Category: Social Science

By Denis Wood

ISBN-10: 1593853661

ISBN-13: 9781593853662

A modern follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this e-book takes a clean examine what maps do, whose pursuits they serve, and the way they are often utilized in fabulous, artistic, and radical methods. Denis wooden describes how cartography facilitated the increase of the trendy country and the way maps proceed to embrace and venture the pursuits in their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the guarantees and barriers of numerous counter-mapping practices this present day. Thought-provoking illustrations contain U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and diverse examples of severe cartography, participatory GIS, and map artwork.

By Sonia Lucarelli, Furio Cerutti, Vivien Schmidt

ISBN-10: 0415551005

ISBN-13: 9780415551007

How will we conceptualize id and legitimacy within the context of the eu union? what's the position of narratives, political symbols, public debate and institutional practices within the technique of id formation and legitimacy consolidation?
Debating Political identification and Legitimacy within the eu Union addresses those questions and brings jointly excessive profile students from numerous disciplinary backgrounds to discuss the ontological and epistemological facets of study on identification and legitimacy formation within the european. half I investigates key components equivalent to the connection among ‘Europeanization’ of the european member states and its impression at the political identification in their voters; the connection among the politicization of the european and strategies of id and legitimacy formation; and the indispensability of ecu identification for legitimizing the ecu. half II seems to be at pathways to id formation and legitimacy development within the european via contemplating substitute sorts of constitutional legitimacy; political symbolism; Europeanization and politicization of the talk on ecu concentrating on the international coverage area.

Bringing jointly a large yet coherent diversity of excessive profile views, this e-book will of curiosity to scholars and students of eu reviews, Political technology, Philosophy, Sociology and Law.

About the Author

Furio Cerutti is Professor of Political Philosophy on the division of Philosophy, college of Florence. lately he has been vacationing pupil on the middle for eu reports of Harvard college (2003-04) and vacationing Professor on the Université de Paris eight (Spring 2005) and the Humboldt college in Berlin (September 2007). A member of GARNET, a community of excellence funded by way of the eu Union less than the 6th Framework Programme, he coordinates a transnational examine workforce on normative problems with nearby and worldwide governance and participates in an different crew on environmental governance.

Sonia Lucarelli is Senior Researcher and Lecturer of diplomacy on the college of Bologna at Forlì and vice chairman of the discussion board at the difficulties of Peace and conflict in Florence. She is member of the Board of the community of Excellence GARNET. Lucarelli teaches on a regular basis on the Institute Sant’Anna in Pisa and on the Italian Air strength warfare university in Florence. She has been affiliate Professor on the Universities of Pisa, Siena and Bologna.

Professor Schmidt is the recipient of various awards and differences. She was once offered a French nationwide Council for medical study (CNRS) vacationing Researcher Fellowship to the heart for the research of Politics (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po in Paris (July-Dec. 2007) and named to the Franqui Interuniversity Chair for international students to lecture in Belgium on the loose collage of Brussels and the Catholic college of Louvain (Jan.-June 2007). She has been embellished by means of the French executive as a Chevalier within the Order of the Palmes Académiques; venerated by means of the college of Massachusetts Boston with the prestigious pupil Award; and given a different award for her e-book, Democratizing France, on the Gaston Defferre Prize rite in Marseilles. She has additionally held many supplies and fellowships, together with a Rockefeller beginning Residency provide for the Bellagio middle, a Fulbright ecu examine Award held within the united kingdom, a Fulbright Senior examine pupil Award in France, and a pre-dissertation fellowship lower than the Fulbright-Hays application. Professor Schmidt is prior head of the eu Union experiences Association-USA. She directs eu reports actions at Boston college, and was once founding Director of the ecu reviews application on the collage of Massachusetts, an interdisciplinary software with classes, lectures, and a eu pupil in place of abode Program.

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By Don Kulick

ISBN-10: 0226461009

ISBN-13: 9780226461007

During this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a bunch of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) within the Brazilian urban Salvador. Travestis are men who, usually starting at a long time as younger as ten, undertake lady names, garments kinds, hairstyles, and linguistic pronouns. extra dramatically, they ingest big doses of girl hormones and inject as much as twenty liters of business silicone into their our bodies to create breasts, huge hips, and massive thighs and buttocks. regardless of such irreversible physiological adjustments, nearly no travesti identifies herself as a girl. additionally, travestis regard any male who does in order mentally disturbed.

Kulick analyzes many of the methods travestis regulate their our bodies, explores the motivations that cause them to pick out this actual gendered identification, and examines the advanced relationships that they retain with each other, their boyfriends, and their households. Kulick additionally appears at how travestis earn their residing via prostitution and discusses the explanations prostitution, for many travestis, is a favorable and affirmative experience.

Arguing that transgenderism by no means happens in a "natural" or arbitrary shape, Kulick exhibits the way it is created in particular social contexts and assumes particular social types. in addition, Kulick means that travestis—far from deviating from normative gendered expectations—may actually distill and ideal the messages that provide aspiring to gender all through Brazilian society and doubtless all through a lot of Latin America.

Through Kulick's enticing voice and sharp research, this elegantly rendered account is not just a landmark learn in its self-discipline but in addition a desirable learn for someone attracted to sexuality and gender.

By David Kirby (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0333372700

ISBN-13: 9780333372708

ISBN-10: 1349174122

ISBN-13: 9781349174126

By Karin Bijsterveld

ISBN-10: 0262026392

ISBN-13: 9780262026390

Since the overdue 19th century, the sounds of expertise were the topic of court cases, legislation, and laws. through the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North the USA had shaped to struggle noise from factories, steam trains, autos, and gramophones, with campaigns that includes meetings, exhibitions, and "silence weeks." And, as Karin Bijsterveld issues out in Mechanical Sound, public dialogue of noise hasn't ever died down and maintains this present day. during this publication, Bijsterveld examines the patience of noise at the public schedule, taking a look at 4 episodes of noise and the general public reaction to it in Europe and the U.S. among 1875 and 1975: commercial noise, site visitors noise, noise from local radios and gramophones, and airplane noise. She additionally appears to be like at a twentieth-century counterpoint to court cases approximately noise: the get together of mechanical sound in avant-garde tune composed among the 2 global wars. Bijsterveld argues that the increase of noise from new expertise mixed with overlapping noise rules created what she calls a "paradox of control." specialists and politicians promised to regulate a few noise, yet left different noise difficulties as much as voters. airplane noise, for instance, measured in formulation comprehensible merely by means of experts, used to be topic to public legislation; the sounds of noisy neighborhoods have been the accountability of citizens themselves. additionally, Bijsterveld notes, the spatial personality of anti-noise interventions that impose zones and draw maps, regardless of the facility of sound to go borders and bounds, has helped continue noise a public challenge. we now have attempted to create islands of silence, she writes, but now we have left a sea of sounds to be fiercely discussed.

ISBN-10: 0203408381

ISBN-13: 9780203408384

Technology fiction will be visible as a prognosis of the current, and a imaginative and prescient of attainable futures. It for this reason presents a great source with which to interrogate either modern organizing strategies and enterprises as associations. The marginal task of technology fiction has, in spite of the fact that, been mostly overlooked in writing on association concept. This foreign assortment is the 1st e-book of its type to discover how technological know-how fiction can increase reviews of association by means of drawing on views around the arts and social sciences.

By Steven Peter Vallas

ISBN-10: 0745680704

ISBN-13: 9780745680705

This booklet presents a serious assessment of the myriad literatures on “work,” seen not just as a made from but additionally as a social and political build. Drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions from sociology, heritage, economics, and organizational experiences, the booklet brings jointly views that too usually stay balkanized, utilizing every one to discover the character of labor this day.

