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Book SynopsisDrawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. The authors examine what prompts these arrangements, how fathers adjust to their caregiving roles over time, and what challenges they face along the way. The book asks what would encourage more fathers to become primary or equal caregivers, and how we can make things easier for those who do. Offering new academic insight and practical recommendations, this will be key reading for those interested in parenting, families and gender, including researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students.Table of ContentsSharing Care: An Introduction Extended Fatherly Involvement: Developments and Understandings Developing Policy Support for Care Sharing: And Its Limitations Shifting Care Horizons: Care- sharing Arrangements, Motivations and Transitions Developing Fatherly Roles and Identities: Towards Parental Equivalence? Daytime Social Isolation from Other Parents Care- sharing Futures

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

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals' handling of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion ~ Erin F. Johnston 1. Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives ~ Jodi O'Brien 2. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors ~ Janet Jacobs 3. Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion ~ Daniel Winchester 4. Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us ~ Rebecca Kneale Gould 5. The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India ~ Aseem Hasnain 6. Meaning and Power: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion ~ Titus Hjelm 7. The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality ~ George Lundskow 8. Totalitarianism as Religion ~ Yong Wang 9. The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism ~ Jessica Marie Falcone 10. Interpreting Nonreligion ~ Evan Stewart Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Refl ections on Meaning, Identity, and Power ~ Vikash Singh

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Book SynopsisIn this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memories: What Memories Does the Future Need? 2. Futurity: Changing Futures in a Changing World 3. Memory and Future through the Generations Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as though the world has entered a period characterized by pessimism, cynicism and anxiety. This edited collection challenges individualized understandings of emotion, revealing how they relate to cultural, economic and political realities in difficult times. Combining numerous empirical studies and theoretical developments from around the world, the diverse contributors explore how dystopian visions of the future influence, and are influenced by, the emotions of an anxious and precarious present. This is an original investigation into the changing landscape of emotion in dark and uncertain times.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Feeling of Dystopia - Jordan McKenzie 1. Borderland Emotions: A Case Study of Youths in Kinmen, Taiwan - Gina Chin-Yi Yang 2. Beyond Wicked Facebook: A Vital Materialism Perspective - Deborah Lupton and Clare Southerton 3. Detangling Online Dystopias: Emotional Reflexivity and Cyber-Deviance - Vern Smith 4. Mass Emotional Events: Rethinking Emotional Contagions after COVID-19 - Jordan McKenzie, Roger Patulny, Rebecca E. Olson and Marlee Bower 5. Between the Nationalists and the Fundamentalists, Still We Have Hope! - Kiran Grewal and Hasanah Cegu Isadeen 6. ‘The New Economy and the Privilege of Feeling’: Towards a Theory of Emotional Structuration - Roger Patulny 7. Neo-Villeiny University - Geraint Harvey and Simon Williams 8. Resuscitating the Past: Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Analysis of the Recent Rise of Retrotopia - Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9. Hope Out of Stock: Critical and Melancholic Hope in Climate Fiction - Briohny Doyle Conclusion: A Critical Mass of Emotions - Reflexivity, Loneliness and Hope? - Roger Patulny and Jordan McKenzie

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Book SynopsisHow can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social stratification, stress, labelling and culture. Drawing on case studies from a range of global contexts, the book argues that current research focuses on identifying ‘social factors’, leaving the question of causality to psychiatry, while significant critical perspectives remain untapped. The result is an unprecedented resource that maps the current state of sociology of mental health, providing an invigorating manifesto for its future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Critical Renewal of the Sociology of Mental Health 1. Social Positions ‘and’ Mental Disorders 2. Society as Stressor 3. The Weight of Labels 4. The Uses of Culture Conclusion: Explaining the ‘Mental Health Crisis’

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Book SynopsisThe subdiscipline of economic geography has a long and varied history, and recent work has pushed the field to diversify even further. This collection takes this agenda forward by showcasing inspiring, critical and plural perspectives for contemporary economic geographies. Highlighting the contributions of global scholars, the thirty chapters showcase fresh ways of approaching economic geography in research, teaching and praxis. With sections on thought leaders, contemporary critical debates and future research agendas, this collection calls for greater openness and inclusivity.Table of ContentsIntroducing Contemporary Economic Geographies: An Inspiring, Critical and Plural Collection - Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall PART 1: Inspirational Thought Leaders 1. Doreen Massey: For Political Praxis, Relationality and Contingency - Faith MacNeil Taylor 2. Beverley Mullings: Social Transformations, Social Reproduction and Social Justice - Caitlin Henry 3. Susan Christopherson: On (Still) Being Outside the Project - Jennifer Clark 4. J.K. Gibson-Graham: Feminist Geographies and Diverse Economies - Zara Babakordi 5. Jessie Poon: International Trade and Geographies of Finance - Karen P.Y. Lai 6. Linda McDowell: Complex Geographies that Matter - Karenjit Clare 7. Yuko Aoyama: Curiosity as Method - Heidi Østbo-Haugen 8. Susanne Soederberg: A Critical and Multidisciplinary Global Political Economy - Lama Tawakkol 9. Simona Iammarino: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Economy - Rhiannon Pugh 10. Susan Strange: Trading Zones - Sarah Hall PART 2: Critical Debates in Contemporary Economic Geographies 11. Informal Economies: Towards Plurality and Social Justice - Kavita Ramakrishnan and Emma Mawdsley 12. Global Economy: Geographies of Production During Crises - Vida Vanchan 13. Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Who Is Forgotten? - Wenying Fu 14. Consumption: Advancing Postcolonial Perspectives from the Global South - Luiza Sarayed-Din and Alex Hughes 15. Governance: Climate Change and Land Use in the Anthropocene - Janelle Knox-Hayes 16. Creativity: An Evolving Critical Debate - Suntje Schmidt 17. Industrial Landscapes: From the Geographies of Production to Everyday Life - Chantel Carr and Natasha Larkin 18. Labour: Reckoning with Inequality through ‘Divisions of Labour - Nancy Worth 19. Economic Development: Political Ecologies of Race - Sharlene Mollett 20. Poverty and Inequality: Austerity, Welfare Reforms and Insecurity - Amy Greer Murphy PART 3: Charting Future Research Agendas for Economic Geographies 21. Housing Struggles: Dwelling in Crisis Economies - Mara Ferreri 22. Urban Economies: Learning from Post-Socialist Contexts - Elena Trubina 23. Migration and Cross-Border Trading - Charlotte Wrigley-Asante and Mariama Zaami 24. Care and Social Reproduction - Kendra Strauss 25. The Future of Creative Industries and Labour - Taylor Brydges 26. Future Finance - Sabine Dörry 27. Disasters and Recovery: Postcolonializing Economic Geography - Gemma Sou 28. Retail Market Futures: Retail Geographies from and for the Margins - Myfanwy Taylor and Sara González 29. Resources and Extraction - Julie Ann de los Reyes 30. Workplaces of the Future - Lizzie Richardson Postscript: Continuing the Work - Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall

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Book SynopsisThe idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of ‘critical engagement’ from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.Table of Contents1. Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South: An Introduction - Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt 2. Critical Engagement and SWOP’s Changing Research Tradition - Andries Bezuidenhout and Karl von Holdt 3. Choosing Sides: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Critically Engaged Sociology in Apartheid South Africa - Edward Webster 4. The Decline of Labour Studies and the Democratic Transition - Sakhela Buhlungu 5. From ‘Critical Engagement’ to ‘Public Sociology’ and Back: A Critique from the South - Karl von Holdt 6. The Antinomies and Opportunities of Critical Engagement in South Africa’s Rural Mining Frontier - Sonwabile Mnwana 7. Sociological Engagement with the Struggle for a Just Transition in South Africa - Jacklyn Cock 8. Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies - Ntokozo Yingwana 9. Participatory Action Research for Food Justice in Johannesburg: Seeking a More Immediate Impact for Engaged Research - Brittany Kesselman 10. Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities - Aninka Claassens and Nokwanda Sihlali 11. Experiences of Meetings and Cooperation between Academics and Unions: The Work Studies Group from the South (GETSUR) - Dasten Julián Vejar 12. Critically Engaging Public Sociology in Turkey and 'Sociology across the South' - Ercüment Çelik 13. Reflections on Critical Engagement - Michael Burawoy 14 Conclusion: Towards a Southern Sociology - Karl von Holdt

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Book SynopsisThis book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others. Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations. Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere To Post-Austerity Europe 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions 3 (Re)imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations 4 The Coloniality of Belonging 5 The Coloniality of Brexit Conclusion Methodological Appendix References

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Book SynopsisWe’re accustomed to seeing humour as a diversion from the serious side of life, but humour also permeates some of the most troubling political developments in recent years. From the resurgence of white nationalism to the erosion of democratic norms, jokes force-feed us objectionable ideologies while we gasp and splutter at all the side-splitting shenanigans. This book explores the relationship between humour and offensiveness in contemporary society. Drawing on examples from philosophical thinkers and popular culture, it invites readers to consider the dark side of humour. Weaving together cultural analysis, political discussion and philosophical reflection, the book provides an antidote to positive thinking about laughter and a roadmap for navigating different types of offensive humour.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Content Warning 2. Laugh Track 3. Prankster Diplomacy 4. Evil Clowns 5. Body Double 6. Gender Reveal Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is ‘cancelled’ for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in Arabia’s forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name. All of them have ‘passed’, performing or claiming an identity that society hasn’t assigned or recognised as theirs. For as long as we’ve drawn lines describing ourselves and each other, people have naturally fallen or deliberately stepped between them. What do their stories—in life and in art—tell us about the changing meanings of identity? About our need for labels, despite their obvious limitations? Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.Trade Review'Pelham, a writer with a flair for capturing complex sensitivities, has produced a provocative, engaging history that doesn't balk at considering the fierce contemporary debate surrounding gender identity, or what happens when passing becomes trespassing, AKA cultural appropriation.' -- The Observer'A fascinating and engrossing exploration of racial passing and fluid racial identity from an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist.' -- Cosmopolitan UK‘[Offers] long histories, with much to say about the present.’'This remarkable book merges perceptive understanding of sociopolitical identity problems facing many who are disempowered and marginalised owing to skin-colour, sexuality, gender, caste, class or religion.' -- Morning Star'Expertly navigating themes of identity, boundaries and belonging, Pelham combines moving storytelling with patient writing to create a truly transformative experience.' -- David Lammy MP, author of 'Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society''Thoroughly elevates the complex reality of day-to-day identity dynamics, tracing their rich historical origins and posing pertinent questions for the future.' -- Koa Beck, author of 'White Feminism''A profound and heartfelt meditation on the cost of self-effacement and the need to forge a new sense of self from the debris of our atavisms.' -- Aatish Taseer, author of 'The Twice-Born', 'The Temple-Goers' and 'Stranger to History''A gripping account of how a person can be liberated by taking on another identity, or indeed how their own existence exposes the artificial boundaries of otherness. With compassion, honesty, and a storyteller's eye for beauty in meaning, Pelham destigmatises and viscerally recreates these crossings to another shore.' -- Medina Tenour Whiteman, author of 'The Invisible Muslim'

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, ‘fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction: Transition, Transformation, Resistance: Theorising the Future by co-editor Neal HarrisPart 1: The Future Beckons: Alternative VisionsChapter One: ‘Alternative Economies’, Luke MartellChapter Two: ‘Worker Ownership, Self-Management, and the Promise of a Co-operative Economy’, Robin JervisChapter Three: ‘Fully Automated Luxury... What?’ Neal HarrisPart 2: The Journey: Theorising Transition and ResistanceChapter Four: Understanding Intercultural Experience: Super-Diversity, Social Learning and Cultural Trends Toward Transition, Estevao BoscoChapter Five: Regaining the Future: The Temporal Complexity of Transitional Politics, Onur AcarogluChapter Six: Socialist transition through a Sacred Entanglement with the Earth: Transforming States of Exception into Revolutionary Fervour, Arnab ChakrabortyPart 3: Classes, Collectives, Groupings: Transition and SubjectivityChapter Seven: ‘The masses will rise again’: Rosa Luxemburg, the concept of the masses and the question of non-revolutionary working class, Dana MillsChapter Eight: Glimpsing the future in neoliberal subjectivities:‘Self-optimisation’ as a resource for transition, Will LeggettChapter Nine: Acephalic Resistance: Evaluating the Contemporaneity of ‘New’ Social Movements through the case of ‘the Yellow Vests’, Denis Chevalier-BousseauPart 4: Transition through the InstitutionsChapter Ten: Neoliberalism’s Material and Ideological Profit from Incarceration: A Call for Abolition, Anna WimbledonChapter Eleven: Desire beyond Market Forces: Queerness in India after the removal of Article 377, Anup Sharma Chapter Twelve: Films as Cognitive Machines: A Discussion through the Apparatus Theory, Ufuk GürbüzdalChapter Thirteen: Hippocrates Pronounced Dead: Breaking Down Neoliberal Complacency in Healthcare, Ozan Siso Conclusion by co-editor Onur Acaroglu

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Book SynopsisThis international and multidisciplinary volume focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats. Locating the subject matter in relevant theoretical fields, it looks at representations of male bodies in various contexts through paranoid and reparative lenses. Organized into four major sections, the contributions assembled in this book feature engaging readings of ‘non/conforming bodies’, ‘fashionable bodies’, ‘passing bodies’, and ‘pioneering bodies’ that to different degrees foreground their critical and creative potentials. In its full scope, the book acknowledges the plurality of gendered experiences and the diversity of male bodies. The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes to the fields of Masculinity and Body Studies in particular.Table of Contents1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the Male Body.- 2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in Embodied Performance.- 3. ‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.- 4. Basil Dearden’s Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental Politics.- 5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations of the Spornosexual and the Waif.- 6. English Dandies and French Lions: Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and 1848.- 7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948–1958).- 8. Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.- 9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa Sligh’s Mutable Bodies.- 10. “A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.- 11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.- 12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men’s Legwear.- 13. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” – Disability and the Queering of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.- 14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the uses of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a foreign star in Hollywood through a film philosophical, de-westernizing and sonic critical framework. It offers very close readings of the film texts, of the roles Schwarzenegger performs, and the rhetorical strategies he adopts outside his film performances to show that in spite of attempts to occupy the position of an emblematic member of the U.S. national body Schwarzenegger remains irrevocably outside as an accented migrant body continuously accumulating markers of belonging that by their very necessity attest to their insufficiency. The book’s central project is to trace back, from the uses to which a migrant star such as Schwarzenegger is put on the screen, the construction of a sense or idea of a U.S. national community through the cinema. Given that the appeal to the American myth of an immigrant nation that promises to erase difference is fundamental to the Schwarzenegger star persona, the central aim of this book is to explore the uses of his stardom as an embodiment of the promise of America and its contradictions and exclusions.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Destroyer.- Chapter 2: Transformer.- Chapter 3: Policing.- Chapter 4: Doubling.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDas sozialphilosophische Hauptwerk von Karl Popper behandelt vor allem die Geschichte des Historizismus, das heißt, die Idee eines gesetzmäßigen historischen Ablaufs, bei Platon (Band I) sowie bei Hegel, Marx und deren Nachfolgern (Band II). Es enthält außerdem eine Vielzahl von Erörterungen über erkenntnistheoretische, philosophische, ethische und politische Fragen, die bis heute von brennender Aktualität sind. Daß dieses Buch seit 1945 in 23 Sprachen übersetzt wurde, macht deutlich, daß Poppers 'Kriegsbeitrag' weit mehr ist als eine originelle Auseinandersetzung mit den philosophischen Systemen von der Antike bis heute.Die Theorie der offenen Gesellschaft, also die ständige schrittweise Verbesserung von Institutionen in parlamentarisch-demokratischen Gesellschaften, ist in diesen beiden Bänden so gründlich entwickelt, daß alle an der Begründung und Weiterentwicklung von Zivilgesellschaften interessierten Personen sich mit ihr auseinandersetzen sollten.

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Book SynopsisVon Aasgeier bis Zylindervergolder: die dritte Neuauflage von Roland Girtlers Standardwerk zur Gaunersprache.Bei seinen Forschungen in der Welt der Stadtstreicher, Ganoven und Dirnen hörte der Soziologe Roland Girtler seltsame Wörter, die er nicht verstand. Er ging diesen Wörtern nach und fand heraus, dass diese zur alten Gaunersprache, dem Rotwelsch, gehören, die im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum bis heute verbreitet ist. Das Rotwelsch (rot: mittelhochdeutsch für listig und welsch: falsch reden) ist eine lebende Sprache, die aus langen sprachlichen Traditionen schöpft: Neben mittelhochdeutschen und jiddischen Ausdrücken finden sich Begriffe aus romanischen, slawischen sowie vermehrt aus osteuropäischen Sprachen. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht diese Ausdrücke vor allem aus der Wiener bzw. österreichischen Gaunersprache und stellt sie in Beziehung zum gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum.

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Book Synopsis The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.Trade Review “The achievement of the book and what makes it different to many other works tackling the ‘refugee crisis’ is its focus on the ambivalence of direction… It thereby moves the discussion away from the reductionist representations of the ‘refugee crisis’ commonly promoted in public discourse, toward acknowledgement of the complexity of the topic. This deconstruction effort also allows for an informed and qualified exploration of current and future avenues for change.” • Anthropology Matters “The volume achieves its coherence through numerous cross-references of the articles, comparison of competing interpretations, as well as the outstanding introduction and conclusion…The volume impresses through its topicality, its throughout intense discussion of current scholarship, its interdisciplinary approach, and the breadth of the targeted readership. It offers an excellent introduction to this topic for the English-language readers.” • German Studies Review Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Making, Experiencing and Managing Difference in a Changing Germany Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald PART I: MAKING GERMANS AND NON-GERMANS Chapter 1. Language as Battleground: ‘Speaking’ the Nation, Lingual Citizenship and Diversity Management in Post-unification Germany Uli Linke Chapter 2. Diversity and Unity: Political and Conceptual Answers to Experiences of Differences and Diversities in Germany Friedrich Heckmann Chapter 3. Jews, Muslims and the Ritual Male Circumcision Debate: Religious Diversity and Social Inclusion in Germany Gökce Yurdakul PART II: POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE Chapter 4. Islam, Vernacular Culture and Creativity in Stuttgart Petra Kuppinger Chapter 5. ‘Neukölln Is Where I Live, It’s Not Where I’m From’: Children of Migrants Navigating Belonging in a Rapidly Changing Urban Space in Berlin Carola Tize and Ria Reis Chapter 6. The Post-migrant Paradigm Naika Foroutan PART III: REFUGEE ENCOUNTERS Chapter 7. New Year’s Eve, Sexual Violence and Moral Panics: Ruptures and Continuities in Germany’s Integration Regime Kira Kosnick Chapter 8. Solidarity with Refugees: Negotiations of Proximity and Memory Serhat Karakayalı Chapter 9. Negotiating Cultural Difference in Dresden’s Pegida Movement and Berlin’s Refugee Church Jan-Jonathan Bock PART IV: NEW INITIATIVES AND DIRECTIONS Chapter 10. Interstitial Agents: Negotiating Migration and Diversity in Theatre Jonas Tinius Chapter 11. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity vs. Democratic Inclusion Damani J. Partridge Chapter 12. The Refugees-Welcome Movement: A New Form of Political Action Werner Schiffauer Conclusion: Refugee Futures and the Politics of Difference Sharon Macdonald Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle. Frequently mentioned in popular political discourse, the notion of neoliberalism is often deployed as shorthand for the consensus that austerity is necessary and the hard-working individual can survive it. This volume unpicks and interrogates the term by engaging with the interface between the political ubiquity of neoliberal forms and its lived experience in neoliberal societies, cutting across a multiplicity of factors including gender, age, and access to education. Impressive in its wide scope and analysis, Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle presents an informed discussion not only of the limits of the neoliberal paradigm but also of possible alternatives. Trade Review“This edited volume makes for an important contribution in the fields of gerontology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the main focus of this volume was the first world. … this volume would benefit both academics as well as policymakers from a range of disciplines as it provides various alternative perspectives to the ‘good and successful life’ … .” (Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 42 (1), 2021)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and experiences in various countries and healthcare contexts. Encompassing case studies and analyses of theological, ethical, legal, healthcare policy, and practical issues, the volume is a groundbreaking reference for future discussion, research, and strategic planning for inter- or multi-faith healthcare chaplains and other spiritual care providers involved in the new field of documenting spiritual care in EMR. Topics explored among the chapters include: Spiritual Care Charting/Documenting/Recording/Assessment Charting Spiritual Care: Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Aspects Palliative Chaplain Spiritual Assessment Progress Notes Charting Spiritual Care: Ethical Perspectives Charting Spiritual Care in Digital Health: Analyses and Perspectives Charting Spiritual Care: The Emerging Role of Chaplaincy Records in Global Health Care is an essential resource for researchers in interprofessional spiritual care and healthcare chaplaincy, healthcare chaplains and other spiritual caregivers (nurses, physicians, psychologists, etc.), practical theologians and health ethicists, and church and denominational representatives. Table of ContentsSimon Peng-Keller/David Neuhold Recording spiritual care in electronic medical records. Overview on an ongoing developmentAbstract: The introductory contribution begins with a historically oriented sketch. By referring to ancient and early modern practices, the relationship between spiritual (self-)care and various forms ofdocumentation is broadened. The focus is then on the documentation efforts of clinical pastoral care in the 20th century. The recording of clinical pastoral care is by no means new. The efforts of thephysician Richard Cabot and the theologian Russel L. Dicks in the 1930s show this impressively. In afurther step, more recent developments, which were important in the run-up to the electronic medical record (EMR) that produced it, are pursued. An exemplary view, namely of Kenya, expands what is depicted into another context beyond the western realm. Finally, the chapter gives an overview of the state of research and literature on the topic and some of the questions discussed therein, such as the pastoral mystery and the crucial matter of confidentiality. Possible unintended consequences of the emerging practice also are considered. Thus, the discussion is complex, multifaceted, and changing.Keywords: Documentation, history, (self-)care, EMR, pastoral mystery, confidentiality, unintended side effects.I. Basic considerationsEckhard Frick Psychiatric-psychotherapeutic perspectiveAbstract: Proactively addressing spiritual and religious (s/r) issues has a strong intervention effect on patients that is generally more important than the detailed content of spiritual screenings and assessments. When asked about s/r needs or problems, patients may feel bothered, surprised, annoyed, or, conversely, satisfied, supported, acknowledged in their coping efforts. Consequently, documentation should first of all reflect whether and how the patient reacts towards the clinician’s s/r intervention and whether and how he wants this interaction to be shared in the healthcare team. There is growing evidence that patients want that the carers to take into account the spiritual dimension of health care. Health professionals must, however, respect individual and general boundaries (non-compulsive, non-proselytizing, non-neglecting approach). In psychiatry and psychotherapy, patients’ spirituality is less pathologized than in former times and more and more accepted as a universal dimension to human experience, transcending individual religions. In mental health and in other medical fields, s/r may be part of the problem or part of the solution (K. Pargament) or both. Consequently, spiritual charting should not only differentiate pathological / negative and resilient / positive coping but also comprise the patient’s s/r health-care preferences and goals as well as the role he or she attributes to the health professional. All in all, a hermeneutical (understanding) approach is required both when communicating with the patient and when putting it into writing for the healthcare team, i.e., «translating» the patient’s spirituality and sharing it with different team members respecting their own s/r and professional belongings as well as their experiences and competencies in this field.Key words: Spirituality, psychotherapy, team, patientGuy Jobin Ethical perspectiveAbstract: The introduction of EHRs into clinical practice appears to be irreversible. Where EHRs are used, chaplains have cooperated willingly with this way of reporting and sharing information with other members of the care team. They must, as a result, adapt their own note-taking practices to ensure effective, relevant, and meaningful communication as part of the joint decision-making process. Although EHRs raise ethical issues that can be described as «classic», particularly in connection with confidentiality and access, other questions, just as crucial, have received less attention in the specialized literature and are addressed here. They include recognition for all players in the care relationship (both patients and caregivers) as subjects, and the communication of «non-generic» information such as emotions, values, life history, etc.Key words: Clinical Judgment, Confidentiality, Deontology, Ethics, RecognitionPaul Galchutt/Judy Connolly What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us. Spiritual Assessment Notes in Palliative CareAbstract: The research question, «What is helpful as well as missing from palliative chaplain spiritual assessment progress notes,» arose from the context of seeking to know how palliative chaplain spiritual assessment progress notes can best be relevant and make a difference for a patient’s care. The information-rich audience to address this question were the non-chaplain palliative care team members. Seven focus groups, two of which were in a children’s hospital context, were hosted with forty-two non-chaplain palliative team participants. Through a constant comparative qualitative analysis process, the major results revealed four important considerations for palliative care chaplains. First, palliative interprofessional team members want more help and information regarding a patient’s decision making, especially related to a patient’s religion and/or spirituality. Second, and in line with palliative care principles, the participants discussed their desire for relevant notation on a patient’s sense of suffering and coping. Third, a request was made for the chaplain to consistently document his/her perception of emotion emerging from the patient and/or family. The last major result to emerge was that the progress notes should have a summary content section at the top of the note with the most important information contained there. Palliative care chaplains need to continue to hone progress-note content such that it continues to be relevant and effective in helping make a difference to reduce suffering and improve quality of life with patients and families.Key Words: Palliative Care, assessment progress notes, interprofessional team, quality of lifeII. National developments and trendsBrent PeeryChaplaincy Documentation in a Large U.S. Health SystemCommentary: Simon Peng-KellerAbstract: Chaplaincy documentation practices in the United States have evolved over time. Variation in practice still remains. However, the trend in the profession is toward the expectation that chaplains will document their care. There is also increased expectation regarding the content of that documentation. This chapter contains some of the history and current practice of chaplaincy documentation within the Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas. It includes a discussion of the who, what, where, when, how, and why of chaplaincy documentation. Memorial Hermann chaplains strive to document care in a manner that bears witness to the holistic humanity of the care recipients. The author also describes the care in a way that helps others understand the important ways professional chaplains contribute to the wellbeing of others.Key Words: Chaplaincy, spiritual care, charting, documentation, electronic medical recordBruno Bélanger/Line Beauregard/Mario Bélanger/Chantal Bergeron Documenting Spiritual Care in CanadaCommentary: Ralph KunzAbstract: Over the past decade or so, the quality of the evaluation note written by a spiritual care provider (ISS) has been a major issue in accountability and the quality of interdisciplinary collaboration. This chapter proposes two models of notes: «the note following a meeting with a user», generally used in acute care, and «the note following a meeting with a relative», generally used in long-term care, in cases where a patient can no longer express himself. These two charting models were developed on the basis of the RESS (Benchmarks for Spiritual Care Assessment) assessment tool, recently developed at the CSsanté, whose usefulness and applicability were assessed in a research study. The note models presented in this chapter are essentially inspired by the vision of spirituality underlying the work of accompanying patients and the development of the RESS. The authors found that the clinical benefits of streamlining an evaluation and note-writing model are a major step forward in a profession that has been rapidly evolving in Quebec in recent years.Keywords: Quebec, spiritual care, quality of interdisciplinary collaboration, spirituality, benefitsChristine Hennequin Documenting Spiritual Care in AustraliaCommentary: Livia Wey-MeierAbstract: Documentation in medical records is an important aspect of providing care in Australian health services. Documenting spiritual care in health services has evolved over many decades. A brief historical overview of the models of chaplaincy in Victoria, Australia from the 1950s shows the development from faith-based models to more professional models in the last two decades. Models may include spiritual care faith representatives and volunteers; access to medical records differs for each of these providers. Data collection and describing pastoral interventions in the 1990s as part of an Allied Health project at Austin Health, Heidelberg Victoria was a key milestone as was the inclusion of pastoral care intervention codes in the Australian ICD-10_AM/ACHI/ACS codes in 2002. As a peak body, the Healthcare Chaplaincy Council of Victoria and later Spiritual Health Victoria continued to develop documentation guidelines including consistent ways of collecting data and describing interventions. Reporting on spiritual care activity to the Victorian government’s Department of Health and Human Services emphasised this requirement to develop a minimum dataset and to educate the spiritual care sector. A Spiritual Care Minimum Data Set Framework was developed in 2015 and evaluated. Revised guidelines were disseminated by Spiritual Health Victoria in 2019. Three case studies of Victorian hospitals illustrate how documenting in electronic and paper medical records currently meet the Spiritual Health Victoria guidelines. Documentation assists with the integration of spiritual care in the health service, with internal reporting and with research. It also enables spiritual care activity to be visible and available electronically for reporting to government as required.Key Words: Documentation, medical records, models, pastoral care, spiritual care, chaplaincy, intervention, data, framework, guidelinesWilfred McSherry/Linda Ross Documenting Spiritual Care in the U.K.Commentary: David NeuholdAbstract: This chapter explores how spiritual aspects of care are being documented within the United Kingdom (UK) with a specific focus upon health care, primarily the nursing and chaplaincy professions. This has not been an easy undertaking given the lack of a standardised approach, the changing and challenging landscape of health care in the UK, and the conflicting terminology used when trying to assess, capture, and record encounters, interactions, and conversations with patients and their carers about their spiritual needs. The authors draw upon their own research and informal enquiries with chaplains from across England, Scotland, and Wales, demonstrating that there is a wide range and variation in practice. The authors conclude that there is no standardised means of assessing and documenting spiritual needs and care in the UK and that this is unlikely to become a reality until the many complex challenges outlined are addressed both politically and professionally.Key Words: Chaplaincy, nursing, spiritual care, charting, documentation, England, Scotland, Ireland, WalesWim Smeets/Anneke de Vries Spiritual Care and Electronic Medical Recording in Dutch HospitalsCommentary: David NeuholdAbstract: Among Dutch Healthcare Professionals, it is not a foregone conclusion that conversations with patients should be recorded electronically. This chapter first describes the discussion among them about the pros and cons of EMR. The authors then discuss the Dutch and European legislator’s requirements for the protection of patients’ privacy and therefore of their stories, and how these requirements work out in EMR’s practice. The third section is devoted to the question as to why spiritual caregivers should actually record their conversations with patients. The authors put forward various arguments for this. In their view, charting appears to serve both the interests of patients and the interests of the healthcare providers and of the spiritual care professionals themselves. The authors then describe various possible methods of registration, including G. Fitchett’s model in an adapted, more secular form. By means of two cases, one fairly extensive and one more concise, they show how registration takes place in practice at the Radboudumc. The chapter concludes with the formulation of plans and wishes for the near future.Key-Words: EMR – Legislation – Registration models – Healthcare providers – Hospital – umcAnne Vandenhoeck Documenting Spiritual Care in BelgiumCommentary: Eva-Maria FaberAbstract: The main motive for spiritual care givers to chart in electronic patient files should be to contribute to the best possible spiritual care for patients and their loved ones. The culture in health care has always influenced spiritual care and vice versa. The contemporary economic paradigm in health care fuels core concepts like quality of care, efficiency, interdisciplinary care, and patient-centered care. Electronic patient files serve multiple of those core concepts and it is important for spiritual caregivers to be accountable in their service to patients and loved ones. In this contribution the author explores charting by spiritual caregivers in the context of general hospitals in Flanders, Belgium. The main charting system, which is used by a big cluster of hospitals in Flanders, includes space for the spiritual caregivers to chart. The language used is based on the Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving, an outcome-based model for spiritual care by the late Arthur Lucas. In this contribution the author reflects on several ways of charting and touches upon several tensions: the tension between sharing and confidentiality, between charting for yourself and for an interdisciplinary team, between time to chart and time to visit. From the perspective of tensions, charting remains an interesting medium to reflect upon the contemporary content of spiritual care and the position of spiritual caregivers in health care.Keywords: Spiritual caregivers as bearers of patients’ stories, interdisciplinary patient file, confidentiality, functional narrative charting, continuity in care for the patient’s story, outcomes of spiritual carePascal Mösli Emerging practices in SwitzerlandCommentary: TBDAbstract: The pastoral documentation is developing rapidly in Switzerland. As part of the palliative complex treatment required by hospitals, developed independently by pastoral teams in the interprofessional context of large hospitals, it has also found its way into current standard papers of pastoral expert committees. In order to understand how pastoral care professionals throughout Switzerland think about documentation, a survey of German-speaking pastoral care professionals was conducted in spring 2019. The response rate was 54%, so the results of the survey provide a good insight into the Swiss situation. The results show that there is also a major upheaval in the minds of pastoral care professionals. While about 50% of all pastoral professionals in Switzerland document pastoral work in some form, more than 70% of those who do not currently document could imagine – under certain conditions – documenting. The chapter informs about the development of the pastoral documentation, contexts, and framework conditions of the healthcare system and the church, and their meaning from the point of view of the pastoral professionals themselves.III. Challenges and perspectives for the futureSimon Peng-Keller Challenges and perspectives for the futureAbstract: In a first step, the final contribution to the volume collects and organizes the various topics of the discussion. Second, it filters out the critical and controversial points as well as the convergences in the transnational developments. Third, the desiderata for research is articulated and some ideas for future research programmes are formulated. The chapter concludes with a sketch of a future practice of recording spiritual care.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a forensic and collective examination of pre-existing understandings of structural inequalities in Higher Education Institutions. Going beyond the current understandings of causal factors that promote inequality, the editors and contributors illuminate the dynamic interplay between historical events and discourse and more sophisticate and racialized acts of violence. In doing so, the book crystallises myriad contemporary manifestations of structural racism in higher education. Amidst an upsurge in racialized violence, civil unrest, and barriers to attainment, progression and success for students and staff of colour, doing equity and diversity for success in higher education has become both politically urgent and morally imperative. This book calls for a redistribution of power across intersectional and racial lines as a means of decentering whiteness and redressing structural inequalities in the academy. It is essential reading for scholars of sociology and education, as well as those interested in equality and social justice.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Owl of Minerva Has Flown: Can Equity and Diversity be Done for Success in Higher Education Now?.Part I. A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future.2. The Myth of Academic Underperformance and Notions of Truth 52 Years After the Passing of the Race Relations Act 1968: In Conversation with Dame Jocelyn Barrow.3. A Diverse Society Needs Diverse Solutions.4. What We Don’t, but Should Know.5. Decolonisation or Empowerment in Higher Education?.6 Travelling Between Historical Memory and the Current Predicament of Educational Reforms in Higher Education: A Transnational Perspective.7. Fencing the Race: Responding to the Past to Help Shape the Future. Part II. Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity or Decolonisation: The Big Conundrum.8. Decolonising Academic Spaces: Moving Beyond Diversity to Promote Racial Equity in Postsecondary Education.9. Towards the Unmaking of Canons: Decolonising the Study of Literature.10. “Merit”, “Success” and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems.- 11. Decolonising the Academy: A Look at Student-Led Interventions in the UK.12. On the Fallacy of Decolonisation in Our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).13. Diversify or Decolonise? What You Can Do Right Now and How to Get Started.Part III. Big Data: Am I a Name or Number?.14. The Unknown Student, and Other Short Stories: An Ethical and Methodological Exploration of Students as Data.15. Turning Big Data into Informed Action.16. Using Data-Driven Approaches to Address Systematic Awarding Gaps.Part IV. Identity and Belonging for Outliers, Space Invaders and Others Within the Brick Walls.17. Recruitment, Retention and Progression: Navigating the Flashpoints of Gender, Race and Religious Discrimination in Higher Education.18. Reflections on Redressing Racial Inequalities, When Teaching Race in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Education.19. Fighting Back While Black: The Relationship Between Racialised Resistance and Well-Being.20. In Whose Interest Is ‘Training the Dog’? Black Academics’ Reflection on Academic Development for ‘Access and Success’ in a Historically White University in South Africa.- 21. Understanding Critical Whiteness Studies: Harmful or Helpful in the Struggle for Racial Equity in the Academy?.- 22. Who Feels It Knows It! Alterity, Identity and ‘Epistemological Privilege’: Challenging White Privilege from a Black Perspective Within the Academy.23. Many Rivers to Cross: The Challenges and Barriers Facing Aspiring Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Leaders in the Academy.24. Understanding and Interrupting Systemic Racism: A ‘Race Equality Receipt’ as a Mechanism to Promote Transformational Conversations and Stimulate Actions to Redress Race Inequality.25. Sowing the Seeds: Embracing and Re-imaging a More Racially Inclusive Academy.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides powerful insights into the dynamics, nature, and experiences of the terrors of counter-terrorism measures in the UK. Abbas links her analysis to wider concerns of nation construction and belonging; racial profiling and policing; the state of exception and pre-emptive counter-terrorism measures; community-based counter-terrorism measures; and restrictions to political engagement, freedom of speech and hate speech. What makes this work distinct is its advancement of an original framework - the Concentrationary Gothic - to delineate the racialised mechanisms of terror involved in the governance of Muslim populations in the ‘war on terror’ context. The book illuminates the various ways in which Muslims in Britain experience terror through racialised surveillance and policing strategies operating at state, group (inter- and intra-), and individual levels in diverse contexts such as the street, workplace, public transport and the home. Abbas situates these experiences within wider racial politics and theory, drawing connections to anti-Semitism, anti-blackness, anti-Irishness and whiteness, to provide a complex mapping of the ways in which racial terror has operated in both historical and contemporary contexts of colonialism, slavery, and the camp, and offering a unique point of analysis through the use of Gothic tropes of haunting, monstrosity and abjection. This vital work will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, criminology, anthropology, terrorism studies, Islamic studies, and critical Muslim studies, researching race and racialisation, security, immigration, nationhood and citizenship.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Emergence of the Concentrationary Gothic Environment.- 2. Nation Construction and Affective (Un)Belongings.- 3. The Gothic Technology of the Monstrous Muslim.- 4. (In)Securitisation of Everyday Spaces: State of Exception, Spaces of Terror.- 5. Fracturing Muslim Relations: Producing ‘Internal Suspect Bodies’.- 6. The Terror of Voice(lessness): Restrictions to Freedom of Speech and Political Engagement within a Culture of Fear.- 7. The Promise of the Concentrationary Gothic: Advancing a New Visual Schema.

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Book SynopsisIn this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking – that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under various symbolsPieper exposes the pseudo-festivals, in their harmless and their sinister forms: traditional feasts contaminated by commercialism; artificial holidays created in the interest of merchandisers; holidays by coercion, decreed by dictators the world over; festivals as military demonstrations; holidays empty of significance. And lastly we are given the apocalyptic vision of a nihilistic world which would seek its release not in festivities but in destruction.Formulated with Pieper's customary clarity and elegance, enhanced by brilliantly chosen quotations, this is an illuminating contribution to the understanding of traditional and contemporary experience.

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Book SynopsisA detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.Trade Review'Dubin has collected a vital series of interviews which, in full, are a highly significant archive of historical and museological thinking in this transitionary period.' - Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsUsing War to Put Food on the Table: Reflections on a Decade of Democracy A White Step in a Black Direction: Inertia, Breakthrough and Change in South African Museums The First Shall Be Last: Picturing Indigenous Peoples and the Sins of Long Ago Prisoners to Science: Sarah Bartmann and "Others" "A Pustular Sore on a Queen's Forehead": District Six and the Politics of the Past "The History of Our Future": Revamping Edifices of a Bygone Era Tête-à-tête: Museums and Monuments, Conversations and Soliloquies

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.Trade Review'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy 'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare '...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Ideas and Policy Change; P.Taylor-Gooby Paradigm Shifts, Power Resources and Labour Market Reform; P.Taylor-Gooby Policy Paradigms and Long-Term Care: Convergence or Continuing Difference?; V.Timonen The Myth of an Adult Worker Society: New Policy Discourses in European Welfare States; T.P.Larsen Changing Ideas on Pensions: Accounting for Differences in the Spread of the Multipillar Paradigm in Five EU Social Insurance Countries; F.Bönker Towards Activation? Social Assistance Reforms and Discourses; A.Aust & A.Arriba Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany; J.Kananen The Europeanisation of Welfare; Paradigm Shifts and Social Policy Reforms; L.Moreno & B.Palier Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change, human interaction. Now, instead of agreeing on a particular time well beforehand, we can iteratively work out the most convenient time and place to meet at the last possible moment--on the way to the meeting or once we arrive at the destination.In their early days, mobile devices were primarily used for various types of emergency situations and for work. In some cases, the device was an essential element in various business operations or used so that overseas workers could communicate with their families. The distance between a remote posting and the people back home was suddenly and dramatically reducedTable of ContentsIntroduction The Reconstruction of Space and Time through Mobile Communication Practices; 1: Tailing Untethered Mobile Users: Studying Urban Mobilities and Communication Practices; 2: Migrant Workers and Mobile Phones: Technological, Temporal, and Spatial Simultaneity; 3: Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places; 4: New Reasons for Mobile Communication: Intensification of Time-Space Geography in the Mobile Era; 5: Nonverbal Cues in Mobile Phone Text Messages: The Effects of Chronemics and Proxemics; 6: Mobile Phones: Transforming the Everyday Social Communication Practice of Urban Youth; 7: Trust, Friendship, and Expertise: The Use of Email, Mobile Dialogues, and SMS to Develop and Sustain Social Relations in a Distributed Work Group; 8: Negotiations in Space: The Impact of Receiving Phone Calls on the Move; 9: Mobile Phone Work: Disengaging and Engaging Mobile Phone Activities with Concurrent Activities; 10: Beyond the Personal and Private: Modes of Mobile Phone Sharing in Urban India; Conclusion Mobile Communication in Space and Time Furthering the Theoretical Dialogue

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Book SynopsisIn this volume the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects on his self-professed, lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. Strauss democratizes sociology by making sure that relativities of status, power, and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life, and by recognizing that all collective life is subject to negotiation, rearrangement, and reconstruction.Represented here are some ideas for which Strauss is best known. He addresses work, leisure, culture, illness, identity, and policy. These disparate topics are linked by Strauss'' web of negotiation by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with discussion about problems of method, consultation, and teaching, affirming Strauss'' commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation.Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology, the work of Anselm Strauss reprTable of ContentsContentsForewordIrving Louis HorowitzPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. Interaction1. The Chicago Tradition's Ongoing Theory of Action/Interaction2. Closed Awareness (With Barney Glaser)3. Face-to-Face Interaction: Complex and Developmental4. Structured Interactional ProcessII. Work5. Work and the Division of Labour6. Th e Articulation of Project Work: An Organizational Process7. Sentimental Work (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener)III. Trajectory8. Trajectory Framework for Management of Chronic Illness (With Juliet Corbin)9. Illness Trajectories (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener)IV. Negotiation10. Negotiated Order and the Coordination of Work(With Rue Bucher, Danuta Ehrlich, Melvin Sabshin, and Leonard Schatzman)11. General Considerations: An Introduction12. Paradigm and Prospects for a General Theory of NegotiationV. Social Worlds13. A Social World Perspective14. Professions in Process (With Rue Bucher)15. Memo on Science and Policy Arenas: Some Summary NotesVI. Collective Images and Symbolic Representations16. The Symbolic Time of Cities17. Images of Immigration and EthnicityVII. Identity18. Transformations of IdentityVIII. Body and Biography19. Experiencing Body Failure and a Disrupted Self-Image (With Juliet Corbin)20. Comeback: Th e Process of Overcoming Disability (With Juliet Corbin)21. Body, Action-Performance, and Everyday LifeIX. Policy22. Medical Ghettos23. Implications for Delivering Safe and Humane Care (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener)24. A Model for Reorganizing Health Care Delivery (With Juliet Corbin)X. Method, Consultation, and Teaching25. Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory (With Juliet Corbin)26. Tracing Lines of Conditional Influence: Matrix and Paths (With Juliet Corbin)27. Research Consultations and Teaching: Guidelines, Strategies, and StyleSubject IndexAuthor Index

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Book SynopsisMost scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs. However, as Chen argues here, another significant factor has been overlooked. The current food insecurity is not absolute food shortage, since global food production still exceeds the need of the entire world population, but a problem of how to secure access to resources. Distorted agricultural trade undermines world food distribution, and uneven distribution impedes people's access to food, particularly in poor developing countries. Examining EU and US agricultural policies and World Trade Organization negotiations in agriculture, the author argues how they affect the international agricultural trade, claiming that current food insecurity is the result of inequitable food distribution and trade practices. The international trade regime is advised to reconcile trade rules with the consideration of food security issues. Several other enforceabTrade Review’This book discusses global food issues from a unique perspective. It builds a link between human rights and international trade. The solutions proposed in this book offer policymakers practical advice to reduce world hunger and malnutrition. This book is a must read for policymakers from India to Indiana!’ Scott Bates, Center for National Policy, USA 'Ying Chen’s book starts with a simple premise - the primacy of food for the survival of humans - and then provides an expansive and thorough coverage of the complexities of the global food system that reminds us that food policies and legal frameworks matter when it comes to food security.' Michael T. Roberts, Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, USA ’This exposé documents how hunger in poor nations is made worse by rich nations. Protectionist trade rules, and subsidies to agribusiness, put steak on affluent tables, but leave many of the world’s poor bereft of beans. To end hunger we need, not so much another green revolution, as a policy revolution.’ Douglass Cassel, University of Notre Dame, USATable of ContentsTrade, Food Security, and Human Rights

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Book SynopsisNanotechnology, clean technology, and geoengineering span the scale of human ingenuity, from the imperceptibly small to the unimaginably large. Yet they are united by a commonality of ethics that permeates how and why they are developed, and how the resulting consequences are managed. The articles in this volume provide a comprehensive account of current thinking around the ethics of development and use within each of the technological domains, and addresses challenges and opportunities that cut across all three. In particular, the collection provides unique insights into the ethics of 'noumenal' technologies - technologies that are impossible to see or detect or conceive of with human senses or conventional tools. This collection will be of relevance to anyone who is actively involved with ensuring the responsible and sustainable development of nanotechnology, geoengineering or clean technology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Nanotechnology -- 1. Grunwald, A. “Nanotechnology - A new field of ethical inquiry?” Science and Engineering Ethics 11(2), 2005, pp187-201 -- 2. Lewenstein, B.V. “What Counts as a ‘Social and Ethical Issue’ in Nanotechnology?” Hyle 11(1-2), 2005, pp5-18 -- 3. Nurock, V. “Nanoethics: Ethics For, From, or With Nanotechnologies?” Hyle 16(1), 2010, pp31-42 -- 4. Mnyusiwalla, A., A.S. Daar and P.A. Singer ‘“Mind the gap’: science and ethics in nanotechnology.” Nanotechnology 14(3), 2003, R9-R13 -- 5. Nordmann, A. “Noumenal technology: Reflections on the incredible tininess of nano.” Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society, J. Schummer and D. Baird (eds), World Scientific Publishing Company: pp49-72 -- 6. Dupuy, J.P. “Some Pitfalls in the Philosophical Foundations of Nanoethics.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32(3), 2007, pp237-261 -- 7. Nordmann, A. “If and Then: A Critique of Speculative NanoEthics.” Nanoethics 1, 2007, pp31-46 -- 8. Rip, A. “Folk Theories of Nanotechnologists.” Science as Culture 15(4), 2006, pp349-365 -- 9. Khushf, G. “Systems theory and the ethics of human enhancement - A framework for NBIC convergence.” Coevolution of Human Potential and Converging Technologies 1013, 2004, pp124-149 -- 10. Sparrow, R. “The Social Impacts of Nanotechnology: an Ethical and Political Analysis.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6(1), 2009, pp13-23 -- 11. Wolbring, G. “Nanoscale science and technology and social cohesion.” International Journal of Nanotechnology 7(2-3), 2010, pp155-172 -- Part II: Geoengineering -- 12. Keith, D.W. “Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect.” Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 25, 2000, pp245-284 -- 13. Jamieson, D. “Ethics and intentional climate change.” Climatic Change 33(3), 1996, pp323-336 -- 14. Morrow, D.R., R.E. Kopp and M. Oppenheimer “Toward ethical norms and institutions for climate engineering research.” Environmental Research Letters 4(4), 2009, pp1-8 -- 15. Preston, C.J. “Ethics and geoengineering: reviewing the moral issues raised by solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - Climate Change 4(1), 2013, pp23-37 -- 16. Hale, B. and L. Dilling “Geoengineering, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible Pollution.” Science Technology & Human Values 36(2), 2011, pp190-212 -- 17. Hulme, M. “Climate change: Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection.” Progress in Physical Geography 36(5), 2012, pp694-705 -- 18. Gardiner, S.M. “Some Early Ethics of Geoengineering the Climate: A Commentary on the Values of the Royal Society Report.” Environmental Values 20(2), 2011, pp163-188 -- 19. Stilgoe, J., R. Owen and P. Macnaghten “Developing a framework for responsible innovation.” Research Policy 42(9), 2013, pp1568-1580 -- 20. Corner, A., and Pidgeon, N. “Like artificial trees? The effect of framing by natural analogy on public perceptions of geoengineering.” Climatic Change, 2014, pp1-14 -- Part III: Clean Technology -- 21. Dyer, H. (2013). “Ethical dimensions of renewable energy.”. International Handbook of Energy Security. H. Dyer and M.J. Trombetta. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp443-461 -- 22. Matson, R.J. and M. Carasso “Sustainability, energy technologies, and ethics.” Renewable Energy 16(1-4), 1999, pp1200-1203 -- 23. Leonard, R.S. “Synthetic fuels, and a sustainable set of civilizations.” Solar Energy 56(1), 1996, pp61-77 -- 24. Thompson, P.B. “The agricultural ethics of biofuels: A first look.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 21(2), 2008, pp183-198 -- 25. Schot, J.W. “Constructive Technology-Assessment and Technology Dynamics: The Case of Clean Technologies.” Science Technology & Human Values 17(1), 1992, pp36-56 -- Part IV: Overarching Issues and Challenges -- 26. Fortun, M. “For an ethics of promising, or: a few kind words about James Watson.” New Genetics and Society 24(2), 2005, pp157-173 -- 27. Jasanoff, S. “Constitutional Moments in Governing Science and Technology.” Science and Engineering Ethics 17(4), 2011, pp621-638 -- 28. Schuurbiers, D. “What happens in the Lab: Applying Midstream Modulation to Enhance Critical Reflection in the Laboratory.” Science and Engineering Ethics 17, 2011, pp769-788 -- 29. Guston, D.H. “The Pumpkin or the Tiger? Michael Polanyi, Frederick Soddy, and Anticipating Emerging Technologies.” Minerva 50(3), 2012, pp363-379 -- Index.

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Book SynopsisSociology of Health and Wellness: An Applied Approach takes the study of sociology of health and illness to the next level by inspiring students to connect the dots between theory, policy, and practice. The anthology provides students with applied examples of theoretical concepts which encourage them to challenge the status quo and, in doing so, transform and advance the healthcare industry. Part I addresses health and social structure, featuring readings that address the relationships between health and mortality, health and gender, health and socioeconomic status, and more. Part 2 is dedicated to the social and cultural meanings of illness, exploring social construction, the patient experience, and the stigma of mental illness. Part III discusses health care systems and delivery, featuring selections on cell phones and self-diagnosis, the need to preserve and enhance physician careers, and the power society gives health providers. The book closes with a section on applied approaches to medical sociology in which students read about the Affordable Care Act, integrative care, health in later life, and more. Cross-disciplinary in nature, Sociology of Health and Wellness is designed to serve as a supplementary text for foundational courses in public health, health professions, anthropology, and sociology.

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Book SynopsisThe effort to understand human nature in a political context is a daunting challenge that has been undertaken in a variety of ways and by a myriad of disciplines through the ages. From Plato to Hobbes and Burke, to Wallas and Oakeschott in our era, efforts have been made to provide some organic framework for the political study of mankind. What has added greatly to the complexity of the task is the increasing denial, even rejection, in the positivist and behaviorist traditions, of the very notion of a human nature.The work can be described as a series of interlocking propositions: the proverbial view of human nature can be explained by evolutionary theory. Biological differences between men and women are responsible for family, community and group life. Social evolution goes through stages which are recapitulated in the moral life of individuals. A well-defined federal system mirrors human development. And finally, for Fleming, most problems in social and political life stem from violations of this federalist system.Fleming's volume takes up a variety of issues: sex and gender differences, democracy and dictatorship, individual and familial patterns of association. He does so in the context of showing how forms of legitimate authority such as families, communities and nations establish such authority by appeals to human nature, and that these appeals, while presumably resting on empirical evidence, also confirm the existence of normative structures. Fleming's work is an effort of synthesis that is sure to arouse discussion and debate. It represents a serious addition to a literature retrieved from the historical dustbins to which it has been repeatedly consigned.Table of Contents1: The Part and the Whole; 2: Against the Grain; 3: Natural Law and Laws of Nature; 4: “Male and Female Created He Them”; 5: The Natural Family; 6: In the Beginning; 7: Order Without Law; 8: The Federal Principle; 9: Natural Remedies

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Book SynopsisAcross America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

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Book SynopsisFrom Jennifer Baumgardner, one of the leading voices of Third Wave feminism, comes this provocative, thoughtful, often funny collection of essays and interviews that offers a state of the union on contemporary feminist issues. F'em! is a mix of old and new essays by Baumgardner, ranging in tone from laugh-out-loud confessional to sobering analysis. She investigates topics as varied as purity balls, sexuality, motherhood, and shared breastfeeding rape, reproductive rights, and the future of feminism. The essays in F'em! are rounded out by candid one-on-one interviews with leading feminists who have influenced Baumgardner's perspectives,including Riot Grrrls' Kathleen Hanna, Native American activist Winona LaDuke, transgender activist Julia Serano, and artists like Ani DiFranco, Björk, and Amy Ray. At turns intimate, fierce, philosophical, and funny, they are an intimate window into the minds and hearts of Third Wave pioneers. Holding it all together is Baumgardner's insightful thinking about what it means to be a feminist today, as she answers frequently-asked questions: What does it mean to be a woman today? Do we even need feminism anymore?Thought-provoking and cutting-edge, F'em! provides a clearer and more complete understanding of feminism,its past, its present, and its future.

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Book SynopsisFor centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of liberation through preemption. What is this liberty that is so fervently pursued? Does it mean a private space for individuals, the capacity for free and rational choice, or collective self-rule? What is the difference between positive and negative liberty, or the relationship between freedom and coercion? Reflecting on these questions reveals a surprisingly rich landscape of ideas-and further questions. The Liberty Reader collects twelve of the most important and insightful essays on issues of freedom currently available. It is essential reading for students of social and political theory, political philosophy, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the variety of ideas and ideals behind perennial human strivings for liberty. Contributors Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, G. A. Cohen, T. H. Green, F. A. Hayek, Nancy Hirschman, Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., David Miller, Phillip Pettit, Quentin Skinner, Hillel Steiner, Charles Taylor.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract; 2: Two Concepts of Liberty; 3: Freedom and Politics; 4: Freedom and Coercion; 5: Negative and Positive Freedom; 6: Individual Liberty; 7: What’s Wrong With Negative Liberty; 8: Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat; 9: Constraints on Freedom; 10: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom; 11: The Republican Ideal of Freedom; 12: A Third Concept of Liberty

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Book SynopsisThe old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus it is now a favorable moment for a new perspective on religion. This book takes human experiences of self-transcendence as its point of departure. Religious faith is seen as an attempt to articulate and interpret such experiences. Faith then is neither useful nor a symptom of weakness or misery, but an opening up of ways of experience. This book develops this basic idea, contrasts it with the thinking of some leading religious thinkers of our time, and relates it to the current debates about human rights and universal human dignity.Trade Review“At a time when public discussion of religion seems polarized between religious fundamentalists and hard secularists, who in their own way are equally fundamentalist, it is refreshing to have a book that reminds us that religion is not a kind of primitive and false scientific theory, but a kind of experience, the experience of self-transcendence. Joas’s reflections on religious experience and the ways it can be articulated are developed in dialogue with major contemporary thinkers such as Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, and Jürgen Habermas. Open-minded and sensitive both to religious claims and to secular criticisms, Joas has made an enormous contribution to the serious discussion and understanding of religion.” —Robert Bellah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California–Berkeley and coauthor of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society. “Joas offers a prescient collection of essays on the contemporary relevance of religion. … [He] is a clear writer, and the appeal of the topics discussed should hold the interest of any reader interested in the phenomenon of religion. Joas’s work deserves a large audience.” —Anglican Theological Review Table of ContentsPart 1 Religious Experience; Chapter 1 Do We Need Religion?; Chapter 2 Religion in the Age of Contingency; Chapter 3 On the Articulation of Experience; Part 2 Between Theology and Social Science; Chapter 4 Sociology and the Sacred: Key Texts in the Sociology of Religion; Chapter 5 Sophisticated Fundamentalism from the Left? On John Milbank; Chapter 6 A Catholic Modernity? Faith and Knowledge in the Work of Charles Taylor; Chapter 7 God in France: Paul Ricoeur As Theoretical Mediator; Chapter 8 Post-Secular Religion? On Jürgen Habermas; Part 3 Human Dignity; Chapter 9 Decency, Justice, Dignity: On Avishai Margalit; Chapter 10 Respect for Indisposability: A Contribution to the Bioethics Debate; Chapter 11 Human Dignity: The Religion of Modernity?;

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Book SynopsisWe perceive a continued lack of attention to intersectionality in education, despite growing interest in popular media and ongoing investment in intersectional-type work in the social sciences. Our collection invites urban educators, and educators in general to ask: “How can our work benefit by incorporating intersectionality theories in research and in practice?” “What might we be able to better see using an intersectional lens?” Though in many ways the literature on intersectionality and education echoes recommendations from studies of diversity over the years, we believe there is the potential for intersectionality to produce a serendipitous effect, revitalizing our theory and praxis around race, class, gender, and other identity axes in urban education. In addition, intersectionality can help and support theories based on a social justice by further illuminating research analysis, including shining a light on nuances that often remain in the shadow during analysis. We hope to engage readers with a range of possibilities for applying intersectionality theories in their own educational settings; urban or otherwise.In urban education, “urban” is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. “Urban” can be used to refer to both the geographicalcontext of a city and a sense of “less than,” most often in relation to race and/or socioeconomic status (Watson, 2011). For Noblit and Pink (2007), “Urban, rather, is a generalization as much about geography as it is about the idea that urban centers have problems: problems of too many people, too much poverty, too much crime and violence, and ultimately, too little hope” (p. xv). Recently, urban education scholars such as Anyon (2005), Pink and Noblit (2007), Blanchett, Klinger and Harry (2009), and Lipman (2013) have elucidated the social construction of oppression and privilege for urban students, teachers, schools, families, and communities using intersectionality theories. Building on their work, we see the need for an edited collection that would look across the different realms of urban education - theorizing identity markers in urban education, education in urban schools and communities, thinking intersectionally in teacher education & higher education, educational policies & urban spaces - seeking to better understand each topic using an intersectional lens. Such a collection might serve to conceptually frame or provide methodological tools, or act as a reference point for scholars and educators who are trying to address urban educational issues in light of identities and power. Secondly, we argue that education questions and/or problems beg to be conceptualized and analyzed through more than one identity axis. Policies and practices that do not take into account urban students’ intertwining identity markers risk reproducing patterns of privilege and oppression, perpetuating stereotypes, and failing at the task we care most deeply about: supporting all students’ learning across a holistic range of academic, personal, and justice-oriented outcomes.Can educational policies and practices address the social justice issues faced in urban schools and communities today? We argue that doing intersectional research and implementing educational policies and practices guided by these frameworks can help improve the “fit.” Particular attention needs to be paid to intersectionality as a lens for educational theory, policy, and practice. As urban educators we would be wise to consider the intertwining of these identity axes in order to better analyze educational issues and engage in teaching, learning, research, andpolicymaking that are better-tuned to the needs of diverse students, families, and communities.

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Book SynopsisBakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an "unfinalised" process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past. But this book explores its corollary: The relative openness is a field of conflict where rival discourses struggle for hegemony, by subordinating or eliminating their rivals. That is how the unconscious is created out of socio-historical conflicts. Hegemony is always incomplete, because there is always the possibility of a return of its repressed rivals in new combinations.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus “Becoming” in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Rethinking Ideology as a Field of Dialogical Conflict A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour of Don Quijote The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science and historical research, Asimakopoulos reveals that all societies in every epoch have been and continue to be caste systems legitimized by various ideologies. He concludes that there is no such thing as capitalism (or socialism)—only a caste system hidden behind capitalist ideology. Asimakopoulos's approach is broad, interdisciplinary, and draws on both quantitative and qualitative data to weave a narrative that is clear, well written, and offers much to both specialists and general readers.Table of ContentsForeword Greg PalastAcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction: Busting out of Plato 's Cave1 The Symbolic Institution of Society1Symbolic Interactionism2Interaction Exchange and Collective Norms3Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism3.1 Cornelius Castoriadis3.2 Michel Foucault3.3 Guy Debord3.4 Jean Baudrillard4Beyond Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism2The Spectacle1Audience Segmentation1.1 Sociocultural and Spatial Segmentation1.2 Educational Segmentation1.3 Economic Segmentation1.4 Political Segmentation2Total Propaganda3Symbolic Institutions3.1 Educational Institutions3.2 Economic Institutions3.3 Political Institutions3.4 Legal Institutions3.5 Protective Institutions3 It 's All Spectacular1Spectacular History2Postmodern Spectacles2.1 Doubleplusgood: Spectacular Capitalism2.2 Plusgood: Spectacular Socialism/Communism3Spectacular Class4The Quantum Mechanics of Value and Capital4.1 The Relativity of Value4.2 There Is No Spoon: Capital(ism)4 The Monetization of Everything1Life, Flesh, and Death2Food, Water, and the Environment3Cities, Nations, and Culture4Time and Space5The Global Spectacle5.1 Finance5.2 Trade5.3 Segmented Labor5 The Structure of Postmodern Caste1Social Order1.1 Privileges and Disabilities Based on Ascription1.2 Who Pays the Piper?1.3 Extreme Structural Inequality2Caste Groups2.1 Ruling Caste2.2 Nobles2.3 Privileged Labor2.4 Required Labor2.5 Precarious Labor2.6 Institutional Slaves3Legitimizing Twenty-First-Century Serfdom3.1 Mr. Baptist Has Been Too Harsh on the SlaversConclusion: Bakunin 's Conundrum Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to women's rights and sexuality. The authors show that conservative Muslim discourse does not necessarily match practices of believers or of citizens and that women's empowerment is facilitated where indigenous and culturally appropriate strategies are developed. Using case studies from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, they argue persuasively that Muslim religious traditions do not necessarily lead to conservative agendas but can promote emancipatory standpoints. An intervention to the construction of 'Muslim women' as uniformly subordinate, this collection spearheads an unprecedented wake of organizing around sexualities in Muslim communities.Trade ReviewThis exciting collection provides an important contribution to understandings of sexualities and gender, focusing our attention on processes of negotiation, subversion and resistance and challenging assumptions about "Muslimness". With its diversely located studies and rich ethnographic insights, this fascinating book deserves to be widely read. * Andrea Cornwall, professor of anthropology and international development, University of Sussex *This is one of the most exciting collection of essays to emerge in a long time. Too many popular writings on Islam reinforce stereotypes about Muslim women, and few discuss sexuality at all, let alone with such diversity. This collection challenges the tired stream of books that equate Islam with terrorism and women with claustrophobic veils. A must read for any serious scholar of sexuality, Islam, and women's rights. * Chitra Raghavan, professor of psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice *This riveting book sheds new light on women's strategies for resisting sexual repression in a variety of majority Muslim societies in Asia and the Middle East. Complicating contemporary understandings of "Muslimness" , it demonstrates that women in these societies are highly diverse in their attitudes towards and experiences of sexuality. Clear, cogent and compelling, the book will be of interest to activists and academics alike and is certain to become a key text for years to come. * Marc Lafrance, professor of sociology, Concordia University *The authors of this pathbreaking book provide a new and much-needed angle to the study of sexual identities, rights, and claims in Muslim-majority societies. Going beyond the vexed "western vs authentic" dichotomy, this excellent volume should be praised for its ability to widen our understanding of how hegemonic norms of sexuality and sexual behaviour are challenged and contested by diverse actors across religious, secular and sexual orientations. A crucial book for scholars of gender, Islam, rights and sexuality. * Ruba Salih, chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London *The authors are to be congratulated for this excellent volume on sexualities and "Muslimness" in all its diversities. The book captures the challenges of bodily rights, religion and culture for Muslim women's lives in a wide range of nuanced studies that illustrate exactly why sexuality is key to gender equality and human rights. * Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University, winner of the FWSA 2010 Book Prize *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policing gender, sexuality and 'Muslimness' - Anissa Hélie PART I: Tools of policing: the politics of history, community, law 1. The politicization of women's bodies in Indonesia: sexual scripts as charters for action - Vivienne Wee 2. Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850-2010 - Claudia Yaghoob 3. Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan - Hooria Hayat Khan 4. The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel - Yüksel Sezgin 5. Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition - Ziba Mir-Hosseini PART II: Sites of contestation: reclaiming public spaces 6. Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women's mosques as shelter and strength - Maria Jaschok with Shui Jingjun 7. Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran - Shadi Sadr 8. Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran - Homa Hoodfar 9. Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights - Homa Hoodfar and Ana Ghoreishian 10. 'Living sexualities': non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh - Shuchi Karim 11. Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts - Anissa Hélie

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