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Springer International Publishing AG Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture: From Pedagogy to Praxis
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Springer International Publishing AG Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures
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Springer International Publishing AG The Art of Multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Popular Music Studies Today: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017
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Springer Radical Values
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Springer VS Global Critical Theories
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Springer The Post-Socialist City: Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism
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Springer Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards
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The Chinese University Press New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary: Connective Education and Global Change
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human population's lifestyle: what should the educational response be to these various aspects of global change? To answer this, the values of an ecological response are developed, leading to the notion of an 'Ecological Social Imaginary', which looks at how humans can change their way of living to one that is more in harmony with the planet that they live on and depend upon. To enable this, an ecological form of education, Connective Education, is proposed. This focuses on how the human and natural world can be connected for the benefit of humankind and all living and non-living entities, joining head, hand, heart and spirit to the web of life. It is argued that through Connective Education, a particular type of person is formed: one who is able to take their place in the human and natural world, and in this way truly connect with their planet. The book will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Education and Environmental Studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Domains, Challenges and the Social Imaginary.- Chapter 3. The Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 4. Education in the Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 5. The Major Challenges of the 21st Century?.- Chapter 6. The Challenges of the 21st Century and the Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 7. The Ecological Social Imaginary.- Chapter 8. Education in the Ecological Social Imaginary.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration: Changing Spaces in Historical Places
Book SynopsisUrban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places. There is a need to look at tourism and urban regeneration with a particular focus on cultural heritage. Cultural heritage consists of tangible heritage (such as historic buildings) and intangible heritage (such as events). The wider need and impact for such work is that places plan for change to keep up with the shifts in demand in the global economy in order for places to maintain a competitive advantage. Moreover, places need to keep up with the pace of global change or they risk stagnation and decline as increased competition is resulting in increased opportunities and choice for consumers.Each chapter in this book explores a specific form of cultural heritage that is driving change in urban spaces. Intended for a wide readership, the book will appeal to students of urban studies, human geography, heritage studies and international tourism management, as well as experts conducting research in and across these areas.Trade Review“The volume is a useful set of case studies speaking to the themes from a number of different perspectives.” (Jonathan Skinner, Journal of Urban Affairs, September 21, 2021)Table of ContentsChanging spaces in historical places.- Clarksdale, Mississippi: Downtown regeneration, cultural heritage, tourism and blues music.- Beer as cultural lubricant: Brewing Tsingtao, regenerating Qingdao.- Sporting heritage and touristic transformation: Pacaembu stadium and the football museum in São Paulo, Brazil.- Old town Tallinn: Medieval built heritage amid transformation.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities: ICT, Geoscience Modeling, GIS and Remote Sensing
Book SynopsisThis book presents fundamental and applied research in developing geospatial modeling solutions to manage the challenges that urban areas are facing today. It aims to connect the academics, researchers, experts, town planners, investors and government officials to exchange ideas. The areas addressed include urban heat island analysis, urban flood vulnerability and risk mapping, green spaces, solar energy, infrastructure management, among others. The book suggests directions for smart city research and outlines practical propositions. As an emerging and critical area of research and development, much research is now being done with regard to cities. At the international level and in India alike, the “smart cities” concept is a vital topic for universities and research centers, and well as for civic bodies, town planners and policymakers. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for a broad readership.Table of ContentsAnalyzing the role of geospatial technology in smart city development .- Part II: Urban expansion and infrastructure.- The dark side of the earth: Benchmarking lighting access for all cities on Earth and the citynet dataset.- Object-oriented approach for urbanization growth by using remote sensing and Gis techniques: A case study in Hilla city, Babylon Governorate, Iraq.- Designing the streets for smart cities.- An automated approach to facilitate rooftop solar Pv installation in smart cities: Acomparative study between Bhopal, India and Trondheim, Norway.- Analyzing and predicting urban expansion and its effects on surface temperature for two Indian megacities: Bengaluru and Chennai.- Analyzing new frontiers in urban preference and perception research.- Land transformation and future projections of land consumption using high resolution remote sensing data for Allahabad, India.- The meta-analysis of studies on urban sprawl.- Four-dimensional slum urban simulation using hologram interferometry of Envisat satellite.- Geospatial technologies for public health management system.- Utilisation of geo spatial technology to study the variation in access of urban health care centres in Kamrup Metro, Assam.- Geo-spatial analysis of health care service centres for smart cities: A study of South East district, Delhi-India.- Usage of transport apps by Indian commuters: An empirical investigation.- Parking maximums and work place levies: Time to adopt new paradigms in India, the case of Kochi.- Assessing to append homeless people to plan smart regions to be more inclusive.- Part II: Urban ecology and disaster management.- Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation.- An information and communication technology (ICT) driven disaster management system: A case of fire-fighting in Mumbai.- Selection of suitable site for biomedical waste disposal in Lucknow city, India using remote sensing data, GIS and AHP method.- How does tourism affect urban ecological standards? A geospatial analysis of wetland transformations in the coastal resort town of Digha, West Bengal, India.- Urban housing in Itanagar: Mountain geomorphology, hazard vulnerability vis-à-vis smart city framework.- Hydrogeological studies of urban-rural interface in the northwest part of Pune Metropolis, India.- Ground water analytics for measuring quality and quantity.- Status of ground water quality in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan: A geospatial approach.- Green infrastructure as a tool for improving livability of area based development projects under smart city mission.- Evaluating decadal change in green cover of Dehradun city.- Summary and way forward.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Critical Planning and Design: Roots, Pathways, and Frames
Book SynopsisThe book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning.In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions.Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, Yona Friedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick).The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transition while relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society: Rights, Belonging, Intimate Life and Spatiality
Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work.Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work. Table of Contents1. Introduction; Hanne Warming and Kristian Fahnøe.- 2. Citizenship on the edge: homeless outreach and the city; Tom Hall.- 3. Spaces of surveillance and citizenship learning opportunities in a 24-hour care institution; Michael Christensen.- 4. The role of social work practice and policy for the lived citizenship of young people with psychological disorder; Hanne Warming.- 5. Exploring norms about citizenship in stories of young people with “psychological vulnerabilities; Manon Lavaud.- 6. Social repair of relations: Rights and belonging in outreach work with homeless people; Kristian Fahnøe.- 7. For a pragmatic approach of children’s citizenship: the case of school social work in France; Pascale Garnier.- 9. From objects of care to citizens – young carers’ citizenship; Anne Wihstutz.- 10. Migrant Women’s Intimate Struggles and Lived Citizenship. Experiences from Southern Europe; Daniela Cherubini.- 11. Geo-politics and Citizenship: Why geography matters in defining social citizenship rights of Canadian Muslim youth; Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha.- 12. Conclusion; Kristian Fahnøe and Hanne Warming.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Radical Collegiality through Student Voice: Educational Experience, Policy and Practice
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the rights of the child, through including student voice in educational matters that affect them directly. It focuses on the experiences of children and young people and explores how our educational policies, practices and research endeavours enable educators to help young people tell their own stories. The respective chapters illustrate how listening to young people can help them attain new positions of power, even though doing so often creates discomfort and requires a radical change on the part of the adult establishment. Further, the book challenges researchers, teachers and practitioners to reconsider how students are involved in research and policy agendas, and to what extent radical collegiality can create fundamental and positive changes in the lives of these learners. In recent decades, greater attention has been paid across policy, practice and research discourses to involving children more meaningfully and actively in decisions about their participation in both formal and informal educational settings. The book’s goal is to illustrate how researchers have systematically involved students in the pursuit of a richer understanding of educational experiences, policy and practice through the eyes and ears of young people, and through their own cultural lens.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Using student voice to challenge understandings of educational research, policy and practice.- Chapter 2. Tracing the evolution of student voice in Educational Research.- Chapter 3. Voice and the ethics of children's agency in educational research.- Chapter 4. Representing youth voices in indigenous community research.- Chapter 5. Marginalised youth speak back through research: Empowerment and transformation of educational experience.- Chapter 6. Challenges of student voice within a context of threatened identities.- Chapter 7. Gathering and listening to the voices of Māori students: What are the system responses?.- Chapter 8. Foregrounding the stories of secondary school students with disabilities.- Chapter 9. Students' voice shifting the gaze from measured learning to the point of learning.- Chapter 10. Beyond the official language of learning: Teachers engaging with student voice research.- Chapter 11. Student voice, citizenship and regulated spaces.- Chapter 12. Teachers and Power in Student Voice: 'Finger on the Pulse, Not Children Under the Thumb'.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social Media and Civil Society in Japan
Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters. Conceived during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated large portions of the north-eastern area of Japan, this volume addresses the links between Japanese civil society and the social media scene, using both traditional hypothesis testing, social surveys and large-scale big data analysis to provide insight into the development of an online community for connecting citizens. Considering the connection of civil society organizations, citizens and local governments through online communication, notably social media, and how to promote higher levels of citizen engagement in Japan, it offers solutions for a more prepared, resilient communication network among citizens in case of another large scale disaster.Table of ContentsThe Japanese Internet Environment.- Social Media in Japan and the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.- Japanese Local Government Facebook Profiles.- Civil Society, Social Media and Facebook usage by local governments: Birth of the Tsukuba Study and the Tsukuba Civic Activities Cyber-Square.- Promotion and Care of Online Communities: Necessary Elements for a self-sustainable online Facebook community: Self-Reliance of the Tsukuba Civic Activities Cyber-Square.- Who Leads Advocacy through Social Media in Japan?.- Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore An Urban History of China
Book SynopsisThis book considers urban development in China, highlighting links between China’s history and civilization and the rapid evolution of its urban forms. It explores the early days of urban dwelling in China, progressing to an analysis of residential environments in the industrial age. It also examines China’s modern and postmodern architecture, considered as derivative or lacking spiritual meaning or personality, and showcases how China's traditional culture underpins the emergence of China’s modern cities. Focusing on the notion of “courtyard spirit” in China, it offers a study of the urban public squares central to Chinese society, and examines the disruption of the traditional Square model and the rise and growth of new architectural models.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.- PART ONE HISTORY OF URBAN HABITATION.- The Commencement of Urban Habitation.- The Urban Habitation of the Slavery Society.- The Urban Habitation in the Early Feudal Society.- The Urban Habitation in the Middle Stage of the Feudal Society.- Urban Habitation in Late Feudal Society.- The Features of the Modern Urban Dwelling Areas.- The Features of Spatial Structure of the Urban Residential Areas After 1949.- The New Workers’ Villages and Residential Environment of Industrial Cities in 1950s.- The “Villages in the City”: A Phenomenon of On-the-Spot Urbanization.- PART TWO HISTORY OF CHINESE URBAN PUBLIC SQUARES.- Urban Public Squares and Social Public Life.- Chinese Traditional Squares: the Most Longevous Square Systems.- The Disruption of Traditional Squares and the Rise of New-Type Squares.- An Exploration of the Vigorous Growth of Urban Squares.- A Cultural Comparison between Chinese and Western Squares.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Ethnography and Education Policy: A Critical Analysis of Normalcy and Difference in Schools
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Schools are being produced right now.- 2 Shot and Fragment: The place of researchers in Ethnography.- 3 Queering habits and entanglements of the Normal and Deviant subjectivities in Ethnographies.- 4 Discomfort: Affects, actors, and objects in Ethnographic intervention.- 5 The production of the problem of difference in neoliberal educational policies.- 6 Normalcy and Deviance: The production of schools and their subjects.- 7 Diversity and the failure of the civilizing project.- 8 Unpredictable meanings.- 9 Disentanglements.- 10 Future thoughts.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Several Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multi-Attribute Decision Making Methods and Their Applications
Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the latest advances in and approaches to intuitionistic fuzzy decision-making methods. To do so, it explores a range of applications to practical decision-making problems, together with representative case studies. Examining a host of decision-making methods, most of which are based on intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators, its goal is to offer readers a new way to study decision-making methods in the intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Chiefly intended for practitioners and researchers working in the areas of risk management, decision-making under uncertainty, and operational research, the book can also be used as supplementary material for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in these areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Decision Making Method Based on Distance Measure and Similarity Measure.- Dynamic Decision Making Method Based on The Intuitionistic Fuzzy Bayesian Network.- Novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Making Models in The Framework of Decision Field Theory.- Decision Making Method Under Probabilistic and Cognitive Environment.- Appendix.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance: Interdisciplinary Urban Design in China
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work-unit), which inform current community building and planning; socio-spatial changes in urban and rural development; and disparate practices of “spatialised governmentality”. These contexts and an attendant transformation from planning to design and from government to governance, define the current urban design challenges found in the dominant urban xiaoqu (small district) and shequ (community) development model. Examining the histories, transformations, and practices that have shaped socio-spatial epistemologies and experiences in China – including a specific sense of community and place that is rather based on a concrete “collective” than abstract “public” space and underpinned by socialised governance – this book brings together a diverse range of observations, thoughts, analyses, and projects by urban researchers and practitioners. Thereby discussing emerging interdisciplinary urban design practices in China, this book offers a valuable resource for all academics, practitioners, and stakeholders with an interest in socio-spatial design and development.Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis book reformulates Christian education as an interdisciplinary and interdenominational vocation for professionals and practitioners. It speaks directly to a range of contemporary contexts with the aim of encouraging conceptual, empirical and practice-informed innovation to build the field of Christian education research. The book invites readers to probe questions concerning epistemologies, ethics, pedagogies and curricula, using multidisciplinary research approaches. By helping thinkers to believe and believers to think, the book seeks to stimulate constructive dialogue about what it means to innovate Christian education research today.Chapters are organised into three main sections. Following an introduction to the volume's guiding framework and intended contribution (Chapter 1), Part 1 features conceptual perspectives and comprises research that develops theological, philosophical and theoretical discussion of Christian education (Chapters 2-13). Part 2 encompasses empirical research that examines data to test theory, answer big questions and develop our understanding of Christian education (Chapters 14-18). Finally, Part 3 reflects on contemporary practice contexts and showcases examples of emerging research agendas in Christian education (Chapters 19-24).Table of ContentsChapter 1. Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives—An Introductory Overview.- Part I: CONCEPTUAL: Research that develops theological, philosophical and theoretical discussion of Christian Education.- Chapter 2. B. Green: Present Tense: Christian Education in Secular Time.- Chapter 3. M. Stephens: Thinking as Christian Virtue: Reason and Persuasion for a Fractious Age.- Chapter 4. D. Iselin: Home-Coming: Restoring a Theology of Place within Christian Education.- Chapter 5. B. Norsworthy: Christian Higher Education: Capturing a Personal Passionate Profession.- Chapter 6. E. Beech: Towards a Conceptual Model for Biblical Transformative Online Learning.- Chapter 7. D. J. Konz: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christo-ecclesial Unity in Christian Higher Education.- Chapter 8. J. R. Leopard: In Search of a Redeemed and Redeeming Epistemology for Cross-cultural Educational Research: A Biblical Narrative Perspective on Straussian Grounded Theory.- Chapter 9. D. A. Austin, D. Perry: Developing a Christian Research and Scholarship Framework: An Australian Christian Higher Education Case Study.- Chapter 10. C. B. Murison: Christian Higher Education: A Frog in the Kettle or a Light on the Hill?.- Chapter 11. J. Greentree: Clarifying Christian School Purposes in the Neoliberal Marketplace.- Chapter 12. J. Dalziel: Do We Live in a Pluralist Society Any More? Christian Education as a Case Study.- Chapter 13. D. M. Benson: A Reason for Revelation: The Place of Sacred Texts in Secular Middle-School Science Curricula.- Part II: EMPIRICAL: Research that examines data to test theory, answer big questions and develop our understanding of Christian Education.- Chapter 14. S. Gowan, M. Miner Bridges: Distinctively Christian Higher Education as the Wholistic Formation of Students.- Chapter 15. S. Tucker, J. M. Luetz: Art Therapies and Prison Chaplaincy: A Review of Contemporary Practices Considering New Testament Teachings.- Chapter 16. A. Butcher, B. Norsworthy: Cupbearers to the King: Humility, Hope and Hospitality for Formational Practice.- Chapter 17. H. Kemp: The Imaginarium of Narrative in Christian Curriculum Design: A Case Study from St Kentigern College, Auckland.- Chapter 18. C. Chapman: Training Requirements for Entry-Level Ministry-Ready Pentecostal Leaders.- Part III: PRACTICE: Research that reflects on contemporary practice contexts and showcases opportunities for future Christian Education inquiry.- Chapter 19. D. Paterson: Faith, Facts, and Feelings: Christian Persuasion in our Post-Secular Age.- Chapter 20. G. Buxton, J. M. Luetz, S. Shaw: Towards an Embodied Pedagogy in Educating for Creation Care.- Chapter 21. J. Robinson, N. Stirling, S. Barendse: Priceless Perspectives: Equipping Students to Think Critically about the Abortion Discourse.- Chapter 22. W. Nelson, J. M. Luetz: Towards intercultural literacy: A literature review on immersive cross-cultural experiences and intercultural competency charts opportunities for future research.- Chapter 23. L. Gosbell: Universal Design for Learning in Christian Higher Education: Inclusive Practices for Students With and Without Disability.- Chapter 24. F. Seyed Aghamiri, J. M. Luetz: Sexual Addiction and Christian Education.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions offers a toolbox drawn from normative ethics which finds applications in public governance, primarily focusing on policy making and executive action. It includes ethical concepts and principles culled from different philosophical traditions, ranging from more familiar Western theories to non-Western ethical perspectives, thereby providing a truly global, decolonized and expanded normative lens on issues of governance. The book takes a unique and original approach; it demonstrates the use of the ethical toolbox in the context of actual examples of governance challenges.Taking three major case studies each representing an aspect of human-human and/or human-nature and/or human-animal relationship, the book attempts to show the significance of public practical reasoning in policy decisions with the aim of arriving at reasonable responses. Acknowledging the challenges that policy makers often face, the book highlights the fact that policy making is hardly an exercise yielding a black-or-white solution; rather it involves finding the most reasonable normative outcome (course of action) in a given situation, especially employing an expanded understanding of values including well-being, sustainability, interdependence and community. This effort that helps bridge the gap between ethical theorists and policy practitioners exemplifies the necessary role of ‘engaged philosophy’ in public governance.In the major case studies, Boxes offer facts and figures along with pertinent ethical questions that have been raised and discussed. Aiming to aid the engagement of a diverse audience including non-philosophy readers, each chapter also includes Boxes containing examples, shorter case studies, at-a-glance charts, and tables with comprehensive ethical tools for a quick recap.Table of Contents Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Role of Public Practical Reasoning in Good Governance.- Chapter 2: Introducing the Cases.- Chapter 3: Western Consequence-based ethics: Cost versus Benefits.- Chapter 4: Principle-based ethics: ‘means’ versus ‘ends’.- Chapter 5: Human Well-being: Moving Beyond Social Welfare and Human Rights.- Chapter 6: Care, community, compassion and virtue: Decolonizing our Moral Landscape.- Chapter 7: Revisiting the Cases: The Ethical toolbox in Praxis.- Conclusion: Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Green Consensus and High Quality Development: CCICED Annual Policy Report 2020
Book SynopsisThis open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2020. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding green development, such as climate, biodiversity, ocean, BRI, urbanization, sustainable production and consumption, technology, finance, value chain, and so on. It also looks at the progress of China’s environmental and development policies，and the impacts from CCICED. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight for policy makers in environmental issues.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Global Climate Governance and China’s Role.- Chapter 2 Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation.- Chapter 3 Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization.- Chapter 4 Green BRI and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 5 Green Urbanization Strategy and Pathways towards Regional Integrated Development.- Chapter 6 Ecological Compensation and Green Development Institutional Reform in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.- Chapter 7 Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanisms.- Chapter 8 Green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 9 The Global Green Value Chain.- Chapter 10 Green Finance.- Appendix.- Appendix I From Recovery to Green Prosperity: Accelerating the transition toward high-quality green development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.- Appendix II Progress on Environment and Development Policies in China and Impact of CCICED’s Policy Recommendations (2019-2020).- Appendix III CCICED Phase VI Composition.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.Table of ContentsPart 1. Responding to the impact of covid-19 on health service delivery.- Chapter 1. Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Bulbul Sood).- Chapter 2. Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response (Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan).- Chapter 3. Unveling the Clinical Face of COVID-19 (Dr. Arti Singh).- Chapter 4. The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India (Mr. Chapal Mehra).- Chapter 5. Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (Priti Dave).- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India (Ms. Drishya Pathak).- Part 2. Impact of covid-19 on mental health, hunger and nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and health financing.- Chapter 7. A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental Health and COVID-19 (Ms. Komal Mittal).- Chapter 8. Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India (Dr. Shweta Khandelwal).- Chapter 9. Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond a Pandemic (Ms.Sapna Kedia).- Chapter 10. Commentary- Family Planning During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha).- Chapter 11. Gender Insights into a Unique Threat to Human Development (Ms. Madhubala Nath).- Chapter 12. Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID Pandemic (Dr. Indrani Gupta).- Part 3. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.- Chapter 13. Commentary-“I Just Want To Go Home”: What The Lockdown Meant for India’s Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. Philo Magdalene).- Chapter 14. From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19 (Ms.Sushena Reza-Paul).- Chapter 15. Communicating COVID: Learnings and Way Forward (Ms. Nandita Suneja).- Part 4. Changing Role Of Media And Communications In The Covid-Era.- Chapter 16. Commentary- Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha).- Part 5. Experiences of countries that have successfully contained the pandemic.- Chapter 17. Commentary-“Go Ahead, Go Early”: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Elimination Strategy (Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan).- Chapter 18. Learnings from Asia (Dr. Saroj Pachauri).
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Springer Verlag, Singapore International Planning Studies: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international planning studies, as well as ways of characterising and comparing planning systems. The authors explore the emergence of a global agenda for planning, through the activities and goal setting of international organisations, and professional and civil society networks. Transnational and cross-border contexts and initiatives in different global regions, and their relevance to planning, are investigated. An invaluable resource for students and researchers in planning studies, this book offers an important reflection on the internationalisation of planning practice, education, and scholarship, and the future prospects for planning and planning studies from an international perspective.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction.- Chapter 2 – The Historical Dimension in International Planning Studies.- Chapter 3 – Contemporary Contexts and Concepts for International Planning Studies.- Chapter 4 - Research design and methods for international planning studies.- Chapter 5 – Characterising Planning Systems.- Chapter 6 – A Global Agenda for Planning.- Chapter 7 – Cross-border planning, transnational, and supranational planning.- Chapter 8 - Planning as an international discipline.- Chapter 9 – Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social Change in the Gulf Region: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, deeply rooted in its ancient tribal customs and traditions and able to blend past and present seamlessly without suffering the wrenching trauma of change—this is clearly not the case, and the region is not immune to the inevitable forces of social change. There is no doubt today that the social change sweeping the Gulf has been profound, affecting almost every aspect of life in the Gulf societies. This volume has an encyclopedic value as the chapters collectively offer multifaceted and multidisciplinary perspectives to understand social change in the Gulf region. Through these chapters, the role of economic and educational transformation, and the impact of social media, migration, and urbanization have in driving social change in the Gulf societies is examined in detail with a focus on their directions, magnitudes, and relevant policy options. It also considers how COVID-19 is affecting the lives of the people in the Gulf. This book bridges gaps in the understanding of the rapid pace of social change in the Gulf, offering practical solutions for policy interventions. It is of interest to scholars and students in Middle Eastern studies, specifically, as well as sociology, media studies, migration studies, and educational policy.Table of ContentsAspirations for Pursuing the Prominent Leadership Roles in the Academia: Perspectives of Kuwaiti Women.- Social Media in the GCC`s Countries – Facilitator or Curse for Generation “Z”?.- Where’s the ‘Bedouin’ in ‘Tribe’? Tribal Ruling in Urban Kuwaiti Society.- The Gender-Pay Gap and the Family in the Gulf: Root Causes, Implications and Policy Response.- Special Economic Zone Experience Overseas? Industrial Parks and Ports in the Gulf and China’s Presence.- Youth as Barometer of Socio-cultural Change in Iran.- Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East.- COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are today being embraced by China’s global trade partners. Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo’s port of departure and Columbus’ goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk Road and the Middle Age’s greatest port but also centuries ahead of its time in its tolerance and diversity. The fabled “City of Light” had 7 mosques for its 40,000 Muslims, some of whom served in government, as well as 3 Franciscan cathedrals funded in part by the emperor, Jewish synagogues, and centers for Nestorian Christians, Hindus, Taoists, Manicheans, Jains, etc. As Franciscan Bishop Andrew of Perugia wrote in 1322, “Tis a fact that in this vast empire, there are people of every nation under heaven, and every sect, and all and sundry are allowed to live freely according to their creed.” In 2021, UNESCO designated “Quanzhou, Emporium of the World,” as a world heritage site, and the city is now the hub of the Belt and Road Initiative, the 21st Century Silk Road, which was inspired by ancient Quanzhou.Table of ContentsQuanzhou at a Glance.- The Story of Zaytun.- Exploring Quanzhou Maritime Museum.- Exploring the Ancient Maritime Silk Road in Today’s Quanzhou.- Quanzhou: Home of Miraculous Chinese Puppets!.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities
Book SynopsisThis book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms. Where smart city strategies promote the roll-out of internet of things (IoT) technologies and big data analytics by city governments worldwide, platform urbanism responds to the deep and pervasive entanglements that exist between urban citizens, city services and platform ecosystems today. Recent years have witnessed a backlash against major global platforms, evidenced by burgeoning literatures on platform capitalism, the platform society, platform surveillance and platform governance, as well as regulatory attention towards the market power of platforms in their dominance of global data infrastructure. This book responds to these developments and asks: How do platform ecosystems reshape connected cities? How do urban researchers and policy makers respond to the logics of platform ecosystems and platform intermediation? What sorts of multisensory urban engagements are rendered through platform interfaces and modalities? And what sorts of governance challenges and responses are needed to cultivate and champion the digital public spaces of our connected lives.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: When digital became platform.- Chapter 3: City reverberations.- Chapter 4: The Uberisation of Everything.- Chapter 5: Making sense of platform intermediation.- Chapter 6: Platform intermediation as recombinatory urban governance.- Chapter 7: Intimate entanglements.- Chapter 8: City bricolage: Imagining the city as a platform.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Rethinking public value in an era of platform scale.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Wildness and Wellbeing: Nature, Neuroscience, and
Book SynopsisWildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design. Mental health is a leading global issue and our urban environments can contribute to conditions such as depression and anxiety. Presenting the latest research, this book explores how neuroscience can offer new perspectives on the crucial role everyday multisensory interactions with nature can have on our mental wellbeing. These insights can help us (un)design our streets, neighbourhoods and cities, allowing nature to be integrated back into our cities. Wildness and Wellbeing is for anyone interested in the connections between urban ecology, health, environmental science, planning, and urban design, helping to create biodiverse cities for mental health.Table of Contents1. Our Nature in/of the City.2. Reimaging Urban Nature.3. Multisensory Nature and Mental Health.4. Urban Nature and Designing for Mental Health.5. Conclusion: Inhabiting Space, Encountering (Our) Nature.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Transnational Student Return Migration and
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students. By 2018, over 3.5 million Chinese students had returned from overseas universities to China, with the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen representing by far their main destinations. In other words, when overseas students return to China, many do not return to their hometown but usually land, work and settle down in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Their return migration is thus not only transnational, but also internal-urban. This book adopts a multi-level geographical analysis to explore this important phenomenon, exploring why and how returnees choose these three cities and how they experience and interpret their everyday lives in these megacities after their return. In doing so, it highlights the importance of cultural logics and multiscalar thinking of transnational Chinese students’ return migration and illuminates how their transnational migration reproduces domestic socio-spatial inequalities. This book brings an important contribution to the fields of Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Transnationalism, Migration Studies and Citizenship Studies.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Cityzenship: Contemporaneous Migration, City and Citizenship Chapter 3 To be a cityzen of where? Chapter 4 To live as a cityzen: class-based cosmopolitan cityzenship Chapter 5 Cityzenship and the Hukou System Chapter 6 A ‘Modern’ Cityzen Chapter 7 Conclusion
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Place Catholicism and Violence
Book SynopsisUsing interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate themes of urban space, meaning as a psychosocial construct, criminal violence, and religiosity as culture, this book uncovers the underlying complexities of turning spaces into places through the built form, activities in the urban space and the meanings associated with it.
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Ibn Khalduns IlmualUmran Pioneering Paradigm in the World Pyramids of Social Sciences
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Transcript Verlag Working Misunderstandings – An Ethnography of
Book SynopsisMisunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational corporation in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organisational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organisational functioning. In doing so, she offers new ways to think about collaboration and establishes `misunderstanding' as a key factor of insight for the field of organisational research.
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transcript Crafting Power
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University Press of Southern Denmark Uses of Literature: The Social Dimensions of
Book SynopsisHow can literature engage readers and speak to matters of concern, inspire attachments, weave affiliations, or forge collectives? How can literature be useful to readers and in society and what are the dynamics between the actors involved? These are some of the questions that have been explored in the research project Uses of Literature The Social Dimensions of Literature, which took place at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) from 2016 to 2021 under the guidance of Niels Bohr Professor Rita Felski. This journalistic report highlights the most important insights, discussions, and results that have emerged from the five years of collaborative research at SDU through interviews with more than twenty scholars. The research presented in this publication covers topics such as narrative medicine, new sociologies of literature, literary perspectives on love, gender and recognition, new approaches to teaching, as well as precarity and the social dimensions of literature. The report aims to open up the rich portfolio of research that has been conducted at SDU and make it available to other scholars as well as actors outside of academia, such as teachers, librarians, and readers. Both the report and the research project have been funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
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Academic Studies Press Don’t Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the
Book SynopsisIt is human nature to want to fit in. The lengths people have gone to do so have provided creative minds with material for centuries. This book explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to illuminate what prompted Christof Ruhl, an economist at the World Bank, to comment, about Russia, “On a very broad scale, it’s a country where people care about their family and friends. Their clan. But not their society.”Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Fitting in Russian Style1. The Crux of the Svoj/Chuzhoj Opposition2. Making Svoj/Chuzhoj Divisive in Alexander Griboedov’s “Woe from Wit”3. “Woe from Wit” as Social Gospel4. The Demons are SocialDemonsThe SettingThe PlotThe Audience and the StageThe OppositionVerkhovenskyA Stranger’s SinsThe First ArgumentThe Second ArgumentThe DuelAt Our People’sThe Murder of ShatovIn Place of a ConclusionBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources
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Columbia University Press Inside Data Science
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University of California Press Education and Society An Introduction to Key
Book SynopsisDrawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students' own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editors’ Introduction Part 1 Theoretical Orientations in the Sociology of Education 1 The Growth of Schooling in Global Perspective Evan Schofer 2 A Contextual Understanding of Schools’ Role in the Stratification System: Are Schools a Compensatory, Neutral, or Exacerbatory Institution? Douglas Downey Part 2 Student Experiences in Education 3 Gender Inequality in Education: Outcomes and Experiences Catherine Riegle-Crumb 4 Hidden in Plain Sight: Rethinking Race in Education Rob Eschmann and Charles M. Payne 5 Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants in American Schools: Shifting Demographics Edelina M. Burciaga CASE STUDY 1 Sexualities in Education C. J. Pascoe and Tony Silva 6 Social Class and Student-Teacher Interactions Jessica Calarco 7 First-Generation College Students Lisa M. Nunn 8 Peer Sorting, Peer Influence, and Student Outcomes William Carbonaro CASE STUDY 2 The “Asian F” and the Racialization of Achievement Jennifer Lee, Sean Drake, and Min Zhou Part 3 Schools and Other Educational Organizations 9 Creating the Canon: The Meaning and Effects of Textbooks and Curricula Patricia Bromley and Daniel Scott Smith 10 Sorting Students for Learning: Eight Questions about Secondary-School Tracking Sean Kelly 11 Special Education and Social Inequality Jacob Hibel 12 A Sociology of School Discipline Richard Arum, E. Christine Baker-Smith, and Jessica Lipschultz CASE STUDY 3 Within Elite Academic Walls: Inequity and Student Experience on Campus Megan Thiele and Karen Jeong Robinson 13 School Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Economic Status Ann Owens 14 Sociological Perspectives on Leading and Teaching for School Change Sarah L. Woulfin 15 School Choice: Policy and Perspectives Linda Renzulli and Maria Paino 16 Higher Education and the Labor Market Eric Grodsky and Julie Posselt CASE STUDY 4 Importing School Forms across Professional Fields: An Understudied Phenomenon in the Sociology of Education Amy Binder and Scott Davies Index
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University of California Press Twelve Weeks to Change a Life AtRisk Youth in a
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under." * Process North *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In Medias Res 2. How Violence Became Preventable 3. Statistical Lives 4. Familiar Strangers 5. Stories Come Apart 6. The State of Adults Epilogue: The Future Appendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotes References Index
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University of California Press Policing Iraq Legitimacy Democracy and Empire in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jessie Wozniak’s Policing Iraq presents a sensible and effective central argument that rests on the importance of police effectiveness in war-stricken environments." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Kurds, Criminal Justice, and State Legitimacy 2. The Face of the State: How Police Are Central to Modern Governance 3. "Ninety-Nine Percent of Our Problems Are Due to the Budget": The Lofty Expectations and Dismal Reality of Reconstruction 4. "Nothing on How to Investigate, Nothing on How to Talk to or Deal with People": The Cultural Performance of Policing 5. "If You Have No Degree, You Can Work Here": Qualifications, Consent, and Coercion 6. "The Law Is in One Valley, but Reality Is in a Different Valley": Tribes, Political Parties, and Governments Compete for Control 7. Police, State Making, and Imperialism Appendix: On Conducting Conflict Research Notes References Index
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Princeton University Press Identity Economics
