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Understanding comics-based research
Understanding Comics-Based Research focuses on the contribution that comics can bring to community-based participatory research.
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Understanding institutional diversity
The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides...
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Understanding the vehicles of capitalist hegemony in latin america
In recent decades, Latin America has grappled with crises, conflicts, and inherent contradictions deeply rooted in the capitalist fabric of social relations. In his groundbreaking research, author Daniel Felipe López Pérez delves into the historical foundations of enduring capitalist hegemonies a...
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Understanding trans health
What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography...
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Underwater
Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral econom...
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Unequal chances
Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, c...
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Unfinished nature
Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN’s research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making.
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University collegiality and the erosion of faculty authority
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it ...
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Unlocking luhmann
Niklas Luhmann’s theory is fascinating and complex. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or oblique references, readers inside and outside sociology receive support to explore a...
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Unnerved
Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.
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Urban curating
Urban Curating explores the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author’s work as an urban curator, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance—fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminis...
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Urban ethnography
Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioner...
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Urban heritage planning in tehran and beyond
Solmaz Yadollahi maps the historical trajectory of conservation and urban heritage planning in Iran.
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Urban resilience in a global context
This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, agendas, and narratives that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive,...
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Using interactive digital narrative in science and health education
This book offers insight and lessons learned from two pilot studies which used interactive digital narrative (IDN) as educational interventions to effect positive change regarding social issues, looking into interdisciplinary approaches to research and education methods, combining arts and scienc...
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Venezuela’s health care revolution
Established under late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Misión Barrio Adentro (MBA) — Venezuela’s adaptation of the Cuban social medical model — utilizes a free, universal health care system to serve and educate rural, poor and marginalized populations and to broaden the very praxis and ideology...
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Very important people
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's...
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Victim, perpetrator, or what else?
This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.
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Victoriana
In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature (The French Lieutenants' Woman by John Fowles, Possession by A. S. Byatt, Nice Work by David Lodge, The Master by C...
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Viral justice
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race...
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Virtual reality gaming
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.
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Visual and multimodal urban sociology
Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.
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Vital village
Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who of...
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Vygotsky & bernstein in the light of jewish tradition
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and the British sociologist Basil Bernstein by highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories revealing significan...
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Waiting for josé
A revealing look inside a controversial movementThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to h...
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Wallerstein 2.0
Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the twenty-first century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein’s theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social...
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Waste(d) collectors
Going beyond a techno-managerial approach, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city’s most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary fo...
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Water – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iv
This volume of The Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
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We have never been woke
How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have...
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Weapons of mass instruction
Compulsory schooling cripples imagination, critical thinking, and strips youth of their best qualities, producing a nation of employees. Weapons of Mass Instruction shows how to escape this trap and help develop more meaningful lives.
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Weaving transnational solidarity
Weaving Transnational Solidarity traces the threads of social justice spun by international activists stretching from Chiapas to the Catskills
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Wellness culture
Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised kno...
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What is we?
An analysis of the concept "we" and the central role it plays in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Rather than as a collective to belong to or be excluded from, or as a specific group to be identified with, the book argues that "we" functions as a method.
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What might be
How to turn the paradoxes built into anti-racism work into drivers of learning and changeEven as anti-racism practices seemed to be gaining momentum, the nation shows signs of falling back into long-standing patterns of racial injustice and inequality. Leaders who introduce anti-racist approaches...
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What slaveholders think
Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic though...
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What the boss doesn't want us to know
After the labor movement faded away in the lives of most Americans, organizing is back! Workers are organizing at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, and Google, to name just a few. But it’s going to take more than picket signs and marches in front of stores and corporate headquarters to win real union co...
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What we now know about race and ethnicity
Explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA. Reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics.
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Wheeling and dealing
Wheeling and Dealing is a vivid account of the world inhabited by "wholesale" illicit drug traffickers. Based on six years of participant observation, fieldwork, and extensive interviews in an elite Southern California community of dealers, the book gives a rare glimpse into the decadent yet fasc...
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When reproduction meets ageing
When Reproduction meets Ageing questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.
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When the state winks
When the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection...
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Whistleblowing and freedom of expression in working life
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online With contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design and implement their whistleblower protection laws.
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Whistleblowing for change
What are the effects of whistleblowing on politics, society, and the arts? By linking a diverse selection of perspectives and practices, this book investigates whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.
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White racism
In an unusual, novel approach to critical race theory, Joel Kovel manages to tackle a subject that stumped so many theorists in the 1960s and 1970s: unconscious bias. White Racism: A Psychohistory presents a psychohistorical matrix of racism in an analysis of unconscious bias. Kovel’s psychoanaly...
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