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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. How do we prepare for the penultimate stage of life? This is a crucial question now facing the ageing post-war generation. Examining research participants' use of wills, guardianship, medical attorney and beneficiaries, as well as their funeral plans and how they envisage the physical end of life, Peter Robinson's new book provides a practical contribution for anyone considering how to prepare for their end of life, including those from LGBTQ+ communities. Drawing on theory where appropriate, Robinson focuses on the practicalities of end-of-life preparation as revealed through a variety of personal experiences. With its universal application and international scope, How Gay Men Prepare for Death: The Dying Business supports the work of carers, charities and policymakers, and benefits readers from all backgrounds, as well as those from LGBTQ+ communities.

This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, and Other Dark Matters -- 1 Notes on Surveillance Studies -- 2 "Everybody's Got a Little Light under the Sun" -- 3 B®anding Blackness -- 4 "What Did TSA Find in Solange's Fro"? -- Epilogue: When Blackness Enters the Frame -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States.Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as never before. As the United States becomes Latinized, how will Latinos fit into America's divided racial landscape and how will they define their own racial and ethnic identity? Through strikingly original historical analysis, extensive personal interviews and a careful examination of census data, Clara E. Rodriguez shows that Latino identity is surprisingly fluid, situation-dependent, and constantly changing. She illustrates how the way Latinos are defining themselves, and refusing to define themselves, represents a powerful challenge to America's system of racial classification and American racism

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. Most serious thought in our time struggles with the feeling of homelessness -- TWO. Ubi bene, ibi patria (Your home is where they treat you well) -Latin proverb -- THREE. I think of two landscapes-one outside the self, the other within. -Barry Lopez -- FOUR. A house is a good thing. You can lock it up and go and live anywhere you like. -Walter Pukatiwara -- FIVE. He departed with thoughts of home, He departed with thoughts of home, He departed towards another place. -Honey-Ant Men's Song -- SIX. I don't really know what happened. If one wished to be solemn, it could be said that I had found my landscape, my real home. -Ingmar Bergman -- SEVEN. It is suicide to be abroad. But w hat is it to be at home, ... what is it to be at home? -Samuel Beckett -- EIGHT. Man's real life is not a house, but the Road, and . .. life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. -Bruce Chatwin -- NINE. There's too much poverty below us. Every leaf defines its limits. All roots have their histories. -Derek Walcott -- TEN. My country is the place where I can cut a spear or make a spear-thrower without asking anyone. -A Western Desert man -- ELEVEN. And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot -- TWELVE. Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. There is no place like home. -Yi-Fu Tuan -- THIRTEEN. Man does not relate to the world as subject to object, as eye to painting; nor even as actor to stage set. Man and the world are bound together like the snail to its shell. -Milan Kundera -- FOURTEEN. Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. -T. S. Eliot -- EPILOGUE. Authenticity comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of experience. Its energy is to be found in how one event leads to another. Its mystery is not in the words but on the page. -John Berger -- POSTSCRIPT -- NOTES

Expertise in research integration and implementation is an essential but often overlooked component of tackling complex societal and environmental problems. We focus on expertise relevant to any complex problem, especially contributory expertise, divided into 'knowing-that' and 'knowing-how.' We also deal with interactional expertise and the fact that much expertise is tacit. We explore three questions. First, in examining 'when is expertise in research integration and implementation required?,' we review tasks essential (a) to developing more comprehensive understandings of complex problems, plus possible ways to address them, and (b) for supporting implementation of those understandings into government policy, community practice, business and social innovation, or other initiatives. Second, in considering 'where can expertise in research integration and implementation currently be found?,' we describe three realms: (a) specific approaches, including interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking and sustainability science; (b) case-based experience that is independent of these specific approaches; and (c) research examining elements of integration and implementation, specifically considering unknowns and fostering innovation. We highlight examples of expertise in each realm and demonstrate how fragmentation currently precludes clear identification of research integration and implementation expertise. Third, in exploring 'what is required to strengthen expertise in research integration and implementation?,' we propose building a knowledge bank. We delve into three key challenges: compiling existing expertise, indexing and organising the expertise to make it widely accessible, and understanding and overcoming the core reasons for the existing fragmentation. A growing knowledge bank of expertise in research integration and implementation on the one hand, and accumulating success in addressing complex societal and environmental problems on the other, will form a virtuous cycle so that each strengthens the other. Building a coalition of researchers and institutions will ensure this expertise and its application are valued and sustained.

This work examines the effect of renewable natural resource scarcity on ethnic conflict. Determining how renewable natural resource scarcity affects ethnic conflict requires multiple levels of inquiry. First, is there a relationship between renewable natural resource scarcity and ethnic conflict? Second, if this relationship exists how do scarcities translate into ethnic conflict? Third, does the framework established have evidentiary support in particular cases that can be considered?

"The Sociology of Theodor Adorno reads like an anachronistic title for a book. This is not because the ink of Adorno's last written word dried four decades ago. Many disciplines, notably philosophy and aesthetics, still cite his oeuvre as a timely source. It is Adorno's sociology that seems so far out of touch with basic trends in contemporary social science as to no longer warrant attention. Adorno conceived sociology as a demarcated discipline insofar as 'there are specifically sociological methods and ... questions' (IS 99) and insisted that this discipline required a concept of society. These convictions appear to clash head-on with present-day ideas for sociology's cross- or post-disciplinarity (Urry 2000aRFA-312: 199-200; 2003RFA-314: 124), its reunification with other disciplines as twenty-first-century historical science (Wallerstein 2000RFA-318: 33-4) and its abandonment of the concept of society . At first glance, Adorno's sociology promises little more than reactionary obstacles for the discipline's advance into the new millennium"--

For this dissertation about Pakistani Christians, I have studied three organizations (the Christian Study Centre, the National Commission for Justice and Peace, and "missionary schools") to explore how, civically engaged and self-identified "Christian" or "church-affiliated", organizations are involved in processes of negotiation of Pakistani Christian identity in semi-public settings. The main question was how these organizations negotiate both, their own religious identity and their Pakistani Christian identity, in relation to various others with whom they interact in semi-public settings. The findings of this dissertation demonstrate that Pakistani Christians employ continuously changing categories of identity, which emerge on different levels. This dissertation has demonstrated that Pakistani Christian identity negotiation is affected by perceptions of changing legislation, and of events between Christians and Muslims in Pakistan. Time and again it became evident that contemporary Christian experiences of social and political exclusion and alienation are fashioned by a religious nationalism in which Pakistani belonging is defined in Islamic terms. Negotiations of Pakistani Christian identity are often a response to these experiences. These responses take shape in different settings. At an ecumenical organization for interreligious dialogue, called the Christian Study Centre (CSC), perceptions of Islamization in the 1970s and 1980s are countered by efforts to present Pakistani Christianity as a local religion. In these efforts, Pakistani Christianity must be shed from its European heritage and redefined in relation to Pakistan's socioeconomic, cultural and religious character. In addition, CSC forwards claims of Pakistani Christian citizenship. Christians should be recognized as a religious minority and Christian contributions to Pakistani society are emphasized to prove Pakistani Christian citizenship. Some decades later, at the same organization, perceptions of Islamization are accompanied by experiences of ...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The practice of estrangement; What is practice?; Conclusion; References; 1. The city: Georg Simmel on the stranger; Influence of Simmel; The city as a lifeline; Bridge and door; Life as transcendence; How is society possible?; The third; Conclusion; References; 2. The suburbs and the world: Norbert Elias on incorporation of the stranger; On the process of civilisation; Elias on Jews in history; Involvement and detachment; Established-outsider figuration; Incorporation; Conclusion; References

Introduction; Chapter 1: Examining the Impact of Trauma; Chapter 2: A Brief History of Native Americans; Chapter 3: Contemporary Experiences of Native Americans; Chapter 4: Our Hopes for the Future: The Wellbeing of Indigenous Children and Families; Chapter 5: Holders of Knowledge and Protectors of Communities: The Wellbeing of Elders and Veterans; Chapter 6: Education for a Contemporary World: Learning and Knowing from Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Perspectives; Chapter 7: To be Well: Explorations of Health and Balance; Chapter 8: The Wellbeing of Communities, Peoples, and the Natural World; Conclusion; References; Index

"This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia. The book is unique and significant because the descriptions and arguments presented are based on the lived experience and hence provide deep insights into the complexity and dynamics of CALD older migrants. Key areas of exploration include social connectedness and inclusion, post-retirement economic activities, living arrangement and housing choice, practice of care, intergenerational exchange, and life satisfaction. A focus is placed on the diversity of ageing experience. Pathways of ageing are one of the key factors in investigating inter and intra-ethnic commonalities and disparities. The policy and research implications presented will appeal to policy makers, practitioners and researchers"--Back cover