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Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address.
Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts.
Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.
This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary
collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence
issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body
in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa.
Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical
narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in
at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African
continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a
deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in
identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming
discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies,
expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.
Human Trafficking: Global History and Perspectives argues that, far
from being a recent development, human trafficking is rooted in the
history of the human condition and has only been amplified by
globalization. Using a multidisciplinary approach that traces the
historical roots of human trafficking in global history, the
chapters explore case studies from different parts of the world to
show that human trafficking is not only a global phenomenon but a
localized enigma. The contributors contend that the causes, and
thus, the solutions, are rooted in local and regional social,
cultural, political, and economic conditions of victims. The case
studies include global, regional, and local examples to analyze the
complex causes and effects of human trafficking as well as the
legal ramifications.
A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about
European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed
balance to our understanding of the past. Was America really
"stolen" from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians
really peace-loving, communistic environmentalists? Did Europeans
commit "genocide" in the New World? It seems that almost
everyone--from CNN to the New York Times to angry students pulling
down statues of our founders--believes that America's history is a
shameful tale of racism, exploitation, and cruelty. In Not Stolen,
renowned historian Jeff Fynn-Paul systematically dismantles this
relentlessly negative view of U.S. history, arguing that it is
based on shoddy methods, misinformation, and outright lies about
the past. America was not "stolen" from the Indians but fairly
purchased piece by piece in a thriving land market. Nor did
European settlers cheat, steal, murder, rape or purposely infect
them with smallpox to the extent that most people believe. No
genocide occurred--either literal or cultural--and the decline of
Native populations over time is not due to violence but to
assimilation and natural demographic processes. Fynn Paul not only
debunks these toxic myths, but provides a balanced portrait of this
complex historical process over 500 years. The real history of
Native and European relations will surprise you. Not only is this
not a tale of shameful sins and crimes against humanity--it is more
inspiring than you ever dared to imagine.
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Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Hardcover)
Veronica Fynn Bruey; Contributions by Charles Amone, Johanna Bond, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, …
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This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary
collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence
issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body
in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa.
Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical
narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in
at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African
continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a
deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in
identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming
discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies,
expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating
this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and
concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the
intersection of gender with peace and security with a focus on
1325. It aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list as
the seventeen years since the Resolution passed provide an occasion
to pause and ponder over the gap between the aspirations and the
reality, the ideal and the practice, the promises and the action,
the euphoria and the despair. The volume compiles carefully
selected essays woven around Resolution 1325 to tease out the
intricacies within both the Resolution and its implementation.
Through a cocktail of well-known and some lesser-known case
studies, the volume addresses complicated realities with the
intention of impacting policy-making and the academic fields of
gender, peace, and security. The volume emphasizes the significance
of transforming formal peace making processes, and making them
gender inclusive and gender sensitive by critically examining some
omissions in the challenges that the Resolution implementation
confronts. The major question the volume seeks to address is this:
where are women positioned in the formal peace-making seventeen
years after the adoption of Resolution 1325?
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational
life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail.
The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent
families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed
cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town
in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa
in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study
possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the
fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family
notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible
by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details
the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually
thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies
of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to
light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and
its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many
social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography
of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups
as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women
householders, and the poor.
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating
this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and
concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the
intersection of gender with peace and security with a focus on
1325. It aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list as
the seventeen years since the Resolution passed provide an occasion
to pause and ponder over the gap between the aspirations and the
reality, the ideal and the practice, the promises and the action,
the euphoria and the despair. The volume compiles carefully
selected essays woven around Resolution 1325 to tease out the
intricacies within both the Resolution and its implementation.
Through a cocktail of well-known and some lesser-known case
studies, the volume addresses complicated realities with the
intention of impacting policy-making and the academic fields of
gender, peace, and security. The volume emphasizes the significance
of transforming formal peace making processes, and making them
gender inclusive and gender sensitive by critically examining some
omissions in the challenges that the Resolution implementation
confronts. The major question the volume seeks to address is this:
where are women positioned in the formal peace-making seventeen
years after the adoption of Resolution 1325?
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational
life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail.
The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent
families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed
cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town
in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa
in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study
possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the
fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family
notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible
by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details
the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually
thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies
of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to
light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and
its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many
social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography
of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups
as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women
householders, and the poor.
The tale of Tottenham Hotspur's extraordinary run to the 2019
Champions League Final in Madrid. Authors Alex Fynn and Martin
Cloake examine how Spurs confounded all predictions to enjoy their
most successful ever CL campaign - and what it means for the
future. They explain why a certain style of football and competing
in Europe are central to the club's identity, and look at how
manager Mauricio Pochettino drew on these traditions to create a
very modern success story. Using match reports from national
newspapers to provide the narrative thread, Fynn and Cloake draw on
their football backgrounds to explain why this campaign so fired
the imagination - in a season with no signings, played mostly
without a home stadium. With a rich cast of characters and
locations ranging from Eindhoven to Madrid via Barcelona and
Dortmund - and one emotional night in Amsterdam - One Step from
Glory tells the story of a football odyssey.
Nowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a
window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey
through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the
material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect, a
portal to the experiences of a universal human condition,
Departures weaves together a sometimes-haunting story of modernity
and urbanisation with an ancient, diverse, and complex land. A work
in the humanist and social realist genre of photography, Departures
reflects on the 21st century urban stage contrasting the gritty
realism of urban life, work and the struggles and joys of the
everyday with the dramatic beauty of people, ritual, belief, and
landscape. Created from an archive of 20 years photographing,
living and working in India, Departures goes beyond the often
incidental or serendipitous nature of street photography to open
the door and explore the life within.
Anna was four years old when Fynn, then only 16 himself, found her
wandering round London's Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s.
Badly neglected and abandoned by her parents, he took her home to
be cared for by his own family. The impact of this extraordinary
child on Fynn, his friends and the people in their neighbourhood
was to be immense. Nobody who met Anna could remain the same: this
intelligent, lively, precocious chatterbox had an outlook on life
which completely undercut adult pretensions and illusions. Anna's
influence continues today. Anyone dipping into her
thought-processes falls under the spell of her luminous innocence,
wisdom and intimate relationship with 'Mister God'.
Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is
Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more
about his experiences with her. Anna and the Black Knight
introduces us to Mister John, a veteran of World War I and local
schoolmaster, who was to have a profound effect on Anna. Anna's
astonishing capacity for looking at things from fresh perspectives,
and her fascination with mathematics and Mister God, stands her in
good stead as her life is opened up to new things, such as school,
priests and motor cars. This sequel also includes the full text of
Anna's Book, reproductions of her own letters and writings. Her
artless and transparent conversations speak to the heart and are
recorded using her own unique and colourful spellings. The book is
again illustrated throughout with Papas's unequalled drawings.
THE TOUCHING TRUE STORY THAT WON THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS OF READERS AROUND THE WORLD!
Anna was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and to answer--life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. . . .
The touching true story that won the hearts of millions of readers around the world!
Anna was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery.
Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and to answer--life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love.
You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. . . .
Die Landesverfassungsgerichte uberprufen die Zulassigkeit des
Volksgesetzgebungsverfahrens insbesondere hinsichtlich der
Vereinbarkeit mit den Gesetzgebungskompetenzen des Landes. Der
Autor greift diese Praxis der Gerichte auf und untersucht sie im
Hinblick auf einen moeglichen Eingriff in den Prufungs- und
Entscheidungsmassstab des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Dabei bewertet
er unter Einbeziehung der verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen die
Zulassigkeit der Volksgesetzgebung im Verfassungsraum des Bundes
und der Lander und untersucht den dogmatisch fundierten Prufungs-
und Entscheidungsmassstab der Landesverfassungsgerichte. Mit dem
klaren Verdikt der Zulassigkeit der derzeitigen Rechtsprechung
liefert er eine dogmatische Grundlage fur die weitere Praxis.
Listen to podcast on "Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and
Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case". In Slaving
Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the
Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors-including both
world-leading and emerging historians of slavery-engage with the
'Slaving Zones' theory. This theory has recently taken the field of
Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by
the editors was to see if the 'Slaving Zones' theory could be
applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The
results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff
Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors
have added to the concept of 'Slaving Zones', helping to make it
one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent
of Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death.
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