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Performing the jumbled city is a complex artefact beyond its own materiality. Linked to a dedicated website hosting additional audio-visual materials, the book acts as a connecting device allowing an exchange between texts, audio-visual materials, and original artworks, situating it in the emerging field of multi-modal ethnography. From this stance, and as an edited collection co-authored with urban indigenous artists and activists, it interrogates the ways in which knowledge is built and shared. The book is constructed as a particular kind of edited collection, shifting between different authorships. The resulting interaction between individual and collective essays draws together scholarsâ...
Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods. The book also shows how these forms of policing produce unstable terrains, and give rise to contestation among families, communities, and professionals. It questions and re-thinks how state welfare and protection is administered.
The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the...
This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The loneliness room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today. https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/lonelyroom
L’industriale della seta Alfonso Scurati si suicida. La famiglia si disgrega, ogni membro della famiglia reagisce in maniera diversa. Ilaria decide di percorrere le vie della disperazione: la rivendicazione apparentemente a mano armata (con pistola ovviamente scarica) dei diritti della famiglia e il risanamento del sopruso operato dalla Banca, l’aggregazione a un movimento anarchico/insurrezionale che si rivela manipolato dal potere… la formazione di un movimento politico che chiama “resistenza”... Dietro al suicidio del padre ci sono le oscure manovre di un affermato, temuto e potente uomo politico. Lucio Ferro, di cui Ilaria, la ribelle, diventa la spina nel fianco e, ovviamente,...
The bestselling guide to reporting writing, updated and reworked for today's practice Essentials of Assessment Report Writing offers effective solutions to the creation of reader-friendly, yet targeted, psychological, and educational assessment reports. Parents, clinicians, clients, and other readers need more than test-by-test descriptions—they need an accessible analysis of the entire situation to determine their next steps. This book provides clear guidance for busy practitioners seeking ways to improve their report writing skills. With a focus on current practice, this new second edition covers DSM-5 updates and the latest assessment instruments including the WJ IV, WISC-V, WAIS-IV, KT...
In the Global South, Indigenous and Native people continue to live under colonial relations within formally independent nation-states. Sebastian Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity and transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from critical race and decolonial studies with an activist ethnography on networked spaces of encounters created through solidarity activism by Mapuche and non-Mapuche actors. Departing from those experiences, this book not only presents potential pitfalls of transnational advocacy but suggests new ways of understanding and practicing solidarity.
Get lost (and found) in an interactive haunted maze, organized and decorated by scare queen Lucy Loud herself! Shiver at the curdling legend of the Candy Goblin! And you may want to duck under the covers after witnessing what Lincoln Loud encounters in “The Nightmare on Franklin Street”! More scares, thrills, chills, and brouhaha to tickle all funny bones in this scary good celebration of all things spooky. Featuring all-new stories from THE LOUD HOUSE and THE CASAGRANDES creative teams.
It is 1973 and Charlie Lawrence is a Vietnam vet who wants to put the conflict in southeast Asia behind him and get on with life back in America. Unfortunately, it’s just not that easy. Despite a faith strong enough to refute false theology and stand against popular values, there is no question that Charlie, a proud Green Beret, is struggling to readjust to civilian life. Troubled by his traumatic memories of a haunting war in the jungle, Charlie makes his way to South Texas where he is offered a job on Ramon Francisco Cantu Ybarra’s cattle ranch. As he acclimates to his new role on the ranch that allows him a welcome escape from civilization, Charlie begins making friends and spreading the Word of God. But when fortune changes and he agrees to an arranged marriage with a woman he’s never met, Charlie soon discovers that trusting in God’s plan is harder than he thinks. In this touching novel, a Vietnam vet attempting to adapt to civilian life takes a job on a ranch and agrees to a nonconventional marriage, challenging his faith in ways he never imagined.