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Recognizing Transsexuals is joint winner of the 2012 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

Published April 23, 2012 Authors , prizes , Sociology Leave a Comment

Zowie Davy and Michael Skey were joint winners earlier this month of the prestigious Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for first books in sociology. Dr Davy and Dr Skey shared the prize of £1,000 awarded by the British Sociological Association at its annual conference in Leeds.

Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment (Zowie Davy, University of Lincoln) draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition. It explores the reasons why transsexuals want to modify their bodies, and examines political, medical and legal issues.

National Belonging and Everyday Life: The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World (Michael Skey, University of East London) examines the views and attitudes of the ethnic majority in England.

The BSA prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within sociology, and was established in honour of the memory of Professor Philip Abrams, whose work contributed substantially to sociology and social policy research in Britain. He is remembered for the encouragement and help he provided to many sociologists at the start of their careers.

The other authors shortlisted for the prize were: Michaela Benson, of the University of Bristol, who wrote The British in Rural France: Lifestyle Migration and the Ongoing Quest for a Better Way of Life and Paul Thomas, University of Huddersfield, who wrote Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion.

New books – Sociology, Music Studies

Published April 10, 2012 Music Studies , new title updates , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology

Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib    Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Soka University of America, USA

Fitting into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities    Yvette Taylor, London South Bank University, UK

Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Culture, Media and Theory    Edited by David Berry, Southampton Solent University, UK

The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business    Raymond Boyle, University of Glasgow, UK and and Lisa W. Kelly, University of Glasgow, UK

Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State     Edited by Seraphim Seferiades, Panteion University, Greece and Hank Johnston, San Diego State University, USA

Music Studies

Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream   Edited by Kenneth Womack, Penn State University, USA, Jerry Zolten, Penn State University, USA and Mark Bernhard, University of Southern Indiana, USA.

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain    William Washabaugh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song    Allan F. Moore, University of Surrey, UK

Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan    Axel Englund, Stockholm University, Sweden

The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts    Beth Szczepanski, Ohio State University, USA

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

New books – Sociology, Information Management, Modern History

Published February 21, 2012 History , Information Management , new title updates , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology 

Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination    Luis Suarez-Villa, University of California, Irvine, USA

The New Environmentalism?: Civil Society and Corruption in the Enlarged EU    Davide Torsello, CEU Business School, Hungary

Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class    Jerome Krase, City University of New York, USA

Teaching Justice: Solving Social Justice Problems through University Education    Kristi Holsinger, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA

Information and Cultural Management

Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage    Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker, King’s College London, UK

Modern History

European Perceptions of Terra Australis    Edited by Anne M. Scott, University of Western Australia, Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, Claire McIlroy, University of Western Australia, and Christopher Wortham, University of Western Australia

Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective    Edited by John Consiglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva, and Gabriel Tortella, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser

The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human ‘Material’ in Modern Medical History    Edited by Sarah Ferber, University of Wollongong, Australia and Sally Wilde, University of Queensland, Australia.

Britain and Disarmament: The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Control and Programmes 1956-1975    John R. Walker, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK

New books – Sociology

Published January 20, 2012 new title updates , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology

Beyond Neoliberalism: A World to Win   James Petras, SUNY, Binghamton, USA  and Saint Mary’s University, Canada and Henry Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University, Canada and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition   Edited by Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century    Edited by Niki Vermeulen, University of Vienna, Austria, Sakari Tamminen, University of Helsinki, Finland and Andrew Webster, University of York, UK

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State: The Historical and Contemporary Role of CSR in the Mixed Economy of Welfare    Jeanette Brejning, University of Bristol, UK

The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market    Reza Hasmath, University of Melbourne, Australia

Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context: Critical Social Science Perspectives    Edited by Alex Broom, University of Queensland, Australia and Jon Adams, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Australia

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past    Siobhan Kattago, Tallinn University, Estonia

Migrants and Cities: The Accommodation of Migrant Organizations in Europe    Margit Fauser, Bielefeld University, Germany

Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland    Marian Duggan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach    Edited by Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada; Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia and Amélie Perron, University of Ottawa, Canada

Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn    Edited by Haim Hazan, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Esther Hertzog, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State    David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University, UK

Vilfredo Pareto: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries    Edited by Joseph V. Femia, University of Liverpool, UK and Alasdair J. Marshall, University of Southampton, UK

New books – Sociology

Published December 30, 2011 new title updates , Sociology Leave a Comment

Sociology

Apartheid Vertigo: The Rise in Discrimination Against Africans in South Africa     David M. Matsinhe, Carleton University, Canada

Ethnicity and Education in England and Europe: Gangstas, Geeks and Gorjas    Ian Law, University of Leeds, UK and Sarah Swann, University of Leeds, UK

Gender and Well-Being: The Role of Institutions    Edited by Elisabetta Addis, University of Sassari, Italy, Paloma de Villota, Complutense University of Madrid, Florence Degavre, Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium and John Eriksen, Norwegian Social Research Institute, Norway

Guarding Against Crime: Measuring Guardianship within Routine Activity Theory    Danielle M. Reynald, Griffith University, Australia

Making Disease, Making Citizens: The Politics of Hepatitis C    Suzanne Fraser and Kate Seear, both at Monash University, Australia

Managing Cultural Change: Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World    Melissa Butcher, Open University, UK

Mediating Mental Health: Contexts, Debates and Analysis    Michael Birch, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA

Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion     Edited by Fethi Mansouri and Michele Lobo, both at Deakin University, Australia

Paradoxes of Individualization: Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity    Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines    Edited by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK

The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons: Methodology and American Ethos    Uta Gerhardt, University of Heidelberg, Germany

The Spanish Welfare State in European Context  Edited by Ana Marta Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain and Margarita León, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Young People and Work   Edited by Robin Price, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Paula McDonald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Janis Bailey, Griffith University, Australia and Barbara Pini, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Michael Lynch wins the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology

Published December 13, 2011 Authors , Law , prizes , Sociology 1 Comment

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Ashgate congratulates Michael Lynch, winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology.

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual’s sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.

Michael J. Lynch is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida. He is the co-Editor of the recently published Ashgate volume, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime, as well as series Editor of Ashgate’s new highly anticipated Green Criminology series.

“An excellent interdisciplinary and philosophical enquiry into human rights in social context”

Published November 23, 2011 Law , Sociology Leave a Comment

We were pleased to read the Times Higher’s recent review of Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society.

Law tends to be a discipline wedded to the “set text”. The topic of rights, however, permits teachers to be more creative when drawing up reading lists. If, like me, you prefer to teach human rights in more critical and less idolatrous tones, Reza Banakar’s edited volume, Rights in Context, is a useful addition to your course. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary and philosophical enquiry into human rights in social context – the sort of text that is often, without warrant, considered peripheral reading for human rights students. It offers a much-needed alternative to doctrinal, uncritical approaches to the study of human rights.   Nadine El-Enany

Rights in Context is edited by Reza Banakar, School of Law, University of Westminster, and is available in paperback and hardback.

Contents:

Introduction: snapshots of the rights discourse, Reza Banakar; Law, rights and justice in late modern society: a tentative theoretical framework, Reza Banakar

Part I The Critiques of Rights: A sociological critique of rights, Max Travers; The ‘rights’ conundrum: poverty of philosophy amidst poverty, Radha D’Souza; Dangerous rights: of citizens and humans, Kate Nash; The neglected minority: the penurious human rights of artists, Paul Kearns; Truth and myth in critical theory, Eric Heinze

Part II The Challenges of Rights: Defacing Muslim women: dialectical meanings of dress in the body politic, Susan Edwards; Beyond the sacred and the secular: Muslim women, the law and the delivery of justice, Samia Bano; The right to be different: the position of Muslim migrants in The Netherlands, Halleh Ghorashi; It’s not about free expression: a sociological examination of the Danish cartoon controversy, Sarah Dreier; Pre-empting terrorism? Two case studies of UK’s anti-terrorism legislation, Reza Banakar

Part III The Strategies of Rights: Human rights strategies in an age of counter-terrorism, Daniel Moeckli; ‘Terrorist lists’ and procedural human rights: a collision between UN law, EU law and Strasbourg law?, Bill Bowring; Human security and international law: much ado about nothing?, Emma McClean

Part IV The Reconstruction of Rights: Rights and diverse effects in EC law: a Hohfeldian approach to the doctrine of direct effect of directives, Joxerramon Bengoetxea and Niilo Jääskinen; Investor’s rights to disclosure of complex financial instruments: a risk symmetric analysis, Joseph Tanega; Women, culture and human rights: feminist interventions in human rights law?, Harriet Samuels; Rights and responsibilities, Hanne Petersen

Index

Full information, and sample pages, available on our website

Read the Law Society Gazette‘s review of Rights in Context

New books – Law, Sociology and Reference

Published November 15, 2011 Law , new title updates , Reference , Sociology Leave a Comment

Law

Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law    Edited by Paul Maharg, Northumbria University, UK and Caroline Maughan, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan     Edited by Lutz Oette, SOAS, University of London, UK

Globalization and New International Public Works Agreements in Developing Countries: An Analytical Perspective     Mohamed A.M. Ismail, Conseil d’Etat, Egypt

International Communications: The International Telecommunication Union and the Universal Postal Union    Francis Lyall, University of Aberdeen, UK

Sociology

Adjudication in Action: An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality and Justice    Baudouin Dupret, CNRS, France, and Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat, Morocco

Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry    Dušan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine, USA

The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime    Edited by Kevin M. Beaver, Florida State University, USA and Anthony Walsh, Boise State University, USA

Reference Series

Crime Opportunity Theories: Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants    Edited by Mangai Natarajan, The City University of New York, USA

Transnational Crime and Policing; Selected Essays    James Sheptycki, York University, Canada

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

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