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Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct
language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall
description of the language. Australian languages generally show a
high degree of structural similarity to one another. Gaagudju
conforms to some of the common Australian patterns, yet diverges
significantly from others. Thus while it has a standard Australian
phonological inventory, its prosodic systems differ from those of
most Australian languages, with stressed and unstressed syllables
showing marked differences in realisation. Like many northern
languages, it has complex systems of both prefixation and
suffixation to nominals and verbs. Prefixation provides information
about nominal classification (4 classes), mood, and pronominal
cross-reference (Subjects, Objects, and Indirect Objects).
Suffixation provides information about case, tense, and aspect. As
in many languages, there is a clear distinction between productive
and unproductive morphology. Gaagudju differs from most Australian
languages in that a considerable amount of its morphology is
unproductive, showing complex and irregular allomorphic variation.
Gaagudju is like most Australian languages in that it may be
described as a free word order language. However, word order is not
totally free and strictly ordered phrasal compounding structures
are significant (e.g. in the formation of denominal verbs).
1. Offers ready-to-play games of varying lengths and topics, giving
teachers everything they need to implement active learning in the
political science classroom. 2. Offers pedagogical data supporting
classroom games and simulations, providing encouragement to
professors and justification to administrators for active learning,
3. Serves as a primer for modifying and designing classroom games,
supporting active professorial engagement and agency especially
important in a time of online learning.
1. Offers ready-to-play games of varying lengths and topics, giving
teachers everything they need to implement active learning in the
political science classroom. 2. Offers pedagogical data supporting
classroom games and simulations, providing encouragement to
professors and justification to administrators for active learning,
3. Serves as a primer for modifying and designing classroom games,
supporting active professorial engagement and agency especially
important in a time of online learning.
In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the
way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired,
and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings. From the
taken-for-granted, all-purpose water, flowing out of taps in
advanced economies to extreme inequalities of access to water of
variable qualities, drinking water tells its own interesting story,
but also reflects some of the centrally important characteristics
of the state and economies of the different countries. From
sparkling mineral water in Germany, to drinking water garages in
Taiwan, from water tankers in Mexico City to street vendors in
Delhi markets, comparisons are made to stretch our understanding of
what we mean by 'an economy', quality, and property rights, of
water. In addition, the study of socio-economics of drinking water
provides a route into understanding interactions between polity,
economy and nature. One of the major themes of the book is to
analyse the 'sociogenic' nature of sustainability crises of
economies of water in their environmental settings: epidemics,
droughts, pollution, land subsidences and floods. Overall it
develops an economic sociology, neo-Polanyian approach in a
comparative and historical exploration of water for domestic
consumption.
In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the
way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired,
and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings. From the
taken-for-granted, all-purpose water, flowing out of taps in
advanced economies to extreme inequalities of access to water of
variable qualities, drinking water tells its own interesting story,
but also reflects some of the centrally important characteristics
of the state and economies of the different countries. From
sparkling mineral water in Germany, to drinking water garages in
Taiwan, from water tankers in Mexico City to street vendors in
Delhi markets, comparisons are made to stretch our understanding of
what we mean by 'an economy', quality, and property rights, of
water. In addition, the study of socio-economics of drinking water
provides a route into understanding interactions between polity,
economy and nature. One of the major themes of the book is to
analyse the 'sociogenic' nature of sustainability crises of
economies of water in their environmental settings: epidemics,
droughts, pollution, land subsidences and floods. Overall it
develops an economic sociology, neo-Polanyian approach in a
comparative and historical exploration of water for domestic
consumption.
This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher
and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent
political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and
power in contemporary societies. It provides a new analysis of what
generates inequalities in rights to income, property and public
goods in contemporary societies. By critiquing Marx's foundational
theory of exploitation, it moves beyond Marx, both in its analysis
of inequality, and in its concept of just distribution. It points
to the major historical transformations that create educational and
knowledge inequalities, inequalities in rights to public goods that
combine with those to private wealth. It argues that asymmetries of
economic power are inherently gendered and racialized, and that
forms of coercion and slavery are deeply embedded in the histories
of capitalism. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable
Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities -- .
This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher
and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent
political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and
power in contemporary societies. It provides a new analysis of what
generates inequalities in rights to income, property and public
goods in contemporary societies. By critiquing Marx's foundational
theory of exploitation, it moves beyond Marx, both in its analysis
of inequality, and in its concept of just distribution. It points
to the major historical transformations that create educational and
knowledge inequalities, inequalities in rights to public goods that
combine with those to private wealth. It argues that asymmetries of
economic power are inherently gendered and racialized, and that
forms of coercion and slavery are deeply embedded in the histories
of capitalism. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable
Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities -- .
