Contested Lives

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052092245X

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Contested Lives by Faye D. Ginsburg Pdf

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0520064925

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Contested Lives by Faye D. Ginsburg Pdf

Looks at abortion activists in Fargo, North Dakota, discusses the history of female-based social movements, and describes the influence of sex roles in society

Author : James Quesada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : UCAL:X58829

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Contested Lives, Contested Territories by James Quesada Pdf

Author : Ayo Wahlberg,Susanne Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317160427

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Contested Categories by Ayo Wahlberg,Susanne Bauer Pdf

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume’s chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science categories. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, legal, policy and ethical implications of science and technology and the life sciences.

Author : Jeff Wiltse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807888982

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Contested Waters by Jeff Wiltse Pdf

From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

Author : Shelly R. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134390069

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Contested Representations by Shelly R. Butler Pdf

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Author : Ed Wall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000596359

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Contesting Public Spaces by Ed Wall Pdf

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning, Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups, market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns, revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed, regulated and lived. Through in-depth research, Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies, the realisation of visual priorities, and uneven relations between private interests, public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians.

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 0520064933

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Contested Lives by Faye D. Ginsburg Pdf

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.

Author : Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337239

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Indigeneity on the Move by Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath Pdf

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Author : Samira Shackle
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783785414

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Karachi Vice by Samira Shackle Pdf

Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force, a place in which it pays to have friends in the right places and to avoid making deadly enemies. It is a society where lavish wealth and absolute poverty live side by side, and where the lines between idealism and corruption can quickly blur. It takes an insider to know where is safe, who to trust, and what makes Karachi tick, and in this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Among them is Safdar the ambulance driver, who knows the city's streets and shortcuts intimately and will stop at nothing to help his fellow citizens. There is Parveen, the activist whose outspoken views on injustice corruption repeatedly lead her towards danger. And there is Zille, the hardened journalist whose commitment to getting the best scoops puts him at increasing risk. As their individual experiences unfold, so Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to the daily perils for its residents and pushing their city into the international spotlight. Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Shackle paints a nuanced and vivid portrait of one of the most complex, most compelling cities in the world.

Author : Lígia Ferro,Marta Smagacz-Poziemska,M. Victoria Gómez,Sebastian Kurtenbach,Patrícia Pereira,Juan José Villalón
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658184629

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Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life by Lígia Ferro,Marta Smagacz-Poziemska,M. Victoria Gómez,Sebastian Kurtenbach,Patrícia Pereira,Juan José Villalón Pdf

The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community, neighbourhood life, uses of public spaces and methodological approaches to urban life such as ethnography.

Author : Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Publisher : Humanities and Public Life
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781609386108

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Contested City by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Pdf

Layered SPURA -- Walking the neighborhood -- In practice #1: crisis and teaching -- Three words: community, collaboration, and public -- In practice #2: alternative space -- The next fifty

Author : Ryanne Pilgeram
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748702

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Pushed Out by Ryanne Pilgeram Pdf

What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities. Sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram explores the structural forces driving rural gentrification and examines how social and environmental inequality are written onto these landscapes. Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, she grounds this highly readable ethnography in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. Pilgeram’s analysis reveals the processes and mechanisms that make such communities vulnerable to gentrification and points the way to a radical justice that prioritizes the economic, social, and environmental sustainability necessary to restore these communities.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1638 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081774097

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Contested-election Case of James I. Campbell V. Robert L. Doughton from the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Synnøve Bendixsen,Trygve Wyller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000710793

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Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration by Synnøve Bendixsen,Trygve Wyller Pdf

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans, it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies with interests in migration, civil society resistance and social values.