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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Natural Symbols Explorations in Cosmology
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society.Trade Review'Natural Symbols remains the book most important to understanding Mary Douglas's thought, and this fact places it amongst the most significant books of theory written by anthropologists during the twentieth century.' - Richard Fardon, SOAS'Mary Douglas's writing remains as fresh and vivid as ever. The ideas put forward in Natural Symbols have been taken up well beyond the discipline of anthropology, and should remain compulsory reading for all students of religion and society.' - Fiona Bowie, University of Bristol'Natural Symbols is clearly a major work in the greatest of sociological traditions, the Durkheimian. It has an originality unmatched for a generation among the writings of anthropologists. It raises questions that are important and soluble not in the field but by the harder, less inviting, work of reflection and analysis.' - Times Literary Supplement'As timeless as the subtitle. Essential reading for all those enthralled by her brilliant insights into the meaning of the Bible thirty years on.' - John Sawyer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University'It has an originality unmatched for a generation among the writings of anthropologists.' - Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Away from ritual; 2. To inner experience; 3. The Bog Irish; 4. Grid and group; 5. The two bodies; 6. Test cases; 7. The problem of evil; 8. Impersonal rules; 9. Control of symbols; 10. Out of the cave
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales Therapy Culture Cultivating Vulnerability in an
Book SynopsisTherapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood. Increasingly vulnerability is presented as the defining feature of people's psychology. Terms like people 'at risk', 'scarred for life' or 'emotional damage' evoke a unique sense of powerlessness. Furedi questions the widely accepted thesis that the therapeutic turn represents an enlightened shift towards emotions. He claims that therapeutic culture is primarily about imposing a new conformity through the management of people's emotions. Through framing the problem of everyday life through the prism of emotions, therapeutic culture incites people to feel powerless and ill. Drawing on developments in popular culture, political and social life, Furedi provides a path-breaking analysis of the therapeutic turn.Trade Review'Professor Furedi has written an important book ... which is essential to the understanding of our times.'- Theodore Dalrymple, Sunday Telegraph'"If you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand," Sigmund Freud said of psychoanalysis in 1900. He had obviously seen the future. As sociology professor Frank Furedi says in his new book Therapy Culture, we live in a culture that takes emotions very seriously.' - Ursula Kenny, The Observer'Furedi forensically examines this brave new emotional world: the rush of counsellors to the site of every trauma, the ways in which economic problems are recast as psychological phenomena, the cult of the Victim, the decline of political activism.' - Melissa Benn, The Independent'Therapy is indeed the new opium of the people, as Frank Furedi makes clear in this fascinating, readable - and disturbing - book.' - Virginia Ironside, The IndependentForensically examines this brave new emotional world - The IndependentThis is what our life is all about. Instead of seeking a treatment for it, we should try living it. - The Times'Can it really be such a bad thing that we are now more aware of the place of mental health in our make-up? Furedi leaves us in no doubt that the therapy culture has invaded our media, our workplace, our intimate relationships and our politics. It is an interesting polemic. We should be grateful for the balance this book inspires'- Community Care 25/4/04'Furedi gives us much food for thought that we would do well to consider ... This book highlights the dichotomy between schools as centres of learning or of socialisation.' - Alan McLean, Times Education Supplement (Scotland) 'I enjoyed this book, and found it compulsive reading.' - www.AutoBiographyJournal.com'Therapy is indeed the new opium of the people, as Frank Furedi makes clear in this fascinating, readable - and disturbing - book.' - Virginia Ironside, The Independent'Can it really be such a bad thing that we are now more aware of the place of mental health in our make-up? Furedi leaves us in no doubt that the therapy culture has invaded our media, our workplace, our intimate relationships and our politics. It is an interesting polemic. We should be grateful for the balance this book inspires'- Community Care 25/4/04Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 The culture of emotionalism; Chapter 2 The politics of emotion; Chapter 3 Targeting privacy and informal relations; Chapter 4 How did we get here?; Chapter 5 The diminished self; Chapter 6 The self at risk; Chapter 7 Fragile identity; Chapter 8 Conferring recognition; Chapter 9 Therapeutic claims-making and the demand for a diagnosis; Final thoughts;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surviving Identity Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition
Book SynopsisToday, political claims are increasingly made on the basis of experienced trauma and inherent vulnerability, as evidenced in the growing number of people who identify as a survivor of one thing or another, and also in the way in which much political discourse and social policy assumes the vulnerability of the population. This book discusses these developments in relation to the changing focus of social movements, from concerns with economic redistribution, towards campaigns for cultural recognition. As a result of this, the experience of trauma and psychological vulnerability has become a dominant paradigm within which both personal and political grievances are expressed.Combining the psychological, social, and political aspects of the expression of individual distress and political dissent, this book provides a unique analysis of how concepts such as vulnerability and trauma have become institutionalised within politics and society. It also offers a critical appraisal of theTrade Review"Surviving Identity provides a compelling and troubling account of the social demand for affirmation and recognition. Paradoxically the turn towards validating identity has intensified our sense of vulnerability." - Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK"Surviving Identity provides an incisive analysis of victim culture and the growing tendency to seek therapeutic solutions to the problems of everyday life." - David Wainwright, Senior Lecturer, School of Health, University of Bath, UK"This book must be read by teachers, social workers, mental health professionals, charity workers, trade unionists and all who do not want to see their professional work reinforcing and celebrating a ‘survivor’ mentality." - Dennis Hayes, Head of the Centre for Educational Research, University of Derby, UK Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Social Movements Old and New 2. Recognising Identity 3. Surviving Trauma 4. Surviving Psychiatry 5. The Rise of Therapeutic Identity 6. The Imposition of a Vulnerable Identity 7. Conclusion
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Gestures
Book SynopsisAs featured in the New York Times and Reader''s Digest An eye-opener into the pitfalls awaiting the unaware traveler. -Washington Post Can save the innocent abroad from great gobs of serious trouble. -Chicago Tribune Before you raise your hand to signal the waiter, extend your thumb to hitchhike, or flash the O.K. sign with thumb and forefinger, Stop! Think of where you are and exactly what you are trying to say-otherwise you could create an international incident. Remember when President Bush thought he was flashing the V for Victory sign to cheering Australians? (See inside.) Exploring the ins and outs of body language from head to toe, this newly revised and expanded edition of Roger Axtell''s indispensable guide takes you all around the world of gestures-what they mean, how to use them, and when to avoid them. This latest edition includes: * Updates about the 200 most popular gestures and signals-and dozens of new examples * New sections covering special gestures-from AmeriTable of ContentsThe Power of Gestures. The Most Popular Gestures. Special Types of Gestures. Gestures: Head to Toe. The Ultimate Gesture. The Innocent Abroad's Shortlist. Country-by-Country Listing. Additional Reading. Index.
