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Queering Methodology Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives

Queering Methodology Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives

This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women. It critically interrogates the concept of ‘lesbian’ especially as applied to research praxis. Who or what is a ‘lesbian’ and why does this category matter? How is research shaped by such categorisations and why? What does it mean for research that identities can be fluid and changing? Further this collection examines social formation of power from an intersectional perspective in relation to lesbian and queer women’s experiences exploring complex tensions and inequalities in relation to class race and trans identities for example. These chapters by world-renowned scholars bring together compelling accounts of research dilemmas ethics sensitivities and nuances that will resonate for many researchers. This book highlights how gender sexuality and power intersect within and beyond the research project illuminating how research can generate new questions as well as provide important insights. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. | Queering Methodology Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives

GBP 120.00
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Racism Culture Markets

Racism Culture Markets

Racism Culture Markets explores the connections between cultural representations of `race' and their historical institutional and global forms of expression and impact. John Gabriel examines the current fixation with market place philosophies in terms of the crisis in anti-racist politics and concern over questions of cultural identity. He explores issues such as the continuing relevance of terms like `black' as a basis for self definition; the need to think about identities in more fluid and complex ways and the need to develop a much more explicit discussion of the construction of whiteness and white identities. Racism Culture Markets brings together a range of historical and contemporary case studies including the Rushdie affair; the Gulf War; debates around fostering adoption and domestic violence; separate schooling; the service economy and its employment practices; tourism in the Third World; the Bhopal chemical disaster and racism in the new Europe. His case studies also consider the role played by contemporary media and popular culture in these debates including film television music and the press.

GBP 175.00
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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile elsewhere in the world languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists literary scholars and historians amongst others this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual societal and functional multilingualism when codeswitching was the norm and languages themselves were fluid unbounded and porous it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them. | Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Urban Education

Handbook of Urban Education

This second edition of the Handbook of Urban Education offers a fresh fluid and diverse range of perspectives from which the authors describe analyze and offer recommendations for urban education in the US. Each of the seven sections includes an introduction providing an overview and contextualization of the contents. In addition there are discussion questions at the conclusion of many of the 31 chapters. The seven sections in this edition of the Handbook include: (1) Multidisciplinary Perspectives (e. g. economics health sciences sociology and human development); (2) Policy and Leadership; (3) Teacher Education and Teaching; (4) Curriculum Language and Literacy; (5) STEM; (6) Parents Families and Communities; and (7) School Closures Gentrification and Youth Voice and Innovations. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of urban education and there are 27 new authors in this edition of the Handbook. The book covers a wide and deep range of the landscape of urban education. It is a powerful and accessible introduction to the field of urban education for researchers theorists policymakers and practitioners as well as a critical call for the future of the field for those more seasoned in the field.

GBP 105.00
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From State Church to Pluralism A Protestant Interpretation of Religion in American History

From State Church to Pluralism A Protestant Interpretation of Religion in American History

For most of our history American religious life has been dominated by a view of church history in which we appear as mere deposits of European religious culture. In fact however the freedom of Americans to choose without penalty to join any religious body or none at all is new in human history. This book is an effort to understand and interpret how we arrived at our present situation and in doing so to clarify many cultural social and political issues. How will American Protestants respond to the historical shift from Protestant dominance to more fluid conditions in which Catholicism and Judaism also have great force and influence? By the anxiety expressed in anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism? By reaffirming the American tradition?In answer the author explores the very categories that have shaped our study of American church history. Without false ideals of the past he can perceive the uniqueness of the situation today. The true Golden Age he argues lies if anywhere in the years just ahead; and through his realistic analysis he encourages that honest consciousness of calling that will determine whether religion in America is to be vital or effete. | From State Church to Pluralism A Protestant Interpretation of Religion in American History

GBP 130.00
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Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions including migrant mother daughter wife student worker entrepreneur and cultural custodian. This book provides new ways to conceptualise Chinese females in the diaspora as gendered classed culturally varied and racialised individuals with multiple forms of oppression agency and mobility. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. It also demonstrates how historical geography informed by postcolonial feminist approaches can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that include women’s diverse experiences at the domestic local national and international scale. This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers with additional audiences of interest in history and historical geography ethnic and racial studies gender studies diaspora studies migration studies and gender and feminist studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

GBP 130.00
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Contextualizing Global Flows of Competency-Based Education Polysemy Hybridity and Silences

Contextualizing Global Flows of Competency-Based Education Polysemy Hybridity and Silences

The new comparative research in this volume explores the global flow of competence-based education curricular policy and frameworks for instructional practice. Taking critical perspectives the chapters trace the pathways through which educators and policy actors adopted and reshaped competence-based education as promoted by the OECD the World Bank and the European Union. The authors ask: What purposes do competence-based educational reforms serve? How are competence-based models internationally deployed and locally modified? What happens as competence-based reforms get re-contextualized and contested in particular cultural social and political contexts? In their nuanced examination of these global flows the authors theorize how competence-based reform strategies variously produce hybridity silent borrowing “loud borrowing ” and new social imaginaries. Although entangled with other “hot topics” in educational research —skills and dispositions for citizenship and employment; higher-order and critical thinking; and socio-emotional learning—competence itself has multiple fluid meanings. The authors dissect this polysemy while documenting the pivotal role of key actors in the development design and deployment of reforms in diverse international contexts. Contextualizing Global Flows of Competency-Based Education will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of comparative education educational research curriculum studies sociology and education leadership and policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. | Contextualizing Global Flows of Competency-Based Education Polysemy Hybridity and Silences

GBP 130.00
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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks in many cases they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection investment and employment. This book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts criminal careers and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan Myanmar Colombia and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid everchanging contexts producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy development aid and peacebuilding work. Researchers and students across development peacebuilding illicit economies and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians commentators and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies. | Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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Enjoyment of Laughter

Enjoyment of Laughter

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman in this work avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result the opinion is universal and under the circumstances a fact that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written. Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so.

GBP 145.00
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Democracy In Poland Second Edition

Democracy In Poland Second Edition

Ever-changing election rules a highly fluid party system a constitution considered illegitimate by more than one major political actor polarized political elites and a system of corruption that has grown up together with the young democracy itself -these characterize contemporary Polish politics. At the same time Poland is frequently identified as the most successful example of a transition from communism to capitalism having led this series of world-changing transitions. It has distanced itself from a turbulent history as pawn in Eastern Europe's international politics to become a leading candidate for membership in the exclusive European Union club. As Polish democratic politics evolves it is taking unexpected forms and producing equally unexpected results. Through a comprehensive analysis of politics in this young European democracy Marjorie Castle and Ray Taras explain the complexity and uncertainty of political processes and outcomes in Poland. Poland'spast -the flawed Second Republic established after World War I as well as the imperfect independence in the Soviet shadow following World War II's devastation - dramatizes the unique historic opportunity it was given in 1989 to determine its own political future and perhaps eventually become a major European power. Choices made in 1989 and thereafter would not only construct a new democracy but shape and limit its possibilities. The primary focus here is on contemporary politics: what the fundamental political cleavages are whether parties adequately represent popular interests who the political elites are and what games they play whatinfluence the Catholic Church still holds in an aspiring Western-style secular republic and what policy challenges face Poland in the future. Inimitable political leaders changing political arenas and complexpolicy-making processes come to life through a fascinating narrative characterized by an insider's insight. | Democracy In Poland Second Edition

GBP 130.00
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