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Book SynopsisAI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes, to audience and advertiser targeting. Social media platforms in particular have been at the core of the AI and algorithmic turn, offering real-time consumer analytics and newsfeeds for insatiable and borderless digital citizens. The algorithms within these platforms make them powerful news aggregators, redirecting consumer habits and advertisers, making them vital in the journalism practice and media viability across the globe. Despite this, there is a shortage of scholarship on AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism from the global South, and especially in Sub-Saharan African contexts. Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts moves the focus from the West, addressing the significant knowledge gaps relating to the current state of AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism, as well as the implications for political, social, cultural, markets, media viability and journalism education. This timely collection offers new knowledge on key issues surrounding automation and data-driven media and journalism practice in post-truth, post-human and post-Covid African contexts. It is a vital resource for researchers, educators, media students, academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners, developers and policy makers, both in African countries and internationally.Table of ContentsForward; Martin Ndlela Part I: AI and Algorithms in Journalism and media practice Chapter 1. Towards automated fact-checking in Africa: the experience with artificial intelligence at Africa Check; Irene Larraz Chapter 2. Between Utopia and dystopia: Investigating journalism perceptions of AI deployment in Community media newsrooms in South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni,Trust Matsilele, and John G Bulani Chapter 3. AI and the algorithmic-turn in journalism practice in Eastern Africa: perceptions, practice and challenges; Carol Azungi Dralega Chapter 4. New challenges old tactics: How Uganda Newsrooms combat Fake news; Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya, and Ivan Nathaniel Lukanda Chapter 5. Newsday and the Herald’s inclusion of disabled people in the use of digital media in Zimbabwe; Witness Roya and Sandiso Ngcobo Part II: Policy, Governance, Indigenization of Digital Innovation and Critical literacies Chapter 6. A comparative study of AI policy frameworks on Journalism practice in sub-Saharan Africa; Carol Azungi Dralega, Wise Kwame Osei,Daniel Kudakwashe Mpala, Gezahgn Berhie Kidanu, Bai Santigie Kanu, and Amia Pamela Chapter 7. Analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage in Ghana’s 2020 presidential and Parliamentary elections; Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng and Redeemer Buatsi Chapter 8. Conceptualizing data-driven journalism and the quest for good governance in Nigeria; Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi and reheemat Adeniran Chapter 9. Technology Indigenisation and Popularisation for Life Transformation in East Africa; Margaret Jjuuko and Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi Chapter 10. An agenda for developing critical literacies for journalism education in an era of datafication; Carol Azungi Dralega

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Book SynopsisExploring the interconnectedness and uncertainty of today's economic world, this volume thoughtfully considers core themes, current trends, and possibilities for the future.

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Book SynopsisReimagining 'Irish' identity on a uniquely intimate level, this richly thoughtful work aspires to a more egalitarian society in Ireland, Europe and beyond, encouraging readers to rethink their own national identities in turn.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.Chapters provide models for sustainably integrating the two practices and explore the transformative potential of decolonizing innovations and incorporating community organizing. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from the global south and north, the Handbook explores ways to build infrastructure to bring PAR and CD together, how to use PAR and CD to build people’s power and capacity, and how to integrate PAR and CD in relation to community and organizational capacity building. It further gives practical advice and academic analysis on youth PAR, how to use PAR and CD in crisis situations such as earthquakes and pandemics, and envisions radically alternative PAR and CD approaches.This is a timely resource for social science scholars looking to better understand PAR as an important research method. It rethinks the theories underpinning both PAR and CD, offering important lessons for community development practitioners and non-profit professionals, as well as higher education professors interested in community engagement.Trade Review‘The authors in this illuminating volume represent a diverse array of places, positions, and participatory initiatives. Their thoughtful analyses of their specific contexts and approaches to knowledge production and community change offer rich theoretical insights and examples that will be useful to students, faculty, and practitioners interested in collaborative research and action.’ -- Julie L. Plaut, Brown University, US‘By combining PAR and Community Development, the editors frame each article’s commitment to praxis for social change within the radical traditions of global south educators and activists such as Friere, Fals Borda, and Rahman. The various cases range from rural to urban, national to global, and cover issues from health and the environment to homelessness and community planning. For anyone studying or implementing community-based collaborations for research and action projects, this book offers a treasure trove of innovative case studies and inspirational possibilities. For anyone, like me, who still holds fast to the potential of engaged research for social justice, even in the face of neoliberal universities hell-bent on sucking the life blood out of faculty and students in search of a more just and humane world, this book is a lifeline.’ -- Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: reflecting upon the development of participatory action research and community development efforts 1 Randy Stoecker and Adrienne Falcón PART I STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR INTEGRATING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2 Flipping the script: community-initiated urban research with the Liberal Arts Action Lab 23 Megan Brown, Jack Dougherty, and Jeff Partridge 3 Toward a community development science shop model: insights from Peterborough, Haliburton and the Kawartha Lakes 43 Randy Stoecker, Todd Barr, and Mark Skinner 4 Elevating community voices 60 Jenice Meyer and Katelyn Baumann 5 Sociocultural intervention as a resource for social transformation in Cuban communities of the twenty-first century 80 Manuel Martínez Casanova and Adrienne Falcón PART II ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES 6 Community organizing for environmental change: integrating research in support of organized actions 99 Dadit G. Hidayat and Molly Schwebach 7 The birth of a community of practice in Québec to support community organizations leading participatory action research as a tool for community development: what it teaches us 118 Lucie Gélineau, Sophie Dupéré, Marie-Jade Gagnon, Lyne Gilbert, Isabel Bernier, Nicole Bouchard, Julie Richard, and Marie-Hélène Deshaies 8 The centrality of storytelling at the nexus of academia and community organizing in rural Kentucky 139 Nicole Breazeale, Dana Beasley-Brown, Samantha Johnson, and Alexa Hatcher PART III BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS 9 Putting theory into practice: leveraging community-based research to achieve community-based outcomes in DeLand, Florida 160 Maxwell Droznin, Kelsey Maglio, Asal M. Johnson, Cristian Cuevas, and Shilretha Dixon 10 From mission to praxis in neighborhood work: lessons learned from a three-year faculty/community development initiative 180 Laura L. O’Toole, Nancy E. Gordon, and Jessica L. Walsh 11 Early childhood wellness through asset-based community development: a participatory evaluation of Communities Acting for Kids’ Empowerment 200 Farrah Jacquez, Michael Topmiller, Jamie-Lee Morris, Alexander Shelton, Cynthia Wooten, Lakisha A. Best, Alan Dicken, Monica Arenas-Losacker, Giovanna Alvarez, Crystal Davis, and Shanah Cole 12 The complexities of participatory action research: a community development project in Bangladesh 218 Larry Stillman, Misita Anwar, Gillian Oliver, Viviane Frings-Hessami, Anindita Sarker, and Nova Ahmed PART IV GROWING YOUTH POWER 13 Youth participatory action research as an approach to developing community-level responses to youth homelessness in the United States: learning from Advocates for Richmond Youth 239 M. Alex Wagaman, Kimberly S. Compton, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jae Lange, Elaine G. Williams, and Rae Caballero Obejero 14 Volunteerism as a vehicle for civil society development in Ukraine: a community-based project to develop youth volunteerism in a Ukrainian community 259 Danielle Stevens, Tetiana Kidruk, and Oleh Petrus 15 Design your neighborhood: the evolution of a city-wide urban design learning initiative in Nashville, Tennessee 281 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Brian D. Christens, and Melody Gibson PART V RESPONDING TO CRISIS 16 Rethinking participatory development in the context of a strong state 302 Ming Hu 17 Tracing power from within: learning from participatory action research and community development projects in food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic 321 Laura Jessee Livingston 18 The information and knowledge landscapes of mutual aid: how librarians can use participatory action research to support social movements in community development 341 Alessandra Seiter PART VI EXPANDING OUR THINKING 19 Be and build the city: an experience of sociopraxis in Cuenca, Ecuador 359 Ana Elisa Astudillo and Ana Cecilia Salazar 20 Leading with locally produced knowledge: development in Jemna, Tunisia 379 Ihsan Mejdi and Celeste Koppe 21 Relationship as resistance: partnership and vivencia in participatory action research 394 José Wellington Sousa 22 Re-storying participatory action research: a narrative approach to challenging epistemic violence in community development 415 Daniel Bryan and Chelsea Viteri Index

