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The frequency with which people move home has important
implications for national economic performance and the well-being
of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration
theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to
the recent 'mobilities turn' within the social sciences. Yet, there
is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all
types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts.
For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have
been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent
might this trend be true of other developed countries? Drawing on
detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed
World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a
variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that
underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK,
Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book
presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global
structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence
internal migration in the Global North. Internal Migration in the
Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of
migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience
of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration
Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies.
The frequency with which people move home has important
implications for national economic performance and the well-being
of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration
theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to
the recent 'mobilities turn' within the social sciences. Yet, there
is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all
types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts.
For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have
been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent
might this trend be true of other developed countries? Drawing on
detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed
World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a
variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that
underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK,
Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book
presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global
structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence
internal migration in the Global North. Internal Migration in the
Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of
migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience
of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration
Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies.
Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child
consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's
moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral
Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel
Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century
United States meticulously managed their children's needs and
wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to
produce the "child" as a moral project. Drawing on a century of
religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he
examines how children ultimately came to be understood by
mothers-and later, by commercial actors-as consumers. From concerns
about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and
toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood,
historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer
culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides
a rich cultural history of childhood.
Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually
every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from
layettes to caskets. The landscape is studded with logos, brand
names, and billboards. Branded and On Display examines the work of
artists who explore specific strategies of branding and
presentation in their response to this pervasively commoditized
environment. Representing a range of media - sculpture, video,
installation, sound, painting, and photography - the work is
compelling and provocative, nudging us to "re-view" our culture
with an appraising eye. There is an exhilarating range of concerns
and media represented by artists Ai Weiwei, Conrad Bakker, Amy
Barkow, Ashley Bickerton, Michael Blum, Louis Cameron, Diller +
Scofidio, Terence Gower, Laurie Hogin, Pierre Huyghe, Clay Ketter,
Ryan McGinness, Donna Nield, Haim Steinbach, Tempi & Wolf,
Yuken Teruya, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Siebren Versteeg,
and Zhao Bandi. Daniel Thomas Cook is a sociologist of advertising
and communication at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Nine stories by Dung Kai-cheung, an author and
teacher of creative writing in Hong Kong, were translated by Winnie
Won Yin Wong. Other contributors include Ginger Gregg Duggan,
Judith Hoos Fox, Cele C. Otnes, and Linda M. Scott.
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