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The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality : Ethnographic Case Studies of Global Cities
Megan Sheehan, Angela Storey, and Jessica Bodoh-Creed
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores how steadily increasing inequality and the spectacular pace of urbanization frame everyday life for city residents around the world. With case studies from five continents, this volume explores what it means to live within cities marked by entrenched inequalities, situating daily life at the intersection between global processes and local histories. Drawing from ethnographic research, scholars in varied social science disciplines examine the reproduction of poverty and stratification, the creation of political and social marginality, and the destruction—and resilience—of communities. (publisher's description)
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Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho
Ellen Block and Will McGrath
AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care.
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Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement
Theodor P. (Ted) Gordon
In 1980, when the Cabazon Band first opened a small poker club on their Indian reservation in the isolated desert of California, they knew local authorities would challenge them. Cabazon persisted and ultimately won, defeating the State of California in a landmark case before the Supreme Court. By fighting for their right to operate a poker club, Cabazon opened up the possibility for native nations across the United States to open casinos on their own reservations, spurring the growth of what is now a $30 billion industry.
Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement tells the bigger story of how the Cahuilla nations—including the Cabazon—have used self-reliance and determination to maintain their culture and independence against threats past and present. From California’s first governor’s “war of extermination” against native peoples through today’s legal and political challenges, Gordon shows that successful responses have depended on the Cahuilla’s ability to challenge non-natives’ assumptions and misconceptions. -
Living, Loving, and Lasting as a Coach’s Wife: Insights From Football Coaches’ Wives
Janet Hope, Liddy Hope, and Sally Hope
Over 300 football coaches’ wives, ranging from new wives to veterans, give readers a glimpse into the roller coaster existence that is their life. This book is a must for football coaches and their wives, and for those contemplating employment as a football coach or marrying into the profession. Others will benefit from it as well—administrators, athletic directors, and their staffs will have a greater understanding of the lives of the coaches, their spouses, and their families. The book also contains information that will benefit members of the media as they write and broadcast about football and will give fans a new perspective on the game.
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Places of Faith: a Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape
Christopher Scheitle and Roger Finke
Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip. Christopher Scheitle and Roger Finke have crisscrossed America, visiting churches in small towns and rural areas, as well as the mega-churches, storefronts, synagogues, Islamic centers, Eastern temples, and other places of faith in major cities. Each stop on their tour provides an opportunity to introduce a particular current of American religion. Memphis serves as a window into the Black Church, a visit to Colorado Springs provides insight into evangelicalism, and a stop in Detroit sheds light on American Muslims. Readers visit Hare Krishnas in San Francisco, the Amish in central Pennsylvania, and a "cowboy church" in Amarillo, Texas. As the authors journey across the country, they retell unique religious histories and touch on local religious profiles and trends. They draw from conversations they had with pastors, imams, bishops, priests, and monks, along with ordinary believers of all kinds. Most of all, they tell the reader what they saw and heard, putting a human face on America's astounding religious diversity.
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Beyond the Congregation : The World of Christian Nonprofits
Christopher Scheitle
Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations. However, a different type of organization operating outside of these traditional structures is claiming an increasingly important place in the religious market. The growth of Christian nonprofits, popularly called "parachurch" organizations, has been recognized by churchgoers and social scientists alike as an important development that is transforming the composition and dynamics of American Christianity. The size, resources, and activities of this population have made it the public face of American Christianity and altered the relationship between individuals, churches and denominations. Beyond the Congregation utilizes data on almost 2,000 of the largest and most influential Christian nonprofits in the United States to answer some of the key questions raised by these organizations. What explains the growth of Christian nonprofits? What activities are they pursuing? How are they funded and how do they use those funds? Beyond the Congregation provides a much needed examination of these issues that is accessible and informative for scholars, nonprofit executives, religious leaders and the general public.
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Come Lovely and Soothing Death : the Right to Die Movement in the United States
Jeffrey J. Kamakahi, Elaine Fox, and Stella M. Capek
Despite increasing media visibility and growing public support for euthanasia in the United States, the right to die movement has not, until now, received systematic sociological attention. In Come Lovely and Soothing Death, Fox, Kamakahi, and Capek trace the emergence from the 1930s, the evolution, and the contemporary activities of the movement, and explore the sociocultural circumstances that produce scenarios where individuals face criminal sanctions for engaging in active euthanasia ("assisted suicide")." "Come Lovely and Soothing Death is a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology and social policy, and for anyone interested in the right to die, physician assisted suicide, or social movements.
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Family Violence : Studies from the Social Sciences and Professions. Vol. 2, Relationship Violence
James Michael Makepeace
A collection of readings from interdisciplinary materials. The material is geared toward advanced undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in sociology, social work, or other courses where the study of family violence is a major component. Major scholars, both academic and practitioners, are included and interested instructors will recognize well known names and research. Now in a second edition, these readers contain recently published articles and selections concerned with family violence in other cultures.
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Family Violence : Studies from the Social Sciences and Professions. Vol. 1, Child Maltreatment
James Michael Makepeace
A collection of readings from interdisciplinary materials. The material is geared toward advanced undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in sociology, social work, or other courses where the study of family violence is a major component. Major scholars, both academic and practitioners, are included and interested instructors will recognize well known names and research. Now in a second edition, these readers contain recently published articles and selections concerned with family violence in other cultures.
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