Social Policy category: 9249 books
Governing through Biometrics
The Biopolitics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies.
Displaced
The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations that are just some of the challenges people face as they attempt to rebuild lives and communities.
Understanding Suicide
A Sociological Autopsy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives.
by T.L. Dayen
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
As posted on an online journal beginning in August, 2010, this "collection of essays from the underclass" chronicles the emergence of a great divide that exists within our politics today. From the perspective of full time student and member of the now infamous "47 percent", T.L. Dayen thoughtfully...
Immigration Regulation in Federal States
Challenges and Responses in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The book examines the phenomenon of immigration federalism: its main characteristics, why and how it has developed, its implications for immigration systems (in general) and non-citizens’ rights (in particular). The book introduces the reader to theoretical perspectives on immigration federalism...
Listen, We Need to Talk
How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public's mood on contentious issues like abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public opinion toward these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. There are notable exceptions, however,...
Globalization and Borders
Death at the Global Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.
Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa
A Borderless ECOWAS
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Contributors draw out the differences between European and East Asian approaches to universalizing locality and localizing global norms regarding human rights and democratic individuality.
The New NHS
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS – which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes.
Providing an authoritative...
Ombudsmen and ADR
A Comparative Study of Informal Justice in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system? Drawing on original data with British and German users of Ombudsmen— an important institution of informal justice, Naomi Creutzfeldt offers a nuanced comparative answer to this question. In so doing, she takes current...
Debating Obesity
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.
Good Pharma
The Public-Health Model of the Mario Negri Institute
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Drawing on key concepts in sociology and management, this history describes a remarkable institute that has elevated medical research and worked out solutions to the troubling practices of commercial pharmaceutical research. Good Pharma is the answer to Goldacre's Bad Pharma: ethical research without commercial distortions.