Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisIn The Antiquity of Nations, Anthony Smith provides a fresh interpretation of the character of modern nations. Departing from conventional wisdom, he argues the case for a deeper understanding of their character, based on an ethno--symbolic analysis of the myths, memories, symbols and traditions of pre--modern ethnic communities.Trade Review“Smith views nationalism from the vantage point of a profound knowledge of early history...Smith's articles are always informed, scholarly and worthwhile.” Ethnic and Racial Studies “Brings together seven essays by Anthony D. Smith hitherto spread among different journals and an edited book. To these are added two new essays and an excellent introduction ... The essays have been carefully selected and written to produce a coherent, unified and cumulative exploration of the importance of the pre-modern past for the character of modern nations.” British Journal of Sociology “Whether you agree with him or not, Anthony D. Smith’s interpretation of nationalism is a position that no serious student of the subject can ignore. It is a powerful case for the historical continuity of much of the national sentiment that permeates the modern era. The book attacks the "myth of the modern nation" and explores a range of critical issues, such as the impact of war on ethnicity and the importance of Romanticism in shaping many aspects of nationalism. This is a definitive and elegant demonstration of the ethno-symbolist perspective on one of the critical forces shaping the contemporary world.” John Stone, Boston University “Nationalism has its theoretician: Anthony D. Smith. In this erudite work, he continues to advance our understanding of nationalism by rightly recognizing that its theoretical battleground is the history of nations. Here, the battle is decisively engaged and won.” Steven Grosby, Clemson University, South Carolina “Lucid systematic and scholarly; further confirmation of the centrality of the author in the analysis of nations and nationalism.” David McCrone, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Paradigms of Nationalism. PART I. THEORY. 1. The Myth of the ‘Modern Nation’. 2. Memory and Modernity. 3. The Nation: Invented, Imagined Reconstructed?. 4. Nationalism and Classical Social Theory. PART II. HISTORY. 5. Were There ‘Nations’ in Antiquity?. 6. War and Ethnicity. 7. The Origins of Nations. 8. The ‘Golden Age’ and National Renewal. 9. Romanticism and Nationalism. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by an author of international stature, very well-known in the worlds of sociology and politics and in left-of-centre politics.Trade Review"Göran Therborn's The World: A Beginner's Guide, a survey of the present state, problems and outlook of the globe by a Swedish master sociologist, is one of the rare books that lives up to its title. It is lucid, intelligent about the future and admirably researched." Guardian, books of the year 2011 "Therborn's work represents what great comparative/historical sociology is all about. Essential." Choice "[Therborn] compresses a vast and fascinating range of historical and current world data into a detailed but intelligible account of the changes in planetary human society." Morning Star "At a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, probably Sweden's most distinguished social scientist, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. For those who have read any of his earlier works, the appearance of a new book is inevitably a major intellectual event." Eric Hobsbawm "Göran Therborn has written another of his incredible empirical surveys, this time of the whole world today, in its historical context. He calls it a beginner's guide. Every reader will emerge better equipped to understand the realities of our world, and hopefully to act intelligently in the light of these realities." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University "We are in an unprecedented world, spanned by a joined-up economy and a global moral community. Professor Therborn - a practical, craftsmanlike sociologist, who works on a human scale - is an ideal guide to our unfamiliar present and future, who, without condescension, makes sense of complexity and turns bafflement into clarity." Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsPrologue. Introduction: Humankind and Its World. I. Why We Are Who We Are: A Socio-Cultural Geology of Today´s World. The Rock of Civilizations. The Sinic. The Indic. The West Asia. The European. The sub-Saharan African. The Family-Sex-Gender Systems. Sediments of Six Waves of Globalization. Modernity and Its Pathways. A Humanity of Multi-Layered Cultural Agglomerations. II. World Dynamics: The Drivers of Humankind. Modes of Livelihood: The Down and Up of Capitalism, and the Rest. Population Ecology and the Ending of Modern Ecological Emancipation. The Ethnic and Religious Dynamic of Recognition and Respect. Politics of Collective Power: State Apotheosis. Culture: Modernism Globalized, Accelerated, and Chastened. Channels of Operation. Global Processes. 1. Flows. Trade. Capital. People. Information. Matter. 2.Global-national entanglements. 3. Global Action. 3. Global Action. National Processes. Performance. Population movements (demography). Distributions: Global, National, Sub-National. The Growth and Resilience of Nation- States. III. The Current World Stage. Scenography: the World Space. The big players. 1. The Uneven Field of Nation-States. 2. Corporations. 3. Missions and Movements. IV. Our Time on Earth: Courses of Life. Birth and Survival. Childhood. Schooling. Labour. Youth: Sex and Culture. A Sexual Geography of the Young World. Marriage and the end of youth. Adulthood. Where to Live: The Urbanization of the World. Making A Living: Classes of Work. Class Formations of 21st Century Capitalism. Making A Living: The Rich and the Poor. Adult Enjoyment : Leisure and Consumption. The Ruling & the Non-Ruling Generation. Old age. Retirement and Pension. Living Arrangements. An Ideal 21st Century Life-Course. Death and After. Conclusion : How We Got Here, and Where Are We Going? How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going? Notes. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review''The highly abstract concept of social movement, its main dimensions and the various forms it takes in the real world come alive in this excellent introduction to social movement studies. Hank Johnston presents a concise, easy to read, up-to-date and thorough overview over this particularly flourishing field of the social sciences.'' Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute ''The momentous events of 2011 in the Arab world have started a wave of global protest that is not likely to recede soon. Hank Johnston�s timely new book provides us with the tools to make sense of recent developments, and connect them to earlier phases of contention. Mapping both theoretical and research approaches, drawing from an impressive array of contentious episodes across time and space, and profiting from Johnston�s deep grasp of cultural processes and �social movement performances,� What is a Social Movement? will be essential reading for specialists and lay readers alike.'' Mario Diani, University of Trento and ICREA-UPF Barcelona ''Few scholars have gone as far as Hank Johnston in bridging various strands of the social movement literature. This book combines insights from structural, organizational, and cultural theories to give a fresh look at social movement analysis.'' Marco Giugni, University of Geneva ''This is a comprehensive, engaging, and beautifully written introduction to the study of social movements. It is one of the best undergraduate texts in the field, but it would also be an invaluable source for graduate students and scholars looking for a concise review of the major theoretical perspectives and debates in the field.'' Verta Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara "Johnston provides a nuanced understanding of contemporary society through the study of social movements, looking at them in theory and practice from a broad perspective." Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1 What is a Social Movement? 1 2 The Study of Social Movements 26 3 What is a Political Movement? 49 4 What is a Cultural Movement? 72 5 What Do Social Movements Do? 94 6 Researching Social Movements 118 7 Where are Social Movements Headed? 139 References 161 Index 180

