Introduction; Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer, Detlev Lück -- PART I EXPLANATION OF FAMILY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- 1 Approaches to the study of family life: Practices, context and narrative; Julia Brannen -- 2. Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions; Eric D. Widmer, Olga Ganjour -- 3 Cultural conceptions of family as inhibitors of change in family lives: …
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…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
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…
Introduction: Setting out on a Journey -- 1. Royal Dynasties -- 2. Noble Dynasties -- 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- 4. The Learned -- 5. Artists -- 6. Statuses on the Move -- 7. Afterthoughts.This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start wi…
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…
Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK -- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures -- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative …
Introduction -- Maggie Walter, Karen Martin and Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews -- 1. Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children; Maggie Walter, Mick Dodson and Sharon Barnes; 2 -- The Story of the LSIC: It’s all about Trust and Vision; Maggie Walter Karen L. Martin -- 3. LSIC: Procedural ethics through an Indigenous ethical lens; Terry Dunbar and Margaret Scrimgeour -- 4. Culture and I…
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 examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book show…