Lasse Thomassen argues that the politics of inclusion and identity should be viewed as struggles over how these identities are represented. He centres this argument through careful analysis of cases ...from the last four decades of British multiculturalism.
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The Roma are Europe’s largest minority group and face extensive discrimination across the continent. Drawing on a survey of Roma and non-Roma households in twelve Central and Eastern ...European countries, we analyze the extent to which legal cynicism, as a cognitive frame, is connected to the avoidance of helpful social institutions. We thus expand existing research on legal cynicism to focus on individuals’ contacts with potentially helpful institutions that can buffer inequality. We conclude that the interplay of legal cynicism and system avoidance, which have provided deep insights into the reproduction of structural disadvantage in American cities, also provide us with international insights into the causes of inequality and minority disadvantage across hundreds of towns in Central and Eastern Europe. In this way, legal cynicism and system avoidance work to reproduce durable inequality.
One of the first comparative reflections of its kind, this book examines the challenges that young men face when trying to grow up in societies where violence is the norm. Barker, who has worked ...directly with low-income youth and witnessed first hand the violence he describes, provides a compelling account of the young men's struggles. He discusses the problems these men face in other areas of their lives, including the difficulty of staying in school, the multiple challenges of coming of age as men in the face of social exclusion, including finding meaningful employment, and their interactions with young women, including sexual behaviour and the implications of this for HIV/AIDS prevention.
The book presents examples of evaluated programs that have been able to aid young men in rethinking what it means to be a man and ultimately focuses on 'voices of resistance' – young men who find ways to stay out of violence and to show respect and equality in their relationships, even in settings where male violence and rigid attitudes about manhood are prevalent.
1. Why the Worry about Young Men? 2. Are You a Hippy or a Kicker?: A Personal Story and a Way of Understanding Manhood 3. Don’t Worry, I’m not a Thief: The Story of Joao 4. The Trouble with Young Men: Coming of Age in Social Exclusion 5. In the Headlines: Interpersonal Violence and Gang Involvement 6. No Place at School: Low-Income Young Men and Educational Attainment 7. If You Don’t Work, You Have to Steal: Low Income Young Men and Employment 8. In the Heat of the Moment: Relating to Women, Having Sex 9. Learning to Live with Women, Becoming Fathers 10. Dying to be Men, Living as Men: Conclusions and Final Reflections
Gary Barker is Chief Executive of Instituto Promundo - an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working in gender equality, violence prevention, HIV/AIDS and youth development. He has coordinated research and program development on the socialization of young men in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and North America, in collaboration with international and national organisations. This book is based on nearly 10 years of field work with young men in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the USA and parts of Sub-Sahara Africa, including the author's direct work with young men in these settings in collaboration with governments and NGOs.
Banfield’s work does not follow the research model it had previously proposed for the following reasons: 1) the behavior of the people of Montegrano is not reducible to che simple maximization of the ...material and immediate advantage of the family nucleus.2) the people of Montegrano are not making the least effort to amelionrate their conditions because nothing which they could do would do any better to them. Banfield moreover is conscious of this. 3) The amoral familism does not explain why in Montegrano people live in such conditions that, being in Montegrano, nothing could be done to change things.4) Banfield fails to identify the causes of the situation of Montegrano because in his analysis he assumes Montegrano ad an isolated object. 5) to understand Montegrano it is rather necessary to study the phenomenon of historical marginality, a situation typical of communities like Montegrano.
This article explores the close relationships between LGBTQ+ Evaluation (LGBTQ+E) and Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE). First, we consider the role of CRE spaces, scholars, and practitioners in ...supporting LGBTQ+E, including Dr. Stafford Hood, who helped us break through barriers that kept LGBTQ+E practices marginalized in the evaluation canon. We reflect on parallel developmental trajectories, and explore how LGBTQ+E embodies CRE. Finally, we discuss how LGBTQ+E and CRE can evolve through deepening their relationships and attending more meaningfully to intersectional and international work.
Living in the Margins Bershady, Harold J.
Society (New Brunswick),
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Recenzirano
When people leave their communities to live in others, they become marginal to both communities. Learning new ways and modifying or relinquishing old ones becomes a way of thinking, feeling and ...acting. This has been happening with greater frequency in modern times since early 19th century. By mid 20th century in the United States, the changing kinds and resources of communities have yielded an increasing number of short-lived marginal experiences for an ever-greater number of people who periodically leave and enter one community after another—schools, jobs, neeighborhoods, cities—as part of their life experience. Marginality is overcome by learning the language and habits of the new community. Some people either hold themselves back or are held back from entering into the life of the community. When numbers of more durably marginal people become greater, the wellbeing and strength of the community declines.
The work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism. Education has never played as critical a role in determining ...humanity's future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind's unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, Peter Sutoris explores education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable practices. He exposes the depoliticizing effects of schooling and examines cross-generational knowledge transfer within and beyond formal education. Finally, he calls for the bridging of schooling and environmental activism, to find answers to the global environmental crisis. The onset of the Anthropocene challenges the very definition of education and its fundamental goals, says Sutoris. Researchers must look outside conventional models and practices of education for inspiration if education is to live up to its responsibilities at this critical time. For decades, environmental activist movements in some countries have wrestled with questions of responsibility and action in the face of environmental destruction; they inhabited the mental world of the Anthropocene before much of the rest of the world. Sutoris highlights an innovative research methodology of participatory observational filmmaking, describing how films made by children in the Indian and South African communities provide a window into the ways that young people make sense of the future of the Anthropocene. It is through their capacity to imagine the world differently, Sutoris argues, that education can reinvent itself.
Some epistemologies remain marginalized in political ecology. Here I demonstrate why it is important to learn from various relational margins to further advance the field. Insights and critiques from ...feminisms and decolonial theories have enriched and expanded political ecology in nuanced ways, yet they continue to remain relegated to the margins. I contend that it is vital to engage and advance different forms of intersectional, interdisciplinary, and international feminist inquiries to address ongoing socioecological crises at the current conjuncture. Different epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, and praxis insights showcase how and why representation matters if we are to pursue decolonial futures and solidarities.
Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern ...Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and 1927, government officials, police officers, church representatives, ordinary settlers, and many others operated to exclude and reform Indigenous people. Presenting Anglo-Canadian liberal capitalist values and structures and interests as normal, natural, and beyond reproach devalued virtually every aspect of Indigenous cultures. This book explores the means used to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.
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