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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - Perspectives, Frontiers, and Response Strategies (Hardcover): Margaret (Peggy) S. Stockdale Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - Perspectives, Frontiers, and Response Strategies (Hardcover)
Margaret (Peggy) S. Stockdale
R4,581 Discovery Miles 45 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Simultaneously thorough and readable. This book is a must for anybody who needs to be up on the latest thinking on this complex and difficult topic." --Myra Strober, Stanford University Sexual harassment is a problem with a long past, but a short history. About 15 years after journalists and scholars first began writing about it, sexual harassment has become a household word and a topic of concern for employers and employees, and despite very little research funding, there is now a fair amount of data on this topic. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace provides a comprehensive look at what we know about sexual harassment. Editor Margaret S. Stockdale and a multidisciplinary cast of contributing authors have produced a volume that is grounded in theory, research, and practice but is accessible to researchers, advanced students, and practitioners in multiple disciplines. The topic of sexual harassment is one that is extremely timely and relevant for today's students in women's studies, organizational studies, and sociology. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace deals with a variety of issues and aspects of sexual harassment that will certainly spark discussion and debate.

Democracy Beyond the Nation State - Practicing Equality (Hardcover): Joe Parker Democracy Beyond the Nation State - Practicing Equality (Hardcover)
Joe Parker
R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all rather than the few? Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality examines communities that govern their own lives without elites or centralized structures through assemblies and consensus. Rather than claiming equality by abstract rights or citizenship, these groups put equality into practice by reducing wealth and health divides, or landlessness or homelessness, and equalizing workloads. These practices are found in rural India and Brazil, in Buenos Aires, London, and New York, and among the Iroquois, the Zapatistas, and the global networks of La Via Campesina farmers and the World Social Forum. Readable accounts of these horizontal democracies document multiple political frames that prevent democracy from being frozen into entrenched electoral systems producing modern inequalities. Using practice to rewrite political theory, Parker draws on collective politics in Spivak and Derrida and embodied relations from Povinelli and Foucault to show that equal relations are not a utopian dream, not nostalgia, and not impossible. This book provides many practical solutions to inequality. It will be useful to students and scholars of political theory and social movements and to those who are willing to work together for equality.

Communities for Social Change - Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work (Paperback, New edition):... Communities for Social Change - Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work (Paperback, New edition)
Annette Coburn, Sinead Gormally
R1,058 Discovery Miles 10 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinead Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination, and inequality. The authors assert that by refocusing on process, participation, and collective rights, it is possible to create and sustain social justice. Transformative research paradigms help to produce findings that inspire and underpin political social action, and an analysis of practice-based examples supports the promotion of increased critical consciousness. This makes Communities for Social Change a must-read for anyone studying or teaching community youth work or who is working in communities or with individuals who experience oppression or inequality. If you are committed to teaching and learning about theory and practice that promotes social change for equality and social justice, you will not be disappointed!

Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies - Genocide: A Critcial Bibliographic Review, Volume 11 (Hardcover): Samuel... Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies - Genocide: A Critcial Bibliographic Review, Volume 11 (Hardcover)
Samuel Totten, Henry Theriault, Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the heart of the field of Genocide Studies lies an active core of vigorous debate that has led to both heated disagreements and productive disputes. This new volume in the Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review series focuses on these, as well as other significant issues. Chapters in this volume focus on a number of issues: Did Peru's Ache suffer genocide? What was the role of media propaganda in the Rwandan Genocide, and what more, if anything, could have been done about it? Have Rwanda's post-genocide gacaca courts successfully promoted reconciliation? How has denial affected governmental recognition around the world of the Armenian, Hellenic, and Assyrian genocides? Why have some left-wing "progressives" engaged in denial of the Rwandan Genocide? Has anti-genocide activism had a meaningful effect in prevention of or intervention against genocide? In the pages of this book, readers can explore the various debates that have defined the study of genocide and that are redefining it today. This insightful and provocative volume will entice further discussion on the concept of genocide and will be a must-read for the field of genocide studies.

