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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas rush smith”
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  • Rethinking Comparison

    Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry

    Edited by Erica S. Simmons, Nicholas Rush Smith ...
    Qualitative comparative methods – and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons – are central to the study of politics. They are not the only kind of comparison, though, that can help us better understand political processes and outcomes. Yet there are few guides for how to conduct non-controlled comparative research. This volume brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Contradictions of Democracy

    Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Nicholas Rush Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence. This is puzzling given the country's celebrated transition to democracy and massive reform of the state's legal institutions. Where most studies explain vigilantism as a response to state or civic failure, in Contradictions of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1

    Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

    by Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, Nicholas Rush Smith ...
    Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Comparative Politics

    Rationality, Culture, and Structure

    by Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanation and evidence and Alan ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan ...
    This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the disciplineDistilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topicsGlobal in scope, both in terms of topics ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Language Policy

    Hidden Agendas and New Approaches

    by Elana Shohamy ...
    Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Problem of Emotions in Societies

    by Jonathan Turner ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Like any other valued resource, emotions are distributed unequally. Moreover, emotions are a generalized resource because they give people the confidence, or lack of confidence, to secure additional types of resources. Thus, this distribution of emotions roughly corresponds to the shares of others kinds of resources that members of various social classes possess. The level of positive and negative ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching

    Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice

    by Suhanthie Motha ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the author provides a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

    Edited by James Albright, Allan Luke ...
    In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • 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

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Education

    Edited by Mica Pollock, Bradley A. Levinson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings.Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse range of educational settings around the world, in both formal and non-formal contextsIncludes ... Read more

    $47.00 USD