is a Verb for Rising The Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio 2.In Defense of Hope Margaret Killjoy 3. Feeding Imagination Giulia Lepori and Michał Krawczyk 4. A Collective Gardening Shed of Concepts for Planting Solarpunk Futures Christoph D. D. Rupprecht Part 2: Independence Building toward Autonomy: Ways of Reclaiming the Present and the Future BrontË Christopher Wieland 5. Your Mineral Footprint Gabriel Aliaga 6. Solarpunk Design Guidelines Navarre Bartz 7. How to Build a Solar-Powered Website Kris De Decker 8. Solarpunks See the World: Traversing the World without Destroying It Craig Stevenson Part 3: Community “All Organizing Is Science Fiction”: On Dreaming a Solarpunk Community Phoebe Wagner 9. Science Fiction and Disability: Engage! Petra Kuppers 10. The Urban Reef: Breaking Down Barriers between Green Spaces in Urban Environments Octavia Cade 11. The Commensal Canine Susan Haris 12. Solarpunk: The Fruitful Revolution Connor D. Louiselle Part 4: Ingenuity Solarpunk Ingenuity and DIY Projects Phoebe Wagner 13. Visible Mending: A Recipe for Beautiful and Sustainable Clothing Sari Fordham 14. Appalachian Solarpunk: Growing Trees from Seed for the Plant Revolution Vance Mullis and Joy Lew 15. Anthrocene Strategy: Foraging Michael J. DeLuca 16. Multispecies Community Garden: A More-Than-Human Design Concept Proposal 00 for Well-Being in Shrinking Cities Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Aoi Yoshida, and Lihua Cui Conclusion: Looking Forward Phoebe Wagner and BrontË Christopher Wieland Contributors

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Book SynopsisAcross the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues. Trade Review"The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships." -- Susan B. Hyatt * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-step accounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on “thinking global, acting local,” this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic that happens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal." -- Alisse Waterston * author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th *"Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb." * AnthroSource *"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast." * Contemporary Sociology *"Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities." * Rural Sociology *"Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn * Footnotes *Table of ContentsIntroduction SUSAN D. GREENBAUM 1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? GLENN JACOBS Part I Social Justice Organizing 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN Part II Worker Rights Activism 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBS Notes on Contributors About the Foundation Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues. Trade Review"The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships." -- Susan B. Hyatt * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-step accounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on “thinking global, acting local,” this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic that happens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal." -- Alisse Waterston * author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th *"Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb." * AnthroSource *"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast." * Contemporary Sociology *"Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities." * Rural Sociology *"Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn * Footnotes *Table of ContentsIntroduction SUSAN D. GREENBAUM 1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? GLENN JACOBS Part I Social Justice Organizing 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN Part II Worker Rights Activism 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. 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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions. Trade Review"This is a useful book for any discussion of contemporary marriage practices in Japan. I would use this book as a secondary source in my Japanese literature classes. It provides important background information as well as nice case studies that I could use as points of comparison with the fiction I assign for my students to read."— Anne Sokolsky, International Institute for Asian Studies "International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim— Hurights Osaka newsletter New Books Network interview with Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto— New Books Network - Japanese Studies "A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration."— Kumiko Nemoto, author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan "A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan."— Katharine Charsley, co-author of Marriage Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction. The Politics of International Marriage in Japan 1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies Through the ‘Lens’ 2 Historical Roots and Contemporary Changes in International Marriages 3 Who Marries Whom? 4 The Politics of Love: Migration Regimes, Individuals and Images 5 Spaces for Negotiation 6 Choices and Constraints 7 Parents’ Strategies to Raise Bilingual/Bicultural Children 8 International Divorce Politics and Transnational Strategies of Spouses Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions. Trade Review"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration." -- Kumiko Nemoto * author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan *"A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan." -- Katharine Charsley * co-author of Marriage Migration and Integration *New Books Network interview with ?Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto * New Books Network - Japanese Studies *"International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim? * Hurights Osaka newsletter *"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration." -- Kumiko Nemoto * author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan *"A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan." -- Katharine Charsley * co-author of Marriage Migration and Integration *New Books Network interview with Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto * New Books Network - Japanese Studies *"International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim * Hurights Osaka newsletter *"This is a useful book for any discussion of contemporary marriage practices in Japan. I would use this book as a secondary source in my Japanese literature classes. It provides important background information as well as nice case studies that I could use as points of comparison with the fiction I assign for my students to read." -- Anne Sokolsky * International Institute for Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction. The Politics of International Marriage in Japan 1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies Through the ‘Lens’ 2 Historical Roots and Contemporary Changes in International Marriages 3 Who Marries Whom? 4 The Politics of Love: Migration Regimes, Individuals and Images 5 Spaces for Negotiation 6 Choices and Constraints 7 Parents’ Strategies to Raise Bilingual/Bicultural Children 8 International Divorce Politics and Transnational Strategies of Spouses Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination. Trade Review"Forget Burial is well worth reading. The most successful parts of this book take the reader inside the kitchens, bedrooms, prisons, art galleries, and hospital waiting rooms where people laughed, fought, loved, and sometimes died together. Fink makes a strong case that the early years of the HIV epidemic provide models for living joyously and communally despite the myriad ways capitalist institutions leave individuals to fend for ourselves. In the process of “unburying” the stories of historically marginalized people, Fink rightly and eloquently depicts disability as a generative force."