Affective Assemblages And Local Economies

Author : Joanie Willett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538150719
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affective Assemblages and Local Economies written by Joanie Willett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What becomes visible if we look at peripheral, deprived rural regions through the lens of a complex adaptive assemblage? Affective Assemblages and Local Economies uses ethnographic research and qualitative interviews with members of the public and some policy makers to examine this question. Over a year-long project in Cornwall in the South West of the UK, and the South West of Virginia, USA, the book considers what becomes visible if we understand the region through the words of ordinary people, rather than planners and policy-makers. Drawing on the Deleuzian affective assemblage, it builds the concept of the Region-Assemblage to examine the deep interconnectedness between people, objects, organisations and the processes that we find in the regions that we observe.

Author : Mark Shucksmith
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447367146
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Poverty Today written by Mark Shucksmith and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship. This book explores how and why people in rural areas experience and negotiate poverty and social exclusion. It examines the role of societal processes, individual circumstances, sources of support (markets; state; voluntary organisations; family and friends) and the role of place. It concludes that the UK’s welfare system is poorly adapted to rural areas, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. Voluntary organisations increasingly fill gaps in support left by the state. Invaluable to those in policy and practice, the book recommends a combination of person-based and place-based approaches to tackle rural poverty.

Author : Joanie Willett
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529679206
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to UK Politics written by Joanie Willett and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around the Westminster bubble, instead drawing upon the diverse challenges facing citizens and decision-makers today. Leading experts are brought together in this carefully edited collection that spans traditional and critical approaches. An Introduction to UK Politics highlights central concerns facing British politics today, from ongoing colonial legacies to Britain’s inequality and the impact of decades of austerity. Spotlighted throughout are timely examples and latest research, drawing on topics spanning policy responses to climate change and the role of social class in educational outcomes; to the latest calls for increased devolution and shifting public opinion on UK Foreign Policy. This textbook is packed with features, including: · Case Studies to encourage critical thinking by presenting different perspectives on key events. · Theory Boxes which explore concepts in action. · Spotlight on Research showcases seminal and controversial publications to spark debate. · Annotated Reading Lists guide students to further readings. Unique to this text is a central focus on the role identities and inequalities play in contemporary British Politics. It offers students the tools to conduct analysis into the shifting dynamics in this major new action-focused, problem-based, and engaging introduction. And centrally, the book offers a compelling call to action – that is how we all have the capacity to shape British politics every day. An Introduction to UK Politics is essential reading for any undergraduate student studying UK or British Politics. Joanie Willett – Associate Professor in Politics, University of Exeter, UK Arianna Giovannini – Professor of Political Sociology, University of Urbino, Italy

Author : Eugenio Cejudo-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031486757
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Win or Lose in Rural Development written by Eugenio Cejudo-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Primrose
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003846998
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare written by David Primrose and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full potential and the ability of society to prevent disease and cure illness are demonstrated to be shaped by a broader array of political economic processes. The material conditions in which societies produce, distribute, exchange, consume, and reproduce – and the operation of power relations therein – influence all elements of human health: from food consumption and workplace safety, to inequality, healthcare and housing, and even the biophysical conditions in which humans live. This volume explores these concerns across five sections. First, it introduces and critically engages with a variety of established and cutting-edge theoretical perspectives in political economy to conceptualise health and healthcare – from neoclassical and behavioural economics, to Marxist and feminist approaches. The next two sections extend these insights to evaluate the neoliberalisation of health and healthcare over the past 40 years, highlighting their individualisation and commodification by the capitalist state and powerful corporations. The fourth section examines the diverse manifestation of these dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. The volume concludes with a section devoted to outlining more progressive health and healthcare arrangements, which transcend the limitations of both neoliberalism and capitalism. This volume will be an indispensable reference work for students and scholars of political economy, health policy and politics, health economics, health geography, the sociology of health, and other health-related disciplines.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031172817
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Brexit written by Mark Bevir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the impact of Brexit on political traditions such as nationalism, liberalism and conservatism, cosmopolitanism and decentralization. Bringing together scholars of British Politics, the chapters focus on the following topics: Brexit and the myth of British National identity since World War II; the evolution of discourses surrounding Brexit and the broader shifts in the character of British liberal and conservative traditions; how the phenomenon of Brexit has decentered the Labour Party’s ideational tradition; the expression of beliefs about Brexit and British foreign policy; the ‘identity effects’ of Brexit on unionism and nationalism in Northern Ireland; whether the UK require a more decentred local government at a community level in order for people to feel both represented, and able to participate.

Author : Cameron Duff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401788936
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assemblages of Health written by Cameron Duff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a review of Deleuze’s key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness. Taken from a Deleuzian perspective, health and wellbeing will be characterized as a discontinuous process of affective and relational transitions. The book argues that health, conceived in terms of the quality of life, is advanced or facilitated in the provision of new affective sensitivities and new relational capacities. Following an assessment of Deleuze’s key ideas, the book will offer a series of case studies designed to illustrate how Deleuze’s ideas can be applied to select health problems. This analysis draws out the specific advantages of a Deleuzian approach to public health research, establishing grounds for more widespread engagement with Deleuze’s ideas across the health and social sciences.

Author : Grear, Anna
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802203346
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Legalities written by Grear, Anna and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might law address the multiple crises of meaning intrinsic to global crises of climate, poverty, mass displacements, ecological breakdown, species extinctions and technological developments that increasingly complicate the very notion of 'life' itself? How can law embrace — in other words —the 'posthuman' condition — a condition in which non-human forces such as climate change and Covid-19 signal the impossibility of clinging to the existing imaginaries of Western legal systems and international law? This carefully curated book addresses these and related questions, bringing 'law beyond the human' (drawing on Indigenous legalities, life ways and ontologies) and New Materialist and Posthuman/ist approaches into stimulating proximity to each other.

Author : Bianca Fileborn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137587911
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy written by Bianca Fileborn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores young adults' experiences and understandings of sexualised violence within licensed venues. Although anecdotally common, unwanted sexual attention in pubs and clubs has been the focus of relatively little criminological analysis. This text provides the first exploration of how and why unwanted sexual attention occurs in licensed venues. Using wide-ranging research from over two hundred participants, Fileborn argues that what 'counts' as unwanted sexual attention is highly context-dependent and situated within a complex assemblage of a venue's culture, environment, and community. Dealing with issues such as the roles gender, sexuality, space, and social belonging play in shaping young adults' experiences, this book recounts how young people make sense of unwanted sexual attention within a culturally complex, alcohol-fuelled, and sexually-charged environment. A thorough and thought-provoking text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, and political science.

Author : Anne-Marie d'Aoust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317549260
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality written by Anne-Marie d'Aoust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced capitalism is characterized by a level of symbolic production that not only results in a dematerialization of labor, but also increasingly relies on highly emotional components, ranging from consumption desire to workforce management. Feelings as varied as love, anger, and desire are integral to neoliberal processes, though not in unproblematic and monolithic ways. Whereas some accounts decry capitalism’s hold on the emotional realm, as the commodified search for soul mates through online dating sites or Starbucks’ promotion of fair-trade coffee suggest, others counter that emotions represent a privileged site of resistance to market rationality. Relying on different case studies ranging from drone strikes, the 2008 economic crisis in Ireland, and marriage migration management, this volume builds on this productive tension between subjection and resistance through the lenses of the concept of governmentality. Developed by Michel Foucault, governmentality sheds light on the ways in which economic and political life are now being managed through logics of security and economic calculations. This volume explores how individuals might become emotionally attached to regimes of power that are detrimental to them, how neoliberal processes are concomitant with the valorization of certain emotional dispositions, and how affective economies might provide a site of resistance. This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.