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Technology, Culture, Family: Influences on Home Life (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
by E. SilvaThis book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life.
HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective
by M. Davis C. SquireThis edited collection investigates the biomedical and social technologies used to control the HIV pandemic through case studies and critical commentaries from Africa, Europe, North America and Australia. With reference to global and local complexities, the volume engages with HIV treatment access, community-based health promotion, sexual health, HIV prevention and the relations between treatment and prevention. The volume includes chapters from leading authors in their fields and takes a trans-disciplinary approach by making reference to theoretical and empirical research from sociology, psychology, cultural studies and science and technology studies, thus helping to establish new ways of understanding current and future configurations of HIV technologies.
Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability
by Marisa O. EnsorProviding a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children.
The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament (EU Election Studies)
by Juliet LodgeAn analysis of the 2009 European elections in each of the 27 member states of the newly enlarged European Union, and assessment of the European Parliament in 2004-2009. This book looks at the implications of low turnout for the future of European Union democracy and accountability.
Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses (International Political Economy Series)
by Paul Bowles & John HarrissGlobalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)
by A. Aktar N. Kizilyürek U. Ozkirimli Niyazi K Z LyürekNationalism in the Troubled Triangle is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey from a comparative perspective. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of Cyprus (and beyond) together, the book provides a critical account of nation-building processes and nationalist politics in all three countries.
The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
by S. HenstraA wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia.
Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by L. Calè P. Di Bello Patrizia Di BelloPaying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.
Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre (Studies in International Performance)
by Shannon SteenAn exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.
New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld
by G. ScamblerBringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.
Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence towards a Common Model? (Transformations of the State)
by M. DobbinsA political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical institutions and transnational networking on institutions of higher education and assesses whether Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania are converging towards a common model of market-based governance.
Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self
by J. RaisboroughBe the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self.
The Social Psychology of Communication
by D. Hook B. Franks M. BauerThis is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication. Bringing together scholars of international reputation, this book provides a unique contribution to the field.
Faith Under Fire: Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War
by Edward MadiganAfter the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history.
Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good
by Leonidas K. CheliotisWhich practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In addressing these questions, this book brings together novel theoretical and empirical perspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales.
Challenging Capacity Building: Comparative Perspectives (Rethinking International Development series)
by Sue Kenny & Matthew ClarkeInterrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. This book examines capacity building in both developing and developed countries and takes the position that fragile communities are present in all societies.
The Superpromoter: The Power of Enthusiasm
by R. VogelaarWith their word-of mouth advocacy of products or brands, superpromoters influence us and how we buy with the power of enthusiasm. Business managers should not just focus on complaining customers but they should value their enthusiastic friends: the superpromoters. By cultivating the superpromter they can more effectiviely promote their brand.
Europe, the USA and Political Islam: Strategies for Engagement
by Michelle PaceA study of the attempts by the US and EU to develop meaningful political relations with Islamist movements in the Middle East and Balkans. The contributors draw on extensive research on Islamist parties and movements and Western policy towards them over the past decade.
Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce
by Emma Parry and Shaun Tyson.Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons. It includes both conceptual argument and empirical research in order to provide insights into this important area.
Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives (International Political Economy Series)
by Fulong Wu and Chris WebsterThis book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.
Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
by R. AndrijasevicProviding a new perspective on migration and sex work in Europe, this book is based on interviews with migrant women in the sex sector. It brings together issues of migration, labour and political subjectivity in order to refocus scholarly and policy agenda away from sex slavery and organized crime, towards agency and citizenship.
Social Freedom in a Multicultural State: Towards a Theory of Intercultural Justice (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)
by G. NathanThe politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying culture, group and identity.
The Management of Opera: An International Comparative Study
by P. Agid J. TarondeauThis book presents the current and future issues facing opera houses and opera companies. Problems in different environments need different solutions. In particular, it opposes the American method of managing cultural institutions, preferring a European one where public support and funds plays a major role.
The Migration of Power and North-South Inequalities: The Case of Italy and Libya
by E. PaolettiThis book examines negotiations on migration in the Mediterranean. It argues that migration is a bargaining chip which countries in the South use to increase their leverage versus their counterparts in the North. This proposition opens up new understandings reframing relations of inequalities among states.
Masculinities in Transition (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
by V. Robinson J. HockeyContributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity.