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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Its OK to Not Be Monogamous
Book SynopsisThe downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy. Yet, a happily ever after monogamy is assumed to be the ideal form of romantic love in many modern societies: a relationship that is morally ideal and will bring the most happiness to its two partners. In Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous, Justin L. Clardy deeply questions these assumptions. He rejects the claim that non-monogamy among honest, informed and consenting adults is morally impermissible. He shows instead how polyamorous relationships can actually be exemplars of moral virtue. The book discusses how social and political forces sustain and reward monogamous relationships. The book defines non-monogamy as a privative concept; a negation of monogamy. Looking at its prevalence in the United States, the book explains how common criticisms of non-Trade Review"This book leads the reader through the strongest arguments on both sides of the debate in a highly accessible and engaging way. It will make even the skeptical reader think deeply about these timely questions."Elizabeth Brake, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Elizabeth Brake Introduction 1. What is Non-Monogamy? 2. Why It’s OK to NOT be Monogamous 3. Monogamous and Non-Monogamous Identity 4. Why It’s NOT OK for Liberal States to be Monogamous Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infection Prevention and Control
Book SynopsisAn understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book, Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in, and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense.Key Features: Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo Interprofessional in nature and relevantTable of ContentsPart 1: Psychosocial Perspectives Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and controlChapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and controlChapter 3: The concept of truthPart 2: Leadership PerspectivesChapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practiceChapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and controlChapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectivesChapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequencesChapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?Part 3: Real world perspectivesChapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and controlChapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequencesChapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning – social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and controlChapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIVChapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspectiveChapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environmentsChapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Transformation for Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a historical approach both to the climate and to our collective institutions of humanity. Drawing on the works of Karl Polanyi and Thomas Piketty, Nicholas Low traces the course of historic social transformations from Britain, Russia, and Australia to highlight key commonalities: social crisis, the widespread sense by those in power that something has to change', the shift in ideology, and the political champions that drove the change. Within its international scope, the book delves deeper into specific instances of inequality and poverty from Britain, the USA, Australia, and the Global South. It shows how these examples are connected with the current climate emergency. Finally, the author Trade Review"A great book demonstrating the need for major social transformation in the future.A must-read."Thomas Piketty, Professor at L’École des Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris School of Economics, France, and Co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database"In Social Transformation for Climate Change, Nicholas Low throws down a double challenge, to recognize the climate emergency as the defining crisis of our age, and to take up the democratic transformation of society required in response. This far-sighted, deeply researched, and well-reasoned book is required reading for all those concerned with the future of the planet."Robert Lake, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy development and a memberof the Graduate Faculties in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University, USA"A spellbinding account of the ecological, social and democratic crisis ofhypercapitalism and how we might collectively transform it into a better placefor all."David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and the Social Economy at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia“Nicholas Low has done something very special with this book. With innovative rigour he has examined climate change, its historical roots, and its political and economic dynamics, and has suggested the direction in which humans must collectively move in order to avert a catastrophe. No single book can provide the final word on that, but in indicating the direction he has given us a much clearer understanding of the way forward.”Jim Falk, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Science at Melbourne University, Australia, and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He chairs the International Advisory Committee for Regional Action on Climate Change – JapanTable of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgements PART 1 TRANSFORMATIONS1. Climate Transformation and Social Transformation2. The Great Transformation3. The Arrival of Social Democracy in Britain4. The Neoliberal Regression5. Communism to Capitalism6. The State and Civil Society in Transformations PART 2 THE CLIMATE TRANSFORMATION7. Climate Crisis8. Democracy and the International Order9. Inequality and Poverty10. Remaking Democracy for a World of Climate Change11. Climate Transformation: Action, Actors, and Activists12. What We Can Learn from the Past Bibliography: Key ReadingsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare
Book SynopsisThis book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare. Despite being a common driver of communal violence, blood revenge has received little attention from scholars. With many civil wars and insurgencies occurring in areas where the custom lingers, strengthening our understanding of blood revenge is essential for discerning how conflicts change and evolve. Drawing upon extensive multidisciplinary evidence, this book is the first in the literature on civil war and insurgency to analyse the impact of blood revenge and its modern remnants on irregular warfare. Even when blood revenge undergoes erosion, its unregulated version still shapes the social fabric of insurgency, although in different ways than its institutionalised counterpart. At times of political instability, the presence of a culture of retaliation weighs heavily on the dynamics of violent mobilisation, target selection, rTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising Blood Revenge 3. The Erosion of Blood Revenge in Modern Society 4. The Role of Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare 5. The Erosion of Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Examining Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun
Book SynopsisExamining Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how and why Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be used as a teaching tool to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family.The purpose of this book is to help educators develop a greater awareness of Black children and youth's, humanity, academic potential and learning capacity, and for teachers to develop the consciousness to disavow white supremacy, American exceptionalism, myths, racial innocence, and personal absolution within the education system. This counternarrative responds to the flawed and racist perceptions, stereotypes, and tropes that are perpetuated in schools and society about the African American family and Black students in US schools. It is deliberative and reverberating in addressing anti-Black racism. It argues that, if Education is to be reimTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: "Write if you will but Write About the World As It Is and As You Think It Ought to Be…"Chapter Two: Invisibility and Visibility: Do You See Me? Do You Want to?Chapter Three: Representation Matters: Black Body, Black Family, Black Life and Reasoning RaisinChapter Four: Teachers’ Talk after Watching Raisin, Lorraine, Yesterday into Today and Life BioChapter Five: A Raisin in the Sun, Words and Work of Lorraine HansberryChapter Six: On Being "Young, Gifted, and Black"
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Aid and Sustainable Development in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Methods in HumanAnimal Studies
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorize research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research, and the increasing political relevance of animals in contemporary environmental debates.
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Taylor & Francis Community Policing
Book SynopsisThis book provides comprehensive coverage of community policing, the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation. The first textbook of its kind, Community Policing delineates this progressive approach, combining the accrued wisdom and experience of its established authors with the latest research-based insights to help students apply what is on the page to the world beyond. The book extends the road map presented by Robert Trojanowicz, the father of community policing, and brings it into contemporary focus. The text has been revised throughout to include the most current developments in the field, including discussions of the 2020 protests and subsequent calls for police reform, and the rapid development of alternative responses for behavioral health and other non-criminal 911 calls. âœSpotlight on Community Polic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era
Book SynopsisThis book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children''s literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.Situated in the broad socio-literary context spanning the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the book lays the groundwork for contemporary children's vegan literature and argues that present ethical and environmental concerns can be traced back to the Victorian period. Following the current turn in contemporary research on children, their experience and their voices, the author examines children's vegetarian culture through the prism of the periodicals aimed directly at them. It analyses how vegetarian principles were communicated to children and listens to the voices of children who were vegetarians, and who tested their newly formed identity in the p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Black Femalehood and the Principles of Existence
Book SynopsisBlack Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice conceptually frames the complex trajectory of Black femalehood, including contributions and triumphs, methods of resistance, and ways of coping, as well as the impacts of external forces on their physical and psychological wellness.The book scrutinizes the work of selected female figures and their modes of resistance, including the warriors of the Haitian Revolution, diasporic African descendant combatants for human rights, and academic female writers. From battlefield combats to daily struggles for survival, it illustrates how the battles in which Black females have been compelled to engage have caused centuries of physical, emotional, and psychological distress, well into contemporary times. This volume will be of use to upper-level undergraduate students as well as graduate students studying gender studies, sociology, Black studies, and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Warriors in Works and Words1. An Overview: African Female Warriors and Their Legacy in The Americas2. Female Warriors of the Haitian Revolution: Their Contemporary Descendants3. Anna J. Cooper’s Intellectual Activism: The Limitations of Production4. Ida B. Wells: Lion-Hearted Combatant for the Humanity of African Americans5. Louise Little and Afeni Shakur: Exemplars of Achievements, Individual Collapse and Collective Triumph6. The Tasks of the Black Female Writer and EducatorConclusion: "We Will Come Up Again": Black Femalehood and the Afro FutureBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collective Sustainable Consumption
Book SynopsisIn the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The majority of the sustainable consumption research uses the SDG framework, but this only serves to reinforce an individualistic, efficiency-based approach and it does not sufficiently cover the specific situation of transition economies. In contrast, this volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with empirical examples from the Polish economy. The first part of the book presents a theoretical approach to collective consumption which has the core concepts of justice and human nature at its heart. This approach emphasises the role of collective rationality and categorises aspects of sustainable consumption as a common and public good. The second part investigates diversified aspects of sustainability, including s
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The COVID19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life
Book SynopsisThis book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet Earth, and a postCOVID-19 future requires a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions.Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geographTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii1 The planetary impact of COVID-19 1Inocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni2 Reengaging power: state responses to COVID-19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and the United States of America 9Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Kgoto Jan Mbele3 COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma, transformations, and deborderisation: ethics, politics, and spirituality and alternative planetary futures 29Ananta Kumar Giri4 The COVID-19 moment: exacerbation of narrow nationalisms and their toxicity to integration aspirations 42Zenzo Moyo5 COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics of health, and security entanglement in West Africa 60Olukayode A. Faleye6 The conundrum of balancing between COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa: a responsibility to protect perspective (R2P) 75Patrick Dzimiri7 A Trojan horse: critically exploring data as a colonial instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 90Kyle John Bester and Danille Elize Arendse8 Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic 109Robert Maseko9 “On est pas de cobayes”: Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment 127Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi10 “#Corona Jihad”: remanufacturing Islamophobic narratives during COVID-19 in contemporary India 141Sayan DeyIndex 160
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Taylor & Francis The Politics of Combating Human Trafficking in
Book SynopsisThis book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking. The objective is not just to recognize the nature and impact of human trafficking but to understand the approaches used or recommended to solve the problem and the motivations behind such strategies.The issue of human trafficking has become particularly important given the charged environment regarding border politics. The book details the various policy options that have been proposed, supported, opposed, or passed by US politicians over the past five to ten years. This includes decisions made by presidents, legislators (national and state), agencies, and interest groups. Court decisions on human trafficking policies and media coverage of events are also explored.This political analysis is designe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comics Activism Feminisms
Book SynopsisComics, Activism, Feminisms explores from both historical and contemporary perspectives how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined, and how comic art itself can be a form of activism.Feminist comic art emerged with the second-wave feminist movements. Today, there are comics connected to social activist movements working for change in a variety of areas. Comics artists often respond quickly to political events, making comics on topical issues that take a critical or satirical stance and highlighting the need for change. Comic art can point to problems, present alternatives, and give hope.Comics artists from all parts of the world engage issues pertaining to feminisms and LGBTQIA+ issues, war and political conflict, climate crisis, the global migrant and refugee situation, and other societal problems. The chapters of this anthology illuminate the aesthetic and thematic aspects of comics, activism, and feminisms globally. Particular attention is given t
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Birthing Justice
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers six new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during COVID; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices; the recent buildup of a US national movement; childbirth in Zanzibar; and expanding the global movement for sexual and reproductive well-being. Other chapters are updated throughout. Birthing Justice puts Black womenâs voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternal care system. It foregrounds Black womenâs agency in the birth justice movement. First published in 2016, Birthing Justice is a seminal text for those interested in maternal healthcare, reproductive justice, health equity, and intersectional racial justice, especially in courses on gender studies, Black studies, public health, and training programs for midwives and OB/GYNs. Additional resources and a reading group guide are available at www.blackwomenbirthingjustice.com.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Coercion and Malign Neglect: Black Women and the Struggle for Birth Justice by Julia Chinyere Oparah with Black Women Birthing Justice Section I: Birthing Histories Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny Midwife," 1931-1956 by Darline Turner Regulating Childbirth: Physicians and Granny Midwives in South Carolina by Alicia D. Bonaparte Speak Their Names: The Power of Sankofa to Reclaim Black Midwifery by Michelle Drew Section II: Beyond Medical versus Natural: Redefining Birth Injustice An Abolitionist Mama Speaks: On Natural Birth and Miscarriage by Viviane Saleh-Hanna Mothering: A Post-C-Section Journey by Jacinda Townsend Confessions of a Black Pregnant Dad by Syrus Marcus Ware Reclaiming Breastfeeding and Protecting Black Infant Health by Kimberly Allers Seale Birth Justice and Population Control by Loretta J. Ross Beyond Silence and Stigma: Pregnancy and HIV for Black Women in Canada by Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy What I Carry: A Story of Love and Loss by Iris Jacob Sheltering in Community: Re-imagining Black birth during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jennifer A. James, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alexus Roane Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt Section III: Changing Lives, One Birth at a Time This is How we Fight: Black Mamas and Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic by TaNefer L. Camara Birthing Sexual Freedom and Healing: A Survivor Mother's Birth Story by Biany Pérez Birth as Battle Cry: A Doula's Journey from Home to Hospital by Gina Mariela Rodríguez Sister Midwife: Nurturing and Reflecting Black Womanhood in an Urban Hospital by Stephanie Etienne WAJAMAMA: Transforming Childbirth in Zanzibar through Holistic Midwifery Care by Nafisa Jiddawi A Love Letter to My Daughter: Love as a Political Act by Haile Eshe Cole New Visions in Birth, Intimacy, Kinship, and Sisterly Partnerships by Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus I Am My Hermana's Keeper: Reclaiming Afro-Indigenous Ancestral Wisdom as a Doula by Griselda Rodriguez The First Cut Is the Deepest: A Mother-Daughter Conversation about Birth, Justice, Healing, and Love by Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs Section IV: Taking Back Our Power: Organizing for Birth Justice Unexpected Allies: Obstetrician Activism, VBACs, and the Birth Justice Movement by Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah Becoming an Outsider-Within: Jennie Joseph's Activism in Florida Midwifery by Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph Embodied Abolitionism: Prisons, Pregnancy, and the Struggle for Birth Justice by Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah Lifting Up Black Doulas: Black Women Organizing to Reimagine Birthwork by Linda Jones, Monica R. McLemore and Sayida Peprah-Wilson Black Mamas Matter: How Black Women Built a National Movement for Black Maternal Health, Rights and Justice by Elizabeth Dawes Gay Expanding a Transnational Movement for Sexual and Reproductive Wellbeing by Joia Crear-Perry, Kelly Davis, Ana Barreto, and Aja Clark
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class War or Race War
Book SynopsisClass War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism, but tries to re-, and deconstruct, the origins of this myth.With intensive use of historical documents, memoirs and the related historiography, the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute. Kende goes beyond the contemporary perceptions of the Jewish question and antisemitism, and with close reading of original documents, reconstructs the real frontlines of the Soviet society of the 1940s, which were not constructed along identity-political lines. The book reinvests the long-forgotten understanding of social classes in an allegedly classless and monolithic society. The spontaneous formations of the actual frontlines in the hinterland, or on the actual fronts (battlefields, in the Red Army) lacked the participants'Table of ContentsContentIntroduction: Anti-Semitism as a window to the possible history Chapter 1. Perceptions of a pogrom Chapter 2. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII Chapter 3. Jewish Communism versus Bolshevik anti-Semitism or the Quest for the Right Adjective Chapter 4. Post-war anti-Jewish violence in the collective memory of Soviet Jewry Chapter 5. Evacuation and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during WWII Chapter 6. Other inner frontlines: Housing, hunger, and food supply in Jewish memoirs Chapter 7. The rising Jewish self-esteem Chapter 8. The Selected but not elected The Jewish Antifascist Committee and the rise of Soviet-Jewish national pride. Chapter 9. Contemporary echoes of the Holocaust Chapter 10. Anti-Semitism or inner frontlines on the front – The Red Army's soldiers on the Jewish question Chapter 11. Jews remembering Jews on the other side of the front-line in the post-war periodChapter 12. The spontaneous "Us" and "Them" in a pogrom in Uzbekistan through the eyes of a Soviet Jewish child Conclusion: Class and/or race Sources Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Organisations
Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. It provides up-to-date analysis of the challenges and constraints facing CSOs involved in diplomatic missions and working with foreign donors.Bringing together case studies from Cameroon, Egypt, Poland, Palestine, Lebanon and Libya, this edited collection reflects on how external calls for proposals in the fields of womenâs empowerment, community development, education, training, exchange programmes, democracy, human rights and peacebuilding influence the way civil society organisations contribute, deliver, intervene and position themselves in various societies. It explores the lessons learnt by various CSOs in identifying societal problems, understanding grassroots demands, prioritising development agendas and campaigning for peacebuilding. Grounded in a firm theoretical framework and based on up-to-date empiricTable of Contents1. Introducing Public Diplomacy in Civil Society Organisations 2. Exploring New Concepts and Practices of Civil Society Organisations’ Public Diplomacy 3. Historical review of public diplomacy: Milestones for civic engagement and business 4. Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Penetration: The New ‘scramble for Africa’ 5. Being at the forefront: Polish CSOs’ contribution to public diplomacy and development cooperation efforts 6. Barriers to CSOs’ public diplomacy: Failure of Multilateral Intervention, Conflict, Violence and Militarism 7. Civil society organisations’ public diplomacy and youth political participation in Egypt 8. Challenges to civil society Organisations’ public diplomacy: Militarism, restrictions and violence in Libya and Lebanon 9. Concluding Thoughts: New Directions for Civil Society Organisations’ Public Diplomacy
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Taylor & Francis Interpreting Residential Life
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989 Interpreting Residential Life raises questions like â a) what makes residential establishments tick, b) what is going on beneath the surface of the daily routine, c) why is change so difficult to create and even more difficult to sustain, and d) how can residential social workers evaluate their work? James Atherton provides a set of tools to enable residential workers to answer these questions in their own establishments. Simply and directly, he provides a framework which shows how policy and practice relate to each other and reinforce or hinder each other, in crises as well as in routines. He examines the whole residential establishment as a social system, concentrating on daily life within it, and demonstrating how values are implicit in all aspects of practice. He draws on the experiences of residential staff at all levels to uncover the working myths and offers ways of understanding how establishments function and indicates the pathways to change. This is an essential read for students of social work and sociology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educational Philosophy and PostApocalyptical
Book SynopsisThis collection concerns educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival. This 14th volume in the Editor''s Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of education as it relates to the concepts of civilizational collapse, discourses of decline, educating for survival amid climate emergency, cultural apocalypse and the pandemic. It is based on a series of editorials and articles published in the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal through its 55-year history. The articles, written by Editor Michael Peters and colleagues, explore the concept of global apocalypse from the educational philosophy lens. It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy of education and anyone who is working in the field of post-apocalyptic studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global Apocalypse: Educational Philosophy and Post-apocalyptical Survival 1. Western civilization 101 2. Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophy 3. ‘Declinism’ and discourses of decline - the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American power 4. Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear war 5. The threat of nuclear war: Peace studies in an apocalyptic age 6. Life and death in the Anthropocene: Educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapse 7. Education for ecological democracy 8. Citizen science and post-normal science in a posttruth era: Democratising knowledge; socialising responsibility 9. Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘the End of the World’ 10. The coming pandemic era 11. The Armageddon Club: education for the future of humanity 12. Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survival 13. Postscript: Zombie Education and Culture in the Global Apocalypse: Pedagogies of the Walking Dead
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Taylor & Francis Museums and Mass Violence
Book SynopsisMuseums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address â or fail to address â the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time, it directs attention to the perils these institutions face when they curate and exhibit âœdifficultâ knowledge concerning genocide, mass killing, and other kinds of atrocity crimes. The question of how museums shape historical understanding of political oppression, particularly within the political, social, and economic contexts in which they operate, is another major issue addressed by this volume. Asking for whom, exactly, âœdifficult historiesâ are difficult, contributors to this volume also ask the hard question of what museum professionals should do when the âœterrible
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Taylor & Francis Firearms Control
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1972 Firearms Control is the result of research carried out at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, looks at the various problems involved in firearms control. Chief Inspector Greenwood, a serving police officer, makes use, in his investigation of the problem, of fascinating material not previously published or largely forgotten. He reveals massive and dangerous shortcomings in the official statistics, and his detailed and original findings show how badly the problem has been misunderstood. He examines closely current legislation and current policies, showing the effort they involve and the product of that effort. The findings of Firearms Control call into question many of the attitudes and theories which have hitherto been unquestioningly accepted. Colin Greenwood here recommends radical changes both in legislative and administrative attitudes to firearms control, with a view to reducing the burden on the police there by permitting them to devote their time to methods which are likely to be productive. The book will command attention of legislators and police, sociologists, statisticians, lawyers, and laymen.
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Taylor & Francis The American Ideology
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1977 The American Ideology presents an analysis of the ways in which Americans and the most advanced capitalist countries think about science, technology, and organization. In particular, the author describes it as an anti-sociological essay set within the broader area between sociology and philosophy as functionally legitimate disciplines within the academic division of labour.The âAmerican ideologyâ seems to revolve around the concepts of rationality and domination; the tension between these concepts is central to the work of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and the Frankfurt School. The author argues in particular that the social sciences are unavoidably a part of the problem expressed through this tension and not a neutral means of observing and resolving it from a distance. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of sociology, political science, and political philosophy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense
Book SynopsisIn Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense, contributors engage with epistemological and philosophical questions concerning the conduct of qualitative inquiry in the present moment, and especially as it relates to various understandings of writing in/as inquiry.Topics addressed include methodological processes, questions of narrative uprootedness, relational inquiry, Indigenous ethico-onto-epistemologies, storytelling, and transformative writing forms and practices. This is a messy, often unruly collection (in the best way possible) of disparate ideas strung tightly together by literal and metaphorical questions of the research act of writing. Contributors from the United States, Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland imaginatively conceive of new qualitative futuresand how we might write ourselves there.This evocative new book is a must-read for faculty and students alike who are interested in and engaged with questions and ideas oriented toward und
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transformations in Social Science Research
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how researchers made innovative use of online technologies to innovate, define, and transform research methodologies in light of the varying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those related to the ability to conduct qualitative research.The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a radical shift in the way that people all over the world were/have been able to live, work, study, and conduct their daily lives. Academics and other professionals who routinely engage in research were no exception. The sudden, continued, and uneven need for health mandates calling for physical distancing added a particular layer of complexity for those who used research methods that typically required face-to-face interactions. Continued technological developments associated with the Internet had already given rise to ongoing debates on innovative methodological thinking and practices. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accentuated how indispensable the internet has
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Taylor & Francis Narratives of Qualitative Research
Book SynopsisNarratives of Qualitative Research uses a novel form of writing about how to do qualitative research called a praxis narrative. Each narrative is told from the authorâs perspective in carrying out one of his past research studies in the social sciences.Told chronologically and in a first-person voice, the narratives position the reader alongside the narrator so as to vicariously experience how research happens in its situated particulars. Rather than a set of idealizations and universalized pronouncements, the author reveals what really goes on when one is in the thick of complex and challenging research studies, the points of trouble along with the successes. This will be relevant to researchers who have already undertaken one or more empirical research studies (though not necessarily using qualitative approaches) and now find themselves facing something new: a new analytic method, a new theoretical lens, a new form of data collection, a new domain of research questio
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Viral World
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world. Following multiple case studies across dozens of countries throughout the course of the pandemic, this book is a timely contribution to cultural knowledge about the pandemic and the viral politics at the heart of it. Mapping the various forms of global consciousness and connectivity engendered by the crisis, the book offers the framework of viral worlding, defined as viral forms of relationality, becoming, and communication. It demonstrates how worlding or world-making processes accelerated with the novel coronavirus. New emergent forms of being global went viral to address conditions of inequality as well as forge possibilities for societal transformation. Considering the tumult wrought by the pandemic, Bui analyzes progressive movements for democracy, abolition, feminism, environmentalism,
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Taylor & Francis Youth Street Gangs
Book SynopsisGangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades. In comparison to the pioneering Chicago School's work on gangs in the 1920s we have moved away from a humanistic appraisal of and sensitivity toward the phenomenon and have allowed the gang to become a highly plastic folk devil outside of history. This pathologization of the gang has particularly negative consequences for democracy in an age of punishment, cruelty and coercive social control.This is the central thesis of David Brothertonâs celebrated book on street gangs. Drawing on a wealth of highly acclaimed original research, Brotherton explores the socially layered practices of street gangs, including community movements, cultural projects and sites of social resistance. The book also critically reviews gang theory and the geographical trajectories of streets gangs from New York and Puerto Rico to Europe, the Caribbean and South America, as well as state-sponsored reactions and the enabling role of orthodo
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Taylor & Francis The Westminster Lobby Correspondents
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Taylor & Francis Medicine Takers Prescribers and Hoarders
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Taylor & Francis General Practice Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dominican American Politics
Book SynopsisIn this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco examines the politics of empowerment of Dominican Americans in the United States. Covering the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Jiménez Polanco provides a new analytical perspective to understand the political development of a growing ethnic community that has been historically neglected in the studies of Latino/a/x political development and whose peculiar characteristics represent a paradigmatic case that debunks pervading theories about immigrant communities' participation and representation in U.S. electoral politics. Rich archival research and interviews with key Dominican American leaders and activists shed light on how some patterns followed by Dominican Americans in their political empowerment correspond to those of other Latino/a/x communities, while other patterns distinctly diverge from that common trend. Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians serves as a perfect compan
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Taylor & Francis Proximity as Method
Book SynopsisThis book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences â and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.The volume:- Brings together diverse theoretical approaches and utilizes a range of methodological instruments â conceptual, textual-analytic (whether in the realm of literary or religious studies, or theology or law), archival, digital, sociological or politological;- Includes empirical case-studies that allow calibrated and scaled exemplifications;- Launches forays onto unexplored conceptual terrain, or call into question hallowed truths of scholarly procedure.The volume will be essential reading for students and early researchers in the social sciences and the humanities.
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Taylor & Francis Improving Childrens Critical and Creative
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the most common questions raised by parents regarding the impact of media on children. It offers insights on suitable media choices for children, fostering healthy media usage, determining appropriate age for media consumption, and navigating related technologies. Additionally, practical suggestions are provided on integrating media literacy into everyday situations with children.This book explores theories surrounding the effects of media violence, the importance of teaching online ethics, children's fear toward film characters, shielding children from distressing news, promoting advertisement literacy, exploring media's role in sexual education, and cultivating critical thinking skills to discern media clichÃs. These topics are thoroughly explored and discussed within the book. By engaging with this book, parents will acquire a practical level of media literacy that empowers them to support their children's growth in critical and creative thinking. It eq
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Taylor & Francis Critical Race Counterstories along the
Book SynopsisChicanas/os are part of the youngest, largest, and fastest growing racial/ethnic 'minority' population in the United States, yet at every schooling level, they suffer the lowest educational outcomes of any racial/ethnic group. Using a 'counterstorytelling' methodology, Tara Yosso debunks racialized myths that blame the victims for these unequal educational outcomes and redirects our focus toward historical patterns of institutional neglect. She artfully interweaves empirical data and theoretical arguments with engaging narratives that expose and analyse racism as it functions to limit access and opportunity for Chicana/o students. By humanising the need to transform our educational system, Yosso offers an accessible tool for teaching and learning about the problems and possibilities present along the Chicano/a educational pipeline.
