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Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While the previous book introduced the author’s widely adopted Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM), this new volume outlines his Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing, focusing on what he conceptualises as human poverty.
Bringing together 20 years of research, this interdisciplinary book provides an alternative to Sen’s Capability approach and details its internal consistency, solid foundations and promising perspectives for applicability.
Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it, and what can we learn, that might help us think and act meaningfully amidst the climate emergency, from the different ways death has been imagined, theorized and organized in Western social and intellectual history? Beginning with the role of tragedy, and then philosophy, in Greek antiquity, before exploring the history of European attitudes to death and their increasing entanglement with colonial atrocities and politically organized killing, this interdisciplinary study probes the work of philosophers, sociologists, historians and psychoanalysts to help make sense of mortality in the Anthropocene. Examining the denial of death discourse that was hegemonic in earlier mortality studies, it critically analyses the opposing argument that we are today more reconciled with the realities of death. Drawing on existential philosophy, Levinas’s theory of our responsibility for the death of others, and Harmut Rosa’s account of social acceleration and the catastrophe of resonance, Bowring highlights notable points of contact between anomic feelings of disappointment and missing out, growing climate anxiety and despair over the future conditions of life on earth, and the sense of wasted efforts and lost purposes that is characteristic of the midlife crisis. In response to this malaise he argues that we need to think of mortality as more than just a life of finite time, to recognize instead our shared vulnerability and passivity, and to understand how this makes us both dependent on others and responsible for other equally precarious forms of life.
This edited volume examines the crucial, yet overlooked, role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China.
Its contributors analyze the role of narratives in different societies and arenas ranging from economic and foreign policy to history and social media. Emphasizing the social dimension of narrative, the volume challenges traditional state-centric and strategic approaches in international politics. It also engages with the ubiquity of stories about the “other” in present manifold crises, and underscores the need for a heightened awareness of narratives and their consequences in decision-making processes.
This book traces the origins of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the broader context of universalism since the beginning of the 20th century.
UHC aims to improve access to essential health services, provide financial protection and overcome health care inequities.
Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical-sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC’s key political dynamics: consensus, conflicts, negotiations and struggles. It reveals that UHC is the result of a unique conjoining of movements in health, debates on human rights and concerns with development in a particular world context across the global North and global South.
The Gated City offers a comprehensive analysis of the proliferation of gated communities, urban fragmentation, and the privatisation of public life in the Latin American context from a policy and practice perspective. The book engages with global debates about the increasingly locked-down, securitised, and elite nature of much city life and the possible ‘death of public life’ that many have suggested is occurring in cities today. It draws on original, in-depth research in one of the largest gated communities in the world, a comminity that exemplifies the tensions and conflicts that make it harder for planning professionals to provide more inclusive urban spaces. The argument comes from the different and sometimes contrasting experiences obtained through the author’s academic and personal planning practice in Mexico. The discussion offers valuable insights into policy and planning practices that are relevant worldwide under the current conditions of uncertainty, fear, and increased social inequality. The book provides elements of analysis for university students, policy makers, researchers, and urban studies instructors interested in better understanding exclusionary spaces. The Mexican case provides methodological tools for scholars and practitioners researching and presenting planning and policy-making alternatives against exclusion in cities and social inequalities.
This volume brings together a selection of chapters from social scientists who use various interpretive lenses and analytic/theoretical perspectives to analyze the sociology of identities. Drawing on theories of power, intersectionality, un/markedness, and the sociology of nothing, the book explores the ways in which identities are socially constituted, negotiated, and reinforced in complex and multidimensional ways that are tied to cognitive and interactional dimensions of privilege and marginalization. The first section of the book contains chapters that address themes of power, privilege, and intersectional dis/advantage. The second section’s chapters focus on experiences of absence, loss, and missed symbolic objects that form negatively defined identities. In the Afterword, we draw out some common themes across these contributions and discuss how they contribute to new interpretive understandings of social identities.
Young people’s mental health is in crisis, with many – especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds – struggling academically and with the later transition to employment. Feeling excluded, many young people turn to harmful behaviours, such as vaping and alcohol use, for escape and a sense of belonging.
Schools are increasingly expected to address these issues but often lack the time and expertise to do so effectively. Based on the author’s research, including the successful ‘Learning Together’ trial – an innovative programme that improved mental health, reduced bullying and raised academic achievement – this book provides a blueprint for a fundamental shift in how schools support young people.
Essential reading for teachers, public health workers and policy makers tackling the health and educational inequalities affecting young people today.
This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain’s ageing society. With informal care, from family members and friends, now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support.
Exploring the relationship between formal and informal care, this book develops ideas for a ‘caring economy’, showing the potential to integrate paid-for and unpaid care within a framework of solidarity based on the strengths of the community, working to improve the quality and quantity of state-funded care provision while sharing unpaid support more widely as a community responsibility.
Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases.
Judges have made it clear that sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment are to be reserved for offending that is ‘truly egregious’. Griffin, using over 100 serious sexual offence cases, examines what this means in practice. The book is designed to be used in the classroom and the court, as well as providing a solid evidence base to inform the public and policy discourse on sentencing.
All too often, human systems are criticised for failing those they are meant to serve. One example is the growing awareness of the overlooked needs of adolescents facing harm in their communities. This has highlighted a need for new systems that enable practice that is ethical, effective and grounded in supportive relationships. But how can this be achieved?
Appealing to those interested in Contextual Safeguarding and beyond, this book shares ‘real-life’ lessons from research, covering:
• Practical guidance and tools for changing systems using embedded methods;
• Navigating complex relationships and emotions in organisational change; and
• Using theory and concepts to support change.
The book’s lively and creative style makes it accessible for researchers, students, professionals and anyone committed to system change in children’s social care.
