Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective
Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective

Author: David A Dyker

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2004-07-05

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1783260793

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In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic “real socialism” to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against the background of the struggle between different social and political groups for power and command over resources. While the book pays due attention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlying perspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set of once-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-term stabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inherited problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of how economics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of that historic opportunity.

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective
India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

Author: Dr Margaret E Walker

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-09-28

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1409449505

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Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

Third World Education
Third World Education

Author: Anthony R. Welch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-05-03

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1135582637

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This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the globe. However there is no single measure which is universally accepted. Whether it is, as some economists might argue, an issue of the number of desks per classroom or one of national sovereignty is widely disputed. Defining equality in education becomes increasingly difficult in an era of globalization in which there exists a wide gap between rich and poor, both within and between nations. In the context of an international move towards New Right politics and neo-liberal economic ideologies, both the quality and equality of education are imperiled. This book argues that any worthy definition of quality education must include the interests and participation of the underprivileged.

Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective
Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective

Author: Peter Chadwick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1134046804

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This fully revised second edition of Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions, providing advice on methods of coping, routes to growth, recovery and well-being, and how schizophrenia can be viewed in a positive light. It also explores the insights of R.D. Laing and discusses how they can be applied to contemporary ideas and research. In this expanded edition Peter Chadwick, a previous sufferer, builds on his earlier edition and introduces new topics including: Cannabis smoking and schizophrenia. Psychoanalytic approaches to psychosis and their extension into the spiritual domain. Using cognitive behaviour therapy in the treatment of profound existential distress. How experiences on the edge of madness can be relevant to understanding reality. Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective encourages hope, confidence and increased self-esteem in schizophrenia sufferers and raises new questions about how schizophrenia should be evaluated. It is important reading for anyone working with schizophrenic people including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.

Perspectives in Medical Sociology
Perspectives in Medical Sociology

Author: Phil Brown

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13:

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Phil Brown has designed this book to make discussion of the issues of medical sociology interesting, accessible, & challenging.

Feminist Perspectives on Family Care
Feminist Perspectives on Family Care

Author: Nancy R. Hooyman

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1995-08-29

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1452247315

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Today women find themselves playing an ever-increasing role in caring for older family members who are frail, developmentally disabled, or suffering from serious mental illness. While this has role of women as caregivers has been documented, the actual impact on the lives of women has remained largely unstudied. In this volume, the authors examine caregiving as a central feminist issue, looking at its impact on women socially, personally, and economically. The authors review how changing family structures, the changing economy and workforce, and the changing health care demands of needy adults have impacted on women′s lives. They critique existing public and private policies, demonstrating a need for fundamental structural changes in social institutions and attitudes to improve the lives of women. Finally, they propose a social model of care that is oriented toward gender justice--recognition of the work of caring and its impact upon women socially, personally, and economically. For students, scholars and practitioners in the field of gerontology, gender studies, and social work, this book is a must.

Spiritual and Religious Education
Spiritual and Religious Education

Author: Mal Leicester

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-15

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1135698627

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Volume V distinguishes religious and spiritual education and takes a multi-faith approach to pedagogic, curricular and resource issues. The important area of collective worship is also addressed.

Environmental Problem Solving
Environmental Problem Solving

Author: Alan Miller

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1461214408

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Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving, Alan Miller reappraises conventional analyses of environmental problems using lessons from the psychosocial disciplines. He combines the disciplines of ecology, political sociology and psychology to produce a more adaptive approach to problem-solving that is specifically geared toward the environmetal field. Numerous case studies demonstrate the practical application of theory in a way that is useful to technical and scientific professionals as well as to policy makers and planners. Alan Miller is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick.