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Taylor & Francis Carbon Capture Technology and Storage in Poland
Book SynopsisThe book describes the results of AGaStor Project social research carried out in the North-Western Poland which recognize the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to the society.At the national and regional level the social barriers of CCUS acceptance are ignorance, uncertainty and the lack of public debate about this technology. On the local scale social acceptance depends on the needs and fears of the local community. Some of those fears â distrust and perception of CO2 as a waste â could be recognized as the universal dilemmas connected with CCUS. Although, as knowledge about CCUS increases, a significant change in attitude can be observed, this change does not mean an acceptance of that technology. It is rather a shift toward more benign forms of resistance - from NIMBY to WIMBY. Then, the book presents actual mechanisms of social reaction to UGS and CCUS investment, which will be a valuable contribution to managing social change in the context of green transition. The issue of social acceptance of CCUS should be of interest to decision-makers and practitioners who manage investment projects in the broadly understood green transformation on a daily basis, but also postgraduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in political studies, sociology or economics, but also in engineering studies connected with energy transformation.
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Cambridge University Press Inventing Value
Book SynopsisDave Elder-Vass argues that economists have failed to understand the nature and function of value. This book shows how value works, drawing on contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for new companies, and the rise of Bitcoin.
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Cambridge University Press Relative Distance
Book SynopsisDrawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas moral, material, and affective facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.Trade Review'This book draws the reader into the lives of family members who, over decades, share an existence across geographical distance. Against the backdrop of wider social transformations, an extremely rich ethnography is explored with the support of a complex framework based on thorough insights into the essence of anthropology and migration studies. This is the anthropology of migration at its best.' Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg'In all the scholarship on transnational kinship, Relative Distance is unique in focusing on the moral obligations and moral economies generated by migration. It reveals how the affective and the material are inextricably entangled, highlighting the tensions as well as intimacies generated by moral claims.' Cati Coe, Carleton University'The ties binding migrants to their homelands are often narrowly measured by economic remittances. In this powerful ethnographic study of Kenyans in the UK, Leslie Fesenmyer focuses instead on the dynamics of transnational families. She vividly and compellingly shows how reciprocity, mutuality and honour are embedded in obligations based on kinship and religion.' Robin Cohen, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Securing the future: family, livelihoods, and mobility; 2. Aspirations, obligations, and imagination in family migration; 3. The making of 'migrants'; 4. Kinship dilemmas: negotiating relatedness across space; 5. Weddings as transnational household rituals: marriage and other intimate relations; 6. Change and continuity: the social reproduction of families between Kenya and the United Kingdom; 7. Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Making Global Society
Book SynopsisBarry Buzan combines the abstract approach of social science with the narrative approach of historians to convey a living sense of the human story across three eras. His detailed assessment of the material conditions and social structures of humankind transcend Eurocentrism and open the way to understanding global society.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Laying the Foundations for a Global Society: 2. Pre-prelude – the hunter-gatherer era; 3. Prelude – the era of conglomerate agrarian/pastoralist empires 2310BC to 1800AD; Part II. The Transition to Modernity and the Making of Global Society: 4. Material conditions; 5a. Social structure I – CAPE instructions carried forward into the transition; 5b. Social structure II – institutions new with the transition; 6. Where are we within the transition from CAPE to modernity; Part III. Deep Pluralism: More Transition or Modernity Proper?: 7. Material conditions; 8. Social structure; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press On Discovery
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Cambridge University Press Incumbency Bias
Book SynopsisThe conventional wisdom in political science is that incumbency provides politicians with a massive electoral advantage. This assumption has been challenged by the recent anti-incumbent cycle. When is incumbency a blessing for politicians and when is it a curse? Incumbency Bias offers a unified theory that argues that democratic institutions will make incumbency a blessing or curse by shaping the alignment between citizens'' expectations of incumbent performance and incumbents'' capacity to deliver. This argument is tested through a comparative investigation of incumbency bias in Brazil, Argentina and Chile that draws on extensive fieldwork and an impressive array of experimental and observational evidence. Incumbency Bias demonstrates that rather than clientelistic or corrupt elites compromising accountability, democracy can generate an uneven playing field if citizens demand good governance but have limited information. While focused on Latin America, this book carries broader lessons for understanding the electoral returns to office around the world.
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Legare Street Press Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba Recently
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Slavery in Cuba
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LEGARE STREET PR The SketchBook Of Geoffrey Crayon Gent
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance
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LEGARE STREET PR The Natural History of a Highland Parish Ardclach
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LEGARE STREET PR Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology
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Taylor & Francis The Growing Trend of Living Small
Book SynopsisThis book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a catch-all solution to the stresses of modern life and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Shrinking living space is being repackaged in a neoliberal capitalist context as a lifestyle choice rather than the consequence of diminishing choice in the face of what has become a long-term housing âcrisisâ. What does this mean for how we live in the long term, and is there a dark side to the promise of a simpler, more sustainable home life? Shrinking Domesticities brings together research from across the social sciences, planning and architecture to explore these issues. From co-living developments to the Tiny House Movement, self-storage units to practices of âde-stuffificationâ, and
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge International Handbook of Mad
Book SynopsisBy drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what it can offer. It presents examples of mad studies in action, covering initiatives that have been taken, their achievements and what can be learned from them. In addition to sharing research findings and evidence, the book offers examples and insights for advancing understandings of experiences of madness and distress from the perspectives of those who have (had) those experiences, and also explores ways of supporting people oppressed by conventional understandings and systems.This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of Mad Studies, disability studies, sociologTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Mad Studies and political organising of people with psychiatric experience1. The international foundations of Mad Studies: Knowledge generated in collective action2. Reflections on power, knowledge and change3. Shifting identities as reflective personal responses to political changes4. A crazy, warrior and "respondona" Peruvian: All personal transformation is social and political5. Reflections on survivor knowledge and Mad Studies6. Speaking for ourselves: An early UK survivor activist’s account7. Fostering community responsibility: Perspectives from the Pan African Network of people with psychosocial disabilities8. Using survivor knowledge to influence public policy in the United States9. The social movement of people with psychosocial disabilities in Japan: Strategies for taking the struggle to academia10. Re-writing the master narrative: A prerequisite for mad liberationPart 2: Situating Mad Studies11. A genealogy of the concept of "Mad Studies"12. How is Mad Studies different from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry? 13. Mad Studies and disability studies14. Weaponizing absent knowledges: Countering the violence of mental health lawPart 3: Mad Studies and knowledge equality15. The subjects of oblivion: Subalterity, sanism, and racial erasure16. Institutional ceremonies? The (im)possibilities of transformative co-production in mental health17. "Are you experienced?" The use of experiential knowledge in mental health and its contribution to Mad Studies18. De-pathologising motherhood19. The professional regulation of madness in nursing and social work20. The (global) rise of anti-stigma campaignsPart 4: Doing Mad Studies21. Why we must talk about de-medicalization22. Imagining non-carceral futures with(in) Mad Studies23. Madness in the time of war: Post-war reflections on practice and research beyond the borders of psychiatry and development24. The architecture of my madness25. Re-conceptualising suicidality: Towards collective intersubjective responses26. De-coupling and re-coupling violence and madness27. Upcycling recovery: Potential alliances of recovery, inequality and Mad Studies28. Bodies, boundaries, b/orders: A recent critical history of differentialism and structural adjustment29. Spirituality, psychiatry, and Mad Studies. Part 5: Inquiring into the future for Mad Studies30. Taking Mad Studies back out into the community31. Interrogating Mad Studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide32. Madness, decolonisation and mental health activism in Africa33. Navigating voices, politics, positions amidst peers: Resonances and dissonances in India34. ‘Madness’ as a term of division, or rejection35. Afterword: The ethics of making knowledge together36. Postscript: Mad Studies in a maddening world
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Taylor & Francis The Sociology of Cardi B
Book SynopsisThis powerfully written and co-authored book creatively engages with the topics of Black and Latinx femininity, motherhood, sexuality, racial and ethnic identity, and political engagement through the life and artistic work of Hip Hop artist Cardi B. The authors highlight examples from Cardi's lived experiences and artistry using a trap feminist framework as a starting point for sociological conversations about Black women and the trap.The authors weave foundational histories of Black sociology, Black feminism, and institutional inequalities along the lines of race, class, and gender. Drawing from moments in Cardi Bâs public lifeâher rap lyrics, her behavior at New York Fashion Week, questions about her racial and ethnic identity, the unveiling of her pregnancy, her engagement with politicians, and her responses to social media comments and criticsâthis book argues for the merits of addressing Black feminist theory from the bottom upâthat is, to take seriously the knowledge production of Black women by attending to and creating space for hood chicks, ghetto girls, and ratchet women.By centering the lived experiences and social positions of the Black women Cardi represents, the authors expand Black feminist discourse and entrust Black women to define themselves for themselves. This book is an important contribution to scholarship for students, scholars, and readers interested in sociology, Hip Hop, pop culture, and women's studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusive Solidarity and Citizenship along Migratory Routes in Europe and the Americas
Book SynopsisInclusive Solidarity and Citizenship along Migratory Routes in Europe and the Americas links non-essentialist concepts of solidarity and citizenship to migration in different empirical contexts. The chapters in this edited volume analyse how civil society initiatives renegotiate societal structures in solidarity with people on the move, noncitizens and racialized individuals, and in doing so advance theorizing and contribute to current debates about citizenship and solidarity. Focusing on solidarity among members of the so-called majority society' in Europe and the Americas, this book offers a compendium of chapters that analyses particular practices of solidarity both material and symbolic as well as the mindsets, discourses, and broader societal contexts that provide the fundament of these practices. As these empirical cases demonstrate, the main argument of the book is that solidarity is not necessarily based on a pre-established and exclusive community, but that more Table of ContentsIntroduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the AmericasHelge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken1. Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movementSandro Mezzadra2. Deployed fears and suspended solidarity along the migratory route in EuropeMargit Feischmidt3. Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society: the case of GreeceDimitris Parsanoglou4. Containing mobile citizenship: changing geopolitics and its impact on solidarity activism in MexicoTanya Basok and Guillermo Candiz5. Mobilizing for safe passages and escape aid: challenging the ‘asylum paradox’ between active and activist citizenship, humanitarianism and solidarityHelge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken6. Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico borderHeidy Sarabia7. Challenging who counts as a citizen. The infrastructure of solidarity contesting racial profiling in SwitzerlandSarah Schilliger8. Building the sanctuary city from the ground up: abolitionist solidarity and transformative reformFiona Jeffries and Jennifer Ridgley9. Differential solidarity: protests against deportations as structured contestations over citizenshipMaren Kirchhoff
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Marketing
Book SynopsisSocial Marketing shows how marketing techniques can be used to social ends and tackle the immense challenges humankind faces. Social inequalities have driven popular revolts, from Black Lives Matter to Brexit, the climate is in crisis, and COVID-19 has highlighted power imbalances across the globe. In these turbulent times, this fourth edition will arm you with: Fresh content on climate breakdown, inequality and diversity, public health and poverty The critical capacity to analyse the origins, workings and future of our economic system Contemporary case studies from around the world demonstrating how change happens Reflective questions and critical thinking tasks to aid understanding This popular introductory textbook has been fully updated to enable you to challenge the bad, champion the good and enact meaningful change. If you already have marketing know-how, then it will Table of Contents1. Delivering global change: how social marketing can make a difference, 2. The four social marketing orientations, 3. The shoulders of giants: why theory matters, 4. Strategic planning: the social marketer’s roadmap, 5. Research: the social marketer’s satnav, 6. How social marketers communicate: the search for compelling content, 7. Critical marketing: addressing the commercial determinants of ill-health and planetary harm, 8. Alternatives: in search of new wisdom, 9. Ethics, morality and human rights in social marketing, 10. Systems social marketing, Social marketing case studies from around the world, 1. Encouraging sustainable energy performance in multi-stakeholder systemic school environment: the ENERGE project, 2. Trust the meat thermometer, 3. Acting on the climate crisis through the arts and culture: A social innovation journey at the city of Águeda, 4. Making Australian universities culturally safe places for first nations peoples, 5. "What could masculinity be?": using participatory co-design to define and support healthier masculinities, 6. "Standing Strong Together": a culturally appropriate adaptation for a social and emotional well-being intervention in an Australian First Nations community, 7. The humble egg in Malawi, 8. Turning the tide on poor Blue Space quality through stakeholder engagement – Lessons from PIER, 9. Evaluating real change in the real world: creativity, connection and the unseen as felt evidence in aspiring communities, 10. Leaf collective: piloting a social marketing approach to remove eucalypt leaves from stormwater drains, 11. Logan City Council wildlife movement campaign, 12. Tackling gender inequality and promoting a healthy lifestyle: the women in sport roadshow, 13. The role of civil society in advancing the sugar-sweetened beverages tax policy in Mexico, 14. The Baby Killer revisited: regulating the marketing of breast milk substitutes, 15. Healthy breakfasts in Armenia, 16. Social marketing at multiple levels of the fashion system with fashion revolution, 17. Autism: change your reactions, 18. Active play for 0–3 years old in Galway city
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Taylor & Francis Participatory Budgeting in Europe
Book SynopsisCan participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of participatory budgeting in Europe and the effect it has had on democracy, the modernization of local government, social justice, gender mainstreaming and sustainable development. By focussing on the first decade of European participatory budgeting and analysing the results and the challenges affecting the agenda today it provides a critical appraisal of the participatory model. Detailed comparisons of European cases expose similarities and differences between political cultures and offer a strong empirical basis to discuss the theories of deliberative and participatory democracy and reveal contradictory tendencies between political systems, public administrations and democratic practices.Trade Review’While there is agreement that democratic institutions need to be changed, the ways in which participation and representation could be combined vary. Covering the several ways in which participatory budgeting is implemented in different countries, this volume is extremely useful in understanding the many promises, but also the many challenges of democratic innovations.’ Donatella della Porta, European University Institute & Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy ’This revised version of a book originally published in French and other European languages is a much anticipated contribution to the literature on participatory budgeting. Written by three respected figures within the field, the book offers a nuanced and insightful analysis of the varied trajectories of participatory budgeting across Europe and the implications this has for realising social justice and democratising democracy.’ Graham Smith, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1. ‘It all began in Porto Alegre…’ Chapter 2. European convergence? Chapter 3. Six participatory modelsChapter 4. Porto Alegre in Europe? (Spain and Italy) Chapter 5. ‘Proximity democracy is in the air’ (France) Chapter 6. Proximity: Springboard or trap? (Belgium, Portugal, Netherlands) Chapter 7. Participatory modernisation (Germany and Finland) Chapter 8. Between community development and public–private partnerships (United Kingdom, Poland)Chapter 9. Public services serving the public? Chapter 10. An instrument of social justice? Chapter 11. Democratizing democracy?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through
Book SynopsisThis book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less has been said about how food and eating behaviors have been wrapped up in this relationship. Using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, chapters investigate how diets and eating are used as a means to navigate individuals' complex, unconscious desires and conflicts, and illustrate how diet and advertising industries use this to capitalize on the anxieties of the modern subject. The text's psychoanalytic approach offers rare insight into the unconscious desires that dictate individuals' choices around diets and lifestyle. By situating anxiety as the tension between jouissance and desire, the book promotes further understanding of individuals' subjective and complex relationships with food.Trade Review“What you put in your mouth, how you put it in your mouth, and indeed what you do not put in your mouth, informs us of the individual’s struggle to situate him or herself within a particular social and cultural context. Bethany Morris’ book offers readers a truly unique vantage point into American dieting behaviours from a Lacanian perspective. The Lacanian perspective is absolutely essential for understanding contemporary American diet culture today. This is a valuable resource and will leave all readers with more than enough to chew on.”Duane Rousselle, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Nipissing University, CanadaTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Eating the Lack Chapter 2 – Family Meals Chapter 3 – Comfort Food Chapter 4 – Diets as a Symptom Chapter 5 – Jouissance Is in The Carbs Chapter 6 – Disordered Eating Chapter 7 – Circumventing the Real: Detoxes And Cleanses Chapter 8 – A Diet of Lack
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Animal Studies
Book SynopsisThis book explores humananimal relations and species- based domination at the intersection of feminism with critique of our domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, in conversation with power dynamics around coloniality and race, class, sexuality and embodiment. The collection demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically to the development of animal studies. Feminism has made an incisive critique of the ways in which gender and other intersecting differences and inequalities are constitutive of our destructive, exploitative and often violent relationships with nonhuman worlds. An international group of scholars and activists showcase new work, revisiting and extending established debates while negotiating new paths. Amongst the issues addressed in this collection will be questions of animal being and animal rights, caring relations, the relationships between activism and theory, interspeciesTrade Review"This is a brilliant, cutting-edge collection of writing by established and emerging Feminist voices. Working from the intersections of scholarship and activism and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors examine the shared roots of exploitation and violence against non-human animals and (human) social inequality and illuminate alternative ways of being and structuring relationships that are rooted in recognition and care. Highly readable and accessible, this timely book is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and will be an indispensable resource for scholars working in Critical Animal Studies, Feminist Animal Studies, and related fields." Andrea Breen, University of Guelph"This is a vital collection which brings home just how significant feminist work, feminist passion and insight, has been and is to the field of Animal Studies. It outlines how feminist debates about care and non-hierarchical species differences have shaped an alternative vision of political progress for centuries, with feminist work relentlessly differentiating itself from universalising, anthropocentric abstractions. With a mix of established and new writers, the book is wide ranging in approaches and topics, from sexology to legal rights, vegan frictions to social media and sanctuaries, the collection traces the influences of "FAS", establishing its distinctiveness and priorities, both urgent and emerging."Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Wollongong"This is a collection of trailblazing scholarship from writers in fields representing the rich and multidisciplinary character of contemporary feminist animal studies. Taken together the collection positions the field of feminist animal studies with both its own distinct scholarly identity and with a clear and pressing relevance and heritage within connate fields including mainstream and critical animal studies, ecofeminism as well as the breadth of disciplines now attending to the animal turn. Similarly, the collection is as rich in its historical pedigree as its contemporary relevance in a post covid world ready to specify and confront new and emerging challenges of scholarship and advocacy." Kate Stewart, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Locating Feminist Animal Studies; PART 1 Engaging theory: Feminisms, species boundaries and intersections; ; 1 Animal rights without animal personhood? Implementing feminist legal reform for animals as legal beings; 2 What are good multispecies relations? An analysis through the concept of caring relations; 3 The movement of pain in opening and closing possibilities of ethical relations with nonhuman animals; 4 Activist-led theory? Navigating productive frictions across vegan theory and practice; PART 2 Practice: Doing feminist animal studies; 5 Loving and eating animals: a feminist dilemma; 6 Deadly contagions, vital contagions: Human-animal relationships in the new pandemic age. An Italian case-study.; 7 ‘She always looked after me’: Revisiting reproductive labour and matters of care with/in companion species; 8 For women’s pleasure? Interspecies sexual violence and (feminist) sex research; 9 ‘Well that’s it! I might as well just die now’. Animals and the reinforcement of stereotyped gender representation on social media; 10 A multispecies safe space? Mapping the rise of farmed bird sanctuaries; PART 3 Politics and activism: Feminist animal studies as praxis.; 11 Fattening solidarity beyond species: the rebellious (body) politics of fat veganism; 12 Votes, fur, women: An historical look into Irish ecofeminist veganism; 13 ‘Rescued and loved’: Women, animal sanctuaries and feminism; 14 Building a vegan feminist network in the professionalized digital age of Third Wave animal activism
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Taylor & Francis Critical Ancient World Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern ‘West’.Table of ContentsIntroductions; 1. Towards a Manifesto for Critical Ancient World Studies – Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward; 2. Critical Muslim Studies and the Remaking of the (Ancient) World – S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil; Critical Epistemologies; 3. Reading for Diasporic Experience in the Delian Serapeia– Helen Wong; 4. Recentering Africa in the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Legacy of Ancient Egyptian Philosophy – Nicholas Chukwudike Anakwue; 5. Epistemic Injustice in the Classics Classroom – Ashley Lance; Critical Philologies; 6. Comparative Philology and Critical Ancient World Studies – Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad; 7. Forging the Anti-Lexicon with Hephaestus – Hannah Silverblank; 8. Sappho’s Body as Archive: Towards a Deep Lez Philology – Ella Haselswerdt; Critical Time and Critical Space; 9. Colonial Cartography and the Classical Imagination: Mapping Critique and Dreaming Ancient Worlds – Mathura Umachandran; 10. Away from "Civilisational" Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean: Embracing Classical and Islamic Cultural Co-presences and Simultaneous Histories at the Parthenon and Ayasofya – Lylaah L. Bhalerao; 11. Queer Time, Crip Time, Woman Time, Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Muslim Time… Remaking Temporality Beyond "the Classical" – Marchella Ward; Critical Approaches; 12. A Loss of Faith Brings Vertigo: Icarus, Black and Queer Embodiment and the Failure of the West – Patrice Rankine; 13. Critical Reception Studies: The White Feminism of Feminist Reception Scholarship – Holly Ranger; 14. The Anti-radical Classicism of Karl Marx’s Dissertation – Kiran Pizarro Mansukhani; Afterword(s); In the Jaws of CAWS: A Response – Dan-el Padilla Peralta.
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Taylor & Francis The Independent Voter
Book SynopsisIndependent votersâthe 40â50 percent of Americans who reject identification with either of the two major parties or with any partyâare increasing in number and impact. Independents are determining the outcome of major elections, upending the long-held categories of political science. Drawing on historical and contemporary data (including survey data, participant observation, interviews, and current writings and scholarship) and providing timely new analysis, the authors argue that independents are an engine for a transformation of US democracy, perhaps even its saviors. Rather than âœleaningâ to a party or an ideology, independents vary on issues but share a deep distrust of the partisan system. What are the consequences of this distrust? What about shifting trends among Black, Latino, and Asian communities regarding party loyalty? What of young voters who eschew party identification wanting a different kind of political culture? For a wide variety of audiences, this book gives studTrade ReviewPraise for The Independent Voter"This book’s exploration of [independent voters] is important and honest. The major media organizations try to marginalize this group as being secretly partisan, or not holding any consistent beliefs. These organizations are trying to marginalize Independent voters because they know that we’re actually the majority, and if we band together, we can take this country back from the extreme partisans they represent."--Andrew Yang, from the Foreword"The Independent Voter does a fantastic job chronicling the rise, and power, of the fastest-growing segment of the electorate in the United States. It is clear that more and more Americans are tired of partisan gridlock and want their leaders to be public servants, not party servants. Republicans and Democratic leaders should take note and anyone interested in the future of American democracy should read this book."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California"This work seeks to prove that independent voters do indeed exist and are a powerful force. Thus, anyone interested in elections, voters, and the possibility of reimagining our two-party system should read this book!" --Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago"If you are interested in America's independent voters, you must read this book. It analyzes who independent voters are and makes a strong argument about how those not registered with a political party face ballot access challenges in states across the country. This book provocatively grapples with who independent voters are and why they matter."--Christian Grose, University of Southern California"The Independent Voter is an important work, both a piece of scholarship and a smoke signal, a cloud on the horizon, a shift in barometric pressure. Reilly, Salit and Ali paint a picture of an emergence, a political sensibility that simultaneously goes back to the founding of the country and looks forward to a more innovative and free-flowing manner of conducting political life in the 21st century. It's a book about possibility--how ordinary American voters are refusing to play by the partisan rules and are driving the country towards a new culture of self-governance. Read this book if you want to be inspired!"--John Opdycke, President of Open PrimariesPraise for The Independent Voter"This book’s exploration of [independent voters] is important and honest. The major media organizations try to marginalize this group as being secretly partisan, or not holding any consistent beliefs. These organizations are trying to marginalize Independent voters because they know that we’re actually the majority, and if we band together, we can take this country back from the extreme partisans they represent."--Andrew Yang, from the Foreword"The Independent Voter does a fantastic job chronicling the rise, and power, of the fastest-growing segment of the electorate in the United States. It is clear that more and more Americans are tired of partisan gridlock and want their leaders to be public servants, not party servants. Republicans and Democratic leaders should take note and anyone interested in the future of American democracy should read this book."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California"This work seeks to prove that independent voters do indeed exist and are a powerful force. Thus, anyone interested in elections, voters, and the possibility of reimagining our two-party system should read this book!" --Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago"If you are interested in America's independent voters, you must read this book. It analyzes who independent voters are and makes a strong argument about how those not registered with a political party face ballot access challenges in states across the country. This book provocatively grapples with who independent voters are and why they matter."--Christian Grose, University of Southern California"The Independent Voter is an important work, both a piece of scholarship and a smoke signal, a cloud on the horizon, a shift in barometric pressure. Reilly, Salit and Ali paint a picture of an emergence, a political sensibility that simultaneously goes back to the founding of the country and looks forward to a more innovative and free-flowing manner of conducting political life in the 21st century. It's a book about possibility--how ordinary American voters are refusing to play by the partisan rules and are driving the country towards a new culture of self-governance. Read this book if you want to be inspired!"--John Opdycke, President of Open PrimariesTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsPrefaceForeword Andrew YangIntroduction Chapter One: Who Is the Independent Voter? Chapter Two: Independents in American History Chapter Three: Independent Voter or Shadow Partisans? Chapter Four: Independents and Their Uses of Power Chapter Five: Can Independents Be Key to Bridging the Political Divide? Chapter Six: Free the Voters: The Legal Barriers and Biases Against IndependentsChapter Seven: Independents Speak: "We’re Not a Party. We’re a Mindset"Chapter Eight: What Binds Independents Together Chapter Nine: Democracy’s Dilemma Chapter Ten: Developing Democracy Afterword Jessie FieldsTimelineBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture
This title was a prize winner at the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) Awards 2023.The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production, intermediation and consumption.Bringing together many leading researchers engaged in studying these phenomena, it explores the different ways in which wine is constructed as a social artefact and how its representation and use acquire symbolic meaning. Wine can be analysed in different ways by varying disciplines involved in exploring wine and culture (anthropology, economics and business, geography, history and sociology, and as text). The Handbook uses these as lenses to consider how producers, intermediaries and consumers use and create cultural significance. Specifically, the work addresses the following: how wine relates to place, belief systems and accompanying rituals; how it may be used as a marker of the identity and mechanisms of civilising processes (often in conjunction with food and the arts); how its framing intersects with science and nature; the ideologies and power relations which arise around all these activities; and the relation of this to wine markets and public institutions.This is essential reading for researchers and students in education for the wine industry and in the humanities and social sciences engaged in understanding patterns of human ingenuity and interaction, such as sociology, anthropology, economics, health, geography, business, tourism, cultural studies, food studies and history.
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Taylor & Francis Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.Paying attention to academic gaps in comicsâ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (ZombillÃnium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gouâs Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States.One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an und
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and
Book SynopsisAt a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to democratic and multicultural norms. Europe and the West have grown increasingly polarised in recent years, beset with financial crises, political instability, the rise of malicious actors and irregular violence, and new forms of media and social media. These factors have enabled the spread of new forms of extremism and suggest a growing need for a response sensitive to inequalities and divisions in wider society â a task made even more urgent by the COVID- 19 pandemic.The Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience brings together research conducted throughout Europe and the world, to analyse various articulations of violent extremism and consider the impact that such groups and networks have had on the wellbeing of communities and societies. It examines different theories, factors, and national case studies of ex
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Routledge Neoliberal Policies and Inequality
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Taylor & Francis Deviant Behavior
Book SynopsisThe new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. A new chapter on political deviance includes a section that defines political deviance, emphasizing a sociological and not an ideological definition. It also covers which sectors of the society define what constitutes political deviance; and political deviance and its relation to social change. In addition, the chapter on substance abuse provides more discussion of marijuana legalization and decriminalization. Although disease as potential deviance has been covered, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly expands discussions on this topic. Updated throughout, this new edition includes expanded coverage of Black Lives Matter, sexual harassment, the social construction of immigration, and other topics. A new section on logic, reasoning, and verification of facts is an important new feature for student critical thinking while it addresses the recent politics of truth and lying, including QAnon.<Table of Contents Introducing Deviance Explaining Deviant Behavior Constructing Deviance Poverty and the Hierarchy of Social Class Crime, Criminalization, and Criminal Behavior White Collar and Corporate Crime Political Deviance Substance Abuse Sexual Deviance Unconventional Beliefs Mental Disorder Undesirable Physical Characteristics Tribal Stigma
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Taylor & Francis The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe
Book SynopsisThis book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Providing a comparative analysis of several European countries, the authors evaluate the varied approaches to the application of ART throughout Europe. From a global perspective, countries take very different approaches to the regulation of ART. Countries apply restrictions to the access criteria for these treatments and/or direct restrictions to the practice of the techniques themselves. To understand these varied approaches to ART practice and regulation, it is necessary to understand the societal and political background from which they emerged. This book therefore consists of case studies from eight European countries which provide insights into the status and development of the regulation of ART in the last 40 years. The country cases from all over Europe and the three comparative chapters provide insights into the diversity of current ART regulation across the cont
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Taylor & Francis Remembrance Forgetting and Utterance
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Routledge The Routledge Handbook of Business Events
Book SynopsisA timely and up-to-date go-to reference work for business events, The Routledge Handbook of Business Events explores and critically evaluates the key debates and controversies inherent to this rapidly expanding subject of study and industry.The volume brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on management aspects as well as economic, social and environmental impacts and external factors such as transportation. The book incorporates the varied expertise of some 30 expert authors to provide a definitive collection of statements in this field, accompanied by illustrative and engaging case studies embodying real-life scenarios and examples on an international scale.This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers and academics of Events, as well as those of related studies in particular Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Marketing, Business and Development Studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Work in the Unorganized Sector
Book SynopsisThis book probes into the beedi industry, a highly gendered and class-divided unorganised sector in India. It introduces an analysis of the lives, health status and work of the Indian women and girl children in the industry and discusses the role of gender constructions, global capitalism, and global racism in shaping the ideologies and conceptions about men and women at work.The volume presents a gendered postcolonial perspective on women''s employment in the context of social and economic processes that are critical to globalization. It focuses on Telangana''s Nizamabad district - where a majority of the women population are employed in the beedi industry. Through detailed surveys and case studies, the author analyses different aspects of exploitation of these women such as poor working conditions, income inequalities, health risks and the realities of child labour in the process of beedi making.Richly detailed, this book will be of great interest to students, researTable of ContentsPreface.Acknowledgements.Part A. 1: Introduction. 2: The Beedi industry: Structure and Organization. 3: Women’s work in the Unorganised sectors- Issues of Marginalisation and Globalisation. 4: Child work and Child Labour. 5: Anti-tobacco history and control. 6: The Region: The Field. Part B: The Study. 7: The Beedi worker: Socio Economic profile. 8: Beedi Making at home and at the Work shed. 9. Invisible labour: The Girl child worker. 10: Beedi making, health and disease. 11: Narratives of Vulnerability and Exploitation.12: Conclusions and the way forward. Bibliography. Part C: Appendix 1. Map of Telangana with the three regions , Armoor, Balkonda and Nizamabad and Hyderabad Urban area. 2. A list of few Beedi factories in Telangana. Index
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Taylor & Francis Consuming Bodies
Book SynopsisOur bodies reveal the values, priorities, anxieties, and material realities of the society in which we are situated, and in contemporary consumer societies, human bodies both reflect the defining characteristics of our time and carry the markers of social hierarchies based on categories such as gender, race, and class.Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies explores the ways our bodies are increasingly commodified, from before birth to after death, through both long-standing forms of commodification (captive labor, sex work, and spectator sports) and newer forms (commercial surrogacy, the thriving trade in human biomaterials, female genital âœrejuvenationâ surgery, global romance tourism, and green burial practices, among others). As this diverse range of topics demonstrates, body commodification reaches increasingly into every realm of our lives, from our most intimate experiences to encounters with pop culture, the âœbeautyâ
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Taylor & Francis Social Constructionism
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Taylor & Francis Power and Space
Book SynopsisPower and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.The essays brought together in this book are a response to the fact that conventional descriptions of power and its ordered geographies no longer chime with our lived experience. Spatiality matters to the workings of power nowadays, and this book sheds light on what it is that we face when power is exercised through more subtle, spatially nuanced arrangements. It is divided into three parts, each representing a different kind of engagement with powerâs relationship to space, from the spatial shifts in the way power is exercised through to its assemblage-like entanglements and, in turn, its progressive topological character. Throughout the book, a wide range of social, political and economic examples are drawn upon to illustrate a more provisional sense of power, ranging, for instance, from the seductive logic of privatized public spaces to the attempt by a data analytics company to manipulate political behaviour, through to the offshore spaces invented by rising financial elites to challenge the established banking order.Illustrating the new-found abilities of the powerful to make their presence felt, this book provides an accessible account of the practical workings of power in the present day. It will be invaluable to students and academics in human geography and urban studies as well as politics, sociology and cultural studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anthropological Optimism
Book SynopsisThis book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism's origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable obTable of Contents1. A World Made Safe for (Future) Difference: Anthropology and Utopian Possibility 2. Vertiginous Optimism: Optimistic Orientations in a Field of Chronic Crisis 3. "Moving On and Moving Up": Productive Angles of Exploring Optimism 4. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Planting Optimism in a Disrupted Ecology 5. Indigenous Optimism in the Colonialcene 6. Putting the Pieces in Place: Optimistic Futuring in Transition Culture 7. Optimism at Scale: Exploring Everyday Activism in Atlanta’s Alternative Food Networks 8. Fusing Outrage and Hope into Acts of Resistance, Volunteerism, and Allyships 9. Optimistic Anthropology in the Work of Systems Changemakers 10. China 2060: Envisioning a Human-Centered Approach to Energy Transition 11. Doing Anthropology Forward: Emerging Technologies and Possible Futures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of Africa
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this comprehensive survey of African history provides an accessible overview of the continent's narrative, focusing on the autonomy and achievements of the African people.The book brings readers closer to an authentic Africa by paying close attention to the lives of everyday people and highlighting insights and ideas that are often missed in typical survey texts. The fourth edition offers expanded coverage of smaller linguistic and ethnic groups in Africa in order to provide a more inclusive history, noting a few individual groups while also analyzing their contributions to the overall narrative and African culture. Liberia's hidden history is given greater attention in this updated volume, as well as the ethnic and religious tensions in Nigeria and Sudan. While the book emphasizes that African history is always being made, the fourth edition brings the record up to date and grapples with contemporary issues in culture and politics.The History of Trade Review"In this fourth edition of The History of Africa the historian and philosopher Molefi Kete Asante has extended the reach of his already best-selling and popular book. This edition is heavily illustrated with updated photographs, charts, and graphs as well as key narratives on themes and memes in politics, ecology, and demographics. The unique and well-researched areas of history involving the agency of the African people themselves are further highlighted with dramatic examples that bring to life the experiences of the ordinary people of Africa, and narrations of documents central to understanding the unfolding of African history. The History of Africa written by the most prolific African American scholar is already one of the most classic books ever written on African history. It is praised by scholars who have studied Africa for decades as well as those who are newcomers to the field. Asante’s history releases the history of Africa from the chains of observers who see Africa as object and his work thrusts the continent and its people into the forefront of Africa as actors, not as spectators to the visions of others. In this way Asante’s fourth edition of The History of Africa is a visionary work based solidly on the grounding that comes from the overwhelming nature of the evidence, resources, and experiences of African people. No other history of Africa is so conscious of the narrative of its people from human origin to the 21st century."Jabali Ade, Temple University, USA, editor of Afrocentricity in Afro-Futurism: Toward Afrocentric FuturismTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Fourth Edition, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony Part I: The Time of Awakening 1. Africa and the Origin of Humanity Part II: The Age of Literacy 2. Africa and the Beginning of Civilization 3. The Rise of Kemet/Egypt 4. The Elements of Early African Civilization 5. Governance and the Political Stability of Kemet Part III: The Moment of Realization 6. The Emergence of the Great River Kingdoms Part IV: The Age of Construction 7. The Spread of Classical Empires and Kingdoms 8. The Sudanic Empires: Historians and Their Narratives 9. Generators of Traditional and Contemporary Africa 10. Societies of Secrets and Institutions Part V: The Time of Chaos 11. Arab and European Missionaries, Merchants, and Mercenaries 12. Resisting European and Arab Slave Traders Part VI: The Age of Reconstruction 13. Africa Regains Consciousness in a Pan-African Explosion Part VII: The Time for Consolidation 14. Africa Consolidates Independence 15. Toward a United States of Africa Without Compromise: Creation of the African Union
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patrolling the Homeland
Book SynopsisPatrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers. Amidst a humanitarian crisis in which more than 7,800 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the border, US militias patrol the deserts along the Mexican border in camouflage, armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles to protect the US. How and why US border militias conduct their activities is paramount to understanding similar movements, ideologies, and rhetoric around the world that oppose the movement of refugees and support the closing or restriction of international and regional borders.Based on extensive and engaging ethnography, Patrolling the Homeland explores not how people strive to be moral but how they maintain their self-perception as already and always moral individuals in spite of evidence to the contrary. This book signifies a creative and unique addition to morality and ethics Trade Review"This book is a unique study based upon ethnography in a very difficult area to secure access. It would not only be of interest to sociology/social studies related to immigration and border related studies but also criminology courses looking at policing in the broadest way." – Mark Button, University of Portsmouth"If one wants to understand the complexity of living in our contemporary world, then look no further than this book. John Parsons study of border militias in the United States offers a unique entree into the larger issues we all confront today. This is one of the most ethnographically and theoretically significant works in the anthropology of ethics that I have read in a long time." – Jarrett Zigon, University of Virginia.Table of ContentsPatrolling the Homeland - Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages 1. Border Watch 2. Morality 3. Ethnicity at the Nation’s Frontier 4. Experience, Narrative, and the Moral Imperative to Act 5. Embodied Narrative on the Border 6. The Moral Citizen, Virtue Ethics, and the Internal Ought 7. The Comfort to Act A World Without Self-Reflection
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Taylor & Francis The Pains of Mass Imprisonment
Book SynopsisThis concise and engaging book presents a critical perspective on the correctional system and the process of incarceration in the United States. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel emphasize the magnitude of mass imprisonment in the United States, especially of people of color, not by objective statistics and trends, but by the voices and lived experiences of individuals who live their harsh conditions on a daily basis. This is an ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry. This new edition dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and scholarship, and extended pedagogical and learning materials.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Attention and the Protection of
Book SynopsisThis book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the âhuman rights defenderâ term and its uptake among international advocacy organizations, which coalesced with the rise of a theory of human rights change centered around the support for local actors.Rich with analyses of original qualitative and quantitative data, the author spells out this theory of change and tests its assumptions in two case studies: the individual casework of the UN special procedures, and the case of Tunisia under Ben Ali.This book is of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, of the United Nations, and more broadly of international relations and politics in general, and to practitioners working with human rights defenders at risk.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infection Prevention and Control
Book SynopsisAn understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book, Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in, and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense.Key Features: Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo Interprofessional in nature and relevantTable of ContentsPart 1: Psychosocial Perspectives Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and controlChapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and controlChapter 3: The concept of truthPart 2: Leadership PerspectivesChapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practiceChapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and controlChapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectivesChapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequencesChapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?Part 3: Real world perspectivesChapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and controlChapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequencesChapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning – social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and controlChapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIVChapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspectiveChapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environmentsChapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control
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Taylor & Francis Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum
Book SynopsisCorporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific.Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru have flourished as powerful historical actors, exerting global dominance over the lives of asylum seekers wishing to come to Australia. Transitioning from the policeman or security guard toward the subject of the asylum seeker, this book contends that entanglements between architecture and law represent important epistemic models to interrogate how asylum can be understood and reconceptualized. Proposing diverse forms of visual and textual evidence, asylum is repositioned as a dynamic, ever-changing countermeasure against xenophobic sentiments around offshore processing. Over six chapters, Corporate Ethics examines how the regional processing centres of Manus Island and Nauru are deeply connected to the intellectual discourses of care, environmental precarity, human rights, and sovereignty. From Rembrandtâs De Nachtwacht or Night Watch (1642) to recent advancements in artificial intelligence and legal testimonies, picturing the future of asylum serves as a critical tool to resist state authoritarianism and the rise of corporate malfeasance in the built environment.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of humanitarian architecture, architectural history and Asia Pacific politics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Creatures Time Forgot
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand. He shows how such images construct disabled people as creatures,' the tragic-but-brave objects of photographic gaze, or as the 'appy andicapped' of positive imagery' advertising. As a disabled photographer and writer, David Hevey has been a pioneer in challenging such visual representations of disabled people. His work advocates a move away from medical, charity or impairment-fixated imagery towards a visual equivalent of Rights not Charity'. The book outlines David Hevey's own photographic practice and includes wide-ranging selections from his work to create a visual form which reflects the new social presence of disabled people. This book will be of interest to students of media studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.Table of ContentsNew Preface List of Plates Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Social life or medical death? 3. The creatures time forgot: Into the grotto of charity advertising 4. The creatures time forgot: Out of the grotto 5. The enfreakment of photography 6. From angst to anger: the mechanics of idealism 7. Revolt of the species! A theory of subject 8. Towards a disability imagery currency: Cancer and the marks of struggle 9. Towards a disability imagery currency: Little Stephen – infantilism, projection and naturalism in the construction of mental disablement Notes Plates Index
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Taylor & Francis Critical ICT4D Information and Communication
Book SynopsisThe edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority World and entering a process of restoring epistemic justice in knowledge production and ownership, the text: Reflects on the histories and narratives around development programmes, their deep-rooted socio-political background, and the power relations integrated into or induced by such measures Problematises the current scholarship and practices through decolonial and pluralistic approaches built with an explicit perspective of resisting epistemic violence Constructs justice-enacting engagements of technologies with society. Offering thematic discussions in many development sectors with up-to-date case studies informed by recent research in the field, it sheds light on constructive contributions of critical ICT4D resea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender in CrossCultural Perspective
Book SynopsisThis fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. With two new editors and new authors from the Global South and underrepresented communities, it combines theoretically and ethnographically based chapters to examine gender roles and ideology around the world.The books is divided thematically into five parts, with the editors opening each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The book retains some of the classic chapters while offering new contributions and extended discussions throughout on methodology. It also has entirely new contributions that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including more emphasis on LGBTQ+ communities, COVID, and migration. This new edition also features additional support for teaching and learning, including a film list and discussion questions, that are now offered as supplemen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Researching Social Media with Children
Book SynopsisReflecting on the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research.Social media has completely redefined how children and young people relate to each other, express themselves, and present their identities and sexualities. Yet researching social media can be a difficult and daunting task given the ephemerality of the content, its contextual hyperspecificity, the complex power relationships between users, celebrity culture, digital capitalism, and the ethical issues that arise from the reimagining of the public/private space. Using digital ethnography and creative digital storytelling workshops with children and young people aged 13-15 and 13-18 on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch, this book studies their interactions, language, codes, the risks they take, and the victimizations they suffer.Researching Social Media with Children will be of use to social scientists
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TelanganaAndhra
Book SynopsisThis book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.
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