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“eva soom ammann”

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  • Final Journeys

    Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe

    Edited by Alistair Hunter, Eva Soom Ammann ...
    A recurring theme of the public discourse on immigration in Europe today is that migrants are primarily young people, of working age. Against this short-sighted view, the main contribution of this book is to propose that processes of ageing and dying constitute a critical juncture in the settlement of migrant-origin communities, precipitating novel intercultural negotiations in societies ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Right to Maim

    Debility, Capacity, Disability

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series ANIMA
    In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World

    Cases and Commentaries

    Edited by Sarah Banks, Kirsten Nøhr ...
    Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work in Palestine.This book takes as its starting point real life cases featuring ethical problems in the ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Towards Gender Equality in Law

    An Analysis of State Failures from a Global Perspective

    Edited by Gizem Guney, David Davies, Po-Han Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individually ... Read more

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  • Identity and Cultural Diversity

    What social psychology can teach us

    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling with the basic problem of who they are and where they fit in, and although cultural diversity can ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds

    Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women

    by Parin Dossa ...
    In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life.Based on narrative ethnography, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods

    A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Youth Violence in Germany, Pakistan, and South Africa

    by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Simon Howell, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Zaman, Steffen Zdun ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on ... Read more

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  • The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity

    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity, Second Edition, demonstrates the important and diverse contribution that social psychology can make.Comprehensively updated to include the latest research on dual and multiple identities, mutual links between sense of ethnic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Islamist Radicalisation in Europe

    An Occupational Change Process

    by Daniela Pisoiu ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book examines the Islamist radicalisation process in Europe, developing a new theoretical model based on an empirical study of the evolution of Islamist radicals in their social environment.The approach of this book is to examine how, and under what conditions, people choose to radicalise. It focuses on the experience of radicalisation from the perspective of those who have undergone it. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    by Assaad E. Azzi, Xenia Chryssochoou, Bert Klandermans, Bernd Simon ...
    Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies presents an original discussion in an edited volume of how the links between identity, political participation, radicalization, and integration can provide a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence between groups in culturally diverse societies.Offers a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence ... Read more

    $135.00 USD

  • Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

    Race Matters in Mental Health

    by Suman Fernando ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded system. Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, he examines how the system has shifted in response to new ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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