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Book Synopsis* The latest work of Arthur Kroker, internationally renowned theorist, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria.Trade Review"Kroker’s long-awaited Exits to the Posthuman Future presents us with a much more complex, and definitely more profound, analysis of the emerging posthuman condition. Motivated neither by a nostalgic yearning for what has been left behind nor by an unbridled optimism for what the fully realized technological society will bring, Kroker seeks to draw closer attention to the essentially elusive character of a future shaped by technologies that thrive on the liminal, the uncertain, and the indeterminate."Cultural Politics"With remarkable range and acuity, Arthur Kroker defines the posthuman condition of the twenty-first century as 'drift culture,' exploring its ramifications through genetics, data archives, and a variety of other cultural and technological sites. This is an exciting and crucially important synthesis of recent trends that anyone interested in where we are going should read." N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University "This book, on the thorny, arid issue of the posthuman, turns out to be Arthur Kroker’s most humane, personal, and deeply felt work. It is so vast, dark, mythic and oracular that every haunted page should be read aloud by the ghosts of Nietzsche and McLuhan." Bruce Sterling, The Well "Arthur Kroker is a founding figure of posthuman futural studies. He is philosopher of the vectors of speed, theorist of the live data feed, and thinker of our need to ‘drift’ beyond today’s codes, archives, and screens as post-historical mediators of a self-induced techno- catastrophe. A contemporary tour de force, Kroker’s Exits to the Posthuman Future helps transform our understanding of technopolitics and war, consciousness, and power as theoretical categories and futural practices of disappearance." John Armitage, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1 Accelerate 29 2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma, and History in the Data Feed 31 Drift 47 3 Code Drift 49 4 History Drift 60 5 Archive Drift 80 6 Screen Drift 90 7 Media Drift 97 Crash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse 109 8 After the Drones 111 9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the “Just War” 122 Crash: Traversal Consciousness 153 10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected Itself 155 11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173 12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195 Notes 199 Index 207

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Book SynopsisAn economist demonstrates how LGBT equality and inclusion within organizations increases their bottom line and allows for countries’ economies to flourishWe know that homophobia harms LGBT individuals in many ways, but economist M. V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons for equality, we can now also make a financial argument. Finding that homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country’s GDP, Badgett expertly uses recent research and statistics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments affect both the US and global economies.LGBT equality remains a persistent and pertinent issue. The continued passing of discriminatory laws, people being fired from jobs for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, harassment and bullying in school, violence and hate crimes on the streets, exclusion from intolerant families, and health effects of stigma all make it incredibly difficult to live a good life.

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Book SynopsisAn accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners—a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to steadily rise. Over the past 40 years, the number of people behind bars in the United States has increased by 500%.Journalist Victoria Law explains how racism and social control were the catalysts for mass incarceration and have continued to be its driving force: from the post-Civil War laws that states passed to imprison former slaves, to the laws passed under the “War Against Drugs” campaign that disproportionately imprison Black people. She breaks down these complicated issues into four main parts:    1. The rise and cause

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Book SynopsisA fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminismThe folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths.Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and

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Book SynopsisChallenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the worldWhat exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black?Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness?Who determines who is Black and who is not?Who?s Black, who?s not, and who cares?In the United States, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as ?the rule of hypodescent,? this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the ?one-drop rule,? meaning that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law in almost all southern states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. Has the social and political landscape changed one hundred years later?One Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They have all had their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical ?Black box??dark skin, ?kinky? hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked ?What are you?? or the more politically correct ?Where are you from?? throughout their lives. It is through contributors? lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness.

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Book SynopsisThe story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.

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Book SynopsisThis text features a study of the history of globality, the emergence of a complex organization of politics, economics, and culture at a planetary level. Using historical research and science studies, it tells the story of the role of technoscientific discourses in the emergence of globality.

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Book SynopsisEmerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family.Trade ReviewGrunberg and Moore—professors of comparative sociology and psychology, respectively—[present an] . . . insightful . . . book based on their two decades of research into Boeing's corporate culture. They emphasize changes that have occurred since 1997, when Boeing merged with another aerospace giant, McDonnell Douglas, and shifted from focusing on being a 'great engineering firm' to minimizing risk, pleasing shareholders, and achieving profits. The 'Boeing family' was no more; employees were told by the new president to 'quit behaving like a family and become more like a team. If you don't perform, you don't stay on the team.' The authors set out to chronicle this sweeping shift in one company's social contract using personal narratives from past and current employees, categorizing them by the timing and duration of their employ. Sub-categories include 'No Longer Family,' 'I Work to Live,' and 'Not What I Expected.' The workers'-eye-view is valuable. * Publishers Weekly *Boeing executives eager to inspire an engaged workforce might want to set aside their management books to study closely this account of what their employees think and feel. * The Seattle Times *Boeing's changes, sparked by a merger with rival McDonnell Douglas, included the relocation of work to cheaper places, the outsourcing of key components and aggressive cost cuts. These details, and conclusions drawn from them, form the basis of Emerging from Turbulence. . . .[Grunberg's] study . . . goes far beyond Boeing. It provides a view over two decades of the unwinding of the postwar social contract – where workers felt they could rely on decent pay and benefits in exchange for hard work. * Financial Times *Emerging from Turbulence offers compelling documentation of the unfolding effects of contemporary workplace transformations. In the tradition of Studs Terkel’s Working, the stories captured here resonate well beyond the iconic Boeing Company. This timely contribution will prompt serious reflection about what to expect of the workplace of the future. -- Linda Smircich, Isenberg School of Management, University of MassachusettsAn elegant, carefully crafted book, Emerging from Turbulence portrays the depth and scope of self-worth that people draw from the social relations and respect that they find at work. However, by comparing workers with different lengths of service, Grunberg and Moore document notably different changes in orientations toward work and the self when a ‘family’ company eliminates its community fabric and becomes a honed instrument of capitalism contributing to the increasingly stratified distribution of wealth in America. The book offers a comprehensive sense of how employees facing such change turn inward in seeking senses of personal value. -- Paul M. Roman, Regents' Professor of Sociology, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, University of GeorgiaEmerging from Turbulence provides a voice for employees of Boeing following its merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. This book represents an example of what many employees across the country have gone through with such transitions to more lean production and how that transformation is experienced from the eyes and words of the employees. Grunberg and Moore are brave in depicting the psychological downfalls of transitioning from an employee-oriented company to a profit-focused company, but, more than anything, the book chronicles the impact of mergers and outsourcing on declines in employee commitment and loyalty, and represents how many US workplaces have moved towards more instrumental relationships with their workers. -- Leslie B. Hammer, Portland State UniversityTable of Contents1. Boeing’s Transformation and America’s New Social Contract Part I: Retired from Boeing 2. Heritage Boeing 3. No Longer Family Part II: Still Employed at Boeing 4. Still Family 5. I Work to Live 6. Permanently Scarred 7. Attached to Work, Detached from Company Part III: Newly Hired at Boeing 8. A Bright Future 9. A Second Career 10. Not What I Expected 11. Accepting the New Reality Part IV: Conclusion 12. Implications of the New Social Contract Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work.

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Book SynopsisThursby cites rituals for loved ones separated at the time of death, the frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites and ongoing commemorations, and many other facets of the American way of dealing with death.

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Book SynopsisJoe Nickell's latest book, Real or Fake, offers a general introduction to the principles of authentication. Nickell's extensive knowledge of the field is accessible to everyone -- from the general reader to the aspiring scientist -- who wants a better understanding of how the experts determine if a suspicious heirloom is real or fake.

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Book SynopsisShe emphasizes socioeconomic status, female black leadership, media influence, black conservatism, and generational conflict. Their personal accounts reflect the diverse viewpoints of the black community and offer a new understanding of the history of African American leadership, its current status, and its uncertain future.

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Book SynopsisIn Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts past and present.

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Book SynopsisThis book will be useful to those in the West and in the Middle East with an interest in the contemporary state of the higher educational system in the region and in education in general. It concentrates on the Gulf, but the problems of control, development, curriculum and purpose in higher education are found throughout the Middle East.Trade Review Table of ContentsContents: Gulf higher education - overview from the West and some themes for research, K.E. Shaw; internal evaluation in higher education - towards a model for Third World countries, Nathir G. Sara; quantifiable and unquantifiable costs and benefits of higher education in an Arab Gulf context, Kamil Mahdi; strategic studies in the Gulf, A. Rathmell; the dialogue of ink, blood and water - higher education in Iraq, progress and problems, A.J. Allaq; higher education in Oman - its development and prospects, M. al-Shibiny; higher education in the UAE - history and prospects, Khalifa al-Suwaidi; prospects of higher education in the UAE - the higher colleges of technology, S. al-Jassim; Sudanese influences on Gulf higher education, H.O. Ahmed; Omanisation and faculty development in Oman, F.N. al-Farsi; faculty and administration in Oman, Khalifa al-Saadi; curriculum and teacher training in the UAE, H.A. al-Banna.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the urbanization of one area from its origins more than two thousand years ago. This book examines Oaxaca, Mexico, paying particular attention to neighborhoods, families and economic activities, and focuses on issues of poverty and inequality.Trade Review"Anthropologists Murphy and Stepick trace urbanization in the capital city of the state of Oaxaca for more than 2,000 years. Their study represents a micro perspective that describes the colonias populares, the poor neighborhoods, and the struggles of Oaxacans to survive and improve life in marginal communities... The book is well organized, with excellent annotated footnotes and a reading list." --Choice "Murphy and Stepick catch Oaxaca at a special time in its history. When the illustrious works of theory in the academic disciplines have faded, when Foucault is a footnote and deconstruction derided, books like this one will still be valuable. A portrait of a city during the most difficult period of its country's recent economic history." --Henry A. Selby (from the Foreword)Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables Foreword Henry A. Selby Acknowledgments Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. A Social History of Oaxaca 3. People and Places: Oaxaca's Social Geography 4. Contemporary Economics 5. Community-Level Adaptation 6. Family and Household: Oaxaca's Social Firmament 7. Four Households 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading References Index

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Book SynopsisDeals with the relationships between society and nature. This book attempts to reconstruct social theory in a way that enables it to speak to contemporary environmental issues. Redefining the work of Anthony Giddens in an ecological direction, it analyzes developments in biological thinking that seem consistent with this approach.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Science, Social Science, Politics and the Environment: Some Unhelpful Dichotomies Biological Theory and the Environment * Social Theory and the Environment * Conclusion: Towards an Eclectic but Unified Approach * Notes 2. People, Nature and Social Theory People and Nature in Early Sociological Theory: Evolutionism as a False Lead * Tonnies: From Land and Community to Society * Modernity, Community and Human Nature: The Chicago School of Sociology * From Biologism to Functionalism * People and Environment: The Arguments of Later Marxism * Conclusion: Society, Nature and Social Theory * Notes 3. 'Nature as Man's Inorganic Body': Marx's Conceptual Framework Nature, Alienation and People: The Early Marxian Perspective * Marxism and the Environment: Continuing Developments and Debates * Marx and Engels on People and Nature: An Assessment and Comparison with Existing Environmental Analysis * Developing Marx's Approach * Notes 4. Arguments within Biology: From Neo-Darwinism to the Study of Organisms and Their Environments A Methodological Issue * The Neo-Darwinian Revolution * Socioecology: Organisms in Ecological Context * Organism and Environment: The Emergent 'New Biology' * Notes 5. 'Nature as Alive': Social Relations and Deep Mental Structures The Evolution of Mind * Biology and the Problematic Notion of 'Culture' * The Mind: Eroding the Culture-Nature Distinction * An Understanding of the Biologically Evolved Mind * Social Relations and Nature as 'Alive' * Alienation and Fetishisation: Returning to the Yanomami Case Study * 'Women as Nature': Consciousness, Natural Differences and Environmentalism * Notes 6. Spreading 'Man's Inorganic Body': Some Implications Space, Time and Modernity: Aspects of Giddens' Account * Society and Nature: Developing and Using Giddens' Analysis * Nature and the Time-Space Distanciation of Social Life * Time-Space Distanciation Combining with Alienation: The Instance of Food and Health * Time-Space Distanciation, Consumption and the Reification of 'Nature' * Notes 7. Nature Reified: A Contemporary Case Study Notes 8. Society and Nature: From Theory to Practice Realism: Some Areas of Debate * From Theory to Practice * Notes Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisAt the time of its publication in 1908, Pomo Indian Basketry was the most complete and detailed study of a single Native American basketry tradition. The work, prepared as Samuel Barrett''s doctoral dissertation, earned the author the first Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Berkeley. Among its contents are sections devoted to materials, techniques, forms, and designs. This edition is supplemented with two early articles, Basket Designs of the Pomo Indians by Barrett (1905) and California Basketry and the Pomo by his teacher Alfred Kroeber (1909). Sherrie Smith-Ferri''s introduction reviews Barrett''s early life and research and identifies the human sources of Barrett''s collections and information--a community of talented Pomoan basket weavers.Sherrie Smith-Ferri (Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega Miwok) is a curator at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah, California.

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Book SynopsisDeviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundariesis designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The bookdraws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students are introduced to the sociology of deviance and learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime. Students also learn to examine several categories of lifestyle and status deviance and develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies. Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, histori

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Book SynopsisAn essential, and impossible-to-ignore, examination of one of the most pressing, harmful, and heartbreaking problems facing our country: the widespread poverty among American children.By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government unmotivated to help the most voiceless citizens. Backed by new and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to society is incalculable. The inaction of politi

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Book SynopsisThis book consists of nine essays that model the economy considerably differently to mainstream economics. Contributes to the development of a model of a socially embedded economy, taking an alternative approach to mainstream economics Builds on a non-mainstream definition of economics as being concerned with social provisioning: a process in which all economic activities are social activities, informed by social norms, institutions, and ideologies Integrates different theories of economic modelling, including the social surplus approach, social fabric matrix, social accounting matrix, social structures of accumulation, stock-flow consistent modelling, and structure-agency Reviews the introduction of state money (and hence the financial sector) into an input-output model a somewhat new innovation in modelling the economy Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction—Frederic S. Lee 1. Social Provisioning Process and Socio-Economic Modeling—Tae-Hee Jo 2. A Simple Economic Model of the Surplus Approach to Value and Distribution—Scott Carter 3. Demand, Structural Interdependence and Economic Provisioning—Gary Mongiovi 4. Modeling the Economic Surplus in a SAM Framework—Erik K. Olsen 5. Integrating the Social Structure of Accumulation and Social Accounting Matrix with the Social Fabric Matrix—F. Gregory Hayden 6. Social Structures of Accumulation: A “Punctuated” View of Embeddedness—Terrance McDonough 7. Comparing Pension Systems in the Circular Flow of Income—Andrew B. Trigg and Jonquil T. Lowe 8. Modeling the Economy as a Whole: An Integrative Approach—Frederic S. Lee

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Book SynopsisThis monograph builds upon our cumulative efforts to investigate personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in two disparate cultural worlds. Drawing upon interdisciplinary fields of study that take a discourse-centered approach to socialization, we combined ethnography, longitudinal home observations, and micro-level analysis of everyday talk to study this problem in Taiwanese families in Taipei and European-American families in Longwood, Chicago. Comparative analyses of 192 hours, of video-recorded observations revealed that convserational stories of young children''s past experiences occurred in both sites at remarkably similar rates and continued apace across the age span, yielding nearly 900 narrations. Thse and other similarities coexisted with differences in culturall salient interpretive frameworks and participant roles, forming distinct socializating pathways. The Taipei families enacted a didactic framework, prolifically and elaborately narrating and correcting childrTable of ContentsAbstract I. Introduction II. Studying Personal Storytelling in Taipei and Longwood III. Interpretive Frameworks in Routine Practices IV. Participant Roles V. Children Navigating Stories VI. Discussion References Acknowledgements Contributors Statement of Editorial Policy Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen's relationship with the state. Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual's relationship with the state in a global context Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political bTrade Review"Lazar should be commended for her impressive introduction to the volume, which is in itself a valuable introduction to the anthropology of citizenship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 February 2015) Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Sian Lazar Part I Theoretical Foundations 23 Introduction 25 I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 27 1 The Democratic Citizen 29Pericles 2 The Politics 31Aristotle 3 The Social Contract, 1762 35Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38Hannah Arendt I.2 Liberal Traditions 41 5 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43John Locke 6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 47 7 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 49 8 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52T. H. Marshall The Liberal–Communitarian Debate 61 9 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63Iris Marion Young I.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 73 10 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75Renato Rosaldo 11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79Aihwa Ong 12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93James Holston Part II Ethnographic Explorations 99 II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101 Introduction 103 13 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107Sian Lazar 14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120Véronique Benei 15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139Adriana Petryna Inclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 147 16 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149Hannah Wittman 17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163Vinh-Kim Nguyen II.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177 Introduction 179 18 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181Lok C. D. Siu 19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196Nina Glick Schiller 20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identification in Gaza, 2007 208Ilana Feldman Urban Citizenship 227 21 The Implosion of Modern Public Life, 2000 229Teresa P. R. Caldeira 22 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, 1999 248Dorothy J. Solinger II.3 The Citizen and the Non-citizen 267 Introduction 269 23 The War of ‘Who is Who’: Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis, 2006 271Ruth Marshall-Fratani 24 Practicing German Citizenship, 2008 292Ruth Mandel 25 The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’, 2005 309Nicholas de Genova Index 326

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first of its kind, bringing together adherents of two major schools of thought that have sometimes been in bitter opposition to one another to address critical issues of our time.Table of ContentsTwo Views of Social Justice: A Catholic/Georgist Dialogue — Kenneth R. Lord NATURAL LAW Principal Concepts in Henry George’s Theory of Natural Law: A Brief Commentary on The Science of Political Economy — Francis K. Peddle Natural Law and the Roman Catholic Tradition: The Importance of Philosophical Realism — Anthony J. Lisska HUMAN NATURE Human Nature from a Georgist Perspective — James Dawsey Human Nature from a Catholic Perspective — Joseph Koterski, S.J. NATURE OF WORK Just Reward: The Nature of Work and Its Remuneration in the Economics and Ethics of Henry George—Brendan Hennigan Human Work in Catholic Social Thought — Daniel Finn RERUM NOVARUM Going My Way? Wending a Way Through the Stumbling Blocks Between Georgism and Catholicism — Mason Gaffney A Catholic Response to Henry George’s Critique of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum — J. Brian Benestad CAUSES OF WAR Henry George’s Perspective on War and Peace — Alanna Hartzok Just War: A Catholic Perspective Cui Non Videtur Causa Justa? — Margaret Monahan Hogan IMMIGRATION Henry George and Immigration — John H. Beck A Little Common Sense: The Ethics of Immigration in Catholic Social Teaching — William R. O’Neill, S.J.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook.Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition x 1 Introduction: Why a Book on Girls and Juvenile Justice? 1 2 The Extent of Female Delinquency 9 Recent Trends: National Arrest Data 9 Self-Report Surveys 19 Delinquent Careers 22 Racial Differences 24 Summary 29 Notes 30 References 30 3 The Nature of Female Delinquency 34 Girls and Shoplift ing 34 Status Offenses 37 Runaways 42 Prostitution among Girls 44 International Prostitution 47 Girls and Violence 48 Relabeling Status Off enses 54 Aggression and Gender 55 Girls and Robbery 58 Summary 60 Note 61 References 62 4 Girls and Gangs 72 Trends in Girl Gang Membership 74 Criminal Activities of Girls in Gangs 75 Types of Female Gangs 78 Moving Beyond the Stereotypes: The Social Context of Girl Gangs 80 Class and race 80 Drug use 83 Reasons for joining the gang 85 Relationship with males and male gangs 90 Family-related issues 93 School and work 99 Summary 101 Notes 102 References 102 5 Theories of Crime and Female Delinquency 107 Early Theories of Female Delinquency 108 Sociological Theories of (Male) Delinquency: Do They Apply to Girls? 115 Social disorganization/social ecology theory 115 Strain Th eory 118 Cultural Deviance Theories 122 Cohen’s “culture of the gang” 122 Miller’s “lower-class culture” 123 Differential Association 124 Control Theory 124 Labeling Theory 126 Critical/Marxist Perspectives 128 A Concluding Note 130 Towards a Th eory of Female Delinquency 131 The Women’s Movement and Female Crime 135 Feminist Criminology 138 Summary 139 Notes 141 References 141 6 Girls’ Lives and Girls’ Delinquency 146 Growing Up Female 146 Welcome to “Girlworld”: “Oh, Look at Me I’m So Pretty” 149 Girls, Parents, and Peers 153 Girls, Peers, and Pathways into Delinquency 157 Girls and the Sexual Double Standard 158 Girls’ Victimization and Girls’ Crime 160 Girls’ victimization and female delinquency 162 Contemporary Th inking about Adolescence, Gender, and Crime 165 Sisters are doing it for themselves 167 Street liberation perspectives 167 Contemporary Perspectives of Girls’ Delinquency and Violence 168 Patriarchy and gendered inequalities 169 Beyond victimization: violent girls as “one of the guys” 170 Girls’ code of the streets: considering race, class, and gender 172 Context matters in girls’ delinquency 173 Summary 176 Note 177 References 178 7 Girls and the Juvenile Justice System: A Historical Overview 183 The Doctrine of Parens Patriae: Roots of a Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 184 Ex Parte Crouse: Challenging Parens Patriae 187 People v. Turner: Over-Ruling Crouse 188 The Child-Saving Movement and the Juvenile Court 189 “The Best Place to Conquer Girls” 195 The Juvenile Court and the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 196 Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 200 Unpopular Reform? 201 Recent Trends: Finally a Focus on Girls, the Republican Backlash, and Congressional Gridlock 204 Summary 208 Notes 209 References 210 8 The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part I: Police and Juvenile Court Processing 215 An Overview of the System and Process 215 Th e Rights of Juveniles: A Review of Key Cases 216 Implications of Supreme Court Rulings for Girls 219 Getting into the System 221 Girls on the Streets 222 Girls at the Station House 225 Delinquents in Court 228 Gender and Delinquency Referrals 229 Comparing Girls and Boys in Court 232 Girls, Race, and the New Double Standard of Juvenile Justice 235 Summary 237 Notes 238 References 238 9 The Contemporary Juvenile Justice System and Girls, Part II: Girls in Institutions 243 Youths in Institutions: A National Overview 244 Number of girls in institutions 244 Private facilities: a problematic option for juvenile justice 247 Demographic Characteristics of Youths in Institutions 250 Status off enses and bootstrapping, a continuing problem 250 Girls in detention 251 Girls’ experiences in detention 253 Gender and training schools – girls’ victimization continues 259 Girls, race, and institutionalization 263 Summary 266 Notes 267 References 268 10 In Their Own Words: Voices of Youths at Risk 273 With assistance from Vera Lopez and Julia Foley Introduction 273 Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls 275 Boys’ control strategies 276 Girls’ counterstrategies 278 The “Risky” Lives of Girl Delinquents: Bottcher’s California Study 281 Summary 284 Note 285 References 285 11 Programs for Girls in Trouble 286 Interconnected Troubles 286 Trauma 287 Destructive and distraught families 287 Dangerous neighborhoods and unsafe schools 288 Substance abuse 289 Health issues 290 Academic achievement 290 Specific Types of Counseling and Education 292 The Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (DDAP) 292 Gender differences 294 Gaps in Services for Girls 296 Explaining the lack of services for girls 297 The fit of assessed needs, expressed needs, and program descriptions 299 Someone to talk to 300 Improving relationships with peers 301 Sex, sexuality, pregnancy, parenting, and relationships with intimate partners 301 Empowerment 303 Multiple needs and wraparound services 304 Assessed Needs, Expressed Needs, and Contemporary Program Evaluations 304 The Ideal Program 306 Instead of Incarceration: What Could Be Done to Meet the Needs of Girls? 308 Are Gender-Specific Programs Necessary? 310 Programming as if Girls Mattered: Getting Past Girls Watching Boys Play Sports 311 Lack of validated gender-specific programs: programming and the “forgotten few” 311 Honolulu Girls Court: Overview of a Promising Best Practice 312 Policy Implications and Future Directions 314 Summary 315 Notes 317 References 318 12 Conclusions 324 Index 331

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Book SynopsisBeauty has a well-documented impact on labor market outcomes with both legal and policy implications. This monograph investigated whether this stratification is rooted in earlier developmental experiences. Specifically, we explored how high schools'' dual roles as contexts of social relations and academic progress contributed to the long-term socioeconomic advantages of being physically attractive. Integrating theories from multiple disciplines, the conceptual model of this study contends that physically attractive youths'' greater social integration and lesser social stigma help them accumulate psychosocial resources that support their academic achievement while also selecting them into social activities that distract from good grades. A mixed-methods design, combining statistical analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health and qualitative analyses of a single high school, supported and expanded this model. The data revealed that the benefits of attractivenessTable of ContentsABSTRACT INTRODUCTION TO THE MONOGRAPH: PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES OF EMOTION FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE: STATE OF THE SCIENCE INTRODUCTION TO SECTION ONE: INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PHYSIOLOGY AND EMOTION EEG/ERP MEASURES OF EMOTION–COGNITION INTEGRATION DURING DEVELOPMENT EMOTION–CORTISOL TRANSACTIONS OCCUR OVER MULTIPLE TIME SCALES IN DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERAMENT: A BRAIN–BODY APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING FEARFUL AND FEARLESS CHILDREN INTRODUCTION TO SECTION TWO: SOCIALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION PARENT–INFANT SYNCHRONY: A BIOBEHAVIORAL MODEL OF MUTUAL INFLUENCES IN THE FORMATION OF AFFILIATIVE BONDS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND EMOTION SOCIALIZATION THE IMPORTANCE OF BIOLOGICAL METHODS IN LINKING SOCIAL EXPERIENCE WITH SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION TO SECTION THREE: PHYSIOLOGY AND AFFECTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES OF EMOTION DYSREGULATION: INVESTIGATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS PHYSIOLOGICAL MARKERS OF EMOTION AND BEHAVIOR DYSREGULATION IN EXTERNALIZING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY NEUROENDOCRINE REGULATION AND EMOTIONAL ADAPTATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHILD MALTREATMENT INTRODUCTION TO SECTION FOUR: OVERARCHING ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS: WHAT CAN PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES REVEAL ABOUT EMOTION? MEASURING THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION AND EMOTION REGULATION—TIMING IS EVERYTHING THE HYPOTHALAMIC–PITUITARY–ADRENOCORTICAL SYSTEM AND EMOTION: CURRENT WISDOM AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION PROCESSES ASPECTS OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS: EEG COHERENCY AND fMRI CONNECTIVITY MAPPING REFERENCES CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East.Trade Review"...clear and engaging. Graduate sociocultural anthropology students, advanced undergraduates, and specialists will find this survey book valuable. Parts of this volume are also essential for policymakers since some of discussed anthropological themes are now at the core of contemporary world affairs." - Solaiman M. Fazel, AAA Book ForumTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Preface xviii Part I Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues 1 1 Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion 3Deniz Kandiyoti 2 Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East 15Suad Joseph 3 Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East 40Soraya Altorki 4 Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies 72Steven C. Caton Part II Culture and Everyday Life 89 5 The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East 91Martin Stokes 6 Dreams and the Miraculous 107Amira Mittermaier 7 Refiguring Islam 125Nada Moumtaz 8 In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair 151Shahla Haeri 9 Trajectories of Gendered Labor 172Livia Wick 10 The Politics of Poetry 188J. Andrew Bush Part III Social Relations and Social Movements 205 11 Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa 207Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn 12 From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology 233Nicholas S. Hopkins 13 Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East 249Dawn Chatty 14 Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East 262Ilana Feldman 15 Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas 282Paul A. Silverstein 16a The Invention of the Mizrahim 316Ella Shohat 16b The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement 329Ella Shohat 17 Social Movements and Revolution 338Zeina Zaatari Part IV Law, Politics, and the State 361 18 Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context 363Hussein Ali Agrama 19 The Notion of Arab Culture and the “Colonial Present” 391Mayssoun Sukarieh 20 Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East 411Julia Elyachar 21 “States of Aspiration”: Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East 434Michelle Obeid 22 Rethinking the “Post]Ottoman”: Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective 452Hakem Al]Rustom 23 Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research 480Kamran Asdar Ali Part V Pop Culture and New Media 493 24 Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture 495John Philip Rode Schaefer 25 New Media and Electronic Networks 509Mark Allen Peterson Index 526

