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Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines)...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Domestic Democracy
At Home in South Africa
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system....
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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No Place Like Home
Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Unequal Partnerships
Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods....
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations
Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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The Social Organization of Policy
An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Striving and Surviving
A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and...
Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
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