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Columbia University Press Hiroshima After Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty-or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty-with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study, as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work. -- Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Silvia Kolbowski 2. Leslie Thornton 3. Krzysztof Wodiczko Notes Bibliography Index
£56.00
Columbia University Press In Translation
Book SynopsisCelebrated practitioners speak on the creative, critical, political, and historical aspects of their work.Trade ReviewIn Translation promises to be an essential part of any translation library. Allen and Bernofsky have assembled a collection of thoughtful essays by a wide-ranging group of translators whose opinions about the knotty art of translation are varied, fascinating, and eminently intelligent -- Edith Grossman, Translator, author of Why Translation Matters In Translation is an essential addition to the canon of translation studies, offering fascinating insights about the role and the work of the translator. Anyone interested in the making of literature will want this book. -- John Biguenet, coeditor of The Craft of Translation and Theories of Translation Serious and witty by turns, and sometimes both at once, these informative essays illuminate what matters in translation and why translation matters. -- Motoyuki Shibata, University of Tokyo A panoramic view of the craft of translation. An impressive gathering of the expertise of the finest translators working in English today from a wide range of languages and literatures. -- Peter Constantine, winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Benjamin Lebert's novel, The Bird Is a Raven The essays in In Translation, exploring both the larger, complex questions of translation's role and function in the world of literature and the more detailed, word-by-word dilemmas faced by every translator, are consistently stimulating, engaging, and eye-opening, not to speak of eloquent and occasionally even dramatic and/or funny. I came away from reading them with a host of new ideas and insights. -- Lydia Davis, translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary A strong introduction to the field. Publishers Weekly Knowledgeable and articulate... the book raises and clarifies a variety of significant issues about the many decisions translators must contend with. Kirkus Reviews An obvious choice for writers and readers interested in translation; challenging but also accessible to the nonacademic reader. Library Journal I loved this book. I felt I was introduced to a new universe, and not only translation, but language itself, will never look the same again. San Francisco Book Review Translators, academics, students, editors, and publishers will want torecommend In Translation to anyone with a curiosity about who translators are,what translators do, how they do it, and why. Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Culture of Translation, by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky Part I: The Translator in the World 1. Making Sense in Translation: Toward an Ethics of the Art, by Peter Cole 2. Anonymous Sources (On Translators and Translation), by Eliot Weinberger 3. Fictions of the Foreign: The Paradox of "Foreign-Soundingness", by David Bellos 4. Beyond, Between: Translation, Ghosts, Metaphors, by Michael Emmerich 5. Translation as Scholarship, by Catherine Porter 6. Translation: The Biography of an Artform, by Alice Kaplan 7. The Will to Translate: Four Episodes in a Local History of Global Cultural Exchange, by Esther Allen Part II: The Translator at Work 8. The Great Leap: Cesar and the Caesura, by Forrest Gander 9. Misreading Orhan Pamuk, by Maureen Freely 10. On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam, by Jose Manuel Prieto, translated by Esther Allen 11. Are We the Folk in This Lok?: Translating in the Plural, by Christi A. Merrill 12. Choosing an English for Hindi, by Jason Grunebaum 13. As Translator, as Novelist: The Translator's Afterword, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen 14. Haruki Murakami and the Culture of Translation, by Ted Goossen 15. Translating Jacopone da Todi: Archaic Poetries and Modern Audiences, by Lawrence Venuti 16. "Ensemble discords": Translating the Music of Sceve's Delie, by Richard Sieburth 17. Translation and the Art of Revision, by Susan Bernofsky 18. The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation, by Clare Cavanagh
£82.80
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Rural Poverty in the United States
Book SynopsisIn a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.Trade ReviewThis book covers the historical development of rural poverty research and policy, brings together the core theoretical literature, and addresses significant substantive issues including food insecurity, race, migration, and housing. The breadth is remarkable. No other volume exists today that draws the literature together so comprehensively and engagingly. -- Linda Lobao, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Geography and Demography of Rural America1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?, by Kenneth M. Johnson2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now, by Bruce Weber and Kathleen MillerPart II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship, by Leif Jensen and Danielle Ely4. How to Explain Poverty?, by Ann R. Tickamyer and Emily J. WornellPart III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty, by Kristin SmithCase Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997), by Lisa R. Pruitt6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America, by Mark H. HarveyCase Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South, by Rosalind P. Harris7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America, by Shannon M. Monnat and Raeven Faye ChandlerCase Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents, by J. Celeste LayPart IV. Community and Societal Institutions8. Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital: A Tale of Two Valleys, by Jennifer ShermanCase Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington, by Jennifer Sherman9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts, by Brian Thiede and Tim SlackCase Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization, by Jill Ann Harrison10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity, by Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Barry SteffenCase Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West, by Sarah Whitley11. The Environment and Health, by Danielle Christine Rhubart and Elyzabeth W. EngleCase Study: The Environment and Health, by Michael Hendryx12. Education and Information, by Catharine Biddle and Ian MetteCase Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region, by Kai A. Schafft13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality, by John M. Eason, L. Ash Smith, Jason Greenberg, Richard D. Abel, and Corey SparksCase Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland, by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Amanda Hall-SanchezPart V. Programs, Policy, and Politics14. The Safety Net in Rural America, by Jennifer Warlick15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth, by Gary Paul Green16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples, by Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer WarlickContributorsIndex
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Corsairs of SaintMalo
Book SynopsisHenning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. He combines rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century.Trade ReviewHillmann’s book is a fascinating analysis of the networks of merchants and investors who traded overseas and launched privateering expeditions from the bustling Atlantic port of Saint-Malo. Based on extensive archival research, it is historical sociology at its best and will appeal to readers from history to economics and beyond. -- Philip T. Hoffman, Axline Professor of Business Economics and History, California Institute of TechnologyWith his unique combination of mastery of detailed historical material, rigorous network analysis, and a compelling theoretical vision, Hillmann offers us a remarkable view of the nexus of economic, social, and political relations in the early modern period. A landmark in historical sociology. -- John Levi Martin, author of Social StructuresThis is a terrific book. Full of historical detail about an interesting hybrid form of commercial-military 'market'—the early modern French privateers. Plus network analysis of the evolution of voyage partnership networks over one hundred years. The dynamic duality of market and city elite is thereby highlighted. -- John F. Padgett, coauthor of The Emergence of Organizations and MarketsIn this multilayered book, Hillmann combines a rollicking tale of colorful privateers plying the high seas with detailed evidence revealing temporal overlaps in trade networks. It's a great read, filled with deep sociological insights about the relational basis of elite cohesion and social mobility. -- Katherine Stovel, University of WashingtonThis book was a pleasure to read. It tells the fascinting story of French privateers (corsaires, in French) who were legaly sanctioned by the French government during wartime. * Economic Growth in History *I can definitely recommend adding it to your reading list. Hillman offers a captivating sociological take on over 100 years of conflict, trade, and personal fortune with this enjoyable study. * East India Blogging Co. *Breaks new ground as an organizational and network analysis with broad implications for the evolution and cohesion of economic activity during mercantile capitalism. * Social Forces *Hillmann’s contribution is an important one: he highlights the diversity of the merchant class, and describes a possible way in which a specialized local type of trade could help structure a local merchant community. Beyond its study of the course and of Saint-Malo, the book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. * Economic History Review *Hillmann provides an exceptionally well researched examination and perhaps an example of how to model future research on privateering partnerships throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. * Mariners Mirror *The book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. -- Pierre Gervais, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle * The Economic History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Saint-Malo in the French Atlantic Economy3. Social Sources of Economic Growth4. The Course: Its Origins and Organization5. Returns to Privateering6. Dynamics of Partnership Networks7. The Rise of New Men8. The Coming of the RevolutionAppendix TablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press What Slaveholders Think
Book SynopsisDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the SlavesThe exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityChoi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamThe book offers a detailed account and analysis of how and to what extent perpetrators adapt, accommodate, and profit from this social phenomenon. Moreover, What Slaveholders Think makes a great contribution to the literature on social movements, human rights, political sociology, labor movements, and other fields of study. * American Journal of Sociology *Provides readers with many truly unique and largely overlooked insights into the world of contemporary slavery. . . . Path-breaking. * International Sociology *A rich treatment of a compelling (albeit troubling) topic, one that makes an important contribution to social movement theory. * Mobilization *A rich, theoretically interesting work that should be taken seriously by scholars of social movement activity. . . . Well-written, engaging, and theoretically insightful. * Contemporary Sociology *Choi-Fitzpatrick’s work is an essential contribution to the literature on slavery and bonded labor. * Journal of Human Trafficking *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and ReappraisalNotesReferencesIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press When the State Winks
Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade ReviewEasily the best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice (and state-sponsored conversion) in Israel. Kravel-Tovi's work is grounded in significant ethnographic fieldwork and moves beyond accounts that treat 'the State' as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people-rabbis, converts and state workers-emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press When the State Winks
Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade Review[This] book is well organized ... it is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding of how the conversion process really operates. -- Alan Rosenbaum * The Jerusalem Post *This book is required reading for students and scholars who are interested in religion and state in contemporary Israel, reproduction, gender, and of course, conversion -- Michal Raucher, Rutgers University * Religious Studies Review *In addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language. * American Ethnologist *Important, challenging book. -- Shlomo Brody * Jewish Review of Books *This is a masterpiece to recommend to all those concerned about research into political states and the related concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. -- Avihu Shoshana * Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History *This study is well-written and readable. It combines academic professional writing with relevant, informative stories from the field. The result is an informative and beautifully written book. * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *When the State Winks is written in an engaging style that will instantly draw in both a specialist and a non-specialist reader. It can be recommended to a wide range of academic audiences and is a must-read in anthropology of religion at the intersection with political anthropology and anthropology of the state. -- Yulia Egorova * LSE Review of Books *[A] stunning ethnographic study...Highly recommended. * Choice *A beautifully written and engaged ethnography of the overlooked topic of state-sponsored conversion to Judaism. Kravel-Tovi illustrates how the complicated playing field of conversion is constrained with tensions between state secularism and religion; Zionism and Judaism; and bureaucracy and sincerity. -- Esra Ozyurek, London School of EconomicsIn addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language that would make an excellent addition to undergraduate- and graduate-level syllabi. * American Ethnologist *This book is highly recommended. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *When the State Winks is a superb ethnography of state-run conversion to Judaism in Israel. -- Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar * Ethnos *The book offers a wonderful synthesis between an animated ethnographic description and a sharp analytical account. [It] makes an important contribution to both the anthropology of the state and the ethnography of communication. -- Tamar Katriel * Israeli Sociology *When the State Winks is a milestone, or even a breakthrough, in the understanding of the state. Kravel-Tovi directs her look at the generally overlooked bodily part of the state: its face; not at the way in which the state “sees” or “hears” but at the way in which its shifting gestures and expressions create a double entendre. -- Haim Hazan * Israeli Sociology *In her stimulating and engrossing book, Michal Kravel-Tovi deploys the classic anthropological concept of ‘winking’ . . . Kravel-Tovi is to be congratulated for a political ethnography that achieves a satisfying balance among macro-contextual analysis, mobilization of social science, vivid and detailed vignettes of the objects of her study, and authorial self-reflection. -- Ian S., Lustick University of Pennsylvania * Israel Studies Review *In this probe of state-religion relations in Israel, Michal Kravel-Tovi brings the critical but sympathetic curiosity of a skilled ethnographer to explore the use of religious conversion for the purpose of creating national belonging. Addressing the substantial divergence between rabbinical practice and theological ideals and portraying converts whose reasons for choosing Judaism are often practical rather than spiritual, she shows how officials of state as well as rabbinical judges wink collusively at the short shrift given to doctrinal requirements in favor of well-trained performances of sincerity. -- Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityThe question of who is allowed to convert to Judaism in Israel, and how and when, is deeply charged with both spiritual and political commitments. Kravel-Tovi’s insightful, thoughtful book helps us to understand the nature of these contradictions and their consequences and the way that converts themselves come to experience their conversion. -- Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford UniversityWhen the State Winks is an excellent, original work that uniquely situates its analysis not just within an anthropological framework but also within a broad, humanistic one. Kravel-Tovi tells a compelling story about the political and personal complexities of conversion in Israel, and it will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and historians as well as scholars of Judaism and religion more generally. -- Leora Batnitzky, Princeton UniversityThe best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice in Israel and the best ethnography of state-assisted conversion more broadly. With clarity of prose, pathbreaking ethnography, and a humanizing argument, Kravel-Tovi’s work moves beyond accounts that treat ‘the state’ as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people—rabbis, converts, and state workers—emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£22.00
Columbia University Press Morals and Markets
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry.Trade ReviewA milestone that launched two major areas of research: on the morality of economic action (a topic central to Adam Smith but abandoned by his successors); and on the normalization and institutionalization of new economic forms. As America debates the moral dimensions of health insurance, and as the world copes with the rise of bitcoin and other private currencies, this classic study, graced by impeccable research and stunning insights, has never been more relevant. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York University Viviana Zelizer has revolutionized thinking about the modern economy. While Polanyi offered an asterisk to history by detailing how the British elite was convinced to relinquish its moral responsibility for peasants and accept a market for free labor, Zelizer shows how makers of all kinds of new markets have to build moral underpinnings. Morals and Markets will never go out of style. -- Frank Dobbin, Harvard University Life insurance seemed like such a simple and obvious product, until Zelizer pointed out that it is not. When we learn that it was once shameful to purchase what is now a moral obligation, we are brought up short by the shifting social and symbolic content of consumption. There are rewarding revelations in every chapter of this groundbreaking work. -- Mark Granovetter, Stanford University This book is as fresh in its argument and creative approach as when it originally appeared in 1979. The argument is both sociologically and existentially relevant, as in all of Zelizer's work. The approach can be characterized as a skillful and unique way of theorizing in economic sociology that draws equally on values and social relations. Morals and Markets is a gem and a classic. -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historical and Economic Background2. The Persistent Puzzle3. A Comparative Perspective4. The Impact of Values and Ideologies on the Adoption of Social Innovations: Life Insurance and Death5. Life, Chance, and Destiny6. Marketing Life: Moral Persuasion and Business Enterprise7. The Life Insurance Agent: Problems in Occupational Prestige and ProfessionalizationConclusionsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Trade and Nation
Book SynopsisIn the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.Trade ReviewIn Trade and Nation, Emily Erikson traces the rise of economic nationalism to efforts by seventeenth-century British merchants to sway the Crown with tracts on the nation and prosperity. An outstanding historical sociologist as well as a computational scientist, Erikson presents a fresh, compelling perspective on mercantilism and the foundations of modern economic thought. -- Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal OpportunityIn our age of egregious inequality, why is economic policy devoted to national aggregate growth that increasingly channels wealth and income upward while trivializing distributional equity as irrelevant to economic efficiency? In this remarkable study Emily Erikson points not to modern Reaganomics but to the invention of a radical new economic doctrine by corporate merchants in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century England. Mixing sophisticated computational methods with deep historical archival research, Erikson demonstrates how a mutually advantageous 'courtship' between commerce and the Crown, one marked by an explosion of literary discourse in the newly emerging public sphere, triggered a novel justificatory framework focused on the exigencies of national prosperity over and against the long-prevailing 'moral economy' of economic justice. Trade and Nation is a book of uncommon brilliance as well as an utterly necessary one for understanding the entrenched roots of today’s uncommon meanness. -- Margaret R. Somers, author of Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have RightsTrade and Nation bridges the divide between social science and history, asking why modern western economic theory first developed in England rather than elsewhere. Emily Erikson uses a methodologically innovative approach, deploying data and computational methods to link discourse and authorship to institutional politics and positionality. -- Phil Withington, author of Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful IdeasA fascinating romp through the history of economics in Early Modern England. If you like money, history, and/or a combination of the two, you should pick it up. * East India Blogging Co. *[A] lucidly written and thoughtfully conceived book. * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *Erikson’s book is a major contribution to the field concerned with the evolution of economic thought in the early modern period. Erikson’s analysis, based on a methodology originating from sociology, is a cutting edge addition to economic history literature. * International Journal of Maritime History *A pleasant and very solid read, showing how a wide range of statistical methods can be very elegantly articulated. Such an approach based on transparency regarding data-collection, exploitation, and results interpretation should be praised. * Journal of Social Structure *[A] tour de force....This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Declining Importance of Fair Exchange2. Transformative Debates3. Key Actors, Institutions, and Relations4. Authors and Their Networks5. Representation, Companies, and Publications6. Why Not the Dutch?ConclusionBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Psychiatric Casualties
Book SynopsisThe trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. The book offers actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.Trade ReviewMark C. Russell and Charles Figley provide a thorough and thoughtful analysis of how the U.S. military has historically failed to adequately manage the mental health problems that inevitably occur during and in the aftermath of military action, and they suggest potential solutions to prevent repeating such failures in the future. -- Brian Bride, former editor in chief of Traumatology: An International JournalAs promised, Russell and Figley once again deliver a thorough history of a neglected but critical topic. The authors continue to highlight what is most needed in behavioral health treatment for our military warriors who serve our country. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of Maryland and principal investigator, Family Informed Trauma Treatment CenterRussell and Figley provide a blood-stirring and much needed examination of the many reasons that behavioral health concerns continue to affect the ranks of the military. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the care and well-being of America’s forces, from indoctrination to discharge and beyond. -- Col. Jeffrey S. Yarvis, PhD, U.S. Army (retired)Russell and Figley provide a stark yet riveting investigation into the history and current status of behavioral health care in the military. Psychiatric Casualties is a must-read for all senior military and civilian leaders who have the responsibility of putting men and women in combat. -- Col. M. C. Boone, United States Marine CorpsAn impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. * Library Bookwatch *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Genesis of the Military’s Mental Health Dilemma1. A War to Die For: Casualty Trends of Modern Warfare2. The Dark Side of Military Mental Health: A History of Self-Inflicted Wounds3. Cruel and Inhumane Handling: The First Dark-Side Strategy4. Legal Prosecution, Incarceration, and Executions of Mental Illness: The Second Dark-Side Strategy5. Humiliate, Ridicule, and Shame into Submission: The Third Dark-Side Strategy6. Denying the Psychiatric Reality of War: The Fourth Dark-Side Strategy7. Purging Weakness: The Fifth Dark-Side Strategy8. Delay, Deceive, and Delay Again: The Sixth Dark-Side Strategy9. Faulty Diagnosis and Backdoor Discharges: The Seventh Dark-Side Strategy10. Avoiding Responsibility and Accountability: The Eighth Dark-Side Strategy11. Inadequate, Experimental, or Harmful Treatment: The Ninth Dark-Side Strategy12. Perpetuating Neglect, Indifference, and Self-Inflicted Crises: The Tenth Dark-Side Strategy13. Toward a Resilient and Mentally Healthy Military14. Transforming Military Mental Healthcare: Three Options for ChangeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Creative Control The Ambivalence of Work in the
Book SynopsisMichael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.Trade ReviewFilm and media scholars who study industries must read Creative Control. Siciliano leverages cultural sociology and meticulous ethnography to masterfully unpack the considerable contradictions of media creation in the platform era. His focus on creative routinization exposes film studies' exceptionalism as a strawman, ill-equipped to make sense of online media. -- John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film/TelevisionSome scholars argue that creative work enlivens local economies, while others emphasize that it exemplifies the precarious employment spreading across national economies. Siciliano deftly navigates those divergent depictions by turning to the workers themselves—illuminating the attraction that creativity holds for them, as well as the challenges it brings. As a result, he rightfully moves us from abstract notions of creative work to the embodied and everyday activity that it actually entails. -- Timothy J. Dowd, Emory UniversityWith Creative Control, Michael Siciliano joins the finest of ethnographic traditions—the study of labor in our times. This fresh perspective on cultural work unpacks the reality behind our algorithmically defined entertainment future, the content treadmill that seduced the emotional and professional repertoire of a generation. -- Melissa Gregg, author of Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge EconomySiciliano’s thoughtful, compelling book deserves to be a major reference point in studies of creative labor and in research on work in an age of digital platforms. It combines careful ethnography with an impressive range of reading to provide fresh perspectives on longstanding problems of alienation, exploitation, and control. -- David Hesmondhalgh, University of LeedsMichael Siciliano's book is a must-read for anyone interested in the culture industries. This ethnography documents firsthand how various actors within culture-producing firms grapple over power, profits, and final products. What we create and consume, Creative Control convincingly demonstrates, derives as much from collective control as it does individual creativity. -- Jeffrey J. Sallaz, author of Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World's Call Center CapitalThe book is well researched, well written, and very timely to better understand subordination and attractions to jobs in the platform economy and creative production...I hope this ambitious and detailed study finds a wide readership; it is a required reading for scholars interested in contemporary creative labor in platform economies and cultural production more generally. * Acta Sociologica *The case studies in Creative Control capture the changing nature of information-age creative labor and operationalize sociological concepts to describe its new modes of managerial control and increased alienation and precarity, providing a framework for further research into a wider array of creative contexts. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *Has important and wide-ranging implications for how we think about creative labor, and I expect the findings to be of great interest to sociologists of culture, work, and technology. * Contemporary Sociology *A rich empirical account of precarious work in the culture industries and crafts a novel framework connecting the affective rewards to the costs of contemporary creative labor. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Introductions1. Creative Control?2. Conflicting CreativitiesPart II: SoniCo’s Social Regime3. SoniCo’s Positive Pole: Aesthetic Subjectivities and Control4. SoniCo’s Negative Pole: Mitigating Precarity and Alienated JudgmentPart III: The Future’s Quantified Regime5. The Future’s Positive Pole: Platform Discipline, Transience, and Immersion6. The Future’s Negative Pole: Compound Precarity and the (Infra)structure of Alienated JudgmentPart IV: Conclusion7. Toward a Theory of Creative Labor and a Politics of JudgmentMethodological Appendix: Attending to Difference in Similarity and Gender’s AccessNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Preserving Neighborhoods
Book SynopsisHistoric preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change.Trade ReviewHistoric preservation is a movement focused on preserving the physical past. In Preserving Neighborhoods, Aaron Passell deftly illustrates the ways preservation is actually used as a catalyst for changing a neighborhood’s physical and social dimensions. Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced and detailed look at historic preservation as a force for neighborhood change and should be in the library of anyone with an interest in the physical and social fabric of urban communities. -- Lance Freeman, author of A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black AmericaPreserving Neighborhoods is a powerful book about how people and organizations work the system to advance parochial projects, a vivid demonstration of how the "social" shapes "social policy" and, with it, urban form. There are far too few comparative ethnographies in urban studies, and Passell has produced an exemplary work. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeSo-called neighborhood preservation lands very differently from one place to another; here we learn just why. There is a radical specificity that determines why the effect in Brooklyn is so different than in Baltimore. Replete with insight and irony, Passell’s book makes a genuine contribution to urban analysis more generally. -- Harvey Molotch, New York UniversityAaron Passell’s Preserving Neighborhoods is a must-read for anyone interested in urban preservation. With case studies from Baltimore and Brooklyn, Passell reveals preservation as a malleable strategy that facilitates different ends across varied contexts, from neighborhoods facing gentrification and development pressure to those crumbling under the weight of entrenched vacancy and abandonment. -- Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, Cleveland State UniversityPreserving Neighborhoods draws on a comparison between two distinct contexts to show how historic designation unfolds differently across different places. In doing so, Aaron Passell engages with a critical urban policy area of vital public importance that has received insufficient scholarly attention. -- Jeremy Levine, University of MichiganIt offers many new insights, as well as challenges to conventional wisdom about neighborhood preservation andgentrification. The book is a good candidate to assign in urban sociology or urban studies undergraduate or graduate courses, particularly on research methods. * Social Forces *Passell’s contribution to urban studies and mixed methodology is loud and clear, and the book does the work of a great sociological account by dispelling—or at least complicating—conventional wisdom about an issue in a way that moves us forward and affords us better comprehension of the world around us. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Explaining Change in Baltimore’s Historic Neighborhoods3. Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn4. Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore5. Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure6. ConclusionAppendix: Data, Methods, and MeasuresNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press A Spark in the Smokestacks
Book SynopsisDelving into the online and offline conversations of Beijing communities affected by waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards, Jean Yen-chun Lin demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context.Trade ReviewBy offering a textured account of the way space enables civic life to flourish in China, this beautiful book urgently reminds us that even in nondemocratic contexts, people can do great things when they join together to put their hands on the levers of change. -- Hahrie Han, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversityTranscending conventional depictions of environmental justice politics, A Spark in the Smokestacks provides a rich and compelling portrait of how three communities in Beijing were able to mobilize their civic capacity to fight environmental harms. Lin’s impressive study deserves broad attention in sociology, political science, environmental studies, and beyond. -- Edward T. Walker, author of Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American DemocracyBy systematically examining the intersection of environmental activism and the development of middle-class communities in China, A Spark in the Smokestacks offers fresh evidence and original insights on a very important topic. Lin’s extensive and systematic comparative analysis and prolonged fieldwork have produced rich empirical evidence and in-depth analysis. This book will be a welcome and valuable addition to the fields of China studies and contentious politics. -- Xi Chen, author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in ChinaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Stench on Success: Urban Middle-Class Homeowners and Rising Environmental Challenges2. Gated Communities as Schools of Democracy3. Making Sense of External Threats: Individual, Collective, and Representative Responses4. Mobilizing and Organizing for Environmental Collective Action5. Trajectories of Citizen Science6. Consequences of Community Environmental OrganizingConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Quantified Scholar
Book SynopsisJuan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.Trade ReviewIn this important and captivating book, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra applies his brilliant sociological and narrative talent to dissecting the social and intellectual consequences of the implementation of quantified measures in the evaluation of British social-scientific research. The outcome is dispiriting. We witness the capitulation of institutions of higher learning to monetary logics; the fragmentation of scholarly communities and the erosion of solidarity; and the flattening of knowledge and the depletion of creativity. The Quantified Scholar is an urgent, essential read by one the most imaginative and skilled scholars of his generation. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990sThe Quantified Scholar is a landmark study on how research evaluations affect the scholarly vocation. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra's book is as immersive as it is rigorous in showing how efforts to quantify the value of the social sciences influence academic careers and homogenize knowledge production. An extremely insightful book! -- Julian Hamann, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinThis book is simply fantastic, characterized by its careful and focused analysis that employs some of the most cutting-edge techniques available to social scientists, deeply sociological but easily accessible to many interested audiences. Pardo-Guerra shows how evaluative frameworks of subjective and creative forms of production shape our work and, ultimately, our careers. -- Charles J. Gomez, City University of New York, Queens CollegeWith brevity, wit, and humanity, The Quantified Scholar shows how the formal, national research assessment process has changed the social sciences in the United Kingdom. Combining historical and quantitative data with qualitative interviews, Pardo-Guerra offers a compelling portrayal of the whole assessment process and its consequences, as well as concrete suggestions for what academics could do differently, without overpromising about our collective ability to roll back decades of austerity and audit culture. -- Daniel Hirschman, Brown UniversityA crisply written, engaging, and thought-provoking contribution to the sociology of science. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *A compelling and timely analysis of a topic that is of great importance to scholars, policymakers, and society as a whole. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Chains of Knowledge2. Measures of Austerity3. Sorted by Work4. Shifting Words5. Hierarchies of Quantification6. SolidaritiesAppendix: Studying Social ScientistsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Quantified Scholar
Book SynopsisJuan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.Trade ReviewIn this important and captivating book, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra applies his brilliant sociological and narrative talent to dissecting the social and intellectual consequences of the implementation of quantified measures in the evaluation of British social-scientific research. The outcome is dispiriting. We witness the capitulation of institutions of higher learning to monetary logics; the fragmentation of scholarly communities and the erosion of solidarity; and the flattening of knowledge and the depletion of creativity. The Quantified Scholar is an urgent, essential read by one the most imaginative and skilled scholars of his generation. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990sThe Quantified Scholar is a landmark study on how research evaluations affect the scholarly vocation. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra's book is as immersive as it is rigorous in showing how efforts to quantify the value of the social sciences influence academic careers and homogenize knowledge production. An extremely insightful book! -- Julian Hamann, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinThis book is simply fantastic, characterized by its careful and focused analysis that employs some of the most cutting-edge techniques available to social scientists, deeply sociological but easily accessible to many interested audiences. Pardo-Guerra shows how evaluative frameworks of subjective and creative forms of production shape our work and, ultimately, our careers. -- Charles J. Gomez, City University of New York, Queens CollegeWith brevity, wit, and humanity, The Quantified Scholar shows how the formal, national research assessment process has changed the social sciences in the United Kingdom. Combining historical and quantitative data with qualitative interviews, Pardo-Guerra offers a compelling portrayal of the whole assessment process and its consequences, as well as concrete suggestions for what academics could do differently, without overpromising about our collective ability to roll back decades of austerity and audit culture. -- Daniel Hirschman, Brown UniversityA crisply written, engaging, and thought-provoking contribution to the sociology of science. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *A compelling and timely analysis of a topic that is of great importance to scholars, policymakers, and society as a whole. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Chains of Knowledge2. Measures of Austerity3. Sorted by Work4. Shifting Words5. Hierarchies of Quantification6. SolidaritiesAppendix: Studying Social ScientistsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Programming the Future
Book SynopsisProgramming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.Trade ReviewFrom the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy. -- Gerry Canavan, Marquette UniversityBy way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times. -- Tom Moylan, author of Becoming Utopian: The Politics and Culture of Radical TransformationTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Unnerved Anxiety Social Change and the
Book SynopsisJason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.Trade ReviewFew sociologists have examined the phenomenon of anxiety. In Unnerved, Schnittker provides the most detailed sociological examination of anxiety, the most extensive discussion of the differences between anxiety and depression, and the most comprehensive empirical study of how social factors are related to anxiety that has yet been written. -- Allan Horwitz, author of Anxiety: A Short HistoryUnnerved is a beautifully executed social epidemiology of anxiety in the United States. Schnittker takes as a starting point the large cohort differences in anxiety, which he analyzes with acute sociological insight. In doing so, he not only teaches us about the social sources of anxiety but also reveals much about our changing society. -- Bruce Link, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and HealthWith clear prose, empirical rigor, and a keen sociological eye, Schnittker has written a masterful synthesis of the research on anxiety. Unnerved reveals that, yes, we are truly living in an age of anxiety. Anyone interested in anxiety, its history, and its social determinants would be wise to start with this book. -- Owen Whooley, author of On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not KnowingSchnittker's research provides a useful model for those aiming to responsibly examine the social determinants of anxiety and other mental illnesses. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *A valuable addition to the sociologist's bookshelf, offering a clear and comprehensive overview of that elusive thing we call anxiety. * Social Forces *Table of Contents1. The Significance and Meaning of Anxiety2. A Late Modern History of Anxiety3. The Evolving Science of Anxiety and Depression4. Anxiety Disorders in the United States5. Family Change and Cohort Differences in Anxiety6. The Decline in Religious Participation7. Uncertain Attachments8. Status Anxiety and Growing Inequality9. The Ascent of Anxiety as a Therapeutic Target10. The Past, Present, and Future of FearMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Wuhan Lockdown
Book SynopsisThis book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.Trade ReviewGuobin Yang paints a vivid and deeply moving portrait of ordinary people who suddenly find themselves at the epicenter of a frightening new disease. Based on dozens of online 'lockdown diaries' written by Wuhan residents, this book offers a revealing and humanizing perspective on one of the most controversial and consequential events of our time. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityThis brilliant book offers two expertly intertwined accounts. In the first, local diarists narrate the terror, boredom, and creativity of Wuhan residents as they lived through an emerging catastrophe. In the second, Yang shows how the Party, social media, health workers, patients, and citizen activists shaped people’s understandings of what was happening to their community. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzThe Wuhan Lockdown documents ordinary people’s lives, sentiments, and activities during the pandemic in such an engaging and immersive fashion that when reading the manuscript, I felt like I was watching a documentary. This book allowed me to relive what people in Wuhan have gone through the pandemic. It is truly incredible how timely it is. -- Rongbin Han, author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian ResilienceHe presents a far more detailed and nuanced view than the US media ever did, allowing those of us would limited knowledge about China and the Chinese lockdown to have a greater and clearer understanding of what happened. * Fish Shelf *A thorough account of the events leading to the Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, drawing from dozens of personal accounts ('lockdown diaries'). * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A uniquely valuable contribution to the growing literature on COVID-19 as well as that on contemporary China. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Enriched by Yang's expert understanding of Chinese culture and politics, this is a valuable record of the early stages of the pandemic. * Publishers Weekly *Yang has crafted a fascinating portrait of modern China, capturing subtleties and sensitivities that mainstream European and North American media are typically content to ignore. * Lancet *[An] immaculate page-turner. * Lancet Infectious Disease *A forceful and timely reminder of the profound impact that COVID continues to have on ordinary people's lives. * China Review *Absolutely fabulous! The book can be read by everyone and I highly recommend it. * AI Femminile *Anyone interested in epidemiology or the history of global pandemics will find this a riveting account of the most recent such crisis due to COVID-19 and its socioeconomic, political—but especially human—ramifications in China and beyond. * Choice *This book would be useful not only for social psychology and medical sociology courses, but also for the general reader hoping to gain perspective from the Chinese people on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *In his study of the Covid experience in Wuhan and beyond, Yang encompasses the positive and negative aspects of how the Chinese people coped with the dangers, threats and tragedies of the emergency. * Asian Affairs *A vivid and highly readable account. * China Quarterly *An exemplary study of the possibilities of online research methodologies as well as an empirically and theoretically rich account of the starting months of the pandemic. * Global Media and China *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Festivities, Interrupted2. Road to Apocalypse3. People’s War4. Lockdown Diaries5. Fire and Thunder6. Civic Organizing7. Game of Words8. COVID Nationalism9. Mourning and RememberingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Hidden Hate
Book SynopsisMathew Creighton develops a new model for understanding xenophobia by shining a light on the layers of intolerance concealed beneath the surface.Trade ReviewMathew Creighton has written a wonderful and potent book on the ways in which xenophobia and stigmatization pervade modern societies. He carefully unpacks how context-specific factors shape the ways xenophobia is covertly or overtly expressed and sanctioned by political elites and institutions. Anyone interested in the persistence of the marginalization of minority groups must read this book. -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?Hidden Hate is an outstanding book on contemporary xenophobia and xenophobes. It shows that xenophobe beliefs are strategic: they can be hidden or out in the open, and they depend on the context. This book is unmatched in its deep sociological thinking about xenophobia, and it deserves serious attention from social scientists, policy makers, and many others. -- Katharine M. Donato, coauthor of Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global AgeThis brilliant book discusses the challenges of measuring xenophobia in contemporary Western societies. While the open expression of xenophobic feelings and attitudes is generally frowned upon in liberal societies, this does not mean that xenophobia has vanished. In many cases it has just become more difficult to observe directly. Creighton presents innovative, methodologically rigorous ways to measure xenophobia and discusses the importance of social context for its overt and covert expression. A must-read for any student of attitudes toward minorities. -- Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyMathew Creighton's innovative analysis of the xenophobe and xenophobia is both theoretically and empirically rich. He skillfully investigates anti-immigrant attitudes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, parsing their overt and covert dimensions. This is sociology at its finest. -- Edward Telles, coauthor of The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico IntegrationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. A Practical and Theoretical Perspective on Xenophobic Expression1. Who Is the Xenophobe?2. The Stigma of IntolerancePart II. Economic Populism and the Politics of Xenophobic Expression3. If There Are No Dogs, Why Whistle? Intolerance and the Xenophobic Seeds of Populism4. Referenda and Borders: Brexit and the Role of the Xenophobe in the Division of EuropePart III. Race, Religion, and Refugees: The Expression of Targeted Intolerance5. Color-Blind or Intentionally Looking Away?6. Behind a Veil of Intolerance: Islamophobia and Overt Xenophobic Expression7. People, Immigrants, and RefugeesConclusion. Multiple Layers, Legal Remedies, Anonymous ActsAppendix 1. Chapter 3 Survey Experiment: The United States Before and After the Financial CrisisAppendix 2. Chapters 4 and 6 Survey Experiments: The United Kingdom Before and After the Brexit ReferendumAppendix 3. Chapter 5 Survey Experiments: Race and Ethnicity in Ireland and the NetherlandsAppendix 4. Chapter 6 Survey Experiments: Muslim Migrants in the United States, Ireland, and the NetherlandsAppendix 5. Chapter 7 Survey Experiment: People, Immigrants, and Refugees in NorwayNotes
