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After the Storm: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
More than a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina served to expose a well-engineered system of oppression, one which continues to privilege some groups and disadvantage others. In the wake of the natural disaster that hit New Orleans, it became clear that institutions such as residential segregation, mass...
Peasants Come Last
A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
'Peasants Come Last: A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty' is an unforgettable account of renowned scholar and author Dr. J. Larry Brown's tenure as Peace Corps Country Director for Uganda. In an easy, captivating storyteller's voice, Brown takes us on an eye-opening journey into the heart of Africa...
What Role for Government?
Lessons from Policy Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The vital debates on government today are concerned with its social role, its participation in the economy, and its redistributive responsibilities. These functions, not defined in the Constitution, reflect the evolution of society and its values and the powerful but jerky hand of the political process.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from...
Crime in Context
A Critical Criminology of Market Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a 'free market society' in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime. It offers an evaluation of the theoretical schools in social theory and in criminology which continue to dominate the academy, but whose purchase on contemporary realities is everywhere slipping.
A Straightforward Guide To Understanding Mental Illness
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Understanding Mental Illness - Revised Edition, by Marianne Richards, is the fifth edition of this professionally acclaimed book. The complex subject of mental health is demystified in an easy-to-read style assuming no prior knowledge. The aim is to reduce fear about mental illness, providing clear information and debunking myths and outlining changing perceptions of mental illness.
by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Dans ce livre, écrit avec le style qu’on lui connaît, on suit pas à pas Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois au fil des luttes, des rencontres décisives, des assemblées générales, des confrontations avec journalistes, ministres, juges et policiers, mais aussi dans son analyse de la grève de 2012.
Interculturalism
A View from Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emerged that seeks a balance between the needs of minorities and those of the majority.
In Interculturalism,...
Sars
Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...
Securitized Citizens
Canadian Muslims’ Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post–9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging.
In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of the ideas dominant groups and institutions...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
"Service to the poor - the helpless - is the real service to God - it is the real worship of the Almighty. And this very worship is the highest form of practical holiness."
Abhijit Naskar, the humanitarian brain scientist rises with a call to the humans - a call to wake up from their...
by Hartley Dean, Peter Taylor-Gooby
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Solitary Courage
Mona Winberg and the Triumph over Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.
Mona...
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.
Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of...