Sociology Books
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Male Body in Representation: Returning to
Book SynopsisThis international and multidisciplinary volume focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats. Locating the subject matter in relevant theoretical fields, it looks at representations of male bodies in various contexts through paranoid and reparative lenses. Organized into four major sections, the contributions assembled in this book feature engaging readings of ‘non/conforming bodies’, ‘fashionable bodies’, ‘passing bodies’, and ‘pioneering bodies’ that to different degrees foreground their critical and creative potentials. In its full scope, the book acknowledges the plurality of gendered experiences and the diversity of male bodies. The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes to the fields of Masculinity and Body Studies in particular.Table of Contents1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the Male Body.- 2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in Embodied Performance.- 3. ‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.- 4. Basil Dearden’s Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental Politics.- 5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations of the Spornosexual and the Waif.- 6. English Dandies and French Lions: Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and 1848.- 7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948–1958).- 8. Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.- 9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa Sligh’s Mutable Bodies.- 10. “A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.- 11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.- 12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men’s Legwear.- 13. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” – Disability and the Queering of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.- 14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.
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Springer International Publishing AG Ocean Governance: Knowledge Systems, Policy
Book SynopsisThis Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge produced in the book was catalyzed by the scientific outcomes within the European-funded Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) network “Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science”. This network brings together scientists, policy-makers and civil society representatives from 28 nation states to cooperate on ocean governance research. This book offers a compilation of new research material including focused case studies, broad policy syntheses and reflective chapters on the history and current status of knowledge production systems on ocean governance. New research material is presented, although some chapters draw on secondary sources. The book starts with synthetic review chapters from the editors, outlining past and present knowledge systems, addressing how and why ocean governance for sustainability is where it currently stands with critical reflections on existing narratives, path dependencies and colonialist histories. This is followed by chapters addressing, synthesizing and analyzing different legal and policy frameworks for ocean governance both regionally and internationally. At the core of the book are the thematic analyses, which provide focused case studies with detailed contextual information in support of different ocean governance challenges and sustainability pathways around the world. The book concludes with a chapter explicitly targeting students, researchers and policy-makers with key take-away messages compiled by the editors.Table of ContentsPart 1. Knowledge Systems.- Chapter 1. Introduction – Ocean Governance for Sustainability (Partelow et al.).- Chapter 2. How do we know the Ocean (Hornidge & Partelow).- Chapter 3. Managing fish or governing fisheries stakeholders? An historical recount of Fisheries Governance in the last Century (a South American Case) (Barragán et al.).- Chapter 4. Post-War Reconnaissance of Japanese Fishery and Ocean Science and its Contribution to the Development of U.S. Scientific Programs: 1947-1954 (Finley, Carmel).- Part 2: Policy foundations.- Chapter 5. Ocean governance from the perspective of the law of the sea: an inquiry into the past, present and future, with an emphasis on fisheries, area-based management and international seabed mineral resources. (Singh et al.).- Chapter 6. International Fisheries Law: Past to Future.- Chapter 7. Legal aspects of the sustainable exploitation of marine energy and mineral resources (present/future) (Willemez, Alix).- Chapter 8. Making Marine Spatial Planning Matter (Flannery, Wesley).- Chapter 9. Marine and Coastal Governance: Lessons from Current Practice of Managing Land Sea Interactions and Marine and Coastal Governance in EU Member States (Lawlor and Depellegrin).- Chapter 10. Developing progressive marine biodiversity indicators to support the functions of area-based management tools for the sustainable use of oceans: case studies from European territorial waters (Kaymaz, Ipek).- Chapter 11. Ocean Governance in An Era of Climate Change: Protecting Living Marine Resources on the Sea Bed – the Need for an Integrated Approach (Borg, Simone).- Chapter 12. The diverse legal and regulatory framework for marine policy in the North Atlantic – A case of a never-ending “horrendogram” or an opportunity for convergence? (Calado, Helena et al.).- Part 3. Thematic Analyses.- Chapter 13. Assembling the seabed: Pan-European and interdisciplinary advances in understanding seabed mining (Chen et al.).- Chapter 14. Societal transformations and governance challenges of coastal small-scale fisheries in the Northern Baltic Sea (Salmi, Pekka & Svels, Kristina).- Chapter 15. Marine Governance as a process of reflexive institutionalization? The case of Arctic Shipping (Van Tatenhove). Chapter 16. The plastic bag habit on Bali: From Banana Leaf Wrappings to Reusable Bags (Schlüter et al.). Chapter 17. Market initiatives of small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean: innovation in support of sustainable blue economy (Penca, Jerneja & Said, Alicia).- Chapter 18. Towards Just and Sustainable Blue Futures: Small‐Scale Fisher Movements and Food Sovereignty (Ertör et al.).- Chapter 19. Ocean acidification as governance challenge in the Mediterranean Sea (Bernadsek et al.).- Chapter 20. Futuring the terra-aqueous: Reading alternative urbanities from the Java Sea (Siriwardane- de Zoysa et al.). Chapter 21. Moving forward on Ocean Governance: Key messages for students, researchers and policy-makers (Hornidge, Hadjimichael, Partelow).
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Springer International Publishing AG Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things:
Book SynopsisThis open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly translates as ‘subject-oriented prose’ or ‘professional communication’. The authors examine the written text’s capacity to transcend contextual boundaries, as a crucial factor in the importance of capturing and maintaining content as a manageable entity. The chapters each deal with a text type that manages complex content in a specialized way, including genre shifting in CSR reports, discourse networks in modern digital culture, digital and social media crisis communication, and epistemic positions in non-fiction. This book is relevant to fields such as text research, professional/digital communication, discourse analysis and literacy studies, and may also be of interest to disciplines such as history, rhetoric, organization studies, media studies/journalism, and linguistics. Table of ContentsChapter 1: A discourse of things. Nordic perspectives on texts negotiating issues that matter in professional communicationChapter 2: Texts complying with societal pressures - Changing genres in Finnish companies’ CSR reportingChapter 3: Subject-oriented prose in digital discourse networks: digital media as a socio-material condition for access and circulationChapter 4: Crisis communication on social media: Informalization in the hour-by-hour struggle for informationChapter 5: Sheep, watchdogs and wolves as epistemic positions: How a master’s programme in non-fiction writing produced and reflected an epistemic practice for the field of sakprosa in Norway.Chapter 6: Postscript: The Power and Potential of the Concept Sakprosa (CPS) A guided tour through five topoi.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gesammelte Werke in deutscher Sprache: Band 3:
Book SynopsisKarl Popper stellt in seinem Hauptwerk, der Logik der Forschung, die Erkenntnistheorie als Methodologie dar, die erklärt, warum unser Wissen fehlbar ist und warum wir nicht primär aus erfüllten, sondern aus gescheiterten Erwartungen lernen: Der Erkenntnisfortschritt resultiert aus Versuch und Irrtum. Die bedeutendsten Resultate des Buches sind das Falsifizierbarkeitskriterium zur Abgrenzung wissenschaftlicher Sätze und Poppers Vorschlag zur Lösung des Problems der empirischen Basis der Wissenschaft. Sein Abgrenzungskriterium löste das neopositivistische Sinnkriterium ab, nach dem nicht verifizierbare Sätze sinnlos sind, und seine These, auch Beobachtungssätze seien, wegen der Transzendenz dessen, was sie darstellen, über das, was wahrgenommen wurde, fehlbare Hypothesen, beendete die Protokollsatzdebatte im Wiener Kreis. Mit der Verallgemeinerung der Idee der Prüfbarkeit zur Idee der Kritik entstand aus dem Neoempirismus der kritischen Rationalismus."[...] gehört Poppers Buch zu den wichtigsten gegenwärtigen Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Wissenschaftslogik. [...] Es wird Zustimmung und Widerspruch auslösen..."Rudolf Carnap in Erkenntnis, Bd. 5 (1935), S. 294"Mir gefällt das ganze modische 'positivistische' Kleben am Beobachtbaren nicht. Ich halte es für trivial, daß man auf atomistischem Gebiete nicht beliebig genau prognostizieren kann, und denke, daß Theorie nicht aus Beobachtungsresultaten fabriziert, sondern nur erfunden werden kann (wie Sie übrigens auch)."Albert Einstein, Brief vom 11.9.1935 an K.R.P., abgedruckt in: Popper, Logik der Forschung, 2. u. folgende Auflagen, S. 412 ff.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit: Band 1
Book SynopsisSo viel Neuzeit muss sein. 400 Jahre Geschichte der Neuzeit in einer Enzyklopädie - das ist einmalig! Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt führen die Kenntnisse über das bedeutsame Zeitalter von der Mitte des 15. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in 16 reich illustrierten Bänden zusammen. Zeitgemäß neu. Die Enzyklopädie gründet auf einem neuen wissenschaftlichen Fundament. Sie liefert aktuelle Antworten auf die Kernfragen: Welche Ideen, Erfindungen und Ereignisse veränderten das Leben? Wie greifen politische, gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Entwicklungen ineinander? Welche großen kulturellen Strömungen kristallisieren sich heraus? Wie wandelte sich die Deutung historischer Ereignisse? Die Enzyklopädie mit Sogwirkung. Wer einmal die Enzyklopädie aufgeschlagen hat, will mehr wissen. Die einzelnen Artikel sind durch zahlreiche Querverweise miteinander verflochten. Wer ihnen folgt, erschließt überraschend neue Zusammenhänge.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit: Band 3:
Book SynopsisSo viel Neuzeit muss sein. 400 Jahre Geschichte der Neuzeit in einer Enzyklopädie - das ist einmalig! Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt führen die Kenntnisse über das bedeutsame Zeitalter von der Mitte des 15. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in 16 reich illustrierten Bänden zusammen. Zeitgemäß neu. Die Enzyklopädie gründet auf einem neuen wissenschaftlichen Fundament. Sie liefert aktuelle Antworten auf die Kernfragen: Welche Ideen, Erfindungen und Ereignisse veränderten das Leben? Wie greifen politische, gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Entwicklungen ineinander? Welche großen kulturellen Strömungen kristallisieren sich heraus? Wie wandelte sich die Deutung historischer Ereignisse? Die Enzyklopädie mit Sogwirkung. Wer einmal die Enzyklopädie aufgeschlagen hat, will mehr wissen. Die einzelnen Artikel sind durch zahlreiche Querverweise miteinander verflochten. Wer ihnen folgt, erschließt überraschend neue Zusammenhänge.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Handbuch Europäische Aufklärung: Begriffe,
Book SynopsisAktuelles Forschungsfeld zahlreicher Disziplinen. In rund 50 Artikeln macht das Handbuch mit den Schlüsselbegriffen und zentralen Themen der Aufklärung in Europa vertraut. Die forschungsgestützten und mit einer Bibliographie versehenen Beiträge zu Gegenständen wie u.a. Anthropologie, Freiheit/Gleichheit, Erfahrung, Vernunft, Moral und Toleranz, aber auch zu Landschaft/Garten, Esoterik, Rasse und Kolonialismus präsentieren die Vorgeschichte ihres Themas, zeigen dessen Aufklärungsrelevanz und beleuchten, wo geboten, seine Transformation im Wirkungszusammenhang des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Stadt: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch
Book SynopsisDas Phänomen Stadt in der Gesamtschau. Von Architektur über Geschichte, Geografie, Politik- und Rechtswissenschaften bis Stadtsoziologie und -ethnologie: In diesem Handbuch kommen sämtliche Disziplinen zur Sprache, die sich mit dem Thema Stadtforschung befassen. Ein Überblickskapitel verdeutlicht multidisziplinäre Parallelen und Differenzen. Im zweiten Teil wird Stadt als kultureller Raum vorgestellt. Es geht um Themen wie das Bild der Stadt, Stadt als Bühne, Stadt als Lebenswelt, Stadt und Literatur, Stadt und Religion sowie das Gedächtnis der Stadt.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Der Dirigent: Mythos – Macht – Merkwürdigkeiten
Book SynopsisDirigieren ist mehr als das bloße Koordinieren von Musikern! Wolfgang Hattinger zeigt, worüber selten in den Feuilletons gesprochen wird, und was dennoch auf das künstlerische Ergebnis einwirkt: Da sind zum Beispiel Macht und Ohnmacht des Dirigenten oder die Kommunikation mit einzelnen Musikern und dem Orchester nur einige Themen, die die Selbst- und Außenwahrnehmung des Dirigenten bestimmen. Hattinger beschreibt und hinterfragt die weit über das rein Musikalische hinausgehenden Vermittlungsebenen zwischen Dirigent und Publikum, Orchester, Medien, Ästhetik, Partitur und Spiritualität.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine
Book SynopsisBei dieser „Kleinen (Heimat)Geschichte des Rassismus“ handelt es sich um das erste Buch überhaupt, das die Entwicklung des Rassismus gezielt aus deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet. Der Herausbildung des an Hautfarben orientierten Rassismus wird dabei ebenso nachgegangen, wie dem Antisemitismus, Antiislamismus, Antislawismus, Antiziganismus und eugenischem Denken. Erst im Verlauf des europäischen Kolonialismus entstanden Formen der Herabminderung, die mit bestimmten Hautfarben verknüpft waren. Sie mündeten schließlich in die von der Aufklärung entwickelte Rassentheorie, wobei deutsche Denker eine bedeutende Rolle spielten. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Rassedenken durch antikoloniale Bewegungen, Bürgerrechtskämpfe und schließlich durch Vernetzungen im Rahmen der Globalisierung zwar diskreditiert, die Entwicklung des Antisemitismus, der als Fremdenfeindlichkeit bezeichnete Rassismus gegen Migranten und schließlich der Antiislamismus zeigen jedoch, dass damit der Rassismus nicht am Ende ist, sondern sich wieder verstärkt jener kulturellen Elemente der Diskriminierung bedient, die er schon in seinen Anfängen benutzt hatte.Trade Review“... Das Buch bietet einen reichen Fundus an Zitaten ... und Bildern aus dem deutschen und westeuropäischen Raum rund um Hautfarben, Rassismus und Macht. Es ist anschaulich geschrieben und stellt interessante Bezüge zu Antisemitismus, Antislawismus und Antiziganismus her.” (Anke Schwarzer, in: analyse & kritik, akweb.de, Heft 634, 23. Januar 2018)“... In seinem Buch erzählt Wulf D. Hund die Geschichte des Rassismus anhand berühmter Gemälde in anschaulicher Sprache.Ich habe sein Buch als ein praxisbezogenes Nachschlagewerk wahrgenommen, das man durch seinen erzählerischen Schreibstil wie einen Roman lesen kann ...” (Muhammet Mertek, in: islam-aktuell.de, 3. Januar 2018)Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Vorspiel auf dem Theater. Weis[s]e Braut mit Kammermohr.- 3. Die Farben der Sünde. Antisemitismus seit den Kreuzzügen.- 4 Schwarze Ritter und Heilige Schwarze. Ethnische Ökumene gegen Ungläubige.- 5 ›Schwarzes Volk‹ als ›faules Gesindel‹. Facetten des Zigeunerstereotyps.- 6 Rassen© made in Germany. Der Rassismus der Aufklärung.- 7 ›Völkerschau‹ mit ›Kolonialwaren‹. Die Popularisierung des Weißseins.- 8 ›Gelbe Gefahr‹ und ›Schwarze Schmach‹. An den Grenzen des Weißseins.- 9 Weiße ›Untermenschen‹. Rassenkampf im rassistischen Reich.- 10 Vom ›Persilschein‹ zum ›Weißen Riesen‹. Deutschland wäscht sich weiß.- 11 Anmerkungen.- 12 Literaturverzeichnis.- 13 Abbildungsverzeichnis.
