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Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
AvMajid Mohammadi
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
652 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 critical juncture of three developments in the contemporary study of Iranian society as an important and early case of social revolution and reform in the Middle East: the state-building process in a non-Western country throughout the 20th century, the incorporation of a non-Western Muslim country into the Western legal framework through codification and transplantation (1911-1979), and the Islamicization process after this critical social development and the Islamic Revolution of 1979. This exceptional study furthers our understanding of Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.
Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations
Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
AvVrushali Patil
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
759 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 Studies, History, and Postcolonial Studies, it is interested in the following questions: how are modern constructions of gender and race forged in transnational – colonial as well as ‘postcolonial’ – processes? How did they emerge in and contribute to such processes during the colonial era? Specifically, how did they shape colonialist constructions of space, identity and international community? How has this relationship shifted with legal decolonization?
Social Organization of Policy
An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
AvLauren E. Eastwood
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
709 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 the UN forest policy-making arena.
Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
AvAmanda Udis-Kessler
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
780 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) characterizing homosexuality as "incompatible with Christian teaching." Since then, United Methodist ministers have been forbidden to perform same-sex commitment ceremonies (and United Methodist churches forbidden to host them), a rule has been passed that non-heterosexual United Methodist ministers must be celibate, and the UMC has forbidden the funding of any program or organization "supporting" homosexuality. These policies have been met with significant resistance by those fighting for GLBT inclusion. In this groundbreaking book, Udis-Kessler examines this struggle, analyzing both sides of this divisive debate among one of the most prominent religious organizations in the United States.
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship
AvMaría Eugenia Verdaguer
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
709 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 spaces. Her study not only reveals that Latinos' strategies for access to business ownership and for business development are cut across class, ethnic and gender lines, but also that immigrants' options, practices, and social spaces remain largely shaped by patriarchal gender relations within the immigrant family, community and economy. This book is a necessary addition to the literature on immigration, class, gender relations, and the intersectionality of these issues.
Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
AvKatherine Gregory
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
709 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
AvMark Sherry
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
689 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, postcolonial and postmodern literature) to frame an enriching narrative about the lived experience of brain injury.
Domestic Democracy
At Home in South Africa
AvJennifer Fish
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
494 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 new democracy and the lived realities of the majority of its population. Because paid domestic work remains the largest sector of employment for women in South Africa, it is critical to situating the scope of social change in this emergent democracy. This book presents the first comprehensive study of paid domestic labor since South Africa's 1994 post-apartheid transition. Drawing upon 85 interviews with domestic workers, employers, Parliamentarians, community activists and organizational leaders, this research offers diverse perspectives on the race, class and gender divides that remain integral to social relations in the context of national transition. In contrast, this study also details women's collective agency through the exploration of a critical social policy change shaped by the activism of a new union of domestic workers. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates that transformation of social relations remains one of the greatest obstacles to engendering democracy in South Africa.
Minority within a Minority
Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
AvAmal Ibrahim Madibbo
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
709 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 written to cover an area of research (Black Francophones) that is largely understudied. The book deals with the areas of immigration, race and anti-racism, gender, multiculturalism, linguistic minorities and francophone studies. It brings together multidisciplinary sociological and sociolinguistic theories and methodologies and sheds light on the discourse of institutional racism and resistance.
Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
AvTeresa Toguchi Swartz
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
709 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
AvSusan H. Lee
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
365 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 lack of opportunities for women. The economics of widowhood is therefore a significant social problem in less developed countries.The widows' predominant economic plan was to combine rice cultivation with an assortment of microenterprises, a "rice plus" strategy. Many widows were unable to grow enough rice on their land to feed their families. They filled the hunger gap by raising cash through microenterprises to purchase additional rice. Gender work roles were both permeable and persistent, allowing a flexible sexual division of labor in the short run but maintaining traditional roles in the long run. Most widows called on relatives or exchanged transplanting labor for male plowing services, although a few women took up the plow themselves. The study also explores widows' access to key economic resources such as land, credit, and education.War decimated widows' family support networks, including the loss of children, their social security. The study concludes that Cambodia's gender arrangement offered many economic options to widows but also devalued their labor in a cultural structure of inequality. Gender, poverty, and war interacted to reduce widows' financial resources, accounting for their economic vulnerability.
Striving and Surviving
A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
AvLeah Schmalzbauer
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
709 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 consumption practices of transnational family members in the United States and Honduras, especially as the relate to the American Dream; and she explores the ways in which families negotiate caretaking responsibilities, both financial and emotional, while striving and surviving in a transnational space. This is the first daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the first transnational analysis of Honduran families.
Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
AvKimberly B. Dugan
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
