Social issues & processes (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of information in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Suc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they put together highly d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'.

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the p...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:In diesem Buch thematisieren die Beitragenden Gesellschaft als zentrale Referenz aktueller Coaching-Entwicklungen und präsentieren Coaching-Praxisfelder als individuelle Antworten auf gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen. Professionelles Coaching als ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term 'combat trauma,' 'post-traumatic stress,' or 'combat stress injury' can...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description: This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the in...