Accumulating Insecurity

Author : Shelley Feldman,Charles C. Geisler,Gayatri A. Menon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820338729

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Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment. Contributors to the volume explore how violence is used to maintain conditions for accumulating capital. Across world regions violence is manifested in the increasingly strained, often terrifying, circumstances in which people struggle to socially reproduce themselves. Security is often sought through armaments and containment, which can lead to the impoverishment rather than the nourishment of laboring bodies. Under increasingly precarious conditions, governments oversee the movements of people, rather than scrutinize and regulate the highly volatile movements of capital. They often do so through practices that condone dispossession in the name of economic and political security.

Author : Shelley Feldman,Charles Geisler,Gayatri A. Menon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820339511

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Accumulating Insecurity by Shelley Feldman,Charles Geisler,Gayatri A. Menon Pdf

Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment. Contributors to the volume explore how violence is used to maintain conditions for accumulating capital. Across world regions violence is manifested in the increasingly strained, often terrifying, circumstances in which people struggle to socially reproduce themselves. Security is often sought through armaments and containment, which can lead to the impoverishment rather than the nourishment of laboring bodies. Under increasingly precarious conditions, governments oversee the movements of people, rather than scrutinize and regulate the highly volatile movements of capital. They often do so through practices that condone dispossession in the name of economic and political security.

Author : Neovi M. Karakatsanis,Jonathan Swarts
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412851497

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Political and Military Sociology by Neovi M. Karakatsanis,Jonathan Swarts Pdf

Several contributions in this volume focus on the modern Middle East, with other articles examining justifications for war, the return of war veterans, white nationalists, and the activities of the Moral Majority. Maria Markantonatou addresses the blurring of distinctions between civilians and combatants. Udi Lebel investigates how the IDF is being changed by the increasing number of religious-Zionists recruited. Orlee Hauser argues that the experiences of women in the IDF vary depending on their positions and assignments. Bruce McDonald compares the performance of the Feder-Ram and augmented Solow models in accounting for economic growth in Iran. Neema Noori examines the interrelationship of war, the state, and mobilization in Iran. Molly Clever examines the justifications for war employed by both state and non-state actors. Christina Knopf uses relational dialectics to examine US veteran transitions. David Bugg and Dianne Dentice analyze attitudes and perceptions of white nationalists. Finally, Aaron Davis considers the rise of the Illinois state chapter of the Moral Majority in the 1980s. This volume in the Political and Military Sociology series also includes reviews of important new books in civil-military relations, political science, and military sociology.

Author : Margaret Sherraden,Julie Birkenmaier,J. Michael Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190238575

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Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households by Margaret Sherraden,Julie Birkenmaier,J. Michael Collins Pdf

Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining incomes. Many have not recovered from the Great Recession, when millions lost their homes and retirement savings. They are bombarded daily with vexing financial decisions: Which bills to pay? Where to cash checks? How to cover an emergency? How to improve a credit report? How to bank online? How to save for the future? Low- and moderate-income families have few places to turn for guidance on financial matters. Not many can afford to pay a financial advisor to help navigate an increasingly complex financial world. They do their best with advice from family and trusted individuals. Social workers, financial counselors, and human services professionals can help. As "first responders," they assist families and help in finding financial support from public and private sources. But these professionals are too often unprepared to address the full range of financial troubles of ordinary working families. Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households prepares social workers, financial counselors, and other human service professionals for financial practice with vulnerable families. Building on more than 20 years of research, the book sets the stage with key concepts, historical antecedents, and current financial challenges of families in America. It provides knowledge and tools to assist families in pressing financial circumstances, and offers a lifespan perspective of financial capability and environmental influences on financial behaviors and actions. Furthermore, the text details practice principles and skills for direct interventions, as well as for designing financial services and policy innovations. It is an essential resource for preparing the next generation of practitioners who can enable families to achieve economic security and development.

Author : Mark Shucksmith,David L. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317619857

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Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies by Mark Shucksmith,David L. Brown Pdf

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an interdisciplinary and problem-focused approach. Written by leading social scientists from many countries, it addresses emerging issues and challenges in innovative and provocative ways to inform future policy. This volume is organised around eight emerging social, economic and environmental challenges: Demographic change. Economic transformations. Food systems and land. Environment and resources. Changing configurations of gender and rural society. Social and economic equality. Social dynamics and institutional capacity. Power and governance. Cross-cutting these challenges are the growing interdependence of rural and urban; the rise in inequality within and between places; the impact of fiscal crisis on rural societies; neoliberalism, power and agency; and rural areas as potential sites of resistance. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of rural areas.

