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Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa - Shifting Mobilization (Hardcover): Toyin Falola, Celine A Jacquemin Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa - Shifting Mobilization (Hardcover)
Toyin Falola, Celine A Jacquemin; Contributions by Victor Adesiyan, Bamidele Aly, Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah, …
R2,943 Discovery Miles 29 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Celine A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive societal changes, or educating in ways that foster progress and development. Do aspects of African identities and the challenges they present also hold prospects for more inclusive and peaceful democratic and representative futures? The contributors cover a wide spectrum of expertise on different African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Morocco, and Libya). They come from diverse disciplines (History, Political Science, Public Administration, Philosophy, Economics and Finance, Cultural Studies, Music, and International Relations), and use various methods and approaches in their research. Some contributors belong to the groups whose identity is being scrutinized and are participants in the efforts to politicize and mobilize, while others remain outside observers, who share some traits or interests with the African identities examined and provide different kinds of insights. Several chapters explore how innovative pedagogical projects studying African history and identity-facilitated by the internet and new social media-transform and connect with the African continent. Each author provides important insights on how mobilization around identity issues has been shifting with the internet and social media.

The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 6: Analytical Psychology And Religion (Hardcover, Collected Writings of Murray... The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 6: Analytical Psychology And Religion (Hardcover, Collected Writings of Murray Stein ed.)
Murray Stein
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Beauty Paradox - Femininity in the Age of Selfies (Hardcover): Chiara Piazzesi The Beauty Paradox - Femininity in the Age of Selfies (Hardcover)
Chiara Piazzesi
R2,583 Discovery Miles 25 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is beauty a form of oppression for women? Or does it offer them a path to empowerment? Some scholars see beauty as an oppressive system thwarting women's agency, sometimes to the point of damaging their mental health; others have promoted an understanding of beauty as an empowering practice through which women can affirm their agency and self-determination. Western beauty culture is organized by contradictory injunctions framing women's participation in beautification. Drawing on relevant scholarly literature, contemporary North American popular culture, and two years of sociological fieldwork, The Beauty Paradox begins by identifying the four main paradoxes of beauty culture: the worth paradox, the authenticity paradox, the power paradox, and the commitment paradox. Piazzesi looks at how these four paradoxes trail women's everyday experiences, choices, and reflections regarding beauty. She examines the role of beauty in women's everyday lives and in a variety of contexts: informal social encounters, work and career settings, parenting, intergenerational relationships, self-care, and online networking practices. The author supports her theoretical stance with data collected through two years of fieldwork with eleven women living in Montreal (funded by Fond du Quebec de la Recherche-Societe et culture). Participants were interviewed about their views on attractiveness, beautification, the pressure to be beautiful or to appear young, and how they negotiate these challenges on an individual basis. As part of this project, each participant produced a series of selfies, which they discussed in interviews. In a first for sociological scholarship on beauty, Walking the Tightrope foregrounds the place of attractiveness in women's visual self-expression online.

Dirty Work - Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Paperback): Eyal Press Dirty Work - Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Paperback)
Eyal Press
R447 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (Hardcover): Mimi Sheller Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (Hardcover)
Mimi Sheller
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts. Key features: Centres mobility justice as a key topic throughout, revealing the vast inequities in im/mobilities, structured by gender, race and nationality Challenges existing approaches to social science, calling for the extension of critical mobility studies to address complex contemporary challenges Offers up-to-date analysis of key policy programs such as the Green New Deal, and a comparative analysis of differing visions of alternative mobilities futures. This innovative Advanced Introduction will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of mobilities research, tourism studies, migration studies, human geography, urban studies and sustainability.

Sexy Like Us - Disability, Humor, and Sexuality (Hardcover): Teresa Milbrodt Sexy Like Us - Disability, Humor, and Sexuality (Hardcover)
Teresa Milbrodt
R3,170 Discovery Miles 31 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious. Their creative and comic acts crash, collide, and collaborate with perceptions of disability in literature and dominant culture, allowing people with disabilities to shape political disability identity and disability pride, call attention to social inequalities, and poke back at ableist cultural norms. This book also discusses how the ambivalent nature of comedy has led to debates within disability communities about when it is acceptable to joke, who has permission to joke, and which jokes should be used inside and outside a community's inner circle. Joking may be difficult when considering aspects of disability that involve physical or emotional pain and struggles to adapt to new forms of embodiment. At the same time, people with disabilities can use humor to expand the definitions of disability and sexuality. They can help others with disabilities assert themselves as sexy and sexual. And they can question social norms and stigmas around bodies in ways that open up journeys of being, not just for individuals who consider themselves disabled, but for all people.

All Things Considered (Hardcover): G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered (Hardcover)
G. K. Chesterton
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Language and Identity in Migration Contexts (Paperback, New edition): Patricia Ronan, Evelyn Ziegler Language and Identity in Migration Contexts (Paperback, New edition)
Patricia Ronan, Evelyn Ziegler
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The volume "Language and Identity in Migration Contexts", which contains studies from different languages and migration contexts across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and educational contexts, as well as forced migration. The volume will therefore be of much interest to researchers working on these topics. (Prof. Dr. Anita Auer, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland) The contributions to this volume shed a new light on various central topics in the discourses on language, migration and identity. The continued centrality of language on identity formation processes is underlined but it is shown that language is not a defining criterion for identity formation processes of migrants, in the context of migration or for heritage speakers in all cases. However, societal contexts play an important role in identity formation and these societal contexts themselves are strongly influenced by the ideologies that are prevalent in societies and that may be perpetuated in educational contexts. In the discussion of language, identity and migration in this volume, perspectives from the Global North are enriched by perspectives of the Global South, and the impact of media influence in migration discourse is analysed.

