Sociology Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Inequality in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisRecent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women's career and family choices. While an important topic, these works? ?are critiqued for being particularly attentive to the concerns of middle-class, heterosexual, White women and ignoring or erasing the issues and experiences of the vast majority of women throughout the United States (and other countries). ?Women and Inequality in the 21st Century is an edited collection that addresses this dearth in the current literature. This book examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a nexus of power relations. It addresses the experiences of immigrant women of color, aging women, normative gender constraints faced by lesbian and gender non-conforming individuals assigned the female gender at birth, religious constrTrade ReviewWomen and Inequality in the 21st Century draws from the best traditions of feminist scholar-activism, while reorienting focus toward topics and groups that to-date have received less attention in the scholarship on gender inequality than is warranted, and indeed necessary. With chapters spanning a unique range of formats — from interviews with prominent gender scholars, to novel empirical studies and self-reflexive narratives — the text is at once accessible, theoretically nuanced, and highly engaging. Slatton and Brailey have generated an innovative volume from an incredible diversity of scholars addressing the many margins and complex positionalities that constitute contemporary womanhood today. Jennifer Mueller, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Intergroup Relations Program, Skidmore CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Inequality and the Complex Positionalities of 21st Century Women Part I. An Unrealized Democracy 1. Beauty and the Beast of Inequality: A Historical Synopsis of Women’s Images as Barriers in American Labor, Politics and Entertainment 2. Proper Defectum Sexus: Male Privilege over a Woman’s Body 3. Democracy, Power, and Work Part 2: Negotiating Inequitable Terrain 4. Unfiltered: Male Strangers’ Sexist Behavior Towards Women 5. I am American! Taiwanese Immigrant Women Battling Everyday Racism 6. Queer Faces, Unsafe Spaces: Everyday Discrimination Experiences of Lesbian and Gender Non-Conforming Women 7. But I'm the Lucky One: A Narrative 8. Actors of Discourse: Gender Performativity in Women’s Leadership 9. The Cultural Negotiations of Gender through Religion among Algerian Kabyle Part 3. Psychosocial Effects of Inequality 10. Hair Stress: Physical and Mental Health Correlates of African American Women’s Hair Care Practices 11. Gender, Arthritis and Feelings of Sexual Obligation in Older Women 12. I’m a Survivor’: Reconsidering Identity, Stigma, and Institutions for Domestic Violence Part 4. Key Debates in Women’s Inequality 13. Is there Liberation for the Single, Saved, and Sexually Repressed 14. Sex Work: Free and Equal? 15. Reclaiming Women’s Rights to Freedom of Religion: An Assessment of the Political and Legal Complexities Affecting the Domestication of CEDAW and the AU Women’s Protocol in Nigeria Part 5. Pushing Back: Resistance and Activism 16. I’m Going to Get What I Want: Black Women’s Sexual Agency as a Form of Resistance 17. Raise Your Banner High! Mounting a Take Back the Night Event: Civic Engagement and Feminist Practice on a University Campus 18. Insisting on Intersectionality in the Vagina Monologues
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religious and Sexual Identities
Book SynopsisPresenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith backgrounds, Religious and Sexual Identities provides an illuminating and nuanced analysis of young adults' perceptions and negotiations of their religious, sexual, youth and gender identities. It demonstrates how these young adults creatively construct meanings and social connections as they navigate demanding but exciting spaces in which their multiple identities intersect. Accessible quantitative analyses are combined with rich interview and video diary narratives in this theoretically-informed exploration of religious and sexual identities in contemporary society. A timely investigation revealing the multiplicity of contemporary identities, this book will appeal not only to sociologists and scholars of religion, but also to those working in the fields of youth studies, sexuality, gender and identity.Trade Review’Critically cutting-edge in its mixed-method and inter-disciplinary approach, this book transcends the boundaries of religion or sexuality, guiding us through (non)normative identities and practices, which also trouble heterosexuality and dominant Christianity. Insightful and rich, it interweaves concern with emotions, embodiment, agency and tradition, through young people’s everyday lives and the "ontological anchor" of their multi-faith engagements.’ Yvette Taylor, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, LSBU, UK ’Through the powerful voices of young adults, we are invited to understand what it means, and how it feels, to negotiate and navigate the exhilarations and exhaustions of converging and conflicting identities and communities, and overarching dominant social codes. A timely book for all of us working with young people in schools and health services, and living with young people in our increasingly pluralist societies.’ Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Deakin University, Australia Andrew Yip and Sarah-Jane Page have produced a thoughtful and information-packed volume that will likely change the minds of many about the relationship between religion, sexuality, and youth. ... This is a smart and readable book. Though it is clearly written for the specialist reader, and engages without much background discussion in an already ongoing conversation on the place of religion in the twenty-first century UK, the book is accessible enough to be approached by undergraduate students of any level. I can imagine engaging entry-level students in the findings of this book as a part of an introductory course on religion and/or sexuality; it would also be excellent for a course on the sociology of the life course. More advanced students, at either the undergraduate or the graduate level, will find much to engage them through the book’s conversation with current research in all three of its areas of interest and certainly scholars working on contempoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introductionducing Religion, Youth and Sexuality; Chapter 2 Faith Matters: Exploring Meanings and Connections of Religion; Chapter 3 Understanding Sexuality: Negotiating Relationship Values; Chapter 4 Embodying Sexuality: Managing Bodily Practices; Chapter 5 Stirring Passions: Managing Singleness, Relationships and Counter-normative Sexualities; Chapter 6 Positioning Oneself in the World: Negotiating Sexualised Cultures in Diverse Spaces and Contexts; Chapter 7 Conclusions: Understanding Young Adults’ Religious Faith and Sexuality;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Romani Voice in World Politics
Book SynopsisIlona KlÃmovÃ-Alexander brings Europe''s largest transnational and most marginalized ethnic minority, the Roma (Gypsies), into the discourse of international relations. The book describes and analyzes the attempts of the Romani activists to gain voice in world politics by interacting with the United Nations (UN) system and explores their capabilities and impact. This study has three objectives: it provides an introduction to global Romani activism in terms of its anatomy, history, political manifestos, goals and activities; it establishes the extent and essence of the Romani voice in world politics and its influence on the UN discourse on Roma; furthermore, it looks at how interacting with the UN system has affected the organizational structure of the global Romani activism and its discourse. Based largely on primary resources and fieldwork, this book will engage international relations scholars, political scientists and those concerned with social movements and ethnic and racial Trade Review'Whether the Roma will succeed in breaching the defences that have been built into the UN Charter to protect the sovereignty of the territorial state remains to be seen. But anyone who wishes to understand their efforts to establish a non territorial right of self determination - and its wider implications for international society - will need to begin by consulting Ilona KlÃmová-Alexander's meticulously researched account of their campaign. In the very best sense this is the first draft of a new history.' James Mayall, University of Cambridge, UK 'This is a very well argued and fastidiously researched book on a topic that is important and timely. KlÃmová-Alexander goes into great length to explore the intricacies of Romani Self-Determination and her findings have important lessons for not only the Romani people but also for indigenous peoples and other territorially dispersed minorities.' Ephraim Nimni, University of New South Wales, Australia 'This is a well researched book on Romani activism at the international level...issues raised by KlÃmová of representation of indigenous peoples at the global level are pertinent...' USI Journal 'This book will be of interest to scholars of indigenous activism, international organizations and the growing influence of NGOs, and those interested in different possibilities for collective representation in world politics.' Political Studies Review '...an excellent contribution [to the series]...It provides masses of welcome and well cross-referenced detail about Romani activists and activism that will benefit scholars, policy makers, activists and others interested in, or seeking th achieve the basis of legitimate and lasting recognition for these social groups, either theoretically or in practice.' Ethnic and Racial Studies 'Seldom do we find a book which is theoretically well grounded, opens a new gateway of information about a less-known community, defends its social, cultural and political aspirations andTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Setting The Scene: Introducing global Romani activism; Romani Issues at the UN. Interaction Between Romani Activists And The UN System: Using the formal access provided by the UN institutional structure; Interaction with the UN system using informal strategies; UN interventions and allies of Romani activists; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and the Law
Book SynopsisGender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students. Beginning with an overview of traditional notions of gender, the book establishes the key feminist and queer legal theories. It provides a basic structure and overview upon which students can build their understanding of some of the complex and controversial topics and debates around gender.Structured thematically, the book explores many fascinating and controversial legal issues, including issues of transgender rights; equal pay and equality in the workplace; societal changes and challenges within the regulation of personal relationships; the law surrounding consent and sexual offences; the role of gender norms in the criminal courts; legal regulation of prostitution and pornography; and the ways in which the law has responded to societal changes surrounding reproduction. With thinking points' and further reading' suggestions within each chapter, the authors encouragTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Legal theories; 3: Women’s Evolving Legal Status; 4: Beyond the gender binary?; 5: Employment; 6: Regulating Relationships; 7: Gender norms in the criminal courts; 8: Consent; 9: Sexual offences; 10: Reproductive Bodies; 11: Regulating pornography and prostitution;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Older Citizens and EndofLife Care
Book SynopsisOlder people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening, in which people build their identity as part of their family and community. But the social experience of illness, frailty, disability and reaching the end of life may de-citizen older people by devaluing the social identity that comes from continuing social engagement. We de-citizen older people by emphasizing dependence on services and their cost to public expenditure instead of valuing the interdependence of participation and mutual respect. This book argues that older people retain full citizenship for the whole of their lives, up to the moment of death; but what does this mean for health and social care?In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Payne argues that social work with older people must build re-citizening practice strategies to value both the common and the special aspects of the citiTrade Review'Challenging current practice models in social work and social care, Payne explores the concepts of citizenship, social work and participative interdependence and skillfully demonstrates how these could – and should – be applied to practice with older people at the end of life. This groundbreaking work is essential reading for practitioners and academics alike.' – Sue Taplin, University of Suffolk, UKTable of ContentsLists of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The ageing journey and the end of life2 Citizens to the end of their lives: rights and participation3 Social work and palliative care: contributions to end-of-life care4 Partnership practice strategies5 Advance care planning6 Preparing for later life: adulthood and the third age7 Direct social work with older citizens in the fourth age8 Ageing, end-of-life and bereavement care9 Conclusion: practice strategy for older people’s citizenshipBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and