Author : Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317303060

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Grassroots Environmental Governance by Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts Pdf

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

Author : Emmanuel O Oritsejafor,Allan D. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000384581

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Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation by Emmanuel O Oritsejafor,Allan D. Cooper Pdf

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership positions for subjecting their populations into poverty and desperation. Middle-class obsessions such as computers, mobile phones, cars and the petroleum that fuels them, diamonds, chocolate – all of these products require African resources that are typically obtained by child or slave labor that helps to generate billionaires out of foreign investors while impoverishing most Africans. Oritsejafor and Cooper demonstrate that "primitive accumulation," believed by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx to be a process that precedes capitalism, is actually an integral part of capitalism. They also validate the thesis that capitalism incorporates racism as an organizing tool for the exploitation of labor in Africa and on a global scale. Case studies are presented on Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Tanzania, Somalia, Angola, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan. There are also chapters analyzing the interests of Russia and China in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development, and economics.

Author : Stefano Ruzza,Anja P Jakobi,Charles Geisler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317561569

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Non-State Challenges in a Re-Ordered World by Stefano Ruzza,Anja P Jakobi,Charles Geisler Pdf

There is a sprawling scholarship on violence, crime, and corrupt state rule; yet few have interpreted these challenges as transformative at the global scale and as a potential source of alternative, non-state, legitimacy. This volume challenges "Westphalian conservativism" in a provocative yet plausible manner, shedding light at the ubiquity and diversity of unfolding non-state agendas and at their effect on the imagined state community. Focusing on civil war parties, warlords, commercial providers of security, multinational companies and criminal organizations, the book directs attention to theoretical questions and policy challenges arising from non-state armed expansion. To accomplish this, the contributors present a range of case studies and comparisons within three thematic sections: the first takes stock of how, when, and in what measure state and state-system legitimacy are challenged by non-state violent or criminal activity; the second addresses the nature, effectiveness, and side-effects of different state-mandated reaction to non-state activities; and third focuses on the recombination of state and non-state actors contributing to processes of socio-political transformation. This volume provides a current analysis of different armed and violent actors encroaching on the state's monopoly of violence. It seeks to spark debate about global political change and will be of interest to students and scholars of global governance, global security, and international relations.

Author : Ben White,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317976844

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The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals by Ben White,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford Pdf

This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, in order to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Pedro V. Olinto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89061791182

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Land Tenure Insecurity, Credit Rationing and Household Asset Accumulation by Pedro V. Olinto Pdf

Author : Katie Meehan,Kendra Stauss
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820348810

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Precarious Worlds by Katie Meehan,Kendra Stauss Pdf

This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse economies. Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and political scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework for what Geraldine Pratt has called “a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.”

Author : A. Means
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137032058

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Schooling in the Age of Austerity by A. Means Pdf

Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.

Author : Katharyne Mitchell,Reece Jones,Jennifer L. Fluri
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786436030

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Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration by Katharyne Mitchell,Reece Jones,Jennifer L. Fluri Pdf

Border walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together.

Author : Jennifer L. Rice,Joshua Long,Anthony Levenda
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780820363790

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Urban Climate Justice by Jennifer L. Rice,Joshua Long,Anthony Levenda Pdf

Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Whether the situation be displacement within cities through carbon gentrification or the increasing securitization of elite spaces for climate protection, climate justice and urban justice are intimately connected. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures. They also highlight knowledge produced within communities already seeking transformative change and demonstrate meaningful learning from activist groups working to address the socionatural injustices caused by the impact of climate change. The editors' introduction situates our current climate emergency within historical processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, while the editors' conclusion offers pathways forward through abolition, care, and reparations. Where other books focus on the project of critique, this collection advances real-world politics to help academics, practitioners, and social justice groups imagine, create, and enact more just urban futures under climate change.

Author : Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442629998

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Madness, Violence, and Power by Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford Pdf

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, ‘push’ current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage ‘abnormality’, and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the “violence lens,” and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.