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Walter de Gruyter Wirtschaftsrussisch: Praktische Wirtschaftsthemen
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ökologische Kommunikation: Kann die moderne
Book SynopsisDie Gesellschaft kann nur unter den sehr beschränkten Bedingungen ihrer eigenen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten auf Umweltprobleme reagieren. Das gilt auch für Umweltprobleme, die sie selbst ausgelöst hat. Ökologische Kommunikation kann sich daher nur nach Maßgabe der wichtigsten Funktionssysteme wie Politik, Recht, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Erziehung, Religion entwickeln - oder im Protest gegen diese Systeme. In beiden Fällen besteht die doppelte Gefahr von zu wenig und zu viel Resonanz. Dieses Buch bietet eine kompakte (und wahrscheinlich die verständlichste) Zusammenfassung der Systemtheorie. Dabei wird die Frage nach den ökologischen Risiken der modernen Gesellschaft aus Sicht Luhmanns beantwortet.Trade Review"Luhmanns 'theoretischer' Blick ist ein wenig pessimistisch, trotzdem bietet das Buch eine wichtige Hilfe, um die Zusammenhänge besser zu verstehen. Wir empfehlen es allen, die sich aktiv mit Umweltkommunikation und ähnlichen Bereichen beschäftigen." www.oekonews.at, 04.03.2009Table of ContentsSoziologische Abstinenz - Ursachen und Verantwortungen? - Komplexität und Evolution - Resonanz - Beobachtung von Beobachtung - Kommunikation als gesellschaftliche Operation - Ökologisches Wissen und gesellschaftliche Operation - Binäre Codierung - Codes, Kriterien, Programme - Wirtschaft - Recht - Wissenschaft - Politik - Religion - Erziehung - Funktionale Differenzierung - Zu wenig und zu viel Resonanz - Die "neuen sozialen Bewegungen" - Angst, Moral und Theorie - Zur Rationalität ökologischer Kommunikation - Umweltethik - Glossar
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Rekonstruktion narrativer Identität: Ein
Book SynopsisDieses Lehrbuch führt in die theoretischen Grundlagen und praktischen Vorgehensweisen der Untersuchung von "narrativer Identität" anhand von autobiografischen Erzählinterviews ein.Table of ContentsSprache als Wirklichkeitskonstruktion - Autobiografisches Erzählen - Die 'narrative Identität' - Das Erzählinterview als empirischer Zugang - Grundlagen der Interpretation - Grundlagen des textanalytischen Arbeitens - Fokussierung der Interpretation - Praxis der Textanalyse - Strukturelle Aspekte der autobiographischen Gesamterzählung - Feinanalyse - Übergreifende Darstellungs- und Kommunikationsstrategien der Erzähler - Die praktischen Arbeitsschritte der Textanalyse - Planung und Durchführung des narrativen Interviews - Die Überführung des Interviews in den Text - Textaufbereitung - Sequenzanalyse - Fallübergreifende Techniken - Darstellung der Forschungsergebnisse
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Campus Verlag Vertical Europe – The Sociology of High–Rise
Book SynopsisMore high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city’s most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings are increasingly shaping the urban landscape. In Vertical Europe, Andrea Glauser looks at new architectural trends in London, Paris, and Vienna, as well as the promises, desires, and fears associated with them in the minds of these cities’ residents. Her book is the first full-length sociological examination of the recent skyward growth in urban Europe, bringing together debates on high-rise architecture from fields including urban planning, geography, and art history. She contextualizes this vertical construction as an area wrought with tensions between these European cities’ desire to keep pace with global competition while still retaining the specific architectural qualities that have defined them for centuries.
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Transcript Verlag Unlocking Luhmann – A Keyword Introduction to
Book SynopsisLuhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers inside and outside sociology get the required support to explore sociological systems theory and to engage with it. Luhmann himself, in his introduction, praises the form of the glossary to cope with the challenges of the theoretical description of our highly complex society.Table of ContentsConvivial Futures?; One Step Beyond; From Lived Convivialism to Convivialist Transformations; The First Convivialist Steps; Feminism and Convivialism; Convivialism Facing the Territorial Question; Is Convivialism the Answer? Depends on the Question; Convivializing the Economy; Imagining the Convivialist Enterprise; Towards a Post-Covid Economy for the Common Good; Is a Post-Growth Society Possible?; Money Creation as a Foundational Tool for Convivialism; Pluriversalism and Nature: Conviviality to Reanimate the World; Convivial Conservation with Nurturing Masculinities in Brazil's Atlantic Forest; A Convivialist Solution for the Multiple Crisis of Biodiversity, Climate, and Public Health; The Post-Development Agenda; Letter to the End-of-the-World Generation; (Un-)Convivial Futures: Right Here, Right Now; "2050"; Once upon a Time ... There Will Be a Convivial Desire; A Reflection on 200 Years of Our Youngest Bodily Organ: Convivialis Futuris; List of Contributors.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Developing the Sociology of Ageing – To Tackle
Book SynopsisThe book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches means that although it is a publication by many authors, it is a consistent monographic study, showing the development of sociology of ageing as a scientific discipline in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The aim of the book is to call the attention of the reader and emphasize that the challenges of population ageing in this part of Europe are important aspects of sociology is particularly valuable. These challenges require not only recognition and resolution through application of appropriate research approaches, but also education of various actors (including policy makers) for being prepared for both diagnosing the phenomena and taking action in practice.Trade ReviewThe book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches means that although it is a publication by many authors, it is a consistent monographic study, showing the development of sociology of ageing as a scientific discipline in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The aim of the book is to call the attention of the reader and emphasize that the challenges of population ageing in this part of Europe are important aspects of sociology is particularly valuable. These challenges require not only recognition and resolution through application of appropriate research approaches, but also education of various actors (including policy makers) for being prepared for both diagnosing the phenomena and taking action in practice. -- Jolanta Grotowska-Leder, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz
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Sociall en Cultureel Planbureau Frail Older Persons in the Netherlands
Book SynopsisHow many vulnerable elders live in the Netherlands? Will this number increase remarkably in the years ahead? This report presents the first national description of elders in the Netherlands with multiple problems, who are consequently at risk for becoming care-dependent. It provides a description for care professionals, policymakers, researchers, and elders, who are interested in the final phase of life and how it develops. In addition, it explores how elders can be protected against vulnerability, compares characteristics of the residential setting and lifestyle of vulnerable and healthy elders, and examines what care and support vulnerable elders receive, including elders who don’t receive care or support. The report concludes with policy recommendations for the future.
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Sociall en Cultureel Planbureau Using Smartphones in Survey Research: A
Book SynopsisUsing smartphones and apps are innovative ways of collecting data among the public. The Netherlands Institute for Social Research SCP was involved in one of the first experiments to implement a smartphone application for collecting time use. This report describes the pilot study conducted by SCP and CentERdata (University of Tilburg) in 2011-2012 in the Netherlands to test use of smartphones as a data collection method.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions offers a toolbox drawn from normative ethics which finds applications in public governance, primarily focusing on policy making and executive action. It includes ethical concepts and principles culled from different philosophical traditions, ranging from more familiar Western theories to non-Western ethical perspectives, thereby providing a truly global, decolonized and expanded normative lens on issues of governance. The book takes a unique and original approach; it demonstrates the use of the ethical toolbox in the context of actual examples of governance challenges.Taking three major case studies each representing an aspect of human-human and/or human-nature and/or human-animal relationship, the book attempts to show the significance of public practical reasoning in policy decisions with the aim of arriving at reasonable responses. Acknowledging the challenges that policy makers often face, the book highlights the fact that policy making is hardly an exercise yielding a black-or-white solution; rather it involves finding the most reasonable normative outcome (course of action) in a given situation, especially employing an expanded understanding of values including well-being, sustainability, interdependence and community. This effort that helps bridge the gap between ethical theorists and policy practitioners exemplifies the necessary role of ‘engaged philosophy’ in public governance.In the major case studies, Boxes offer facts and figures along with pertinent ethical questions that have been raised and discussed. Aiming to aid the engagement of a diverse audience including non-philosophy readers, each chapter also includes Boxes containing examples, shorter case studies, at-a-glance charts, and tables with comprehensive ethical tools for a quick recap.Table of Contents Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Role of Public Practical Reasoning in Good Governance.- Chapter 2: Introducing the Cases.- Chapter 3: Western Consequence-based ethics: Cost versus Benefits.- Chapter 4: Principle-based ethics: ‘means’ versus ‘ends’.- Chapter 5: Human Well-being: Moving Beyond Social Welfare and Human Rights.- Chapter 6: Care, community, compassion and virtue: Decolonizing our Moral Landscape.- Chapter 7: Revisiting the Cases: The Ethical toolbox in Praxis.- Conclusion: Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions.
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J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. Ritual
Book SynopsisThe stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends in tribal as well as modern communities.? --Michael Meade, from the IntroductionVersed in the languages of psychology, comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing, and divination, Malidoma Patrice Some bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. Ritual is written with wild imagination, careful critical reflection, and intuitive insights that will force the reader to encounter the world anew.
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Oxford University Press Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to
Book SynopsisThis is the first survey of village institutions in Egypt during this period and includes associations, local officials, banks record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. The continuing and changing elements in the power relationships between central and regional authorities and the rural population contribute to village studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Maps 1: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI and D. W. RATHBONE: Introduction 2: ROBERTO MASCELLARI: Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt: the role of village officials 3: MARIO PAGANINI: Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt 4: SILVIA STRASSI: Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis 5: THOMAS KRUSE: The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt 6: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI: Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt 7: MARIA NOWAK: Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt? 8: FRANÇOIS LEROUXEL: Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt 9: ANDREA JÖRDENS: Festivals and celebrations in the countryside 10: LAJOS BERKES: Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries) 11: GESA SCHENKE: The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer 12: ARIETTA PAPACOSTANTINOU: 'Great Men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period
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Oxford University Press Inc The Caregiving Ambition What It Is and Why It
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMost of us have aspirations far beyond building successful careers—we want first and foremost to do right by the people we love. Bear and Pittinsky make the compelling case that it's time to rethink ambition to include the motivation to care for our families. * Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife *Thank goodness for a new, creative approach to managing caregiving and career ambitions in the same (very busy) life. This book is thoughtful, well-researched, and downright practical. * Linda Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Author of Women Don't Ask and Ask For It *A truly indispensable guide to understanding and succeeding in career and caregiving, full of essential advice you simply won't find anywhere else. * Maurice E. Schweitzer, Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and Co-Author of Friend & Foe *Finally what we need to hear about something no one wants to talk about: women's and men's ambition, not only for work, but caregiving, too... sharp diagnosis and honest, workable real-world remedies. * Deb Tenenbaum, Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer at AppDirect *Here's a book for those who want to accomplish great things in their careers while nurturing and caring for their families with just as much ambition. Bear and Pittinsky touch a third rail of women at work, gender gaps in leadership, and diversity, equity and inclusion: loved ones and caring are anchors, not dead weights. * Margaret Shih, Neil H. Jacoby Chair Professor in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Associate Vice Chancellor, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion *The evidence is clear: life's greatest fulfillment comes from meaningful relationships * yet we continue to think of ambition in terms of careers, salaries and job titles. Bear and Pittinsky tackle head on who, really, we should consider a big success.Brad Harrington, Executive Director and Research Professor, Boston College Center for Work & Family *The Caregiving Ambition is an essential contribution to the conversation about who does what for whom from the cradle to the grave. A compendium on caregiving as impassioned as informed – it is not to be missed by anyone personally or professionally involved in tending to someone other than themselves. * Barbara Kellerman, Former Founding Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School and Cofounder, International Leadership Association (ILA), and Author of Bad Leadership and Followership *This is an important book coming out at just the right time. Covid-19 has brought many of us face-to-face with challenges and inequities in the way workplaces treat caregiving. The authors' recognition of caregiving as an "ambition" is brilliant—a radically new and sorely needed perspective. What we can see with this new lens isn't pretty. But neither is it unfixable. * Hillary Anger Elfenbein, John and Ellen Wallace Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis *Bear and Pittinsky (both, Stony Brook Univ.) highlight that caregiving is not only essential to society but also a cherished ambition, whether performed for pay or otherwise. As such, it should be recognized and accommodated for both men and women in workplace structures...a useful book for discussion groups. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Caring Ambitiously Part I. The Caregiving Ambition Chapter 1: An Abundance of Ambition Chapter 2: Why Work-Life Won't Work Chapter 3: Providing, Not Just Provisioning Part II. Why Care? Chapter 4: Careless Chapter 5: The Stubborn Caring Gaps Chapter 6: The Robots Are Coming Part III. Taking Care Chapter 7: A "Freedom-to" Work-Care Agenda Chapter 8: The Case Against the Business Case Chapter 9: Lessons for Living Ambitiously Conclusion: Caregiving as the Passion Project Appendix: The Caregivers
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Oxford University Press Inc Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewThis is a comprehensive introductory sociology text that covers all the key topics needed to give students a broad understanding of the field. It presents key theories and provides contemporary examples of research. It brings in different voices in a way that a standard textbook does not. * Kim Manturuk, ^lUNC - Chapel Hill *The Food for Thought" feature is fantastic. I have had students tell me they liked these a lot. As an introductory textbook, Ten Lessons has several advantages. * Ronald Helfrich, ^lSUNY Oneota *This brief book is more focused and less dry than standard introductory textbooks and should promote reflexive and analytical thought more successfully than traditional texts. * Daniel Kreutzer, ^lMetropolitan State University *
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Columbia University Press Democracy on the Ground
Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.Trade ReviewA much-needed grassroots study of two ‘populist’ experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia. Gabriel Hetland is an astute observer of Latin American politics and this insightful, thoughtful book goes beyond the polemics and cliches to consider what democracy means to people whose opinions are rarely consulted. Indispensable. -- Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaHetland masterfully portrays the complexity of implementing democracy on the grassroots level in Latin America. -- Susan Eva Eckstein, author of Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in AmericaIn this important book, Gabriel Hetland brings his illuminating fieldwork in Venezuela and Bolivia to make a compelling and original argument about how the nature of national political systems can shape the possibility for participatory action on the ground. -- Sujatha Fernandes, author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s VenezuelaDemocracy on the Ground explores an interesting puzzle: why did political elites embrace participatory democracy in some Latin American cities and not others? This puzzle and Hetland’s findings are important to many debates about democracy, political elites, political parties, and participatory governance. His extensive fieldwork will be of great value to scholars and policy makers who want to better understand the political dynamics in this region -- Stephanie McNulty, author of Democracy From Above? The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory ReformsHis unexpected findings raise important questions for leftists anywhere hoping to one day exercise state power. * Jacobin *An alluring read. * International Affairs *This book is valuable to scholars and teachers of Latin American politics, political sociology, and comparative politics... Democracy on the Ground demonstrates that it is not only possible to widen the sphere of democratic participation without inciting elite repression, but that it has empirically already happened. * Peace and Change *An important contribution to studies of democracy, participation, and the Left. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Venezuela: Refracting Left-Populist Hegemony into Participatory Urban Governance1. Venezuela: From Crisis to Left-Populist Hegemony2. Torres: Participatory Democracy in “Venezuela’s First Socialist City”3. Sucre: Administered Democracy in a Right-Governed “Chavista City”Part II. Bolivia: Refracting Passive Revolution, Perpetuating Clientelism4. Bolivia: From Active to Passive Revolution5. Santa Cruz: Technocratic Clientelism, or Fear of the Masses6. El Alto: Inverted Clientelism in the Rebel CityConclusionMethodological Appendix: Thinking About the Political in Political EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Another Universalism
Book SynopsisThis book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new dimensions of Seyla Benhabib's thought across critical theory, feminism, and democratic theory, foregrounding the intricate relationship between critique and universality.Trade ReviewThese rich and compelling essays testify not only to the breadth and brilliance of Seyla Benhabib's thought but also to her dialogism, mentorship, and influence. A marvelous collection! -- Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About ItIf there had not been sufficient proof so far of the enormous importance of Seyla Benhabib's political philosophy for understanding our present predicaments, this collection of articles offers it in abundance. Its contributions, ranging from moral psychology over political theory to postcolonial studies and written by eminent scholars within the different fields, discuss from very different perspectives Benhabib's idea that universalism can be situated and decentered by understanding it as a design for the never ending process of including ever more groups in the circle of those whose voices must be heard and respected. This is indispensable reading for everyone interested in contemporary political philosophy. -- Axel Honneth, author of Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic LifeThis volume pays persuasive tribute to the power of Seyla Benhabib's compelling rethinking of the legacies of critical political theory. Concepts such as dialogical universalism, cosmopolitanism of codependence from below, democratic iterations, jurisgenerative politics and postnational sovereignty characterize her attempt to explore new normative grounds for political theory by thinking with and against Kant and Hegel, Arendt and Habermas in an age of migrations and the threat of new forms of neo-fascism across the world. -- Andreas Huyssen, author of Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and FilmThe accelerating impact of the Frankfurt School around the world owes much to gifted thinkers who demonstrate how a tradition can remain alive and open to the future through creative elaboration. No one exemplifies this process as powerfully as Seyla Benhabib, who has enriched critical theory with insights from feminism, postcolonial studies, democratic and human rights theory, and the writings of Hannah Arendt. As this stimulating collection of essays attests, she is more than a link in a single chain, but rather at the center of an expanding global network of critical thinkers who are grappling with the most urgent issues of our day. -- Martin Jay, author of Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School ProvocationsThis wide-ranging and penetrating collection on the work of Seyla Benhabib, one of the most influential figures in the 'third generation' of critical theorists, is not only an important testimony to Benhabib's influence but also a significant contribution in its own right. With its wide range of topics, the volume should be of interest to scholars even beyond those primarily interested in Benhabib's own unique contributions. -- Kenneth Baynes, author of HabermasTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: In Search of Another Universalism, by Anna JurkevicsPart I: Critique, Norm, and Utopia1. Benhabib and Habermas on Discourse and Development, by Thomas McCarthy2. Normativity and Reality: Toward a Critical and Realistic Theory of Politics, by Rainer Forst3. Loss of World, Not Certainty: “Amor Mundi” and the Moral Psychology of Seyla Benhabib, by Carmen Lea Dege4. Nature as a Concrete Other: An Alternative Voice in Kant’s Conception of Beauty and Dignity, by Umur Basdas5. “To Burst Open the Possibilities of the Present”: Seyla Benhabib and Utopia, by Bernard E. HarcourtPart II: Thinking With and Against Arendt6. “Thinking With and Against” as Feminist Political Theory, by Patchen Markell7. Arendt and Truth, by Gaye İlhan Demiryol8. Understanding Eichmann and Anwar: Reenactment and the Psychic Lives of Perpetrators, by Sonali ChakravartiPart III: Democratic Iterations and Cosmopolitanism9. Democracy Without Shortcuts: An Institutional Approach to Democratic Legitimacy, by Cristina Lafont10. Another Republicanism: Dissent, Institutions, and Renewal, by Christian Volk11. Three Models of Communicative Cosmopolitanism, by Peter J. Verovšek12. At the Borders of the Self: Democratic Iterations as a Theory of Postnational Sovereignty, by Paul Linden-RetekPart IV: Jurisgenerativity13. Back to the Future? Critical Theory and the Law, by William E. Scheuerman14. The Unfinished Revolution: The Right to Have Rights and Birthright Citizenship, by Eduardo Mendieta15. Genocide and Jurisgenesis, by Max Pensky16. Jurisgenerativity in the Age of Big Data, by Matthew LongoPart V: Deprovincializing Critical Theory17. Pachamama’s Rights, Climate Crisis, and the Decolonial Cosmos, by Angélica María Bernal18. What Is the Other in Seyla Benhabib’s Another Cosmopolitanism?, by Drucilla Cornell19. Border Deaths as Forced Disappearances: Frantz Fanon and the Outlines of a Critical Phenomenology, by Ayten Gündoğdu20. Gender Trouble: Manhood, Inclusion, and Justice in the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Shatema Threadcraft and Brandon M. TerryPart VI: Philosophy and Friendship21. Fragments of an Intellectual Autobiography, by Seyla Benhabib22. Swimming, by Carolin EmckeContributorsIndex
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Cambridge University Press Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Book SynopsisJanet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.Trade Review'… the work is seminal and extraordinary. Janet Afary has raised a high bar on the many, many issues surrounding the politics of gender and sexuality in Iran.' Thomas Ricks'Janet Afary takes us beyond gender politics into a world few outsiders understand. Once again she proves herself to be an astute and original observer who sees beneath the veneer of modern Iranian life.' Stephen Kinzer, The New York Times'The narratives and anecdotes provide a vivid real-life texture to the history Janet Afary is uncovering. In short, the text is alive and engaging!' Miriam Cooke, Duke University'Sexual Politics in Modern Iran is one of the most comprehensive works done on this topic up to this moment. It combines modern scholarship and a deep understanding of the gender issues in Iran.' Farhad Khosrokhavar, Le Monde'Janet Afary's remarkable book gives an unparalleled account and analysis of changing gender relations in modern Iran's history and society … a unique and thoughtful work that sheds new light on Iran today.' Nikki Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles'On nearly every page of [Janet Afary's] engaging, amply illustrated new book, she disinters morsels of history and analysis that will surprise even those with a more than casual knowledge of Iran. Her account goes right up to the contemporary women's movement and today's ongoing sexual revolution, including the latest in Iranian gay liberation discourse. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran is an invaluable landmark, a signpost on the road to an end of gender discrimination and sexual liberation for all.' In These Times'The East-West battle over gender is brilliantly described by Janet Afary in her groundbreaking survey Sexual Politics in Modern Iran.' New York Review of Books'Afary does a spectacular job explaining, as well as detailing, sexual attitudes and practices from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Her account gives an excellent feel for how Iranian society works and how that has changed under the impact of modern times. Plus, her detailed research makes the account much more credible than some of the highly readable stories from Iranian-Americans about personal life in modern Iran.' Foreign Policy'Afary weaves a very interesting and complex argument together that unveils the politics of sexuality in Iran. It is bound to generate a good debate among historians and social scientists. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran is a welcome addition to the history of women and sexuality in modern Iran.' Middle East Journal'… Afary's book should be of interest to anyone who is looking for an in-depth overview of discussions about sex in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran, and to those who are interested in understanding the pervasive anxiety about the lack of, and desire for, a set of ideals (consent, intimacy, equality) that constitute the normative ground of much contemporary debate about the history, politics, and gender relations of modern Iran.' Setrag Manoukian, H-Net Reviews (h-net.org/reviews)Table of ContentsPart I. Pre-modern Practices: 1. Formal marriage; 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives; 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship; Part II. Toward a Westernized Modernity: 4. On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage; 5. Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, shifting desires; 6. Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage; 7. Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality; 8. The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamism; Part III. Forging an Islamist Modernity and Beyond: 9. The Islamic revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left; 10. Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism; 11. Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle; Conclusion: toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century.
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Teachers' College Press Sex Ed for Caring Schools Creating an
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Cambridge University Press The Lore of the WhareWananga Or Teachings of the
Book SynopsisStephenson Percy Smith (1840â1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy, and soon became fascinated by Maori culture. After retiring in 1900 from his career as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to the study of the Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, which published this two-volume study in 1913â15. The book contains the Maori text of an important body of beliefs and traditions which had been committed to writing over fifty years earlier, when the young W. H. Whatahoro had acted as scribe for a group of senior elders concerned to preserve this ancient and sacred knowledge. Only long afterwards was Whatahoro willing to divulge it to Europeans, and he personally assisted Smith with the translation provided here. Although Smith's interpretative notes and 'comparative mythology' agenda are typical of their time, this pioneering work laid foundations for later research. Volume 1 focuses on the gods and creation myths.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Introduction. The ancient houses of teaching. The Whare-wānanga, and its methods. The Pō, or ages, or aeons of darkness. The months, etc. The Whare-maire. The Whare-porukuruku; 2. The Sage's warning and admonition to this and succeeding generations. The philosophy of the Whare-wānanga: the nature of matter, etc., of the Pou-titi-ao, or Guardian Spirits. Io-matua, the Supreme God. The temple named Kawaiki; 3. The names of the Heavens. The marriage of Heaven and Earth. Creation of the Gods. The ages of darkness, or chaos. The separation of Heaven and Earth. The Apas, or Messengers of the Gods. The Gods separate their dwelling-places. The sanctification of Tāne. The first temple built on Earth. Tāne ascends to the uppermost Heaven. Tāne's new names. Tāne and Io. The three baskets and two stones. Tāne returns to Earth. The Guardian Spirits are appointed. The Wars of the Gods. The overturning of Mother-Earth. The order of creation. Creation of the 'spark of life' in Man; 4. Creation of the germ of life in Man. The Pedigree of Man. Hine-nui-te-Pō, goddess of Hades. Whakaru-au-moko, god of volcanic phenomena; Whiro, god of evil. Some functions of the other Gods; 5. The Pō, or ages of darkness. Astronomical notes. The months and days. More astronomical notes; 6. Introduction. Māui's visit to Hades, Māui and the great fire. Māui, the fisher-up of lands. The overturning by Mataaho. Mataora's visit to Hades. The origin of tattooing; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Evolution
Book SynopsisCultural Evolution argues that people''s values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim it, survival may literally be a choice between Us and Them. Conversely, high levels of existential security encourage openness to change, diversity, and new ideas. The unprecedented prosperity and security of the postwar era brought cultural change, the environmentalist movement, and the spread of democracy. But in recent decades, diminishing job security and rising inequality have led to an authoritarian reaction. Evidence from more than 100 countries demonstrates that people''s motivations and behavior reflect the extent to which they take survival for granted - and that modernization changeTrade Review'This book is the product of an extremely ambitious project - ambitious in terms of the broad scope of the various aspects of society that its theoretical insights purport to explain, but also in terms of the range of the social science disciplines that are swept up and integrated into this 'Evolutionary Modernization theory'. One could even regard this enterprise as striving towards what would be the equivalent of 'unified field theory' in physics. What Chutzpah! And what a burden of proof such an ambitious enterprise would face. Remarkably, Inglehart succeeds in this demanding task, the ultimate product of which I regard as one of the most important works in the social sciences in decades.' Richard Gunther, Ohio State University'Cultural Evolution culminates a remarkably productive half-century's exploration of cultural change by Ronald F. Inglehart. This renowned scholar now extends the reach of his theory to global history, while honing his concepts to dissect, for example, the emergence of right-wing populism and LGBTQ activism. This is Inglehart at his most ambitious and most astute. It is a powerful book.' Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Cultural Evolution is an intellectual tour-de-force. Drawing on insights from years of research in societies representing ninety percent of the world's population, the renowned political scientist Ronald F. Inglehart traces the most important changes taking place across the globe - the shift from Materialist to Postmaterialist values. His brilliant new Evolutionary Modernization theory explains changes in religion, conflict, gender equality, democracy, happiness, among other phenomena, through the same parsimonious scientific lens. It is a fantastic read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of culture change.' Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland'This timely book will certainly become one of the most significant books of the first part of this century - every library should have a copy.' J. S. Taylor, Choice'Inglehart is one of the last great postwar exponents of modernization theory, which sees economic development as leading to shifts in society toward liberal democracy.' G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs'Cultural Evolution may be one of the three greatest books ever written in the category 'Optimistic Accounts of Change in Public Opinion.' … Life may generally be short, harsh, and exploitive, but the values transitions documented by Inglehart suggest that there are viable avenues for social improvement.' Samuel Cohn, American Journal of Sociology'Inglehart seeks to reach beyond the scholarly audience. To do so, he eschews presenting the daunting array of statistical estimates that are the norm for such analyses. Instead, the extensive evidence is presented through well crafted figures that are self-sufficient in conveying the hypothesis at hand, the array of nations being examined, and the results obtained. Further, he eschews 'academes' for clarity. The result is a spare, accessible, masterful, and elegant book.' George E. Marcus, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: overview of this book; 1. Evolutionary modernization and cultural change; 2. The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the World; 3. Global cultural patterns; 4. The end of secularization?; 5. Cultural change, slow and fast: the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation; 6. The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country: the individual-level component of the long peace; 7. Development and democracy; 8. The changing roots of happiness; 9. The silent revolution in reverse: the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties; 10. The coming of artificial intelligence society.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
Book SynopsisWhile ''identity'' is a key concept in psychology and the social sciences, researchers have used and understood this concept in diverse and often contradictory ways. The Cambridge Handbook of Identity presents the lively, multidisciplinary field of identity research as working around three central themes: (i) difference and sameness between people; (ii) people''s agency in the world; and (iii) how identities can change or remain stable over time. The chapters in this collection explore approaches behind these themes, followed by a close look at their methodological implications, while examples from a number of applied domains demonstrate how identity research follows concrete analytical procedures. Featuring an international team of contributors who enrich psychological research with historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the handbook also explores contemporary issues of identity politics, diversity, intersectionality, and inclusion. It is an essential resource for all scholTrade Review'This handbook represents an important milestone in advancing an interdisciplinary understanding of identity. The chapters offer an accessible understanding of how people across cultures form an identity, how identity remains constant or changes over time, and how societal discourses shape subjectivity. This remarkable volume introduces a diverse array of perspectives, articulating the conceptual and methodological challenges facing identity studies.' Sunil Bhatia, Professor of Human Development and Chair of the Human Development Department, Connecticut College, USA'The modern history of identity is the history of an open question. As societies have become more intricate and multi-voiced, so have the 'who am I?' questions of their members - turning into never-ending explorations. This volume impressively takes stock of them, drawing on the state of the art in psychology and the social sciences.' Jens Brockmeier, Professor of Psychology, The American University of Paris, France'This handbook traces the history of the concept of identity, the different theoretical and methodological approaches to studying it, and the social domains in which it appears. Thus the handbook is an indispensable tool for anyone studying the notion of identity.' Ian Burkitt, Emeritus Professor of Social Identity, University of Bradford, UK'This extremely well-written and superbly edited book is a collection of international contributions that offer new insights into identity research from multiple disciplines. Its novel approach conceptualises identity as a fluid process that continues to develop. A brilliant contribution.' Paul M. Camic, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London, UK'Are we lost in the 'who we are' question? This book plots a concise map of the multidisciplinary, and constantly changing, identity discourse. As an invaluable pathfinder in a complex field, it helps clarify even aporetic concepts, propose fresh questions, and may well inspire groundbreaking research.' Wolfram Fischer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kassel, Germany'At last, we have a resource that weaves together the rich and varied strands of a topic long central to the social sciences and beyond. My gratitude to the editors for a tapestry that captures both the intellect and the imagination.' Kenneth J. Gergen, author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community'This book fills a void in the field. For 30 years, identity theory has been experiencing a subliminal decentering: of basic concepts, methods, cultures and phenomena studied. Both editors and authors vigorously expose this trend and, without stooping to quick fixes, offer a range of key questions, in-depth discussions, and practical suggestions.' Wolfgang Kraus, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Practice Research and Project Consulting (IPP), Germany'In this handbook, renowned authors from 20 different countries outline a broad overview of approaches to identity theory and research. The international perspectives and the endeavour for a qualitative inquiry reflect the cultural diversity in this field and inspire future directions in theorizing identity processes.' Günter Mey, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, and Editor of Forum: Qualitative Social Research'This book is perfect for learning about cutting-edge identity research. The editors have carefully structured the book by disassembling the meaning of the word 'identity' and repositioning it in various contexts. This successfully allows the chapters to shed new light on the concept.' Masahiro Nochi, Full Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan'In this volume, identity is analyzed and explicated in a profound and comprehensive manner. Leaving no element untouched, the problem of identity is historicized and rethought, making this important handbook a touchstone for new work in subjectivity, the self, and performative notions of identity.' Henderikus J. Stam, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada'As interest in the study of identity has steadily blossomed, this handbook comes at the perfect time. The chapters, written by an impressive roster of international scholars from many disciplines, are creative and expansive in scope, providing both comprehensive overviews and new insights. It is sure to be an essential resource for years to come.' Deborah Tannen, University Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA'This handbook takes a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary view of identity studies. A truly international project, this is an authoritative and accomplished handbook. It is sure to be an invaluable resource for social scientists for many years to come.' Cristian Tileaga, Reader in Social Psychology, Loughborough University, UKTable of Contents1. Identity – with or without you? Perspectives and choices guiding this handbook Meike Watzlawik, Carolin Demuth and Michael Bamberg; Part I. The origin and development of the concept of identity: 2. Decentering histories of identity Michael Bamberg and Martin Dege; 3. Challenges in research on self-identity Sue Widdicombe and Cristina Marinho; 4. The mystery of identity: fundamental questions, elusive answers Mark Freeman; Part II. New perspectives and challenges: 5. A moral perspective: Identity as self-interpretation Svend Brinkmann; 6. Researching identities as affective discursive practices Octavia Calder-Dawe and Maree Martinussen; 7. The negotiation of continuity and change of Mapuche women weavers in Chile and its implication for (non-eurocentric) identity research Ramiro Gonzalez Rial and Danilo Silva Guimarães; 8. Identity and voices – a language dialogical take Marie-Cécile Bertau; 9. Psychoanalytic perspectives on identity: From ego to life narrative Tilmann Habermas and Nina Kemper; 10. Erikson, the identity statuses and beyond Jane Kroger and James E. Marcia; Part III. Methodological approaches: 11. A narrative practice approach to identities: Small stories and positioning analysis in digital contexts Korna Giaxoglou and Alexandra Georgakopoulou; 12. Conversation analysis and ethnomethodology: Identity at stake in a kinship carers' support group Julie Wilkes and Susan A. Speer; 13. Foucauldian-informed discourse analysis Sarah Riley, Martine Robson and Adrienne Evans; 14. A methodology to examine identity: Multimodal (inter)action analysis Sigrid Norris and Tui Matelau-Doherty; 15. Autoethnography Keith Berry; 16. A sociocultural approach to identity through diary studies Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie; 17. Positioning microanalysis: A method for the study of dynamics in the dialogical self and identity Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie; 18. Synthesized or confused field? A Critical analysis of the state-of-the-art in identity status research methods Oana Negru-Subtirica and Theo Klimstra; 19. Criminals' narrative identity Donna Youngs, David Rowlands and David Cante; 20. Experimentation within the social identity approach: History, highlights, and hurdles Lucas B. Mazur; Part IV.Current domains: 21. Clinical psychology: Autistic identities Alessandra Fasulo; 22. Gerontopsychology: Dementia and identity Lars-Christer Hydén; 23. The study of identity in health psychology Abigail Locke and Jane Montague; 24. Identity scholarship in educational psychology: Towards a complex dynamic systems perspective Avi Kaplan, Hanoch Flum, Ishwar Bridgelal and Joanna K. Garner; 25. Political psychology: Identity development in a traumatic environment David Becker; 26. Organisational psychology: When, why and how is identity work (less) important in organisational life? Stefan Sveningsson, Susann Gjerde and Mats Alvesson; 27. Conceptualizing the multiple levels of identity and intersectionality Leoandra Onnie Rogers and Moin Syed; Part V. Conclusion: 28. Where is identity? Reflections on identity conceptualizations, dimensions, and implications Carolin Demuth and Meike Watzlawik.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Wellbeing of Nations
Book SynopsisWhat is national wellbeing and what is progress?Why measure these definitions?Why are measures beyond economic performance needed and how will they be used? How do we measure national wellbeing & turn the definitions into observable quantities? Where are we now and where to next? These questions are asked and answered in this much needed, timely book. The Wellbeing of Nations provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the measurement of national well-being, examining whether national wellbeing is more than the sum of the wellbeing of everyone in the country, and identifying and reviewing requirements for new measures. It begins with definitions, describes how to operationalize those definitions, and takes a critical look at the uses to which such measures are to be put. The authors examine initiatives from around the world, using the UK measuring national wellbeing programme' as a case study throughout the book, along with case studies drawnTrade Review“Although there are brief discussions of technical topics like measurement theory, the book will be useful to researchers across a range of disciplines and the interested general reader.” (Significance, 15 June 2015)Table of ContentsList of tables and figures viii Preface ix 1 What is national wellbeing and why measure it? 1 1.1 Motivation: Why measure wellbeing? 3 1.2 What is individual wellbeing? 8 1.3 Aspects of individual wellbeing 11 1.4 How to measure individual wellbeing? 16 1.4.1 Basics of measurement 16 1.4.2 What is measured matters 18 1.5 Properties of measurements 21 1.5.1 Validity 21 1.5.2 Reliability 22 1.6 Objective or subjective? 22 1.7 Combining multiple aspects 23 1.8 What is national wellbeing? 26 1.9 And how to measure national wellbeing? 27 1.10 Structure of the book 30 References 31 2 A short history of national wellbeing and its measurement 35 2.1 The good society and philosophies of the role of government, from ancient times 36 2.2 Utilitarianism 39 2.3 The American constitution 41 2.4 Official statistics – statistics about the state and about the state of society 42 2.5 National accounts and GDP 44 2.6 More to life than GDP 51 2.7 Social indicator movement and measuring quality of life 53 2.8 Health and wellbeing 56 2.9 Rise of measurement of psychological wellbeing (life satisfaction, happiness, worthwhile lives) 58 2.10 The Easterlin paradox 61 2.11 Taking note of the change in the quality of the goods and services we use 62 2.12 Capability approach to quality of life (Sen) and the human development index 63 2.13 Social capital and public value 65 2.14 Limits to growth and sustainable development indicators 67 2.14.1 Sustainable development indicators 69 2.14.2 Green growth indicators 72 2.14.3 Natural resource accounting 73 2.15 Commentary 75 References 77 3 Recent developments: Towards economic, social and environmental accounts 83 3.1 Mismeasuring our lives: The report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress 85 3.2 Replacing the Millennium Development Goals 90 3.3 A new global movement? 93 3.4 Commentary 104 References 110 4 Measuring individual wellbeing 115 4.1 On quantification 119 4.2 Single measures of wellbeing 123 4.3 Combining aspects of wellbeing 125 4.3.1 Causes, effects, and correlates 126 4.3.2 Subjective components of wellbeing 127 4.3.3 Weighted sums 129 4.4 Components of individual wellbeing 132 4.5 The frailty of memory 137 4.6 The devil’s in the details 138 4.7 Conclusion 142 References 143 5 Preparing to measure national wellbeing 146 5.1 Towards a user requirement for measures of national wellbeing and progress 147 5.2 Towards a framework to measure the progress of societies 152 5.3 Constructing measures of progress and national wellbeing: Identifying and meeting user requirements 160 5.4 Commentary 166 References 168 6 How to measure national wellbeing? 171 6.1 Drawing on the national economic accounts 172 6.2 Extending the national accounts 181 6.2.1 Consider income and consumption jointly with wealth 183 6.2.2 Give more prominence to the distribution of income, consumption and wealth 185 6.2.3 Broaden income measures to nonmarket activities 187 6.3 Indicator sets describing social and environmental conditions relating to wellbeing 190 6.3.1 Improve measures of people’s health, education, personal activities and environmental conditions 191 6.3.2 Quality-of-life indicators in all the dimensions covered should assess inequalities in a comprehensive way 193 6.3.3 Surveys should be designed to assess the links between various quality-of-life domains for each person, and this information should be used when designing policies in various fields 193 6.3.4 Statistical offices should provide the information needed to aggregate across quality-of-life dimensions, allowing the construction of different indexes 194 6.3.5 Sustainability assessment requires a well-identified dashboard of indicators 199 6.3.6 The environmental aspects of sustainability deserve a separate follow-up based on a well-chosen set of physical indicators 203 6.4 Survey-based data on subjective wellbeing 204 6.5 Developments in measuring national wellbeing and progress around the world 205 6.6 Important issues in the measurement of national wellbeing 209 References 212 7 Wellbeing policy and measurement in the UK 217 References 233 8 Conclusions 236 8.1 Progress 236 8.2 Measuring wellbeing 241 8.3 New technologies, new data? 244 8.4 Beyond the economy 245 8.5 The future 249 References 250 Appendix: Sources of methods and measures of wellbeing and progress 253 Further reading 269 Index 271
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminism Is for Everybody
Book SynopsisWhat is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their livesâto see that feminism is for everybody.Trade ReviewPraise for Feminism Is for Everybody:"bell hooks has always written in a very readable style, eschewing footnotes because people in her hometown told her they were put off by books with footnotes. This time, she set out to write a book that explains feminism, particularly for a mainstream audience….certainly she has once again made the point that feminists need to try to reach women of all races and classes." —Carol Anne Douglas, Off Our Backs (2001)Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition Introduction: Come Closer to Feminism 1. Feminist Politics: Where We Stand 2. Consciousness-Raising: A Constant Change of Heart 3. Sisterhood Is Still Powerful 4. Feminist Education for Critical Consciousness 5. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Reproductive Rights 6. Beauty Within and Without 7. Feminist Class Struggle 8. Global Feminism 9. Women at Work 10. Race and Gender 11. Ending Violence 12. Feminist Masculinity 13. Feminist Parenting 14. Liberating Marriage and Partnership 15. A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom 16. Total Bliss: Lesbianism and Feminism 17. To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism 18. Feminist Spirtuality 19. Visionary Feminism
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Johns Hopkins University Press Play
Book SynopsisA short but engaging look at why play is so important for people of all ages and how it can help us become better, more creative adults. In Play, Marc Malmdorf Andersen argues that playing is not just for kids and the young at heart. He explains how it is something of a scientific process, and how tinkering with one hare-brained idea after another can help us become better, more creative adults. When we play, we develop trust and intimacy, solve problems, and explore our own minds and the world around us. Malmdorf Andersen charts the evolution of play and evaluates the research in developmental psychology and biology that supports his claim. By defining different types of play, he reveals the close relationships between play and learning and between creativity and innovation. ReflectionsIn Reflections, a series copublished with Denmark's Aarhus University Press, scholars deliver 60-page reflections on a key concept that encapsulates their years of study and research. These books prTable of ContentsChapter 1. The Evolution Of PlayChapter 2. The Age Of ExplorationChapter 3. Building CharacterChapter 4. Playtime For Grown-UpsChapter 5. Creativity And Innovation
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Policy Press Ethnicity Race and Inequality in the UK
Book Synopsis50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand in a wide range of sectors of society.Table of ContentsState of the Nation: Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK ~ Claire Alexander and Bridget Byrne The Demography of Ethnic Minorities in Britain ~ William Shankley, Tina Hannemann and Ludi Simpson Citizen Rights and Immigration ~ William Shankley and Bridget Byrne Minority Ethnic Groups, Policing and the Criminal Justice System in Britain: William Shankley and Patrick Williams Health Inequalities ~ Karen Chouhan and James Nazroo Ethnic Inequalities in the State Education System in England ~ Claire Alexander and William Shankley Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market in Britain ~ Ken Clark and William Shankley Ethnic Minorities and Housing in Britain ~ William Shankley and Nissa Finney Arts, Media and Ethnic Inequalities ~ sarita malik and William Shankley Politics and Representation ~ maria sobolewska and William Shankley Racisms in Contemporary Britain ~ William Shankley and James Rhodes Conclusion ~ Omar Khan Recommendations ~ Omar Khan
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Authorhouse Good Intentions-Bad Consequences: Voters'
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Temple University Press,U.S. Cat Culture: The Social World Of A Cat Shelter
