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Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging

Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging

This book focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts. Written by experts in a variety of fields the chapters explore the theological philosophical and cultural anthropological debates relating to religious pluralism religious language and social identity while addressing the fact that both Hindu and Christian forms of self-understandings have been significantly moulded through their interactions in South Asia and across certain Euro-American horizons. The limits of the definition of dual belonging are tested via case studies and contributors address the question of whether there is anything distinctive about dual belonging across Christianity and Hinduism specifically. A timely contribution to the emerging subject of dual religious belonging this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Hindu studies and Christian theology Hindu-Christian comparative theology religious pluralism interreligious relations the sociology and anthropology of religion and comparative theology and philosophy. | Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging

GBP 130.00
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The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education

The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education

This handbook presents a state-of-the-art overview of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) research programs pedagogy and practice. Organized around four sections—theoretical foundations; key issues and trends; school-based practices; and teacher and administrator preparation—the volume comprehensively addresses major and emerging topics in the field. With contributions from expert scholars the handbook highlights programs that honor the assets of language-minoritized and marginalized students and provides empirically grounded guidance for asset-based instruction. Chapters cover historical and policy considerations leadership family relations professional development community partnerships race class gender and more. Synthesizing major issues discussing central themes and advancing policy and practice this handbook is a seminal volume and definitive reference text in bilingual/second language education. | The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education

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Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean. It examines in detail what are self-evidently among the more tangible legacies from the era of slavery presently manifest in the region: the pattern structure and decline of the sugar economy in the French and Commonwealth Caribbean; the continuing influence of Britain in the pre- and post-independence political systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean as well as of France over its Caribbean possessions; and the retention and adaptation of cultural forms derived from colonial practice as variously exhibited in the educational and ideological beliefs current within the region. These essays offer provocative insights and report intriguing parallels between the British and French experiences in the region. They also offer new interpretations of the processes at work in the area and confirm the utility of the comparative approach in appraising its problems. | Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion

GBP 90.00
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Dual Pandemics Creating Racially-Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research Practice and Education

Dual Pandemics Creating Racially-Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research Practice and Education

Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics. COVID-19 and anti-racist uprisings as a result of the murders of Mr. George Floyd and many other African Americans and other people of color due to police violence has unprecedented impact on our society. While these two pandemics appear to be different in nature both pandemics attest to the fact that systemic racism continues to be a grand challenge and that COVID-19 differentially affects communities and people of color as well as socially disadvantaged groups. This book offers intellectually sound examination conceptualization and rigor in providing viable socially just responsive paths forward. The volume include chapters that focus on anti-racist pedagogy in social work education conceptual discussion contributing to refining a shared understanding of constructs relevant to anti-racist social work and micro mezzo and macro social work practice that aims to prevent or eliminate the negative impact of racism as well as promote racial justice equity and inclusion among individuals families groups organizations or communities. This book will be of great value to students and scholars of Social Work Public Policy Race and Ethnic Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. | Dual Pandemics Creating Racially-Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research Practice and Education

GBP 130.00
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Indian Nuclear Strategy Confronting the Potential Threat from both China and Pakistan

Indian Nuclear Strategy Confronting the Potential Threat from both China and Pakistan

This book examines India’s nuclear strategy as it confronts the potential threat from both China and Pakistan. The potential threats - traditional as well as non-traditional CBRN threats - will be examined as will India’s approach to dealing with them. India’s nuclear arsenal its dual purpose civil-military space program and its nascent BMD capability will be explored with a view to informing the reader as to the steps taken by India to confront its nuclear challenges. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Indian Nuclear Strategy Confronting the Potential Threat from both China and Pakistan

GBP 130.00
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

This collection opens with marginalized responses to the highly politicized Cinderella traditions in the Anglophone world. In the United States Cinderella was incorporated into the gendered narrative of the American Dream and narratives of empire in the colonial world particularly in the mid-1800s. Marginalized writers have responded to these nationalistic colonial traditions in two distinctive ways: clever Cinderellas who negotiate a broken system or passive Cinderellas who die as anti-heroes in disenchanting fairy tales. This dual tradition of marginalized Cinderellas is also apparent across the Anglophone world. Potential texts include the out-of-print works of Sinèad de Valera excerpts from the novels of Hannah Crafts Jessie Fauset and Julia Kavanagh along with dramas by Ann Devlin and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I: Fairy-Tale Revivals: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals

GBP 110.00
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Handbook of Latinos and Education Theory Research and Practice

Handbook of Latinos and Education Theory Research and Practice

Now in its second edition this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous innovative and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research to professional practice and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary studies and theory the volume is now organized around four tighter key themes of history theory and methodology; policies and politics; language and culture; teaching and learning. New chapters broaden the scope of theoretical lenses to include intersectionality as well as coverage of dual language education discussion around the Latinx and other recent updates to the field. The Handbook of Latinos and Education is a must-have resource for educational researchers; graduate students; teacher educators; and the broad spectrum of individuals groups agencies organizations and institutions that share a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos. | Handbook of Latinos and Education Theory Research and Practice

GBP 105.00
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Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology this title introduces the cultural fundamentals that nurture Chinese literary works and investigates the structure and time of Chinese narrative. In the introductory chapter the author examines the intrinsic association between Chinese writers’ narrative techniques and China’s cultural background by putting forward a Principle of Duixing to facilitate the study of those techniques and three steps to revisit Chinese narrative. Based on Western narrative theories and a close reading of outstanding Chinese literary classics the volume focuses on structure and time in Chinese narrative. The first part on structure (jiegou) identifies five essential themes to analyze the dual dynamic structure of Chinese narrative. In terms of aspects of time the author demonstrates how the holistic view of time and space in the Chinese tradition influences the chronological framework of narratives and shapes the outset of a story. The book is a must-read for scholars and students interested in narrative theory Chinese culture and literature and the dialogue between Chinese and Western narratological studies. | Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

GBP 130.00
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Epistemic Ambivalence Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

Epistemic Ambivalence Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration. It adopts a dual perspective examining the broader political economic and social dimensions of these religious communities' urbanisation and spatial distribution and their members' individual beliefs and behaviours. Through this approach the book aims to provide a nuanced and insider's view of these religious positions challenging our preconceived notions of urban spaces and contributing to the larger discussion of decolonial urban theory and spatialised post-secular thought. This transdisciplinary book will appeal to a broad range of researchers particularly those interested in urban and religious studies. Its strong spatial perspective makes it attractive to architects and urban designers. It will be of interest to those in human geography urban planning design architecture political science religious studies and culture studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4. 0 license. | Epistemic Ambivalence Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

GBP 130.00
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Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

In the age of big data evidence keeps suggesting that small elusive and infrequent details make all the difference in our appreciation of humanistic texts—film fiction and philosophy. This book argues from a cross-disciplinary perspective that expertise in humanistic translation is precisely the capacity to capture those details that are bigger than they seem. In humanistic translation the expert handling of big details usually serves audiences and the original but mala fide translation also works the details for subtle manipulation and audience deception. A focus on textual detail is therefore characteristic of humanistic translators but also compatible with central claims of the cultural turn in translation studies. This book written by a scholar and teacher of literary essayistic and audiovisual translation endeavors to articulate a seemingly dual interest—on textual detail and cultural analysis—as a single one. It theorizes connections between micro and macro analysis between translation as detail and translation as culture thus hoping to build bridges between humanistic translators and translation scholars. It acknowledges tensions between practice and theory and proposes a way forward: practitioners and scholars share ways of thinking—varieties of part-whole thinking—that machines can never acquire. | Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

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China's Economic Development Implications for the World

China's Economic Development Implications for the World

Cai Fang is one of China’s most distinguished economists. This book elucidates the worldwide significance of China’s economic development over the past 70 years from the perspectives of economic history and growth theory. The Chinese economy has undergone an unprecedented period of growth and development since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s; a process which the hallmarks of neoclassic economic theory have often proved inadequate to explain. Examining the Chinese economy in the light of Chinese history and the development of the world economy as a whole the book charts the milestones and critical reforms of China’s economic development providing insights into unique attributes as well as more generic patterns. The discussion covers multiple hot topics in the field including the so-called Great Divergence dual-sector economic development real-world experience of the reform and opening-up rural reform urbanization economic reform poverty reduction the latter day slowdown of China’s economic growth and China¡¯s role in and response to globalization global supply domination and other headwinds. The book will be a must-read for students scholars and general readers interested in the Chinese economy economic development political economy and development economics. | China's Economic Development Implications for the World

