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
Title | What Really Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Kleinman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN | 019533132X |
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
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 |
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
Title | Social Suffering and Political Confession PDF eBook |
Author | Feiyu Sun |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9814407291 |
"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
Title | Social Suffering PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Renault |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2017-10-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1786600749 |
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
Title | Syndemic Suffering PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Mendenhall |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1315419440 |
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
Title | La Misère Du Monde PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Alienation (Social psychology) |
ISBN | 9780745615936 |
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.