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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “majka ryan”
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  • Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality

    Edited by Majka Ryan, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux ...
    Series series Discourse, Power and Society
    Media discourses play a powerful role in shaping public understanding of inequality-yet they often obscure, distort, or individualize its causes.Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality examines how mainstream media systems reproduce and legitimize unequal social structures by marginalizing, sensationalizing, or blaming those most affected. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies

    Understanding Decision-Making in the Context of Rule Ambiguity

    by Majka Ryan ...
    Series series Discourse, Power and Society
    Through case-study research, Majka Ryan offers a systematic microanalysis of discretion in a specific context of residence-based welfare conditionality derived from the labour movement directive 2004/38/EC. The latter is utilised in the coordination of social security benefits for mobile EU citizens across Europe. Ryan reveals that in Ireland and other jurisdictions, official rights, be they ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • OCR Sociology for A Level Book 2

    by Sue Brisbane, Katherine Roberts, Paul Taylor, Laura Pountney ...
    Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading subject authors.- Develop knowledge and understanding of key Year 2 concepts in... ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World

    Cases and Commentaries

    Edited by Sarah Banks, Kirsten Nøhr ...
    Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work in Palestine.This book takes as its starting point real life cases featuring ethical problems in the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • To Exist is to Resist

    Black Feminism in Europe

    Edited by Akwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande ...
    This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe.Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the ... Read more

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  • Being Sociological

    by Sara Salman, Daniel R. Smith, Suzanne Woodward, Adrian Franklin, Kate Huppatz, Mary Holmes, Raelene Wilding, Farzana Shain, Chamsy el-Ojeili, Dylan Taylor, David Bartram, Luke Goode, Chris Rojek, Stephanie Baker, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Tracey McIntosh, Dr Lucy Mayblin ...
    Being Sociological considers the lived experience of sociology, stressing the active nature of social life and highlighting the role that students can play in enacting social change. Fully reworked in this third edition, with five brand new chapter topics and a diverse roster of new contributors, this textbook presents a fresh take on society today.The book encourages readers to examine both ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Cultural Policy

    by David Bell, Kate Oakley ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both ‘culture’ and ‘policy’ mean when they are joined together as cultural policy.Drawing on topical examples and contemporary ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies

    Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

    by Ousmane Bakary Bâ, Thomas Boudreau, Jason J. Campbell, Paul Cormier, Nathan C. Funk, Johan Galtung, Nancy Hansen, Sherrill Hayes, Myrtle Hill, Peter Karari, Neil H. Katz, Peter Kellett, Alka Kumar, Brenda LeFrançois, Andrea Levy, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Amos Nadan, Robin Neustaeter, Frederic Pearson, Jean Poitras, Jodi Dueck-Read, Brian Rice, Anna Snyder, Arnaud Stimec, Chuck Thiessen, Hamdesa Tuso, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Christina J. Woolner ...
    Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • People's Knowledge and Participatory Action Research

    by The People's Knowledge Editorial Collective ...
    The world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded are asked to take part in research – even participative research -- they are seldom able to do so on equal terms. Instead of being supported to draw on the expertise that they have gained from their ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Revolutionary Road to Me

    Identity Politics and the Western Left

    by Chetan Bhatt ...
    How can the left be credible when it can’t decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western left organizations being damaged by it?As the culture wars rage, this compelling book examines why much of the Western political left has foundered because of identity politics. Identity issues ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD