Stanford University: 1318 books
Diasporic Homecomings
Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
In recent decades, increasing numbers of diasporic peoples have returned to their ethnic homelands, whether because of economic pressures, a desire to rediscover ancestral roots, or the homeland government's preferential immigration and nationality policies. Although the returnees may initially be...
Social by Nature
The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors. In Social by Nature, Catherine Bliss recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions...
Diplomatic Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying...
Classical Geopolitics
A New Analytical Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Geopolitics is the study of how the projection of power (ideological, cultural, economic, or military) is effected and affected by the geographic and political landscape in which it operates. Despite the real world relevance of geopolitics, a common understanding of what classical geopolitics is and...
The DREAMers
How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in the...
Purchasing Whiteness
Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al...
by Martin Carnoy, Henry Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals...
Being and Well-Being
Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There's no question work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have...
A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now...
by Karen M. Inouye
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen M. Inouye explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of...
Marked Women
The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease.
Drawing...
Outsourced Children
Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries...
The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security.
Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
Remote Freedoms
Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
What does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities.
Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how...