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Gay and Lesbian Elders, by Nancy J. Knauer, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law, Beasley School of Law, Temple University

Published February 29, 2012 Law , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment
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Since its publication in December 2010, Nancy J. Knauer’s book, Gay and Lesbian Elders, has been extremely well-received by critics and readers alike.

Beginning with the following review from Choice:

“In this well-researched book, legal scholar Knauer [...] presents the estimated two million lesbian and gay elders in the US as an underserved and poorly understood group. She convincingly argues that identity formation for gay people is uniquely the product of their historical context…An excellent book…Highly recommended.”

And more recently from The Gerontologist:

“Knauer’s treatment is by turns scholarly and deeply personal—shuttling as it does between statistical and anecdotal evidence, and admirably  bridges several intellectual fields—including cultural and legal history, sociology, theories of identity, and LGBT historiography—which the author manages to tie together in a compelling bundle that effectively lays out the complicated landscape of LGBT aging issues.”

The Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues also weighed in, in their Division 44 Newsletter:

“Law professor Nancy Knauer provides an interesting and important perspective about the history, identity, and concerns of today’s lesbian and gay elders. The book provides in one compact volume a compilation of information that is of critical importance to researchers, activists and policy makers concerned with these issues.”

It is clear that Gay and Lesbian Elders has struck a chord in the current LGBT discourse, and will likely continue to do so for many years to come.

Knauer herself continues to speak regularly on the topic. In December, she was the only academic invited to participate in an Elder Housing Summit in D.C. that was sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the US Department of Health and Human Services. She also spoke at the 5th International Positive Aging Conference in Los Angeles and next week she’ll be speaking at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Women is Psychology in Palm Springs.

For further information on this noteworthy book and author, please visit www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409402336

‘Lessons for the Big Society’ reviewed by David Taylor

Published November 14, 2011 Politics and International Relations , Social Work and Social Policy Leave a Comment

David Taylor recently reviewed Denis Dillon and Bryan Fanning‘s book Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation on the New Start blog.

The authors have created a fascinating, detailed, well referenced view of a council coping with massive issues, giving us all vital lessons and insights, whether you’re signed up to the Big Society or not!

Lessons for the Big Society provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a  critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey, in the decades prior to the 2011 Tottenham riots.

The Haringey case study acts as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities they serve.  Focusing on the policy areas of planning and regeneration, the book considers the local implementation and outcome of central government strategies that have sought to achieve such accountability and responsiveness through community participation strategies.

It examines how the local authority responded to central government aspirations for greater community involvement in planning, in the 1970s,  and regeneration, from the late 1980s onwards, before looking in detail at the implementation of New Labour neighbourhood renewal and local governance policy in the borough.

New books – Sociology, Social Work, Reference

Published October 19, 2011 new title updates , Reference , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology 2 Comments

Sociology

Civilized Violence: Subjectivity, Gender and Popular Cinema    David Hansen-Miller

Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence: The Voices of Witnesses and Court Members at War Crimes Tribunals    Sara Sharratt, Sonoma State University, USA and the University for Peace, Costa Rica

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe: The Cultural Politics of Seeing    Angi Buettner, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration: Human Smuggling from Pakistan to Europe    Ali Nobil Ahmad, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities     Edited by Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway and NTNU, The Centre for Inclusion and Diversity, Norway and Sabrina P. Ramet, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and The Centre for the Study of Civil War, Norway

Social Work

Towards Professional Wisdom: Practical Deliberation in the People Professions     Edited by Liz Bondi, David Carr, Chris Clark and Cecelia Clegg, all at University of Edinburgh, UK

Reference Series

Crime, Institutional Knowledge and Power: The Rich Criminological Legacy of Richard Ericson     Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada, Aaron Doyle, Carleton University, Canada and Janet Chan, University of New South Wales, Australia

Feminist Theories of Crime    Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA and Merry Morash, Michigan State University, USA

Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime    Edited by Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida, USA and Paul B. Stretesky, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

New books – Sociology and Social Work

Published September 13, 2011 new title updates , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology

Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation: Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe    Edited by Max Koch, Lund University, Sweden, Lesley McMillan, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK and Bram Peper, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Queer Company: The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men’s Work Lives    Nick Rumens, University of Bristol, UK

Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism    Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA  

Social Problems and Inequality: Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology    John C. Alessio, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

Status, Power and Ritual Interaction: A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman and Collins    Theodore D. Kemper, St. John’s University, New York, USA

The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism    Edited by Maria Rovisco, York St John University, UK and Magdalena Nowicka, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship   Edited by Manon Tremblay, Université d’Ottawa, Canada, David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Carol Johnson, University of Adelaide, Australia

The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking     Simon Weaver, University of Leicester, UK

Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe: The Impact of Social Movements    Edited by Alison E. Woodward, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium, Jean-Michel Bonvin, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland and  Mercè Renom, Institut Interuniversitari d’Estudis de Dones i Gènere, Spain

Social Work

Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe: Societal and Policy Implications    Edited by Andreas Hoff, Zittau-Goerlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany

New books – Religion, Social Work, Sociology

Published August 12, 2011 new title updates , Religion and Theology , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment

Religion

Christ’s Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament    Professor Markus Vinzent, King’s College London UK

Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics    Edited by Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University; Mark H. Dixon, Ohio Northern University, USA

Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition    Oliver D. Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA

Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism: The Sydney Experiment    Muriel Porter, University of Melbourne School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Australia

The Faith of Girls: Children’s Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood    Anne Phillips, Northern Baptist Learning Community, Manchester, UK

Social Work

Critical Spirituality: A Holistic Approach to Contemporary Practice    Fiona Gardner, La Trobe University, Australia

Sociology

Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital    Sebnem Eroglu, University of Essex, UK and University of Kent, UK

Mediating Climate Change    Julie Doyle, University of Brighton, UK

Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime    Mark Stranger, University of Tasmania, Australia

Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory    Edited by Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Mary Evans, London School of Economics, UK

Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets    Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, Sweden

Ashgate’s Social Work and Social Policy publishing

Published June 29, 2011 Social Work and Social Policy Leave a Comment

Posted by Michael Drapper, Marketing Executive, and Claire Jarvis, Commissioning Editor

Our new and updated Social work and social policy webpage allows you to browse through our bestselling social work titles and find out more about our professional paperbacks. There is a 10% discount on any titles ordered online as well as an exclusive 20% discount on our monthly feature titles.

Through the Social Work and Social Policy page you can also stay up to date with new and forthcoming titles by signing up for our free email updates and downloading  a copy of our newest Social Work and Social Policy catalogue, with information about our new and forthcoming books as well of some of our key titles from previous years.

Why not take a look?

Ashgate has been publishing in social work since 1977, under various imprints including Arena, Dartmouth, Gower, Wildwood, Avebury and Ashgate.

Our first book was Paul Willis’s Learning to Labour, which is regarded as a classic in its field and is still in print after 30 years. We developed the social policy list and began to publish more Social Work books during the 1980s, and this programme was accelerated by our acquisition of Heinemann Education.

Books from this period still in print include Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan’s Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis, first published by Heinemann in 1979 and reprinted almost annually by Ashgate ever since, and the UK paperback edition of Donald A. Schön’s 1983 book The Reflective Practitioner, which we have reprinted most years since 1991.

In the 1990s we commissioned a highly regarded list of books in social work and policy, education and health under the Arena imprint, aimed at helping professionals put theory into practice. At the same time we continued to develop our academic monograph publishing under the Ashgate imprint.

Our present list, now gathered under the Ashgate imprint, continues to draw on this strong publishing history. We have developed an international reputation for academic excellence, practical relevance and comprehensive coverage and we are proud of the quality of the research we have assisted in disseminating and of the list of highly respected authors from both the academic and professional worlds who have chosen to publish with Ashgate.

We are one of the few publishers committed to the publication of specialized research monographs in social policy and social work (as part of the series Contemporary Social Work Studies) and we also publish a range of textbooks, geared both to practitioners and students. We ensure the quality of our publishing by insisting that all books are peer-reviewed by authorities in the field.

Our social work list is strong in the fields of social work education, reflective practice, law and social work, and international social work. Recent textbook highlights include:

In 2007 we published a sixth edition of Michael Gossop’s Living with Drugs, and in 2008 we published a third edition of Mediation in Family Disputes by Marian Roberts. 2011 sees the publication of a fully revised and expanded second edition of Ian Shaw’s ground-breaking text Evaluating in Practice.

New books – Human Geography, Social Work, Sociology, Information Management

Published June 23, 2011 Geography , Information Management , new title updates , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment

Human Geography

Residential Change and Demographic Challenge: The Inner City of East Central Europe in the 21st Century     Edited by Annegret Haase, Sigrun Kabisch, Katrin Grossmann all at  Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany, Dr. Annett Steinführer, Institute for Rural Studies, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (vTI), Germany and Ray Hall, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Social Work

Evaluating in Practice    Ian F. Shaw, University of York, UK

British Untouchables: A Study of Dalit Identity and Education     Paul Ghuman, Aberystwyth University, UK

British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce: Context, Impact and Coping    Chaitali Das, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Sociology 

Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture    Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies: A Critical Realist Perspective    Theodoros Iosifides, University of the Aegean, Greece

Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory    Poe Yu-ze Wan, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Information and Cultural Management

Managing Information Services: A Sustainable Approach     Jo Bryson

Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing   Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta, Canada, Milena Radzikowska, Mount Royal University, Canada and Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University, Canada

New books – Social Work, Sociology, Law, Law Reference

Published May 31, 2011 Law , new title updates , Reference , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment

Social Work

The Social Fund 20 Years On: Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security    Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK

Sociology

Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy    Edited by Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis, USA, Maitena Milhet, French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, France and Henri Bergeron, Sciences Po, France

Personality Presenters: Television’s Intermediaries with Viewers    Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, Australia

Law

Stories About Science in Law: Literary and Historical Images of Acquired Expertise      David S. Caudill, Villanova University School of Law, USA

The Challenges of Justice in Diverse Societies: Constitutionalism and Pluralism    Meena K. Bhamra, York University, Canada

The Human Rights of Children: From Visions to Implementation    Edited by Antonella Invernizzi, Swansea University, UK and Jane Williams

Reference Series

International Law inEast Asia     Edited by Zou Keyuan, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Jianfu Chen, La Trobe University, Australia.

The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Law
 (3 Volumes)    Edited by Ruthann Robson, City University of  New York, USA.

Available as a  3 Volume Set

Individual volumes:

Volume I: Family and Youth

Volume II: Crime and Punishment

Volume III: Sexual Freedom

New books – Religion, Social Work, Sociology, Reference

Published April 20, 2011 new title updates , Reference , Religion and Theology , Social Work and Social Policy , Sociology Leave a Comment

Religion

An Introduction to Said Nursi: Life, Thought, and Writings    The Very Rev Ian Markham, Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Suendam Birinci Pirim, Book Review Coordinator for The Muslim World Journal, USA and Turkey

Social Work

Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work: Research and Reflections from Women in the Field    Edited by Priscilla Dunk-West, Coventry University, UK and Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Middlesex University, UK

Sociology

Ethnomethodology at Work   Edited by Mark Rouncefield, Lancaster University, UK and Peter Tolmie, University of Nottingham, UK

Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies     Edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World    Edited by Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin, Ireland and Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University, Ireland  

Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting ‘The Political’ in Queer Politics    Edited by María do Mar Castro Varela, Alice Salomon University Berlin, Germany, Nikita Dhawan, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany and Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin Germany

Probation Practice and the New Penology: Practitioner Reflections     John Deering, University of Wales, Newport, UK

Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies    Edited by Lisa Downing, University of Exeter, UK and Robert Gillett, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City: Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond    Pete Fussey, University of Essex, UK, Jon Coaffee, University of  Birmingham UK, Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK and Dick Hobbs, University of Essex, UK
 

Reference

Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime    Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, USA and University of Kent, UK and Keith Hayward, University of Kent, UK

 The History of Policing:  4-Volume Set    Clive Emsley, The Open University, UK

Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime   Edited by Jeffery T. Walker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA

European Conference for Social Work Research, Oxford

Published March 4, 2011 Social Work and Social Policy Leave a Comment

Claire Jarvis, Ashgate’s Commissioning Editor for Social Work, will be attending the first European Conference for Social Work Research, which is being held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 23-25 March 2011.

From the ECSWR website:

Although the initiative for the European Conference of Social Work Research (ECSWR) came from conversations within the university community from 2005 onwards, the conference is open to all stakeholder groups including practitioners, the policy community, managers, service users engaged with research, university and agency researchers, lecturers, and graduate research students. It will represent a wide range of substantive, methodological and value-based interests. It is open also to those in broader social care, human services, and social pedagogy fields, and to interested members of other academic disciplines. The conference series, of which this is the first, aspires to a high standard of research presentations and a significant role in shaping the development of social work. While there are several existing excellent conferences that include a research dimension, there has been nothing within Europe that provides a general forum for the social work research community. By drawing on a wide constituency the intention is to open up the potential for cross-cultural learning within and beyond Europe, and for developing the quality of social work research internationally.

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