Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies presents the perspectives of 22 leading figures involved in shaping the field of Childhood Studies over the last 30 years. They reflect on the changes that have taken place in the study of children and childhood, discuss ideas underpinning the field, examine current dilemmas and explore challenges for the future.

Key thinkers in childhood studies

Smith, Carmel

Bristol University Press

Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention

How might imperialist, masculinist and white supremacist grips on leadership be loosened? In this thought-provoking and accessible new study, Helena Liu suggests that anti-racist feminism can challenge conventional models and practices of power. Combining a critical review of leadership theory with enlightening examples from around the world, the book shows how the intellectual and activist elements of feminist movements provide antidotes to contemporary leadership research and practice. For those interested in management, organisation, feminism, race and many more studies, it sets the agenda for a radical reimagining of control and leadership in all its forms.

Business & Money

Liu, Helena

Management & Leadership

The Death of Affirmative Action?: Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions (Sociology of Diversity)

Affirmative action in US college admissions has inspired fierce debate as well as several US Supreme Court cases. In this significant study, leading US professors J. Scott Carter and Cameron D. Lippard provide an in-depth examination of the issue using sociological, policy and legal perspectives to frame both pro- and anti-affirmative action arguments, within past and present Supreme Court cases. With affirmative action policy under constant attack, this is a crucial book that not only explains the state of this policy but also further deconstructs the state of race and racism in American society today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Carter, J. Scott

Sociology

What makes entrepreneurs more or less resilient to adversity? Drawing on longitudinal data collected by the author on the 2011 London riots and their impact on small businesses and entrepreneurs, this illuminating case study focuses on the concept of resilience and adaptation in an entrepreneurial context. It brings together different strands of literature, from resilience and adaptation to crisis management, and across multiple fields of study including management, geography and psychology, to provide an accessible overview of resilience research. This novel study offers invaluable lessons and interventions for entrepreneurs, managers and other stakeholders.

The Resilient Entrepreneur: From Crisis to Enlightenment

Doern, Rachel

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Product Description In this important contribution to urban studies, Juliet Davis makes the case for a more ethical and humane approach to city development and management. With a range of illustrative case studies, the book challenges the conventional and neoliberal thinking of urban planners and academics, and explores new ways to correct problems of inequality and exclusion. It shows how a philosophy of caring can improve both city environments and communities. This is an original and powerful theory of urban care that can promote the wellbeing of our cities’ many inhabitants. Review "In this original and powerful book, a veritable tour de force that sets a new agenda for urban scholarship, Davis explores the interrelationships between urban design and the creation of places predicated on care and attentiveness to the wellbeing of ecologies and environments." Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London"This unique, timely book shows how urban design can change for the better if it recognizes interdependence and dependence as basic to how cities are organized - in short, by becoming care-full." Christopher Groves, Cardiff University Review “This unique, timely book shows how urban design can change for the better if it recognizes interdependence and dependence as basic to how cities are organized – in short, by becoming care-full.” Christopher Groves, Cardiff University About the Author Juliet Davis is a Reader in Architecture and Urbanism at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

The Caring City: Ethics of Urban Design

Davis, Juliet

Social Sciences

Public Sociology As Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics

Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It (Sociology of Diversity)

Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.

Brunsma, David L.

Chapman, Nathaniel G

Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to the proportional overrepresentation of minority youth at each step of the juvenile justice system.This book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth.Drawing on original data, including interviews with court and probation officers and juvenile self-reports, the authors call for a need to understand racial and ethnic inequality in the juvenile justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias.This unique research will contribute to larger discussions on how race operates in the United States.

Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US: How We Failed Children of Color (Sociology of Diversity)

Ketchum, Paul R.

Peck, B. Mitchell

From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies. The international context of this book is complemented by the inclusion of specific policy examples across the themes of work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness and the reintegration of justice-involved persons. This book incites the reader to consider how we can reclaim the best of the 'social' in social policy for the twenty-first century.

The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies

Kiely, Elizabeth

Swirak, Katharina

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Key thinkers in childhood studies

Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention

The Death of Affirmative Action?: Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions (Sociology of Diversity)

The Resilient Entrepreneur: From Crisis to Enlightenment

The Caring City: Ethics of Urban Design

Public Sociology As Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics

Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It (Sociology of Diversity)

Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US: How We Failed Children of Color (Sociology of Diversity)

Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US: How We Failed Children of Color (Sociology of Diversity)

The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies