Family Violence And Social Change In The Pacific Islands

Author : Lois Bastide,Denis Regnier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000683882

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Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands by Lois Bastide,Denis Regnier Pdf

The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the conflict dynamics generated by these transformations. The contributors draw from detailed case studies in a range of Pacific territories to examine family violence in relation to the social, economic and political situation of native populations as well as individual, collective and institutional responses to the development of violence within and upon the family. They focus on vernacular understandings, conflicting social norms, the emergence of different types of violent patterns, the impact of violence on individuals and communities, and local attempts at mitigating or combating it. Combining ethnographic expertise with engaged scholarship, this volume offers a vivid account of ongoing social change in Pacific Island societies and a crucial contribution to the understanding of family violence as a social process, cultural construct, and political issue. This book will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of violence and the family, Pacific studies, development studies, and the social and cultural anthropology of Oceania.

Author : McKie, Linda
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335211586

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Families, Violence And Social Change by McKie, Linda Pdf

“This comprehensive analysis on abuse committed in the home provides insights at both the micro and macro levels... The book combines legal and social science approaches in a way that makes it essential reading for anyone studying or working on violence-related issues.†Kevät Nousiainen, University of Helsinki, Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen, University of Umeå and Anu Pylkkänen, University of Helsinki. “This excellent book offers a timely intervention into debates about violence. Whilst most debates still focus on the spectacular rather than mundane forms of violence, Linda McKie uses a synthesis of legal, sociological and feminist research to show how current debates fail to deal with the violence that underpins our lives.†Prof Beverley Skeggs, University of London. An exciting new addition to the series, this book tackles assumptions surrounding the family as a changing institution and supposed haven from the public sphere of life. It considers families and social change in terms of concepts of power, inequality, gender, generations, sexuality and ethnicity. Some commentators suggest the family is threatened by increasing economic and social uncertainties and an enhanced focus upon the individual. This book provides a resume of these debates, as well as a critical review of the theories of family and social change: Charts social and economic changes and their impact on the family Considers the prevalence and nature of abuse within families Explores the relationship between social theory, families and changing issues in familial relationships Develops a theory of social change and families through a critical and pragmatic stance Key reading for undergraduate students of sociology reading courses such as family, gender, health, criminology and social change.

Author : Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387232898

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Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands by Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant Pdf

The history of the Pacific Islands is noted for great upheavals, from colonization to tribal warfare, natural disasters to nuclear testing. More recently, political change, increasing technology and urbanization, and conflict between traditional and Western cultures have led to considerable social problems in the region. Substance and alcohol abuse, violence, cultural displacement, and suicide bring uncertainty to day-to-day life and stretch already overextended social resources. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands sensitively balances situations applicable across this vast geographical area with data and events relevant to individual nations in Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Chapters are written by native clinicians, cultural anthropologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and other professionals serving the region, specifically focusing on: - Hawaii- Aboriginal Australia - The Solomon Islands - Fiji - Guam - The Marshall Islands - The Federated States of Micronesia Each provides historical background, details the country's ethnic makeup, summarizes major cultural identity/survival issues, and examines its existing health care and mental health care systems. The tasks ahead are large. Practitioners, researchers, and other professionals working with the peoples of the Pacific need culturally attuned resources to better collaborate on interventions, prevention programs, and policy. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands rises to this complex challenge.

Author : Sandra Walklate,Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Jude McCulloch,JaneMaree Maher
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787699557

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The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change by Sandra Walklate,Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Jude McCulloch,JaneMaree Maher Pdf

Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change.

Author : Marina A. Adler,Karl Lenz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000901542

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The Changing Faces of Families by Marina A. Adler,Karl Lenz Pdf

With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Richard J. Petts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000636765

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Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States by Richard J. Petts Pdf

This book focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in both paid and domestic work, due in large part to being primarily responsible for duties within the domestic sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities, making the issue of reducing gender inequality even more pressing. Fathers play an important role in contributing to, and perhaps reducing, gender inequality, but barriers to their involvement in family life have received less attention than detailing challenges that mothers face. If men were equally involved in all aspects of domestic life (i.e., were fully engaged dads), women's burdens would be reduced and perceptions of who is responsible for parenting may change, resulting in greater gender equality. Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States focuses on the key issue of father involvement, seeking to understand why fathers are less involved at home than mothers despite an increased desire for fathers to be more engaged parents. This book utilizes recent national survey data, interviews with fathers, and insights from the author’s personal experience as a father to identify current norms of fatherhood within the United States, barriers to father involvement, and strategies to overcome these barriers. Overall, this book argues that by establishing the expectation that fathers will be fully engaged dads as a cultural norm, and by providing structural opportunities for fathers to meet this cultural standard, greater gender equality can be achieved within the United States. The arguments presented in this book are valuable for scholars in the areas of family, work, and gender, policymakers and business leaders who seek to promote gender equality and work-family balance, and parents who are interested in achieving a more egalitarian division of labor within their own families.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788446879923

