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  • The Gendering of Hope

    Rural and Farming Women’s Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance

    by Lia Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    The Gendering of Hope reveals how hope and gender are relational and mediated in power in Australian rural and farming women’s lives. Through conversational interviews and memory work, Lia Bryant explores key moments of hope across the life trajectories of a group of intersectionally diverse women.This rich narrative illuminates how hope emerges as an affective, sensory and embodied force in women ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Gender and Rurality

    by Lia Bryant, Barbara Pini ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center.The authors examine theoretical constructions of gender and explore the relationship between these and rural ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography

    by Alexis Annes, Jenny Björklund, Mathias Detamore, Hanna-Mari Ikonen, Robyn Mayes, Nick McGlynn, Richard Phillips, Meredith Redlin, Gordon Waitt, Samu Pehkonen, LaToya E. Eaves, Claire E. Rasmussen, Professor Kath Browne, Chris Gibson, Lynda Johnston ...
    This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and across these spaces. The collection examines four key themes.First, ‘Intimacies and Institutions’ focuses on how intimate relationships ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Social Work in a Glocalised World

    Edited by Mona Livholts, Lia Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes ‘glocalisation’ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions, methodologies and practices for social ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Feminisms and Ruralities

    by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Sara Egge, Gro Follo, Marit S. Haugen, Julie C. Keller, Belinda Leach, Mona Livholts, Susan Machum, Áine Macken-Walsh, Nicole Power, Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Sally Shortall, Maarit Sireni, Tanya Watson, Kate Cairns, Professor Imelda Whelehan ...
    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses

    Walking on the Grass

    by Lia Bryant, Katrina Jaworski, Valerie Adams, Christine Beasley, Judith Gill, Margaret Rowntree, Mary-Helen Ward ...
    Walking on the Grass brings to life women’s experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students. Sensations, reflections, and imaginations emerge through memories, histories, and different ways of narrating academic journeys. This book examines in depth, the emotional and embodied nature of writing, supervising, and inter-subjective learning. It ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Water and Rural Communities

    Local Politics, Meaning and Place

    by Lia Bryant, with Jodie George ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities. The authors argue that the politics of place is given meaning in relation to local knowledges and within multiple and multiscalar institutional frameworks involved with the social, physical, economic and political practices ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Critical and Creative Research Methodologies in Social Work

    by Lia Bryant ...
    Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This volume develops critical and creative research methodologies that place questions of social justice at their centre and take innovative approaches to collecting, analysing, interpreting and presenting research data. The first section of the book examines ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Urban Theory

    A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

    by Alan Harding, Talja Blokland ...
    What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical′ ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Family Life

    Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations

    by Deborah Chambers, Pablo Gracia ...
    Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $20.00 USD