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Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Why Are So Many Hospital Neighborhoods Health Poor? -- 2. How History "Keys" the Hospital and Community Relationship -- 3. "What's Your Total Commitment to the Community?": Explicit and Implicit Hospital Development Strategies -- 4. Healthcare in the Contact Zone: Unconventional Spaces, Institutional Changes, and Communities of Color -- 5. Ambiguous Obligations and Mixed Expectations -- 6. Six Policy Ideas for Communities and Hospitals -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: On Methods -- Appendix B: Comparative Data -- Appendix C: Hospital-Identified Needs and Programs -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Theorie und Praxis in Bewegung: »Selbst die schönsten Theorien erhalten nur durch ihre Übertragung in die Praxis Wert«, formulierte einst der revolutionäre Denker Georges Sorel. In diesem Sinne sind Theorie und Praxis als Einheit zu denken. Isoliert voneinander sind sie wertlos: Theorie ohne Praxis ist Elfenbeinturm. Praxis ohne Theorie macht blind für strukturelle Zusammenhänge. Doch eine nachhaltige Symbiose aus weltanschaulicher Bildung und konkretem Engagement erscheint oftmals als das Einfache, das schwer zu machen ist: Es ist eben nichts »mechanisch-faktisch Gegebenes, sondern ein geschichtliches Werden« (Antonio Gramsci). Benedikt Kaiser nimmt uns daher mit auf seine Reise durch mehrere Jahre engagierter Theorie-Praxis-Arbeit. Es gilt gerüstet zu sein für Krisenmomente, in denen sich unverhoffte Handlungsfenster öffnen. Fehlt die entsprechende ideelle Vorbereitung, gerät man automatisch in die Position einer Nachholbewegung – der Reaktion. Dort möchte einen der politische Gegner sitzen sehen. Man selbst sollte ihm diesen Gefallen nicht tun. Was ist zu tun? Kaiser schlägt vor: theoretische Bildung und Ausbildung nachrückender Generationen einerseits und praktisches »Zum-Volke-Gehen« andererseits. Wie das aussehen könnte und welche Standpunkte für diesen integralen Politikansatz grundlegend sind, verraten die programmatischen Texte dieser Sammlung. Fest steht: In der kommenden Konvergenz der Krisen werden die Karten neu gemischt. Weil Geschichte offenbleibt, ist minimalistischer Defätismus von gestern. Kaiser verwirft Denkfehler, definiert Standpunkte und gibt die Richtung vor. (Verlagstext)

"What does a nation of immigrants think and feel about immigration? Recent accounts of immigration policy routinely cast Americans as divided into two warring camps – one fueled by threat to livelihoods and way of life, the other by a fervent cosmopolitanism that sees the nation-state as passé. This counter-intuitive book shows that these accounts miss the mark. First, almost all Americans hold a mix of "pro-" and "anti-immigrant" opinions. Their views are pragmatic and flexible rather than dead-set. Second, opinions about immigration are more powerfully influenced by liberal values and concerns about the well-being of American society as a whole than by identity politics. Third, the assimilation Americans demand from immigrants matches patterns of integration that Hispanic and Asian immigrants overwhelmingly follow. Finally, American attitudes toward immigrants are "exceptional" for their openness and respect for cultural pluralism. In Citrin, Levy, and Wright's view, long-elusive comprehensive immigration reform can win in the court of public opinion – but only if leaders heed their constituents rather than the polarized activists who claim to speak on their behalf. This expert analysis rethinks the role of public opinion in immigration matters: its insights will be welcomed by all interested in immigration debates and public policy." --

This book expertly traces the long, erratic, and incomplete path of Latin America's political and socioeconomic democratization, from a group of colonies lacking democratic practice and culture up to the present. Using the lens of democracy defined by the charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), it examines the periods of US gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean Basin, the Cold War, the state terrorist dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, the imposition of neoliberalism in the 1990s, and the rise of the Pink Tide in the new millennium. The meaning of democracy has changed over time, from nineteenth-century liberalism - in which only a handful of wealthy males voted and individuals were responsible for their economic and social conditions - to governments in the late twentieth century that have embraced socioeconomic democracy by assuming responsibility (at least formally) for citizens' welfare. Latin America's movement toward democracy has not been linear. The book follows the appearance and evolution of both proponents and opponents of democracy over the last two centuries. The balance of these forces has shifted periodically, often in waves that swept across the entire region. Commitment to democracy does not guarantee implementation, but despite many setbacks, Latin America has made significant progress toward the democratic aspirations set forth in the OAS charter.

"Es kommen härtere Jahre, raue Jahre auf uns zu", so unlängst Bundespräsident Steinmeier. Ein "Epochenbruch" habe stattgefunden, und die "Friedensdividende" sei "aufgebraucht", die Welt sei "jetzt auf dem Weg in eine Phase der Konfrontation". Die Deutschen müssten deshalb "konfliktfähig werden". Dazu gehöre "zu allererst" eine starke Bundeswehr. Von der Bevölkerung verlangte Steinmeier "die Kraft zur Selbstbeschränkung". Conrad Schuhler setzt sich mit der Logik auseinander, einen Krieg - geführt womöglich mit Atomwaffen, deren Übernahme von den USA die Bundeswehr jetzt schon übt - und materielle Opfer in Kauf zu nehmen. So soll der "systemische Konflikt" mit Russland und China geführt werden. Schuhler macht die Formel "Demokratie gegen Autokratie" als Ausdruck des globalen Hegemonieanspruchs des Westens kenntlich. Der Westen, allen voran die USA und Deutschland, hat der Koexistenz eine kategorische Absage erteilt. Nach innen ist dieses Programm mit seinen unsozialen Folgen in demokratischen Formen nur schwer durchzusetzen. Eine friedliche, soziale und demokratische Zukunft müsste erstritten werden von Menschen, die politisch gegen ihre Eliten aktiv werden

"This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book aims to inspire critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the import of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear"--

"States of Disconnect develops a critical vocabulary for apprehending disconnect, a defining condition of our times. In a world caught between the waning of globalized hyper-connectivity and the reemergence of reactionary nationalisms, this book offers ways of relating with cultural others anew, against both the unequal flows of globalization and the exclusionary paradigms of narrow nationalisms. Disconnect, the book argues, is not the antonym of connection but a state of being that makes possible new ways of relating with cultural others in moments conventionally seen as detrimental to connection, such as violence, hostility, or even indifference. Focusing on the case of China and India, the book studies the dialogic capacities of disconnect, and as such, offers a new approach to transnational literary comparison"--