Book SynopsisDespite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the how of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked. This exciting edited collection presents different methods and methodologies, which are used by education researchers to investigate critical issues of racial justice in education from a CRT perspective. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the chapters showcase how various researchers synthesize different methodsincluding qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, and historical and archival researchwith CRT to explore issues of equity and access in the field of education. Scholars discuss their current research approaches using CRT and present new models of conducting research within a CRT framework, offering a valuable contribution to ongoing methodological debates. Researchers across different levels of expertise will find the articulations of CRT and methods insightful and compelling.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Critical Race Theory, Racial Justice, And Education: Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies. Part II: Critical Race Archival and Historical Analysis 2. Understanding the Why of Whiteness: Negrophobia, Segregation and, the Legacy of White Resistance to Black Education in Mississippi 3. CRT in Education: Historical/Archival Analyses 4. Can You Hear (and See) Me Now?: Race-ing American Language Variationist/Change and Sociolinguistic Research Methodologies Part III. Critical Race Qualitative Methods 5. A Match Made in Heaven: Tribal Critical Race Theory and Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies 6. Taking it to the streets: Critical Race Theory, Participatory Research and Social Justice 7. The Commitment to Break Rules: Critical Race Theory, Jazz Methodology and the Struggle for Justice in Education 8. Critical Race Perspectives on Narrative Research in Education: Centering Intersectionality 9. Not One, but Many: A CRT Research Team Approach to Investigate Student Experiences in Racially Diverse Settings 10. Bridging Theories to Name and Claim a Critical Race Feminista Methodology Part IV: Critical Race Quantitative and Mixed Methodologies 11. Quants & Crits: Using Numbers for Social Justice (Or, How Not to be Lied to With Statistics) 12. Expanding Educational Pipelines: Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality as a Transactional Methodology 13. Critical Race Cartographies: Exploring Map-Making as Anti-Racist Praxis 14. Critical Race Mixed Methodology: Designing a Research Study Combining Critical Race Theory and Mixed Methods Research Part V: Future Directions in Critical Race Methods and Methodologies 15. "Where Do We Go From Here?A Future Agenda for Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Debating Social Problems
Book SynopsisDebating Social Problems emphasizes the process of debate as a means of addressing social problems and helps students engage in active learning. The debate format covers sensitive material in a way that encourages students to talk about this material openly in class. This succinct text includes activities that promote critical thinking and includes examples from current events. Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Understanding Social Problems; Chapter 2: Work and Economy; Chapter 3: Government and the Political System; Chapter 4: The Educational System; Chapter 5: The Family; Chapter 6: Sex and Gender; Chapter 7: Sexuality; Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity; Chapter 9: Deviance and Crime; Chapter 10: Alcohol and Other Drugs; Chapter 11: Health Care; Chapter 12: Terrorism and War; Chapter 13: Population; Chapter 14: The Environment and Urbanization; Chapter 15: Globalization; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this period. This collection marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves beyond undifferentiated binaries like 'negative' and 'positive' that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities. Essays that cover the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century explore the visuality of blackness in anti-slavery imagery, black women in Orientalist art, race and beauty in fin-de-siècle photography, the French brand of blackface minstrelsy, and a set of little-known images of an African model by Edvard Munch. In spite of the difficulty of resurrecting black lives in nineteenth-century Europe, one essay chronicles the rare instance of an American artist of color in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. With analyses of works rangin
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisReligion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: key issues of definition and of methodology religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture, including important non-Western spheres such as Bollywood This Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work.Trade Review"Overall, this is an impressive collection of essays that encapsulates many of the important points of interface between religion and popular culture. It will become an important marker in the development of the field and its introduction at this point is timely."Steve Knowles, University of Chester, UK"Lyden and Mazur offer a fascinating collection of essays from a wide range of contributors exploring religion and popular culture. This is a terrific resource for the classroom and scholars will be impressed with their contribution to the field."Gina Messina-Dysert, Claremont Graduate University, USA"Overall, this is an impressive collection of essays that encapsulates many of the important points of interface between religion and popular culture. It will become an important marker in the development of the field and its introduction at this point is timely."Steve Knowles, University of Chester, UK"Lyden and Mazur offer a fascinating collection of essays from a wide range of contributors exploring religion and popular culture. This is a terrific resource for the classroom and scholars will be impressed with their contribution to the field."Gina Messina-Dysert, Claremont Graduate University, USAThis excellent, thoroughly indexed volume provides a much-needed overview of religion and popular culture, a growing area of study that draws upon a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. (...) Scholars will appreciate the breadth of coverage this work offers, and students will enjoy the many contemporary references (e.g., Miley Cyrus, South Park) that illustrate the editors' themes. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels; general readers."S. Rokusek, Florida Gulf Coast University in CHOICETable of ContentsContributors INTRODUCTION John Lyden SECTION I: APPROACHING THE DISCIPLINE OF RELIGION & POPULAR CULTURE Chapter 1. Definitions: What is the Subject Matter of “Religion and Popular Culture� John Lyden Chapter 2. Conversations & Confessions: Who’s Writing About This, and Why? Eric Michael Mazur SECTION II: ENCOUNTERS WITH POPULAR CULTURE PART A: MEDIATED ENCOUNTERS Introduction to Section II, part A Chapter 3. Television Elijah Siegler Chapter 4. Journalism Jolyon Mitchell Chapter 5. Film John Lyden Chapter 6. Radio Tona Hangen Chapter 7. Music Mark Hulsether Chapter 8. Video- & Internet Games Rachel Wagner Chapter 9. Internet & Social Networking Heidi Campbell & Paul Emerson Teusner Chapter 10. Advertising Tricia Sheffield PART B: MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS Introduction to Section II, part B Chapter 11. Popular Literature Jennie Chapman Chapter 12. Comics / Graphic Novels Christine Hoff Kraemer & A. David Lewis Chapter 13. Food & Cooking Benjamin Zeller Chapter 14. Fashion Edward Dutton Chapter 15. Games & Dolls Nikki Bado & Rebecca Sachs Norris Chapter 16. Kitsch Leonard Norman Primiano PART C: LOCATIVE ENCOUNTERS Introduction to Section II, part C Chapter 17. Shopping & Consumption Sarah McFarland Taylor Chapter 18. Electronic Dance Music Events Graham St John Chapter 19. Sport Jeffrey Scholes Chapter 20. Monuments of Civil Religion Darryl Caterine SECTION III. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS Introduction to Section III Chapter 21. Buddhism James Shields Chapter 22. Roman Catholicism Rodger Payne Chapter 23. Hinduism Sheila J. Nayar Chapter 24. Islam William Lafi Youmans Chapter 25. Judaism Eric Michael Mazur Chapter 26. Mormonism Lee Trepanier, Lynita Newswander & Chad Newswander Chapter 27. Contemporary Paganism Jodie Vann Chapter 28. Protestantism Clive Marsh Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History
In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context. Topics covered include: The historical emergences of life history and narrative study Techniques for conducting life history and narrative study Identity and politics Generational history Social and
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisWhile a majority of people identify as heterosexual if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean? How did identifying as straight arise, particularly in relation to identifying as queer, lesbian, and gay? How are individuals socialized to view themselves and others as straight, even when many people are sexually fluid? How do institutions like government bodies, the educational system, and the family reinforce heterosexuality? This collection introduces the field of Critical Heterosexualities Studies and key lines of inquiry within the field. Like Masculinity Studies and Whiteness Studies, Heterosexualities Studies critically examines the dominant category and identity group in order to illuminate the taken-for-granted assumptions that surround heterosexual identities. This critical perspective questions the idea that heterosexuality is natural, normal, and biologically driven. A recurring question throughout this Handbook is: what does it mean to say thatTable of ContentsIntroduction - Thinking Straightness: An Introduction to Critical Heterosexualities Studies Part 1: Origins, Histories, Theories 1. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 2. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions 3. The Invention of Heterosexuality 4. Critique of Compulsory Heterosexuality Part 2: Heterosexualities Across the Life Course 5. Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children 6. "Your Father Wouldn’t Like It:" The Social Construction of Heterosexuality in Early Childhood 7. "Coming Out": Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and the Primary School 8. The Ambiguity of "Having Sex": The Subjective Experience of Virginity Loss in the United States 9. Hooking Up: Hot Hetero sex or the New Numb Normative? 10. "Speaking as a Heterosexual": (How) Does Sexuality Matter for Talk-in-Interaction? 11. A Heterosexual Life: Older Women and Agency within Marriage and the Family Part 3: Straight Identities and Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender 12. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality 13. Displaying Heterosexuality in An Inner City 14. Straight Women: Doing and Undoing Compulsory Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted American Culture 15. "Guys are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality 16. "Sprinkle Some Gay on my Straight": Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinities in a Post-Gay Era 17. Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals", Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality Part 4: Straight States 18. Introduction to "The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America" 19. Uganda’s Anti-homosexuality Bill: Reflections from a Transnational Frame 20. One is not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality 21. Promoting Marriage for America: The Intimate Relationship Between the State and Heterosexuality Part 5: Rethinking Sexual Fluidity, Straight Privilege, and Allyship 22. Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene 23. A Mixed-Method Study of Same-Sex Kissing among College-Attending Heterosexual Men 24. Bud-Sex: Constructing Normative Masculinity Among Rural Straight Men That Have Sex with Men 25. ‘Straight with a Pinch of Bi’: The Contours of Male Heteroflexibility 26. No Homo 27. "With Allies Like These…": Toward a Sociology of Straight Allies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Peatlands
Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.Peat is formed when vegetation partially decays in a waterlogged environment and occurs extensively throughout both temperate and tropical regions. Interest in peatlands is currently high due to the degradation of global peatlands which is disrupting hydrology and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. This book opens by explaining how peat is formed, its properties and worldwide distribution, and defines related terms such as mires, wetlands, bogs and marshes. There is discussion of the ecology and wildlife of peatlands as well as their ability to preserve pollen and organic remains as environmental archives. It also addresses the history, heritage and cultural exploitation of peat, extending back to pre-Roman times, and the degradatTrade Review"Ian Rotherham provides a welcome, yet novel, blend of the science and history of peatlands as he elegantly explains their importance from the past and into the future. As he says 'the human history of peatlands is central to understanding both their loss, and in some cases, their survival'" — Simon Caporn, Professor in Ecology & Environmental Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Table of Contents1. Introduction & overview: peat & peatlands 2. Global peat resources 3. Temperate peatlands - their ecology, wildlife, & functioning 4. Tropical & sub-tropical peatlands 5. Peatland ecosystem services 6. The hydrology & chemistry of peatlands 7. The people of the bogs & fens – history, heritage & peatlands 8. Peatlands & human conflicts 9. Some detailed case-studies of peat & conflict 10. Peat removal & peatland destruction – Part 1: the lowlands 11. Reclaiming the peatlands 12. Peat removal & destruction – Part 2: the British uplands 13. The peatland industries 14. Conservation & restoration 15. Fenscape & peat bog: a future nature
