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Rethinking Interdisciplinarity Across The Social Sciences And Neurosciences

de D. Fitzgerald e F. Callard

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 This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.
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Psychiatry Under The Influence - Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, And Prescriptions For Reform

de L. Cosgrove e R. Whitaker

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 Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption.
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Migrant Citizenship From Below - Family, Domestic Work, And Social Activism In Irregular Migration

de K. Shinozaki

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 Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in SchÃ¶nberg, Germany.
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Collective Action For Social Change - An Introduction To Community Organizing

de A. Schutz e M. Sandy

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 Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.
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Myth Of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction - Continuity And Reclamation In Borikén (Puerto Rico)

de Tony Castanha

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 This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.' Through the uncovering of recent ethnographical data, the author reveals extensive narratives of JÃbaro Indian resistance and cultural continuity on the island of BorikÃ©n.
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Gender Epistemologies In Africa - Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, And Identities

de O. Oyewumi

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 This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.
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Inside The Latin@ Experience - A Latin@ Studies Reader

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 Latinos comprise the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and this interdisciplinary anthology gathers the scholarship of both early career and senior Latina/o scholars whose work explores the varied and unique latinidades, or Latino cultural identities, of this group.
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Feederism - Eating, Weight Gain, And Sexual Pleasure

de Kathy Charles e Michael Palkowski

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 This book explores the controversial and misunderstood world of sexualised weight gain known as feederism. Conversations with over 20 feeders and feedees are analysed through a psychological and sociological lens. The implications for health professionals working in bariatrics are discussed along with directions for future research.
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Architecture, Materiality And Society - Connecting Sociology Of Architecture With Science And Technology Studies

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 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.
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Rethinking Disability Theory And Practice - Challenging Essentialism

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 Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it crucially demonstrates the consequences of radically rethinking the roles of language and perspective in constructing identities.
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On Face Transplantation - Life And Ethics In Experimental Biomedicine

de Samuel Taylor-Alexander

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 Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.
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Master-Servant Childhood - A History Of The Idea Of Childhood In Medieval English Culture

de P. Ryan

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 An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.
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Radical Feminism - Feminist Activism In Movement

de F. Mackay

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 Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and original account of the global Reclaim the Night March.
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Diy Wifi: Re-Imagining Connectivity

de K. Jungnickel

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 Based on extensive fieldwork, Jungnickel's research into community WiFi networking explores the innovative digital cultures of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. Committed to making 'ournet, not the internet', these digital tinkerers re-inscribe wireless broadband technology with new meanings and re-imagined possibilities of use.
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Sustainable Knowledge - A Theory Of Interdisciplinarity

de R. Frodeman

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 Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'.
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Witnesses To Terror - Understanding The Meanings And Consequences Of Terrorism

de L. Howie

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 This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism.
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Counter-Terrorism - Community-Based Approaches To Preventing Terror Crime

de B. Spalek

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 Efforts to counter terrorism are drawing increasingly on community-based initiatives and a partnership between police officers and members of specific social groups. This book analyses the potential of these initiatives and the role played by factors such as community engagement, gender and religion, and the tensions that these create.
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Representing Ageing - Images And Identities

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 This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.
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Murder, Gender And The Media - Narratives Of Dangerous Love

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 A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced sentences for the killers. The author explores how stories of domestic homicide are told in the news, by the police, and in the courts, drawing from 72 cases which took place over a twelve month period.
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Cosmopolitanization Of Science - Stem Cell Governance In China

de J. Zhang

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 Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.
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Psychology In The Bathroom

de Nick Haslam

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 Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.
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Subject Of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective

de S. Vanheule

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 This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Presenting a close reading of original texts, Stijn Vanheule proposes that Lacan's work on psychosis can best be framed in terms of four broad periods.
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Humanity 2.0 - What It Means To Be Human Past, Present And Future

de S. Fuller

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 Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner.
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Understanding Suicide - A Sociological Autopsy

de B. Fincham, J. Scourfield, M. Shiner e S. Langer

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 Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives.
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