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Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts' approaches to the problem of disability harassment, particularly the application of an analogy to race and sex harassment and the development of legal remedies and policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

While litigation under...

Alice and Staughton Lynd have devoted their lives to the struggle for social justice. Carl Mirra began the history of the Lynds with his biography, Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970 (The Kent State University Press, 2010). Side by Side picks up the Lynds' story as they move to Youngstown, Ohio, to begin a new chapter in their lives.

Throughout their narrative, authors Mark Weber and Stephen Paschen examine the idea of accompaniment, a form of political activism that differs from the traditional strategies used by labor and community...

The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy practitioners, who tend to adopt a technocratic approach to the crisis of development and violence.

This book brings together a wide range of contributions aimed at investigating different aspects of the history of development and violence, and its implications for contemporary efforts to...

Die vorliegende Festschrift geht von der Auffassung aus, da die Wurdigung eines hervorragenden Reprasentanten einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin bzw. eines bestimmten wissenschaftlichen Ansatzes umso glaubwurdiger ist, je konsequenter sie auf den einschlagigen Fachdiskurs bezogen wird. Ihre Herausgeber haben sich deshalb darauf verstandigt, die ublichen affirmativreputativen Elemente zuruckzustellen zugunsten einer Losung, die man den Versuch einer 'kritischen' Festschrift nennen konnte.