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Front -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. Giving Voice to the Researcher -- 2. Paradigms. Waving the Flag or Flagging the Wave? -- 3. Th e Pains and Gains of a Social Constructionist Perspective on Policy-supporting Research -- 4. Gender and Prison Ethnography. Some Fieldwork Implications -- 5. Criminological Research on Non-national Prisoners without a Legal Residence Permit. The Quest for the Holy Grail of Data -- 6. Criminological-psychological Case-work. Consequences of Visiting the Pits of Hell -- 7. Observing the Observers. Participant Observation in Police Settings -- 8. Getting Personal. Reflections on the 'I' of a Researcher -- 9. Ethnography and Emotions. The Myth of the Cold and Objective Scientist1 -- 10. Breaking Boundaries. Collapsing the Dark Side of Researching Criminology -- 11. Facing Resistance to Research Results -- 12. Pitfalls of Comparative (Penological) Research and How to Overcome Them.

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I present this tribute in the form of a letter to Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I corresponded for more than forty years. The letter expresses praise for her work and character that I wish I had shared with her more fully during her life. I specifically emphasize her ability to invite readers to question restrictive gender classifications and to consider the origins of their joys and fears. I highlight her courage, demonstrated not only in her attack on the misuse of power by Amazon but also in her most ambitions work, Always Coming Home (1985), which almost went unpublished because it did not fit any defined literary genre. I conclude with a tribute to her acts of generosity to the inexperienced young scholar I once was to the old Sidewalker she continued to advise into his seventies.

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place. Despite touching on memories of "the Troubles" and continuing unionist-nationalist tensions, the volume refuses to consider people in the region as purely political beings, or to understand processes of placemaking solely through ethnic or national contestations and territoriality. Topics such as the significance of friendship, gender, and popular culture in spatial practices are considered, against the backdrop of the growing presence of migrants, refugees and diasporic groups

Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself - whether national, gender, racial, political or imperial - are rearticulated through friendship. Here, Elora Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship's complicated, conflicted and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships.

In 2014, to improve upon the existing scheme, the Punjab government launched a "new wheat-pulses scheme" under the public distribution system. The state decided to distribute grains on a six-monthly basis instead of every month. It claimed various benefits, whereas beneficiaries expressed concerns. The purpose of this research was to identify and understand factors affecting beneficiaries' preference for successful adoption of six-monthly distribution system. Factors affecting beneficiaries' preference included monthly hassle, leakages in system, storage challenges, interval of grain distribution, one-time down payment, trade of bulk grains by family, exploitation by middle-men, communication of arrival of grains, gender, area, and nature of employment.

Im Rahmen der Soziobiologie erfahren insbesondere die Thesen des britischen Evolutionstheoretikers Richard Dawkins großes Interesse. Von Dawkins stammt nicht nur die viel zitierte Theorie des "egoistischen Gens", sondern auch der Ansatz einer biologisch-evolutiven Erklärung der kulturellen Welt, die Theorie des "Mems". Im Gegensatz zum Begründer der neueren Soziobiologie, Edward O. Wilson vertritt er damit einen deutlich komplexeren Ansatz. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, worin überhaupt die "Evidenz" des Soziobiologischen besteht, das die verschiedensten Phänomene kausal "in die Gene" hinein projiziert. Es zeigt sich, dass soziobiologische Erklärungsmuster vermehrt auch in den soziologischen Diskurs selbst einfließen und dies sowohl in affirmativer, als auch in kritischer Weise. Der Autor prüft, ob die Soziobiologie mit ihren Versprechen eine Lücke schließt, die eine zuweilen "leibvergessene", gender-, diskurs- und konstruktionsbetonende Soziologie für manche gelassen hat. Die vorliegende Analyse hinterfragt die Dawkinsche Soziobiologie vor allem auf ihre inneren Widersprüche, insbesondere aber auf ihr naturwissenschaftsfernes und somit genuin weltanschauliches Potential. Insgesamt zeigen die Ausführungen, dass die Übertragung biologischer Mechanismen auf die kulturelle Welt der Menschen scheitert, ebenso wie zuvor bereits der Sozialdarwinismus von Spencer und Haeckel oder die Verhaltensbiologie von Lorenz gescheitert sind. (ICA2)

"Black Feminism, der Feminismus Schwarzer Frauen, versteht sich als Gegenentwurf zu rassistischer und sexistischer Diskriminierung. Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über die theoretischen Konzepte und Kritiken von Black Feminists in den USA. Bei ihnen geht es um die Feststellung von multiplen Überschneidungen der verschiedenen Unterdrückungsformen, die nicht als additiv zu verstehen sind. Sexismus und Rassismus addieren sich nicht, sondern sind überlappend und zumeist gleichzeitig wirksam. Ein weiterer Kritikpunkt von Black Feminism setzt am übrigen Feminismus an: Weiße Feministinnen in den USA haben Schwierigkeiten, die Privilegien, die sie aufgrund ihrer Hautfarbe genießen, zur Kenntnis zu nehmen. Im Beitrag werden daher die Differenzen zwischen weißem und Schwarzem Feminismus, die nicht zuletzt ein Resultat der historischen Beziehungen zwischen den 'Rassen' in den USA sind, behandelt. Die Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas-Kontroverse von 1991 dient anschließend als Fallbeispiel für das Zusammenspiel der Kategorien race und gender. Die Kontroverse zeigt die unterschiedlichen Spaltungen und Allianzen innerhalb der amerikanischen Bevölkerung. Dabei wird auch auf den Stellenwert von Politik eingegangen. Traditionell haben sich Schwarze Frauen in den USA eher wenig mit der feministischen Bewegung identifiziert, sondern waren stattdessen eher in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung politisch aktiv. Der vorliegende Artikel möchte die diesbezüglichen Hintergründe transparent machen." (Autorenreferat)

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions -- Chapter 3: Decolonising and De-patriarchalising Analyses of the Prison in the Global South -- Chapter 4: The Macro-political Dimension of Santa Monica: Intertwined Co-governance, Interlegality and Prisoner-delegates -- Chapter 5: Santa Monica's Meso-social Dimension: Religious Performances, and Formal and Informal-legitimised Labour -- Chapter 6: Santa Monica's Micro-intersubjective Dimension: Interpersonal Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Index.

"This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a tolerant, welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions. Alert to race and ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion, and inter-ethnic migrant conflict, the volume traverses an array of discriminatory practices - including xenophobia, racism, and sectarianism - and responses to them. With rich evidence, fascinating new insights, and engagement comparatively and transnationally with global themes of exploitation, exclusion, and inequalities, Narratives of Migrant and Refuge Discrimination in New Zealand will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora studies, race and ethnicity, and refugee studies"--

This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions. Alert to race and ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion and inter-ethnic migrant conflict, this volume traverses an array of discriminatory practices - including xenophobia, racism and sectarianism - and responses to them. With rich evidence, fascinating new insights and engagement comparatively and transnationally with global themes of exploitation, exclusion and inequalities, Narratives of Migrant and Refuge Discrimination in New Zealand will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora studies, race and ethnicity and refugee studies.

"This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural-urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in four parts - Spatial Dimensions, Labour and Migration Dimensions, Social Dimensions, and Beyond Inclusion - the chapters present emerging new concepts of related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach toward the concept of 'inclusiveness' through drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia. An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different economic and social issues on different countries in South Asia, focusing on inclusivity, this book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics"--

A key curiosity animating this article concerns how sexual violence is theorised. The work of feminist scholars has been crucial in unearthing ways in which women's traditionally demeaned bodies regularly materialised as 'easy targets' for such violence. The gift of the concept of gender has played a significant role in facilitating the production of this corpus of knowledge. Less noticed in the literature, in policy and legislation has been sexual violence against men – an egregious omission. Yet it seems that redeploying the concept of gender to make sense of sexual violence against men and elevate this violence into the realms of theoretical and legislative attention is not straightforward. Identifying feminist work as in part responsible for the rendering of sexual violence against men as too 'unseen' in theory provoked my attention, though it's not that I place feminist theory as 'innocent' or infallible – far from it. In this article I unpack some of the complexities around theorising sexual politics in Global Politics turning towards the aesthetics of feminist thinking to help reconsider the way connections take shape between gender, sex and violence. Underpinning this discussion are questions about feminist intentions to transform patriarchal and colonial structures and institutions.

AbstractA key curiosity animating this article concerns how sexual violence is theorised. The work of feminist scholars has been crucial in unearthing ways in which women's traditionally demeaned bodies regularly materialised as 'easy targets' for such violence. The gift of the concept of gender has played a significant role in facilitating the production of this corpus of knowledge. Less noticed in the literature, in policy and legislation has been sexual violence against men – an egregious omission. Yet it seems that redeploying the concept of gender to make sense of sexual violence against men and elevate this violence into the realms of theoretical and legislative attention is not straightforward. Identifying feminist work as in part responsible for the rendering of sexual violence against men as too 'unseen' in theory provoked my attention, though it's not that I place feminist theory as 'innocent' or infallible – far from it. In this article I unpack some of the complexities around theorising sexual politics in Global Politics turning towards the aesthetics of feminist thinking to help reconsider the way connections take shape between gender, sex and violence. Underpinning this discussion are questions about feminist intentions to transform patriarchal and colonial structures and institutions.