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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Co-production of Public Services: Meaning and Motivations -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Main Models of Public Administration and Co-production -- 1.3 What Co-production Is and What It Is Not -- 1.4 Book Contents -- References -- 2 Co-production and Inter-organisational Collaboration in the Provision of Public Services: A Critical Discussion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Co-production of Public Services: A Theoretical Backdrop -- 2.3 Inter-organisational Collaboration for Public Services: A Theoretical Backdrop -- 2.4 Relationships Between Co-production and Inter-organisational Collaboration in the Provision of Public Services -- 2.4.1 Co-production as Antecedent of Inter-organisational Collaboration -- 2.4.2 Inter-organisational Collaboration as an Enabler of Co-production -- 2.4.3 Co-production and Inter-organisational Collaboration as Distinct but Complementary -- 2.4.4 Co-production and Inter-organisational Collaboration as Alternative Strategies -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3 The Participatory Budgeting as a Form of Co-production -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Co-planning, Co-design and Participatory Budgeting -- 3.3 Participatory Budgeting as Co-planning and Co-design: Conditions for Success -- 3.3.1 Inclusiveness and Interaction -- 3.3.2 Representation and Responsiveness -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 When is Personalisation Considered a Form of Co-production? The Case of Personal Budgets Reform in English Social Care -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Co-production in Social Care: Literature Review -- 4.3 Conceptualising Co-production -- 4.4 Personalisation Agenda in England and Co-production -- 4.5 Personalisation and Co-production as a Shared Responsibility -- 4.6 Discussion and Final Reflections -- References -- 5 Co-production in Action: The Case of an Italian Residential Care Home -- 5.1 Introduction.

"Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick's book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as simple pragmatic solutions, are always anchored in power relations and are therefore deeply ideological. A series of examples analysing technologies such as robotics, smart phones or bio-medicine, their functioning and uses, as well as their representations in the media, show that these are embedded within discourses that tell us about social and power relations, identities and political values. The book takes a tour of everyday technologies and how they are represented in different settings. A Disney theme park attraction showing how technology has improved family life makes many assumptions about what is natural in terms of interpersonal relations, pleasure and satisfaction. Advertisements that represent robot workers inform us about the kinds of worker-management relations now characterising work places. Roderick looks at the way that technologies, while often represented as divorced from their production and maintenance, as objects of wonder, need to be seen within a fabric of social relations that tends to be supressed from how we see them as part of a wider technological fetishism. Engaging with existing theories of technology, the book argues that we must take a more interdisciplinary approach to avoid the pitfalls of social constructivism and technological determinism. Our experiences of technologies are shaped through the relationship between knowledge, practices and institutional forms."--Publisher's description

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowlegments -- Introduction: The Transformation of Urban Mix in Palestine/Israel in the Modern Era -- Part 1 History, Representation and Collective Memory -- 1 Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City -- 2 'The Arabs Just Left': Othering and the Construction of Self amongst Jews in Haifa Before and After 1948 -- 3 "We Were Living in a Different Country": Palestinian Nostalgia and the Future Past -- 4 Cross-National Collective Action in Palestine's Mixed Towns: The 1946 Civil Servants Strike -- 5 How is a Mixed Town to be Administered? Haifa's Municipal Council, 1940–1947 -- Part 2 Spatial Dynamics: Ethnic Urban Mix and its Contradictions -- 6 Planning, Control and Spatial Protest: The Case of the Jewish-Arab Town of Lydd/Lod -- 7 Heteronomy: The Cultural Logic of Urban Space and Sociality in Jaffa -- 8 A Nixed, not Mixed, City: Mapping Obstacles to Democracy in the Nazareth/Natzerat Illit Conurbation -- 9 Exit From the Scene: Reflections on the Public Space of the Palestinians in Israel -- Part 3 Gendered Perspectives on Mixed Spaces -- 10 Contested Contact: Proximity and Social Control In Pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv -- 11 Mixed Cities as a Place of Choice: The Palestinian Women's Perspective -- Part 4 Cultural Encounters and Civil Society -- 12 Cooperation and Conflict in the Zone of Civil Society: Arab-Jewish Activism in Jaffa -- 13 Nationalism, Religion and Urban Politics in Israel: Struggles Over Modernity and Identity in 'Global' Jaffa -- 14 Mixed as in Pidgin: The Vanishing Arabic of a "Bilingual" City

