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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789819965403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 200 p. 20 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation
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    Keywords: Medical laws and legislation. ; Bioethics. ; Information technology ; Mass media ; Civil rights. ; European communities.
    Abstract: Introduction: The Dynamic Context & Multiple Challenges of Data Sharing Today -- The GA4GH Regulatory and Ethics Work Stream (REWS) at 10: An Interdisciplinary, Participative Approach to International Policy Development in Genomics -- Assessing Public and Private Rights of Action to Police Health Data Sharing -- Patient Perspectives on Data Sharing.
    Abstract: Data sharing – broadly defined as the exchange of health-related data among multiple controllers and processors – has gained increased relevance in the health sciences over recent years as the need and demand for collaboration has increased. This includes data obtained through healthcare provisions, clinical trials, observational studies, public health surveillance programs, and other data collection methods. The practice of data sharing presents several notable challenges, however. Compliance with a complex and dynamic regulatory framework is essential, with the General Data Protection Regulation being a prominent example in a European context. Recent regulatory developments related to clinical trial transparency, trade secrecy, data access, AI training data, and health data spaces further contribute to the difficulties. Simultaneously, government initiatives often encourage scientists to embrace principles of “open data” and “open innovation.” The variety of regulations in this domain has the potential to impede widespread data sharing and hinder innovation. This edited volume, therefore, compiles comparative case studies authored by leading scholars from diverse disciplines and jurisdictions. The book aims to outline the legal complexities of data sharing. By examining real-world scenarios from diverse disciplines and a global perspective, it explores the normative, policy, and ethical dilemmas that surround data sharing in the health sciences today. Chapter Patient Perspectives on Data Sharing is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Chapter Supplementary Measures and Appropriate Safeguards for International Transfers of Health Data after Schrems II is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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  • 2
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031450792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 408 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: White collar crimes. ; Criminology. ; Critical criminology. ; Crime ; Law and the social sciences. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Violations of the Social License -- Chapter 3: Institutional Theory Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory Perspectives -- Chapter 5: Legitimacy and the Corporate Social License -- Chapter 6: Corporate Response to Normative Social Pressure -- Chapter 7: The Convenience Theory Approach -- Chapter 8: Considerations on Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 9: Challenging the Social License -- Chapter 10: Social License and the Impact of Corporate Change -- Chapter 11: Compliance-Conformity-Convenience -- Chapter 12: Gendered Perspectives on Social License and Corporate Crime -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Deviance: Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 14: Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license – a concept frequently extended to a license to operate. Whilst discrete aspects of corporate social responsibility have found their way into the discourse on business deviance and crime, no single book to date has provided a detailed exploration of social licence through a criminological lens. Here, using an interdisciplinary focus which includes illustrative case-studies and large-scale original fieldwork, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore European, North American, Asian, and global perspectives to identify, position, and reveal the impact of the social license on contemporary conceptions of white-collar and corporate deviance and crime. Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption will be of interest to scholars of criminology, law, business management, and sociology along with professionals within allied fields. Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Christopher Hamerton is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789819971213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 298 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Constitutional law. ; Public law . ; Human rights. ; Political science. ; Australasia. ; History. ; Race.
    Abstract: 1. Terminology, values and identity -- 2. How we got here – the reform debate from 2010-2015 -- 3. Sovereignty and the impact of colonisation -- 4. Treaty-making and its limitations -- 5. Self-determination and an Indigenous state -- 6. Legal pluralism -- 7. Rights, race and culture -- 8. The Voice to Parliament -- 9. Indigenous parliamentary representation -- 10.Summary of reforms and the way forward.
    Abstract: This book examines whether Australia’s constitution should be reformed so as to enable the country to fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it ratified in 2009. The book surveys the history of the constitutional status of Australia’s Indigenous peoples from the time of colonisation through to the current debate on ‘Indigenous constitutional recognition’. However, it argues that the term ‘Indigenous constitutional recognition', implying that mere acknowledgement of the existence of Indigenous peoples is sufficient to meet their legitimate expectations, misrepresents the nature of the project the country needs to engage in. The book argues that Australia should instead embark upon a reform programme directed towards substantive, and not merely symbolic, constitutional change. It argues that only by the inclusion in the constitution of enforceable constitutional rights can the power imbalance between Indigenous Australians and the rest of society be addressed. Taking a comparative approach and drawing upon the experience of other jurisdictions, the book proposes a comprehensive constitutional reform programme, and includes the text of constitutional amendments designed to achieve the realisation of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. It ends with a call to improve the standard of civics education so as to overcome voter apprehension towards constitutional change. .
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  • 4
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031410611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 519 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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    Keywords: Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology. ; Crime ; Human rights. ; Social policy.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- PART I: Prison Officer Interpretations and Performances of Power and Authority -- 2. The moral value of authority: Reflections on the work of prison officers -- 3. Ukrainian prison officers and their power -- 4. French prison officers’ legal socialization: ‘The law, yes; prisoners’ rights, no’ -- 5. Proxy governance in (post) colonial prisons: When prison officers delegate power to prisoners -- PART II: Prison Officer Identities and Workplace Cultures -- 6. Dirty work and beyond: Representations of Prison Officers in Prison Films -- 7. “It’s a very clannish type of job”: Entitativity and identity in prison officers’ occupational cultures and identities -- 8. ‘Friendly but not friends’ or ‘Never trust the bastards’? Staff-prisoner interaction styles in Australia and Norway. 9. “It is important to be a prison officer and have trade union back up”: Exploring trade union membership within the Scottish Prison Service -- 10. The prison officer in post-soviet Russia -- PART III: Implications of Prison Policy and Management for the Role of Prison Officers -- 11. “Prison officers should be treated fairly”: Perceptions and experiences of fairness among prison officers in Ghana -- 12. Do risk-reducing measures only reduce risk? Prison officer work with risk-reducing measures in the imprisonment of a high-risk prisoner -- 13. Farewell to exceptionalism: An analysis of Swedish prisons officers’ attitudes towards prison policy, organisation, and their occupational role in 2009 and 2019 -- 14. The role of prison officers in transforming prisoners’ lives in Hong Kong -- 15. Locating Prison Officers in the prison reforms discourse: Insights from India -- PART IV: Working Conditions and Prison Officer Well-Being -- 16. The well-being of correctional officers in Canada -- 17. Fear and perceived risk among correctional officers -- 18. Prison Officers and their Work Routine in Brazilian Prisons -- 19. Conclusion: Towards a new research agenda to analyse the contemporary prison officer role.
    Abstract: “This collection is the kick-start to the kind of important global discussion that is needed.” — Frank J. Porporino, Criminal Justice Consultant; ICPA Group Chair, Research and Development Network “This outstanding collection shines the spotlight on the most overlooked, but surely most important professionals in the ‘correctional’ equation.” —Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology; author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild their Lives This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally. Helen Arnold is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of East Anglia, UK. Matthew Maycock is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness at the Fisheries and Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
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  • 5
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789819953103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 163 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Law ; Law ; Law and economics. ; Digital media. ; Information technology ; Mass media
    Abstract: Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1: Overview of Japanese Law -- Chapter 2 International Cooperation and Harmonization in Competition Law -- Part 2: Digital Initiatives in Japanese Competition Law -- Chapter 3: Big Data and AI -- Chapter 4: Big Data and AI -- Chapter 5: Perspectives on High-Tech Regulation -- Part 3: The Realities of Various Digital Regulations -- Chapter 6: Data Regulation -- Chapter 7 Digital PF Regulation -- Chapter 8: Competition in Multisided Markets -- Chapter 9 Competition Law and Consumers in Digital Platforms.
    Abstract: This book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues. It includes an overview of Japanese law and its international position, a basic understanding of the big data and AI issues in today's competition law, and perspectives on high-tech regulation. In addition, it includes a variety of important topics, ranging from exploring principles to tackle digital regulatory realities, to understanding and analyzing the competitive realities of multisided markets. It also examines the relationship between information and competition law and that between consumer and competition law. Digitalization is a key concept in our economy and society today. Carbon neutrality initiatives, the need to improve productivity, globalization, and new ways of working are all seeking breakthroughs by way of digitalization. What’s more, digitalization requires free and fair competition in order to encourage technological innovation. The search for transparent and clear competition laws is essential to promote efficient and effective research and development and to promote public awareness through competition.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031445538
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 177 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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    Keywords: Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology. ; Critical criminology. ; Deviant behavior. ; Social control. ; Law and the social sciences.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: From poverty governance to disciplinary practices in prison -- Chapter 2. Pervasive social control: How merit shapes authorities’ perception -- Chapter 3. Being correctional officer: Unattended expectations and coping strategies -- Chapter 4. Identifying as correctional officer: A relational factor -- Chapter 5. Acting as correctional officer: Authority trough discretion -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers’ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers’ perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal trends are enacted in a local context and how the prison systems plays into our understanding of institutional and administrative power. It advances the discussion on organizational and institutional power through the lens of social control and street-level bureaucracy literature. It also explores gender variations in the discretional use of correctional officers’ power. This book has a cross-disciplinary appeal for criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists and to policy-makers. Serena Franchi is Research Fellow at Istituto degli Innocenti research centre, Florence, Italy. Serena holds a PhD in Social and Political Change at the University of Florence and University of Turin and has 12 years of professional and academic experience in researching on the Italian prison system.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031462894
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 246 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Crime ; Critical criminology. ; Social justice. ; Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: A research agenda for a human rights centred criminology(Leanne Weber and Marinella Marmo) -- Chapter 2. Criminological research for human rights (Elizabeth Stanley) -- Chapter 3. Speaking rights to power or governing through rights?: Making rights matter in the security field (Claire Hamilton) -- Chapter 4. Researching policing from the perspective of the policed: studying human rights from below (Will Jackson) -- Chapter 5. Criminology, humanitarianism, and the right to life at the border (Katja Franko) -- Chapter 6. The promise and pitfalls of human rights in immigration detention (Mary Bosworth and Andriani Fili) -- Chapter 7. An anticolonial, abolitionist, and feminist lens to interrogate human rights penalty (Silvana Tapia Tapia) -- Chapter 8. Human rights for Southern Criminology: Neoliberal colonialism and rights from below (Pablo Ciocchini and Joe Greener) -- Chapter 9. Actioning the Human Rights Agenda and Issues of Access to Justice (Danielle Watson, Julie Berg and Lamese Laponi) -- Chapter 10. Developing a kaupapa Māori rights-focused research agenda (Stella Black, Dave Burnside, Jess Hastings, and Katey Thom) -- Chapter 11. Queer Criminology through the Lens of the Global South and its Impact on Human Rights (George B. Radics).-Chapter 12. Are victim stories human rights stories? Towards an ethics and politics of listening and seeing for victimology (Sandra Walklate) -- Chapter 13. Gendered violence: A human rights agenda for criminology (Nancy A. Wonders and Sydney Shevat) -- Chapter 14. Towards a Human Rights Criminology of Public Health (Raymond Michalowski and Rebecca Annorbah) -- Chapter 15. Carceral Spaces and OPCAT: resisting the temptation of human rights? (Claire Loughnan and Steven Caruana) .
    Abstract: “A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology makes an excellent contribution to thinking through the complexities and potential interrelationships between human rights and critical criminology. There is an array of approaches in the collection which identify various topics and methods, and mark differing understandings of both criminology and human rights. This collection of essays demonstrates the benefit of and need for more refined and clearly articulated conceptual, methodological and theoretical standpoints.” — Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology at Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia “This is a very welcome addition to the academic literature that engages in dialogue across the fields of criminology and human rights. Its many rich and diverse perspectives on a range of subjects are covered deftly by an exceptional collection of authors. The book will undoubtedly stimulate further debate and scholarship on these important topics, exactly as the editors intended.” — Ursula Kilkelly, Professor of Law at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments. It argues that critical criminological research has a significant role to play in identifying whether state and state-corporate power is exercised in ways that align with human rights law and principles, although the discipline has been slow to advance this agenda. This book covers a wide array of topics and seeks to develop critical human rights approaches within criminology and criminal justice. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Leanne Weber is Professor of Criminology at University of Canberra, Australia. Marinella Marmo is Professor of Criminology at Flinders University, Australia.
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789819982929
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 235 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Modern China and International Economic Law
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Trade regulation. ; Mediation. ; Dispute resolution (Law). ; Arbitration (Administrative law).
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Economic Justifications for Antidumping -- Chapter 3. Historical Development of AD Law based on Protectionist Intent -- Chapter 4. Pre-WTO Era Evolution of Non-market Economy Treatment Rules and Practices -- Chapter 5. WTO Era Non-market Economy Treatment Rules and Practices -- Chapter 6. The Changing International Legal Environment Regarding Non-market Economy Treatment -- Chapter 7. Prospects of Non-market Economy Treatment.
    Abstract: This book serves as a comprehensive study of and provides rich insight into non-market economy treatment, including its past, present, and estimated future practices and implications. It explores the introduction of the market and non-market economy dichotomy into international trade law. It traces the origin and development of non-market economy treatment against changing international economic and political background. The book examines this treatment in light of the rationale underlying anti-dumping, reflecting its alleged significance of ensuring fair trade. It in particular investigates the varied non-market economy treatment practices responding concerns of China’s rising as a large state-led economy, analyzing the deviation of NME treatment into an all-in trade tool. The book argues against preconceived bias and unilateral protectionism. It highlights the universal existence of government involvement in the market and proposes objective assessment of its impact on fair trade. Final proposition of the book is depoliticizing trade, reforming comprehensively international trade rules to carefully calibrate different values, including promoting fairness and enhancing global social welfare. It envisages a multi-dimension overhaul of international trade rules to rebalance trade interests, rather than roughly labeling an economy to confer different treatment, the practices of which lead to separation and chaos. The book is of particular relevance and interest to economies-in-transition, and among policy makers, academicians and legal practitioners engaged in trade remedies and trade rules reconstruction.
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789819990856
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 458 p. 92 illus., 89 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Information technology ; Mass media
    Abstract: AI Laws and Policies -- Theoretical Research on AI and the Rule of Law -- Application of AI in the Rule of Law -- Analysis of Al-Related Cases -- Report on the Development of AI and the Rule of Law -- Expert Interviews on Development of AI and the Rule of Law -- Interviews with AI Companies on the Rule of Law.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the development of artificial intelligence and rule of law in the world, by collecting and summarizing the information about the development of artificial intelligence and rule of law in China and the world, covering topics like AI strategy, policy, law, theoretical research and practical application, etc. It makes an in-depth analysis so as to provide an objective, fair and accurate report. The purpose is to promote the study of AI and law, promote the construction of AI and rule of law system and create an AI and rule of law environment. In particular, it aims to play an active role in promoting the establishment of legislative norms, legal systems, policy systems and ethical norms that are compatible with the innovative development of AI, promoting the implementation of a new generation of national AI development strategies, ensuring the safe, reliable, controllable, healthy and sustainable development of AI. It is hoped that this book may provide useful reference for researchers of AI and law.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031508905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 204 p. 24 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Elections.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Far Right Failure: Parties of the Far Right in Germany, 1945-2023 -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Populist Far Right Issue Entrepreneurship in an Age of Dealignment -- Chapter 4: Emergence: The AfD and the European Debt Crisis in in the 2013 Federal Election -- Chapter 5: Breakthrough: The Refugee Crisis, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Success of the AfD in the 2017 Federal Election -- Chapter 6: Sustainment: The AfD and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the 2021 Federal Election -- Chapter 7: Strategies for Sustaining Success: Ideological Positioning and Fashioning a Party Brand -- Chapter 8: Sustaining Success Beyond the Core: Campaign Posters and the Professionalization of the AfD -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issue Entrepreneurship and the Future of the AfD.
