Lars Gunnarsson

Den här boken handlar om ett av 1900-talets mest omtalade politiska mord.Vi får följa mördarens uppväxt som flyktingbarn i USA och hur tanken på ett mord på en framstående politiker växte fram inom honom.Samtidigt får vi följa offrets politiska bana, som på ett ödesdigert sätt ledde fram till det ofrånkomliga slutet.Mördaren är Sirhan Sirhan. Offret är den amerikanska senatorn Robert F Kennedy.Det är en spännande och tankeväckande historia som spänner över 20 år, från 1948 till 1968, en tid då en gammal värld övergick i en ny.Allt tar sin början med Kennedys resa till Sirhans Palestina på våren 1948, när statens Israel bildades. I Kennedys resedagbok lades en grund för det som sedan skulle komma. Steg för steg berättas historien ända fram till den tragiska upplösningen på ett hotell i Los Angeles 1968.Men varför mördar Sirhan just Robert Kennedy, de fattigas vän och en fredsälskare?Den här boken förklarar det. Boken ger också en reviderad bild av Robert Kennedy. Den gängse uppfattningen i tidigare biografier är att han förändrades och radikaliseras i mitten av 1960-talet, men Lars Gunnarsson korrigerar den bilden. Kennedys dagböcker från resor i unga år till Palestina, Europa, Sovjet och Vietnam efter Andra världskriget och under avkolonialiseringens period, kastar ett ljus över hans tänkande.

How do personal networks evolve and what roles do they play for parents, and for the development of children? Can these ties with relatives, neighbours, and friends provide stability for family members during periods of disruption caused by divorce, unemployment, geographic dislocation or serious illness? How do networks change over time? To what extent are network members interchangeable; can unrelated friends take the place of close relatives? These are among the questions addressed in Extending Families, a ground-breaking study about how personal networks evolve, and what roles they play for parents and for the development of children. The volume is an outgrowth of a ten-year cooperative research effort carried out by the authors as part of the Comparative Ecology of Human Development Project at Cornell University. In this comprehensive and integrated volume, Moncrieff Cochran and his colleagues document and compare the roles network members play in the lives of African-American and Caucasian parents in the United States, and parents in Sweden, Wales and West Germany. They then go beyond those descriptive comparisons to consider, within a larger ecological framework, the ways that networks change over time, and the impact of different network resources on the perceptions and behaviour of developing individuals. The impacts on parents’ networks of participation in a community-based family support programme are examined, and a more general discussion of how public policies might strengthen access to informal social supporters is also provided. Moncrieff Cochran draws on this unique body of research in the concluding chapters of the volume to offer a new, integrated conception of how personal networks develop, and how they affect and are affected by development. In his foreword to this book, Urie Bronfenbrenner remarks that this conception provides the framework for a new approach to the scientific study of social networks and their implications for policy and practice’. Extending Families will be of special interest to family and urban sociologists, developmental and community psychologists, and other working in the areas of family policy, family studies, and human development.

How do personal networks evolve and what roles do they play for parents, and for the development of children? Can these ties with relatives, neighbours, and friends provide stability for family members during periods of disruption caused by divorce, unemployment, geographic dislocation or serious illness? How do networks change over time? To what extent are network members interchangeable; can unrelated friends take the place of close relatives? These are among the questions addressed in Extending Families, a ground-breaking study about how personal networks evolve, and what roles they play for parents and for the development of children. The volume is an outgrowth of a ten-year cooperative research effort carried out by the authors as part of the Comparative Ecology of Human Development Project at Cornell University. In this comprehensive and integrated volume, Moncrieff Cochran and his colleagues document and compare the roles network members play in the lives of African-American and Caucasian parents in the United States, and parents in Sweden, Wales and West Germany.