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Introduction to Marshall Islands by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

The Marshall Islands is a small island nation located in the Pacific Ocean. It is composed of 29 coral atolls and 5 islands, and covers a total land area of just over 70 square miles. Despite its small size, the Marshall Islands has a rich history and played a significant role in global events during the 20th century. The islands were first inhabited by indigenous people over 2,000 years ago, and were later colonized by Spain, Germany, and Japan. During World War II, the Marshall Islands were the site of several major battles between the United States and Japan, including the notorious Battle of Kwajalein. After the war, the islands became a trust territory of the United States, and in 1986 they gained full independence as the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Today, the Marshall Islands is a democracy with a unique culture and a strong connection to the ocean that surrounds it.

Author : M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000225242

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Sexual Violence in Intimacy by M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö Pdf

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned in much of the world. Bringing together international and interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark, New Zealand, the United States, and beyond illuminate cross-cultural differences and commonalities. Methodological debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial challenges are addressed. Finally, a range of policy and intervention approaches—including art, state rhetoric, health care, and criminal justice—are explored. This book provides much needed scholarship to guide policymakers, practitioners, and activists as well as for researchers studying gender-based violence, marriage, and kinship, and the legal and public health concerns of women globally. It will be relevant for upper-level students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, psychology, women’s studies, social work and public and global health.

Author : Cheris Kramarae,Dale Spender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2050 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135963156

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Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women by Cheris Kramarae,Dale Spender Pdf

For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.

Author : New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002528624

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Women Together by New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch Pdf

"132 short histories of organisations, grouped in thirteen sections"--Introduction.

Author : John Scott,Zoe Staines
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529220339

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Island Criminology by John Scott,Zoe Staines Pdf

Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond the question of whether islands have more, or less, crime than other places, and instead addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, which crimes are policed and visible, and who is subject to regulation. These questions are informed by ‘the politics of place and belonging’ and the distinctive social networks and normative structures of island communities.

Author : Margaret Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sex
ISBN : UOM:39015052361105

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Findings of the Desk Review of Sexual Behaviour Research in Pacific Island Countries by Margaret Chung Pdf

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015022081916

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Research Grants Index by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants Pdf

Author : Liz Beddoe,Jane Maidment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136283956

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Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing by Liz Beddoe,Jane Maidment Pdf

Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work – not just for practice in healthcare settings. In fact, the IFSW holds that ‘social workers in all settings are engaged in health work’ and physical and mental resilience can make a major difference to all service users’ lives. Drawing on international literature and research, the authors collected here encourage thinking about the social, political, cultural, emotional, spiritual, economic and spatial aspects of health and wellbeing, and how they impact on the unique strengths and challenges of working with particular populations and communities. Divided into three parts, the first section outlines the major theoretical paradigms and critical debates around social work and ideas of wellbeing, globalisation, risk and vulnerability, and the natural environment. The second part goes on to explore how diverse understandings of culture, identity, spirituality and health require different strategies for meeting health and wellbeing needs. The final part presents a variety of examples of social work research in relation to health and wellbeing with specific populations, including mental health. Exploring how structural inequality, oppression and stigma can impact upon people, and drawing upon a social model of health, this book is an important read for all practitioners and researchers interested in social work, public health and social inclusion.

Author : Karen H Lyons,Terry Hokenstad,Manohar Pawar,Nathalie Huegler,Nigel Hall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473971608

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The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work by Karen H Lyons,Terry Hokenstad,Manohar Pawar,Nathalie Huegler,Nigel Hall Pdf

Social work is a profession that is increasingly involved with issues which have a global dimension. This Handbook tackles the global/local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogates the key concerns that societies are facing through an international lens. The contributors show that, with an appreciation of commonalities and differences, local practices and appropriate forms of international activity can be better developed. Areas covered include: - Analysis of ′International social work′ - Globalisation and indigenisation - Social justice and human rights - Poverty and livelihoods - Ecological issues - Migration - Education, theory, research and practice - Social work in different settings - Religion and spirituality - Responses to disasters and conflicts - Life course perspectives - Regional perspectives - Future directions With a truly international range of contributions, the Handbook incorporates perspectives from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, the Middle East and the Americas. It will be an invaluable resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and academics working in the fields of social work, social welfare, human services, and community development worldwide, as well as service providers and policy makers in the international arena.