    Abstract: This book traces the rise of the far right AfD from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasizing the party’s nature as a “populist issue entrepreneur” and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics – the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the topic of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are largely limited to historical treatments and surface level analyses of the political party. This volume has the virtue of being both empirically rigorous as well as conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party’s political trajectory and attraction to supporters by analyzing its voters using advanced quantitative methodologies, as well as interpreting the party’s communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a theoretically well-grounded argument. The argument emphasizes three important explanatory conditions – a favorable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party’s stages of political development. Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9789819999873
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 162 p. 17 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Qizhen Humanities and Social Sciences Library
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics. ; Language and languages ; Educational tests and measurements.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Item response theory -- Chapter 3. Validation frameworks and methods -- Chapter 4. Components of computerized adaptive language testing -- Chapter 5. Design of computerized adaptive language tests -- Chapter 6. Validation of computerized adaptive language tests -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The book reports on the development and validation of a computerized adaptive EFL test, which is used as an exit requirement for non-English-major undergraduates at a major Chinese university. Unlike the tests reported in previous research on computerized adaptive language test (CALT), which were mostly designed to assess vocabulary, grammar and reading, this test consists of listening and reading components using both dichotomously-scored stand-alone items and polytomously-scored testlet-based items. The book is an essential and stimulating read for researchers and graduate students in the testing domain, particularly for those who are interested in CALT, item response theory (IRT), and quantitative research methods in general. It also constitutes a solid reference resource for L2 teachers and test developers. One of the distinctive features of the book is its operationalization of assessment use argument (AUA) in the investigation of the construct validity of the CALT. Another strength of this book is that it provides insight into the specific procedures that are followed in the development of CALTs and addresses a few key issues, such as local item dependence and DIF detection that were ignored in previous CALT development research.
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    ISBN: 9783031469626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 279 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Emigration and immigration. ; Knowledge, Sociology of. ; Islam and the social sciences. ; Islamic sociology. ; Judaism. ; Journalism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and outline -- Chapter 2. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Development over time -- Chapter 4. Phenomenological structure -- Chapter 5. Social roles of Jews and Muslims -- Chapter 6. Acculturation strategies -- Chapter 7. Emotional tone -- Chapter 8. Group homogeneity -- Chapter 9. Conclusion and recommendations.
    Abstract: This book uses a comparative research design to analyze the reporting on the Jewish minority and the Muslim minority in German newspapers from 2010-2019, asking whether minorities are truly treated as equals in the reporting of the mainstream German media. After providing historical and socio-political context for both groups as minority populations in Germany, the authors make use of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine sentiment and determine whether the media demonstrates a unifying or a well-differentiated portrayal of the two groups. The findings show that reporting on these groups is not as unbiased as many in Germany believe. Drawing on frameworks including the needs-based model of reconciliation, the revised integrated threat theory, and the model of acculturation strategies, the book then discusses the implications for both journalistic reporting and broader social policies in support of a constructive encounter of dominant and non-dominant groups in a diverse society. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of migration, integration and intergroup relations, as well as those in communication, media studies, and discourse analysis. Katharina F. Gallant is a senior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany. Jolanda van der Noll is a senior researcher at the Chair of Community Psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031523151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Communication in science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963) From Novel to Screenplay, Bernard Montoneri, Independent Researcher, Taiwan; Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 2. Travelling through Time and Space in the Works of Russian Speaking Science Fiction Writers, Iryna B. Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine -- Chapter 3. El anacronópete (1884, 1887), the First Journey in a Time Machine in Hispanic literature, Fernando Darío González Grueso, Tamkang University, Taipei Rachid Lamarti, Tamkang University, Taipei -- Chapter 4. The Ice People (1968), a story of humankind’s auto-destruction, Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 5. ‘I’m just a traveller’: Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Histories of Time and Space, Alyson Miller and Eleanore Gardner, Deakin University, Australia -- Chapter 6. Time Travel in M. Bugakov's Master and Margarita, Anna Toom, Touro College & University System, New York, USA -- Chapter 7. Chronotopes, Afrotropes, and Restorative Aesthetics in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany -- Chapter 8. Femi Osofisan’s One Legend, Many Seasons, Oyewumi Olatoye, Agunbiade & Enongene Mirabeau, Sone, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa -- Chapter 9. Time Travel in Japan and The Girl who Leapt through Time, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan -- Chapter 10. The Concept of Time Travel in Vedic Literature- A Perspective, Beena Giridharan, Curtin University, Malaysia.
    Abstract: Time travel is an important theme in literature and other arts. This excellent collection introduces readers to some of the most innovative and influential works and offers insightful discussions of works from different literary traditions and in different forms, both famous classics and new discoveries. For anyone interested in this theme and its various manifestations, reading this collection will be remarkably rewarding. Professor Zhang Longxi, Hunan Normal University, China The book consists of fascinating chapters that explore in depth various themes related to time travel. Each chapter focuses on a different literary work or medium and explores how time travel has influenced different cultures, literature, and philosophies. It is a highly engaging resource for exploring this interesting topic from the perspectives of different literary works and cultures. Professor Yoriko Ishida, National Institute of Technology, Oshima College, Japan. In this wonderful collection, time travel is read under the temporal gaze of capitalism and imperialism, history and modernity, and across the undulating sheets of time. It is an essential edition to the field of time travel studies and a form of revelatory chrononautics. One enters the book and moves across the great and small histories of time and space. Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia. Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema. Bernard Montoneri was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan until January 2020. He is now an independent researcher. He has around 60 publications and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2017. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship since 2019.
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    ISBN: 9783031534140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 260 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Language and languages ; Multilingualism. ; Digital media.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Making The Case For Change -- Chapter 2: Historical Teaching Approaches -- Chapter 3: The Scientific Period -- Chapter 4: The Communicative Period -- Chapter 5: Communicative Language Teaching -- Chapter 6: Other Communicative Approaches -- Chapter 7: The Lexical Approach -- PART II: Establishing a Theoretical Basis -- Chapter 8: First Language Acquisition -- Chapter 9: Foundations -- Chapter 10: Usage-Based Linguistics -- Chapter 11: Empirical Research -- PART III: Designing A Blueprint For Change -- Chapter 12: Principles -- Chapter 13: Materials Design -- Chapter 14: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to existing paradigms such as Steven Krashen's Natural Approach, and Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach. It begins by analysing historical teaching methods to make the case for change. The author argues that Communicative Language Teaching lacks a theory of learning and overemphasises spoken production as a result. The book then examines theories of first language acquisition to establish a theoretical basis for change. It finds that usage-based theories offer a highly plausible account of language learning. The author sets out six principles to guide the application of usage-based theory to second language learning. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers of Applied Linguistics and Language Education. Ian Pemberton has been teaching English for over thirty years, beginning in Japan. After returning to the UK, he completed a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading before a brief stint teaching ESOL and then moving into EAP teaching. He also has extensive experience in preparing students for IELTS examinations.
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    ISBN: 9789819999798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 251 p. 91 illus., 83 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Architecture. ; Engineering design. ; Sociology. ; People with disabilities ; Law. ; Education and state.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Lebanese disability right movement, law 220/2000, and its impact on the educational sector -- Chapter 3. Inclusive design verses accessibility paradigm -- Chapter 4. A review of a Lebanese accessibility guideline -- Chapter 5. Inclusive design at universities: the American university of Beirut case study -- Chapter 6. American university of Beirut findings -- Chapter 7. Proposals for inclusive university buildings -- Chapter 8. Can accessibility guidelines lead to an inclusive built environment? discussion of findings -- Chapter 9. Inclusive design teaching Pedagogy: Reflections on teaching inclusive design.
    Abstract: This book describes the disability rights movement that started in the USA and its influence on the disability rights movement in Lebanon, which has led to the endorsement of the Lebanese Disability Act 220/2000. The book introduces the reader to the Lebanese Disability Act 220/ 2000, its definition of disability, and its relation to the medical and social models of disabilities and then articulate the Act articles. Then, it defines the inclusive design paradigm that acknowledges the needs of all people at each stage of their life cycle and presents the difference between inclusive design and accessibility and disability notions. Moreover, the book reviews the different international accessible design standards (American and French) that are adopted in Lebanon with the absence of a nationalized Lebanese design standard and its effect on eliminating barriers and enhancing accessibility at university buildings. Besides, the book presents students' experiences and their satisfaction with the university built environments. 6 university buildings case studies at the American University of Beirut are assessed and analysed to check whether they adopt the inclusive design approach and then propose inclusive design solutions for both heritage and modern university buildings. What makes the book unique is its combination of empirical and theoretical application of inclusive design. The last section, reflects the author’s inclusive design teaching pedagogy. In this section, the author shares samples of students’ class design project and provides recommendations and guidelines for teaching inclusive design so it becomes mainstream.
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    ISBN: 9789819702367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 276 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Europe-Asia Connectivity
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    Keywords: Asia ; International relations. ; World politics. ; Political planning.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Emerging Connectivity Narratives in Eurasia -- Chapter 2: Connectivity, logistics and the future of regional interaction -- Chapter 3: Land corridors, Multimodal Connections and Mobility in India’s Northwest -- Chapter 4: Globalization and the Geopolitics of Multi-layered Connectivity -- Chapter 5: Infrastructural development, financial institution and Markets as New Realms of Connectivity -- Chapter 6: Connectivity as Influence? The New Silk Roads and Indian alternatives -- Chapter 7: Conclusions .
    Abstract: The volume examines how in the twenty-first century narratives built around connectivity have become a structural component of international politics expanding into a wider array of policy fields. It examines the significance of this emerging narrative from an Indian perspective with particular reference to Eurasian alternatives. It argues that this represents the next stage of globalization and that an understanding of this is increasingly becoming crucial given the recent disruptions along with the emergence of a spate of new policies and institutions that could eventually lead to a new understanding of connectivity. Anita Sengupta is an area studies specialist engaged with the study of the Eurasian region. Her areas of interest include issues of identity politics, migration, gender, borders, critical geopolitics and logistics. She is a regular commentator on debates on Asian affairs. She has been Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi and Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. She is currently Director, Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata.
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    ISBN: 9783031493867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 373 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction (Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko, and Ivana Perica) -- PART I: SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES -- 2: Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve) -- 3: The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanović) -- 4: An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart) -- 5: The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka Štimec) -- PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY -- 6: Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek) -- 7: Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet) -- 8: The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann) -- 9: Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Daković) -- PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM 172 -- 10: The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas) -- 11: Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’s Third Ways (Ivana Perica) -- 12: On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Murašov) -- 13: Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (Davor Beganović) -- PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURE -- 14: Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Božić) -- 15: Literature’s Theories (Svend Erik Larsen) -- 16: Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko) -- PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES -- 17: On Halt! (Vivian Liska) -- 18: Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivić) -- 19: The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatović).
    Abstract: This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory’s procedural nature. In order to assess theory’s procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory’s principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhaps for a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is. Davor Beganović is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of Pripovijedanje bez kraja: "Hrvatska pripovjedačka Bosna" od Ive Andrića do Nebojše Lujanovića (2022). Zrinka Božić is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (2022). Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Pripovjedna proza Slobodana Novaka (forthcoming). Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and author of Die privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière (2016).
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    ISBN: 9789819997145
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 177 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: State Governance
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political planning. ; Public administration.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2.Overview of the administrative reform in China -- 3. Kick off: Government restructuring in 2009 -- 4. The second phase: Administrative licensing reform, 2010-2011 -- 5. Deepening of the administrative licensing reform: since 2012 -- 6 . The latest reforms in China:continued without substantial breakthrough -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book looks into the processes sustaining the administrative reform in Chinese local government and the roles of different actors during different phases by tracing a vivid administrative reform process in Shunde district, Guangdong province between 2009 and 2014. In 2008, Chinese central government initiated a new round of large-scale, top-to-bottom administrative reform—“mega-ministry” administrative reform—to address the long-lasting administrative problems. Against this background, the reforms in Shunde government (county level) operated well and sustained for several years, which was enlarged to the administrative licensing field and hence influenced China’s reforms in the following 10 years. Shunde case could allow us a better peep at the factors that contribute to the sustenance of reform. The analyses in this book find that sustenance of reform reflects, ironically, the logics of both path dependence and path creation. The past reform trajectories have created a favorable background for further reform to evolve, and a receptive ground in which exogenous forces interacted with the local reform-minded actors to create the new reform innovations. The combination of path dependence and path creation kept local reform afloat.
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    ISBN: 9783031518331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 340 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Language and languages ; Rhetoric. ; World politics. ; Pragmatics.
    Abstract: 1: Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance -- 2: Corruption and Money -- 3: Enemies, Scapegoats, and Conspiracy Theories -- 4: The Establishment, the Elite, and the Experts -- 5: Identity and Negative Myths -- 6: Leadership Style -- 7: Speeches, Lies, and Narrative (Un-)Truth.
    Abstract: “This is a fascinating comparative study. Well written and well researched. I’d thoroughly recommend it”. -Frank McDonough, author of Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party and The Hitler Years “This thought-provoking book lets us see Trump as a leader in the authoritarian tradition and reminds us that the playbook Hitler used did not vanish after 1945”. -Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen “By comparing the underlying commonalities between Hitler and Trump, de Berg a way to decode the sway charismatic leaders have on their followers across the ages”. -Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: Sefton Delmer, the Genius Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men’s character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses seemingly peripheral issues like the reasons behind Hitler’s toothbrush moustache and Trump’s hairstyle. By demystifying Hitler and Trump, the author throws new light on both of them received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and has been translated into three European languages as well as Chinese. Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His previous books include Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies, which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. .
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    ISBN: 9783031495403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 195 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Poetry. ; Literature. ; Culture
    Abstract: Chapter 1: ‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts -- Chapter 2: ‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813) -- Chapter 3: ‘Who Lifteth the Veil of What is to Come?’: Alastor (1816) -- Chapter 4: ‘And is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816-20) -- Chapter 5: ‘Where the Eternal Are’: Adonais (1821) -- Chapter 6: Shadows and Dreams: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Andrew Lacey’s original approach to Shelley’s poetic practice and thought offers a timely reconsideration of the poet’s conceptualisation and treatment of death. This focus on death in Shelley’s artistic vision reveals fresh connections between those familiar and lesser-known poetic works. Lacey’s persuasive readings remain alert throughout to telling philosophical, scientific, textual, and biographical details.” — Professor Mark Sandy, Durham University, UK This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents, first and foremost, possibility: Shelley’s poetic writings on death are both numerous and varied, presenting his reader, with differing degrees of confidence over the course of his brief but brilliant career, with several key visions of what death might be or actually is. Shelley’s Visions of Death stresses the seldom-appreciated fact that death was one of Shelley’s most enduring preoccupations, and also demonstrates the poet’s power to imagine, with startling variety, that which lies beyond the boundaries of experience. Andrew Lacey is a scholar of the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the last decade, he has worked as Senior Research Associate, on the Davy Notebooks Project and the Davy Letters Project, in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He assisted in the preparation of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (4 volumes, 2020) and Volume Four of The Poems of Shelley in the Longman Annotated English Poets series (2014). He is Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and a former winner of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Keats-Shelley Prize.
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    ISBN: 9789819998210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 234 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Poetry. ; Comparative literature. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Classical literature. ; Literature, Ancient. ; Pragmatics.
    Abstract: Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts -- Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbroken Poetry” -- Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: “Aiqing xiaoshuo” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture -- Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies -- Chapter 4 -- Translating China for the Gazing eyes – A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin -- Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective -- Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) -- Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son -- Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair -- Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang’s The Farewell -- Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses -- Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens -- Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave -- Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.
    Abstract: This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film and any other forms of arts/genres, etc. In his 1917 work Mourning and Melancholia (Trauer und Melancholie), Sigmund Freud connected the grief of loss with melancholic emotions which may give rise to acts of mourning. He suggested that “[i]n mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself” (Freud, 1917: 246). Inspired by Freud’s stance and with the goal of providing up-to-date intellectual resources for academics, researchers and students with ardent interests in the varying exemplifications of grief and melancholy in Sino-Western contexts, the book serves more than a discussion over the pragmatic and ritualistic connections of grief and melancholy in relation to the inner self and the external world. It aims at the pursuit of a contemporary theorization of grief and melancholy beyond its modern limits.
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    ISBN: 9783031544057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 102 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Elections.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Politicians and the Attractions of Incivility -- Chapter 2: The Media Industry of Incivility -- Chapter 3: Citizens and the Seductive Power of Incivility -- Chapter 4: Incivility as a Tool for Social Change -- Chapter 5: Incivility and Democracy.
    Abstract: This book offers a systematization of the recourse to political incivility by different subjects and in different contexts. The authors argue that incivility has now become a strategic resource that can be used by various actors in the public arena to achieve specific goals. We are referring not only to traditional political subjects, but also to journalists, citizens, movements and protest groups, that is to a plurality of actors who, from different angles, contribute to the construction of the “political spectacle”. This resource can be activated according to circumstances and conveniences, whether their nature be political (to place an issue at the center of public debate or a new actor in the offer range), mediatic (to achieve an increase in visibility or viewership) or relational (to expand one’s visibility and centrality in social media). The book identifies common elements linking the different levels of use of incivility, which can be traced in uncivil forms of communication. These are their expressive power (memorable gestures and unequivocal messages, which are immediately recognizable and visible), their aggregation power (they build group identities, and consolidate allegiances and bonds) and their mobilization power (they galvanize people, and inspire them to participate and take action). Sara Bentivegna is Full Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Rossella Rega is Associate Professor at the University of Siena, Italy.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 155 p. 39 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Urban Sustainability
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Sustainability. ; Sustainable architecture.
    Abstract: Prioritizing Sustainable Urban Regeneration Practices: Addressing Contemporary Urban Challenges through the lens of Public Participation -- Participation in Public Space Regeneration -- A Model of Innovative Participation in Urban Regeneration Processes of Venues Born from a Collective Vocation: Parma Città D’oro Experience -- Implementing a Participatory Design Approach to Create a Sensory-Friendly Public Space for Children with Special Needs -- Participation in Built Heritage Regeneration -- The Regeneration of the Urban Commons: An Opportunity for Circular Cities -- Community Participation of China’s Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Sanxue Historical District in Xi’an -- Participation in Informal Settlements Regeneration -- Improving Liveability through Regenerating Informal Neighbourhoods: A Case of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh -- The New Strategy of Urban Village Regeneration: the comprehensive improvement project in Jingle Village, Shenzhen, China -- Participation in Ecological Regeneration -- An Ecology Model for Participatory Strategies: Community-led Green Networks and its Social and Spatial Agents -- Cultural and Natural Heritage, Synergy in Regeneration of Tropical Cities. Laguna Del Carpintero Wetland and its Surroundings, Gulf of Mexico.
    Abstract: This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders’ engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic. In the contemporary processes of urban development, regeneration is becoming a relevant way to limit the occupation of new land and to enhance the existing spatial, social, and ecological dimensions of specific parts of the city. It generally entails the engagement of different groups of stakeholders and users at various levels—e.g., institutional and private—who carry on their own agendas while conveying a wide range of interests and values to safeguard. At the same time, despite indications of a significant increase in its implementation under various forms and in multiple contexts in the last twenty years, participatory mechanisms have not been without challenges and barriers due to several factors, including facilitators’ poor negotiation and communication practices, and consequently misinterpretation of the values at stake made by the parties involved, or obstructionism and gridlocks carried on by the different stakeholders. The narrative of the collection is structured in four sections The contributions elaborate on innovative participatory patterns, how they are/might be entangled with the different stages of regeneration projects, in what measure they have contributed to the United Nations sustainability goals, and the potential matters emerging during the negotiation phases. In detail, the four sections are: 1. Public space regeneration 2. Ecological regeneration 3. Built heritage regeneration 4. Informal settlements regeneration. Finally, this book is a significant asset to urban policy makers, planners, practitioners, and researchers in the architecture and urban studies domain who aim at deepening public participation practices knowledge by comparing different experiences.
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    ISBN: 9783031478314
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 313 p. 23 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights
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    Keywords: Motion picture plays, European. ; Culture ; Emigration and immigration. ; Literature. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I Art and Activism by and with Refugees -- 2. The Trojans Project: Therapeutic Drama from Syria to Scotland -- 3. Channelling and Challenging the ‘imperative to tell’: Reflections on Negotiating Representations of Refugeeness from Practice-Based Performance Research -- 4. ‘To live well is to story well’: Co-writing and Polyphonic Writing with Denmark’s Asylum Community -- 5. Life in Detention: Journey and Border -- 6. Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial Imagination -- Part II Challenging Representations of Refugees -- 7. ‘She is the meteor and I, her space’: Co-Becoming and Biopolitical Trauma in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail -- 8. Unsettled: Narrative Strategies in Exhibitions About the ‘Refugee Crisis’ -- 9. Archaeologies of Nonentity in Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope -- 10. Beyond Objectifying the Humane: Memory in Media and Political Genres -- 11. Wolves in the Sanctuary: Ecopolitics and Forced Migration in the Literature of the Anthropocene -- 12. Remapping the Borderlands of Britain: The Calais “Jungle” and the Enduring Legacy of Imperial Frontier Policing -- .
    Abstract: This book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates the construction of refugees and the refugee experience on the borders of contemporary Europe. The refugee subject is produced by discursive regimes and border practices inherited from colonial projects that construct the diametrically opposed concepts of citizen and refugee, and their attendant administrative sub-categories. In the early twenty-first century these categories have been strengthened by the politicisation of forced migration and the hardening of ‘Fortress Europe’. While the predominant response to the increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has been to harden the borders (regime), on the one hand, or to stress the common humanity of those displaced (refuge), on the other, this volume argues that both approaches result in refugees becoming objectified, othered, and abstracted as vectors of exile. It explores what recent cultural production can achieve in engaging with and representing issues of dispossession, detention and resettlement, and probes the limits of artistic potential to mediate the refugee experience. It examines transnational approaches to cultural production that both occupy and exceed the borders of Europe, with a focus on borderscapes, spaces of detention, and (neo-)colonialism. Bringing together original contributions from an international range of scholars, it analyses contemporary textual and visual representations of forced migration to argue that other forms of solidarity and hospitality towards refugees in Europe and beyond must be possible. Dr Fiona Barclay is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on memories of colonial and postcolonial migration, including Writing Postcolonial France: Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), and France's Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013). Dr Beatrice Ivey is a Learning Designer at the University of Leeds, UK. As a researcher in French and Francophone Studies her work explores the transcultural memory of French colonialism across literatures from France and North Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031549199
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 346 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
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    Keywords: Africa ; Elections. ; Political leadership. ; Communication in politics.
    Abstract: 1. Historical Background of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic -- 2. The Nigerian Presidential System.-3. Politics and Presidential Elections -- 4. Political Behaviour and Voting Patterns -- 5. The Electoral Commission, the Conduct of Elections and Party Financing -- 6. Party Politics -- 7. Presidential Powers -- 8. Presidents and Policymaking -- 9. Nigerian Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective -- 10. The Future of Nigeria’s Democracy.
    Abstract: This book provides a uniquely detailed analysis of presidential elections in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The authors explore the changing dynamics of voting patterns, religious politics, politicians’ behaviour and the broader political system to offer new insights into presidential systems in Africa and beyond. In doing so, they address an often-neglected area of political science and cast light on the political challenges facing one of the world’s largest democracies. The book’s comprehensive coverage of Nigerian presidential elections – and the lessons they hold for developing countries across the globe – is a valuable resource for researchers, students, international institutions and non-governmental organisations. Babayo Sule is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of International Relations, Federal University of Kashere Gombe State, Nigeria. Usman Sambo is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Yobe State University Damaturu, Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783031520341
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 194 p.)
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    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Children's literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: Introduction: Worlds of Difference -- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872) -- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875) -- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) -- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self -- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion -- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995) -- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018) -- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012).
    Abstract: This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of being, this study explores the potential of literature, film and television to act as a catalyst of change in the representation of disability. In addition, this work discusses the texts and technologies that continue to perpetuate questionable and often competing discourses on the subject.
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    ISBN: 9783031400339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 213 p. 31 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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    Keywords: Motion pictures. ; Motion pictures ; Gender identity in mass media.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1 – Découpage: Building the House -- Chapter 2 – Mise-en-scène: Visualising the Rooms -- Chapter 3 – Sound: Creating Invisible Rooms -- Chapter 4 – Editing: Reconstructing the House -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains imbued with depth, metaphor, and expressivity. The book studies the films through the lens of four filmmaking processes in particular: découpage, mise-en-scène, sound and editing. Close analysis reveals how filmmakers use these cinematic ‘building blocks’ to shape onscreen worlds charged with emotion and animated by the warp and weft of psychic life. Images of home abound in the cinema, and women frequently find themselves at the core of both structures. Drawing on recent spatial and feminist enquiry, the book reviews the idea of home as a fixed and stable location and illustrates how the art of cinema is well equipped to explore home as an imaginary as well as a material realm. With its emphasis on film practice as a route into critical reflection, this book will be of interest to filmmakers, film theorists and those who simply want to understand more about how films work. Louise Radinger Field is a filmmaker and writer living in London. She has a PhD in film from the University of Reading.
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    ISBN: 9783031472954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 218 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Children's literature. ; Fiction. ; Youth
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives -- Chapter 2. Re/Articulated Monstrosity: Mary and her Creature -- Chapter 3. Mash(ed) Up: Maidens, Monsters, and Mad Scientists -- Chapter 4. Illustrative Genii: The Brontës’ Genius -- Chapter 5. The Odd(est) Brontë: Portrait(s) of Emily as a Young Author -- Chapter 6. Irregulars: Sherlockian Youth as Outsiders -- Chapter 7. The Mis(s) Education of Young Women -- Chapter 8. Deviant Young Womanhood: Liminal Queerness, Mad Femininity, and Spectral Subjectivity -- Chapter 9. Things Yet Undone: Encountering the Past through the Present.
    Abstract: Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on literature, history, and morality. Additionally, Sarah E. Maier aims to determine if the appeal of neo-Victorian young adult fiction rests in or resists nostalgia, parody, and revision. Given the overwhelming prevalence of the Victorian in the young adult genres of biofiction, juvenile writings, gothic, sensation, mystery, and crime fiction, there is much to investigate in terms of the friction between the past and the present. Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick. Her recent publications include work on Ann Lister, the Brontës, neo-Victorian vampires, neo-Victorian Alienists, Maleficent, neo-Gothicism, and Queer Mash-ups. Maier has written A Vindication of the Redhead (2021 Palgrave) with Brenda Ayres, and they have co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2023 Palgrave), Neo-Victorian Things (2022 Palgrave), Neo-Disneyism (2022 Lang), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2022 Routledge), The Theological Dickens (2022 Routledge), Neo-Victorian Madness (2020 Palgrave), Neo-Gothic Narratives: (2020 Anthem), Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (2019 Routledge), and Reinventing Marie Corelli (2019 Anthem). .
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    ISBN: 9783031541322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 156 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Memory and scales: culture, institutions, and interaction -- Chapter 3: Shifting memory narratives: the macro-meso link -- Chapter 4: Meso-processes: outsourcing the administration of European memory -- Chapter 5: Micro-level implementation: the politics of situations -- Chapter 6: Epistemic authority in the micro-details of pedagogical memory discourse -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values. The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission’s memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects. Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory. Thomas Van de Putte, PhD, is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. His first book, Contemporary Auschwitz/Oswiecim: a synchronic, interactional approach to collective memory was published in 2021. He works on questions of cultural and collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031513701
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 208 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- 2. Sanctions: A Theoretical Review -- 3. Annexation of Crimea: Western Sanctions and Russia’s Response (2014-2021) -- 4. The War in Ukraine: Avalanche of Western Sanctions and Russia’s Reaction -- 5. Sanctions Busting: The Role of Various States in Russia’s Resistance to Sanctions -- 6. Assessing Sanctions Effectiveness -- 7. Implications of sanctions to the rest of the world -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is required reading to grasp the dynamics of economic sanctions. Drawing on recent Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy, it provides a persuasive corrective to the dominant perspective that sanctions undermine target countries. -Immanuel Ness, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, NY. This is an outstanding contribution to the literature. It provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the role of sanctions in the contemporary era. -Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA. This important study shows how Russia has survived being the most sanctioned country in the world by reorienting its trade towards the East and creating import-substitution policies and investment in local industries. -Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. A timely contribution to the growing sanctions literature that urges policy adjustment to new geopolitical realities. -Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. This book analyses the goals of Western sanctions imposed on Russia from 2014 to 2023. It explores the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and its political course, as well as the repercussions of the sanctions to the senders and third parties, including spillover effects on neighboring countries and boomerang effects on the senders. While sanctions can be considered relatively effective in terms of economic consequences, the Russian economy is far from being crushed. Importantly, sanctions proved to be ineffective as an instrument of foreign policy. They have failed to alter Moscow’s resolve to continue its military operation and are unlikely to change it in the near future. Dr. Angela Borozna is Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Lada V. Kochtcheeva is Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the North Carolina State University. .
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    ISBN: 9789819982622
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 217 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia
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    Keywords: Asia ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Oriental literature.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Postcolonial Theory and Its Applications in Kazakhstan and Beyond -- Part I: Post-Coloniality and Memory Politics -- Chapter 2: Colonization and Control in the Making of a Eurasian Empire -- Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Soviet Coloniality: the Case of “Az I YA” -- Chapter 4: Public Commemoration and Nationalizing the Cult of World War II in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 5: Culture of Remembrance in Kazakhstan at the turn of the 20-21st centuries -- Part II: Post-coloniality and Current Debates in Societies -- Chapter 6: The New Subaltern and Forms of Resistance in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7: Conspiracies and Cosmonauts: The Baikonur Cosmodrome and popular narratives of ecological disaster in contemporary Kazakhstan -- Chapter 8: Fitting into a Secular Society: Hybrid Practices of the Islamic Public and Islamic Businesses in Astana.
    Abstract: This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays particular attention to such areas as national and religious identity, language, literature, and historical narratives. Despite the fact that the post-colonial theory initially emerged in other regions of the world, it has increasingly been applied in the scholarship on Central Asia. Exploring recent debates on post-coloniality in Kazakhstan, this book is an attempt to bring together two bodies of scholarly literature: scholarship on culture and society in post-Soviet Central Asia and research on post-colonial theory. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Eurasian studies as well as researchers and students of post-colonialism in various contexts beyond Eurasia. Dina Sharipova is an Associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana. Her research interests include nation and state-building, security issues, formal and informal institutions, civil society, and well-being in Central Asia. Dr. Sharipova is the author of the book “State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions”, Lexington Books, 2018. She has published in Europe-Asia Studies Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, and in other scholarly journals. Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology, anthropology of Islam, postcolonial studies, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion, State, and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, AB Imperio, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Sotsiologiya Vlasti. Aziz Burkhanov is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. His research interests include nationalism and identity theories, and national identity politics, policies, and practices, with a special focus on identity issues and their perceptions in the public narratives in the former Soviet area. Dr. Burkhanov has published his work in Cornell International Law Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, among others.
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    ISBN: 9783031515484
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 233 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; International economic relations. ; Peace. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. IGAD Regional Agenda: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration -- Chapter 3. IGAD and Regional Integration: Theories -- Chapter 4. Evolution and Transformation of IGAD -- Chapter 5. Historicising the Logic of Regional Integration in the IGAD Region -- Chapter 6. IGAD and Regional Conflicts -- Chapter 7. IGAD’s Role in Economic Integration -- Chapter 8. Regional Security and the Role of IGAD in Somalia -- Chapter 9. Toward Peace and Security of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
    Abstract: This book delves into the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development's (IGAD) endeavors to enhance security and economic integration in the Horn of Africa. While aspiring to unite and stabilize the region, IGAD faces complex historical, strategic, and geographical challenges. Through a political economy approach, the book showcases IGAD’s strengths and weaknesses and employs neorealist and regional security complex theories to analyze the involvement of states and non-state actors in IGAD's security agenda, particularly in relation to Somalia. The study highlights opportunities and obstacles to sustainable regional integration, offering practical policy suggestions for curbing armed uprisings and inter-state disputes. It dissects the geopolitical dynamics involving international players like the United States and China, as well as regional powers such as Ethiopia, in IGAD's pursuit of security and economic progress. Valuable for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in the Horn's security and development, the book bridges gaps in the literature, shedding light on African political development, regional peace and security. Mohamed Farah Hersi is Head of Somaliland's oldest research think tank institution, the Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeisa. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hargeisa in Somaliland, his Master of Laws degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and his PhD from the University of Peace in Costa Rica. He has 13 years of experience and expertise in the fields of research, technical consulting service, policy creation and analysis. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the co-editor of the IPATC's journal, “Pan-African Conversation: An International Journal”, and specializes in African political economy, resource governance, migration, conflict, and peace studies.
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    ISBN: 9789819988570
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 371 p. 15 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Law in mass media. ; Economics. ; Asia
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Conceptual Scheme for the Double-Bind Regulatory State -- Chapter 3: Particularities of the Economic Regulation of the ISM Industry -- Chapter 4: Particularities of the Political Regulation of the ISM Industry -- Chapter 5: Economic Versus Political Goals -- Chapter 6: The Dynamics of Fragmented Authoritarianism -- Chapter 7: Global Leadership Comes at a Price -- Chapter 8: The Double-Bind Regulation Beyond China.
    Abstract: “Authoritarian regimes smother internet and the social media. This book boldly argues this is not the case in China, where the party-state is torn between conflicting political and economic objectives. Taking advantage of this “double-bind regulation”, private internet firms have managed to secure zones of autonomy . A brilliant demonstration.” --Nonna Mayer, Sciences Po, Paris “In China as a Double-Bind Regulatory State, Aifang Ma provides an ambitious yet convincing framework to explain the puzzling coexistence of an all-powerful and unchecked party-state and the relatively autonomous space for private internet and social media firms to grow and thrive. This book is theoretically innovative, methodologically rigorous, and empirically rich. A must read for anyone curious about internet governance and regulation in China.” --Rongbin Han, University of Georgia “An extraordinarily interesting, highly provocative and deeply empirical piece of political analysis on a topic of staggering importance. Its achievement, above all, is to restore the agency of firms and netizens in its forensic reconstruction and de-mythologising of the saga of the ongoing birth of a digital public sphere in China.” --Colin Hay, Sciences Po, Paris “Through a detailed, provocative and insightful analysis of state-firm interactions, Aifang Ma shows how private internet firms in China carved out a space of relative autonomy. This book is a must-read for students of Chinese internet regulation.” –Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania This book explores the power dynamics in the Chinese regulation of internet firms. It conceptualises China as a “double-bind regulatory state”, defined as a two-step autonomy-enabling process. First, the party-state’s pursuit of competiting objectives creates its predicament. Second, private internet firms consciously exploit such predicament to enlarge their manoeuvring room. The double-bind regulation approach challenges some current academic accounts that exaggerate the capacity of the Chinese party-state to establish seamless control. Aifang Ma is currently a Boya postdoctoral scholar and a Lecturer at Peking University. She holds a Ph.D in political science at Sciences Po Paris. .
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    ISBN: 9789819973590
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 285 p. 37 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia 2
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    Keywords: Dance. ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Introduction: All that is Dance -- Bodies that Dance: Critical Frames of Reference -- Understanding Categorisation: The ‘Tribal’ ‘Folk’, and the ‘Classical’ Dance Forms -- Patriarchy and the [In]Visible Line of Control: Power Structures and Space Making -- The Modern and the Contemporary in the Context of Dance in India -- To be continued: Thoughts on Dance as Response, Responsibility and Resistance -- Thoughts on Purpose and Criticality.
    Abstract: This book provides a critical understanding of dance studies in India, bringing together various embodied practices identified loosely as dance. It suggests an alternative reading of the history of patronage, policies, and institutionalized understanding of categories such as classical, folk, modern, popular, and Bollywood that hierarchizes some dances as 'more' dance than others. It is of great interest to scholars looking at performing arts such as dance as a tool for identity assertions. It offers diverse possibilities of understanding dance through its inherent sociopolitical possibilities as a participatory or presentational tool for communication. The multidisciplinary approach brings together perspectives from critical dance studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies to connect embodied archives of different communities to create an intersectional methodology of studying dance in India as a powerful but marginal expressive art practice. Accessible at multiple levels, the content is relevant for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers across dance, dance education, theatre, and performance studies.
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    ISBN: 9789819707188
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 363 p. 31 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia
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    Keywords: Asia ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Preface -- Chapter 2: Era portrait -- Chapter 3: Opponent of the Stolypin reform. Barlybek Syrtanov (1866–1914) -- Chapter 4: Defender of the territory. Alikhan Bukeikhanov (1870–1937) -- Chapter 5: From Court Counselor to People's Commissar of the Kazakh ASSR. Akhmet Beremzhanov (1871–1927) -- Chapter 6: An educator who dreamed of leading the people to freedom through education. Akhmet Baitursynov (1873–1938) -- Chapter 7: Witness to resettlement policy. Satylgan Sabataev (1874–1921) -- Chapter 8: «We are ready to defend our freedom with arms in hand». Zhakyp Akbaev (1876–1934) -- Chapter 9: Innocent and not admitted his guilt. Aidarkhan Turlybaev (1877–1937) -- Chapter 10: To protect the people with the law, pen and weapon in hand. Raimzhan Marsekov (1877–194?) -- Chapter 11: Road builder and defender of the 1916 rebels. Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpayev (1879–1937) -- Chapter 12: Bringing democracy closer. Validkhan Tanachev (1882–1968) -- Chapter 13: A teacher who took up a weapon. Otynshy Alzhanov (1883–1918) -- Chapter 14: He dreamed that one day his country would become a second Japan. Khalel Dosmukhamedov (1883–1939) -- Chapter 15: Translator for the military governor of Zhetysu. Ibrahim Dzhainakov (1883–194?) -- Chapter 16: The poet who awakened the Kazakhs. Myrzhakyp Dulatov (1885–1935) -- Chapter 17: Executed for serving the ideas of Alash. Imammazum Alimbekov (1885–1937) -- Chapter 18: Dreamed of transferring power to the people. Zhakhansha Dosmukhamedov (1887–1938) -- Chapter 19: The negotiator with Stalin. Khalel Gabbasov (1888–1931) -- Chapter 20: Confrontation of literatures. Zhusipbek Aimauytov (1889–1931) -- Chapter 21: Doctor in extreme conditions. Baktygali Beisenov (1889–1938) -- Chapter 22: Creator of the Alash hundreds. Sadyk Amanzholov (1889–1941) -- Chapter 23: Continuing the fight alone. Mustafa Shokay (1890–1941) -- Chapter 24: Deprived of theright to serve his people. Zhumakhan Kuderin (1891–1938) -- Chapter 25: Defended the borders of Kazakhstan. Alimkhan Ermekov (1891–1970) -- Chapter 26: Dreamed of enlightening the people. Seit-Battal Mustafin (1892–1937) -- Chapter 27: Suffered for sincerity. Magzhan Zhumabaev (1893–1938) -- Chapter 28: Saved hundreds of lives and gave his own. Asylbek Seitov (1894–1937) -- Chapter 29: Deprived of the created heritage. Koshmukhambet Kemengerov (1896–1937) -- Chapter 30: Twice sentenced to death and twice exonerated. Gazymbek Beremzhanov (1896–1938) -- Chapter 31: Crisis manager and Kazakh oil explorer. Berkingali Atshybaev (1897–1937?) -- Chapter 32: Steppe philanthropist. Khasen Akayev (1857–1931) -- Chapter 33: Conclusion.
    Abstract: The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political formations. The generation of the Kazakh intelligentsia responded to the historical challenge facing the Kazakhs at a turning point in history. These are people born at the end of the 19th century, educated in different countries and united by the idea of overcoming colonial dependence on the Russian Empire. The author aims to form a holistic view of a galaxy of outstanding personalities who, in an important historical period, were able to take responsibility for the people and their future. The history of the country is perceived through the prism of their destinies, views, activities and death. The material of the book is a biographical sketch and covers the history of Kazakhstan in the first third of the twentieth century, until the period of the Great Terror (1937–1938). Ainash Mustoyapova is Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, and is the author of more than 60 scientific and educational publications and more than 150 journalistic articles. Major works include: Actual Problems of Modern Literary Studies (Interdisciplinary Theories and Critical Approaches) (2021), The Modernist Novel (2022), Decolonization of Kazakhstan (2023).
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 169 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Comparative government. ; Political leadership.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: European Socialist Parties Trends. Where Social-democratic Parties are going after the Berlin Wall Crash -- Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Italian Democratic Party and its (declining) support -- Chapter 3: New Labour and the Italian PD -- Chapter 4: Ten Secretaries in Fifteen years: Leadership and Organizational Changes in a Party Victim of Cronos’ Syndrome -- Chapter 5: Back to the future: Reflections on prospects for the European left.
    Abstract: In this intriguing book, professors Fasano, Natale and Newell offer a comprehensive and compelling discussion of the European left's evolution. As the left grapples with its historical legacy and attempts to connect with voters in a changing political landscape, the authors examine the journey of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) from its inception to the present day, shedding light on its evolution and struggles. Drawing a fascinating parallel with the UK's New Labour, the book explores the challenges faced by these parties as they navigate their post-communist heritage. A timely exploration of social-democratic politics in an era of populism, this book is a must-read for political enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone interested in the changing landscape of the left in all the European countries. Luciano M. Fasano is professor of Politics at the University of Milan, Italy. He is founding partner of Candidate and Leader Selection, the Italian Society of Political Science’s Standing group on the Italian primaries. Recent books: L’ultimo partito. Dieci anni di Partito Democratico (Giappichelli, 2017); Il Partito Democratico dei Nativi (Epoké, 2019); Il sistema politico italiano (Laterza, 2019). Paolo Natale is professor of Political Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy. He is an editor for the newspaper la Repubblica and the web magazines Gli Stati Generali and Fondazione Hume, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society on Electoral Studies. Recent books: Politica a 5 stelle (Feltrinelli, 2013); L’ultimo partito (Giappichelli, 2017); Movimento 5 stelle: dall’opposizione al governo (Mimesis, 2018); Sondaggi (Laterza, 2022). James L. Newell is former professor of Politics at the University of Salford, UK, and currently adjunct professor at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is founding co-editor of the journal Contemporary Italian Politics and co-founder of the UK Political Studies Association’s Italian Politics Specialist Group. Recent books: Corruption in Contemporary Politics: A New Travel Guide (Manchester University Press, 2018); Silvio Berlusconi: A Study in Failure (Manchester University Press, 2019); European Integration and the Crisis of Social Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031404948
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 802 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Women ; Sex. ; Latin American literature. ; European literature.
    Abstract: 1. Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century Clorinda Donato and Claire Emilie Martin -- 2. Women across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective -- 3. Transatlantic Networks against Cultural Periphery: The Baroness of Wilson’s Canon and the Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies: From Madame de Staël’s Corinne, oul’Italie (1807) to Kim Ragusa’s The Skin between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (2006) -- 5. The Confessions of the Countess Merlin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Writing as the Essential Adventure of Their Lives -- 6. “Tutto il sesso femminino per mia bocca v’intima Guerra” (Through My Mouth, the Entire Female Sex Declares War on You), Signed: A European Woman -- 7. Angelica Palli and Alessio: Love and Patriotism in the Early Italian Historical Novel -- 8. The Transatlantic Experience in the Construction of Flora Tristan’s Authorial Posture: From Pariah to Female Messiah -- 9. El baúl de Miss Florence: (Re)imagining the Past; Women’s Travel Literature and the Sweet Tyranny of the Sugar Haciendas in Puerto Rico -- 10. Romantic Cartographies: La Condesa de Merlin’s Colonial Havana and the View from the Harbor -- 11. Matilde Serao, Flânerie and Women in Urban Spaces -- 12. The Fourth Estate in Petticoats -- 13. The Twenty-Year Journey: Flavia Steno’s La Chiosa and the French Daily Newspaper La Fronde -- 14. Women Readers in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: A Study of the Periodicals Las Hijas del Anáhuac, El Álbum de la Mujer, and Violetas del Anáhuac -- 15. Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Tradiciones cuzqueñas: A Writer’s Perspective -- 16. Luck of the Draw: Gambling, Marriage, and the Labor Economy in Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Herencia -- 17. Clorinda’s Cosmopolis: Crisis, Reinvention, and the Birth of Búcaro Americano -- 18. Adapting Economic Strategies to a Changing World in María del Pilar Sinués’s La dama elegante (1880) -- 19. Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868) -- 20. Epistolary and Commodity Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, or Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville’s Agency -- 21. Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’amour: Dehumanization and Madness of the Buried Alive -- 22. Towards New Models of Femininity in the Works of Virginia Elena Ortea -- 23. In Defense of Women’s Progress and Freethinking: Amalia Domingo Soler, Eugenia Estopa and Dolores Navas -- 24. Writing about the Unspeakable: Gendered Violence in the Nineteenth Century -- 25. Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy -- 26. “Doña María Dolores López, Vecina of Tehuacán” or the Case of a Too-Soon Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman Writer -- 27. Annie Vivanti’s Multicultural Identity and the Shaping of the Artist’s Body -- 28. The “Alpine Sybil”: Her Verses and Prose Between Arcadia and Romanticism (the Italian Way) -- 29. Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Ecocriticism in George Sand’s François le champi -- 30. What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916) -- 31. Transnational Emancipationism: Fanny Salazar Zampini's Commitment to Women's Liberation -- 32. Adaptation to or of the Environment? Examining the Works of French Women Writers of the First Republic and First Empire through an Ecocritical Lens -- 33. The Archive as Legitimizing Artifact in Ccora Campillana: Romance histórico del tiempo de la conquista (1873) by Carolina Freyre de Jaimes -- 34. “One of the First, If Not the Very First Woman of Her Age”: Germaine de Staël and Her Literary Posterity -- 35. The Making of Il Giorno: Matilde Serao’s Letters to Luigi Luzzatti -- 36. Celebrity by Way of Autobiography: The Case of Angela Veronese -- 37. Alliance and Sorellanza in Matilde Serao’s Romanzo della fanciulla -- 38. Superstition and Orientalism in Il ventre di Napoli by Matilde Serao -- 39. Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and Her Transatlantic Journey (1873–1890): Victorina o el heroísmo del corazón -- 40. Liturgization and the Satire of Politics in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La tribuna (1883) -- 41. Between Conformity and Transgression: Approaches to Writing in the Albums of Emilia Pardo Bazán -- 42. Victoria Ocampo’s Transnational Networks: A Sociocultural and Data-Driven Approach.
    Abstract: This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood. The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American, and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of their relationships and cultural production within a growing body of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document women’s voices. Claire Emilie Martin is Professor Emerita of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She holds a doctorate from Yale University in Spanish American Literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century cultural and literary studies with a special emphasis on gender issues, domesticity, education, politics, and travel. She has published numerous articles and edited and co-edited several volumes on nineteenth-century Latin American women writers. Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, USA, and director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholar of French and Italian literature. Her most recent publication is Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 co-edited with Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (2021). .
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    ISBN: 9783031523670
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 207 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Political Sociology
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Political science. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Formation Of The Indian State And Its Post-Colonial Condition: Field, Capital And Doxa -- Chapter 3: We Are Still Here: The Habitus That Resigns And That Challenges Necropolitics -- Chapter 4: Final Considerations: Solidarity, Resistance And Defeat.
    Abstract: This book engages the concept of necropolitics to present a vision of how to understand the physical body as a space of power and resistance to social order, in the context of the Kashmir resistance. The author sheds new light on the relations between India and Pakistan, with a focus on tensions over the Kashmir region, in order to better understand the emergence and stabilization of the narrative that criminalizes and thus justifies the population that rebels against state actions in the region. The research draws from archival and interview research and presents the reader with new insight into both conceptual and material dimensions of necropolitics. Vinícius Tavares de Oliveira is Assistant Professor in International Relations at PUC Minas campus Poços de Caldas.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 275 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Gender and Politics
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    Keywords: Identity politics. ; Sex. ; Human rights. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: A historical and institutional perspective on women’s political inclusion -- Chapter 2: Resisting democratisation: Arguments against female enfranchisement among members of the Swedish Parliament 1866–1918 -- Chapter 3: Struggles, resources and strategies: Portraits of six Swedish women suffrage activists -- Chapter 4: Intersectionality, identity and women’s suffrage -- Chapter 5: Why were so few women elected? Political party strategies in Denmark and Sweden during the first parliamentary election after women’s enfranchisement -- Chapter 6: Women’s movements local election campaigns in Norway -- Chapter 7: Practising the right to vote: Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 1915–1944 -- Chapter 8: Her rights at work – women in parliament -- Chapter 9: Still signs of masculine norms in the parliamentary workplace? Political gender equality in Finland and Sweden after a century of universal suffrage -- Chapter 10: Critical culture: The role of institutional norms in gender sensitising parliaments -- Chapter 11: Conclusions: Theorising gendered institutional constraints and feminist strategies for institutional change.
    Abstract: This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term historical perspective that lays the groundwork for theoretical development. In this regard, the book makes two key contributions: it furthers our understanding of different types of gendered institutional constraints on women’s political inclusion and elaborates feminist institutional strategies to counter these constraints. Josefina Erikson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lenita Freidenvall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031522093
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 90 p.)
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    Keywords: Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Theater ; Theater ; European literature
    Abstract: “This insightful book tells a neglected story: the history of RSC’s Restoration productions. It combines a loving history of RSC past performance, from the 1960s to the present day, with a bold manifesto for the future. Highly recommended!”– Professor Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company’s history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC’s explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical and cultural meaning. David Roberts is Professor of English at Birmingham City University, UK. He has published numerous books and articles about Restoration and earlier seventeenth-century theatre, including the monographs The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama (1989), Thomas Betterton (2010), Restoration Plays and Players (2014) and George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed (2018), and editions, including Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: the Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor (2013), Congreve’s The Way of the World (2020) and An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber (2022). David has published articles in, among others, Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, The Cambridge Quarterly, New Theatre Quarterly, The Review of English Studies and The Times Literary Supplement. Recent commissioned chapters include essays for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music (2022), The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (2024) and The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship (2024). .
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    ISBN: 9783031522840
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 188 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Literature, Modern ; Drama.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Love and Marriage -- Chapter 3: Morals and Manners -- Chapter 4: Comedies of Realism and Romance -- Chapter 5: The Theatre of War -- Chapter 6: Deeper Waters -- Chapter 7: Drama and Contemporary Society -- Chapter 8: Post-War Drama and Fiction -- Chapter 9: Last Plays -- Chapter 10: The Entertainer.
    Abstract: Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical literary approach adopted here places Coward’s success in its wider theatrical context, making the connections with the work of other dramatists. He developed his technique according to what worked with theatre audiences. Taking up the well-made play, he brought in a more colloquial dialogue, explored, for instance, the morality and psychology of marriage and free love, and frequently exploited the dramatic possibilities of characters grouped into two camps. The book considers both the ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ plays (to use the Shavian terms), and the episodic patriotic plays. It Includes Coward’s ambivalent approach to the ‘theatre of war’ in the 20th century. (123) Roger Kojecky: After an Oxford University English Faculty D. Phil. he held teaching positions in Tokyo and London University (lecturing on drama). He has been Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group, Oxford, and edits The Glass, covering a range of academic literature with articles and reviews. .
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    ISBN: 9783031472114
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 353 p.)
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    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: Motion pictures, American.
    Abstract: Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART I -THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE :Silent Films -- Chapter 2 Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas Irene Lottini -- Chapter 3The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema Bernard Kuhn Revising Gender and Ethnic Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk’s Rendition of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 5 A Sting from the Past: Femininity and Ethnic Roots in Helen De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995) Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio’s Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Chapter 7From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca’s Films Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART II - ITALIAN AMERICANS IN OTHER MEDIA -- Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson’s The Family (2013) Rosetta Caponetto Giuliani -- Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back Federico Pacchioni -- Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the1990s Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC’sHelena Bertinelli Felice Italo Beneduce -- Chapter 15: CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme Anthony Dion Mitzel -- PART III - INTERVIEWS -- Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.
    Abstract: Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors’ previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: “Silent Films” (which analyses some of Griffith’s early films and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives”, which includes chapters focusing on single films – such as Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) – and survey essays that discuss the Italian American ‘celluloid closet’ and some of Savoca’s films. Part II, “Italian Americans in Other Media”, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality. The types of media examined in this section include television and graphic novels as well as puppetry, Instagram, and Internet memes. Part III contains interviews with Italian American scholars, movie directors, and performers. Together, the contributions to this collection demonstrate the vitality, mutation, and persistence of Italian Americanness in visual media. Daniele Fioretti is Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature (2017) and Carte di fabbrica. La narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013). He co-edited the book Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022). Fulvio Orsitto is Director of the Georgetown University campus in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, and has edited and co-edited ten volumes, including Pasolini: American Perspectives (2015), TOTalitarian ARTs: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society (2017), and Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031470738
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 137 p. 45 illus., 41 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave BioArt
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    Keywords: Arts. ; Biotechnology. ; Culture ; Medicine and the humanities. ; Biomaterials. ; Art, Modern
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Making Difference -- 3. BLOOD, COMPARING: Relative Velocity Inscription Device -- 4. PATTERN, IDENTIFYING: Latent Figure Protocol -- 5. EVIDENCE, PERFORMING: Suspect Inversion Center and Deep Woods PCR -- 6. SPIT, ANONYMIZING: America Project -- 7. MATTER, MAPPING: Ocular Revision -- 8. SWEAT, (RE)MATERIALIZING: Labor.
    Abstract: Preface by Jens Hauser “A truly remarkable book by a pioneering bioartist that challenges us to critically reevaluate our notions of genetic and biological identities.” - Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean Emeritus and Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, USA This book chronicles over two decades of critical, artistic investigations by Paul Vanouse. His bio-media artwork utilizes the tools of the life sciences reflexively, to challenge tropes and cultural politics surrounding DNA, biotechnology, and life itself. DNA has been called a “Truth Machine”, “God’s Blueprint”, the “Code of Codes” and the “Book of Life”. Vanouse’s work explores questions at the heart of such evocative metaphor and hyperbole: how does DNA link us together, how does it differentiate us and how are the grand metaphors, which grant DNA complete centrality, misconstruing the complexity of life. Furthermore, how do technologies of genetic typing and identification fit within a broader cultural and political history of difference making, particularly the construction of race. Melding critical theory, artist’s manifesto, participatory observation and histories of the sciences, this book offers insight into both an artistic practice and the bio-techno-sciences it interrogates. Paul Vanouse is an artist, SUNY Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo, USA. A pioneer of bio-media art, his artwork employs molecular biology techniques to challenge entrenched notions of individual, racial, and national identity, and the cultural authority of DNA. His projects have been exhibited in 30 countries and widely across the US. Venues have included Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), New Museum (New York), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Louvre (Paris), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt and Schering Stiftung (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and TePapa Museum (Wellington). His recent, multi-sensory, bio-media artwork, "Labor", received a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica.
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    ISBN: 9783031531002
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 243 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ecocriticism. ; Science ; Communication in medicine.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Books of Life in the Long Century of the Gene -- 2. Simon Mawer’s Book of Life: Mendel’s Dwarf as Fictional Genetic Life Writing -- 3. There is grandeur in this view of life...or is there? Ian McEwan’s Poetics of Chance and the Unreliable Structures of Genetic Determinism -- 4. Genetics’ Perilous Analogies: Metaphors of Life in A. S. Byatt’s Quartet -- 5. Ecologies of Life: Genetics in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy -- 6. Conclusion: Levels of Life.
    Abstract: Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics. The new genetic paradigm has proposed to rewrite core assumptions about such fundamental aspects of life as the nature of kinship and biological connection, human-environmental relations, or the link between biology and art. Investigating major texts of genetic fiction by A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Simon Mawer and Margaret Atwood, this monograph offers the first systematic study of how these assumptions about life itself have been renegotiated through the contemporary novel’s engagement with genetic science. This book identifies a significant new phase in the novel’s aesthetic exploration of life and demonstrates that the novel emerges as the cultural form uniquely positioned to engage both the imaginative and concrete challenges raised by genetic science for the lifeworlds of the new millennium. Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 311 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Public administration. ; Microeconomics. ; Finance. ; Finance, Public. ; Industrial policy.
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Microfinance Institutions: Governance Structure, Outreach and Sustainability -- Chapter 3: The Role of Governance Structure In The Sustainability of Extra-Large Microfinance Institutions In Bangladesh -- Chapter 4: The Impact of Governance Structure on The Outreach and Sustainability of Large-Sized Microfinance Institutions -- Chapter 5: The Role of Governance Structures On Outreach And Sustainability of Medium-Sized Microfinance Institutions -- Chapter 6: The Impact of Governance Structures on Outreach and Sustainability of Small-Sized Microfinance Institutions -- Chapter 7: Impact of Governance Structure on the Outreach and Sustainability of Total Microfinance Institutions -- Chapter 8: Summary of Findings, Implications and Conclusion.
    Abstract: "This insightful book offers a comprehensive exploration of governance structures in microfinance institutions, shedding light on their impact on outreach and sustainability in Bangladesh. Dr. Uddin's thorough analysis, supported by global perspectives and evidence-based recommendations, makes it an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of economics, corporate governance, and microfinance administration" -- Professor Dr. M Kabir Hassan, Department of Economics and Finance in the University of New Orleans, USA This book identifies the effect of governance structure components on outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh. It is designed to study and understand these structures with reference to the changing forms and functions of MFI administration, in theory and practice, with experiences from selected countries. It helps readers understand corporate governance across the globe with recent developments in this sector. It provides evidence from Bangladesh on what aspects need to be strengthened and identifies the importance of considering differences in institutional values, culture, and environment while pointing to the risk of applying normative assertions of governance structure. The book suggests that a regulatory and supervisory framework should be introduced in Bangladesh to enhance the governance structure of MFIs. It advocates that the sector requires a robust regulatory environment to improve its governance and administrative frameworks and expand the microfinance sector's outreach and sustainability opportunities. It will benefit researchers and students of economics, corporate governance, accountability, transparency, finance, business administration, microfinance institutions, and applied fields, as well as microfinance practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. Md. Nazim Uddin is a Post-doctoral research fellow at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and a research fellow at Ankara University, Turkey. He completed PhD in business administration (finance) from IIUM. Dr. Uddin is the author of several books, many book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.
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    ISBN: 9783031535291
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 237 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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    Keywords: Translating and interpreting. ; Comparative literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of Goldblatt’s Translation of Mo Yan’s Works -- Chapter 3. Translation, Rewriting and Manipulation -- Chapter 4. The Study -- Chapter 5. Poetological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 6. Ideological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 7. Patronage Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao) -- Chapter 8. Translator Subjectivity in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 9. Discussion -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the influence of three major manipulative powers: poetics, ideology and patronage, as well as his own subjectivity (translator subjectivity), to achieve his objectives as a literary translator. The author analyses both the translation and its paratext to gain a more complete understanding of Goldblatt’s accomplishments, and examines how Goldblatt rewrites the original text under the influence of various patronage factors, such as the original author, publisher, editor, market expectancy, literary collaborator, and the target reader. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the production, reception and dissemination of Goldblatt’s translation, exposing the motivations behind his translation in full measure, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, and Chinese Culture and Literature. Hu Liu is lecturer at the School of Foreign Studies, West Anhui University, China. He completed his PhD in translation studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, from 2016 to 2021.
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    ISBN: 9783031459368
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 229 p. 4 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Comparative literature. ; European literature. ; America ; Literature.
    Abstract: 1. WAYS OF BELONGING -- 2. NAOMI FONTAINE’S INDIGENOUS WRTING: SELF, COMMUNITY, SOCIETY -- 3. ABLA FARHOUD: MONTREAL MIGRATIONS AND THE GHOST OF LEBANON -- 4. ANITA ALOISIO AND AKOS VERBOCZY: CHILDREN OF LA LOI 101 -- 5 CONCLUSION: INSCRIBING HOME IN QUÉBEC.
    Abstract: This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud’s first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio’s 2022 documentary film Calliari QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term “Québécois”, especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy’s Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud’s Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96. Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. She is the author of Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l’image (2012).
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    ISBN: 9783031420306
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 193 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Critical theory. ; Literature ; Continental Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: “Beckett. On.” David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside) -- Chapter 2: “‘Where you are worth nothing’: Beckett, Geulincx, and an Ethics of the Miracle,” Gabriel Quigley (New York University) -- Chapter 3: “Philosophy in the Flesh: Feeling, Folly, and Animals in Beckett’s Molloy,” William Broadway (University of Wisconsin-Madison) -- Chapter 4: “GGREY! (Beckett/dialectic),” Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto) -- Chapter 5: “Reading Beckett’s Bilingualism with Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Rancière,” Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) -- Chapter 6: “Rêve de transfert collective: Beckett’s Resurgent Unanimism,” Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania) -- Chapter 7: “‘The Golden Moment’: Violence, Escape, and Broken Immanence” Michael Krimper (New York University) -- Chapter 8: “Respirer sans cesse: Proust and Beckett’s Intermissions,” Stefanie Heine (University of Toronto) -- Chapter 9: “The Grammar of Absurdity and Affective Crisis: Reading Anna Burns’ Milkman through Beckett’s Philosophic Comedy,” John Waters (New York University).
    Abstract: “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few readers of Beckett agree about what this paradoxical formula could mean, let alone what mode of engagement it would seem to indicate, be it committed, autonomous, or something else entirely. This volume of essays explores what that mode of engagement could be, all the while elucidating the ethical and political stakes of the “ongoing” in both Beckett’s life and work. Across multiple disciplines in the humanities, the authors delve into questions of political subjectivity and representation, the ethics of powerlessness and refusal, the aesthetics of syncopation and destitution, multimedia experiments between genre, as well as Beckett’s wider impact on transnational itineraries of modernism and philosophy up to the contemporary. Michael Krimper teaches in the French and English departments at New York University, USA, where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature. His forthcoming book, Out of Work: The Refusal of Literature from Melville to Blanchot, examines the crystallization of an antiwork aesthetics and politics in late modernist writing and theory. He is also the editor of a recent special issue for the Journal of Beckett Studies that published Beckett’s lost translations on the Marquis de Sade. His articles, reviews, and translations have appeared in New Literary History, diacritics, SubStance, parallax, October, the Journal of Italian Philosophy, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. Gabriel Quigley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. Combining comparative modernisms, continental philosophy, and postcolonial theory, his work focuses on retrieving concealed paradigms of possibility and freedom. His articles and translations have been published or are forthcoming in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, French Studies Bulletin, Derrida Today, Critical Inquiry, Journal of Modern Literature, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
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    ISBN: 9789819999118
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 216 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Law ; Law ; Public law .
    Abstract: Law and Political Economy -- The Economy and the Rule System before the Reform -- The Paternalistic Role of Law, 1978-1991 -- The Facilitative Role of Law, 1992-2001 -- The Integrative Role of Law, 2002-2011.
    Abstract: This book concerns how China's legal institutions promoted its economic growth and demonstrates that the law has played different roles at various stages of China's economic transformation, a signal of legal paradigm shifts in reaction to the changing political and economic pursuits. By decomposing the role of law in the process, the author argues that while the Chinese economy was transforming from a planned economy to a market-oriented one, the law also made its adjustment as a response—the Chinese legal system was evolving from the one consisting of primarily substantive laws to the one filled with high-level formal laws by the end of the last century. The above observation of legal formalization is further consolidated by introducing the particularities of China's legal education in those years—a topic rarely dealt with yet of significance to comprehensively understand the Chinese legal system in practice. Overall, the present book argues against the modernization theory and determinism that would anticipate a similar developmental path globally and shows that the relationship between law and economic development is contingent. Therefrom, this study weighs in the law and development debate and breaks a perception of static law in the economy by rejecting the conventional perception of established legal institutions as a precondition of modernity. Hence, this book could appeal to legal scholars and sociologists interested in reevaluating western theories of free economy and its relationships to the law. In addition, scholars interested in research methodology would find the perspective of paradigm shifts in interpreting China's transformations a helpful analytical framework in research. Moreover, policymakers and legislators concerned about the characteristics of law for economic results would also find the book useful.
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    ISBN: 9789819975808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 189 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Political Transitions
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    Keywords: Comparative government. ; Political science. ; Innenpolitik ; Autoritarismus ; Demokratie ; Defizit ; Krise ; Politischer Prozess ; Erde
    Abstract: Introduction: ‘Despots masquerading as democrats’ -- Chapter 1: What is Democracy? -- Chapter 2: How Democracy Backslides? -- Chapter 3: Processes and sequences of backsliding -- Chapter 4: Five cases of backsliding and the rise of autocrats -- Conclusion: What did we learn?.
    Abstract: For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of autocrats. How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon, examines the steps of emergent autocrats, and analyzes the methods of legitimizing their rules. Employing the new framework, the book provides incisive analyses of four countries located in four different regions with dissimilar national features – Bangladesh, Bolivia, Hungary, and Turkey, and demonstrates that political developments in these countries have followed a similar, specific pattern resulting in various shades of autocracy. Theoretically enriched and empirically grounded, this exceptionally timely book makes significant contribution to the democratic backsliding literature while offering insights on how to forestall an autocratic era. Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University, USA, a Non-resident Senior Fellow of Atlantic Council, and the President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. Riaz previously taught at universities in Bangladesh, England, and South Carolina, USA, worked as a Broadcast Journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, and served as a Visiting Researcher at the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) at Gothenburg University in Sweden and as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington D.C. Md Sohel Rana is an Associate Instructor of Political Science and a PhD student at Indiana University, USA. He earned his Master of Science (M.S.) in Political Science from Illinois State University, USA. His research interests include democratic and authoritarian politics and South Asian politics. His recent publications include “Democracy Deficit in the D-8” (with Ali Riaz) in Ahmed M Khalid et al. eds. Economic Integration Among D-8 Muslim Countries (2023), and “The God Gap? Public Perception on Religion-Politics Mix in South Asia” in Ali Riaz ed. Religion and Politics in South Asia (2nd ed., 2021).
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 400 p. 28 illus., 26 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies of the Americas
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Part One: History And Foreign Policy -- Chapter 1: Introduction: China And Taiwan In Latin America And The Caribbean: History, Power Rivalry, And Regional Implications. By Cassandra R. Veney And Sabella O. Abidde -- Chapter 2: The Early History Of China And Taiwan In Latin America: Cuba And Peru From 1837 To 1971. By Angela Ju -- Chapter 3: The “One China” Policy: Battleground For Recognition In The Caribbean. By Kavita Johnson -- Chapter 4: The Dragon In The South: Argentina, Uruguay And Paraguay, The Rise Of China And The Implications For Taiwan’s Future. By Jorge Troisi Melean -- Chapter 5: Taiwan’s Diplomatic Instruments And Challenges In Its Relations With China-Aligned Countries In Latin America And The Caribbean. By Fabricio A. Fonseca And Yen-Pin Su -- Chapter 6: Soft Power And China-Taiwan Competition For Influence In Latin America. By Mohamad Zreik -- Part Two: The Politics Of Diplomatic Fidelity -- Chapter 7: What Can I Do You For: The Republic Of China's Cold War Courtship Of The Republic Of Panama. By Justina Hwang -- Chapter 8: Past, Present, And The Future Of Colombia’s Commercial Relations With China And Taiwan. By Meng-Yu Liang, Jorge Andrés Contreras Calderón And Juan Pablo López Agudelo -- Chapter 9: Massive Chinese Investments In Latin America: What Is Taiwan's Diplomatic Fate In That Region?. By Mohamad Zreik -- Part Three: Issues And Policy Approaches -- Chapter 10: Strategic Communication. How China Promotes And Communicates Its Political Agenda In Latin America. By Maria Zuppello -- Chapter 11: China- Caricom Bilateral Engagements: Modalities, Motives, Impacts And Directions For The Regional Integration Agenda. By Dianna Dasilva-Glasgow And Denise Pile -- Chapter 12: The Belt And Road Initiative, China, Taiwan, And Brazil. By Charalampos Stamelos And Konstantinos Tsimaras -- Chapter 13: An Analysis Of The Relations Between China, Taiwan And Argentina And The Belt And Road Initiative. By Athina Moraiti -- Chapter 14: Challenges Facing China And Taiwan In Latin America And The Caribbean. By Priye S. Torulagha -- Chapter 15: Conclusion. By Cassandra R. Veney And Sabella O. Abidde.
    Abstract: The book provides an examination of the evolution of China and Taiwan after 1949. This starting point situates the contestation for power between the two entities in the region after Taipei was recognized by the international community as the representative of China. The ramifications for Taiwan were drastic as country after country switched its recognition to China including those in the Caribbean and Latin America. Taiwan was able to maintain diplomatic relations with several countries in both regions through diplomatic strategies including providing financial assistance. This has waned over time considering China’s economic rise to power and Western Europe’s and the United States’ fall in global economic and political prestige and power. This book discusses China’s and Taiwan’s continuing engagement with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with a particular emphasis on the sharp rise in trade between China and the two regions. China’s foreign policy agenda, and how Taiwan reacts to China’s policies, are also examined. Cassandra Rachel Veney is Executive Director of the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series at Case Western Reserve University. Sabella Abidde is Professor of Political Science at Alabama State University. He is the editor of the two book series: African Governance, Development, and Leadership and Africa-East Asia International Relations.
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    ISBN: 9789819978441
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 141 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Trade regulation. ; Mediation. ; Dispute resolution (Law). ; Arbitration (Administrative law).
    Abstract: 1. Introducation -- 2. Cisg and unification of international sales law -- 3.Legal interpretation and uniform interpretation of cisg -- 4.Gap-filling and the uniform interpretation of cisg -- 5. supplemental materials and the uniform interpretation of cisg -- 6.Conclusion.
    Abstract: The unification of international commercial law has been a common course for every country of the world. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) is a milestone in creating a uniform law in the field of the international sale of goods. The CISG coordinated divergent political, economic, and legal systems combined different contract laws and set up a comprehensive and independent legal framework for the international sale of goods. This book examines the basic requirements and criteria of the CISG’s interpretation and investigates how to achieve the uniform interpretation of the CISG based on interpretation rules in the CISG and through appropriate legal interpretation approaches. As a comprehensive and uniform legal framework for the international sale of goods, the CISG still has gaps to fill. Therefore, a uniform interpretation in gap-filling is equally important for the CISG. This book discusses gap-filling in the CISG, explains why and how to fill its gaps, clarifies gap-filling approaches, their order of application, and eventually concentrates on general principles and the uniform interpretation of the CISG. Another feature of the book is to discuss the supplementary materials that could be used to assist in the uniform interpretation of the CISG. PICC, foreign cases, UNCITRAL Digest, and the CISG Advisory Council opinions will be examined in detail to see whether and how they can fill the gaps in the CISG and promote its uniform interpretation. Only by clarifying the basic requirements and principles relating to the CISG’s uniform interpretation, can courts and arbitral tribunals correct their attitude toward and practices in the interpretation of the CISG. Only by following the autonomous interpretation approach, can the CISG achieve its goal to unify the sale of goods laws and promote the development of international commerce.
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    ISBN: 9783031401107
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 154 p.)
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; Poetry.
    Abstract: 1. ‘The Bride-Night Fire’: Hardy & the Voice of the Folk -- 2. A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Cliff-Scene and the Literary Sublime -- 3. Moments of (Technological) Vision -- 4. ‘The Withered Arm’ and History -- 5. (Un)Binding the Sheaves: Selfhood and Labour in Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- 6. ‘The Open’: Hardy and Jefferies -- 7. The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity -- 8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle -- 9. Wayfaring -- 10. Hardy’s Lyric Voice: ‘Beeny Cliff’ -- 11. ‘The Face at the Casement’: Window Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry.
    Abstract: This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure. Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031400513
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 179 p. 13 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Continental Philosophy. ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: Digging, Unburying and Going to Writing School -- 2: Writing Myself Back Together -- 3: The School of the Dead and My Mother: A Story of Hunger -- 4: Finding a Language of My Own: Journeying to the School of the Dead with Cixous -- 5: The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethno-graphic Account inspired by Cixous -- 6: Your Dreambody Must be Heard—Writing Trauma in the School of Dreams -- 7: The Fatal Blow: “Who are I­­­?” A Feminist Autoethnographer’s Encounter with Cixous -- 8: This Writing Chatters, Just Like a Dream: The Ragged Vitality of Teeth and Memory Loss -- 9: Learning Cixous’ Écriture Feminine Through the Flow of Words and Blood -- 10: Metis and Cixous—Cunning Resistance, Bodily Intelligence and Allies -- 11: Denying the Penis: Bringing Women to Writing [With/in and] Through Doc-toral Supervision -- 12: Writing Australian Gardens to Cross Borders Between the Online and Offline Worlds -- Inter-View. .
    Abstract: The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (“feminine writing”), and in this collection authors explore that inter-animation by explicitly engaging with Three steps on the ladder of writing. Three steps is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving reflection on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for writing: The School of the Dead—the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams—the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots—the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Topics covered include: ways Cixous’ work can address the need for loss and reparation in writing critical autoethnography, how Cixous’ writing “makes our body speak” through concepts of birth and the body in, through and of critical autoethnography, whether writing in this way recast and reform prevailing orders of domination and oppression, and how Cixous’ writing around the ethics of loving and giving translates into response-able and non-violent forms of critical autoethnography in relation to otherness and difference. In this collection, we invite you to “Let us go to the school of [critical autoethnographic] writing” (Cixous, 1993, p. 3) with the work of Hélène Cixous, and speak in a different way and through a different medium of academic language, in an approach that reveals the tensions, the paradoxes, the pains and the pleasures of writing with critical autoethnography in the contemporary university.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 584 p. 2 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Civilization ; Oriental literature.
    Abstract: Part I. Literature in Pre-Qin Period -- 1. Overview -- 2. Chinese Literature in the Pre-Zhou Period -- 3. The Culture of Rites and Music in the Zhou Dynasty and The Book of Poetry -- 4. Thriving Development of Historical Prose in Pre-Qin Period -- 5. Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought and Prose of Scholars -- 6. Qu Yuan and Song Yu -- Part II. Literature in the Qin and Han Dynasties -- 7. Overview -- 8. Literature in the Qin Dynasty -- 9. Literature in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties -- Part III. Literature in Wei, Jin, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties -- 10. Overview -- 11. Literature in the Wei and Jin Dynasties -- 12. Literature in the Southern Dynasties -- 13. Literature in the Northern Dynasties -- Part IV. Literature in the Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties -- 14. Overview -- 15. Literature in the Early Tang Dynasty -- 16. Literature in the Heyday of the Tang Dynasty -- 17. Literature in the Middle Years of the Tang Dynasty -- 18. Literature in the Late Years of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties -- Part V. Literature in the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties -- 19. Overview -- 20. Poems in the Song Dynasty -- 21. Ci in the Song Dynasty -- 22. Prose and Novels in the Song Dynasty -- 23. Literary Classics in Liao, Jin, Western Xia and Other Ethic Areas -- Part VI. Literature in the Yuan Dynasty -- 24. Overview -- 25. Poetic Drama in the Yuan Dynasty -- 26. The Rise of Southern Opera -- 27. Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty -- 28. Poetry in the Yuan Dynasty -- 29. Novels and Prose in the Yuan Dynasty -- Part VII. Literature in the Ming Dynasty -- 30. Overview -- 31. Poetry and Prose in the Ming Dynasty -- 32. Opera in the Ming Dynasty -- 33. Novels in the Ming Dynasty -- Part VIII. Literature in the Qing Dynasty -- 34. Overview -- 35. Integration and Expansion of Prose Theories -- 36. Poetry in the Qing Dynasty -- 37. Revival of Ci in the Qing Dynasty -- 38. Opera in the Qing Dynasty -- 39. Novels in the Qing Dynasty -- 40. Prosperity of Popular Literature.
    Abstract: This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic features and then discusses them according to the literary genre, for the literature of each era. This book gathers established scholars in the field and presents their latest research in the Chinese literature history studies. Moreover, it has included the literature history of different nationalities in the history of China and the records of folk literature history, reflecting literature from different classes. In the limited space of this book, the writers who have been loved by the Chinese people for three thousand years are discussed, such as Qu Yuan, Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Xin Qiji, Yuan Haowen, Nalan Xingde, and so on. Careful elaborations are made on each writer together with quotations and analysis of their work. Yuejin Liu, Deputy Director of the Department of Literature and Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Member of the Academic Division of CASS, researcher and doctoral supervisor.
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    ISBN: 9783031391866
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 208 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Creative nonfiction. ; Creative writing. ; Language and languages ; Rhetoric. ; Literature ; Poststructuralism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Making Truth Claims -- Chapter 3: Critiquing Habit, Habitus, and Modernity -- Chapter 4: Fighting Narration -- Chapter 5: Shifting Roles, Mimesis, Sustaining Community -- Chapter 6: Critiquing and Claiming Memory -- Chapter 7: Making Confessions -- Chapter 8: Reflecting on Self as Other -- Chapter 9: Situating Scenes -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before – and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject. George H. Jensen is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. His recent books include Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family (2000), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), and Identities Across Texts (2002).
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    ISBN: 9783031449956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 235 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction. ; Economics. ; Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism’s New Orientations -- 2. New Intersections in Fiction: Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Economics -- 3. Narrative Glocality and The Cosmoflâneur in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.-4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Culture and Economics in Zadie Smith’s NW.-5. Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House: The Move Towards Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.-6. Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Post-Covid-19 Sensitivities In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun.-7. Conclusion: The Genre of The Contemporary -- References.-Index.
    Abstract: “A nuanced, carefully articulated and insightful piece of scholarship. Paying attention to urgent political and social developments, including Brexit and Covid-19, Elif Toprak Sakız deepens our understanding of the dynamic interplay between culture and economics in the twenty-first century.” - Kristian Shaw, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Lincoln, U.K “Through an engaging assessment of exemplary works of contemporary British fiction, Toprak-Sakiz provides a rich, thoughtful and critical reflection on the multiple meanings and dimensions of cosmopolitanism. This is an extremely timely and vital discussion on a key topic for our turbulent times.” - Steven Vertovec, Director of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central. Elif Toprak Sakız holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature.
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    ISBN: 9783031369032
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 278 p. 45 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image
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    Keywords: Experimental films. ; Arts. ; Photography.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Social Consideration, Communication, Observation: From Sculpture to Film and Photography -- Chapter 2 Ethnographic, Structuralist and Real-Time Filmmaking -- Chapter 3 Images of People at Work -- Chapter 4 Education, Participation, and the Making of the Subject -- Chapter 5 Social Activism.
    Abstract: The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materials—a sort of catalogue raisonné—whilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,—expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past. Mercedes Vicente is a curator, writer, and researcher. She is Associate Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the London Metropolitan University and was a lecturer at Royal College of Art, UK. She has held museum positions as interim Director of Education and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Curator of Contemporary Art and Darcy Lange Curator-at Large at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand, and Research Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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    ISBN: 9783031462825
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 265 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Just Transitions
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    Keywords: Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Environmental sciences ; Science ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Chapter 1. Energy Justice - The First Step in an Energy Decision Today (Raphael J. Heffron) -- Chapter 2. Energy Justice and the Social Contract Theory (Louis de Fontenelle) -- Part 2: Core Energy Justice Issues -- Chapter 3. The Formation of Energy Law as a Discipline that integrates the Principle of Energy Justice (Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, EJI López-Ibor Mayor).-Chapter 4. Energy Education: A Cosmopolitan Challenge to Ensure Justice in the Transition (Luigi Maria Pepe) -- Chapter 5. Energy Justice and Energy Law - An approach to the differences between both concepts (Íñigo del Guayo) -- Chapter 6. Energy Justice as a key to achieve Affordable Energy (Gonzalo Irrazabal Pérez Fourcade) -- Chapter 7. Cross-border Energy Investment, Energy Justice and International Economic Law (Chung-Han Yang) -- Chapter 8. Enforcing Energy Justice Through the Legal System: A Cascade of Four Conditions (Maciej M. Sokołowski) -- Part 3: Clean Energy Development & Energy Justice -- Chapter 9. An Energy Justice Exploration to the Revival of the Solar Thermal Energy in France (Elodie Annamayer) -- Chapter 10. The Power of Procedural Justice in the Planning of Energy Projects (Nerissa Edem Lawrencia Anku) -- Chapter 11. International Investor-State Disputes Arbitration through Energy Justice Lenses: opening the case for ‘Greening through Free Trade’ narratives (Emmanuelle Santoire) -- Chapter 12. Energy Justice concerns of Nuclear Power in the 2025 Energy Transition Vision of Taiwan and Net Zero Roadmap of 2050 (Anton Ming-Zhi Gao) -- Chapter 13. Social Acceptance for Renewable Energy Technologies: The Role of the Energy Justice Framework (Mohammad Hazrati) -- Chapter 14. Breaking Barriers – Integrating Energy Justice to Overcome Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Roadblocks to Climate Change Mitigation Efforts (Demilade Isioma Elemo) -- Part 4: Energy Justice for Local Communities -- Chapter 15. Energy Justice, Prior Consultation and Energy Supply for Communities in Colombia (Luis Fernando Bastidas Reyes and Luis Bustos) -- Chapter 16. Land for Clean Energy Projects – Responding to Community Energy (Halima I Hussein) -- Chapter 17. Deploying Energy Justice for a meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Energy Decision-Making (Mathilde Stephanie Ngo Pouhe).-Chapter 18. The Power of Energy Justice for Rural Communities (Madeline Taylor) -- Chapter 19. A Pivotal Moment for Energy Community Cooperation in Chile (Elizabeth Stephani) -- Chapter 20. The Power of Energy Justice for attaining and maintaining acceptance for Renewable Energy Projects (José Vega-Araújo) -- Part 5: Energy Justice National & International Perspectives -- Chapter 21. The Quest for Cosmopolitan Justice in the Energy Transition in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Alicia Phillips) -- Chapter 22. Righting the Injustices Within the Nigerian Energy Industry (Ayodele Morocco-Clarke) -- Chapter 23. Utilising Recognition Justice to Bridge Climate and Energy Financing Gaps in the Global South (Susan Nakanwagi) -- Chapter 24. Australian Petroleum and Coal Resources: Taxation, Emissions and Energy Justice (Diane Kraal) -- Chapter 25. Contribution of local energy communities to the realisation of a just energy transition in Spain (Ignacio Zamora) -- Chapter 26. Solving Energy Justice in the European Union (Marzena Czarnecka and Marcin Krazniewski) -- Part 6: Energy Life-Cycle Activities and Justice -- Chapter 27. The Power of Consumers: On the Interplay Between Consumer-Centric Markets and Energy Justice (Anne Michaelis) -- Chapter 28. Energy Justice Concerns of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Amidst Energy Transition (Chioma V Basil) -- Chapter 29. The Energy Justice Imperative for Clean Energy Storage Alternatives (Zinnure Osman Zengin) -- Chapter 30. Just Transitions in Extractive Territories (Tara Righetti) -- Chapter 31. Minimum Standards of Access to Energy Services: Underpinning Energy Justice and Legal Action (Tedd Moya Mose) -- Chapter 32: Empowering those in harm’s way: a Restorative Justice approach (Amina Ahmed Ibrahim) -- Part 7: Conclusion -- Chapter 33. Diffusing Energy Justice into the new ‘Social Contract’ for Society (Raphael J. Heffron & Louis de Fontenelle).