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Book SynopsisThe main goal of this Monograph is to understand parents'' beliefs about the role of emotions in the family and how cultural or ethnic background may influence those beliefs. Implications of parental beliefs for emotion socialization theory and future research, as well as limitations, are discussed.Table of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION II. OVERVIEW OF FOCUS GROUP METHODOLOGY III. THE CURRENT STUDY IV. RESULTS V. DISCUSSION APPENDIX REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1 Introduction 1Jeremy A. Greene and Sergio Sismondo Part I Pharmaceutical Lives 17 2 The Pharmaceuticalisation of Society? A Framework for Analysis 19Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe 3 Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct]to]Consumer Advertising 33Joseph Dumit Part II New Drugs, Diseases, and Identities 49 4 Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension 51Jeremy A. Greene 5 Dep®ession and ConsumŠtion: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Practices 70Nathan Greenslit 6 BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 87Anne Pollock 7 Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual Dysfunction 106Jennifer R. Fishman Part III Drugs and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge 121 8 Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors 123Adriane Fugh]Berman and Shahram Ahari 9 Getting to Yes: Corporate Power and the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster 133Kalman Applbaum 10 Pushing Knowledge in the Drug Industry: Ghost]Managed Science 150Sergio Sismondo 11 Transcultural Medicine: A Multi]Sited Ethnography on the Scientific]Industrial Networking of Korean Medicine 165Jongyoung Kim Part IV Political and Moral Economies of Pharmaceutical Research 179 12 Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam 181Gabriela Soto Laveaga 13 “Ready]to]Recruit” or “Ready]to]Consent” Populations? Informed Consent and the Limits of Subject Autonomy 195Jill A. Fisher 14 Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health 208Adriana Petryna 15 The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India 222Kaushik Sunder Rajan Part V Intellectual Property in Local and Global Markets 235 16 Intellectual Property and Public Health: Copying of HIV/AIDS Drugs by Brazilian Public and Private Pharmaceutical Laboratories 237Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa 17 Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis’ Anti]Cancer Drug Glivec 247Stefan Ecks 18 Generic Medicines and the Question of the Similar 261Cori Hayden Index 268

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Harlem as Shorthand: The Persistent Value of the Harlem Renaissance 1Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Part I Foundations 15 1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York City 17Carla L. Peterson 2 Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance 35Andreá N. Williams 3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro 51Jayna Brown 4 The New Negro and the New South 65Erin D. Chapman Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81 5 “All the loving words I never dared to speak”: Angelina Weld Grimké’s Sapphic Modernism 83Maureen Honey 6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson 103Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell 7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown’s Study Guides 119Sonya Posmentier 8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Writing 137Elizabeth M. Sheehan 9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler 155Ivy G. Wilson 10 Nella Larsen’s Spiritual Strivings 171Kathy L. Glass 11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows 187Jennifer Chang 12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance 203Belinda Wheeler 13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago’s Zara Wright 219Rynetta Davis 14 “Betwixt and between”: Zora Neale Hurston In—and Out—of Harlem 231Carla Kaplan Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249 15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification 251André m. Carrington 16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture 267Shane Vogel 17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance 285Soyica Diggs Colbert 18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes 301Lisa Hollenbach 19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance 317Kirsten Pai Buick Part IV Interracialism 337 20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness 339J. Martin Favor 21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left 351Gary Edward Holcomb 22 “Light, bright and damn near white”: Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance 369Michele Elam Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385 23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 387Margo Natalie Crawford 24 The “Lost Years” or a “Decade of Progress”?: African American Writers and the Second World War 403Vaughn Rasberry 25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance 423Nadia Nurhussein 26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas 441Michael Soto 27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance 457Bryan Carter Index 473

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Book Synopsis Provides a collection of original papers offering new insights on how to more accurately measure the contributions of dissident economists.

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Book SynopsisA randomized trial evaluated the efficacy of 17 Early Head Start (EHS) programs. 3,001 low-income families with a pregnant women or an infant under 12 months were assigned to a treatment or control group. Data were collected when children were 1, 2, 3, and 5 years old. Analyses examined (1) impacts at ages 2 and 3 (while services were being offered) and at age 5, and (2) contributions of early education experiences across children''s first 5 years of life. Child outcomes included cognition, language, attention, behavior problems, and health; maternal outcomes included parenting, mental health, and employmentTable of ContentsI. BACKGROUND LITERATURE REVIEW PERTAINING TO THE EARLY HEAD START STUDYHelen H. Raikes, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and John M. Love II. DESIGN AND METHODS IN THE EARLY HEAD START STUDYRichard A. Faldowski, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, John M. Love, and Cheri Vogel III. IMPACTS OF EARLY HEAD START PARTICIPATION ON CHILD AND PARENT OUTCOMES AT AGES 2, 3, AND 5Cheri Vogel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Anne Martin, and Mary M. Klute IV. FAMILY SUBGROUPS AND IMPACTS AT AGES 2, 3, AND 5: VARIABILITY BY RACE/ETHNICITY AND DEMOGRAPHIC RISKHelen H. Raikes, Cheri Vogel, and John M. Love V. PROGRAM SUBGROUPS: PATTERNS OF IMPACTS FOR HOME-BASED, CENTER-BASED, AND MIXED-APPROACH PROGRAMSRachel Chazan-Cohen, Helen H. Raikes, and Cheri Vogel VI. LINKS BETWEEN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION EXPERIENCES BIRTH TO AGE 5 AND PREKINDERGARTEN OUTCOMESRachel Chazan-Cohen and Ellen E. Kisker VII. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONSJeanne Brooks-Gunn, John M. Love, Helen H. Raikes, and Rachel Chazan-Cohen REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book is an examination of markets, competition, and market governance from a critical, heterodox perspective. .Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Frederic S. Lee Economy as a Social System: Niklas Luhmann's Contribution and its Significance for Economics Ivan Boldyrev Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics: Filling a Blind Spot with the Idea of Social Embeddedness Dieter Boegenhold Scmoller’s Method as a Critique and Alternative to Marginalist Economics: A Comment to Louzek Carlo D'Ippoliti The Economic Deterioration of the Family: Historical Contingencies Preceding the Great Depression Michael Gillespie The Market Concept: A Characterization from Institutional and Post Keynesian Economics Eduardo Fernandez-Huerga Understanding the Socio-Economics Impact of Actually Existing Markets: An Analytical Framework for Empirical Research Lynn Chester Three Makes of Competition in the Marketplace William Redmond Saving Private Business Enterprises: A Heterodox Microeconomic Approach to Market Governance and Market Regulation Tae-Hee Jo Consumer Market Cycles Riders, Industries and Environments in France and the United States, 1865-1914 Thomas C. Burr The End of the Consensus in Macroeconomic Theory? A Methodological Inquiry John McCombie and Maureen Pike

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice.Table of ContentsList of Contributors x Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xxi Part I Understanding Drugs in Society 1 1 Drugs and Society 3Henry H. Brownstein Part II The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society 15 2 Alcohol: Wide]Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses 17Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room 3 Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of US Policy and Perception 53Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques 4 Heroin and Other Opiates 72Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon 5 Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? 90Paul Gootenberg 6 Methamphetamine 109Ralph A. Weisheit 7 Prescription Drugs 128Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson 8 Designer Drugs 149Dina Perrone Part III Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society 175 9 Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem 177Peter J. Venturelli 10 Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction 197Stephen J. Bahr and John P. Hoffmann 11 The Intersection between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders 218Arielle R. Baskin]Sommers and Bridget A. Hearon Part IV Studying Drugs in Society 237 12 Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities 239Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill 13 Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society 258Eric L. Sevigny and Brian Fuleihan Part V What We Know and Do Not Know about Drugs and Public Health and Safety 283 14 What Has Been Learned from Research on the Drugs–Crime Connection? 285Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards 15 The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health 300Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall 16 Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics 320Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda 17 Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context 335Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy Part VI Drugs and Adverse Social Experience 369 18 Drugs and Violent Crime 371Henry H. Brownstein 19 Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationships 387Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers 20 Markets and Distribution Systems: The Birth, Growth, and Transformation of UK Drug Markets 416Tiggey May and Bina Bhardwa Part VII Drugs as an Illicit Enterprise 443 21 The Criminalization of (Some) Drug]Involved People 445Neil McKeganey 22 The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution 460Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe]Laidler 23 Displacement Effects of Supply]Reduction Policies in Latin America: A Tipping Point in Cocaine Trafficking, 2006–2008 482Juan Carlos Garzón and John Bailey Part VIII Responding to the Problem and Problems of Drugs in Society 505 24 Drug Law Enforcement 507Andrew Golub, Alex S. Bennett, and Luther C. Elliott 25 Drug Abuse Prevention through Early Childhood Intervention 525Elizabeth B. Robertson, Belinda E. Sims, and Eve E. Reider 26 Dealing with Drug Users: Treatment 555TaLisa J. Carter and Daniel O’Connell 27 Drug Policy in the United States: A Dynamic Multilevel Experimental Environment 574Duane C. McBride and Yvonne Terry]McElrath Index 594

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Book SynopsisHealth Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.Table of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Tables viii List of Boxes ix Notes on Contributors x Foreword xii 1 Introduction 1Tim Brown, Gavin J. Andrews, Steven Cummins, Beth Greenhough, Dan Lewis, Andrew Power Part I Body, Health and Disease 21 2 The Body in Health Geography 23Tim Brown 3 Health and Place 39Gavin J. Andrews Part II Changing Spaces of (Health) Care 57 4 Landscapes of Wellbeing 59Gavin J. Andrews 5 (Re)Locating, Reforming and Providing Health Care 75Gavin J. Andrews 6 Spaces of Care 95Andrew Power 7 Post]Asylum Geographies 114Andrew Power Part III Producing Health 135 8 Ecological Approaches to Public Health 137Steve Cummins 9 Capturing Complexity 156Dan Lewis 10 Interventions for Population Health 174Steve Cummins Part IV Emerging Geographies of Health and Biomedicine 191 11 Epidemics and Biosecurity 193Beth Greenhough 12 Pharmaceuticalisation and Medical Research 215Beth Greenhough 13 Health and Medical Tourism 234Beth Greenhough 14 Global Health Geographies 251Tim Brown Index

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