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Pluto Press Vital Signs
Book SynopsisAs standards of healthcare decline, so do our bodies; we need a radical vision for healthcareTrade Review'Excellent - a radical vision of how to improve healthcare provision and with it, the health of humanity' -- Professor John Parrington, University of Oxford'As another major 'inequality commission' is set up in Britain, 'Vital Signs' presents a clear historical and theoretical framing for why stark health differences between social and ethnic groups persist or increase across the globe' -- George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, editor of 'Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches' (Policy, 2003)Table of ContentsList of Figures 1. Introduction 2. Healthcare in the Age of Neoliberalism 3. Mergers, Monopolies and the ‘Rising Billions’ 4. The Social Determinants of Health 5. The ‘Inequality Thesis’ 6. Ageing Populations? 7. Health, Power and Paradigms 8. Legislating for Better Health? 9. Who’s WHO? 10. The National Health Service: A Revolution Half Made? 11. Conclusion Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sociology for Social Workers
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this major textbook clearly shows how sociology can inform professional social work practice in the twenty-first century. It provides an easy-to-follow, jargon-free introduction to sociology for social work students, with crucial links to practice across a comprehensive range of topics.Trade ReviewThis book is an essential read for all social work students and newly-qualified practitioners.Dr Steve Rogowski, Professional Social WorkThis new, updated version will help training and qualified social workers to make links between policy, practice and sociological theory and assist them to identify their role and contribution to challenging structural inequalities evident in society today.Sheila Furness, University of BradfordThis second edition is recommended as core reading for all social work students as it skilfully captures the central relevance of a sociological understanding to the whole social work curriculum. It also demonstrates via the use of carefully selected examples the location of social work as a profession within the social and political context. Never has such a text been more needed.Cath Holmstrom, Middlesex UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 What is Sociology?Chapter 2 Social Class, Poverty and Social ExclusionChapter 3 GenderChapter 4 Race and EthnicityChapter 5 DisabilityChapter 6 Sexuality and Sexual ExploitationChapter 7 Deviance and CrimeChapter 8 Family and CommunityChapter 9 Children and Young PeopleChapter 10 Old AgeChapter 11 Health and Mental HealthChapter 12 Social Work and Social ContextUseful Resources
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Taylor & Francis Starting the Twentyfirst Century
Book SynopsisJrgen Habermas, speaking of postmodern society, remarked that extension of the means of communication not only allows a wide range of information, but it also encourages permanent connections between different peoples, cultures, and social discourses. It thus facilitates better general understanding, a clarifying of real or apparent contradictions. But this process becomes truly positive only when it is performed between equal members. Globalization of information does not minimize the possibility of conflict or terrorism, if fundamental social problems are not resolved or at least approached in an active way.This volume examines the major upheavals of the twentieth century and views within the framework of these events and challenges implications for the future. Values and Cultural Changes in the Postmodern World, by Zygmunt Bauman explores the changing meaning of space in the globalizing environment; S.N. Eisenstadt analyzes the destructive components of modernity; and IrviTable of Contents1: Values and Cultural Changes in the Postmodern World; 1: Space in the Globalizing World; 2: Barbarism and Modernity; 3: Social Science as Cultural Formation; 2: Social Development and Policies in Contemporary Society; 4: Development of Applied Social Science—The World Bank Experience; 5: Progressing Health and Healthcare; 3: Societies in Transition—Eastern Europe; 6: Socialist and Capitalist Experiments in the Twentieth Century—The Case of Russia; 7: Post-Communist Societies; 4: The Jewish World; 8: Jewish Identities and the Diaspora—The Diaspora Paradigm Confronting Modernity; 9: The Jews of Independent Poland—Linguistic and Cultural Changes; 10: Who Rules Israel?; 11: Despoliation, Reparation, Compensation
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Taylor & Francis Inc Male and Female in Social Life
Book SynopsisSex is a theoretical puzzle because it is much older than we are. A primary fact of biology, sex has defined society from nearly the beginning of life on earth, and as a result we cannot see its effects in our lives in evolutionary comparisons with near primate or mammalian relatives. Sex is a puzzle, too, because it is often misconstrued in social science. It is not, as many social scientists believe, a mere feature of a person, like hair or skin color. Rather it is a part played in the life of the species. This propensity to view sex as a personal feature has kept social science from seeing how sex figures in the social life of the species.Male and Female in Social Life presents a theoretical framework to describe how sex (the division of our species between male and female) brings life and order to society. It argues that sex is the mainspring of social life and it tells us the most about social dynamics and forms. The book centers on five chapters that describe four moments of humaTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Unity; 3: Division; 4: Play; 5: Order; 6: Pathos; 7: Conclusion
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New York University Press Feminist Accountability
Book SynopsisExplores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?In an age when feminism has become increasingly mainstream, noted feminist scholar and activist Ann Russo asks feminists to consider the ways that our own behavior might contribute to the interlocking systems of oppression that we aim to dismantle. Feminist Accountability offers an intersectional analysis of three main areas of feminism in practice: anti-racist work, community accountability and transformative justice, and US-based work in and about violence in the global south. Russo explores accountability as a set of frameworks and practices for community- and movement-building against oppression and violence. Rather than evading the ways that we are implicated, complicit, or actively engaged in Trade ReviewRusso shares the collective wisdom garnered from years of rich experiences in imagining, designing and implementing practices of feminist accountability. This deeply self-reflexive book chronicles the authors many years of activist engagement in antiracist, feminist, and social justice activism. As she powerfully demonstrates, this is fundamentally a collective accomplishment. She foregrounds the passionate and transformative work of diverse activists, scholars, and social justice organizations that have developed unique and effective resistance and transformative strategies for social change. Of course, most of these justice warriors are women, queer, trans and gender nonconforming people of color. Anyone seeking to counter systems of privilege and oppression in everyday life and in social structures that perpetrate violence and injustice should read this book. -- Nancy Naples,Co-editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and GlobalizationReplacing hyper-individualism and division with interconnectivity and community, Russo develops useful strategies for post-oppositional transformation. Her emphasis on accountability, responsibility, and relationship-building within contexts of uneven power offers a healing approach to social justice work. -- AnaLouise Keating,Author of Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of ChangeThe essays in this book inspire a renewed commitment to a principled struggle for justice. Russo invites anti-violence scholars and activists to re-dedicate ourselves to the goals of freedom and liberation both in how we live and how we do our work; making the case that feminist accountability is both a political aspiration and an everyday practice. Courageous, compassionate, and demanding, this book is like a breath of fresh air, just when our liberation movements need it! -- Beth Richie,Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison NationGrounded in over thirty years of Russos anti-racist, feminist, and queer anti-violence activism, there are few books that explore the possibilities of building a more just and liberatory feminism with such astute political vision, compassion, and concrete detail. Feminist Accountability has the potential to generate an important shift in feminist politics towards an ethics of community accountability and transformative justice. I am tremendously moved and inspired by this book. -- Christine Keating,Co-editor of LGBTQ Politics: A Critical ReaderAs a feminist organizer, Ive been waiting for this collection of essays for years. How do we address and transform violence in non-punitive ways? Ann Russo offers a compelling analysis of how a praxis of accountability can guide us toward some answers to this question. As a scholar-activist, Russos insights are drawn from both theory and practice. She has tried on and tried out the ideas she espouses in community with others. The essays are beautifully written and accessible to all. Feminist Accountability is a must read for anyone interested in community accountability practices, anti-violence organizing and transformative justice. -- Mariame Kaba,Founder of Project NIA
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Taylor & Francis Inc Public Interest Law
Book SynopsisThis volume convincingly lays to rest two held beliefs that have long impeded scholarly analysis of the role of courts and litigation in American politics: 1) that group resort to the courts is a rather recent phenomenon resulting from actions of the Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement; and 2) that unique and distinctive features of the judiciary somehow place it beyond or outside analytic frameworks used to study and analyze the role, nature and functioning of other governing institutions such as the Congress and the presidency. The title of the volume ~ Public Interest Law Sourcebook -- accurately describes its central purpose and method as descriptive and informative.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Group Litigation in the Interest Group and Judicial Process Literature Chapter 3 Specific Organizations and Governmental Entities Chapter 4 Specific Substantive Areas of Law Chapter 5 Administrative Structure and Organizational Dynamics Chapter 6 Organizational Strategies and Tactics Chapter 7 Public Interest Law and the Public Interest Lawyer
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Taylor & Francis Mothers in Prison
Book SynopsisSeveral years ago, Terry Moore, a young first offender at the Florida Correctional Institution for Women, gave birth to a baby whose father was a prison guard. Mrs. Moore won the right to have her baby stay with her in prison until she was released a few months later. Although this incarcerated mother was reunited with her child shortly after giving birth, many inmate mothers are not able to be with or see their children on a regular basis during incarceration. Little is known about this significant and emotionally traumatic problem that confronts nearly two-thirds of incarcerated women.Building upon previous work, this extraordinarily insightful volume offers fresh perspective on issues which surround the separation of inmate mothers and their children, using questionnaire, standardized scales, and individual taped interviews. The author examines issues such as the impact of separation by race; the child's whereabouts at the time of the crime; the child's placement and legalTable of Contents1. The Separation Impacts: Common Threads from Previous Research 2. Objectives of the Study and Format of the Inquiry 3. Background Characteristics 4. Impacts of the Separation,by Mother’s Race 5. Self-Concept and Child-Rearing Attitudes 6. Inmate-Mothers and Drugs: A Schizophrenic Lifestyle 7. Programs to Strengthen Ties 8. A Unique Foster-Care Placement Program 9. Implications of the Study: Where Do We Go from Here?
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University of Manitoba Press Unbecoming Nationalism From Commemoration to
Book SynopsisInvestigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives, and examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects.Table of Contents Introduction - Lest We Forget: The Contested Terrain of Canadian Commemoration Chapter 2 The Canadian War Museum: Imagining the Canadian Nation through Military Commemoration Chapter 3 Unbecoming Canadian Militarism’s Forgetful Narratives: Unravelling the Uniform’s Ambiguous Meanings Chapter 4 The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Collisional Encounters of Unbecoming Canadian Nationalisms Chapter 5 Unbecoming Canada 150: By Many Means Necessary
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Taylor & Francis Lifetime Carbon Debt
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills
Book SynopsisCharles W. Mills (1951â2021) was considered by many to be the most well-known philosopher specializing in political philosophy and critical philosophy of race. This is the first collection of essays to critically examine the key themes of Millsâs philosophy across his major works.The chapters in this volume engage with major themes such as the racial contract, non-ideal theory, metaphysics of race, epistemology of ignorance, and corrective justice. They also explore Millsâs engagement with philosophical figures including Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Maria Lugones, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and John Rawls. Furthermore, the contributors seek to uncover unexplored terrain which may be illuminated by applying many of Millsâs key insights.The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in political philosophy, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, and Black political thought.
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Taylor & Francis Colonial Geographies Tourist Imaginaries and Mystical Landscapes
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Taylor & Francis Hauntology
Book SynopsisIn response to the recent âspectral turnâ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable, and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students.Hauntology is, in essence, a mode of analysing the repressions, absences and lacks that shape our social world. The book outlines how criminological researchers may welcome hauntings into their work, to escape the ontological tethers of criminological realism and to reveal the importance of absence in their work. Specifically, the book is structured around key criminological themes, from prisons to the environment, and examines how the lens of âhauntingâ helps unlock new critical enquiry by revealing the voices that are all too often buried. In doing so, it presents an examination of how hauntological concepts can be âreadâ criminologically as well as addressing how they can be used to expand criminological imagination.Throughout the book, we use hauntology to amplify the significance of justice within criminology as an intellectual and ethical endeavour. We argue that a spectral attitude bolsters our ability to âdo justiceâ to our research, our questions, our participants, our subjects, our objects, and what counts as criminological knowledge.The book is guided by the following objectives:â To introduce the importance of hauntology for encountering the spectres repressed within criminological knowledge and research.â To outline the key concepts of hauntology to offer new critical insight into their application across the field of criminology.â To examine the multiple ways hauntology stretches the ontological and epistemological foundations of criminological research.â To produce an approachable, comprehensive and theoretically driven compendium that both motivates and guides current and future research across all areas of criminology. Hauntology: An Introduction for Criminologists is a guide for criminologists that is designed to, for the first time, help direct future hauntological research and enhanced learning capacity across the discipline of criminology.
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Taylor & Francis Social Entrepreneurship in Art Therapy
Book SynopsisThis book explores social entrepreneurship in art therapy through case studies presented by contributing authors, highlighting the work of art therapists who have used innovative and collaborative approaches to increase access to art therapy services and promote system-level changes within the communities and institutions where they practice.As creative changemakers, art therapists are often developing innovative solutions to address social problems impacting the communities they serve. This book reveals practical aspects of these initiatives by offering strategies, skills, and practice-based examples. By addressing issues related to equity, inclusion, and access through innovative programming, grassroots advocacy, and policy development, the authors demonstrate how their entrepreneurial initiatives in art therapy produce social impact.Practitioners in art therapy and allied mental health professions will be inspired to seek and embrace opportunities for innovation.
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Taylor & Francis Ecological and Social Healing
Book SynopsisA compendium of diverse women and nonbinary femmes, the second, expanded edition of this book highlights the contributorâs journeys with straddling social and ecological issues through both their professional and personal paths and reveals how straddling these edges has surfaced new learning, models, and practices for collective healing. The contributors span multiple generations and positionalities and are prominent academics, writers, teachers, artists, leaders, and healers. Ecological and Social Healing is rooted in the power of integrating multiple and often conflicting views and the transformations that result.This book is rooted in academic theory as well as personal and professional experience and highlights emerging models and insights. It will appeal to those working, teaching and learning in the fields of social justice, environmental issues, women and gender studies, animal rights, ecopsychology, spirituality, transformative studies, transdisciplinarity, lea
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Taylor & Francis Roads to Decolonisation
Book SynopsisRoads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible new textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice, arming them with the tools to theorise and explain the social world away from dominant Global North perspectives. Arranged in four parts, it examines key thinkers, activists and theory-work from the Global South; theoretical concepts and socio-historical conditions associated with 'race' and racism, gender and sexuality, identity and (un)belonging in a globalised world and decolonisation and education; challenges to dominant Euro-American perspectives on key social justice issues, linking decolonial discourses to contemporary case studies. Each chapter offers an overview of key thinkers and activists whose work engages with social justice issues, many of whom are under-represented or left out of undergrad
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Taylor & Francis Racism in the Neoliberal Era
Book SynopsisRacism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest Black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on a racial language of white-private/black public, operating as a web of racial meanings that connect social groups with economic policy, geography, and police brutality. When America was racially segregated, elites consented to political pressure to develop and fund white-public institutions. The Black civil rights movement eliminated legal barriers that prevented racial integration. The elite white response to Black civic inclusion was to deregulate the Voting Rights Act and banking policy â giving themselves tax cuts and implementing austerity measures on government programs to aid the poor, privatizing neighborhoods, schools, and social welfare, creating markets around poverty. Citizenship was recast as a privilege instead of a right. Neoliberalism is the result of an elite white meta strategy to maintain political and economic power.This new edition is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the further history and debates over neoliberalism in the Trump and Biden eras, and the significant social and political discussions around race and racism, policing, housing, health care, and citizenship as they interconnect with the American neoliberal economic and political system. The new edition will be a vital textbook for students, instructors, and researchers in sociology, politics, race, and economics.
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Taylor & Francis For a New Political Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Homelessness in Performance Art and Society
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Taylor & Francis Roads Not Taken
Book SynopsisUsing a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights the relevance of such movements to our own tumultuous times.Populism in its twenty-first century guise is often centred around exclusionary notions of nationality and the exultation of an authoritarian leader. Yet, as this book demonstrates, this has not always been the case. As demonstrated by the Levellers in the English Civil War and the Sans-Culottes in the French Revolution, the ideas of progressive populism have often surfaced in the midst of revolution where they have sought to ensure that revolutions do not deviate from their lofty ideals. Progressive populism has also emerged during periods of crisis and social dislocation, reasserting conceptions of the moral economy' and a romanticised view of the past in support of their goals. By looking at the trajectories of past iterations of these ideas, Kimmel retrieves a different
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Taylor & Francis The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
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Taylor & Francis Pandemics and Literature
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accounts, memoirs and missionary writings from India and the west to explore the history of some of the major outbreaks in history. The chapters focus on the impact of outbreaks such as plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19, upon the material life of people, their social dislocation and their complex responses to such crises.The book studies the role of pandemics in pushing scientists, social actors and littÃrateurs to develop new paradigms in knowledge generation, theories of environmental dislocation and the economic slide. It examines themes such as changes in the perception of epidemic diseases across different periods of history, popular responses to state intervention during epidemics, gendering epidemics, as well as the impact of rumours during epidemics.An important contribution to the social history of health and medicine, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of cultural studies and medical anthropology, public health, literature, history of pandemics and epidemics, sociology of medicine and South Asian studies.
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Taylor & Francis PolicyMaking and Planning in the Health Sector
Book SynopsisNow, as when this book was originally published in 1982, health services have shown themselves only too capable of absorbing a large share of the resources that nations have available for public and private expenditure. Then, as now, as nations are faced with problems of slow or negative economic growth, government resources are increasingly directed towards setting limits on the resources absorbed by the health sector. Looking especially at the UK and USA, the book explores the challenges that countries face in attempting to improve the health and well-being of their communities through conscious planning of health-related activities. It is argued that there is often a huge credibility gap between the rhetoric of comprehensive planning and the reality of health policy-making and planning in many societies. The book identifies feasible approaches that can be made to improve decision-making in the health sector.
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CRC Press Science Ltd.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Developing Grounded Theory The Second Generation
Book SynopsisGrounded theory is the most popular genre of qualitative research used in the health professions and is widely used elsewhere in the research world. In this volume, six key grounded theory methodologists examine the history, principles, and practices of this method, highlighting areas in which different strands of the methods diverge. Trade Review"Students of grounded theory methodology will be delighted by this rare opportunity to be a fly on the wall for the dialogues and debates that went into the modern incarnations of this much loved qualitative research tradition.In this text, Morse and the second generation grounded theory design developers allow us a rare glimpse of the makings of qualitative methodology as it has evolved to meet the needs of an increasingly diversified scholarly audience.Before embarking on a grounded theory inquiry adventure, it is wise to understand where the methodology came from and why its structures and practices have evolved into the diversity of approaches we know today. This text allows readers to join in the original conversations and to follow along with their developments over time as scholars across a range of disciplines have found ways to adapt the classic tradition into the widely applicable qualitative research approach we know today." -- Sally Thorne, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada "The second edition of this book demonstrates how the field of Grounded Theory research and methodology has been developed by the second generation of researchers. It offers many very helpful insights into the progress of the methodology, and into very instructive first-hand examples of research. It illustrates the variety of approaches in using Grounded Theory methodology for research in several fields. This makes the book an invaluable resource for researchers and students at the same time." -- Uwe Flick, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany"A method is like a shark, it must keep moving forwards or it dies. Or as Anselm Strauss, writing with Julie Corbin, observed "a child once launched is very much subject to a combination of its origins and the evolving contingencies of life. Can it be otherwise with a methodology?" Since its inception in the 1960s, the grounded theory method [GTM] has been exemplary both in moving forwards and in responding to the evolving contingencies of more than half a century. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the work of the ‘second generation’ of grounded theorists in whose hands GTM has flourished and developed, resulting in a constellation of styles or variants, all derived from the founding texts, but now offering an armamentarium accessible and available to researchers as they develop their own methodological sensitivities across a wide spectrum of disciplines.This revised edition, evolving from the 2007 ‘Grounded Theory Bash’, underlines the contributions of this exceptional group, incorporating individual chapters on the various distinctive approaches, each further illustrated with a selected example of its use. The result is a comprehensible and immensely valuable addition to the GTM literature." -- Antony Bryant, Professor of Informatics, Leeds Beckett University, UKTable of ContentsSection I: Introduction 1. The Maturation of Grounded Theory; Section II: Straussian Grounded Theory 2. Strauss’s Grounded Theory 3. Exemplar: The Nurse as Advocate: The Sessler Branden Advocacy Theory (SBAT); Section III: Glaserian Grounded Theory 4. Glaserian Grounded Theory 5. Exemplar using Glaserian Grounded Theory: Building on "Grab", attending to "Fit", and Being Prepared to "Modify" how Grounded Theory "Works" to Guide Health Interventions of Abused Women; Section IV: Dimensional Analysis 6. Dimensional Analysis 7. Exemplar using Dimensional Analysis: Developing the Green House Nursing Care Team: Variations on Development and Implementation; Section V: Constructivist Grounded Theory 8. The Genesis, Grounds, and Growth of Constructivist Grounded Theory 9. Exemplar using Constructionist Grounded Theory: Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living with Parkinson Disease; Section VI: Situational Analysis 10. From Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis: What’s New? Why? How? 11. Exemplar using Situational Analysis: "Situating Knowledge"; Section VII: What’s Next? 12. The Challenges to and Future(s) of Grounded Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Testimony in the Spirit Rescripting Ordinary
Book SynopsisThis book explores ordinary practices of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians in relation to the Holy Spirit. It offers varied picture of contemporary Christians in the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions, enabling a greater understanding to be appreciated for academic and ecclesial audiences.Trade ReviewMark Cartledge has taken David Martin's concept of rescripting which he applies to (in Jeff Astley's language) the 'ordinary theology' of a local Pentecostal denomination and has pulled off a remarkable study of interdisciplinary sophistication which is both faithful to Pentecostal self understanding of their lives, yet deeply reflexive sociologically, and reflective theologically. If that were not enough he offers this rescription to Pentecostal practitioners in a spirit of critical engagement. This study is so rich and rounded that I am tempted to throw caution to the wind and say with confidence that this lifts practical theology to a higher level. Testimony in the Spirit is a tour de force. Andrew Walker, King's College London, UK Finally, a practical theological methodology that ably and adequately closes the loop between the vibrant and widely heralded 'Pentecostal spirituality' and the second-level discourse of Pentecostal theology. Cartledge not only writes here in service of the church, but further solidifies his reputation at the vanguard of the increasingly important field of practical theology through his expert translation of Pentecostal experience, that remains quite enigmatic to those outside the movement. Amos Yong, Regent University School of Divinity, USA This is theological reflection that questions and listens discerningly to a local Pentecostal congregation in the light of a larger theological conversation. The result is a fruitful exchange that provides much needed clarity of thought, not only for Pentecostals, but for everyone interested in understanding how theology can serve the life and mission of the church. Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University, USA In a lucid and compelling style, Cartledge takes the reader inside the "ordinary theology" of contemporary British Pentecostalism. He raises issues of great importance to leaders of diverse religious communities, while sharing ground-breaking scholarship in Pentecostal/Charismatic studTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology; Chapter 3 Worship; Chapter 4 Conversion; Chapter 5 Baptism in the Spirit; Chapter 6 Healing; Chapter 7 Life and Witness; Chapter 8 World Mission and the Second Coming; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bureaucrat and the Poor
Book SynopsisWelfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration, The Bureaucrat and the Poor provides a realistic view of French welfare policies, institutions and reforms and, in doing so, dispels both of these myths. Combining Lipsky''s street-level bureaucracy theory with the sociology of Bourdieu and Goffman, this research analyses face-to-face encounters and demonstrates the complex relationship between welfare agents, torn between their institutional role and their personal feelings, and welfare applicants, required to translate their personal experience into bureaucratic categories. Placing these interactions within the broader context of social structures and class, race and gender, the author unveils both the social determinations of these interpersonal relationships and their social functTrade Review'By emphasising the encounters of the least powerful state actors and our least powerful citizens, Dubois presents a different, at once more troubling and hopeful view of the administrative state. Throughout The Bureaucrat and the Poor the emphasis remains on the fragility of social roles: nothing is so fixed as to prove immutable; all is contested and in play. For students and scholars of administration and policy, these are essential insights and well worth the read to appreciate in full.' Steven Maynard-Moody, The University of Kansas, USA 'This first-rate ethnography provides a unique vista point from which to understand how public policy translates into mundane dealings with marginal populations. By mating the theories of Bourdieu, Goffman and Lipsky, The Bureaucrat and the Poor delivers the best analysis yet of the specificity of bureaucratic domination and makes a signal contribution to the comparative sociology of welfare reform in the neoliberal era.’ Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, USA ’A lucid, well-written and well-organised account of everyday bureaucracy at the welfare agency’s window, solidly based on observation: first-class empirical sociology, savvy, streetwise, and with a wicked sense of clients’ covert tactics. French bureaucrats and their clients are clearly not unique: as Dubois portrays them they look uncannily familiar.’ Abram de Swaan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Vincent Dubois’ newly translated The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices provides an ethnographic "insider’s" look at the double role enacted by welfare workers as they encounter their clients. In his ethnographer’s role, Dubois follows these street-level bureaucrats up close and personal, and explores the workers’ "double bodied-ness" as they juggle at one and the same time their administrative roles and responsibilities with their human compassion for the misery of the poor with whom they interact anTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Steven Maynard-Moody; Preface to the English edition; Introduction; Part I The Social Conditions of the Administrative Relationship: The public; Organising face-to-face encounters; An unequal relationship; Administrative exchanges, normative exchanges. Part II The Agent's Two Bodies: The post and the role of the agent; On becoming an agent; The agents as individuals; Facing misery; Managing social inequality; The agent's separate identities. Part III Questioning the Institutional Order: Flaws in the system; Putting up with the institution; The return of the repressed individual; Adapting the institution; Appendices; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Analysing Museum Display
Book SynopsisAnalysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks and methods, charting major contributions to the field and exploring their potentials and limitations.How and why should we study museum display, and what is its nature as a complex form of representation? The book argues that display is at once material, experiential, and political in producing knowledge and that analysis requires rigorous conceptualization and careful methodologies. It provides a critical guide to existing concepts and methods, exploring how museum display can be understood using semiotic, narrative, cartographic, and spatial analyses, assemblage theory, new materialist and multisensory approaches, and theories of affect, emotion, and historical positioning. Alongside this, Whitehead presents key orientations for research practice relating to objectivity and subjectiv
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Christians in the City of Shanghai
Book SynopsisExamining the stories of diverse Christians in Shanghai, this book uses the city as a model to highlight how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions as well as social, cultural, political, and economic changes. Susangeline Y. Patrick illustrates how the history of Shanghai Christians sheds light on why and how Christians have accommodated social and political changes, and gives valuable insights into multiculturalism, globalization, sinicization, and ecclesiology. The interreligious dialogues between Shanghai Christians and other traditions such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism throughout history provide worthy reflections on the roles of Christians in a multi-religious space.Trade ReviewLike other global cities, Shanghai is a dynamic hub of Christianity. The city acts as a pair of lungs, inhaling believers from across China and around the world, then exhaling them to embark on new and surprising trajectories. Patrick outlines the significance of these movements, illuminating the strategic role that Shanghai has played in shaping World Christianity for the past four centuries. * Daryl Ireland, Research Assistant Professor of Mission, Boston University, USA *With rich knowledge of mission history and valuable insight into the social and cultural context, Dr Patrick skillfully depicts a kaleidoscope of the rises and falls of Shanghai Christians over recent centuries. This book provides a window into the living faith forged under pressure in this vibrant cosmopolitan city that invites revival and renewal of Chinese Christianity with a global vision. A must-read resource! * Rev. Xiaoli Yang, Honorary Research Associate, University of Divinity, USA and author of 'A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke' *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shanghai and World Christianity 1. Catholic Shanghai 2. The Protestant Century and Holistic Mission 3. The Shanghai Orthodox: Russian, Armenian, and Chinese 4. Indigenous Christians and Globalization 5. The Multicultural Church and Cosmopolitan Shanghai 6. Interreligious Encounters 7. Beyond the Borders Conclusion: What Shanghai Christians Offer in World Christianity Notes Appendices Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Qualitative Research Ethics
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Worlding Cities
Book SynopsisWorlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of worlding' Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics Trade Review“I am hopeful that this collection, along with others of its kind, will inspire new lines of research and theorisation that will help arrest the actual realities of cities in an era of planetary urbanisation.” (Urban Studies, 1 February 2015) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 Lisa Hoffman 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77 Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu 6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Political Tribes
Book Synopsis''A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom'' J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy''A page-turner and revelation, Political Tribes will change the way you think'' Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants In Political Tribes, Amy Chua argues that we must rediscover an identity that transcends the tribalism we see in politics today. Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. When people are defined by their differences to each other, extremism becomes the common ground. It is time for a more difficult unity that acknowledges the reality of our group differences and fights the deep rifts that divide us.Trade ReviewPolitical Tribes is a beautifully written, eminently readable, and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom ... Chua's book is a clarion call, encouraging us to reject the primal pull of identitarianism and return to that most radical of ideas, that Americans share something bigger than race or ethnicity or ideology: common citizenship and purpose -- J. D. Vance, author of 'Hillbilly Elegy'Political Tribes is a punchy book that advances a single idea with admirable clarity. And also with admirable brevity -- Danny Finkelstein * The Times *Amy Chua speaks hard truths that no one can ignore. We are, as Chua makes clear, living in denial about the power of tribalism over our domestic and foreign policy - blinded, it seems, by our own optimism and distaste for essentialism. A page turner and revelation, Political Tribes will change the way you think -- Tim Wu, author of 'The Attention Merchants' and 'The Master Switch'America is now bitterly polarised into rival identities. Amy Chua does a brilliant job of showing how it has happened and why it is a tragedy. In Britain, we need to read Political Tribes as a warning. For Americans, it is too late for that: it will need to be force-fed to them -- Paul Collier, Oxford UniversityAs an explanation of why American politics has become so sectarian and polarised, Chua’s analysis feels spot-on. And it is increasingly relevant to our politics as well * Spectator *Amy Chua confronts the failures of modern liberalism to understand ethnic and group attachments. Anyone who wants to understand the contemporary west, and its foreign policy failures, should read this revealing and important book -- David Goodhart, journalist and think-tanker and author of ‘The British Dream’ and ‘The Road to Somewhere’True to form, Amy Chua presents a provocative prescription to cure our political ills. She challenges us to cross the chasm between groups - not by denying differences, but by celebrating them -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of 'Give and Take' and 'Option B' with Sheryl SandbergAnother wonderful book by Amy Chua! In Political Tribes, she demonstrates once again that she ranks with the keenest observers of the contemporary landscape, establishing convincingly that 'Humans are tribal', and that this reality holds significant implications for America if we truly are to achieve a ‘more perfect union' -- General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret), former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and former Director of the CIABrilliant, timeless and timely. Political Tribes concisely explains the forces that made our experiences in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq so maddeningly difficult to comprehend, and brings that same thoughtful analysis to America today. Amy Chua provokes thought – and we need that -- General Stan McChrystal, US Army (Ret)Amy Chua’s insightful, provocative and deeply troubling book is the place to begin our long overdue national discussion on how to repair the deep divisions in the American political landscape. Political Tribes is a wake-up call to the dangers of surrendering national unity to a fractured landscape of feuding and narrow interests -- Tom Brokaw, author of 'The Greatest Generation'
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Professional Scientist
Book SynopsisThis classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society, one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership educated in the fundamental scientific field of chemistry, whose knowledge and talents are essential to modem industrial civilization. Without chemistry, we would have neither automobiles, nuclear devices, nor all the varied products essential to our modern way of life.Chemists are caught up in the dynamic changes in our society. The explosive advance of scientific knowledge leads to increasing specialization until experts in one field may have little in common with those in another. Also, as the knowledge and skills of chemistry are incorporated in the workaday world of industry, more and more trained chemists spend their days in routine application and organization of their skills and knowledge.The unique element of this study is its assessment of the role and function of a professional socieTable of ContentsPart I: A Science Profession 1 Professions and Industrialization: A Framework for the Study 2 How the Study Was Made 3 Chemistry in its Organizational Context 4 Major Groups Within Chemistry Part II: The Chemist's Work World 5 Recruitment into Chemistry 6 Careers for Chemists 7 The Chemist’s Work Morale 8 How Others See Chemists Part III: Professional Status and Professional Society 9 Imageries of Professional Status 10 The Professional Organization: Membership and Symbolism 11 The Symbolization of Homogeneity and Diversity 12 A Concluding Note on Professions
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Hodder Education AQA Sociology for A Level Workbook 2 Families and
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: A-LevelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification by practising exam technique and developing literacy skills- Supplement key resources such as textbooks to adapt easily to existing schemes of work- Reinforce and apply topic understanding with flexible material for classwork or revision- Create opportunities for self-directed learning and assessment with answers to tasks and activities supplied online
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John Murray Press Sociology A Complete Introduction Teach Yourself
Book Synopsis Sociology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The text is split into four parts, with an emphasis throughout on understanding and treating all concepts with clarity and precision. The first part covers theoretical issues including research methods. Part two looks at the social environment, including urbanization, work, politics, religion and the mass media. The final two parts examine global society and the position of the individual.It is structured to mirror the way Sociology is taught on many A Level and university courses with each chapter covering a key introductory area. By the end you''ll have a clear understanding of the essential
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Edinburgh University Press A History of Modern Linguistics
Book SynopsisTakes a sociological approach to the history of linguistics
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Orion Publishing Co Price Wars
Book SynopsisWar in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West''s cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil. Entering the eye of the storm - from the trenches of Russian separatist-controlled Donbas to bomb disposal squads in Mosul to cattle raiders in Kenya - Russell discovers a butterfly effect of chaos in the real world being driven by chaos in the commodities markets. The price of food and oil has the power to bankroll foreign invasions, plunge continents into poverty and spark revolutions, civil wars and refugee crises. And these prices, whistle-blowing hedge fund managers and Nobel Prize winners told him, have become irrational. In this thrilling exposé of the dark financial forces that rule our world, Russell takes us on adventure into the inner workings of global disorder unlike any other.Trade ReviewCombining investigative courage with forensic analysis, Price Wars is a geopolitical masterpiece bursting with bite, originality and compassion -- DAVID LAMMY MPIf you're desperately searching for a single reason why Brexit, Trump or the war in Ukraine have caused such chaos, then sociologist and documentarian Rupert Russell might have the answer. [He] is a really engaging guide * OBSERVER *Provocative . . . Price Wars arrives at quite an appropriate moment, culturally speaking, with many people emerging from the depths of the pandemic wondering whether what was long billed as a core strength of globalisation, its flexibility, had been revealed through supply-chain shocks and other disruptions to be a bit of a broken promise or even an excuse for market fragility -- DAVID WALLACE-WELLS * NEW YORK TIMES *Price Wars is a totally original and stimulating read, part war zone reportage, part economic history and buzzing with ideas about the way markets work that will change your understanding of the world we live in -- LIAQUAT AHAMED, author of LORDS OF FINANCERupert Russell guilefully searches for chaos and finds the butterfly effect of volatile prices operating everywhere. His stories are vivid and analysis airtight. In his hands, prices become quantum: we can know its present value or trend, but not both. Is our civilisation slowly boiling, or can we simplify our hyper-complexity and tame the chaos we have unleashed through integrated financial markets? This fine book provides compelling answers -- DR PARAG KHANNA, author of CONNECTOGRAPHY and MOVERupert Russell's adventures into a host of modern apocalypses are retold in this thrilling page-turner. The result is an incredible synthesis that places global finance at the heart of chaos across the world -- POLLY TOYNBEEAn illuminating, sobering and endlessly fascinating look at the root causes and hidden connections between financial markets and some of the developing world's most wrenching crises. Fearlessly reported from conflict zones from separatist Ukrainian provinces to the Middle East, Russell compellingly draws a line between commodity manipulation on Wall Street and the chaos that fuels extremism and violence -- JOBY WARRICK, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of BLACK FLAGSA skilfully conducted tour of the role of price, once unmoored from reality, in adding chaos to an already chaotic world. A fresh look at some of the mostly deeply held dogmas of economics, exploding many along the way -- KIRKUSWry, objective, scary, funny: let's hope it's not all true, but that seems unlikely -- GRIFF RHYS JONESDeeply reported and thoroughly accessible, this investigation into the far-reaching consequences of economic speculation deserves a wide readership * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) *Price Wars is a thorough and compelling account of political instability generated by the hyper-financialization of commodities. It could not be more timely -- Zach D. Carter, author of THE PRICE OF PEACE: MONEY, DEMOCRACY, AND THE LIFE OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOne of the most important books of our time * THE INTERCEPT *Rupert Russell's new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn't be more timely * AMERICAN PROSPECT *Price Wars reveals that hedge fund managers and commodities traders based in the financial hubs of New York and London have manipulated the prices of essentials to maintain their profits . . . Russell argues that this practice has had a butterfly effect in contributing to human suffering and exacerbating social and political unrest in countries around the world * ATTITUDE MAGAZINE *
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Duke University Press Home Rule
Book SynopsisIn Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as “colonial invaders.” The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony—being the Native “people of a place”—are mobilized to define true national belonging. Consequently, Migrants—the quintessential “people out of place”—increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. Such politics exemplify the postcolonial politics of national soverTrade Review“Nandita Sharma has taken on the most burning issues of our times and written about them with clarity, grace, and power. She shows us a path from an oppressive past to a radical, humane future based on a ‘mobile politics of solidarity.’ This brilliant, timely book is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.” -- Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh“Home Rule is a bold, ambitious book that advances an original, complex, and controversial argument about the social and political production of binary oppositions and antagonisms between indigenous ‘Natives’ and ‘Migrants’. Bristling with important and exciting ideas, it challenges us to interrogate some of the most pernicious complacencies of contemporary political discourse, providing an innovative, wide-ranging examination of the global politics of autochthony and a far-reaching reconsideration of the postcolonial world order.” -- Nicholas De Genova, editor of * The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering *"Home Rule offers important arguments about how we understand the nature of othering across post-imperial contexts, especially in the face of global capitalism and continued faith in the nation state. Sharma’s rich analysis reminds us that there is more work to be done, particularly around alternative ways of understanding nationhood and sovereignty as seen and experienced by those most subject to discourses and practices of exclusion." -- Laura Madokoro * Social History *"Sharma’s Home Rule will spark many fruitful conversations among scholars and graduate students interested in migration, nationalism, and postcolonial thought and is a particularly strong example of the way postcolonial ideas can provide a powerful interpretive approach to timely issues of great sociological concern." -- Gregory J., Goalwin * Social Forces *"Aside from 2020's unforeseen circumstances, it is clear that Home Rule deals with the pressing issues of today's world, successfully historicizing the current, troubling characterization of migrants as colonial invaders and carefully contextualizing the intense disputes over national sovereignty in Israel-Palestine.… I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about the important history of migration or who wants a comprehensive overview of how the structures of imperialism have developed in today's postcolonial world." -- Zoë Miller * European Review of HIstory *"Taken in the round this is a stimulating and thought-provoking read, that seeks to challenge received perceptions and to articulate a different way to understand the role of national sovereignty within the changing global politics that structure our understandings of citizenship and immigration." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"With its length and sometimes a bit dense narrative structure, it might feel overwhelming at the start but it is definitely worth finishing. The breadth and wide range of examples is actually a strength.…This book is definitely worth a read for students and researchers interested in nation building and processes of othering across post-imperial contexts." -- Ilse van Liempt * International Migration *"A provocative critique of nation-state sovereignty . . . the book should inspire deep thinking about what remains a central but perhaps still too often underanalyzed." -- Miranda Johnson * American Historical Review *"Sharma’s profound critique of sovereignty as a mode of separation rather than one of freedom, autonomy, and an authentic postcolonial condition is an important intervention and re-assessment of where we have arrived. . . . The kind of critique that Sharma offers in Home Rule is one that unsettles how our political present has unfolded and in doing so Sharma writes against and significantly clarifies the limits of some political claims in our present moment." -- Rinaldo Walcott * Journal of World-Systems Research *"Home Rule is a provocative book that challenges prevailing conceptions of sovereignty at their core. Notions of belonging and national liberation are out the door, jettisoned by detailed accounts of the entanglements among imperialism, national liberation, and anti-immigrant politics now. The argument is expansive, the geographic and historical range daunting, the research and scholarly literatures engaged incredible. Sovereignty is dissected with exquisite skill." -- Victoria Hattam * Journal of World Systems Research *"I have never read a work like this. . . . Nandita Sharma has delivered a masterpiece that further fuels the cries for global justice." -- Douglas Thomas * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Home Rule: The National Politics of Separation 1 2. The Imperial Government of Mobility and Stasis 36 3. The National Government of Mobility and Stasis 62 4. The Jealousy of Nations: Globalizing National Constraints on Human Mobility 90 5. The Postcolonial New World Order and the Containment of Decolonization 117 6. Developing the Postcolonial New World Order 142 7. Global Lockdown: Postcolonial Expansion of National Citizenship and Immigration Controls 163 8. National Autochthonies and the Making of Postcolonial National-Natives 205 9. Postseparation: Struggles for a Decolonized Commons 268 Notes 285 Bibliography 299 Index 347
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Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisIn The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What''s an encounter with anything once it''s seen as an incitement to composition? What''s a concept or a theory if they''re no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in whichAndrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respondwith their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
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New York University Press Immigrants Under Threat
Book SynopsisCo-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationA portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and small. Immigrants Under Threat shifts the conversation from what has been done to Mexican immigrants to what they do in response. From private strategies of avoidance, to public displays of protest, immigrant resistance is animated by the massive demographic shifts that started in 1965 and an immigration enforcement regime whose unprecedented scope and intensity has made daily life increasingly perilous. Immigrants Under Threat focuses on the way the material needs of everyday life both enable and constrain participation iTrade ReviewIn this beautifully written and analytically rich text, James C. Scott meets Tilly, Tarrow, and McAdam. Employing a comparative case study approach focusing on two California cities (one with open and one with closed political opportunity structures), Prieto draws from three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork and over 60 interviews with activists and community members in order to enrich our understanding of the relationship between immigrants’ quotidian strategies of survival and their decisions to participate (or not) in public community activism. * Mobilization Journal *Immigrants Under Threat is a captivating text that renders heart-wrenchingly clear what it is like to live as a target during the current era of mass deportation. Drawing from extensive ethnographic work with immigrant communities, Prieto elucidates how immigrants vulnerabilities place severe constraints on their ability to organize. This book makes it clear that deportability, legal violence, and precarity shape the lives and possibilities of immigrants and their families today. Theoretically-informed and powerfully written, this book is a must read for both migration and social movements scholars and students. -- Tanya Golash-Boza, Author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global CapitalismGreg Prieto deploys the concept of material moorings to illuminate immigrants dilemma: their trust in the police to address grievances and their rejection of police racialized tactics in immigration enforcement. At its core, this book makes a compelling case for linking immigrants private strategies of avoiding detection and deportation with their activism and public contention. It is rich, engaging, insightful, and a welcome exploration of the conditions that both constrain and inspire immigrant social movement organizing. Highly recommended. -- Cecilia Menjívar, Co-Author of Immigrant FamiliesA modest masterpiece, Immigrants Under Threat appears just when we need it most! Deeply immersed in the immigrant experience, Greg Prieto explores peoples sense of identity, their political orientation and activism, and their acute consciousness of repression and modes of resistance to it. With a thorough grasp of US immigration politics historically and in the present Prieto gives so much: a beautiful and respectful ethnography, a guide to the immigrants rights movement, and a probing glimpse of grassroots Latin@ politics today. Along the way, Prieto teaches community organization skills, reflects on US nativism and how to resist it, and shows what action research is all about. The strength and clarity of Latin@ immigrants in the US today, individually and collectively, comes through very strongly. Highly recommended for adoption in the social sciences and Latin@ studies, as well as in humanities and cultural studies courses across the disciplines. -- Howard Winant, Co-Author of Racial Formation in the United StatesImmigrants Under Threat offers an engaging, persuasive account of the range of ways undocumented immigrants perceive and respond to the threat of deportation. Greg Prieto challenges scholars, policymakers, and activists alike to look beyond avoidance strategies to also consider the novel—and, sometimes, very visible—ways undocumented immigrants resist an increasingly punitive U.S. immigration system through social movement participation. * Social Forces *Immigrants Under Threat is an important contribution to ongoing discussions of immigration, policing, and social movements. Given the ongoing crises along the U.S.-Mexico border and President Trump’s overt animosity and directed racism at Mexican Americans and immigrants, it is a timely read. * American Journal of Sociology *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Society of Singularities
Book SynopsisOur contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern societies, we value the exceptional - unique objects, experiences, places, individuals, events and communities which are beyond the ordinary and which claim a certain authenticity. Industrial society’s logic of the general has been replaced by late modernity’s logic of the particular. In this major new book, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live. The transformation from industrial to cultural capitalism, the rise of digital technologies and their ‘culture machine’ and the emergence of an educated, urban new middle class form a powerful engine for the singularization of the social. In late modernity, what is singular is valorized and stirs the emotions, while what is general has to remain in the background, and this has profound social consequences. The society of singularities systematically produces devaluation and inequality: winner-takes-all markets, job polarization, the neglect of rural regions and the alienation of the traditional middle class. The emergence of populism and the rise of aggressive forms of nationalism which emphasize the cultural authenticity of one’s own people thus turn out to be the other side of singularization. This prize-winning book offers a new perspective on how modern societies have changed in recent decades and it will be of great value to anyone interested in the forces that are shaping our world today.Trade Review“Everywhere we see how culture is giving rise to new conflicts and classes. A sociologist offers a clever general theory of our time.” Die Zeit “Reckwitz has written a special book, an original take on our contemporary world.” Literatur Spiegel “Anyone who wishes to understand our times should definitely read Andreas Reckwitz.” Deutschlandfunk Kultur “Only a few books fundamentally alter the way you look at the world. Reckwitz’s The Society of Singularities ranks among them by offering an unfamiliar lens that makes visible the hidden dynamics of singularization that shape today’s economy, technology, and culture. Reading this profound book will help you to create meaning out of seemingly unrelated phenomena, whether you're puzzled by the latest lifestyle trends, crises on social media, or the identity struggles of youth, to name just a few.” Urs Gasser, Harvard University “The search for particularity and distinctiveness is a basic feature of contemporary culture. It exists both on the basis of and in tension with continued rationalization and large-scale economic integration and material infrastructure. To understand what has changed and where the continuities lie, Andreas Reckwitz draws on a broad range of social and cultural theory and develops a comprehensive view that repays thoughtful attention.” Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University “Magisterial… the most interesting book of its kind that I have read since Fred Jameson’s Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), for here culture and economy come together.”Thesis ElevenTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Proliferation of the Particular I. Modernity Between the Social Logic of the General and the Social Logic of the Particular 1: The Social Logic of the General Modernity and Generality Typifications and Rationalizations Standardization, Formalization, Generalization Objects, Subjects, Spaces, Times, and Collectives in the Social Logic of the General Industrial Modernity as a Prototype 2: The Social Logic of the Particular The General-Particular, Idiosyncrasies, Singularities Objects, Subjects, Spaces, Times, and Collectives in the Social Logic of Singularities Practices of Singularization I: Observation and Evaluation Practices of Singularization II: Production and Appropriation Performativity as a Mode of Praxis and Automated Singularization 3: Culture and Culturalization Culture as a Sphere of Valorization and De-Valorization Culturalization Versus Rationalization Qualities of Cultural Praxis: Between Sense and Sensibility 4: The Transformation of the Cultural Sphere Premodern Societies: The Fixation and Repetition of the Singular Bourgeois Modernity: The Romantic Revolution of the Unique Organized Modernity: Mass Culture Late Modernity: Competitive Singularities, Hyperculture, and Polarization II. The Post-Industrial Economy of Singularities Beyond Industrial Society Unleashing the Creative Economy 1: Unique Goods in Cultural Capitalism The Culturalization of Goods Singular Goods: Originality and Rarity Things as Singular Goods Services, Media Formats, and Events as Singular Goods Features of Singular Goods I: The Performance of Authenticity Features of Singular Goods II: Moment and Duration Features of Singular Goods III: Circulation and Hyperculture 2: Cultural Singularity Markets Attractiveness Markets as Markets of Attention and Valorization The Cultural Economization of the Economy and Society Overproduction and Winner-Take-All Competitions Buzz Effects and the Struggle for Visibility Valorization Techniques and Reputation Singularity Capital Quantifying the Unique III: The Singularization of the Working World The Cultural Economization of Labor and Its Polarization 1: Practices of Labor and Organization in the Creative Economy Cultural Production as Creative Labor Projects as Heterogeneous Collaborations Organizational Cultures and Networks 2: The Singularization and Self-Singularization of Working Subjects Beyond the Formalization of Labor The Profile Subject: Competencies and Talents The Singularization Techniques of Labor Fields of Tension in Highly Qualified Labor: Between the Artist’s Dilemma and the Superstar Economy IV: Digitalization as Singularization: The Rise of the Culture Machine From Industrial Technics to Digital Technology 1: The Technology of Culturalization Algorithms, Digitality, and the Internet as Infrastructures The Digital Culture Machine and the Ubiquity of Culture Culture Between Overproduction and Recombination 2: Cultural and Automated Processes of Singularization The Digital Subject: Performative Authenticity and Visibility Compositional Singularity and the Form of the Profile Big Data and the Observation of Profiles The Personalized Internet and Softwarization Digital Neo-Communities and the Sociality of the Internet Fields of Tension in Online Culture: From the Pressure to Create Profiles to Extreme Affect Culture V: The Singularistic Life: Lifestyles, Classes, Subject Forms The Late-Modern Self Beyond the Levelled Middle-Class Society The Cultural Class Divide and the “Paternoster-Elevator Effect” 1: The Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization Romanticism and Bourgeois Culture: The New Symbiosis Self-Actualization and the Valorization of Everyday Life Culture as a Resource and Cultural Cosmopolitanism Status Investment and the Prestige of the Unique 2: Elements of the Singular Lifestyle Food Homes Travel Bodies Parenting and Early Education Work-Life Balance, Urbanity, Juvenilization, Degendering,and New Liberalism Fields of Tension in the Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: The Inadequacy of Self- Actualization 3: The Culturalization of Inequality The Underclass’s Way of Life: Muddling Through Cultural Devaluations Singularistic Counter-Strategies of the Underclass The Tableau of Late-Modern Classes and Their Relations VI: Differential Liberalism and Cultural Essentialism: The Transformation of the Political The Politics of the Particular 1: Apertistic-Differential Liberalism and the Politics of the Local From the Social-Democratic Consensus to New Liberalism The Competition State and Diversity: The Two Sides of New Liberalism The Politics of Cities I: New Urbanism and the Global Attractiveness Competition The Politics of Cities II: Culturally Oriented Governmentality and Singularity Management 2: The Rise of Cultural Essentialism Collective Identities and Particular Neo-Communities Ethnic Communities Between Self-Culturalization and External Culturalization Cultural Nationalism Right-Wing Populism Cultural Conflicts Between Essentialism, Hyperculture, and Liberalism The Politics of Violence: Terrorism and Mass Shootings as Celebrations of the Singular Act Conclusion: The Crisis of the General? Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue
Book SynopsisThe Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual. At the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers. The Paradox of Freedom elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.Trade Review"The Paradox of Freedom retraces the unique odyssey of the world's most eminent scholar of slavery and race in history, at the unlikely crossroads of Jamaica, literature, New Left politics, and sociology at Harvard. Read it: you will be swept along, thrilled, and educated all at once."—Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley "Forged in a crucible of life experience as a Jamaican, Orlando Patterson's lifelong exploration of the dialectical tension between freedom and slavery is brilliantly elucidated through dialogic conversation with David Scott, who traces the trajectory of a remarkable and still unfolding intellectual and artistic journey."—John Bodel, Brown University
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging
Book SynopsisPierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire to understand the world in order to change it. The work of both men was driven by the necessity of putting knowledge to use, whether by unveiling the relations of domination that structured life in Algeria or by opening emancipatory perspectives for the Algerian people. Colonies were, of course, a customary site of ethnographic work, but Bourdieu and Sayad refused to sacrifice scientific rigor to political expediency, even as Algeria descended deeper into war. Indeed, the act of understanding as a political commitment to the transformation of society lay at the heart of their project. Based on extensive interviews and deep archival work, Amín Pérez rediscovers the anticolonial origins of the pathbreaking social thought of these brilliant thinkers. Bourdieu and Sayad, he argues, forged another way of doing politics, laying the foundations of a revolutionary pedagogy, not just for anticolonial liberation but for true social emancipation.Trade Review“This book is a revelation. Pérez uniquely offers insights into the anticolonial thought of two major social theorists of our times: Pierre Bourdieu, and his collaborator and friend Abdelmalek Sayad. Anyone interested in social theory, anticolonialism, and postcolonialism will have to read and reread this innovative, illuminating, and clarifying work of committed scholarship.”Julian Go, author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory“Deeply researched and fluidly argued, Pérez’s book is essential reading for anyone wishing to grasp the anti-colonial roots of Bourdieu’s sociology and a stunning document on the entanglement of social science and empire.”Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the “Underclass” and Bourdieu in the City“A landmark study of the history of social science. Based on exhaustive archival research and original interviews with their contemporaries, Amín Pérez argues compellingly that Bourdieu and Sayad always attempted to articulate politics with social science, and that this did not contradict Bourdieu’s familiar arguments in favor of scientific autonomy.”George Steinmetz, author of The Colonial Origins of Modern Social ThoughtTable of ContentsPart One: Sociology as Emancipation Chapter 1: The Origins of Subversive Knowledge Chapter 2: Resisting in War-torn Algeria Chapter 3: A Sociology of the Colonial Order Part Two: Liberation through Knowledge Chapter 4: Listening, Observing, and Testifying in Times of War Chapter 5: Renewing the Social Sciences out of Political Necessity Chapter 6: From Colonial Liberation to Social Emancipation Conclusion
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Manchester University Press In the Shadow of Enoch Powell: Race, Locality and
Book SynopsisFifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.Trade Review‘Enoch Powell made his notorious Rivers of Blood speech in the Midland Hotel in Birmingham on 20 April, 1968. At the time he was the Conservative MP for the constituency of Wolverhampton South West. In her book In the Shadow of Enoch Powell Shirin Hirsch examines the impact of Powell’s speech in the Wolverhampton of 1968 and analyses its significance 50 years later. Hirsch draws on archival material as well as her own contemporary interviews.’Vivek Lehal, Socialist Review, Vol. 444 (March 2019)As the extensive list of secondary sources in the book’s bibliography suggests, Enoch Powellhas been the subject of considerable research. Shirin Hirsch’s short but powerful bookstands out by offering insight into the experience of those both facing and fighting theramifications of Powell’s speech and the attitudes it represented. Hirsch’s masterful commandof contemporary newspapers and oral accounts presents the reader with an excellentperception of the prevailing societal ideas.Midland History -- .Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick VernonIntroduction1 ‘The Commonwealth is much too common for me’: another 19682 The world in Wolverhampton3 Reverberations from ‘Rivers of Blood’4 Resistance in the schools and on the buses5 ‘A monstrous reputation’: remembering Enoch PowellConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Siblings and Sociology
Book SynopsisSibling relationships are full of intrigue, yet tend to be overlooked in sociological thinking.This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of sociology – self, relationality, imagination and time – the book shows why siblings matter. Grounded in theories of relatedness but spanning theoretical work on generation, life course, emotion, sensory worlds, normativity and identity, Siblings and sociology explores the importance of siblings in everyday life and how they inform wider social processes: the relational construction of identity, the inculcation of capital, experiences of institutions like schools and the meanings of relatedness. Siblings tap into profound questions about who we are and who we can become. This book shows how the intrigue of siblingship renders them an important lens through which to think in new ways about familiar sociological ideas.Siblings and sociology demonstrates why siblings are a fascinating subject for sociologists: a relationship that can influence all aspects of life, as well as an object of scrutiny capable of firing the sociological imagination and directing the analytical gaze.Trade ReviewCHOICE 2023: Recommended -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why siblings matter1 Asking questions about siblingship 2 Self 3 Relationality 4 Imagination 5 Time ConclusionIndex
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