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What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book
explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre-
and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season
of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range
of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment,
the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of
having children. They also raise questions about how gender and
sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire.
This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions
about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary
crises.
Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose
important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity
that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries
and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their
citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal economic
practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges
traditional ways the nation-state has organized its control over
the people who have typically travelled to a new country looking
for work or better life chances. This collection provides an
account of the ways language addresses core questions concerning
power and the place of migrants in various institutional and
workplace settings. It brings together contributions from a range
of geographical settings to understand better how linguistic
inequality is (re)produced in this new economic order.
What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book
explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre-
and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season
of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range
of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment,
the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of
having children. They also raise questions about how gender and
sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire.
This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions
about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary
crises.
This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural
communication in language learning. The book argues that learners
who have an opportunity to stay in the target language country can
be trained to do an ethnographic project while abroad. Borrowing
from anthropologists' the idea of cultural fieldwork and 'writing
culture', language learners develop their linguistic and cultural
competence through the study of a local group. This book combines a
theoretical overview of language and cultural practices with a
description of ethnographic approaches and materials specifically
designed for language learners.
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking
its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic
and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of
'second generation' ANT scholars from around the world, it
highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and
its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each
answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early
chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight
ANT's dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open
critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later
sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social
scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range
of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT's
involvement in 'real world' endeavours such as disability and
environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each
chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces
original examples and ideas from the authors' recent research. The
chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in
any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise
ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies:
from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from
racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex
to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors
explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an
overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network
Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and
advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many
disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology,
Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and
STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it
has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the
future.
This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language,
related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on
everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of
the society in which they are now resident. It provides an
important contribution to the debate about the function of language
as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the
psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in
second language acquisition research.
Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative
study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based
upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial
Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis
argues that a real understanding of how language functions as a
means of indirect racial discrimination must be founded on an
expanded view of language which recognises the inseparability of
language, culture and meaning.After initially introducing the
subject matter of the book and providing an overview of
discrimination and language learning, the authors examine the
relationship between theory and practice in four main areas:
theories of interaction and their application; ethnographic and
linguistic analysis of workplace settings; training in
communication for white professionals; and language training for
adult bilingual workers and job-seekers. Detailed case studies
illustrate how theory can be turned into practice if appropriate
information, research, development and training and co-ordinated in
an integrated response to issues of multi-ethnic communication,
discrimination and social justice.
This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language,
related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on
everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of
the society in which they are now resident. It provides an
important contribution to the debate about the function of language
as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the
psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in
second language acquisition research.
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Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative
study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based
upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial
Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis
argues that a real understanding of how language functions as a
means of indirect racial discrimination must be founded on an
expanded view of language which recognises the inseparability of
language, culture and meaning. After initially introducing the
subject matter of the book and providing an overview of
discrimination and language learning, the authors examine the
relationship between theory and practice in four main areas:
theories of interaction and their application; ethnographic and
linguistic analysis of workplace settings; training in
communication for white professionals; and language training for
adult bilingual workers and job-seekers. Detailed case studies
illustrate how theory can be turned into practice if appropriate
information, research, development and training and co-ordinated in
an integrated response to issues of multi-ethnic communication,
discrimination and social justice.
From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and
dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These
chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape
social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being
shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to
medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science,
but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout
Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political,
and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know
them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex
entities that permeate every sphere of our lives. Each glossary
entry takes a particular hormonal compound as its starting point,
yet works to elaborate and complicate understandings of hormones as
distinct biological or chemical entities. The entries collectively
show how hormones never operate in isolation from other hormones,
nor bodies in isolation from other human and non-human bodies and
their socio-ecological surroundings. Indeed, they “cascade”
into one another. This volume, then, is not simply a
qualitatively-rich companion to medical knowledge about hormones,
but a challenge to the conceptual underpinnings of current dominant
understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking
its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic
and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of
'second generation' ANT scholars from around the world, it
highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and
its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each
answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early
chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight
ANT's dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open
critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later
sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social
scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range
of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT's
involvement in 'real world' endeavours such as disability and
environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each
chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces
original examples and ideas from the authors' recent research. The
chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in
any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise
ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies:
from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from
racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex
to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors
explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an
overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network
Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and
advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many
disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology,
Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and
STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it
has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the
future.
Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a
society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the
"new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future
applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation
genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious
genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer
baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show
that far from being a runaway technology, the regulation of PGD
over the past fifteen years provides an example of precaution and
restraint, as well as continual adaptation to changing social
circumstances. Through interviews, media and policy analysis, and
participant observation at two PGD centers in the United Kingdom,
"Born and Made" provides an in-depth sociological examination of
the competing moral obligations that define the experience of
PGD.
Among the many novel findings of this pathbreaking ethnography
of reproductive biomedicine is the prominence of uncertainty and
ambivalence among PGD patients and professionals--a finding
characteristic of the emerging "biosociety," in which scientific
progress is inherently paradoxical and contradictory. In contrast
to much of the speculative futurology that defines this field,
"Born and Made" provides a timely and revealing case study of the
on-the-ground decision-making that shapes technological assistance
to human heredity.
As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding
and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a
critique of the popular claim that 'more information' equates to
'better health'. In a study that redefines the public, academic and
policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data,
the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of
self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and
practises which are often at odds with professional medical advice.
With a focus on data that concerns significant life changes, this
book explores the potential challenges related to people's changing
relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and
control over, data shifts.
Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at a relatively
untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and
interaction in constructing the job interview and how this role
produces disadvantage in the linguistically diverse communities of
the western world. It relates the specific activity of the job
interview to the wider field of institutional discourse and
discusses relevant social theories in the light of the data. The
volume considers job interviews as key 'gatekeeping' encounters
within the workplace from two main perspectives: interviews as
extreme examples of social evaluation, showing how inferential
processes of moment to moment talk in interaction can lead to the
'small tragedies' of everyday life; and interviews as a window into
social inequality more generally. It illustrates interactional
sociolinguistic and linguistic ethnography methodology through the
job interview and workplace data and argues for the importance of
practical relevance - applying sociolinguistic analysis to
educational interventions.
From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and
dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These
chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape
social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously being
shaped by them. Hormones are increasingly central not only to
medical and other body-shaping practices and contemporary science,
but also environmentally-oriented conversations. Throughout
Hormonal Theory, authors trace how biomedical, social, political,
and experiential forces entangle to produce hormones as we know
them today. It illuminates how hormones emerge and exist as complex
entities that permeate every sphere of our lives. Each glossary
entry takes a particular hormonal compound as its starting point,
yet works to elaborate and complicate understandings of hormones as
distinct biological or chemical entities. The entries collectively
show how hormones never operate in isolation from other hormones,
nor bodies in isolation from other human and non-human bodies and
their socio-ecological surroundings. Indeed, they “cascade”
into one another. This volume, then, is not simply a
qualitatively-rich companion to medical knowledge about hormones,
but a challenge to the conceptual underpinnings of current dominant
understandings of disease, wellness, and normalcy.
Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at a relatively
untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and
interaction in constructing the job interview and how this role
produces disadvantage in the linguistically diverse communities of
the western world. It relates the specific activity of the job
interview to the wider field of institutional discourse and
discusses relevant social theories in the light of the data. The
volume considers job interviews as key 'gatekeeping' encounters
within the workplace from two main perspectives: interviews as
extreme examples of social evaluation, showing how inferential
processes of moment to moment talk in interaction can lead to the
'small tragedies' of everyday life; and interviews as a window into
social inequality more generally. It illustrates interactional
sociolinguistic and linguistic ethnography methodology through the
job interview and workplace data and argues for the importance of
practical relevance - applying sociolinguistic analysis to
educational interventions.
What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and
economically when we routinely use technology to gather information
about our bodies and environments? Today anyone can purchase
technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its
environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates,
glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and
microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon
empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to
enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who
interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the
relationship between medical practice and self care, between
scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other
issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of
everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views
from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry,
and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data,
personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and
medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical
advice, and self-tracking as a "paraclinical" practice; and
technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical
calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design.
Contributors Marc Boehlen, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sophie Day, Anna de
Paula Hanika, Deborah Estrin, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Dana
Greenfield, Judith Gregory, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Celia Lury, Adrian
Mackenzie, Rajiv Mehta, Maggie Mort, Dawn Nafus, Gina Neff, Helen
Nissenbaum, Heather Patterson, Celia Roberts, Jamie Sherman, Alex
Taylor, Gary Wolf
Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been
understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to
the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and
female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment
of fertility, infertility and ageing. However, in contemporary
society, hormones are both disturbed and disturbing; invading our
environments and bodies through plastics, food and water,
environmental estrogens and other chemicals, threatening
irreversible, inter-generational bodily change. Using a wide range
of sources, from physiology textbooks to popular parenting books
and pharmaceutical advertisements, Celia Roberts analyses the
multiple ways in which sex hormones have come to matter to us
today. Bringing feminist theories of the body into dialogue with
science and technology studies, she develops tools to address one
of the most important questions facing feminism today: how is
biological sex conceivable?
Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been
understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to
the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and
female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment
of fertility, infertility and ageing. However, in contemporary
society, hormones are both disturbed and disturbing; invading our
environments and bodies through plastics, food and water,
environmental estrogens and other chemicals, threatening
irreversible, inter-generational bodily change. Using a wide range
of sources, from physiology textbooks to popular parenting books
and pharmaceutical advertisements, Celia Roberts analyses the
multiple ways in which sex hormones have come to matter to us
today. Bringing feminist theories of the body into dialogue with
science and technology studies, she develops tools to address one
of the most important questions facing feminism today: how is
biological sex conceivable?
Puberty has long been recognised as a difficult and upsetting
process for individuals and families, but it is now also being
widely described as in crisis. Reportedly occurring earlier and
earlier as each decade of the twenty-first century passes, sexual
development now heralds new forms of temporal trouble in which
sexuality, sex/gender and reproduction are all at stake. Many
believe that children are growing up too fast and becoming sexual
too early. Clinicians, parents and teachers all demand something
must be done. Does this out-of-time development indicate that
children's futures are at risk or that we are entering a new era of
environmental and social perturbation? Engaging with a diverse
range of contemporary feminist and social theories on the body,
biology and sex, Celia Roberts urges us to refuse a discourse of
crisis and to rethink puberty as a combination of biological,
psychological and social forces.
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