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Book SynopsisA comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory? 1Bryan S. Turner PART I FOUNDATIONS 17 1 The Foundations of Social Theory 19Gerard Delanty 2 Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post-Parsonian Developments 38John Holmwood 3 Philosophy of the Social Sciences 60Patrick Baert and Fernando Domínguez Rubio PART II ACTIONS, ACTORS, AND SYSTEMS 81 4 Theories of Social Action 83Rob Stones 5 Functionalism and Social Systems Theory 106Giuseppe Sciortino 6 Structuralism and Poststructuralism 124Daniel Chaffee and Charles Lemert 7 Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics 141John Law 8 Ethnomethodology and Social Theory 159Richard A. Hilbert9 Rational Choice Theory 179Raymond Boudon PART III PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS 197 10 Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism 199Jack Barbalet 11 Phenomenology 218Michael G. Flaherty 12 Feminist Theory 235Mary Evans 13 Postmodern Social Theory 251Jan Pakulski 14 Social Constructionism 281Darin Weinberg 15 Conversation Analysis as Social Theory 300John Heritage 16 Globalization Theory 321John Boli and Frank J. Lechner PART IV SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 341 17 Genetics and Social Theory 343Oonagh Corrigan 18 Economic Sociology 360Richard Swedberg 19 Cultural Sociology 378Isaac Reed and Jeffrey C. Alexander 20 Historical Sociology 391Krishan Kumar 21 The Sociology of Religion 409Michele Dillon 22 Demography 428John MacInnes and Julio Pérez Díaz 23 Science and Technology Studies: From Controversies to Posthumanist Social Theory 451Sophia Roosth and Susan Silbey PART V NEW DEVELOPMENTS 475 24 Mobilities and Social Theory 477John Urry 25 Sociological Theory and Human Rights: Two Logics, One World 496Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada 26 The Sociology of the Body 513Bryan S. Turner 27 Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory 533Daniel Chernilo 28 The Future of Social Theory 551Stephen Turner Index 567

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Book SynopsisOffers fresh insights and empirical evidence on the producers, consumers, and content of News 2.0 The second generation of newsNews 2.0made, distributed, and consumed on the internet, particularly social media, has forever changed the news business. News 2.0: Journalists, Audiences and News on Social Media examines the ways in which news production is sometimes biased and how social networking sites (SNS) have become highly personalized news platforms that reflect users' preferences and worldviews. Drawing from empirical evidence, this book provides a critical and analytical assessment of recent developments, major debates, and contemporary research on news, social media, and news organizations worldwide. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi highlights how, despite the proliferation of news on social media, consumers are often confined within filter bubbles. Emphasizing non-Western media outlets, the text explores the content, audiences, and producers of NTable of ContentsAbout the Author ix Preface xi 1 News 2.0 and New Technologies 1 Part I Content 15 2 Social Networking Sites and News 17 3 Fake News Discourses on SNS vs. MSM 47 Part II Audiences 75 4 Social Media News Audiences 77 5 Viral News on Social Media 107 Part III Producers 137 6 Celebrity Journalists 2.0 and Branding 139 7 Who Is Breaking News on Social Media? 159 Part IV Mobile News 181 8 Mobile News Apps as Ethnic Mediascapes 183 Index 203

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Book SynopsisA timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.Trade Review"Questions of cultural appropriation often crystallize most acutely in works of literature, from William Styron to Jeanine Cummins. Rekdal, a writing teacher, parses the issue to ask who is “allowed” to write what, and in what contexts." -- New & Noteworthy - The New York Times"Creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal tackles the definition of cultural appropriation and how it fits into our current political climate in her collection of essays, structured as a series of letters to an imagined student. Rekdal picks apart the hotly debated topic of who gets to tell what story as she examines the evolution of cultural appropriation as it pertains to literature. In her scrutinization of authorship, Rekdal points to bigger questions surrounding whiteness, identity and empathy." -- 14 New Books You Should Read in February - Time"[Rekdal] speaks without condescension to young, ethically conscious writers, and with an awareness that anti-racism is necessarily a constant, ever-shifting struggle; those who presume to have all the answers have got the question wrong." -- Bad Form Magazine

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Book SynopsisConversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it function?Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is an essential overview of this topic for students in a wide range of disciplines including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and sociology. This is the only book you need to learn how to do conversation analysis.Beginning by positioning conversation analysis amongst other methodologies, this book explains the advantages before guiding you step-by-step through how to do conversation analysis and what it reveals about the ways language works in communication. Chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis logically and clearly, covering topics such as transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling.Now fully revised and expanded to take account of recent develTrade ReviewThis book and companion website are essential resources for researchers, whether they are approaching conversation analysis for the first time or established scholars. In the new edition, Liddicoat covers recent developments in the study of conversation, including written talk and the multimodality of interaction, in a clear, engaging style. * Vincenza Tudini, Senior Lecturer in Italian and Applied Linguistics, University of South Australia, Australia *His work differs from other books... the understanding of what this methodology is about is as important as the discussion of how to apply it... Liddicoat is so successful in explaining complex ideas and subtle observations in a logical step that I hope many L2 researchers, teachers, and learners will be prompted to examine the significance of taken-for-granted mechanisms that make our everyday interactions work. * Studies in Second Language Acquisition (of the previous edition) *Provide[s] new students and established scholars alike with a useful toolkit for understanding and analyzing how humans act and organize their acts in the world. * Journal of Sociolinguistics (of the previous edition) *Although the book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, sociology, and applied linguistics, anyone interested in analysing talk will find something in this text … [It is] to the point, engaging, and an excellent reference for applying conversational analysis in any social setting. * Asian EFL Journal (of the previous edition) *This third edition offers a substantial update. In addition to giving a comprehensive and accessible overview of basic conversation analysis, it addresses key topics on CA’s expanded agenda, including the interplay of talk and embodied action, text-based digital communication, and cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison. Researchers and students looking for a highly readable introduction to contemporary CA will find this book an outstanding choice. * Gabriele Kasper, Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA *Table of Contents1. Conversation and Conversation Analysis 2. Collecting Conversational Data 3. Transcribing Conversation 4. Analysing Conversational Data 5. Turn-Taking in Conversation 6. Gaps and Overlaps in Turn-Taking 7. Adjacency Pairs and Preference Organization 8. Expanding Sequences 9. Repair 10. Epistemics and Action Formation 11. Embodied Actions and the Multimodality of Spoken Interaction 12. Online Written Interaction 13. Opening Conversation 14. Closing Conversation 15. Storytelling in Conversation 16. Applying Conversation Analysis Glossary Transcription Conventions References Index

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Book SynopsisStrengthen your faith with a daily dose of truth, morality, and biblical wisdom from A&E Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in this 100-day devotional.There is a war being waged on the soul of America, but Phil Robertson believes there is hope.Your Daily Phil compiles readings taken from Phil Robertson''s bestselling books The Theft of America''s Soul and Jesus Politics, along with newly added prayers and Bible verses, to give you 100 daily devotions. These devotions encourage you and show you how you can turn away from the lies of the devil and embrace the life-giving, healing, and wholly transforming love of God, helping to bring the kingdom of heaven to your home, neighborhood, church, community, and country.These 100 devotionals cover God-honoring principles, including: Committing to the life of Christ and his words Understanding the importance of kindnes

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Book SynopsisEric Lincoln's principle concern with the racial factor in American social and religious life expands in these pages to include such correlative factors as gender, the African Diaspora, and social class.Trade Review"How Long This Road is a sturdy testament to the life and work of C. Eric Lincoln. This kind of testament is necessary to capture the prodigious interest and themes that captured Lincoln's creative mind: religion, race, ethics, literature, human rights, the arts, science, social philosophy, the university, business and economics, the Black Church, civil rights, culture, poetry, sociology, classical philosophy, and education. This volume does not engage in hagiography but pedagogy. Much like his work, the contributors not only inform us, they teach us about the nature of human existence, the need to ask questions about the world around us, and the importance of keeping our humanity in the process. These things keep faith with the values of life, dignity, creativity, and responsibility that Lincoln saw as fundamental to every civilized society. This volume honors Lincoln because it touches the soul and the intellect with uncompromising rigor, keen analysis, and great hope." - Emilie M. Townes, Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Theological Seminary "A superb volume! This collection pays just tribute to one of the deans of African American religious studies and provides teachers and intelligent readers with a wonderful overview of religion in black America. Professors and religious leaders around the country should celebrate and make good use of this text." - Robert M. Franklin, Presidential Distinguished Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: The Legacy of Lincoln * Human Values and Inhuman Systems - C. Eric Lincoln * C. Eric Lincoln: A Scholar for All Seasons - Charles H. Long * The "American Dilemma" in the Life and Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln - Mary R. Sawyer * Heroic Professor: A Pedagogy of Creativity - Jon Michael Spencer * The Lincoln Legacy: Challenges and Considerations - Jualynne E. Dodson * Part II: The Social Analysis of Religion * Islam in America: Problems of Legacy, Identity, Cooperation and Conflict Among African Americans and Immigrant Muslims - Lawrence Mamiya * W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African America's Soul - Alton B. Pollard, III * Martin, Malcolm, and Black Theology - James H. Cone * "There Is a Work for Each One of Us": The Socio-Theology of the Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph - Cheryl Townsend Gilkes * Part III: The Witness of the Religious Community * Freedom's Song - Gardner C. Taylor * Turning Burdens Into Blessings - Floyd Flake * Can the Intellect Analyze the Spirit? - Ava Muhammad * Part IV: Lift Every Voice * The Teachers of the World - Asa G. Hilliard * "My Chains Fell Off": Heart Religion in the African American Methodist Tradition - L. Henry Whelchel, Jr. * Stalking George Washington Williams - John Hope Franklin * The Social Responsibility of the Modern University - Jon Silber

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Book Synopsisfeatures an introductory article highlighting concepts and methods related to studying unexpected educational pathways Focuses on methodological alternatives to standard linear modeling approaches to studying developmental pathways.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Unexpected Pathways through Education: Why Do Some Students not Succeed in School and What Helps Others Beat the Odds?. Leon Feinstein and Stephen C. Peck. THE PERSON AS THE SOURCE OF DEFLECTION. School Engagement Trajectories and Their Differential Predictive Relations to Dropout. Michel Janosz, Isabelle Archambault, Julien Morizot, and Linda Pagani. Causes and Consequences of Unexpected Educational Transitions in Switzerland. Markus P. Neuenschwander and Jessica L. Garrett. Trajectories Based on Post-Comprehensive and Higher Education and Their Correlates and Antecedents. Katja Kokko, Lea Pulkkinen, Päivi Mesiäinen, and Anna-Liisa LyyraMESO-LEVEL SOURCES OF DEFLECTION: THE FAMILY AND WIDER SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low-Income Sample: Do Adults Make a Difference?. Michelle M. Englund, Byron Egeland, and W. Andrew Collins. Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Preschool Center Experience Upon Literacy and Numeracy Development in Early Primary School. Edward C. Melhuish, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart, and Mai B. Phan. Individual Differences in the Pathways Into and Beyond Higher Education in the UK: A Lifecourse Approach. Leon Feinstein and Anna Vignoles. Exploring the Roles of Extracurricular Activity Quantity and Quality in the Educational Resilience of Vulnerable Adolescents: Variable- and Pattern-Centered Approaches. Stephen C. Peck, Robert W. Roeser, Nicole R. Zarrett, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. MULTILEVEL SOURCES OF DEFLECTION. Mapping Swedish Females’ Educational Pathways in Terms of Academic Competence and Adjustment Problems. Kari Trost and Bassam Michel El-Khouri. When Predictions Fail: The Case of Unexpected Pathways Toward High School Dropout. Linda S. Pagani, Christa Japel, Frank Vitaro, Richard E. Tremblay, Simon Larose, and Pierre McDuff. When Can We Expect the Unexpected? Predicting Educational Attainment When It Differs from Previous Expectations. Emily E. Messersmith and John E. Schulenberg. COMMENTARIES. What to Make of “Unexpected” Pathways?. Greg J. Duncan. Developmental Science in the Melting Pot. John Bynner. The Value of an Off Diagonal Approach. Jacquelynne S. Eccles. Issues in Progress. Intragroup Conflict and Cooperation. Alexander Chizhik, Robert Shelly, & Lisa Troyer. The Social and Psychological Dynamics of Collective Action: From Theory and Research to Policy and Practice. Aarti Iyer & Martijn van Zomeren. New Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions: Theory, Policy, and Research. Sarah Knight & Harold A. Herzog. International Perspectives on Gender and Political Socialization. Hans-Peter Kuhn, Connie Flanagan, Lonnie Sherrod, & Angela Ittel. Democracy and Disenfranchisement. Kevin Lanning. Young People’s Perspectives on the Rights of the Child: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice. Martin D. Ruck & Stacey S. Horn. The Landscape of the Multiracial Experience. Diana Sanchez & Margaret Shih. Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination in Europe. Andreas Zick, Thomas F. Pettigrew, & Ulrich Wagner. Editorial Advisory Board. Harold L. Arnold, Jr., Temple University, United States. B. Ann Bettencourt, University of Missouri, United States. Herbert H. Blumberg, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom. Marcella H. Boynton, University of Connecticut, United States. Heather E. Bullock, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. Gillian Finchilescu, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. I-Ching Lee, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Susan Clayton, College of Wooster, United States. Sara McClelland, City University of New York, United States. Rupert W. Nacoste, North Carolina State University, United States. Noraini M. Noor, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Louis A. Penner, Wayne State University, United States. Stephanie Rowley, University of Michigan, United States. Johanna Vollhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States. Past JSI Editors. Irene Hanson Frieze (2001-2005). Phyllis Katz (1997-2000). Daniel Perlman (1993-1996). Stuart Oskamp (1988-1992). George Levinger (1984-1987). Joseph E. McGrath (1979-1983). Jacqueline D. Goodchilds (1974-1978). Bertram H. Raven (1970-1973). Joshua A. Fishman (1966-1969). Leonard Solomon (1963). Robert Chin (1960-1965). John Harding (1956-1959). M. Brewster Smith (1951-1955). Harold H. Kelley (1949). Ronald Lippitt (1944-1950)

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Book SynopsisHazel Croall is Professor Emerita at Glasgow Caledonian University where she set up the B.A. (Hons) programme in Criminology and was Professor of Criminology until December 2009.Trade Review"The second edition of this respected text provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in the UK. Designed primarily for students coming to the subject for the first time, it could also be useful for those undertaking more advanced study." - Reviewed in the Times Higher Education Textbook GuideTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: CRIME AND SOCIETY CHAPTER 2: CRIME AND THE MEDIA CHAPTER 3: FINDING OUT ABOUT CRIME CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: CRIME, CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE CHAPTER 5: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: FROM EXPLAINING TO CONTROLLING CRIME IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT. CHAPTER 6: THE VICTIMS OF CRIME CHAPTER 7: SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES AND CRIME CHAPTER 8: AGE AND CRIME CHAPTER 9: GENDER AND CRIME CHAPTER 10: RACE, ETHNICITY AND CRIME CHAPTER 11: VIOLENT CRIME CHAPTER 12: SEX CRIME CHAPTER 13: PROPERTY CRIME CHAPTER 14: ORGANIZED CRIME CHAPTER 15: WHITE COLLAR AND CORPORATE CRIME CHAPTER 16: CRIME AND THE ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 17: STATE CRIME CHAPTER 18:CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisThis is a timely new edition of Sharyn L Roach Anleu's invaluable introduction to the sociology of law and its role as a social institution and social process. Discussing current theory and key empirical research from a diverse range of perspectives Law and Social Change gives relevant examples, from various cultures and societies, to provide a sociological view which goes beyond more jurisprudential approaches to law and society. The book: provides coverage of major classic and contemporary social theories of law is informed by empirical research drawn from several countries/societies includes up to date and relevant examplesThis thoroughly updated edition engages with modern scholarship, and recent research, on globalization whilst also looking at related issues such as the internationalization of law and human rights. It explores recent reforms at local and national levels, including issues of migratTrade ReviewThis second edition of an influential and insightful book maintains its originality... it is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of recent debates, including globalization, surveillance, the war on terror and the ways in which the law increasingly pervades into every aspect of civil and social life in advanced societies. This edition should easily comprise a core text for a range of academics and students either as an introduction to the pervasiveness of the law for those with a social science background, as an introduction to the social elements of the legal arena for those with a legal background or as a useful eclectic text for those looking for key insights into wide ranging criminological, sociological and legal debates. The charm of the text is its accessibility which is not detrimental to its academic importance, making a scholarly contribution to the socio legal fieldDiane ListerFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø, Norway Undoubtedly succeeds as a text… Its value rests on its ability to integrate an accessible style with numerous examples from varied jurisdictions which students from both the legal and sociological disciplines will benefit enormously. Accordingly, this book comes highly recommendedInternational Journal of the Sociology of LawPraise for the First Edition Table of ContentsIntroduction: the meaning of law Law in Classical Social Theory Contemporary Social Theory and Law The Legal Profession Dispute Resolution Social Control Feminism and Legal Reform Rights and Citizenship Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis long-awaited second edition of Economy/Society Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure continues to offer an accessible introduction to the way social arrangements affect economic activity, and shows that economic exchanges are deeply embedded in social relationships. Understanding how society shapes the economy helps us answer many important questions. For example, how does advertising get people to buy things? How do people use their social connections to get jobs? How did large bureaucratic organizations come to be so pervasive in modern economiesand what difference does it make? How can we explain the persistence of economic inequalities between men and women and across racial groups? Why do some countries become rich while others stay poor? This book presents sociological answers to questions like these, and encourages its readers to view the economy through a sociological lens.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Embeddedness of Markets Markets and Their Alternatives Markets and Their Preconditions The Embeddedness of Markets The Consequences of Markets The Variety of Capitalisms Globalization Outline of the Book Chapter 2: Marketing and the Meaning of Things Things and Meaning Commodities as Gifts Consumerism Consumers and Debt Advertising Diversity and Consumerism Consumerism and Globalization Conclusion Chapter 3: Organizations and the Economy The Power of the Boss Organizations around the Globe Organizations and Internal Labor Markets The Organizational Context for Conflict Workplace and Personal Life The Formation of an Organizational Economy Conclusion Chapter 4: Networks in the Economy What Is a Network? Why Networks Matter Individual Networks The Importance of Networks in Markets Conclusion Chapter 5: Banking and Finance What Does a Financial System Do? Finance and Development Regulation and Deregulation Disintermediation Innovation and Status Household Finance Globalization and Finance Conclusion Chapter 6: Economic Inequality Inequality in Perspective Inequality and Efficiency Explaining Recent Trends in Income Inequality Globalization Race, Gender, and Inequality Gender in the Labor Market Race in the Labor Market Race, Mortgage Discrimination, and Wealth Inequality Race, Gender, and Price Conclusion Chapter 7: Economic Development Economic Development Defined From The Wealth of Nations to the Washington Consensus Sociological Perspectives on Development Conclusion Chapter 8: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe dramatic increase in the U.S. of people who are considered Latino or Latino immigrants has generated a need for understanding the experiences and consequences associated with a Latino culture.Table of ContentsOVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION. How Latinos Are Transforming the United States: Research, Theory, and Policy (Juan F. Casas and Carey S. Ryan). ETHNIC IDENTITY AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS WITHIN THE U.S. Mexican American High School Students’ Ethnic Self-Concepts and Identity (Stephen M. Quintana, Theresa A. Segura Herrera, and Mary Lee Nelson). Interethnic Ideology, Intergroup Perceptions, and Cultural Orientation (Carey S. Ryan, Juan F. Casas, and Bobbi K. Thompson). The Role of Cultural Inertia in Reactions to Immigration on the U.S./Mexico Border (Michael A. Z´arate and Moira P. Shaw). Understanding Bias toward Latinos: Discrimination, Dimensions of Difference, and Experience of Exclusion (John F. Dovidio, Agata Gluszek, Melissa-Sue John, Ruth Ditlmann, and Paul Lagunes). IMPROVING THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF LATINO/A YOUTH. Language Maintenance versus Language of Instruction: Spanish Reading Development among Latino and Latina Bilingual Learners (C. Patrick Proctor, Diane August, Mar´ıa Carlo, and Chris Barr). Negotiating the American Dream: The Paradox of Aspirations and Achievement among Latino Students and Engagement between their Families and Schools (Nancy E. Hill and Kathryn Torres). The Potential Roles of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Stigma Consciousness, and Stereotype Threat in Linking Latino/a Ethnicity and Educational Outcomes (Max Guyll, Stephanie Madon, Loreto Prieto, and Kyle C. Scherr). Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Academic Motivations of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast (Krista M. Perreira, Andrew Fuligni, and Stephanie Potochnick). CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS AND THE NEGOTIATIONS OF TRANSITIONS AMONG LATINO/A ADULTS. Civic Spaces: Mexican Hometown Associations and Immigrant Participation (S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Celia Viramontes). Migration and Sexuality: A Comparison of Mexicans in Sending and Receiving Communities (Emilio A. Parrado and Chenoa A. Flippen). Speaking on Behalf of Others: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions and Feelings of Adolescent Latina Language Brokers (Christina M. Villanueva and Raymond Buriel). CONCLUSIONS AND SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS. The Research-Policy Gap on Latino Immigrant Issues: Impacts and New Directions on Social Policy: A Conclusion (Lourdes Gouveia).

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Book SynopsisArranged alphabetically, core ideas about 'Agency' and 'Development' through to 'Socialisation' and 'Youth' are explained in straightforward language, with a concise introduction to key theoretical debates, as well as up to date references.- Martin Woodhead, The Open University A challenging text that is recommended for all levels of the BA in Childhood Studies programme. The short, focussed chapters provide students with a comprehensive overview of a topic which they can then research in further depth.- Sharron Galley, Centre for Childhood Studies, Stockport CollegeThis book gives a fantastic first look at many key concepts which are new to students in a way that is easily approachable and understandable. A great place to start further studies.- Kathryn Peckham, Chichester UniversityThis book has already proved itself as a market leader in ChildhoTrade ReviewOnce again, James and James have produced a book which will define Childhood Studies in the coming years. This is an essential book for everyone interested in this rapidly expanding field and offers a series of short, in-depth, introductory essays which provide invaluable starting points for further exploration. Indispensible to anyone interested in studying childhood. Heather MontgomeryReader in the Anthropology of Childhood at The Open University Scholars and students will welcome this updated edition of a definitive introductory text by two of the world′s leading authorities in Childhood Studies. Key Concepts provides insightful and challenging discussions of some of the major themes and issues in this burgeoning field.David BuckinghamLoughborough University Allison and Adrian James have been amongst the pioneers who established Childhood Studies as a cross-disciplinary field relevant to all who carry out research or work with children and young people. They are in a unique position to introduce the diverse, and in some cases overlapping and ambiguous concepts that are an inevitable, and also a healthy consequence of crossing disciplinary boundaries... Arranged alphabetically, core ideas about "Agency" and "Development" through to "Socialisation" and "Youth" are explained in straightforward language, with a concise introduction to key theoretical debates, as well as up to date references... This second edition is a welcome addition to the bookshelf, offering an even more comprehensive and up to date guide, which will be an essential resource for established researchers and novice students alike. Martin WoodheadThe Open University Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Introduction Age and Maturity Agency Best Interests Child Child-Focused Research /Research with Children Child-Friendly Childhood Child Soldiers Childhood Studies Children as Consumers Children as Researchers Children′s Voices Citizenship Competence Cultural Politics of Childhood Cultural Relativism Delinquency Developmental Psychology Developmentalism Disappearance or Loss of Childhood Diversity Ethnicity Familialization Family Friendship Futurity Gender Generation Global Childhood Health Innocence Internet and New Social Media Interpretive Reproduction Minority Group Status Nature vs. Nurture Needs Neglect Parenting Participation Peer Group Play Poverty Protection Representation Resilience Responsibility Rights Schooling and Schools Sexual Abuse Sexualization Social Actor Social Construction Social World Socialization Spaces for Children and Children′s Places Standpoint Street Children Structure United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Vulnerability Welfare Work and Working Children Youth

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will be through initiatives such as Justice Reinvestment and in the Human Development model.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The world of prisons 3. Prisons of the world 4. International Centre for Prison Studies 5. Women: the forgotten minority 6. The legacy of the Gulag 7. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 8. Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan 9. Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model? 10. Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 11. Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy 12. The Jericho Monitoring Mission 13. Towards ‘a better way’

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Book SynopsisThe SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century Cityfocuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our early twenty-first century: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment Authority: Governance and Mobilisations VolatilitTrade ReviewLook no further. Whether interested in the latest conceptual turn in defining the urban, or in the importance of transcending disciplinary boundaries in the study of cities, this handbook has it all. It is a superb collection that contains a remarkable set of essays from the world’s leading urbanists whose combined wisdom is essential to anyone seeking to understand the 21st century city. As noted in the editors’ introduction, this is not your standard urban sociology monograph. It is a call to consider new methods of action and imagination, built on a scholarly embrace of ethnographic and analytical thinking and brought to life through the careful reexamination of what the city is and might become in times of rapid and disruptive change. Adroitly organized around a range of thematic topics and scales of inquiry that shed light on timely issues such as immigration, risk, eviction, and conflict as well as more enduring concerns like governance, globalization, and investment, the main challenge for the reader will be to absorb it all. Yet, the editors’ abiding concern with the socio-spatial and experiential contours of the urban, and their clear appreciation for the impact of design on the production and consumption of the city, provide an opportunity to tie together the various sections and chapters in unique and provocative ways. Although there are many worthy urban collections available on the market today, hands-down this is the one I’d want my students to read and my colleagues to discuss. -- Diane E. DavisThis outstanding collection of essays, reflections, provocations and "excavations of the future" is both timely and appropriate. Appropriate, since it asks the reader to re-assess the way in which contemporary urbanity is both familiar and not, depending on one′s location and perspective, and timely since the editors′ bold assertion of a new taxonomy of issues from ′authority′ to ′civility′ dissolves the decades-old hierarchies between First- and Third World, developed and developing, the West and the Rest. Individual essays aside, its most important contribution to the exploding field(s) of scholarship concerned with how we understand, shape, influence and inhabit our increasingly urban world is to draw threads across ′profoundly asymmetrical′ lines of power, race, class and culture that acknowledge difference without flattening it, or without aspiring to ′models for the whole world′, yet, at the same time, asserts the oft-buried capacity in all of us to connect, share, dialogue and learn from each other. ′Design′ here is less concerned with a conventional reading of form/performance and aesthetics and more preoccupied with our ability to imagine new ways of reading and engaging the world around us. In their own words, a ′churningly′ fine collection that manages to be poetic, provocative and pedagogically compelling all at once. -- Lesley LokkoAstute and comprehensive, this expertly assembled volume moves through and well beyond the categories that have shaped our current understandings of cities – global and ordinary, northern and southern, formal and informal, civil and conflictual – to reveal the struggles over meaning and access that cut across class, culture, politics, and space. Read together, the pieces vividly capture the brutalities and possibilities of capitalist urban development, honing in on the mobilities and mobilizations – characterized here as the "urban churn" – that give cities their dynamic character. -- Liza WeinsteinIn the respected tradition of the SAGE Handbook, this collection brings together the most important urban scholars of out time. Their insightful analyses of the processes, experiences and consequences of urbanization draw upon a diverse array of cities and remind us that the effects of urbanization reach beyond any geographical city limit. This carefully curated collection redefines the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and sets its moral course to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- Jane M JACOBS"Written for practitioners and upper-level undergraduates, this title is recommended for public libraries located in cities and urban centers and for academic libraries supporting urban studies in sociology." -- Ladyjane Hickey * ARBA *Table of Contents1) Introduction: The Urban Churn - Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett Part 1: Questions of Definition: An Urban Compendium 2) The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities - Jenny Robinson, Sue Parnell 3) Urban Studies and the Postcolonial Encounter - Ananya Roy 4) Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban - Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid Part 2: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions 5) The Elite Habitus in Cities of Accumulation - Mike Savage 6) Reimagining Chinese London - Caroline Knowles, Roger Burrows 7) Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty - Matt Desmond Part 3: Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment 8) Global Cities: Places for Researching the Translocal - Saskia Sassen 9) Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure - Alex Schafran 10) Urban Economy and Social Inequality in Productivity: Investment and Abandonment - Fran Tonkiss 11) Ruination and Post-industrial Urban Decline - Alice Mah Part 4: Authority: Governance and Mobilisations 12) The Political Sociology of Cities and Urbanisation Processes: Social Movements, Inequalities and Governance - Patrick Le Galès 13) Limits to South Africa’s ‘Right to the City’: Prospects For and Beyond Urban Commoning - Patrick Bond 14) Aesthetic Governmentality : Administering the ‘World-Class’ City in Delhi’s Slums - Asher Ghertner Part 5: Volatility: Disruption and Adaptation 15) Post-Disaster, Recovery and Rebuilding - Kevin Fox Gotham, Wesley Cheek 16) What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi - Amita Baviskar 17) Endangered City: Security and Citizenship in Bogota - Austin Zeiderman Part 6: Conflict: Vulnerability and Insurgency 18) The European Refugee Crisis in “Our” Cities: Conflict, Vulnerability and Ethics of Surface - Christine Hentschel 19) Temporal (Un)Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions - Anna M. Agathangelou 20) Violent Infrastructures, Places of Conflict: Urban Order in Divided Cities - Wendy Pullan Part 7: Provisionality: Infrastructure and Incrementalism 21) The Majority-World and the Politics of Everyday Living in Southeast Asia - AbdouMaliq Simone 22) Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning: Reflections from Mumbai and Kampala - Colin McFarlane 23) Infrastructure Deficits and Potential in African Cities - Edgar Pieterse, Katherine Hyman Part 8: Mobility: Re-bordering and De-bordering 24) City of Migrants - Ash Amin 25) The Migrant Street - Suzanne Hall, Robin Finlay, Julia King 26) Rethinking Border Cities: In-Between Spaces, Unequal Actors and Stretched Mobility Across the China-Southeast Asia Borderland - Xiangming Chen, Curtis Stone 27) Re-bordering Camp and City: ‘Race’, Space and Citizenship in Dhaka - Victoria Redclift 28) The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an Inner-city Street Market - Alex Rhys Taylor Part 9: Civility: Contestation and Encounter 29) The Contradictions of Urban Public Space: The View From London and New York - David Madden 30) The Public Life of Social Capital - Talja Blokland 31) From the Speculative to the Littoral City - Sarah Nuttall Part 10: Design: Speculation and Imagination 32) The Public Realm - Richard Sennett 33) Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale - Rahul Mehrotra 34) Towards a Minor Global Architecture at Lamu, Kenya - Lindsay Bremner 35) Forensic Architecture: Political Practice, Activism, Aesthetics - Eyal Weizman 36) Designing Infrastructure - Keller Easterling 37) A Latecomer Imagines the City - William Mann

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Book SynopsisWilliam A. Corsaro′s groundbreaking work, The Sociology of Childhood, Fifth Edition discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective - providing in-depth coverage of social theories of childhood, the peer cultures and social issues of children and youth, and children and childhood within the frameworks of culture and history.

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Book SynopsisIn this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the state, the labour market and the economy. Alongside broad social developments such as (post)colonialism and austerity and their connections with changing family patterns, the book engages interdisciplinary work on time, embodiment and materiality in order to offer a multidimensional perspective on the day-to-day lives of families. Drawing from research in the Global North and the Global South, the text carefully considers how people approach the study of families and thus offers insight into the shape of mainstream family studies today. The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family studies and suggests avenues of investigation that deserve further attention, and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars alike.Trade Review‘This book is interdisciplinary and inquisitive at its core, taking the field of family studies as an open question rather than an already structured and cleared path. It presents the messiness of families as they really are.’Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University‘Vanessa May pushes the boundaries of family studies to uncharted territories. Her beautifully written book is paradigm-shifting, meticulously researched, theoretically sophisticated and driven by a profound desire for a different sociology of family life. Families is a rigorous, groundbreaking book that should be read widely and repeatedly.’Kinneret Lahad, Tel Aviv University‘Families challenges us to identify and critically examine the norms that guide our investigation into the family as a practice, providing a template to avoid ethnocentric analysis. This book should be core reading in undergraduate and graduate classes in family studies.’Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Cultural Variation in Family Forms 3 Conceptualizing ‘Family’ in Euro-American Research 4 Governing Families 5 The Embodied and Material Dimensions of Family Life 6 Families Located in and Moving through Space 7 Families in Time 8 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWe think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.Trade Review"The translation of this collaboration between two leading European thinkers about psychopathology and therapeutic process gives us access to a challenging way of thinking about the relation between health and the holy, medicine and the sacred, science and religion, rationality and irrationality, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology - all in a way that will be of immediate value for those concerned with psychiatric anthropology, cultural psychiatry and global mental health."—Thomas Csordas, University of California San DiegoTable of ContentsEditor's Note 1. Towards a Scientific PsychopathologyTobie Nathan I. The Benefits of Folk Therapy Scientific Therapy and Folk Therapy Solitude Diagnostics or Divination Statistical Categories vs. Real Cultural Groups The Construction of Truth Risky Psychopathology A Clinical Illustration Continuation of the Consultation II. Medicines in Non-Western Cultures Prolegomena on Thought and Belief The Idea of the Symbol The White Man’s Medicines Thought is in Objects Concepts of the Savage Mind Active Objects In Conclusion 2. The Doctor and the CharlatanIsabelle Stengers Recovering for the Wrong Reasons The Power of Experimentation Who defines the causes? A Practical Challenge 3. Users: Lobbies or Political Creativity?Isabelle Stengers Is another kind of medicine possible? Disease mongering A machine Condemnation? Hands Off! 4. Doctors, Healers, Therapists, the Sick, Patients, Subjects, UsersTobie Nathan Therapist The Sick Patients Subjects Users Pharmaka Notes

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Book SynopsisBetween Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne through eastern Germany to the Baltics, and from there south to the Caucasus and to Isfahan in Iran, the home of his parents. This beautifully written travel diary, enlivened by conversations with the people Kermani meets along the way, brings to life the tragic history of these troubled lands and shows how this history leaves its traces in the present. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with current affairs and with the events that have shaped, and continue to shape, the world in which we live today.Trade Review"Along the Trenches is an important and timely book, reminding us of the complex cultural and communal currents that have always flowed from Isfahan to Cologne and beyond, enriching along the way the lives of everyone they touch."—John Burnside, University of St Andrews "A book so moving and so powerful that it's worth taking 54 days over it, so that each day you can immerse yourself in a new world."—Katja Weise, NDR Kultur "Kermani has succeeded in writing a stirring plea for Europe, one which confirms his place among the ranks of Germany's most influential intellectuals."—Rainer Hermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "A Herodotus for our times."—Philipp Holstein, Rheinische Post "A breathtaking travel diary and a passionate plea for the diversity of cultures, for Europe and the beauty of stories."—Bayrischer Rundfunk "On almost every page there is something for the reader to think about, to learn, to marvel at."—Tages-Anzeiger "Navid Kermani ... is the best kind of scholar: one who writes with a touch as elegant as it is light."—Catholic Herald "... revealing and thought-provoking...."—Financial TimesTable of ContentsContents Cologne First Day: Schwerin Second Day: From Berlin to Wroc aw Third Day: Auschwitz Fourth Day: Cracow Fifth Day: From Cracow to Warsaw Sixth Day: Warsaw Seventh Day: Warsaw Eighth Day: From Warsaw to Masuria Ninth Day: Kaunas Tenth Day: Vilnius and Vicinity Eleventh Day: Via Paneriai to Minsk Twelfth Day: Minsk and Khatyn Thirteenth Day: Into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fourteenth Day: Kurapaty and Minsk Fifteenth Day: Into the Exclusion Zone East of Krasnapolle Sixteenth Day: From Minsk to Kiev Seventeenth Day: Kiev Eighteenth Day: From Kiev to Dnipro Nineteenth Day: To the Front in Donbas Twentieth Day: Via Mariupol to the Black Sea Twenty-first Day: Along the Black Sea to Odessa Twenty-second Day: Odessa Twenty-third Day: Leaving Odessa by Air Twenty-fourth Day: Via Moscow to Simferopol Twenty-fifth Day: Via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol Twenty-sixth Day: Along the Crimean Coast Twenty-seventh Day: From Crimea to the Russian Mainland Twenty-eighth Day: To Krasnodar Twenty-ninth Day: From Krasnodar to Grozny Thirtieth Day: Grozny Thirty-first Day: In the Chechen Mountains Thirty-second Day: From Grozny to Tbilisi Thirty-third Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fourth Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fifth Day: To Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian Cease-fire Line Thirty-sixth Day: From Tbilisi to Kakheti Thirty-seventh Day: From Kakheti to Azerbaijan Thirty-eighth Day: Along the Azeri-Armenian Cease-fire Line Thirty-ninth Day: By Night Train to Baku Fortieth Day: Baku Forty-first Day: Baku and Qobustan Forty-second Day: Leaving Baku by Air Forty-third Day: Yerevan Forty-fourth Day: Yerevan Forty-fifth Day: To Lake Sevan and On to Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-sixth Day: Through Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-seventh Day: To the Armenian-Azeri Cease-fire Line and On to Iran Forty-eighth Day: Via Jolfa to Tabriz Forty-ninth Day: Via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle Fiftieth Day: To the Caspian Sea and On to Tehran Fifty-first Day: Tehran Fifty-second Day: Tehran Fifty-third Day: Tehran Fifty-fourth Day: Flying Out of Tehran With Family in Isfahan The Journey Begins Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDecolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades. This groundbreaking volume offers not only an anthropology of decolonization, but new ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy, particularly in the metropole.Soumhya Venkatesan argues that the word decolonization' is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. In compelling prose, she describes the work already underway and the work still needed in research, writing and teaching to extend the horizons of the discipline. She explores a range of concepts including Achille Mbembe's disenclosure, Cheryl Mattingly's moral experiments, Miranda Fricker's epistemic justice, and Gurminder Bhambra's epistemological justice, and domestication. Throughout, she emphasises the potential of ethnography as a way of both knowing diverse worlds and of beingwithothers in them.Rich with insights from a range of fields,Dec

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Book SynopsisSociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It analyses how sociology was integral in reproducing the colonial order, as dominant sociologists constructed theories either assuming or proving the supposed barbarity and backwardness of colonized people. Ali Meghji reveals how colonialism continues to shape the discipline today, dominating both social theory and the practice of sociology, how exporting the Eurocentric sociological canon erased social theories from the Global South, and how sociologists continue to ignore the relevance of coloniality in their work. This guide will be necessary reading for any student or proponent of sociology. In opening up the work of other decolonial advocates and under-represented thinkers to readers, Meghji offers key suggestions for what teachers and students can do to decolonize sociology. With curriculum reform, innovative teaching and a critical awareness of these issues, it is possible to make sociology more equitable on a global scale.Trade Review“Sociology is a late comer to the decolonizing discourses in the social sciences and humanities. This book, therefore, is an important addition to a slow but steadily growing literature, and reaffirms the stance that to decolonize our discipline is only epistemically just.”Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore “In this well-written and lively book, Ali Meghji makes the 'decolonial' project accessible to a wide audience of students and scholars. A welcome guide to a complex intellectual terrain that social scientists can no longer ignore.”Julian Go, author of Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory“Its main audience are those sociologists unfamiliar with the [decolonizing] perspective – in other words, the majority of sociologists. […] Yet, the way in which Ali Meghji threads together the different decolonial arguments and elaborates on his own decolonial sociology program makes this more than just an introductory book. It is also a contribution to further the decolonial conversation. […] It ought to be read by all sociologists.”José Itzigsohn, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity“Meghji offers a unique and highly valuable contribution to the discipline that goes beyond merely outlining these issues to show how they are reflected and implemented in everyday practice. I would recommend this book as required reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses […] applying a decolonial approach to teaching that factors in the numerous insightful and well-articulated justifications for change that Meghji so eloquently outlines.”Tanisha Spratt, The Sociological Review“the high point of the book […] takes us through what [Meghji] calls 'a Sociology in Conversations', where he discusses the necessity of having a horizontal approach to knowledge production […] A decolonial sociology should allow us to think less about 'things' and more about relationships.”Rochelle Smith, Ethnic and Racial Studies“A manifesto and rallying-cry, aimed at changing how sociology has been customarily done, critiquing inherited Eurocentric biases in thematics, theory and methodology, and correcting them with post-, anti- and de-colonial pedagogic and research practices.”David Inglis, European Journal of Social Theory“A timely tool to assist our curricular revisions and present students with a comprehensible critical reflection on the canon, and possible remedies for invigorating the metaphorically terminal patient.”South African Review of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sociology and Coloniality 1. The Decolonial Challenge to Sociology 2. Beyond Intellectual Imperialism: Indigenous and Autonomous Sociologies 3. Walking while Asking Questions: Towards a ‘Sociology in Conversations’ Conclusion: Sociology and the Decolonial Option

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Book SynopsisArabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s ‘new science of culture’ as sociology or as an ‘Islamic’ (or ‘Arab’) alternative to sociology. In the other direction, the interpretation of Khaldunian discourse is confined to the Islamic-Aristotelian paradigm of its time. The epistemological novelty of the Prolegomena is dismissed and the science of culture is perceived as a minor contribution to the Aristotelian curriculum. Charting a different path, Javad Tabatabai’s highly original Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences is an inquiry into the condition of the im-possibility of the social sciences in the Islamic-Aristotelian paradigm. Rather than identifying the science of culture as a forerunner of, or alternative to, sociology, it investigates the Prolegomena within the epistemological framework established by the social sciences. Javad Tabatabai theorizes the condition of im-possibility of the ‘scientific revolution’ as the ‘epistemic obstacle’ to modernity in Islamic civilization. This theorization revisits Michel Foucault’s discussion of the condition of possibility of the human sciences in light of the history of Christian-Aristotelian thought and the broader French debates about epistemology from Bachelard to Althusser. Ibn Khaldun and the Social Science offers a critical theory of tradition and modernity in the Middle East, elaborating on a historical situation where social and human sciences emerged by the way of colonial and post-colonial translations of discourse from Europe, and in a historical and epistemological break with inherited traditions of knowledge. In this situation, Tabatabai highlights the significance of reactivating Ibn Khaldun’s critical reckoning with the limit of inherited traditions as the political-theological horizon of renewal.

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Book SynopsisSociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects the two. To understand how structures matter and how individuals navigate them, we must take groups and people in local communities seriously. Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett skillfully argue that sociologists have the obligation to examine the role of small communities in the creation of both the interaction order and structural realities. With novel concepts and rich ethnographic examples, this book describes how group commitments shape selves and society, emphasizing the importance of a meso-level approach to social organization. Fine and Hallett provide new models of identity, culture, conflict, and control, and consider how a network of groups can provide insight into extended communication channels and social media lattices. Ultimately, they show that, despite the importance of institutions and individuals, group life is the fundamental building block of community. This timely book makes the case for a local sociology that includes sociality. It will be a welcome resource for students and sociologists, and a necessary call to action for the discipline as a whole.Trade Review“Fine and Hallett make a persuasive case for a 'local' sociology that treats seriously the significance of groups, their routines and cultures. A major contribution to the broadly interactionist tradition in contemporary sociology.”Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University“Extending their discipline-defining contributions, Fine and Hallett broaden our understanding of the social dimension of human interactions as they impact meaning-making and action. They propose an original and encompassing sociological approach to group life that will be widely referenced in years to come.”Michèle Lamont, Harvard University“Their roadmap is urgently needed in a sociology currently obsessed with provincialism, parochialism, and only the dark sides of life. Amidst this doom and gloom, Fine and Hallett shine a bright light on the familiar, which often suffers from, well, its familiarity. Theirs is not just an effort to remind everyone that local sociology is still important. It is the framework for doing sociology.”Seth Abrutyn, Symbolic Interaction“[Fine and Hallett’s] invitation toward a local sociology is one to which many sociologists should RSVP both affirmatively and enthusiastically. […They] have written a book that is timely and provocative, as well as firmly rooted in long-standing sociological traditions. Moreover, they dare us as sociologists to break free from tired conceptual dichotomies of macro versus micro.”Social ForcesTable of ContentsOpening Chapter One: Believing in Groups: The Possibility of a Local Sociology Part I: The Individual in the Group Chapter Two: Being in Groups: Reflective and Collective Identities Chapter Three: Belonging to Groups: The Power and Benefits of Commitment Part II: The World of the Group Chapter Four: Building Groups: The Power of Idioculture Chapter Five: Bonding by Groups: The Basis for Collective Action Part III: The Group in the World Chapter Six: Battling Groups: The Minuet of Conflict and Control Chapter Seven: Bridging Groups: Extending the Local Chapter Eight: Better Sociology: A Call to Small Arms References

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Book SynopsisWhat is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it? There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of health' its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as expert' medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health. This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.

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Book SynopsisAs police racism unsettles Britain’s tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal – arguing that black resistance confronts a global system of racial classification, exploitation and violence.Imperial cultures and policies, as well as colonial war and policing highlight connections between these histories and contemporary racisms. But this is a book about resistance, considering black liberation movements in the 20th century while utilising a decade of activist research covering spontaneous rebellion, campaigns and protest in the 21st century. Drawing connections between histories of resistance and different kinds of black struggle against policing is vital, it is argued, if we are to challenge the cutting edge of police and prison power which harnesses new and dangerous forms of surveillance, violence and criminalisation.Trade Review‘Brother Adam Elliot Cooper has given us an important slice of Black British history. Grounded not just in solid academic research, but also in front line work serving and working with communities. Adam’s grasp of both history and the reality on the ground today makes for an impressive read as he brings to life the characters and communities resisting policing.’Akala, rapper, activist, poet, and author of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire'Without a doubt Adam Elliott-Cooper is a critical voice anchoring urgent conversations about the dynamics of Black resistance in the UK. Powerfully argued and compelling, his new book calls our attention to the gendered experience of state violence, the indispensable roles that Black women have played in shaping campaigns about racist policing in the UK and the imperial logics that have persisted in sanctioning the criminalisation of Black life and Black cultural forms. Moreover, this is a book that is insistent on employing history as tool for understanding the durability of anti-Black racial thinking and as a prism of knowledge that can inform our strategies of resistance to police violence in the present.'Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and author of London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race'Black resistance to British policing is a must-read for researchers, organisers, or students. Carefully attentive to gender, age, and sector Elliott-Cooper shows how, as Stuart Hall argued, “race is the modality through which class is lived.” Stretching through time and across colonial and metropolitan space, the book shows continuity and change in organisational forms - from labor and social movements to families to community centres - through which resistance takes shape, extends, and endures. The book builds toward abolition understood as the capacity for self-determination, not only for people like those vividly portrayed in these pages, but for all who struggle to end oppression.'Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of The Golden Gulag'This book provides a comprehensive and timely examination of the function and practices of the police as a control apparatus of the state as they seek to regulate black people’s presence in the society and its institutions. The book is a must read, especially for young people, parents, teachers and those who shape education, youth and criminal justice policy.'Gus John, Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Education and author of Moss Side 1981: More Than Just a Riot'Elliott-Cooper provides crucial groundwork with this important and inspiring book on black resistances to British policing, which can be read as part of the black radical tradition as it deeply engages with traditions of anti-colonialism, black internationalism, black feminism and anti-capitalism, and shows that worlds beyond policing and prisons, as methods of racial capitalism, are already in the making.'Vanessa E. Thompson, Ethnic and Racial Studies (June 2022)'This book is a must-read, especially for young people, students, parents, teachers.'Race and Class'An important addition to the growing literature on this subject.'Labour Hub -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 'We did not come alive in Britain': histories of Black resistance to British policing2 Into the twenty-first century: resistance, respectability and Black deaths in police custody3 Black masculinity and criminalisation: the 2011 ‘riots’ in context4 2011: revolt and community defence5 All-out war: surveillance, collective punishment and the cutting edge of police power6 Futures of Black resistance: disruption, rebellion, abolitionConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThere have been relatively few well-informed, critical assessments of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. This book examines some of the background to these approaches, notably the influence of Schutz and phenomenology. It also compares Garfinkel’s approach with those of Goffman and Simmel, and assesses the influence of Cicourel and conversation analysis on research methodology. The core of the book is an in-depth assessment of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and of their relationship to mainstream social science. While the importance of the issues that these epistemologically and ontologically radical approaches raise is underlined, a number of fundamental problems are identified with the rationale underpinning them.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Was Schutz a positivist? Was he even a sociologist? Comparing the reception and inception of his work2 Garfinkel and Goffman via Simmel: parallels and divergences 3 On the disciplinary status of ethnomethodology 4 An assessment of the theoretical presuppositions of ethnomethodology5 The influence of ethnomethodology on qualitative research methodsConclusionReferencesName index Subject index

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Book SynopsisBirth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction – the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future – through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of ‘controlling’ birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate; what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Although new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of the same continuum. All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; Birth controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste. To empirically and historically ground the analysis, the book includes contributions from two postcolonial nations, South Africa and India, examining interactions between the history of colonialism and the economics of neoliberal markets and their influence on the technologies and politics of selective reproduction.The book provides a critical, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge dialogue around the interconnected issues that shape reproductive politics in an ostensibly ‘post-population control’ era. The contributions draw on a breadth of disciplines ranging from gender studies, sociology, medical anthropology, politics and science and technology studies to theology, public health and epidemiology, facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue around the interconnected modes of controlling birth and practices of neo-eugenics.Table of ContentsForeword - Betsy HartmannIntroduction – Amrita PandePrologue: Malika Ndlovu Part I: Birth projects1 Birth Projects, Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics – Amrita Pande 2 Spectres of biological politics: conversations within and across South Asia – Sushmita Chatterjee, Deboleena Roy, Banu Subramaniam 3 Ved Garbh Vihar: Hindutva’s latest neo-eugenic repronational project – Vasudha Mohanka 4 Racialising ancient skeletons: how haplotypes are mobilised in the re-writing of origin stories in the Indian media – Devika Prakash5 Bio-power and assisted reproductive technologies in the global south: An ethical response from South Africa – Manitza KotzePart II: Birth violated6 Injectable contraceptives: technologies of power and language of rights – C. Sathyamala 7 Stratified and violent: young women’s experiences of access to reproductive health in southern Africa – Kezia Batisai8 The politics of naming: contested vocabularies of birth violence – Rachelle Chadwick9 Individuals, institutions, and the global political economy: unpacking intentionality in obstetric violence – Sreeparna ChattopadhyayPart III: Birth assisted10 ‘The first thing is to…survive’: Dalit feminist voices on reproductive rights in India – Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Mohan Rao 11 Hamstrung by hardship: protecting egg donors’ reproductive labour in Kolkata, India – Meghna Mukherjee 12 The egg donation economy in South Africa: different levels of biopolitics – Verena Namberger 13 Subjects of scarcity: making white egg providers in the repro-hub of South Africa – Tessa Moll 14 The resurgence of eugenics through egg donation in South Africa: race as a central and ‘obvious’ choice – Rufaro Moyo Epilogue: Malika Ndlovu

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and new' intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and raced, emphasising the quest for respectability'. -- .

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Book SynopsisRisk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when cultures of fear intersect with pervasive systems of gender, race and class?Worrier state investigates four case studies in which fear and anxiety appear in radically different ways: the far right myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs. Falkof foregrounds the significance of emotion as a socio-political force, emphasising South Africa’s imbrication within globalised conditions of anxiety and thus its fundamental and often-ignored hypermodernity. The book offers a bold and creative perspective on the social roles of fear and emotion in South Africa and thus on everyday life in this complex place.Trade ReviewShortlisted for MeCCSA Monograph of the Year 2023Judges' comments:'This is a fascinating study of the perceived risks and associated concepts such as moral panic within South Africa and their media representations and is vigorous and timely as it speaks to the ‘risk’ society which has hitherto focused on the Global North. Fear and anxiety are explored through a discussion of four different mediatized ‘stories’ and through the author’s own clearly acknowledged white woman’s lens, all of which build a picture of a still highly racialised and unequal South Africa, where fear is differently focused and experienced depending on your position in the racial hierarchy as well as your class position. The case studies not only narrate different stories and different subjectivities but also grapple with the less familiar themes of magic and the occult. The book thus provides some original thinking through of how these different aspects of fear, anxiety and emotion play out in the modern South African imaginary. The work is scholarly and draws on both primary and secondary sources in the presentation of the different case studies.' ‘This stunning book resonates with climates of fear far beyond South Africa in how it magnifies the tensions and intimacies between embodied experience and the lingering history and threat of violence. This is a powerful and difficult book to write, and to write this well.’Samantha Pinto, author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights‘Original and refreshing, Falkof’s book is a must read for those of us interested in understanding contemporary formations of race and power in the global South and the role of the media in framing these debates. This study is critically needed in this moment of increasing worldwide white nationalism.’ Xavier Livermon, author of Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa'As Falkof shows in this compelling and important book, cultures of fear and anxiety emerge from deep socio-economic inequalities that continue to characterize South Africa today, on intersecting bases of race, class, gender and citizenship.' Belinda Dodson, Africa, Volume 93, Issue 2 (May 2023)'Nicky Falkof has critically examined issues of race, gender, and identity vis-a-vis the affectual reactions of the media and individuals to the above-mentioned cases. These essays on white genocide, Satanist murders, township urban legends of ‘plasma gangs’, and suburban community groups are a brilliant representation of how the fear and feelings of anxiety and moral panic of the privileged cannot be equated to that of the powerless as it leads to severely reductionist and often false narratives by institutions such as the mass media.'Sudatta Ghosh, South Asian University (SAU), Doing Sociology -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Risk, anxiety and moral panic2 ‘White genocide’ and the marketing of minority victims3 Christian nightmares4 Drugs, crime and consumption in Alexandra5 Safe selves versus good selves in the suburbsConclusion: Risky businessBibliography

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Book SynopsisAge at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces. The book examines: how society operates in and through age, and how this informs the very existence of organizations; age-organization regimes, age-organization boundaries, and the relationship between organizations and death, and post-death the importance of memory, forgetting and rememorizing in re-thinking the authors’ and others’ earlier work tensions between seeing age in terms of later life and seeing age as pervasive social relations. Enriched with insights from the authors’ lived experiences, Age at Work is a major and timely intervention in studies of age, work, care and organizations. Ideal for students of Sociology, Organizations and Management, Social Policy, Gerontology, Health and Social Care, and Social Work. Trade ReviewWe′ve all been told, "Too old for this, too young for that." In this masterly study Hearn and Parkin show how organizations organize human beings into categories. Calendars, chronologies and "ticking clocks" mobilize to tell us what we are and who we are becoming. Birth and death are certainties, but age and ageing are where power meets opinion. -- Terrell CarverIn reviewing this book, the phrase that continually comes to mind is `at last – a serious study of ageing and organization.’ There are so many positives to this book, not least of which is the authorship of Jeff Hearn and Wendy Parkin, who build on a lifetime of high impact research on various aspects of power and diversity. The other must-read elements include timeliness (it includes discussion of Covid-19); personal reflections and self-critique (joining theory to experience); engagement with age hegemony and the discourse of ageing at work; all written in an engaging style; that explores a topic that is relevant to us all. -- Professors Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills"This fascinating discourse offers subtle and subversive insights into the ways we enact age and aging. It deconstructs conventional social scripts in ways that can improve both our own self-understanding and the shape of public policy." -- Nancy FolbreHearn and Parkin bring long careers′ worth of organizational research to bear on this mission to rescue the field. They show how regimes of age structure institutions, from the rise of bureaucratic authority and trajectory of the ideal career, to the management of dependency and death in the age of pandemic. Enjoy this book for its sly humor and obvious pleasure taken in the writing. Let it inform your theory as you design your organizational research. It brings encyclopaedic knowledge of the histories of institutions to bear on the management of old age, the penetration of bureaucracy into familial and personal authority, the organization of daily care, attempts to extend the human lifespan, and memorials built to honor our heroes. This book ought to reshape the field of organizational studies. -- Professors Toni Calasanti and Neal KingCombining keen scholarly insight with personal testimonies, Jeff Hearn and Wendy Parkin provide a sensitive and sophisticated analysis of age and organization. Age at Work brings together age and organization studies in a comprehensive, highly accessible and contemporary account that addresses key concerns within cultural gerontology and the critical role of age in organizational construction and inequality. This timely book expands new domains of interest within a neglected area of research, highlighting how age, ageing and ageism ‘figure’ in organizations and raising fascinating issues that will be an invaluable resource across the social sciences. -- Professor Ruth SimpsonHow can such a thought-provoking book – paradoxically full of strokes and dementia and other geriatric challenges - be so wonderful to engage with? What Hearn and Parkin have succeeded in producing in this new work is a comprehensive survey of just how age and organization intertwine - ambiguously. Thus, the organizations through which we experience ageing are our places of work but also our places of health care, and of death. The authors show that age is a major issue for the young as well as the old; that age is a fiction but it is also a social fact; that age is contingent, intersectional and a social construct. Yet ageing is an event horizon from which there is no return. This unidirectionality notwithstanding, ‘Age at Work’ is a proper learning event to which one will be able to return, over time, on many occasions and, each time, feel more informed about oneself and those around you. -- Gibson BurrellAge as a ‘number’ is so deceptive, as this insightful book shows. Age is infused with socially constructed meanings, shaping and shaped by organizations of all types. The authors cast a critical sociological eye over this disparate field to expose age’s varied appearances and what may lie behind them. Amongst other things, they show us how age becomes politicised, commodified and exploited at different junctures of the lifecourse. Helpfully, the book enters the less fashionable, yet crucial, terrain of sickness and dying, focussing on the enterprises that transform these experiences into more or less palatable transitions, even beyond the grave - of particular resonance in the era of Covid-19. The authors add their personal experiences to parts of the book, effectively grounding their conceptual analyses. The book succeeds in both scope and depth. It exposes age as a rich phenomenon, conceptually and in practice. Age is shown to be fundamental to our identities and how we are treated by others. This book should be essential reading for advanced students of organization. -- Stephen FinemanThis is an exhaustive, erudite and comprehensive look at age and ageing. It playfully explores the idea of age ‘at work’: how it works, where it works and what it does in societal and organisational contexts. It includes but moves beyond paid work to look at various types of organisations: their structures, boundaries and regimes up to and including those involved in death and post death. It is particularly timely in its consideration of the meaning of age, the experience of ageism and the ambiguities involved in negotiating paid work boundaries from a liminal position. -- Pat O′ConnorWith its dynamic framework of age, aging and ageism enacted through organizations, Age at Work is pathbreaking, fundamentally challenging our perception of age in terms of fixed categories or specific life stages. The evolution of this book, a product of years of collaborative work between Hearn and Parkin, is reflected in its theoretical breadth and reach, which I would describe as Kaleidoscopic. Each new section reveals news aspects and processes shaping the dynamics of age in organizations: how age and organizations interact through societal regimes and age organizational regimes, how the configurations of age hegemony operate in organizations, sustaining the power of older white men. The latter is an example of the nuanced intersectional analysis of hierarchies in age, gender, race, ethnicity and generation that appear throughout this book. In the Doing of Organizations, Hearn and Parkin shift our focus to how boundary making within organizations define insiders and outsiders, leading to marginalization and non-recognition of the latter. These processes are embodied in narratives of their own experiences at various stages of retirement. Age at Work is both personal and provocative, seen in Hearn and Parkin’s engagement with the paradoxes in age in an organizational context. Age is both social fact and a fiction; it is invisible and visible in organizations, embodied and disembodied. Most provocative are the last chapters on awareness of and the ultimate boundary, post-death, including the role of organizations in how we cope with and manage death. Age at Work is an important book. It resonates in our era of the pandemic. It will generate an entire new body of critical age studies and reinvigorate organizational studies with an awareness and sensitivity to age, aging, and ageism, an area of research much neglected. -- Barbara HobsonAge at Work is a ground breaking book in a number of ways. At the core of the authors’ thinking around age, organizing and organizations is their fundamental plea to move away from static and limited concepts of age, ageing and the old as othered, to more fluid and critical ways of bringing non-essentialist, anti-ageist thinking and being and intersectional perspectives to the forefront of enquiry. It is refreshing to see how decades of previous research from the authors on gender, sexuality, violence and emotions inform a truly interdisciplinary perspective, contributing to a ‘slow research and writing’ process. Furthermore, this allows the authors to ask difficult questions for which there are no easy answers, about how we might look anew at ‘age at work’ in the context of organizations. Core to this endeavour is a refusal to ignore the problematics such questions raise, and there is a careful dismantling of ambiguous boundaries surrounding the topics under scrutiny, so that even the organization of the unfixity of post-death is considered. The book is especially timely, due to the consideration here of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and issues of power and the politics of age and aging figure in the book more generally. The authors auto-ethnographic approach, where both academic relationships and personal life course trajectories are reflected on, adds to the spirit of intellectual honesty in which the book was written by all involved. -- Professor Victoria RobinsonWith this volume, Hearn and Parkin offer a truly novel approach to the relationships between age, organizations and organizing. It is particularly heartening to see the breadth of disciplinary scope and inclusion of stages of life normally beyond the boundaries of organization studies. The personal voices and experiences of the authors are woven throughout their insightful reflections on what it means to be an ageing subject. This is a refreshing counterpoint to much of the literature that treats ageing as inherently problematic and reproduces, rather than challenges, the trope of intergenerational conflict. -- Associate Professor Susan AinsworthAge at Work brings age and organizations together in truly innovative ways. ‘Age’ intersects with organization as each constructs the other across time. Through a creative conceptual approach using data ranging from biographical to comparative sources, the book uses the prism of age to detail how we interact with organizations as workers, consumers, clients, patients or citizens in all our complexities. It brings new conceptualizations such as age/organizations regimes to bear in analyzing how age works inside and outside organizations. It is at once a rich review of previous work on the issues of ageing for both organizations and individuals and a theoretical and analytical contribution to considering in an ever more complex way how new insights from the intersectional issues of gender, class, race and ability interact with the unique category of age. The book will change how we consider organizations. It is an impressive enrichment to organizational studies and intersectional sociology. Using recent empirical case studies and interviews as well as biographical reflections based on their careers in organizational and gender research, Hearn and Parkin provide an immensely readable investigation of how age is actively at work in our organizations and how to better understand this. Highly topical, the book looks at age and organizations from youth to death, and concludes with considering the implications of pandemics. -- Alison WoodwardInnovative, timely and insightful. Essential reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the complex and so often neglected relationship between age and work. The book raises questions that could not be more important at the present moment in the context of the current pandemic. This is interdisciplinary work at its best. -- Richard CollierAge at Work is a good reminder from the authors of a number of simplifications and stereotypes that are wrapped up in the making of age and organizations and it′s a great and exciting read. Readable and easy to understand, it remains accessible to a wide range of professional readers not only in the field of studies of inequality, organizational culture, stratification, intersectionality, ageing or gender, but also for those for whom the study of the life cycle with a critical sociological perspective is just beginning to open. -- Iva ŠmídováHearn and Parkin’s work tries to untangle some if not most of these essentialist stances by recognizing that age(ing) can be, and is, mediated by not only individuals involved in social relations in organizations but also by the organizations themselves. Read full review -- Stephanie Ruel * Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal *The authors of this book, Jeff Hearn and Wendy Parkin, bring to bear many decades of scholarship into gender relations, gendering, sexuality and violence in organization studies. This paves the way for an approach to ageing and organization that is contingent (provisional and relational) and intersectional. Age and ageing are thereby shown to be related to gender, race, ethnicity and class, showing how these characteristics work together to privilege some and disadvantage others. Through this, Hearn and Parkin, together with co-authors Richard Howson and Charlotta Niemistö, explore how meanings of age are culturally gendered, while also acknowledging the corporeal and material-discursive reality of the ageing body which, they emphasize, goes beyond social constructions. Full revie: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01708406221112477 -- Emma Bell and Stefanie Ruel * Organization Studies Journal *Table of ContentsPart 1: Setting the Scene 1. Forgetting and Remembering Age: From Invisibility to Recognition Part 2: Society, Age and Organizations 2. Age in Society: Hegemony, Contingency and Intersectionality with Richard Howson 3. Society in Age: Hegemony, Historicity and Knowledge with Richard Howson Part 3: Age-Organization Regimes 4. The Making of Organizations: Contexts, Forms and Aims with Charlotta Niemistö 5. The Doing of Organizations: Structures, Processes and Talk with Charlotta Niemistö Part 4: Age-Organization Boundaries 6. Age, Organizations and Boundaries: An Overview 7. Age at Work: Autobiographical Reflections on Age-Organization Boundaries and Ambiguities 8. Living Afterlife: Age-Organization Boundaries in Practice 9. The Final Boundary?: Organization(s) and Organizing of Death 10. The Power of Absence: The Organization(s) and Organizing of Post-Death 11. Concluding: Another Ambiguous Boundary References

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. It explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationship between academics and students, and examines wider issues of culture and socialisation, from tuition fees and student mental health, to social mobility and employment. This is a timely contribution to current debates about the University and an invaluable resource for those interested in education, youth, and intergenerational relations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Emergence of a ‘Graduate Generation’ The Rise of Student Choice, and the Decline of Academic Autonomy Generational Expectations and Experiences of Higher Education The Changing Role of the Academic A Mental Health ‘Crisis’? Growing Up, Moving On? University and the Transition to Adulthood Conclusion: The Generational Responsibility of the University

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Book SynopsisThe concept of ’subculture’ is an invaluable tool to frame the study of non-normative and marginal cultures for social and cultural scholars. This international collection uncovers the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying and analyzing subcultural phenomena. Examining various dimensions of interpretivism, the book focuses on overarching concerns related to interpretation as well as day-to-day considerations that affect researchers’ and members’ interpretations of subcultural phenomena. It reveals how and why people use specific conceptual frames or methods and how those shape their interpretations of everyday realities. This is an unprecedented contribution to the field, explaining the interpretive processes through which people make sense of subcultural phenomena.Table of ContentsPart 1: Approaching Interpretive Practice 1. Making Sense of Subcultures: Interpretive Practice and/in Subcultural Theory - J. Patrick Williams 2. Subculture, Scene, Lifestyle, or Movement? Conceptualizing Straight Edge from Insider and Academic Perspectives - Ross Haenfler 3. Ghosts in the Machine: (Post)subculture and the ‘Problem’ of Contemporary Youth - Andy Bennett and Daniel Bennett Part 2: Contextualizing Interpretive Practice 4. No More Heroes: Portuguese Punk and the Notion of Subculture in the Global South - Paula Guerra 5. Still Crazy After All Those Years: A Trajectory of Discourses on Youth Subcultures in Korea, from Exclusion to Recognition to Legitimization - Hyunjoon Shin 6. Interpreting Chinese Punk: From Doing Nothing to Hermit Lifestyle - Jian Xiao and Xinxin Dong 7. The Dynamic Meaning of Subculture among DIY Indonesian Musicians - Oki Rahadianto Sutopo Part 3: Embodying Interpretive Practice 8. “That’s Not Punk!” Authenticity, Older Punk Women, and the ‘Doing’ of Punk Scholarship - Laura Way 9. “Let’s All Be Friends”: Emotional Labor and Insider Research of Punk Subculture - Stanislav Vysotsky and Donna Manion 10. Intimacy, Exchange, and Friendship as Sensitizing Concepts: Interpreting and Teaching Subcultures through Ethnographic Fieldwork - Shane Blackman and Laura Barnett Part 4: Conclusion 11. Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Interpretive Practice in Subcultural Studies - J. Patrick Williams and Samuel Judah

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Book Synopsis"An electrifying archive of queer cultural productions... These radical and minor transnational artistic practices by East and Southeast Asian queer diasporic cultural producers emerge in new light through Bao's brilliant theoretical insights." -Alvin K. Wong, author of Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the SinophoneThe COVID-19 pandemic has intensified global geopolitical tensions, bringing Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism into sharp focus. At the same time, a growing Asian diasporic consciousness is emerging worldwide, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. Yet, in the space between anti-Asian racism and the rise of Asian advocacy, the voices of queer people have often been largely missing.This book addresses that gap. Exploring a range of contemporary case studies from art, fashion, performance, film, and political activism, Bao offers a powerful intersectional cultural politicsanti-nationalist, anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, and queerthat challenges dominant narratives and amplifies marginalized voices.The Social Science for Social Justice series challenges the Ivory Tower of academia, providing a platform for academics, journalists, and activists of color to respond to pressing social issues.

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Book SynopsisThe past two decades have seen an explosion of research on Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume, the editors and contributors seek to present a complete picture of the middle and late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1100-1500) employing a new theoretical framework.Mesoamerican societies after the collapse of the great city-states of Tula and Chichen Itza stand out from earlier societies in a number of ways. They had larger regional populations, smaller polities, a higher volume of long-distance trade, greater diversity of trade goods, a more commercialized economy, and new standardized forms of pictorial writing and iconography. The emerging archaeological record reveals larger quantities of imported goods in Postclassic contexts, and ethnohistoric accounts describe marketplaces, professional merchants, and the use of money throughout Mesoamerica by the time of the Spanish conquest. The integration of this commercial economy with new forms of visual communication produced a dynamic world system that reached every corner of Mesoamerica.Thirty-six focused articles by twelve authors describe and analyze the complexity of Postclassic Mesoamerica. After an initial theoretical section, chapters are organized by key themes: polities, economic networks, information networks, case studies, and comparisons. Covering a region from western Mexico to Yucatan and the southwestern Maya highlands, this volume should be in the library of anyone with a serious interest in ancient Mexico.Trade Review"This is an impressive reference and guide to the Mesoamerican Postclassic period." —Michael Foster, author of Greater Mesoamerica: The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico

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Book SynopsisIn Marx and the Commons, Luca Basso provides a detailed reconstruction of the late Marx's connection of the collective dimension of communism and the element of individual realisation. Through an original analysis of a vast range of Marx's writings - from Capital to his political texts and scientific notes - the author brings out an articulated historical-theoretical landscape in which the notion of 'individual' is intertwined with the ideas of 'class', 'society' and 'community'.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fetishism and Subjects: Between Reality and Mystification 2. Ethnology and Forms of ‘the Common’ 3. Individual separation 4. Subjectivity and Class: The Space of Politics Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating description of how utilizing the biochar embedded in terra preta, the recently rediscovered sacred soil of the pre-Columbian peoples of the Amazon rainforest, can cut our dependency on petrochemicals, restore the health of our soils, remove carbon from our overheating atmosphere, and restore the planet to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon by 2050. The authors show that the rediscovery of terra preta is an opportunity to move beyond the West’s tradition of plunder and genocide of the native civilizations of the Americas by offering an invitation to embrace the deeper mystery of the indigenous methods of inquiry and to participate in an animate cosmos that gave rise to such a powerful soil technology. Sacred Soil, in recognizing the need for biocultural regeneration, takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of biochar soils, utilizing mythopoeic, historical, anthropological, and scientific perspectives to embrace the deep past, the vexed present, and the prospectus for our future. Coming at this crucial juncture in human history, the potential resting in biochar is also an open doorway into the indigenous ways of knowing that enabled the pre-Columbian Amazonian high civilizations to support a population of millions while leaving their lands more fertile than when they arose.

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Book SynopsisCombatting fatphobia and racism to reclaim a space for womxn at the intersection of fat and BlackTo be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling--"I just want you to be healthy"--to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside dominant constructs of beauty and wellness are subjected to healthism, racism, and misogynoir. The spaces carved out by third-wave feminism and the fat liberation movement fail at true inclusivity and intersectionality; fat Black womxn need to create their own safe spaces and community, instead of tirelessly laboring to educate and push back against dominant groups.Structured into three sections--"belonging," "resistance," and "acceptance"--and informed by personal history, community stories, and deep research, Fat Girls in Black Bodies breaks down the myths, stereotypes, tropes, and outright lies we''ve been sold about race, body size, belonging, and health. Dr. Joy Cox''s razor-sharp cultural commentary exposes the racist roots of diet culture, healthism, and the ways we erroneously conflate body size with personal responsibility. She explores how to reclaim space and create belonging in a hostile world, pushing back against tired pressures of "going along just to get along," and dismantles the institutionally ingrained myths about race, size, gender, and worth that deny fat Black womxn their selfhood.

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Book SynopsisIn much of Central Africa, eating wildlife is seen as a normal, desirable and common-sense practice. Almost all wild animals, from the largest mammals to the smallest invertebrates, are hunted, traded and consumed, providing vital income and nutrition for millions of people. But as demand for bushmeat grows, animal populations are being decimated, directly impacting biodiversity, local economies and public health. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Bushmeat explores questions ranging from deforestation and conservation strategies to infectious diseases, urban street food and law enforcement. It explains how the popularity of wild meat consumption has spread from rural areas into major cities, fuelled by rapid urbanisation, poorly defined regulations, and developing trade networks—whether small-scale and informal, or commercial and politically connected. While unsustainable hunting practices pose clear problems for wildlife conservation, they also increase the risk of rural food insecurity and of new infectious diseases emerging—as HIV, Ebola and Covid-19 have shown. But cultural attachment to wild meat, and its dietary importance for many communities, make the ‘bushmeat crisis’ difficult to solve. Based on extensive interviews and a comprehensive review of secondary literature, Bushmeat presents a startling account of one of the Anthropocene’s catastrophes in the making.Trade Review'An excellent introduction to the cultural, economic, and health implications of bushmeat.' -- Foreign Affairs'Everyone interested in people and wildlife should read this book. Every parliamentarian in the Congo Basin should read this book. Some may disagree with the author, but each of his chapters is excellent. Together they are a masterpiece.' -- David Wilkie, Director of Conservation Measures, Wildlife Conservation Society'In sub-Saharan Africa, bushmeat consumption is not only cultural; it’s a survival issue. How to preserve biodiversity and prevent zoonotic risks, while fighting against hunger accentuated by climate change? These are the main questions that emerge from this timely, important book.' -- Priscilla Omouendze Mouaragadja, Research Director, Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forets (Gabon)'A highly readable volume which I very much recommend. Without taking sides, Trefon skilfully tackles the issues surrounding wildlife conservation and use. This is an excellently written synopsis of one of the most important issues affecting biodiversity in today’s world.' -- Julia Fa, Professor of Biodiversity and Human Development, Manchester Metropolitan University'An engaging and immersive history contributing valuable new information and insights from a variety of perspectives, particularly in its rich ethnographic account of the needs and values of local African populations.' -- Jack Jenkins, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Durham University

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Book SynopsisThe 1960s saw pioneering changes in the realms of international politics, science, culture and art. Turning this historical lens onto the study of sociology, The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s reveals both the continuities and the departures the field has seen in its core principles and approaches over the past several decades. Beginning with an overview of society in the ‘60s, Jiří Šubrt provides an important reflection on a period worthy of contemporary reflection. In this context, what new concepts emerged? What were the popular methodological approaches? What controversies and debates emerged? How did sociology form part of a wider landscape of creative explosion throughout the decade? What implications does this have for contemporary sociology? Inspiring an enriched understanding of a legacy still deeply relevant to current issues and concerns across the field, The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s proves that, despite the half a century that has since passed, we still have much to learn from this rich period of sociological development.Trade ReviewUnderstanding the 1960s as a decade of hope and a call for radical change, Šubrt . . . masterfully makes astute observations outside of ideas already posited, using language that demonstrates that sociologists are not only dry repeaters of previous thinkers, but instead creative, thoughtful minds, reflecting on society and how it can move forward, even if there is no clear trajectory where that forward might take us . . . The Sociological Inheritance of the 1960s is a useful tool for sociologists as both a reference and as a means to better understand their field, giving credence to the value of historical sociology and placing social phenomena in its appropriate time and place along with context. This is done to the benefit of all, demonstrating that the past, present, and future are all connected in a continuum, showcasing that the present state of sociology did not arise out of nowhere. -- Haylee Behrends, Instructor in History, Political Science, and Sociology, Western Technical College, USA[Šubrt] skillfully situates his work in the concerns and events of historical time, geographical space, and political power. Specifically, he clarifies how US, as well as Western and Eastern European, political and economic structures shaped and legitimized specific ways of thinking . . . Especially informative and powerful for analyzing today’s historically situated social problems, Dr. Šubrt’s work provides the context needed to better understand the development and use of sociological theory, as well as society itself. -- Dawn Norris, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USATable of ContentsChapter 1. A time when progress was still believed in (in place of an introduction) Chapter 2. Societies of the 1960s, sociologically speaking Chapter 3. The legacy of positivism, or how to make a sociological theory Chapter 4. How to focus the systems approach on modern societies Chapter 5. Social classes and stratification Chapter 6. Conflicts may not bring only evil Chapter 7. Media and mass communication Chapter 8. Imagination – creative and sociological Chapter 9. The birth of sociological constructivism Chapter 10. What about individual human freedom? Chapter 11. The point is to change the world Chapter 12. One thing ends, another begins (in place of a conclusion)

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