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“patrick selmi”

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  • Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance

    A Tale of Two Professions

    by Rich Moth, Filipe Duarte, Patrick Selmi, Carolyn Noble, Alan Dettlaff, Victoria Copeland, Caroline McGregor, Michael Lavalette, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Vassilis Tsianos, Melisa Campana-Alabarce, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, María Inés Martínez Herrero, Linda Harms-Smith, Yasmin Turton, Carola Kuhlmann, Caroline Bald, Akudo Amadiegwu, Pedro Gabriel Silva, Alcina Martins, Bob Pease, Guy Shennan, Claire McGettrick ...
    Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories.This book rethinks social work’s legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive and punitive practices. Using a comparative approach with international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    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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  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

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  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

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  • Between Sex and Power

    Family in the World 1900-2000

    by Göran Therborn ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on ... Read more

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  • Transnationalism

    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

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  • Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts

    A Critical Sociocultural Approach

    Edited by Terrie Epstein, Carla Peck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Social Capital and Peace-Building

    Creating and Resolving Conflict with Trust and Social Networks

    Edited by Michaelene Cox ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict.This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case studies, statistical analyses, and theoretical essays. The book is divided into three sections. The first investigates the role of social capital in ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND MULTI

    New Directions

    Edited by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the ... Read more

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  • World Yearbook of Education 2012

    Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education

    Edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Florian Waldow ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a result of globalization. But also the fact that policy makers increasingly import "best practices "and international ... Read more

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  • Global Mixed Race

    Edited by Rebecca C. King-O'Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, Paul Spickard ...
    Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD