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 …
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…
Der Mann als "Arbeiter" ist ein Auslaufmodell: Nach dem Boom der Wirtschaftswunderzeit kommt es in den westlichen Industrienationen zu einer Verschärfung sozialer Ungleichheit. Insbesondere der Industriesektor leidet unter den Folgen von Globalisierung und Digitalisierung. Diese…
In the name of the nation: India and its northeast
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. …
"In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites - all beyond the view of outsiders and the media. In her research, Kendall expla…
Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which …
Ein europäischer Bestseller im richtigen Augenblick: die leidenschaftliche Anklage gegen die Übermacht der Wirtschaft, gegen das Versagen der Politik, ihre Gleichgültigkeit vor dem Skandal der Massenarbeitslosigkeit.
"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…
For too long the movement of labour and the labour movement have been studied in splendid isolation. This volume addresses their intersection. Karl Polanyi's intuition that history moves through a double movement of disembedding under market rule followed by re-embedding under s…
