This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of "dark tourism", the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism...

Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting...

Introduction : faith in migration -- The politics of morality and identity in Central Java -- Mobilizing and moralizing Indonesia -- Evaluating migrant success and failure -- Shame -- Faith -- Contesting the terms of belonging: views of/from elsewhere -- Conclusion : gendered moral economies of...

Normalization and dissolution of boundaries : social work at the start of the twenty-first century -- From normalization to the dissolution of boundaries2 -- Rediscovery of welfare policy and the welfare state disembedding and reformulation -- From the term "identity" to the concept of agency...

In 2008, when most economically advanced countries over the world were struggling against the financial crisis that later on triggered the global economic crisis , the Romanian decision-makers were giving positive signals by encouraging non-productive consumption and were competing in promising...

Lipovetsky's statement regarding the postmodern society, according to which "the XXI century will be ethical or not be at all" makes sense in the context of its development on the grounds of a common morality concerns, the problematic of ethics in the public sphere being increasingly fierce....

"Transform from leader to steward to drive growth and make an impact Inspiring Stewardship helps leaders drive sustainable development and growth by balancing short- and long-term objectives amidst competing interests. By examining a range of exceptional individual and organisational stewards...

Pflege und Pflegepolitik haben sich im Verlauf der letzten ca. zwei Jahrzehnte zu einem zentralen Thema der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (wie auch in vielen Nachbarländern) entwickelt. Die komplexen Anforderungen eines Pflegesystems, das der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und dem wachsenden...

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility

It has often been said that the financial crisis which has been hitting the world economy since mid-2007 is an ethical crisis. By studying the behaviors of the agents who made the decisions that led to the crisis, we do find evidences of many unethical mistakes. But bad conducts were also...

"Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history,...

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Ideen und Interessen sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden. Sascha Münnich belegt dies am Beispiel des Entstehungsprozesses der Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland und den USA. Der Autor zeigt, dass auch vermeintlich rein materiell orientierte Akteure, wie Gewerkschaften und Unternehmer,...

В статье рассматривается социализация мигрантов как переселенцев, осуществляющаяся в формах приспособительного поведения, соответствующего ожиданиям...