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    The France of the Little-Middles : A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785332296
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 224 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Europe 1
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "Little-Middles" – a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
    Description / Table of Contents: Illustrations, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The "Good Old Days" -- Chapter 2. Children of the projects in quest of respectability -- Chapter 3. Suburban Youth -- Chapter 4. "They're very nice, but...": Encountering new foreign neighbors -- Chapter 5. A vote of the white lower classes? -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Interviews cited in the book -- Appendix II: Documents and sources -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Language and Identity Politics : A Cross-Atlantic Perspective (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782389439
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 228 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era's defining political dynamics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Language and the Rise of Identity Politics: An Introduction -- Christina Späti -- PART I: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS: THEORY AND CONCEPTS -- Chapter 1. Language and Collective Identity: Theorising Complexity -- Peter Ives -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Linguistic Identity in Europe: Between the Expression of Power and the Power of Expressivity -- Peter A. Kraus -- PART II: LANGUAGE AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MULTILINGUAL STATES -- Chapter 3. Language and Identity Politics in Belgium -- Claude Javeau -- Chapter 4. Plurilingualism and Identity Politics: The Case of Switzerland -- Christina Späti -- Chapter 5. Languages and Collective Identities in Switzerland: The Case of Bilingual Cantons (Bern, Fribourg, Valais) -- Manuel Meune -- Chapter 6. Language Rights and Language Endangerment in Canada: The Case of Indigenous Languages -- Donna Patrick -- PART III: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN IMMIGRATION SOCIETIES -- Chapter 7. Immigrants and the Reframing of Language and National Identity Politics in the United States -- Ronald Schmidt, Sr. -- Chapter 8. Challenges of Diversity: Language and Immigration in Switzerland -- Damir Skenderovic -- Chapter 9. Language and the Transformation of Identity Politics in Minority Francophone Communities in Canada: Between Collective Linguistic Identity and Individualistic Integration Policies -- Nicole Gallant -- Conclusion: The Problematic Nexus of Language and Identity: Some Concluding Remarks -- Robert Gould -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386131
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    Pages: 178 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The Paradox -- Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox -- -- Two dimensions -- Taxonomy -- Typology -- Darwin and Mendel -- Two Vocabularies -- The Power of the Ordinary Language Construct -- -- Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox -- -- Social Categories and Their Names -- After the Civil War -- Discrimination -- The 'One-Drop' Rule -- Counter Trends -- -- Chapter 3. International Pragmatism -- -- The Racial Convention -- Implementing the Convention -- Other International Action -- Naming the Categories -- -- Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge -- -- Theoretical or Practical? -- The Chicago School -- In World Perspective -- Social Race? -- -- Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism -- -- Writing History -- Teaching Philosophy -- Teaching Sociology -- Sociological Textbooks -- Political Ends -- -- Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity -- -- Census categories -- Anthropology -- A New Reality? -- Nomenclature -- Sociobiology -- Ethnic Origin as a Social Sign -- Comparative Politics -- The Current Sociology of Ethnicity -- -- Chapter 7. Collective Action -- -- The Rediscovery of Weber's 1911 Notes -- Four Propositions -- Closure -- The Human Capital Variable -- The Colour Variable -- Ethnic Preferences -- Opening relationships -- -- Conclusion: The Paradox Resolved -- Select Bibliography -- Index --
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    Social Bonds as Freedom : Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386940
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    Pages: 296 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Introduction: Of Bonds and Boundaries -- Paul Dumouchel & Reiko Gotoh -- Part I: Social bonds in transformation -- Chapter 1. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards denationalized citizenship? -- Saskia Sassen -- Chapter 2. Justice and Culture: New contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalism -- Mauro Magatti -- Chapter 3. Bounded Justifiability: Making commonality on the basis of binding engagements -- Laurent Thévenot -- Chapter 4. On the Poverty of our Freedom -- Axel Honneth -- Part II: Beyond imperial universalism -- Chapter 5. Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimes -- Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Chapter 6. Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemies -- Wolfgang Palaver -- Chapter 7. Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations -- Paul Dumouchel -- Chapter 8. A Reluctant Cosmopolitan -- Anne Phillips -- Part III: Towards a re-conceptualization of liberalism -- Chapter 9. Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A new approach -- Geoffrey Brahm Levey -- Chapter 10. Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is secularism enough? -- Gurpreet Mahajan -- Chapter 11. Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economy and the Idea of Liberalism -- Reiko Gotoh -- Conclusion: Social bonds as freedom -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    The Power of Death : Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781782384342
