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Hard to Swallow - New edition with bonus features (Paperback, New edition): Mark Wheeller Hard to Swallow - New edition with bonus features (Paperback, New edition)
Mark Wheeller
R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2020 Edition Set text for Eduqas GCSE 9-1 Drama exam Based on Maureen Dunbar's award-winning book and film Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa. Catherine Dunbar died in 1984, after a seven-year battle against anorexia nervosa. She was just twenty-two. Mark Wheeller's potent documentary play uses the words from Catherine's diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected. This 2020 edition includes a foreword by the late Maureen Dunbar, unseen extra scenes and a reflection by Mark, on the astonishing journey of this widely studied play since its first performances, including one by OYT on the Olivier Stage of the Royal National Theatre. Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, BTEC, GCSE Duration: 75 minutes approximately Cast: 6 female, 3 male, 22 female/male, or 3 female and 2 male with doubling. "This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity... naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highly stylised theatre... such potent theatre!" Vera Lustig, The Independent "Elegantly structured, highly informative, and imaginatively theatrical. There wasn't a dry eye in the house." Anne McFerran, Stage and Television Today

Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education - Understanding and Combating Covert Violence in Universities... Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education - Understanding and Combating Covert Violence in Universities (Hardcover)
Christine Cho, Julie Corkett
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book recognizes microaggression as a pervasive issue in colleges and universities around the world and offers critical analyses of the local and institutional contexts in which such incidences of violence and discrimination occur. Authors from Egypt, Barbados, South Africa, Canada, and the United States explore the origins and forms of microaggression which impact students, faculty, and staff in higher education and address issues including xenophobia, sexual violence, linguistic discrimination, and racial prejudice. Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and utilizing empirical, qualitative, and ethnographic methods to consider microaggressions perpetrated by both students and staff, each chapter proposes practical ways to prevent violence through education, student agency, policy, and leadership. This book offers a contemporary global dialogue with educators and is vital reading for educators and administrators in higher education.

Middle Class Meltdown in America - Causes, Consequences, and Remedies (Paperback, 3rd edition): Kevin T. Leicht, Scott T.... Middle Class Meltdown in America - Causes, Consequences, and Remedies (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Kevin T. Leicht, Scott T. Fitzgerald
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- Engaging and critical analysis of current and historical economic policies and their implications for the American population and growing inequality. - Wide range of empirical and quantitative facts and journalistic reporting both illustrate the authors' arguments and lend a balanced, credible view at American society. - New edition provides a more well-rounded discussion of inequality and social class by incorporating nuances of race and gender into the framework of their sociological and economic arguments.

Inequality - the unbeatable challenge (Hardcover): Medani P. Bhandari, Shvindina Hanna Inequality - the unbeatable challenge (Hardcover)
Medani P. Bhandari, Shvindina Hanna
R3,095 Discovery Miles 30 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited book presents some unexplored issues of economic inequality, including case studies of various countries. Inequality is a chronic and divisive factor of society. Inequality exists as an integral attribute of human development. Communities, nations, and systems are not evolving at the same speed and rate and thus require different resources in different amounts. However, the distribution of winnings is also uneven due to the multidimensionality of influencing factors. When we talk about inequality, it is not just inequality of income or wealth; it is first, inequality in access to priorities and human needs - to shelter, to clean water, air, health care, and also to appropriate vaccination systems and assistance, security systems and safety guarantees for the future. Past financial crises and the current pandemic shock has revealed bugs in the system, shaking it and changing our perception of the norms. We may have no doubts that inequality is an unsolved problem, but now we need to find out - is it unbeatable? There is still lack of knowledge around how inequality has been grounded throughout human civilization, why society is stratified and classified, economically, politically, socially, and religiously; and why the discrimination due to gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, language differences, immigration status, caste, race and ethnicity? This book addresses these issues in a holistic way as well as including case studies of various countries. It tries to find out why inequality has been unbeatable and what would be the best policies to overcome this challenge. Technical topics discussed in the book include: Inequality the problems of all times, an unbeatable challenge. Problems and consequences inequality Gender Inequality Covid Pandemic the boaster of inequality Inequalities in Education / Healthcare / Food Supply Inequality due to gender, age, origin, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, class, refugee status and religion. Social exclusion is consumption patterns- economic patterns

The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration - A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Hardcover): A.... The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration - A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Hardcover)
A. Mikulich; Foreword by Helen Prejean; L. Cassidy, M. Pfeil
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Scandal of White Complicity and U.S. Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States. Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil are white Catholic theologians developing understanding of how whiteness operates in the U.S. system of incarceration and witnessing to a Christian nonviolent way for whites to subvert our oppression of brothers and sisters of color.

We Got Soul, We Can Heal - Overcoming Racial Trauma Through Leadership, Community and Resilience (Paperback): Phyllis... We Got Soul, We Can Heal - Overcoming Racial Trauma Through Leadership, Community and Resilience (Paperback)
Phyllis Jeffers-Coly
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Poet Alice Walker has described culture as something in which one should thrive; further, that healing means putting the heart, courage, and energy back into one's self within one's own culture. Similarly, the "yes, yes ya'll," phrase, used by classic 1990's-era hip hop DJs and artists, evokes the passion in Black American culture. Written with that same celebratory spirit-and using the idea of culture and SOUL synonymously-this book explores of the ways in which integrating SOUL (culture) with contemplative practices can foster healing and restoration, expanding our understanding of leadership and community interaction and impact. With years of experience in higher education and as a mentor and teacher living in Senegal, the author stresses the importance of celebrating Black cultures, including the role of ancestry, community interdependence, elder-mentors and institutions such as HBCUs.

American Indians at the Margins - Racist Stereotypes and Their Impacts on Native Peoples (Paperback): H. Roy Kaplan American Indians at the Margins - Racist Stereotypes and Their Impacts on Native Peoples (Paperback)
H. Roy Kaplan
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the earliest days of America, racist imagery has been used to create harmful stereotypes of the indigenous people. In this book, the conflict between invading European white settlers and the indigenous groups who occupied the land that became the United States is described through the context of race and racism. Using depictions from art, literature, radio, cinema and television, the origin and persistence of such stereotypes are explained, and their debilitating effects on the well-being of Indians are presented. This text also explores their accomplishments in attempts to maintain their sovereignty, dignity and respect.

The Age-friendly Lens (Hardcover): Christie M. Gardiner, Eileen O'Brien Webb The Age-friendly Lens (Hardcover)
Christie M. Gardiner, Eileen O'Brien Webb
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism. Drawing from traditionally distinct fields, the text demonstrates theoretical and applied dimensions of the age-friendly global agenda, with several chapters discussing topics that have to date been underrepresented in age-friendly scholarship, including education, health and justice systems. The case studies encourage critical engagement with the issue of ageism in age-friendly scholarship. It presents a clear understanding of the inequalities, challenges and opportunities of ageing and of the ways international, regional, national and sub-national commitments in health, development and human rights, and are further impacted by, ageing through designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes. The essays utilise a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue to enhance discussion of the age-friendly environment agenda through the inclusion of age-friendly perspectives in addition to its processes and destinations in an ageing society. The book serves as a catalyst to stimulate research, policy and public interest in the physical, social and regulatory environments in which we age and the consequent impact upon health and well-being. It will be of interest to professors, graduate students and undergraduate students in policy, sociology, health, planning and gerontology. It is also recommended reading for policy makers, politicians, think tanks and lobbyists, who are concerned with age all-age-inclusiveness.

Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (Paperback): Christian Aspalter Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (Paperback)
Christian Aspalter
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book introduces readers to the world of ideal types within the readings of Max Weber by giving a theoretical understanding of ideal types, as well as applying the development of ideal types to an array of social policy arenas. The 21st century has seen the development of welfare regime analysis marked by two differing strands: real-typical welfare regime analyses and ideal-typical welfare regime analysis; the latter focusing on the formation, development, and application of ideal types in general comparative social policy. Designed to provide new theoretical and practical frameworks, as well as updated in-depth developments of ideal-typical welfare regime theory, this book shows how Weber's method of setting up and checking against 'ideal types' can be used in a wide variety of policy areas, such as welfare state system comparison, comparative social and economic development, health policy, mental health policy, health care system analysis, gender policy, employment policy, education policy, and so forth. The book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in the fields of social policy, including health policy, public policy, political economy, sociology, social work, gender studies, social anthropology, and many more.

Poverty in the History of Economic Thought - From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics (Paperback): Mats Lundahl, Daniel... Poverty in the History of Economic Thought - From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics (Paperback)
Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, Neelambar Hatti
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition. This edited volume traces the economic ideas of key writers and schools of thought across a significant period, ranging from Adam Smith and Malthus through to Wicksell, Cassel, and Heckscher. The chapters relate poverty to income distribution, asserting that poverty is not always conceived of in absolute terms, and that relative and social deprivation matter also. Furthermore, the contributors deal with both individual poverty and the poverty of nations in the context of international economy. By providing such a thorough exploration, this book shows that the approach to poverty differs from economist to economist, depending on their particular interests and the main issues related to poverty in each epoch, as well as the influence of the intellectual climate that prevailed at the time when the contribution was made. This key text is valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought, economic development, and the economics of poverty.

