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  • - An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
    av Lauren E. Eastwood
    640 - 2 320,-

  • - Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability
    av USA) Najarian & Cheryl G. (University of Massachusetts Lowell
    572 - 1 847,-

  • - Accidental Activists
    av Canada) Panitch & Melanie (Ryerson University
    736 - 2 010,-

  • - Education and Empowerment in Nepal
    av Morris, USA) Rothchild & Jennifer (University of Minnesota
    725 - 1 847,-

  • - Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
    av Canada) Madibbo & Amal Ibrahim (University of Toronto
    586 - 2 079,-

    Examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones - who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority - face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. This book deals with immigration, race and anti-racism, gender, and others.

  • - The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
    av USA) Cortese & Daniel K. (Governors State University
    649 - 2 371,-

  • - Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change
    av Canada) Gardner & Morgan (Memorial University of Newfoundland
    649 - 2 159,-

  • - State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
    av USA) Mohammadi & Majid (SUNY-Binghamton
    603 - 2 453,-

    Examining the reform of the judicial system in twentieth century Iran, this book helps readers to understand Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.

  • - Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
    av Ira Silver
    559 - 1 592,-

    Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, this book analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighbourhoods. It investigates how community-based organizations strategically attempt to assert influence over foundation funding priorities.

  • - A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
    av Leah Schmalzbauer
    598 - 2 159,-

    Presents a daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the transnational analysis of Honduran families. This book investigates how transnationalism works as a survival strategy in which families use the difference in living costs between Honduras and the United States to support household consumption.

  • - Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
    av David (Long Island University & USA) Staples
    534 - 1 656,-

    Examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. This book talks about home-based work that constitutes an enormous arena of "invisible" social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.

  • - How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements
    av USA) Boykoff & Jules (Pacific University
    736 - 2 400,-

    Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a range of twentieth-century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

  • - An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
    av Teresa Toguchi Swartz
    640 - 2 320,-

    Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of the troubled US foster care system.

  • - The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement
    av USA) Morrison & Linda J. (University of Oakland
    863 - 2 400,-

  • av USA) Udis-Kessler & Amanda (Colorado College
    641 - 2 079,-

    A rule was passed that non-heterosexual United Methodist ministers must be celibate. The UMC has forbidden the funding of any program or organization 'supporting' homosexuality. These policies have been met with significant resistance by those fighting for GLBT inclusion. This book analyzing both sides of this divisive debate.

  • - Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
    av USA) Patil & Vrushali (Florida International University
    613 - 1 883,-

    Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960.

  • - Knowledge Production in Social Movements
    av Canada) Conway & Janet M. (Brock University
    863 - 2 320,-

    In exploring the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics, this book attempts to break theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies.

  • av USA) Gregory & Katherine (NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
    640 - 2 079,-

    Detailing the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers and window prostitutes in The Netherlands, this ethnographic account explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives.

  • - Deconstructing Brain Injury
    av Dr. Mark Sherry
    603 - 2 371,-

    Offers an insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. This book uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queen theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature to frame a narrative about the experience of brain injury.

  • - Facing off in Cincinnati
    av Kimberly B. Dugan
    330 - 576,-

    This qualitative study captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in a struggle over an antigay initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • - At Home in South Africa
    av Jennifer Fish
    559 - 1 592,-

    Presents the study of domestic labour since South Africa's post-apartheid transition. Drawing on a fieldwork, this research offers diverse perspectives on the race, class and gender divides that remain integral to social relations in the context of national transition. It also details women's collective agency exploring the social policy change.

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