"Neuroscience now provides a new way forward. Highlighting several key aspects of neuroscience that are vital to inclusion, this book provides new, brain-based strategies and tools for working across differences in ways that build trust, foster creativity, and result in higher level outcomes. This book offers a new understanding and approach to recognizing and overriding unconscious biases, and provides additional brain dynamics that can interfere...

Promoting and maintaining social cohesion is a key challenge for European societies. Based on contributions from the first trinational conference of DGSA, OGSA and SGSA, this anthology deals with the importance of social cohesion for individuals and societies and how social work can contribute to promoting and maintaining social cohesion as the basis of free democratic societies.

"We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton argues that throughout our history two competing yet interconnected concepts have battled to define our national identity and community: exclusionary and inclusive visions of who gets to be an American. From the earliest moments of European contact with indigenous peoples, through the Revolutionary period's...

How we work has a major influence on how we see ourselves as subjects. This also applies to people with learning difficulties, who are usually employed in workshops or inclusive companies. Sarah Karim's ethnographic study, based on sociological disability studies and subjectification and practice theories, examines how work practices influence employees' actions and self-image. It clearly shows that people with learning difficulties are exposed to...

In the context of the debates that accompanied the recent constituent and post-constituent processes in Bolivia and Ecuador, we will review two concepts with prominent place in the discussions: "Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir" and "plurinationalidad". The journey through their genealogy will lead us to wonder about the readings that compose them between the State and the community, between the discourse of development and autonomy, between the Indigenous...

"This book traces the history of refugee resettlement to Fargo, ND, from 1980 to the present, showing how culture, political economy, and institutional transformations collectively contribute to the racialization of white cities like Fargo in ways that complicate their demographics and the space they hold in an American imaginary of the idyllic and homogenous small town. Through participant observation, discourse analysis, multi-sited ethnography,...

"Blake R. Silver's The Cost of Inclusion is a vivid portrayal of how inequality is produced in day-to-day interactions as students seek-and oftentimes don't find-belonging on campus. When choosing a college, students search for a social fit, a place to learn while also having fun. But what happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? After a year spent immersed in student life on a college campus, Silver delves into this...