Here, Peter Somerville provides a trenchant critique of current approaches to community, drawing extensively on both theory and recent research. With its thought-provoking and in-depth analysis of what it might mean to be a community, he has provided an invaluable resource for a…
Different rainbows
This book builds on the study on the needs of disabled women experiencing domestic violence and abuse in the United Kingdom, and the services available to meet those needs. The authors outline what is known about domestic violence and disabled women, but also describe experience…
Practising social inclusion
PrefaceThe Feeling of Being OneselfWim BlockmansPart I. Positioning by milieuShowing off One's Rank in the Middle AgesRaymond Van UytvenAttitudes and Social Positioning in Courtly Romances: Hainault, Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesDanielle QuéruelGifts of Mourning-Cloth at th…
Civil society organizations, nonprofits, national and international nongovernmental organizations, and a variety of formal and informal associations have coalesced into a world political force. Though the components of this so-called third sector vary by country, their cumulativ…
Civil society organizations, nonprofits, national and international nongovernmental organizations, and a variety of formal and informal associations have coalesced into a world political force. Though the components of this so-called third sector vary by country, their cumulativ…