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Taylor & Francis Algorithmic Cultures
Book SynopsisThis book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithmsâ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and 2) the multifaceted analyses of algorithms across an increasing number of research fields. The authors in this volume address the complex interrelations between social groups and algorithms in the construction of meaning and social interaction. The contributors highlight the performative dimensions of algorithms by exposing the dynamic processes through which algorithms â themselves the product of a specific approach to the world â frame reality, while at the same time organizing how people think about society. With contributions from leading experts from Media Studies, Social Studies of Science and Technology, Cultural and Media Sociology from Canada, France, Germany, UK and the USA, thiTable of Contents1. What Are Algorithmic Cultures? (Jonathan Roberge / Robert Seyfert) 2. The Algorithmic Choreography of the Impressionable Subject (Lucas D. Introna3. #Trendingistrending: When Algorithms Become Culture (Tarleton Gillespie)4. Shaping Consumers’ Online Voices: Algorithmic Apparatus or Evaluation Culture? (Jean-Samuel Beuscart / Kevin Mellet)5. Deconstructing the Algorithm: Four Types of Digital Information Calculations, (Dominique Cardon)6. Baffled by an Algorithm: Mediation and the Auditory Relations of ‘Immersive Audio’ (Joe Klett)7. Algorhythmic Ecosystems: Neoliberal Couplings and Their Pathogenesis 1960–Present (Shintaro Miyazaki)8. Drones: The Mobilization of Algorithms, (Valentin Rauer)9. Social Bots as Algorithmic Pirates and Messengers of Techno-Environmental Agency, (Oliver Leistert)
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Taylor & Francis Europe Migration and Identity
Book SynopsisJan Logemann is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA, and project coordinator of Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States. His research focuses on transatlantic comparisons, the role of European immigrants in transatlantic exchanges, as well as on the development of mass consumer societies in the twentieth century.Donna Gabaccia is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is a leading migration historian and a noted specialist in womenâs immigration history. Her work has focused on Italian-American migration to the U.S., food and ethnicity, as well as on global and transnational migrations. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is a professor of history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research focuses on analyzing the ways in which science intersects with culture, recognizing that much social change in recent centTable of Contents1. Europe – Migration – Identity: Connections between migration experiences and Europeanness Jan Logemann 2. Lessons and cautionary tales from the past: Building bridges from migration history to Europeanness Leslie Page Moch 3. Where and when was Europe? Europeanness and its relationship to migration Kiran Klaus Patel 4. Italian Americans in the ‘Bocce Belt’: ‘Old World’ memories and ‘New World’ identities Laura A. Miller 5. Gender and identity in exile: A European émigré in social work Barbara Louis 6. Belonging, beyond the nation: The significance and meaning of European identity for Latin American-origin youth in Spain Jessica Sperling 7. Transnational highly skilled Finnish migrants in Europe: Choosing one’s identity Saara Koikkalainen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Legal Liabilities in Emergency Medical Services
Book SynopsisThis text is the first of its kind to address the various legal issues facing the emergency medical service. Readers will find a myriad of legal issues ranging from bloodborne pathogens to wage issues. Schneid offers not only insight into the applicable laws but also proactive approaches to avoid or minimize the risks of litigation. A must for every manager and administrator with emergency medical responsibilities.Table of ContentsPreface, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW, Chapter 2: PERSONNEL ISSUES IN EMERGENCY SERVICES, Chapter 3: DISABLED EMPLOYEES AND THE ADA, Chapter 4: FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT AND EMS, Chapter 5: WAGE AND HOUR ISSUES, Chapter 6: NEGLIGENCE ISSUES, Chapter 7: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, Chapter 8: EMPLOYMENT TORTS, Chapter 9: EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, Chapter 10: GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY COMPLIANCE, Chapter 11: WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH, Chapter 12: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND LIABILITY, ENDNOTES, INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Methods in HumanAnimal Studies
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise 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, this book emphasises methods which bring to light the animal side of multispecies encounters. Drawing from the interdisciplinary strength of human-animal studies, this book contains contributions from practitioners and scholars working in sociology, anthropology, ethology and geography. Each chapter uses a case-study approach to present a theoretical framework and empirical application of cutting-edge methods in human-animal studies, from creative writing in multispecies ethnographies to visual methods like videography and body mapping. Organized in three parts theorizing; collaborating; visualizing the book equips readers with methodological tools to conduct human-animal studies research atTable of ContentsChapter 1: Hidden in plain sight: how (and why) to attend to the animal in human-animal relationsPART I THEORISING Chapter 2: Decentring humans in research methods: visibilising other animal realitiesChapter 3: Understanding human-animal relations from the perspective of workChapter 4: Re-thinking animal and human personhood: towards co-created narratives of affective, embodied, emplaced becomings of human and nonhuman lifePART II: COLLABORATINGChapter 5: Two species ethnography: honey bees as a case study of an interdisciplinary "more-than-human" methodChapter 6: Trekking a predator’s journey: paths through the Greater Yellowstone EcosystemChapter 7: How to do multispecies-ethnographies when exploring human-(wild) animal interactions: affect, multisensory communication and materialityPART III: VISUALISINGChapter 8: Shared sensory signs: mine detection rats and their handlers in CambodiaChapter 9: Doing multispecies ethnography with mobile video: exploring human-animal contact zonesChapter 10: Getting visceral: body mapping the humanimalian
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China and England
Book SynopsisThis book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China's forgotten role in the history of social justice debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of visual and documentary evidence, the author shows that many prominent individuals in both England and China adopted comparable strategies as a logical response to excesses of privilege and arbitrary power, with educated but non-noble persons taking advantage of print culture, a more literate population, an expanded art market, public spaces and other familiar early modern' developments to interrogate the system of inherited privilege and promote a more meritocratic society. This shared experience created common ground for transformative exchange between the two great traditions during the eighteenth century. By providing a more global account of what we call Western values, the book shows that early modern China Trade Review"Powers has written an extraordinary meditation on the labyrinths of thought, both European and Chinese, that have brought us to our present place in history. The great strength of the book lies in demonstrating that the history of liberty is not a closed Western project, but an aspect of human experience that can be calmly and logically approached as much from China as from anywhere else." - Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Table of ContentsPrefaceGlossary1. Introduction2. Cultural Politics3. Political Authority4. The Polity5. The People: China6. The People: England7. Equality: China8. Equality: England9. Speech: China10. Speech: England11. Envisioning Speech12. A Common StruggleSelected BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Betrayal and Betrayers
Book SynopsisBetrayal has a deep fascination. It captures our imagination in part because we have all betrayed or been betrayed, in small or large ways. Despite this there has been little serious work on the subject. It was this absence that inspired this book.As Akerstrom notes, betrayal is something that most people have encountered at some point in their lives. She defines betrayal as a breach of trust, when information is shared beyond an agreed upon boundary of relations, whether that boundary is a pair of friends or a nation. Taking as a point of departure Simmers work on secrets and secrecy, Akerstrom discusses categories of.betrayal, and conditions that influence its intensity. Sometimes the betrayer is seen as a hero and at other times a traitor; and sometimes there are competing loyalties. In certain situations, she reminds us, it is difficult to avoid betrayal or the perception of betrayal. Akerstrom discusses strategies people employ to avoid betraying, ranging from not telling, to makiTable of Contents101: Introduction; 1: Betrayal and Betrayers; 2: Third Party Views; 3: Heroes or Traitors?; 4: Neutrality as Betrayal; 5: Avoidance of Betrayal; 6: A One-Context Analysis: Crime and Informers; 6a: Outcasts in Prison; 6b: The Social Construction of Snitches; 6c: Snitches on Snitching; 7: Cronstedt: A Concluding Illustration
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy The God That Failed
Book SynopsisThe core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events.A compelling chapter on time preference describes the progress of civilization as lowering time preferences as capital structure is built, and explains how the interaction between people can lower time all around, with interesting parallels to the Ricardian Law of Association. By focusing on this transformation, the author is able to interpret many historical phenomena, such as rising levels of crime, degeneration of standards of conduct and morality, and the growth of the mega-state. In underscoring the deficiencies of both monarchy and democracy, the author demonstrates how Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization 2. On Monarchy, Democracy, and the Idea of Natural Order 3. On Monarchy, Democracy, Public Opinion, and Delegitimation 4. On Democracy, Redistribution, and the Destruction of Property 5. On Centralization and Secession 6. On Socialism and Desocialization 7. On Free Immigration and Forced Integration 8. On Free Trade and Restricted Immigration 9. On Cooperation, Tribe, City, and State 10. On Conservatism and Libertarianism 11. On the Errors of Classical Liberalism and the Future of Liberty 12. On Government and the Private Production of Defense 13. On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospect for Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Weber
Book SynopsisA founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The Economic Ethics of the World Religions and his magnum opus, Economy and Society, with its treatment of the relations of economics, politics, law and religion, belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science.The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber''s widow Marianne, a well-known feminist writer, who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago, the importance of Marianne Weber''s 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet Table of Contents1llustrations, Author's Prefatory Note, 1ntroduction to the Transaction Edition, 1 Ancestors, 2 Parental Home and Youth, 3 Student Life and Military Service, 4 1nitial Success, 5 Domestic Life and Personal Development, 6 Marriage, 7 The Young Teacher and Politician, Fall1893 to 1897, 8 Breakdown, 9 The New Phase, 10 The New Phase of Weber's Production, 11 Expansion, 12 Activity in the World and Controversies, 13 The Good Life, 14 Travel Pictures, 15 The Mother, 16 Service, 17 The Prerevolutionary Politician, 18 1nterlude, 19 The Postrevolutionary Politician, 20 The Teacher and Thinker, 21 The Final Chapter, Genealogy of Marianne and Max Weber, Chronology of Max Weber's Life, 1ndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Survey Research in the United States
