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Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis, ResponsesCrain Soudien, Vasu Reddy, and Ingrid Woolard, editors Can the interconnected problems of poverty and inequality in South Africa be explained in ways that are distinctive from those that apply in other contexts and countries? How can efforts to solve these problems fruitfully move forward? Is taxation on wealth the answer?
Addressing these and related questions, the authors provide a textured understanding of the multiple issues involved.
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Society, Research and Power: A History of the Human Sciences Research Council from 1929 to 2019Crain Soudien, Sharlene Swartz, and Gregory Houston, editors This scholarly reflection on state-based research commemorates the 90th anniversary of the National Bureau for Education and Social Research—South Africa's first public social research organization—and the 50th anniversary of its successor, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The contributors delve into the rich archives of the HSRC in all its iterations and, notably, More > | ![]() |
Cuba's Socialist Economy Today: Navigating Challenges and ChangePaolo Spadoni What does Cuba's socialist economy look like today, after a half-century of fluctuating strategies? Are the reforms instituted by Raúl Castro improving living conditions and boosting production and efficiency? What challenges does the government face in crafting policies to address the country's most critical problems? Paolo Spadoni offers deeply informed answers to these questions More > | ![]() |
Civil War in African States: The Search for SecurityIan S. Spears How do disputants in Africa's civil wars—rebel movements, ethnic groups, state leaders—find security in the midst of anarchic situations? Why do some rebel movements pursue a secessionist agenda while others seek to overthrow the existing government? Under what circumstances will insurgents agree to share power? Proposing answers to these questions, Ian Spears offers a fresh More > | ![]() |
Detecting Corruption in Developing Countries: Identifying Causes/Strategies for ActionBertram I. Spector Excessive government discretion, greed, and the abuse of power for private gain are widespread phenomena in developing countries, denying citizens the critical services that they are entitled to—and leaving little room for a country's economic growth. Bertram Spector presents a comprehensive strategy for detecting and confronting corruption in the public sector, which he supports with More > | ![]() |
Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: Strategies and AnalysisBertram I. Spector, editor In stark contrast to standard holistic studies of corruption, Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries argues that examining the issue through the lens of nine key development sectors—education, agriculture, energy, environment, health, justice, private business, political parties and public finance—-will help us to understand the problem realistically and identify concrete More > | ![]() |
The Paradox of Youth ViolenceJ. William Spencer Winner of the Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2013!
Is a teenage violent offender a dangerous predator—or a vulnerable innocent that we should rescue from a life of crime? J. William Spencer probes our ambivalent response to youth violence to show how deeply entwined issues of crime, age, race, and class distort our understanding of an important social More > | ![]() |
Challenging Multiracial IdentityRainier Spencer What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity. More > | ![]() |
Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation MixRainier Spencer Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness.
Spencer links the mulatto past with the mulatto present More > | ![]() |
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting IdentitiesDavid Spener and Kathleen Staudt, editors Exploring the construction of spatial lines and zones in physical, social, and academic terms, this volume presents the U.S.–Mexico border as a site from which to survey both the social and economic networks and the issues of identity and symbolism that surround borders.
The editors provide a theoretical introduction to the intrinsic nature of borders, as well as an overview of current More > |