Sociology Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
Book SynopsisUnderstanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship between culture and the economy. In this thorough study, Christian Fuchs, one of the leading analysts of the Internet and social media, delves deeply into the subject by applying the approach of cultural materialism to social media, offering readers theoretical concepts, contemporary examples, and proposed opportunities for political intervention.Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand culture and the economy in an era populated by social media platforms such as Trade Review"This book is a tour de force. Drawing on a comprehensive re-reading of Marx and critical theory, Christian Fuchs demonstrates how everyday activity on social media is integral to the system of global exploitation that is restructuring contemporary capitalism. His powerful critique of the promotional rhetorics surrounding the Internet and his call for action deserves to be read and debated by anyone seriously interested in the future directions of economic and cultural life." —Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University"Drawing inspiration from Raymond Williams and Dallas Smythe, Christian Fuchs turns his critical eye and formidable talents to the deep connections between culture and economy in the age of social media. Rich in conceptual insights and supported with prodigious empirical detail covering labour and consumption in the West and in China, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media points the way to how we might retake public control of the digital world." —Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Christian Fuchs’s excellent book demonstrates why social media must be analysed critically as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon, unlike the conservatism of idealist social science, which has much to say about communication yet is silent about the materiality of communications." —Jim McGuigan, author of Cool Capitalism"In presenting his analysis, Fuchs displays an extensive command of the literature of cultural analysis as well as an equally impressive familiarity with the work of Marx and those who analyze it. In short, this valuable book offers very insightful analysis into the nature of life in the contemporary world, which may offer some guidance for improving the condition of modern life." - M. Perelman, California State University, Chico, Highly Recommended Review in CHOICE"This book is a tour de force. Drawing on a comprehensive re-reading of Marx and critical theory, Christian Fuchs demonstrates how everyday activity on social media is integral to the system of global exploitation that is restructuring contemporary capitalism. His powerful critique of the promotional rhetorics surrounding the Internet and his call for action deserves to be read and debated by anyone seriously interested in the future directions of economic and cultural life." —Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University"Drawing inspiration from Raymond Williams and Dallas Smythe, Christian Fuchs turns his critical eye and formidable talents to the deep connections between culture and economy in the age of social media. Rich in conceptual insights and supported with prodigious empirical detail covering labour and consumption in the West and in China, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media points the way to how we might retake public control of the digital world." —Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Christian Fuchs’s excellent book demonstrates why social media must be analysed critically as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon, unlike the conservatism of idealist social science, which has much to say about communication yet is silent about the materiality of communications." —Jim McGuigan, author of Cool CapitalismTable of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 2. Culture and Work (with Marisol Sandoval) 3. Communication, Ideology and Labour Part II: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Time 4. Social Media and Labour Time 5. Social Media and Productive Labour Part III: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Global Space 6. Social Media’s International Division of Digital Labour 7. Baidu, Weibo and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China Part IV: Alternatives 8. Social Media and the Public Sphere 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Migration and the Media
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to political and cultural representation, is in the core of the discussions that unfold in this book. The book''s chapters address a number of critical questions in relation to the representation of women as members of communities and as outsiders in culturally diverse societies. In doing so, the collection pays particular attention to the sphere of media and communications. Mediated communication has become crucially important in the construction of meanings of identity and citizenship, while the media have taken centre stage in framing debates on migration, border control and gender representations in culturally diverse societies. Gender, Migration and the Media presents a Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Conceptual and policy interrogations 2. Access denied: The anatomy of silence, immobilization and the gendered migrant 3. Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and domopolitics in Irelend 4. Do Turkish women in the diaspora build social capital? Evidence from the Low Countries 5. Intersectionality and mediated cultural production in a globalized post-colonial world Part II: Engendered diasporic mediascapes 6. Watching soap opera in the diaspora: Cultural proximity or critical proximity? 7. Online mediations in transnational spaces: Cosmopolitan (Re-)formations of belonging and identity in the Turkish diaspora 8. Migrant African women: Tales of agency and belonging 9. Identities in-between: The impact of satellite broadcasting on Greek Orthodox minority (Rum Polites) women’s perception of their identities in Turkey
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety
This second edition of the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of crime prevention and the creation of safer communities. This book is divided into five comprehensive parts: Part I, brand new to this edition, is concerned with theoretical perspectives on crime prevention and community safety. Part II considers general approaches to preventing crime, including a new chapter on the theory and practice of deterrence. Part III focuses on specific crime prevention strategies, including a new chapter on regulation for crime prevention. Part IV focuses on the prevention of specific categories of crime and the fear they generate, including new chapters on organised crime and cybercrime. Part V considers the preventative process: the methods through which presenting problems can be analyse
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing consists of five themes, namely, physical, social and emotional, economic, cultural and spiritual, and subjective wellbeing. It fills a substantial gap in the current literature on the wellbeing of Indigenous people and communities around the world.This handbook sheds new light on understanding Indigenous wellbeing and its determinants, and aids in the development and implementation of more appropriate policies, as better evidence-informed policymaking will lead to better outcomes for Indigenous populations. This book provides a reliable and convenient source of information for policymakers, academics and students, and allows readers to make informed decisions regarding the wellbeing of Indigenous populations. It is also a useful resource for non- government organizations to gain insight into relevant global factors for the development of stronger and more effective international policies to improve the lives of IndTrade Review"Overall, this text provides both broad and focused insights on multiple aspects of indigenous well-being, and is recommended especially for persons interested in remediating the health inequities between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples." - K. Liu, Tuolumne Mi-Wuk Indian Health Center, CHOICETable of Contents1. The Complexity of Measuring Indigenous Welbeing (Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming) 2. Understanding Wellbeing (Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming) Part I: Physical Wellbeing 3. Health and Physical Wellbeing of the Sámi People (Per Axelsson and Christina Storm Mienna) 4. Chronic Disease among Native North Americans (Leslie Redmond and Joel Gittelsohn) 5. Changing Concepts of Wellness among the Swahili of Lamu Town, Kenya (Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy and Munib Said Mafazy) 6. Physical Wellbeing of Native Hawaiians, the Indigenous People of Hawai’i (Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, Andrea H. Hermosura and Mapuana C.K. Antonio) 7. Traditional Healing and Indigenous Wellbeing in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll and Amohia Boulton) 8. Physical Wellbeing of Māori (Denise Wilson, Amohia Boulton and Isaac Warbrick) Part II: Social and Emotional Wellbeing 9. Wellbeing in Swedish Indigenous Sami Children and Young-People: Looking Back and Looking Forward (Susanne Garvis and Lotta Omma) 10. Well-Being Considerations among Selected North American Indian Populations: Relationships, Spirits, and Connections (Lyle J. Noisy Hawk and Joseph Trimble) 11. Socio-Economic Wellbeing of the Basarwa People of Botswana: A Forgotten Generation (Keitseope Nthomang and Pelotshweu Moepeng) 12. The Comparative Wellbeing of the New Zealand Māori and Indigenous Australian Populations since 2000 (Matthew Gray and Boyd Hunter) Part III: Economic Wellbeing 13. Economic Wellbeing of Canada’s Indigenous People (Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb) 14. El ‘Buen Vivir’: Notions of Wellbeing Among Indigenous Peoples Of South America (Ana Maria Peredo) 15. The Economic Wellbeing of the San of the Western, Central, and Eastern Kalahari Regions of Botswana (Robert Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli) 16. Economic Wellbeing of the Indigenous People in the Asia Pacific Region: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development (Rick Colbourne and Robert B Anderson) 17. The Social and Economic Situation of Scheduled Tribes in India (Daniel Neff, Cornelis W. Haasnoot, Sebastian Renner and Kunal Sen) 18. Māori Identity and Economic Wellbeing (Carla Houkamau) Part IV: Cultural and Spiritual Wellbeing 19. "We have our own way:" Exploring Pathways for Wellbeing Among Inuit in Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada (Alexandra Sawatzky, Ashlee Cunsolo, Sherilee L. Harper, Inez Shiwak and Michele Wood) 20. Indigenous Culture-as-Treatment in the Era of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice (Andrew Pomerville and Joseph P. Gone) 21. The Relationship between Child Labour, Participation in Cultural Activities, and the Schooling Outcomes of Children: An Analysis by Indigenous Status (Lilia Arcos Holzinger and Nicholas Biddle) 22. Mabu liyan: The Yawuru Way (Mandy Yap and Eunice Yu) Part V: Subjective Wellbeing 23. Subjective ellbeing of Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng) 24. Subjective Wellbeing of Indigenous Latin Americans: Regional Trends and the Case of Mexico’s Indigenous People (Lilia Arcos Holzinger and Nicholas Biddle) 25. Subjective Wellbeing of the P’urhépecha People: Between Tradition and Modernity (Mariano Rojas and Paz Chávez) 26. Subjective Wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island People of Australia (Christopher L. Ambrey, Christopher Fleming and Matthew Manning) 27. Indigenous Wellbeing and Future Challenges (Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Globalizing Cities Reader
Book SynopsisThe newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct global class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundationTable of ContentsList of PlatesLists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second EditionAcknowledgementsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSIntroduction to Part One1.0 PrologueThe Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and ActionJohn Friedmann and Goetz Wolff1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen1.4 Urban Specialization in the World SystemNestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban SystemsJohn Walton1.6 The World-System Perspective and UrbanizationMichael Timberlake1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical PerspectiveJanet Abu-Lughod1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the MapJennifer Robinson1.9 Space in the Globalizing CityPeter MarcusePART 2 PATHWAYSIntroduction to Part Two2.0 PrologueIstanbul was our past, Istanbul is our futureHamid Dabashi2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global PerspectiveRichard C. Hill and Joe Feagin2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los AngelesEdward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban DevelopmentChristian Schmid2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in ShanghaiFulong Wu 2.6 The Dream of Delhi as a Global CityVeronica Dupont 2.7 ‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom PenhGavin Shatkin 2.8 Medellín and Bogotá: The Global Cities of the Other GlobalizationEduardo MendietaPART 3 RELATIONSIntroduction to Part Three3.0 PrologueSpecification of the World City NetworkPeter Taylor3.1 Local and Global: Cities in Network SocietyManuel Castells3.2 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban ChangeJonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor3.3 Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunication and Planetary Urban NetworksStephen Graham3.4 Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, CanadaS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil3.5 Flying High (in the Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions through ‘Aero-Regionalism’Jean-Paul Addie3.6 One Package at a Time: The Distributive World CityCynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzke3.7 Global Cities between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: (In)Security and Circuits of Knowledge in the Global City NetworkDavid Murakami-Wood3.8 The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City NetworkMark Graham3.9 Relationality/territoriality: Toward conceptualization of cities in the worldEugene McCann and Kevin Ward PART 4 REGULATIONSIntroduction to Part Four4.0 PrologueThe Global City as World OrderWarren Magnusson4.1 Globalization and the Rise of City-regionsAllen J. Scott4.2 Global Cities, ‘Global States’: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary EuropeNeil Brenner 4.3 Global Cities and Developmental States: Tokyo and SeoulRichard Child Hill and June Woo Kim4.4 World City Formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: Poverty, "Everyday" Forms of Civil Society and Environmental ManagementMike Douglass4.5 New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban StrategyNeil Smith4.6 Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s CitiesLaurent Fourchard 4.7 The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental StateSusan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse4.8 Global Cities’ vs. ‘global cities:’ Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public EcologyTimothy W. LukePART 5 CONTESTATIONSIntroduction to Part Five5.0 PrologueFrom Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo's private road to a private cityMohamed Elshahed5.1 Local Actors in Global PoliticsSaskia Sassen5.2 The Right to the CityDavid Harvey5.3 Urban Social Movements in an Era of GlobalizationMargit Mayer5.4 São Paulo: The City and its ProtestTeresa Caldeira5.5 Global City Building in China and its DiscontentsXuefei Ren 5.6 Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in AfricaAbdouMaliq Simone5.7 World Cities and Union RenewalSteven Tufts 5.8 Blockupy Fights Back: Global City Formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial CrisisSebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd BelinaPART 6 CULTUREIntroduction to Part Six6.0 Prologue: High Culture and Hard LaborAndrew Ross6.1 World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural CommentsAnthony King6.2 "Global Media Cities": Major Nodes of Globalising Culture and Media IndustriesStefan Kratke 6.3 Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban Competition after 1989Ute Lehrer6.4 The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing CitiesLeslie Sklair 6.5 Shanghai Nightscapes and Ethnosexual Contact ZonesJames Farrer and Andrew Field6.6 Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative CityCameron McAuliffe 6.7 Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the city Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager6.8 Provincializing the Global City: From Bombay to MumbaiRashimi VarmaPART 7 FRONTIERSIntroduction to Part Seven7.0 PrologueWorld CityDoreen Massey7.1 The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?Michael Peter Smith7.2 External Urban Relational Processes: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place TheoryPeter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Raf Verbruggen7.3 Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’Richard G. Smith7.4 World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City HypothesisDavid Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren7.5 Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens7.6 Global SuburbanizationRoger Keil7.7 What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?Ananya Roy7.8 Planetary UrbanizationNeil Brenner and Christian Schmid7.9 New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban StudiesJennifer Robinson7.10 Governing the Informal in Globalizing Cities: Comparing China, India, and BrazilXuefei Ren7.11 The Urban RevolutionHenri LefebvreIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings. It also uses neglected historical resources to draw out new and unexpected entanglements and connections between understandings of European cosmopolitanism both in Europe and elsewhere. The final part of the book places European cosmopolitanism in tension with contemporary postcolonial configurations around diaspora, migration, and austerity. Overall, it seeks to draw attention to the ways in which Europe's posited others have always been very much a part of Europe's colonial histories and its postcolonial present.Trade ReviewIn sharp contrast to the anti-historical, methodological Eurocentrism that has permeated the greater part of scholarly work on ‘Cosmopolitan Europe’, this book applies a rare, let’s call it, methodological cosmopolitanism to its subject matter. In so doing, it not only successfully challenges numerous assumptions and claims concerning the cosmopolitanism in and of Europe (and vice versa). As the book’s contributions amply testify, it also opens the door to a new, highly enlightening and thus utterly central empirical terrain for the field. This book is an achievement that should define the context for future research and intellectual debate.—Peo Hansen, Professor of Political Science at REMESO, Linköping UniversityAt a time when the EU political project has been called into question as never before in its history, Bhambra and Narayan’s edited collection offers an insightful exploration of the hidden histories that have shaped cosmopolitan Europe, but are largely omitted by its historical canon. By recovering silenced histories, the book provides us with a novel perspective as well as expanded resources with which to address the challenges of our contemporary society.— Nando Sigona, Birmingham Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of IRiS, Univeristy of BirminghamThis book makes a bold and crucial intervention. It simultaneously challenges the complacencies of elite European self-understandings, whereby an official ideology of European cosmopolitanism in fact reinstates postcolonial historical denial and Eurocentric insularity and excavates the richly cosmopolitan histories of imperial Europe’s inseparability from anti-colonial cosmopolitanisms, that go beyond ‘Europe’. The critical insight and rigor of this collection is indispensable for any serious reflection on the questions of ‘Europe’ and cosmopolitanism.—Nicholas De Genova, Reader in Human Geography, King’s CTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Colonial Histories and the Postcolonial Present of European Cosmopolitanism , (Gurminder K Bhambra and John Narayan)Part I: Theorizing European Cosmopolitanism Otherwise2. Cosmopolitan Europe: Memory, Apology and Mourning, (Meyda Yeğenoğlu)3. Ah, We Have Not Forgotten Ethiopia: Anti-Colonial Sentiments for Spain in a Fascist Era, (Robbie Shilliam) 4. Communist Cosmopolitanism, (William Outhwaite and Larry Ray) Part II: Alternative Historical Groundings of Cosmopolitanisms in Europe 5. Always Already Cosmopolitan – Indigenous Peoples and Swedish Modernity, (Gunlög Fur)6. The Early Modern Spanish Monarchy and European Cosmopolitanism, (M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado)7. The Cosmopolitan Caribbean Spirit and Europe, (Shantelle George)Part III: Contemporary Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms8. Rethinking Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Diaspora via the Diasporic Cosmopolitanism of Europe’s Kurds, (Ipek Demir) 9. Europe is over! Afro-European Mobilities, Former Colonial Metropoles, and New Cosmopolitanisms, (Sarah Demart) 10. Fanon’s Decolonized Europe: The Double Promise of Coloured Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Austerity, (John Narayan) 11. EPILOGUE: A New Vision of Europe: Learning from the South, (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ritual Performance and the Senses
Book SynopsisRitual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shriTrade Review"Bull and Mitchell provide a truly thought-provoking collection of essays by renowned authors widely influential in the fields of performance studies, sensory/sound studies, and cognitive neuroscience/neurophysics. It is a must-read for all interested in ritual plain and simple as well as for all interested in the complex interplay of cognition, senses, and performance. - Reading Religion This is an excellent collection of articles that are both theoretically and empirically rich and offer innovative approaches to long-standing concepts. - Religion and Society: Advances in Research The book is highly recommendable to anthropologists working on all fields ... It provides a productive entry into debates that will probably shape the future of our discipline as it moves beyond the constraints of a 'science of culture'. - Anthropos [This] book has been carefully curated to ensure that the points of interest ... speak to readers from across the fields of performance studies, anthropology, neuroanthropology and beyond. - HARTS & Minds"Table of ContentsIntroductionJon P. Mitchell and Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UKRitual Action Shapes Our Brains: an Essay in NeuroanthropologyRobert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, GermanyPlace-making in the 'Holy of Holies': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, JerusalemTrevor Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies, UKThe Importance of Repetition: Ritual as Extension of MindGreg Downey, Macquarie University, AustraliaDivine Intervention: Ontology, Cognition and Performance in Maltese Visionary PhenomenaJon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex, UKMaking 'Sense' in Embodied/Enactive Modes of Actor Training and PerformancePhilip Zarrili, University of Exeter, UKRamlila and SpaceRichard Schechner, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USAExploring the Andean Sensory Model: Knowledge, Memory and the Experience of PilgrimageZoila Mendoza, University of California, Davis, USASensation and TransmissionDavid Howes, Concordia University, CanadaAfterwordSarah Pink, Loughborough University, UKBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Europes 21st Century Challenge
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the final results of the CHALLENGE research project (The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security) - a five-year project funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of DG Research of the European Commission. The book critically appraises the liberties of citizens and others within the EU, and the different ways in which they are affected by the proliferation of discourses, practices and norms of insecurity enacted in the name of collective and individual safety. It analyses from an interdisciplinary perspective the impacts of new techniques of surveillance and control on the liberty and security of the citizen. The book studies illiberal practices of liberal regimes in the field of security, and the relationship between the internal and external effects of these practices in an increasingly interconnected world, as well as the effects in relation to the place of the EU in world politics.Trade Review'This is the acme of policy-relevant, intellectually coherent scholarship. It explores the challenges facing the EU in providing effective security at, within, and even outside its borders while preserving the personal and societal liberty at the core of democracy. Largely implicit suggestions that a zero-sum relationship between security and liberty can and should be avoided underlie both the framework and the meticulously objective analyses of the several chapters.' Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland, USA 'Delivering liberty' would seem an obvious task for democracies, but the book - and the CHALLENGE research project that originated it- explores the reasons why this remains a challenge. It interrogates the conceptual, empirical and normative relations between liberty and security and does so by fruitfully contesting the boundaries between different research disciplines and by engaging with policy makers and the public.' Angela Liberatore, Directorate General for Research, European Commission 'This book presents the result of the five-year research project CHALLENGE (The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security) which focused on the contemporary balance between liberty and security in Europe... given the monumental size of the research project, which involved 23 universities studying nine issue areas, the editors succeed in granting space to most of the findings of the project.' Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1: The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security; I: Liberty Challenges to the Constitution of Authority; 2: The Changing Dynamics of Security in an Enlarged European Union; 3: Mapping the European Field of Security Professionals; 4: Assuming Responsibility in the Changing Dynamics of Security? The European Security Strategy and the EU as a Security Actor beyond its Borders; 5: The Security Dimension of EU Policies between Legal Provisions and Living Practice: The European Council as the Key; 6: European Governance and the Interplay between Liberty and Security; 7: Transparency and Accountability: From Structuro-Procedural Transparency and Institutional Accountability to Communicating (In)Security in Digi-Space; II: Liberty Challenges to Borders; 8: The Legal Competence With Regard to External Borders: Examining Coherence; 9: Liberty, Security and Enlargement; 10: Gateways to Europe: Checkpoints on the EU External Land Border; 11: The Constitutional Price of Visa Free Travel: The Experiences of Bulgaria and Romania; 12: Effects of Exceptionalism on Social Cohesion in Europe and Beyond; 13: Exceptionalism and its Impact on the Euro-Mediterranean Area; 14: Securitization, Liberty and Law: The EU's 21st Century; III: Theoretical Perspectives on Challenges to Liberty; 15: Violence and Exceptionalism in Contemporary Politics: War, Liberty, Security; 16: The Value of Security; 17: Delivering Liberty and Security? The Reframing of Freedom when Associated with Security
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long
Book SynopsisCompelling 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 ranginTrade Review’This excellent volume exemplifies the increasing sophistication of scholarship around issues of the representation of race, particularly in the nineteenth century. High art, popular art and popular performance involving Africans are analysed with due regard to the complexities of European racial attitudes in an age of commercialism and empire.’ David Bindman, Hutchins Center at Harvard University, USA and author of Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the Eighteenth Century ’It is exciting to see scholars continue to probe the question of how visual arts of the West reflect the reactions to the experiences of Africans in the diaspora. The manner in which Europeans viewed and represented blacks in art is tied to the larger questions of power, cultural and political domination and exchange, along with an ever evolving influential aesthetics of difference. This well written volume of enlightening essays is a major contribution to the literature on race and representation as it broadens our understanding of the extent to which the dynamics of race has colored the history of art in Europe in many ways. Even though this volume focuses on European art, there are important contributions to the history of art relating to African Americans who created art in Europe in the nineteenth century. The discussions of slavery, Orientalism, photography and modernism in this book bring fresh perspectives to the subject of blackness in Europe. This volume is a must read for all who wish to advance their knowledge of a much neglected subject in American and European art history.’ David C. Driskell, Distinguished University Professor of Art Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park, USA'Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century assembles studies on a wide range of subjects that, taken together, reveal not just the relevance of images of “blacks” and “blackness” to studies of the nineteenth century, but constitute a compelling argument for how integral an awareness of the issues raised by those images should be to any account of the art of the period.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: figuring blackness in Europe, Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby; The color of Frenchness: racial identity and visuality in French anti-slavery imagery, 1788-94, Susan H. Libby; US and THEM: Camper’s odious ligne faciale and Géricault’s beseeching black, Albert Alhadeff; ’A mulatto sculptor from New Orleans’: Eugène Warburg in Europe, 1853-59, Paul H.D. Kaplan; Ira Aldridge as Othello in James Northcote’s Manchester portrait, Earnestine Jenkins; Exceeding blackness: African women in the art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Adrienne L. Childs; Visualizing racial antics in late 19th-century France, James Smalls; Staging ethnicity: Edvard Munch’s images of Sultan Abdul Karim, Allison W. Chang; Race and beauty in black and white: Robert Demachy and the aestheticization of blackness in pictorialist photography, Wendy A. Grossman; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Concepts of Law
Book SynopsisDebates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of ''law'' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts of Law are international experts from the fields of comparative law, legal philosophy, and the social sciences. Combining theoretical analyses with case studies, they explore various legal concepts and contexts from diverse national and disciplinary perspectives. Legal and normative pluralism is a theme throughout. Some chapters discuss the development of state law and legal systems. Others wrestle with law's rhetoric and the potential utility of alternative vocabularies, e.g., ''governance'' and 'governmentality'. Others reveal the rich polyjurality of the present, from the local to the global. The result is a rich picture of both present scholarship on laws and norms and the state of contemporary legal complexity, each crossing tTrade Review'This book contains a wonderful collection of essays on the meaning of law in a pluralist society. It is the first volume to bring together stimulating views of celebrated comparatists, legal theorists and social scientists on contemporary legal complexity. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the state of contemporary law.' Jan Smits, Maastricht University, The Netherlands ’This work displays a remarkably diverse range of opinion in current legal thought and critical scholarship about the nature of law. Although debate on the subject is certainly not new, this book carries it much further into the richly complex world of normative pluralism.’ Tom Bennett, University of Cape Town, South Africa 'This edited collection confronts us with the choice between having to tame a tiger and thinking the tiger to be a cat, just a different one. When writing about "concepts of law", then one apparently must pay tribute and homage, but one must also be daring and fierce. The authors in this book do both, and do it very differently, from one to the other, and thus offer a refreshing look at some of the (really) old problems of law and some of the old, newer and emerging views that exist with regard to the definition, concept and nature of law and to its role and function in a society which itself doesn't stand still. Reading is highly recommended.' Peer Zumbansen, King's College London, UK ’This book is a significant contribution to comparative legal scholarship. It is a collection of sophisticated essays on the nature of law and legal pluralism from philosophical, sociological, historical and comparativist perspectives.’ Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsChapter 1 Concepts of Law, Seán PatrickDonlan, Lukas HeckendornUrscheler; Chapter 2 Beyond the State In and Of Legal Theory, Maksymilian DelMar; Chapter 3 Do “Legal Systems” Exist? The Concept of Law and Comparative Law, Mark VanHoecke; Chapter 4 The Concept of Law, BaudouinDupret; Chapter 5 The Truth is Out There? Legal Pluralism and the Language-Game, JaakkoHusa; Chapter 6 Remembering and Applying Legal Pluralism, WernerMenski; Chapter 7 A Sense of Law, EmmanuelMelissaris; Chapter 8 Three Perils of Legal Pluralism, CatherineValcke; Chapter 9 Legal Sociology and the Sociology of Norms, DavidNelken; Chapter 10 Is Law a Special Domain? On the Boundary between the Legal and the Social, MarianoCroce; Chapter 11 The Creation and Use of Concepts of Law when Confronting Legal and Normative Plurality, AndrewHalpin; Chapter 12 A Concept of Law for Global Legal Pluralism?, RogerCotterrell; Chapter 13 The Concept of Law in Postnational Perspective, Alessio LoGiudice; Chapter 14 What is the Context in “Law in Context”?, JuliaEckert; Chapter 15 Short Notes on the Legal Pluralism(s) in Somaliland, SalvatoreMancuso;
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Taylor & Francis Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion
Book SynopsisExploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare provision and the erosion of public trust and civic engagement in Europe. It moves away from the question of whether there is in fact a universal correlation between ethnic diversity and social cohesion in order to focus on the reasons for which people's reciprocity and trust might be reduced in more ethnically diverse areas. Drawing attention to the importance of peoples' perceptions of diversity in explaining levels of social cohesion, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion shows how specific types of perceived diversity can help explain the reasons for which ethnic diversity is associated with declines in social cohesion, and the contexts and conditions in which this occurs. The book alTrade ReviewA Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Area/Ethnic Studies: Multicultural Studies ’Does ethnic diversity weaken social solidarity? Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion will be a must read for anyone who wants to find out what social science research has uncovered in answer to this question. Merlin Schaeffer reports findings from a major opinion survey in Germany; he fits them into a comprehensive analysis of results from a mass of studies in many other countries, and draws out the implications for future social policy. It is a masterly work, reviewing, and synthesising, a huge and difficult body of research.’ Michael Banton, Professor emeritus, University of Bristol, UK ’This is the most thoughtful, comprehensive, and rigorous contribution that I have yet seen to the lively scholarly debate about ethnic diversity and social cohesion. Merlin Schaeffer’s new book announces the presence on the international social scientific stage of a promising new star.’ Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, USA ’A thoughtful study of an area that has generated much controversy, which also contains valuable pointers to future policy. Drawing largely on the literature in sociology and political science, this work shows the fundamental importance of actual inter-ethnic contact, not mere co-existence, for social cohesion in diverse societies.’ Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford, UK 'Merlin Schaeffer’s book Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action arrives as a comprehensive review of to-date debates and methods, and it also brings diverse, often contradictory arguments together, and points to new research directions. ... Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion should be an essential read for social scientists studying social change in European societies brought about by international mobility and ethnic diversification.' Central and Eastern European Migration Review 'This is both a thorough andTable of ContentsEthnic Diversity and Social Cohesion
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Taylor & Francis Inc Man and Society in Calamity
