Financial advisors, poker players, hedge fund traders, fund-raisers, sports agents, credit counselors and commissioned salespeople all deal with one central concern in their jobs: money. In Money at Work, Kevin Delaney explores how we think about money and, particularly, how our jobs influence that thinking. By spotlighting people for whom money is the focus of their work, Delaney illuminates how the daily practices experienced in different jobs ...
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-to-day ...
Рассматриваются теория, практика и существующие проблемы социальных вызовов современности. Подробно рассмотрены такие социальные явления, как демография, миграция, коррупция, массовые беспорядки, терроризм. Большое внимание уделено социальной ответственности личности и общества как форме противодействия и минимизации социальных вызовов. Отличительной особенностью монографии является тесная связь теории и методологии исследования социальных вызов ...
Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global , a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization. Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imp ...
Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's «Radio Times» Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and the mood is hot and heavy; the women bend and hyperextend their legs as they twist and turn around their partners. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display o ...
Uno de los rasgos mas caracteristicos del presente es el triunfo del discurso hegemonico sobre la economia y, especialmente, la economia financiera. Tal como afirma Doreen Massey (2012), «en el marco del neoliberalismo la economia se ha convertido en una forma de ideologia». Enaltecida al caracter de ciencia total, se le atribuye la capacidad de explicar y justificar todo y, como tal, se le rinde ciega servidumbre, a pesar de que sus elucubracio ...
The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world’s richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil and other countries are growing faster than Europe or America and they have weathered the crisis better. Will they be new world leaders? And is their growth due to following conventional economic guidelines or inst ...
View the Table of Contents .Read the Introduction . "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since ‘whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquir ...
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