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Youth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Tables and figures -- Preface -- Chapter one. After the Fall of the Wall: Living Through the Post-Socialist Transformation in East Germany -- Chapter two. Society of Departure: The German Democratic Republic -- Chapter three. A "Ready-Made State"1: The Mode of Institutional Transition in East Germany After 1989 -- Chapter four. Old Assets, New Liabilities? How Did Individual Characteristics Contribute to Labor Market Success or Failure After 1989? -- Chapter five. Firms and Fortune: The Consequences of Privatization and Reorganization -- Chapter six. Lost in Transformation? Disparities of Gender and Age -- Chapter seven. The Rise of Meritocracy? Class Mobility in East Germany Before and After 1989 -- Chapter eight. Family Formation in Times of Abrupt Social and Economic Change -- Chapter nine. Community Lost or Freedom Gained? Changes of Social Networks After 1989 -- Chapter ten. Spirals of Success and Failure? The Interplay of Control Beliefs and Working Lives in the Transition from Planned to Market Economy -- Chapter eleven. Comparing Paths of Transition: Employment Opportunities and Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years of the Transformation Process -- Chapter twelve. The Quest for a Double Transformation: Trends of Flexibilization in the Labor Markets of East and West Germany -- Chapter thirteen. Unusual Turbulences—Unexpected Continuities: Transformation Life Courses in Retrospective -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index

"The book draws lessons on the importance of rewarding merit for economic growth by analysing Italy's decline in the past few decades. Connections rather than merit are a long-standing feature of the Italian elites, even in the corporate sector. This became a significant problem when Italy could no longer grow through low wages, imitation, devaluations, and public debt and faced the challenges of becoming a frontier knowledge-based open economy. The book uses international comparisons over many aspects of society, from social capital to governance, the role of the public sector, efficiency of the judiciary, education, gender and social inequality, social mobility, corporate standards, financial structures and more to evaluate the performance of Italy. It argues that the arrogance of a mediocracy is more damaging than that of meritocracy. Also, the former is more likely to facilitate the rise of populism. Studying Italy's case can be helpful to many other countries: Italy was the country of the economic miracle after WWII, and it is still an advanced economy and a member of the G7 club. Until the 1960s, it seemed destined to catch up with the best-performing countries. Then the growth engine stopped, its debt skyrocketed, and Italy became the weak link in the Eurozone and might endanger its very survival"--

"This thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related risks of violence against women and girls. In doing so, it reassesses the concept of femicide, analysing it in view of the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, as well as several facets of human rights. Angela Hefti challenges the common definition of femicide, extending it beyond the killing of women due to their gender to include elements of victim blame, sexual abuse, forced marriage and delayed investigations by authorities. Chapters address femicide in the context of the African, Inter-American and European regional and universal human rights systems. Case studies from Iraq, Nigeria and Mexico provide a fundamental understanding of the multidimensional and worldwide nature of femicide. Spanning several key academic debates, the book incorporates underlying feminist legal theory and approaches pertaining to the subordination of women and girls in society, arguing that femicide should qualify as an autonomous human rights violation. Providing an impetus for further research on femicide, particularly on state responsibility for crimes committed by private actors, this book will be a crucial resource for academics in human rights and humanitarian law, criminal law and justice. The book will also be highly valuable to activists, practitioners, and lawyers with an interest in advancing aspects of femicide in international human rights law"--

"This book addresses the concept of parental alienation - the belief that when a child of divorced parents avoids one parent, it may be because the preferred parent has persuaded the child to do this. It argues against the unquestioning use of parental alienation concepts in child custody conflicts. Increasing use of this concept in family courts has led at times to placement of children with abusive or violent parents, damage to the lives of preferred parents, and the use of treatments that have not been shown to be safe or effective. The thirteen chapters cover the history and theory of "parental alienation" principles and practices. Methodological and research issues are considered, and diagnostic and treatment methods associated with "parental alienation" beliefs as well as those recommended by research and ethical evidence are analysed. The connections of "parental alienation" with gender and domestic violence issues are discussed as are the experiences of individuals who have experienced "parental alienation" treatments. The book argues that "parental alienation" principles and practices should be avoided by family courts, in the best interests of children in custody disputes. This book will be useful reading for lawyers, judges, children's services workers including social workers, child protection court workers and mental health professionals involved in child custody decisions"--

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter As a peripheral state within English-speaking criminology, Ireland is often overlooked in mainstream Anglophone theories of punitiveness and penal transformation. This edited collection addresses this deficit by bringing together leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory to make a case for Ireland's wider theoretical relevance. Together, these chapters show in rich detail the trends and debates that have surround patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State in 1922. However, by being about twentieth century Irish penal history, the volume inherently foregrounds often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment, such as gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond the criminal justice system. This is more than a collection of Irish criminology, therefore; the social analysis of Irish penal history is undertaken as a contribution towards southernising criminology. The authors each seek to engage criminology in a wider epistemological re-imagining of what is meant by punitiveness, penal culture, and 'Anglophone' penal history. Opening up new avenues of exploration and collaboration, and showing how researchers might look beyond the usual problems, refine the mainstream trends, and rework the obvious questions, this collection demonstrates how the Irish perspective remains relevant for international researchers interested in punishment and history.

