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This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of
children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time
and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies,
pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the
complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights
into the ways children's lives figure as terrains of engagement,
contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of
militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies
that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who
counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and
participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the
second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad
knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function
to militarize children's lives, including in but not limited to
advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third
and final section includes investigations that foreground questions
of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among
other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection,
and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting
children.
Fergus, Ontario-born medical student Norman Craig wasn't yet 20
when he went to Egypt in 1915 with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He
soon transferred, however, to the Royal Naval Air Service,
finishing the war as a flight commander, leading a squadron of
Sopwith Camels stationed in Mudros. By war's end, most of his
boyhood friends had been killed. In 1932, after the town council he
described as "a group of unreasoning pacifists" had again put off
the construction of a war memorial in Fergus, Craig took matters
into his own hands. He wrote "You're Lucky If You're Killed," and
produced it in June, 1933, using a local cast and crew. It took
another two years but finally came Craig's Dawn Parade unveiling
the monument--which represents "any small town in Canada."
The play itself--one of Canada's first--has never been seen
again, despite some attempts in the early 1950s to resurrect &
publish the work. Craig wanted people to remember the war dead, not
his own actions, which he described as a "a small, overdue payment
on a large debt."
In this book, Dr. Craig's grandson--a Hollywood-based writer and
film director--makes public for the first time in 70 years the
original text &music of the play, as well as an overview of the
events that sparked its creation.
Measuring Time Without a Clock is an exploratory work dedicated to
uncovering the many nuances encountered by those laboring with the
demands of modern societal structures. Through the use of short
essays and unique poetic verse, life's daily encounters with
reality and myth are shaped for the reader so as to engender a
meaningful sense of self worth and in the world. The Bright, Dark
and Other sides of civilization are traced to their roots. This
book should be read by candlelight, accompanied by a glass of wine
and perhaps an optional violent thunderstorm.Jack Marshall, author
of Long Shadows at Noon, hails from Michigan and currently resides
in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Some of his other interests include
daydreaming, whiskey drinking and womanizing. He has acknowledged
that he should make some changes to his lifestyle but maintains
that there is an infinite plan that will make order of things in
the end. "Life," he suggests, "is blurred by the passage of time
and is simply a tasty filler for our final reward."
Food Safety: A Practical and Case Study Approach, the first
volume of the ISEKI-Food book series, discusses how food quality
and safety are connected and how they play a significant role in
the quality of our daily lives. Topics include methods of food
preservation, food packaging, benefits and risks of microorganisms
and process safety.
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before
modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge
swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across
borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to
recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different
backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its
devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese
samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned
refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk
involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the
context of the war so that readers can understand the background
against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual
voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come
through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and
conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border
information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in
society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and
social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary
scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic
disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary
relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewildering variety of topics;
while illuminating his attempt to unite different disciplines, such
as history and sociology, in his quest for a 'holistic'
understanding of society. Bringing together the world's leading
experts on Pareto, this collection will be of interest to scholars
working in the fields of sociology and social psychology, monetary
theory and risk analysis, philosophy and intellectual history, and
political science and rhetoric.
Discover how Jesus’s blessings convert emotional suffering from a
source of shame to a resource for faith. Long description: When you
hurt, what does it mean for your faith? Too often church culture
and religious individuals suggest that emotional pain shows lack of
faith or sin against a punitive God. How ironic—Jesus suffered
loneliness, misunderstanding, persecution and death to meet us at
the lowest places and lift us to hope and life with his
resurrection. Reframing apparent defeat as the first step in a life
of purpose, this book shows how Jesus’s blessings, the
Beatitudes, address the paradox of living through suffering on the
way to joy. When you feel depressed or anxious, unworthy or
ashamed, this book helps you recognize Jesus as a fellow struggler
who meets you in your suffering, offering and embodying life and
hope. It will help you hear Jesus’s blessing you when you feel
least worthy of blessing. This vital resource features engaging
spiritual practices and group discussion questions ideal for use by
individuals on their own, in counseling or in groups. Christians
and seekers in emotional pain as well as counselors, clergy,
spiritual directors, Stephen ministers and family members will gain
needed insight and guidance for the spiritual journey through
suffering.
Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and
sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two
disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy
and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's
contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its
psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of
Pareto's psychologistic approach both within the history of Italian
thought and within Pareto's own experiences of business and
politics. He evaluates Pareto's sociology through the lens of
contemporary social science, examining whether its explanatory
power is growing rather than diminishing as levels of social and
epistemological complexity rise. The volume also explores Pareto's
assumptions about personality through the lens of contemporary
psychology. It concludes with a psychometric study of Westminster
MPs which clarifies and attests to Pareto's contemporary relevance,
and indicates that even practitioners of politics may gain much
from reading Pareto.
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and
social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary
scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic
disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary
relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewildering variety of topics;
while illuminating his attempt to unite different disciplines, such
as history and sociology, in his quest for a 'holistic'
understanding of society. Bringing together the world's leading
experts on Pareto, this collection will be of interest to scholars
working in the fields of sociology and social psychology, monetary
theory and risk analysis, philosophy and intellectual history, and
political science and rhetoric.
Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and
sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two
disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy
and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's
contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its
psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of
Pareto's psychologistic approach both within the history of Italian
thought and within Pareto's own experiences of business and
politics. He evaluates Pareto's sociology through the lens of
contemporary social science, examining whether its explanatory
power is growing rather than diminishing as levels of social and
epistemological complexity rise. The volume also explores Pareto's
assumptions about personality through the lens of contemporary
psychology. It concludes with a psychometric study of Westminster
MPs which clarifies and attests to Pareto's contemporary relevance,
and indicates that even practitioners of politics may gain much
from reading Pareto.
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter
brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the
region's political, economic and social development since the Civil
War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the
lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to
highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.
With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph
David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New
South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an
excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations,
social history, and the American history survey.
Responding to security scholars' puzzling dearth of attention to
children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the
ways in which they not only are already present in security
discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the
political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to
everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North,
dominant ideas about childhood work to regulate the constitution of
political subjects whilst variously enabling and foreclosing a wide
range of political possibilities. Whether on the battlefields of
Syria, in the halls of the UN, or the conceptual musings of
disciplinary Security Studies, claims about or ostensibly on behalf
of children are ubiquitous. Recognizing children as engaged
political subjects, however, challenges us to bring a sustained
critical gaze to the discursive and semiotic deployments of
children and childhood in projects not of their making as well as
to the ways in which power circulates through and around them. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Studies on Security.
Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan brings together researchers,
clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss. Unique
in both form and content, the book focuses on loss within five key
age ranges-childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood,
and late adulthood-and losses within a special topics section that
addresses areas of interest across multiple age groups. In addition
to chapters from researchers and clinicians, the book includes
personal stories from bereaved siblings who describe the lived
experience of this loss.
School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the
field of history of education. concentrating on the educational
aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with
contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text
attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by
sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s.
Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America
examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling
and teaching through the study of school subjects.
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