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Book SynopsisThere is broad consensus on the need to shift to a new paradigm of lifestyles and economic development, given the un-sustainability of current patterns. Given this, research on consumer behavior is to play a crucial role in shedding light on the motives underpinning the adoption of responsible behaviors.Stemming from a thorough discussion of existing approaches, this book argues that the perspective of analysis has to be modified. First, acknowledging that a profile of the responsible consumer does not exist since all of us can be more or less sustainable and environment-friendly: the sustainability of an individual should not be considered as given, being something dynamic that changes according to both subjective and contextual factors. Moreover, the book hypothesises that integrating dimensions and perspectives that have been so far overlooked by mainstream research will help deconstruct responsible behaviors adopting a flexible and holistic approach. Relevant policy implications are discussed, and empirical research on responsible behaviors is illustrated.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumer behavior, sustainable consumption, environmental psychology and environmental studies in general.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 New perspectives in consumer behavior1.2 Consumer behavior in the age of sustainability1.3 Research in a crowded field: how to contribute?1.4 Book structureChapter 2: From green consumers to responsible citizens2.1 Labels matter: the concept of responsible citizens2.2 Early attempts of analyzing sustainable behaviors2.3 From Reasoned Action to Planned Behavior2.4 Values, norms and other psychological models2.5 The need for further perspectives of analysisChapter 3: The trap of behavioral patterns: the role of habits3.1 Habits in consumer behavior research3.2 Operationalization of habits3.3 How to measure habits3.4 Integrating habits in a rationalistic perspective on consumer behavior3.5 How to disrupt deeply rooted behavioral patternsChapter 4: Praise or money? Rewards’ effectiveness in shaping behaviors4.1 An overview on incentives4.2 The effects of rewards on motivation4.3 Implications for policy and businessChapter 5: How behaviors are interrelated: the spillover effect5.1 Behavioral spillover, an intriguing concept for an open debate5.2 Theoretical foundations for positive spillover5.3 Theoretical foundations for negative spillover5.4 A methodology to investigate spilloverChapter 6: A model for understanding responsible citizens’ behavior6.1 The need for a holistic and flexible approach6.2 Factors to be included in the analysis6.3 The proposition of an innovative interpretative frameworkChapter 7: From theory to practice: a real-life intervention study7.1 Investigating sustainable behaviors: an intervention study7.2 Methods7.3 Results7.4 Appendix - Online questionnaire

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Book SynopsisBruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in the field of architecture.Latour for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bruno Latour that are relevant to architects. First, the book discusses critically how specific methods and insights from his philosophy can inspire new thinking in architecture and design pedagogy. Second, it explores examples from architectural practice and urban design, and reviews recent attempts to extend the methods of ANT into the fields of architectural and urban studies. Third, the book advocates an ANT-inspired approach to architecture, and examines how its meTrade Review"Don’t get fooled by the title of Albena Yaneva’s book "Latour for Architects". It is a quick, lively and precise introduction of my work for lots of other professional bodies and academics. This is the best presentation of my entire work that I am aware of." Bruno Latour, Emeritus Professor at Science Po, Paris, France"At a moment when more and more designers conceive of form as interplay rather than shape and outline, Latour for Architects further extends research and practice beyond the limits of the profession and into new disciplinary coalitions that are increasingly giving authority to spatial variables."Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, Yale University, School of Architecture, USA"Albena Yaneva does an outstanding job in presenting Latour’s most important ideas and deserves praise for organizing them in such an accessible manner. Regarding the task of explanation, the book is impressive."Robert A. Beauregard, Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USAPodcasts‘Sunday Coffee: Arts Design Architecture Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva’ (with Tricia Keffer)https://sundaycoffee.buzzsprout.com/1848499/10635123-latour-for-architects-by-albena-yaneva‘Albena Yaneva: Bruno Latour, ANT and Architects. A is for Architecture’ (with Ambrose Gillick)Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/w5kvr9e6Apple: https://tinyurl.com/vn4b5bfkGoogle: https://tinyurl.com/yc7tsu69Table of Contents1. Introduction: ‘In this world’ 2. Rethinking the Modern Constitution 3. Science in the making 4. How technology shapes everyday life 5. Actor-Network Theory 6. Space and spacing 7. Invisible cities 8. The parliament of things 9. A Gaia who cares

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Book SynopsisThis imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on feminist, more-than-human and affect theories to argue that people in high-carbon societies need to learn to live-with' climate change: to appreciate that human lives are interconnected with the climate, and to cultivate the emotional capacities needed to respond to the climate crisis. Learning to Live with Climate Change explores the cultural, interpersonal and sociological dimensions of ecological distress. The book engages with Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer' of bushfires and smoke, undergraduate students' experiences of climate change, and contemporary activist movements such as the youth strikes for climate. Verlie outlines how we can collectively attune to, live with, and respond to the unsettling realities of cliTrade Review"Is climate change the teacher we need to help us learn to live? Perhaps counterintuitively, Verlie's answer is a resounding yes. Written for educators, young people, activists, community members, parents, researchers, and politicians—and anybody who is concerned about the fate of life on the planet— this book invites us to engage in an expansive, co-creative, and entangled relationship with climate, which Verlie defines as more a verb than a noun. This book aims more for courage, witness, and inspiration than resilience, adaptation, or coping, and outlines the faculties needed to bear, endure, and generate new worlds." Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, and professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University. "Learning to live with Climate Change is a remarkable account of how climate change makes us feel and a powerful challenge to who we think we are. Verlie’s accessible writing style deftly holds all of climate change’s complexities without ever overwhelming us. Through careful attention to climate change’s affective dimensions, Verlie charts a personal and collective pedagogical course for learning to live with what might otherwise seem impossible: finding inspiration, solidarity and renewed energy in the face of overwhelming crisis. Most importantly, reading this book made me want to go out and do more."Astrida Neimanis, author of ‘Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology’ and Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at UBC Okanagan."Blanche Verlie has written an insightful, moving and much needed book about the complex human response to climate change. It is an important contribution to the growing body of social science work on this topic, important too because reading it and engaging with her ideas enables us to develop strategies that can inspire and support people to engage with and respond to climate change."Rebecca Huntley, author of How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference"I see this as one of the most significant recent books on climate anxiety. This is a very high-quality work. It is a book in education in the classical sense: it con- sists of wide-ranging philosophical and practical discussions, not only depictions of methods and activities." Panu Pihkala, University of Helsinki, book review in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education"Some books or ideas become our companions, concepts we come to live with and use to experience and understand the world. Some have words so beautifully placed and ideas so timely borne that they frame how we bear our encounters. This book is full of such words, as Verlie writes with integrity and generosity, inviting us into dialogue, engagement, journey, and transformation. Verlie is giving words and concepts where they have been missing; powerfully naming experiences that are unnamed; and therefore giving meaning and witness to the experiences of bodies suffering with climate through ecological destruction. In many ways, this book is a guidebook for a journey we are all facing, whether we know it or not." Charlotte Jones,University of Tasmania, book review in Geographical Research"Blanche Verlie’s book, Learning to Live with Climate Change is a must read for educators interested in developing situated and collective responses that support young people experiencing various climate change(s) in their everyday worlds. You won’t find a recipe or a how-to list of tips and tricks to solve these worldly problems in this book. Instead, Verlie brings together practices of encountering, witnessing, and storying to highlight what becomes possible when working with embodied, relational, and affective practices for change." Mindy Blaise, Professor and Co-director, Centre for People, Place & Planet, School of Education, Edith Cowan UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Climate is living-with 2. Feeling the climate crisis 3. Encountering climate anxiety 4. Witnessing multiple climate realities 5. Storying climate collectives 6. Conclusion: Bearing worlds

