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Book SynopsisThe Plight of Invisibility offers unique contributions that inform the use of a community-based research approach that examines educational issues identified by urban, Latina/o communities. It offers a new lens from which to understand the circumstances of Latina/o students in schools as they navigate in social systems that are in opposition to them, thus rendering Latina/o students and their families invisible. Despite these challenges, the book offers examples of community programs and resources that support and address the needs of Latina/o students as they build resiliency and determination to persist. Community organizations and advocates, educational researchers, practitioners, students, and policymakers will find The Plight of Invisibility useful to reframe deficit discourses about Latina/o students and their families. In addition, the book is appropriate for classes including methodology courses focused on community-based research, educational policy and/or collegTable of ContentsContents: Donna Marie Harris/Judy Marquez Kiyama: Study Background and Book Overview – Nancy Ares/Hilda Rosario Escher: Estámos Aquí! A Historical Context for the Plight of Invisibility – Judy Marquez Kiyama/Donna Marie Harris: A Community-Based Approach: Review of Community Context, Frameworks, and Methods – Donna Marie Harris/Judy Marquez Kiyama: School Policies as Barriers for Latina/o Student Persistence – Sandra Quiñones: Garnering Resilience: Latina/o Education as a Family, School, and Community Affair – Donna Marie Harris/Judy Marquez Kiyama: The Role of School- and Community-Based Programs in Aiding Latina/o High School Persistence – Judy Marquez Kiyama/Amalia Dache-Gerbino/Vicki T. Sapp: When Violence Interferes with Educational Opportunity: Latinas’ Narratives of Resistance and Agency – Donna Marie Harris/Thomas Noel Jr.: Advanced Placement and College Readiness: An Examination of AP Course Availability and Enrollment Between Urban and Suburban Schools in Western New York – Judy Marquez Kiyama/Donna Marie Harris: Moving Forward: Recommendations, Action Items, and Areas of Focus – Bolgen Vargas: A Superintendent’s Response: The Latina/o Potential Yet to be Realized – Judy Marquez Kiyama/Donna Marie Harris: Implications for Practice and Policy: High School Persistence and College Access – Donna Marie Harris/Judy Marquez Kiyama: Conclusion, Resources, and Best Practices.

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Book SynopsisThe Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a social imaginary where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is plain Canadian English a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and Hip-Hop all da way baby! (as one student put it). The result of this dialectic space between language learning and identity investment is a complex, multilayered, and rhizomatic third space, where Canada meets and rubs shoulders with Africa in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal in such a way that it produces its own ticklish subject and pedagogy of imaginary and integrative anti-racism.Table of ContentsContents: We Got a Situation Herre. Race, Culture, Language, and Identity: Theorizing the Rhizomatic Third Space – «Wallahi, ils sont tous des racistes!». Striated Racialization and the Rhizomatic Process of Becoming Black – « Si tu allais faire un sondage, ça vient souvent de l’orientation ou des personnels ». Teachers, Curriculum, and Pedagogy – Interlude: Homeless Urban Dreams by Reenah L. Golden – «Oh, I Got It, It Gives Me Great Pleasure!». Hip-Hop Culture and Language, Post/Coloniality, and the Imaginary – «Peace and One Love!». A Rhizomatic Third Space: Race, Language, Culture, and the Politics of Identity.

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Book SynopsisBlack Mask-ulinity: A Framework for Black Masculine Caring is a collection of research, narratives, essays, and conceptual works to lay the foundation for an important emerging theoretical framework: Black Masculine Caring (BMC). This framework facilitates an understanding of the teaching and leading styles of Black males, and seeks to improve the educational experiences of Black male students. This book is significant in that it builds upon feminist ethic of caring frameworks and takes readers on a journey toward understanding the ethic of caring through a masculine lens. Authors explore the experiences of caring school leaders; Black male students in need of care; Black males as caring fathers; Black males as caring spiritual leaders; and Black males as caring institutional leaders. This book is appropriate for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in classes including the foundations of education, the sociology of education, ethics in educational leadership, Table of ContentsContents: Vanessa Siddle Walker: Foreword – Lisa R. Bass: Introduction - Black Masculine Caring in Schooling – Lisa R. Bass: Black Masculine Caring in Educational Leadership: Introducing a Masculine-Centered Care Framework – Mark A. Gooden/Daniel D. Spikes: The Risks of Cultivating Care in an Urban High School: Exploring a Black High School Principal’s Experience and His Castigation – Julia Camille Ransom/ James Earl Davis: Who Cares? The Ethic of Care for Black Boys in School – Floyd D. Beachum and Carlos R. McCray: Unmasking Leadership: African American Male Scholars’ Reflections on Critique, Justice, and Caring – Vonzell Agosto/Roderick Jones: Masking Mentorship: Critical (Race) Care among Black Males in Special Education – Black Masculine Caring: In Fatherhood, Spirituality, and Historical Traditions – Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas: Black Fathers as Curriculum: Adopting Sons and Advancing Progressive-Regressive Black Masculinity – Paul F. Bitting: African American Men of Faith Care: The Intersection of Religion, Gender, and the Ethic of Care – Robert A. Horne: Spirituality and Religion: The Foundation for Caring African American Males’ Identity – Amber Jones: Manhood Development and Sustainable Institutional Care: John Hope at Morehouse College – Lisa R. Bass: Honoring a Pedagogy of Caring for Black Males – Brian Freeland: A Reflective Essay on B(eing)-FREE: Lesson Learned from Gramp toward Transforming Mass Media Problems into Sustainable Solutions for Black Urban Youth.

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Book SynopsisBlack Mask-ulinity: A Framework for Black Masculine Caring is a collection of research, narratives, essays, and conceptual works to lay the foundation for an important emerging theoretical framework: Black Masculine Caring (BMC). This framework facilitates an understanding of the teaching and leading styles of Black males, and seeks to improve the educational experiences of Black male students. This book is significant in that it builds upon feminist ethic of caring frameworks and takes readers on a journey toward understanding the ethic of caring through a masculine lens. Authors explore the experiences of caring school leaders; Black male students in need of care; Black males as caring fathers; Black males as caring spiritual leaders; and Black males as caring institutional leaders. This book is appropriate for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in classes including the foundations of education, the sociology of education, ethics in educational leadership, Table of ContentsContents: Vanessa Siddle Walker: Foreword – Lisa R. Bass: Introduction - Black Masculine Caring in Schooling – Lisa R. Bass: Black Masculine Caring in Educational Leadership: Introducing a Masculine-Centered Care Framework – Mark A. Gooden/Daniel D. Spikes: The Risks of Cultivating Care in an Urban High School: Exploring a Black High School Principal’s Experience and His Castigation – Julia Camille Ransom/ James Earl Davis: Who Cares? The Ethic of Care for Black Boys in School – Floyd D. Beachum and Carlos R. McCray: Unmasking Leadership: African American Male Scholars’ Reflections on Critique, Justice, and Caring – Vonzell Agosto/Roderick Jones: Masking Mentorship: Critical (Race) Care among Black Males in Special Education – Black Masculine Caring: In Fatherhood, Spirituality, and Historical Traditions – Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas: Black Fathers as Curriculum: Adopting Sons and Advancing Progressive-Regressive Black Masculinity – Paul F. Bitting: African American Men of Faith Care: The Intersection of Religion, Gender, and the Ethic of Care – Robert A. Horne: Spirituality and Religion: The Foundation for Caring African American Males’ Identity – Amber Jones: Manhood Development and Sustainable Institutional Care: John Hope at Morehouse College – Lisa R. Bass: Honoring a Pedagogy of Caring for Black Males – Brian Freeland: A Reflective Essay on B(eing)-FREE: Lesson Learned from Gramp toward Transforming Mass Media Problems into Sustainable Solutions for Black Urban Youth.

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Book SynopsisBecoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation of their activist identities in relation to social and economic justice. Becoming Activist explores critical literacy pedagogy beyond the confines of formal education. While it has been historically theorized within English classrooms, much existing research points to the limitations of conducting critical literacy in schools. In search of a space where critical literacy can be more fully realized, this book positions urban youth organizing as an alternative context for powerful community-based learning. A valuable read for educators, researchers, and young organizers, Becoming Activist offers insight into conducting literacy work to promote positive youth and communiTrade Review«This is a creative and exciting exploration of urban youth activism. Through the narrated experiences of five urban youth organizers, Elizabeth Bishop explores collective and socially conscious meaning-making and the efforts of these remarkable young people to create a more just, equitable, and peaceful world. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of this book is that it foregrounds the myriad ways that these and other «growing adults who possess the capacity to be leaders in the present» grapple with issues of oppression, organize for justice, and in the process build and leverage critical literacy skills to engage in civic action. Arguably, as an aging country, with a rapidly changing demographic, we ignore, at our peril, social capital inherent in these civically conscious youth. We owe a debt of gratitude, but also a responsibility, to the youth profiled in these pages, to value and learn from their civically minded individual and collective concerns.» (Kim Gomez, Associate Professor, Departments of Education and Information Studies, UCLA) «In most of the major civil rights movements of our time, young people have taken the lead and put themselves on the front lines in the struggle for social justice. Becoming Activist highlights the narratives of five youth activists who, as they shape a life for themselves, take up issues of access to equitable education, healthcare, and other services all humans deserve. Activists young and old have much to learn from the members of the Drop Knowledge Project featured in this groundbreaking book. Richly woven narratives provide a look into how these youth activists support one another, organize, and push for change in their local communities at the intersection of critical literacy and social action. Anyone who reads this book cannot help but gain incredible insight into the developmental intricacies of grassroots activism, youth agency, and critical literacy. I predict that readers will ultimately be inspired to find their own voice in the perennial fight for social justice in societies – here in America, and around the globe.» (Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)«This is a creative and exciting exploration of urban youth activism. Through the narrated experiences of five urban youth organizers, Elizabeth Bishop explores collective and socially conscious meaning-making and the efforts of these remarkable young people to create a more just, equitable, and peaceful world. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of this book is that it foregrounds the myriad ways that these and other «growing adults who possess the capacity to be leaders in the present» grapple with issues of oppression, organize for justice, and in the process build and leverage critical literacy skills to engage in civic action. Arguably, as an aging country, with a rapidly changing demographic, we ignore, at our peril, social capital inherent in these civically conscious youth. We owe a debt of gratitude, but also a responsibility, to the youth profiled in these pages, to value and learn from their civically minded individual and collective concerns.» (Kim Gomez, Associate Professor, Departments of Education and Information Studies, UCLA) «In most of the major civil rights movements of our time, young people have taken the lead and put themselves on the front lines in the struggle for social justice. Becoming Activist highlights the narratives of five youth activists who, as they shape a life for themselves, take up issues of access to equitable education, healthcare, and other services all humans deserve. Activists young and old have much to learn from the members of the Drop Knowledge Project featured in this groundbreaking book. Richly woven narratives provide a look into how these youth activists support one another, organize, and push for change in their local communities at the intersection of critical literacy and social action. Anyone who reads this book cannot help but gain incredible insight into the developmental intricacies of grassroots activism, youth agency, and critical literacy. I predict that readers will ultimately be inspired to find their own voice in the perennial fight for social justice in societies – here in America, and around the globe.» (Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)Table of ContentsContents: Drop Knowledge Project in New York City – Step One: Mobilizing to Disrupt the Commonplace – Historicizing the Future of Critical Literacy – Step Two: Interrogating Complex Perspectives – Organizing a Space for Justice – Step Three: Identifying Sociopolitical Issues – Designing Ethical Research – Step Four: Taking Social Justice Action – Imagining Tactically Strategic Futures – Step Five: Reflecting and Envisioning Activisms – Articulating Activist Identities.

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Book SynopsisBecoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation of their activist identities in relation to social and economic justice. Becoming Activist explores critical literacy pedagogy beyond the confines of formal education. While it has been historically theorized within English classrooms, much existing research points to the limitations of conducting critical literacy in schools. In search of a space where critical literacy can be more fully realized, this book positions urban youth organizing as an alternative context for powerful community-based learning. A valuable read for educators, researchers, and young organizers, Becoming Activist offers insight into conducting literacy work to promote positive youth and communiTrade Review«This is a creative and exciting exploration of urban youth activism. Through the narrated experiences of five urban youth organizers, Elizabeth Bishop explores collective and socially conscious meaning-making and the efforts of these remarkable young people to create a more just, equitable, and peaceful world. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of this book is that it foregrounds the myriad ways that these and other «growing adults who possess the capacity to be leaders in the present» grapple with issues of oppression, organize for justice, and in the process build and leverage critical literacy skills to engage in civic action. Arguably, as an aging country, with a rapidly changing demographic, we ignore, at our peril, social capital inherent in these civically conscious youth. We owe a debt of gratitude, but also a responsibility, to the youth profiled in these pages, to value and learn from their civically minded individual and collective concerns.» (Kim Gomez, Associate Professor, Departments of Education and Information Studies, UCLA) «In most of the major civil rights movements of our time, young people have taken the lead and put themselves on the front lines in the struggle for social justice. Becoming Activist highlights the narratives of five youth activists who, as they shape a life for themselves, take up issues of access to equitable education, healthcare, and other services all humans deserve. Activists young and old have much to learn from the members of the Drop Knowledge Project featured in this groundbreaking book. Richly woven narratives provide a look into how these youth activists support one another, organize, and push for change in their local communities at the intersection of critical literacy and social action. Anyone who reads this book cannot help but gain incredible insight into the developmental intricacies of grassroots activism, youth agency, and critical literacy. I predict that readers will ultimately be inspired to find their own voice in the perennial fight for social justice in societies – here in America, and around the globe.» (Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)«This is a creative and exciting exploration of urban youth activism. Through the narrated experiences of five urban youth organizers, Elizabeth Bishop explores collective and socially conscious meaning-making and the efforts of these remarkable young people to create a more just, equitable, and peaceful world. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of this book is that it foregrounds the myriad ways that these and other «growing adults who possess the capacity to be leaders in the present» grapple with issues of oppression, organize for justice, and in the process build and leverage critical literacy skills to engage in civic action. Arguably, as an aging country, with a rapidly changing demographic, we ignore, at our peril, social capital inherent in these civically conscious youth. We owe a debt of gratitude, but also a responsibility, to the youth profiled in these pages, to value and learn from their civically minded individual and collective concerns.» (Kim Gomez, Associate Professor, Departments of Education and Information Studies, UCLA) «In most of the major civil rights movements of our time, young people have taken the lead and put themselves on the front lines in the struggle for social justice. Becoming Activist highlights the narratives of five youth activists who, as they shape a life for themselves, take up issues of access to equitable education, healthcare, and other services all humans deserve. Activists young and old have much to learn from the members of the Drop Knowledge Project featured in this groundbreaking book. Richly woven narratives provide a look into how these youth activists support one another, organize, and push for change in their local communities at the intersection of critical literacy and social action. Anyone who reads this book cannot help but gain incredible insight into the developmental intricacies of grassroots activism, youth agency, and critical literacy. I predict that readers will ultimately be inspired to find their own voice in the perennial fight for social justice in societies – here in America, and around the globe.» (Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)Table of ContentsContents: Drop Knowledge Project in New York City – Step One: Mobilizing to Disrupt the Commonplace – Historicizing the Future of Critical Literacy – Step Two: Interrogating Complex Perspectives – Organizing a Space for Justice – Step Three: Identifying Sociopolitical Issues – Designing Ethical Research – Step Four: Taking Social Justice Action – Imagining Tactically Strategic Futures – Step Five: Reflecting and Envisioning Activisms – Articulating Activist Identities.

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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic altTable of ContentsContent: Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability – The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama’s America: The Rule of Damaged Politics – Zombie Language and the Politics of the Living Dead – Everyday Violence and the Culture of Cruelty: Entertaining Democracy’s Demise – Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death – Torturing Children: Bush’s Legacy and Democracy’s Failure: Salvos from the Culture of Cruelty – The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy – Zombie Politics and the Challenge of Right-Wing Teaching Machines: Rethinking the Importance of the Powell Memo – Town Hall Politics as Zombie Theater: Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere – Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism – No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes – Zero Tolerance Policies and the Death of Reason: Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment – Brutalizing Kids: Painful Lessons in the Pedagogy of School Violence – Tortured Memories and the Culture of War – Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope – In the Dead Zone of Capitalism – Disimagination Machines and Punishing Factories in the Age of Zombie Capitalism.

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Book SynopsisIn 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world's memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of hope. However, Mandela's recent death has given birth to a more critical view of his Rainbow Nation. No matter how examined, education in South Africa remains steadfastly unequal, with many White children retaining the educational privileges inherent to apartheid. White children in South Africa overwhelmingly attend wealthy, fully resourced schools, while the vast majority of Black and Coloured children attend woefully underresourced schools. Based upon three sets of studies in schools in and around Cape Town, Whiteness Is the New South Africa highlights drastic racial disparities, suggesting that educational apartheid continues unabated, potentially fostering future generations of impoverished Black and ColourTable of ContentsContents: Whiteness and the Hegemony of Apartheid in the Quest for Educational Equality – Making the Invisible Visible: Post-Apartheid Schools in South Africa – Liphi Igumbi Langasese (Where Is the Toilet?): Documenting Racial Disparities in Schools – Systemic Disparities, Differential Realities: School Principals on South African Education – Can Umlungu (a White Person) Save Us?: Outside-In Education in the New South Africa – A Colorless Rainbow: Nonracialism in the New South Africa – The New South Africa: Building Blocks for Sustainable Transformation.

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Book SynopsisA Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from equity, to excellence, to accountability over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and global economic competitiveness was the primary ideological driTable of ContentsContents: The Uneasy Alliance between the Corporate Elite and the Movement Conservatives (1970s) – A Nation at Risk and a Decade of Reports (1980s-1990s) – Federal Education Policy Conflicts over Standards-based Education during the Bush and Clinton Years (1988-2000) – Hawaii, a Case Study (1991-present) – No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core.

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Book SynopsisA Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from equity, to excellence, to accountability over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and global economic competitiveness was the primary ideological driTable of ContentsContents: The Uneasy Alliance between the Corporate Elite and the Movement Conservatives (1970s) – A Nation at Risk and a Decade of Reports (1980s-1990s) – Federal Education Policy Conflicts over Standards-based Education during the Bush and Clinton Years (1988-2000) – Hawaii, a Case Study (1991-present) – No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core.

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Book SynopsisBeginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group. This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman marries out of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should marry down to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by lookiTrade Review«From the first line, ‘I bought a bride,’ onward, this book provides a richly detailed and fascinating look at ‘cross-border marriages.’ Sandel’s attention to folk knowledge and cultural ways of speaking, and how these are tied to gender and control give needed perspective and deep insight into this cross-border and global phenomenon. Readers will be richly rewarded not only with cultural understanding but with theoretical insights as well.»(Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst) «Sandel’s study of cross-border marriages examines intercultural encounters at their most intimate, inside the family. In addition to his fluency in Mandarin Chinese, competence in Taiwanese, and decades of experience building strong networks in Taiwan, being himself a foreign spouse has given Sandel uncommon access. At different points in the analysis, Sandel treats communication as semiotic, socially constructed, culturally situated, or critical, thus also serving as a resource across multiple theoretical traditions.» (Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, University of Wisconsin-Parkside)Table of ContentsContents: The «Advertized» Foreign Bride: A Semiotic and Discourse Analysis – Historical and contemporary marriage arrangements – What It Means to Be a «Foreign Spouse»: Gendered Understandings – Educating the «Foreign Spouse» and Her Children – The End of Brokered Marriage?

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Book SynopsisWithin the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the interpretation, transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. Using contextualization as the main tool in this exploration, James J. Reynolds argues that intercultural communication holds the key to unlocking how effectively and appropriately these three engagements with theology are executed. The Lutheran church, and indeed most Protestant denominations, assert that justification by faith alone is the cardinal doctrine of Christianity. Scholars, however, are concerned that there is a great level of ignorance among members and misappropriation of justification by faith alone in the lives of members of these denominations. To investigate these underlying factors, three theories are used as a framework with which to test the church's interpretation of this doctrine: gospel and culture in dialogue, translatability, and contextuTrade Review«‘Justification by faith alone’ is a pivotal Lutheran – and Protestant – doctrine. But to what extent has this doctrine resonated in the African context? In this significant study the Nigerian Lutheran theologian James J. Reynolds examines how this doctrine has been received in his Lutheran church in Nigeria. He argues that the doctrine of ‘justification by faith alone’ should be contextualized into the Nigerian context to make it more understandable for the ordinary African. This book opens an interesting window into the theological life of an African mainline church.» (Timothy Palmer, Theological College of Northern Nigeria, Bukuru, Nigeria) «‘Ecclesia semper reformanda est’ – the Church must always reform – was one of the cardinal principles of the evangelical reformation. This profound academic work proves this statement to be true. At the heart of this book is a strong conviction that the Christian gospel and the Lutheran doctrines constantly need to be rediscovered and reinterpreted in every time and cultural context. The issues raised are very crucial for understanding the Christian gospel not only in Nigeria but all over the world. The content should be made the key component in the curriculum for training all pastors, evangelists, and church workers. In every section and chapter in this book, I sense solid work by a theologian who is also a committed disciple and lover of the Church of Jesus Christ. It deserves to be reflected upon by all leaders within the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, by all Christians and theologians. I strongly recommend this book as a ‘must’ read for every theologian and all those who desire to understand the doctrine of ‘justification by faith alone.’» (Jesper Oehlenschläger, Leading Pastor, Karlslunde Strandkirke, Roskilde Diocese, Denmark)Table of ContentsContents: Contextualization: A Vital Tool for Creating an Informed Interpretation and Appropriation of Justification by Faith Alone – Missional Journey of Justification by Faith Alone from St. Paul to Martin Luther – From Luther to the Mission Field: Transmitting the Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone to the LCCN 71 – Research Design: Methodology and Methods – The LCCN Gongola Diocese’s Interpretation of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone: Field Work – Contextual Implication for Theological Education – Towards a Contextual MissioCultural Appropriation.

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Book SynopsisBringing together the frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation, this book examines how that reform expands racial and economic inequality, and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms.Trade Review«In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and for all that race has EVERYTHING to do with education and schooling.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison) «We cannot understand and challenge today’s pervasive attacks on public education without looking intersectionally. Such is the argument compellingly fleshed out by Picower, Mayorga, and colleagues in this collection of brilliant exposés of neoliberal ‘reforms’ that insidiously widen racial and economic injustices. ‘What’s Race Got To Do With It’ is a must-read for anyone to see the bigger picture.» (Kevin Kumashiro, Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Education; Editor of ‘Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations’)«In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and for all that race has EVERYTHING to do with education and schooling.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison) «We cannot understand and challenge today’s pervasive attacks on public education without looking intersectionally. Such is the argument compellingly fleshed out by Picower, Mayorga, and colleagues in this collection of brilliant exposés of neoliberal ‘reforms’ that insidiously widen racial and economic injustices. ‘What’s Race Got To Do With It’ is a must-read for anyone to see the bigger picture.» (Kevin Kumashiro, Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Education; Editor of ‘Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations’)Table of ContentsContents: Wayne Au: High-Stakes Testing: A Tool for White Supremacy for Over 100 Years – David Stovall: Mayoral Control: Reform, Whiteness, and Critical Race Analysis of Neoliberal Educational Policy – Pauline Lipman: School Closings: The Nexus of White Supremacy, State Abandonment, and Accumulation by Dispossession – Brian Jones: Keys to the Schoolhouse: Black Teachers, Privatization, and the Future of Teacher Unions – Ujju Aggarwal: School Choice: The Freedom to Choose, the Right to Exclude – Terrenda White: Charter Schools: Demystifying Whiteness in a Market of «No Excuses» Corporate-Styled Charter Schools – Amy Brown: Philanthrocapitalism: Race, Political Spectacle, and the Marketplace of Beneficence in a New York City School – Barbara Madeloni: edTPA: Doubling Down on Whiteness in Teacher Education.

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Book SynopsisSex, Drugs, & Rock n' Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults.As the entertainment industries came to realize that a youth market existed, providers of music and movies began to create products specifically for them. While Big Beat music and exploitation films may have initially been targeted for a marginalized audience, during the following decade and a half, such offerings gradually become mainstream, even as the first generation of American teenagers came of age. As a result the so-called youth culture overtook and consumed the primary American culture, as records and films once considered revolutionary transformed into a nostalgia movement, and much of what had been thought of as radical came to beTable of ContentsContents: Toward a New American Cinema: Three Films That Altered Everything – Shake, Rattle and Rock: The Big Beat on the Big Screen – Bad Boys, Dangerous Dolls: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film – I Lost It at the Drive In Movie: An All-American Outdoor Grindhouse – The Tramp Is a Lady: Mamie Van Doren and the Meaning of Life – Surf/Sex/Sand/Spies: The Battles of Bikini Beach – The Last American Virgin: Sandra Dee and the Sexual Revolution – Formulating a Feminine Mystique: The Emergent American Woman on Film – «The British are Coming!»: When Bob Dylan Met the Beatles – Go Ask Alice: The Drug Culture on Film – Revolution for the Sell of It: The Beat Generation and the Hippie Movement – Lonesome Highways: Of Car Culture and Motorcycle Mania.

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Book SynopsisSex, Drugs, & Rock n' Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults.As the entertainment industries came to realize that a youth market existed, providers of music and movies began to create products specifically for them. While Big Beat music and exploitation films may have initially been targeted for a marginalized audience, during the following decade and a half, such offerings gradually become mainstream, even as the first generation of American teenagers came of age. As a result the so-called youth culture overtook and consumed the primary American culture, as records and films once considered revolutionary transformed into a nostalgia movement, and much of what had been thought of as radical came to beTable of ContentsContents: Toward a New American Cinema: Three Films That Altered Everything – Shake, Rattle and Rock: The Big Beat on the Big Screen – Bad Boys, Dangerous Dolls: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film – I Lost It at the Drive In Movie: An All-American Outdoor Grindhouse – The Tramp Is a Lady: Mamie Van Doren and the Meaning of Life – Surf/Sex/Sand/Spies: The Battles of Bikini Beach – The Last American Virgin: Sandra Dee and the Sexual Revolution – Formulating a Feminine Mystique: The Emergent American Woman on Film – «The British are Coming!»: When Bob Dylan Met the Beatles – Go Ask Alice: The Drug Culture on Film – Revolution for the Sell of It: The Beat Generation and the Hippie Movement – Lonesome Highways: Of Car Culture and Motorcycle Mania.

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Book SynopsisThis volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by scholars from India in particular, those whose voices do not necessarily find themselves in western academic publications. Many South Asian women writers engage with the overall quest for survival, which can be affiliated with all the themes expressed in this volume: trauma, diaspora, injustice, resistance, place, space, language, and identity. The texts discussed herein contribute to the ongoing discourse related to such themes in postcolonial studies and transnational literature, and could be used in courses on South Asian literature, women's writing, postcolonial studies and literature, and world or transnational literature.Trade Review«Arguably, one of the pressing obligations for literary academics in the West is to provide opportunities for colleagues in the emerging world, and particularly women, to be seen and heard, authors who otherwise might have little access to publishing houses focused on profit. This intelligently conceived collection of analytical essays does just that, introducing readers to women who often write of local and personal concerns that may surprise postcolonial theorists. Emphasis on scholars in India is welcome as well. The book’s interviews are fascinating windows into the worlds of writers seeking larger audiences, and clearly deserving them. The editors’ introduction is an eye-opener, demonstrating the extent to which this ‘emerging’ world is more than ready to be heard – and one result may be an enlarged comprehension of globalization.» (John C. Hawley, Professor of English at Santa Clara University and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies)Table of ContentsContents: Dolores Herrero: Chandani Lokugé’s If the Moon Smiled: Female Subjectivity and Trauma at the South Asian/Australian Cultural Crossroads – Seema Malik: Injustice, Resistance, and Subversion: A Study of Selected Plays by Indian Women Playwrights – Sobia Khan: Transnational Feminism in Sidhwa’s Cracking India: A Geocritical Study of the Great Divide of the Indian Subcontinent – Feroza Jussawalla: South Asian Muslim Women Speak for Their Rights and Resistance – Manoj Kumar Mishra: Women Trapped in a Quagmire: A Study of Mrinal Pande’s My Own Witness – Laurel Ryan: Constructing «Home»: Eros, Thanatos, and Migration in the Novels of Anita Rau Badami – Geetanjali Singh Chanda: «Womenspace»: Negotiating Class and Gender in Indian English Novels – Shyamala A. Narayan: Neelum Saran Gour: Novelist of Small Town India and Beyond – Umme Al-wazedi: Hybridity and the Politics of Identity in the Writings/Texts of Diasporic South Asian Women.– Interviews – Deborah Fillerup Weagel: Language, Diaspora, and Identity: An Interview with Yasmine Gooneratne – Sissy Helff: A Journey from Sri Lanka to Australia: A Conversation with Chandani Lokugé – Antonia Navarro-Tejero: Gender without Borders: An Interview with C.S. Lakshmi/Ambai – Geetha Ganapathy-Doré: Speech-Act: An Interview with Susan Visvanathan.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy but non-empowered. Bible translation and activities typically associated with it, such as linguistic documentation, vernacular literacy work, cultural engagement, community development, technological advancement, and self-esteem building among native speakers, help languages to develop and strengthen their position in society and should therefore be welcomed by linguists and all who care about stemming the growing tide of language death all over the world. This book is immediately relevant to the global community of documentary and conservationist linguists, as well as to anyone interested in translation studies, the sociology of religion, and the relationship between language, culture, Trade Review«Bible translators were doing crowd-sourced translation and language revitalization long before these concepts existed. They have made major contributions to the introduction of orthographies, literacies, and texts into languages that were often otherwise exclusively oral. And they continue to make an outstanding contribution to language vitality, as the chapters in this volume amply attest. Bible translation can be transformative for a language, especially during the life of the project itself, when it engages some of the best minds of the community in solving formidably difficult problems in semantic mapping, orthography, metaphor, and language standardi¬zation. It may extend in influence far beyond the original project and shine as an example of best practice in ensuring language survival.» (K. David Harrison, Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, and Coordinator, Cognitive Science Program, Swarthmore College; Director of Research, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) «Language Vitality Through Bible Translation provides valuable case studies from around the world about the complex interplay of language documentation, literacy, religion, colonial inheritance, anti-imperial impulses and indigenous language use. The volume is a needed corrective to any simple notion of Bible translation among minority groups around the world, not only concerning who is driving the efforts, but also about the relation of translation work to cultural practices and community development. The contributing authors have all had direct involvement in Scripture translation projects. As a result, readers are given an insider perspective on important questions that commonly arise about Bible translation activities, such as: What, if any, is the role of missionaries in promoting language vitality? Doesn’t the Christian tradition degrade the value of linguistic diversity? Does the historical role of Christianity in colonizing and assimilatory activities destabilize the ethics of Bible translation work today? Does the introduction of literacy into communities via Bible translation undermine language vitality in any way?» (Lindsay J. Whaley, Professor of Linguistics, Dartmouth College)Table of ContentsContents: Marianne Beerle-Moor/Vitaly Voinov: Introduction to Language Vitality through Bible Translation – Joseph Hong: Language endangerment in the light of Bible translation – J. Stephen Quakenbush: Bible translation’s contribution to Agutaynen language vitality – Philip A. Noss: Bible translation, dictionaries, and language development: The case of Gbaya – Dieudonné P. Aroga Bessong: Bible translation and the promotion of mother tongues in Africa – Edward Riak Kajivora: The Nuba Moro literacy program – Pamela Jean Owens: Bible translation and language preservation: The politics of the nineteenth century Cherokee Bible translation projects – Steve Berneking: The new Lakota Bible as anti-imperial translation – Michael Cahill: Endangered languages and Bible translation in Brazil and Papua New Guinea – Brenda H. Boerger: Bible translation as Natqgu language and culture advocacy – Jill Riepe: Encouraging language revitalization through education and Bible translation among the Ap Ma of Papua New Guinea – Marianne Beerle-Moor: Bible translation as witness to a forgotten language: The case of Caucasian Albanian – Boris M. Ataev: The role of Bible translation in preserving the languages of Dagestan – Eun Sub Song: The effect of Bible translation on literacy among Nenets Christians – Gennady V. Kostochakov: Can Bible translation revitalize the dying Shor language?

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Book SynopsisUpdated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society's shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade's growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good oTrade Review«I have been reading Henry A. Giroux for decades and in this book he has never been better nor clearer at illuminating the forces that are impairing our democracy and helping to destroy our public schools. Education and the Crisis of Public Values is a marvelously insightful examination of the forces that have changed our nation’s teachers from citizens whom we admired into objects of humiliation – a profession to be shamed and blamed for problems created by our businesses and the politicians who they influence. This trend must be reversed or we lose a necessary part of what makes our democracy possible.» (David Berliner, Regents Professor of Education, Arizona State University) «Henry A. Giroux is a one-of-a-kind gift to civic life, a scholar of immense learning and deep commitment to social justice. For the last three decades, he has written and spoken tirelessly in defense of the public good embedded in public education. This age has been unkind to all amenities in the public sphere and in this toxic time no one has been a stronger champion for education, students and teachers than Giroux. His new book collects his sharpest critiques against privatization and his most articulate defense of public needs. In these pages, we have the intelligence we need to defend civil society against its corporate assailants.» (Ira Shor, City University of New York Graduate Center) «Fresh, original, and articulate, Henry A. Giroux’s newest masterpiece is Education and the Crisis of Public Values. In the context of the increasing corporatization of public education, where academics are defined not as critical intellectuals but as state workers, Giroux calls for substantive and meaningful reform – reform that values engaged citizenship, civic courage, and a genuine embracing of freedom and justice. This book is an impassioned plea for our future. We all would do well to heed his call.» (Gary A. Olson, Provost and Vice President, Idaho State University) «Teachers and students have long been on the receiving end of attacks by the state and corporate power. They should take heart from and draw strength from thibook by Henry A. Giroux, one of critical pedagogy’s most powerful advocates. He is the scourge of those who endorse the commodification of education and partake of the war on children and youth. He is also a great source of inspiration to those who continue to regard education as a public good and an important feature of a substantive democracy.» (Peter Mayo, University of Malta)Table of ContentsContents: Reversing the Authoritarian Assault on Public Education – Henry A. Giroux: In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis – When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers, and the Politics of Humiliation – Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetish of the Measurement Trap – Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliver an Education That Matters – Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform – Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner, and the Politics of Corporate «Leadership» – Public Intellectuals, the Politics of Clarity, and the Crisis of Language – Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Bearing Witness.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance of cross-cultural interferences and influences. Within this framework, and from a variety of perspectives, some of the chapters depict identity-formation paths among Portuguese Jews and Luso-Indians in Australia, as well as the historical, cultural, and literary interplay among Portuguese and other diasporas in Goa, the West Indies, and Brazil. Other chapters analyze Portuguese-American literature and poetry, whereby the intersection of memory, dual identity, and place are meticulously explored. The last section of the book addresses Portuguese writers and poets who lived through (in)voluntary exTable of ContentsContents: Irene Maria F.Blayer/Dulce Maria Scott: Chapter One: The ‘Diaspora’ –Barry L. Stiefel: Chapter Two: The Evolution of Portuguese Identity in the Post-Fifteenth-Century Jewish Diaspora – Robert Mason: Chapter Three: A Precarious Whiteness: Exploring Australian Cultural Diversity through the Legacies of the Portuguese Empire – Cielo G. Festino: Chapter Four: Goa: From the Local to the Global and Back Again – Jo-Anne S.Ferreira: Chapter Five: Behind the Scenes: The Cultural Impact of the Portuguese on Trinidad & Tobago – Smita Das: Chapter Six: Alchemizing the Masses: Alfred Mendes’s Early Barrack-Yard Narratives and the Figure of the Dougla in Trinidad – Janelle Gondar: Chapter Seven: Verbal Acrobatics: Word Play and Movement in Mário de Andrade’s Paulicea Desvairada and Patrícia Galvão’s Parque Industrial – Reinaldo Silva: Chapter Eight: Intercultural and Hybrid Poetics in David Oliveira’s Poetry: From Azorean «Ethnic Signs» within American Literature to Life in Cambodia – Fernanda Luísa Feneja: Chapter Nine: Katherine Vaz’s «Lisbon Story»: Representing Place and Cultural Identity – Margarida Vale de Gato: Chapter Ten: Taking in Air in Frank X. Gaspar’s Early Poetry and How to Translate Its Brea(d)th – Teresa Alves: Chapter Eleven: Shadows and Radiance: The Collapsed Borders – Carlos Reis: Chapter Twelve: Figurations of Diaspora: Contexts, Trajectories, Effects – Mario Higa: Chapter Thirteen: The Magnetic North and the Southern Gardens in the Poetry of Cesário Verde – – Dora Nunes Gago: Chapter Fourteen: Crossing Worlds: Echoes of Exile in the Narratives of Maria Ondina Braga – Ana Isabel Marques: Chapter Fifteen: (Re)covering Memories in Translation: Ilse Losa’s Portuguese Translation of Anna Seghers’s Novel, Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen – Martine Fernandes Wagner: Chapter Sixteen: Passages Clandestins: De l’Émigration Clandestine à la Résistance dans O Gaiteiro: Le Joueur de Cornemuse de Manuel da Silva.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. Weaving research, analysis, stories, images, and familiar examples, she provides the framework needed to develop white racial literacy. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and spTrade ReviewPraise for the First Edition of What Does It Mean to Be White?: «Rarely will one find an analysis of whiteness (and the problems associated with it) that is as comprehensive as this one. From incisive and wide-ranging critiques of how white folks deflect, deny, and evade the topic of racism, and the implications of our own racial identity and position, to an absolutely on-point interrogation of how racism and whiteness influence white teachers-in-training, and thus, the larger educational process, Robin DiAngelo demonstrates the kind of clarity of thought so needed on this important subject.» (Tim Wise, Author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority)Table of ContentsContents: Race in Education – Unique Challenges of Race Education – Socialization – Defining Terms – The Cycle of Oppression – What Is Race? – What Is Racism? – «New» Racism – How Race Shapes the Lives of White People – What Makes Racism So Hard for Whites to See? – Intersecting Identities - An Example of Class – Common Patterns of Well-Meaning White People – White Fragility – Popular White Narratives That Deny Racism – Stop Telling That Story! Danger Discourse and the White Racial Frame – A Note on White Silence – Racism and Specific Racial Groups – Antiracist Education and the Road Ahead.

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Book SynopsisThis selection of Ibrahim Mālik’s short stories and poetry brings together an illustrative compendium of his works, which propose a genuine portrait of the numerous predicaments, concerns, apprehensions, and coercions from which the Arab community inside Israel suffers.Trade Review«Jamal Assadi in his subtle reading and translation of Ibrahim Mālik’s works (short stories and poetry) demonstrates a fine literary sensibility and an acute appreciation of the craft of fiction and poetry. This is undoubtedly a significant contribution to the scholarship of Ibrahim Mālik fiction and poetry in particular and Palestinian literature in general.» (Foad Azzam, The Department of Arabic, Sakhnin College)Table of ContentsContents: Short Fiction – Poetry.

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Book SynopsisPartnerships among a variety of institutions for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve goals sooner and more efficiently by building on the resources and expertise of each partner. In arts education, schools, arts organizations, cultural institutions, government agencies, and universities have engaged in joint ventures to improve the teaching and learning of the arts disciplines in their schools and in their communities. These partnerships have been particularly beneficial for teachers, many of whom have limited background in the arts but are expected to teach them in their classrooms. Arts partnerships initially focused on the goals of the participating organizations; that is, to develop artistic skills, to build future audiences, and/or to encourage young people to consider an artistic career. More recentlyTrade Review«We are, indeed, fortunate that this study was completed in time to capture a revealing image of arts education at a high level of achievement and to perpetuate the legacy of an important organization.» (From the Foreword by Larry O’Farrell, Professor Emeritus, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University)«We are, indeed, fortunate that this study was completed in time to capture a revealing image of arts education at a high level of achievement and to perpetuate the legacy of an important organization.» (From the Foreword by Larry O’Farrell, Professor Emeritus, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University)Table of ContentsContents: Arts Partnerships in Education – Research Methodology – Partnership Issues – Arts Integration – Extrinsic Learning – Arts Appreciation – Replication – Additional Comments – Emerging Issues – Parent Perspectives – Discussion of Multiple Perspectives – Coda.

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Book SynopsisPartnerships among a variety of institutions for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve goals sooner and more efficiently by building on the resources and expertise of each partner. In arts education, schools, arts organizations, cultural institutions, government agencies, and universities have engaged in joint ventures to improve the teaching and learning of the arts disciplines in their schools and in their communities. These partnerships have been particularly beneficial for teachers, many of whom have limited background in the arts but are expected to teach them in their classrooms. Arts partnerships initially focused on the goals of the participating organizations; that is, to develop artistic skills, to build future audiences, and/or to encourage young people to consider an artistic career. More recentlyTrade Review«We are, indeed, fortunate that this study was completed in time to capture a revealing image of arts education at a high level of achievement and to perpetuate the legacy of an important organization.» (From the Foreword by Larry O’Farrell, Professor Emeritus, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University)«We are, indeed, fortunate that this study was completed in time to capture a revealing image of arts education at a high level of achievement and to perpetuate the legacy of an important organization.» (From the Foreword by Larry O’Farrell, Professor Emeritus, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University)Table of ContentsContents: Arts Partnerships in Education – Research Methodology – Partnership Issues – Arts Integration – Extrinsic Learning – Arts Appreciation – Replication – Additional Comments – Emerging Issues – Parent Perspectives – Discussion of Multiple Perspectives – Coda.

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Book SynopsisMidlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a make or break period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as the empty nest, changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care for family elders. Some partnerships are resilient through this period, adopting practices that help them cope, bounce back, and even thrive in the face of adversity. Others sputter, wither, and burn out. What makes a midlife marriage resilient? Drawing from hundreds of interviews with couples, The Middle Years of Marriage answers this question.Trade Review“Vince Waldron’s <> should be on the shelf of any serious scholar of marital and family relationships. It is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on relational and family communication and offers an in-depth, dyadic analysis of how couples respond to and overcome challenges during mid-life. It also provides qualitative scholars with detailed description of how to conduct a successful multi-year research project using undergraduate researchers. Finally, it is a valuable resource for couples of all ages to help them prepare for, understand, and reflect on how to create resilience in their relationships.” —Jess Alberts, Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Alex Zautra: Preface – Section I Foundations – What Do We Know About Midlife Marriage? – Creating the Marriages at Midlife Archive (MaMA) – Section II What the Couples Say – Amy Przytula Vynalek/Catalina Cayetano/Dayna N. Kloeber/Amanda Tuholsky: Midlife Changes and Challenges – Protecting – Coping – Growing – Section III Theory, Methods, and Measures – Gary A. Beck: Theorizing Relational Resilience at Midlife – Methods and Measures – Index.

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Book SynopsisMidlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a make or break period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as the empty nest, changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care for family elders. Some partnerships are resilient through this period, adopting practices that help them cope, bounce back, and even thrive in the face of adversity. Others sputter, wither, and burn out. What makes a midlife marriage resilient? Drawing from hundreds of interviews with couples, The Middle Years of Marriage answers this question.Trade Review“Vince Waldron’s <> should be on the shelf of any serious scholar of marital and family relationships. It is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on relational and family communication and offers an in-depth, dyadic analysis of how couples respond to and overcome challenges during mid-life. It also provides qualitative scholars with detailed description of how to conduct a successful multi-year research project using undergraduate researchers. Finally, it is a valuable resource for couples of all ages to help them prepare for, understand, and reflect on how to create resilience in their relationships.” —Jess Alberts, Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Alex Zautra: Preface – Section I Foundations – What Do We Know About Midlife Marriage? – Creating the Marriages at Midlife Archive (MaMA) – Section II What the Couples Say – Amy Przytula Vynalek/Catalina Cayetano/Dayna N. Kloeber/Amanda Tuholsky: Midlife Changes and Challenges – Protecting – Coping – Growing – Section III Theory, Methods, and Measures – Gary A. Beck: Theorizing Relational Resilience at Midlife – Methods and Measures – Index.

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Book SynopsisEmbodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance takes a deep dive into representational spaces of social science theory and research, positioning post-structuralist frameworks as potent tools in ongoing fights against injustice and inequity. In this interactive text, the reader takes a discursive tour through theoretical and imagistic landscapes that offer options for liberated existence and expression from repression and moralism. By foregrounding the double articulation of what is articulated through language and what is shown through visual material, Embodying Theory furthers an argument that there are numerous ways to embody, interpret and interact with meaning across cultural, materialist and populist platforms, to strategically create counter-narratives in the service of building peaceable, inclusive, sustainable and joyful futures. Embodying Theory offers a series of writings and images to make theory walk, recasting major post-structurTrade Review“It is rare, indeed, to discover a book on theory that excites. Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance is that rarity. It is dedicated to peaceable warriors, and I would add, to generations of future scholars who read imagery as fluently as words. Of its many unique features, Embodying Theory demystifies representation. On that basis alone, it is destined to become required reading across disciplines.” —Donna Alvermann, The Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsList of Figures – IMAGINATION – Introduction: Locating the Imaginary Horizon – KNOWLEDGE – Mapping Rhizomatic Lines: Engendering Promiscuous Epistemologies – SUBJECTIVITY – Tactical Subjects: Ethical Pleasure in Resistance – EMBODIMENT – Embodied Politics and Strategic Aesthetics – ACTION – Collective Action: Make Theory Walk – Works Cited.

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Book SynopsisFive years after the first edition of Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past? was published, a focus on the Millennial generation's relationship with news is more important than ever. This revised and updated book reports the results of a new survey that reveals changes in news consumption habits and attitudes while painting a detailed portrait of Millennials in a news media landscape now dominated by social media and mobile devices. Generational, racial, ethnic, and gender differences in news engagement and social media use are examined and so is the historic presidential election that the oldest and youngest Millennials experienced. How Millennials voted, the issues that mattered, and the relationship between their political identity and news is also explored. The spread of fake news, attacks on the press, and the need for news literacy are also discussed. Since the publication of the book's first edition, Snapchat and digiTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Preface to the Second Edition – Preface to the First Edition – Acknowledgments – Society Without News Consumers? – Why Millennials Aren’t Into News – How Millennials Really Feel About News and Coverage of Their Generation – Too Busy for News; Unlimited Time for Social Media on Smartphones – Race and Ethnicity, Gender, and Political Identity in Millennial News and Social Media Engagement – Generation Z, the First Post-Millennial Generation, and the Future of News Engagement – Engaging Millennials with News in a Mobile-First, Social Media World—It’s Not Too Late, Yet – Appendix – Index.

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Book SynopsisPostmulticulturalism: Realities, Discourses, Practices looks to analyze and assess the current salience and future prospects of Canada's official multiculturalism by recasting the understanding of its past, present, and future through the prism of a postmulticulturalism lens. This book begins with the observation of a messy postmulticultural world of transnationality, cosmopolitanism, postethnicity, and multiversality, rather than an ordered multicultural world of homogeneity, centrality, and clarity. However durable and popular as a diversity governance model, Canada's official multiculturalism is no longer theoretically attuned to the realities and demands of this rapidly changing, deeply networked, and diversely complex era. In what is arguably the first book on postmulticulturalism as diversity governance, Postmulticulturalism proposes a new governance mindset that conceptually engages the principles and dynamics of a postmulticultural world as a discursive frameTable of ContentsList of Tables – Preface – Part One: Diversity Governances in Disarray – Postmulticulturalism: A Governance Mindset Whose Time Has Come – Part Two: Canada’s Official Multiculturalism: Integrating Migrants, Accommodating Minorities – Multiculturalism as Diversity Governance: Theoretical Perspectives, Global Expressions – Theorizing Canada’s Official Multiculturalism – Multiculturalism in Crisis, the Failure of Multiculturalism? A Transatlantic Divide – Part Three: Beyond Multiculturalism, Toward Postmulticulturalism – An Emergent Postmulticultural World of Complex Diversities – Conceptualizing Postmulticulturalism: A Governance Mindset – Interculturalism as Postmulticultural Governance – Accommodating Religious Diversity in a Postmulticultural Canada – Part Four: Rethinking Multicultural Governance in a Postnational Canada – Postmulticulturalism in a Postnational Canada – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of legal cannabis is instigating a great deal of new research, political intrigue, and social change. The Politics of Marijuana: A New Paradigm explores the socio-political dimensions of cannabis as the world transitions from Harry Anslinger's Reefer Madness prohibition to an as-yet-to-be-defined future. This book brings together a wide variety of perspectives on the past, present, and fast-changing future of cannabis. Trade Review“Timothy McGettigan’s The Politics of Marijuana: A New Paradigm proves to be a precise and illuminating collection of thought-provoking essays from some of the leading experts on marijuana and its complex and changing role in modern society. McGettigan has gathered a deeply informative assemblage of critical information regarding one of humanity’s historic multi-faceted natural resources.” —Vivian McPeak, CEO, Seattle Hempfest“While the policies related to the use of cannabis are rapidly shifting around the world, The Politics of Marijuana: A New Paradigm promises to elucidate a much-debated topic from many different perspectives. By bringing interdisciplinary experts to break down complex issues, this fascinating book contributes immensely to the evolvement of a new scholar field and to the understanding of cannabis’ part in our society.” —Yuval “Tuby” Zolotov, Cann10 conference organizer in Tel AvivTable of ContentsTimothy McGettigan: Preface: Forbidden Knowledge: Cannabis and Paradigm Shift – Acknowledgments – Timothy McGettigan: Section One: Cannabis and Social Injustice – Martin A. Lee: Marijuana for the Masses – Earl Smith/Angela J. Hattery: Policing the Black Body: Stop & Frisk and the War on Drugs – Albert and Sophie Two Hawk: Native American Perspective – Don Burnes: Cannabis and Homelessness – Howard Wooldridge: Cops Say Legalize Pot – Timothy McGettigan: Section Two: New Pathways in Cannabis Research – Hinanit Koltai/Doron Friedman/Dvory Namdar: Towards Medicalization of Cannabis sativa: Challenges and Prospects – Jane M. Fraser: Sustainability as a Framework for Impacts, Policies, and Politics – Tim Peters: Cannabis and Schools: Post-Legalization – Paul Armentano: Are THC Concentrations Appropriate Indicators of Psychomotor Performance? – Rachel F. Giraudo: Blazing a Trail: Cannabis Tourism in the United States – Robert Melamede: From Cells to Societies: A Dynamic Fractal – Timothy McGettigan: Section Three: Cannabis and Special Health Concerns – Moriah Barnhart: CannaMoms – M. Teri Robnett – Including PTSD in Colorado: The Intersection Between Research, Politics, and Public Opinion in Medicinal Cannabis Policy – Marcie Cooper: A Natural Approach to Comfort: Why Hospice Patients Are Choosing Cannabis – Timothy McGettigan: Section Four: Art, Industry, and Finance – Sundie Seefried: Bringing Banking to the Cannabis Industry – Austin Davie/James E. Parco/Haley Parco/David A. Levy/Matthew Wheatley/Phoenix Van Wagoner: Black, White, and Green: The Effect of Legalization on Colorado’s Black Market of Cannabis – Anne Scott: Hemp as a Sustainable Approach to Fashion – Aharon (Ari) Eyal: Medical Cannabis Manufacturing Plant of the Future: The Israeli Perspective – Fred Krissman: "Best Practices" in the Emerald Triangle: Cannabis and Capitalist Cultures in Northern California – Timothy McGettigan: Section Five: Future Horizons – Jonathan Walker: Why to Expect Federal Marijuana Legalization in 2022 – Timothy McGettigan: Epilogue: Science, Truth, and Tomorrow – Contributor Biographies – Index.