The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right-Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families, anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian traditionalism as the result of conservative religious modernization and the globalization of Christian social conservatism.The Moralist International continues a line of research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the global culture wars.

1. Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Application of Shame/Violence Theory -- 2. Causes and Prevention of Violence: Shame and Guilt in the Individual and Society -- 3. Shame, Gender and Radical Listening -- 4. Shame: An/other View: The Role of Shame in Misrepresenting Existential Anxiety -- 5. 'With the Humble is Wisdom': Humility as an Antidote to Humiliation and Shame -- 6. Making Sense of Shame Feelings in Children and Young People with Developmental Trauma -- 7. Shame/Violence Intervention (SVI) -- 8. The Violence Intervention Project (VIP) -- 9. Shame and Humiliation as Drivers of Violent Behaviour: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Greek Radical Voters -- 10. The "Deserved" Victimhood of Far-left Terrorism: Shame, Guilt and Status Reversal -- 11. The Dynamics of Pride and Shame in Football Fandom: The Case of FC PAOK (Rosa Vasilaki) -- 12. On the Skin of the City: The Shame/Violence Model as a Tool for Interpreting the Unauthorized 'Programmatic' Marking of Buildings in Modern Athens -- 13. Memory Landscapes and Stories of Shame: The Coexistence of Greece, Cyprus and Turkey as an Affective 'Mission Impossible' -- 14. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era - A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach -- 15. Living Beyond the Binary: Experiences of Shame and Violence in the Trans Community -- 16. Shame Awareness and Engagement with the Other in Times of Global Malaise: A Manifesto.

Chapter 1: Introduction Legislation, the Banality of Evil, and the Moral Imperative of Memory -- Chapter 2: The Aestheticized Pilgrimage from Fragmentation to Community: the Journey from the Testimonial Page to the Documentary Screen of Ángel Fernández Vicente (b. 1928), Anti-Fascist Resistant, Political Prisoner and Expatriate -- Chapter 3: The Pórtico de la Gloria in Manuel Rivas' Post-war Novel The Carpenter's Pencil: Art and Hagiography as a Metaphor that Subverts the Glory of Franco's New Spain -- Chapter 4: The Path to Ambiguous Monstrosity: Illness, Martyrdom, and Castration in Emili Teixidor's 2003 Novel and Agustí Villaronga's Eponymous 2010 Film Pa negre (Black Bread) -- Chapter 5: Transgenerational Feminist Memory in Dulce Chacón's 2002 Novel La voz dormida/The Dormant Voice -- Chapter 6: Miscarriage of Justice: the Perverted Fairy Tale of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and State-sanctioned Removal of Children from Mothers Incarcerated in Madrid's Prisons in Ana Cañil's 2011 Novel Si ha los tres años no he vuelto (If I Have Not Returned in Three Years) -- Chapter 7: Lessons Learned in Almudena Grandes' 2012 Bildungsroman El lector de Julio Verne: Gender, Repression, and Resistance -- Chapter 8: Opening Graves and Seeking Closure: Remembering the Dismembered Beloved on the Quest for Justice in Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar's 2018 Documentary El silencio de otros (The Silence of Others).

"Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body's imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent result, from the "concord" discourses of the pre-Christian Stoics, all the way through to contemporary nationalism and populism, has been the suppression of any dissent that would unmake the social body's presumed normativity. Miller argues that the conception of embodiment at the heart of the metaphor is a fantasy, and that negative social and political reactions to dissent represent visceral, dysphoric responses to its reshaping of the social body. He recognizes the social body's essential queerness, defined by fluidity and lack of a fixed morphology, spawns queer democracy, expressed through ongoing social and political practices that aim to extend liberty and equality to new social domains. Queer Democracy articulates a new departure for the ongoing development of theoretical articulations linking queer and trans theory with political theory. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers engaged in research on political theory, populism, US religion, gender studies, and queer studies"--

"Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today's urban China, and how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among young white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, white-collar women are not turning their back to their jobs but are turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state and society heighten pressure on individual young women's productivity and reproductivity at the same time, the book examines how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work, embody a work ethic, and make their reproductive life a productive domain. Integrating studies of labor, the body, gender, and kinship, this book shows how the work ethic of hard work and overtime work gets transposed from the office cubicle to gym and home, with labor discipline applying both at and away from work strictly defined. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence, embodiment, and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony of the work ethic, and have exerted a profound impact on women's bodies, selves, and lives"--

"Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it function? Answering these questions and more, An Introduction to Conversation Analysis is an essential overview of this topic for students in a wide range of disciplines including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and sociology. This is the only book you need to learn how to do conversation analysis. Beginning by positioning conversation analysis amongst other methodologies, this book explains the advantages before guiding you step-by-step through how to do conversation analysis and what it reveals about the ways language works in communication. Chapters introduce every aspect of conversation analysis logically and clearly, covering topics such as transcription, turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and storytelling. Now fully revised and expanded to take account of recent developments, this third edition includes: - 3 new chapters, covering action formation and epistemics, multimodality and spoken interaction, and written conversation - New topics including online and mobile technology, cross-cultural conversation, medical discourse, and gender - A glossary of key terms, brand new exercises and updated lists of further reading - A fully updated companion website, featuring tutorials, audio and video files, and a range of different exercises covering turn taking, organisation and repair"--

Justice is regarded as being the crucial yardstick for human behaviour. There is consequently an expectation or a demand that decisions should be taken fairly and justly in the widest variety of contexts in professional and private life, as well as in relation to social responsibilities. The same facts should not be measured by different standards; no one should be discriminated against because of natural characteristics such as race, gender or appearance; fundamental human rights should be recognized unreservedly all over the world; and in the spirit of intergenerational justice, we should behave in a sustainable fashion and not live at the expense of later generations. This volume initially demonstrates that we are only able to live up to such requirements to a limited extent, and shows how the contradictions involved come about. Major reasons for this include using standards of justice that go back as far as the Stone Age, inadequate knowledge of economic and social interrelationships, and also one-sided information. In addition, it is only rarely that an individual=s own understanding of justice is concretely articulated, and this stands in the way of consistent argumentation from the outset. In conclusion, on the basis of the available scientific findings, this monograph outlines ways of overcoming the contradictions mentioned and arriving at more just decisions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- About the New Edition -- Part I Environmental Anthropology: History, Theory, and Method -- 1 People in Ecosystems -- Introduction -- Human Adaptability as a Response to Constraints -- Adaptation and Adjustment -- The Ecosystem Concept -- Modeling -- Boundaries: Closed and Open Systems -- Advantages of Modeling -- Energy -- Matter -- Information -- Ecosystems and Global Change -- Suggested Readings and Useful Websites -- Note -- 2 Theories of Human-Habitat Interaction -- Introduction -- Environmental Determinism -- Greek, Roman, and Arab Theories -- Theories of the Renaissance and the Eighteenth Century -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Theories -- Cultural Determinism: Nature as a Limiting Factor -- Human Adaptation to Environment -- The Humoral Doctrine -- Evolutionary Sequences: Eighteenth-Century Views -- Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- Modern Evolutionary Theory -- Cultural Ecology: Comparison in Human-Environment Research -- Applications of the Cultural Ecological Method -- Hunter-Gatherers -- Preindustrial Cultivators -- Pastoralists -- Modern Farmers -- Ecological Anthropology -- Ethnoecological and Cognitive Approaches -- Historical Ecology -- Political Ecology -- Political Economy and Human Adaptability -- Suggested Readings and Useful Websites -- Notes -- 3 Fundamental Concepts and Methods -- Introduction -- Ecosystem Relationships -- Population and Environment -- Soils and Plant Productivity -- Physiological Responses -- Human Thermoregulation -- Circadian Rhythms -- Work Capacity -- Work and Diet -- Sociocultural Regulatory Adjustments -- Health and Gender -- Information and Decisions: Toward Actor-Based Approaches -- Suggested Readings and Useful Websites -- Note.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Framing activism and authoritarian governance in Asia -- Part 1 Concepts of activism in Asia -- Chapter 1 Social movements amidst backsliding -- Chapter 2 Communication practices in Vietnamese non-government organisations as civic actions -- Chapter 3 Shifting boundaries of development and activism: The case of Sombath Somphone -- Chapter 4 Citizen science as an alternative form of environmental contention in China: The case of Zero Waste Alliance -- Part 2 Spaces of activism in Asia -- Chapter 5 Asserting citizenship, claiming space: Activism and repression in majoritarian India -- Chapter 6 Beyond the courtroom: Lawyer activism and resistance in Hong Kong -- Chapter 7 The Constitutional Court and civic activism in polarised Thailand since 2014: Turning back time? -- Chapter 8 Transnational advocacy against China's atrocities in Xinjiang -- Chapter 9 Challenging digital authoritarianism: Milk Tea Alliance and transnational solidarity -- Part 3 Practices of activism in Asia -- Chapter 10 A "leaderless but leader-full" movement: Social mobilisation in the 2019 Hong Kong protests -- Chapter 11 Activist films: How grassroots activists shape the construction of national identity -- Chapter 12 Flirting with gender purrspectives: Contemporary women's activist comics in the Philippines -- Chapter 13 Investigating the activist potentials of "gay manga" in Japan and the Philippines -- Conclusion: Reflecting on activism and authoritarian governance in Asia -- Index.