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Columbia University Press Hidden Hate
Book SynopsisMathew Creighton develops a new model for understanding xenophobia by shining a light on the layers of intolerance concealed beneath the surface.Trade ReviewMathew Creighton has written a wonderful and potent book on the ways in which xenophobia and stigmatization pervade modern societies. He carefully unpacks how context-specific factors shape the ways xenophobia is covertly or overtly expressed and sanctioned by political elites and institutions. Anyone interested in the persistence of the marginalization of minority groups must read this book. -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?Hidden Hate is an outstanding book on contemporary xenophobia and xenophobes. It shows that xenophobe beliefs are strategic: they can be hidden or out in the open, and they depend on the context. This book is unmatched in its deep sociological thinking about xenophobia, and it deserves serious attention from social scientists, policy makers, and many others. -- Katharine M. Donato, coauthor of Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global AgeThis brilliant book discusses the challenges of measuring xenophobia in contemporary Western societies. While the open expression of xenophobic feelings and attitudes is generally frowned upon in liberal societies, this does not mean that xenophobia has vanished. In many cases it has just become more difficult to observe directly. Creighton presents innovative, methodologically rigorous ways to measure xenophobia and discusses the importance of social context for its overt and covert expression. A must-read for any student of attitudes toward minorities. -- Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyMathew Creighton's innovative analysis of the xenophobe and xenophobia is both theoretically and empirically rich. He skillfully investigates anti-immigrant attitudes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, parsing their overt and covert dimensions. This is sociology at its finest. -- Edward Telles, coauthor of The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico IntegrationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. A Practical and Theoretical Perspective on Xenophobic Expression1. Who Is the Xenophobe?2. The Stigma of IntolerancePart II. Economic Populism and the Politics of Xenophobic Expression3. If There Are No Dogs, Why Whistle? Intolerance and the Xenophobic Seeds of Populism4. Referenda and Borders: Brexit and the Role of the Xenophobe in the Division of EuropePart III. Race, Religion, and Refugees: The Expression of Targeted Intolerance5. Color-Blind or Intentionally Looking Away?6. Behind a Veil of Intolerance: Islamophobia and Overt Xenophobic Expression7. People, Immigrants, and RefugeesConclusion. Multiple Layers, Legal Remedies, Anonymous ActsAppendix 1. Chapter 3 Survey Experiment: The United States Before and After the Financial CrisisAppendix 2. Chapters 4 and 6 Survey Experiments: The United Kingdom Before and After the Brexit ReferendumAppendix 3. Chapter 5 Survey Experiments: Race and Ethnicity in Ireland and the NetherlandsAppendix 4. Chapter 6 Survey Experiments: Muslim Migrants in the United States, Ireland, and the NetherlandsAppendix 5. Chapter 7 Survey Experiment: People, Immigrants, and Refugees in NorwayNotes
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Columbia University Press Practicing Sociology
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Columbia University Press Challenging Modernity
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University of Illinois Press Global Games
Book SynopsisWhy is soccer the sport of choice in South America while baseball soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India''s national sport? Why is China a stronghold of table tennis? Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that a hidden competition of social and international relations, rather than the particular qualities of a given sport, explains who plays what sport and why. Looking at Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan, Van Bottenburg discusses how individual sports developed, what institutions and groups spread them to other nations, and why certain sports and not others found an international audience. As he shows, the nature of the relationship between the country of origin and the adopting country help determine how successfully a sport takes hold and to what degree new practitioners modify it. Other key factors include which groups dominated and promoted the various sports in their countries of origin, which groups appropriated them elsewhere, and the latteTrade Review"These data constitute the best available basis for this study, which is organized by sport and country. Although Van Bottenburg at first dismisses as simplistic factors such as climate, geography, religion, and economics, by the end of the book, he takes these factors--in combination with considerations, such as specific agencies, social class, cultural hegemony, and history--into consideration and expertly weaves them together." --Choice"Van Bottenburg has compiled this impressive study to find out how and why a specific sport finds popularity in one country but not another. . . . An insightful, academic look at why we play."--MultiCultural Review
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University of Illinois Press Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Packs the emotive power of a zillion 'race' memoirs precisely because it is the story of what happened when black and white workers collectively challenged the powers-that-be in the meanest city in the South."--Robin D. G. Kelley, The Nation"A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history."--Bruce Nelson, Journal of American History"Among the best and most ambitious recent works on labor in the South. . . . Few readers of this book are likely to remain unmoved by Honey's account of the exceptional sacrifice, courage, and vision displayed by labor activists in Memphis."--Georgia Historical Quarterly"Sheds considerable light on numerous themes of importance to historians of a multiplicity of specialties, from labor and African American history, to historians of the South and twentieth-century America."--Labor History"A well-researched and carefully written book. . . . Anyone interested in the Southern labor movement must consult this work."--Mississippi Quarterly"A major contribution to the history of labor, race relations, and the twentieth-century South. . . . Honey vividly brings the labor movement to life and places Memphis in the wider context of southern and national history."--Pete Daniel, author of The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969"A major new study of how the Solid South restrained social reform and labor's strength in New Deal America."--David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION: Labor and Civil Rights 1 I: Southern Apartheid and the Labor Movement ONE: Segregation and Southern Labor 13 TWO: No Bill of Rights in Memphis 44 II: Labor's Struggle for the Right to Organize THREE: The Rise and Repression of Industrial Unionism 67 FOUR: Black and White Unite 93 FIVE: Race, Radicalism, and the CIO 117 SIX: Black Scares and Red Scares 145 III: Industrial Unionism and the Black Freedom Movement SEVEN: War in the Factories 177 EIGHT: The CIO at the Crossroads 214 NINE: The Cold War against Labor and Civil Rights 245 CONCLUSION: Legacies 279 Abbreviations 293 Notes 295 Primary Sources Consulted 349 Index 353
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University of Illinois Press The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 1
Book SynopsisCapturing the strident activist’s complexity during a formative period.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004. "Mesmerizing letters from the days when birth control was legally obscene and jail sentences were regularly given out for talking about it in public. Nearly a century ago, Margaret Sanger was defending woman's 'ownership of her own body' and linking access to contraception to civil liberties and personal freedom. Rights we take for granted have a long and sometimes surprising history that comes clear on these pages. Required reading for our own time, whichever side of Roe v. Wade you are on."-- Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship"These wonderful letters, diary excerpts, and essays dramatize women's long struggle for respect, self-awareness, independence, influence, and control over our bodies and our lives. To contemplate Margaret Sanger's harsh reality and the enduring vision of this courageous pioneer--while the war against women escalates on every front--is a heartening and galvanizing act of rebellion. Esther Katz and her splendid team have given us all a very great gift." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the author of Eleanor Roosevelt, volumes 1 and 2"This engrossing volume, meticulously edited and selected, captures Margaret Sanger in all her complexity during a formative period in her long career. Open to practically any page, and something will grab your historical attention."-- Susan Ware, editor of Notable American Women, volume 5 "[Katz et al.] have done their editing with scrupulous care, they have annotated the documents they reproduce with monk-like dispassion. . . . Sanger is a thoroughly fascinating figure, and the book makes for compulsive reading."--David Tell, The Weekly Standard "The work of Katz and her team is critical for a fuller understanding of first-wave feminism, family planning, and one of the century's most interesting women."-- Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering “Birth control was understood to be a tool of working-class liberation that would stall the capitalist engine and improve wages by limiting the supply of future workers. How the birth control movement (and, it could be argued the Left in general) began with such radical, expansive politics, and devolved into a struggle for the much narrower goal of individual privacy, is just one of the fascinating stories that will develop across this four-volume set of Margaret Sanger’s papers. . . . Every document is scrupulously annotated to identify unfamiliar people, places, events, and terminology. . . . An absorbing volume that provides an excellent introduction to Sanger’s life and work for the novice as well as an edifying source for the serious researcher.”-- Social Service Review“Because Sanger knew everyone in the world associated directly with sexual reform or research and, for a time, was very active in radical politics, her range of correspondents was enormous, from sexologists such as Havelock Ellis, to birth control pioneers such as Mary Stopes, to the communist Emma Goldman, the labor organizer Big Bill Haywood, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., and writers and intellectuals such as H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. . . . [The project] is scholarship at its highest level and when complete will be a standard work of reference for anyone interested in the development of birth control or the history of sex education not only in the United States but also in the rest of the world. It will also record the life of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.”-- Archives of Sexual Behavior“This collection is a welcome addition to Sanger scholarship. It allows readers to explore all aspects of her complex life and ideas. Readers might find her admirable and inspiring, then turn the page and find her maddening, arrogant, or irresponsible. Introductions to each section add context; readers can provide their own interpretations. The collection offers a wonderful window into Sanger and the early-20th-century U.S.”-- CHOICE
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University of Texas Press Communicating with Brazilians
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University of Texas Press Showing Off
Book SynopsisDrawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, Philip Wagner asserts that the drive for Geltung—personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence—shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human beinTable of Contents Preface Introduction. The Geltung Hypothesis One. Bodies Influence Bodies Two. Provocation Produces Results Three. Acts of Display Four. Show and Tell Five. Proverbial Geltung Six. Actions Speak Louder Seven. Selective Impressions Eight. Getting Around Nine. Spread the Word Ten. Working Together Eleven. Sources of Power Twelve. Limits of Force Thirteen. Borrowed Energies Fourteen. Conclusions Select Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co Primer for Poets
Book SynopsisAn innovative and accessible guide to poetry writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor.