GBP 160.00
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Curating with Care

Curating with Care

This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving. Social and ecological struggles for a different planetary culture based on care and respect for the dignity of life are reflected in contemporary curatorial practices that explore human and non-human interdependence. The prevalence of themes of care in curating is a response to a dual crisis: the crisis of social and ecological care that characterizes global politics and the professional crisis of curating under the pressures of the increasingly commercialized cultural landscape. Foregrounding that all beings depend on each other for life and survival this book collects theoretical essays methodological challenges and case studies from curators working in different global geographies to explore the range of ways in which curatorial labour is rendered as care. Practising curators activists and theorists situate curatorial labour in the context of today’s general care crisis. This volume answers to the call to more fully understand how their transformative work allows for imagining the future of bodily social and environmental care and the ethics of interdependency differently. | Curating with Care

GBP 120.00
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Corporate Women in Contemporary China “We’ve Always Worked”

Corporate Women in Contemporary China “We’ve Always Worked”

Based on extensive multi-sited ethnographic research this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training family life and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jobs but are turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state and society heighten pressure on individual young women’s productivity and reproductivity at the same time the book examines how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work embody a work ethic and make their reproductive life a productive domain. Integrating studies of labor the body gender and kinship this book shows how the ethics and strictly defined discipline of hard work and overtime work are transposed from the office cubicle to the gym and home. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence embodiment and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony of the work ethic and how they have exerted a profound impact on women’s bodies selves and lives. | Corporate Women in Contemporary China “We’ve Always Worked”

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work examining its historical context as well as its international reception and position within world literature. The book presents a dual perspective on Polish literature combining original readings of key texts with discussions of their two-way connections with other literatures across the globe. With a detailed introduction offering a narrative overview the book is divided into six sections offering a chronological pathway through the material. Contributors from around the world examine the various cultural exchanges at play with each chapter including: Definitions of key terms and brief overviews of historical and political events literary eras trends movements groups and institutions for those new to the area Analysis and notes on translations including their hidden dimensions and potential Textual focus on poetics such as strategies of composition style and genre A range of historical sociological political and economic contexts From medieval song through to the contemporary novel this book offers an interpretive history of Polish literature while also positioning its significance within world literature. The detailed introductions make it accessible to beginners in the area while the original analysis and focused case studies will also be of interest to researchers.

GBP 175.00
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Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises Innovations and Lessons from the Global South

Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises Innovations and Lessons from the Global South

The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crisis whether due to conflict natural disasters or economic and political upheaval. This book investigates how organizations around the world responded to these dual challenges identifying solutions and learning opportunities to help to support young children in ongoing and future crises. Drawing on research and voices from the Global South this book showcases innovations to mobilize new funds and re-allocate existing resources to protect children during the pandemic. It provides important evidence on understudied and overlooked vulnerable populations recognizing that researchers from the Global South are best positioned to fill these research gaps contextualize findings and support the uptake and adoption of recommendations by local decision-makers and practitioners in those same contexts. The findings in this book will be important for practitioners policy makers and donors working in or interested in humanitarian contexts on early childhood development or early childhood education. The book will also be useful to students and researchers working in these fields. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises Innovations and Lessons from the Global South

GBP 130.00
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Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century comprises original scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism and creative reflection. The volume draws on a flourishing recent body of Christian ecocriticism and environmental activity incorporating both practical ethics and environmental spirituality but with particular emphasis on the notion of human responsibility. It discusses responsibility in its dual sense as both the recognized cause of environmental destruction and the ethical imperative of accountability to the nonhuman environment. The book crosses boundaries between traditional scholarly and creative reflection through a global range of topics: African oral tradition Ohio artists off the grid immigrant self-metaphors of land and sea iconic writers from Milton to O’Connor to Atwood and Indigenous Canadian models for listening to the nonhuman Mother of us all. In its incorporation of academic and creative pieces from scholars and creative artists across North America this volume shows how environmental work of its nature and necessity crosses traditional academic and community boundaries. In both form and orientation this collection speaks to the most urgent intellectual physical social and spiritual needs of the present day. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment ethics animal welfare poetry memoir and post-secularism. | Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

GBP 130.00
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Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

This book is aimed at employers managers and professional and administrative staff in the health care services. GP practices home visits and the hospital are all covered. Despite growing evidence of violence against health care workers some employers have been slow to acknowledge the risks faced in both primary and secondary health care settings. Personal Safety for Health Care Workers provides the tools to investigate the risks involved and to develop policy and practice to ensure staff safety. It also deals with the vexed question of under-reporting. Part I deals with the respective roles and responsibilities of employers and employees and offers guidance on developing a workplace personal safety policy. Workplace design and management are addressed and guidelines provided for health care workers when away from their normal work base. Part 2 gives detailed guidelines for use by individual workers in a variety of work situations. Part 3 considers training issues and contains a number of sample training programmes with handouts. The message of this book is that prevention is better than cure - proper attention to risk can reduce both the incidence of aggression and its development into violent acts. The aim is to achieve the dual effect of protecting health care workers and also of providing services in a more sensitive way. Good practice implies a responsibility to ensure that health care can be delivered in conditions of safety for staff and patients alike.

GBP 175.00
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University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles of sunny lawns of wood-panelled libraries it is a word viscerally charged with centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science vibrancy and energy. It is this dual nature this concurrent adherence to tradition and innovation which renders the physical environment of the university such a redolent enduring and dynamic realm. However it also means that the twenty-first-century campus is a highly challenging and exacting landscape to design and manage successfully. Today the scale of the pressures and the rate of change facing higher education institutions are greater than ever. Squeezed public spending growing societal expectations and the broadening education ambitions of developing nations are set against a backdrop of rapid technological progress and changing pedagogies. What are the repercussions for the physical realities of university planning and architecture? And how are university campuses adapting to contend with these pressures? University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design introduces the most significant widespread and thought-provoking trends that are currently shaping the planning and architecture of higher education institutions across the world. Within this completely revised third edition Part One identifies current patterns such as student hubs large-scale expansions and buildings for innovation and interdisciplinary research. Part Two profiles these through recent well-illustrated global case studies. This is the essential guide to current and future trends in campus design. | University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

GBP 94.99
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Policy Practice for Social Workers An Ethic of Care Approach

Policy Practice for Social Workers An Ethic of Care Approach

The second edition of Policy Practice for Social Workers expands the concept of policy practice in social work settings and illustrates how significant policy change may be achieved at a local community state and national level. Guided by an ethic of care approach this textbook is intended to raise readers’ awareness about policy practice and its fundamental relationship with the aims of the social work profession offers a foundation for key skill development and contextualizes the work of policy practitioners in the larger political-economic settings in which they work. This textbook is divided into two parts. First readers will expand their understanding of policy practice its beginnings and development over the course of social welfare history and the political economic and social drivers that affect policy decisions and undergird the U. S. political system. Readers will also learn about the ethic of care framework and the value-based lens it contributes to the policymaking process. Later in the book’s second part readers will explore the essential skills and values in policy work. Detailed coverage and vivid examples offer valuable insight into specific advocacy skills including lobbying community organizing mobilizing advocacy publics coalition building campaigning problem analysis policy analysis and policy evaluation. Within its comprehensive overview of policy practice and advocacy the new edition of this text extols a value-laden perspective to identify and assess unmet needs and promote a more socially just environment for all. Combining these dual aims Policy Practice for Social Workers is an excellent cornerstone of policy and policy work for undergraduate and graduate students in social work. | Policy Practice for Social Workers An Ethic of Care Approach

GBP 89.99
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The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

Many things make up a modern society: its history culture natural setting wealth classes and peoples. For some the power structure the political system lies at the heart of the social order. Russia has long been a political society and its future may also be decided in large part by the power structure. A good way to understand Russia and other modern societies is to examine the ties between the Soviet system and the rest of the country's life. George Fischer argues that it is these ties that explain much about the consequences of a communist state. The Soviet System originally published in 1968 presents a provocative challenge to prevailing theories of modernization throughout the world. In this book Fischer takes issue with current assumptions that societies developing an advanced fully modern economy and culture must inevitably adopt Western-type social and political institutions. The author holds that our understanding of contemporary nations is impeded by assessing them in terms of the prevailing American theory of pluralism. The notion that a pluralist division of labor pervades all of modern society is challenged and tested in the context of the former Soviet Union as a modern society. The emergence of the dual executive a leader with a special mixture of political and economic know-how is emphasized as a trend toward a monist model of society. Fischer demonstrates how this model in which all power is public and both industry and culture remain part of a non-capitalist non-liberal state structure can prove useful in studying social change today. The result is a book of value to all scholars and students dealing with the social and political systems of both developing and advanced societies long after the Soviet system of rule dissolved. | The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

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Social Capital Theory and Research

Social Capital Theory and Research

Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support help and information from other people. Expanding on concepts originally formulated by Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman this seminal work will find an essential place with educators and students in the fields of social networks rational choice theory institutions and the socioeconomics of poverty labor markets social psychology and race. The volume is divided into three parts. The first segment clarifies social capital as a concept and explores its theoretical and operational bases. Additional segments provide brief accounts that place the development of social capital in the context of the family of capital theorists and identify some critical but controversial perspectives and statements regarding social capital in the literature. The editors then make the argument for the network perspective why and how such a perspective can clarify controversies and advance our understanding of a whole range of instrumental and expressive outcomes. Social Capital further provides a forum for ongoing research programs initiated by social scientists working at the crossroads of formal theory and new methods. These scholars and programs share certain understandings and approaches in their analyses of social capital. They argue that social networks are the foundation of social capital. Social networks simultaneously capture individuals and social structure thus serving as a vital conceptual link between actions and structural constraints between micro- and macro-level analyses and between relational and collective dynamic processes. They are further cognizant of the dual significance of the structural features of the social networks and the resources embedded in the networks as defining elements of social capital. | Social Capital Theory and Research

GBP 170.00
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Biosecurity Economic Collapse the State to Come Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond

Biosecurity Economic Collapse the State to Come Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond

What kind of state emerges from the pandemic? The pandemic caused two crises in biosecurity and in the economy. The state was forced to tackle both; but subduing one inevitably exacerbated the other. Emerging from the impossible task of handling two conflicting crises is a new form of state the state to come. To outline the emerging state this book offers an in-depth critical account of the state's responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises. It is thus the first study to address both crises ensuing from the pandemic and to synthesise the responses to them in a comprehensive account of political power. Addressing biosecurity the book deciphers its key modalities epistemic premises its law the threat it aims to oppose and the ways in which it relates to public health and society — especially its extraordinary power to suspend society. Addressing the economic crisis the book deciphers the actuality and prospects of both the economy and the state's economic policy. It claims that economic policy is now dual: it adopts countercyclical measures to serve and entrench a neoliberal economy. The responses to the twin crises inform the outline of the emerging state: its structure logic and legality; its power and its relation to society. This is a state of extraordinary power; but its only purpose is to preserve the social order intact. It is a despotic state: powerful and set to impose social stasis. This work offers ground-breaking analysis based on our pandemic experience. It is indispensable for critical scholars and students in Politics Security Studies Sociology Law Political Economy and Public Health. | Biosecurity Economic Collapse the State to Come Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond

GBP 120.00
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Military Rules Regulations and the Code of War Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict

Military Rules Regulations and the Code of War Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict

Military commanders from ancient time had set down rules and regulations to discipline their troops. From the Pharaohs on commanders directed the strategy tactics and camp discipline of the often unruly hosts of soldiers under their command. They had one aim: to create an efficient fighting force. Military officers camp-followers and cooks were all expected to perform their services according to mandate and in light of the best interests of the armed force and the fighting soldiery. Modern commanders have exemplified the same passion for military discipline to produce an effective combat machine. Military analyses derived from Roman law contained enough historical examples to fill an encyclopedia. Yet although addressed to the problems of their day they generally remained the private counsel of scholars and had little impact on political and military decisions. While theorists of international law were developing a body of rules to govern warfare practitioners of conflict were largely moved by the motives of military necessity. Under the dual auspices of military necessity and national self-interest the code of the military commander was simple: maintain a disciplined fighting force in order to achieve military victory. To remedy this gap between theory and practice a practical guide was needed which would briefly describe for commanders in the field the rights and obligations of belligerents as custom and theory had developed them. Then political and military policy could be expected to conform to the theoretical law of nations. This was the synthesis that the Lieber code proposed. Originally published in as Lieber's Law and the Code of War this paperback edition bears a new title that more precisely identifies the subjects covered. | Military Rules Regulations and the Code of War Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict

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