Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Ronit Lentin, Elena Moreo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime.
by Jennie Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties.
Urbanisation and Inequalities in a Post-Malthusian Context
Challenges for the Sustainable Development Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The book examines contemporary urban challenges and opportunities within the context of the traditional Malthusian theory. The book reorients the classic Malthusian debate on population and food by focusing on global urbanisation and its consequences for peoples’ access to basic means of subsistence. ...
by Anthony Horvath
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
How did America become a place where those with Down syndrome and spina bifida are aborted in huge numbers? How can it tolerate aborting a child just because it is a girl or killing a twin in the womb so that only one child is born alive? Why are Americans being reduced to numbers and Quality Adjusted...
Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia
Assemblages of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
by Philip S. Salisbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book is about observation and process. It addresses what we observe, how we observe, and the value and consequences of how we observe. It also explores the terms of value and meaning, the attribution of value and meaning to observation, and the process of existence. Second, this essay examines...
The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation
Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations. It explores concepts and practices of reconciliation, considering...
Human Rights and Literature
Writing Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments...
Globalizing Taipei
The Political Economy of Spatial Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support...
Eurasian Borderlands
Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book argues border-making is not only about states’ physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but also about people’s spatial practices over...
Drugs
America's Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: homicide,...
Disabled Children's Childhood Studies
Critical Approaches in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches.
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice.
Conflict and Youth Rights in India
Engagement and Identity in the North East
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India. Examining youth engagement in protracted conflict and its impact on youth rights, the author considers the complex issues besieging the region, including armed insurgency, conflicts between ethnic groups, human rights...