Mainstream and Margins Revisited - Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America (Paperback): Peter Isaac Rose Mainstream and Margins Revisited - Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America (Paperback)
Peter Isaac Rose
R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews, blacks, and other minorities in the United States. Now, a third of a century later, he revisits the topic, with sixteen new chapters, in addition to seven from the original edition. Newer content covers immigration and American refugee policy; reexamines the term "model minority," first used to describe Jews, but now applied to Asian Americans; and the resurgence of nativism both in regard to new migrants from Latin America and to the growth of Islamophobia since the 9/11 attacks. Rose also reassesses what is still one of the most controversial documents about race and class ever written, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." Rose writes about other authors who have addressed many of the principal concerns of this book, ranging from novelists Tom Wolfe and Harper Lee to sociologists David Riesman, Robin M. Williams, Jr., and William Julius Wilson. Historical tensions between Jews and African Americans and debates about "liberal" vs. "corporate" pluralism seen from the perspective of both whites and non-whites are also discussed in this seminal volume by a master on the subject.

Confronting Racism in Teacher Education - Counternarratives of Critical Practice (Paperback): Bree Picower, Rita Kohli Confronting Racism in Teacher Education - Counternarratives of Critical Practice (Paperback)
Bree Picower, Rita Kohli
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Confronting Racism in Teacher Education aims to transform systematic and persistent racism through in-depth analyses of racial justice struggles and strategies in teacher education. By bringing together counternarratives of critical teacher educators, the editors of this volume present key insights from both individual and collective experiences of advancing racial justice. Written for teacher educators, higher education administrators, policy makers, and others concerned with issues of race, the book is comprised of four parts that each represent a distinct perspective on the struggle for racial justice: contributors reflect on their experiences working as educators of Color to transform the culture of predominately White institutions, navigating the challenges of whiteness within teacher education, building transformational bridges within classrooms, and training current and inservice teachers through concrete models of racial justice. By bringing together these often individualized experiences, Confronting Racism in Teacher Education reveals larger patterns that emerge of institutional racism in teacher education, and the strategies that can inspire resistance.

International Analysis Poverty (Hardcover): Peter Townsend International Analysis Poverty (Hardcover)
Peter Townsend
R5,072 Discovery Miles 50 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Fairness to Children - Working for Social Justice in the Primary School (Hardcover): Morwenna Griffiths, Carol Davies In Fairness to Children - Working for Social Justice in the Primary School (Hardcover)
Morwenna Griffiths, Carol Davies
R2,146 Discovery Miles 21 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inequality in Capitalist Societies (Hardcover): Surinder S Jodhka, Boike Rehbein, Jess e Souza Inequality in Capitalist Societies (Hardcover)
Surinder S Jodhka, Boike Rehbein, Jess e Souza
R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that this is due to the lack of understanding the structures responsible for the persistence of social inequality. It enquires into the mechanisms that produce and reproduce invisible dividing lines in society. Based on original case studies of Brazil, Germany, India and Laos comprising thousands of interviews, the authors argue that invisible classes emerge in capitalist societies, both reproducing and transforming precapitalist hierarchies. At the same time, locally particular forms of inequality persist. Social inequality in the contemporary world has to be understood as a specific combination of precapitalist inequalities, capitalist transformation and a particular class structure, which seems to emerge in all capitalist societies. The book links the configurations to an interpretation of global domination as well as to symbolic classification.

The Changing American Neighborhood - The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Alan Mallach, Todd Swanstrom The Changing American Neighborhood - The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Alan Mallach, Todd Swanstrom
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the forces and factors influencing them, and the people and organizations trying to change them. Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and neighborhood change, Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom adopt a broad, inter-disciplinary perspective that shows how neighborhoods are messy, complex systems, in which change is driven by constant feedback loops that link social, economic and physical conditions, each within distinct spatial and political contexts. The Changing American Neighborhood seeks to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood change not only for their own importance, but for the insights they offer to help guide peoples' efforts sustaining good neighborhoods and rebuilding struggling ones.

Policing Hatred - Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime (Paperback, Rev Ed): Jeannine Bell Policing Hatred - Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime (Paperback, Rev Ed)
Jeannine Bell
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Readable and interesting...a fine work that offers fresh insights into how the police enforce hate crime laws."
--"Law and Politics Book Review"

"This useful and timely book deals with the ethnographic basis of hate crime."
-- "Choice"

"A very well written analysis of the process of enforcing hate crimes. Policing Hatred illuminates basic matters of policing in a democratic society-balancing victimsa rights versus the rights of suspects, the role of public ignorance and political pressure on police work, and the quite striking decency of these investigators. . . . Will be a amust reada for all social scientists interested in hate crime as well as scholars in criminal justice, law, sociology, and political science in the area of police studies."
--Peter K. Manning, Brooks Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University

Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nationas attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to the thousands of other individuals who each year are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not.

Policing Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate crime law works in practice, from the perspective of those enforcing it. It examines the ways in which the police handle bias crimes, and the social impact of thoseefforts. Bell exposes the power that law enforcement personnel have to influence the social environment by showing how they determine whether an incident will be charged as a bias crime.

Drawing on her unprecedented access to a police hate crime unit, Bellas work brings to life the stories of female, Black, Latino, and Asian American detectives, in addition to those of their white male counterparts. Policing Hatred also explores the impact of victimas identity on each officers handling of bias crimes and addresses how the police treat defendantsa First Amendment rights. Bellas vivid evidence from the field argues persuasively for the need to have the police diligently address even low-level offenses, such as vandalism, given their devastating cumulative effects on society.

Bodies and Language - Health, Ailments, Disabilities (Paperback): Vaidehi Ramanathan Bodies and Language - Health, Ailments, Disabilities (Paperback)
Vaidehi Ramanathan
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of 'normal' bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of 'abnormality,' 'disability' and 'impairments.' It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create 'meanings' about bodies and 'normalcy,' and the importance of remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or claim to do.

Children, Family and the State - A Critical Introduction (Paperback): Rob Creasy, Fiona Corby Children, Family and the State - A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
Rob Creasy, Fiona Corby
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For anyone studying childhood or families a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social policy and social theory is vital to understanding their impacts upon families' everyday lives. Accessibly written and assuming no prior understanding, it shows how key concepts, including vulnerability, risk, resilience, safeguarding and wellbeing are socially constructed. Carefully designed to support learning, it provides students with clear guidance on how to use what they have read when writing academic assignments alongside questions designed to support the develop of critical thinking skills. Covering issues from what the family is within a multicultural society, through issues around poverty, social mobility and life-chances, this book gives students an excellent grounding in matters relating to work with children and families. It features: * 'using this chapter' sections showing how the content can be used in assignments; * tips on applying critical thinking to books and articles - and how to make use of such thinking in essays; * further reading.

Lost in Work - Escaping Capitalism (Paperback): Amelia Horgan Lost in Work - Escaping Capitalism (Paperback)
Amelia Horgan
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces, we become less miserable, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with 'work' as we know it.

So the Heffners Left McComb (Hardcover): Hodding Carter So the Heffners Left McComb (Hardcover)
Hodding Carter; Preface by Oliver Emmerich; Introduction by Trent Brown
R2,917 Discovery Miles 29 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. ""Red"" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. They never returned. In the eyes of neighbors, their unforgiveable sin was to have spoken on several occasions with civil rights workers and to have invited two into their home. Consequently, the Heffners were subjected to a campaign of harassment, ostracism, and economic retaliation shocking to a white family who believed that they were respected community members. So the Heffners Left McComb, originally published in 1965 and reprinted now for the first time, is Greenville journalist Hodding Carter's account of the events that led to the Heffners' downfall. Historian Trent Brown, a McComb native, supplies a substantial introduction evaluating the book's significance. The Heffners' story demonstrates the forces of fear, conformity, communal pressure, and threats of retaliation that silenced so many white Mississippians during the 1950s and 1960s. Carter's book provides a valuable portrait of a family who was not choosing to make a stand, but merely extending humane hospitality. Yet the Heffners were systematically punished and driven into exile for what was perceived as treason against white apartheid.

Sweetwater - Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition (Paperback, New edition): Robin Boylorn Sweetwater - Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition (Paperback, New edition)
Robin Boylorn
R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural south. At times heartbreaking, at times humorous, Sweetwater captures the artistry, strength, language and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in small-town North Carolina during the twentieth century. The book uncovers the versatility and universality of black women's experiences and their exceptional capacity to love in the face of adversity, and hope in the midst of calamity. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education, addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, and everyday survival. The merging themes show the resilience and resistance that black women exhibit while negotiating the intersecting oppressions of racism, classism, and sexism. Written from field notes and memory, the author reveals the complexities of black women's lived experiences by exposing the communicative and interpersonal choices black women make through storytelling. Narrative inquiry and black feminism are offered as creative educational tools for discussing how and why black women's singular and interior lives are culturally and globally significant. This revised edition preserves the original narratives but features new content including re-views, re-visions and re-considerations for re-writing autoethnography.

Free at Last? - The Gospel in the African American Experience (Paperback): Carl F Ellis, Amisho Baraka Free at Last? - The Gospel in the African American Experience (Paperback)
Carl F Ellis, Amisho Baraka
R589 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech have become enshrined in US history. But after the end of King's generation of leadership, what happened to the African American struggle for freedom? Like the ancient Israelites, the African American community has survived a four-hundred-year collective trauma. What will it take for them to reach the promised land that King foresaw-to be truly free at last? In this classic historical and cultural study, Carl Ellis offers an in-depth assessment of the state of African American freedom and dignity. Stressing how important it is for African Americans to reflect on their roots, he traces the growth of Black consciousness from the days of slavery to the 1990s, noting especially the contributions of King and Malcolm X. Ellis examines elements of Black culture and offers a distinct perspective on how God is active in culture more broadly. Free at Last? concludes with a call for new generations of "jazz theologians" and cultural prophets to revitalize the African American church and expand its cultural range. The book also includes a helpful glossary of people, events, and terms. Ellis writes, "It is my prayer that the principles contained in this book will play a role in building bridges of understanding and facilitating reconciliation where there has been alienation." With a new preface by the author, this groundbreaking book is now available as part of the IVP Signature Collection.

Germany - Great Britain - France (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Herbert A. Strauss Germany - Great Britain - France (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Herbert A. Strauss
R6,868 Discovery Miles 68 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The series was designed in response to the research experiences accumulated by the Center for Research on Antisemitism of Berlin Technical University since 1982. The first two volumes presented normative thinking on the social and psychological mechanisms effective in antisemitism. The present volum

Gender Equality and Quality of Life - Perspectives from Poland and Norway (Hardcover, New edition): Anna Ratecka, Krystyna... Gender Equality and Quality of Life - Perspectives from Poland and Norway (Hardcover, New edition)
Anna Ratecka, Krystyna Slany, Ewa Krzaklewska, Marta Warat
R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book engages with a critical perspective on gender equality and quality of life. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring both concepts which is complemented by the analysis of gender equality policies in Poland and Norway. With contributors from sociology to history and health studies, it draws on a wide range of examples to examine a multidimensional concept underpinning policy commitments and actions in areas such as family, labour market, health, reproductive rights or participation in political life. "This is not only an expertly written and interesting book, but also a particularly current one in the light of the Europe-wide socio-political changes that affect both Poland and Norway." Prof. Malgorzata Fuszara (University of Warsaw)

New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans (Hardcover, 1st Edition): Shireen Ally New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans (Hardcover, 1st Edition)
Shireen Ally; Edited by Shireen Ally; Arianna Lissoni; Edited by Arianna Lissoni
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The bantustans – or ‘homelands’ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‘independent’ status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that ‘politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa’s contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This book was originally published as various special issues of the South African Historical Journal.

Table of Contents

Preface: ‘Let’s Talk About Bantustans’ Shireen Ally and Arianna Lissoni

Introduction – Beyond ‘Homelands’: Some Ideas about the History of African Rural Areas in South Africa William Beinart

1. ‘The Bandwagon of Golden Opportunities’? Healthcare in South Africa’s Bantustan Periphery Anne Digby

2. The Renewal of Community Health under the KwaZulu ‘Homeland’ Government Elizabeth Hull

3. Bantustan Education History: The ‘Progressivism’ of Bophutatswana’s Primary Education Upgrade Programme (PEUP), 1979-1988 Linda Chisholm

4. Witchcraft and the South African Bantustans: Evidence from Bushbuckridge Isak Niehaus

5. Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983-1994 Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

6. Rural Reggae: The Politics of Performance in the Former ‘Homeland’ of Venda Fraser G. McNeill

7. Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province: From Pan-Tswanaism to Mineral-Based Ethnic Assertiveness Andrew Manson and Bernard Mbenga

8. ‘If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?’ South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931-1986 Shireen Ally

9. South Africa’s Bantustans and the Dynamics of ‘Decolonisation’: Reflections on Writing Histories of the Homelands Laura Evans

Memoirs

10. Autobiography of an Underground Political Activist Vha-Musanda Vho-Shandukani Mudzunga (Manapule)

11. KaNgwane: A Life in and Beyond Mabhuza Simeon Ginindza

12. Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province: The Role of the Joint Administrators Tebogo Job Mokgoro

Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust (Hardcover): Albert S. Lindemann Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Albert S. Lindemann
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic. Albert Lindemann provides a clear and balanced guide to anti-Semitism from ancient times right through to the twentieth-century inter-war period and the Nazi Holocaust. He looks at all countries where anti-Semitism manifested itself at different times and in different ways xxx; in Russia, the US, Poland, England, Germany, South Africa, and Holland. Throughout he asks difficult and unfamiliar questions to challenge long held and misguided beliefs. An important new study which fills a gap in current literature.

After Race - Racism After Multiculturalism (Paperback): Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres After Race - Racism After Multiculturalism (Paperback)
Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres
R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research.

Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.

Gramsci's Common Sense - Inequality and Its Narratives (Hardcover): Kate Crehan Gramsci's Common Sense - Inequality and Its Narratives (Hardcover)
Kate Crehan
R2,359 R2,161 Discovery Miles 21 610 Save R198 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Presupposing no previous knowledge of Gramsci on the part of the reader, she introduces the Prison Notebooks and provides an overview of Gramsci's notions of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense, putting them in relation to the work of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Arendt, Spivak, and Said. In the case studies of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, Crehan theorizes the complex relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression, as well as the construction of political narratives. Gramsci's Common Sense is an accessible and concise introduction to a key Marxist thinker whose works illuminate the increasing inequality in the twenty-first century.

The Contours of Eurocentrism - Race, History, and Political Texts (Hardcover): Marta Araujo, Silvia Rodriguez Maeso The Contours of Eurocentrism - Race, History, and Political Texts (Hardcover)
Marta Araujo, Silvia Rodriguez Maeso
R2,912 Discovery Miles 29 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. Accordingly, it interrogates the relationship between knowledge, race, and power at the heart of debates on the making and circulation of history, opening up a tension, not so much with other histories, but with Eurocentrism's formulas of self-assurance, and attempts to accommodate other narratives. The book is an interdisciplinary endeavor that engages with diverse political and academic contexts and debates that reveal understandings of coloniality/modernity, specifically in education. Education, and in particular history teaching, is approached as a key arena in which to explore the (re)configuration of broader political and academic discourses and silences on power and race. Moving beyond discussions on national identity and the multicultural curriculum, it critically examines textbooks in Portugal and the discussions raised during empirical research with actors from a wide variety of fields, such as academia, policy and decision-making, schooling and the media. These are addressed in relation to the international context that saw the consolidation of global and regional organizations-such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe-which established scientific knowledge as a key solution to political conflicts (conventionally defined as exacerbated nationalism, ethnocentrism and cultural misunderstandings). Central to these discussions are the ideas of multiperspectivity and the inclusion of content about the 'other', which are addressed in detail through a case study on depictions of the African national liberation movements. This book aims to contribute to the critique of the contemporary workings of Eurocentrism and racism that have frustrated the struggles for the decolonization of knowledge and continue to shape our understandings of the world order in racially hierarchical terms, by re-centering the West/Europe.

Perceptions of Ethnicity, Religion, and Radicalization among Second-Generation Pakistani-Canadians - Unity in Diversity?... Perceptions of Ethnicity, Religion, and Radicalization among Second-Generation Pakistani-Canadians - Unity in Diversity? (Hardcover)
Saad Ahmad Khan
R2,517 Discovery Miles 25 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Why do they hate us?" The answer to a seemingly simple question made famous by U.S. President George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11 has become more complex with the entrance of homegrown terrorists into many armed conflicts. Why do they hate us so much that some of them try to kill us en masse, even though they are born and raised with us, go to school with us, and work with us. This book offers an in-depth analysis to the phenomenon of radicalization of second-generation Pakistani-Canadians. Based on interviews with second-generation Pakistani-Canadians from various backgrounds, Saad Ahmad Khan argues that radicalization is a complex and layered process stemming from multiple sources ranging from childhood experiences to the role of Saudi Arabia in exporting its brand of Islam. Individual, social, national, and international factors need to be addressed holistically, if radicalization of second-generation individuals is to be pre-empted and subsequent generations saved from the scourge of violence and terrorism.

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