New Approaches in Sociology – serie
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Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
Häftad, 2014
666 kr
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Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the …
Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations
Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
Häftad, 2013
776 kr
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Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s …
Social Organization of Policy
An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
Häftad, 2013
724 kr
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This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within …
Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
Häftad, 2015
798 kr
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The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines) …
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship
Häftad, 2012
724 kr
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Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguer explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical …
Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
Häftad, 2012
724 kr
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This ethnographic account details the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers, and window prostitutes in The Netherlands. Through the in-depth interviews and observations, the author explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives.
If I Only Had a Brain
Deconstructing Brain Injury
Av Mark Sherry
Häftad, 2012
704 kr
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This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory, …
Domestic Democracy
At Home in South Africa
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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This study examines the dialectic relationship between social inequality and change in the newly democratic South Africa through the lens of paid domestic labor. The complexities of this institution provide an in-depth analysis of the tension between the race and gender priorities of South Africa's …
Minority within a Minority
Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
Häftad, 2012
724 kr
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This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. The book is …
Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
Häftad, 2013
724 kr
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Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system.
Rice Plus
Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia
Av Susan H. Lee
Häftad, 2012
373 kr
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This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the …
Striving and Surviving
A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
Häftad, 2013
724 kr
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Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and …
Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to …
Suppression of Dissent
How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements
Häftad, 2012
798 kr
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Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement …
Unequal Partnerships
Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
Av Ira Silver
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods.
Gender Trouble Makers
Education and Empowerment in Nepal
Häftad, 2012
576 kr
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International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it …
No Place Like Home
Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' …
Linking Activism
Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change
Häftad, 2009
798 kr
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This book, a unique examination of the activist striving to work for more holistic social change, creates a conceptual framework to give visibility to the complexity of activist practice that spans environmental and social justice concerns.
Talking Back to Psychiatry
The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and …
Between Worlds
Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability
Häftad, 2009
505 kr
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The purpose of this book is to illustrate the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. This study demonstrates how these women resist and overcome the various obstacles that are put before them as well as how they work to negotiate their identities as …
Praxis and Politics
Knowledge Production in Social Movements
Häftad, 2010
889 kr
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Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building, …
Are We Thinking Straight?
The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
Häftad, 2010
798 kr
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This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives.
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
Accidental Activists
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. …
Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
Inbunden, 2008
2759 kr
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The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines) …
Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
Inbunden, 2007
2539 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the …
Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
Inbunden, 2005
768 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to …
Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This ethnographic account details the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers, and window prostitutes in The Netherlands. Through the in-depth interviews and observations, the author explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives.
Social Organization of Policy
An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within …
Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system.
Talking Back to Psychiatry
The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement
Inbunden, 2005
2842 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and …
