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“barbara gruber”

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  • Vulnerability

    Governing the social through security politics

    Edited by Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Barbara Gruber ...
    What does it mean to be ‘vulnerable’? Exploring the rise of ‘vulnerability’ as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health, national security and social policy, this volume reveals the blurring of welfare state logics with national security ends. Governments and international agencies use the language of vulnerability to identify needy constituents and communities, but ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Identity and Cultural Diversity

    What social psychology can teach us

    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling with the basic problem of who they are and where they fit in, and although cultural diversity can ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds

    Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women

    by Parin Dossa ...
    In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life.Based on narrative ethnography, ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods

    A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Youth Violence in Germany, Pakistan, and South Africa

    by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Simon Howell, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Zaman, Steffen Zdun ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on ... Read more

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  • The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity

    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity, Second Edition, demonstrates the important and diverse contribution that social psychology can make.Comprehensively updated to include the latest research on dual and multiple identities, mutual links between sense of ethnic ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism

    by Willem Koomen, Joop Van Der Pligt ...
    Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape. This important book presents an overview of the processes involved in radicalization and terrorism, and introduces a systematic framework which captures the most crucial individual and social factors involved in ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Terrorism

    People, Places and Processes

    by Stephen Vertigans ...
    This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern, local and global, and social processes for a range of individuals, groups and societies. Individual behaviour and dispositions are embedded within these broader relationships and activities, allowing a more holistic account of terrorism to emerge. In ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Islamist Radicalisation in Europe

    An Occupational Change Process

    by Daniela Pisoiu ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book examines the Islamist radicalisation process in Europe, developing a new theoretical model based on an empirical study of the evolution of Islamist radicals in their social environment.The approach of this book is to examine how, and under what conditions, people choose to radicalise. It focuses on the experience of radicalisation from the perspective of those who have undergone it. The ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rethinking Education

    by Khadim Hussain ...
    Dr. Khadim Hussain's new book 'Rethinking Education: Critical Discourse and Society' provides an insight to readers on critical discourses in Pakistani society and its links with education system in the country. Potentially it is a harbinger of a transformation in our society where reason and critical thinking have rusted and consequently it could be translated into the stupendous power of the ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • Peacebuilding

    by Dennis J. D. Sandole ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world’s most turbulent regions has become the new global imperative. But to be effective, peacebuilding must be a multilateral, not a unilateral process. Even for the world’s sole surviving superpower, promoting and sustaining durable peace requires communication, co-ordination, co-operation, and collaboration ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    by Alison Howell ...
    Series series Interventions
    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD