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The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration
This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive contributions from leading international experts on gender and global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories, families and working cultures in which local, regional, national, and global economies are embedded.
Gender Matters
Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disciplinary scope for inquiry, the present volume brings together a wide range of scholarly papers investigating a cohesive topic—gendered violence—from the perspectives of French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Japanese literature, history, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. It interrogates the intersection of gender and violence in the early modern period, cutting across nat...
Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration
In recent decades, emerging challenges such as increased digitalization of social lives and the ongoing processes of border externalization and internalization, have prompted scholars and civil societies to question the ways in which people view, frame and experience migration and draw attention to emerging forms of resistance and mobility justice. This timely Encyclopedia engages with critical epistemologies and practices to provide a comprehensive examination of the field of global migration, activism and cultural production.
Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective
The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological advancement, shifts in political, economic and social policy, contemporary demographic shifts, changing trends in the labor sector linked to global economics, and developments in legislative and judicial output, all signify the distinctiveness of the current moment with regard to family patterns and social norms. Seeking to contribute to an existing body of literature focused on single motherhood and lone parenting in the 20th century, this collection explores and illuminates a more recent landscape of 21st century debates, policies and experiences surrounding single motherhood and one-parent headed families.
Feminist New Materialisms
For the editors of this collection, new materialisms have always been the entanglement of epistemology, ontology, ethics, and politics. Looking back to the notion of “situated knowledges” (Haraway, 1988) that – among others – “planted the seed for feminist new materialism” (van der Tuin, 2015, 26) – one sees how those (at least) four planes are entangled (Rogowska-Stangret, 2018) in order to bring forth “response-able” (Haraway, 2008) research. New materialism is thus an ethico-onto-epistemological framework (Barad, 2007; Revelles-Benavente, 2018) that by activating its ethico-politics helps to diagnose, infer, and transform gendered, environmental, anthropocentric, social ...
Federalism and Social Policy
Federalism and Social Policy focuses on the crucial question: Is a strong and egalitarian welfare state compatible with federalism? In this carefully curated collection, Scott L. Greer, Heather Elliott, and the contributors explore the relationship between decentralization and the welfare state to determine whether or not decentralization has negative consequences for welfare. The contributors examine a variety of federal countries, including Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom, asking four key questions related to decentralization: (1) Are there regional welfare states (such as Scotland, Minnesota, etc.)? (2) How much variation is there in the structures of federal welfare states? (3) Is federalism bad for welfare? (4) Does austerity recentralize or decentralize welfare states? By focusing on money and policy instead of law and constitutional politics, the volume shows that federalism shapes regional governments and policies even when decentralization exists.
Gender and Well-Being in Europe
This book is the first of four books based on a series of symposia funded by COST, which is an intergovernmental framework for the promotion of European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. It draws on both historical and contemporary European case-studies to offer a sophisticated account of the relationship between gender and well-being. The authors focus on key discussions of the changing conceptions of well-being from early twentieth century calculations of the relationship between income and the cost-of-living, to more recent critiques from feminist writers. Their fascinating answers allow them to significantly challenge the issue with the idea that well-being is not only associated with income or opulence but also relates to more abstract concepts including capabilities, freedom, and agency of different women and men and will be of considerable interest to economic and social historians, sociologists of health, gender, sexuality and economists.
Àmbits de recerca i metodologies en sociologia
Aquest llibre recull dinou resums de recerques tant individuals com col·lectives vehiculades al voltant de sis grups de recerca consolidats de la Universitat de Barcelona que han desenvolupat i divulgat la investigació sociològica en els darrers cinc anys. El ventall de temes tractats és divers i dóna claus per entendre la realitat social que ens envolta: mercat laboral, mobilitat i benestar; recerca, internacionalització i innovació; ciutats i creativitat; control social, càstig i seguretat; gènere, família, exclusió i desigualtat, i llengua, religió i felicitat. Per altra banda, a l’interès temàtic cal afegir-hi el metodològic, ja que a cada capítol s’exposen les perspectives teòriques i les tècniques de recollida i anàlisi de dades que s’hi han utilitzat. Més enllà de les aplicacions didàctiques que té aquest material, sens dubte servirà per estimular la recerca sociològica i obrir noves línies de treball.
Sobre la història i els seus usos públics
Josep Fontana ha exercit un fecund magisteri sobre nombroses generacions d’historiadors i d’universitaris en general. Aquest llibre, editat amb motiu del seu nomenament com a doctor honoris causa per la Universitat de València, reuneix algunes de les seues reflexions sobre l’ofici d’historiador i l’ensenyament de la història, així com diverses intervencions en l’esfera pública sobre la pobresa i la desigualtat, les cares obscures i ocultes de les nostres democràcies i dels seus governants, els usos polítics de la història i de la memòria, i molts altres temes d’actualitat. La primera part se centra en allò que Fontana ens diu sobre els historiadors que més han influï...
