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Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

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"Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life" explores the experiences of its protagonist, a young girl named Lucy Ashton, as she navigates the challenges and struggles of life in Victorian England. The novel is structured as a first-person narrative, providing readers with insight into Lucy's thoughts, feelings, and experiences.As the story unfolds, Lucy grapples with a series of unfortunate events and ... Read more

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"Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life" explores the experiences of its protagonist, a young girl named Lucy Ashton, as she navigates the challenges and struggles of life in Victorian England. The novel is structured as a first-person narrative, providing readers with insight into Lucy's thoughts, feelings, and experiences.As the story unfolds, Lucy grapples with a series of unfortunate events and
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The Great Resignation as Neoliberal Compliance and Critique

A Foucauldian Analysis

by Caroline Austin ...

Series series Concepts for Critical Psychology
This book examines how neoliberal power shapes individual subjectivity in contemporary American workplaces through the lens of the Great Resignation—the 2021 mass voluntary job departure phenomenon.Drawing on in-depth interviews and a Foucauldian framework, the book traces how neoliberal rationalities of choice, flexibility, and self-optimization shape the ways individuals explain their labor ... Read more

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This book examines how neoliberal power shapes individual subjectivity in contemporary American workplaces through the lens of the Great Resignation—the 2021 mass voluntary job departure phenomenon.Drawing on in-depth interviews and a Foucauldian framework, the book traces how neoliberal rationalities of choice, flexibility, and self-optimization shape the ways individuals explain their labor
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Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

Navigating adolescence, mental health, and societal expectations through a girl's eyes

by Caroline Austin ...

In "Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life," Caroline Austin crafts a poignant narrative that encapsulates the complexities of adolescence through the eyes of a young girl grappling with the harsh realities of life. The literary style is characterized by lyrical prose, introspective dialogue, and vivid imagery that captures the protagonist's emotional turbulence. Set against the backdrop of ... Read more

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In "Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life," Caroline Austin crafts a poignant narrative that encapsulates the complexities of adolescence through the eyes of a young girl grappling with the harsh realities of life. The literary style is characterized by lyrical prose, introspective dialogue, and vivid imagery that captures the protagonist's emotional turbulence. Set against the backdrop of
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Beyond Racial Capitalism

Co-operatives in the African Diaspora

Edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sharon D. Wright Austin, Kevin Edmonds ...

Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage systemic exclusion. Most cases focus on how people use group methodology for ... Read more

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Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage systemic exclusion. Most cases focus on how people use group methodology for
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A Tapestry of Home Life: 27 Domestic Fiction Books

Classic Tales of Marriage, Class, Childhood, and the Hidden Dramas of Home

by Mrs. Molesworth, Emile Zola, E. M. Forster, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Maria Edgeworth, George de Horne Mrs. Vaizey, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Jean Bingham Wilson, Marian Hurd McNeely, Caroline Austin, Sarah E. Farro, Rebecca West, W. Somerset Maugham, Edith Wharton, Corra Harris, Margaret M. Robertson, Eleanora H. Stooke, Martha Finley, Ethel Turner, Theodore P. Wilson ...

A Tapestry of Home Life gathers twenty-seven works of domestic fiction into a capacious study of the household as sanctuary, schoolroom, battleground, and miniature social order. Its range extends from children's and family narratives to satire, realist social observation, psychological fiction, and narratives of marriage, inheritance, class, and female self-fashioning. The collection's most ... Read more

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A Tapestry of Home Life gathers twenty-seven works of domestic fiction into a capacious study of the household as sanctuary, schoolroom, battleground, and miniature social order. Its range extends from children's and family narratives to satire, realist social observation, psychological fiction, and narratives of marriage, inheritance, class, and female self-fashioning. The collection's most
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On Being Included

Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

by Sara Ahmed ...

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

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What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as
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Activists beyond Borders

Advocacy Networks in International Politics

by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

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Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states.
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Red Brother, White Brother

A Time for Atonement

by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...

Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

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Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence,
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The Failure of Global Capitalism

From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...

What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

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What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs
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Practical Ethics In Public Administration

by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo ...

Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public ... Read more

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Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public
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The Limits of Neoliberalism

Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

by William Davies ...

Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to ... Read more

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"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to
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Neoliberalism

A Very Short Introduction

by Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into ... Read more

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into
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