Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment -- Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology -- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora -- Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest -- Chapter 6. Survival at Shora…
Introduction -- 1.. Challenges and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Encounters -- 2. Two Case Studies by a Researcher Living Between Worlds -- 3. Trauma in a Lived Religion Perspective -- 4. Attending to “Survivors as Experts”: Lessons Learned -- 5. Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Research: Lessons Learned -- 6. Poetics and Ethics of World/Sense Encounters—Cultivating the Lessons -- 7.…
Foreword: Reclaiming the Space for Girls -- Chapter 1. Who Are Girls and Is There a Problem? -- Chapter 2. How We Know What We Know: Knowledge and Evidence -- Chapter 3. See How Far We've Come! Girls' Education in Recent History. And Where Does This Leave Girls Now? -- Chapter 4. The Balance Act -- Chapter 5. Girls at School: The Formation of Learning Identities -- Chapter 6. Post School Pathwa…
1. Introduction -- Part I: Contextualizing Fatherhood -- 2. Theoretical explorations of fatherhood -- 3. Fatherhood and welfare state regimes -- Part II: Fatherhood in Transition -- 4. Images of fatherhood -- 5. Breadwinners and new fathering practices -- 6. Internet and the new landscape of fatherhood -- 7. Parenthood after divorce -- 8. Gay fatherhood -- 9. Transnational fatherhood -- Part II…
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…
1. Introduction -- 2. The landscape of elderly care and the proliferation of struggles -- 3. Theorizing elderly care -- 4. Silences that matter -- 5. Regulating care – and struggles about regulation -- 6. Conclusion: A new analytics for (elderly) care.This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political…
1. Why a politics of listening? -- 2. They only listen when we bash our culture.-3.‘We are only remembered when we riot’ -- 4. Creative Alternatives -- 5. Listening as Solidarity -- 6. Conclusion. .This book explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, …
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationshi…
This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…