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Book SynopsisIn today's political climate, when sustainable development is the perceived goal for farming and forest communities throughout the globe, the experiences of early Canadian settlers force a re-examination of many of the assumptions about the processes through which wilderness has been civilised. The Frontier Environment and Social Order examines the development of civil society within the forest frontier of Upper Canada, using the letters of Francis Codd, a young English doctor, who settled in the Ottawa Valley in 1846 as the textual basis. The letters provide detailed evidence about frontier development: clearing the forest, establishing farming communities, and bringing civil institutions to a developing country.This period was one of intense social and environmental transformation as immigrants began the difficult task of settling a new land. The backdrop to Francis Codd's life in Canada was dramatic, but the detailed observations he provides bring the process of settlement to life. Codd became one of the cornerstones of local society and his letters and the memoirs of his contemporaries document the privations and struggles of the time. They also present new evidence on the establishment of a relationship between nature and culture at a time when ideas of wilderness and civilisation were being forged through civil society and its myths.This fascinating book will appeal to environmental social scientists and economists, historians, geographers and migration specialists as well as the interested reader.Trade Review'This riveting account of frontier expansion in Upper Canada in the nineteenth century gives today's environmentalists plenty of food for thought - can we unlearn social conflict and the exploitation of nature so as to live sustainably today?' -- Andrew Dobson, University of Keele, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Letters 1. Introduction 2. Francis Codd’s Life and Letters: A Commentary 3. The Letters from Upper Canada (1847–52) Part II: The Context 4. Revisiting the ‘Frontier’ 5. Upper Canada in the Mid-Nineteenth Century References Index

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Book SynopsisMeasuring tax evasion and the size of the underground economy is a growing industry among researchers. However, Filip Palda argues that deadweight losses from tax evasion are a social loss that have been largely neglected.Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the inefficient survivor and the efficient loser is termed by the author the 'displacement loss from taxation', and rivals in size the Harberger triangle loss from taxation.The book demonstrates how Filip Palda's calculus for measuring displacement loss can be extended to subsidies, minimum wages, and any other government attempt to displace resources from one part of the economy to another. Throughout, the book highlights the way in which taxation has evolved to mitigate displacement losses and how policymakers should be even more sensitive to the larger costs of the uneven enforcement of taxes and regulations.This volume also contains simple but powerful analytical tools for calculating economic equilibrium in the presence of two inseparable characteristics of the firm that determine its survival in the market: the ability to produce efficiently and the ability to evade taxes and ignore regulations.This highly innovative book will be of great interest to public finance economists and policymakers concerned with fiscal issues.Trade Review'This is an extraordinarily well-written book. You do not need to be an academic to read, understand, and appreciate the arguments made. At the same time, the analysis is rigorous.' -- Glenn Feltham, Canadian Tax JournalTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Tax Evasion 3. Are Subsidies Evaded Taxes? 4. Tax Evasion Analysis Extended to Regulation Evasion: The Case of the Minimum Wage 5. Tax Evasion, Regulation Evasion and Rent-Seeking 6. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisRonald Dore's enquiring mind, rigorous reasoning and comparative methodology have greatly enhanced our understanding of Japan. His insights from Japan have been deployed to generate fresh perspectives on Britain and other industrialized and developing countries. This careful selection of writings reflects his underlying concern with what light the study of Japan sheds on theoretical generalizations about how societies evolve and how economies work. Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture brings together Ronald Dore's key writings for the first time, making his work accessible across a wide range of social science disciplines. It produces a distinctive perspective with four interlinking themes - technology-driven social evolution, late development, culture and polemics. These are highly topical in the current context of rapid technological innovation and socio-economic change, globalization and accompanying policy choices.The book provides a rich empirical and conceptual source for those interested in technology, socio-economic evolution and culture, and the ways in which they interact. Researchers, teachers and students in the fields of evolutionary economics, economic development, comparative education, institutional economics, political economy and economic and classical sociology (as well as Japanese studies) will find this volume invaluable reading.Trade Review'. . . I can recommend no better reading material. . . than the writings of Ronald Dore presented in this fine volume from Edward Elgar.' -- James Reveley, Australian Economic History Review'This is not a mere selection of the writing of one of the most versatile Japan specialists, but a book which provides abridged versions of some of Ronald Dore's most representative writings in the various fields which he has been covering over several decades: development, education, political economy, sociology, etc . . . Dore's writing is eminently readable, enlightening and compassionate. It is therefore a book which is to be recommended to anybody with a broad interest in the issues confronting contemporary society.' -- Reinhard Drifte, Asian Affairs'By focusing on writings that represent Dore's theoretical assumptions and arguments within the tradition of comparative sociology, the editors have created a very neat 'one-stop-shopping' opportunity for us to review the underlying intellectual themes and coherence that unify his work . . . Those who have long been his admirers will read this collection with renewed respect and anticipate with relish his next salvo or carefully argued analysis. Those new to the field will find this book a useful introduction to the rich cornucopia of Dore's writings on Japan.' -- Thomas P. Rohlen, Journal of Japanese Studies'The image that emerges from this [collection] is one of an impressive scholar who is theoretically sophisticated, well read in a large variety of topics, extremely honest and acutely aware of social problems both in highly industrialized and in developing countries. [Dore's] insights . . . are always challenging and are still at the forefront of scholarship on Japan . . . I contend that his writings provide the most important contribution to the understanding of contemporary Japan in a Western language. This selection of writings reveals the immense importance of Dore's work not only for the analysis of Japanese society, economy and culture, but also for the development of a highly sophisticated multidisciplinary comparative approach to economic development and industrialization. I would suggest it is required reading for all interested in Japan, and also for those who are reflecting on more complex theoretical frameworks in the analysis of current problems and on ways to solve them.' -- Bernard Bernier, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Technology-driven Social Evolution Part II: And Late Development Part III: But Culture Does Matter, Too Part IV: Polemics: For All the Constraints of Structure and Culture, Is There Still Room for Hope and Reason? Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this book brings the literature an important step forward. Based upon extraordinarily rich empirical material, it shows how and why competence building and innovation are crucial for economic growth and competitiveness in the current era. It also provides a case study of a small, very successful European economy combining wealth creation with social cohesion. The author's comparative analysis of innovation systems demonstrates that the 'new economy' can thrive and grow not only in the US-type of economy but also in European economies which exhibit a high degree of social cohesion. He warns against the polarisation that may result from a development path where the success of individuals, organisations and national economies reflects their capability to adopt new competencies and skills. He argues that if this kind of learning economy is left unattended, it will eventually undermine the social cohesion that is essential for interactive learning processes. As such, he emphasises the need to develop coherent policy strategies at the regional, national and EU level in order to cope with the new challenges of the globalising learning economy.Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion is a highly readable, non-technical book which illustrates the basic concepts with plentiful examples and a wide variety of empirical material. Students and scholars in the field of industrial dynamics and innovation research will find this an invaluable resource. It will also be of significant interest to policymakers looking for growth models compatible with social cohesion and those interested in understanding the dynamics of the new learning economy.Trade Review'My overall assessment of this book is very positive. It presents itself well and is a well written contribution to the debate on the future of innovation policy. It is certainly worth reading, presenting both interesting and thought-provoking insights on the dynamics of innovation systems, as well as an interesting chapter on policy and management implications. The focus on labour market policies as central means in innovation policy is an important point.' -- Poul Houman Andersen, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Bengt-Ake Lundvall has made many outstanding original contributions to contemporary understanding of innovation systems, not only in Scandinavia but world-wide. This book is especially valuable in its deep appreciation of the role of social cohesion during periods of far-reaching technological transformation. Like the earlier work of Polanyi on "The Great Transformation", it is essential reading for all those concerned with innovation and social change.' -- Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Innovation and Social Cohesion in a Learning Economy 1. The Objective: To Stimulate a Knowledge-based Debate about Innovation Policy 2. Innovation 3. The Innovation System 4. A National Innovation System? 5. The Specialization of the Danish Innovation System 6. Education, Labour Markets and Capital Markets as Fundamental Components of the Danish Innovation and Competence-building System 7. The Learning Economy 8. The Learning Organization 9. Knowledge Intensity and Knowledge Flows in the Danish Innovation System 10. Inter-firm Collaboration 11. Collaboration between Firms and Knowledge Institutions 12. Qualification Requirements and Organizational Change: New Challenges for Continuing Education and Vocational Training 13. Labour Market Dynamics, Innovation and Organizational Change 14. Lessons to be Learnt Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisEconomic sociology has gone through an explosive development, both in the United States and in Europe, in recent years. These new developments are well represented in this work. Articles by key economic sociologists, such as Mark Granovetter, Pierre Bourdieu and Viviana Zelizer, have been included as well as studies by members of a new and rising generation. The topics that are covered include several classical ones, which modern economic sociologists have worked on for a long time, such as firms, markets, networks and the economics/sociology interface. During the last few years several studies have also appeared which deal with new areas, such as finance, law and economics, and entrepreneurship. The reader will finally also be able to follow recent advances in the understanding of the classics in economic sociology, including Weber, Schumpeter and Polanyi. The result is a colourful and unorthodox two volume collection which will be of interest to scholars and researchers alike.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Richard Swedberg PART I THEORY 1. Mark Granovetter (2002), ‘A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology’ 2. Mark Granovetter (1992), ‘Problems of Explanation in Economic Sociology’ 3. Pierre Bourdieu (2000), ‘Making the Economic Habitus: Algerian Workers Revisited’ 4. Victor Nee and Paul Ingram (1998), ‘Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure’ 5. Richard Swedberg (2001), ‘Sociology and Game Theory: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives’ 6. V.A. Zelizer (2001), ‘Economic Sociology’ PART II THE TRADITION OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 7. Max Weber (2000), ‘Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börse (1894)]; Commerce on the Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börsenverkehr]’ 8. Fred Block (2003), ‘Karl Polanyi and the Writing of The Great Transformation’ 9. George Simmel (1997), ‘Money in Modern Culture’ 10. Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003), ‘Entrepreneur’ 11. John F. Sitton (1998), ‘Disembodied Capitalism: Habermas's Conception of the Economy’ 12. Johan Heilbron (2001), ‘Economic Sociology in France’ PART III ECONOMICS/SOCIOLOGY INTERFACE 13. Herbert A. Simon (1997), ‘The Role of Organizations in an Economy’ 14. Jeffrey Sachs (2000), ‘Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development’ 15. Douglass C. North (1991), ‘Institutions’ 16. Avner Greif (1998), ‘Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa’ 17. George Loewenstein (2000), ‘Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior’ PART IV NETWORKS 18. Mark S. Mizruchi (1996), ‘What Do Interlocks Do? An Analysis, Critique, and Assessment of Research on Interlocking Directorates’ 19. Joel M. Podolny and Karen L. Page (1998), ‘Network Forms of Organization’ 20. Paul DiMaggio and Hugh Louch (1998), ‘Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I MARKETS 1. John Lie (1997), ‘Sociology of Markets’ 2. Harrison C. White (1997), ‘Varieties of Markets’ 3. Patrik Aspers (2001), ‘A Market in Vogue: Fashion Photography in Sweden’ 4. Neil Fligstein (1996), ‘Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions’ PART II FIRMS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5. Gerald F. Davis (1991), ‘Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network’ 6. Patricia H. Thornton (1999), ‘The Sociology of Entrepreneurship’ 7. Mark Granovetter (1995), ‘The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs’ 8. AnnaLee Saxenian (1991), ‘The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley’ PART III FINANCE 9. Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch and Steven Klinkerman (1998), ‘Institutional Upheaval and Performance Variation: A Theoretical Agenda and Illustration from the Deregulation of Commercial Banks’ 10. Donald Mackenzie and Yuval Millo (2003), ‘Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange’ 11. Mitchel Y. Abolafia (1998), ‘Markets as Cultures: An Ethnographic Approach’ 12. Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger (2002), ‘Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets’ PART IV LAW IN THE ECONOMY 13. Richard Swedberg (2003), ‘The Case for an Economic Sociology of Law’ 14. Wayne E. Baker and Robert R. Faulkner (1993), ‘The Social Organization of Conspiracy: Illegal Networks in the Heavy Electrical Equipment Industry’ PART V STRATIFICATION AND WEALTH 15. Lisa A. Keister and Stephanie Moller (2000), ‘Wealth Inequality in the United States’ 16. Seymour Spilerman (2000), ‘Wealth and Stratification Processes’ 17. Martina Morris and Bruce Western (1999), ‘Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century’ 18. Victor Nee (1989), ‘A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism’ PART VI HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 19. Bruce G. Carruthers and Wendy Nelson Espeland (1991), ‘Accounting for Rationality: Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality’ 20. Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas (2001), ‘Politics, Institutional Structures, and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study’ 21. Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas (2001), ‘Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared’ 22. Frank Dobbin (2001), ‘Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisOrganisations and the nature of work have undergone fundamental changes in recent decades. At the same time, the traditional family pattern in Europe is being challenged by the growing number of dual-income families, and by the rise of women's employment. The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The book questions what sort of dilemmas modern and future employees face, in terms of shaping their careers and organising their lives at home. The authors formulate answers to these problematic questions by shedding light on relevant developments in the European labour markets, the European workplaces, in (flexible) working patterns, changing preferences for working hours and in gender relations at work.With a focus on future developments, this book will be of interest to labour market researchers and social policymakers in Europe, and also students in the social sciences, management (HRM) and social policy.Trade Review‘Flexible Working and Organisational Change offers an interesting variety of studies. . . I am confident that the book will appeal to a large group of readers. Readers looking for stat-of-the-art research on topics such as changes in employment patterns, gender issues, working time preferences, leave facilities, tele-working or flexible working will certainly find the book to their taste.' -- Samula Mescher, Industrial Relations JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Change in a European Context 1. Introduction 2. Work and Family Life in Europe: Employment Patterns of Working Parents Across Welfare States 3. Organisational Change, Gender and Integration of Work and Private Life 4. New Working Arrangements and Organisational Change in the Netherlands 5. Occupational Sex Segregation and Societal Change Part II: Flexible Working 6. Gender Equality and the Work–Life Balance: Policies and Practices in the New Economy 7. Flexibillisation, Deregulation and Working Time: A Gendered Question: Evidence from Spain 8. Long-term Effects of Flexible Work Part III: Working Time, Leave Facilities and Teleworking 9. Employers’ and Employees’ Preferences on Working Time in Finland 10. Do Dutch Employees Want to Work More or Fewer Hours Than They Actually Do? 11. Internal and External Career Aspirations of Men and Women Within their Organisations 12. Assessing the Use of Parental Leave by Fathers: Towards a Conceptual Framework 13. IT and Telework Part IV: The Integration of Work and Personal Life 14. Looking Backwards to go Forwards: The Integration of Paid Work and Personal Life 15. Flexible Work and Organisational Change from a European Perspective: Challenges for Future Research Index

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Book SynopsisThe first study to comprehensively examine the role played by ACOSS in the Australian social policy debate; The implications of Australian welfare state debates and agendas for other advanced welfare states. The Australian welfare lobby group -- the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) -- has played a central role in the welfare politics debate as the foremost defender of the Australian welfare state. ACOSS is widely recognised as one of the most important lobby groups in Australia, and enjoys regular access to the media and key policy makers in government and the bureaucracy. Relevant case studies and source material are used to draw attention to: The role that interest groups play in the formation of government policy agendas; The lobbying strategies used by welfare advocacy groups to influence welfare state outcomes; The relationship between the welfare sector and other key lobby groups and political parties; The impact of key contemporary influences such as neo-liberalism and economic globalisation which have arguably transformed the political context within which welfare advocacy groups operate.Trade Review"This book helps to fill an acute shortage in academic writing about the major interest groups that play such a large role in Australian policy-making and politics. ACOSS stands alongside the BCA, the ACTU, the NFF and other large peak organisations; without an understanding of ACOSS our knowledge of contemporary politics is incomplete. In particular, ACOSS' role in welfare politics is central. Mendes has the best credentials of anyone I know to write such a book. His knowledge of ACOSS is up to date and detailed. This book will be a major resource for all university courses in contemporary Australian politics and a necessary guide for all informed political commentators." -- Professor of Politics, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University."Philip Mendes offers us a study of how ACOSS has built and developed its messages along with its tactics in seeking to influence policy to tackle poverty. Politicians, organisations, and researchers will all find something of interest in this examination of the case of the ACOSS and its relation to the policy-making process." -- Dr Paul Dornan, Child Poverty Action GroupTable of ContentsFrom Voluntary Welfare Co-ordination to Social Action: The Early Years of the Australian Council of Social Service,1955-1970; Towards Social Policy Advocacy, 1970-1975; Watchdog for the Poor, 1976-1985; A Political Insider, 1985-1996; Protecting the Welfare Safety Net, 1996-2006; Labourists and Welfarists: the Relationship Between the Federal Labour Party and the Australian Council of Social Service; Neo-Liberalism versus Social Justice: The Relationship Between the Federal Liberal Party and the Australian Council of Social Service; A Natural Alliance? The Relationship Between the Australian Trade Union Movement and the Australian Council of Social Service; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisContemporary accounts of welfare state change have produced conflicting findings and incompatible theoretical explanations. To a large extent this is due to a 'dependent variable problem' within comparative research, whereby there is insufficient consideration of how to conceptualize, operationalize and measure change. With contributions from leading international scholars, this important book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives (including social rights and conditionality), as well as principal concepts of how to capture change (for example convergence and de-familization). By providing an in-depth discussion of the most salient aspects of the 'dependent variable problem', the editors aim to enable a more cumulative build-up of empirical evidence and contribute to constructive theoretical debates about the causes of welfare state change. The volume also offers valuable suggestions as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical cross-national analyses of modern welfare states.The focus on the methodology of conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change in a comparative perspective gives this unique book widespread appeal amongst scholars and researchers of social policy and sociology, as well as students at both the advanced undergraduate and post-graduate level studying comparative social policy, research methods and welfare reform.Trade Review'The welfare state is a catch-all term which covers a broad range of governmental interventions into social affairs. Over the past decades, social policy scholars have devoted tremendous efforts to analyze those factors that account for cross-national variation and energize the reform trajectories of advanced welfare states. By contrast, the dependent variable has received much less attention: This volume presents a systematic overview of the dependent variable problem in comparative welfare state research. By sketching different approaches on how to conceptualize and measure social policy change and by highlighting their genuine strengths and weaknesses, this volume should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in comparative social policy research.' -- Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: PART I: THE ‘DEPENDENT VARIABLE PROBLEM’ IN COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATE RESEARCH 1. Comparative Welfare State Analysis and the ‘Dependent Variable Problem’ Jochen Clasen and Nico A. Siegel 2. More than Data Questions and Methodological Issues: Theoretical Conceptualization and the Dependent Variable ‘Problem’ in the Study of Welfare Reform Christoffer Green-Pedersen 3. Too Narrow and Too Wide at Once: The ‘Welfare State’ as Dependent Variable in Policy Analysis Giuliano Bonoli PART II: MEASURING AND ANALYSING ‘WELFARE EFFORTS’: SOCIAL EXPENDITURE REVISITED 4. When (Only) Money Matters: The Pros and Cons of Expenditure Analysis Nico A. Siegel 5. Social Expenditure Under Scrutiny: The Problems of Using Aggregate Spending Data for Assessing Welfare State Dynamics Johan De Deken and Bernhard Kittel 6. Social Rights, Structural Needs and Social Expenditure: A Comparative Study of 18 OECD Countries 1960–2000 Olli Kangas and Joakim Palme PART III: BEYOND SPENDING: WELFARE STATE GENEROSITY, SOCIAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS 7. Welfare State Generosity Across Space and Time Lyle Scruggs 8. Levels and Levers of Conditionality: Measuring Change Within Welfare States Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg 9. Exploring Diversity: Measuring Welfare State Change with Fuzzy-Set Methodology Jon Kvist PART IV: CAPTURING THE NATURE OF WELFARE STATE CHANGE 10. Convergence in European Welfare State Analysis: Convergence of What? Julia S. O’Connor 11. (In)Dependence as Dependent Variable: Conceptualizing and Measuring ‘De-familization’ Sigrid Leitner and Stephan Lessenich 12. Pension Reform: Beyond Path Dependency? Sven Jochem References Index

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Book SynopsisThe introduction and 10 essays in this volume address questions about how feminist scholars conceptualize gender and view it in relationship to other attributes of individuals and of social systems. The authors strive for intersectional analyses broadening that approach beyond the gender, race and class paradigm to include sexuality, employing a variety of methodologies, and arguing that intersectionality is, or should be, not just theory, but praxis as well. The topics include the empowerment of women globally; the relationship of gender to international migration; gender differences in organizational participation; heteronormativity in organizations and in the media; the ways that the global affects the local in legislation, the workplace and the academy; the relationship between positive stereotypes of women and support for women's rights; and essentialist themes in men's movements. The discussions of globalization and empowerment and of migration are explicitly transnational in perspective. The remaining essays analyze data gathered in particular locations, but all have broader implications. Three nation-specific essays focus on organizational participation in Brazil, feminism in the Canadian academy, and sexual harassment legislation in Japan. Those on the media, social movements and voluntary organizations, and on modern prejudice are based on data from the United States. All of the authors and co-authors, whether professors emerita or graduate students, are trained in the social sciences. Nevertheless, the essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary approach to data and methods that characterizes contemporary feminist writing and research.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Information for Authors. Introduction: Perceiving gender locally, globally, and intersectionally. Toward an intersectionality just out of reach: Confronting challenges to intersectional practice. Commonsense, gender, and the politics of queer visibility. “Do you like girls yet?” Heterosexual presumption, homophobia, and pubescence. Grappling with the relationship between men's endorsement of positive stereotypes of women and support for women's rights. Racialized masculinity and discourses of victimization: A comparison of the mythopoetic men's movement and the Militia of Montana. Globalization and gender equality: A critical analysis of women's empowerment in the global economy. Gender in motion: How gender precipitates international migration. The private motivations of public action: Women's associational lives and political activism in Brazil. Feminism in the Canadian Academy. How did sexual harassment become a social problem in japan? The equal employment opportunity law and globalization. About the Authors. Advances In Gender Research. Perceiving gender locally, globally, and intersectionally. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisThis is a carefully edited selection of the seminal articles and papers on positivism which has been an important cornerstone of sociology.Positivism has had an enormous influence on both the theoretical ambitions and empirical research strategies of sociology ever since Comte coined both the terms 'positivism' and 'sociology' over a century ago. This influence was strengthened during the heyday of logical positivism in the early decades of this century, with its rigorous attempt to rid all the sciences, natural and social, of metaphysical speculations. The whole of the history of sociology could be described as a struggle with positivism, its proponents attempting to secure the foundations of a scientific study of society and its critics seeking to identify what it is about the social that frees it from positivist canons. These books gathers together the most influential voices in the struggle over the very nature of the discipline of sociology.

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Book SynopsisThis important book presents theoretical and empirical studies of the current reorganization of economic, political and social relations in Britain, West Germany and Scandinavia. An international list of distinguished contributors provide critical and well-informed commentaries on issues such as the transition from ‘Fordism’ to ‘Post-Fordism’, discourses and strategies of flexibility, the recomposition of labour markets and labour processes, the changing functions of the welfare state, and the transformation of the state. The arguments are illustrated using cases drawn equally from these three significant and distinct patterns of political economy. In particular, the book assesses how the need for increased ‘flexibility’ influenced the intellectual and organizational responses of these countries to the crises of the late 1970s.

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Book SynopsisThe collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union requires a major rethink of many sociological theories of social integration and change.Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism offers a comparative analysis of the democratic revolutions, combining historical understanding with accounts of the crisis of communism in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Larry Ray identifies contradictions within Soviet societies, developing a theory of crisis management that accounts both for the survival of the system over several decades and for its eventual failure.The social structure of Soviet systems is analysed in relation to debates in sociological theory over legitimation, social integration, social movements and modernity. Larry Ray examines new forms of class, political and national identity in post-socialist Europe, demonstrating how political conflicts are related to economic transformation, especially the emergence of 'nomenklatura capitalism', and asks whether sufficient conditions exist for the stabilization of democratic citizenship.Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism will be welcomed for comparatively analysing the communist and post-communist experiences of a number of East European countries in the light of a critical examination of the broad issues of social theory and modernity.Trade Review'This is an ambitious, informative and important book. . . . I recommend this book warmly' -- Ivan Szelenyi, Slavonic ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Social Theory and Socialism 2. State Theory, Modernity and Differentiation 3. State Socialism and Modernity 4. Mode of Domination and Legitimacy 5. Systemic Crises in State Socialism 6. The Legal Revolution 7. The Rectifying Revolutions? 8. Civil Society and Citizenship in the New Europe 9. Globalization and Nationalism Index

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Book SynopsisMax Weber, recognized as one of the world's most important sociologists, saw his life's work as nothing less than the comparative analysis of world civilizations. Above all, he was fascinated by the differing historical paths traced by Western civilization and the civilizations of the East. In his famous essay, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, he addressed the forces behind that dramatic and enormous transformation of human life and society known as the Industrial Revolution. Weber's thesis proposes a causal link between the forces of the 'protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' that lay behind the Industrial Revolution.This important book offers a sophisticated analysis of Weber's key concepts and an in-depth study as to their formulation in the early modern period. Michael Lessnoff proposes an original and essential distinction between the protestant 'work' and 'profit' ethics and examines the logical relation between them. He looks at Adam Smith's work on the relation between morals and capitalism, comparing Smith's 'spirit of capitalism' to Weber's. Lessnoff also considers the significance of the 'protestant ethic' in the modern world. As one of the first books of its kind to offer a complex analysis of the Weber thesis and using a large body of previously neglected evidence, The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic will be welcomed by historians of religion and economics and by all sociologists.Trade Review'Lessnoff's book is recommended to all who are seeking a short and carefully constructed tour guide into Weber's remarkable piece of intellectual history.' -- William N. Parker, Journal of Economic HistoryTable of ContentsWhat the Weber thesis is, and what it is not; the pre-Reformation background; Weber's primary Protestant ethic - the work ethic; Weber's secondary Protestant ethic - the profit ethic; the Westminster Assembly's "Shorter Catechism" and its sources; the spirit of capitalism and the Protestant ethic; postscript on the modern world. Appendices: the Glasgow city motto - an epitome of the Weber thesis?; list of Protestant catechisms that discuss the Decalogue's commandment against stealing.

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly collection presents some of the most important classical and contemporary texts of relevance to political sociology. Volume I offers an overview of the sociological approach to the concepts of power and the state; it examines state theory in the 1970s from both a Marxist and Capitalist point of view, the recent shift of political power from the state to other areas of society, this issue of citizenship, and the welfare state.Volume II focuses on the most important political formations and processes in modern societies: democracy, revolution and totalitarianism. It also looks more broadly at political processes in non-industrial societies and at recent historical and sociological analyses of global political systems.Volume III offers analyses of the principal political ideologies and movements of the twentieth century. Other topics covered include military power and regimes and the social bases of politics such as classes and elites, ethnicity, gender and religion.Trade Review'. . . this reader is a must for the enthusiastic. . .' -- Stephen Hunt, Reviewing SociologyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Volume I: Power and the State • Volume II: Forms of Politics Part I: Politics in Non-Industrial States Part II: Revolution Part III: Democracy Part IV: Totalitarianism Part V: Globalized Politics Part VI: Political Ritual • Volume III: Political Ideologies and Movements Part I: Part II: Military Power and Regimes Part III: Social Bases of Politics

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Book SynopsisIn The Sociology of the Environment, Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate have brought together a diverse collection of writings from within the human sciences. These papers chart the progress which sociology has made in addressing the environment. Although they are not all written by sociologists, they do illuminate a number of largely unresolved issues for sociology, which mark important departures for the discipline and which necessitate a radical rethink of inherited assumptions.The readings are organized under a number of different themes, ranging from the theoretical foundations of the discipline to post-industrial Utopianism. Other areas covered include Marxism and the environment, neo-Malthusianism and environmental determination, biocentric theories, radical ecology, scientific enquiry and the environment, international perspection, and social movement and the environment. The editors conclude that sociology still has much to do in rising to the challenge of interpreting environmental change, indicating that this must be done by forging relationships with other disciplines, in which the contribution that sociology can make is underlined rather than lost.Table of Contents97 articles, dating from 1949 to 1993 Contents: Foundations, Marxism and the Environment, Neo-Malthusianism and Environmental Determination, Biocentric Theories: Deep Ecology, Gaia Ecofeminism, Radical Ecology, Scientific Enquiry and the Environment, International Perspection, Social Movement and the Environment and Post-Industrial Utopianism

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Book SynopsisIT in the Social Sciences provides students with an overview of the use and study of technology in the social sciences.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Studying and using technology: An Introduction to Communications and Information Technologies (Millsom Henry). 2. Confronting the Social Character of Computers: The Challenges for Social Scientists (Steve Fuller). 3. What, When and How to learn Using Technology Effectively: Transferable Skills for the Social Sciences Student (Kate Bloor). 4. The Computer as a Tool to Aid the Interaction Between Thinking and Essay Writing (Jon Gubbay). 5. Data Sources for Social Scientists (Eric Tanenbaum). 6. Quantitative Research and Information Technology (Duncan Timms). 7. The Theoretical and Practical Applications of IT in Qualitative Analysis (Nigel Fielding). 8. Using Computers in Qualitative Analysis (Mike Fisher). 9. The Use of Computerized Simulations in Social Science Research, Training and Teaching (George H. Conklin). 10. Simulating Social Interaction in a Virtual Reality Setting: Problems and Prospects (Edward Brent). 11. Alone@Campus.Edu? The Interaction of Student and computing Cultures at the University of California at Berkley (Nina Wakeford). 12. Future Directions: IT ad Studying Social and Political Science in the Next Decade (Graham R. Gibbs and Catherine Skinner). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses not only on economic and political transformation since the demise of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, but also on the relationships between economic organization, social patterns and institutional change. The changes in political structure and policies of economic reform have in turn resulted in changes in social institutions and patterns of social relations. The authors look at social relations under the old regimes to understand the current social transformation. They consider economic restructuring both in the context of social change and in terms of its consequences for society, using case studies from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The impact of economic changes on new forms of institutional arrangements, social patterns and organization are also discussed taking into account privatization, employment, social welfare, property and industrial relations. This new book will be welcomed by economists, political scientists and sociologists working in the area of transition.Trade Review'This book is a thorough and insightful account of changes in social institutions and patterns of social relations resulting from political restructuring and economic reforms. This book is a valuable empirical addition to the historical-institutionalist perspective in analyzing post-communist transformation. I recommend it to academic scholars and students in economics, political science, sociology, and organizational behavior, as well as to others working in the area of post-communist transition and transformation. Furthermore, specialists on recent worldwide changes in industrial relations would be interested in Cox and Mason's through account of institutional change and adaptation.' -- Elena Iankova, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 'The book can be recommended to students as a complementary text which would lead them to think in a disciplined theoretical manner about the transition.'– Ludek Rychetnik, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The State-Managed Economy and Social Relations under the Old Regimes 3. Three Paths of Development of the State-Managed Economy 4. Paths of Extrication 5. The Contested Politics of Property Relations 6. Transformation and Institutional Change 7. Inequality, Poverty and Unemployment 8. Towards a New System of Industrial Relations 9. Property Ownership and Enterprise Participation 10. Problems and Prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of the Military is an authoritative selection of articles providing an historical overview of the field and illustrating the major directions of contemporary research. The book considers the forerunners to a sociology of the military and the research trends in America and the rest of the world. Topics covered include models for comparative research, the military profession and the relationship between military and civil society. Finally, the book explores new roles for the armed forces in our changing world.Trade Review'This is one good compendium of military sociology . . . This book would be very useful for the committee members of the next pay commission, besides those interested in a psychological and militaristic analysis of the vast subject of military sociology - from the human to the economic and market trends.' -- P.K. Gautam, U.S.I. Journal 'This is a very full collection of articles on the sociology of the military.'– Peter Woodward, Reviewing SociologyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction PART I ANTECEDENTS 1. F. Battistelli (1993), ‘War and Militarism in the Thought of Herbert Spencer’ 2. M.D. Wolpin (1978), ‘Marx and Radical Militarism in the Developing Nations’, 3. G. Dearborn Spindler (1948), ‘The Military – A Systematic Analysis’ 4. R.D. Miewald (1970), ‘Weberian Bureaucracy and the Military Model’ PART II THE AMERICAN SCHOOL 5. D.R. Segal, B.A. Lynch and J.D. Blair (1979), ‘The Changing American Soldier: Work-Related Attitudes of US Army Personnel in World War II and the 1970s’ 6. R.M. Williams, Jr. (1989), ‘The American Soldier: An Assessment, Several Wars Later’ 7. J. Burk (1993), ‘Morris Janowitz and the Origins of Sociological Research on Armed Forces and Society’ 8. H.D. Lasswell (1941), ‘The Garrison State’ 9. R. Aron (1979), ‘Remarks on Lasswell’s “The Garrison State”’ 10. A. Perlmutter (1969), ‘The Praetorian State and the Praetorian Army: Toward a Taxonomy of Civil-Military Relations in Developing Polities’ 11. G. Welty (1990), ‘A Critique of the Theory of the Praetorian State’ PART III A WORLDWIDE SOCIOLOGY OF THE MILITARY A. A Model for Comparative Research 12. C.C. Moskos, Jr. (1977), ‘From Institution to Occupation: Trends in Military Organization’ 13. M. Janowitz (1977), ‘From Institutional to Occupational: The Need for Conceptual Continuity’ 14. C.C. Moskos (1986), ‘Institutional/Occupational Trends in Armed Forces: An Update’ 15. D.R. Segal (1986), ‘Measuring the Institutional/Occupational Change Thesis’, 16. G. Caforio (1988), ‘The Military Profession: Theories of Change’ B The Military Profession 17. S.P. Huntington (1963), ‘Power, Expertise and the Military Profession’ 18. J.S. van Doorn (1965), ‘The Officer Corps: A Fusion of Profession Organization’ 19. B. Boëne (1990), ‘How “Unique” should the Military be?: A Review of Representative Literature and Outline of a Synthetic Formulation’ 20. G. Harries-Jenkins (1990), ‘The Concept of Military Professionalism’ 21. G. Caforio and M. Nuciari (1994), ‘The Officer Profession: Ideal-Type’ 22. A. Weibull (1994), ‘European Officers’ Job Satisfaction and Job Commitment’ 23. K.W. Haltiner (1994), ‘Is there a Common European Defence Identity? The Views of Officers of Eight European Countries’ 24. J. Kuhlmann (1994), ‘What do European Officers Think about Future Threats, Security and Missions of the Armed Forces?’ C Armed Forces and Society 25. Albert D. Biderman and Laure M. Sharp (1968), ‘The Convergence of Military and Civilian Occupational Structures; Evidence from Studies of Military Retired Employment’ 26. A.R. Luckham (1971), ‘A Comparative Typology of Civil-Military Relations’ 27. M. Lissak (1985), ‘Boundaries and Institutional Linkages between Elites: Some Illustrations from Civil-Military Relations in Israel’ 28. C.C. Moskos (1992), ‘Armed Forces in a Warless Society’ 29. L. Mandeville, P. Combelles and D. Rich (1996), ‘French Public Opinion and the New Missions of the Armed Forces’ 30. G. Caforio and M. Nuciari (1996), ‘Military Profession and Defence Issues in the Italian Public View’ 31. H.-Ulrich Kohr and R. Zoll (1996), ‘General Concept of Security in the Perception of German Students’ 32. B. Roshco (1996), ‘U.S. Security Policies and Americans’ Priorities: Insights from New and Old Polls’ D The New Missions of the Armed Forces 33. Christopher Dandeker (1994), ‘New Times for the Military: Some Sociological Remarks on the Changing Role and Structure of the Armed Forces of the Advanced Societies’ 34. C.C. Moskos and J. Burk (1993), ‘The Postmodern Military’ 35. J.J. Harris and D.R. Segal (1985), ‘Observations from the Sinai: The Boredom Factor’, 36. D.R. Segal, M.W. Segal and D.P. Eyre (1992), ‘The Social Construction of Peacekeeping in America’ 37. F. Battistelli (1997), 'Peacekeeping and the Postmodern Soldier' Name Index

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Book SynopsisThere have been dramatic changes in education policy throughout the world in the final quarter of the 20th Century. This important volume presents an invaluable collection of previously published and specially commissioned articles which capture these major changes in educational policy.Driven by demands for efficiency and performance, traditional liberal views of education as promoting and providing the ideals of an educated elite and empowered autonomous individuals have been supplanted. Increasingly there have been moves from localized and national policies towards international policies, and a closer integration of schools into the world. Education policy and associated management styles have overtly incorporated current market-led economic theories and in major western nations where education has been seen as a traditional welfare right, policy has moved to a commodification of education and to various forms of privatisation. Topics include Education Policy: Definition, Analysis, Criticism and Research; Economics: Markets and Development; Education Policy and the State; Race, Development and Culture; and Social Justice, Literacy and New Technologies.Education Policy will be an indispensable reference source for students, researchers and practitioners.Trade Review'. . . a major piece of work and deserves a wide audience.' -- Justin Dillon, Environmental Education Research'As the book presents a rich collection of research in the area, at one place for the convenience of researchers, the scholars would undoubtedly feel it worth having.' -- Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Preface Part I: Education Policy: Definition, Analysis, Criticism and Research 1. Stephen J. Ball (1994), ‘What is Policy? Texts, Trajectories and Toolboxes’ 2. John A. Codd (1988), ‘The Construction and Deconstruction of Educational Policy Documents’ 3. John Fitz, David Halpin and Sally Power (1994), ‘Implementation Research and Education Policy: Practice and Prospects’ 4. Hilary Janks (1997), ‘Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool’ 5. Jenny Ozga (1990), ‘Policy Research and Policy Theory: A Comment on Fitz and Halpin’ 6. Michael Peters and James Marshall (1996), ‘Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation’ 7. Sandra Taylor (1997), ‘Critical Policy Analysis: Exploring Contexts, Texts and Consequences’ Part II: Economics: Markets and Development 8. Mark Blaug (1989), ‘Review of Economics of Education: Research and Studies Edited by George Psacharopoulos. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1987. 482 pp.’ 9. Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder (1996), ‘Education, Globalization and Economic Development’ 10. Martin Carnoy (1995), ‘Structural Adjustment and the Changing Face of Education’ 11. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe (1988), ‘Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools’ 12. Patrick Fitzsimons and Michael Peters (1994), ‘Human Capital Theory and the Industry Training Strategy in New Zealand’ 13. Howard Glennerster (1991), ‘Quasi-Markets For Education?’ 14. Simon Marginson (1997), ‘Subjects and Subjugation: The Economics of Education as Power-Knowlege’ 15. Geoff Whitty (1997), ‘Creating Quasi-Markets in Education: A Review of Recent Research on Parental Choice and School Autonomy in Three Countries’ Part III: Educational Policy and the State 16. Michael W. Apple (1993), ‘The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense?’ 17. Roger Dale (1997), ‘The State and the Governance of Education: An Analysis of the Restructuring of the State-Education Relationship’ 18. Tony Edwards and Geoff Whitty (1992), ‘Parental Choice and Educational Reform in Britain and the United States’ 19. David Hogan (1997), ‘The Social Economy of Parent Choice and the Contract State’ 20. Mark Olssen (1996), ‘In Defence of the Welfare State and Publicly Provided Education: A New Zealand Perspective’ 21. Thomas S. Popkewitz (1996), ‘Rethinking Decentralization and State/Civil Society Distinctions: The State as a Problematic of Governing’ 22. Susan L. Robertson (1996), ‘Teachers’ Work, Restructuring and Postfordism: Constructing the New ‘Professionalism’’ 23. Carlos Alberto Torres (1995), ‘State and Education Revisited: Why Educational Researchers Should Think Politically About Education’ Part IV: Race, Development and Culture 24. Jane Kenway, Chris Bigum and Lindsay Fitzclarence (1993), ‘Marketing Education in the Postmodern Age’ 25. Eve Coxon (1999), ‘The Politics of ‘Modernisation’ 26. Phillip W. Jones (1997), ‘Review Article: On World Bank Education Financing - World Bank (1995) Policies and Strategies for Education: A World Bank Review (Washington DC, World Bank)’ 27. Henry A. Giroux (1997), ‘Where Have All the Public Intellectuals Gone? Racial Politics, Pedagogy, and Disposable Youth’ 28. Peter L. McLaren (1997), ‘Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Or Farewell to the Blonde Beast; Towards a Revolutionary Multiculturalism’ 29. Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna (1996), ‘The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools’ 30. John U. Ogbu (1994), ‘Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists’ 31. Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1996), ‘New Mythologies in Maori Education’ Part V: Social Justice, Literacy and New Technologies 32. R.W. Connell (1994), ‘Poverty and Education’ 33. A.H. Halsey (1993), ‘Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective’ 34. Bob Lingard and Barbara Garrick (1997), ‘Producing and Practising Social Justice Policy in Education: A Policy Trajectory Study from Queensland, Australia’ 35. Colin Lankshear (1998), ‘Meanings of Literacy in Contemporary Educational Reform Proposals’ 36. Allan Luke, Bob Lingard, Bill Green and Barbara Comber (1999), ‘The Abuses of Literacy: Educational Policy and the Construction of Crisis’ 37. Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas A. Callister, Jr. (1999), ‘A Post-Technocratic Policy Perspective on New Information and Communication Technologies for Education’ 38. Gary McCulloch (1997), ‘Privatising the Past? History and Education Policy in the 1990s’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe Bleek and Lloyd Collection consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870’s by a number of ǀXam informants. It represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no longer exists. The ǀXam materials have exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. They are compromised, mysterious, and yet essential. How does one begin reading texts that are at once so compromised and so unique? Bushman Letters: Interpreting ǀXam Narrative is an unusual and important book for it examines not only the ǀXam archive but also, and in the first instance, the critical tradition that has grown up around the archive as well as the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition. It critiques these principles and offers not so much alternative readings as alternative modes of reading. The book accomplishes two things: it shows the problems with the ways that the materials in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection have been approached by previous critics, and it suggests what their interpretations have left out in the course of its own detailed and poetic readings of a number of narratives. The book must be described as metacritical: it is criticism about the critical tradition that has grown up around the ǀXam archive and in the fields of folklore and mythology more widely. Bushman Letters addresses a curiously neglected area in the burgeoning literature on the Bleek and Lloyd collection: the texts themselves. In doing so, the book makes a substantial contribution to the study of oral narratives in general and to the theoretical discourse that informs such studies.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: READING NARRATIVE: Some Theoretical Considerations CHAPTER 2: TEXT OR PRESENCE? On Re-reading the |Xam and the Interpretation of their Narratives CHAPTER 3: WHOSE MYTHS ARE THE |XAM NARRATIVES? CHAPTER 4: THE QUESTION OF THE TRICKSTER: Interpreting |Kaggen CHAPTER 5: READING THE HARTEBEEST: A Critical Appraisal of Roger Hewitt’s Interpretation of the |Xam Narratives CHAPTER 6: FORAGING, TALKING AND TRICKSTERS: An Examination of the Contribution of Mathias Guenther’s Tricksters and Trancers to Reading the |Xam Narratives CHAPTER 7: HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION: Some of the Implications of Andrew Bank’s Bushmen in a Victorian World: The Remarkable Story of the Bleek-Lloyd Collection of Bushman Folklore for Reading the |Xam Narratives CHAPTER 8: HARE’S LIP AND CROWS’ NECKS: The Question of Origins and Versions in the |Xam Stories CHAPTER 9: THE STORY IN WHICH ‘THE CHILDREN ARE SENT TO THROW THE SLEEPING SUN INTO THE SKY’: Power, Identity and Difference in a |Xam Narrative CHAPTER 10: THE STORY OF ‘THE GIRL OF THE EARLY RACE WHO MADE STARS’: The Discursive Character of the |Xam Texts CHAPTER 11: RELIGION IN A |XAM NARRATIVE CHAPTER 12: ANTJIE KROG, STEPHEN WATSON AND THE METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE

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Book SynopsisDirty Work profiles a number of occupations that society deems tainted. The volume's vivid, ethnographic reports focus on the communication that helps workers manage the moral, social, and physical "stains" that derive from engaging in such occupations. The creative ways that those who perform such dirty work learn to communicate with each other--and with outsiders--regulate the negative aspects of the work itself and emphasize the positives so that workers can maintain a sense of self-value even while performing devalued occupations.Trade ReviewFor everyone who has ever wondered "how on earth" or "why in the world" people do the dirty work of prison guards, cops, community police, long-distance truck drivers, secretaries, nurses, HIV/AIDS/addiction caregivers, forensic pathologists and their technicians, or even cultural ethnographers in the academy, this book will be a tantalizing, provocative, enlightening, and entertaining read. --H.L. "Bud" Goodall, Jr., Director and Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsPART I: ETHNOGRAPHY OF TAINT 1 Doing Justice, Shirley K. Drew 2 Dirty Work and Discipline Behind Bars, Sarah J. Tracy & Clifton Scott 3 Riding Fire Trucks and Ambulances with America's Heroes, Clifton Scott & Sarah J. Tracy 4 Without Trucks, We'd Be Naked, Hungry & Homeless!, Melanie Mills 5 Bitching about Secretarial "Dirty Work", Patricia Sotirin 6 Nursing as Dirty Work, Melanie Mills & Amy Schejbal 7 Crack Pipes and TCells: Use of Taint Management by HIV/AIDS/Addiction Caregivers, Stephanie Poole Martinez PART II: CASE STUDIES 8 Good Cops, Dirty Crimes, Bob M. Gassaway 9 Cops, Crimes, and Community Policing, Shirley K. Drew & Mendy Hulvey 10 The Death Doctors, Bob M. Gassaway PART III : CONCLUSION 11 Ethnography as Dirty Work, Shirley K. Drew & Melanie Mills 12 Concluding Thoughts, Melanie Mills, Shirley K. Drew, & Bob M. Gassaway

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Book SynopsisAs a master metaphor, the island has been a fecund source of inspiration across many domains. From More’s Utopia to Darwin’s evolutionary theory to Ungers’s archipelago, insights derived from “island thinking” are commonly extrapolated across diverse scales and fields. The appeal of the island metaphor lies in its capacity to simplify the complex and frame the apparently unbounded. Yet the concept seems to contradict current mainstream thought and practice in geographic and design fields. The globalization motifs of openness and interconnectedness, and ecology’s privilege of environmental processes and flows over forms and boundaries, both challenge the pertinence of the island as a cognitive device for territorial description and intervention.New Geographies, 8 proposes an epistemological pulse between, on the one hand, the ultimate loss of the exterior implied in planetary upscaling of territorial interpretations (toward an idea of the world as a whole) and, on the other hand, the need to rearrange new boundaries in an environment viewed through the process-oriented lens of ecology. An “atlas” of islands, New Geographies, 8 explores the new limits of islandness and gathers examples to reassert its relevance for design disciplines.

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary explication of the theory of “Weltbeziehung” or “relationship to the world.” Human beings are always and essentially placed and situated in a world to which they relate, and it is this relationship that defines them. This book describes the historical and cultural variety of self-world-relations of this kind and revolves around aspects and dimensions of what Hartmut Rosa has gathered under the term “Weltbeziehung” (relationship to the world), expanding on his theory on resonance. This book starts from this innovative approach to discuss socially relevant questions and conceptions of the present, like property, progress, or markets and then contrasts them with non-Western or non-modern forms of “Weltbeziehungen” like specific conceptions of virtue or fatalistic practices. In an effort to overcome Eurocentric biases, the book also includes studies about the decolonization of research in India and the role of markets in China. In addition, comparisons across time help to further refine our understanding of “Weltbeziehungen.” Finally, the volume’s contributions discuss a number of challenges and practical problems of the contemporary world such as the migration crises, sharing practices, or knowledge production in light of this conception. Table of ContentsIntroduction Bettina Hollstein, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg RüpkeI. Conceptual PerspectivesProperty as a World Relation (Weltverhältnis). Reflections on the Structural Change of Possessive “Weltbeziehung”Hartmut RosaRelationship to the Good. On the World-opening and World-connecting Power of the VirtuesKathi Beier and Dietmar MiethThree Types of Fatalistic PracticeAndreas PettenkoferReconstructing an Impartial and Pluralistic Notion of Progress in Contexts of DiversityAchim KemmerlingII. Comparative PerspectivesHow Can Worldviews Be Compared? Pragmatist Maxims and Intellectual HonestyHermann Deuser and Markus Kleinert“Theorizing Across Traditions”: Social Science as a Polyphonic EncounterMartin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach and Beatrice RenziThe Cultural Meaning of ‘Market’ in China and the Western Tradition: Worlds Apart?Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Qian ZhaoTriumphant Utopia – Shabby Bourgeois World – Totalitarianism. Transmuting Visions of Real Existing Socialism in Eastern Interpretations of Walter Benjamin’s MarxismGábor GángóRelating to Other Worlds: Religious Spatiality and the Beyond of the City in Ancient Cities’ Dealing with the DeadJörg RüpkeIII. Practical PerspectivesValues of Exchange, Values of Sharing: The Ambivalence of Economic “Weltbeziehung”, Explained for the Example of CarsharingChristoph HenningThe Transformation of the Refugee Category and the Dialectics of Solidarity in EuropeNancy AlhachemLiving World Relations – Institutes for Advanced Study as Places for Resonant RelationshipsBettina Hollstein

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Book SynopsisThe multiple facets of this volume belong to five large themes. The first theme, that of persuasion and manipulation, is studied here through electoral campaigns (i.e., mental filters used in voting manipulation, the mechanisms of vote mobilisation, manipulation and storytelling models). The institutionalization of education represents the second theme, approached here through specific interdisciplinary instruments: the intersection of higher education with public learning, the answers of the knowledge society to the issues of contemporary work problems, the institutional relationships used to solve educational problems specific to childhood and adolescence, as well as the role of media competencies in professional development. The third theme is related to the inheritance and transmission of cultural identity, instrumentalized through issues such as: the duty of intergenerational justice with regard to cultural heritage, education and vocational training in library science, the social inclusion role of public and digital libraries. The collective and cultural identity of communities represents the fourth large theme, being approached through a triple perspective: the philosophical background of restoring the political dignity of communities, the communication space as a point of a needle towards the community space, and the communicational issue of the European capital of culture programmes. Lastly, the fifth theme belongs to practical and applied philosophy, specifically philosophical counselling, debating issues such as: the identification of the communicational background for this type of counselling, the secular approach to the problem of evil from a philosophical counselling perspective, the discussion of Platon's attitude towards suicide and of frank speech in the Epicurean school, the socio-anthropological perspective of immortality, as well as the formal approach of the relationship between real and imaginary.Table of Contents Introduction, Maria Micle & Gheorghe Clitan CHAPTER 1. Gheorghe Clitan, Oana-Adela Barbu-Banes Kleitsch, Mental Filters Used in Manipulating the Vote through Electoral Posters Containing Religious Symbols CHAPTER 2. Alina Roma?cu, Maria Micle, The Mobilization of the Romanian Diaspora: An Overview of a Transnational Community Connected during the 2014 Presidential Elections in Romania CHAPTER 3. Tomi Paula Pompilia, The Logical Structure of Manipulation CHAPTER 4. ?tefania Bejan, The Persuasive Potential of Storytelling in Professions of Contemporary Communication CHAPTER 5. Simona Sava, Laura Mali?a, Simona Negomireanu, Contributions of Universities to Community Learning and Development CHAPTER 6. Aleksandra Pejatovi?, Miomir Despotovi?, Education Response to the World of Work in the Knowledge Society CHAPTER 7. Otilia Bersan, The Kindergarten-Family Partnership, a Basis for Early Childhood Education CHAPTER 8. Remus Runcan, Anxiety in Adolescence: A Literature Review CHAPTER 9. Ileana Rotaru, Training and Assessing Media Education Competence in Professional Training Programs for Teachers. The Case Study of Romania CHAPTER 10. Ileana Dasc?lu, Education in Cultural Heritage as a Duty of Intergenerational Justice CHAPTER 11. Regula Feitknecht, Jasmine Lovey, Vocational Training and Education in the Library and Information Professions in Switzerland: An Overview and Some Reflections CHAPTER 12. Victoria Frâncu, Digital Libraries: Their Role in Building Communities CHAPTER 13. Elena Tîrziman, Maria Micle, The Pubic Library: A Factor of Social Inclusion in the Local Community CHAPTER 14. Corina Tur?ie, Participatory Practices in European Capitals of Culture: The Case of Timisoara 2021 CHAPTER 15. Ilie R?doi, The European Capital of Culture Programme and Sustainable Development in a Cross-border Region Case Study: Timi?oara 2021, Novi Sad 2021 CHAPTER 16. Oana ?erban, Normative Gaps between Communities and Collective Identities in Governing Cultural Heritage: An Argument on How to Apply Hobbesian and Lockean Theories to Restore the Political Dignity of Communities in Their Role to Safeguard Cultural Heritage CHAPTER 17. Codru?a Simionescu, Participating in the Co-creation of New Narrative regarding European Identity through European Capitals of Culture CHAPTER 18. Ferenc András, The Point of a Needle: Communication Space as a Space of Community CHAPTER 19. Aurel Codoban, The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling CHAPTER 20. Florina Haret, Philosophical Counselling as a Secular Approach to the Problem of Evil CHAPTER 21. Armand A. Voinov, Plato's Attitude Towards Suicide In The Dialogue Crito CHAPTER 22. Delia Nadolu, Bogdan Nadolu, About Immortality: a Socio-Anthropological Approach CHAPTER 23. Hîrjoi Cristian, Frank Speech in the Epicurean Philosophical School CHAPTER 24. Ionel Nari?a, Real and Imaginary CHAPTER 25. Tea Radovi?, The Allegory of Quantum Persona. The Absurdity of Diagnostics

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Book SynopsisThis book interprets the social significance of yoga in a world that emphasizes corporeality and the body. Immersing himself in the social world of hatha yoga participants, from an urban studio to a mountain retreat, the author's personal experience with positions and techniques, group meditation, and joint mantra is juxtaposed against interviews, photographs, video recordings on the social meaning of yoga, and philosophical analyses of where the physical and spiritual meet. This book's use of empirical qualitative research and participant observation allows for close analysis, even outright experiencing of the participants' world.Trade ReviewAn original work that brings new findings to the sociology of culture and sociology of religion. It is based on deep empirical research and diagnoses a phenomenon that is new and increasingly significant, not only in Poland. -- Grazyna Woroniecka, University of Warsaw

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains revised and updated editions of articles by Andrzej Krzanowski coming from different periods of his forty-year-long research activities in Peru, from the first expedition to the Huaura Valley up to the most recent research on the Central Coast. Krzanowski is the first Pole to have conducted archaeological research in the Andes and led the 1978–1987 Polish Scientific Expedition to the Andes, which carried out interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geography, ethnography) on settlements in the high mountain region of Huaura-Checras. Since 2009, he has been focusing on pre-Columbian fortifications on the Peruvian Central Coast.

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Book SynopsisVisible and Invisible analyzes the mechanisms of the creation and functioning of media discourses on selected energy-related problems. The volume attempts to diagnose the communicative dimension of the public sphere in terms of its operation as a space of deliberation, with particular consideration for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of social actors, topics, and arguments.The individual chapters result from research dating from the 1980s through 2014. They demonstrate the dynamic of changes based on consistent tracking of the fields of nuclear and wind energy and shale gas. These types of energy were chosen deliberately instead of coal, the most obvious form in Poland, since they represent technologies that were seen as innovative.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed as documented in the life courses of women living in the disadvantaged neighborhoods in the post-industrial city. The authors analyze the life histories of four generations of women. The oldest are former workers in state-owned factories in which they worked until retirement and who used to be the leaders of the female working class during the socialist period. Their daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters became redundant on the capitalist labor market and survived on social benefits. The book goes beyond the feminization of poverty as traditionally considered in monetary terms. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty that are embedded in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes, and family structures and relations. It also discusses women' efforts and capabilities to cope with disadvantages.Trade ReviewIn this important book about poverty and social exclusion, the authors apply the biographical method to get to know the life history and experiences of the members of extended families. The dynamic approach as presented in the book is unique and covers a period of almost a century. Of great theoretical importance is their revealing factors contributing to pauperization of subsequent generations ("daughters" and "grandchildren") by tracking changes in the social structure due to shifts in the global economy and the emergence of a new social class specified as precariat, of which a significant segment are the children of former workers. The book can count on a broad range of interest in academia and beyond, including local authorities, social workers, and non-for-profit organizations. -- Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw

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Book SynopsisThis Interpretive Guide on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights was developed in full collaboration with the former Special Representative. Its contents have been the subject of numerous consultations during the six years of the Special Representative's mandate and have been reflected in many public reports and speeches, but have not previously been brought together. This Guide does not change or add to the provisions of the Guiding Principles, but provides additional background explanation to the principles directed at business enterprises, to support a full understanding of their meaning and intent. In this way, it is designed to support the process of comprehensive implementation of the Guiding Principles, as well as the development of further operational guidance to put the Guiding Principles into practice. As such, this Guide is a resource not just for business, but also for Governments, civil society, investors, lawyers and others who engage with business on these issues.

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of how Latin American and Caribbean economies participate in different segments of GVCs is at the heart of the current work agenda of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which focuses on how structural change and productivity gains can promote economic development with equality. This volume builds on the relevant literature and suggests that the movement of firms to higher value added activities in GVCs requires them to step up their innovation efforts and develop new products and processes. Success in improving market shares and value added will depend, however, on which firms innovate most. Hence, innovation is a necessary but insufficient for increasing value added and market shares. Evidence suggests that since the 2008 economic crisis, the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks has increased.

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Book SynopsisHe dedicated this book to the renowned Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule (1827-1890), who established the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 along with his wife and social reformer Savitribai Phule (1831-1897).

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers tell us that all human beings seek to make sense of their lives and their circumstances. The particular culture we are in offers us a menu of options with which to make sense of the various and disparate events in our lives. Culture therefore cannot be ignored for being ""unimportant,"" for, through it, the lives that we lead acquire a shape that gladdens us. In the heightened competition that characterises globalisation, knowing one's culture and keeping in touch with its most intimate values and aspirations can give the individual plenty of needed comfort. Without a sense of inner security that our culture, values and aspirations provides, it is easy to succumb in the heat of battle. —From the Introduction by Fernando N. Zialcita

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Book Synopsis“A book that renders long overdue respect for the dignity and struggle of the bakwit—the people displaced by conflict and, at times, disenfranchised by aid. Canuday reminds us that the first and lasting fact in any rigorous and reverent social analysis is the resilience of the human spirit.”—Albert E. Alejo, S.J.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the bureaucracy getting its way, to society's ability to negotiate the state's boundaries and regimes to make them less harsh. Any analysis of Vietnam's state-society relations needs to recognize and demonstrate both elements of dominance and accommodation, as well as specify the context in which either or both are seen. Alone, neither is adequate. In particular, the idea of the ""state"" needs to be disaggregated because ""state"" is not a singular actor that is coherent or uniform through time and space. To demonstrate how state-disaggregation can make our view more nuanced, this book analyses state-society interaction at the ward level of Hanoi, an urban local authority.

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