In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error-one that Michael Hames-García sets out to correct in this revisionary look at the making and meaning of social identities. We have asked how separate identities-of race, cla…
This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France, clearly demonstrate…
This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France, clearly demonstrate…
While the figure of 'the immigrant' has become a topic of moral and political concern in Europe, little is known about how young adult migrants or descendants experience the complex processes of inclusion and exclusion in different life arenas. This book is the result of a multi…
Immer mehr Bürger in Deutschland sind vom wirtschaftlichen Reichtum des Landes ausgeschlossen. Nicht nur Arbeitslose oder Rentner, auch viele Menschen, die sich in einer Endlosspirale von Billigjobs und Zeitarbeit befinden. Früher konnten sie sich nicht nur der sozialstaatlichen…
Focuses on the ubiquitous and powerful effects of ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying.
This book analyses the dichotomy between the goal of social inclusion and the effect of social exclusion through over-indebtedness since 2008 in Europe. Filling a vital gap in the current literature on the effects of the financial and economic crisis, this volume puts into conte…
Media and Social Justice
Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? And how does their political unintelligibility shape political bodies, and the terms of political agency, from which they are excluded? In this…
Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? This book takes up a range of cases -- including those of Antigone, Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the Black …
Analyzes the reasons that the United States shifted its attention after 1989 from the containment of communism to a policy of combatting radical Islam, exploring the political and economic tensions that created a foreign policy fueled by Islamophobia. --Publisher's description.