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 272 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Ricarda Vidal and Maria-José Blanco -- PART I: DEATH IN SOCIETY -- Chapter 1. Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Catherine Jenkins -- Chapter 2. Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- Lynne M. Simpson -- Chapter 3. War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Wolfgang Marx -- PART II: DEATH IN LITERATURE -- Chapter 4. Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The writer's experience -- Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma -- Chapter 5. A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's LaVia Crucis dell'umanità -- Eleanor David -- Chapter 6. From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged 'Good Death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Corina Crisu -- Chapter 7. Habeas Corpse. The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- Fiorenzo Iuliano -- Chapter 8. The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction -- Rebecca Shillabeer -- PART III: DEATH IN VISUAL CULTURE -- Chapter 9. The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Ricarda Vidal -- Chapter 10. Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship -- John Horne -- Chapter 11. The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport -- Julia Banwell -- Chapter 12. Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- Diana York Blaine -- PART IV: CEMETERIES AND FUNERALS -- Chapter 13. The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- Marina Cap Bun -- Chapter 14. In the Dead of Night: a Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard -- Bel Deering -- Chapter 15. Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon -- Clara Saraiva and José Mapril -- Chapter 16. Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices -- Natasha Lushetich -- PART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH -- Chapter 17. Death isn't what it used to be -- Lala Isla -- Chapter 18. The Dad Project -- Briony Campbell -- Index --
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    Chiasmus and Culture (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780857459619
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 264 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 6
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning "cross-wise"), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Anthony Paul and Boris Wiseman -- -- PART I: THE PATHOS OF CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 1. From stasis to ek-stasis: four types of chiasmus -- Anthony Paul -- -- Chapter 2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- Robert Hariman -- -- Chapter 3. Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Ivo Strecker -- -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty, metaphor or concept? -- Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- -- Chapter 5. Chiasmi figuring difference -- Stephen Tyler -- -- Chapter 6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric -- Phillipe-Joseph Salazar -- -- PART III: SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE MEDIATED BY CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 7. Chiasm in suspense in psychoanalysis -- Alain Vanier -- -- Chapter 8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne -- Phillip John Usher -- -- Chapter 9. 'Travestis, Michês' and Chiasmus -- Ben Bollig -- -- PART IV: CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN RITUAL AND MYTHO-POETIC TEXTS -- -- Chapter 10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration -- Douglas Lewis -- -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus, mythical creation and H.C. Andersen's The Shadow followed by a "Response" from Lucien Scubla -- Boris Wiseman -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Enhancing Democracy : Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781782385479
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    Pages: 308 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 104
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy. Although Chile has gained political stability and grown economically, the ability of social policies to expand democratic governance and participation has proved limited, and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of citizen participation.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction: The Question of Democracy in a Democratic Society -- Chapter 1. Construction of Democracy, Public Policies and Participation of Civil Society -- Chapter 2. Chile: Top-Down Modernization and Low Intensity Re-Democratization -- Chapter 3. Social Policy Agendas in the Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 4. Civil Society, Public Policy Networks and Participatory Initiatives -- Chapter 5. From the Civil Society to the State: A New Elite is Born? -- Conclusion: Participation and Public Policies in the Chilean Democratic Process -- References -- Index --
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    Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781782382355
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    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- -- Introduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen -- -- PART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- -- Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology -- Charles J-H Macdonald and Jean Naudin -- -- Chapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of Suicide -- María Cátedra -- -- PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDE -- -- Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible" – Plato's Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-Killing -- Miira Tuominen -- -- Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on Suicide -- Malin Grahn -- -- Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages -- Virpi Mäkinen -- -- PART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- -- Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile": The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide Bomber -- Susanne Dahlgren -- -- Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying" – Men, Suicide, and Moral Agency -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo -- -- Afterword -- Arthur Kleinman -- -- Notes on Contributors --
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