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Book SynopsisWithin this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis.Psychoanalysis and Colonialism is unique in drawing together a wide array of sources and a span of history from the beginnings of psychoanalysis to current theory and practice. The book explores ways in which Freudian theory incorporated the idea of the primitive into the centre of mapping the untamed territories of the unconscious, via notions of taming instinctual excess, civilizing the primitive and conquering and bringing order to wildness. The text describes the influences of colonialism on the thinking of Freud and Jung and goes on to describe anti-colonial voices, including Césaire and Mannoni, Memmi and Fanon, and their contribution to psychoanalytic theory. It concludes with thoughts on the challenges of decolonizing psychoanalysis.ThTrade Review'Within Psychoanalysis and Colonialism Sally Swartz offers her colleagues and all interested a perspective unique to one "seeing" our world from outside of a European or North American cultural context. As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained and practicing in Africa, though steeped in the ideas and practices coming from those colonizing cultures, Swartz offers a carefully crafted history of how the ideas and practices of our craft have been shaped and reinforce basic assumptions underlying the political ideas and actions constituting the history within which psychoanalysis was born and matured. This look back at our past and present is an invaluable tool for any considerations concerning the unfolding value that psychoanalysis might have for the new social/economic/political configurations in which we find ourselves embedded and carried along.'Dr Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D., Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor, Clinical Supervisor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Bodies and Social Rhythms (2021)'In Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction, Sally Swartz offers a timely, sensitive and accessible account of psychoanalytic entanglements with colonialism as well as the touchstones that may guide a decolonial psychoanalysis.'Dr Wahbie Long, Director of the Child Guidance Clinic, University of Cape Town, author of Nation on the Couch: Inside South Africa's Mind (2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Colonial Freud and Jung 3. Anti-colonialism and Psychoanalysis 4. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes: â 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health â Expanded global coverTrade Review'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the "go to" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsCritical Development Studies: An Introduction 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades Part 1: History as Development 2. Unravelling the Canvas of History Part 2: Thinking Critically about Development 3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies Part 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation 8. Capitalism and Crises 9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era Part 4: Policy Configurations for Development 13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion Part 5: Inside the BRICS 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes Part 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context Part 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States Part 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Part 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment 35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa Part 10: Resistances and Alternatives 39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below Conclusion 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls

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Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Self-Harm presents a new approach to understanding parasuicidal behaviour, based upon an examination of online communities that promote performances of self-harm in the pursuit of an idealised beauty. The book considers how online communities provide a significant level of support for self-harmers and focuses on relevant case studies to establish a new model for the comprehension of the online supportive community. To do so, Alderton explores discussions of self-harm and disordered eating on social networks. She examines aesthetic trends that contextualise harmful behavior and help people to perform feelings of sadness and vulnerability online. Alderton argues that the traditional understanding of self-violence through medical discourse is important, but that it misses vital elements of human group activity and the motivating forces of visual imagery. Covering psychiatry and psychology, rhetoric and sociology, this book provides essential reaTable of ContentsPreface 1. Self-Harm on Social Networks: Understanding Online Eating Disorder and Self-Harm Communities 2. The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: Visual Rhetoric as a Key to Understanding Online Activities 3. Sad Girls: The Internet and the Performance of Mood 4. Suggestions for Clinical Practitioners: New Tools for Managing Visually Oriented Self-Harmers 5. Healing Through Aesthetics: How Images Can Guide Behaviour and Health

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents in a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview, the emerging field of international political sociology. It summarizes and synthesizes existing knowledge in the field while presenting central themes and methodologies that have been at the centre of its development, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of international political sociology as a field of study. A wide range of topics covered include: International political sociology and its cognate disciplines and fields of study; Key themes including security, mobility, finance, development, gender, religion, health, global elites and the environment; Methodologies on how to engage with international political sociology including fieldwork, archives, discourse, ethnography, assemblage, materiality, social spaces and visuality; Current and future challenges of international political sociology addressed by three key scholars. Providing a synthetic reference point, summarizing key achievements and engagements while putting forward future developments and potential fruitful lines of inquiry, it is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly international relations, political science, sociology, political geography, international law, international political economy, security studies and gender studies.Trade Review'"Handbook" scarcely captures the excitement that this lively volume engenders. Guillaume, Bilgin and their innovative contributors have given us a proverbial diving board from which we all - in all fields - can launch our own plunges into an ocean of intellectual explorations. Reading this book makes clear that international political sociology is not a disciplinary fortress; it is a world of investigatory possibilities.' - Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism (new updated edition, 2016)'International political sociology represents the most intellectually dynamic field of study within international relations today, and this handbook provides a definitive overview. An essential point of reference for students and scholars alike.' - Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, UK'This handbook is an excellent introduction to the burgeoning study field of international political sociology. Combining theoretical lineages with introducing key matters of concern, it captures the intellectual diversity and dynamism of international political sociology. Guillaume and Bilgin avoid disciplinary boundary drawing and focus instead on the pluriverse of works challenging familiar conceptual repertoires of IR, giving us an excellent view of the creativity with which international political sociology engages theoretical, methodological and political challenges of our times.' - Jef Huysmans, Queen Mary, University of London, UK‘Handbooks generally summarize, consolidate, and synthesize. That is, they serve as reference material: their quality depends on the comprehensiveness and accessibility of their collections; experts in their subject matter have no call to consult them. Guilaume’s and Bilgin’s handbook is definitely comprehensive and accessible, but it otherwise breaks the mold. It genuinely advances the international political sociology agenda. Both together, and in their individual chapters, the contributors build a case for new ways of understanding the ’state of the art’ and where to take it.’ – Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction to the Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology Part I: International Political Sociology and its Cognate Fields of Study 2. Feminist Theory/Gender Studies 3. Historical Sociology 4. International Law 5. International Political Economy 6. International Political Theory 7. Postcolonialism and International Political Sociology 8. The International Political Strategy of Security Studies 9. Sociology 10. World Society Part II: Key Themes of International Political Sociology 11. Citizenship and an International Political Sociology 12. Advancing "Development" through an International Political Sociology 13. The Environment 14. Finance 15. Feminist International Political Sociology - International Political Sociology Feminism 16. Global Elites 17. Global Governance 18. Health, Medecine and the Bio-Sciences 19. Mobilisation 20. Mobility 21. Straddling National and International Politics: Revisiting the Secular Assumptions 22. Reflexive Sociology and International Political Economy 23. Security Studies Part III: Methodologies of International Political Sociology 24. Archival Methods 25. Assemblage 26. Discourse and Narrative 27. Ethnography/Autoethnography/Autobiography 28. Learning From the Field 29. History 30. Learning How To See 31. Materiality 32. Multidisciplinarity 33. Practice 34. Social Spaces Parti IV: Transversal Reflections 35. Afterword: Transversal Politics 36. Afterword : International Political Sociology, or: The Social Ontology and Power Politics of Process 37. Afterword: The Commercial In/For International Political Sociology

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that policing should be studied in a truly comparative manner as a way of identifying more accurately the diverse features of police organisations and the trends which affect contemporary policing. Studying policing comparatively is also a way to develop more sophisticated theories on the relations between police, state, and society aiming at higher degree of generalization. In particular, broadening the empirical basis, often limited to Western countries, favours the formulation of more encompassing theories. The comparative analysis, then, is used to refine meso or macro theories on various aspects of policing.The book covers the challenges of comparative research in diverse areas of policing studies with innovative tools and approaches to allow for the development of that subfield of policing. It is a significant new contribution to policing studies, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Public Policy, Sociology,Table of ContentsIntroductionChallenges and promises of comparative policing research Jacques de Maillard and Sebastian RochéPolicing and the state: national paradigms, private security and citizens’ role 1. Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – OntarioBas van Stokkom and Jan Terpstra 2. Comparing private security regulation in the European UnionMark Button and Peter Stiernstedt 3. Citizen participation in community safety: a comparative study of community policing in South Korea and the UKKwan Choi and Ju-lak Lee Comparing police–citizen relations: policies and practices4. Under-regulated and unaccountable? Explaining variation in stop and search rates in Scotland, England and WalesGenevieve Lennon and Kath Murray5. Different styles of policing: discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and GermanyJacques de Maillard, Daniela Hunold, Sebastian Roché and Dietrich Oberwittler Police legitimacy, democracy and integrity: the need for comparative instruments across contexts 6. Police legitimacy in Africa: a multilevel multinational analysisFrancis D. Boateng7. Assessing the validity of police integrity scale in a comparative contextJon Maskály, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Maria Haberfeld, Christopher Donner, Tiffany Chen and Michael Meyers

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Book SynopsisHow do people of different ages experience and engage with politics in their everyday lives, and how do these experiences and engagements change over their life course and across different generations? Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding political participation and political outcomes, and current policies of austerity across the world are affecting people of all ages. This book contributes towards an interdisciplinary understanding of the temporalities of everyday political encounters. At a time when social science is struggling to understand the rapid and unexpected changes to contemporary political landscapes, the contributors to this book present examples of activism and politics across everyday experiences of homes, communities, online platforms, local environment, playgrounds and educational spaces. The research takes ethnographic, biographical and action research approaches, and the studies described feature interlocutors as young as four and as old as ninety-two who reside in European, North and South America, and South Asia. This is an eclectic text that brings together a number of themes and ideas not typically associated with political activism, and is intended for students and academic researchers across the humanities, social and political sciences interested in the temporalities of everyday political participation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction: Political activism across the life course 1. Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England 2. Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists 3. Narrative resources and political violence: the life stories of former clandestine militants in Portugal 4. Politicisation in later life: experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time 5. Talking politics in everyday family lives 6. Digital citizens? Data traces and family life 7. Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice 8. Play as activism? Early childhood and (inter)generational politics 9. Educational activism across the divide: empowering youths and their communities 10. Housing choices in later life as unclaimed forms of housing activism 11. Enduring ideals: revisiting Lifetimes of Commitment twenty-five years later

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Book SynopsisIn Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of epistemic injustice. It underscores the historical role of ideas in race-making and provides analytical lenses for exploring cross-border transfers of whiteness in Central Europe. In the case of Roma, the scientific argument in favor of segregation continues to play an outstanding role due to a long-term focus on the limited educability of Roma. The authors trace the long-term interrelation between racializing Roma and the adaptation by Central European scholars of theories legitimizing segregation against those considered non-white, conceived as unable to become educated or civilized. Along with legitimizing segregation, sterilization and even extermination, theorizing ineducability has laid the groundwork for negating the capacity of RoTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Whiteness: The Never-ending Story of Epistemic Injustice Against Roma; 1. Whiteness: A Locus for Doing Race; 2. Obscure Racism: From National Indifference to Whitening Roma; 3. The Post-socialist Shift in Pathologizing: From Disabled Roma to Disabled Socialism; 4. The Limits and Options of Historical Narratives Concerning Roma in Central Europe; Part II. The (In)educability of Roma: Central Europe between Overt and Enlightened Racism; 5. The Inception of Whiteness: The Grellmannian Intersections of European Roma; 6. Global Racial Order Comes to Central Europe: The Puzzle of "White Gypsies" at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century; 7. The Institutionalization of a Racialized Approach to Roma in the 1920s – 1940s: Rooting the Stigma of an Insecure Population; 8. In (Re)search of Inclusion: Roma Under the Pressure of De-historicizing between the 1950s and 1990s; 9. Conclusion: Epistemic Justice for Central European Roma: Toward the Unlimited Negation of Whiteness

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Book SynopsisMonsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants' invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a tTrade Review"A sense of catastrophe shapes the present. Terrorism and ‘war on terror’, environmental collapse, pandemic and "migrant crisis" build the background of the analysis pursued in this timely and original book. Investigating Western visual culture and imaginaries, Gaia Giuliani gives us a breathtaking tour across landscapes populated by monstrous creatures that, far from simply being the ‘West’s’ Other, continue to haunt it and in a way foreshadow the possibility of its vanishing. In the time of the catastrophe racialised bodies continue to be targeted by violent measures of control to allow the reproduction of the European and Western ‘we’, as Giuliani effectively shows. But with a classical postcolonial move she is also able to grasp and expose the cracks and fissures that destabilize that ‘we’ and open up the space for a postcolonial and feminist political project built upon such notions as ‘trans-corporeality’, ‘interactivity’ and ‘interdependency of Life and Nonlife’. Working the boundary between postcolonial, visual, and film studies, and at the same time drawing upon a number of other fields of knowledge, including philosophy and political theory, Monsters, Catastrophes, and the Anthropocene is a masterful academic work and a powerful contribution to a critical theory of our present predicament." – Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna, Italy, Co-author (with Brett Neilson) of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke, 2013)"In geological time scale, Anthropocene is a period from WWII to current time. In Gaia Giuliani’s extraordinarily erudite book, it is a time defined by ‘ontologies and logics’ of Othering, where the Western/European ‘we’ produces fears through mediatized narratives of monstrosity and catastrophe as its existential threats. Those fears are supposed to keep at bay resistance to extractivism of Earth’s resources and neoliberal exploitation and exclusion of people deemed expendable. Racialized, gendered, sexualized and classed constructions of monsters serve to preserve and continue colonial-cum-capitalist technologies of power and their political, social, economic and cultural outcomes that privilege white bodies while simultaneously inflicts cultural, material and mortal violence on all others. Giuliani’s critical feminist, postcolonial and ecological perspective offers an exceptional intersectional and genealogical analysis of plentiful examples from political theory and cultural production that links representations of contemporary migration, terrorism and natural disasters to the old colonial tales and images of slavery, apocalypse and endless forms of de-humanizing violence. Importantly, Giuliani also offers a glimpse of political practice that would link human and non-human life with non-living environment in different, non-exploitative modes of production (de-growth, non-exploitative) as well as social reproduction marked by interdependency of self-care and earth-care." – Dubravka Zarkov, Retired, Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict, Development, ISS/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nederlands, Research Associate, Radboud University Nijmegen, Co-Editor, European Journal of Women’s Studies, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejw"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene A Postcolonial Critique is an urgent and rigorous theorization of global regimes of extractive capitalism, environmental devastation, pandemics, and ongoing war and state violence. Giuliani offers fresh and insightful ways of approaching crises and reimagining what belonging could be like if we abandon a notion of "we" that has promulgated exclusion, suffering, and the deaths of many millions." – Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History, Rutgers University, USA, Author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard UP, Spring 2020)"Gaia Giuliani's work has been consistently marked by an ambitious level of engagement and impressive scope. Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique is no exception. It takes a long, hard view of cultural history with particular reference to Europe/the West/Global North relations with its others. Giuliani places monsters as the prism through which these engagements unfold across time. But also how monsters inhabit our own ghostly crises times, culminating in the book’s conclusion on COVID-19. The result is a broad-scoped analysis of "cultural texts" with particular attention to popular culture." – Lars Jensen, Associate Professor of Intercultural studies, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark, Author of Postcolonial Europe (Routledge, 2020)"Giuliani’s extremely rich volume offers precious keys to decipher salient features of the current ‘end times’, murky and agitated by the spectre of planetary crises and permanent catastrophe. Leading the reader through an intense and exciting voyage in recent works of fiction, Giuliani skilfully traces the mutations of classic tropes of environmental discourse (contagion, crises, catastrophe and collapse), and their proliferation in contemporary political debates. Giuliani casts a spotlight on liminal figures such as the alien, the mutant, the monster, all situated in the in-betweens dead/undead, human/non-human. Embodied in widespread representations of the migrant, the terrorist, the victim of climate change/disaster, such figures of the monstrous are analysed by Giuliani as symptom of the reconfiguration of the boundaries between Life and Nonlife, a key site of political contestation in the face of tangled planetary crises. With a thorough and theoretically engaged exploration of visual imaginaries, Giuliani shows how apocalyptic (environmental) narratives extend into the future the postcolonial, racialised, gendered and classed relations that structure current fears and visions. Putting in conversation political theory, environmental humanities, postcolonial and critical feminist studies, Giuliani’s is a thought-provoking intervention in critical debates on the Anthropocene, and a contribution to the pursuit of non-exploitative, caring and decolonized constellations of (non)human Life/Nonlife."— Giovanni Bettini, Lecturer in Climate Politics and Development, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK"With clear insight of the fringes and structural contradictions of our time, Giuliani’s analysis celebrates an investigative method developed through her long-standing research. Through a broad comparative analysis of visual apocalyptic materials, such as films and TV series, to trace protagonists of present popular imaginary, Giuliani offers original reflections and a visionary energy toward a postcolonial critical approach to contemporary fears of the End. Through a careful use of diverse disciplinary registers, Giuliani’s book innovates philosophical form by building a historical and symbolic journey through the space-time geography of the world, masterfully braiding the threads of the colonial past and neo-colonial present to fix its knots in the construction of figures at the border of social fear; from the monster to the alien, from the virus to environmental catastrophes. The inevitability of concluding on the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic perfectly closes the circle of reflection, stigmatizing our time and future as an era of a realized (capitalistic) dystopia. The culmination of Giuliani’s brilliant book, however, is nested in its luminous ability to incite ways to think and move toward "a feminist, post-developmental and ecologist epistemology and a political project that embraces a new conception of the political." – Giovanni Ruocco, Associate Professor in History of Political Thought, Department of Political Science, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy, author of Razze in teoria. La scienza politica di Gaetano Mosca nel discorso pubblico dell’Ottocento (Quodlibet, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: The past devours the present: Fears of invasion and the repressed memory of colonial violence Section 2: Alien-ing the migrant. On Anthropocenic geographies of monstrosity Section 3: Lifting the veil on the monstrous Anthropocene: a postcolonial analysis Conclusions

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This book is the first attempt to understand one of Britain's hidden populations - The post Windrush generation, who matured within a post-industrial British society that rendered them both invisible and irrelevant. A reflective testament of what life was really like for black men in Britain.

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Book SynopsisIsraeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires explores the inner world of Israeli sex work consumers and their use of digital technologies on which intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging create a localized form of homosociality and brotherhood.The first of its kind to offer an in-depth analysis of masculine sexual repertoires in the field of sex consumption, this book uses extensive data and observations of online ethnography among a community of Israeli sex consumers operating online. It elucidates the economics of demand in the field of sexual consumption and highlights how the rise of the thriving online communities of sex consumers can function as a platform on which power relations between men themselves are publicly displayed and are constantly challenged.Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires will be suitable for researchers in Gender and SexTable of ContentsPreface; 1 Introduction: The Consumption of Sex in the Digital Age; 2 The Consumer Sexual Script; 3 The Hunter Sexual Script; 4 The Addict Sexual Script; 5 Moving Beyond the "Client"

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Book SynopsisIn recent years its medical implications have brought loneliness to the centre of attention of mass media, government agents, and the general public. However, as this volume demonstrates, loneliness is not merely a psychological, individual, or health issue. In multiple ways, it is a serious social problem as well.Yang urges fellow researchers and scientists to broaden the existing definition and classification of loneliness, to measure loneliness with greater accuracy, and to establish more specifically the connection between loneliness and particular illness. Drawing on vast sources of data including literary works, case studies, and large-scale sample surveys covering a broad spectrum of countries (Europe and beyond), the empirical research of this study produces and presents simple but effective evidence for the social nature and variations of loneliness.Examining loneliness at higher levels, including ethnic grTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceChapter 1 Loneliness: Is it a problem?Chapter 2 Loneliness as a social problemChapter 3 Loneliness: A problem only for older people?Chapter 4 Aloneness, Loneliness, and SolitudeChapter 5 Lonely among others Chapter 6 Loneliness across social groupsChapter 7 Loneliness and classChapter 8 National disposition towards lonelinessChapter 9 Tackling loneliness: Messages to the lonely and the non-lonelyChapter 10 Conclusions and reflectionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we see' social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, changTable of ContentsPreface: World-Making 1. Groundwork: Origins of Worlds, Space and Time 2. Imagining Neverlands 3. The Dark Centuries 4. Beowulf and the Beo-Monde 5. Building Monsters 6. Endwork: Second to the right, and straight on till morning

