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Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative: Victims, Villains, and Heroes (Victims, Culture and Society)
by Erin O'BrienWhat is the moral of the human trafficking story, and how can the narrative be shaped and evolved? Stories of human trafficking are prolific in the public domain, proving immensely powerful in guiding our understandings of trafficking, and offering something tangible on which to base policy and acti... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
The Politics of Sex Trafficking: A Moral Geography (Critical Criminological Perspectives)
This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is a provocative and thoughtful collection of timely reflections on the state of social democracy and its inextricable links to crime and justice. Authored by some of the world's leading thinkers from the UK, US, Canada and Australia, with a preface from Professo... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
by Grace J. Yoo • Shirley Hune • Robyn Magalit Rodriguez • Jane Junn • Akiko Takeyama • W P • Kieu Linh Valverde • Wei Ming Dariotis • Eliza Noh • Mai’a K. Cross • Cara Maffini Pham • Melody Yee • Jing Mai • Shannon Deloso • Kaozong N. Mouavangsou • Cindy Nhi Huynh • Rani Neutill • Brett J. Esaki • Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano • Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales • Genevieve Erin O’BrienAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that construc... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology #22)
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the near... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Haptics: 12th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 6–9, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12272)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected fr... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020