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Taylor & Francis Sociolegal Challenges for the Social Justice
Book SynopsisAs legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book engages in comparative sociolegal analysis to examine the contours of social justice in both countries. It explores the role of law as an instrument for social change in the face of persistent conditions of injustice, discrimination, social exclusion, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities. The book addresses newly emerging socio-legal challenges for the social justice continuum in a neoliberal era. Focusing on four key themes, it explores: the challenges for labour law and social security including informalisation, climate change, and migrancy; law, technology, and social justice, with a focus on the role that emerging technologies often play to ameliorate or exacerbate social exclusion; sexual orientation, gender, and substantive equality, grappling with the disjuncture between law and lived realities; and
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Taylor & Francis The Armed Conflict Survey 2024
Book SynopsisThe Armed Conflict Survey 2024 provides an exhaustive review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of active armed conflicts globally in the period from 1 July 2023â30 June 2024. The review is complemented by a strategic analysis of regional and global drivers and conflict outlooks, providing unique insights into the geopolitical and geo-economic threads linking conflicts regionally and globally, as well as into emerging flashpoints and political risks to monitor. This editionâs regional-focused approach also includes Regional Spotlight chapters on selected key conflict trends of regional and global importance. Reflecting the growing significance of geopolitical factors in shaping current conflict trends across the world, The Armed Conflict Survey 2024 features the fourth edition of the IISS Armed Conflict Global Relevance Indicator, which compares the global relevance of armed conflicts in terms of their geopolitical impact, as well as their human impact and intensity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evolution and Social Psychology
Book SynopsisWhy do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by an evolutionary approach to social psychology issues profound insights into self-concept, impression formation, prejudice, group dynamics, helping, aggression, social influence, culture, and every other topic that is fundamental to social psychology. Evolution and Social Psychology is the first book to review and discuss this broad range of social psychological phenomena from an evolutionary perspective. It does so with a critical and constructive eye. Readers will emerge with a clear sense of the intellectual challenges, as well as the scientific benefits, of an evolutionarily-informed social psychology. The world-renowned contributors identify new questions, new theories, and new hypothesesmany of which are onlyTrade Review'Social psychology has always lacked an explanatory theory - a reason for why people do all the strange things they do. Many of the answers to this question will come from an understanding of how social relations and social emotions evolved. This volume is a superb sample of work on this exciting new frontier. It represents a turning point in social psychology, realizing the hope that this fascinating topic can become an explanatory science.' - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of 'How the Mind Works' and 'The Blank Slate''More than simply another edited collection, this is an essential volume that challenges every area of social psychology - where did a social process come from, what function does it serve, and how is it connected to other adaptive strategies? This body of work will rapidly become the touchstone against which all contributions in evolutionary social psychology will be judged.' - Christian Crandall, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kansas'The rich essays in this book beautifully demonstrate the increased conceptual power and depth of insight that can be achieved by the skillful and nuanced incorporation of an evolutionary perspective on social psychology. This foundational volume is destined to become one of the major contributions to a scientific revolution that will substantially change our understanding of human social behavior. As such, it is simply a 'must read'.' - Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University "Evolution and Social Psychology is an excellent overview of the current state of evolutionary theory in social psychology...the value to its intended audience as an overview of evolution in relation to social psychology makes it a valuable sourcebook for those interested in future directions of research and theory construction in the field."-PsycCRITIQUES'Social psychology has always lacked an explanatory theory - a reason for why people do all the strange things they do. Many of the answers to this question will come from an understanding of how social relations and social emotions evolved. This volume is a superb sample of work on this exciting new frontier. It represents a turning point in social psychology, realizing the hope that this fascinating topic can become an explanatory science.' - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of 'How the Mind Works' and 'The Blank Slate''More than simply another edited collection, this is an essential volume that challenges every area of social psychology - where did a social process come from, what function does it serve, and how is it connected to other adaptive strategies? This body of work will rapidly become the touchstone against which all contributions in evolutionary social psychology will be judged.' - Christian Crandall, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kansas'The rich essays in this book beautifully demonstrate the increased conceptual power and depth of insight that can be achieved by the skillful and nuanced incorporation of an evolutionary perspective on social psychology. This foundational volume is destined to become one of the major contributions to a scientific revolution that will substantially change our understanding of human social behavior. As such, it is simply a 'must read'.' - Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University Table of ContentsD.T. Kenrick, M. Schaller, J.A. Simpson, Evolution is the New Cognition. M.G. Haselton, D.C. Funder, The Evolution of Accuracy and Bias in Social Judgment. R. Kurzban, C.A. Aktipis, Modular Minds, Multiple Motives. C. Sedikides, J.J. Skowronski, R.I.M. Dunbar, When and Why Did the Human Self Evolve? L.A. Zebrowitz, J. Montepare, The Ecological Approach to Person Perception: Evolutionary Roots and Contemporary Offshoots. D. Keltner, J. Haidt, M.N. Shiota, Social Functionalism and the Evolution of Emotions. M.B. Brewer, L.R. Caporael, An Evolutionary Perspective on Social Identity: Revisiting Groups. S.L. Neuberg, C.A. Cottrell, Evolutionary Bases of Prejudices. G.J.O. Fletcher, J.A. Simpson, A. B. Boyes, Accuracy and Bias in Romantic Relationships: An Evolutionary and Social Psychological Analysis. S.E. Taylor, G.C. Gonzaga, Evolution, Relationships, and Health: The Social Shaping Hypothesis. M. Van Vugt, P.A.M. Van Lange, The Altruism Puzzle: Psychological Adaptations for Prosocial Behavior. D.M. Buss, J.D. Duntley, The Evolution of Aggression. J.M. Sundie, R.B. Cialdini, V. Griskevicius, D.T. Kenrick, Evolutionary Social Influence. T. Kameda, R. S. Tindal, Groups as Adaptive Devices: Human Docility and Group Aggregation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Context. A. Norenzayan, M. Schaller, S.J. Heine, Evolution and Culture.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sociology of Religion
Book SynopsisSociology of Religion is a collection that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the United States. This reader is an ideal standalone course text and can also serve as supplement to the text written by the same author team, Religion Matters (Routledge, 2010). Based on both classic and contemporary research in the sociology of religion, this new, third edition highlights a variety of research methods and theoretical approaches to studying the sociological elements of religion. It explores the ways in which religious values, beliefs and practices shape the world outside of church, synagogue, or mosque walls while simultaneously being shaped by the non-religious forces operating in that world.Table of ContentsSection I: Changing Contexts1 America’s Changing Religious Landscape: Overview PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life2 Changing American Congregations: Findings from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study Mark Chaves and Shawna L. Anderson3 All Creatures Great and Small: Megachurches in Context Mark Chaves4 “Nones” on the Rise: One-in-FiveAdults Have No Religious Affiliation PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life5 Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? David Voas and Mark Chaves6 The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World: Women are Generally More Religious Than Men, Particularly Among Christians Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project7 Gendering Secularization Theory Linda Woodhead8 Socioeconomic Inequality in theAmerican Religious System: An Update and Assessment Christian Smith and Robert Faris9 The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States: Nearly One-in-Four Latinos Are Former Catholics PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life10 The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India Prema Kurien11 Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life Peggy Levitt12 Religious Population Share and Religious Identity Salience: Is Jewish Identity More Important to Jews in Less Jewish Areas? Becka A. Alper and Daniel V. A. OlsonSection II: Evolving Content13 Spiritual but Not Religious? Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion Nancy T. Ammerman14 “I Was a Muslim, But Now I Am a Christian”: Preaching, Legitimation, and Identity Management in a Southern Evangelical Church Gerardo Marti15 Warrior Chicks: Youthful Aging in a Postfeminist Prosperity Discourse Kathleen E. Jenkins and Gerardo Marti16 The Embodied Goddess: Feminine Witchcraft and Female Divinity Wendy Griffin17 U.S. College Students’ Perception of Religion and Science: Conflict, Collaboration, or Independence? A Research Note Christopher P. Scheitle18 Sensing God: Bodily Manifestations and Their Interpretation in Pentecostal Rituals and Everyday Life Joel InbodySection III: Patterning Diversity19 At Ease with Our Own Kind: Worship Practices and Class Segregation in American Religion Timothy J. Nelson20 Poor Teenagers’ Religion Philip Schwadel21 Practical Divine Influence: Socioeconomic Status and Belief in the Prosperity Gospel Scott Schieman and Jong Hyun Jung22 Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers Bradley R. E. Wright, Christopher M. Donnelly, Michael Wallace, Stacy Missari, Annie Scola Wisnesky and Christine Zozula23 Race, Belonging, and Participation in Religious Congregations Brandon C. Martinez and Kevin D.Dougherty24 The Gender Pray Gap: Wage Laborand the Religiosity of High-Earning Women and Men Landon Schnabel25 Sexual Encounters and Manhood Acts: Evangelicals, Latter-Day Saints, and Religious Masculinities Kelsy Burke and Amy Moff Hudec26 Islam and Woman Where Tradition Meets Modernity: History and Interpretations of Islamic Women’s Status Jeri Altneu Sechzer27 Evangelical Ambivalence toward Gays and Lesbians Lydia Bean and Brandon C. Martinez28 “We Are God’s Children, Y’All”: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Lesbian- and Gay-Affirming Congregations Krista McQueeneySection IV: Seeing Consequences29 Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis Landon Schnabel30 Latino Congregations and Youth Educational Expectations Esmeralda Sanchez, Nicholas Vargas, Rebecca Burwell, Jessica Hamar Martinez, Milagros Pena and Edwin I Hernandez31 Rejecting Evolution: The Role of Religion, Education, and Social Networks Jonathan P. Hill32 Faith in the Age of Facebook: Exploring the Links Between Religion and Social Network Site Membership and Use Brian J. Miller, Peter Mundey and Jonathan P. Hill33 Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In Christian Smith34 Social Support and the Religious Dimensions of Close Ties Stephen M. Merino35 Bereavement and Religion Online: Stillbirth, Neonatal Loss, and Parental Religiosity Janel Kragt Bakker and Jenell Paris
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Taylor & Francis SubUrban Sexscapes
Book Synopsis(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary perspectivesâurban planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and, cultural and media studiesâand geographical contextsâAustralia, the UK, US and North Africa. In overall terms, (Sub)urban Sexscapes highlights the mainstreaming of commercial sex premisesâsex shops, brothels, strip clubs and queer spacesâand productsâsex toys, erotic literature and pornographyânow being commonplace in night time economy spaces, the high street, suburban shopping centres and the home. In addition, the aesthetics of commercial and alternative sexual practicesâBDSM and pornographyâpermeate Trade ReviewThis book is an impressive collection of studies of the geographical and regulatory dimensions of commercial sex. The breadth of the book is reflected in both the various kinds of sexual commerce examined and in its coverage of different nations. The tension between mainstreaming the sex industry and resistance to its growth, is a theme highlighted in several chapters and the book should be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars. Highly recommended. Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USAThis book opens up a series of windows on the sex industry. Readers can dip in and out or read as a whole. Either way(Sub)Urban Sexscapes successfully highlights the importance of spatiality in commercialising sex. It is a must read for anyone interested in issues of sex, sexuality and space.Robyn Longhurst, University of Waikato, New ZealandThis book is a valuable resource that prompts rethinking sex, work, sexuality, policies, bodies, place and space. Original and empirically rich, the collection advances theorising of commercial sex, adult entertainment, and subcultural sexual practices. Authors draw on contemporary themes and debates in geography, sociology, policy studies, planning, media studies, feminist and queer theories in order to engage with (sub)urban landscapes of sex work. Crucially, at the heart of the book is the critique of heteronormativity and an exposure of the regulation of bodies and places. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of agency and processes of regulation by which (im)moral geographies are constituted. Lynda Johnston, Professor in Geography, University of Waikato One of the most interesting developments in the recent study of sexuality has been an increasing focus on its spatial dimensions. Suburban Sexscapes ranges across the spaces and places of commercial sex, in private, public and virtual worlds and in mainstream and alternative spheres. This is a fascinating, thorough and comprehensive collection which will inspire and stimulate the future study of sexscapes.Feona Attwood, Middlesex University, UK(Sub)Urban Sexscapes... is a timely reminder of the value of a diverse range of international perspectives on a topic that has become increasingly contentious for policy-makers and communities... This collection is a very vigourous contribution to the field with chapters presenting both theoretical and empirically original work.Paul Ryan, Maynooth University, Ireland, Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Spatial and Regulatory Contours of the (Sub)Urban Sexscape Part I: Geographies of the Sex Industry 2. Cosmo-Sexual Sydney: Global city status, urban cosmopolitanism and the (sub)urban sexscape 3. Sex Shops in England’s Cities: From the backstreets to the high streets. 4. Conflict and Coexistence? Strip Clubs and Neighbors in ‘Pornland’, Oregon 5. Telecommunications Impacts on the Structure and Organisation of the Male Sex Industry 6. Housing Sex within the City: The placement of sex services beyond respectable domesticity? 7. The Landscape of BDSM Venues: A view from down under Part II: Regulation of the Sex Industry 8. Sexual Entertainment, Dread Risks and the Heterosexualization of Community Space 9. Sex and the Virtual Suburbs: The pornosphere and community standards. 10. Planning prostitution in colonial Morocco: Bousbir, Casablanca’s Quartier reserve 11. Regulating Adult Business to Make Spaces Safe for Heterosexual Families in Atlanta 12. Legal Landscapes of Erotic Cities: Comparing legal ‘prostitution’ in New South Wales and Nevada 13. From Perception to Reality: Negative secondary effects and effective regulation of sex businesses in the US Conclusions 14. Conclusion: Towards pragmatic regulation of the sex industry
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Taylor & Francis Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial
Book SynopsisOffering readings of a range of texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Emmanuel Levinas; 2. Face Value; 3. Facial Disfigurement and Its Repairs; 4. Elephant People; 5. Narratives on Facial Disfigurement; Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
Book SynopsisWhat happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made âcitizenship inclusionâ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this book untangles the current state of Western intellectual disability politics following the replacement of state institutionalisation by independent and supported living, individual rights, and self-determination. Taking its cue from Foucaultâs conception of âbiopoliticsâ, denoting the government of the individuals and the totality of the population, its overarching argument is that the ambiguous positioning of people with intellectual disabilities with respect to the ideals of citizenship results in a regime of government that simultaneously includes and excludes people of this group. On the one hand, its members are projected to become ideal-citizens via the cultivation of citizenship capacities. On the other, the right to live independently and by their own choices is curtailed as soon as they are seen as failing with respect to the ideals of reason and rationality. Therefore, coercion, restraints, and paternalism, which were all supposed to end with deinstitutionalisation, are still ingrained in services targeting the group. In equal parts a theoretical work, advancing debates of critical disability theory, social theory, and post-structural philosophy, as well as an empirical engagement with the history of intellectual disability politics and the ways in which present day politics target the group, this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of disability studies, disability politics, and political theory.Trade Review'Making no humanist friends, Altermark's outstanding book disseminates the very ideals of citizenship that are peddled in the name of social inclusion but are revealed to be of the most pernicious kinds of thought that render people with intellectual disabilities surplus to requirements. Read this. Read it now.' - Daniel Goodley, Director of Research, The Universtiy of SheffieldTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Post-Institutional; Chapter 2. Pathology; Part II: Citizenship; Chapter 3. Philosophy; Chapter 4. Discourse; Chapter 5. Control; Part III: Resistance; Chapter 6. Vulnerability; Chapter 7. Representation; Chapter 8. Ethics; Conclusions: Post-Institutional Critique; Appendix 1 References; Index
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Taylor & Francis Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts A Comparative
Book SynopsisAs violent conflicts become increasingly intra-state rather than inter-state, international migration has rendered them increasingly transnational, as protagonists from each side find themselves in new countries of residence. In spite of leaving their homeland, the grievances and grudges that existed between them are not forgotten and can be passed to the next generation. This book explores the extension of homeland conflicts into transnational space amongst diaspora groups, with particular attention to the interactions between second-generation migrants. Comparative in approach, Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts focuses on the tensions that exist between Kurdish and Turkish populations in Sweden and Germany, examining the effects of hostland policies and politics on the construction, shaping or elimination of homeland conflicts. Drawing on extensive interview material with members of diasporic communities, this book sheds fresh light on the influences exercised on conflict dynamics by state policies on migrant incorporation and multiculturalism, as well as structures of migrant organizations. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political science and international studies with interests in migration and diaspora, integration and transnational conflict.Trade Review’Bahar Baser has written an admirable book of great significance to the study of transnational politics and the diffusion of conflict dynamics. Her carefully researched study of Turkish and Kurdish communities in Sweden and Germany provides a rich context to investigate how conflicts are imported from civil wars in the homeland. Students of comparative politics and globalization should read this account to understand how transnational processes and actors increasingly shape political outcomes in both homelands and host countries.’ Terrence Lyons, George Mason University, USA ’Bahar Baser has produced a wonderful book, which successfully combines rigorous research with searing human stories from the Kurdish/Turkish case. In the burgeoning literature in migration studies, this book should be regarded as being an indispensable addition for anyone interested in the intersections between diasporas and conflict, including students, practitioners - and hopefully some policy makers too.’ Feargal Cochrane, University of Kent, UK ’Based on extensive interviews and field research, this book makes an important critical contribution to the study of diasporas and imported conflicts. Baser’s comparative approach brilliantly reveals how opportunity structures in the host country help shape the political mobilization of diaspora groups. It should be read by students of Swedish and German politics, Kurdish politics, ethnic conflicts, and diaspora studies alike!’ Paul T. Levin, Stockholm University, Sweden 'Baser sheds new light on diaspora politics by investigating how domestic conflicts are brought into new geographies as a result of migration and how these contentions endure over generations. Looking into the diffusion of what she describes as the low-scale civil war in Turkey, the author takes on the conversion of the Kurdish/Turkish problem into domestic controversies in Sweden and Germany, two host countries to Kurdish and Turkish migrants. The book standsTable of ContentsPart I Importation of Homeland Conflicts to the Diaspora; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to Diaspora Politics; Chapter 3 The Kurdish Question at Home and Abroad; Part II Setting the Scene; Chapter 4 Migrant Incorporation and Multiculturalism in Sweden and Germany; Chapter 5 The Turkish–Kurdish Question in Sweden and Germany; Part III Generational Continuation of Contentions Related to Homeland Conflicts; Chapter 6 Interactions between Turkish and Kurdish Second-Generation in Sweden; Chapter 7 The Impact of Swedish Policies and Politics on Turkish–Kurdish Diaspora Spaces; Chapter 8 A Replica of Turkey in Germany? Violent Conflict, Negative and Positive Peace; Chapter 9 The Impact of German Policies and Politics on Turkish–Kurdish Interactions; Chapter 10 Comparing Two Puzzles;
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Taylor & Francis The New Expatriates
Book SynopsisWhile scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temporarily to destinations beyond âthe Westâ. Such migrants are marginalised and depoliticised by debates on immigration policy, and thus there is an urgent need to develop nuanced understanding of these more privileged movements. In many ways, these are the modern-day equivalents of colonial settlers and expatriates, yet the continuities in their migration practices have rarely been considered.The New Expatriates advances our understanding of contemporary mobile professionals by engaging with postcolonial theories of race, culture and identity. The volume brings together authors and research from across a wide range of disciplines, seeking to evaluate the significance of the past in shaping contemporary expatriate mobilities and highlighting postcolonial continuities in relation to people, practices and imaginations. AcknowlTable of ContentsForeword Alan Lester 1. Examining ‘Expatriate’ Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals Anne-Meike Fechter and Katie Walsh 2. ‘New Shanghailanders’ or ‘New Shanghainese’: Western Expatriates’ Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai James Farrer 3. ‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster 4. Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong Pauline Leonard 5. Institutionalising the Colonial Imagination: Chinese Middlemen and the Transnational Corporate Office in Jakarta, Indonesia William H. Leggett 6. Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and Corporate Expatriate Wives Anne-Meike Fechter 7. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India Mari Korpela 8. From ‘Trucial State’ to ‘Postcolonial’ City? The Imaginative Geographies of British Expatriates in Dubai Anne Coles and Katie Walsh 9. ‘They Called Them Communists Then. . ./ What D’You Call ’Em Now?. . ./ Insurgents?’ Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychopolitics of Food
Book SynopsisThe Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary foodscape', examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and the body and argues that the contemporary preoccupation with food takes the form of rites of passage' that express and mark the transition from a specific stage of neoliberal development to another vis-à-vis a re-configuration of the alimentary and sexual regimes. Even though these rites of passage are taking place on the borders of cultural bi-polarities, their function, nevertheless, is precisely to define these borders as sites of a neoliberal transitional demand; that is, to produce a cultural bifurcation between eating orders' and eating dis-orders', by promoting and naturalising certain social logics while simultaneously rendering others as abject and anachronistTrade Review'In The Psychopolitics of Food, Mihalis Mentinis offers a thoughtful and original analysis of the contemporary foodscape in relation to neoliberalism. From an extension of the critical analysis of the "celebrity chef" to a consideration of the psychopolitical function of placentophagy, the book is well-grounded in food studies scholarship while extending this work in provocative ways. Its global perspective is particularly welcome as it uses Chile and Greece as informative case studies that interrogate the role of food in these countries’ neoliberal transformations. And the final chapter provides an insightful engagement with anorexia that shifts away from a psycho-pathological approach to one that reads it as a form of culinary resistance to neoliberalism. Overall, the book’s exploration of how culinary rites of passage contribute to neoliberal development is both theoretically rich yet accessible to all readers. It marks an important intervention in the trajectory of food studies scholarship.' – Peter Naccarato, Professor of English & World Literatures, Marymount Manhattan College, USA'The uniqueness and strength of this thought provoking book is its focus on a very ordinary function in everyday life: eating practices. By focusing on food consumption, Mentinis clearly depicts how neoliberal transformation of our societies does not only affect our lives abstractly somewhere in the "economy" but that it is inextricably intertwined in the restructuring of the very fabric of our daily life practices.' – Athanasios Marvakis, Professor in Clinical Social Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece‘A disturbing book that shows that our cooking culture boom is committed to the transformation of everyday forms of life into a cannibalistic/anorectic form of exploitation. A front-line exercise of grounded and cunning critique of ideology, opening truly new questions and insights for social theory and research, as well as for the lay understanding that the global path to our future is concretely passing through our own culinary/alimentary/sexual regimes.’ – Andrés Haye, Associate Professor and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ChileTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceDedicationTable of contentsIntroduction: Culinary Rites of Passage in the Neoliberal AgeChapter 1: From Unemployment to ‘Creative’ Adaptability: Romanticised Chefs and the Psychopolitics of Gastroporn Chapter 2: From the Semiotic to the Symbolic: Placentophagy and the Name-of- the-ChefChapter 3: From Colonialism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: A Mapuche Spice in the Chilean National CuisineChapter 4: From East to West: Economic Crisis and the Cooking of the New GreeksChapter 5: From Eating to Starving: Gastrosexual Men and Anorectic WomenConclusion: Towards a Theory of Anorectic Cannibalism ReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forgotten Agricultural Heritage
