Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with insurance policies, to difficulties with adoption agencies.
The empirical studies on the problem of genetic discrimination have not gone unnoticed. Since the beginning of the 1990s, a series of legislative initiatives and statements, both on the national level and on the part of international...
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of...
Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the world. Contributors provide an assessment of the overall social globalization phenomenon in the global world as well as an outlook of transformations of global social inequality in the future. This book will be a timely addition for students and scholars of globalization studies, social...
Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume o...
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture, from its roots in ancient Hawaii, to Waikiki beach at the dawn of the twentieth century, continuing through Depression-era California, cresting during the early sixties, persistently present over the next three decades, and now, more globally popular than ever. Throughout, Lawler sets the image of...
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especia...
Course research contributes to policy, showing the effects of interaction of individual development & the socio-economic context. This book shows how policy innovation influenced development, ageing & well-being, differently in each generation, over half a century, & how those differences offer opportunities for research.
Course research contributes to policy, showing the effects of interaction of individual development & the socio-economic context. This book shows how ...
This book brings together Russian and Western, eminent and younger scholars to provide a fresh and provocative approach to a variety of interrelated fields in Russian studies.
This book brings together Russian and Western, eminent and younger scholars to provide a fresh and provocative approach to a variety of interrelated f...
This text offers a less Anglocentric and dynamic understanding of the recording industry. Its starting premise is the idea that the recording industry is not one thing but is, rather, a series of recording industries, locally organized and locally focused, both structured by and structuring the international industry.
This text offers a less Anglocentric and dynamic understanding of the recording industry. Its starting premise is the idea that the recording industry...
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion...
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North A...
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information. Christian Fuchs shows the role classical critical theory can play for analyzing the information society and the information economy, as well as analyzing the role of the media and the information economy in economic development, the new imperialism, and the new economic crisis. The book critically...
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st...
This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own employment opportunities. The authors argue that undocumented migrants are forced into the most precarious types of work, and changes in the way that employment is organised, with a shift into temporary, agency and sub-contracted work, makes undocumented migrants particularly attractive in some...
This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that ...