Transnational Musicians - Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry (Paperback): Beata M. Kowalczyk Transnational Musicians - Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry (Paperback)
Beata M. Kowalczyk
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically structured classical music world. Drawing on rich material from multi-sited fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Japanese artists in Japan, France and Poland, this study portrays the structurally - and individually - conditioned opportunities and constraints of becoming a transnational classical musician. It shows how transnational artists strive to conciliate the irreconcilable: their professional identification with the dominant image of 'rootless' classical musicianship and their ethnocultural affiliation with Japan. As such this book critically engages with the neoliberal discourse on talent and meritocracy prevailing in the creative/cultural industry, which promotes the common image of cosmopolitan artists, whose high, universal skills allow them to carry out their occupational activity internationally, regardless of such prescriptive criteria as gender, ethnicity and race. Highly interdisciplinary, this book will appeal to students and researchers interested in such fields as migration, transnational mobility, ethnicity and race in the creative/cultural sector, gender studies, Japanese culture and other related social issues. It will also be instructive for professionals from the world of classical music, as well as ordinary readers passionate about Japanese society.

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Hardcover): Gurpinder Singh Lalli Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Hardcover)
Gurpinder Singh Lalli
R4,484 Discovery Miles 44 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools as being major issue in educational policy. The book examines schools as a microcosm for society with school food space being the playground for socialisation. It shows how forms of culinary capital can be extended in the school dining hall where social space is negotiated with notions of inclusion and exclusion during mealtime. The book uses gender, class and race to understand the school dining hall as a space where culinary capital can be exchanged and learnt. Thorough research accompanied by ethnographic visuals, field notes and observations, it also explores the sensory impact of school gardens. As such the book will be of interest to students, teachers, school leaders, educators and policy makers in the fields of Education, Sociology, Social Policy and Food Studies.

Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century - Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions (Hardcover): Veronica... Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century - Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions (Hardcover)
Veronica Watson, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Lisa Spanierman; Contributions by Nolan L. Cabrera, Anthea Garman, …
R3,672 Discovery Miles 36 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats from social equity and justice that have characterized the late twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for a new era. Chapters in Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century draw from the fields of African-American studies, English studies, media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, education, and women's studies. Using transdisciplinarity as a mode of inquiry for the project and responding to the changing phenomenon of whiteness across several continents (Australia, Canada, France, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States), the collection brings together established and emerging scholars and a range of critical approaches to unveil and intervene in the ideologies of whiteness in our contemporary moment. Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century demonstrates that complex inquiry and activism are needed to challenge new iterations of whiteness in twenty-first-century political and social spaces.

Caste Discrimination and Exclusion in Indian Universities - A Critical Reflection (Hardcover): N Sukumar Caste Discrimination and Exclusion in Indian Universities - A Critical Reflection (Hardcover)
N Sukumar
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and the psychosocial consequences of such practices. It foregrounds the conceptual debates around caste, exclusion, and reservations in Indian academia, discussing the social dominance and the roots of prejudices in the university spaces. The volume reflects upon the fragile social world in which students from the margins struggle for survival in the academic space. It reveals that these students navigate the various facets of academia - like classrooms, pedagogy, scholarships, hostels, peer groups, and teachers - only to find the academic space a dystopian universe. The book also sheds light on suicide cases committed by the marginalized groups as a testimony of protest. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, this book will be of interest to teachers, students and researchers of education, sociology, political science, psychology, and exclusion studies. It will also be useful for policymakers, social activists, NGOs, research centers, and those working in higher education, reservations, public policy, caste, and exclusion studies.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism - Beyond Black and White (Hardcover): Ronald E Hall Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism - Beyond Black and White (Hardcover)
Ronald E Hall
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines historical and contemporary perspectives on colorism to show how colorism has developed from the days of slavery to our present global society, and shows how colorism impacts law, policy, health, and quality of life motivations. Grounded in empirical research and based on the ecological perspective, this is an interdisciplinary resource suitable for students and academics across psychology and the social sciences. Explores phenomena including skin bleaching, stillbirth related to colorism, and racism enacted by people of color against darker skinned people, demonstrating how colorism impacts the world around us.

The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New edition): Simon Wendt The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
Simon Wendt
R2,200 Discovery Miles 22 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women's organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR's efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation's past were entangled with and strengthened the nation's racial and gender boundaries. Taking a close look at the DAR's mission of bolstering national loyalty, Wendt reveals paradoxes and ambiguities in its activism. While the Daughters engaged in patriotic actions long believed to be the domain of men and challenged male-centered accounts of U.S. nation-building, their tales about the past reinforced traditional notions of femininity and masculinity, reflecting a belief that any challenge to these conventions would jeopardize the country's stability. Similarly, they frequently voiced support for inclusive civic nationalism but deliberately shaped historical memory to consolidate white supremacy. Using archival sources from across the country, Wendt focuses on the DAR's most visible work after its founding in 1890-its commemorations of the American Revolution, western expansion, and Native Americans. He also explores the organization's post-World War II history, a time that saw major challenges to its conservative vision of America's "imagined community." This book sheds new light on the remarkable agency and cultural authority of conservative white women in the twentieth century.

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice - Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights (Hardcover): Kalpana Kannabiran Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice - Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights (Hardcover)
Kalpana Kannabiran
R4,520 Discovery Miles 45 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. This accessible volume and comprehensive subject guide comprises key readings on law and social justice, with a focus on dispossessions, marginalities and rights. 2. A topical volume that brings together expert analyses and emerging research on contemporary themes. 3. It will be of interest to departments of law, socio-legal studies, legal history, South Asian studies, human rights, jurisprudence and constitutional studies, gender studies, history, politics, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology. It will also appeal to legal historians and practitioner of law, and those in public administration, development studies, environment studies, migration studies, cultural studies, labour studies and economics.

Postcolonial France - Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic (Hardcover): Paul Silverstein Postcolonial France - Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic (Hardcover)
Paul Silverstein
R2,474 Discovery Miles 24 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France, through an exploration of recent moral panics. Taking stock of the tensions as they have emerged over the last quarter of a century, Paul Silverstein looks at urban racial violence, female Islamic dress and male public prayer, anti-system gangster rap, and sporting performances in and around which debates over France's multicultural future have arisen. It traces these conflicts to the unresolved tensions of an imperial project, the present-day effects of which are still felt by many. Despite the barriers, which include neo-nationalist racism and Islamophobia, French citizens of various backgrounds have found ways to build flourishing lives. Silverstein shows how they have responded to urban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in remarkably creative ways.

Excessive Inequality and Socio-Economic Progress (Hardcover): Ona Grazina Rakauskiene, Lina Volodzkiene, Dalia Streimikiene Excessive Inequality and Socio-Economic Progress (Hardcover)
Ona Grazina Rakauskiene, Lina Volodzkiene, Dalia Streimikiene
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels. This book seeks to develop frameworks for the assessment of excessive inequality and its impact on social-economic progress and sustainable development. It begins by summarizing the theoretical approaches of economic inequality, its specificity, and questioning what economic inequality really is and how it progresses. Next, the book explores issues of methodology for addressing the growing excessive economic inequality. It then applies these concepts to examine inequality across a range of the European Union (EU) countries. A variety of factors are considered, such as the impact of economic inequality on socio-economic progress, when normal inequality turns into excessive inequality, and its impact on economic growth, quality of life, and the environmental sustainability across different groups.

Why the West Fears Islam - An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies (Hardcover, New): J Cesari Why the West Fears Islam - An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies (Hardcover, New)
J Cesari
R3,421 Discovery Miles 34 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are Muslims threatening the core values of the West? Jocelyne Cesari examines this question through the lens of testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Her book is an unprecedented exploration of Muslim religious and political life based on several years of field work in Europe and in the United States. It provides original insights into the ways Muslims act as believers and citizens and into the specifics of western liberalism and secularism, particularly after 9/11, and how the specific constraints of Islam in secular spaces trigger a western politics of fear. Its unique interdisciplinary scope allows for an in depth analysis of data polls, surveys, political discourses, policy programs, interviews, and focus groups with Muslims.

God, Race, and History - Liberating Providence (Hardcover): Matt R. Jantzen God, Race, and History - Liberating Providence (Hardcover)
Matt R. Jantzen
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In crafting racial visions of the modern world, European thinkers appropriated the Christian doctrine of providence, constructing the idea of European humanity's rule over the globe on the model of God's rule over the universe. As a powerful ordering theory of the relationship between God and creation, time and space, self and other, the doctrine served as an intellectual framework for the theorization of whiteness, as the male European subject replaced Jesus Christ as the human being at the center of world history. Through an analysis of the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Barth, and James H. Cone, God, Race, and History examines this subversion of the Christian doctrine of providence, as well as subsequent attempts within modern Protestant theology to liberate the doctrine from its captivity to whiteness. It then develops a constructive political theology of providence in conversation with Delores S. Williams and M. Shawn Copeland, discerning Jesus Christ at work through the Holy Spirit in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and to carve out a flourishing life for themselves, their communities, and their world.

Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare - Blaming the Unemployed (Paperback): Rose-Marie Stambe Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare - Blaming the Unemployed (Paperback)
Rose-Marie Stambe
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective. Using critical fieldwork and theory, the author explores the administration of the unemployed, and the drive to increase labour market participation through strategies of activation. There is a strong and coherent conceptual and theoretical framing for this work, with a critical perspective (essentially, question everything) taking centre stage. It will give an overall coherence in addressing the topic. The theoretical framing is cogent and, in combination with the critical perspective, works well for integrating the material and delivering a fresh approach to this topic. Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare will appeal to students engaging with critical psychology, unemployment or policy, by providing a distinct application of theoretical and methodological tools to think differently about the relationship between labour market non/participation, human misery, psychology, and frontline enactment of policy and research.

The Color of COVID-19 - The Racial Inequality of Marginalized Communities (Paperback): Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez The Color of COVID-19 - The Racial Inequality of Marginalized Communities (Paperback)
Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color while highlighting the prevalence of structural racism in the United States. This crucial collection of essays, written by leading scholars from the fields of communications, political science, health, philosophy, and geography, explores the manifold ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted upon Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities and the way we see race relations in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the significance of U.S. health inequalities, which the World Health Organization defines as "avoidable [and] unfair." It has also highlighted structural racism, specifically, institutions, practices, values, customs, and policies that differentially allocate resources and opportunities so as to increase inequity among racial groups. Navarro and Hernandez therefore argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a race war in America that has further marginalized communities of color by limiting access to resources by different racial and ethnic minorities, particularly women within these communities. Moreover, the systemic policies of the past that upheld or failed to address the unequal social conditions affecting Blacks, Latinxs, and other minorities have now been magnified with COVID-19. The volume concludes by offering recommendations to prevent future humanitarian crises from exacerbating racial divisions and having a disproportionate impact upon ethnic minorities. This timely volume will be of great interest to those interested in the study of race and the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

The Color of COVID-19 - The Racial Inequality of Marginalized Communities (Hardcover): Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez The Color of COVID-19 - The Racial Inequality of Marginalized Communities (Hardcover)
Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color while highlighting the prevalence of structural racism in the United States. This crucial collection of essays, written by leading scholars from the fields of communications, political science, health, philosophy, and geography, explores the manifold ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted upon Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities and the way we see race relations in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the significance of U.S. health inequalities, which the World Health Organization defines as "avoidable [and] unfair." It has also highlighted structural racism, specifically, institutions, practices, values, customs, and policies that differentially allocate resources and opportunities so as to increase inequity among racial groups. Navarro and Hernandez therefore argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a race war in America that has further marginalized communities of color by limiting access to resources by different racial and ethnic minorities, particularly women within these communities. Moreover, the systemic policies of the past that upheld or failed to address the unequal social conditions affecting Blacks, Latinxs, and other minorities have now been magnified with COVID-19. The volume concludes by offering recommendations to prevent future humanitarian crises from exacerbating racial divisions and having a disproportionate impact upon ethnic minorities. This timely volume will be of great interest to those interested in the study of race and the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies (Paperback): Rebecca Finkel, Briony Sharp, Majella Sweeney Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies (Paperback)
Rebecca Finkel, Briony Sharp, Majella Sweeney
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most early social research into planned events had the effect of broadcasting narratives of dominant cultures and privileged groups. More recently, however, convergences of gender, sexualities, ethnicities, age, class, religion, and intersectional analyses and events studies have started to drive new critical understanding of the impacts of events on non-mainstream, non-majority communities around the globe. This timely book addresses current gaps in the literature surrounding issues of accessibility, inclusion, and diversity in various event landscapes. Structured into four parts covering the main types of events, the chapters present original topics using innovative methodological approaches. Each chapter employs a case study to illustrate the key intertwining issues in these various experiential realms. Further, the chapters are all cross- or interdisciplinary, drawing on gender, sexualities, cultural, race/ethnicity studies as well as multiple literatures that feed into critical events studies and exploring a variety of global examples. This significant book opens the path to further research on the role and importance of accessibility, inclusion, and diversity in events environments worldwide. It will be of interest to academics and researchers of critical event studies as well as a number of related social science disciplines.

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