Anthropology of Policy

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy-making has progressively reached into t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues ...

The absurdity of bureaucracy offers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy. Taking the rea...

Uses a wide range of international case studies from the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children's lives a...

DescriptionThis collection of essays is based on papers presented at the Tax Research Network conferences in 2015 and 2016. The provide valuable in...

Reducere. DescriptionSocial Policy for Child and Family Development: A Systems/Dialectical Perspective is designed to help students think critically and dial...

Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, ...

Reducere. This volume makes sense of the political history and social impacts of immigration law. It examines how immigration law reforms have prompted radic...

This book examines the role of refugees as providers of assistance to other refugees. Drawing upon ideas from anthropology and international relati...

Presents an agenda for research that aims to provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World. This book...

Anamik Saha has taken an integrative approach, combining both cultural studies and political economy perspectives in a cutting-edge book that cover...

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex f...

DescriptionThe Look East Policy which India unveiled in 1991 has now been superseded by Act East Policy which has ASEAN centrality as its core. The...

This new text illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and ...

Reducere. A collection of personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, Voices of the Border brings us closer to this community of people an...

Reducere. In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120, 000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adopti...

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agenc...

Reducere. A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agenc...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior e...

Reducere. A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consis...

DescriptionThis collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connection...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

This book synthesises research on violence for researchers and policy makers to inform future practice. Those who are interested in human conflict ...

DescriptionRadical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, ther...

Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Bes...

Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material...

Reducere. DescriptionAn acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that ...

Description"Powerful as well as highly engaging--a brilliant book."--Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay ...

Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted po...

Reducere. Postville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew interna...

Reducere. Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee. A significant number have settled in ca...

Reducere. This unique edited collection addresses issues impacting the well-being of LGBTQ individuals with diverse identities to help students, practitioner...

Reducere. The topic of "illegal" immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. F...

DescriptionPlanetary Health -- the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked -- encourages the preservation ...

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explore...

Reducere. The social worker's guide to integrating theory and practice Applying Theory to Generalist Social Work Practice teaches aspiring social workers how...

Reducere. This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sou...

DescriptionSocial workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social wor...

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The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more releva...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: F. A. HayekEditor: Bruce CaldwellF. A. Hayek never published the grand project he conceived in a letter to Fritz Machlup in...

Description Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition t...

The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise...

Reducere. Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It ha...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

Reducere. DescriptionMexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same t...

DescriptionWhat is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, ...

Reducere. This clear and accessible guide√>=written by social workers for social workers√>=describes the most current developments in neuroscience and their ...

DescriptionA vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live th...

Reducere. Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequal...

Contributor(s): Author: Lihong ShiChina's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within fam...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephanie WoodardIn recent years, events such as the siege at Standing Rock and the Dakota Access pipeline have thrust Nati...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Winifred TateIn 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, ...

Reducere. Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those...

DescriptionCreative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to do just...

DescriptionSince the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regard...

Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know t...