Book SynopsisProvides an important way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities - and not just economic incentives - influence our decisions. This title explains how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save.Trade ReviewGeorge A. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics One of Bloomberg News's (bloomberg.com/news) Top Thirty Business Books of the Year for 2010 Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers "Akerlof ... and Kranton ... explore the links between our identities and the everyday decisions we make about earning and spending money. Their goal is to add a more personal touch to economics."--New York Times "There is no question monetary incentives are important--indeed critical--but it is important also to consider other meaningful ways to motivate and engage work forces. In a recent book by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, Identity Economics, the authors document how people in exceptional organizations work well because they identify with the values and the culture, not simply the financial rewards."--Al Gore and David Blood, Wall Street Journal "[A]n important new book... Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics."--Daniel Finkelstein, The Times "Identity Economics is a popular account of work that will already be familiar to economists who have read the authors' journal articles. It is admirably short, written in a clear, nontechnical style but without the condescending breeziness of many books aimed at the airport market. Nonspecialist readers will find a lot of insightful and well-informed analysis of how issues of identity have an impact on real economic problems."--Robert Sugden, Science "The authors make a compelling case that the group with which individuals identify shapes their decisions about schooling, work, savings, investment, and retirement. This paradigm offers better ways of understanding the consequences of public policies and business practices... Identity Economics provides a new language and a useful apparatus to take measure of 'real people in real situations.'"--Barron's "Business managers, economists, policy makers, and school administrators will all gain fresh insights into similar enigmas that confront them if they bear the book's message in mind: identity matters."--ForeWord "[A] lucid look at how social considerations carry economic consequences... The authors use the word 'identity' as shorthand for the way people divide themselves into social groups, each of which--like high-school Jocks and Burnouts--has a sense of how to behave."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "The essence of the book is to place social contexts at the heart of an individual's decision-making. Tastes vary with social context, and concepts such as identity and norms influence the outcome."--Mint "This is a completely new idea, which, in essence, says that one effect of being in an increasingly liberal and affluent society is that aspects of identity that previously didn't seem to matter much to economists are consciously influencing our behaviour."--Trevor Phillips, Prospect "[Akerlof and Kranton] present the material in a very readable and entertaining way. Their findings are that economic behavior is governed by one's social category, by the norms of that social assignment, and by how one views one's identity in that social context."--Choice "[B]y the end of the book, my overwhelming feeling was that the authors had made a pretty robust case for why our profession should pay greater attention to the social structures that underpin our economic decisions. For this, they should be highly commended."--Samuel Tombs, Business Economist "Identity Economics provides the broader, better vision that we need."--New Economy "The book provides a solid basis for a plethora of future research, especially in the field of behavioural economics... Identity economics is a step forward, progressing economic theory and understanding a little further along the path from Homo economicus to Homo sapiens."--David A. Savage, The Economic Record "Akerlof is one of the most imaginative thinkers in neoclassical economics, and his earlier work on information economics essentially sparked off a revolution which dramatically changed the nature of the subject. Any work by him is worth pursuing."--Priyodorshi Banerjee, Economic & Political Weekly "Identity Economics marks a very significant contribution to the ever-growing economic literature incorporating nonmonetary motives to explain behavior and as such it is highly recommended reading for social scientists."--Andreas P. Kyriacou, Public Choice "This book is a must read for any social scientist whose interests lie in the intersection of economic analysis and real-world context and situations. While decidedly a trade book, the substantial list of references and strong foundations in the economics literature provide further reading for those who may be more mathematically inclined. Overall, the book was an interesting and informative read providing a framework for analysis not usually offered elsewhere."--Gabriel R. Serna, Journal of Economic Issues "By demonstrating the ways identity and social norms guide economic behavior, Akerlof and Kranton present a powerful challenge to conventional economics--and our everyday assumptions about human behavior."--World Book IndustryTable of ContentsPART ONE: Economics and Identity ONE: Introduction 3 CHAPTER TWO: Identity Economics 9 CHAPTER THREE: Identity and Norms in Utility 17 POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER THREE A Rosetta Stone 21 CHAPTER FOUR: Where We Fit into Today's Economics 27 PART TWO: Work and School CHAPTER FIVE: Identity and the Economics of Organizations 39 CHAPTER SIX: Identity and the Economics of Education 61 PART THREE: Gender and Race CHAPTER SEVEN: Gender and Work 83 CHAPTER EIGHT: Race and Minority Poverty 97 PART FOUR: Looking Ahead CHAPTER NINE: Identity Economics and Economic Methodology 113 CHAPTER TEN: Conclusion, and Five Ways Identity Changes Economics 121 Acknowledgments 131 Notes 135 References 153 Index 173
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Princeton University Press Thinking like an Economist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Indispensable. Deeply researched and powerfully argued, it is easily one of the most important studies of American governance in many years."---Simon Torracinta, Boston Review"Berman is well worth reading for deeply researched detail on how market-fundamentalist economics colonized the administrative state and thus weakened progressivism."---Robert Kuttner, American Prospect"The historical account in Thinking like an Economist, which makes up the bulk of the book, is an original, insightful, and persuasive story. . . . Berman provides a fresh perspective emphasizing a wide variety of microeconomic topics, including antitrust law, antipoverty policy, health care, and the environment."---Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs"Berman is at her best as an archeologist of ideas, digging through archives to excavate the origins of the economic style of reasoning and its takeover of federal policymaking."---Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker"As a non-economist who writes about economics, I felt seen by Berman."---Peter Coy, New York Times"The import of her book is clear to me. It’s OK to believe there’s value beyond markets and competition, and while efficiency can be a useful goal in many cases, sometimes we should embrace deeper values around fairness, and dare I say it, right and wrong."---John Warner, Chicago Tribune"This outstanding work is highly recommended. . . . Essential." * Choice *"It turns out this kind of thinking—what Berman calls ‘the economic style of reasoning'—has taken over not just environmental policy but the entire US policy bureaucracy, to dismal results. It’s as much something Democrats have done to themselves as anything forced by the right. One always enjoys having one’s priors validated by scholars of much greater distinction than oneself, so I was delighted to read the book."---David Roberts, Volts"A captivating and detailed historical account of the rise of economics and economists’ influence within the US Administration during the 1960s and 1970s."---Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Aurélien Goutsmedt, Oeconomia"An engaging account of the role that economists and government advisors with an economics training played in shaping public policy in the US during the post-war period. . . .Very well written and extremely erudite."---Giulio Zanella, Oeconomia
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Princeton University Press The Great Demographic Illusion
Book Synopsis"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--Trade Review"Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association""A heartening, wise, and profoundly important counternarrative to hysteria." * Kirkus Reviews *"Alba writes with an admirable absence of jargon. His data-driven but fully accessible work advances an original and important idea that, if correct, will have major societal consequences." * Foreign Affairs *"Required reading for everyone who comments or writes on American elections."---Morris Fiorina, Real Clear Politics"A book that American politicians should read. . . . Excellent policy proposals."---Suzanne Model, Ethnic and Racial Studies"An extremely important book. . . . Alba uses a wealth of data and a rigorous historical lens to systematically dismantle this “great demographic illusion,” which is fueling populist backlash and political division."---Eric Kaufmann, American Journal of Sociology"Clearly rooted in sociology and does include data and tables, this is a productive and enlightening read even for those who teach and do research in literary and cultural studies."---Julia Sattler, Amerikastudien/American Studies
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Princeton University Press Spiderweb Capitalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association""A revealing look at how a secretive, often criminal element enables the rich to ‘make and protect not only their money, but also their reputations.’ . . . A work of true crime as much as scholarship, highly readable and maddening." * Kirkus Reviews *
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Princeton University Press Spiderweb Capitalism
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University Press of Kansas Policing Sex in the Sunflower State
Book SynopsisTells the history of how, over a span of two decades, the Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. Nicole Perry offers a timely critique of a failed public health policy that was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.Trade ReviewPolicing Sex in the Sunflower State shows how patients became prisoners in Kansas as wartime venereal disease control measures shaped peacetime public health policies. Drawing on a unique source base of thousands of intake records, Perry demonstrates the diversity of experience that brought women to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women while finding common threads of poverty, sexual victimization, and gender discrimination. With a close look at the women who advocated for and staffed the facility, Perry explores the mixed legacy of Progressive Era women's activism and the complicated role of women professionals. Chilling stories of women who traded freedom for medical treatment and reminders of how disease amplifies all kinds of social inequalities make this an important book for today's world." - Pippa Holloway, Douglas Southall Freeman Chair in History, University of Richmond "Nicole Perry provides a detailed, meticulously researched, and well-argued assessment of the creation of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (KSIFW) and its operation during the 1920s and 1930s. Through this close examination of the KSIFW, Perry shows the powerful and sometimes life-changing consequences of the coming together of Progressive Era efforts to 'reform' working-class women, eugenics, and efforts by both the federal government and the states to contain the spread of venereal disease through a moralizing sexual double standard that held women accountable, and ultimately punishable, for its spread. Perry skillfully engages with multiple and often competing perceptions of the KSIFW while also acknowledging the real restraints historians encounter when using institutional documents to gain insight into the lived experiences of working-class inmates." - Michael Rembis, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Disability Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY), author of Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Disability History"Nicole Perry's Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers a fascinating and timely look at the expansive power of state governments to quarantine individuals for the health of the public. Examining the impacts of venereal disease legislation passed during World War I, Perry's work details the use of such legislation to enforce a moral vision. In doing so it offers important insights into the potentially complex relationship among state power, morality, and gender." - Daniel Sledge, author of Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
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University of British Columbia Press The End of Children Changing Trends in
Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child raising.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan1 Fertility Change in North America, 1950-2000 / Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman2 Changing Children and Changing Cultures: Immigration as a Source of Fertility and the Assumptions of Assimilation / Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White3 Using Infertility, Useful Fertility: Cultural Imperatives on the Value of Children in the United States / Rebecca L. Upton4 The Performance of Motherhood and Fertility Decline: A Stage Props Approach / Nathanael Lauster5 Parenthood, Immortality, and the End of Childhood / Nicholas W. Townsend6 Leaving Home: An Example of the Disappearance of Childhood and Its End as a Predictable Set of Uniform Experiences / Adena B.K. Miller7 The Disappearance of Parents from Children’s Lives: The Cumulative Effects of Child Care, Child Custody, and Child Welfare Policies in Canada / Edward Kruk8 Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine, Education, and the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900-45 / Mona Gleason9 Pathologizing Childhood / Anita Ilta GareyConclusion: From Children to Child: Ending in China / Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham AllanIndex
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