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Child Protection Systems
This book builds upon and advances the comparative analysis of child protection systems that was conducted in the mid-1990s. Since the mid-1990s, however, much has changed in the realm of child welfare and how states define and deal with their responsibilities for children at risk. This book sets out to identify and analyse these changes and their implications, with a particular focus on assessing the extent to which the child protection and family service orientations continue to provide a helpful framework for understanding and comparing systems in different countries.
Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures
This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.
Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection
Lessons from child protection errors and mistakes in 11 countries in Europe and North America are drawn together in a stimulating study from leading researchers in the field. By comparing and contrasting impacts, responses and responsibilities, it deepens understanding of how child protection systems fail and points to ideas for risk reduction.
Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire
During the tumultuous age of empire, Ottoman Macedonia became a blank canvas onto which Great Powers and neighboring states projected their aspirations, grievances, ambitions, and state-building endeavors. This manuscript aims to elucidate these constructs and imaginaries, employing a theoretical framework encompassing entangled history, post-colonial theory, and subaltern studies. It will examine both (inter)state and local examples to shed light on the multifaceted nature of this complex issue.
Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems
"cross the spectrum of political ideologies there is, in principle, widespread agreement that the state has a legitimate role in protecting children from harm. Even the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman (1962), among the most ardent liberal supporters of the laissez faire philosophy, recognized this "paternalistic" function of government. At the same time, the traditional view of children, that they are the property of the father (pater) or the parents, is under pressure (Zelizer, 1994; James & Prout, 1997; Archard 2004). Societies are at an intersection when it comes to how children are treated and how their rights are respected, which creates tensions in the traditional relationship between the family and the state. Children are a focus of government responsibility under certain state-defined norms relating to harm and need. And parents are sometimes constrained by the state from exercising their (familial or property) rights under state-defined criteria of harm and need"--
Spaces of Dissension
This volume focusses on contradiction as a key concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions from a broad disciplinary spectrum, the volume advances research in contradiction and on contradictory phenomena, laying the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field of research: Contradiction Studies. Dealing with linguistic phenomena, urban geographies, business economy, literary writing practices, theory of the social sciences, and language education, the contributions show that contradiction, rather than being a logical exemption in the Aristotelian sense, provides a valuable approach to many fields of socially, culturally, and historically relevant fields of research.
Interventions against child abuse and violence against women
This book offers insights and perspectives from a study of “Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence” (CEINAV) in four EU-countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices in Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, the team explored variations in institutional structures and traditions of law, policing, and social welfare. Theories of structural inequality and ethics are discussed and translated into practice.
Architecture, Materiality and Society
This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency.
Sozialraumorientierung in der Sozialen Arbeit
Das Buch zeigt eine Alternative zum diagnostischen Vorgehen in der Hilfe- und Teilhabeplanung auf und schließt damit eine Lücke unter den Publikationen zum Fachkonzept Sozialraumorientierung. Der Lebensentwurf und die Willensenergie, also die Interessen und Vorstellungen der Menschen von einem gelingenden Alltag, sind Ausgangspunkte passgenauer Unterstützungssettings, die sich so an der lebensweltlichen Logik der leistungsberechtigten Menschen orientieren. Erstmalig werden dabei die sechs Elemente einer sozialraumorientierten Hilfe- und Teilhabeplanung verständlich und mit umfassenden Arbeitsmaterialien vorgestellt. Weitere Beiträge beleuchten die Kompatibilität des Fachkonzepts Sozialraumorientierung mit dem Kinder- und Jugendschutzansatz Signs of Safety und dem Beratungsansatz Motivational Interviewing.
Das akademische Prekariat. Leben zwischen Frist und Plan
Kaum im Job eingearbeitet, ist er schon wieder beendet... Befristete Verträge von Arbeitnehmern sind geeignet, die Biografie der Betroffenen kräftig durcheinanderzuwirbeln – mit allen Folgen bis hin zu sozialer Desintegration und Prekarisierung. Selbst eine hohe Qualifikation schützt hiervor nicht automatisch. Immer mehr Hochqualifizierte mit akademischem Abschluss sind von Befristungen im Arbeitsleben betroffen, welche zu völlig neuen Herausforderungen führen. In ihrer qualitativen Studie untersucht Nadine Sander, wie sich Arbeitsfrist und Lebensplan vereinbaren lassen und ob ein Zwang zur kreativen Lebensgestaltung ohne Sicherheit und Orientierungshilfen entsteht oder ob sich Normalbiografien nicht vielleicht doch noch mit den Erfahrungen von befristet Erwerbstätigen vereinbaren lassen. In erster Linie analysiert sie dabei die Perzeption und das Management der spezifischen Lebenssituationen befristet beschäftigter Akademiker.
