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1. The liberation health model : theory and practice / Dawn Belkin Martinez -- 2. Becoming a liberation health social worker / Jared Douglas Kent -- 3. Liberation health and LGBT communities / Ezekiel Reis Burgin -- 4. Working with major mental illness in the community / Chloe Frankel -- 5. Liberation health and women survivors of violence / Ann Fleck-Henderson and Jacqueline Savage Borne -- 6. Working with addictive behavior / Liana Buccieri -- 7. Working with African-Americans / Johnnie Hamilton-Mason -- 8. Working with upper-middle and privileged-class families / Eleana McMurry -- 9. Liberation health in a child protection agency / Zack Osheroff -- 10. Working in public housing / Anne Vinick with Carol Swenson -- 11. Liberation health in the hospital / Dawn Belkin Martinez -- 12. Working with Latino/as / Estela Perez Bustillo.

"This book provides practical guidance for delivering and sustaining value and impact from digital content. Our digital presence has the power to change lives and life opportunities. We must understand digital values to consider how organizational presence within digital cultures can create change. Impact assessment is the tool to foster understanding of how strategic decisions about digital resources may be fostering change within our communities. Delivering Impact with Digital Resources focuses on introducing both a mechanism and a way to thinking about strategies and evidence of benefits that extend to impact. Such that, the existence of a digital resource shows measurable outcomes that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community. The book proposes an updated Balanced Value Impact Model (BVIM) to enable each memory organization to convincingly argue they are an efficient and effective operation, working in innovative modes with digital resources for the positive social and economic benefit of their communities." -- Provided by publisher

Facts and forms -- Evidence and scope -- Giving and exchanges -- Forms and structures of reciprocity -- The three worlds of reciprocity -- Balance reciprocity -- Liking reciprocities -- Other reciprocities : continuation, relational, imitation, extended -- Reciprocity and social sentiments -- Reciprocity in the modes of economic realization -- The values of reciprocity -- Reciprocal corrections of market failures -- Reciprocity in trust, and intrinsic values -- Normative uses of reciprocity -- The logic of good social relations -- How and why? : understanding and explaining reciprocity -- General methodology of reciprocity analysis -- The theory of comparative, matching, or balance reciprocity -- The theory of liking reciprocity -- Strategic interaction and process preferences -- General properties about processes -- Solutions of reciprocity games: comparisons -- Reciprocity in the understanding of society and its economy.

"AI's impact on human societies is and will be drastic in so many ways. AI is being adopted and implemented around the world, and government and universities are investing in AI studies, research, and development. However, very little research exists about the impact of AI on our lives. This book will address this gap; it will gather reflections from around the world to assess the impact of AI on different aspects of society as well as propose ways in which we can address this impact and the research agendas needed"--

Current demographic and social changes in (post)modern societies present new challenges to social policy in the form of a new and deepening social and economic imbalance – they are sometimes referred to as 'new social risks' – and among the direct consequences of these new risks is the phenomenon of social exclusion. In response to these challenges, European agendas for employment and for social inclusion, are being implemented. These guidelines are set out in programme documents such as National Action Plans for Employment (since 2005 National Reform Programmes) and National Action Plans for Social Inclusion. Given that the Method of Open Coordination is a rather 'soft instrument', specific implementation of these agendas in European countries is dependent on many aspects of the national context.In this article, we aim to describe the specifics of the Czech Republic's approach to the problems of social exclusion. We will first explore the emphasis laid on the new risks in Czech social policy measures and attempt to draw comparisons with other EU countries. Next, we will also pay attention to the Czech approach to the agenda for social inclusion, which is among the key agendas in this area.

Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, 'extra-institutional' activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of political action bey

This article elaborates a neo-institutional approach to evaluation and utilizes this approach for an empirical examination of the institutionalization of evaluation in Finland's national government. The results indicate ambiguity in the basic institutionalization of the evaluation examined and imprecision in the agency of the actors carrying out or commissioning evaluations. With tighter or looser coupling to decision-making, institutional practices of evaluation enhance performance or support legitimation, or do both in various combinations. Future studies will be needed to ascertain to what extent intense agent-driven change has only introduced formal procedures enacted in the name of evaluation, and to what extent this type of change has influenced actual evaluation practices. The article finishes with a consideration of the contributions it claims to make. ; This article draws on neo-institutional theoretical ideas to empirically examine the institutionalization of evaluation in the national government of Finland. The results indicate ambiguity in the basic institutionalization of Finnish evaluation, and imprecision in the agency of the actors that carry out or commission evaluations or utilize the evaluation results. Some Finnish institutional practices of evaluation enhance formal rationality such as efficiency and effectiveness, some support legitimation, and others do both in combination. The strength of coupling of evaluation to decision-making varies greatly. For future research, the article suggests studies on the institutionalization of evaluation in other countries. For evaluation practice, the results highlight the position of evaluation along the rationality-legitimation axis, and the variable linkages of evaluation to decision-making. ; Peer reviewed

Vegetarianism seems to be increasing in popularity and acceptance in the United States and Canada, yet, quite surprisingly, the percentage of the population practicing vegetarian diets has not changed dramatically over the past 30 years. People typically view vegetarianism as a personal habit or food choice, even though organizations in North America have been promoting vegetarianism as a movement since the 1850s. This book examines the organizational aspects of vegetarianism and tries to explain why the predominant movement strategies have not successfully attracted more people to adopt a veg

This book explores the internal functioning and exercise of power inside a widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement. Drawing on new empirical data and perspectives from the Organizational Theory (OT), it highlights the movements' many unique features that are yet to be fully grasped within theoretical debates: ideological flexibility, emphasis on networking, informal structure and refusal to accept order from political parties. The book asserts that organizational power is a real issue not only within economic enterprises or formal political an