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"The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri"--

1. Introducing spirituality and religion -- 2. Affirming your own spirituality -- 3. Understanding the spirituality and religion of our clients -- 4. A closer look at specific religious and spiritual groups -- 5. Constructing a spiritually sensitive approach -- 6. The ethics of spiritually sensitive practice -- 7. Initial engagement of spiritual issues -- 8. Spiritual assessments -- 9. Spiritual interventions -- 10. Macro spiritual interventions -- 11. Infusing spirituality into existing social work approaches -- 12. Evaluating spiritually sensitive practice -- 13. Tools for your journey.

"From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization ... The book explores how eleven post-socialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism resulted not from the withdrawal of states from the economy, as is commonly expected, but rather from the active involvement of post-socialist states in institutionalizing and legitimizing FDI. Using a wide array of data sources, and combining a macro-level account of national variation in the liberalization to foreign capital with a micro-level account of FDI transactions in the decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic transformations but also make them possible."--Jacket

What is Professional Social Work? is a now classic analysis of social work as a discourse between three aspects of practice: social order, therapeutic and transformational perspectives. It enables social workers to analyse and value the role of social work in present-day multiprofessional social care. This completely re-written second edition explores social work's struggle to meet its claim to achieve social progress through interpersonal practice. Important features of this new edition include: § practical ways of analysing personal professional identity § understanding how social workers embody their profession in their practice with other professionals § detailed analysis of current and historical documents defining social work and social care analysis of values, agencies and global social work. This new edition will stimulate social workers, students and policy-makers in social care to think again about the valuable role social work plays in society

Attributes that sustained the housing market during the GFCHousehold debt; Negative equity and house price risk; The national supply shortfall; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 6 Housing policies and wealth inequality; Household and housing wealth; Housing markets and housing wealth; Housing finance in Australia; Tax incentives to utilise housing finance; Why does wealth inequality matter?; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 7 Planning systems, urban form and housing; Neoliberal urban planning; Facilitation and corporatisation; Centralisation and local control; Planning systems and urban form.

'Globalization in International Relations' provides a sophisticated and engaging exploration of the often differing impacts of technological forces and the wider implications of globalization for theories of global governance and the role of international institutions.

Our article is an extension of a project involving a content analysis of two social studies journals, Theory andResearch in Social Education (TRSE) and The Social Studies. We performed an analysis on all articles in thesejournals from 2006-2016. Our findings from the analysis indicated a narrow frame of perspectives related toepistemologies and methodologies, and an increasing interest in examining a range of researcher andparticipant positionalities. We interpreted the range of perspectives in social studies journals in light of thepossible impact upon democratic education and social justice through Sen's (2009) framework for theorizingjustice. We illustrate aspects of this framework by presenting positionality and autoethnography as methodsfor increasing epistemologies and perspectives in social studies education and research.

SOCIAL JUSTICE issues can occur in relation to practically any aspect of society where inequality can arise as a result of unjust prejudices or policies. Social justice issues can be delineated into two categories, although they are often co-dependent: Inter-Social Treatment and Unequal Government Regulation.

This book takes a fresh look at women in their maternal role. In the 21st century, with its frenzy and heterogeneity, where the mixture of modernity and post-modernity is not without danger, motherhood cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations. Psycho-history, the accumulation and variety of psychoanalytic theories of femininity and motherhood, the contribution of gender studies, cross-disciplinary research, and listening to what our patients have to say - all this has yielded, in the past few decades, much controversial data that challenges orthodox classical thinking wi

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Brad Lomenick; Foreword by Justina Chen; Introduction; Chapter 1: Why Social Media?; Has Social Media been Destructive or Constructive for the Church?; How has Social Media Changed Communication?; Should My Church be on Social Media?; Chapter 2: Content Strategy; How do I Determine My Goals for Social Media?; What Should I Post, based on My Goals?; What Makes Content "Sticky"?; Chapter 3: Story: Your Church's Story & God's Story; Can Social Media be more than Selfies and Cat Videos?; How can I use Social Media to Tell a Bigger Story?

"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible'food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation ... The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it'the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress ... The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation - today's."--from publisher's website