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Book SynopsisMaking Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them as folk heroes for the modern age. In response, this book describes and critiques these movements from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to help readers appreciate their worldwide scope and highly localized interpretations. Making Our World is essential reading for students and scholars of technology and society, particularly those interested in social movements and DIY cultures.Trade Review“Making Our World offers an expansive view of the continued evolution of discourses on hacking and making. Readers will appreciate the revitalizing commentary from various geographies and viewpoints that trouble taken-for-granted associations of making and hacking in the contemporary global economy and culture. This book is good reading for those seeking to understand not just the ideals and values that continue to be attached to making and hacking but also the variegated situated practices that accompany their reproduction and repurposes in various sociopolitical contexts.” —Seyram Avle, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst“This brilliant book analyses hacking and making: the leading spirits of our technological age. Making Our World is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how information technologies are being created and are creating our society and the strategies being used by those who make such technologies outside of corporations and governments. The book brings together world-leading experts on some of the most recent technological innovations, and these authors deliver a powerful analysis of the global meaning of both making and hacking technologies. Importantly, the book has a genuinely international reach because it refuses to take the ‘global’ to be some generic allencompassing idea and instead analyses in specific contexts around the world the different ways hacking and making create and are being created in society.” —Tim Jordan, Professor of Digital Cultures at the University of Sussex“Making Our World draws important and under-realized connections between often disparate strands of scholarship around the promise of hacking and making. From critical perspectives to hopeful exemplars, the authors pose new forms of world-building as central sites to illuminate the often mystifying influence of technology cultures. Hacking is not only ordinary, the authors show, but also tied up in the production of ordinariness—of the everyday concerns, identities, and collectives through which transformations of civil society unfold. Whether in makerspaces, start-up lofts, hackathons, or protests—online or out on the streets—these grounded studies interrogate and, in some cases, recover the often precarious terms of neoliberal educational and economic reform.” —Daniela Rosner, Assistant Professor at the University of WashingtonTable of ContentsJeremy Hunsinger/Andrew R. Schrock: Introduction – Andrew R. Schrock: Section I: Histories Introduction – T. Philip Nichols/Debora Lui: Learning by Doing: The Tenuous Alliance of the "Maker Movement" and Education Reform – Molly R. Sauter: Kevin Mitnick, The New York Times, and the Media’s Conception of the Hacker – Yasuhito Abe: Making Civic Media in the Post-Fukushima Japanese Media Ecology – Rhea Vichot: Project Chanology and the Formation of Anonymous as an Activist Movement – Andrew R. Schrock: Section II: Politics Introduction – Nathanael Bassett: Conscientious Hacking and the Weak Collective – Arne Hintz: Policy Hacking: Opening Up the Code of Media and Communications Regulation – Morgan Currie: Hacking Administration—A Report From Los Angeles – Sebastian Kubitschko: Why Locality and Presence (Still) Matter for Political Activism – Jeremy Hunsinger: Section: III: Organizing Introduction – Alexander von Lünen: Basteln, Tinkering, and Bricolage: A Cultural History of Hacking – Jennifer Maher: Women’s Hacking of the Poison Gift of Free/Libre/Open Source Software – Alison E. Vogelaar/Charlotte M. McKernan: Making Space for a Revolution: Occupy Wall Street as a Maker Movement – Ann Light: The Détente Model of Managing Divergent Values in the Maker-Sphere – Jeremy Hunsinger: Section IV: Case Studies Introduction – Pip Shea: Hacker Agency and the Raspberry Pi: Informal Education and Social Innovation in a Belfast Makerspace – Nicholas Balaisis: Hacking as a Way of Life: "Makers" at the Margins of Global Digital Culture – Xin Gu: The Paradox of Maker Movement in China – Karen Louise Smith: Our Community Hacks: Exploring Hive Toronto’s Open Infrastructures – Andrew R. Schrock: Afterword: Hackers and Makers are Ordinary.

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Book SynopsisMaking Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them as folk heroes for the modern age. In response, this book describes and critiques these movements from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to help readers appreciate their worldwide scope and highly localized interpretations. Making Our World is essential reading for students and scholars of technology and society, particularly those interested in social movements and DIY cultures.Trade Review“Making Our World offers an expansive view of the continued evolution of discourses on hacking and making. Readers will appreciate the revitalizing commentary from various geographies and viewpoints that trouble taken-for-granted associations of making and hacking in the contemporary global economy and culture. This book is good reading for those seeking to understand not just the ideals and values that continue to be attached to making and hacking but also the variegated situated practices that accompany their reproduction and repurposes in various sociopolitical contexts.” —Seyram Avle, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst“This brilliant book analyses hacking and making: the leading spirits of our technological age. Making Our World is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how information technologies are being created and are creating our society and the strategies being used by those who make such technologies outside of corporations and governments. The book brings together world-leading experts on some of the most recent technological innovations, and these authors deliver a powerful analysis of the global meaning of both making and hacking technologies. Importantly, the book has a genuinely international reach because it refuses to take the ‘global’ to be some generic allencompassing idea and instead analyses in specific contexts around the world the different ways hacking and making create and are being created in society.” —Tim Jordan, Professor of Digital Cultures at the University of Sussex“Making Our World draws important and under-realized connections between often disparate strands of scholarship around the promise of hacking and making. From critical perspectives to hopeful exemplars, the authors pose new forms of world-building as central sites to illuminate the often mystifying influence of technology cultures. Hacking is not only ordinary, the authors show, but also tied up in the production of ordinariness—of the everyday concerns, identities, and collectives through which transformations of civil society unfold. Whether in makerspaces, start-up lofts, hackathons, or protests—online or out on the streets—these grounded studies interrogate and, in some cases, recover the often precarious terms of neoliberal educational and economic reform.” —Daniela Rosner, Assistant Professor at the University of WashingtonTable of ContentsJeremy Hunsinger/Andrew R. Schrock: Introduction – Andrew R. Schrock: Section I: Histories Introduction – T. Philip Nichols/Debora Lui: Learning by Doing: The Tenuous Alliance of the "Maker Movement" and Education Reform – Molly R. Sauter: Kevin Mitnick, The New York Times, and the Media’s Conception of the Hacker – Yasuhito Abe: Making Civic Media in the Post-Fukushima Japanese Media Ecology – Rhea Vichot: Project Chanology and the Formation of Anonymous as an Activist Movement – Andrew R. Schrock: Section II: Politics Introduction – Nathanael Bassett: Conscientious Hacking and the Weak Collective – Arne Hintz: Policy Hacking: Opening Up the Code of Media and Communications Regulation – Morgan Currie: Hacking Administration—A Report From Los Angeles – Sebastian Kubitschko: Why Locality and Presence (Still) Matter for Political Activism – Jeremy Hunsinger: Section: III: Organizing Introduction – Alexander von Lünen: Basteln, Tinkering, and Bricolage: A Cultural History of Hacking – Jennifer Maher: Women’s Hacking of the Poison Gift of Free/Libre/Open Source Software – Alison E. Vogelaar/Charlotte M. McKernan: Making Space for a Revolution: Occupy Wall Street as a Maker Movement – Ann Light: The Détente Model of Managing Divergent Values in the Maker-Sphere – Jeremy Hunsinger: Section IV: Case Studies Introduction – Pip Shea: Hacker Agency and the Raspberry Pi: Informal Education and Social Innovation in a Belfast Makerspace – Nicholas Balaisis: Hacking as a Way of Life: "Makers" at the Margins of Global Digital Culture – Xin Gu: The Paradox of Maker Movement in China – Karen Louise Smith: Our Community Hacks: Exploring Hive Toronto’s Open Infrastructures – Andrew R. Schrock: Afterword: Hackers and Makers are Ordinary.

