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"Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples from across the globe, this book provides a detailed understanding of the complex and highly contested nature of drug policy, drug policy making and the theoretical perspectives that inform the study of drug policy. It draws on four different theoretical perspectives: evidence-informed policy, policy process theories, democratic theory, and post-structural policy analysis. The use and trade in illegal drugs is a global phenomenon. It is viewed by governments as a significant social, legal, and health problem that shows no signs of abating. The key questions explored throughout this book are what governments and other bodies of social regulation should do about illicit drugs, including drug policies aimed at improving health and reducing harm, drug laws and regulation, and the role of research and values in policy development. Seeing policy formation as dynamic iterative interactions between actors, ideas, institutions, and networks of policy advocates, the book explores how policy problems are constructed and policy solutions selected, and how these processes intersect with research evidence and values. This then animates the call to democratise drug policy and bring about inclusive meaningful participation in policy development in order to provide the opportunity for better, more effective, and value-aligned drug policies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of drug policy from a number of disciplines, including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science"--

Intro -- On this Series -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introductory Section -- 1: Introduction: A Mechanism-Based Approach to Social Policy Research -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Causal Mechanisms as a Concept in the Social Sciences -- 2.1 First Strand: A Methodology of Qualitative Research -- 2.2 Second Strand: Generative Mechanisms in Critical Realism -- 2.3 Third Strand: Analytical Sociology -- 2.4 Fourth Strand: Historical Sociology and Historical Institutionalism -- 3 A Modular and Actor-Centred Conception of Causal Mechanisms -- 4 What Can We Expect from a Mechanism-Based Approach to Social Policy Research? -- 5 Overview on the Chapters of This Book -- References -- Part II: Causal Mechanisms and Social Policies in Asian Countries -- 2: The Introduction of Pension, Accident, and Health Insurance in Urban China -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background and Research on China's Social Security System -- 3 Causal Mechanisms in the Introduction of Urban Basic Pension Insurance -- 3.1 Initial Conditions and Threat Perception -- 3.2 Mechanism 1: Strategic Policy Experimentation -- 3.3 Mechanism 2: Elite Cooperation Through Enforced Compromise -- 4 Causal Mechanisms in the Introduction of Work Accident Insurance -- 4.1 Initial Conditions and Threat Perception -- 4.2 Mechanism 1: Neutral Policy Experimentation -- 4.3 Mechanism 2: Elite Cooperation Through Consensus -- 4.4 Reform Delay: From the Late 1990s to the 2004 Regulations -- 5 Causal Mechanisms in the Introduction of Urban Basic Health Insurance -- 5.1 Initial Conditions and Threat Perception -- 5.2 Mechanism 1: Top-Leader Intervention -- 5.3 Mechanism 2: Strategic Experimentation to Delay -- 6 Conclusion -- References.

"Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies. The new edition presents all the latest research on body image and diverse sexualities, technology and body image, body image and disability, and links between body image, BMI, and clothing availability. Including data from interviews and focus groups with men, women, and children who have spoken about body image and its impact on the rest of their lives, the book explores a range of important contemporary issues, from the effects of social media and selfie-taking on body image, the work of activists and academics who are trying to change how the fashion industry presents women's bodies, and new work investigating impacts of whole-body scanning technology and game-play avatars on appearance concern. Reflecting the direction of research on body image from a range of disciplines since the previous edition, the book also includes an increased focus on body image in men, looking at studies on pressures to be more muscular and toned, and evaluating the possible impacts on health-related behaviors such as exercise and body-related drug use. The only sole-authored text in the field, and integrating work from several disciplines, this is essential reading for students and researchers in psychology, sociology, computing science, sport and exercise science, and gender studies, with an interest in reducing body dissatisfaction in men, women and children"--

Explores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discoursesExplores Turkish political culture and institutional architecture through archival research and a critical rereading of the historiography of the Turkish state and societyProposes key conceptual tools to study popular and populist politics and applies them to the Turkish caseUses and integrates modes of analysis from a diverse body of scholarship such as sociology, cultural studies, psychosocial studies, political science and political theory into a genealogical narrativeTurkish Politics and 'The People' enhances our understanding of 'the popular' in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of 'the people' from the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of 'the people' as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. It assesses the ways 'the people' have been shaped by the history of the republic, and, in turn, have informed ways of visualising society, the country's political culture, institutional architecture and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action.Drawing on extensive archival research and contributions from historical sociology and social movement research, Spyros A. Sofos enriches the ways of approaching the 'popular' by proposing ways of integrating identity, discourse, strategy, organisation and leadership in the articulation of 'the people' in political discourse and action

Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) pharmaceutical markets in the Global South today. Based on primary research conducted in Benin and Ghana, and additional data collected in Cambodia and the Ivory Coast, this volume uses artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) against malaria as a central case study. It highlights the influence of the countries colonial and post-colonial history on their models for state regulation, production, and distribution, explores the determining role transnational actors as well as industries from the North but also and increasingly from the South play in influencing local pharmaceutical markets and looks at the behaviour of health care professionals and individuals. Stepping back, the authors then unpick the pharmaceuticalization process and the multiple regulations at stake by looking at the workings of, and linkages between, (biomedical health) pharmaceutical systems, (representatives of companies) industries, actors in private distribution, and consumer practices. Providing a thorough comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of different pharmaceutical systems, it is an important contribution to the literature on pharmaceutalization and the governance of medication. It is of interest to students, researchers and policy-makers interested in medical anthropology, the sociology of health and illness, global health, healthcare management and pharmacy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429329517, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Embodied Brains -- Urban Inhabitations -- Moving People -- Vital Sociology -- The Plan of the Book -- 1. Modern Cities, Migrant Cities -- Mentalities of Migration -- Seeing the City -- Chicago: Proud and Vigorous -- Philadelphia: Striving, Palpitating -- How Do They Really Live? -- From Migrant Biopolitics to Migration Studies -- The Migrant City Today -- 2. Migration, the Metropolis, and Mental Disorder -- Psychiatry Encounters Migration -- Degeneracy, Eugenics, and Migration -- Migration and Mental Health Today -- Refining 'Migration' -- Mental Health and 'the Slums' -- Crushed Dreams or First Steps -- 3. The Metropolis and Mental Life Today-Shanghai 2018 -- Migrant Nation -- Migrant Labor -- China: A Mental Health Crisis? -- 'Stress' and the Psy Complex -- Measuring and Managing Migrant Mental Health -- 4. Everyone Knows What Stress Is and No One Knows What Stress Is -- General Adaptation Syndrome -- Locating Stress -- Rat Cities, City Rats -- The Meaning of Urban Stress -- Stress and Beyond: Toward the Urban Brain -- 5. The Urban Brain -- The Urbanicity Effect -- Understanding Urbanicity-To a New Style of Thought? -- Seeing the Urban Brain -- The Biopolitics of Stress -- Epigenetics: Beyond the Genetic Program -- Neuroplasticity: The Modulated Brain -- The Exposome: An Urban Sensorium -- Toward a Conception of the Neurosocial City -- 6. Another Urban Biopolitics Is Possible -- Urban Justice: The Right to the City -- Of 'Other' Urban Spaces -- Transcorporeal Exposures: Beyond the Binary -- Opening Our Eyes -- Mental Maps of the Imagined City -- Ecological Psychology -- Niching -- Precarious Niching -- A New Urban Biopolitics? -- Conclusion: Toward a Sociology of Inhabitation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the "mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility and security interplay in the emergence of order beyond the modern state. While mobilities studies, migration studies and critical security studies have focused on particular aspects of this relationship, such as the construction of mobility as a political threat or the role of infrastructure and security, we still lack comprehensive conceptual frameworks to grasp the mobility/security nexus and its role in social, political, and economic orders. With authors drawn from sociology, International Relations, and various historical disciplines, this transdisciplinary volume historicizes the mobility-security nexus for the first time. In answering calls for more studies that are both empirical and have historical depth, the book presents substantial case studies on the nexus, ranging from the late Middle Ages right up to the present-day, with examples from the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, Papua New Guinea, Rome in the 1980s or the European Union today. By doing so, the volume conceptualizes the mobility/security nexus from a new, innovative perspective and, further, highlights it as a prominent driving force for society and state development in history. This book will be of much interest to researchers and students of critical security studies, mobility studies, sociology, history and political science"--

"The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multi-disciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire. This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern history. One of the first attempts to take this approach in postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal relation-a symbiotic "phoresy"-between capitalism and colonialism, reading them as linked structures that carried and sustained each other through and across the modern era. The scholars represented here are all postcolonial critics working in a range of disciplines, including Political Science, Sociology, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism and Theatre, exploring the connections between empire and capital, and the historical and political implications of that structural hinge. Each author engages existing postcolonial and poststructuralist theory and criticism while bridging it over to research and analytic lenses less frequently engaged by postcolonial critics. In so doing, they devise novel intersectional and interdisciplinary frameworks through which to produce more greatly nuanced understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable relation, 'new' postcolonial critiques of empire for the 21st century. This book will be an excellent resource for students and researchers of Postcolonial Studies, Literature, History, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and International Studies, among others."

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Technological worlds are not forever: An introduction -- Structure of the book -- Chapter 1: The nuclear order and the sociology of technology -- Chapter 2: Opening the technological -- Chapter 3: Identifying the actors -- Chapter 4: Searching the structural core -- Chapter 5: Tipping the balance -- Chapter 6: Reaching the goal -- Chapter 7: New actors and structures -- Notes -- References -- 1. The nuclear order and the sociology of technology -- Defining the nuclear order -- Power and nuclear weapons -- A sociological approach -- Social construction of technology -- The concepts -- Constructing power -- The nuclear order reinterpreted -- Could it be otherwise? -- Note -- References -- 2. Opening the technological -- The military-peaceful divide -- Peaceful nuclear explosions -- The right to enrich -- Crossing the boundary -- To share or not to share -- A US monopoly or international sharing? -- Atoms for peace in the 1950s -- Nuclear sharing in the NPT -- Managing technology exports -- From sharing to denial: the case of US-Iran cooperation -- The nuclear program of the Shah -- Islamic revolution and the Bushehr plant -- The European initiative -- In the Security Council -- Without preconditions -- The JCPOA -- US exit and maximum pressure -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3. Identifying the actors -- Follow the actors -- Choosing deterrence -- Choosing abstinence -- Constructing technological frames -- Listing the relevant social groups -- The NPT-nuclear states (P5) -- The Outside4 -- Nuclear umbrella states -- The threshold states -- Exit states -- States in nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZ) -- The nuclear "ban" states -- Deterrence versus Abstinence: Two Cases -- The "other" groups.

"Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of the emotional transformation of forgiveness. It stands at the crux of two vibrant, growing fields: criminal victimology and the sociology of emotion. Analysis of 36 intensive interviews with co-victims and three years of participant observation of self-help groups and other victim-centered events offers a multidimensional understanding of forgiveness. Specifically, this book answers the questions of "What?," "When?," "How?," and "Why?" forgiveness occurs by exploring co-victims' ideas about forgiveness, the differential experiences of various groups of people, the processes through which forgiveness occurs in a variety of extreme circumstances of homicide, and co-victims' motivations toward forgiveness. The book concludes with commentary on overarching conclusions based on this work; theoretical and practical implications; suggestions for directions for future inquiry; and an in-depth account of the methodological strategies employed to gather such rich and nuanced data. This book will appeal to academics and students alike, within relevant fields, including sociology, criminology, restorative justice, victim services, psychology, and social welfare, as well as individuals seeking a better understanding of their own experiences, including co-victims or others whose lives have been altered by extreme forms of violence and upheaval. Its detailed postscript will also serve well those interested in qualitative methodology in social science research"--

"Since the 1970s, a 'critical' movement has been developing in the humanities and social sciences denouncing the existence of a 'Western dominance' over the worldwide production and circulation of knowledge. However, thirty years after the emergence of this promising agenda in International Relations (IR), this discipline has not experienced a major shift. This volume offers a counter-intuitive and original contribution to the understanding of the global circulation of knowledge. In constrast with the literature, it argues that the internationalisation of social sciences in the designated 'Global South' is not conditioned by the existence of a presumably 'Western dominance'. Indeed, though discriminative practices such as Eurocentrism and gate-keeping practices exist, their existence does not lead to a unipolar structuration of IR internationalisation around 'the West'. Based on these empirical results, this book reflexively questions the role of critique in the (re)production of the social and political order. Paradoxically, the anti-Eurocentric critical discourses reproduce the very Eurocentrism they criticise. This book offers methodological support to address this paradox by demonstrating how one can use discourse analysis and reflexivity to produce innovative results and decenter oneself from the vision of the world one has been socialised into. This work offers an insightful contribution to International Relations, Political Theory, Sociology and Qualitative Methodology. It will be useful to all students and scholars interested in critical theories, international political sociology, social sciences in Brazil and India, knowledge and discourse, Eurocentrism, as well as the future of reflexivity"--

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introducing and Situating the Study -- 1.1.1 Italians in Australia -- 1.1.2 Italian Migration to South Australia -- 1.1.3 The Italian Urban Ecology of Adelaide -- 1.1.4 An Overview of Calabria and the Aspromonte Hinterland -- 1.1.5 Calabrians in Australia: The Origin of a Community -- 1.2 The Rationale and Significance of the Study -- 1.2.1 Significance of the Study -- 1.2.2 The Theoretical Dimension -- 1.2.3 The Methodological Dimension -- 1.3 Synopsis of All Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2 Previous Literature About Italian Immigrant Groups and Ethnic Identity -- 2.1 Literature on Ethnic Identity -- 2.2 Studies of Italian-Australians -- 2.2.1 Demography and History -- 2.2.2 Sociology of Religion and Socio-Linguistics -- 2.2.3 Sociology and Anthropology -- 2.2.4 Limitations of Previous Studies -- References -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Reference Points -- 3.1 Introducing the Theoretical Reference Points -- 3.2 The Double Absence and the Crisis of Presence -- 3.3 Cultural Hegemony -- 3.4 The Conceptual Apparatus of Capital -- 3.4.1 Social Capital -- 3.4.2 Cultural Capital, Habitus and Ethnic Boundary Markers -- 3.4.3 The Accumulation and Conversion of Capital -- References -- Chapter 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Taking an Ethnographic Approach -- 4.2 Design of the Study -- 4.2.1 Selection of Primary Participants -- 4.2.2 Data Gathering and Analysis of the Data -- 4.3 Premise and Reflections on the Terms 'Generation', 'Culture' and 'Tradition' -- References -- Chapter 5 Participants' Perceptions of Their Ethnicity Across the Three Generations -- 5.1 The First Generation -- 5.1.1 A Sonata at Vince's Place -- 5.1.2 First-Generation Experiences Within the Anglo-Australian World -- 5.1.3 A Widespread Sense of Betrayal.

Placing security studies in the context of contemporary discourses about the "colonial comeback" and posthumanism, this book postulates the notion of staticide which avers that the effacement of African state sovereignty is crucial for the security of the oncoming empire. Understood in the light of posthumanism, antihumanism, animism, postanthropocentrism and transhumanism; African human security has evidently been put on a recession course together with African state security. Much as African states are demonised as so failed, defective, corrupt, weak and rogue to require recolonisation; transhumanism also assumes that human bodies are so corrupt, imperfect, defective, failed, rogue and weak to require not only enhancements or augmentation but also to beckon recolonisation. Also, deemed to be ecologies, human bodies are set to be liberalised and democratised in the interest of nonhuman viruses, nanobots, microchips, bacteria, fungi and other pathogens living within the bodies. The book critically examines the security implications of theorising human bodies as ecologies for nonhuman entities. Reading staticide together with transhumanism, this book foresees transhumanist new eugenics that are accompanying the new empire in a supposedly Anthropocene world that serves to justify the sacrifice and disposability of some surplus humans living in the recesses and nether regions of the empire. Paying attention to the "colonial comeback," the book urges African scholars not to mistake imperial transformation for decolonisation. The book is invaluable for scholars and activists in African studies, anthropology, decoloniality, sociology, politics, development studies, security studies, sociology and anthropology of science and technology studies, and environmental studies.

Drawing on a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this handbook explores theoretical and empirical perspectives that address the articulation of law in society, and the social character of the rule of law.

The vast field of socio-legal studies provides multiple lenses through which law can be considered. Rather than seeking to define the field of socio-legal studies, this book takes up the experiences of researchers within the field. First-hand accounts of socio-legal research projects allow the reader to engage with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches within this fluid interdisciplinary area. The book provides a rich resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the variety of theories and methods available when law is studied in its broadest social context, as well as setting those within the history of the socio-legal movement. The chapters consider multiple disciplinary lenses – including feminism, anthropology and sociology – as well as a variety of methodologies, including: narrative, visual and spatial, psychological, economic and epidemiological approaches. Moreover, these are applied in a range of substantive contexts such as online hate speech, environmental law, biotechnology, research in post-conflict situations, race and LGBT+ lawyers.

The handbook brings together younger contributors and some of the best-known names in the socio-legal field. It offers a fresh perspective on the past, present and future of sociolegal studies that will appeal to students and scholars with relevant interests in a range of subjects, including law, sociology and politics.

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Eschatology and the Theory of Apocalypse -- Introduction -- Mythology and Social Sciences -- Mircea Eliade and the Myth of Eternal Return -- The Fourth Turning -- The Theory of Apocalypse Explained with Clarity -- The Theory of Apocalypse and Cinema -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Interrogating on the Essence of the Zombie World -- Introduction -- The Literature and Cinema As Anthropological Fields -- Seeing Is Believing -- The Sociology of the Zombie -- World War Z (A Max Brooks Novel) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Undesired Other -- Introduction -- The American Exceptionalism -- Terror and Humanitarian Reasons -- What Is Wrong with Feminism? -- The Abortion and the End of Hospitality -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The War on Terror -- Introduction -- Sociology After 9/11 -- The Preventive Wars -- The Problem of the Precautionary Principle -- How Terrorism Is Changing Us -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Tourism in the Days of Morbid Consumption -- Introduction -- Preliminary Debate -- The Rationality of Development -- Tourism, Colonialism and Development -- Thinking Ethics in Tourism -- Is Rationality the Heart of the Market? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Israel State, Genocide and Thana-Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Anthropology of Holocaust -- Modernity and the Consumption of Death -- What Is Thana-Capitalism? -- The State of Israel and the Power of Prophecy -- What Is the Role of Prophecy in This Process? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Disasters in the Society of Fear -- Introduction -- Humanitarian Disasters -- The Narratives of Disasters -- Understanding Resilience: An Anthropological Viewpoint -- Poverty in Perspective -- The Nature of Pain in the Society of Fear -- The Ideological Core of Poverty -- Conclusion.