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WW Norton & Co Literary Theory for Robots
Book SynopsisIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, professor, physician, programmer and attorney
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Wiley Gender Codes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to African History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This wide-ranging collection provides timely historiographical entry points to some of the most lively conversations in the field of African history, as well as case studies illustrating contemporary methodological approaches."D. McNutt, University of Tennessee ChattanoogaCHOICE, May 2019Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction: Identities and (Mis)Representations 1William H. Worger PART I THE PERSONAL 13 2 Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa 15Marc Epprecht 3 Masculinities 35Stephan F. Miescher 4 Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood 59Nimi Wariboko 5 Settler Societies 77Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson PART II WOMEN’S ROLES IN INSTITUTIONS OF POWER 93 6 Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe 95Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu 7 Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa 119Nwando Achebe 8 Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems 143Claire C. Robertson PART III FAMILY AND COMMUNITY 161 9 Kinship in African History 163James L. Giblin 10 Ethnicity in Southern Africa 179Michael R. Mahoney 11 Ethnicity and Race in African Thought 199Jonathon Glassman 12 Islam in African History 225Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar 13 Refugees in African History 247Brett Shadle PART IV AFRICANS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 265 14 Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology 267Peter R. Schmidt 15 Africa and Environmental History 28Gregory H. Maddox 16 Health and Medicine in African History 307Karen E. Flint 17 Wealth and Poverty in African History 329Morten Jerven PART V AFRICANS AND THE WORLD 351 18 The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective 353Walter Hawthorne 19 Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History 367Ann Biersteker 20 Africa and the Cold War 383Timothy Scarnecchia 21 The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror 401Awet T. Weldemichael PART VI AFRICAN SELF‐REPRESENTATIONS 419 22 The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar 421Jay Spaulding 23 Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered 431Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger 24 Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa 459Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi 25 African Historians and Popular Culture 483Charles Ambler Index 501
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Reality Television
Book SynopsisInternational in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Laurie Ouellette Part One Producing Reality: Industry, Labor, and Marketing 9 1 Mapping Commercialization in Reality Television 11June Deery 2 Reality Television and the Political Economy of Amateurism 29Andrew Ross 3 When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show 40Mark Andrejevic 4 Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies 57Vicki Mayer 5 Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television 74Albert Moran Part Two Television Realities: History, Genre, and Realism 95 6 Realism and Reality Formats 97Jonathan Bignell 7 Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction 116Annette Hill 8 From Participatory Video to Reality Television 134Daniel Marcus 9 Manufacturing “Massness”: Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest 155Hollis Griffin 10 God, Capitalism, and the Family Dog 171Eileen R. Meehan Part Three Dilemmas of Visibility: Identity and Difference 189 11 The Bachelorette’s Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love 191Rachel E. Dubrofsky 12 Fractured Feminism: Articulations of Feminism, Sex, and Class by Reality TV Viewers 208Andrea L. Press 13 “It’s Been a While Since I’ve Seen, Like, Straight People”: Queer Visibility in the Age of Postnetwork Reality Television 227Joshua Gamson 14 The Wild Bunch: Men, Labor, and Reality Television 247Gareth Palmer 15 The Conundrum of Race and Reality Television 264Catherine R. Squires 16 Tan TV: Reality Television’s Postracial Delusion 283Hunter Hargraves Part Four Empowerment or Exploitation? Ordinary People and Reality Television 307 17 Reality Television and the Demotic Turn 309Graeme Turner 18 DI(t)Y, Reality-Style: The Cultural Work of Ordinary Celebrity 324Laura Grindstaff 19 Reality Television’s Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based and Nonelitist Articulations of Ordinary People and Their Discursive Affordances 345Nico Carpentier Part Five Subjects of Reality: Making/Selling Selves and Lifestyles 367 20 Mapping the Makeover Maze: The Contours and Contradictions of Makeover Television 369Brenda Weber 21 House Hunters, Real Estate Television and Everyday Cosmopolitanism 386Mimi White 22 Life Coaches, Style Mavens, and Design Gurus: Everyday Experts on Reality Television 402Tania Lewis 23 Reality Television Celebrity: Star Consumption and Self-Production in Media Culture 421Julie A. Wilson 24 Producing “Reality”: Branded Content, Branded Selves, Precarious Futures 437Alison Hearn Part Six Affective Registers: Reality, Sentimentality, and Feeling 457 25 A Matter of Feeling: Mediated Affect in Reality Television 459Misha Kavka 26 “Walking in Another’s Shoes”: Sentimentality and Philanthropy on Reality Television 478Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi Part Seven The Politics of Reality: Global Culture, National Identity, and Public Life 499 27 Reality Television, Public Service, and Public Life: A Critical Theory Perspective 501Peter Lunt 28 Reality Talent Shows in China: Transnational Format, Affective Engagement, and the Chinese Dream 516Ling Yang 29 Reality Television from Big Brother to the Arab Uprisings: Neoliberal, Liberal, and Geopolitical Considerations 541Marwan M. Kraidy Index 557
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Public Relations Theory Capabilities and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 Public Relations: Socially Responsible or Work of the Devil 1 2 Role of Theory: Affirming and Advancing Professional Practice 27 3 Excellence Theory: Public Relations as Strategic Communication Management 55 4 Contingency Theory: Strategic Conflict Management 83 5 Rhetorical Theory: Shared Empowerment Through Discourse 115 6 Critical Theory: Critiquing Discourse Processes, Meaning, and Power 143 7 Issues, Crisis, and Risk Communication and Management 173 8 Public Relations and Measurement Challenges 201 9 Public Relations and Ethical Challenges: Being a Saint, Not a Sinner 223 10 Publics, Stakeholders, and Other Voices 249 11 Public Relations and Relationships 275 12 The Role of Public Relations Professionals and Leadership Challenges 301 13 Current Trends and Issues in Building Public Relations Theories 339 Index 369
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Drugs and the American Dream
Book SynopsisDrugs and the American Dream presents an up-to-date anthology of contemporary readings that explore the myriad sociological correlates of licit and illicit drug use in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, the book addresses topics such as the origins and evolution of drug use in the U.S.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Source Acknowledgments xxii About the Editors xxviii About the Contributors xxx Matrix of Drugs Addressed xliii Part I: Perspectives on Drug Use 1 History and Theory 1. Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi: A Brief History of Alcohol 4 2. David F. Musto: The American Disease: Narcotics in Nineteenth-Century America 9 3. James A. Inciardi and Theodore J. Cicero: Black Beauties, Gorilla Pills, Footballs, and Hillbilly Heroin: Prescription Drug Abuse over the Past 40 Years 18 4. Norman E. Zinberg and Wayne M. Harding: Control and Intoxicant Use: A Theoretical and Practical Overview 24 Drug Scares and Moral Panics 5. Joseph R. Gusfield: Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement 33 6. Craig Reinarman: The Social Construction of Drug Scares 40 7. Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes: Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban 48 8. Dale D. Chitwood, Sheigla Murphy, and Marsha Rosenbaum: Reflections on the Meaning of Drug Epidemics 55 Part II: Social Correlates of Drug Use 61 Race/Ethnicity 9. Todd G. Pierce: Gen-X Junkie: Young White Heroin Users in Washington, DC 64 10. Avelardo Valdez, Kathryn Nowotny, and Alice Cepeda: The Intersection of Drug Use and Crime over the Life Course of Mexican-American Former Gang Members 72 11. Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg: Righteous Dopefi end 80 12. Karen A. Joe Laidler: The Lives and Times of Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine Users 87 13. Paul Spicer: Toward a (Dys)functional Anthropology of Drinking: Ambivalence and the American Indian Experience with Alcohol 94 Social Class 14. Eloise Dunlap, Andrew Golub, and Bruce D. Johnson: The Severely Distressed African American Family in the Crack Era: Empowerment Is Not Enough 102 15. Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli: Getting Huge, Getting Ripped: An Exploration of Recreational Steroid Use 112 16. Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger: Drugged Druggists: The Convergence of Two Criminal Career Trajectories 120 17. A. Rafi k Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold: Why Rich Kids Sell Street Drugs: Wankstaz, Wannabes, and Capitalists in Training 131 Gender 18. Katherine Sirles Vecitis: Drugs and Eating Disorders: Women’s Instrumental Drug Use for Weight Control 141 19. Robert L. Peralta: College Alcohol Use and the Embodiment of Hegemonic Masculinity among European American Men 152 20. Monica Hardesty and Timothy Black: Mothering Through Addiction: A Survival Strategy among Puerto Rican Addicts 161 Youth and Aging 21. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler: Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 174 22. Meika Loe and Leigh Cuttino: Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students 184 23. Tammy L. Anderson and Judith A. Levy: Marginality among Older Injectors in Today’s Illicit Drug Culture: Assessing the Impact of Ageing 193 24. Miriam Williams Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson: Baby Boomer Drug Users: Career Phases, Identity, Self-Concept, and Social Control 203 Part III: Drug Lifestyles 213 Managing Drug Use 25. Brian C. Kelly: Club Drug Use and Risk Management among “Bridge and Tunnel” Youth 215 26. René D. Drumm, Duane C. McBride, Lisa Metsch, Melodie Neufeld, and Alex Sawatsky: “I’m a Health Nut!” Street Drug Users’ Accounts of Self-Care Strategies 224 27. José A. Bauermeister: Latino Gay Men’s Drug Functionality 231 28. Wendy Chapkis: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Healing 240 29. Patricia A. Adler: The Dealing Lifestyle 249 The Economics of Drugs 30. Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly: Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change? 257 31. Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances 266 Crime and Violence 32. Paul J. Goldstein: The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework 277 33. Bruce A. Jacobs, Volkan Topalli, and Richard Wright: Managing Retaliation: Drug Robbery and Informal Sanction Threats 285 34. Stephanie Brophy: Mexico: Cartels, Corruption, and Cocaine: A Profi le of the Gulf Cartel 295 35. Peter Reuter: Systemic Violence in Drug Markets 305 Part IV: Societal Response to Drug Use 313 Education 36. Earl Wysong and David W. Wright: A Decade of DARE: Efficacy, Politics and Drug Education 316 37. Marsha Rosenbaum: Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education 327 Treatment 38. George De Leon: The Therapeutic Community: Perspective and Approach 336 39. Lee Garth Vigilant: Illness Narratives of Recovering on Methadone Maintenance 344 40. Robert Granfi eld and William Cloud: The Elephant that No One Sees: Natural Recovery among Middle-Class Addicts 351 41. James L. Nolan, Jr: Drug Treatment Courts and the Disease Paradigm 359 Policy 42. Stanton Peele: Reducing Harms from Youth Drinking 370 43. Duane C. McBride, Yvonne Terry-McElrath, Henrick Harwood, James A. Inciardi, and Carl Leukefeld: Refl ections on Drug Policy 378 44. Ethan Nadelmann: Think Again: Drugs 386 45. Harry G. Levine: The Secret of Global Drug Prohibition: Its Uses and Crises 391 Index 400
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Criminal Justice Essentials
Book SynopsisThe Student Study Guide accompanying the ninth edition of Sue Titus Reid''s Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive resource to aid and enhance student learning. Including chapter outlines, key concepts, and a variety of study questions and answer, the Student Study Guide offers the ideal complement to Criminal Justice Essentials. Represents the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched overview of the U.S. criminal justice system available today Anchored within the framework of the legal system and consistently includes legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction Accurately interprets the legal decisions which are cited Utilizes references to current affairs Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs Table of ContentsIntroduction vi Part I Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems 1 1 Criminal Justice: An Overview 2 2 Crime, Offenders, and Victims 22 Part II Entry into Criminal Justice Systems: Policing 43 3 The Emergence and Structure of Police Systems 44 4 Policing in a Modern Society 62 5 Problems and Issues in Policing 82 Part III Processing a Criminal Case: Criminal Court Systems 99 6 Criminal Court Systems 100 7 Prosecution, Defense, and Pretrial Procedures 118 8 Trial, Sentencing, and Appeal 140 Part IV Confi nement and Corrections 161 9 The History and Structure of Confinement 162 10 Life in Prison 180 11 Community Corrections, Probation, and Parole 198 Part V Juvenile Justice: A Special Case 219 12 Juvenile Justice Systems 220 Appendix Answers to the Questions 238
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Tattoos Philosophy for Everyone
Book SynopsisCovering philosophical issues ranging from tattooed religious symbols to a feminist aesthetics of tattoo, Tattoos and Philosophy offers an enthusiastic analysis of inking that will lead readers to consider the nature of the tattooing arts in a new and profound way. Contains chapters written by philosophers (most all with tattoos themselves), tattoo artists, and tattoo enthusiasts that touch upon many areas in Western and Eastern philosophy Enlightens people to the nature of tattoos and the tattooing arts, leading readers to think deeply about tattoos in new ways Offers thoughtful and humorous insights that make philosophical ideas accessible to the non-philosopher Trade ReviewReview from The Scotman 8 June 2012Table of ContentsI Ink, Therefore I Foreword x Rocky Rakovic I Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos – Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am xiv Robert Arp Acknowledgments xxvii SHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS 1 1 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overview and Some Preliminary Observations 3 Charles Taliaferro and Mark Odden 2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests 14 Juniper Ellis SHEET II TATTOOS AND ART 27 3 Are Tattoos Art? 29 Nicolas Michaud 4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist and Hermeneutical Perspectives 38 Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Tanya Rodriguez SHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN 51 5 Female Tattoos and Graffiti 53 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist Liberation 65 Nancy Kang SHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY 81 7 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink 83 Kyle Fruh and Emily Thomas 8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self 96 Rachel C. Falkenstern 9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't 109 Clancy Smith SHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM 121 10 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the (Im)possibility of Change 123 Felipe Carvalho 11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our Embodied Freedom 135 Jonathan Heaps SHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS 149 12 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing and a Telling of Stories 151 Wendy Lynne Lee 13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and ‘The Illustrated Man' 165 Kevin S. Decker SHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS 179 14 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo 181 Jennifer Baker 15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics 193 Daniel Miori 16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo 206 Simon Woods SHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 219 17 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety? 221 Adam Barkman 18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher 230 Joseph J. Lynch 19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God's Existence 242 Robert Arp Notes on Contributors 261
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Advertising and Society
Book SynopsisNow revised and updated to reflect the impact of emerging technologies, this new edition of Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences examines the evolution of advertising and its influence on society. Expanded with five new chapters covering the impact of emerging technologies, including the evolution of Direct to Consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising; product placement in various media; and the growing intrusiveness of Internet marketing Explores a broad range of topics including alcohol, tobacco, and sex in advertising; the pros and cons of negative political adverts; advergrames; and the use of stereotypes Examines the impact of advertising through its distinctive point/counterpoint' format designed to spark discussion and help students understand the complexities of the issues being presented Lends substantial clarity to the subject, uniquely balancing criticism and practice within one text IncludesTrade Review"I highly recommend the excellent and engaging book Advertising and Society: An Introduction, 2nd Edition edited by Carol J. Pardun, Ph.D., to any academics and undergraduate students in business, advertising, marketing, media, communications, journalism, the social sciences or any other related field where the impact of advertising is felt in society. This book is a challenging guide for reconsidering the student's own viewpoints about advertising, and enhancing their ability to think critically about the issues surrounding this controversial topic." (Blog Business World, 24 September 2013) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction: Why Does Everyone Have an Opinion about Advertising? 1 Carol J. Pardun Part I Enduring Issues 7 2 The Economic Impact of Advertising 9 ARGUMENT C. Ann Hollifield 12 Advertising lowers prices for consumers 12 COUNTERARGUMENT Penny Abernethy 17 Advertising makes products more expensive 17 3 Advertising to Children 24 ARGUMENT J. Walker Smith 28 Children are smarter than we think. Let’s respect them as the consumers they are! 28 COUNTERARGUMENT Dan Panici 34 Children need more protection from advertising! 34 4 Political Advertising 43 ARGUMENT Anne Johnston 45 What’s so positive about negative advertising? 45 COUNTERARGUMENT Albert R. Tims 52 Why negative political advertising is bad advertising 52 5 Tobacco Advertising 61 ARGUMENT R. Michael Hoefges 64 The strong First Amendment right to promote lawful products COUNTERARGUMENT Timothy Dewhirst 74 Rationales for the regulation of tobacco advertising and promotion 74 6 Alcohol Advertising 84 ARGUMENT Jon P. Nelson 87 Not so fast! Evidence-informed alcohol policy requires a balanced review of advertising studies 87 COUNTERARGUMENT Esther Thorson 96 Abandonment of alcohol advertising regulation carries a high social cost 96 7 Sex in Advertising 106 ARGUMENT Tom Reichert 108 Sex in advertising: No crime here! 108 COUNTERARGUMENT Kathy Roberts Forde 113 Using sex in advertising is never a good idea 113 8 Stereotypes in Advertising 121 ARGUMENT Jane Marcellus 124 What’s the harm in advertising stereotypes? 124 COUNTERARGUMENT Margaret Morrison 130 Stereotypes are a necessary and appropriate strategy for advertising 130 Part II Emerging Issues 135 9 Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising 137 ARGUMENT Beth E. Barnes 139 Doctor knows best: Why DTC advertising of prescription medications is bad for patients 139 COUNTERARGUMENT 1 Michael L. Capella and Charles R. Taylor 146 Pharmaceutical DTC advertising provides valuable information to health-care consumers 146 COUNTERARGUMENT 2 Debbie Treise and Wan Seop Jung 154 Feel empowered! Enhanced health knowledge! 154 10 Hyper-Niche Markets and Advertising 161 ARGUMENT Joe Bob Hester 164 Hyper-targeted and social: Why Facebook advertising may be advertising at its best 164 COUNTERARGUMENT Tom Weir 169 Today is the new 1984: Big Brother is not only watching you – he is selling to you 169 11 Advertising and Product Placement in Entertainment Media 175 ARGUMENT Geah Pressgrove 179 Product placement is simply good advertising strategy 179 COUNTERARGUMENT Kathy Brittain Richardson 186 Placing products in entertainment media does not enhance the media experience 186 12 Advertising in Previously Hands-Off Journalistic Environments 191 ARGUMENT Beth E. Barnes 193 This is news? Maybe not, but that’s okay! 193 COUNTERARGUMENT Charles Bierbauer 200 Advertising in strong journalistic environments is never a good idea 200 13 Advergames 208 ARGUMENT Adrienne Holz Ivory and James D. Ivory 210 Food and beverage advergames are playing with children’s health 210 COUNTERARGUMENT Kevin Wise and Saleem Alhabash 218 Evidence of advergame effectiveness 218 14 Advertising and Sporting Events 229 ARGUMENT Erin Whiteside 232 Advertising unhealthy products during sporting events makes sense as an advertising strategy 232 COUNTERARGUMENT Marie Hardin 239 Sporting events and advertising products are contrary to athletes’ lifestyles: The consequences of mixed messages 239 15 Advertising to Captive Audiences 246 ARGUMENT Angeline G. Close 248 Why advertising is acceptable (almost) everywhere 248 COUNTERARGUMENT Charles Pearce 259 Who wants to be held captive by advertisers? Not me! 259 16 Advertising and Social Responsibility 265 ARGUMENT Debra Merskin 267 Companies are wise – and ethical – to use “social responsibility” as a creative strategy 267 COUNTERARGUMENT Peggy Kreshel 275 Cause-related marketing as a business strategy is ethically flawed 275 Index 295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality
Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author s believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life.Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Body Parts Who Has What and How It Works 1 #1 Bigger Penises Are Better 1 #2 Vaginas Are Dirty, Ugly, and Smell Bad 6 #3 Male Circumcision Is Dangerous and Completely Unnecessary 14 #4 The G-spot Is the Most Orgasmic Part of a Woman’s Body 22 #5 Testosterone Is the Main Predictor of Sex Drive in Men, and You Can Always Add More 26 #6 Everyone Is Born Either Male or Female 31 2 Orientation and Identity Who We Are and Who We Want 41 #7 You Can Tell If Someone Is Gay Just by Looking at Him/Her 41 #8 No One Is Really Bisexual 44 #9 Most Transgender Individuals Get Surgery 49 #10 Homosexuality Can Be Cured 55 #11 Same-Sex Relationships Are Inherently Different from Those Between One Man and One Woman 64 #12 Children of Same-Sex Parents Have Psychological Issues and Usually End Up Gay 69 #13 Most Child Molesters Are Gay Men 77 3 Sexual Stats Who Has Sex? How Often? How Hot? 83 #14 Single People Have the Best Sex Life Since They’re Not Tied Down 83 #15 Married Sex Is Boring, and Boring Sex Is Bad 87 #16 Grandma Doesn’t Have Sex (and I Doubt that Mom Does Either) 91 #17 Young People Are Sexually Wild, Promiscuous, and Irresponsible 97 #18 Anal Sex is Not Normal 102 4 Performance Lights, Camera, Orgasm 110 #19 The First Time You Have Sex Is One of the Best and Most Meaningful Events of Your Life 110 #20 Good Sex Always Ends With Simultaneous Orgasms 117 #21 No Partner of Mine Has Ever Faked an Orgasm 123 #22 Women Want to Be Dominated in Bed, Rough Sex Is the Most Fun 126 #23 Only People Who Aren’t Getting Any Masturbate 129 #24 Not Horny? Horny Goat Weed Can Help 132 5 Conception and Contraception Illusions and Delusions 137 #25 She’s Not Going to Get Pregnant if We Just Do It This Once 137 #26 The Pill and Other Birth Control Methods are Actually Dangerous to a Woman’s Health 141 #27 Withdrawal Is Just as Good as Any Other Contraceptive Method 151 #28 Condoms Don’t Work Very Well, Plus They Take All the Fun Out of Sex Anyway 156 #29 Abortion Causes Breast Cancer and a Host of Mental Health Issues 162 6 STIs and Protection The Risks of Romance 167 #30 There’s a Cure for HIV and AIDS 167 #31 STIs Are No Big Deal as Long as You Take Your Medicine 174 #32 HPV Vaccines (and Other Prevention Methods) Turn Girls into Sluts 183 7 Relationships Dating and Desire 190 #33 Hooking Up Never Leads to a Relationship 190 #34 If You Feel Attracted to Someone Else, There Must Be Something Wrong With Your Relationship 194 #35 Most Female Fantasies Revolve Around a Love Story 196 #36 Men Cheat, Women Rarely Do 203 #37 Most Couples have Matched Sexual Appetites 211 8 When Sex is Unhealthy Sex and Trouble 216 #38 Jealousy Is Romantic 216 #39 Alcohol Makes Sex Better 220 #40 Alcohol and Sex Are a Harmless Combination 225 #41 For Girls, Sometimes Sex Just Hurts 229 #42 Men Under 40 Rarely Have Trouble With Erections 234 #43 People Can Get Addicted to Sex, Just Like They’re Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs 241 #44 She Was Asking For It, and Other Common Myths About Sexual Assault 248 #45 Pornography Is Dangerous 253 9 The Not-So-Private Side of Sex Sex, Society, and the Law 262 #46 Sex Education Makes Kids More Sexually Active 262 #47 Men Who Have a Lot of Sex Are Studs, Women Are Sluts 270 #48 Sexting is a Dangerous Epidemic Among Teens 276 #49 If Sex Is Consensual, It Can Never Be Illegal 283 #50 The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over 292 Index 301
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Promoting WellBeing Linking Personal
Book SynopsisThe only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health, Promoting Well-Being provides you with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART I: APPING WELL-BEING. 1. Webs of Wellness: The Sites of Well-Being. 2. Webs of Growth: the SPEC of Well-Being. 3. Webs of Values: The Morals of Well-Being. 4. Webs of Strategies: The Practice of Well-Being. PART II: PERSONAL WELL-BEING. 5. What is It? Signs of Personal Well_being. 6. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Personal Well-Being. 7. How to Promote It? Strategies for Personal Well-Being. PART III: ORGIATIONAL WELL-BEING. 8. What Is It? Signs of Organizational Well-Being. 9. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Organizational Well-Being. 10. How to Promote It? Strategies for Organizational Well-Being. 11. What Is It? Signs of Community Well-Being. 12. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Community Well-Being. 13. How to Promote It? Strategies for Community Well-Being. PART V: CHALLENGS AND CONCLUSIONS. 14. Disability. 15. Injustice. 16. Arrogance, Complacency, and Blinders. 17. Conclusions. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Managing Motherhood Managing Risk
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Cops Teachers Counselors Stories from the Front
Book SynopsisThe 2003 edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors has become one of the more visible books in this field of research. It was based on NSF-supported field research in two US states and five different agencies. This new edition wraps an expanded theoretical framing around the original chapters.Table of Contents List of Stories Foreword Acknowledgments for the First Edition Acknowledgments for the New Edition Part 1. Two Narratives of Street-Level Work 1. Dealing with Faces 2. State Agents, Citizen Agents 3. Story Worlds, Narratives, and Research 4. Physical and Emotional Spaces Part II. Enacting Identities in the Workplace and on the Streets 5. Workers Unite: Occupational Identities and Peer Relations 6. Organizational and Social Divisions among Street-Level Workers 7. Putting a Fix on People: Identity, Conduct, and Street-Level Work Part III. Normative Decision Making: Moralities over Legalities 8. Who Are the Worthy? 9. Responding to the Worthy 10. Street-Level Worker Knows Best 11. Getting the Bad Guys 12. Streetwise Workers and the Power of Storytelling Part IV. Reframing Frontline Inquiry 13. Encounters, Agency, and Pragmatism 14. Three Narratives: Citizen-Agent, State-Agent, Knowledge Agent Afterword Appendix A. Methodology Appendix B. Entry Interview Appendix C. Questionnaire and Exit Interview Appendix D. Story Cover Page Appendix E. Story Codes Notes References Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Rules Games and CommonPool Resources
Book SynopsisWhile the tragedy of the commons is real, there are many instances where institutions develop to protect against overexploitation. In this important work, the authors explore empirically, theoretically, and experimentally the nature of such institutions and the way they come about.
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The University of Michigan Press The Currency of Truth
Book SynopsisDrawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with journalists, editors, and executives at a newspaper in Guangzhou, The Currency of Truth brings its readers into the lives of the people who write, publish, and profit from news in this milieu.Trade Review"Emily H. C. Chua's book provides a rare ethnographic insight into the work of Chinese journalists at a Beijing and Guangzhou-based weekly newspaper. . .All in all, although focused on China, the book's ethnographic insights and theoretical framing of news as currency would be of interest to researchers from around the world." —European Journal of Communication "The book has four significant contributions to the journalism literature. First, it offers insights into the Chinese media system, which is understudied. Second, it explores an exciting conceptualization of the news as a currency. Third, it joins other scholars (Almiron, 2010; Anderson, 2013; Boyer, 2013; Henry, 2007; Carlson, 2017) in exploring the transformation of newsmaking influenced by technological advancement and expanding it to China. Fourth, the book offers an interesting insight into what the institution of news can be in a post-socialist society." —JournalismTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Contested Medium Chapter 3: From Propaganda to Publicness Chapter 4: An Ethic of Efficacy Chapter 5: News as Currency Chapter 6: The Newsmakers’ Jianghu Epilogue Bibliography
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The University of Michigan Press The Rebels Dilemma
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, theorists have elaborated different solutions to the collection action problem. During the same period, students of conflict have explored questions about protest and rebellion. This book examines what happens when one brings the full richness of collective action theories to bear on the many complex problems of collective dissent.Trade Review. . . a significant contribution to the understanding of collective behavior, protest, and rebellion." —Choice"The book is interesting and thought-provoking, and its insights extend beyond the narrow subject of rebellion to help illuminate many issues related to organizing groups to undertake collective action." —Public Choice"[Lichbach's] book is monumental and pivotal. . . . [It] consolidates over three decades of research on collective action problems and sets the agenda for future studies of collective dissent and rebellion. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution." —American Political Science Review"For scholars interested in game-theoretic analyses of politics . . . essential reading." —Manus I. Midlarsky, Journal of Politics"Lichbach has to be praised for providing valuable insight on the logic of collective dissent. . . ." —Political Studies
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The University of Michigan Press Explaining Social Institutions
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