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Gazelle Academic New Title – Critical Thinking

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PERSUASION History, Theory, Practice

George Pullman

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and practice of argumentation, rhetoric, and critical thinking are central. Continually challenging his readers to seek and recognize sound evidence, to question the obvious, and to assess and reassess the credibility of claims made by others - including the author's own - Pullman shows the way to strong writing, effective speaking, and rigorous critical thinking. Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice provides: • An overview of the traditional canons of rhetoric, along with updated versions for contemporary communication practices. • Strategies for honing persuasive skills. • Guidelines for creating persuasive arguments and for critically evaluating the arguments of others. • A wealth of exercises - including activities appropriate for group participation—that can be assigned or used for self-testing and practice. • Guidelines for the writing of argumentative papers. • A section on decision-making. • Selected classical readings on rhetoric and persuasion. • A glossary of important terms. • Suggestions for further reading. AUTHOR INFORMATION: George Pullman is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of the Center for Instructional Innovation at Georgia State University. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 432 pages 230x155mm October 2013 PB 9781603849982 £19.95 Hackett Publishing

Gazelle Academic New Title – Critical Anthropology


THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt (Second Edition)

Michael Jackson

Hannah Arendt argued that the 'political' is best understood as a power relation between private and public realms, and that storytelling is a vital bridge between these realms - a site where individualised passions and shared views are contested and recombined. In this new editon, Michael Jackson explores and expands Arendt's ideas through a cross-cultural analysis of storytelling that includes Kuranko stories from Sierra Leone, Aboriginal stories of the stolen generation, stories recounted before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and stories of refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are and are not told, and exploring the various ways in which narrative reworkings of reality enable people to symbolically alter subject-object relations, Jackson shows how storytelling may restore to the intersubjective fields of self and other, self and state, self and cosmos, the conditions of viable sociality. The book concludes in a reflexive vein, exploring the interface between public discourse and private experience. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Michael Jackson is professor at the University of Harvard. He is the author of numerous books on anthropology, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing, At Home in the World and Minima Ethnographica. He is also the author of five books of poetry and two novels. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 322 pages 230x150mm September 2013 HB 9788763540360 £39.99 Museum Tusculanum Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Cultural History


Making Cultural History New Perspectives on Western Heritage

Edited by Anna Källén

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critical analysis. But its strength and analytical potential is to be found in its slipperiness, in its critical attitude to authoritative categorization, and its relentless movement towards new angles, new spaces beyond the evident and the canonical. This volume has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at the Faculty of Humanities of Stockholm University, a five-year interdisciplinary research programme focusing on interplays between past and present. The Research School has provided a productive space for border-crossing academic enterprises. And as a result, the seventeen essays of this volume display just as many innovative approaches to traditional academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric remains, television, and historic monuments. All stem from unexpected combinations and sliding perspectives, focusing on obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centres of traditional academic knowledge. From such sliding perspectives follows the realization that all narratives, representations, and claims of culture and history are in some sense political. The seventeen essays in this volume demonstrate how a shifting kaleidoscope of the academic subjects makes new knowledge possible, and enables the formulation of new critical questions. Challenging, disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Anna Källén (b. 1973) has a Ph.D. in Archaeology (Uppsala University 2004). Her doctoral research was based on her own archaeological excavations and investigations in Laos (1995-2003), and in a postdoctoral research project (2006-2008) she has studied the discursive relationships between French colonial archaeology in Indochina, and the present ecotourism industry in Laos. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 208 pages 215x145mm October 2013 PB 9789187351273 £24.95 Nordic Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Scandinavian Studies


REACHING A STATE OF HOPE Refugees, Immigrants & the Swedish Welfare State 1930-2000

Edited by Mikael Byström & Pär Frohnert

International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ between different nation-states? How are migrants and refugees met? Conflicting opinions on migration are not new. History gives ample examples of varying solutions and views. In Reaching a State of Hope, the authors shed new light on refugee and labour immigration to twentieth-century Sweden. They focus on themes such as refugee policies, and refugee relief and reception. The discourse on the relation between refugees, labour migration, immigration, and the trade unions is another focus of this anthology. The essays are set against the background of the Swedish welfare state, from its first emergence before the Second World War until the 1990s. In 1930, Sweden had a population where only a fragment had foreign backgrounds, but seventy years later it had become a country of notable immigration. This is the first time historians have taken up the challenge of presenting the Swedish experience to an international audience, with distinguished Swedish and international historians collaborating to put the Swedish case into a European context. Reaching a State of Hope is a significant contribution to the field of European migration history, and will make invaluable reading for scholars of history as well as anyone interested in migration politics and issues related to international migration and welfare states. Contributors: Klas Åmark, Mikael Byström, Frank Caestecker, Pär Frohnert, Christina Johansson, Jesper Johansson, Georg Kreis, Karin Kvist Geverts, Attila Lajos, Paul A. Levine, Louise London, Cecilia Notini Burch, Pontus Rudberg, Johan Svanberg, Malin Thor Thureby, Zeki Yalcin. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 368 pages 220x150mm August 2013 HB 9789187351235 £35.95 Nordic Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Social Science


SOCIAL SCIENCE IN CONTEXT Historical, Sociological & Global Perspectives

Edited by Rickard Danell, Anna Larsson, Per Wisselgren

Social Science in Context is one of the first ventures to explore the relationship between social science and society in historical, sociological and global perspective. What impact has the research in these areas had on society? How are research fields established and to what ends? Social Science in Context is a compilation of articles by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars. The authors analyse the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific knowledge and examples are drawn from a broad range of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, economics, and gender studies. The overall aim of the book is to encourage a contextual and reflexive understanding of the complex relationship between the social sciences and society. The bonds of the past and today are made up by reciprocity and involve key elements such as gender and power, science and politics, academic boundaries and global power relations. The book should be of interest to researchers, graduate students or anyone else interested in understanding and reflecting upon the uses, roles and functions of social science in today’s globalised world. Contributors: Eileen Janes Yeo, Per Wisselgren, Jonas Harvard, Frans Lundgren, Anna Larsson, Wiebke Keim, Andrew Arbuthnott, Åsa Andersson, Katarina Kärnebro, Erika Knobblock, Rickard Danell, Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Adrián Groglopo, Ellen Inga Turi, Raewyn Connell. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 288 pages 220x150mm graphs August 2013 HB 9789187351044 £32.95 Nordic Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Critical Anthropology


THERAPEUTIC USES OF STORYTELLING An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narration as Therapy

Camilla Asplund Ingemark (Edited by) How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh conditions, now or in the past? Can storytelling help us sort out our innermost feelings and troubles? This deeply human subject is relevant not only to practitioners of psychotherapy, but to all of us, as we sometimes go through difficult times in life. In Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling, a cross-disciplinary group of researchers examine the ways in which narrative might aid in coping with difficult situations in life, and with the emotions that these situations engender. Starting with an introduction to basic narrative theories and the therapeutic effects of storytelling, the book then moves on to a series of lucid case studies. The authors present a diversity of material such as blogs, poetry, magazines, memoirs, and oral accounts from Antiquity to the present. Authors from several different disciplines make for a diversity of perspectives. The authors specialise in folkloristics, psychology, writing studies, poetry therapy, and classical studies. Psychologists, social workers, researchers, therapists – all can benefit from this book, including everyone interested in the possibility of inner exploration through stories. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Camilla Asplund Ingemark has a PhD in Folkloristics from Abo Akademi Univeristy, Finland in 2005. Postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Finland 2009-2012. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 208 pages 215x145mm December 2013 HB 9789187351150 £28.95 Nordic Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Global Health


TRANSNATIONAL & HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH, WELFARE & HUMANITARIANISM

Ellen Fleischmann, Sonya Grypma, Michael Marten, Inger Marie Okkenhaug (eds.)

This anthology brings together a series of essays on transnational themes and methodological approaches pertaining to the historical study of global health, welfare and humanitarianism. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction; Globalizing Relief & Welfare: The Deaconess Movement; Globalizing Health: Missionary Nursing in Africa; Globalizing Domesticity: Educating Children & Women in Jerusalem & Lebanon; Globalizing History: Theoretical & Methodological Issues & New Approaches. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ellen Fleischmann is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton. Sonya Grypma is a Professor of Nursing at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, Canada. Michael Marten is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and Critical Religion at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Inger Marie Okkenhaug is a Professor at the Department of History, Volda University Collage. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 295 pages 240x170mm 6 b/w photos May 2013 PB 9788292712757 £34.95 Portal books SUBJECT: Medicine – Social History

Gazelle AcademicNew Title - Economics


WELFARE ECONOMICSTheory, Empirical Results & the Swedish Experience

Agneta Kruse, Ann-Charlotte Stahlberg

Welfare economics gives an introduction to the economic analysis of welfare programs. Welfare programs focus on alleviatingrisks that individuals encounter during life, such as not being able to support oneself due to sickness, unemployment or old age.In the book economic tools are used to analyse different ways of co-operation that mediates such risks, their efficiency andincome distribution effects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Welfare Economics; Efficiency & Distribution; Social Expenditure; Social Insurance;Financing; Sickness & Disability Insurance; Occupational Injury Insurance; Unemployment Insurance & Active Labor MarketPolicy; Pensions; Poverty Protection; Health Care; Elderly Care; Family Policy; Population Aging & Globalization; Index.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:Agneta Kruse, has been lecturer at the Department of Economics, Lund University, and also linked to the National SocialInsurance Agency / Insurance. She has in her research devoted himself to social security and especially the pension system.Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL:199 pages 170x145mm October 2013 PB 9789144083131 £44.00 Studentlitteratur AB

Gazelle AcademicNew Title - Liberalism


THE BOUNDS OF LIBERALISMThe Fragility of Freedom

Neville Brown

The core issue of this work is how far the West may need to modify or extend the liberal philosophy informing its responses tothe multiple world crisis it is now attempting to deal with. Coming after the author’s Engaging the Cosmos: Astronomy,Philosophy, and Faith and The Geography of Human Conflict, this text will complete a trilogy addressing very comprehensivelythe challenges of our times. It provides a review of the strengths and weaknesses of Social Liberalism that, broadly speaking,occupies the ground between moderate Right and moderate Left. The work is informed by the conviction that the world, half acentury hence, will be either considerably better than now (freer, more peaceable, more enriching …) or else a good deal worse.

Those concerned to effect the former outcome should promote the spread among emergent states of well-founded democracy.But they must also look stringently at how well democratic institutions may function in the mass societies of the West. Historyindicates that pell-mell cultural change, constant ecological impoverishment, and endless leap forwards in applied science maynot augur well for stability and peace. The author’s accepted expertise in History, International Security, Planetary Developmentand Applied Geophysics means he can address a variety of issues such as: climate change and resource depletion; communitydecay, data saturation, the future of universities, democratic devolution, leaders and led, and medical philosophy; andbiowarfare, the management of Near Space, international political economyy, and a planetary ethos.

It is contended that we are not approaching the “end of History” in any meaningful sense. Instead we are passing through, ataccelerated pace, an evolutionary transition as impacting as that between the Old and New Stone Ages. Our perspectives on theimmediate future may be honed by free-ranging speculation about what mankind can anticipate over the next few centuries.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL:360 pages 171x246mm December 2013 HB 9781845193522 £65.00 Sussex Academic Press360 pages 171x246mm December 2013 PB 9781845193539 £25.00 Sussex Academic Press

Gazelle AcademicNew Title - Economics


THE GREAT RECESSIONA Subversive View

Carles Manera

This book analyses the major economic crisis that began in 2007–8 and continues in 2013. Carles Manera explains that it is notjust a financial crisis, caused primarily by the banking sector, as many commentators claim, but a systemic crisis caused in partby overproduction, falls in business profits, environmental problems, and a stubborn insistence by political and monetaryauthorities on economic policies driven by austerity. Providing examples from the economic history of western nations, whichprovide economists and social scientists with essential reference for understanding the complexities behind this GreatRecession, the author proposes economic solutions to end the crisis that are at odds with policies proposed and acted on bymajor European governments, led by Germany. Manera thus adopts a heterodox approach - a “subversive view” - making thisbook stand out not only from governmental economic policy-making but taking a stance far from conventional academicliterature on economics.

Prof. Manera is highly critical of the economic policy coming out of Berlin and Brussels, in which ultra-neoliberal orthodoxy is thepredominant form of economic action. He is of the firm opinion that this wrong path will only prolong the crisis for the mostvulnerable members of society and for the middle classes, which make up the economic consumer power-house of theEuropean economy. A prime objective of the work is foster a committed viewpoint and engagement by all European nationstates whereby Germany should lead Europe out of this Great Recession (rather than leading Germany only out) and that theEuropean Central Bank should broaden substantively its objectives and concentrate on policies that support economic growth.Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Carles Manera holds PhDs in History and Economics. A professor in Economic History, he has authoredsix books and 130 papers. He has been a scientific director for research projects and has guest lectured at various institutions,including the London School of Economics. He has also been a university Vice-Rector and government minister.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL:140 pages 229x152mm tables & illus April 2013 PB 9781845196035 £19.95 Sussex Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – Cultural Anthropology


