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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Trans-local Lives: Class, Gender and Rurality in post-2004 Migration between Ireland and Poland
Author: Natalia MazurkiewiczPublisher: Transnational Press London
ISBN: 1912997223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is concerned with the classed and gendered characteristics of post-2004 migration between two non-city locales in Ireland (Newcastle West, Co. Limerick) and Poland (Tczew, pomorskie voivodeship). It documents and analyses this contemporary migration wave as a sociocultural phenomenon and sheds light on the strategies developed by the participants through which they rationalise and negotiate their mobile lifestyles. Content: Introduction Chapter 1 Polish Capitalism and the Legacies of Communism and Catholicism Chapter 2 Post-2004 Polish Migration to Ireland Chapter 3 Theorising Contemporary Migration Chapter 4 Researching Contemporary Migration: Methodological Considerations Chapter 5 The Trans-local Habitus: Reproducing Rurality in Migration Chapter 6 Ordinary People Living Normal Lives: Formations of the Migrant Working Class Chapter 7 Making Migration Livable: Negotiations between Mobility and Emplacement Chapter 8 Polish Masculinities and Femininities: Constructions of Gender Identities in Migration Conclusion
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Author: The Middle Class in World Society
Author: Christian SuterPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000076210
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This volume delves into the study of the world’s emerging middle class. With essays on Europe, the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the book studies recent trends and developments in middle class evolution at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It reconsiders the conceptualization of the middle class, with a focus on the diversity of middle class formation in different regions and zones of world society. It also explores middle class lifestyles and everyday experiences, including experiences of social mobility, feelings of insecurity and anxiety, and even middle class engagement with social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book provides a sophisticated analysis of this new and rapidly expanding socioeconomic group and puts forth some provocative ideas for intellectual and policy debates. It will be of importance to students and researchers of sociology, economics, development studies, political studies, Latin American studies, and Asian Studies.
Entrepreneurship in Latin America
Author: Eduardo LoraPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464800081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"A copublication of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank."
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Author: Class and Schools
Author: Richard RothsteinPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807745564
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality." In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school. This book features: a summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more ; aA look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools "beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices." ; and an analysis of how the over-emphasis of standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.
Cities and the Creative Class
Author: Richard L. FloridaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415948869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the key economic growth asset - and argues that, in order to prosper, cities must harness this creative potential.
Democratic Dynasties
Author: Kanchan ChandraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131659212X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.
Translating the Female Self across Cultures
Author: Eliana MaestriPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027266069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Translating the Female Self across Cultures examines contemporary autobiographical narratives and their Italian and French translations. The comparative analyses of the texts are underpinned by the latest developments in Translation Studies that place emphasis on identity construction in translation and the role of translation in moulding various types of identity. They focus on how the writers’ textual personae make sense of their sexual, artistic and post-colonial identities in relation to the mother and how the mother-daughter dyad survives translation into the Italian and French social, political and cultural contexts. The book shows how each target text activates different cultural literary, linguistic and rhetorical frames of reference which cast light on the facets of the protagonists’ quest for identity: the cult of the Madonna; humour and irony; gender and class; mimesis and storytelling; performativity and geographical sense of self. The book highlights the fruitfulness of studying women’s narratives and their translations, and the polyphonic dialogue between the translations and the literary and theoretical productions of the French and Italian cultures.
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