| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Body and Power -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Part Two: The Wall and the Bond -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Post-Script -- Contributors |
| Summary |
This volume introduces sociological knowledge to social reality in various fields that are especially significant for Southern European societies, such as education, migration, social cohesion and political participation. It provides the reader with an understanding of the new and radical challenges that Europe has been called to face, and complements academic research with new conceptualisations of sociology which solve social public problems in specific territorial contexts. The book focuses on the body as the vector of social cohesion policies in the awareness that cohesion revolves around the ability of all people - not just migrants - to manage conflict and change. With these aims, the empowered body is suggested as a means able to build up the timescales of memory as time-windows open to the ethic boundaries of human life. In today's world, the question of empowerment crosses borders, not only geographic but also cognitive, linguistic and cultural ones. Refuting the longstanding notion that culture alone is responsible for group behaviour, this book confronts the "moving up" and "getting on" characterizing current immigration policies, specifically in Europe and the Mediterranean area and, in general, around the world. Methodologically, all contributions here pay attention to the powerful connection between the individual lives and the historical and socio-economic contexts in which these lives unfold. The brilliant analyses here suggest, at least, the "borderlands" as the agent making the movement of policy. -- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- European Union countries -- Congresses
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Society & social sciences.
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Social issues & processes.
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
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European Union countries
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pirani, Bianca Maria, editor
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| ISBN |
9781527519176 |
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1527519171 |
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