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The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and men recreate families and community institutions in a new land.Hondagneu-Sotelo argues that people do not migrate as a result of concerted household strategies, but as a consequence of negotiations often fraught with conflict in families and social networks. Migration and settlement transform long-held ideals and lifestyles. Traditional patterns are reevaluated, and new relationships-often more egalitarian-emerge. Women gain greater personal autonomy and independence as they participate in public life and gain access to both social and economic influence previously beyond their reach.Bringing to life the experiences of undocumented immigrants and delineating the key role of women in newly established communities, Gendered Transitions challenges conventional assumptions about gender and migration. It will be essential reading for demographers, historians, sociologists, and policymakers."I've opened my eyes. Back there, they say 'no.' You marry, and no, you must stay home. Here, it's different. You marry, and you continue working. Back in Mexico, it's very different. There is very much machismo in those men."-A Mexican woman living in the United States
Women immigrants --- Mexicans --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Social conditions. --- Mexico --- United States --- Emigration and immigration. --- Immigration --- Ethnology --- american history. --- community. --- demographics. --- domestic. --- egalitarian. --- family life. --- gender roles. --- immigrant experience. --- immigration. --- labor law. --- labor policy. --- labor. --- lifestyle. --- mexican immigrants. --- mexican. --- mexico. --- migrant workers. --- migration. --- policymakers. --- settlement. --- social justice. --- sociology. --- starting over. --- undocumented workers. --- us history. --- womens issues.
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The only comprehensive and up-to-date look at Reform Judaism, this book analyzes the forces currently challenging the Reform movement, now the largest Jewish denomination in the United States. To distinguish itself from Orthodox and Conservative Judaism, the Reform movement tries to be an egalitarian, open, and innovative version of the faith true to the spirit of the tradition but nonetheless fully compatible with modern secular life. Promoting itself in this way, Reform Judaism has been tremendously successful in recruiting a variety of people-intermarried families, feminists, gays and lesbians, and interracial families among others-who resist more traditional forms of worship. As an unintended result of this success, the movement now struggles with an identity crisis brought on by its liberal theology, which teaches that each Jew is free to practice Judaism more or less as he or she pleases. In the absence of the authority that comes from a theology based on a commanding, all-powerful God, can Reform Judaism continue to thrive? Can it be broadly inclusive and still be uniquely and authentically Jewish? Taking this question as his point of departure, Dana Evan Kaplan provides a broad overview of the American Reform movement and its history, theology, and politics. He then takes a hard look at the challenges the movement faces as it attempts to reinvent itself in the new millennium. In so doing, Kaplan gives the reader a sense of where Reform Judaism has come from, where it stands on the major issues, and where it may be going. Addressing the issues that have confronted the movement-including the ordination of women, acceptance of homosexuality, the problem of assimilation, the question of rabbinic officiation at intermarriages, the struggle for acceptance in Israel, and Jewish education and others-Kaplan sheds light on the connection between Reform ideology and cultural realities. He unflinchingly, yet optimistically, assesses the movement's future and cautions that stormy weather may be ahead.
Jews --- Judaism --- Reform Judaism --- Judaism, Reform --- Liberal Judaism --- Jewish sects --- Social life and customs. --- Identity. --- History --- Reform movement --- social science, jewish studies, jew, judaism, jewish, reform judaism, orthodox judaism, orthodox jew, conservative judaism, conservative jew, egalitarian, faith, religion, religious studies, feminist, gay, lesbian, lgbtq, interracial, worship, theology, politics, ordination of women, sexuality, homosexuality, assimilation, rabbinic officiation, israel, culture.
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The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to 'equality'? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democ.
Equality --- Socialism --- Liberalism --- Right and left (Political science) --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- History --- Great Britain --- Economic policy --- Social policy. --- British Left. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- New Left. --- early twentieth century. --- economic egalitarianism. --- egalitarian society. --- equality. --- progressive liberalism. --- revisionist social democracy. --- socialism.
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The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict. Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC's liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of "freedom" in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on an idealized vision of the rural home and a hierarchical social order crafted in part by the technologies of colonial governance over the past century. In analyzing this conflict, Jason Hickel contributes to broad theoretical debates about liberalism and democratization in the postcolonial world. Democracy as Death interrogates the Western ideals of individual freedom and agency from the perspective of those who oppose such ideals, and questions the assumptions underpinning theories of anti-liberal movements. The book argues that both democracy and the political science that attempts to explain resistance to it presuppose a model of personhood native to Western capitalism, which may not operate cross-culturally.
Democracy --- South Africa --- Politics and government --- african history. --- african national congress. --- anc. --- anti democracy stance. --- colonial governance. --- colonialism. --- cultural studies. --- democratization. --- diplomacy. --- egalitarian values. --- freedom. --- government and governing. --- hierarchical social order. --- historical. --- individual freedom. --- internal conflict. --- liberal democratic platform. --- liberalism. --- migrant workers. --- migrants. --- neoliberal south africa. --- postcolonial studies. --- revolution. --- rural home. --- rural zuzuland. --- rural. --- south africa. --- south african history. --- western capitalism. --- western ideals.
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The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith’s puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism. For readers looking for a distillation of McCloskey’s magisterial work, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich is what you’ve been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy’s key ideas and its most provocative arguments. The rise of the west, and now the rest, is the story of the rise of ordinary people to a dignity and liberty inspiring them to have a go. The outcome was an explosion of innovation after 1800, and a rise of real income by an astounding 3,000 percent. The Great Enrichment, well beyond the conventional Industrial Revolution, did not, McCloskey and Carden show, come from the usual suspects, capital accumulation or class struggle. It came from the idea of economic liberty in Holland and the Anglosphere, then Sweden and Japan, then Italy and Israel and China and India, an idea that bids fair in the next few generations to raise up the wretched of the earth. The original shift to liberalism arose 1517 to 1789 from theological and political revolutions in northwest Europe, upending ancient hierarchies. McCloskey and Carden contend further that liberalism and “innovism” made us better humans as well as richer ones. Not matter but ideas. Not corruption but improvement. Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to the Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey’s influential explanation of how we got rich. At a time when confidence in the economic system is under challenge, the book mounts an optimistic and persuasive defense of liberal innovism, and of the modern world it has wrought.
Liberty --- Libertarianism --- Liberalism --- Free enterprise --- Economics --- Economic history --- Progress. --- Capitalism. --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- bourgeois, wealth, money, economist, economics, economy, historian, historical, national, modernity, liberalism, egalitarian, journalist, controversial, liberty, innovation, industrial revolution, capital, holland, sweden, japan, international, 1800s, india, china, hierarchy, capitalism, nostalgia, pessimism, poverty, class, classism, social studies, enrichment, racism, race, rhetoric, ideology.
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Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American ‘state of nature’ operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion. The Imbalance of Power is based on the author’s fieldwork in partnership with Vanessa Grotti, who is working on a companion volume entitled Living with the Enemy: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.
Trio Indians. --- Wayana Indians. --- Akurio Indians. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Group identity --- Leadership --- Masculinity --- Political aspects --- Guiana --- Ethnic relations. --- amazonia. --- american indian. --- amerindian politics. --- amerindian. --- carib. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural studies. --- defying stereotypes. --- differences between tribes. --- egalitarian. --- egalitarianism. --- ethnographic. --- europe. --- european polity. --- feminism. --- feminist. --- guiana. --- harmonious with nature. --- history. --- indian stereotypes. --- indigenous people. --- native american. --- patriarchy. --- political ideologies. --- social dynamic. --- sociology. --- state of nature. --- tension. --- unconventional. --- united states history.
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counseling and psychotherapy in Africa --- counseling and psychotherapy in the Americas --- psychoanalysis --- integrative psychotherapies --- private practice --- community services --- fidelity --- interdisciplinarity --- community-driven research --- education --- multicultural competence --- counseling and psychotherapy in Asia --- egalitarian society --- professionalism --- Japanese traditions and contemporary values --- pioneering work --- colonialism --- Islamic influences --- counseling and psychotherapy in Europe --- accessible and evidence-based mental healthcare --- psy-professions --- clinical psychology --- talking therapies --- counseling and psychotherapy in the Middle East --- psychology --- cultural colonialism --- Western theories --- culturally inclusive methods --- the international science community --- Japan --- China --- Belgium
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pluralism --- grassroots Pentecostalism --- global Pentecostalism --- Pentecostalism and globalization --- holistic spirituality --- charismatic extremism --- the Pentecostal imagination --- ecumenical ethos --- denominationalism --- Pentecostals and Christian unity --- denominationalism and separatism --- unity and diversity in the Pentecostal movement --- orthodox doctrine and sectarianism --- the formulation of the doctrine of God --- Oneness Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal theology --- social engagement and triumphalism --- Pentecostal triumphalism --- Pentecostal social ethics --- egalitarian practices and institutionalism --- Pentecostal egalitarianism --- anti-intellectualism --- the rise of Pentecostal scholarship --- Pentecostal studies
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L’autogestion est une forme d’organisation collective où chaque membre du groupe prend part au processus décisionnel qui s’exprime dans la recherche de consensus. Depuis ses débuts, la pensée libertaire propose, à travers ce type d’organisation, de quitter le paradigme capitalisme. Elle rejette non seulement la domination et l’exploitation de l’humain sur l’humain mais aussi l’emprise de l’humain sur son environnement qui conduit à sa destruction. Depuis trois ans, en Grèce, le Refugee Village for Freedom est un collectif autogestionnaire de réfugié.e.s qui pratique une agriculture en marge des circuits conventionnels. La souveraineté alimentaire pour le collectif est visée tout comme la solidarité, avec l’apport gratuit et régulier de produits sain et frais à plus d’un millier de réfugié.e.s vivant à Athènes. À travers une enquête sur le terrain et d’entretiens qualitatifs avec certains de ses membres, ce travail va analyser l’apprentissage du Refugee Village for Freedom dont le fondement libertaire offre un potentiel de transformation sociale rendu possible par l’autogestion. Self-organisation is a form of collective organisation where each member of the group participates in the decision-making process as a way of obtaining consensus. Since its inception, libertarian thought has proposed, through this type of organisation, to depart from the capitalism paradigm. It rejects not only the domination and exploitation of humans over humans but also the control of humans over their environment that leads to its destruction. For the past three years, in Greece, the Refugee Village for Freedom is a refugee collective based on the principles of self-organisation. In light of this, this collective has tended to practice a form of farming outside the conventional agriculture. Food sovereignty for the collective is targeted, along- side solidarity, with the free and regular supply of healthy and fresh products to more than a thousand refu- gees living in Athens. Through the use of field research and qualitative interviews with some of its members, this work will analyze the learnings observed from the Refugee Village for Freedom whose libertarian foun- dation offers a potential for social transformation, made possible by self-organisation.
autogestion --- étude de cas --- transformation sociale --- agroécologie --- libertaire --- réfugiés --- Grèce --- organisation horizontale --- sociologie --- qualitative --- paradigme social --- processus décisionnel --- démocratie radicale --- indépendance --- souveraineté alimentaire --- écologisme réformiste --- écologisme radical --- collectif --- autogestionnaire --- agriculture alternative --- solidarité --- anarchie --- autonomie --- égalitaire --- slef-organization --- case study --- social transformation --- agroecology --- libertarian --- anarchy --- refugees --- Greece --- horizontal organization --- sociology --- egalitarian --- qualitative --- social paradigma --- decision-making --- radical democracy --- independence --- food sovereignty --- mainstream ecology --- radical ecology --- collective --- self-orgenized --- agriculture --- alternative --- solidarity --- autonomy --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Sociologie & sciences sociales --- Sciences du vivant > Agriculture & agronomie
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Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the wide-ranging effects of anglophilia on American literature, art and intellectual life in the early nineteenth century, as well as its influence in arguments against slavery, in the politics of Union, and in the dialectics of liberty and loyalty before the civil war. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Tamarkin highlights a more intricate culture of American response, one that included Whig elites, college students, radical democrats, urban immigrants, and African Americans. Ultimately, Anglophila argues that that the love of Britain was not simply a fetish or form of shame-a release from the burdens of American culture-but an anachronistic structure of attachement in which U.S. Identity was lived in other languages of national expression.
Public opinion --- Popular culture --- Democracy --- Political culture --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- History --- Social aspects --- United States --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- British influences. --- Influence. --- Relations --- Foreign public opinion, American. --- 1783-1865 --- British influences --- Revolution, 1775-1783 --- Influence --- Foreign public opinion [American ] --- 19th century --- anglophilia, american revolution, britain, england, class, academia, intellectualism, elite, nostalgia, reverence, affect theory, tradition, democracy, republic, belonging, politeness, etiquette, social standards, deference, egalitarian, politics, slavery, union, liberty, loyalty, civil war, attachment, national identity, african americans, immigrants, urban, students, whigs, filial piety, hawthorne, patriotism, rebellion, imperialism, education, harvard, dilettantes, sincerity, nonfiction, history.
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