379 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 the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the city's newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. Using qualitative data, Kimberly Dugan captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in conflict over Issue 3 by focusing on cultural factors relevant to movement mobilization, strategies, and success.
Suppression of Dissent
How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements
AvJules Boykoff
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
780 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 theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.
Unequal Partnerships
Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
AvIra Silver
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
494 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
AvJennifer Rothchild
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
563 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 influences the lives of girls and boys. Gender is more commonly conceived by international efforts as characteristics which are ascribed to girls as norms for behaviour.In particular, the analysis in Gender Trouble Makers focuses on the social constructions of gender and the ways in which gender was reinforced and maintained through a case study in rural Nepal. In developing countries like Nepal, promoting access to and participation in existing formal education programme is clearly necessary, but it is not, in itself, sufficient to transform gender power relations in the broader society. When gender is properly addressed as a process, then all stakeholders involved - researchers, governmental officials, and community members - can begin to understand and devise more effective ways to increase both girl and boy students’ enrollment, participation, and success in school.
No Place Like Home
Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
AvDavid Staples
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
465 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' social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.
Linking Activism
Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change
AvMorgan Gardner
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
780 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
AvLinda J. Morrison
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
895 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 inequality, to expose the darker side of psychiatry, and to promote alternatives for people in emotional distress. Talking Back toPsychiatry explores the movement's history, its complex membership, its strategies and goals, and the varied response it has received from psychiatry, policy makers, and the public at large.
Between Worlds
Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability
AvCheryl G. Najarian
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
494 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 Deaf women in the Deaf community, hearing world, and the places 'in between.' The scope of the book traces these women's lives in these three major sectors of their lives and provides a discussion of the implications for other linguistic minorities.
Praxis and Politics
Knowledge Production in Social Movements
AvJanet M. Conway
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
870 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, campaign-organizing and 'economic and political literacy' work in the aftermath of the signing of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies in drawing on a wide range of traditions including cultural studies, urban studies, political economy and feminism.
Are We Thinking Straight?
The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
AvDaniel K. Cortese
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
780 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
AvMelanie Panitch
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 470 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. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.
Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
AvAmanda Udis-Kessler
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
2 699 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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) characterizing homosexuality as "incompatible with Christian teaching." Since then, United Methodist ministers have been forbidden to perform same-sex commitment ceremonies (and United Methodist churches forbidden to host them), a rule has been passed that non-heterosexual United Methodist ministers must be celibate, and the UMC has forbidden the funding of any program or organization "supporting" homosexuality. These policies have been met with significant resistance by those fighting for GLBT inclusion. In this groundbreaking book, Udis-Kessler examines this struggle, analyzing both sides of this divisive debate among one of the most prominent religious organizations in the United States.
Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
AvMajid Mohammadi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 484 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 critical juncture of three developments in the contemporary study of Iranian society as an important and early case of social revolution and reform in the Middle East: the state-building process in a non-Western country throughout the 20th century, the incorporation of a non-Western Muslim country into the Western legal framework through codification and transplantation (1911-1979), and the Islamicization process after this critical social development and the Islamic Revolution of 1979. This exceptional study furthers our understanding of Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.
Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
AvKimberly B. Dugan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
752 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the city's newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. Using qualitative data, Kimberly Dugan captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in conflict over Issue 3 by focusing on cultural factors relevant to movement mobilization, strategies, and success.
Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
AvKatherine Gregory
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 470 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvLauren E. Eastwood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 470 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 the UN forest policy-making arena.
Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
AvTeresa Toguchi Swartz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 470 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvLinda J. Morrison
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 780 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 inequality, to expose the darker side of psychiatry, and to promote alternatives for people in emotional distress. Talking Back toPsychiatry explores the movement's history, its complex membership, its strategies and goals, and the varied response it has received from psychiatry, policy makers, and the public at large.

New Approaches in Sociology – serie

Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

Social Organization of Policy

Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship

Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands

If I Only Had a Brain

Domestic Democracy

Minority within a Minority

Parenting for the State

Rice Plus

Striving and Surviving

Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights

Suppression of Dissent

Unequal Partnerships

Gender Trouble Makers

No Place Like Home

Linking Activism

Talking Back to Psychiatry

Between Worlds

Praxis and Politics

Are We Thinking Straight?

Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights

Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands

Social Organization of Policy

Parenting for the State

Talking Back to Psychiatry