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Book SynopsisEmilie Prattico has used the lens of a discourse-theoretic conception of deliberative democracy to engage eight prominent colleagues in stimulating interviews. They critically illuminate the various ways that a sound democratic regime depends upon the deliberative milieu of an inclusive public sphere. - Jürgen HabermasThe continued rise of populism and authoritarianism throughout the world has witnessed an alarming attack on basic democratic freedoms and led to a divided political and social world. Few thinkers have done as much as Jürgen Habermas to understand and critique these problems, perhaps most famously through his notions of the public sphere, deliberative democracy, and discourse ethics.In this fascinating book, Emilie Prattico considers the crisis of democracy from a Habermasian standpoint via engaging interviews with an outstanding lineup of leading philosophers and thinkers. The following key topics are unpacked and explored:Table of ContentsForeword Jürgen Habermas Introduction Emilie Prattico 1. Can some basic rights and liberties be given up to safeguard democracy? An interview with Hauke Brunkhorst 2. How does actual deliberation confer legitimacy to democratic decisions? An interview Cristina Lafont 3. Why is "fake news" a crisis of democracy? An interview with Michael Lynch 4. How can we build a public sphere together and share it in a world characterized by divisiveness and tribalism? An interview with Barbara Fultner 5. Can democracy survive without the voice of experts? An interview with Kenneth Baynes 6. How dangerous are the current forms of authoritarianism we are seeing take hold all over the world? An interview with Maria Pia Lara 7. What does the public sphere look like with new technologies? An interview with Gertrud Koch 8. What duties do we owe descendants of slaves and how do we reckon with our antidemocratic and oppressive past? An interview with Lorenzo Simpson. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning, fiction, and photography to augmented urban realities in crowd-mapping and mobile apps.The volume brings various global perspectives together and into close dialogue to offer a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries. Questioning the politics of urban imagination, the companion gives particular attention to the role that urban imaginaries play in shaping the future of urban societies, communities, and built environments. Throughout the companion, issues of power, resistance, and uneven geographical development remTrade Review"This book provides an important introduction to, and comprehensive overview of, contemporary scholarship on urban imaginaries. Lindner and Meissner have compiled an exciting collection of essays, connecting perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences and drawing on cases from a broad range of media and geographical contexts. With its incisive analysis of the political role of the imagination in cities across the world, and an insightful focus on the crafting of urban futures, this book is likely to become a key resource in urban studies teaching and research."Rivke Jaffe, Professor of Cities, Politics and Culture, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of Contents1 Introduction: Urban imaginaries in theory and practice PART I Eco and resilient 2 Thirsty cities: Who owns the right to water? 3 Rapid adaptation and mitigation planning 4 Urban nature and the ecological imaginary 5 Litter and the urban imaginary: On chewing gum and street art 6 IHM-agining sustainability: Urban imaginaries in spaces of possibility 7 Formal encounters in two tales of toxicity: Bhopal, Animal’s People, Louisville, The Hard Weather Boating Party PART II Smart and digital 8 Smart urban: Imaginary, interiority, intelligence 9 The origin of the smart city imaginary: From the dawn of modernity to the eclipse of reason 10 Construction performance: How the camera charts progress on site 11 Authoritarianism and the transparent smart city 12 Digital urban imaginaries: Space, time and culture wars in the cyber-city 13 Urban exposure: Feminist crowd-mapping and the new urban imaginary 14 Every breath you take: Captured movements in the hyperconnected city PART III Connected and consuming 15 Imagining the open city: (Post-)Cosmopolitan urban imaginaries 16 Beyond East-meets-West: Contemporary Chinese art and urban imaginaries in cosmopolitan Shanghai 17 Toward a photographic urbanism? Images iconizing cities and swaying urban transformation 18 Macau’s materialist milieu: Portuguese pavement stones and the political economy of the Chinese urban imaginary 19 "Like diamonds in the sky": Imaginaries of urban girlhood 20 The city on the highway, revisited PART IV Uneven and divided 21 Brutalism, ruins, and the urban imaginary of gentrification 22 The end of the time of the city? Urbanization and the migrant in British cinema 23 Chicano Park’s urban imaginary: Ethnic ties bonded to place and redistributive urban justice 24 Arts districts and the reimagining of neighborhood through arts and culture-based development 25 Jia Zhangke’s cinematic vision of urban dystopia in contemporary China 26 ICONi©Cities: Global imaginaries of urban dispossession 27 Imagining the entitled middle-class self in the global city: Tiny Times, small-town youth, and the New Shanghainese PART V Speculative and transformative 28 Urban imaginaries and the palimpsest of the future 29 Emergent imaginaries: Place, struggle, and survival 30 Queer urban imaginaries 31 Crafted imagination: Future-builders and the contemporary logic of experimentalism 32 Urban space and the posthuman imaginary

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power imbalances.The author foregrounds the bloody Algerian War of Independence in his analysis of the philosophies of Camus and Fanon. Although neither supported French colonial occupation of Algeria, they held radically different views of the conflict. Fanon supported emancipation through violence, which the author argues has been uncritically romanticized. Camus, on the other hand, supported an ethics of moderation that shunned indiscriminate violence. The author argues that Camus has been unfairly accused of being an apologist for colonialism. Finally, the author draws out the common endorsement of humanist values that drive both Camusâ and Fanonâs thought.Camus and Fanon on thTrade Review"Even as the anti-colonialism that so much drove Fanon has become a powerful force in today’s world, so too do we seem, in recent times, to have been plunged back into what is almost a replay of the events of the 1930s and 1940s that so shaped Camus’ thinking. Algeria is the landscape in which the contrast between Camus and Fanon was largely played out historically and biographically; that contrast is now being played out, in broader terms, across the world. Tabensky’s ground-breaking, rigorous, and thoughtful book is thus a timely intervention in a past debate that nevertheless remains very much alive – a book for the present and for the future." Jeff Malpas, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia "This book puts two significant writers, Camus and Fanon, in conversation for the first time. Tabensky moves us beyond superficial or anachronistic depictions to consider the options for social change in the face of entrenched colonial structures. These two would not, and did not, agree on much apart from the necessity of foreign and racial domination to disappear, but considering the two together allows us to see the options for resistance." Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, USA Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Fanon 2. The Pure Peasant-Warrior-Philosopher 3. Dreams, Lies and the New Man 4. "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness" 5. The Therapeutic Function of Violence? 6. The New Man? 7. Liberation Psychiatry Part II: Camus 8. Almost Brushing Shoulders 9. Bad Faith 10. Sisyphus 11. An Unlikely Solution 12. "The Temple of Caesar" 13. "I rebel—therefore we exist": Truth, Freedom, and Communication 14. Conclusion. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that permeates interactions both at an institutional and interpersonal level, impacting the lived experiences of fat people. Each chapter has been carefully selected to create a space to showcase the engaging intersectional and interdisciplinary fat studies scholarship that is taking place globally. This engaging book will take the reader around the world by examining: weight-loss classes in Ireland, Jamaican womenâs views of health and fatness, the difficulties of immigrating while fat to New Zealand, fat activism in Finnish media, being fat and pregnant in Australia, a girls' camp in the United States, and the experiences of fat hatred felt by queer fat women in Canada. This book will inspire fat-studies scholars globally to incorporate intersectional apTable of ContentsIntroduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovationsAriane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in IrelandJacqueline O’Toole2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women’s constructions of healthClaudia Barned and Kieran O’Doherty3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigrationCat Pausé4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life ChangeAnna Puhakka5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical professionJennifer Lee6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock CampTrisha L. Crawshaw7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatredJen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind

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Book SynopsisThe book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds. Such circulations coalesce around values and practices linked to gendered, ethnic majority middle-class norms, through which difference is positioned and opposed in hierarchical terms. This project analyses the relationship between teachers' identities and their attitudes and pedagogic dispositions towards students from immigrant backgrounds, showing how these affect each other, contributing to their state of (non)belonging in the educational setting and in the wider society. Attention is brought to the pervasive and normalised background of neoliberal ideology, permeating the educational environment. In examining the (problematic) relationship between the previous elements, the book uncovers the intersectional reproduction of lines of belonging - and not belonging. While the analysis is centred on a sTable of Contents1. The context 2. Key theories and concepts 3. Teachers’ perceptions of social class 4. Teachers’ views on Gender 5. Constructing (non)belonging6. Teachers’ understanding of neoliberal education policies and the shaping of power relations in the classroom7. Linking teachers dispositions and pedagogies

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly emerging markets. Rural Development and the Construction of New Markets analyses newly constructed markets as nested markets. Although they are specific market segments that are nested in the wider commodity markets for food, they have a different nature, different dynamics, a different redistribution of value added, different prices and different relations between producers and consumers. Nested markets embody distinction viz-a-viz the general markets in which they are embedded. A key aspect of nested markets is that these are constructed in and through social struggles, which in turn positions this book in relation to classic and new institutional economic analyses of markets. These markets emerge as steadily growing parts of the farmer populations are dedicating their time, energy and resources to the design and production of new goods and services that differ from conventional agricultural outputs. The speed and intensity with which this is taking place, and the products and services involved, vary considerably across the world. In large parts of the South, notably Africa, farmers are âstructurallyâ combining farming with other activities. By contrast, in Europe and large parts of Latin America farmers have taken steps to generate new products and services which exist alongside ongoing agricultural production.This book not only discusses the economic rationales and dynamics for these markets, but also their likely futures and the threats and opportunities they face. Trade ReviewEste libro, publicado originalmente en inglés, rescata interesantes experiencias relacionadas a la construcción de mercados de alimentos con lógicas diferentes al capitalismo. El propósito es reflexionar sobre su aporte a un modelo de desarrollo rural que permita mejorar la calidad de vida de los agricultores familiares. [...] En suma, se trata de un texto de una enorme riqueza empírica y teórica. Desde donde no solamente se pueden extraer dimensiones heurísticas sumamente útiles, sino que también se pueden inferir recomendaciones de políticas públicas que puedan apoyar los procesos de desarrollo rural y alentar la consolidación y expansión de estos mercados protegidos. — Cristian Emanuel Jara, CONICET-UNSE in Población & Sociedad, Vol. 24 (2), 2017.Table of Contents1. The construction of new, nested markets and the role of development policies 2. Newly emerging, nested markets: a theoretical introduction 3. The construction of nested markets 4. Family farming, institutional markets and innovations in public policy 5. Self-labelling, certification and alternative marketing networks 6. Rural tourism in China and the construction of new markets 7. Multi-level rural governance performances and the unfolding of nested rural markets in Europe 8. Smallholder irrigators and fresh produce street traders in Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa 9. Beyond land transfers: the dynamics of socially driven markets emerging from Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme 10. In the shadow of global markets 11. Reconsidering the contribution of nested markets to rural development

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Book SynopsisThe Indigo Child concept is a contemporary New Age redefinition of self. Indigo Children are described in their primary literature as a spiritually, psychically, and genetically advanced generation. Born from the early 1980s, the Indigo Children are thought to be here to usher in a new golden age by changing the world's current social paradigm. However, as they are paradigm busters, they also claim to find it difficult to fit into contemporary society. Indigo Children recount difficult childhoods and school years, and the concept has also been used by members of the community to reinterpret conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and autism. Cynics, however, can claim that the Indigo Child concept is an example of special snowflake syndrome, and parodies abound.This book is the fullest introduction to the Indigo Child concept to date. Employing both on- and offline ethnographic methods, Beth Singler objectively considers the place of the IndTable of Contents1 The Indigo Child; 2 Locating the Indigo Children; 3 The Parental Account of the Indigo Child; 4 Diagnosis and Healing; 5 An Indigo Prophecy of the New Age; 6 Reception, Transmission, and Parody; 7 The Indigo Race; 8 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: health and disability. The research on disability, health and the capability approach has been diverse in the topics it covers, and the conceptual frameworks and methodologies it uses, beginning over a decade and a half ago in health and more than a decade ago in disability. This book shares a set of contributions in these two areas: the first set of chapters focusing on disability; and the second set focusing on health and the health capability paradigm (HCP), in particular. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.Table of ContentsHealth, Disability and the Capability Approach: An Introduction 1. An Analysis of the Intentions of a Chilean Disability Policy Through the Lens of the Capability Approach 2. Towards a Disability-inclusive Higher Education Policy through the Capabilities Approach 3. Disability and Poverty in Morocco and Tunisia: A Multidimensional Approach 4. Corporate Contributions to Developing Health Capabilities 5. India, Health Inequities, and a Fair Healthcare Provision: A Perspective from Health Capability 6. Health Economics and Ethics and the Health Capability Paradigm 7. Exploring Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Where Next?

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Book SynopsisNicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no convincing set of justifying reasons has so far been produced, she puts forward a theory of punishments which places the values of the community at its centre.Trade Review`Its arguments ... pursuade us that there are indeed fresh lines of inquiry to be pursued, and that these may prove well worth pursuing.' - Times Higher Education Supplement`This book makes a substantial contribution to the punishment debate, and has a claim on any legal theorist's attention.' - Criminal Law Review`This carefully constructed and persistently argued book is impressive and demanding of our attention.' - Times Literary Supplement`One is greatly indebted to Lacey for bringing so many issues so clearly and cogently together.' - UtilitasTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preliminaries; Chapter 2 The Traditional Justifications; Chapter 3 The Relevance of Responsibility; Chapter 4 The Question of Legal Obligation; Chapter 5 The Nature and Limits of the Criminal Law; Chapter 6 Political Obligation; Chapter 7 Punishment and the Liberal World; Chapter 8 Punishment and Community;

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Book SynopsisWeber is increasingly being recognised as the theorist of modernity. Avoiding the mistakes of other classical thinkers, his sociological analysis has an increasing validity and relevance. Selected by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, this book introduces the work of this key thinker to a new generation of readers. Central themes highlighted in the collection are:* the developmental logic of world religions* the rise of modern capitalism* the multi-dimensionality of power in societies* the dilemmas of modernity * the theory of social action* ideal types and the objectivity of knowledge.The majority of the readings have been specially translated for this collection both to improve accuracy and to make Weber speak anew in the idiom of the twenty-first century. Each part opens with a short introduction explaining the sequence of readings, the flow of ideas and their intellectual context, and concludes with a guide to further reading.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Max Weber Part 1: Comparing Civilizations and the Origins of Modernity Introduction to Part 1 1. Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 2. Confucianism and Puritanism Compared 3. Introduction to the Economic Ethics of World Religions 4. Religions of Civilization and their Attitude to the World 5. Prefatory Remarks to the Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion Further reading Part 2: Structures of Power and Stratification Introduction to Part 2 6. Politics and the State 7. The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Rule 8. The Nation 9. The Belief in Common Ethnicity 10. The Household Community 11. Capitalism in Antiquity 12. The Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Accounting 13. Status Groups and Classes 14. The Distribution of Power in Society: Classes, status groups and parties 15. Parties Further Reading Part 3: The Dilemmas of Modernity Introduction to Part 3 16. Intermediate Reflection on the Economic Ethics of World Religions 17. Bureaucracy: Characteristics of modern bureaucracy; the technical superiority of bureaucratic organization over administration by notables 18. Formal and Substantive Rationalization: The general conditions of legal formalism 19. The Vocation of Politics 20. The Vocation of Science Further reading Part 4: Methodology of the Social Sciences Introduction to Part 4 21. Basic Sociological Concepts 22. The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in the Social and Policy Sciences Further Reading

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Book SynopsisSince its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in undergraduate courses as well as for a range of specialists in education, business, social care and medicine who need a brief but authoritative account of how sociologists set about conducting research. After a brief overview of the history of sociological research which introduces key concepts, this new edition, co-authored with Steve Chapman, describes the main sociological research methods, and includes sections on theory, science and values as well as: references to research studies developments in relevant sociological theory developments in research methodology new material on the presentation of research findings. Including an appendix of questions which students should ask when they are evaluating accounts of research, this lasting text retains the clarity of style of the second edition, and brings the content up-to-date. Table of ContentsPreface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. Preface to Third Edition. Acknowledgements 1. Research Methods in Sociology 2. Social Surveys 3. Experiments and the Comparative Method 4. Ethnography 5. Secondary Data 6. Theory, Science, and Values Appendix: Reading Sociological Research

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Book SynopsisIn this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.Table of ContentsNotes on the author, Preface to the second edition, 1 Constituting childhood, 2 Sociological approaches to childhood, 3 The birth of childhood, 4 Childhood and social space, 5 The abuse of childhood, 6 The strange death of childhood, 7 Childhood and transgression, Postscript, References, Index

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Book SynopsisDesign is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems).The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas â especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences oTrade Review'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design History'[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader, richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader, then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' – Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsSection 1: Materials and Methods 1. Karl Marx (1867) 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret'. 2. Jonathan Crary (1989) 'Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory'. 3. Vilem Flusser (1993) 'About the word Design'. 4. Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Benjamin Gianni and Scott Weir (1994) 'Queers in (Single-Family) Space'. 5. Pauline Madge (1997) 'Ecological Design: A New Critique'. 6. Hal Foster (2002) 'The ABCs of Contemporary Design'. Section 2: Actors and Agents 7. Marcel Mauss (1934) 'Techniques of the Body'. 8. Michel Foucault (1982) 'Space, Knowledge, and Power'. 9. Friedrich A. Kittler (1986) 'Introduction' to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. 10. Lana F. Rakow (1988) 'Women and the Telephone: the gendering of a communication technology'. 11. Ellen Lupton (1996) 'Power Tool for the Dining Room: The Electric Carving Knife'. 12. Tobin Siebers (2003) 'What can disability studies learn from the culture wars?' Section 3: Object Life 13. Stuart Cosgrove (1984) 'The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare'. 14. Mihay Csikszentmihalyi (1991) 'Design and Order in Everyday Life'. 15. Celik, Zeynep (1996) 'Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers'. 16. Celine Rosselin (1999) 'The Ins and Outs of the Hall: A Parisian Example'. 17. Svetlana Boym (2001) 'Immigrant Souvenirs'. Section 4: Sense and Sensibilities 18. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1983) 'Shop Windows'. 19. Nicholson Baker (1986) from The Mezzanine. 20. C. Nadia Seremetakis (1996) 'The Memory of the Senses, Part 1: Marks of the Transitory'. 21. Koichi Iwabuchi (1998) 'Marketing "Japan": Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze'. 22. Jonathan Sterne (2003) 'Hello'. Section 5: Designing (in) the World 23. John McHale (1969) 'An Ecological Overview'. 24. Krzysztof Wodiczko (1999) 'Designing for the City of Strangers'. 25. Celeste Olalquiaga (1999) 'The Crystal Palace'. 26. Tony Fry (1999) 'From War to Warring' 27. Ashoke Chatterjee (2005) 'Design in India: The Experience of Transition' Section 6: Design Time 28. Siegfried Giedion (1948) 'Anonymous History' 29. Evan Watkins (1993) 'Social Position and the Art of Automobile Maintenance' 30. Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour) (1995) 'The Past is no longer out-of-date' 31. N. Katherine Hayles (1999) 'The materiality of informatics: Audiotape and Its Cultural 32. Peter Hitchcock (2003) 'Chronotope of the Shoe'

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Book SynopsisAlthough the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This multi-disciplinary collection offers case studies and comparisons of flag history, uses and controversies. This book brings together a dozen scholars, from varying national and disciplinary backgrounds, to offers a cluster of close readings of flags in their social contexts, mostly contemporary, but also historical. Case studies from Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States explore ways in which flags are contested, stir up powerful emotions, can be commercialised in some contexts but not in others, serve as quasi-religious symbols, and as physical boundary markers; how the same flag can be solemn and formal in one setting, but stand for domestic bliss and informal cultural intimacy in another. Table of Contents1. Some Questions About Flags 2. The Origin of European National Flags 3. Rebel With(Out) a Cause?: The Contested Meanings of the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South 4. The Star-Spangled Banner and ‘Whiteness’ in American National Identity 5. Union Jacks and Union Jills 6. Pride and Possession, Display and Destruction 7. Between the National and the Civic: Flagging Peace In, or a Piece of, Northern Ireland? 8. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart: Nation, Flag and Emotion in Denmark 9. A Flag for all Occasions?: The Swedish Experience 10. Nationalism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Flags 11. The Domestication of a National Symbol: The Private Use of Flags in Norway 12. Afterword

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred. Educated people, however, would not return to unreconstructed religions, because these do not express the life of the spirit as discerned by modern consciousness. The sacred has developed a darker hue, and worshipping symbols of light and goodness no longer satisfies the longings of the soul. The new sacred cannot be contained by the formulas of the past, but nor can we live without a sense of the sacred. We stand in a difficult place: between traditional religions we have outgrown and a pervasive materialism we can no longer embrace.These changes in our culture have come sooner than Jung might have imagined. In his time Jung struck many as eccentric or unscientific. But his works speakTrade Review"Tacey has written extensively on Jungian psychology, Western culture, and postmodern theory. Inthis volume, he explores Carl Jung in the light of contemporary society and "the social and cultural landscape of spirit." According to Tacey, Jungian psychology may be more applicable to modem existence than it was to Jung's lifetime. In light of Jung's work, Tacey looks at Western religion and examines the "dark" aspects that are currently manifested in this culture (e.g., violence, fanaticism, extremism). This polarizing mind-set is a failure to look inward and grow toward a more integrated, holistic, global worldview. Wholeness, rather than perfection, should be the spiritual goal. Tacey examines why Jung has fallen out of favor over the past years and looks closely at the critics, addressing their major concerns. An entire chapter is dedicated to an exploration of James Hillman's work. The Darkening Spirit is a companion volume to Gods and Diseases (2013), as well as The Jung Reader (2012). This volume would be an excellent addition to any collection of Jung's work and critiques of Jung. Well researched, extensively documented with index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."- J. Bailey, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, North Carolinain CHOICE"Tacey has written extensively on Jungian psychology, Western culture, and postmodern theory. Inthis volume, he explores Carl Jung in the light of contemporary society and "the social and cultural landscape of spirit." According to Tacey, Jungian psychology may be more applicable to modem existence than it was to Jung's lifetime. In light of Jung's work, Tacey looks at Western religion and examines the "dark" aspects that are currently manifested in this culture (e.g., violence, fanaticism, extremism). This polarizing mind-set is a failure to look inward and grow toward a more integrated, holistic, global worldview. Wholeness, rather than perfection, should be the spiritual goal. Tacey examines why Jung has fallen out of favor over the past years and looks closely at the critics, addressing their major concerns. An entire chapter is dedicated to an exploration of James Hillman's work. The Darkening Spirit is a companion volume to Gods and Diseases (2013), as well as The Jung Reader (2012). This volume would be an excellent addition to any collection of Jung's work and critiques of Jung. Well researched, extensively documented with index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."- J. Bailey, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Darkening Spirit. The Degraded Spirit in Secular Society. Jung’s Advocacy of Spiritual Experience. Jung and the Prophetic Life. Jung’s Ambivalence Toward Religion. Spiritual Renewal From Below. The Integration of the Dark Side. The Return of Soul to the World: Jung and Hillman. The Problem of the Spiritual in the Reception of Jung. Conclusion: Jung’s Contribution to a New Religious Vision.

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Book SynopsisWhat is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction and have become collectable aesthetic commodities. Such paradoxical responses show that street art challenges conventional understandings of culture, law, crime and art. Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination engages with those paradoxes in order to understand how street art reveals new modes of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories of street art and the motivations of street artists, and the experiences both of making street art and looking at street art in public space. ItTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently engenders in the control of public and private space, and the licit and illicit behaviour of artists who choose to stay away from the over-managed space of the museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London‘From graffiti to "guerrilla knitting", political "pieces" to place-making "paste-ups", the various homologies and diverse characteristics of contemporary street art can seem bewildering, even to the most hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp, stylish book provides a reliable and theoretically informed route map that, not only demystifies the genre, but also poses some important questions about street art’s democratic and political potential. Alison Young proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging tour guide as she takes us on a fascinating excursion across the contours of the international urban art scene and deep into the subterranean and ever-evolving world of today’s street artists. Whatever your feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of urban mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of street art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think more deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first century’s most controversial art form.’- Keith Hayward, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art, Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities. Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales, Australia'One of the most notable achievements of Street Art, Public City is the lucidity that comes from having been written by someone with a background in law. As easily narrative and descriptive as the book sometimes becomes (and there are a lot of street art stories in it), it never loses a sharpness of argument and a powerful sense of direction.' - Sabina Andron, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently engenders in the control of public and private space, and the licit and illicit behaviour of artists who choose to stay away from the over-managed space of the museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London‘From graffiti to "guerrilla knitting", political "pieces" to place-making "paste-ups", the various homologies and diverse characteristics of contemporary street art can seem bewildering, even to the most hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp, stylish book provides a reliable and theoretically informed route map that, not only demystifies the genre, but also poses some important questions about street art’s democratic and political potential. Alison Young proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging tour guide as she takes us on a fascinating excursion across the contours of the international urban art scene and deep into the subterranean and ever-evolving world of today’s street artists. Whatever your feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of urban mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of street art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think more deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first century’s most controversial art form.’ - Keith Hayward, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art, Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities. Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Situational Artwork; encounter watching JR, Chapter 2 The Cities in the City; encounter criminal damage?, Chapter 3 Cityscapes; encounter losing the image, Chapter 4 Criminalising the Image; encounter things on walls, Chapter 5 Street Art and Spatial Politics; encounter Banksy under glass, Chapter 6 Transformations: Urban Imagination in the Public City, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisEveryone talks about their feelings, but what exactly are they? What are the distinguishing features of feelings, and how do they differ from emotions and affects? How do our feelings influence the kinds of people we are, and the sorts of communities and societies in which we live? In this wonderful short book, acclaimed author Stephen Frosh interrogates the terrain of feelings and asks how this hidden' dimension of the self helps shape our worlds. The book provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the major debates around feelings in the modern world.Feelings is an accessible and engaging resource for students, academics, and indeed anyone with an interest in gaining a better understanding of this fundamental area of life.Table of Contents1. What Do You Feel? 2. How Do You Feel? 3. In Touch With Your Feelings? 4. Feeling Funny-Perculiar 5. Oh, Misery! 6. Are You Happy Now? 7. Hateful Feelings 8. Intimacy and Love 9. Public Feelings 10. Make Me Feel Better, Please

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Book SynopsisHailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, Indiaâs middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhiâs upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Naduâs industrial towns.The book pays tribute to the diversity of regional, caste, rural and urban origins that shape middle- class lifestyles in contemporary India and highlights common themes, such as the quest for upward mobility, common consumption practices, the importance of family values, gender relations and educational trajectories. It unpacks the notion that the Indian middle-class can be understood in terms of public performanceTable of Contents1. Introduction Henrike Donner 2. Masculinity, advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 Douglas E. Haynes 3. Gendered bodies, domestic work and perfect families: new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles Henrike Donner 4. ‘Keeping it in the family’: Work, education and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur’s industrial capitalists Geert De Neve 5. Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations: the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda Margit van Wessel 6. Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase 7. The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala: doctors, social mobility and the middle classes Caroline Wilson 8. Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi Anne Waldrop 9. Zara hatke (‘Somewhat different’): the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema Rachel Dwyer

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Book SynopsisQueering India provides an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected area.Trade Review" Queering India provides a fascinating, livley, and historically grounded discussionof the impact of same-sex love on Indian culture. Spanning a range of disciplines, these essays shatter the myth that homosexuality is a Western or Northern experience. This is an excellent collection" --Urvashi Vaid, co-editor of CreatingChange: Public Policy, Sexuality, and Civil Rights.""Ruth Vanita's wonderful project bears fruit. She has assembled a superb collection of essays that establish the queerness of desis, the sexual struggle of Indian history. Queering India will annoy the despots, but forces of desire do not give in without a few good books."--Vijay Prashad, author of The Karma of BrownFolk."""Queering India" offers exactly what the best scholarship is supposed to. The book contains an impressive variety of ways to view a vast array of experiences, expressions, and perspectives on the lives of a complex and diverse part of the world. This collection will undermine any shallow assumptions or stereotypes one might hold about sexuality, gender, and daily life in South Asia"--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights andCopywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How itThreatens Creativity."Table of ContentsIntroduction by Ruth Vanita. I. Colonial Transitions 1.The Politics of Penetration: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code 2. Sultan Mahmud's Make-Over: Colonial Homophobia and the Persian-Urdu Literary Tradition 3. Doganas and Zanakhis: The Invention and Subsequent Erasure of Urdu Poetry's "Lesbian" Voice 4. Alienation, Intimacy, and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia 5. Eunuchs, Lesbians, and Other Mystical Beasts: Queering and De-Queering the Kamasutra II. The Visions of Fiction 6. Loving Well: Homosexuality and Utopian Thought in Post/Colonial India 7. "Do I Remove My Skin?": Interrogating Identity in Suniti Namjoshi's Fables 8. "Queerness All Mine": Same-Sex Desire in Kamala Das's Fiction and Poetry 9. Homophobic Fiction/Homoerotic Advertising: The Pleasures and Perils of Twentieth-Century Indianness 10. What Mrs. Besahara Saw: Reflections on the Gay Goonda III. Performance Pleasures in Theatre, TV, and Cinema 11. A Different Desire, A Different Femininity: Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati, and Marathi Theatres, 1850-1940 12. Queer Bonds: Male Friendships in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema 13. "I Sleep Behind you": Male Homosociality and Homoeroticism in Indian Parallel Cinema 14. Queer Pleasures for Queer People: Film, Television, and Queer Sexuality in India 15. On Fire: Sexuality and its Incitements 16. After the Fire: Smoldering Questions about Representation

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