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Collective Responsibility
Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1992
This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two...
Rape Justice
Beyond the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in the aftermath of sexual violence.
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2003
A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
African Transnational Diasporas
Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland.
Inequality, Polarization and Conflict
An Analytical Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds value, it needs to be reconfigured...
The Diplomacy of Culture
The Role of UNESCO in Sustaining Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on multiculturalism within states. This work shows...
The Valtellina and UNESCO
Making a Global Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. The Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, is known for being unusually fertile for its elevation and latitude, and for the dry stone terraces on...
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal,...
The Meaning of Care
The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective. Although the literature on Latino elders in the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice.
Black Masculinity in the Obama Era
Outliers of Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. In the era of the first black president, Barack H. Obama, this book gauges the status of black masculinity and provokes discourse to discover...
America Beyond Black and White
How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
“This book is both powerful and important. Powerful for the testimony it provides from Americans of many different (and even mixed races) about their experiences. And important because there is a racial revolution underway that will upend race as we know it during the twenty-first century.”
—John...