Peter Dwyer: 9 books
African Struggles Today
Social Movements Since Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
15,000 attended US Social Forum this year, part of a worldwide movement discussed in this book
World Cup has brought new interest in South African culture and politics
Growing BDS campaign against Israeli apartheid is bringing renewed interest in South African anti-Apartheid struggle
Youth, Education and Risk
Facing the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive...
by Prof. Larry Dwyer, Prof. Peter Forsyth, Wayne Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Tourism Economics and Policy combines a comprehensive treatment of economic concepts and applications in tourism contexts. The topics covered are those that most occupy the attention of tourism economists in research and policy areas internationally. Content includes tourism demand and forecasting;...
Schooling the Child
The Making of Students in Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
What is a child?
How is the concept of childhood defined?
This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions...
by Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth, Andreas Papatheodorou
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
Pompeii
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Situated in the Sarno River valley in southern Italy, on a gentle slope facing the sea to the south of Vesuvius, the Roman site of Pompeii was already famous throughout the ancient world when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Preserved under layers of ash and lava, the city...
Precarious Lives
Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed...
Muslim Spaces of Hope
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim...