Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.
The Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment covers many topics on the numerous ways in which mental and physical health and criminal justice system contact influence one another and are intricately intertwined.
The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics.
A fascinating account of the intellectual origins of identity politics' Financial Times, Books of the YearThe origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world.
Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.
La negación de la discriminación racial en Colombia y la falta de medidas contra ella se deben, en parte, a la ausencia de datos sólidos sobre las desventajas de la población afrocolombiana en espacios como el trabajo, la educación y la vivienda.
En 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, sufragista, abolicionista y pionera en la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres, escribió un discurso de hondo calado feminista y existencialista en el que defendía la plena autonomía de las mujeres basándose precisamente en la inconmensurable y radical soledad de todos los seres humanos.
"En este libro se pretende promover la reflexión y sensibilización para la prevención del maltrato familiar y la discriminación múltiple perpetrados contra el colectivo de mujeres, desde una perspectiva jurídico-social y bajo un enfoque humanista, orientado hacia este fenómeno delictivo que significa la violencia perpetrada en el ámbito de las relaciones domésticas, familiares, afectivas y de convivencia, haciéndose especial hincapié a las mujeres ancianas, discapacitadas, indígenas, niñas y adolescentes.
Entwicklungen wie die weltweite Ausbreitung des Populismus, der wachsende Einfluss von Verschwörungserzählungen oder das schwindende Vertrauen in demokratische Institutionen stellen Demokratien vor vielfältige Herausforderungen.
A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first-person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.
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Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted.
Signos culturales de lo queer y de la discapacidad surge de las tradiciones de los estudios culturales que cuestionan el orden de las cosas, analizando como y por que se construye y naturaliza este orden; de que manera se encuentra inserto en las complejas relaciones economicas, sociales y culturales; y como podria cambiarse.
A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment.
Blakeslee examines the history and current status of Jews and antisemitism in the United States to reveal what we know of antisemitism and the ways in which this knowledge is seriously flawed.
Invidious distinctions on the basis of race and overt racism were central features in American colonial policy in the Philippines from 1898 to 1947, as America transported its domestic racial policy to the island colony.
In the context of the evolution of affirmative action at the national and state levels, this study offers an empirical account of the citizens' movement in California that successfully resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment to abolish such preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting.
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.
Offering fresh and exciting approaches to solving global problems, this book creatively views challenging social issues through the lens of racial and ethnic psychology.
The South African higher education system has historically been characterized by racial and gender inequities inherited from the discriminatory policies of the apartheid era.
