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Taylor & Francis Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas
Book SynopsisInsurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas, Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely Ledesma offer a new perspective on the empirics of struggles to design cities that are inclusive and equitable.From Brazilâs favelas to Ecuadorâs barrios, and Puerto Ricoâs hurricane-battered shores to the gentrified centers of U.S. cities, there have been radical struggles of the marginalized to challenge and reimagine the norms of urban planning. Over decades, these same struggles have become part of planning itself. Each chapterâs account of insurgency provides empirical detail about how acts of resistance evolve across housing occupations, grassroots knowledge-sharing, ecological revolutions. Stiphany and Ely-Ledesma provide a way of understanding how the marginalized mobilize their sociospatial systemsâsuch as housing, markets, policies, and urban morphologyâto participate in the change that is transforming their own communities. Through powerful field research and firsthand activism, contributors reveal how insurgencies not only resist but actively reshape urban orders, built environments, and public landscapesâissuing a compelling call to make urbanism matter.This book is essential for students and instructors of urban planning and design, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and social justice studies, as well as city planning and urban design practitioners.
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Routledge Migration Landing Spaces
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beginning with Disability
Book SynopsisWhile there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplinesincluding education, sociology, communications, psychology, social sciences, and humanitiesfeatures accessible, readable, and relatively short chapters that do not require specialized knowledge.Lennard Davis, along with a team of consulting editors, has compiled a number of blogs, vlogs, and other videos to make the materials more relatable and vivid to students. Subject to Debate boxes spotlight short pro and con pieces on controversial subjects that can be debated in class or act as prompts for assignments.Trade ReviewBeginning with Disability: A Primer brings together a collection of renowned and emergent scholars to offer an exciting and accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. An excellent resource for those new to this field.Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, University of SheffieldDavis has deftly curated an indispensable introduction to the field of disability studies. With its accessible and engaging prose, Beginning with Disability: A Primer is the disability studies 101 text that will be required reading for every introductory course in the field.Beth A. Ferri, Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies, Syracuse UniversityBeginning with Disability gathers established and emerging disability studies scholars and disability activists to reflect on what it means to center disability in analyses of history, culture, politics, and lived experience. The result is a powerfully diverse array of methods, archives and voices, and a series of thought-provoking questions that will be an asset to college instructors and students of disability studies at all levels.Julie Passanante Elman, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Missouri and author of Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation Beginning with Disability is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of disability studies. For students new to the field, it offers a clear and accessible introduction to the major interventions and ongoing debates in the field; for more seasoned scholars, it compiles classic texts in one location for convenient reference.Julie Avril Minich, Assistant Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at AustinWith zest, Beginning with Disability shows us the social relations that make disability a complex set of meanings, experiences, and ways of knowing that should no longer be taken-for-granted. The various works collected here together with the compelling use of examples from popular culture promise to makes this Primer a great one—enabling us to encounter the significance of the mystery that disability is all around us, but as Davis says, "it's often hiding in plain sight."Tanya Titchkosky, Professor of Disability Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and Author of Disability, Self and Society, Reading and Writing Disability Differently, and The Question of Access: Disability, Space, MeaningTable of ContentsPART 1: DEFINING DISABILITY1. Davis, Lennard. Introduction.2. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Becoming Disabled3. Linton, Simi. Reassigning Meaning.4. Dolmage, Jay. Disability Rhetoric.5. Omansky, Beth and Karen Rosenblum. A Comparison of Disability With Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Statuses.6. Silberman, Steve. Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains.PART 2: DEAFNESS AND DEAF CULTURE7. Padden, Carol A. Talking Culture: Deaf People of Disability Studies.8. Leahy, Morgan. Stop Sharing Those Feel-Good Cochlear Implant Videos.9. Groce, Nora. "Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language"PART 3: THE HISTORY OF DISABILITY10. Burch, Susan and Kim Nielsen. Disability History.11. Baynton, Douglas. Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882–1924.12. Carey, Allison C. On the Margins of Citizenship. Disability Activism and the Intellectually Disabled.PART 4: DISABILITY, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE13. Erevelles, Nirmala. Disability and Race.14. Schalk, Sami. Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification With/In Disability Studies.15. Ralph, Laurence. What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago.16. David M. Perry and Laqrence Carter-Long. Misunderstanding Disability Leads to Police Violence.17. Metzl, Jonathon. Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping the Mentally Ill.PART 5: EXPERIENCING DISABILITY18. Miserandino, Christine. The Spoon Theory.19. Peace, Bill. Ableism and a Watershed Experience.20. Sacks, Mike. O.C.D. in N.Y.C.21. Hedrick, Michael. Living with Schizophrenia: The Importance of Routine.22. Michalko, Rod. The Two-in-One.PART 6: DISABILITY AND CULTURE23. Rosenberg, Alyssa. If Hollywood's So Creative, Why Can't It Tell New Stories About People With Disabilities?24. Abramovich, Seth. Little People, Big Woes in Hollywood: Low Pay, Degrading Jobs, and a Tragic Death.25. Kornhaber, Spencer and Lauryn S. Mayer. The Ethics of Hodor: Disability in Game of Thrones.26. Anand, Shilpaa. From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally.27. Luft, Alexander. The New Kid in Primetime: What Speechless Has to Say.28. Bolt, David. An Advertising Aesthetic: Real Beauty and Visual Impairment.29. Moosa, Tauriq. Your Body Isn’t Your World: The Heroes of the Mad Max Video Game and Disability.30. Gibbons, Sarah. Auti(sim) and Representation: Autis(i)m, Disability Simulation Games, and Neurodiversity.31. Kuusisto, Steve. Why I’m a Crippled Poet.PART 7: THE DISABILITY YET TO COME32. Ware, Linda. Disability Studies in K-12 Education.33. Biklen, Douglas and Jamie Burke. Presuming Competence.34. Girma, Haben. Disability and Innovation.35. Barker, Nicole C.S. "What Will You Gain When You Lose?" Deafness, Disability Gain, Creativity, and Human Difference.36. Capuzzi Simon, Cecilia. Disability Studies: A New Normal.PART 8: SUBJECT TO DEBATE37. Disability and Sexual ObjectificationA. Bartlett, Jennifer. Longing for the Male Gaze.B. Crippledscholar.com. Disabled Women and Sexual Objectification (or the Lack Thereof).38. Sexual Surrogacy.Unlockingwords.wordpress.com. Disability and Paying for Sex39. Prenatal Testing and Abortion.A. Whattoexpect.com. The Benefits of Prenatal Testing.B. Tennant, Michael. "U.K. Lawmaker: End Abortion Discrimination Against the Disabled.40. Assisted SuicideA. Golden, Marilyn. The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws.B. Zakaria, Rafia. Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal.41. Cochlear Implants.A. Owens, Brian. Infants May Benefit from Advanced Cochlear Implants.B. Ringo, Allegra. Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to be "Fixed".42. Nondisabled Actors in Disabled Roles.A. Ryan, Frances. We Wouldn’t Accept Actors Blacking Up, So Why Applaud "Cripping Up"?B. Seymour, Tony. Able-Bodied Actors in Disabled Roles: Modern-day "Blacking Up" ... Or Is It?
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Taylor & Francis The Space and Power of Young Peoples Social
Book SynopsisThe book examines the power of young peopleâs social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. The book details extensive qualitative research with young people, foregrounding their accounts.In challenging educators and others to engage with young peopleâs own agencies and to make space for their socialities, the concepts of embodied social and emotional capital and young people as contextual bodies/subjectivities/agencies are developed, emphasising both young peopleâs agencies and how these are socio-spatially situated, constrained and enabled. The book is most concerned with how and when young people challenge and change enduring differences. The concept of âimmersive geographiesâ outlines the potential of change inherent in the repeated coming together of the same people in space, doing similar things that are, however, always provisional and always with the potential to be done diff erently. Examples of when diff erence is transformed are presented.The book marks a major interdisciplinary contribution to geographies and social studies of children, youth and education, child development, social work, social policy and education studies. Furthermore, it is of appeal to anyone interested in young people, social reproduction and sociality: from educators, policy makers, youth workers and social workers to parents.