Book SynopsisHardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to infl uence mass democratic publics and markets. During the Depression and World War II, the federal government played a major role in developing surveys on a national scale. In the 1940s certain key individuals with academic connections and experience in polling, business, or government research brought surveys into academic life. By the 1960s, what was initially viewed with suspicion had achieved a measure of scientific acceptance of survey research.The aTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Introduction, Part One: The Ancestors: 1890-1940, Part Two: The Prewar and Wartime Generation: 1935-1945, Part Three: Migrations to the Universities: 1940-1960, A Summary and Evaluation, Notes, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Power Politics and Society
Book SynopsisPower, Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology discusses how sociologists have organized the study of politics into conceptual frameworks, and how each of these frameworks foster a sociological perspective on power and politics in society. This includes discussing how these frameworks can be applied to understanding current issues and other real life aspects of politics. This second edition incorporates new material on cultural divides in American politics, emerging roles for the state, the ongoing effects of the Great Recession and recovery, the 2016 election, social media, and the various policies introduced during the Trump administration and how they affect people's lives.Trade Review"Dobratz, Buzzell, and Waldner masterfully present the principal themes in political sociology in ways that compel students to see how their lives are shaped by power and politics and highlights how they can reshape power relations through social networks, organizations, and social institutions."--Robert Futrell, Professor and Chair, Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas"This book provides a comprehensive overview and very thorough treatment of the main ideas and arguments within political sociology. I especially like the authors' attention to culture, and their detailed presentation of the ways in which politics and the state frame and permeate so many elements of everyday life. Truly they will help you to see, as Antonio Gramsci noted, that all of social life is, in some way or other, political."--Paul McLean, Professor, Sociology, Rutgers University"Power, Politics and Society 2nd edition is a highly engaging introduction to the major theories, topics and debates within the field of political sociology. The clearly-written prose manages to combine significant breadth of coverage with accessible and intriguing examples to draw students in and demonstrate the continued value of using sociology to examine power, politics and their own lives."--Scott Fitzgerald, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Sociology, University of North Carolina, CharlotteTable of ContentsChapter 1 Power; Chapter 2 Role of the State; Chapter 3 Politics, Culture, and Social Processes; Chapter 4 The Politics of Everyday Life: Political Economy; Chapter 5 The Politics of Everyday Life: Social Institutions and Social Relations; Chapter 6 Political Participation; Chapter 7 Elections and Voting; Chapter 8 Social Movements; Chapter 9 Violence and Terrorism; Chapter 10 Globalization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Barbed Wire
Book SynopsisA call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to serve the public interest. A study of corporate globalization and the continuation of empire after the era of political decolonization, it begins with the fencing of the West starting in the 1870s, and moves to examine recent phenomena such as urbanization, mass incarceration, financialization, and the treatment of people as commodities in the context of the longue durée of land enclosures, empire, and capitalism. Highlighting the threatened elimination of the public domain as a result of corporate efforts to privatize public utilities, prisons, schools, forests, seeds, and just about everythTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, Introduction 1. Modern Fencing 2. Urban Spaces 3. Caging People: From Schools to Prisons 4. Thinking Inside the Box 5. Corporations as Greed Machines 6. Globalization and Empire 7. Manufacturing Disposable People 8. The Real Tragedy of the Commons 9. What is to be Done? Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Globalization of Foreign Aid
Book SynopsisWhy do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities? This book suggests that this homogenization of policy represents the effects of common processes of globalization manifest in the aid sector. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative analysis of policy adoption, the book argues that we need to examine macro-level globalizing influences at the same time as understanding the micro-level social processes at work within aid agencies, in order to adequately explain the so-called emerging global consensus' that constitutes the globalization of aid.The book explores how global influences on aid agencies in Canada, Sweden, and the United States are mediated through micro-level processes. Using a mixed-methods approach, the book combines cross-national statistical analysis at the global level with two comparative case studies which look at the adoptiTrade Review"This long-awaited book provides a compelling account of why foreign aid donors engage in herd behaviour and how the process plays out in specific cases. In it, Liam Swiss makes a very insightful and nuanced contribution to the literature on foreign aid and policy diffusion." — Stephen Brown, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada"Based on sustained personal and professional experience, Liam Swiss provides a meticulous analysis of the many forces that produce convergence in international development policy, norms and priorities. Swiss manages the rare combination of compelling detail, clarity, and theoretical innovation." — Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK"Combining mixed-methods research with his insights as a former international aid worker, Swiss offers a compelling explanation of how donors get stuck in inflexible approaches to development. This books gives us a glimpse into both the dark side of global consensus, and how to break free of it." — Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota, USA"This book is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of how aid works. Swiss deftly explores the challenges faced by the development industry today and blazes new trails into the global politics of bilateral assistance. I know of no other comparative study of aid agencies that takes a sociological approach as sophisticated as this." — Jeffrey T. Jackson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi, USA, and author of The Globalizers: Development Workers in ActionTable of ContentsPART I: Emerging Global Consensus? 1. The Globalization of Foreign Aid? 2. Global Influences and the Diffusion of Aid Priorities PART II: Donors Think Alike? 3. The Donors: Canada, Sweden, and the United States 4. Women and Gender: World Society and Bureaucrat Agency 5. Security Sector Reform: Catalytic Policy Processes and Donor Autonomy PART III: Globalization’s Influence on Aid Agencies 6. Processes of Globalization: Linking Micro and Macro 7. The Globalization of Aid: Conclusions on Consensus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Theory and Society
Book SynopsisThe progress of society can only happen through interpersonal cooperation, because only cooperation can bring about mutual benefit, thus bringing happiness to each person. This should be our collective rationality, but we often see it conflicts with individual interests, which leads to the so-called Prisoners' Dilemma and does not bring happiness to all. From a game theoretical perspective, this book addresses the issue of how people can cooperate better. It has two objectives. The first is to use common language to systematically introduce the basic methodologies and core conclusions of Game Theory, including the Nash equilibrium, multiple equilibriums, dynamic games, etc. Mathematics and theoretical models are used to the minimum necessary scope too, to make this book get access to ordinary readers with elementary mathematical training. The second objective is to utilize these methods and conclusions to analyze various Chinese social issues and institutional arrangements, wTable of ContentsList of figures. List of tables. Foreword to the Chinese Edition Chapter 1 Individual Rationality and Social Optimum Chapter 2 The Nash Equilibrium and the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game Chapter 3 Multiple Equilibriums, Institutions, and Cultures Chapter 4 Threats and Commitments Chapter 5 Bargaining and Patience Chapter 6 Repeated Games and Cooperative Behavior Chapter 7 Incomplete Information and Reputation Chapter 8 Adverse Selection, Brands, and Regulation Chapter 9 Signaling and Social Norms Chapter 10 Mechanism Design and Income Distribution Chapter 11 Moral Hazard and Corruption Chapter 12 Evolutionary Games and the Spontaneous Order Chapter 13 Laws and Social Norms Chapter 14 Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Rules of the Game References. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Inquiry Into The Principles And Policy Of The
Book SynopsisIn this this 1950 republished edition, Taylor discusses the political energy and change in America in 1814. Dedicating chapters to the funding, banking, whilst also giving historical insight to the founding of the government system in the America. Taylor furthermore draws light on the positive and negative implications of the United States Government in 1814. Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Aristocracy. 2.The Principles Of The Policy Of The United States, And Of The English Policy. 3. The Evil Moral Principles Of The Government Of The United States. 4. Funding. 5. Banking. 6. The Good Moral Principles Of The Government Of The United States. 7. Authority. 8. The Mode Of Infusing Aristocracy Into The Policy Of The United States. 9. The Legal Policy Of The United States.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Library Editions Welfare and the State
Book SynopsisThe volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of welfare in relation to the state through the areas of policy making, social administration, class division and social inequality, social policy and privatization, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, politics, economics, social work respectively.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Book Prizes
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the awards made to children's books in the English-speaking world. The Volume covers nearly forty different prizes including well-known and established ones such as the Newbury Award, prizes instigated by the commercial sector such as the Smarties Prize, as well as nationally sponsored awards and prizes for illustrators. Detailed lists are provided of the winning titles and, where appropriate, the runners-up in each year that the award has been given. Ruth Allen also presents some fascinating and often entertaining insights into the motivations behind awards and how they are views by authors, illustrators, publishers, librarians, booksellers and potential purchasers. The various criteria applied by judges of these awards are also examined, with an assessment of whether they have always achieved the right' result. This Volume is both a useful guide for adults wishing to buy good books for children and aTable of Contents1. About this book. 2. Books and children. 3. The Newbery Medal (USA). 4. The Carnegie Medial (UK). 5. The Caldescott Medal (USA). 6. The Kate Greenaway Medal (UK). 7. Choosing the best in the field – The Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards. 8. Not just pretty pictures – awards for illustrations. 9. Coming From Another Angle - Awards With Special Intentions. 10 Commercial breaks – awards sponsored by big business. 11. Around the World- English-Language children’s book awards in Australia, Canada, Eire/Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. 12. Did the Right Book Always Win? 13. What the Authors and Artists say. 14. What the critics and Librarians Say. 15. Some Conclusions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Aesthetics of SelfHarm
Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Self-Harm presents a new approach to understanding parasuicidal behaviour, based upon an examination of online communities that promote performances of self-harm in the pursuit of an idealised beauty. The book considers how online communities provide a significant level of support for self-harmers and focuses on relevant case studies to establish a new model for the comprehension of the online supportive community. To do so, Alderton explores discussions of self-harm and disordered eating on social networks. She examines aesthetic trends that contextualise harmful behavior and help people to perform feelings of sadness and vulnerability online. Alderton argues that the traditional understanding of self-violence through medical discourse is important, but that it misses vital elements of human group activity and the motivating forces of visual imagery. Covering psychiatry and psychology, rhetoric and sociology, this book provides essential reaTable of ContentsPreface 1. Self-Harm on Social Networks: Understanding Online Eating Disorder and Self-Harm Communities 2. The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: Visual Rhetoric as a Key to Understanding Online Activities 3. Sad Girls: The Internet and the Performance of Mood 4. Suggestions for Clinical Practitioners: New Tools for Managing Visually Oriented Self-Harmers 5. Healing Through Aesthetics: How Images Can Guide Behaviour and Health
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Consumption
Book SynopsisSustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood. Divided into three parts, the book begins by introducing the concept of sustainable consumption, outlining the environmental impacts of current consumption trends, and placing these impacts in social context. The central section looks at six contrasting explanations of sustainable consumption in the public domain, detailing the stories that are told about why people act in the way they do. This section also explores the theory and evidence around each of these stories, linking them to a range of disciplines and approaches in the social sciences. The final section takes a broader look at the solutions proposed by sustainable consumption scholars and practitioners, outlining the Trade Review"Sustainable consumption is a grand challenge of our time, and this long-awaited textbook positively fizzes with clarity and curiosity, guaranteed to spark engagement and inspiration. Middlemiss expertly relates major real-world problems and solutions to our everyday lives, grounding complex debates in an accessible, no-nonsense style. She helps us think critically about the stories we tell ourselves, about how we will live in the future, and the political action we need to take us there. Unashamedly infused with a passion for social justice, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sustainable consumption." -- Gill Seyfang, Reader in Sustainable Consumption, University of East Anglia, UK"This innovative textbook in the growing field of sustainable consumption studies tackles questions of power, social equity and environmental limits, whilst it also considers different representations of consumption in relation to everyday life. Middlemiss grapples with big questions in a highly accessible and inviting manner. I look forward to putting the book to immediate use in my classroom." -- Marlyne Sahakian, founding member of SCORAI Europe, and Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland"This book marks a milestone in the evolution of research and policy practice on the unsustainability of contemporary consumption in many parts of the world. Students and others will benefit enormously from Middlemiss’ careful work to digest and make meaningful a Himalayan-sized expanse of material on an extremely significant, but thus far largely underappreciated, topic. The volume embodies impressive ambition and will propel to new heights readers who take its insights to heart." - Maurie J. Cohen, Professor of Sustainability Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and co-founder of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative, USA"Middlemiss brings together the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines to frame an accessible picture of the academic landscape surrounding sustainable consumption – an evolving field. An excellent resource for anyone wishing to understand the role of consumption in the social, economic and environmental challenges of the modern world." -- Garrette E. Clark, Sustainable Lifestyles Programme Officer, UN Environment, France"This book provides a timely and highly needed textbook for classes on sustainable consumption across disciplines. Middlemiss does a wonderful job of highlighting the relevance of the topic, the enormous challenges involved, and, most importantly, the need to adopt systemic approaches if one seriously aims to solve the problems arising from our high-consumption lifestyles." – Doris Fuchs, Professor for International Relations and Sustainable Development, University of Münster, Germany"Middlemiss has given instructors and students an invaluable resource! Instructors will appreciate the use of concrete examples to make clear the complexity of sustainable consumption. Students will be grateful for the real-life illustrations that connect their own lives to large-scale sociological and cultural drivers of unsustainable resource use patterns." -- Emily Huddart Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Washington State University, USATable of ContentsList of figuresLit of ablesList of boxesForewordAcknowledgements Part 1: Introducing sustainable consumption Introduction Measuring sustainable consumption Sustainable consumption in social context Part 2: Explaining sustainable consumption 'People don’t understand' 'People are selfish' 'It’s all about values' 'The personal is political' 'We don’t have a choice' 'Consumption is meaningful!' Part 3: Visions of the future in sustainable consumption Production-consumption relations The solution is collective Sustainable consumption makes you happy! - co-authored with David Wingate Revolution or evolution? Conclusion: building images of the future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Welcome to the Revolution
Book SynopsisWhen the Women's March gathered millions just one day after Trump's inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump's election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism's growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability. Derber ?offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new ?universalizing? wave, a ?progressive? and revolutionary movement of movements, can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power.Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized? capitalist system ?and the right wing movements? that helped create the Trump erTrade Review"This book is joyfully jammed with the wisdom, experience, tools and motivation to overcome the ravages of the corporate state. On page after page, the theme is about building democratic initiatives and institutions for the common good and the good life of justice, peace and freedom. So gripping and personal is "Welcome to the Revolution", you can scarcely put this book down without putting yourself down. Read, digest, reflect and join with others for a functioning democracy." -Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and author of Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think"Welcome to the Revolution could not have come at a better moment. With the election of Donald Trump, millions of Americans suddenly found themselves attending women’s rallies, supporting sanctuary cities, protesting Islamophobia, confronting their elected officials—even doing civil disobedience or running for local office. But activists, and the movements they are part of, need strategy, they need direction, they need to know not just what they are resisting but what transformations they aim for. Charles Derber’s brilliant and inspiring new book provides the glue that will help us craft a revolutionary movement that can resist, transform and prevail. Read it!" - Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange"Charlie Derber’s new book calls us all both to work harder on our particular issues and to get out of our silos to make common cause with others to change the system as a whole. This is the right message for theTrump era, and it is presented in powerful, moral, and practical terms. A must read for anyone serious about building a meaningful and positive future!" - Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution, and Co-Chair of The Next System Project"Derber has written the theoretical and practical manifesto for this historical moment, reminding us of the tremendous possibilities at hand. Welcome to the Revolution explains how extractive capitalism has led to expanding systemic social, economic and ecological system disruptions. Yet these same forces have seeded 'universalizing resistance' movements that, if they succeed, will push us back from the brink and toward a next system that is more democratic, equal, peaceful and lives in harmony with the earth’s ecological limits. To find out how you can 'universalize' and make a difference, read this book." - Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies, co-editor of Inequality.org and author of Born on Third BaseTable of ContentsTable of ContentsA PERSONAL PRELUDE: INTRODUCTION: A CALL TO ACTIONPART I UP AGAINST THE WALL: THE UNIVERSALIZING CORPORATE SYSTEM AND THE APOCALPYSEChapter 1 THE SYSTEM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE MILITARIZED MATRIX VS USChapter 2 THE PAC-MAN SYSTEM: HOW IT IS UNIVERALIZING AND THREATENING EXTINCTIONPart II UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCEChapter 3 IRRESISTIBLE RESISTANCE: THE GRASS ROOTS AND THE WAVES OF CHANGEChapter 4 MOVEMENT GPS: TEN RULES OF THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICEChapter 5 FIGHT THE POWER, A.K.A THE SYSTEM: CHOOSE DEMOCRACY OVER AUTHORITARIANISMChapter 6 WIN THE MAJORITY: IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINKChapter 7 Converge! GET OUT OF YOUR SILO Chapter 8 DEMOCRATIZE THE WORLD: GLOBALIZE AND LOCALIZEChapter 9 PACHAMAMA: PROTECT MOTHER EARTH Chapter 10 DON’T JUST SAY NO: SAY YES TO ALTERNATIVESChapter 11 CREATE MEDIA OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE: MOVEMENTS BEYOND PROPOGANDA Chapter 12 LET’S GET POLITICAL: MOVEMENTS AND ELECTIONSChapter 13 THINK, Learn and teach: EDUCATION AS ACTIVISMChapter 14 CHOOSE LIFE AND LOVE: THE CULTURE OF ACTIVISMPART III FROM VISION TO PRACTICE Chapter 15 GRAND STRATEGY: ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONSChapter 16 WALKING THE TALK: NUTS AND BOLTS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisThanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in recent years, this book offers a rich and multilayered introduction to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our times. Engaging with prominent scholarship in media and cultural studies, as well as geography, sociology, economic history, and political theory, author Julie Wilson pushes against easy understandings of neoliberalism as market fundamentalism, rampant consumerism, and/or hyper-individualism. Instead, Wilson invites readers to interrogate neoliberalism in true cultural studies fashion, at once as history, theory, practice, policy, culture, identity, politics, and lived experience. Indeed, the book's primary aim is to introduce neoliberalism in all of its social complexity, so that readers can see how neoliberalism shapes their own lives, as well as our political hoTrade Review"Equal parts history, analysis and manifesto, Neoliberalism dissects the competitive, free market logic that defines our era.Wilson engages a dazzling range of theory and research in a highly accessible fashion, and brings this material to life with examples from schooling, popular media culture and politics. Especially geared to youth, this remarkable textbook shows how the rising inequalities and anxieties associated with neoliberalism can be resisted."-Laurie Ouellette, University of Minnesota Twin Cities"This book is both a brilliant intellectual intervention and a vital teaching resource. Julie Wilson shows how abstract theories of neoliberalism relate to our everyday life experiences, offering us a range of critical tools for understanding neoliberal culture and pointing to how we might construct alternatives." -Jo Littler, City University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroductionLiving in CompetitionPart I: Critical FoundationsChapter OneA New Hegemony: The Rise of NeoliberalismChapter TwoNeoliberal Truths and Consequences: The Four DsChapter ThreeThe Cultural Powers of Neoliberalism: A Case Study Part II: Neoliberal Culture Chapter FourThe Hustle: Self-Enterprise and Neoliberal LaborChapter FiveThe Moods of Enterprise: Neoliberal Affect and the Care of the SelfChapter SixEnterprising Democracy: Neoliberal Citizenship and the Privatization of PoliticsConclusionLiving in Common
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rock around the Clock
Book SynopsisExamining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock (1956), this book explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock 'n' roll music and culture.Providing new avenues of approaching the film, the book looks at how Rock around the Clock has attracted significant scholarly attention, despite its origins as a low-budget production made by master exploitation filmmaker Sam Katzman. It challenges accounts that see the film's young people as juvenile delinquents, using instead the label cultural rebels' as a signifier of youth's ability to resurrect a moribund music industry and rejuvenate a stale youth culture. This book also questions the nature of the label exploitation' as applied to the film by examining Columbia Pictures' role as a resource provider for Katzman's film, comparing Rock around the Table of ContentsIntroduction. Rock around the Clock: From Exploitation to Legitimacy 1. (Re)imagining Youth: The ‘Birth’ of the Teenager Under the Spectre of Rock ‘n’ Roll 2. Whos’ Exploiting What and How (1): Rock around the Clock and Exploitation Formulas in an Industry in Transition 3. Whos’ Exploiting What and How (2): Rock around the Clock between Major Studio and Independent Film Production 4. Who’s Exploiting What and How (3): Film Adaptation and the Boundaries of Exploitation in Rock Around the Clock Coda. ‘The Living End’ or the Rest is History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Technology Transfer
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2000: The theme of this collection of essays is technology transfer. The topic has three major aspects: the interchange of technologies between military and civilian applications - spin-off, dual use, conversion and diversification fall under this heading; the proliferation of military arms, which could occur either through arms races between developed nations or through the transfer of military technology from developed arms industries to less developed nations - proliferation, arms races and arms control agreements fall under this heading; and the transfer of civilian technologies from developing nations to less developed nations. The expression, North-South transfer and the idea of development come under this final section. The essays offer examination of all three aspects.Table of ContentsDual-se technologies and the different transfer mechanisms, Jordi Molas-Gallart; national security and the Internet, Gary Chapman; defence diversification in the United Kingdom, Ian S. Goudie; the global positioning system - from strategic military technology to consumer good, Dietrich Schroeer; nuclear power - a dual-use conflict, Paolo Farinella et al; science and the stewardship of the nuclear stockpiles, Dimitri Batani and Stefano Atzeni; promoting nuclear non-proliferation - a Chinese view, Dingli Shen; can export controls reduce the demand for nuclear weapons?, Patricia Lewis; controls against smuggling materials of concern to national security, Alexander DeVolpi; tackling the demand side of chemical and biological weapons proliferation, Jean Pascal Zanders; growing transparence - political implications of interplay between civilian and military sectors, Bruce D. Larkin; international technology transfer and the industrialization strategy of developing countries, Carlo Pietrobelli; nuclear energy for developing and least-developed countries?, Gert Harigel.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aviation in Crisis
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2003. The events of 11 September 2001 defy modern economic theory when addressed in aviation terms. Economic theory would suggest that, once the impact of such events are a thing of the past, and economies are restored to their status quo ante, a rise in the gross domestic product of States to earlier levels would almost inevitably result in increased consumption. This in turn would mean that the demand for air travel would rise to earlier proportions and consumption in terms of air transport services would be restored to normalcy. However, the September attacks on United States'' property introduced a unique characteristic through the fear factor that directly impacts the future development of air transport. As a result, the grim task of restoration of passenger confidence stands in the way of economic revival of the air transport industry. Aviation was always in crisis. The air transport industry, even prior to 11 September 2001, although seeminglTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: The Commercial Crisis; 3: The Security Crisis; 4: The Insurance Crisis; 5: The Environmental Crisis; 6: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Epistolary Spaces
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2003. The author explores and describes the nature of what he terms epistolary spaces, phenomena that came into being as a result of the foundation during the 1650s of a Post Office available to the general public. He focuses on the history of letter-writing by English men and women, and in so doing he shows how the imaginations of letter writers were affected by the increasingly cheaper, faster and more efficient postal services that were developed throughout the time period covered. The book makes a detailed study of five real correspondences, reading the letters in terms of their social and political interest and addressing such concerns as class, gender, collections of model letters and the importance of London to English epistolary spaces. James How's Epistolary Spaces [contains] a fascinating discussion of the ways the rise of the postal system created what he calls epistolary spaces' Temma Berg, The LivesTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Glimmerings of epistolary space in Dorothy Osborne’s Letters to Sir William Temple (1652-54), 2. ‘I have been so long absent from Court9: Sir George Etherege’s personal and business letters, a courtly enclave in epistolary space (1685-89), 3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and the ‘Whig schism’ under George I (1716-18), 4. An epistolary redoubt: the correspondence between the Countesses of Hertford and Pomfret (1738-41), 5. Petitions and memorials from the edge: the letters of the Rev. Dr Lucius Henry Hibbins to the Duke of Newcastle (1741-58), 6. Clarissa’s cyberspace: imaginations of epistolary space in Richardson’s Clarissa.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex
Book SynopsisSurvival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition of survival sex fails to recognise the multiple, complex, and coexisting motivations of young homeless women for engaging in intimate relationships in post-industrial capitalist society. In Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Watson's insightful analysis of personal narratives reveals how young homeless women are exposed to situations in which survival can be impeded or assisted by playing out specific gender roles. Indeed, in identifying and contesting the dominant social discourses that young homeless women draw upon to frame their experiences of intimate affairs, Watson challenges the reader to understand how gendered subjectivities are produced and performed through heteronormative relationships. This enlightening book is vital in showing that homelessness is not a gender-neutral phenomenon Trade ReviewYoung women’s homelessness is often hidden from view – not showing up in official statistics nor in popular representations of ‘rough sleepers’. In this important and original new study, Juliet Watson vividly illuminates young women’s experiences. In doing so she makes us question our understandings of both homelessness and of transactional sex, opening up nuanced ways of thinking about the intimate relationships women build in order to survive.Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University of London, UKIn Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Juliet Watson offers a compelling and confronting account of how young women face, understand, and manage the risks they face in homelessness. Through exceptional empirical research, deep theoretical expertise, and sensitive engagement with experiences of poverty, gendered violence, and social exclusion, Watson illuminates how these young women make strategic use of heteronormative femininity in their search for security, survival, and resources. This is an important and valuable book that reinforces the critical importance of gender analysis of precarious lives. JaneMaree Maher, Director, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, AustraliaIn this fascinating and disturbing book, Juliet Watson provides us with a scholarly yet unflinching examination of the reality of survival sex for young homeless women. She shines much needed light on a topic that is too often referred to in passing, and seldom given the in-depth consideration it deserves.Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor of Housing and Social Policy in the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Environment and Real Estate (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: youth homelessness, gender, and the significance of survival sexIntroductionWhat is survival sex?Reconceptualising survival sexDefining homelessnessApplying a gendered lens to homelessness Conceptualising the home in relation to homelessness Constructing gendered subjectivitiesThe research projectThe significance of experience: a narrative approachChapter mapReferencesChapter 2. Young homeless women and the neoliberal subjectIntroductionNeoliberalismThe neoliberal subjectContemporary conditions of youth homelessnessDiscourse, power, and intersectionalityYouth transitions—locating young people in post-industrial capitalist societyIndividualisationHomelessness, individualisation, and classYoung women ‘at risk’PostfeminismPostfeminism as anti-feminismPostfeminism as a conceptual shift within feminismPostfeminist critical analysisConclusionReferencesChapter 3. Social capital, performativity, and gendered subjectivities in the homeless sphereIntroductionGender, homelessness, and subjectivitySocial capital theoryCapitalThe fieldHabitusEmbodimentSymbolic violence and romantic lovePerformativityFeminine capitalVicarious physical capitalConclusionReferencesChapter 4. Survival sex, stigma, and managing material conditions‘A butterfly’—Hayley’s storyIntroductionGender, homelessness, and stigma—‘Just a piece of meat’ (Hayley)Stigma and social capital—‘I was a junkie, slut, alcoholic person, or something’ (Nicki)Survival sex and vulnerability—‘He didn’t want me there once he found out that I had a boyfriend’ (Alice)Stigma and subjectivities—‘I’ve got standards and I’m a nice person’ (Jessie)Material support—‘It was just ’cause I’d seen the pretty side of things’ (Sarah)ConclusionReferencesChapter 5. Survival sex and gender-based violence‘My yo-yo life’—Jessie’s storyIntroductionViolence and homelessness—‘I’ve put myself in situations that I could’ve stayed away from’ (Jessie)Feminine capital and physical protection—‘I didn’t want to be by myself because I was scared’ (Hayley)Vicarious physical capital—‘I know people were scared of him’ (Hayley)Violence in intimate relationships—‘I don’t know what I was doing wrong’ (Jessie)Intimate relationships and the depletion of capital—‘No one wanted me at their place with him around’ (Nikita)Intimate relationships and romantic discourse—‘I say that "I love you" and everything’s OK again’ (Hayley)ConclusionReferencesChapter 6. Intimate relationships, social exclusion, and belonging‘The little black duck: at the end of day it does have a life’—Nikita’s storyIntroductionHomelessness and social exclusion—‘The word homeless does actually kill’ (Lexi)Social exclusion and performativity—‘You become inconsistent and everyone looks at you badly ’cause your performance is bad’ (Elle)Seeking stability and belonging from survival sex—‘I’ve got something, I’ve got a life. I’ve got a boyfriend. Look at me’ (Hayley)The pressures of homelessness on intimate relationships—‘There’s not really much happiness and joy’ (Nikita)Maintaining subjectivity stability through adversity—‘I think going through so much has made us so much stronger’ (Bianca)Intimate relationships in homeless spaces—‘In a normal society you’d be in your own home’ (Hayley)ConclusionReferencesChapter 7. Constructing authentic selves‘Searching for your identity’—Lexi’s storyIntroductionMaking the right choice, authenticity, and subject positions—‘When you know what you want, you will achieve it’ (Lexi)Postfeminism and choice—‘I don’t really think about it as feminism, I just think, tough chick’ (Angela)The choice to be single: necessity—‘Two people, it’s harder than one’ (Elle)The choice to be single: resistance—‘When the time is for me, then I’ll be settling down’ (Lexi)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: refusing to be a victim—‘I got a backbone and I said "no more"’ (Sarah)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: becoming a mother—‘Past the brink of had enough’ (Angela)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: the importance of capital—‘They’d made me see things that I couldn’t see when I was in it’ (Nikita)Choosing intimate relationships—‘I don’t think it’s really homelessness that defines my relationship’ (Alice)ConclusionReferencesChapter 8. Conclusion: diversifying homelessnessIntroductionDestabilising discourses: making structures visibleYouth transitionsIndividualisationPostfeminismSubjectivity constructionManaging material conditionsManaging violenceManaging social exclusionNarratives of choiceFinal wordsReferencesAppendix: more storiesAlice—The shift from having my family as a family to having Chris as a familyAmina—Through high aspiration comes firm resolveAmy—My lifeAngela—The ‘how to’ and ‘how not to’ live life in MelbourneBianca—Life as a houseElle—The puzzleNicki—Crap lifePaige—How can you put a title on something like that?Pauline—My lifeSarah—Simple lifeIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Wise Master Builder
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2000: Did the plan of medieval churches have any underlying symbolic meaning? This work re-opens the debate about the importance of geometry and symbolism in medieval architectural design and argues the case for attributing an intellectual meaning to the planning of abbeys and cathedrals. In challenging prevailing claims for the use of arithmetical rations in architectural design, notably those based on the square root of two, Dr Hiscock advances a perspective consisting of proportions derived from the figures of Platonic geometry - the square, the equilateral triangle and the pentagon - and provides evidence for the symbolic interpretation of these figures. The investigation further reveals whole series of geometric relationships between some of England''s most celebrated Norman cathedrals, such as Norwich or Durham, together with a wide sample from the Continent, from Old St Peter''s in Rome to Chartres Cathedral, and sets out a comprehensivTable of ContentsPreface, List of figures and plates, Acknowledgements, Part One: Introduction, Part Two: The historical context, 1. The tenth century, 2. Classical and early Christian sources, 3. Metaphysical belief and architectural metaphor, 4. 'The white mantle of churches', 5. Medieval architectural practice, Part Three: The geometric investigation, 6. Application of geometry to plans, 7. Comparative analysis, 8. Counter examples, Part Four: Conclusions, 9. Findings, conclusions and implementation, 10. Inferences and implications, Appendices, 1. The geometric investigation: measurement and accuracy, 2. The geometric investigation: criteria for evaluation, 3. Dimensions for St Michael, Hildesheim, 4. Dimensions for St Peter's Old Basilica, Rome, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dynamics of Regulation Global Control Local
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2001. New technologies and the liberalization of the broadcasting and telecommunications market, together with the digitalization and globalization of new services, have challenged irrevocably not only the traditional markets and instructional structures but also the legal systems of broadcasting and telecommunication sectors in the 21st century. This text takes into account changes in digital broadcasting and telecommunication by pointing out that convergence is the process through which broadcasting, telecommunication, press and information sectors are transformed into new sectors (info-com arteries, info-com products, info-com services and info-com content) in order to be fully compatible with the emerging new info-communication industry in the digital transformation and info-communication era.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Theories of Regulation, the Public Interest and Info-com Policy: The Twenty-first Century Convergence Vision for Info-com Policy Part I: Regulation, Regulatory Authorities and the Public Interest: British Broadcasting and Advertising Regulation Policy 2. Resistance to Americanisation by Local/National Broadcasting Policy: the Case of the British Broadcasting Model 3. Commercial Broadcasting and Advertising: Legislation, Regulation and Regulatory Authorities, 1954-72 4. Reforming Regulation Policy and Legislation in Broadcasting: 1972-80 5. Liberalisation, Control and Resistance: New Media and the Public Interest, in British Broadcasting Advertising Part II: The Dynamics of Regulation and the Public Interest in the Deregulation/Re-Regulation and Liberalisation Era 6. The Dynamics of Regulatory Activity: Control and Resistance. The Three Broadcasting Regulation Paradigms: Unitary, Semidetached and Detached 7. More of Less Regulation in the 1990s: The Paradox and the Problems in British Broadcasting 8. How Process Regulation Works in Practice: The Case Study of Regulation of Female Sanitary Protection (San-pro) Advertising on Television Part III: Global/Regional Control and Resistance 9. Global/Regional Forces in Regulation of Television Advertising: Consumer Protection vs Freedom of Commercial Speech in Europe 10. Conclusion: Regulation as a Positive Force to Resist Global Disorder - the Twenty-first Century Vision is the Info-com Society Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Public in Peril
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and globally. One of the world's leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including the rise of right-wing populism, the threat of planetary peril, anti-intellectual fervor, the war on youth, a narrowing political discourse, deepening inequality and disposability, authoritarianism, the crisis of civic culture, the rise of the mass incarceration state, and more. Giroux dissects the diverse forces that led to Trump's rise and points to pathways for resisting his authoritarian instincts. Offering a new language of hope and possibility, Giroux's optimism is rooted especially in the resurgence of progressive politics among youth. Giroux reclaims the centrality of education to politics and boldly articulates a vision in which the radical imagination merges with civic courage as part of Trade Review"Henry Giroux is one of America’s most important intellectuals. His latest book works brilliantly to inform, inspire, and energize. The Public in Peril may be one of his best books. Not only does Giroux make education central to politics, he also offers a new vision for those ready to engage in the struggle for a radical democracy. Everyone should read this book, especially those hoping to overcoming the growing threat to humanity and the planet posed by neoliberalism and authoritarianism." - Julian Casablancas "This courageous and timely book is the first and best book on Trump's neo-fascism in the making. Henry Giroux is a towering public intellectual unafraid to tell unpopular truths and unintimidated in the commitment to justice for poor and working people here and abroad. His work and witness are signs of hope in our bleak time!" - Cornel West"What we have long feared is finally here, at the center of American politics: an authoritarian regime with contempt for truth and human rights. Henry Giroux teaches us how to fight this fascism with a new activism that combines pedagogical and political acts. His analyses are cogent and his proposals reasonable. If you want to save democracy, read this book." - John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California"In this book, Henry Giroux shows once again why he is among the world’s most outstanding social scientists. No one better explicates the multiple pathologies that now characterize the United States and most other advanced capitalist societies. Yet, he maintains a deep and abiding optimism, and bravely tells us of the pressing need for radically critical education in every element of every movement, combined with a politics of disobedience, and the creation of alternative public spaces, from which a new, radically democratic and egalitarian society can be built, from the ground up." - Michael D. Yates, Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press and author of The Great Inequality (Routledge 2016)"This courageous and timely book is the first and best book on Trump's neo-fascism in the making. Henry Giroux is a towering public intellectual unafraid to tell unpopular truths and unintimidated in the commitment to justice for poor and working people here and abroad. His work and witness are signs of hope in our bleak time!" - Cornel West"What we have long feared is finally here, at the center of American politics: an authoritarian regime with contempt for truth and human rights. Henry Giroux teaches us how to fight this fascism with a new activism that combines pedagogical and political acts. His analyses are cogent and his proposals reasonable. If you want to save democracy, read this book." - John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgmentINTRODUCTION: Militant Hope in the Age of American AuthoritarianismI. RETHINKING POLITICS AND THE POST RACIAL Chapter 1: Anti-Politics and the Torturing of Democracy (co-authored with with Debaditya Bhattacharya)Chapter 2: White Supremacy and Racial Cleansing Under the Regime of Donald Trump Chapter 3: Authoritarianism in the Age of Manufactured Illiteracy II. YOUTH, CRISIS, AND THE POLITICS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISMChapter 4: Terrorizing School Children in the American Police StateChapter 5: Domestic Terrorism, Youth, and the Politics of DisposabilityChapter 6: Lyrical Fascism and Thinking Dangerously in a Time of Weaponized IgnoranceIII. Beyond Neoliberal Education Chapter 7: Defending Educators and the Struggle for Democratic RenewalChapter 8: Towards a Politics of Courage in Dark TimesIV. RESISTING NEOLIBERALISM’S DYSTOPIAN FUTUREChapter 9: Isolation and Loss in in Trump’s DystopiaChapter 10: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination under Neoliberal AuthoritarianismChapter 11: Rethinking Resistance in the Second Gilded AgeV. EPILOGUE
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes, this book critically assesses what the author terms the renegotiation of rural development in Ireland through the repackaging, reproduction and representation of suggestions, ideas and alternatives for rural renewal. Deconstructing the process and practice of rural development in Ireland, John McDonagh explores the new approaches to development and the so-called desire for creating integrative policy and planning approaches. The main conduits for this investigation are those of partnership and community groups and their involvement in rural development issues. Further, through investigation of the relevant concepts and theories of rural change, the volume delves into the discourses of rurality and development and utilizes the diversity of approaches and understanding of, this increasingly complex issue.Table of ContentsRural change and development; a plurality of Irelands - changing discourses of economy, society and space; thoughts on rurality and rural Ireland; deconstructing development - Irish style!; retrospect and prospect - the role of church, state and community in rural Ireland; the emergence of rural governance in Ireland; recasting the rural in Ireland.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Organisational Culture Organisational Change
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2001. When organizational change occurs, members of the organization can feel insecure in the face of a seemingly uncertain future. This work investigates the links between organizational culture and organizational change by looking at two businesses that have been privatized - British Gas and British Telecom - and the processes surrounding the ways these organizations changed in the mid 1990s. It includes interviews with middle-ranking and senior officals, illustrating that anguish is experienced not only by those on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.Table of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgements, 1. A General Introduction, 2. The Penetration of Large-Scale Organisations, 3. Some of the Wider Context, 4. Penetrating Two Large-Scale Organisations, 5. Presentation and Analysis of the Evidence, 6. Empirical and Theoretical Conclusions and Management Recommendations, 7. A Research Endpiece, Bibliography, Appendix 1. Graphics COPE Maps, Appendix 2. Domain Analysis, Index of Authors, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shaping Citizenship
Book SynopsisCitizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at different times, and with regard to both theory and practice.The book uses a reflexive and constructivist perspective on the concept of citizenship that draws on the theory and methodology of conceptual history. This approach enables a panorama of politically important readings on citizenship that provide an interdisciplinary perspective and help to transcend narrow and simplified views on citizenship. The three parts of the book focus respectively on theories, debates and practices of citizenship. In the chapters, constructions and struggles related to citizenship are approached by experts from different fields. Thematically the chapters focus on political representation, migTrade Review'An interdisciplinary book that will become a must-read for all those working on citizenship, nation, diversity and inequality in Europe. Original in its inception, this book explores we how we talk about, contest, practice and also perform our citizenship in the different realms of our social and political activity.' - Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute'An interdisciplinary book that will become a must-read for all those working on citizenship, nation, diversity and inequality in Europe. Original in its inception, this book explores we how we talk about, contest, practice and also perform our citizenship in the different realms of our social and political activity.' —Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute'This volume re-establishes the conceptual link between citizens and politics and thus revives a classical perspective that today has been mostly lost: as Max Weber famously put it, citizens are occasional politicians (Gelegenheitspolitiker).' - Kari Palonen, Professor of Political Science, University of Jyväskylä'Shaping Citizenship is a fine account of the contested nature of citizenship as a political concept and practice. The book provides a comparative appraisal of citizenship ranging from the theoretical controversies around its democratic understanding to the contention surrounding citizenship as a political practice and its centrality in most recent public debates in Europe on immigration and rights.' - José María Rosales, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Málaga'Citizenship is probably one of the most politically contested and dynamic fields of research in Europe today. The daily changes in policy and practice, the heated debates, and the triggering events have created a need for understanding and reflection. Shaping Citizenship responds to these dynamic issues by addressing the conceptual debates on ‘inclusion’ and ‘the good enough citizens’. It contributes to research on asylum, access, and Human Rights and deals with practice in EU innovation, labour migration, dual citizenship, and much more. I recommend reading it carefully.' - Trond Solhaug, Professor, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, NTNUTable of ContentsIntroduction: Shaping Citizenship as a Political Concept [Claudia Wiesner, Anna Björk, Hanna-Mari Kivistö and Katja Mäkinen] Part 1: Theorising Citizenship [Anna Björk, Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Katja Mäkinen and Claudia Wiesner] 1. Prototype Citizenship: Evolving Concepts of Inclusion and Order [Mikhail Ilyin] 2. The Concept of "Good Enough Citizen" Revisited: An Exploration of Current Discourses on Political Participation [Elena García-Guitián] 3. Citizenship, Democracy and the Iconology of Political Representation: A Plea for an Iconological Turn in Democratic Theory [Hans J. Lietzmann] 4. Abstaining Citizenship: Deliberative and Epistocratic Understandings of Refraining from Voting [Francisco Javier Gil Martín] Part 2: Debating Citizenship [Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Anna Björk, Katja Mäkinen and Claudia Wiesner] 5. Right of the Politically Persecuted Non-Citizen or Right of the State? Conceptual Debates on Asylum [Hanna-Mari Kivistö] 6. Temporality at the Borders of Citizenship: Conditioning Access in the Case of the United Kingdom [Anna Björk] 7. Access to Medical Care: A Citizenship Right or a Human Right? On Struggles over Rights, Entitlement and Membership in Contemporary Sweden [Amanda Nielsen] 8. The Non-State Sámi: Struggle for Indigenous Citizenship in the European North [Sanna Valkonen and Jarno Valkonen] Part 3: Practising Citizenship [Katja Mäkinen, Anna Björk, Hanna-Mari Kivistö and Claudia Wiesner] 9. Shaping Citizenship Practice through Laws: Rights and Conceptual Innovations in the EU [Claudia Wiesner] 10. Practicing European Industrial Citizenship: The Case of Labour Migration to Germany [Nathan Lillie and Ines Wagner] 11. "All About Doing Democracy"? Participation and Citizenship in EU Projects [Katja Mäkinen] 12. Dual Citizenship and Voting Rights: Domestic Practices and Interstate Tensions [Heino Nyyssönen and Jussi Metsälä] Conclusion: Contested Conceptualisations of Citizenship [Claudia Wiesner, Anna Björk, Hanna-Mari Kivistö and Katja Mäkinen]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability Citizenship and Community Care
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2002: A critical look at the experiences of disabled people in accessing and receiving community care in the UK. The author uses a framework of citizenship, encompassing civil and social rights, to ask difficult questions about the role the welfare state plays in preventing and promoting people''s independence. The book discusses the relationship between rationing, policy, professional practice and the needs of disabled people and their families from a citizenship perspective and provides critical insight into possible solutions to promoting disabled people''s citizenship and independence within the limits of today''s welfare state.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Entangled Inequalities
Book SynopsisThis book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the new middle class. A rich contribution to the study of the interconnections between the global social structure and multiple local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches, ranging from ethnographies to legal genealogies, and will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, power analysis, intersectionality studies, urban studies, and global social and environmental justice.Trade Review‘Rich in empirical content and with explicit theoretical ambitions, this book grapples with the multidimensionality and multi-scalarity of inequality. In so doing, it makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on global inequality.’ - Professor Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge, UK‘Analysing inequalities in terms of the operation of multiple forces, as a multiscalar and plural phenomenon, and embedded into important dynamics of transformation, this book offers important and refreshing ideas for these interested in understanding social inequalities.’ - Maria Fernanda Valdés, Coordinator for the Friedriech Ebert Stiftung in ColombiaTable of ContentsIntroduction (Renata Motta, Elizabeth Jelin, and Sérgio Costa) Part I Structuring Inequalities 1. Inequality: Towards a World-Historical Perspective (Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz) 2. Transregional Articulations of Law and Race in Latin America: A Legal Genealogy of Inequality (Manuel Góngora-Mera) 3. The Urban Space and the (Re)production of Social Inequalities: Decoupling Income Distribution and Patterns of Urbanization in Latin American Cities (Ramiro Segura) 4. Researching Inequalities from a Socio-ecological Perspective (Kristina Dietz)Part II Categorization: The Construction and Deconstruction of Persistent Hierarchies 5. The Social Imaginary of Inequalities in Latin America: Is Another View Necessary? (Juan Pablo Pérez Saínz) 6. Unequal Differences: Gender, Ethnicity/Race and Citizenship in Class Societies (Historical Realities, Analytical Approaches) (Elizabeth Jelin) 7. Competing Indigeneities: Being a (Hyper)real Ecowarrior in Twenty-first Century Bolivia (Andrew Canessa) 8. The Symbolic Construction of Inequalities (Luis Reygadas) Part III Dynamics of Production and Transformation of Inequalities 9. Multiple Layers of Inequalities and Intersectionality (Jairo Baquero-Melo) 10. Millionaires, the Established, the Outsiders, and the Poor. Social Structure and Political Crisis in Brazil (Sérgio Costa) 11. Transnational Care Chains and Entangled Inequalities (Anna Katharina Skornia) 12. Socio-Environmental Inequalities and GM crops: Class, Gender and Knowledge (Renata Motta) Final Reflections (Sérgio Costa, Elizabeth Jelin, Renata Motta) Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Memory Migration and Travel
Book SynopsisMigration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for enabling such memories and memory-based identity practices to unfold.This book investigates how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees and the internally displaced recreate home in their host place of residence through material culture, performativity and social relations; and how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli evoke memories of home. It explores an array of diverse geographical contexts, balancing ethnographic vignettes of contemporary migrant societies with archival research providing historical accounts that reach back more than a century.Memory, Migration and Travel makes an original contribution by linking the emergent field of Table of Contents1. Memory, Migration and Travel: Introduction 2. ‘Travelling Memories’: The Homemaking Practices of Skilled Mobile Settlers 3. Material Culture, Memory and Commemoration: Family and Community Celebrations and Connections to ‘Home’ among Asian Indian Immigrants 4. Remembrance, Cultural Performance and Travel: The Greek Migrants of Brasilia and the panigiri Festival 5. Gallipoli Revisited: Transnational and Transgenerational Memory among Turkish and Sikh Communities in Australia 6. ‘To Live in France’: The Confluence of Tourism, Memory, Migration and War 7. Pajouste Forest, 23 August 1941: Memory, Migration and Massacre 8. Old Homes Made New: American Jews Travelling to Eastern Europe from 1920 until the Present 9. The Macanese Encontros: Remembrance and Diaspora ‘Homecomings’ 10. Dinner in the Homeland: Memory, Food and the Armenian Diaspora 11. Memoryscapes of the Homeland by Two Generations of British-Bangladeshis 12. Translocal Narratives of Memory, Place and Belonging: Second-generation Turkish-Germans’ Home-making upon ‘Return’ to Turkey 13. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption
Book SynopsisThe accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste. While research on waste management has previously focused on finding technological solutions to the problem, this book uniquely examines the social and cultural views of waste, shedding new light on the topic by emphasising the consumer perspective throughout. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines including environmental, economic, social and cultural theories, the book presents philosophical reflections, practical examples and potential solutions to the problem of increasing waste. It analyses and compares case studies from countries such as Sweden, Japan, the USA, India, Nigeria and Qatar, bringing out valuable insights for the international community and generating a critical discussion on how we can move towards a more sustainable society. This book will Trade Review"In a global economy dependent upon ever rising levels of consumption, waste is the material artefact that is steadily consuming fragile eco-systems and accelerating the pace of climate change. In this book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars analyze waste not merely as a technical problem but as configurations of practices and meanings that are embedded in broader socio-cultural systems and institutional structures. This theoretically innovative, cross cultural and eminently practical study of waste, and how societies can better manage its deleterious consequences, is both timely and fascinating."Craig J. Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA"In gathering more contributors to 'waste's table', this volume demonstrates the claim made by Richard Wilk in its afterword: that waste is the single most important link between population, consumption and climate change. In showing how waste is inexorably a matter of consumption, it will surely gather more contributors to the debate."Nicky Gregson, Durham University, UK"This volume has an absolutely essential message: achieving real sustainability requires understanding the social and cultural dimensions of consumption. In a carefully composed set of nuanced powerful chapters, some of the most eminent scholars in the field of critical consumption studies provide a wealth of arguments that help us realize why people consume and why the vicious cycles of production and consumption are so extremely hard to break. Here we learn, once and for all, that this concerns the habits of the heart and the deepest layers of identity production and that sustainable consumption simply will not be achieved just by adding more sophisticated recycling technologies or incentives to conserve."Sverker Sörlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden"Among the strengths of the book are the diversity of the authors' backgrounds (engineering, business, sociology, etc.) and the variety of topics they address. The many good references and index increase the usefulness of this work. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels."CHOICE, L. E. Erickson, Kansas State University Table of ContentsIntroduction Karin M. Ekström Part 1: Consumption and Waste 1. Recycling the Home: the Constant Flow of Domestic Stuff, Emotions and Routines Orvar Löfgren 2. The Curse of the New: How the Accelerating Pursuit of the New is Driving Hyper-Consumption Colin Campbell 3. Thinking Waste Sociologically Paul Hewer Part 2: Managing Waste 4. Factors Affecting Development of Waste Management: Experiences from Different Cultures Mohammad Taherzadeh and Karthik Rajendran 5. Waste Prevention Action Nets Hervé Corvellec and Barbara Czarniawska 6. Curbside Cartographies in an Urban Food-Waste Composting Program John W. Schouten, Diane M. Martin and Jack S. Tillotson 7. Cloth Loop: An Attempt to Construct an Actor-Network Eva Gustafsson, Daniel Hjelmgren and Barbara Czarniawska Part 3: Socio-Cultural Views on Waste 8. Exploring Food Waste Through the Lens of Social Practice Theories: Some Reflections on Eating as a Compound Practice Dale Southerton and Luke Yates 9. Environmental Consumer Socialization Among Generation Swing and Y: A Study of Clothing Consumption Karin M. Ekström, Daniel Hjelmgren and Nicklas Salomonson 10. Unpacking Corporate Sustainability: Sustainable Communication, Waste and the 3Rs in a Network Society Pierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero Part 4: Preventing Waste 11. Upcycling of Pre-Consumer Waste: Opportunities and Barriers in the Furniture and Clothing Industries Daniel Hjelmgren, Nicklas Salomonson and Karin M. Ekström 12. Post-Ownership Sustainability Russell Belk 13. Supplementing the Conventional 3R Waste Hierarchy: Considering the Role of Carbon Rationing Maurie J. Cohen 14. Afterword Richard Wilk
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts. Historical and Philosophical Context Concepts Debates Individual Sciences Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anTrade ReviewA state-of-the-art collection of original essays by the best writers in the field of history and philosophy of the social sciences.--Merrilee H. Salmon, University of PittsburghTable of Contents Part I. Historical and philosophical context Comte and the Positivist Vision Vincent Guillin Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology Warren Schmaus Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism Brian Fay The Development of Logical Empiricism Thomas Uebel Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences K. Brad Wray Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences Jeremy Shearmur Interpretation and Critical Theory Ken Baynes The Empirical Counter-Revolution Jaakko Kuorikoski Part II. Concepts Explanation David Henderson Reductionism Harold Kincaid Emergence Julie Zahle Methodological Individualism Petri Ylikoski Functionalism Alex Rosenberg Naturalism David Livingstone Smith Game Theory Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari Situational Analysis Kevin D. Hoover Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation Sharon Crasnow Causal Inference and Modeling Tuukka Kaidesoja Collective Intentionality Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers Dan Little Social Ontology Brian Epstein Realism and Anti-Realism Kareem Khalifa & Randall Harp Critical Realism Justin Cruickshank Objectivity Eleonora Montuschi Part III. Debates Are There Social Scientific Laws? Julian Reiss Behavioral Economics Conrad Heilmann Machine Epistemology and Big Data Greg Wheeler Evolutionary Psychology Stephen M. Downes Cognitive Science Stephen Turner and David Eck The Social Construction of Knowledge Steve Fuller Feminism in Social Research Marianne Janack Race in Social Research Michael Root Part IV. Individual Sciences Philosophy of Economics Don Ross Philosophy of History Paul A. Roth Philosophy of Psychology Nico Orlandi & Janette Dinishak Philosophy of Sociology & Anthropology Mark Risjord Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science? Bruno Verbeek & Lee McIntyre
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