List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Data sovereignty for indigenous peoples: current practice and future needs -- Tahu Kukutai and John Taylor -- Part 1: Decolonising indigenous data -- Data and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Megan Davis -- What does data sovereignty imply: what does it look like? -- C Matthew Snipp -- Colonialism's and postcolonialism's fellow traveller: the collection, use and misuse of data on indigenous people -- Ian Pool -- Part 2: Critiques of official statistics -- Data politics and Indigenous representation in Australian statistics -- Maggie Walter -- Indigenising demographic categories: a prolegomenon to indigenous data sovereignty -- Frances Morphy -- Governing data and data for governance: the everyday practice of Indigenous sovereignty -- Diane E Smith -- Part 3: Data sovereignty in practice -- Pathways to First Nations' data and information sovereignty -- First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) -- Tribal data sovereignty: Whakatōhea rights and interests -- Maui Hudson, Dickie Farrar and Lesley McLean -- The world's most liveable city-for Māori: data advocacy and Māori wellbeing in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) -- James Hudson -- Indigenous data sovereignty: a Māori health perspective -- Rawiri Jansen -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community wellbeing: identified needs for statistical capacity -- Ray Lovett -- Data sovereignty for the Yawuru in Western Australia -- Mandy Yap and Eunice Yu -- Building a data revolution in Indian country -- Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear -- Part 4: State agency responses -- The Australian Bureau of Statistics' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enumeration and engagement strategies: challenges and future options -- Paul Jelfs

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1 Historicizing Consumer Culture -- Some theoretical perspectives -- The eighteenth-century context -- Structure and argument -- Part One A New World of Goods: 1800-1870 -- 2 Producing Consumers: Consumption Practices -- Forms of consumption -- Discourses of consumption -- Practices and representations -- 3 Alternative Paths: The Politics of Consumption -- Middle-class consumer politics -- Working-class consumer politics -- Liberal consumerism and the onset of 'equipoise' -- Part Two Making a Mass Market: 1870-1920 -- 4 Image Worlds: The Rise of Modern Advertising -- The age of advertising -- Monopoly and market control -- Public restraint, private licence -- 5 Shopping as Pleasure: Department Stores -- Cathedrals of commerce -- Gender, desire and labour -- Private acts, public narratives -- 6 Co-op Commonwealth: Consumer Organizing -- Cultures of co-operation, cultures of shopkeeping -- Challenges to liberal consumerism -- Consumers in revolt -- Part Three A Consumers' Democracy: 1920-2000 -- 7 Ideal Home: The Growth of the New Consumerism -- Images and realities -- Domesticity and identity -- The politics of consumption -- 8 Mass Consumerism: From Austerity to Affluence -- Fair Shares for All? -- The battle of the consumer -- Having it so good? -- 9 Consumer Culture: The Hegemony of Choice -- Consumers at the end of the 'golden age' -- Thatcherism and the consumer -- Selling New Labour -- Epilogue:Satisfaction Guaranteed? -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Epilogue -- Index

Intro -- Schools in Transition: Linking Past, Present, and Future in Educational Practice -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. A Modern Idea of the School -- Section I: Functions of the School: Theoretical Issues -- 2. A Philosophical School for Our Time: Thinking with Plato after Dewey -- 3. Axel Honneth on Role, Form and Results of Public Education Revisited -- 4. What are Universities for? From the Community of the Selves to the Transformative Potential of Higher Education -- Section II: School, Learning and Teaching -- 5. Schools and the New Language of Learning: A Critical Perspective -- 6. The Paradox of Being a Teacher: Institutionalized Relevance and Organized Mistrust -- 7. School Learning as Human Growth: Modal Dynamics of Learning -- Section III: School, Economics and Labor Markets -- 8. The State, Market and Education -- 9. Productivity, Effectiveness, Efficiency Basic Concepts of the Economics of Education -- 10. The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice -- Section IV: School and School Reform - National Perspectives -- 11. School in Transition: The Case of Finland -- 12. The Transformation of School in a Changing Society - A German Example -- 13. "It Takes a Village" - (Catholic) Education in the 21st Century -- 14. Schooling vis-à-vis Learning: The Case for Reducing Compulsion -- 15. School Representation in Curriculum Policies -- Section V: School, Utopias and Future -- 16. The History of Education as the History of Writing: A Look from the Past to the Future -- 17. The Emancipation of Children -- 18. Tensions and Controversies of School Development - Some Remarks -- Notes on Contributors.

Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Technoscientific Governance - The Ethics and Citizenship of New and Emerging Technologies -- Technoscientific Governance: Ethics and the Life World of Citizens in a Digital Society -- Governing Citizens' Bodies, Movements and Space(s): The Chapters of the Book -- References -- Part I: The Governance of Emerging Technologies -- Chapter 1: Democracy, Ethics and the Governance of Emerging Science and Technology -- 1.1 The Governance of Science and Technology -- 1.2 Historical Snapshots on the Path to the Innovation Union -- 1.3 Contemporary Challenges -- References -- Chapter 2: 'The Public Spectre': A Critical Concept of Public Engagement with Technology -- 2.1 Confronting Technology: Accommodating to Threatening Events -- 2.2 Techno-politics: Trust, Risk and the Crisis of Representation -- 2.2.1 The Crisis of Representative Democracy: Exercising and Experiencing Public Life -- 2.3 Sparking Publics into Being: The Dynamics of Formation -- 2.3.1 The Politics of the Phantom Public -- 2.4 The Notion of the Public Spectre: Towards Pragmatic Grounds -- 2.5 Conclusion: Invoking the Crowds -- References -- Part II: Governing the Human Body and Mind -- On Modification and Enhancement Technologies -- Chapter 3: Cochlear Implantation: Exploring Technoscience and Designs on Citizenship -- 3.1 Introduction: Cochlear Implantation as a Social Technology -- 3.2 The World of Technoscience: Designs on Citizenship -- 3.3 A World of Medical Expert Knowledge -- 3.4 An Everyday Technological World -- 3.5 Cochlear Implant: A Matter of Ethics and Voice -- 3.6 An Ethical World: Towards an Existential Politics -- 3.7 Conclusion: Technoscience, Social Life and Citizenship -- References -- Chapter 4: The Modification of the Human Body: Controversies -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Body and Its Limits

In recent years the humanities, social sciences and neuroscience have witnessed an 'affective turn,' especially in discourses around post-Fordist labor, economic and ecological crises, populism and identity politics, mental health, and political struggle. This new awareness would be unthinkable without the pioneering work of Gilles Deleuze, who replaced judgment with affect as the very material movement of thought: every concept is an affective experience, a becoming. Besides entirely active affects, the highest practice of thought, there is no thought without passive affects or passions. Instead of a calm and rational philosophy of passions, Deleuzian thought is therefore inseparable from "isolated and passionate cries" that deny what everybody knows and what nobody can deny: "every true thought is an aggression." This inseparability of reason and passion is by no means an anti-intellectualist or irrationalist stance. Rather, it is critical, since it protects reason from its self-imposed stupidity (bêtise) by relating it to the unthought forces that condition it. And it is clinical, because thought becomes possessed by a power of selection. The purely active, i.e. free-floating, unrecorded desire, is never enough to produce a consistent relation to the future, which is why we need the passions to give us an initial orientation, to force and enable us to think. Passions are the beliefs, perceptions, representations, and opinions that attach us to the world; they make up the very material of which our lives and thoughts are composed

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction. Lifelogging-Disruptive Technology and Cultural Transformation-The Impact of a Societal Phenomenon -- Popular everyday life experiences-a lifelogging typology -- Categorising this phenomenon -- Structure of this anthology-overview of the articles -- Conclusion and outlook -- References -- I Fundamentals -- 2 Lifelogging and Vital Normalism. Sociological Reflections on the Cultural Impact of the Reconfiguration of Body and Self -- 1 Lifelogging: Setting the self in motion? -- 2 Idiosyncrasies of modern life: a short outline -- 3 Normalism as a form of life -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Lifelogging. A Project of Liberation or a Source of Reification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lifelogging as a project of liberation or alienation -- 3 Diagnosing reification: Lukács, Habermas, Honneth -- 4 Separation as basis for reification: Adorno -- 5 The Totalization of Reification -- 6 Lifelogging as an alienated reaction to reification -- References -- 4 You are Your Data: Self-Tracking Practices and Concepts of Data -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Representations of quantified self-tracked data -- 3 Self-tracking data practices and interpretations of data -- 4 Data practices and control -- 5 Human data portraits -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 5 21st Century Men and the Digital Amalgamation of Life. A Science and Technology Perspective on Lifelogging -- Introduction: Lifelogging-Hype and Hope -- 1 Use of Lifelogging Technologies: Follow the Hype -- 1.1 Technology and Action -- 1.2 Lifelogging as Daily Routine and Practice -- 1.3 Forms of Hyper-Performance -- 2 Development of Lifelogging Technologies: Unfolding the Hype -- 3 (Technological) Paradigm of Lifelogging: Stabilise the Hype -- 4 Summary: Trust in Hype? -- References -- II Experiences-Case Studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become 'glocal' - this book examines the tensions that exist between a global pharmaceutical market and the locally bounded discourses and regulations encountered as markets are created for new drugs in particular contexts. Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, Glocal Pharma offers analyses of commercial material, medical discourses and legal documents to show how a Swedish, Viagra-consuming subject has been constructed in relation to the drug and how Viagra is imagined in relation to the Swedish man. Engaging with debates about pharmaceuticalization, the authors consider the ways in which new identities are created around drugs, the redefinition of health problems as sites of pharmaceutical treatment and changes in practices of governance to reflect the entrance of pharmaceuticals to the market. With attention to 'local' contexts, it reveals elements in the nexus of pharmaceutcalization that are receptive to cultural elements as new products become embedded in local markets. An empirically informed study of the the ways in which the presence of a drug can alter the concept of a disease and its treatment, understandings of who suffers from it and how to cure it - both locally and internationally - this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and science and technology studies with interests in globalization, pharmaceuticals, gender and the sociology of medicine.

Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women's post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, the book explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist and personal backgrounds. It situates their stories within historical and contemporary political contexts, illustrating the gendered ways in which women experience politics as citizens and politicians. Rwanda and South Africa have amongst the highest representation levels of women in national legislatures in the world. Consequently, the recent literature on women and politics in these countries mostly focuses on women parliamentarians only. However, there is a need to examine the nuances of women's political leadership, amongst and beyond parliamentarians. To this end, narratives were collected from eleven semi-structured interviews with women political leaders in Rwanda and South Africa. These narratives suggest new insights in the area of women and politics in these countries. Firstly, early life experiences influence their political priorities as leaders. Secondly, in relation to ordinary women, women political leaders are an educationally and professionally advantaged group of women. Thirdly, their experiences and positions within society and politics are still greatly influenced by their gender, and gender inequality. Lastly, their leadership is influenced by numerous factors, which ultimately affects the impact of their presence. In light of this, their experiences show that women political leaders are still affected by their gendered status within society, thus affecting the contributions that they are able to make in rebuilding their societies.

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: The growth of London and its need for government -- 1965 -- LONDON'S GROWTH - A BRIEF HISTORY -- THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE GROWTH OF A METROPOLIS -- A GROWING DEMAND FOR METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT -- THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL -- THE COMING OF 'GREATER' LONDON -- FURTHER STRUGGLE FOR REFORM -- THE FINAL PUSH -- THE BIRTH OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS -- Chapter 2: The new boroughs and their context -- Chapter 3: 1963-65: creating the boroughs -- PART II: HISTORY -- Chapter 4: The thirty-two boroughs: a brief history -- INNER LONDON -- OUTER LONDON -- PART III: CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5: Fifty years: an analysis -- IMPACT OF HISTORY AND THE PROCESS OF REFORM -- SETTING UP THE BOROUGHS -- HOUSING -- ROADS -- PLANNING -- EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES -- THE CHANGING ECONOMY, REGENERATION AND A NEW MODEL OF LONDON GOVERNMENT -- DEMOGRAPHY AND IMMIGRATION -- BOROUGH POLITICS -- THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION OF THE 1980S -- THE BOROUGHS AND THE INTERREGNUM -- BOROUGH JOINT WORKING AND REPRESENTATION -- FIFTY GLORIOUS YEARS? -- THE STUDY OF CITIES -- Chapter 6: Counterfactuals -- IF DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS FROM THE 1965 ONES HAD BEEN INTRODUCED -- IF DIFFERENT POLICIES HAD BEEN PURSUED IN KEY SPHERES -- IF DIFFERENT SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE HAD OCCURRED -- Chapter 7: Concluding observations -- APPENDIX 1: Borough population data -- APPENDIX 2: Non-borough London government institutions -- APPENDIX 3: Abbreviations frequently used -- APPENDIX 4: Borough leaders and chief executives -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- Copyright

"This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in Britain is shown to have been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is seen as both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. The author examines the ways in which children's fictions have challenged dominant structures of power and imperial ideologies while sometimes straddling the border between subversion and an uneasy complicity. The texts analysed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, the author demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature combines a critical survey of contemporary British writing for children and young adults with the central concerns of postcolonial studies. It reveals complex engagements with questions of national identity, cultural hybridity, decolonization, and diasporic culture within contemporary British children's literature"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Muslim Women in Asia?6 -- Brief History of Islam in Asia -- The Book -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space -- Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State -- Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space -- 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage -- Introduction -- From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor Force -- The Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness -- Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands -- Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands -- Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global -- Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy -- Introduction -- Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research -- Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of Poverty -- Kemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation -- Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety -- Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka -- Pollution and Purity of Displacement -- Humanitarian Work and Gender -- Class-Specific Identity Performances -- Reproductive Health -- Women as Border-Crossers.

"Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses, black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars from across the academy come together to correct this omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways black women regulate their sexual lives. The twelve original essays in Black Female Sexualities reveal the diverse ways black women perceive, experience, and represent sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. Yet they do not shy away from exploring the complex ways in which black women negotiate the more traumatic aspects of sexuality and grapple with the legacy of negative stereotypes. Black Female Sexualities takes not only an interdisciplinary approach--drawing from critical race theory, sociology, and performance studies--but also an intergenerational one, in conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In addition, it explores a diverse archive of representations, covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from Crash to Precious, from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue, this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of subjectivities, experiences, and desires. "--