— H-Net “What histories inter as past, Forget Burial bears forth to account for our present. Extending caregiving as a method, the book examines how early HIV archival narrations of trans and disability activisms resurface in later novels, film/video, and online networks. Whether displaying and eroticizing disabilities, or inventing safer sex, these negotiated HIV interdependencies transform state violence and biomedical stigma into kinships for ‘body self-determination’ that brandish mutual care and institutional access through our unfolding crises.”— Jih-Fei Cheng, co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises "Marty Fink’s Forget Burial is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts – fiction, ‘zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories – analysis and archival uncovering, Fink’s work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. Forget Burial is both an act of superb scholarship and of love."— Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States for Young People "[A] creative and original study...this book offers historians both useful theoretical frameworks for thinking about HIV/AIDS, disability, and the role of mutual care as well as an exciting collection of sources to learn from."— Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Care Chapter 1: Silence = Undead: Vampires, HIV Kinship, and Communities of Care Chapter 2: Caregiving Collations and Gender Trash from Hell: Trans Women’s HIV Archives Chapter 3: Chosen Families: Rejection, Desire, and Archives of Care Chapter 4: The Gift of Dykes: Naming Desire in Rebecca Brown’s Narratives of Care Chapter 5: Queering Customs: Unburying Care in My Brother and ACE Conclusion: Forget Burial Acknowledgements Works Cited About the Author

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Book SynopsisAcross the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programs are anti-oppression, deliberative, and embedded in their communities. Qayum dives into the work of Polli Shomaj (PS), a program of the development organization BRAC to show how the women of PS negotiate with state and society to alter the rules of the game, changing how poor people access resources including safety nets, the law, and governing spaces. These women create a complex and rapidly transforming world where multiple overlapping institutions exist – formal and informal, old and new, desirable and undesirable. In actively challenging power structures around them, these women defy stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.Trade Review"Drawing on sustained and in-depth engagement with Polli Somaj, a program associated with the NGO BRAC, Qayum argues among other things that NGOs can play a critical role in development: in linking marginalized citizens with state services and societal resources, and in shifting cultural practices through offering alternative or competing 'logics of appropriateness.' Written in carefully crafted, evocative prose, Village Ties is a welcome addition to the field." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Clinical Associate Professor, New York University *"Village Ties does something new and valuable by telling a more complicated story about NGOs and rural Bangladeshi women. Nayma Qayum shows how these activists tackle the informal institutions that keep rural women poor and powerless, and in so doing, help build the necessary foundations for women’s power. Scholars of civil society and NGOs, of Bangladesh’s development, and of women’s empowerment will find this fascinating, full of stories and substantive arguments about the deep roots of social change." -- Naomi Hossain * co-editor of The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning *"Confronting Social Norms is Critical for Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh, a New Book by Political Science Alumna Shows" - an interview with Nayma Qayum * CUNY.edu *"Contributes to scholarship that attends to ordinary people’s lived experiences to understand how marginalised communities solve political and social problems." * LSE Review of Books *"Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" interview with Nayma Qayum * New Books Network: New Books in Gender Studies *"Changing the Rules of the Game," by Aleta Mayne * College Magazine *"This book is precious in its value for diverse audiences. It should be read and taught widely across the fields of agrarian studies, development studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science." -- Sahana Ghosh * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I Setting the Stage 1 Institutions 2 A Gendered Story 3 Poor Women’s Politics PART II Formal and Informal Institutions 4 Clients, Rules, and Transactions 5 Rule of Law PART III Negotiating with State and Society 6 Changing Distributive Politics 7 Negotiating Justice 8 Governing Locally Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programs are anti-oppression, deliberative, and embedded in their communities. Qayum dives into the work of Polli Shomaj (PS), a program of the development organization BRAC to show how the women of PS negotiate with state and society to alter the rules of the game, changing how poor people access resources including safety nets, the law, and governing spaces. These women create a complex and rapidly transforming world where multiple overlapping institutions exist – formal and informal, old and new, desirable and undesirable. In actively challenging power structures around them, these women defy stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.Trade Review"Drawing on sustained and in-depth engagement with Polli Somaj, a program associated with the NGO BRAC, Qayum argues among other things that NGOs can play a critical role in development: in linking marginalized citizens with state services and societal resources, and in shifting cultural practices through offering alternative or competing 'logics of appropriateness.' Written in carefully crafted, evocative prose, Village Ties is a welcome addition to the field." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Clinical Associate Professor, New York University *"Village Ties does something new and valuable by telling a more complicated story about NGOs and rural Bangladeshi women. Nayma Qayum shows how these activists tackle the informal institutions that keep rural women poor and powerless, and in so doing, help build the necessary foundations for women’s power. Scholars of civil society and NGOs, of Bangladesh’s development, and of women’s empowerment will find this fascinating, full of stories and substantive arguments about the deep roots of social change." -- Naomi Hossain * co-editor of The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning *"Confronting Social Norms is Critical for Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh, a New Book by Political Science Alumna Shows" - an interview with Nayma Qayum * CUNY.edu *"Contributes to scholarship that attends to ordinary people’s lived experiences to understand how marginalised communities solve political and social problems." * LSE Review of Books *"Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" interview with Nayma Qayum * New Books Network: New Books in Gender Studies *"Changing the Rules of the Game," by Aleta Mayne * College Magazine *"This book is precious in its value for diverse audiences. It should be read and taught widely across the fields of agrarian studies, development studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science." -- Sahana Ghosh * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I Setting the Stage 1 Institutions 2 A Gendered Story 3 Poor Women’s Politics PART II Formal and Informal Institutions 4 Clients, Rules, and Transactions 5 Rule of Law PART III Negotiating with State and Society 6 Changing Distributive Politics 7 Negotiating Justice 8 Governing Locally Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. Which forms of attachments (towards the family, the nation, or specific individuals) have become framed as risks to be managed? How do such preoccupations translate into policies? With what consequences for those affected by them, in terms of rights and access to citizenship? The book answers these questions by analyzing the interplay between issues of security, citizenship and rights from the perspectives of migrants and policymakers, but also from actors who negotiate encounters with the state, such as lawyers, non-governmental organizations, and translators. Trade Review"Seldom have I been so excited by an edited collection! This stimulating volume offers diverse disciplinary and geographical approaches to marriage and partner migration – increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of international mobility. Troubling the binaries which often dog the subject - legal vs emotional, love vs interest, state vs intimacy and migrant vs citizen – Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration offers both an exciting and wide-ranging introduction for newcomers to this fascinating field, and fresh perspectives for those of us already hooked." -- Katharine Charsley * author of Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home' *"This multidisciplinary gem explores the emotional intimacies and legal intricacies of citizenship in today’s fraught context of ‘family’ migration politics. Doing so reveals the structural centrality of state-sanctioned marriage for reproducing – through eurocentric paradigms of love, citizenship and resource distribution – crises of sexual, racial and economic inequality. Not what most expect, and well worth a read." -- V. Spike Peterson * co-author of Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST PART ONE Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management 1 The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020) BETTY DE HART 2 “A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993 SASKIA BONJOUR AND MASSILIA OURABAH 3 “All the Time, Hard Time”: Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants JI-YEON YUH PART TWO Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights 4 What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark HELENA WRAY 5 “I’m Not a Bad Guy, I Swear”: Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men’s Participation in “Fake Wedding” Arrangements GRACE K. TRAN 6 Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights KERRY ABRAMS AND DANIEL PHAM PART THREE Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies 7 Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST 8 Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France 171 LAURA ODASSO AND MANUELA SALCEDO ROBLEDO 9 He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations MIEKE VANDENBROUCKE PART FOUR Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy 10 “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility PARDIS MAHDAVI 11 Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS 12 Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State EITHNE LUIBHÉID 13 Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen AUDREY MACKLIN Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. Also included are study questions for use in the classroom. Many of the book’s contributors are leaders in their academic fields, from public health and social work, to community psychology and urban and regional planning, and to social and political science. One author was the 44th president of the United States, himself a former community organizer in Chicago, who reflects on his earlier vocation and its importance. Other contributors are inspiring community leaders whose work on-the-ground and in partnership with us “outsiders” highlights both the power of collaboration, and the cultural humility and other skills required to do it well. Throughout this book, and particularly in the case studies and examples shared, the role of context is critical, and never far from view. Included here most recently are the horrific and continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long overdue, yet still greatly circumscribed, “national reckoning with systemic racism,” in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of yet another unarmed Black person, and then another and another, seemingly without end. In many chapters, the authors highlight different facets of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on new life across the country and the world in response to these atrocities. In other chapters, the existential threat of climate change and grave threats to democracy also are underscored.View the Table of Contents and introductory text for the supplementary instructor resources. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04143046/9781978832176_optimized_sampler.pdf)Supplementary instructor resources are available on request: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/communityorganizingTrade Review"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction 1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO 2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMA PART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches 3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME 5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBA PART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ 8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHAR PART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection 10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER 11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU 12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SEN PART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures 13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS 14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE 15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ 17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER 19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA 20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL 21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWE PART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community Organizing LISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTAS Appendixes 1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE 2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM 3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD 4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS 5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY 6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN 7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF 8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN 9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questions and Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN 10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN 11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE 12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKER Epilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAs the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent. The vast majority of incarceration occurs in locally operated jails and disproportionately impacts families of color, those experiencing poverty, and rural households. However, we are only beginning to understand the various ways in which children cope with the incarceration of a parent – particularly the coping of young children who are most at risk for the adversity and also the most detrimentally impacted. When Are You Coming Home? helps answer questions about how young ones are faring when a parent is incarcerated in jail. Situated within a resilience model of development, the book presents findings related to children’s stress, family relationships, health, home environments, and visit experiences through the eyes of the children and families. This humanizing, social justice-oriented approach discusses the paramount need to support children and their families before, during, and after a parent’s incarceration while the country simultaneously grapples with strategies of reform and decarceration. Trade Review“When Are You Coming Home? illuminates some of the reasons or pathways through which parental incarceration influences children. The research base is sound and accessible; there is a lot to like about this book.” -- Holly Foster * professor of sociology and chancellor EDGES fellow, Texas A&M University *“When Are You Coming Home? presents scientific evidence in an accessible format to a broad audience. The case studies are thought-provoking, and the data adds significantly to the literature.” -- Beth Gifford * associate public policy research professor, Duke University *Table of Contents Foreword Preface 1 A National Tragedy: Introduction to Children with Incarcerated Parents 2 “Is Daddy Getting Taken Away?”: Parental Arrest and Family Separation 3 “Look, It’s My Family Together!”: Family Relationships during Parental Incarceration 4“We’re Still Working on It”: Children’s Health and Development 5 “Just Temporary”: Caregiving and Children’s Home Environments 6 “It Is So Good to Hug You!”: Visiting and Other Forms of Parent-Child Contact 7 “Da-Da Gonna Play with Me Soon!”: Reintegration for Incarcerated Parents 8 Opportunities for Growth: Resilience and Its Implications for Intervention and Policy Appendix A: Study Methods Appendix B: Study Measures Acknowledgments Glossary References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.Trade Review"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." -- Reva Jaffe-Walter * author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth *"Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." -- Frances Julia Riemer * author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail."— Tristan Bridges, coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change “City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” — David Bissell, author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities "Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation."— AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond CaptureTable of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review“City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” -- David Bissell * author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities *"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail." -- Tristan Bridges * coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change *"Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation." -- AbdouMaliq Simone * author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture *Table of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisWomen around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.Trade Review"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion." -- Janet Carsten * co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense *"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaIntroduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah HannafordPart I. Never Married1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway3. Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb4. Single Women’s Invisibility in South Korea’s First Decades by Laura C. NelsonPart II. Outside of Marriage5. Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters6. Respectability & Black Brazilian Women’s Decisions to ‘Opt Out’ of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna DavidsonPart III. Within Marriage9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama10. “What’s Wrong with These Mens?”: Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G’Sell11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford12. “Not a normal wife”: Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla JonesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining the ways in which Jews creatively seized opportunities to develop and express their identities, religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes. Table of ContentsContents Jewish Lives under Communism Kateřina Čapková, Kamil Kijek, and Stephan StachPeriphery and Center A New Life? The pre-Holocaust Past and post-Holocaust Present in the Life of Jewish Community of Dzierżoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–50 Kamil Kijek Erased from History: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia Kateřina Čapková On the Borders of Legality: Connections between Traditional Culture and the Informal Economy in Jewish Life in the Soviet Provinces Valery DymshitsPerceptions of Jewishness From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Diana Dumitru ‘I was not like Everybody Else’: Soviet Jewish Doctors remember the Doctor’s Plot Anna Shternshis ‘After Auschwitz you must take your origin seriously’: Perceptions of Jewishness among Communists of Jewish origin in the early German Democratic Republic Anna Koch Jewish in Soviet Birobidzhan: Between Stigma and Cynicism Agata MaksimowskaTransnationalism An Alternative World: Jews in the German Democratic Republic, Their Transnational Networks, and a Global Jewish Communist Community David Shneer Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s Gennady Estraikh Family Discourse, Migrations, and Nation-building in Poland and Israel in the Late 1950s Marcos SilberDissidents Three Jewish Social Networks: A (Non-)Encounter in Malakhovka Galina Zelenina The Opposition of the Opposition: New Jewish Identities in the Illegal Underground Public Sphere in Late Communist Hungary Kata Bohus Acknowledgements Index Notes on Contributors

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