Taking as a case study the racial politics of the British state under New Labour, this book advances an idea of multiculturalism as the only conceptual framework that is capable of making sense of the contradictions of contemporary race practice, where racism is simultaneously rejected and reproduced.
This book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote.
This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.
Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process.
This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK.
Families are the cornerstone of Chinese society, whether in mainland China, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, or in the Chinese diaspora the world over.
This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.
Der Autor untersucht aus einer historisch-materialistischen Theorieperspektive den Wandel der französischen Reformpolitik im Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialbereich zwischen 2007 und 2015 im Kontext der europäischen Wirtschaftskrise.
In der aktivierenden Sozialpolitik müssen erwerbslose Personen immer höhere Anforderungen bewältigen, um sich in der Zeit der Arbeitslosigkeit zu bewähren.
This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances.
This thought-provoking book takes readers on a captivating journey through the realms of green urbanism, urban regeneration, and urban design, development, and preservation, providing an exploration of innovative approaches to creating sustainable and thriving cities of the future.
This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.
This book provides a vantage point of comparison, of the actual reality of decentralisation in India with Gandhi's vision of decentralised democracy, or what he referred to as Gram Swaraj.
Devlet ist keine wehleidige Kritik an vergangenen und zeitgenössischen politischen Systemen, sondern ein konstruktiver und bahnbrechender Ansatz, um Politik und Gesellschaft neu zu überdenken.
Julia Hillmann stellt in diesem Buch die Frage, wie der Aspekt der Bekämpfung des Geburtenrückgangs in Japan als zentrales Motiv der Work-Life-Balance-Maßnahmen gegenüber dem Ziel, mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit zu schaffen, thematisiert wird bzw.
This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.
This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.
This book draws on empirical work to examine the debates surrounding domestic violence disclosure schemes (also known as Clare's Law), focussing on England and Wales with comparisons to similar jurisdictions.
Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are somehow manageable and acceptable.
This book pays attention to education in India as part of several overlapping stories developed along different axes: stories of dissent, contestations, appropriation and social action.
Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national influence of the Open Method of Coordination in Social Inclusion and Social Protection (pensions and health/long-term care), at the European Union level and in ten EU Member States.
This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.
Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care.
This book argues that the substantial life and property loss caused by urban flooding might not be a pure result of a vulnerable physical environment-social factors, especially the individual attributes and capacities, could have pivotal roles to play in the resilience discourse as well.
This book takes a comparative approach to local government across 14 European countries, looking at processes of decentralisation, regionalisation and reforms of local government.
Elisabeth Hill und Mark Bibbert untersuchen die Genese des Prostituiertenschutzgesetzes im Rahmen einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse auf den Ebenen der parlamentarischen, medialen und aktivistischen Deutungskämpfe.