Book SynopsisThis is an age of great calamities. War and revolution, famine and pestilence, are again rampant on this planet, and they still exact their deadly toll from suffering humanity. Calamities influence every moment of our existence: our mentality and behavior, our social life and cultural processes. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. In this classic volume, Sorokin attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved. In what way do famine and pestilence, war and revolution tend to modify our mind and conduct, our social organization and cultural life? To what extent do they succeed in this, and when and why do they prove less effective? What are the causes of these calamities, and what are the ways out? In dealing with these problems Sorokin tries to give a detailed description of the typical effects of famine and pestilence,Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; One: The Influence of Calamities Upon our Mind; 1: How Calamities Influence Our Affective and Emotional Life; Two: How Calamities Affect our Cognitive Processes, Desires and Volitions; Two: The Influence of Calamities Upon Our Behavior and Vital Processes; Three: How Famine Influences Our Behavior; Four: How Pestilence, War, and Revolution Influence Our Behavior; Five: How Calamities Influence The Vital Processes—Death, Birth, and Marriage Rates and Social Selection; Three: The Influence of Calamities Upon Social Mobility and Organization; Six: Migration, Mobility, and Disruption of Social Institutions; Seven: The Influence of Calamities Upon Political, Economic, and Social Organization; Eight: The Influence of Calamities Upon the Economic Standard of Living; Four: The Influence of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Nine: Two General Effects of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Ten: How Calamities Affect the Religious and Ethical Life of Society; Eleven: Calamities and Ethico-Religious Progress; Twelve: Sinners and Saints in Calamity; Thirteen: The Influence of Calamities Upon Science and Technology; Fourteen: Influence of Calamities Upon The Fine Arts; Fifteen: Dynamics of Ideologies in Calamity; Five: Causes and Remedies of Calamities; Sixteen: Causes of Calamities; Seventeen: The Way Out of Calamities; Eighteen: A Glance Into The Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisAs a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects from popular culture, including film, television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children's toys, music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and cultural construction of disability. While acknowledging that disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion, create community and express defiance in the context of disability and social change. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at the intersection of disaTrade Review’This rich and compelling book shows us the fundamental, consequential ways in which disability is omnipresent yet strangely neglected in our everyday lives. Ellis brilliantly traces the contours of disability across toys, beauty myths and ideals, science fiction, television, music, sport, and the cutting edge of online media. Popular culture - and disability studies - will never be the same again. Required reading for anyone interested in contemporary media, culture, society - and where our bodies, identities, and desires do, and don’t, fit in.’ Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia ’Popular culture defines how we see the world. However, critical examination of the images and interpretation of disability in this arena is rare. Dr Katie Ellis's book helps fill this gap in understanding. Dr Ellis has started a conversation about disability and popular culture with her latest title to produce a fascinating opening address to an important discussion.’ Mike Kent, Curtin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsDisability and Popular Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Driver Behaviour and Training Volume VI
Book SynopsisThis volume is an outcome of the sixth International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training. It focuses on how driver training must adapt to take into account individual differences in order to raise awareness of how these differences may contribute to unsafe driving behaviour.Trade Review'This volume demonstrates the astonishing scale of the amount of work that is being done all over the world in the field of driver behaviour and training. Each contribution has something of interest for specialists in the field. Moreover, the editors have stamped their mark in what could have been an unwieldy collection of papers, giving a cohesive structure throughout.' The RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal, October 2013Table of ContentsPart 1: Driver Education: The Role of Experience and Instruction 1. Anticipation, Neural Function and Mastering Driving 2. Does Driving Experience Delay Overload Threshold as a Function of Situation Complexity? 3. Risk Allostasis: A Simulator Study of Age Effects 4. Development and Evaluation of a Competence-based Exam for Prospective Driving Instructors Part 2: Driver Behaviour and Driver Training 5. Identifying the Characteristics of Risky Driving Behaviour 6. The Impact of Frustration on Visual Search and Hazard Sensitivity in Filmed Driving Situations 7. Anger and Prospective Memory While Driving: Do Future Intentions Affect Current Anger? 8. Emotion Regulation of Car Drivers by the Physical and Psychological Parameters of Music 9. The Relationship between Seat Belt Use and Distracted Driving 10. Self-evaluation Bias in Stopping Behaviour whilst Driving 11. Predicting the Future Driving Style of Novice Drivers: The Role of Self-evaluation and Instructors' Ratings following Driver Training 12. Improving Safety during Work-related Driving among Postal Van Drivers Part 3: Road Environment, In-Vehicle Technology and Driver Behaviour 13. Evaluation of Visual Overtaking Distance Using a Driver's Psycho-emotional Response 14. Cognitive Distractions and their Relationship with the Driver 15. Driver Fatigue Systems - How do they Change Drivers' Behaviour? 16. Ergonomics of Parking Brake Application: An Introduction 17. The Compatibility of Energy Efficiency with Pleasure of Driving in a Fully Electric Vehicle 18. Learning from Accidents: Using Technical and Subjective Information to Identify Accident Mechanisms and to Develop Driver Assistance Systems Part 4: Methodological Considerations in Measuring Driver Behaviour 19. The Consistency of Crash Involvement Recall across Time 20. Controlling for Self-reported Exposure in Traffic Accident Prediction Studies 21. The Wrong Tool for the Job? the Predictive Powers of the DBQ in a Sample of Queensland Motorists 22. Predictive Validity and Cross-cultural Differences in the Self-reported Driving Behaviour of Professional Driver Students in Ecuador 23. Psychometric Properties of the Driving Cognitions Questionnaire in a Polish Sample
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marx and Weber on Oriental Societies
Book SynopsisThe Orient was central to the work of Marx and Weber, both figures building their theories around the question of why modernity appeared to emerge only in the West. While Marx's account focused on the accumulation of capital in the West, Weber's explanation for this phenomenon centred on Western rationalization. Extending recent work comparing the social theories of Marx and Weber, this book examines their approaches to Oriental societies, showing how, in spite of the differences in their respective theorizations of the historical and political development of the West, their work on the form of modern society in the Orient converges, each complementing the other. Fully conversant with recent scholarly work on Marx and Weber, this comprehensive re-examination of the points of convergence and departure in their work requires us to re-evaluate both their positions in the history of sociology and their relevance to contemporary social questions. As such, it will appeal to scholars of soTrade Review’Sociology remains Orientalistic in that the knowing subjects continue to be the authors of the canonical works of Western social science such as Marx and Weber. Re-examining their writings and locating them in their proper place in the history of sociology, this is an important contribution to rescuing social theory from potential irrelevance by separating out what is sound and valuable from what is Orientalistic.’ Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore, Singapore ’Lutfi Sunar reminds us of the extent to which contemporary ideas of modernity, and therefore current ideas of alternative modernities as well, are derived from the writings of Marx and Weber. Sunar’s book suggests that we urgently need to rethink the idea of modernity itself, wherever it may have occurred. Essential reading for Marx and Weber studies, as well as for anyone concerned with the history and theory of modernity.’ Robert J. Young, New York University, USA '... the book provides a thorough examination of Orientalism within the writings of Marx and Weber. ... the book also contributes to the decolonization of the discipline by forcing sociologists to re-examine widely used concepts and theories in light of their Orientalist influences.' Canadian Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Karl Marx and Imagining the Orient; Chapter 2 The Development of Marx’s Vision of the Orient; Chapter 3 Discussions on the Asiatic Mode of Production; Chapter 4 Marx’s Sources for Oriental Societies; Chapter 5 Marx’s Study of Oriental Societies; Chapter 6 Marx’s Oriental Mirror; Part 2 Oriental Societies in the Theory of Max Weber; Chapter 7 The Formation of Weber’s Sociology of the Orient and its Reception; Chapter 8 Weber’s Sources on Oriental Societies; Chapter 9 Same Old Differences; Chapter 10 Divergences; Chapter 11 Disengagements; Chapter 12 Weber’s Occidental Geist; Part 3 Converging Poles of Sociology; Chapter 13 A Comparison of Marx and Weber’s Analyses of Oriental Societies; Chapter 14 Epilogue;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Movement Dynamics
Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes in the configuration of actors, in previously established patterns of relationship between social movements and political institutions, and in the shapes of collaborative networks, both domestic and transnational. The authors analyze a broad set of countries and social movements, while focusing on three key theoretical debates: the interactions between routine and contentious politics, the relationship between protest and context, and the organizational configurations of social movements. The research agenda put forward by this book is neither defined nor restricted by geographical boundaries, even though the chapters are based on field research undertaken in Latin America. In doing Trade Review’This new collection blends traditions of research on social movements and contentious politics from various regions with Latin American perspectives in the Latin American context. Drawing heavily on the political process, resource mobilization, and transnational politics traditions, the authors advance our knowledge of Latin American contention in three areas: transcending the boundaries between contentious and routine politics; embedding social movements in the context of economic, political, and environmental change; and examining the new organizational repertoires that have emerged in Latin America since democratization.’ Sidney Tarrow, author of War, States and Contention ’Latin America has seen innumerable instances of political contention over centuries. However, mainstream social movement analysts from the political process school have paid fairly scant attention to that continent. This book fills this gap admirably. Far from imposing Western analytic categories over a different setting, the authors develop a fruitful dialogue between different theoretical currents. This book will appeal to both social movement analysts who do not specialize in Latin America and area experts from other intellectual perspectives. Highly recommended.’ Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy and ICREA-UPF, Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Theory-Building Beyond Borders, Federico M. Rossi; Part I Beyond Contentious Versus Routine Politics; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Strategy Making in a Historical and Collective Perspective, Federico M. Rossi; Chapter 3 Part isan Performance, Ann Mische; Chapter 4 Institutional Activism, Rebecca Neaera Abers, Luciana Tatagiba; Part II The Politics and Economics of Protests; Chapter 5 The Role of Threats in Popular Mobilization in Central America, Paul D. Almeida; Chapter 6 Eventful Temporality and the Unintended Outcomes of Mexico’s Earthquake Victims Movement, Ligia Tavera Fenollosa; Part III Brokerage and Coalition Formation; Chapter 7 Institutionalized Brokers and Collective Actors, Adrian Gurza Lavalle, Marisa von Bülow; Chapter 8 Domestic Loops and Deleveraging Hooks: Transnational Social Movements and the Politics of Scale Shift, Rose J. Spalding; Part 4 CONCLUSION; Chapter 9 Weaving Social Movements Back In, Margaret E. Keck;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Social Ties
Book SynopsisAfter forced migration to a country where immigrants form an ethnic majority, why do some individuals support exclusivist and nationalist political parties while others do not? Based on extensive interviews and an original survey of 1,200 local Serbs and ethnic Serbian refugees fleeing violent conflict in Bosnia and Croatia, The Politics of Social Ties argues that those immigrants who form close interpersonal networks with others who share their experiences, such as the loss of family, friends, and home, in addition to the memory of ethnic violence from past wars, are more likely to vote for nationalist parties. Any political mobilization occurring within these interpersonal networks is not strategic, rather, individuals engage in political discussion with people who have a greater capacity for mutual empathy over the course of discussing other daily concerns. This book adds the dimension of ethnic identity to the analysis of individual political behavior, without treating ethnic grouTrade Review’Mila Dragojevi provides a detailed and thorough analysis of the ways Serbian refugees from Bosnia and Croatia integrated into political life in Serbia proper. But the work is much more than an impressive case study. Dragojevi’s research is path-breaking in specifying how refugees form interpersonal networks and how, once formed, these networks sustain social identities and affect political behaviors.’ Roger Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ’This is a superb micro-level analysis of why nationalist parties are more successful at attracting the support of some co-ethnics and not others. Based on an original examination of ethnic Serbs who migrated to Serbia from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1991, Mila Dragojevi sheds light on the role of social ties within immigrant communities in shaping both their political attitudes and voting behavior. Her finding that immigrants are more likely to hold extreme beliefs and support extreme political parties when they have low levels of social incorporation has significant theoretical and policy implications. This book is a must read for both students of ethnic politics and policymakers in multi-ethnic states.’ Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan, USA ’This beautifully written and expertly crafted research on the political behavior of ethnically defined refugees (escaping discrimination as a minority to an ethnic homeland) destroys an entire literature on the relation between ethnic identity and conflict. Read this book for the unexpected experience such migrants face, the new refugee identities they establish in response, and why, and when, nationalist political parties benefit - not only in her primary case of Serbs and Serbia but also in Croatia, Algeria, and Israel.’ Susan L. Woodward, City University of New York, USA 'From its captivating subtitle, this book indeed raises some interesting theoretical questions, specifically how the refugee experience mTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Identity Formation and Political Mobilization; Chapter 3 The Social Logic of Voting; Chapter 4 The Formation of the Refugee Identity; Chapter 5 Refugees and Electoral Discourse; Chapter 6 Coethnic Immigrants in Croatia, Israel, and France; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy in Dialogue Dialogue in Democracy
Book SynopsisIt is widely accepted that the machinery of multicultural societies and liberal democratic systems is dependent upon various forms of dialogue - dialogue between political parties, between different social groups, between the ruling and the ruled. But what are the conditions of a democratic dialogue and how does the philosophical dialogic approach apply to practice? Recently, facing challenges from mass protest movements across the globe, liberal democracy has found itself in urgent need of a solution to the problem of translating mass activity into dialogue, as well as that of designing borders of dialogue. Exploring the multifaceted nature of the concepts of dialogue and democracy, and critically examining materializations of dialogue in social life, this book offers a variety of perspectives on the theoretical and empirical interface between democracy and dialogue. Bringing together the latest work from scholars across Europe, Democracy in Dialogue, Dialogue in Democracy offers freTrade Review’A stimulating collection of essays on the importance of dialogue for democratic politics, with probing examinations of the philosophical problems of democratic dialogue and practical case-studies illuminating the issues at stake. It will be of great interest to all students of democracy and democratic education, and to all those concerned with improving the quality of contemporary democracy.’ John Schwarzmantel, University of Leeds, UK ’This collection of critical dialogues addresses a global problem: the future and the dilemmas of a specific form of democracy that emerged after the fall of communism. Democracy and dialogue: the theme is classical (going back to Plato) but also actual (in philosophers from Levinas to Buber to Habermas). The authors first engage their own cultures before joining together in a collective project that brings us back to the classical questions. The volume is fascinating, greater than the sum of its parts. This sort of dialogue should be continued.’ Dick Howard, Stony Brook University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Katarzyna Jezierska and Leszek Koczanowicz. Part I Modes of Dialogue: Between understanding and consensus: engaging Mikhail Bakhtin in political thinking, Leszek Koczanowicz; Dialogue and critique: on the theoretical conditions of a critique of society, Mikael Carleheden; Repressed democracy: legitimacy problems in world society, Regina Kreide; Rational dialogue or emotional agon? Habermas’s concept of the public sphere and Mouffe’s project of radical democracy, Pawel Dybel. Part II The Challenge of the Other: ‘I’ meets the ‘other’: agonistic and deliberative versions of subjectivity and otherness, Katarzyna Jezierska; Bad patriots: universality, aesthetics, and the historicity of democracy, Stefan Jonsson; Attitudes, behaviour, democracy, and dialogue, Katarzyna Byrka, Tomasz Grzyb and Dariusz Dolinski; Antagonism, agonism, and dialogue in civil society: Wrocław’s Romanian Roma, Ewa Jupowiecka. Part III Dialogical Spaces: Thinking democracy and education for the present: the case of Norway after July 22, 2011, Torill Strand; Rehabilitation of power in democratic dialogic education, Eugene Matusov and Ana Marjanovic-Shane; Typology of critical dialogue and power relations in democratic dialogic education, Eugene Matusov and Ana Marjanovic-Shane; Dialogue - ideal and practiced: how philosophy is transformed into governance, Boel Englund and Birgitta Sandström; Interactive, qualitative, and inclusive? Assessing the deliberative capacity of the political blogosphere, Martin Karlsson
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lobbying the European Union
Book SynopsisUnique in bringing together contributions from academics and practitioners on the theme of strategic, intelligent modern lobbying this book provides a thorough and accessible discussion on key ideas pertinent to the pursuance of public affairs in the European Union. Combining innovative academic research with first-hand professional experience it offers the reader a combination of practical recommendations, case studies and academic theory to add new insights to interest group research and lobbying strategies. While focusing on the European Union the contributors acknowledge the multi-level dimension of EU decision-making and incorporate research on multi-level governance as well as lobbying by sub-national authorities. Through this they present a fuller picture of a subject that should appeal to students, academics and practitioners alike.Trade Review’The attention of scholars and practitioners to EU interest representation has grown rapidly, but thus far the two communities have rarely met. This volume is the first in its kind to bring together academic and practice oriented work on public affairs in the EU. It is state of the art and stimulating, a much needed contribution to this developing field.’ Arco Timmermans, Leiden University, the Netherlands ’This book offers a unique collection of state-of-the art scientific expertise and insightful professional perspectives on lobbying and public affairs in the European Union. It is one of the first true dialogues between academic and professional experts within this field and is therefore very valuable for both academics and professionals interested in the role of societal interests in the European Union.’ Caelesta Braun, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Paul G. Nixon and Paul A. Shotton; Change and continuity in the composition of the lobby community in the European Union: lobby explosion and lobby tourism?, Joost Berkhout; Issue areas, political arenas and interest groups, Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz and Helene Helboe Pedersen; Evaluating pluralism: interest groups’ policy demands and lobbying success in the European Commission’s open consultations. A case study in environmental policy, Adriana Bunea; Outnumbered, but not outgunned? The participation of citizen groups and business interests in national and EU level consultations on EU policies, Rainer Eising; Regions lobbying the European Union: organizational forms, policy portfolios and venue selection, Bert Fraussen and Tom Donas; Privileged access to the European Commission's stakeholder consultations, Henrik Hermansson; Social media and the politics of interest representation, Paul A. Shotton and Adam W. Chalmers; A practical guide to European Union lobbying campaigns, Natacha Clarac and Stéphane Desselas; Advocacy 3.0: adapting to a new public policy paradigm, Tom Parker and Gabriel Gonzalez; Changing nature of public affairs agencies: the role of ‘thought leadership’, David O’Leary; Public affairs case study: The Centre - Brussels’ first think-do tank, Martin Porter; European Union think tanks and public affairs: a fine line between independence and advocacy, Hans Martens; Conclusion, Paul A. Shotton and Paul G. Nixon; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life
Book SynopsisWhy is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell''s long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned with the stories of ''ordinary'' people who describe how music helps them within their everyday lives. Together this complementary material leads Ansdell to present a new interdisciplinary framework showing how musical experiences can help all of us build and negotiate identities, make intimate non-verbal relationships, belong together in community, and find moments of transcendence and meaning. How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist''s perspective) a better understanding of ''music and change'' in our personTrade Review’How Music Helps represents a fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the importance of music in the lives of people. With a philosophical orientation that will resonate with many of us who are advocates of the social-cultural impact of music and music making, Ansdell expertly weaves person-centered narratives and theoretical reflection. A first rate book from an author who is continuing the legacy of Nordoff and Robbins by always thinking musically within the music therapy context’. Lee Higgins, Boston University, USA ’With ecological sensitivity as subject and method, Gary Ansdell has produced an exquisite guide to the exploration of music’s help in music therapy and in everyday life. The question of how music helps is approached by elaborations of where and when music helps, for people in specific situations. This is food for our theoretical imagination and a stimulating invitation to interdisciplinary work.’ Brynjulf Stige, University of Bergen, Norway ’Ansdell's newest music therapy book is not a research study, a theory or practice handbook, or a textbook for music therapists. It is instead an eco-phenomenology of the benefits of music, exploring where, when, and how music helps people make connections in order to heal and grow ... Ansdell provides useful diagrams, an appendix about his method, and extensive scholarly apparatus. For anyone in the healing professions, this book demonstrates that all musicians can benefit from the experiences of healing that come from making music for themselves and with other people. ...Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.’ Choice ’... a complex and thoroughly enriching, challenging and inspiring reading experience. I highly recommend this book to any music therapist, musician and music lover. Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music EducationTable of ContentsMusic's Help; I: Musical Worlds; 1: Musical Ecologies; 2: Musical Lifeworlds; II: Musical Experience; 3: The Music of Experience; 4: Aspects of Musical Experience; 5: Helpful Musical Experiences; III: Musical Personhood; 6: Musical Recognition; 7: Core Musicality; 8: Musical Identities; 9: Musical Performances; IV: Musical Relationship; 10: Musical Connection; 11: Musical Companionship; 12: Musical Dialogue; 13: Musical Meeting; V: Musical Community; 14: Musical Togetherness; 15: Musical Hospitality; 16: Musical Belonging; 17: Musical Ritual; VI: Musical Transcendence; 18: Musical Epiphany; 19: Musical Thresholds; 20: Musical Hope; Musical Flourishing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Brainwaves A Cultural History of
Book SynopsisIn the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger's experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck''s thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Brain Waves Then and Now 1. Electrifying Brain Images 2. Hans Berger’s Long Path to the EEG 3. Electrotechniques of the Live Mind 4. Terra nova: Contexts of Electroencephalographic Explorations 5. Set to and Survey Much! 6. Designing, Tinkering, Thinking Conclusion - Plea for an Open Epistemology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dublins Bourgeois Homes
Book SynopsisIn 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind manicured front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 of these homes were constructed in the fields surrounding the city. The most elaborate were built for Dublin's upper middle classes, distinguished by their granite staircases and decorative entrances. Today, they are some of the Irish capital's most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws.Dublin's Bourgeois Homes is the first in-depth analysis of the city's upper middle-class houses. Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, Susan Galavan follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots and sourcing bricks and mortar. She analyses a select range of homes in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (nowTrade Review"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes is a comprehensive analysis of the 19th-century development of Dublin’s prosperous inner suburbs […] Galavan’s book provides fascinating insight into both the architecture of the houses and the ways in which these still much sought-after suburbs evolved […] its rigorous analysis of house typologies is presented in an engaging and meaningful way, making it accessible to the non-expert. In an era of ever-increasing awareness of the importance of conservation of architectural heritage, this book provides context for home owners who struggle to understand the merits of conservation and helps to elucidate the enduring legacy of the residential architecture beyond a single generation."Carole Pollard, Architectural Histories (EAHN)"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"The breadth of this study is impressive and goes well beyond an architectural history of Dublin’s Victorian suburbs. […] For anyone seeking to understand the long-term impact which Georgian design had on suburban Dublin, how middle-class Victorians lived and how the modern city has been shaped by its Victorian ancestors, this book is a must."Lisa Marie Griffith, Irish Economic and Social History 46(I)"Galavan is adept at reading the nuances of the house plan, developing a reasoned exposition of its variation over time and making an equally convincing analysis of its three-dimensional expression. She brings the characters and motives of three Dublin business men firmly into focus while also uncovering the imperial and family networks that enabled them to amass substantial property fortunes."Finola O'Kane, Urban HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The architecture of Dublin’s bourgeois homes 2 The domestic realm: inside the semi-detached house 3 Control: land tenure and infrastructure 4 Builders, speculators and labourers 5 Process: building materials Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Masculinities Gender Equality and Crisis
Book SynopsisThe overarching mission of the rescue services comprises three main areas of responsibility: protection against disasters and accidents; crisis management; and civil defence. This mission covers a long chain of obligations in trying to improve societal prevention capabilities and manage threats, risks, accidents, and disasters concerning generic as well as individual safety. It follows a reactive social chain of threat-risk-crisis-crisis management-care-rehabilitation. The authors in this book show that the interesting occupational characteristics of these societal duties are their connection to gender and crisis management in a wider sense. Gendered practices, processes, identities, and symbols are analytical lenses that provide a particular understanding and explanatory base that has received far too little attention in the academic literature. This book identifies four major themes in relation to a gendered understanding of the rescue services, and more generally emergencyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: masculinities, gender equality, crisis management and the rescue services: contested terrains and challenges, Ulf Mellström, Mathias Ericson, Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Katherine Harrison, Kristina Lindholm and Jennie Olofsson; Masculinity, sexualisation and the proactive turn in the firefighter profession, Mathias Ericson; Masculinity, emotions and ‘communities of relief’ among male emergency medical technicians, Morten Kyed; Masculinities and the dynamics of labour and power in the watch, Sarah O’Connor; Institutional patriarchy, auto-critique and resilience - a comparative gaze, Dave Baigent; Stray dogs and women are prohibited in the sentry on the spatial effects of fire fighters’ homosocial practices, Jennie Olofsson; Unpacking the black box of IDA: standardisation and disappearing gender, Katherine Harrison; Collaboration as a tool for implementing equality politics, Anne-Charlott Callerstig and Kristina Lindholm; Agents for change? Gender equality efforts in the Swedish rescue services, Ulrika Jansson; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of European
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: explaining invariable, universal attributes of societies and examining changing attributes. The book consists of 20 chapters on European social transformations, written from the perspectives of distinguished scholars from such disciplines as economics, political science, educational science, geography, media and communication studies, public management and administration, social psychology and sociology. The temporal and spatial range of the book is wide, including such global changes as time-space compression, focusing particularly on change processes in Europe during the last two decades. The book consists of four main parts, beginning with an overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches, and then focusing separately on post-communist transformationTrade Review"The epoch of neo-liberalism since the late 1970s has been a period of fundamental social transformations leading to shifts in all areas of society. The editors of this path-breaking handbook have assembled a team of scholars, who examine the social, institutional, spatial and temporal dimensions of social transformation as experienced in Eastern Europe and the European Union, and link these both to social theory and to global processes of transformation. This is an important book that could help reframe the social sciences for the 21st century."Stephen Castles, University of Sydney, Australia."A comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of transformation studies, reaching out from post-communist "transitology" to structural changes of the EU and global capitalism, including both macro, meso, and micro level research. A must-read for specialists and students as well as general readers interested in the epochal change the world is undergoing."Pekka Sulkunen, University of Helsinki, Finland.Table of ContentsList of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Contributors, Introduction: Mapping European Social Transformations (Marju Lauristin, Anu Masso and Signe Opermann), PART I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, 1.1. Theoretical Approaches to Post-Communist Transformations in Europe (Raj Kollmorgen) 1.2. Evolving Approaches to the Analysis of Central and Eastern European Capitalism (Elena Iankova) 1.3. Methodological Solutions for Comparative Research on Transformations (Borut Rončević, Matej Makarovič, Matevž Tomšič and Victor Cepoi) 1.4. Varieties and Patterns of Post-Communist Transformations: A Qualitative Comparative Retrospective Scenario Analysis (Zenonas Norkus) 1.5. The Concept of Refraction and the Narrative Approach to Exploring Multi-Level Social Reform Initiatives: Conceptual and Methodological Issues (Rain Mikser and Ivor Goodson) PART II: Post-Communist Transformations 2.1. Capitalism by Design (Anders Åslund) 2.2. The Development of Political Systems in Post-Communist Countries (Vello Pettai) 2.3. Decline of Liberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe (Grażyna Skąpska) 2.4. Social Stratification and Inequalities in Eastern and Central Europe (Ellu Saar and Avo Trumm) 2.5. Social Transformations, Housing and Socio-Economic Segregation in the Fast-Track Reform Countries (Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak and Kristiina Kukk) 2.6. Lifestyle Governance: Micro-Level Social Transformation (Triin Vihalemm and Margit Keller) PART III: Institutional Drivers of Social Transformations in the European Union 3.1. Trajectories of Attitudes towards European Integration: The New Member States and beyond (Henri Vogt) 3.2. Environmental Problems as Drivers of Economic and Social Transformation in Europe (Peter Preisendörfer) 3.3. Notes on Spatial Transformation in Post-Cold War Europe and the Territory Work of the European Union (Sami Moisio and Juho Luukkonen) 3.4. Innovation (Policy) and Transformative Change in the European Union (Erkki Karo and Rainer Kattel) PART IIII: European Transformations in the Context of Global Processes 4.1. Time-Space Compression and the Remaking of European Topologies (Barney Warf) 4.2. Mediatisation: The Transformation of Everyday Life and Social Relations, Institutions and Enterprises, Culture and Society in the Context of Media Change (Friedrich Krotz) 4.3. Migration and Social Transformation (Thomas Faist, Mustafa Aksakal and Kerstin Schmidt) 4.4. Social Generations and Societal Changes (Raili Nugin and Veronika Kalmus) Index
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Taylor & Francis Inc Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
Book SynopsisScience is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE -- 1. ‘What is Science ?’ -- 2. Social Problems of Industrialized Science -- PART II. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE -- 3. Science as Craftsman’s Work -- 4: Scientific Inquiry: Problem-Solving on Artificial Objects -- 5. Methods -- 6. Facts and their Evolution -- 7. The Special Character of Scientific Knowledge -- PART III. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY -- 8. The Protection of Property -- 9. The Management of Novelty -- 10. Quality Control in Science -- 11. Ethics in Scientific Activity -- PART IV. SCIENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD -- 12. Technical Problems -- 13. Practical Problems -- 14. Immature and Ineffective Fields of Inquiry -- PART V. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE Index of Names Index of Topics General Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms. This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including anthropology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanatory role in the generation of hatreds. Farhad Dalal argues that people differentiate between races in order to make a distinction between the 'haves' and 'must-not-haves', and that this process is cognitive, emotional and political rather than biological. Examining the subject over the past thousand years, Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialisation covers:* psychoanalytic and other theories of racism* a new theorisation of racism based on group analytic theory* a general theory of difference based on the works of Fanon, Elias, Matte-Blanco and Foulkes* application of this theory to race and racism.Farhad Dalal concludes that the structures of society are reflected in the structures of the psyche, and both of these are colour coded. This book will be invaluable to students, academics and practitioners in the areas of psychoanalysis, group analysis, psychotherapy and counselling.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois
Book SynopsisThis work marks the recent passing of the 100th Anniversary of Du Bois' classic of African American literature. More than fifty events and celebrations were held in cities and universities around the country. It poignantly explores the relationship of Du Bois, the man, to his writings. It is written by expert team of authors including the prominent Manning Marable. "The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois" explores the relationship of W. E. B. Du Bois' seminal book, "The Souls of Black Folk", to other works in his scholarly portfolio and to his larger project concerning race, racial identity, and the social objectives of scholarly engagement. Prominent authors consider why the classic book remains so relevant today.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alford A. Young, Jr. Chapter 1: Celebrating Souls: Deconstructing the Du Boisian Legacy Manning Marable Chapter 2: Searching for the Souls of Black Women: W. E. B. Du Bois's COntribution Elizabeth Higginbotham Chapter 3: The Soul of The Philadelphia Negro and The Souls of Black Folk Alford A. Young, Jr. Chapter 4: Cultural Politics in the Negro Soul Charles Lemert Chapter 5: The Souls of Black Folk and Afro-American Intellectual Life Jerry G. Watts Notes Index About the Authors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth
Book SynopsisThis book develops the concept of racialisation. It argues that a full understanding of racialized discourse must pay attention to both the particular local circumstances in which they appear, and well-established themes which have unfolded over time. An important aspect of the study is the examination of other discourses with which racialized ideas have co-joined, reflecting the way in which notions of 'race' are socially constructed. The final part of the book returns to debates of the 1980’s and argues that the racialisation of unrest in that decade was closely intertwined with conservative perspectives which sought to deny socio-economic causes in favour of explanations based upon the supposed cultural or personal proclivities of those involved.Trade Review’This is a valuable book for anyone interested in understanding both the history and contemporary forms of disorder related to race. It provides a rounded analysis of an issue that is central to the study of political and social change in British society.’ John Solomos, University of Southampton, UK ’...will be of use first and foremost to students of race and ethnicity...solid and evenly balanced...’ Ethnic conflictTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: law, disorder and the nation; Marxism, postmodernism and the racialization problematic; Liverpool, 1919: ...to make an honest bread; Political disorder in 1930s Britain: coloured shirts and tin trumpets; Nottingham and Notting Hill 1958-59: ostentatious blacks and rowdy whites; Broadwater Farm, October 1985: this is not England; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Exclusion in Europe: Problems and
Book SynopsisExclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political discourse of all governments in the European Union and in the European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in various research agencies’ funding priorities attracting academics to develop and conduct major research programmes. But what does it mean? This book analyzes the different meanings the term exclusion has come to convey and surveys a wide variety of actual applications in different European countries.Trade Review’This book’s rich mix of theoretical discussion, critical literature review and conceptual development...will make it the key text for those wishing to understand what social exclusion in Europe means. In short, this is a fascinating and timely book which will deserve a wide readership.’ Robert McDonald, University of Teeside, UK ’This interesting and varied collection is a useful addition to the growing literature on social exclusion.’ Dr Angus Erskine, University of Stirling, UK ’An important and clarifying sociological discussion...’ Gunnar Olofsson, University of Vaxjo, Sweden ’This book will not only assist the reader in understanding several sources and dimensions of social exclusion: it offers thoughtful ideas of what can be done to combat contemporary forms of social inequality effectively.’ Godfried Engbersen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands ’...sharp, thoughtful and informed sociological work...’ European SocietiesTable of ContentsContents: Identifying social exclusion: some problems of meaning, Paul Littlewood and Sebastian Herkommer; The end of the full employment society: changing the basis for inclusion and exclusion, Georg Vobruba; Social exclusion and the flexibility of labour: a theoretical exploration, Gerrit van Kooten; Paid work - a crucial link between individuals and society?: some conclusions on the meaning of work for social integration, Ignace Glorieux; The underclass - a misleading concept and a scientific myth?: poverty and social exclusion as challenges to theories of class and social structure, Sebastian Herkommer and Max Koch; Women, work and welfare, Ingrid Jönsson; Ideas of social justice in the welfare state in Germany and The Netherlands, Roswitha Pioch; Stigma and non-take up in social policy: re-emerging properties of declining welfare state programmes?, Staffan Blomberg and Jan Petersson; Schooling, exclusion and self-exclusion, Paul Littlewood; Citizenship and exclusion in the European Union, Mike McGuinness; The socio-cultural exclusion and self-exclusion of foreigners in Finland: the case of Joensuu, M'hammed Sabour; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Among Men: Moulding Masculinities, Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe two 'Moulding Masculinities' volumes represent the first major publication in English of Northern European studies on masculinities. They focus on men’s relationships towards each other and their bodies, primarily from psycho-dynamic and social constructionist perspectives. The contributors are drawn from disciplines as diverse as sociology, social anthropology, media studies and sports sciences, and include scholars from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, the UK and the USA. Investigating the relational aspects of masculinity, this volume describes how different masculinities are moulded within diverse structures and settings. It explores how men interact with each other and how they collectively react to and embody changing concepts of masculinity. By centering on the struggle and negotiation between different groups and discourses of masculinity and investigating the origin of dominant images and ideals of masculinity, these two volumes will widen international understanding of how historic forms of masculinity are interpreted, revived and combined in the process of moulding masculinities.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword, Michael Kimmel; Introduction, Søren Ervø and Thomas Johansson; Men, gender and the state, R.W. Connell; A theory of gender, patriarchy and capitalism, Øystein GullvÃ¥g Holter; The emancipation from gender: a critique of the Utopias of postmodern gender theory, Mikael Carleheden; Beautiful men, fine women and good work people: gender and skill in Northern Sweden 1850-1950, Ella Johansson; Masculine sport and masculinity in Denmark at the turn of the century, Hans Bonde; Masculinity and the north, Lena Eskilsson; Modern masculinities? Continuities, challenges and changes in men’s lives, Michael Meuser; Technology and masculinity: men and their machines, Ulf Mellström; Contingency and desire: the ritual construction of masculinity in a right-wing political youth organization, Philip Lalander; A death mask of masculinity: the brotherhood of Norwegian right-wing skinheads, Katrine Fangen; Fathering, masculinity and parental relationships, Victor Jeleniewski Seidler; Men’s lack of family orientation: some reflections on Scandinavian research on families, Christian Kullberg; Fatherhood and masculinity: non-resident fathers’ construction of identity, Thomas Johansson; Masculinity and paranoia in Strindberg’s 'The Father', Jørgen Lorentzen; Phallic lovers, non-phallic lovers: stereotyped masculinities in women’s novels of the 1970s, Helena Wahlström; Fathers - the solution or part of the problem? Single mothers, their sons and social work, Thomas Johansson; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus
Book SynopsisWhat are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK and the rationality of 'sustainable development'. Supported by a wealth of empirical material collected over the past ten years, the study examines the national, regional and local tiers of planning for housing. It analyzes whether the rationality of planning for 'sustainable development' allows a new spatial sensibility to inform planning policy, and whether it still responds to the social demands that were previously incorporated within the developmental method. The overriding concern, which the authors respond to and expand upon, is whether planning for sustainable development can provide a satisfactory basis upon which to re-establish contemporary planning.Trade Review'This is an excellent book...to be warmly welcomed and should be essential reading for all planners and intending planners...it is refreshingly well written.' Town & Country Planning 'The case studies alone would ensure that this book finds its way onto many reading lists and bookshelves.' Urban Studies '...of interest not only to geographers but also to environmentalists, housing advocates, and planners.' Environment and planning C: Government and Policy 'Jonathan Murdoch and Simone Abram have provided a useful overview of current trends in planning in England.' Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 'The book is well structured and easy to follow, and coloured with rich empirical evidence...this piece of work has its merits in putting focus on an often-forgotten corner of environmental conflict - that of urban sprawl on valuable rural land...A well-grounded field study further underlines the complexity of implementing sustainable development policies.' Geografiska Annaler, Series B, Human GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Planning and the governance of growth: theories and issues; The changing rationalities of planning policy; The policy hierarchy in planning; Planning by numbers; Competing rationalities in structure planning; Down to the district: local expressions of development and environment; Towards a new rationality of planning?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThis book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on local gang formation and development, paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The book also explores the challenges that migration and ethnicity pose for responding effectively to the growth of such gangs, particularly in areas where public discourse on such issues is restricted. Chapters in the book are concerned to address both situations where there have been longstanding problems with street gangs as well as areas where such issues have just started to emerge. A variety of different research traditions and approaches are represented, including ethnographic methods, self-report surveys and interviews, official records data and victim interviews. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in the phenomenon of street and youth gangs.Table of ContentsForeword Part 1: Introduction and Methods 1. Introduction 2. Migrant Groups and Gang Activity: A Contrast Between Europe and the USA 3. Dangers and Problems of Doing 'Gang' Research in the UK Part 2: Migration and Street Gangs 4. Mexican Migrants in Gangs: A Second-generation History 5. Latin Kings in Barcelona 6. Gangs, Migration and Conflict: Thrasher's Theme in The Netherlands 7. Origins and Developments of Racist Skinheads in Moscow Part 3: Ethnicity and Street Gangs 8. The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Gang Membership 9. Weapons are for Wimps: The Social Dynamics of Ethnicity and Violence in Australian Gangs 10. Ethnicity and Juvenile Street Gangs in France 11. Migration Background, Group Affiliation and Delinquency Among Endangered Youths in a South-west German City 12. Respect, Friendship, and Racial Injustice: Justifying Gang Membership in a Canadian City Part 4: Issues and Challenges of Migration and Ethnicity in Dealing with Youth Gangs 13. An Interactive Construction of Gangs and Ethnicity: The Role of School Segregation in France 14. 'Nemesis' and the Achilles Heel of Pakistani Gangs in Norway 15. Wolves and Sheepdogs: On Migration, Ethnic Relations and Gang-police Interaction in Sweden 16. Concluding Remarks: The Roles of Migration and Ethnicity in Street Gang Formation, Involvement and Response
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lap Dancing
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of lap-dancing club culture, having worked as a lap-dancer both prior to, and during, the study. The book tells a fascinating tale of the author's experiences working as a lap dancer and the insights this has provided. This book projects a textured picture of working, socializing and living as a lap-dancer by following the dancer from the beginning of her career, to her eventual exit; providing a fluid and comprehensive examination of the occupation of lap-dancing. As well as building on the popular themes of 'dancer motivation', 'dancer exploitation/empowerment' and risk already embedded in existing literature, this book also offers completely new insight into this industry by drawing attention to the occupational subculture of which lap-dancers at 'Starlets' were found to be a part. This book is recommended for anyone studying or researching in this field.Trade Review'This is an important study of the occupational culture of lap-dancing. We learn how dancers do their job, manage their identity and membership of a community, their motivations for 'stripping' overtime, and how women manage the 'players' of the lap-dancing world. Dirty Dancing provides a truly authentic, detailed and original account by a 'dance-ethnographer' of how the lap-dancing industry sits within the British night time economy.' – Dr Teela Sanders, University of Leeds'This book, which presents one of the first accounts of lap-dancing within the United Kingdom, proved to be very interesting. Because the vast majority of studies related to stripping and strippers are confined to the United States, this work offers invaluable insights for both scholars of deviance and comparative criminal justice alike. Colosi’s examination of the lap-dancing subculture proves to be unique and offers an in-depth, insider’s perspective of adult entertainment. In spite of the fact that Colosi was employed as a dancer during the course of her study, she presents her findings in an objective and unbiased manner. Her work is also comprehensive in that it examines lap-dancing from the perspectives of managers, customers, and of course, the dancers themselves. It is likely that this book will find a strong audience within the disciplines of sociology, human sexuality, and criminal justice and may very well be regarded as a classic in the years to come. For these reasons, I strongly recommend Dirty Dancing.' – Robert M. Worley, Texas A&M University Central TexasTable of Contents1. Introducing the Ethnography – Working and Researching in a 'Deviant' Occupation 2. Lap-dancing and the Night-time Economy 3. Rules, Contracts and Players 4. Introducing Starlets: A Lap-dancing Club Setting Karen's Story – Part 1: Starting Out 5. Becoming a Dancer Karen's Story – Part 2: Working at Starlets 6. Learning to Lap-Dance: An Apprenticeship 7. Experiencing Lap-dancing 8. Being Established Karen's Story – Part 3: Leaving Starlets 9. Leaving Starlets 10. Lap-dancing – Complex and Contradictory. Epilogue: The Last Dance ...
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Re-Thinking Social Research: Anti-Discriminatory
Book SynopsisSocial research plays an important part in the social sciences and in the planning and implementation of personal social services. Whilst considerable attention has been paid to the methods used to undertake social research, little has been done to explore the processes under which it is carried out. This volume explores the process of social research from an anti-discriminatory perspective. Contributors address themes connected to every aspect of social research from its design, through fieldwork to implementation of findings. Papers adopt critical perspectives to explore issues to do with many aspects of power and 'difference' in research including the power of black feminist research, issues in collaborative research, anti-discriminatory methodologies, quality of life in people with learning difficulties and participatory research. The book addresses many key issues which have been at the centre of current social debate and offers a unique contribution to the literature on research methodology. As such, it is likely to have a wide readership with both academic audiences and practice based welfare professions.Trade Review’...provides practical direction for any researcher who seeks to actively work for change against all forms of discrimination and oppression.’ Professor Donna M. Mertens, Gallaudet University, USA ’This book offers a wealth of insights...If the goal of social work research is to offer guidance to social work practitioners and policy makers, then this book is a must read for those undertaking and teaching social work research.’ Mary Valentich, The University of Calgary, Canada ’...an important book. It should be read by administrators and field staff in health and human service agencies, researchers, social action groups, and academics responsible for research education of students in the helping and healing professions.’ James Gripton, Emeritus Professor, The University of Calgary, Canada ’This collection of much needed articles provides an excellent way to generate discussion on research within welfare provision. This is a book that will be very valuable to students, academics, welfare practitioners and administrators.’ Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California, USATable of ContentsContents: Rethinking social research: research in an unequal world; Feminist challenges to traditional research: have they gone far enough?; Black children in the public care system: some issues for anti-discriminatory research; Exploring ways of giving a voice to people with learning disabilities; Lost in a straight reality: lesbians and gay men in social research; Critical life histories: key anti-oppressive research methods and processes; Developing a feminist participative research framework: evaluating the process; Doing service based research: some lessons from the all-Wales strategy; Anti-discriminatory practitioner social work research: some basic problems and possible remedies; Empowerment and social research: elements for an analytic framework; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Policing Across the World: Issues for the Twenty-First Century
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a wider international context. The book is designed as a coherent introduction to the police.Trade Review'The book is extremely easy to follow ... an excellent reference for those who want to understand the issues surrounding the value of comparing police forces across the world and also in understanding the way history has forged different approaches to policing across the globe.'- Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender ProfilingTable of ContentsAn introduction to comparative policing; an introduction to policing the world stage; approaches to comparative analysis; the impossibility of becoming an expert on everywhere; police systems across the world; variations on a theme; the development of professional police in the United Kingdom and North America; policing Europe - the police systems of continental Europe; post-socialist policing - limitations on institutional change; the colonial tradition; policing in Japan - East Asian archtype; policing issues in international perspective; government and accountability of the police; armed and unarmed police; community policing as cherry pie; police service for crime victims; policewomen - an international comparison; private policing - uniformity and diversity.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Social Work Theory
Book SynopsisSocial workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions. This edition contains a new preface by the author, written in 2008, in which he examines the continuing value of his framework, concluding that it remains an effective tool for making sense of the profession's most current ideas. The book covers a range of theoretical approaches, demonstrating through examples that different theories necessarily lead to very different practices. It offers a stimulating guide to social work theory which is proven to help social workers both to understand their practices and to practise in a disciplined and imaginative way.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; The consumer reports; Making sense; Sorting out social work theories; The world of objects and subjects; Order and conflict in society; A taxonomy of social work theories; The fixers; The psychoanalytic tradition in social work; Behavioural social work; The seekers after meaning; Client-centred approaches; The raisers of consciousness; Radical practice; The revolutionaries; Marxist social work; Theories for social work and theories of social work; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and
Book SynopsisThat black young people have been subject to unequal treatment in the youth justice system has been the belief of some individuals and groups, reinforced, at best, by anecdotal evidence. Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and White? provides not only evidential weight to uphold this view but also provides some insights into the processes by which it comes about. Findings of a case study detailed in the book demonstrate how in one youth court black youths were over-represented amongst those receiving high-tariff sentencing and that this over-representation could not be explained by seriousness or persistence of offending. Whilst responsibility for differential sentencing has often been laid at the door of Magistrates, this study reveals how social work court report practice may be contributing to the situation.Table of ContentsContents: The Backdrop: Introduction; Racism; Changing ideologies and the development of the juvenile justice system in England and Wales; Social Inquiry Reports: Historical developments and literature review; The juvenile justice system and Race. Negative Images: Wolverhampton, social services and the local juvenile justice system; Research methodology; Quantitative research; Qualitative research; Summary of findings and recommendations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Eastern Values; Western Milieu: Identities and
Book SynopsisIn this book, Tehmina Basit examines the educational, social and career aspirations of adolescent Muslim girls in the context of their present experiences in contemporary Britain. She gathered data for the study over a period of twenty months, mainly by in-depth interviewing. The book portrays adolescence as a period of hope and expectation, rather than a time of stress, confusion and rebellion. The girls are optimistic about the future and, though largely working class, have middle class aspirations which they hope to realize through the mediums of education and careers. Nevertheless, they also want to get married and have children. While the girls’ aspirations are partly being shaped by the views of their parents and teachers, they are not replicating the lives of their parents and teachers. Indeed, they are active participants in shaping their own multiple identities and aspirations by means of a subtle combination of negotiation and persuasion.Trade Review’...an antidote to stereotypes and should be read by all those interested in the creation of a tolerant multicultural Britain.’ Professor Sally Tomlinson, University of London, UK ’...provides a refreshingly alternative view to the usual caricatures often found in studies...very useful for all those who genuinely want to understand some of the processes affecting the lives of Muslims in Britain today, as well as the educational aspirations of many Muslim girls.’ Sage Race Relations AbstractsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The shaping of identity; The dynamism of family values; The institution of marriage; The social dimension of schooling; The academic dimension of schooling; Aspiring to a career; Conclusions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sub City: Young People, Homelessness and Crime
Book SynopsisYouth homelessness increased rapidly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at a time when street homelessness in particular became increasingly associated in the popular mind with dangerousness and criminality. This book analyzes the construction of homelessness as a social and legal 'problem' and documents young people’s own experiences of homelessness, crime and danger. Drawing on the authors’ own field work in a range of urban and rural locations, the book addresses themes of home and homelessness, of exclusion and marginality and of risk and urban incivilities.Trade Review’This book is important reading for anyone interested in homelessness, in the representation of the underclass, in criminology, particularly studies of victimization, or in inner-city ecology. Reading this book would also be very useful for research students in sociology, geography and social policy in order for them to get the feel of how research is conducted and written up...This is an important contribution offering a distinct historical approach to the analysis of social attitude.’ Urban Studies ’...an engaging and informative book...a rich investigation and analysis of the multifaceted nature of the homeless experience...particularly informative to academics, practitioners and students...’ Youth Justice '...provides an insight into the historical basis for more contemporary attitudes towards the homeless. It is a descriptive, thorough, historical, literary, and legislative account of the relationship of crime to homelessness.' Youth and PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Researching homelessness; From vagabond age to homelessness; Representing homelessness and crime; The unaccommodated woman; Homelessness and victimization; Regulating homeless spaces; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Qualitative Computing: Using Software for
Book SynopsisAs qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches, important questions arise about the adoption of new technology. Is it worth learning computer-assisted methods? Will the pay-off be sufficient to justify the investment? Which programs are worth learning? What are the effects on the analysis process? This book complements the existing literature by giving a detailed account of the use of four major programs in analyzing the same data. Priority is given to the tasks of qualitative analysis rather than to program capability and the programs are treated as tools rather than as a discipline to be acquired. The key is not what the programs allow researcher to do, but whether the tasks that researchers need to undertake are facilitated by the software. Thus the study develops a user-centred approach to the adoption of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. The author emphasises qualitative analysis as a creative craft, but one which must increasingly be subject to rigorous methodological scrutiny. The adoption of computer-aided methods offers opportunities, but also dangers and ultimately this book is about the scientific qualitative research. Written in a distinctive and succinct style, this book will be valuable to social science researchers and students interested in qualitative research and in the potential for computer-assisted analysis.Table of ContentsContents: Getting into... and getting on with qualitative computing; Approaches to qualitative computing; Text searching and data exploration; Category building and finding meaning; Theory building; Conclusion; References.
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Amsterdam University Press Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'
Book SynopsisChristou explores the phenomenon of ‘return migration’ in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 8 Acknowledgements - 10 1 Introduction - 16 2 Situating and theorising national and ethnic expressions of place, vulture and identity - 32 3 The Greek-American experience: emigration, settlement, return and identity - 48 4 Ideologies of home and geographies of place - 66 5 Ideologies of return and geographies of culture - 122 6 Ideologies of self and geographies of identity - 166 7 Conclusions - 216 Notes - 232 Appendix - 242 Bibliography - 246
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Someone To Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old
Book SynopsisBy providing descriptions of the experiences of thirty rural Minnesota women, often in their own words, this timely and topical book examines the expectations, beliefs and values of the women as they grow old in rural America. A lifecourse perspective fosters a better understanding of the aging process in terms of an individual's life experiences within the context of a cultural environment. To show how various elements shaped the women's lives in later years, and to give the fullest possible descriptions, the study combines both qualitative and quantitative research of the rural elderly in Minnesota. Through their stories, the women stress the cultural, familial and personal issues that continue to be important to them as they age. They explore the elements of continuity, as well as those of change, as a part of the lifecourse. Also detailed are their insights and experiences concerning interactions with different formal and informal support networks, as well as the more general topics. Table of Contents1. Formal and Informal Systems of Support: A Comparison of the United States and Denmark 2. Interpreting a Life 3. Looking to the Future 4. A Woman's Story 5. Patterns of Meaning: What Rural Lives Are Made Of 6. Someone to Lend a Helping Hand : Systems of Exchange and Support
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Cambridge University Press House and Society in the Ancient Greek World
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Cambridge University Press Athletes and Oracles
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Cambridge University Press Fashioning Adultery
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Cambridge University Press Benjamin Kidd
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Cambridge University Press Bullying in Different Contexts
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Cambridge University Press The Womens Movement Inside and Outside the State
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