Book SynopsisContemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its disconnectedness from nature and culture. Yet there are many examples of traditional smaller scale systems that have survived the test of time and provide more sustainable solutions while still maintaining food security in an era of climate change. This book provides a unique compilation of this forgotten agricultural heritage and is based on objective scientific evaluation and evidence of the value of these systems for present and future generations.The authors refer to many of these systems as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and show how they are related to the concepts of heritage and the World Heritage Convention. They demonstrate how GIAHS based on family farms, traditional indigenous knowledge and agroecological principles can contribute to food and nutrition security and the maintenance of agro-Trade Review"This publication is unique both in its scope and coverage. It is a stock-take of the work carried out so far, in cooperation with several governments, donor institutions, FAO and other UN agencies, international organizations, non-governmental institutions, civil society organizations, academic and research institutions and many individuals. This informed source should serve as a new reference tool for all who share the common goal of contributing to solutions for sustainable agriculture and rural development." – from the foreword by José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy. "I must congratulate the authors for writing a book that does not mince words when conveying the urgency inherent in solving the world’s current crises and fully articulates how reclaiming our agricultural heritage – neglected or forgotten in many parts of the world but not beyond recovery – can usher in a new era of sustainable development." – from the foreword by M.S. Swaminathan, Founder, Chairman and Chief Mentor, UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India."This book contains a valuable and unique synthesis of traditional agricultural systems. It should be an important text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in agriculture, development and international politics." - A M Mannion in British Ecological Society Bulletin (December 2017).Table of ContentsForeword José Graziano da Silva Foreword M.S. Swaminathan 1. Past, Present and the Future of Agriculture 2. Agricultural Heritage and Sustainable Food Systems 3. A View to Protecting and Safeguarding our Heritage 4. Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Concept and the Initiative 5. Dynamic Conservation of GIAHS 6. Lessons Learned, Experiences and Impacts 7. GIAHS are Around Us: Sites and Systems of Interest 8. Final Reflection and Key Messages
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Youth Risk Routine
Book SynopsisYoung people's lives continue to be the topic of public scrutiny and recurring moral panics'. Smoking cannabis, speeding, and engaging in street-level fights are depicted as activities based on poor choices' or simple hedonism, putting young people's futures at risk. Based on comprehensive, qualitative research with young people in Denmark, this book illustrates how such individualised accounts miss out on the inherently social character of risk-taking activities.Youth, Risk, Routine introduces a new approach to risk-taking activities as being an integral and routinised part of young people's everyday life. By applying social theories of practice, this insightful volume presents a framework for understanding the routinised dimensions of young people's engagement in risk-taking and how this is embedded in, intertwined with, and held in place by other everyday practices. Indeed, through extensive empirical analyses of the rich material at hand, the authors explore how roTrade ReviewThis is an important, thoughtful, and original new research monograph about young people and risk. It deserves a wide audience amongst researchers, lecturers, and students; not only is it useful and accessible, it is ambitious and innovative. The authors have combined their own, separate research studies to provide a compelling, expansive, and coherent new approach to understanding young people’s risk-taking practices. Young people are often said to be at risk, or to pose risks to others. Risk is an influential concept in youth research, theory, and policy but it is also complicated, contested, and multi-faceted and used in quite different ways. Bengtsson and Ravn lead us away from individualised, positivistic, normative, choice-heavy, moral-panic infused understandings of risk to a theory that prioritises young people’s shared understandings and their routinized, embodied, socially-contextualised everyday practices. Practices of risk in respect of alcohol and drug use, speeding in motor vehicles, offending, youth culture, violence, partying, and so on are explored through detailed, qualitative vignettes and case studies from the authors’ own research. Bengtsson and Ravn quite rightly locate these insights into the everyday risk practices of young people within a wider analysis of changing patterns of youth transition to adulthood and, in turn, how these relate to changes in the welfare state, society, and economy. Rob MacDonald, Visiting Professor, Danish Centre for Youth Research, University of Aalborg; Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Monash UniversityThis is an excellent book that not only takes our understanding of ‘risk’ to new levels but also shows why it should remain central to how we analyses the lives of young people today. A must read for those working in the field of youth sociology’. Alan France, Professor, University of AucklandThis is an insightful book about risk-taking practices amongst young people in Denmark. Bengtsson and Ravn take a fresh look at theories of risk while also drawing on youth sociology to analyse their own empirical data on young people’s risk-taking practices. I will strongly recommend this book for both practitioners and researchers dealing with young people today.Katrine Fangen, Professor, University of OsloTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: why study youth and risk? Chapter 2. Setting the scene: growing up in DenmarkChapter 3. Looking back: ‘risk’ in the sociology of youth Chapter 4. Looking ahead: towards a new framework for analysing youth risk-taking as practiceChapter 5. Being young: risk-taking practices and youth culture Chapter 6. Coordinating practices: risk-taking and everyday lifeChapter 7. Embodying risk-taking: risk, embodiment, and gender Chapter 8. Contextualising risk: risk-taking, youth transitions, and processes of social marginalisationChapter 9. Conclusion: routines of risk in young lives Appendix: The two empirical studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Participatory Networks and the Environment
Book SynopsisSeeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today. More than ever, there is a need to carve new ways for citizens and different industries and institutions to unite to cooperate, communicate and collaborate to address growing global sustainability concerns.This book examines one such global collaboration called The BGreen Project (BGreen): a transnational participatory action research project that spans the United States and Bangladesh with the aim of addressing environmental issues via academiccommunity engagement. By analysing and unpacking the architecture of BGreen, Hasan teases out the key factors that are required for the continued momentum of environmentally focused, academiccommunity partnership projects in order to present a workable model that could be applied elsewhere. This model is based around a unique conceptual framework developed by tTrade Review"Can education through participatory research be transformative? This highly engaging and accessible book wrestles with the question by documenting how those traditionally researched (youth in the US and Bangladesh) became participatory researchers, built an international NGO to address global environmental concerns, and became leaders and activists along the way." -- Leda Cooks, Professor & Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA"Fadia Hasan tackles ‘big’ problems in a ‘big’ way. This multi-faceted and subtle démasqué of the architecture of participation in the case of the BGreen Project is a must read for both environmental activists and academics." – Jan Servaes, Professor Emeritus"Fadia Hasan provides an innovative comparative assessment of emerging transnational networks for social change involving youth organizations, academia, State, and the corporate sector… As the Global North and its surrogates in the South continue to advance an environmental and economic order that is not sustainable, Hasan’s task as an engaged researcher is to empower marginalized voices so that they are acknowledged in policy circles… [She] interrogate[s] the viability of paternalistic, market driven Bangladeshi and U.S. educational systems by confronting long established hierarchies of knowledge and exclusionary political practices. I expect this text will contribute to this line of scholarship, and do so with a great deal of insight." -- Henry Geddes, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USATable of ContentsForeword List of figures Chapter Introduction Theory and method Transnational political economic realities and its impacts on social transformation The networked architecture of the BGreen Experience Multi-media amplification of the BGreen Project Youth reflections, growth and sustenance of BGreen Participatory Network Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America
Book SynopsisConcerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries, as well as the United States and Canada. They explore the merits of competing theoretical accounts and give rare insights into the underlying mechanisms through which diversity affects social cohesion. The volume offers a nuanced picture of the topic by explicitly exploring the conditions under which ethnic diversity affects the glue' that holds societies together. With its interdisciplinary perspective and contributions by sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists, as well as economists, the book offers the most comprehensive analysis of the link between ethnic diversity aTrade Review"This book is an excellent resource providing practical everyday activities for the early years practitioner, in nurseries, pre-schools and schools, within a clear structure linked to the EYFS framework and guidance." – John Perry, Nasen Special magazineTable of Contents1. Ethnic Diversity in Diverse Societies: An introduction Part I: The Causal Nature of Diversity Effects 2. Diversity and Well-Being: Local effects and causal approaches 3. Moving to Diversity: Residential mobility, changes in ethnic diversity, and concerns about immigration 4. Declining Trust Amidst Diversity? A Natural Experiment in Lewiston, Maine Part II: The Moderating Role of Interethnic Contacts, Identities, and Policies 5. Diversity, Segregation, and Trust 6. The Consequences Of Ethnic Diversity: Advancing the debate 7. Ethnic Heterogeneity, Ethnic and National Identity, and Social Cohesion in England 8. Diversity, Trust, and Intergroup Attitudes: Underlying processes and mechanisms Part III: Ethnic Diversity in Schools 9. Thinking About Ethnic Diversity: Experimental evidence on the causal role of ethnic diversity in german neighborhoods and schools 10. Ethnic Diversity, Homophily, and Network Cohesion in European Classrooms 11. Diversity and Intergroup Contact in Schools
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