1990 Census of Population and Housing

1990 Census of Population and Housing
Title 1990 Census of Population and Housing PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 590
Release 1993
Genre Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (N.M.)
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What Really Matters

What Really Matters
Title What Really Matters PDF eBook
Author Arthur Kleinman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 273
Release 2007
Genre Conduct of life
ISBN 019533132X

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Through arresting narratives we meet a woman aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, facing the chaos of a meaningless society and a doctor trying to stay alive during Mao's cultural revolution - individuals challenged by their societies and caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human.

Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age

Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age
Title Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age PDF eBook
Author Karen Soldatic
Publisher Routledge
Pages 218
Release 2022-04-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000580822

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This book provides a rich synthesis of research and theory of nascent and emergent critically engaged work examining changing welfare structures, regimes and technologies and the social suffering that is generated in everyday lives. By rigorously examining social security restructuring with the turn to austerity governance and its daily practices of managing, regulating and subordinating individuals, peoples and communities, this collection delineates the machinery of state power and logics designed to manage, contain and control the lives of some of the most poorest and marginalised citizens who are reliant on social welfare income payments. A core strength of the book is, first, its unpacking of austerity governance across diverse communities and, second, the elevation of community resistance and mobilisation against the very measures of austerity. Combined, the work maps out the logics of state power and everyday practices of embedded contestation and confrontation. Using the case study of Australia to discuss sociolegal recategorisations, automation of welfare governance, technologies of policy design and delivery, conditionality and systems of penalisation, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of sociology, critical theory, social policy, social work and disability studies, Indigenous studies and settler-colonialism.

Social Suffering and Political Confession

Social Suffering and Political Confession
Title Social Suffering and Political Confession PDF eBook
Author Feiyu Sun
Publisher World Scientific
Pages 218
Release 2013
Genre History
ISBN 9814407291

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"The ... volume ... examines one significant political phenomenon--Suku in revolutionary China through a matrix of western social theory: Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Suku is the practice of confessing individual suffering in a political context and in a collective public forum. By interpreting Suku from the joint perspectives of political identity and subjective psychological identity, the book presents a new paradigm for discussing social suffering and collective confession in a context of revolutionary change in China's modern history."--P. [4] of cover.

Social Suffering

Social Suffering
Title Social Suffering PDF eBook
Author Emmanuel Renault
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 215
Release 2017-10-11
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1786600749

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There are various forms of suffering that are best described as social suffering, such as stress, harassment, experience of poverty and domination. Such suffering is a matter of social concern, but it is rarely a matter of discussion in the social sciences, political theory or philosophy. This book aims to change this by making social suffering central to an interdisciplinary critical theory of society. The author advances the various contemporary debates about social suffering, connecting their epistemological and political stakes. He provides tools for recasting these debates, constructs a consistent conception of social suffering, and thereby equips us with a better understanding of our social world, and more accurate models of social critique. The book contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault argues that social suffering should be taken seriously in social theory as well as in social critique and provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised. He goes on to inquire into the political uses of references to social suffering, surveys contemporary controversies in the social sciences, and distinguishes between economical, socio-medical, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches, before proposing an integrative model and discussing the implications for social critique. He claims that the notion of social suffering captures some of the most specific features of the contemporary social question and that the most appropriate approach to social suffering is that of an interdisciplinary critical theory of society.

Syndemic Suffering

Syndemic Suffering
Title Syndemic Suffering PDF eBook
Author Emily Mendenhall
Publisher Routledge
Pages 146
Release 2016-06-16
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1315419440

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In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework, offering a model study of chronic disease disparity among the poor in high income countries.

La Misère Du Monde

La Misère Du Monde
Title La Misère Du Monde PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher
Pages 646
Release 1999
Genre Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN 9780745615936

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This book can be read like a series of short stories - the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on unemployment benefits and a part-time job; the story of a trade unionist who finds his goals undermined by the changing nature of work; the story of a family from Algeria living in a housing estate in the outskirts of Paris whose members have to cope with pervasive, everyday forms of racism; the story of a school teacher confronted with urban violence; and many others as well. Reading these stories enables one to understand these people's lives and the forms of social suffering which are part of them. And the reader will see that this book offers not only a distinctive method for analysing social life, but also another way of practising politics.