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Taylor & Francis Understanding the African Diaspora
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Taylor & Francis Science Communication
Book SynopsisScience Communication: The Basics is an accessible yet critical introduction to science communication viewed as the social conversation around science. It addresses why science communication matters, examines the evolution of theories and practices and explains concepts, myths, misunderstandings and challenges.Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench navigate the foundations and key themes of science communication through numerous vignettes, examples, cases and arguments. They provide annotated recommended reading and a Lexicon summarising the understandings and uses of key terms in the field. Revealing science communication as a collective process and part of daily life, topics covered include science communication as part of culture and our understanding of ourselves and the world; the history of science communication and the development of âmodern scienceâ; policy and theoretical approaches; the growth of professional practice, formal education and research in the field;
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Taylor & Francis Recolonizing Africa
Book SynopsisExplaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping Africa poor and dependent, this book explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the New Scramble for Africa.Green technology and the high demand for electronics have intensified Africaâs role as a supplier of raw materials, natural resources, and cheap labor and as a large market of more than one billion people in the global economy. This unique ethnographic study, with elements of autoethnography, starts with the author's journey to Bulyanhulu, Tanzania, one of the largest gold mines in Africa, and moves to a broader analysis that reveals the systemic violence of resource extraction. Focus groups, interviews, and observations demonstrate the lack of distributive justice and intersectional equality in the process of land acquisition and resource extraction, described by villagers in raci
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Taylor & Francis Where it Hurts
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Taylor & Francis Gender and Climate Change
Book SynopsisDoes gender matter in global climate change? This timely and provocative book takes readers on a guided tour of basic climate science, then holds up a gender lens to find out what has been overlooked in popular discussion, research, and policy debates. We see that, around the world, more women than men die in climate-related natural disasters; the history of science and war are intimately interwoven masculine occupations and preoccupations; and conservative men and their interests drive the climate change denial machine. We also see that climate policymakers who embrace big science approaches and solutions to climate change are predominantly male with an ideology of perpetual economic growth, and an agenda that marginalizes the interests of women and developing economies. The book uses vivid case studies to highlight the often surprising, gendered impacts of climate changes.This new edition is a thorough update that includes revised and new chapters and new material that takes account of the significant advances in climate research, environmental and social theory, and the many political and social challenges posed in the wake of US elections, Covid-19 pandemic, and rapidly changing climate and environment. The new edition also takes account of important social and cultural movements that resist challenges to women's rights and advocate for gender, sexuality, and racial justice. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and academicians interested in environmental studies and gender studies. It also will be of interest to policymakers, activists, and others involved with environmental policy and governance.
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Routledge A Theory of Uncertainty
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Taylor & Francis The United Nations Programme on Crime Prevention
Book SynopsisThis book documents the evolution of the United Nations (UN) Crime Programme and its changing priorities, from the early focus on juvenile delinquency and correctional treatment, to the present preoccupation with transnational organized crime. It analyses what factors have contributed to this evolution, and to the shift from the original work on soft law resolutions and international standards, to hard law conventions, and to the expansion of technical assistance. It also examines the changing structure and working methods of the Programme, such as the UN Crime Commission and the UN Secretariat unit responsible for the Programme, the UN Crime Congresses, and the Programme Network Institutes. Drawing on almost 50 years of experience on the inside of the UN Crime Programme and his hands-on knowledge of the working of governmental and intergovernmental processes, Matti Joutsen explores the transitions that have taken place in the UN Crime Programme over the seven decades of its existen
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Taylor & Francis EcoThoughts
Book SynopsisWhat if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts, invasive like locusts, could transform and become eco-thoughts that make us and others feel good? Ecology concerns us from the inside, passes through us, and literally shapes us: what is inside is outside. This book offers eco-words and eco-thoughts as it sheds light on the traps that our minds construct for ourselves, that we so often fall into whether we mean to or not. It examines the erroneous paths that we sometimes meander down while we are thinking in our everyday lives in order to help us to identify and avoid them.The thoughts we formulate are not really ours, as if our mind prefers to flow in what has already been thought, lived, and felt. The author offers her reflections and insights to those who wish to direct their minds towards streams of thought that really do belong to us, that ma
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Taylor & Francis Disability Gender and the Trajectories of Power
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Taylor & Francis Minority Women Rights and Intersectionality
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Taylor & Francis Strategies and Insights for Women Leaders in
Book SynopsisThis book delves into critical factors for womenâs success in academia, offering strategies, and counsel anchored in a robust theoretical framework.Hozienâs thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach to women leadership culminates in a comprehensive understanding of the critical factors that can influence career success in higher education. Grounded by an intersectional lens and data-driven analysis, the bookâs focus on minority female populations informs the inherent challenges and shifting representation in educational leadership. Each chapter integrates real-world examples, case studies, and immediately actionable advice to advocate for and support current and aspiring female leaders, administrators, and policymakers.A masterful blend of theory and practice, this bookâs timely insights empower women to take charge of their leadership journeys with the intention of fostering a generation of confident and capable academic leaders who can drive positive transformation.
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Taylor & Francis Disbanding the Patriarchy
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Taylor & Francis Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian
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Taylor & Francis Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness
Book SynopsisThis book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive and untenable experiences of black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniality/decoloniality by threading its meaning and movement through the âproblemâ of blackness.It argues that global*Blackness is the complexly entangled other side of decoloniality, as movement, method and poethics for radical new worlds. The essays explore this through inter/transdisciplinary, creative and decolonial standpoints, whether from prison abolitionist demands to Afrofuturist imaginaries, or by seeing through black mirrors. It emphasizes the paradoxical characteristics of global*Blackness- its spectral quality of being in and out of modernity's self-narrative- to provide a way of dwelling with global Blackness as a force that is neither âproperlyâ constituted by corporeality nor thinkable in ontological terms determ
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Taylor & Francis Advances in Prejudice Research Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Research Design and Statistical Analysis
Book SynopsisThis fully updated fourth edition of Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The guiding philosophy is to provide a strong conceptual foundation so that readers can generalize to new situations they encounter in their research, including new developments in data analysis.Key features include: Emphasis on basic concepts such as sampling distributions, design efficiency, and expected mean squares, relating the research designs and data analyses to the statistical models that underlie the analyses. Detailed instructions on performing analysis using both R and SPSS. Pedagogical exercises mapped to key topic areas to support students as they review their understanding and strive to reach their higher learning goals. Incorporating the analyses of both experimental and observational data, and with coverage that is
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Taylor & Francis Life Writing and Translation
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Taylor & Francis Black Studies Cultural Politics and the Evasion
Book SynopsisThese historically grounded essays by Adolph Reed, Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren incorporate essential historical, contemporary and literary perspectives on Black cultural criticism to explore the full portrait of racial injustice and inequality in America.Taking up such topics as the evolving politics of New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina and novels by Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead, this book engages with Black Radical Tradition, Afropessimism, antiblackness, race reductionism, and other key theories and concepts in contemporary black studies. Challenging the prevailing assertion that longstanding white animus against nonwhite peoples sufficiently and adequately explains deepening injustice past injustice or present inequality, the essays argue that such thinking fails to fully explain Americaâs past and leaves us ill-equipped to handle the continuing challenges in the present.Tracing black cultural criticism across the 19th , 20th and 21 centuries, this book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers of Black studies, race and ethnic studies, contemporary and Black American literature.
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Taylor & Francis Taxing the State
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Trust and Distrust in Governance
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Taylor & Francis New Approaches to Latin American Studies
New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, Volume 2 provides an examination of the new and defining approaches that have emerged in the field of Latin American Studies in the last decade since 2014.Like its predecessor, this second volume of New Approaches to Latin American Studies is organized using the concept of a turn (as in linguistic or cultural turn) and aims to help both student and faculty, in an eminently interdisciplinary space like Latin American Studies, find new ways of conceptualizing objects and research. Original contributions from experts in their fields provide a discussion that is not meant to be fully comprehensive but concentrates instead on key authors and key texts. In each chapter, the keyword that defines the turn functions as a specific limit that contains the proliferation of references and connections, restricting them to the trajectory of such turn. This second volume includes eleven new chapters covering important transf
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Taylor & Francis Cambodian American Youth Identity and Schooling
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Taylor & Francis Public Sector Innovation in Southern Africa
Book SynopsisThis timely and thought-provoking book argues that public sector innovation ameliorates many societal challenges in Southern Africa, demonstrating how innovative practices are already improving service delivery and addressing governance gaps.Bringing together a diverse range of scholars, this bookâs chapters provide insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping innovation in the public sector. The book highlights the emergence on a new public administration paradigm grounded in theory: innovation public administration. Through theoretical reflections and case studies from Zimbabwe and South Africa, the chapter authors navigate institutional, technological, and socio-political issues undergirding public sector innovation. The contributors provide perspectives on public governance, examining innovations such as policy innovation labs, smart cities, 4IR, e-procurement, and how technology adoption closes the digital divide and affects citizens' sense of gain. The book further discusses the institutionalisation of innovation and transitioning to innovation for change, concluding by reflecting on public sector innovation in the future of Southern Africa.The insights shared serve as an essential resource for policymakers, researchers (across fields of public administration, political economy, and African studies), and development practitioners committed to reimagining governance and advancing public sector transformation in Southern Africa.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z
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Taylor & Francis Exploring Woke in Educational Policy and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Consumer Expectations
Book SynopsisRichard Curtin has directed the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment surveys for more than four decades. His analyses of recent trends in consumer expectations are regularly covered in the worldwide press. In this book, Curtin presents a new theory of expectations, consistent with both micro data observations and macro environment.Trade Review'There is no one on earth who knows more about consumer expectations and the macroeconomy than Richard Curtin. All the rest of us have much to learn from this impressive book.' Alan S. Binder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, New Jersey'Richard Curtin has produced a tour de force about expectations and the macro economy, including the formation, construction, and measurement of expectations. Curtin was a colleague and friend of George Katona, and he learned very well at the Master's 'feet'.' Roger Frantz, San Diego State University'Unravelling the complexities of consumers' expectations is a perennial challenge for economists. Richard Curtin's Consumer Expectations provides fresh perspectives solidly grounded on real evidence from Michigan's influential consumer sentiment surveys. It will be an invaluable guide for anyone interested in how uncertainty and complexity play out in modern macroeconomies.' Michelle Baddeley, Director and Research Professor, Institute for Choice, University of South AustraliaTable of Contents1. Expectations and the macroeconomy; Part I. The Formation of Expectations: 2. Conventional theories of expectations; 3. Private and public sources of economic information; 4. Processing economic information; 5. Affective influences on expectations; 6. The construction of expectations; Part II. The Consumer and the Macroeconomy: 7. Expectations of macroeconomic cycles; 8. The measurement of expectations; 9. Tailored economic expectations; 10. Economic expectations: paradigms and theories.
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Cambridge University Press Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
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Cambridge University Press Trauma and Forgiveness
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Cambridge University Press Order within Anarchy The Laws of War as an International Institution
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Cambridge University Press Economy of Force
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
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Cambridge University Press Counterfactuals and Causal Inference Methods And
Book SynopsisCause-and-effect questions are the motivation for most research in the social, demographic, and health sciences. The counterfactual approach to causal analysis represents a unified framework for the prosecution of these questions. This second edition aims to convince more social scientists to take this approach when analyzing these core empirical questions.Trade Review'The use of counterfactuals for causal inference has brought clarity to our reasoning about causality. And this second edition by Morgan and Winship will bring clarity to anyone trying to learn about the field. It is an excellent introduction to the topic, and a fine place to begin learning causal inference.' Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University, Massachusetts'This improved edition of Morgan and Winship's book elevates traditional social sciences, including economics, education and political science, from a hopeless flirtation with regression to a solid science of causal interpretation, based on two foundational pillars: counterfactuals and causal graphs. A must for anyone seeking an understanding of the modern tools of causal analysis, and a must for anyone expecting science to secure explanations, not merely descriptions.' Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles'More has been learned about causal inference in the last few decades than the sum total of everything that had been learned about it in all prior recorded history. The first comprehensive survey of the modern causal inference literature was the first edition of Morgan and Winship. Now with the second edition of this successful book comes the most up-to-date treatment.' Gary King, Harvard University, Massachusetts'The second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference should be part of the personal library of any social scientist who is engaged in quantitative research. For those with a copy of the first edition, purchase of the second edition is indeed well worth the investment.' Peter Messeri, Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of ContentsPart I. Causality and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences: 1. Introduction; Part II. Counterfactuals, Potential Outcomes, and Causal Graphs: 2. Counterfactuals and the potential-outcome model; 3. Causal graphs; Part III. Estimating Causal Effects by Conditioning on Observed Variables to Block Backdoor Paths: 4. Models of causal exposure and identification criteria for conditioning estimators; 5. Matching estimators of causal effects; 6. Regression estimators of causal effects; 7. Weighted regression estimators of causal effects; Part IV. Estimating Causal Effects When Backdoor Conditioning Is Ineffective: 8. Self-selection, heterogeneity, and causal graphs; 9. Instrumental-variable estimators of causal effects; 10. Mechanisms and causal explanation; 11. Repeated observations and the estimation of causal effects; Part V. Estimation When Causal Effects Are Not Point Identified by Observables: 12. Distributional assumptions, set identification, and sensitivity analysis; Part VI. Conclusions: 13. Counterfactuals and the future of empirical research in observational social science.
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Cambridge University Press Private Racism
Book SynopsisUsually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. ''Private racism'' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism.Trade Review'Anyone interested in racism and the role it has played and continues to play in the lives of people today would find this book fascinating.' Ana Marquez, Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Enlarging the boundary of racial justice; 2. Casting racism; 3. Digital racism; 4. Sexual racism; 5. Selling segregation; Conclusion: private injustice; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Backlash
Book SynopsisAuthoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP''s role in catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to liberal democracy.Trade Review'Cultural Backlash is a foundational piece in the burgeoning field of studies related to the revival of authoritarianism and the rise of populism in the twenty-first century. But it is also much more than that. It is not only a book that explains the reasons why some parties and candidates have been more successful than others, or about the potential causes and effects of the erosion to liberal democracy. It is also an unprecedented roadmap to understand the new political and social fault lines that will likely mark political representation patterns for years to come. The book is a landmark in the study of social psychology and voter choice.' Kenneth Bunker, Democratization'No book this year has done more to explain our current political plight than Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart's comprehensive study …' Colin Kidd, New Statesman'There is a lot to appreciate and admire about Norris and Inglehart's latest book. Those intrigued by and concerned about today's political currents in democratic societies can learn a great deal from Cultural Backlash. I recommend picking it up for the narrative, reading on for the depth and nuance, and reflecting on the ideas for inspiration.' Jennifer Fitzgerald, Political Psychology'Cultural Backlash is a leader in a crowded field of research on the origins and implications of populist politics in western societies. Among many contributions, the book especially adds value for scholars of international affairs …' Jordan Becker, International Affairs'… an argument convincingly buttressed with an impressive amount of data from several different sources.' Gianfranco Pasquino, The Political QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Understanding populism; 2. The cultural backlash theory; 3. Varieties of populism; Part II. Authoritarian-Populist Values: 4. The backlash against the silent revolution; 5. Economic grievances; 6. Immigration; Part III. From Values to Votes: 7. Classifying parties; 8. Who votes for authoritarian-populists?; 9. Party fortunes and electoral rules; 10. Trump's America; 11. Brexit; Part IV. Conclusions: 12. Eroding the civic culture?; 13. The populist challenge; Endnotes; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
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Cambridge University Press Political Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Political Control in China
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Japanese Society
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Japanese Society provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. This edition begins with a new historical introduction placing the sociological analysis of contemporary Japan in context, and includes a new chapter on religion and belief systems.Table of Contents1. Historical backdrop: disintegration and restoration; 2. The Japan phenomenon: analysis and understanding; 3. Class: stratification and disparity; 4. Generations and geography: variations in an aging society; 5. Work: 'Japanese-style' management and cultural capitalism; 6. Education: diversity and unity; 7. Gender and family: challenges to ideology; 8. Ethnicity and Japaneseness: defining the nation; 9. The establishment: competition and collusion; 10. Religion: belief and secularization; 11. Culture: the popular and the cool; 12. Civil society: activism and friendly authoritarianism.
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Cambridge University Press Authoritarian Police in Democracy
Book SynopsisIn countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the ''black box'' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact rTrade Review'In this remarkable, bracing, and deeply researched book, Yanilda González goes to the heart of a question that has remained one of the most important, and underexamined questions of this century: why do the corrosive policing practices and the rampant state violence of authoritarian regimes persist after the transition to democracy? Authoritarian Police in Democracy reveals that coercive institutional arrangements are not simply holdovers of an authoritarian past, nor are they incompatible with democracy, but owe their endurance to democratic politics itself.' Vesla M. Weaver, Johns Hopkins University'Building on remarkable and difficult field work, this book examines the presence of authoritarian modes of coercion in the midst of otherwise democratic regimes. The analysis makes sense of the intractability of violent policing in democracies - policymakers are vulnerable to the leverage of police forces, which control the means of coercion; and they most often face little pressure for reform from electorates demanding more order and security. Timely and timeless, the book offers an invaluable look into the darkest corners of many contemporary democracies.' Daniel M. Brinks, University of Texas at Austin'Authoritarian Police in Democracy is a breakthrough book for any scholar interested in policing, security, violence, and democratic politics. González develops an original and compelling theory of authoritarian coercion in democratic regimes and traces the political challenges to police reform in three highly impressive case studies. In doing so, she powerfully illustrates how and why the distribution of repression and protection by police often reproduces social stratification, but also explains the conditions under which reform can and does occur. An extraordinary accomplishment.' Lisa L. Miller, Rutgers University'This book lays a marvelous foundation for all scholars, policymakers, and activists who are committed to advancing this critical mission, and González should be applauded for her wisdom, erudition, and savvy in sharing both the barriers and enablers to achieving such goals.' Diane E. Davis, ReVista'… [a] very clear, timely, and well-researched book … a must-read for academics interested in understanding the drivers of institutional change, as well as activists and policy makers focused on devising more democratic security institutions.' Lucía Tiscornia, Perspectives on Politics'… this is a good book. González offers critical and useful insights into the so-called hard problem of police reform. … The book is not just about the demerits and problematic implications of authoritarian policing but also about how police reforms, as political processes, are either enacted or not. To have shown the path is, in my opinion, the principal achievement of the book. As police reform efforts and debates are, in my view, destined to continue in the region, González's book is by default destined to be a reference in these debates.' Carlos Vilalta, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. Police: authoritarian enclaves in democratic states; 2. Ordinary democratic politics and the challenge of police reform; Part I. Persistence: 3. Institutional persistence in São Paulo state: authoritarian policing by democratic demand; 4. The endurance of the 'damned police' in Buenos Aires province; 5. Policing in hard times: drug war, institutional decay, and the persistence of authoritarian coercion in Colombia; Part II. Reform: 6. 'New police', same as the old police: barriers to reform in São Paulo state; 7. The social and political drivers of reform in Buenos Aires province and Colombia; 8. Conclusion: inequality and the dissonance of policing and democracy.
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Cambridge University Press Racial Order Racialized Responses
Book SynopsisAmerica''s racial sands are quickly shifting, with parallel growth in theories to explain how varied groups respond, politically, to demographic changes. This Element develops a unified framework to predict when, why, and how racial groups react defensively toward others. America''s racial groups can be arrayed along two dimensions: how American and how superior are they considered? This Element claims that location along these axes motivates political reactions to outgroups. Using original survey data and experiments, this Element reveals the acute sensitivity that people of color have to their social station and how it animates political responses to racial diversity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Racial Subordination and Interminority Politics; 2. Not More American Than Me: Black Reactions to Latino Growth; 3. Robbing Us of Our Shine: Asian American Reactions to Latino Growth; 4. What Have We Learned and What Do We Do with These Lessons?; Appendix: Racial Order, Racialized Responses; References.
£17.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Wellbeing of Nations
Book SynopsisWhat is national wellbeing and what is progress?Why measure these definitions?Why are measures beyond economic performance needed and how will they be used? How do we measure national wellbeing & turn the definitions into observable quantities? Where are we now and where to next? These questions are asked and answered in this much needed, timely book. The Wellbeing of Nations provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the measurement of national well-being, examining whether national wellbeing is more than the sum of the wellbeing of everyone in the country, and identifying and reviewing requirements for new measures. It begins with definitions, describes how to operationalize those definitions, and takes a critical look at the uses to which such measures are to be put. The authors examine initiatives from around the world, using the UK measuring national wellbeing programme' as a case study throughout the book, along with case studies drawnTrade Review“Although there are brief discussions of technical topics like measurement theory, the book will be useful to researchers across a range of disciplines and the interested general reader.” (Significance, 15 June 2015)Table of ContentsList of tables and figures viii Preface ix 1 What is national wellbeing and why measure it? 1 1.1 Motivation: Why measure wellbeing? 3 1.2 What is individual wellbeing? 8 1.3 Aspects of individual wellbeing 11 1.4 How to measure individual wellbeing? 16 1.4.1 Basics of measurement 16 1.4.2 What is measured matters 18 1.5 Properties of measurements 21 1.5.1 Validity 21 1.5.2 Reliability 22 1.6 Objective or subjective? 22 1.7 Combining multiple aspects 23 1.8 What is national wellbeing? 26 1.9 And how to measure national wellbeing? 27 1.10 Structure of the book 30 References 31 2 A short history of national wellbeing and its measurement 35 2.1 The good society and philosophies of the role of government, from ancient times 36 2.2 Utilitarianism 39 2.3 The American constitution 41 2.4 Official statistics – statistics about the state and about the state of society 42 2.5 National accounts and GDP 44 2.6 More to life than GDP 51 2.7 Social indicator movement and measuring quality of life 53 2.8 Health and wellbeing 56 2.9 Rise of measurement of psychological wellbeing (life satisfaction, happiness, worthwhile lives) 58 2.10 The Easterlin paradox 61 2.11 Taking note of the change in the quality of the goods and services we use 62 2.12 Capability approach to quality of life (Sen) and the human development index 63 2.13 Social capital and public value 65 2.14 Limits to growth and sustainable development indicators 67 2.14.1 Sustainable development indicators 69 2.14.2 Green growth indicators 72 2.14.3 Natural resource accounting 73 2.15 Commentary 75 References 77 3 Recent developments: Towards economic, social and environmental accounts 83 3.1 Mismeasuring our lives: The report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress 85 3.2 Replacing the Millennium Development Goals 90 3.3 A new global movement? 93 3.4 Commentary 104 References 110 4 Measuring individual wellbeing 115 4.1 On quantification 119 4.2 Single measures of wellbeing 123 4.3 Combining aspects of wellbeing 125 4.3.1 Causes, effects, and correlates 126 4.3.2 Subjective components of wellbeing 127 4.3.3 Weighted sums 129 4.4 Components of individual wellbeing 132 4.5 The frailty of memory 137 4.6 The devil’s in the details 138 4.7 Conclusion 142 References 143 5 Preparing to measure national wellbeing 146 5.1 Towards a user requirement for measures of national wellbeing and progress 147 5.2 Towards a framework to measure the progress of societies 152 5.3 Constructing measures of progress and national wellbeing: Identifying and meeting user requirements 160 5.4 Commentary 166 References 168 6 How to measure national wellbeing? 171 6.1 Drawing on the national economic accounts 172 6.2 Extending the national accounts 181 6.2.1 Consider income and consumption jointly with wealth 183 6.2.2 Give more prominence to the distribution of income, consumption and wealth 185 6.2.3 Broaden income measures to nonmarket activities 187 6.3 Indicator sets describing social and environmental conditions relating to wellbeing 190 6.3.1 Improve measures of people’s health, education, personal activities and environmental conditions 191 6.3.2 Quality-of-life indicators in all the dimensions covered should assess inequalities in a comprehensive way 193 6.3.3 Surveys should be designed to assess the links between various quality-of-life domains for each person, and this information should be used when designing policies in various fields 193 6.3.4 Statistical offices should provide the information needed to aggregate across quality-of-life dimensions, allowing the construction of different indexes 194 6.3.5 Sustainability assessment requires a well-identified dashboard of indicators 199 6.3.6 The environmental aspects of sustainability deserve a separate follow-up based on a well-chosen set of physical indicators 203 6.4 Survey-based data on subjective wellbeing 204 6.5 Developments in measuring national wellbeing and progress around the world 205 6.6 Important issues in the measurement of national wellbeing 209 References 212 7 Wellbeing policy and measurement in the UK 217 References 233 8 Conclusions 236 8.1 Progress 236 8.2 Measuring wellbeing 241 8.3 New technologies, new data? 244 8.4 Beyond the economy 245 8.5 The future 249 References 250 Appendix: Sources of methods and measures of wellbeing and progress 253 Further reading 269 Index 271
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Soft Policing The Collaborative Control of
Book SynopsisExamining multi-agency working in response to anti-social behaviour, this book investigates the way in which the police, social work teams and the youth justice service work together on early intervention initiatives to help young people, and explores the complexities and practical struggles of these partnerships.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Institutional Governance of Anti-social Behaviour 3. The Organisation of Decision-making 4. Becoming Antisocial: the Nexus of Welfare/Juridical Control 5. Dealing with the 'Irredeemable': Negotiating the Failings of Reform 6. Policing in a Benevolent Cloak 7. Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors IndexTrade Review"Sex is not just sex. As anyone who has deeply engaged the history of religions knows, human sexuality runs the gamut from the most mundane fetish or fantasy to the profundities of charismatic authority, mystical experience, discarnate erotic encounter, alien abduction, even human deification. The essayists in this new volume demonstrate this still ill-understood truth in abundance and with astonishing historical and psychological detail. They thus take us further down the road toward a genuine understanding of our real situation in this weird, weird world." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Reflexivity and Eroticism in the Study of MysticismTable of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work between
Book SynopsisMasculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures of a generation of young men in contemporary Indonesia.Table of Contents1. Men ' 's Things and Male Activities 2. Growing Up in Surabaya: Youth, Street Gangs, the City and Beyond 3. Male Sex Work in South Bali: Bodies, Violence and Entrepreneurship 4. After Sex Work: Immobility and Bonds of Dependence
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