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  • The New American Servitude

    Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers

    de Cati Coe ...
    Series Libro 3 - Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
    Finalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist AnthropologyExamines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United StatesCare for America’s growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African ... Leer más

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  • Changes in Care

    Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa

    de Cati Coe ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many years with chronic, disabling illnesses. In Ghana, many older people, rather than experiencing a sense of security that they will be respected and cared for by the younger generations, feel anxious that ... Leer más

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  • The Scattered Family

    Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

    de Cati Coe ...
    Today’s unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In The Scattered Family, Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Challenging oversimplified concepts of globalization as a wholly unchecked force, she details the diverse and creative ... Leer más

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  • Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin ... Leer más

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  • Diverse Unfreedoms

    The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages

    The legacies of plantation slavery continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the diverse forms of unfreedom that mark our present. Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through these legacies of unfreedom via a more entangled and multidirectional model of what makes for historical change and continuity in practices and relationships of subjugation. This volume troubles the stark opposition ... Leer más

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  • Aspiring in Later Life

    Movements across Time, Space, and Generations

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the ... Leer más

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  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    de Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Leer más

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  • Politics of Being

    Wisdom and Science for a New Development Paradigm

    "A profound, insightful, extensively researched, sensitive and much needed essay which provides a precious roadmap for traveling together towards a better world" – Mathieu RicardWhat would a wisdom-based or “spiritual” approach to politics look like? How can we tap into science to support our collective conscious evolution?In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Legrand Ph.D. proposes to fundamentally ... Leer más

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Leer más

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Leer más

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Leer más

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  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    de Pippa Norris ...
    A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon ... Leer más

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