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  • Crip Times

    Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

    by Robert McRuer ...
    Series Book 1 - Crip
    Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics.Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.”Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how ... Read more

    PHP1,431.19

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  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    PHP384.96

  • Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective

    by Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, Claes H. de Vreese ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single ... Read more

    PHP1,662.99

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    by Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... Read more

    PHP1,291.19

  • Real Queer?

    Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

    by David A. B. Murray ...
    “How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks and nervous borders? What is the impact of gender, race and class? What is an ‘authentic’ sexual or gender ... Read more

    PHP2,842.29

  • Global Childhoods

    Globalization, Development and Young People

    Edited by Stuart Aitken ...
    This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it elaborates larger concerns about the changing nature of childhood, young people’s experiences, their ... Read more

    PHP3,881.48

  • Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care

    Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

    Edited by Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of ... Read more

    PHP3,533.83

  • Inside Education

    Exploring the art of good learning

    by Stephen O'Brien ...
    To learn more about learning – what it is and how it works – it is necessary to look inside education. Inside Education takes the reader on a journey of four ‘live’ education projects: the first all-Irish speaking, mixed-gendered, multi-faith primary school in the Republic of Ireland ideally suited to exploring learning identity; an alternative post-primary school for those who leave (or are left ... Read more

    PHP3,649.71

  • Men and Development

    Politicizing Masculinities

    by Chris Dolan, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Margrethe Silberschmidt, Doctor Robert Morrell, Penny Morrell, Radhika Chopra, Marcos Nascimento, Christine Ricardo, Marianna Olinger, Marcio Segundo, Fang Gang, He Xiaopei, Susie Jolly, Patrick Welsh, Cheryl Overs, Raewyn Connell, Jeff Hearn, Gary Barker, Cath Sluggett, Jerry Okal, Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, Alan Greig, akshay khanna ...
    A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development.Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both ... Read more

    PHP2,015.49

  • Ethnography and Language Policy

    Edited by Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and ... Read more

    PHP4,229.12

  • Unequal Childhoods

    Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries

    Edited by Helen Penn ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    An expert in her field, Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies:Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet UnionSwaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by HIV and AIDSHimalayan IndiaBrazil - one of the world's most unequal countries.These four case studies ... Read more

    PHP4,692.65

  • Fires on the Border

    The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

    by Rosemary Hennessy ...
    The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism, belief, betrayal, and identification.What precisely is ... Read more

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