Book SynopsisEven people who live with cats and have good reason to know better insist that cats are aloof and uninterested in relating to humans. Janet and Steven Alger contend that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, they reveal a sense of self and build a culture--a shared set of rules, roles, and expectations that organizes their world and assimilates newcomers. As volunteers in a local cat shelter for eleven years, the Algers came to realize that despite the frequency of new arrivals and adoptions, the social world of the shelter remained quite stable and pacific. They saw even feral cats adapt to interaction with humans and develop friendships with other cats. They saw established residents take roles as welcomers and rules enforcers. That is, they saw cats taking an active interest in maintaining a community in which they could live together and satisfy their individual needs. Cat Culture's intimate portrait of life in the shelter, its engaging stories, and its interpretations of behavior, will appeal to general readers as well as academics interested in human and animal interaction. Author note: Janet M. Alger is Professor of Sociology at Siena College. Steven F. Alger is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of St. Rose.Trade Review"This book, by two sociologists, demonstrates that cats are complex creatures, who reason, think, and above all, feel. They have friends, they show affection, and they accommodate other cats and people into their lives in ways that we consider 'almost human.' The authors have convinced me that humans need to be 'almost cat.'"-Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey into the Feline Heart "Cat Culture is a marvelous book. As a sociologist, which I am, I found it to be an insightful, interesting, and sophisticated application of social psychology to the behavior of cats and of humans and cats. As a cat lover, which I also am, I found it to be amusing, instructive, and a very good read."-Richard H. Hall, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY and author of Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes (8th Edition) "Turn two feline-loving sociologists loose in an animal shelter and you get a book that's part ethnography, part plea for interspecies understanding. The Algers' longterm study of the Whiskers Shelter in Albany, N.Y., demonstrated the "extraordinary social capacity of domestic cats as revealed in their everyday activities and relationships with the shelter volunteers and with one another" and how the cats-Bandit, Mr. Kitty and colleagues-actively helped create 'the social world of the shelter.'"-washingtonpost.com, 6 April 2003 "At first glance, this appears to be yet another feel-good book of stories about animals. It is, however, an academic study of the interactions between cats and their human caregivers at a no-kill shelter. The authors, both professors of sociology, based the book on four years of observations conducted while they volunteered at the shelter. Theywatched the cats form relationships, surveyed the socialization of previously feralcats, and both observed and interviewed the shelter volunteers. The Algers, animal rightsactivists and owners of multiple cats themselves, follow a model of participant observation, which allows researchers to develop close relationships with their subjects. The result is an interesting mix of academic protocol and illustrative stories. Within a scholarly framework the Algers discuss such subjects as cat friendships, how the resident cats deal with new arrivals, or how the cats "train" the volunteers, fleshing out their points with excerpts from their field notes. Copious chapter notes and a lengthy bibliography offer further research for interested readers. This highly readable work will appeal to all cat owners."-Booklist "Janet and Steve Alger's book is quite useful, of benefit to academic as well as nonacademic audiences. I heartily recommend it."-Qualitative Sociology "[P]rovides an insightful and entertaining account of the complex social world of a cat shelter...[it] is an important contribution to the field of human-animal interactions, but also to animal behavior."-Anthrozoos "Cat Culture as a dual ethnography-both of cats and ofvolunteers-operates with a bifurcated epistemology. We can placeconsiderable trust in the depiction of the emotional register of volunteers,while this is not the case of the claims of cats to happiness, security,or community. The Algers read volunteers from the inside out andcats from the outside in."-The Journal of Contemporary EthnographyTable of ContentsPreface: Why an Ethnography of a Shelter?Acknowledgments1. The Myth of the Solitary Cat2. The World of Whiskers3. The Homan-Cat Connection4. The Social Bonds among the Cats5. The Feral Cats and Shelter Solidarity6. Leaving the Shelter Community7. Culture and Self in the Domestic Cat8. Animals in the Future of SociologyAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion
Book SynopsisIn this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race, class and gender, and yet still operate across all of these lines? How can communities sustain themselves in truly social ways? And perhaps most important, how can we take the importance of community into account without forgoing the important distinctions that we all ascribe to ourselves as individuals?Borrowing from the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois federation, Brown-Childs offers a way of thinking about communities as coalitions, ones that account for differences in the very act of coming together. Using the Iroquois as an example of transcommunality in action, he also offers specific outcomes that many people desire racial justice and peace are two examples as points of focus around which many disparate groups may organize, without ever subsuming questions of identity as an expense of organizing. In addition to Brown-Childs' own exegesis, twelve scholars and thinkers from all walks of life offer their own responses to his thinking, enriching the book as an illustration and example of transcommunality.In an age of fractured identities and a world that is moving toward a global community, "Transcommunality" offers a persuasive way of imagining the world where community and individual identity may not only coexist, but also depend upon the other to the benefit of both. John Brown Childs is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is author of two previous books, including "Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought" (Temple).Trade Review"This is a bold and provocative book. It is visionary, and he has clearly articulated that vision of how groups, communities and nations might engage each other, holding on to their differences and yet respecting those of others. Childs does a fine job of laying out the sketches of such a set of relationships. His prose is elegant and contains strong hope and optimism."-Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology, New York University, and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley "Both the content and the form of Transcommunality inspire hope-for activist practice and social analysis that can enable diverse communities to protect their particularities while sharing vision and strategy for social justice."-Richard Flacks, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara "[Brown-Childs] uses his skills as a sociologist, his gift for storytelling, and the lesses he has gained...to inspire readers to apply his ideas to their own work...[it] is complex. It is a way of thinking and perceiving; it is a process and a way of interacting."-Multicultural ReviewTable of ContentsFirst Words1. Introduction2. Red Clay, Blue Hills: In Honor of My Ancestors3. Emplacements of Affiliation4. Learning from the Haudenosaunee5. Elements of Transcommunality6. Roots of CooperationAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesCommentaries:A Quipu String of Commentaries: Some Reflections - John Brown ChildsTranscommunality: Beyond Tolerance, for Understanding - Guillermo Delgado-P.Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Childs's Idea of the Transcommunal - Arif DirlikLanguage of Space: The Territorial Roots of the Indigenous Community in Relation to Transcommunality - Stefano VareseTranscommunality in a Global World - Renate HolubTranscommunality as a Foundation for Globalization from Below - Jeremy BrecherOn Transcommunality and Models of Community - Hayden WhitePragmatic Solidarity and Transcommunality - Andrea SmithInclusive Difference: Transcommunality and the Hope for a Just World - David Welchman GegeoTranscommunality: Politics, Culture, and Practice - Herman GrayOne Love: Transcommunality among the Hip Hop Generation - Sofia QuinteroTranscommunal Practice in Northern Ireland - John D. BrewerTranscommunality as Spiritual Practice - Bettina ApthekerAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and
Book SynopsisMoney, sex, and love: Are they merelyTrade Review“Economies of Desire is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas’ many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target.”—Patricia Zavella, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Affective Economies of Sexualized Tourism 1. Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic 2. Neoliberal Times in Cuba and the Dominican Republic 3. Eroticizing Labor in All-Inclusive Resorts 4. Daughters of Yemayá and Other Luchadoras 5. Tourism, Sex Work, and the Discourse of Human Rights Epilogue Notes References Index
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Tycho Press 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication:
Book SynopsisSucceed in business with practical career strategies and communication skills from the world''s greatest leaders in 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication. Effective business communication is a skill that anyone can develop. From interview strategies to high-stakes negotiation tactics, 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication offers practical strategies to improve communication skills and help you succeed in your career. Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world''s most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios. With step-by-step guidance and simple exercises, you''ll learn why, how, and when to use fundamental communication skills to successfully navigate any situation. Learn how to listen from a Microsoft CEO, or gain the confidence to network your way into any room with advice from a renowned venture capitalist—10 Skills for Effective Business Communication teaches you these skills and more, with: 10 essential communication skills that empower you to masterfully handle pivotal moments in your career Actionable exercises to practice and improve your communication skills right away Clear explanations of the social psychology behind communication skills Inspirational success stories that highlight communication skills from some of the world''s greatest business leaders including Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Tony Robbins, and more Advance your career and set yourself up for success with effective communications skills from 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication.
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Microcosm Publishing Riot Woman
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Dayspring Retirement Rocks!
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and
Book SynopsisThe toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: 1: Gichi Zibi Omaami Winini Anishinaabe 2: The Upside-down Astrolabe Tour 3: The Agora Tour 4: The Poppy Tour 5: The Mica Tour 6: Laura Secord’s Tour 7: The Placard Tour Conclusion Bibliography Index
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de Gruyter Dialektik Und Systemdenken
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de Gruyter Die Krise in Der Soziologie
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de Gruyter Mensch Und Gesellschaft
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De Gruyter Studien Zur Geschichte Der Politischen Ökonomie
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de Gruyter Abhandlungen Und Berichte Des Staatlichen Museums
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de Gruyter Abhandlungen Und Berichte Des Staatlichen Museums
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