Outlining the elemental rules that unite social technological know-how pondering paintings, Vallas bargains an unique dialogue of the key theoretical views that tell place of work research, together with Marxist, interactionist, feminist, and institutionalist colleges of suggestion. Chapters are dedicated to the hard work approach, to office flexibility, to gender and racial inequalities at paintings, and to the hyperlink among globalization and the constitution of labor and authority at the present time. significant themes comprise the relation among paintings and identification; the relation among place of work tradition and managerial keep watch over; and the functionality of emotional hard work inside carrier occupations.

This concise e-book can be necessary to scholars in any respect degrees because it explores more than a few insights to make feel of urgent concerns that force the social clinical learn of labor today.

“I hugely suggest this publication. It addresses all of the vital problems with paintings in our time.” —International Sociology

“An exhaustive learn of an idea that has, during the last half-decade or so, been introduced lower than the lenses of students in various diversified fields of analysis, from sociology to economics, politics to philosophy ... Work fosters a discussion that cuts throughout [these] disciplines.” —Marx & Philosophy

“A prime sociologist within the fields of labor, companies, economic climate, and social conception, Vallas offers an cutting edge, erudite, exhaustive, and lucidly written synthesis and depiction of the evolution of study within the sociology of labor. Linking the self-discipline to special financial and political advancements of the past due 20th and early twenty-first centuries, the publication illumines pathways during this dynamic and vital box of sociology for college kids, students and practitioners who're learning, instructing, and humanizing the realm of work.” —Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University

“Steven Vallas’s Work has the nice advantage of offering a powerful theoretical review of the sociology of labor, whilst it discusses work’s ancient emergence and ongoing improvement less than capitalism. the combo will make the textual content a useful source for college students in any respect levels.” —Leslie Salzinger, college of California, Berkeley

“Steven Vallas’s Work is a vital piece of scholarship and simply the simplest ebook on what's occurring to paintings, employees and the office to be released within the final decade. Vallas synthesizes a number of strands of analysis into an built-in complete. the amount is a needs to learn for someone attracted to from the place we’ve come and to the place we’re headed.” —Stephen R. Barley, Stanford college

By Rebecca Stefoff

ISBN-10: 0761441840

ISBN-13: 9780761441847

This sequence takes readers on a trip throughout the evolutionary heritage of people.

By Nils Christie

ISBN-10: 1136792902

ISBN-13: 9781136792908

Publish yr note: First released in 1993
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This vintage textual content argues that crime regulate, instead of crime itself is the true chance for our destiny. because the moment variation used to be released in 1994, legal populations, specially in Russia and the USA, have grown at an more and more fast cost.

This third edition is released to take account of those adjustments and draw awareness to the dimensions of an escalating challenge. It comprises thoroughly new chapters - one on 'penal geography', the opposite on 'the Russian case' - and has been widely revised.

By Martin Rees

ISBN-10: 0393063070

ISBN-13: 9780393063073

One of our best clinical minds ponder the function of technology within the twenty-first century. technological know-how is frequently portrayed as an imprecise, tricky self-discipline, ruled through elite researchers and inaccessible to most of the people. during this riveting, inspiring new publication, preeminent astrophysicist Martin Rees overturns this view, urging stronger verbal exchange among researchers and laypeople. so as to form debates over healthcare, power coverage, house trip, and different very important concerns, traditional voters needs to enhance a “feel” for science―the one really international culture―and have interaction without delay with examine instead of hoping on pundits’ and politicians’ interpretations. well-known as a professional at the political and moral influence of technology, Rees display express we needs to resolve the recent demanding situations we face―from inhabitants development to weather change―by devising techniques with a long term, international standpoint. within the approach, he bargains insights into the clients for destiny discoveries whereas additionally explaining science’s intrinsic limits. simply as importantly, Rees reminds us that technological know-how may be a resource of delight and sweetness for experts and nonspecialists alike.