The Wizard of Us - Transformational Lessons from Oz (Paperback): Jean Houston The Wizard of Us - Transformational Lessons from Oz (Paperback)
Jean Houston
R451 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rethinking Social Capital (Hardcover): Carl L. Bankston III Rethinking Social Capital (Hardcover)
Carl L. Bankston III
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Combining theoretical approaches with practical applications, Rethinking Social Capital delineates the meaning, uses, and problems surrounding the concept of social capital. Carl Bankston, a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh take on the topic, presenting an original way of understanding social capital as a process. The book provides key definitions of social capital, describing its functionality, the surrounding theoretical issues, and its relationship with social structure. Examining capital in its various forms, Bankston discusses the complications of defining social relationships in a financial resource analogy as investments in future outcomes, and proposes an alternative of an original structural model that approaches social capital as a process. Chapters then explore the major applications of social capital theory: to families, communities and education; to formal organizations and informal networks; to class, race, ethnicity and inequality; and to the nation-state. This cutting-edge book is invaluable in clarifying ambiguities surrounding the concept of social capital to students and scholars of the social sciences. Its practical applications will also prove useful to policy makers and public policy institutes.

South-African Folk-tales (Hardcover): James Albert Honeij South-African Folk-tales (Hardcover)
James Albert Honeij
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Where the Mountains Meet the Rainforest - A Delicious Christmas (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition):... Where the Mountains Meet the Rainforest - A Delicious Christmas (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Myrtle October
R662 R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life and Legend of Michael Scot (Hardcover): J.Wood Brown The Life and Legend of Michael Scot (Hardcover)
J.Wood Brown
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sailing into the Light (Hardcover): Susan Highsmith Sailing into the Light (Hardcover)
Susan Highsmith
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aboriginal Siberia - A Study in Social Anthropology (Hardcover): Marie Antoinette Czaplicka Aboriginal Siberia - A Study in Social Anthropology (Hardcover)
Marie Antoinette Czaplicka
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach - Brief Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd ed.): Tanya Golash-Boza Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach - Brief Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Tanya Golash-Boza
R2,264 Discovery Miles 22 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires,... The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, and Kindred Evil Spirits, Which Attack Mankind. Volume II (Hardcover)
R.Campbell Thompson
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Quick Fix - Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills (Paperback): Jesse Singal The Quick Fix - Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills (Paperback)
Jesse Singal
R496 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires,... The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, and Kindred Evil Spirits, Which Attack Mankind. Volume I (Hardcover)
R.Campbell Thompson
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Religion of the Luiseno Indians of Southern California - 1 (Hardcover): Constance Goddard Du Bois, A. L. 1876-1960 Kroeber The Religion of the Luiseno Indians of Southern California - 1 (Hardcover)
Constance Goddard Du Bois, A. L. 1876-1960 Kroeber
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Half a Century (Hardcover): Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm Half a Century (Hardcover)
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Challenges of Self-Employment in Europe - Status, Social Protection and Collective Representation (Hardcover): Renata... The Challenges of Self-Employment in Europe - Status, Social Protection and Collective Representation (Hardcover)
Renata Semenza, Francois Pichault
R3,333 Discovery Miles 33 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In recent decades, due to unprecedented technological advancements, Europe has seen a move towards on-demand service economies. This has allowed the growth of self-employed professionals who are able to satisfy an increasing demand for flexible and high-skilled work. This book explores the need for reform of regulations in Europe, studying the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals. It provides insights into ways that policy could address these important challenges. Presenting the results of a wide-reaching European survey, this book highlights key issues being faced across Europe: the implementation of universal social protection schemes; active labour market policies to support sustainable self-employment and the renewal of social dialogue through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective representation of self-employed professionals. With its theoretically-informed, empirical and interdisciplinary comparative analysis, this book identifies and explains key strategies to resolve these challenges. This book will be of great benefit to both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and economic sociology, political science, industrial relations, human resource management and social law. It will also appeal to scholars, practitioners and policymakers concerned with the labour market and self-employment in the European context.

Thailand - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Paperback, 3rd edition): J Rotheray Thailand - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Paperback, 3rd edition)
J Rotheray
R452 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R176 (39%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a manufacturing powerhouse and a tourist paradise that welcomes more than 30 million visitors a year. Yet despite the veneer of Western modernity, the country and its people remain an enigma for many visitors. Culture Smart! Thailand describes how the Thai people view the world and themselves. It examines the impact of religious beliefs and history on their lives, as well as recent social and political developments. With a wealth of tips on communicating, on socializing, and on navigating the unfamiliar situations that you are likely to encounter, this guide will help you to get the very best out of your time in the Land of Smiles. Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

The History of the Progressive Movement in the United States and How Liberalism Has Created a Mediocre Society (Hardcover):... The History of the Progressive Movement in the United States and How Liberalism Has Created a Mediocre Society (Hardcover)
Ralph E Saucier
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries (Hardcover): Jordan Frith The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries (Hardcover)
Jordan Frith
R2,394 Discovery Miles 23 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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