Amy R Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 291739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy R Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy R |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0488-5913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: A quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data
This article examines the effects of education system types and characteristics on changes in the distributions of literacy and numeracy skills during the upper secondary phase of education and training. Whereas there is a substantial literature on system effects on skills during the primary and lower secondary phases of education, much less has been written about these effects in relation to the upper secondary phase. This article reports on res…
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: Music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections
Taking as its focal point the Mexican national elections of 2018, this article explores how music, often circulated in the form of online videos, has responded to low political trust in an emerging multiparty system. It explores home-made videos made to foment trust in the election’s eventual victor, and a project funded by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to use rap to facilitate informed participation in the elections. It engages with the…
“The great secrets of reading”: Margaret Meek Spencer, reading process and children’s mystery and detective fiction
Margaret Meek Spencer’s writings on literacy evoke reading and storymaking as processes of inquiring; of searching into mystery. This paper considers how Meek’s preoccupations with reading process; genre literacy; and text-image dialogism resonate deeply with the genre of young people’s mystery and detective fiction. Drawing on Meek’s seminal works, Learning to Read (1982); How Texts Teach What Readers Learn (1988), and On Being Literate (1991), …
Beyond the Crew: Hip-Hop and Professionalization in Mexico City
In recent years profesionalización – professionalization – has become an increasingly influential concept in the hip-hop scene in Mexico City. This term can refer to a variety of changing practices relating to artistic presentation, the organization of hip-hop events, and the hip-hop scene’s model of creative production. The influence of professionalization relates to the rising specialization of hip-hop production and the increasing importance o…
Liberal, Republican, Conservative and Social-Democratic Mindsets? Exploring the existence of Citizenship Regimes in Civic Attitudes
This paper explores whether civic attitudes cluster in ways that correspond to distinct citizenship regimes. Drawing on political philosophy and citizenship literature, it identifies a liberal, a republican, a conservative, a social-democratic and a post-communist regime. These regimes are said to prevail in particular European regions and to show a certain level of stability. Using European Values Study / World Values Survey data, the paper expl…
Childhood heart problems, adulthood emotional stability, and sex associated with self-report heart conditions in adulthood
The present study investigated biomedical, social, and psychological factors associated with self-reported heart conditions in adulthood in a British cohort. In total, 5697 (50.7% males) participants with data on parental socioeconomic status, childhood cognitive ability, childhood heart problems, educational qualifications, current occupational levels, adulthood personality traits, and the prevalence of self-reported heart conditions in adulthoo…
Moving world, moving voices: A discussion with Daljit Nagra
This interview explores a range of both emergent and persistent areas of interest in the work of Daljit Nagra. Nagra’s two latest books — Ramayana (2013) and British Museum (2017) — represent explorations of his interests in both “rootedness” — what it means to be connected or grounded in a cultural environment — and “route-edness” — what it means for cultures to travel and the impact of cultural journeying (Clifford, 1997). In both books he cons…
Capturing the Shadow and Light of Researcher Positionality: A Picture-Prompted Poly-Ethnography
Acknowledging researcher positionality and engaging in ongoing reflexivity are important components of qualitative research. In this manuscript, we share our experiences of examining our positionality and engaging in reflexive practice related to a research project with newcomer women in Canada. As a team of researchers from diverse backgrounds, we engaged in a picture-prompted poly-ethnographic conversation to better understand our attitudes, as…
Learning About Social Justice Through a Self-Reflexive Field Activity
Exploring newcomer women’s embodied selves: Culturally responsible qualitative research
In recent years, several scholars have called for the construct of embodiment as a meaningful way to explore the ways in which women experience their bodies. However, limited research has explored embodiment specifically amongst newcomer women who are part of visible minority groups in Canada. Although embodiment theories acknowledge the central role of culture in shaping the ways individuals experience their bodies, it remains unclear if and how…
Revolutionary songs in a gentrifying city: Stylistic change and the economics of salvage in southern Mexico
This article explores the case of a musician performing pro-Zapatista revolutionary songs in a restaurant in a city in southern Mexico which has undergone rapid gentrification since the turn of the century. It highlights the particular set of constraints on, and possibilities for, musical creativity that emerged in an urban setting in which space was increasingly ordered around the accumulation of rents. Exploring relationships between commercial…
The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare
education; NEET; widening participation
Producing an Other Nation: Autogestión , Zapatismo, and Tradition in Home Studio Music-Making in Mexico City
This article traces the discourses of “nation” and “tradition” that emerged in the home studio practices of pro-Zapatista activist musicians in the peripheries of the Mexico City metropolitan area. It examines the ways that these practices related to notions of “autogestión” and “autonomy” linked to the contemporary Zapatista movement, which, in turn, were connected to musicians’ freedoms to “preserve” what they perceived as their cultural “roots…
Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: A Cross-National Analysis
This study extends the comparative model of country groups to analyse the cross-national trends in the higher education expansion and opportunities. We use descriptive data on characteristics and outcomes of higher education systems in different countries groups, including the liberal market countries, the social democratic countries, the Mediterranean countries, the German-speaking countries, the Northern states, and the East Asian societies. At…
Rage Against The Machine, Zapatismo, and the aesthetics of anger
This article explores the ways in which anger may travel across different musical and extra-musical contexts, looking in particular at the rap metal band Rage Against The Machine (RATM). Focusing on this band's appropriation of expressions of anger found in a documentary film about the Zapatistas in Mexico, it suggests that RATM can be read as a politico-emotional project, channelling anger towards political resistance which is then performed thr…
Transition to Adulthood as a Peer Project
This study used an action theoretical framework and the action-project method to address the following research question: “How do youth jointly with peers construct, articulate, and act on goals and strategies pertinent to the transition to adulthood?” Fifteen young adult friendship dyads were studied over a 9-month period, using videotaped conversations and telephone monitoring. Peers jointly and intentionally engaged in actions and enacted goal…
Assessment of capacity for Health Policy and Systems Research and Analysis in seven African universities: Results from the CHEPSAA project
The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) is widely recognized. Universities are central to strengthening and sustaining the HPSR+A capacity as they teach the next generation of decision-makers and health professionals. However, little is known about the capacity of universities, specifically, to develop the field. In this article, we report results of capacity self- assessments by seven universities within five A…
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China: Findings from the Hepvic project
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Integrated response toward HIV: A health promotion case study from China
Integrated HIV response refers to a formalized, collaborative process among organizations in communities with HIV at-risk populations. It is a both comprehensive and flexible scheme, which may include community-based environment promotion, skill coalition, fund linkage, human resource collaboration and service system jointly for both HIV prevention and control. It enables decisions and actions responds over time. In 1997, the Chinese government d…
Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalization
In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis
Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering and Jewish Political Life in Germany 1843-1933, by Robin Judd
The politics of Esol (English for speakers of other languages): Implications for citizenship and social justice
A number of countries in Europe, including the UK, have adopted language and citizenship tests or courses as a requirement for granting citizenship to immigrants. To acquire citizenship, immigrants to the UK must pass a test on British society and culture, or demonstrate progress in the English language. For those with an insufficient command of the language, there is the option in the UK of taking an English for speakers of other languages (ESOL…
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns
Abraham Joshua Heschel is generally seen as an American Jewish religious thinker. When he is taught, it is primarily in the context of American Judaism. His mature works were published here, and his greatest impact was on Americans, Christians as well as Jews. In the public realm, Heschel is best remembered for his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr, his marching at Selma (“my legs were praying ...!”), and his leading role in opposition to th…
Successful globalisation, education and sustainable development
Remembering Slavery in Birmingham: Sculpture, Paintings and Installations
This article considers the impact of local and national debates about slavery and abolition in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, highlighting the significance of memorialised representations of Joseph Sturge, a leader of nineteenth-century emancipation campaigns. By addressing the complex diasporic cultural heritages that co-exist in the West Midlands today, it argues how urban industrial sites such as Birmingham are often unfairly neglected in a…
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A distributional approach
Promoting social cohesion through education has re-emerged as an important policy objective in many countries during the past decade. But there is little clarity in policy discussions about what social cohesion means and how education may affect it. In this article we distinguish between social capital and societal cohesion and argue that education acts in differential ways on each. Using comparative, cross-country analysis, we develop a 'distrib…
Education and globalization in Europe and East Asia: Convergent and divergent trends
Education researchers have only recently begun to assess the implications of globalization theory for their work. This article examines the claims that globalization will lead to increasing convergence in education and training systems through an analysis of key areas of reform in a range of European and Asian states. The analysis highlights the common contextual factors that are shaping policy-making and suggests that whilst there is considerabl…
Models of Lifelong Learning and the ‘knowledge society’
Many of the current policy debates in Europe focus on what kind of ‘knowledge economy’ or ‘knowledge society’ would be best in the future if it is to combine both economic competitiveness and social cohesion. Should European economies move increasingly towards the so‐called Anglo‐Saxon model of flexible labour markets and high employment rates—with the increasing income inequalities that attend them—or would some new form of the European Social M…
Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: A Cross-National Analysis
This study extends the comparative model of country groups to analyse the cross-national trends in the higher education expansion and opportunities. We use descriptive data on characteristics and outcomes of higher education systems in different countries groups, including the liberal market countries, the social democratic countries, the Mediterranean countries, the German-speaking countries, the Northern states, and the East Asian societies. At…
The many faces of lifelong learning: Recent education policy trends in Europe
This article examines the rise of the discourse on lifelong learning across Europe and the variety of national policy trends which its rhetoric occludes. The ubiquitous presence of this meta-discourse in education and training policy-in-theory is seen as a singular event which can be ascribed to the impact of the variety of global forces on the education arena. It serves specific political functions in addition to signalling real changes in educa…
Successful globalisation, education and sustainable development
Postmodernism and state education
Like other Parisian theoretical exports before it, postmodernism has been relatively slow to penetrate the intellectual discourse of Anglo‐American sociology, and even slower to make its mark on the sociology of education. However, in the last five years the ideas of Jean‐François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard have increasingly preoccupied intellectuals in the USA, and other, predominantly English‐speaking, countries. This paper offers a critique …
The politics of Esol (English for speakers of other languages): Implications for citizenship and social justice
A number of countries in Europe, including the UK, have adopted language and citizenship tests or courses as a requirement for granting citizenship to immigrants. To acquire citizenship, immigrants to the UK must pass a test on British society and culture, or demonstrate progress in the English language. For those with an insufficient command of the language, there is the option in the UK of taking an English for speakers of other languages (ESOL…
Converging Paths or Ships Passing in the Night? An 'English' critique of Japanese school reform
This article examines the origins and potential effects of the liberalising reform agenda in Japanese secondary education in the light of experiences in the UK with policies such as local school management and school choice. The analysis is based on extensive interviews conducted with Japanese policy-makers, school heads and Prefectural administrators in 1997 in Tokyo and Osaka. The research was part of a joint Anglo-Japanese study, supported by …
Capturing the Shadow and Light of Researcher Positionality: A Picture-Prompted Poly-Ethnography
Acknowledging researcher positionality and engaging in ongoing reflexivity are important components of qualitative research. In this manuscript, we share our experiences of examining our positionality and engaging in reflexive practice related to a research project with newcomer women in Canada. As a team of researchers from diverse backgrounds, we engaged in a picture-prompted poly-ethnographic conversation to better understand our attitudes, as…
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns
Abraham Joshua Heschel is generally seen as an American Jewish religious thinker. When he is taught, it is primarily in the context of American Judaism. His mature works were published here, and his greatest impact was on Americans, Christians as well as Jews. In the public realm, Heschel is best remembered for his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr, his marching at Selma (“my legs were praying ...!”), and his leading role in opposition to th…
Education and Social Cohesion: Recentering the Debate
Social Capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual and community level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity and social cohesion at the societal level. However, the key indicators of social capital ? associational membership and social trust ? do not co-vary cross nationally and societies rich in community level social capital are not always cohesive societies. Socia…
Rage Against The Machine, Zapatismo, and the aesthetics of anger
This article explores the ways in which anger may travel across different musical and extra-musical contexts, looking in particular at the rap metal band Rage Against The Machine (RATM). Focusing on this band's appropriation of expressions of anger found in a documentary film about the Zapatistas in Mexico, it suggests that RATM can be read as a politico-emotional project, channelling anger towards political resistance which is then performed thr…
Globalisation and the changing nature of the state in East Asia
Economic globalisation is the defining characteristic of our age and a process which is transforming the parameters of the national state and global power relations. However, it is also a contradictory, uneven and unpredictable phenomenon. East Asia has been at the epicenter of globalisation for the past 30 years and will continue to be so with the rise of China’s economy. The region has been one of the main beneficiaries of the globalisation pro…
The reform of post‐16 education and training and the lessons from Europe
With the future shape of Britain's post‐16 education and training still undecided policy makers are increasingly looking abroad for new models to follow. The educational debate has become internationalized. As in the late 19th century it is the pressure of economic competition from Europe which has galvanized British interest in the relative ‘success’ of training in countries such as France and Germany. This paper examines the current use and mis…
Producing an Other Nation: Autogestión , Zapatismo, and Tradition in Home Studio Music-Making in Mexico City
This article traces the discourses of “nation” and “tradition” that emerged in the home studio practices of pro-Zapatista activist musicians in the peripheries of the Mexico City metropolitan area. It examines the ways that these practices related to notions of “autogestión” and “autonomy” linked to the contemporary Zapatista movement, which, in turn, were connected to musicians’ freedoms to “preserve” what they perceived as their cultural “roots…
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China: Findings from the Hepvic project
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Remembering Slavery in Birmingham: Sculpture, Paintings and Installations
This article considers the impact of local and national debates about slavery and abolition in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, highlighting the significance of memorialised representations of Joseph Sturge, a leader of nineteenth-century emancipation campaigns. By addressing the complex diasporic cultural heritages that co-exist in the West Midlands today, it argues how urban industrial sites such as Birmingham are often unfairly neglected in a…
Core Skills, Participation and Progression in Post-compulsory Education and Training in England and France
Policy-makers in both England and France have sought to increase participation and attainment in post-compulsory education and training through the creation of new vocational tracks. In both cases they have set new targets for attainment and espouse similar objectives in seeking to build a high skills workforce for the twenty-first century. However, the strategies adopted and the outcomes achieved have been quite different. This article uses a co…
Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France, and the U.S.A
The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: A quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data
This article examines the effects of education system types and characteristics on changes in the distributions of literacy and numeracy skills during the upper secondary phase of education and training. Whereas there is a substantial literature on system effects on skills during the primary and lower secondary phases of education, much less has been written about these effects in relation to the upper secondary phase. This article reports on res…
Liberal, Republican, Conservative and Social-Democratic Mindsets? Exploring the existence of Citizenship Regimes in Civic Attitudes
This paper explores whether civic attitudes cluster in ways that correspond to distinct citizenship regimes. Drawing on political philosophy and citizenship literature, it identifies a liberal, a republican, a conservative, a social-democratic and a post-communist regime. These regimes are said to prevail in particular European regions and to show a certain level of stability. Using European Values Study / World Values Survey data, the paper expl…
Childhood heart problems, adulthood emotional stability, and sex associated with self-report heart conditions in adulthood
The present study investigated biomedical, social, and psychological factors associated with self-reported heart conditions in adulthood in a British cohort. In total, 5697 (50.7% males) participants with data on parental socioeconomic status, childhood cognitive ability, childhood heart problems, educational qualifications, current occupational levels, adulthood personality traits, and the prevalence of self-reported heart conditions in adulthoo…
Exploring newcomer women’s embodied selves: Culturally responsible qualitative research
In recent years, several scholars have called for the construct of embodiment as a meaningful way to explore the ways in which women experience their bodies. However, limited research has explored embodiment specifically amongst newcomer women who are part of visible minority groups in Canada. Although embodiment theories acknowledge the central role of culture in shaping the ways individuals experience their bodies, it remains unclear if and how…
