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Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity
Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society. The global financial crash and economic downturn was the catalyst for change and, against a backdrop of advice from experts adverse to Keynesian economics, the ideology of austerity grew and became the dominant thinking to steer economies out of recession. This comprehensive volume draws upon both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to provide a varied and contextually rich insight into sport, policy, and politics in an era of austerity.
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Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities
The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010. The five sections of this volume review the challenges facing urban transport internationally and in China. It considers approaches to policy formulation, the challenge of urban mobility and the development of green sustainable transportation, by reviewing best practice in objective setting, strategy analysis and policy selection, and comparing these with current practice in China. The authors examine passenger transport, and considers a number of current policy interventions in China and compare these with western experience with demand management and new vehicle technologies. Topics include 5D land-use transport model for a high density, rapidly growing city and Contextual requirements for electric vehicles in developed and developing countries. Finally freight and logistics is addressed, including the role of freight villages and milk run strategies, and challenges and policy recommendations for road freight in Shanghai.
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Purple Power
Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million
workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to
custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the
membership while people in minority groups make up approximately
forty percent.
Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of
contemporary labor's bedrock organizations. The contributors
explore key episodes, themes, and features in the union's recent
history and evaluate SEIU as a union with global aspirations and
impact. The first section traces the SEIU's growth in the last and
current centuries. The second section offers in-depth studies of
key campaigns in the United States, including the Justice for
Janitors and Fight for $15 movements. The third section focuses on
the SEIU's work representing low-wage workers in Canada, Australia,
Europe, and Brazil. An interview with Justice for Janitors
architect Stephen Lerner rounds out the volume.
Contributors: Luís LM Aguiar, Adrienne E. Eaton, Janice Fine,
Euan Gibb, Laurence Hamel-Roy, Tashlin Lakhani, Joseph A. McCartin,
Yanick Noiseux, Benjamin L. Peterson, Allison Porter, Alyssa May
Kuchinski, Maite Tapia, Veronica Terriquez, and Kyoung-Hee Yu
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Student Voice in Mathematics Classrooms around the World
\"We highly recommend this volume to readers. . . A wonderful book that includes a set of chapters to focus on a unique yet important topic, student voice. . . presents the mathematics education community with another important contribution to what we can learn about students' learning experience through their voice, from classrooms around the world. . . this volume has not only focused on the unique and important topic of student voice but also helped us to gain more insights about classroom instruction around the world. \"--Educational Studies in Mathematics.
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Advancing Folkloristics
An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing
issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public
spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists
contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the
nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others
develop critical personal narratives?
Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer,
feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in folkloristics.
Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic approaches in
nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist identity
without a \"folklorist\" job title, and how to use folkloristic
knowledge to interact with others outside of the discipline. The
chapters, which range from theoretical reorientations to personal
experiences of folklore work, all demonstrate the kinds of work
folklorists are well-suited to and promote the areas in which
folkloristics is poised to expand and excel.
Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of
folklore studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the
future.
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Global environmental change and human security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.
In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vulnerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the complex social, health, and economic consequences of environmental change across the globe. In chapters that are both academically rigorous and policy relevant, the book discusses the connections of global environmental change to urban poverty, natural disasters (with a case study of Hurricane Katrina), violent conflict (with a study of the decade-long Nepalese civil war), population, gender, and development. The book makes clear the inadequacy of traditional understandings of security and shows how global environmental change is raising new, unavoidable questions of human insecurity, conflict, cooperation, and sustainable development.
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W. Neil Adger, Jennifer Bailey, Jon Barnett, Victoria Basolo, Hans Georg Bohle, Mike Brklacich, May Chazan, Chris Cocklin, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Indra de Soysa, Heather Goldsworthy, Betsy Hartmann, Robin M. Leichenko, Laura Little, Alexander López, Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald, Eric Neumayer, Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Karen L. O'Brien, Marvin S. Soroos, Bishnu Raj Upreti
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