The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in
capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary
economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and
Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology,
this book presents a novel framework for understanding this
historically shifting fault-line. Over the last quarter of a
century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic
developments in biological science and technology. At critical
points, leading commercial companies were poised to take ownership
over the human genome and much new post-genomic knowledge. The
software tools for analysing the deluge of data also appeared, as
did expanding new markets for private enterprise. At the same time,
huge new public programmes of biological research were accompanied
by radical innovation in the institutions and organisation of
public knowledge. Would private marketable knowledge dominate over
the new public domain or vice versa? Surprisingly, the dynamism and
expansion of the public domain, and new forms of differentiation
and interdependence between public and private economies of
knowledge, now characterise the landscape. This book presents an
analytical framework for understanding the shifting 'great divide'
in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel
economic sociology of innovation, based on the 'instituted economic
process' approach. By focusing on economies of knowledge, they seek
to demonstrate that capitalism is multi-modal at its core, with
interdependent growth of market and non-market modes of production,
distribution, exchange and use. Public or Private Economies of
Knowledge? will appeal to those with an interest in innovation
studies, economic sociology and economic theory.
The work of Karl Polanyi has gained in influence in recent years to
become a point of reference to a wide range of leading authors in
the fields of economics, politics, sociology and social policy.
Newly available in paperback, this volume is a combination of
reflections on, and assessment of, the nature of Polanyi's
contribution and new strands of work, both theoretical and
empirical, that has been inspired by Polanyi's insights. It gathers
together the key contributions to the first ever workshop on the
work of Karl Polanyi held in the United Kingdom. Several of the
contributions develop Polanyian ideas in relation to contemporary
capitalism. However, in a critical spirit, other contributions in
the volume substantially transform his concept 'instituted economic
process' in considering a broad range of contemporary
socio-economic change: markets for mobile telephony, call centre
operations and European labour markets. -- .
The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has
been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations.
Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity
resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence
speak of anthropogenic climate change. Climate Emergency analyses
the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate
emergency, developing the complementary concept of 'sociogenic
climate change' to show how societies both create the crisis and
are challenged by it in different ways. Harvey demonstrates how
societies inhabit different resource environments, whether for
fossil fuel reserves, or for land, sun, and water, differences
which condition their histories and cultures. In introducing the
sociogenic approach to climate change, Harvey re-examines history
through the lens of climate change, re-writing the climate impact
of the British industrial revolution; US settler colonialism;
slavery and Native American genocides; the electrification of
societies and infrastructures for fossil-fuelled transportation;
and changes in our eating habits. In the big historical picture,
different societies and political economies have both created an
unequal world and so continue to make an unequal contribution to
climate change. This can only be understood by showing how
societies have come to distinctively exploit planetary resources in
different ways. Societies create the crisis and have to be
politically involved in addressing the crisis.
The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in
capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary
economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and
Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology,
this book presents a novel framework for understanding this
historically shifting fault-line. Over the last quarter of a
century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic
developments in biological science and technology. At critical
points, leading commercial companies were poised to take ownership
over the human genome and much new post-genomic knowledge. The
software tools for analysing the deluge of data also appeared, as
did expanding new markets for private enterprise. At the same time,
huge new public programmes of biological research were accompanied
by radical innovation in the institutions and organisation of
public knowledge. Would private marketable knowledge dominate over
the new public domain or vice versa? Surprisingly, the dynamism and
expansion of the public domain, and new forms of differentiation
and interdependence between public and private economies of
knowledge, now characterise the landscape. This book presents an
analytical framework for understanding the shifting 'great divide'
in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel
economic sociology of innovation, based on the 'instituted economic
process' approach. By focusing on economies of knowledge, they seek
to demonstrate that capitalism is multi-modal at its core, with
interdependent growth of market and non-market modes of production,
distribution, exchange and use. Public or Private Economies of
Knowledge? will appeal to those with an interest in innovation
studies, economic sociology and economic theory.
Exploring the Tomato engages with an apparently simple fruit in
order to reveal major changes to society and economy. It treats the
tomato as an object of fascination and as a probe into major
historical changes in twentieth century capitalism. From first
domestication to genetic modification, from Aztec salsa to
supermarket pizza, the tomato has been continually transformed in
the ways it has been produced, exchanged and consumed. This book
explores what brings about a variety that is at once biological,
historical and socio-economic. A conceptual framework of
'instituted economic process' demonstrates how different tomato
forms are an expression of dynamic processes in capitalist
economies and societies during the twentieth century. As both an
early pioneer in mass production and a contemporary contributor to
the creation of global cuisines, the tomato has been subject to
intense innovation. Computerised total ecologies under glass,
producing fresh tomatoes of all shapes, colours and sizes, compete
with sun and southern climates across the world. To enter the
variety of tomato worlds is to discover the variety of capitalism.
Written in an accessible style, this book makes a major
contribution to the emerging field of economic sociology and to our
understanding of the innovation process. It should be read by
anyone concerned with social science, particularly economists and
sociologists, as well as those interested in food and the history
of food.
The Hollywood Connection: The Influence of Fictional Media and
Celebrity Politics on American Public Opinion is one of the first
edited volumes offered in the political science discipline on the
effects of fictional media and celebrity on public opinion, and
synthesizes many niche areas of research into single text.
Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of acknowledging a shift
in academic focus away from the lateral interactions between
celebrities and politicians (and in some cases celebrities becoming
politicians) toward research that engages the American audience, as
consumers of media, as a critical political component. The volume
offers a collection of diverse research on questions treating the
effects of fictional media on consumer audiences and the larger
implications for American politics. This research collection offers
both qualitative and quantitative data sources and showcases a
variety of methodological approaches (experimental design, public
opinion survey analysis, content analysis, etc.), robust
theoretical applications, and encompasses a variety of conduits,
ranging from television sitcoms to horror films to the action drama
24, that make it both compelling and timely.
In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the
coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in
British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National
Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of
communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry
on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret
Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of
the British working class. She wanted to usher in a new era of
greater management control at work and pave the way for a radical
refashioning of society in favour of neo-liberal objectives that
three decades later have crippled the world economy. Victory
required draconian restrictions on picketing and the development of
a militarised national police force that made widespread arrests as
part of its criminalisation policy. The attacks on the miners also
involved the use of the courts and anti-trade union laws,
restrictions on welfare benefits, the secret financing by
industrialists of working miners and the involvement of the
security services. All of which was supported by a compliant mass
media but resisted by the collective courage of miners and mining
communities in which the role of Women against Pit Closures in
combating poverty and starvation was heroic. Thus inspired by the
struggle for jobs and communities an unparalleled movement of
support groups right across Britain and in other parts of the world
was born and helped bring about a situation where the miners long
struggle came close on occasions to winning. At the heart of the
conflict was the Yorkshire region, where even at the end in March
1985, 83 per cent of 56,000 miners were still out on strike. The
official Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) area
photographer in 1984-85 was the late Martin Jenkinson and this book
of his photographs - some never previously seen before - serves as
a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of
Britain.
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Qualities of Food (Paperback)
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Alan Warde
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In this book, available for the first time in paperback, the
complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed
from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists,
geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of
intriguing questions: how do people make judgements about taste?
How do such judgements come to be shared by groups of people? What
social and organisational processes result in foods being certified
as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the
food system been expressed? what alternatives are thought to be
possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores
many different answers to such questions. The first part of the
book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part
considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the
third part examines social and political responses to
industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of
food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the
social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether
marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human
nutrition or economics. -- .
Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal
structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory,
particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon,
morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from
morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular
the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the
'coverb construction', a complex predicate construction which,
though widespread, has received little attention in the literature.
The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb
constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event
structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb
constructions map to a range of event structures differing from
those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly
cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and
North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in
event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.
Why should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina Jolie
when they endorse a politician or take a position on an issue? Do
we listen to them? Despite their lack of public policy experience,
celebrities are certainly everywhere in the media, appealing on
behalf of the oppressed, advocating policy change-even, in one
spectacular case, leading the birther movement all the way to the
White House. In this book Mark Harvey takes a close look into the
phenomenon of celebrity advocacy in an attempt to determine the
nature of celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its
power. Focusing on two specific kinds of power-the ability to
"spotlight" issues in the media and to persuade audiences-Harvey
searches out the sources of celebrity influence and compares them
directly to the sources of politicians' influence. In a number of
case studies-such as Jolie and Ben Affleck drawing media attention
to the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Bob Marley
uniting warring factions in Jamaica; John Lennon networking with
the new left to oppose Richard Nixon's re-election; Elvis Presley
working with Nixon to counter anti-war activism-he details the role
of celebrities working with advocacy groups and lobbying
politicians to affect public opinion and influence policy. A series
of psychological experiments demonstrate that celebrities can
persuade people to accept their policy positions, even on national
security issues. Harvey's analysis of news sources reveals that
when celebrities speak about issues of public importance, they get
disproportionately more coverage than politicians. Further, his
reading of surveys tells us that people find politicians no more or
less credible than celebrities-except politicians from the opposing
party, who are judged less credible. At a time when the
distinctions between politicians and celebrities are increasingly
blurred, the insights into celebrity influence presented in this
volume are as relevant as they are compelling.
Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal
structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory,
particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon,
morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from
morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular,
the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the
'coverb construction' a complex predicate construction which,
though widespread, has received little attention in the literature.
The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb
constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event
structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb
constructions map to a range of event structures differing from
those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly
cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and
North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in
event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.
This book tells stories of just how powerful social work can be. At
its heart are stories drawn from frontline practice, ranging from
first interviews through to complex decision-making. Along the way,
we meet the social worker who assessed a cat (though for all the
right reasons). We witness the cost of failing to protect the
rights of adults, exemplified in the tragic death of Connor
Sparrowhawk. We also see the transformations that can happen when
social workers really get it right - as in the case of Peter, whose
love of balloons led them to feature in his care plan. These
stories from practice are combined with guidance and reflective
exercises to offer valuable practice wisdom and learning for new
and experienced social workers alike. By turns funny, wise and
moving, this book articulates the personal and professional
qualities needed to practise rights-based social work. It reveals
the potential of the profession to make a difference to the lives
of individuals and to communities.
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