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Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single
largest female occupational group migrating globally at present.
Their participation in global migration systems has been
acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts
of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the
sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspects of both
societies. We know that migration systems link the women who
migrate and the households and organizations that employ domestic
and care workers, but how do these migration systems work, and more
importantly, what are their impacts on the sending as well as the
receiving societies? How do sending and receiving societies
regulate women's migration for care work and how do these labour
market exchanges take place? How is reproductive labour changed in
the receiving society when it is done by women who are subject to
multifaceted othering/racializing processes? A must buy
acquisition, When Care Work Goes Global will be an extremely
valuable addition for course adoption in migration, labour and
gender courses taught in Sociology, Anthropology, Geography,
Women's Studies, Area Studies, and International Development
Studies.
Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single
largest female occupational group migrating globally at present.
Their participation in global migration systems has been
acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts
of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the
sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspects of both
societies. We know that migration systems link the women who
migrate and the households and organizations that employ domestic
and care workers, but how do these migration systems work, and more
importantly, what are their impacts on the sending as well as the
receiving societies? How do sending and receiving societies
regulate women's migration for care work and how do these labour
market exchanges take place? How is reproductive labour changed in
the receiving society when it is done by women who are subject to
multifaceted othering/racializing processes? A must buy
acquisition, When Care Work Goes Global will be an extremely
valuable addition for course adoption in migration, labour and
gender courses taught in Sociology, Anthropology, Geography,
Women's Studies, Area Studies, and International Development
Studies.
In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance
practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a
comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their
movement, their sound, and the space in which they work - from the
standpoint of the performers, choreographers, audiences,
administrators, and teachers. The words and phrases of their
technical and vernacular languages, which are used to communicate
what is essentially a non-verbal activity, have been collected in
rehearsal classes and workshops by interviews, and from published
sources. In this first collection of its kind Valerie
Preston-Dunlop extends her selection of verbal language to include
the various social and theatrical domains of dance.
A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in
multicultural cities If city life is a “being together of
strangers,” what forms of being together should we strive for in
cities with ethnic and racial diversity? Everyday Equalities seeks
evidence of progressive political alternatives to racialized
inequality that are emerging from everyday encounters in Los
Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, and Toronto—settler colonial cities
that, established through efforts to dispossess and eliminate
indigenous societies, have been destinations for waves of
immigrants from across the globe ever since. Everyday
Equalities finds such alternatives being developed as people
encounter one another in the process of making a home, earning a
living, moving around the city, and forming collective actions or
communities. Here four leading scholars in critical urban geography
come together to deliver a powerful and cohesive message about the
meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both
theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic research, they offer
the formulation “being together in difference as equals” as a
normative frame to reimagine the meaning and pursuit of equality in
today’s urban multicultures. As the examples in Everyday
Equalities indicate, much emotional labor, combined with a
willingness to learn from each other, negotiate across differences,
and agitate for change goes into constructing environments that
foster being together in difference as equals. Importantly, the
authors argue, a commitment to equality is not only a hope for a
future city but also a way of being together in the present.
A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in
multicultural cities If city life is a "being together of
strangers," what forms of being together should we strive for in
cities with ethnic and racial diversity? Everyday Equalities seeks
evidence of progressive political alternatives to racialized
inequality that are emerging from everyday encounters in Los
Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, and Toronto-settler colonial cities
that, established through efforts to dispossess and eliminate
indigenous societies, have been destinations for waves of
immigrants from across the globe ever since. Everyday Equalities
finds such alternatives being developed as people encounter one
another in the process of making a home, earning a living, moving
around the city, and forming collective actions or communities.
Here four leading scholars in critical urban geography come
together to deliver a powerful and cohesive message about the
meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both
theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic research, they offer
the formulation "being together in difference as equals" as a
normative frame to reimagine the meaning and pursuit of equality in
today's urban multicultures. As the examples in Everyday Equalities
indicate, much emotional labor, combined with a willingness to
learn from each other, negotiate across differences, and agitate
for change goes into constructing environments that foster being
together in difference as equals. Importantly, the authors argue, a
commitment to equality is not only a hope for a future city but
also a way of being together in the present.
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how
the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer
suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has
affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.
Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of
Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates
the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region. The volume
examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not
usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors,
and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types
of social infrastructure - education, employment, housing, and
settlement services - this book presents a range of policy
recommendations for how to address the social inequalities that
characterize contemporary outer suburbs.
Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre
works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately
annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his
significance for dance theatre today, giving access to his creative
practices as he provided dance audiences with shock, amusement,
awe, curiosity, beauty and meaning. Dr. Valerie Preston-Dunlop,
with collaborating artists and dancers, has researched and
recreated for today's audiences four groundbreaking works: The
visionary Swinging Temple of 1922, his diverse Suite of 1924, his
critique of Weimar Republic's decadence Nacht 1927, and his
tragic-comic satire Green Clowns. The book follows the making of
these works starting with his dynamic revitalisation of dance,
freeing dance from music and from ballet, introducing improvisation
to find movements never danced before. His struggles in Paris,
Munich, Zurich, Hamburg and Berlin, cities vibrant with political
controversy and dramatic cultural change, are presented as central
to the content and rehearsal methods of his dance theatre works.
The re-creations discussed are no resuscitation of dead dances but
the result of a radical new look at how to engage today with dances
made in the 1920s. Preston-Dunlop, her collaborators rehearsal
directors Alison Curtis-Jones and Melanie Clarke, and composers Oli
Newman and Robert Coleridge, write with a frank freshness of what
actually goes on in the re-making of an expressionist work where
dancers may speak, shout, gasp and spit as well as dance in
unfamiliar and demanding ways. The impact of these works on the
collaborating dancers, in 1920 and today was profound.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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