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Book SynopsisWritten by an expert with more than 30 years of experience in system and control theories, Sociology, Politicians, and Human Nature presents a structural approach to macrosociological systems that describes pre cisely the dynamics of societal systems. The author provides an innovative presentation of the theoretical aspects of societal systems dynamics. This book enriches readers knowledge about human societies, their development and moving forces, and it enables readers to filter and better understand social media information.Table of ContentsPreface – System Approach to Macrosociology – Lessons of History – Societal Dynamics and Ideology – Pyramidal Societal Structures – Democratic Societal Structures – Globalization and Politics – Human Nature and Politics – Urgent Social Problems – Difficulties to Keep Being the World’s Superpower – Afterword – About the Author – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops the main political lessons that the Mexican Neozapatismo movement brings us, in its almost 30 years of public life. Thus, beginning by defining the singular concept of Autonomy that the Neozapatista movement proposes, different from legal, anthropological or political definitions, and conceived as real global autonomy. Then the content of the Neozapatista oxymoron Mandar Obedeciendo', To Lead by Obeying' is explained as identical to the idea of popular self-government. A new concept of autonomy is linked necessarily with the idea of Other Politics' and Other Democracy'. The book also presents how Neozapatismo embodies a project of modernity that, having been constructed as a modernity of resistance for five centuries to the dominant modernity imposed by the Spaniards in Mexico, has now been transformed into a project of a real alternative modernity to capitalism.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition – By Way of Introduction: When the Imagination Takes Power – Leading by Obeying: Popular Self- Government, Political Autonomy, and Integral Global Autonomy –The Death of the Human Activity of Politics: The Other Politics and the Other Democracy – Mexican Neo- Zapatismo, Heir to the World Cultural Revolution of 1968 – The Mexican Neo- Zapatista Movement and the Transition from a Modernity of Resistance to an Alternative Modernity – A Conclusion That Questions Instead of Concluding – Appendix 1 Building Counter- Power from Below and to the Left (or, How to Change the World by Revolutionizing Power from Below Power) – Appendix 2 The Zapatista Gaze: Looking (to and from) Below and to the Left – Appendix 3 The New Stage of Mexican Neo- Zapatismo – Appendix 4 The Little Zapatista School: Living the Struggle for Autonomy from Within – Appendix 5 The (Symbolic) Death of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the Collective Neo- Zapatista ‘we’ – Appendix 6 Mexican Neo- Zapatismo and Its Impact within Contemporary Social Sciences: Six Theses to Develop – Appendix 7 Mexican Neo- Zapatismo’s Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Critical Thought – Appendix 8 Neo- Zapatista Discoveries: Birthing the New World from Below, Knowing Arts, Creating Sciences – Appendix 9 Mexico and Mexican Neo- Zapatismo in Times of COVID- 19 – Works Cited – Glossary – Translator’s Note.

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Book SynopsisWithin the NFL, the Black Body has not been viewed beyond being a money-making commodity. This book identifies personal fouls in the form of roughing the black body. The NFL is guilty and HNIC are team players complicit in blocking authentic meritocracy and sincere practices of equitable humanity.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides practitioners and researchers with the means to make more effective choices in the design and implementation of prevention programs.Trade ReviewAn amazingly thorough and comprehensive book -- Suzanne Phillips * PsychUp Live *....as somebody that's a nonacademic reading this book, what I enjoyed about it was that it was like a buffet of different approaches with commentary on, 'This is where this might work or might not work. This is a plus to this'...from a standpoint of leadership development, as I read this, I saw many components of leadership development involved in what you had put together here. -- Patrick Veroneau * Learning From Leaders podcast *Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, and ExhibitsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Past, Present, and Future of PreventionI. The Current State of Prevention ScienceChapter 2. Theoretical Models for Prevention: Strengths and WeaknessesChapter 3. Why Doesn't Prevention Work Better? The State of Prevention ResearchChapter 4. Identity and Marginalization: What Preventionists Need to KnowChapter 5. Using a Social Justice Lens for PreventionII. Strengths-Based Approaches to PreventionChapter 6. The Prevention Portfolio Model: From Risk to StrengthsChapter 7. A Developmental View of Prevention: From Static and Siloed to Trajectories and TransitionsChapter 8. Promoting Behavior RegulationChapter 9. The Role of Relational and Community StrengthsIII. Looking AheadChapter 10. Toward the Next Generation of Prevention: A Research and Theoretical AgendaChapter 11. The Prevention Portfolio Model: Practice and Policy RecommendationsReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be) examines the differences in politics, policy, and culture in leading Western democracies and offers an explanation as to why lesbian and gay citizens in Europe reap more benefits of equality. This analysis of the political economy of care calls attention to the ways in which care is negotiated by various investors (the state, families, individuals, and the faith-based voluntary sector) and the power dynamics of this negotiation.Historically, Christian churches have been leading primary investors in care, providing a direct safety net for children and the elderly. Despite European secularization, the involvement of the Christian church elites in both the provision of service and the setting of the values frame for welfare cannot be underestimated. The historical involvement of Christian churches is unique in each country, but one common factor is the normative interpretation of "the family." The role of Christian values-from left-leaning social justice, Reformed Protestant individualism, or social conservatism-in relation to the political economy of care gives a distinctive flavor to questions about under what circumstances policymakers are compelled, or not, to expand policies to include lesbian and gay citizens.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the many facets of globalization and its feasible reform in easy-to-understand language. Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The period of relative stability and prosperity in the world economy that followed the release of the first edition ended abruptly in 2008 with a worldwide economic crisis that illustrated in dramatic fashion the enduring problems with our global order. Yet despite the gravity of the challenges, concrete initiatives for change remain insubstantial. Richard Sandbrook and Ali Burak Güven bring together international scholars and veteran activists to discuss in clear, nontechnical language the innovative political strategies, participatory institutional frameworks, and feasible regulatory designs capable of taming global markets so that they assume the role of useful servants rather than tyrannical masters.

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Book SynopsisBetween 2004 and 2007, ten post-communist Eastern European states became members of the European Union (EU). To do so, these nations had to meet certain EU accession requirements, including antidiscrimination reforms. While attaining EU membership was an incredible achievement, many scholars and experts doubted the sustainability of accession-linked reforms. Would these nations comply with EU directives on gender equality? To explore this question, Defending Women''s Rights in Europe presents a unique analysis of detailed original comparative data on state compliance with EU gender equality requirements. It features a comprehensive quantitative analysis combined with rigorous insightful case studies of reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Olga A. Avdeyeva reveals that policy and institutional reforms developed furthest in those states where women''s advocacy NGOs managed to form coalitions with governing political parties. After becoming members of the EU, the governments did not abolish these policies and institutions despite the costs and lack of popular support. Reputational concerns prevented state elites from policy dismantling, but gender equality policies and institutions became marginalized on the state agenda after accession.This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched?an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/1710.

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