The denial of voting rights to certain types of persons continues to be a moral problem of practical significance. The disenfranchisement of persons with mental impairments, minors, non-citizen residents, non-resident citizens, and criminal offenders is a matter of controversy. …
The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…
The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
"In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought …
Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped create a broad and inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, the author describes how religious thought and…
This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem introduces readers to the ways race has been constructed in the …
"Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people. This book considers new approaches to understanding the complexities of prevention and how they can inform policy and practice. The authors use evidence from the Nation…
Banishment's re-emergence -- Toward banishment: the transformation of urban social control -- The social geographies of banishment -- Banishment and the criminal justice system -- Voices of the banished -- Banishment reconsidered.
"With rising urban poverty and decreased affordable housing, the homeless and other disorderly people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects of visible homelessness, many cities embrace zero tolerance or broken window pol…
"With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects of their presence on property values and public safety, many cities have wh…
In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." 'In the Name of the Nation' offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with this borderland region. …