THE “RETURN” OF BRITISH-BORN CYPRIOTS TO CYPRUS A Narrative Ethnography

Janine Teerling

The post-war decades of the 1950s to the 1970s saw a mass migration from Cyprus to the UK. More recent years, however, have witnessed a ‘return’ to Cyprus of the British-born children of Cypriot migrants in the UK. Drawing on multi-site fieldwork, and adopting a life narrative approach, this book offers a refreshing and contemporary account of the motives, experiences and li fe views of these second-generation British Cypriots, as they choose to build their lives in their parents’ birth country: a Cyprus that has been dramatically altered by globalisation, mass tourism and immigration since the first generation of immigrants left for British shores. Unlike their parents, who moved from Cyprus to the UK mainly out of economic necessity, this new generation of migrants tends to view their relocation to Cyprus as a lifestyle choice. And while the first generation of Cypriot migrants in the UK generally worked and socialised within the bounds of the Cypriot community, the British-born ‘return’ migrants in Cyprus embrace a more international lifestyle, beyond primordial ethnic or national boundaries – observations which challenge the hypothesis that second-generation return migration is based on an essential longing to go back to one’s ‘roots’. The author examines the complexities and ambivalences involved when exploring ideas of ‘identity’, ‘return’, ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ in the ancestral homeland – demonstrating how boundaries of such notions are blurred, eroded and re-established by a new generation of migrants, reflecting their time, experiences, choices and ideologies. The book is essential reading for all those involved in Migration Studies and Cultural Anthropology. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Janine Teerling is Associate Researcher in Migration Studies at the University of Sussex, School of Global Studies. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 224 pages 229x152mm October 2013 HB 9781845195885 £55.00 Sussex Academic Press



SOCIETIES OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Voices & Arguments

Ander Gurrutxaga Abad

The object of this study is to clarify the meanings and uses of social innovation in contemporary societies. The author makes use of the forms of analysis provided by theories of social change and the multi-disciplinary, long-term approach that is associated with ‘Big History’, with its focus on evidence and insights from different scientific and historical disciplines, together with empirical resources that are employed in advanced countries and societies in the construction of innovative environments. For contemporary societies, social innovation is a concept that is present in a wide variety of experiences and in multiple situations. Historically, it has been seen as related to a capacity for social experimentation, collective learning, the creation of knowledge and the ability to transfer it. Today, it is associated with a range of experiences, dimensions and fields within the language of management and economics, and in the social and productive uses of technology. Civic organisations of different kinds, public institutions and social movements are all aware of its importance, and repeatedly assert its significance. They associate it with risk, with uncertainty and with a role as an instrument for the reinvention of the ethics of capitalism. It is through this humanistic process that social innovation creates contexts and conditions that can improve the future of society in general. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ander Gurrutxaga Abad has been Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country since 1994. Among his recent works are Occidente y las Otras Modernidades (2008) and Implications of Current Research on Social Innovation in the Basque Country (2011). He has taught as a visiting professor at various universities in Spain and abroad, and is currently Director of the Laboratory on Social Innovation at the University of the Basque Country. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 224 pages 229x152mm July 2013 PB 9781845195137 £22.95 Sussex Academic Press

Gazelle Academic New Title – American Studies


AMERICAN FOUNDATIONS & THE EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES Edited by Klaus Petersen, John Stewart, Michael Kuur Sorensen

In public debate and academic writings the American and European welfare states are often portrayed as inhabiting completely different welfare regimes. However, if we take a closer look at the historical development of the European welfare state we find that American philanthropic bodies such as the Rockefeller Foundation had a significant influence on the development in key areas of the European welfare states such as health care, social work, education and the disciplines of social science. The contributions in this book explore the influence of American foundations from the inter-war period to the 1950s in Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Spain and Sweden. The book offers new insights into the transnational history of European welfare states as well as the complicated process often labelled as Americanisation. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Klaus Petersen, Associate Professor, Department of History & Civilization, University of Southern Denmark. He is presently engaged in the history of the Danish Welfare State and Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Denmark in the 20th Century. John Stewart is an attorney in Denver. He completed a master’s degree in history at the University of Colorado at Denver. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 202 pages 230x155mm July 2013 PB 9788776746100 £23.00 University Press of Southern Denmark SUBJECT: The Welfare State – America; Europe



DECONSTRUCTING DEATH Changing Cultures of Death, Dying, Bereavement & Care in the Nordic Countries

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Deconstructing Death is a book dealing with some of the most recent changes and transformations within the realms of death, dying, bereavement and care in contemporary Nordic countries. The book deals with some of the major as well as some of the less conspicuous changes in our cultural and social engagement with the phenomenon of death. Among the themes touched upon are: organ transplantation, death education, communication with the dead, changes in commemorative rituals, mourning practices on the internet, parental responses to children’s suicide, death control, practice and ethics of end-of-life care, and the lonely death. Deconstructing Death contains contributions written by researchers and practitioners from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland with professional and academic backgrounds within areas such as sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and palliative care. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Asscoiate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation, University of Aalborg, Denmark. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL: 336 pages August 2013 PB 9788776745950 £32.50 University Press of Southern Denmark

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