Assessment of capacity for Health Policy and Systems Research and Analysis in seven African universities: Results from the CHEPSAA project
The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) is widely recognized. Universities are central to strengthening and sustaining the HPSR+A capacity as they teach the next generation of decision-makers and health professionals. However, little is known about the capacity of universities, specifically, to develop the field. In this article, we report results of capacity self- assessments by seven universities within five A…
The reform of post‐16 education and training and the lessons from Europe
With the future shape of Britain's post‐16 education and training still undecided policy makers are increasingly looking abroad for new models to follow. The educational debate has become internationalized. As in the late 19th century it is the pressure of economic competition from Europe which has galvanized British interest in the relative ‘success’ of training in countries such as France and Germany. This paper examines the current use and mis…
Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France, and the U.S.A
Postmodernism and state education
Like other Parisian theoretical exports before it, postmodernism has been relatively slow to penetrate the intellectual discourse of Anglo‐American sociology, and even slower to make its mark on the sociology of education. However, in the last five years the ideas of Jean‐François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard have increasingly preoccupied intellectuals in the USA, and other, predominantly English‐speaking, countries. This paper offers a critique …
Core Skills, Participation and Progression in Post-compulsory Education and Training in England and France
Policy-makers in both England and France have sought to increase participation and attainment in post-compulsory education and training through the creation of new vocational tracks. In both cases they have set new targets for attainment and espouse similar objectives in seeking to build a high skills workforce for the twenty-first century. However, the strategies adopted and the outcomes achieved have been quite different. This article uses a co…
Education and globalization in Europe and East Asia: Convergent and divergent trends
Education researchers have only recently begun to assess the implications of globalization theory for their work. This article examines the claims that globalization will lead to increasing convergence in education and training systems through an analysis of key areas of reform in a range of European and Asian states. The analysis highlights the common contextual factors that are shaping policy-making and suggests that whilst there is considerabl…
Converging Paths or Ships Passing in the Night? An 'English' critique of Japanese school reform
This article examines the origins and potential effects of the liberalising reform agenda in Japanese secondary education in the light of experiences in the UK with policies such as local school management and school choice. The analysis is based on extensive interviews conducted with Japanese policy-makers, school heads and Prefectural administrators in 1997 in Tokyo and Osaka. The research was part of a joint Anglo-Japanese study, supported by …
Education and Social Cohesion: Recentering the Debate
Social Capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual and community level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity and social cohesion at the societal level. However, the key indicators of social capital ? associational membership and social trust ? do not co-vary cross nationally and societies rich in community level social capital are not always cohesive societies. Socia…
Challenging Two Mental Illness Stigmas: Personal Responsibility and Dangerousness
Two stigmatizing attitudes related to dangerousness and personal responsibility may undermine the opportunities of persons with serious mental illness. This study set out to examine path models that explain how these attitudes lead to discriminatory behavior and to assess the impact of antistigma programs on components of personal responsibility and dangerousness models. Two hundred thirteen persons were randomly assigned to one of five antistigm…
The many faces of lifelong learning: Recent education policy trends in Europe
This article examines the rise of the discourse on lifelong learning across Europe and the variety of national policy trends which its rhetoric occludes. The ubiquitous presence of this meta-discourse in education and training policy-in-theory is seen as a singular event which can be ascribed to the impact of the variety of global forces on the education arena. It serves specific political functions in addition to signalling real changes in educa…
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A distributional approach
Promoting social cohesion through education has re-emerged as an important policy objective in many countries during the past decade. But there is little clarity in policy discussions about what social cohesion means and how education may affect it. In this article we distinguish between social capital and societal cohesion and argue that education acts in differential ways on each. Using comparative, cross-country analysis, we develop a 'distrib…
Proyecto de investigación para la creación de una fototeca digital y un Sistema de Información para Archivos Fotográficos (Siaf)
This text describes in detail an interdisciplinary research project in social science, the construction of source materials and computer science. The resear
Models of Lifelong Learning and the ‘knowledge society’
Many of the current policy debates in Europe focus on what kind of ‘knowledge economy’ or ‘knowledge society’ would be best in the future if it is to combine both economic competitiveness and social cohesion. Should European economies move increasingly towards the so‐called Anglo‐Saxon model of flexible labour markets and high employment rates—with the increasing income inequalities that attend them—or would some new form of the European Social M…
Globalisation and the changing nature of the state in East Asia
Economic globalisation is the defining characteristic of our age and a process which is transforming the parameters of the national state and global power relations. However, it is also a contradictory, uneven and unpredictable phenomenon. East Asia has been at the epicenter of globalisation for the past 30 years and will continue to be so with the rise of China’s economy. The region has been one of the main beneficiaries of the globalisation pro…
Successful globalisation, education and sustainable development
Remembering Slavery in Birmingham: Sculpture, Paintings and Installations
This article considers the impact of local and national debates about slavery and abolition in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, highlighting the significance of memorialised representations of Joseph Sturge, a leader of nineteenth-century emancipation campaigns. By addressing the complex diasporic cultural heritages that co-exist in the West Midlands today, it argues how urban industrial sites such as Birmingham are often unfairly neglected in a…
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns
Abraham Joshua Heschel is generally seen as an American Jewish religious thinker. When he is taught, it is primarily in the context of American Judaism. His mature works were published here, and his greatest impact was on Americans, Christians as well as Jews. In the public realm, Heschel is best remembered for his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr, his marching at Selma (“my legs were praying ...!”), and his leading role in opposition to th…
The politics of Esol (English for speakers of other languages): Implications for citizenship and social justice
A number of countries in Europe, including the UK, have adopted language and citizenship tests or courses as a requirement for granting citizenship to immigrants. To acquire citizenship, immigrants to the UK must pass a test on British society and culture, or demonstrate progress in the English language. For those with an insufficient command of the language, there is the option in the UK of taking an English for speakers of other languages (ESOL…
Integrated response toward HIV: A health promotion case study from China
Integrated HIV response refers to a formalized, collaborative process among organizations in communities with HIV at-risk populations. It is a both comprehensive and flexible scheme, which may include community-based environment promotion, skill coalition, fund linkage, human resource collaboration and service system jointly for both HIV prevention and control. It enables decisions and actions responds over time. In 1997, the Chinese government d…
Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalization
In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis
Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering and Jewish Political Life in Germany 1843-1933, by Robin Judd
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China: Findings from the Hepvic project
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Transition to Adulthood as a Peer Project
This study used an action theoretical framework and the action-project method to address the following research question: “How do youth jointly with peers construct, articulate, and act on goals and strategies pertinent to the transition to adulthood?” Fifteen young adult friendship dyads were studied over a 9-month period, using videotaped conversations and telephone monitoring. Peers jointly and intentionally engaged in actions and enacted goal…
Assessment of capacity for Health Policy and Systems Research and Analysis in seven African universities: Results from the CHEPSAA project
The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) is widely recognized. Universities are central to strengthening and sustaining the HPSR+A capacity as they teach the next generation of decision-makers and health professionals. However, little is known about the capacity of universities, specifically, to develop the field. In this article, we report results of capacity self- assessments by seven universities within five A…
Rage Against The Machine, Zapatismo, and the aesthetics of anger
This article explores the ways in which anger may travel across different musical and extra-musical contexts, looking in particular at the rap metal band Rage Against The Machine (RATM). Focusing on this band's appropriation of expressions of anger found in a documentary film about the Zapatistas in Mexico, it suggests that RATM can be read as a politico-emotional project, channelling anger towards political resistance which is then performed thr…
Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: A Cross-National Analysis
This study extends the comparative model of country groups to analyse the cross-national trends in the higher education expansion and opportunities. We use descriptive data on characteristics and outcomes of higher education systems in different countries groups, including the liberal market countries, the social democratic countries, the Mediterranean countries, the German-speaking countries, the Northern states, and the East Asian societies. At…
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