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in society. The focus will be on improving legal systems at local, national and international levels while ensuring that justice is a core issue within energy law, the legal system and more broadly in society. Raphael Heffron is Professor in Energy Justice and the Social Contract at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, TREE, Pau, France. He is also Jean Monnet Professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission (2019-2022). In 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD). His work all has a principal focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy, and combines a mix of law, policy and economics. He has published over 200 publications of different types and is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide for energy law, energy justice and just transition. Louis de Fontenelle is Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France. He is member of the research centre TREE (University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, CNRS, France). His research focuses on issues of law and justice relating to the ecological transition in the context of climate change, in particular energy, sustainable mobility and natural resources. His work is interdisciplinary, involving geography, economics and philosophy. .
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 133 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The European Union in International Affairs
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political planning. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Integration ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. A differentiated European defence architecture in the making -- 4. EU (rope) and regional resilience -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The successive crises the EU has undergone, notably with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have highlighted dramatically how European security includes while spans well beyond defence. Picking up from this cue, this book masterfully expands the notion of European strategic autonomy across different areas while highlighting its fundamental compatibility with the goal of building stronger partnerships beyond the EU’s borders.” — Nathalie Tocci, director at IAI in Rome “European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Context is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to the discourse on European strategic autonomy. Rieker and Giske go beyond conventional notions of defence to highlight the pressing need to address the growing risk of hybrid threats. With meticulous research and a nuanced understanding of contemporary debates on European integration and security, this volume presents a comprehensive approach to fleshing out European strategic autonomy. A must-read for policymakers, academic experts and anyone interested in understanding Europe’s evolving role on the international stage.” — Mark Leonard, director of ECFR “Rieker and Giske provide an innovative analysis of how external differentiation can help improve EU actorness and security. This is the first study that systematically brings together two core issues in European integration: external differentiation and strategic autonomy. Building on a broad empirical basis, the book makes an important contribution to current political and academic discussions on Europe’s foreign and security policy.” — Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, ETH Zurich This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? A common answer to this question is that it is impossible or that this can only be achieved in the long run, if at all. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration (DI) is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be considered to get the full idea of how a more differentiated European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU (ch.2), then this framework is applied both to understand Europe as a global actor (ch. 3), Europe as an actor in security and defence (ch. 4) and Europe as a regional actor (ch. 5). Pernille Rieker holds a position as a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a part-time full professor at the Inland University College (INN). Rieker is part of NUPI's research group on security and defence and is responsible for NUPI's Center for European Studies (NCE). Furthermore, she is the co-editor of the Scandinavian journal for international studies, 'Internasjonal Politikk'. Mathilde E. Giske is a Ph.D. candidate, Department for Political studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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    ISBN: 9783031364419
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 286 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; Communication in politics. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction. Not Authoritarian, but Not Yet Democratic: the Mexican authoritarian legacies in media and politics. Volume editors -- Part 1. Media Systems, Regulation and Historical Antecedents: Explaining Continuities -- 2. Media Systems in Unconsolidated Democracies: the case of Mexico. Manuel Alejandro Guerrero -- 3. Challenges in Protecting Freedom of Expression in Mexico: 20 years of progress with poor results. Salvador de Leon Vazquez. -- 4. The Salinas Years, 1988-1994: Watershed in the opening of Mexico's print media?. Andrew Paxman -- Part 2. The Burden of Being a Journalist in Mexico: Risk, Security and Censorship -- 5. Surviving Mexico's Peripheries: limits and constraints among journalists in the Twenty-First Century. Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamente & Jeannine Relly -- 6. Still Dreaming of Democracy: How professional norms from the political opening shape risk and resilience today. Sallie Hughes -- 7. Defective Democracy, Erosion of Freedom of Press, and the Perils of Being a Journalist in Mexico Two Decades After the Democratic Transition. Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez, Osiris S. Gonzales-Galvan -- 8. AMLO and Freedom of the Press: The struggle between conflicting visions of communicative strategies in Mexico. Stuart Davis & Melissa Santillana -- Part 3. Post-Authoritarian Media Performance: Actors and Representations in Dispute -- 9. Mediatization in post-authoritarian democracies: 20 years of media logic in Mexican press. Martin Echeverria -- 10. Press and Civil Society: Alliance and mistrust in Mexican transition to democracy. Grisel Salazar -- 11. Television Political Satire and the Mexican Democratic Transition. Frida V. Rodelo.
    Abstract: This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance of the media. This is analyzed from three points of view: the stalemate Mexican media system and ineffective regulations, the conditions of risk and insecurity of the journalists on the field, and the limits of freedom of expression, political substance, and inclusiveness of media content. A binational effort, with research from US and Mexican authors, a wide analytic perspective is provided on the macro, meso, and micro levels, allowing for a deep conceptual richness and a comprehensive understanding of the Mexican case. With leading researchers in the field, the volume revolves around the problems of the media in post-authoritarian democracies. By answering the questions of how and why the Mexican media has not fully democratized, the works encompassed here can resonate with and are relevant to other post-authoritarian countries and academic disciplines. Martin Echeverria is Full-Professor at the Centre for Studies in Political Communication, Institute of Government Sciences and Strategic Development, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez is Full-Professor at the Centre for Studies in Political Communication, Institute of Government Sciences and Strategic Development, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico.
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    ISBN: 9783031490149
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 282 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Sustainability.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Push towards urban densification evokes social exclusion in housing -- Chapter 2. Part I: Theoretical approach: Actors-centered new institutionalist political ecology -- Part II: Analytical framework: The Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) and its focus on property rights -- Chapter 3. The Irr Applied To Housing: Governing Densification For Socially Sustainable Housing Development -- Chapter 4. Study design & methodological approach: Densification and urban housing development in Switzerland -- Chapter 5. Study design & methodology: learning from the Swiss scarce land use situation -- Chapter 6. Discussion of key results -- Chapter 7. Final conclusion: governance mechanisms for socially sustainable urban densification.
    Abstract: Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe socio-political problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in older housing stocks planned to be densified or upgraded with higher rents, are being pushed to the margins of the city. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem. However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors (e.g., municipal authorities, landowners) involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules, laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable densification implementation. Finally, this book advises stakeholders on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Gabriela Debrunner has a PhD in geography with a focus on spatial planning and political urbanism. She works as a postdoc, lecturer, and research associate at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL) at ETH Zurich. In her research, Gabriela Debrunner deals with the overarching question of how the city as a social space works from an urban governance perspective.
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    ISBN: 9783031398148
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 749 p. 35 illus., 29 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Human geography. ; Political science. ; Social sciences. ; Global South ; colonisation ; decolonisation ; forced migration ; food insecurity ; climate change ; gender inequality ; Open Access ; transnational borders ; asylum ; refugees ; diaspora ; colonialism ; displacement ; discrimination ; intersectional inequalities ; Indigenous Peoples ; postcolonialism ; racism ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 1. South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An Introduction -- PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2. The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- 3. Recentering the South in Studies of Migration. 4. Writing the Camp -- 5. Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice -- 6. Rethinking Power and Reciprocity in the “Field” -- 7. What does it mean to move? Humanising Cultural Work in South-South Migration -- PART II Unpacking “the South” in South-South Migration -- 8. Trends in South-South Migration -- 9. The Dynamics of South-South Migration in Africa -- 10. Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: a Case Study of Hadiya Migration to South Africa -- 11. Migration and Inequality in the Burkina Faso- Côte d’Ivoire Corridor -- 12. Unequal Origins to Unequal Destinations: Trends and Characteristics of Migrants' Social and Economic Inclusion in South America -- 13. The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move -- 14. Migrant Labour and Inequalities in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor (and Beyond) -- 15. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana -- 16. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America -- PART III Inequalities and South-South Migration -- 17. Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South -- 18. Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality -- 19. Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil -- 20. Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South -- 21. Why, When and How? The Role of Inequality in Migration Decision-making -- 22. Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South” -- 23. The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South-South Migration -- 24. Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South -- 25. South-South Migration and Children’s Education: Expanded Challenges and Increased Opportunities -- 26. Mapping the Linkages between Food Security, Inequality, Migration and Development in the Global South -- PART IV Responses to South-South Migration - 27. The Governance of South-South migration: Same or Different? - 28. Policies towards Migration in Africa -- 29. Migration Governance in South America: Change and Continuity in Times of “Crisis” -- 30. Perú and Migration from Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment -- 31. The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance -- 32. Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice -- 33. Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South.
    Abstract: “Across thirty three dazzling chapters, this groundbreaking collection from some of the world’s leading migration scholars makes a major contribution to the field of migration studies. Centring south-south migration raises vital theoretical, methodological, and empirical questions for research on mobility globally which go far beyond geographical movements within the symbolic geography of the ‘Global South’. Situated at the cutting edge of these debates, the contributors to this volume offer food for thought for scholars and students from a range of disciplines and locations.” --Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield. Author of Asylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017) and Migration Studies and Colonialism (with Joe Turner, 2020) This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners. Heaven Crawley is Head of Equitable Development and Migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), New York, USA, and Visiting Professor of International Migration at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), UK. She was previously Head of Asylum and Migration Research at the UK Home Office and Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, UK. Joseph Kofi Teye is Director of Research at the Office of Research Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana and Associate Professor of Migration and Development in the Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds, UK.
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    ISBN: 9789819992676
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 147 p. 2 illus.)
    Series Statement: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path
    Uniform Title: 中国经济体制改革
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    Keywords: Asia ; Development economics. ; Historical analyze of market economy ; Reconstructing the economic system in China ; Stage development in economic reform ; Macro-economy managerial system ; Socialistic market economy
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Reform Objectives -- Chapter 2. Initial Stage of Marketization Reform: 1979-1984 -- Chapter 3. Full Speed Ahead: 1985-1992 -- Chapter 4. Market Institutions Beginning to Take Shape: 1993-2000 -- Chapter 5. Market Institutions Nearing Maturity: 2001-2011 -- Chapter 6. Comprehensive Deepening of Market Reform: 2012-2018 -- Chapter 7. Achievements and Their Significance.
    Abstract: This book analyzes and summarizes the process and achievements of China's economic restructuring from 1978 to 2018, including the objectives of China's economic restructuring, the initial stage of market-oriented reform (1979–1984), the comprehensive development stage of market-oriented reform (1985–1992), and the initial establishment stage of market-oriented reform system (1993–2000). The book illustrates the achievements and significance of China's economic system reform during the stage of system improvement (2001–2011) and the stage of comprehensive deepening reform focusing on market-oriented reform (2012–2018). It has great international significance to summarize the experiences of China's economic restructuring, and it is conducive to continuing the reform and achieving the final victory of the reform.
    Note: Translation from the Chinese Simplified language edition: "中国经济体制改革 (1978-2018)" by Haibo Wang, © Social Science Academic Press 2018
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    ISBN: 9783031436154
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 248 p. 31 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Cultural property. ; Medicine and the humanities.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: I Introduction -- Chapter 2: Storytelling -- Chapter 3: Inclusivity & Environment -- Chapter 4: Gamification -- Chapter 5: Immersive Technologies -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Future Directions for Neuro-Inclusivity in Museums and Heritage Sites.
    Abstract: James Hutson is Professor and Department Head of Art History and Visual Culture, and Lead XR Disruptor, at Lindenwood University, USA. Piper Hutson is a Corporate Art Curator and Adjunct Professor at Lindenwood University, USA. This book delves into the significant and timely intersection of cultural heritage, neurodiversity, and smart museums, exploring how various immersive techniques can create more inclusive and engaging heritage experiences for neurodiverse audiences. By focusing on these three aspects, the book aims to contribute significantly to the fields of cultural heritage, neuro-inclusivity, and smart museums, offering practical solutions and examples for heritage professionals and researchers. The book highlights the importance of preserving and enhancing cultural heritage by incorporating immersive technologies and inclusive practices that cater to the needs of neurodiverse audiences. It emphasizes the need for museums and heritage sites to be more inclusive and accessible for neurodivergent individuals, showcasing best practices and innovative techniques to engage this audience effectively. .
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 267 p. 39 illus., 28 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: European literature. ; Fiction. ; Intercultural communication. ; Mass media.
    Abstract: Introduction:(Why) Is Europe Still Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps? -- Indianthusiasm and Indigenous Contacts: A Very Personal German Perspective -- A Separation of Sameness: (East) German Indianthusiasm, Ostalgie, and Kent Monkman’s Intervention -- “We Were Indians First, Before We Became Croats”: “Playing Indian” on the European Frontier -- Croatian Winnetou: Locations, Memories, Cultural Legacy, Ethical Issues -- Alalá all’Indiano! Native Americans in Fascist Italy: Useful Characters from Dime Novel Foes to “Natural Leaders”’ against Anglo-American Imperialism -- Lakota Dandies in the Eternal City: Indigenous Travelers Chief Iron Tail and Jacob Ištá Ská -- Constructions of North American Indigeneity in Contemporary Polish Non-Fiction -- Becoming White Otter: Constructing Whiteness between Canada and Czechoslovakia -- Winnetou in Czech Comics -- “We’re Still Here”: Interview with Bruce Sinclair -- Erasing the Footsteps That Lead Astray.
    Abstract: This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture. Employing a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach and drawing on a range of media—from literature, comics, and film to photography, painting, and the performative arts—across different historical and cultural backgrounds, it aims to both contribute innovative scholarship on Indigenous studies in Europe and open a new avenue in the field by focusing on Central European settings that have received little or no critical attention to date. The book’s novelty also comes from its focus on the latest developments in the field, including the “Ravensburger/Winnetou controversy,” which swept across Europe in 2022, echoing the 2017 Canadian debate over Indigenous appropriation and free speech. It seeks to provide a sound reference and lay the groundwork for future scholarship by opening up a conversation on how Indigenous identities have been portrayed in Central European literature and media texts. To this end, it not only addresses generalized expectations about North American Indigenous people underlying (Central) European public discourse and imagination but also questions whether and to what extent some of the ingrained stereotypical views and practices, such as hobbyism, have been challenged in the face of Indigenous resurgence, rapidly changing media and information-sharing realities, and global cultural shifts. The closing interview with Métis playwright, actor, and director Bruce Sinclair underscores one of the book’s key goals—to spark an informed cross-cultural dialogue that will reveal the mechanisms of, as well as the contradictions and tensions inherent in, the politics of Indigenous representation in (Central) European cultural industries and encourage (Central) Europeans to confront their own cultural assumptions and attitudes. .
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    ISBN: 9789819985777
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 139 p. 46 illus., 38 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics 32
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    Keywords: Economics ; Economics. ; Power resources. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Field experiments ; Electric power industry ; Smart grid ; Dynamic pricing ; Demand response ; Power crisis ; Great East Japan Earthquake
    Abstract: Part I Smart Grid Economics -- Chapter 1 Economics of Smart Grid: Smart Grid, Time-dependent Pricing (Dynamic Pricing), Demand Response -- Part II Field Experimental Economics -- Chapter 2 Economics of Field Experiment: History of Field Experiment, especially in Energy and Environmental Economics -- Chapter 3 Dynamic Pricing: Purpose, Design, and Results of Field Experiment of Dynamic Pricing -- Chapter 4 Persistence and Habit Formation: Short-term and Long-term Effects of Conservation Request and Dynamic Pricing -- Chapter 5 Switching Cost and Information Friction: Status Quo Bias and Cognitive Incompleteness of Behavioral Change -- Chapter 6 Social Welfare Analysis: Cost-Benefit Ratio of Installing Smart Grid System -- Part III Toward Power System Restructuring -- Chapter 7 Power System Restructuring and Smart Grids.
    Abstract: This book aims to report on a cutting-edge research project of the smart grid in Japan, resting on the three pillars of field experiments, behavioral economics, and big data. The field experiments on the smart grid were conducted in four regions in Japan—Yokohama city, Toyota city, Keihanna Science City, and Kitakyushu city—over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014 after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants. Our focus here is on demand response in the smart grid environment, which we also discuss in the context of power system reforms. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, policy makers, and business leaders.
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    ISBN: 9789819954476
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 177 p. 32 illus., 28 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Financial engineering. ; Macroeconomics. ; Valuation. ; Fintech in Malaysia ; Cryptocurrency in Malaysia ; Banking Behaviour in Malaysia ; Islamic Banking ; Financial Literacy in Malaysia ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bridging the Gap Between Information Asymmetry and ir 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review. - The Impact of Market Sentiment on Business Fixed Investment in Malaysia -- Crypto or Stock? A Comparative Analysis for Beginners -- The Size Effect in Malaysia’s Stock Returns -- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Malaysian Stock Market -- Reaction and Efficiency of Cryptocurrency Market During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effect of Size and Supply -- Monetary Policy, COVID-19 and Cryptocurrency: The Tales of 3 Countries -- Fintech Financial Literacy and Islamic Bank -- Factors Influencing Online Investment Adoption: A Systematic Review -- Ethical Banking Behaviour of Millennials and Generations Z in Malaysia.
    Abstract: This book is a collection of research works by experienced academics focusing on the current issues of fintech and cryptocurrency in the context of Malaysia. The book aims to fill the gap in the extant literature on the topic in Southeast Asia. The book starts with a discussion on the role of monetary policies in the advent of the current trend where cryptocurrencies are being used more widely as a medium of exchange compared to conventional fiat money. It then goes on to provide a comparative analysis for beginners regarding the differences between cryptocurrencies and stocks, considering facets such as ownership, methods of exchange, volatility, regulation, and their interconnectedness. Also discussed are the factors influencing on-line investment options using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) review method, a comparison of Islamic banking products and conventional fintech. The book ends on an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Malaysian stock market. This book is a valuable read for undergraduate students, postgraduate students, academicians, researchers, and professionals working in the economics, finance, and banking industries, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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    ISBN: 9789819966295
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 152 p. 19 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Public Economy and Urban Governance in China
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    Keywords: Urban economics. ; Development economics. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Infrastructure ; Economic Development ; Economics ; Infrastructure Construction ; China's Economy ; China's Economic Development ; China's Governance System ; National Governance ; GDP ; Infrastructure Economic Growth Model
    Abstract: Introduction -- Brief History and Basic Concepts of Infrastructure -- Origin and Development of Infrastructure Economics -- A Review of Infrastructure Economic Growth Models.-Achievements and Challenges of China’s Infrastructure Development (1949-2019) -- Infrastructure and Market Integration: A Case Study on High-Speed Rail Accessibility -- Infrastructure and Open Development: A Case Study on Foreign Direct Investment.
    Abstract: This book provides an overview of the history, basic concepts, and provision models of infrastructure, significant theories on infrastructure economics, practices at home and abroad that reflect the economic development effects of infrastructure, and four infrastructure economic growth models. Great attention is placed on the domestic front. This book describes and discusses in detail the historical background, development trends, achievements, and challenges of China’s infrastructure from 1949 to 2019, under the classic “supply and demand” analysis framework. From the four perspectives of market integration, open development, people’s livelihood, and endogenous growth, this book carries out an empirical study on how to quantify and make causal inferences about the economic development effects of infrastructure. Based on the conclusion that national governance is of important help to infrastructure provision, this book interprets China’s governance system and its impact on infrastructure provision from the angle of decentralization and offers suggestions on policy optimizing.
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    ISBN: 9783031400674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 264 p. 206 illus., 202 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Service industries.
    Abstract: Section One: Record -- 1. An Introduction to How Sound Works -- 2. Speakers -- 3. Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) -- 4. Digital -- 5. Hardware -- 6. Gain Staging -- 7. Microphones -- 8. Phase -- 9. Room Acoustics -- 10. Recording Tips -- Section Two: Mix -- 11. Equalisers (Eq) -- 12. Dynamics -- 13. Effects -- 14. Subgroups -- 15. Monitoring in Mono -- 16. Mid-Side Processing -- 17. Transients -- 18. Panning -- 19. Plosives -- 20. Zero Crossing and Crossfades -- 21. Mixing Tips -- Section Three: Master -- 22. What is Mastering -- 23. Prepare Your Track for Mastering -- 24. Mastering Tools -- 25. Dither -- 26. Metering -- 27. Mastering Your Song – Things to Consider.
    Abstract: This textbook is a practical guide to achieving professional-level audio productions using digital audio workstations. It contains 27 chapters divided into three sections, with specially devised diagrams and audio examples throughout. Aimed at students of all levels of experience and written in an easy-to-understand way, this book simplifies complex jargon, widening its appeal to non-academic creatives and is designed to accelerate the learning of professional audio processes and tools (software and hardware).The reader can work through the book from beginning to end or dip into a relevant section whenever required, enabling it to serve as both a step by step guide and an ongoing reference manual. The book is also a useful aid for lecturers and teachers of audio production, recording, mixing and mastering engineering. Simon Duggal is an award-winning producer/composer who has been producing, writing, recording, editing and mixing music for more than 30 years. He has made records for many top international artists including: Shania Twain, Maxi Priest, Erasure, Apache Indian, Janet Kaye, Errol Reid (China Black), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Beat, Luciano, Desmond Dekker, Dillinger and many more. Duggal has composed music for adverts for companies including: Pepsi, Intel, Toshiba, Etisalat, Etihad and composed title and incidental music for a BAFTA winning UK TV drama. He is also an MA specialist mentor at the British and Irish Modern Music University in Birmingham, UK. Paul Rogers is the Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies at the British and Irish modern Music University in Birmingham, UK, and a seasoned music industry veteran. He holds a PhD in music composition from Goldsmiths (UK).
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    ISBN: 9783031411847
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 351 p. 15 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Keywords: Ecocriticism. ; Oriental literature. ; Human ecology ; Communication in the environmental sciences.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Christian CULAS: Protected Area Narratives in Vietnam: An Anthropological and Mesological Approach -- Part 2: Indigenous and Spiritual Narratives of the Environment -- 3. NGUYEN Thi Kim Ngan: Legends of Forest Spirits in the Central Vietnamese Highlands -- 4. Achariya CHOOWONGLERT: Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam -- 5. THACH Mai Hoang: Animal Mercy Release, Environmental Conservation, and the Media in Vietnam -- Part 3: War Narratives and the Environment -- 6. HOANG Cam-Giang: Narratives of the Natural World in Vietnamese Postwar Movies (1986-2020) -- 7. Montira RATO: Ecopedagogy, War Memories, and Sensory Experiences of Nature in Contemporary Vietnamese Children’s Literature -- 8. Conor LAUESEN: Dinh Q. Lê's The Pure Land and Ecological Phantoms: Levitating Sarcophagi, Submerged Spirits -- Part 4: Communism, Global Markets, and the Environment -- 9. Ben TRAN: Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment -- 10. Sarah GRANT: Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands -- Part 5: Environmental Literature in Vietnam -- 11. NGUYEN Phuong Ngoc: Environmental Travel Narratives in the Magazine Nam Phong -- 12. CAO Lan: Gender and Environment in Nguyễn Ngoc Tu’s Narratives -- 13. TRẦN Tịnh Vy: When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà's Phố vẫn gió -- 14. PHAM P. Chi: Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction.
    Abstract: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures. They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government, have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences between nationalist nation-building projects and economic integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction to contemporary news media represent different environmental cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book. Ursula K. Heise is holds the Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies. She is co-founder and Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature and the environmental humanities; environmental literature, arts, and cultures in the Americas, Germany, Japan, and Spain; literature and science; science fiction; and narrative theory. She is co-editor of Literatures, Cultures and the Environment series for Palgrave Macmillan. Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). She is the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN).
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    ISBN: 9789819985258
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 153 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Asia ; Peace. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Making Sense of the North Korea’s Suryeong System -- Chapter 2: North Korea’s Nuclear Armament and the Triad of Denuclearization -- Chapter 3: Marketization during Kim Jong-un’s Era -- Chapter 4: Normal State and Social Requisite in North Korea -- Chapter 5: Popular Religion in North Korea.
    Abstract: This edited book is one of the most updated and comprehensive accounts of the North Korean regime under Kim Jong-un’s era. It covers not only nuclear policies but also the political regime, the economy, society, and religion. It sets out to uncover multi-dimensional aspects of North Korea, explains how they have evolved, and predicts how they will proceed. It further investigates the extent to which his policies are different from his father’s and whether and why they have changed during the course. This book will be an invaluable reference for scholars, journalists and NGOs trying to make sense of the present and future of the Korean peninsula. Byung-Yeon Kim is Director of the Institute for Future Strategy and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. He published a number of articles in international journals and wrote an influential book on the North Korean economy (Unveiling the North Korean Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2017).
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    ISBN: 9783031461293
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 289 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political ethics.
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Theoretical and Legal Framework -- Chapter Three: Biharis in Bangladesh -- Chapter Four: Findings of the Field Work -- Chapter Five: Biharis’ Access to Citizenship Rights: Theory, Law, and Reality -- Chapter Six: Conclusions and Recommendations.
    Abstract: This book deals with the citizenship status of the Biharis in Bangladesh and their ability to access rights associated with citizenship. The main argument of the book is that although legally the Biharis are citizens of Bangladesh, they still do not have access to many important rights of citizenship that can make their citizenship meaningful. Their inability to access many important citizenship rights made them de facto stateless, although they are de-jure citizens. Taking a law and society approach this book examines both legal and non-legal factors behind the deplorable conditions of the Biharis in Bangladesh. Based on fieldwork, this book analyses that the Biharis’ inability to access citizenship rights is inconsistent with citizenship theory, citizenship laws, and the Constitution of Bangladesh. To make the Biharis citizenship effective or meaningful the author suggests some recommendations for policy changes that would enable Biharis to access rights associated with citizenship. Zaglul Haider is a professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi.He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University and an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School.
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    ISBN: 9783031481390
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 201 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Gender and Politics
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Identity politics. ; Sex. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction: Governing Gender Equality Policy in Changing State -- Chapter 2- Theorising Shifting Public Governance from a Feminist Perspective -- Chapter 3- Strategic Governance and Gender Equality Policy -- Chapter 4- Workfare Reform and Family Leave Policy -- Chapter 5 - Economic Governance and Gender Budgeting -- Chapter 6 - Evidence-Based Policy and Feminist Knowledge -- Chapter 7- Conclusions.
    Abstract: Not as noisy as populist anti-gender campaigns, neoliberal policy regimes pose an equally significant challenge for gender equality projects. Anna Elomäki and Hanna Ylöstalo are incisive in showing how economic policy, strategic management frameworks and an 'evidence hierarchy' constrain feminist claims but also provide footholds. A must-read book for gender equality advocates, practitioners and scholars in the neo-liberal world far beyond Finland. Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, Australia This rich theoretically driven book retraces state transformations within Finland and shows in excellent empirical case studies how gender actors and practitioners try to keep the balance between feminist knowledge and specific gender policy implementation. Elomäki and Ylöstalo show how neoliberal governance reforms are deeply gendered and shift the meaning of gender equality to suit the purpose of state reform. A must read for anyone interested or involved in gendered state policy and economic governance! Stefanie Wöhl, Professor of Politics, UAS BFI Vienna, Austria This book analyses the effects of public governance reforms on gender equality policy in Finland. Recent economic crises, rising austerity and increasing opposition to gender equality have led to the defunding of gender equality bodies, and the side-lining of gender equality as a political goal. This policy backlash has taken place alongside transformations to the state and governance, that have changed the discourses, knowledge, actors, and practices of gender equality policy. This book contributes to these discussions by demonstrating the subtleties of the constantly changing governance reform agendas, their operation in practice, and how they intertwine with other elements of the gender equality policy backlash. It is based on more than 100 interviews with civil servants, politicians, non-governmental organisations, social partners, and think tanks, and a broad range of policy documents and media material. It will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, public policy and governance. Anna Elomäki is Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include economic policies and governance, EU politics and gender equality policy. Hanna Ylöstalo is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include knowledge-policy relations, welfare state reform and gender equality policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031452895
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 450 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Financial engineering. ; Finance ; fintech innovations ; covid-19 measures ; SDG policy priorities ; commercial banking ; commercial banking business models ; fintech-based payment service providers ; post-covid 19 economic downturn ; Digitizing the commercial banking business model ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Foreward, by Vittorio Santoro -- Chapter 1 Introduction, by the Editors -- Part I “The EUROPEAN UNION” -- Chapter 2Intermediaries’ model in banking and finance and the treatment of fintech in the European Union: a critical approach, by Patrick Barban -- Chapter 3 FinTech and competition regulatory concerns in the EU banking business framework, by Gabriella Gimigliano -- Chapter 4 Prudential regulation policy responses to financial technological innovations: the future for banks and crypto-finance?, by Iris H-Y Chiu -- Chapter 5 Digitalizing the commercial bank business model: vanishing brank branches and the risk of financial exclusion of the elderly, by Anne-Christine Mittwoch, Anne-Marie Weber, Weronika Herbert-Homenda, and Weronika Stefaniuk -- Chapter 6 The “game changer” in the euro area: Banking Union and commercial banking, by Lucia Quaglia -- Chapter 7 The financing of problem banks: critical issues and challenges ahead, by Marco Bodellini -- Chapter 8 The review of the EU bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework, by Johannes Langthaler -- Chapter 9 Sustainable commercial banking in European Union Law: a renewed mandate for commercial banks?, by Pablo Iglesias Rodriguez -- Chapter 10 Commercial banks and competition concerns – SDG policy priorities, by Lela Mélon and Alenka Recelj Mercina -- Part II “The Anglo-Saxon SYSTEMS” -- Chapter 11 Central Bank Digital Currency and the Agenda of monetary devolution, by Leonidas Zelmanovitz and Bruno Meyerhol Salama -- Chapter 12 Open banking in the UK: a co-opetition scenario for innovation and evolution in the UK retail banking sector, by Nikita Divissenko -- Chapter 13 Rethinking crypto-regulation for crypto-investors in the UK, by Joy Malala and Folashade Adeyemo -- Chapter 14 Cross-border recognition of foreign resolution actions: the statutory regime in the United Kingdom, by Shalina Daved, Clare Merrified & Michael Salib -- Chapter 15 The impact of climate change on the economy and financial system: legal aspects of the Bank of England’s response, by Jack Parker and Ann Corrigan -- Part III “CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA” -- Chapter 16 Chinese commercial banks and fintech-competition and collaboration, by Ding Chen -- Chapter 17 Fintech and banking reform: a perspective from China, by Wang Feimin, Xu Duoqi, and Cheng Xuejn -- Chapter 18 Prudential regulation of the banking-like business of fintech companies in China, by Yangguang Xu and Zhirou Li -- Chapter 19 Recent changes and prospects of banking services regulations and supervision in Korea, by Sung-Seung Yun and GiJin Yan -- Part IV “Looking ahead” -- Chapter 20 Final remarks, by Antonella Brozzetti.
    Abstract: The book investigates commercial banking, covering the European framework, the Anglo-Saxon systems, and the Asian area in a comparative approach in trying to answer the following questions: Which is the commercial banking business model of the future? What do we expect a bank to be and to do in the new economic and social reality? How might banking supervision over commercial banks as well as market competition change? The book showcases how three factors or driving forces influence the future of commercial banking: i) fintech innovations (such as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, algorithmic trading, machine learning and electronic payments, to name a few), ii) covid-19 measures, and iii) SDG policy priorities. Geared toward academics, scholars and students of banking and financial services, the book will explore how these three factors have different weight in the different legal contexts. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Marco Bodellini is a Senior Research Scientist in sustainable finance at the ADA chair in financial law and inclusive finance at the University of Luxembourg, House for Sustainable Governance and Markets, and a Lecturer in banking and financial law at the University of Bergamo. His main areas of research include bank crisis and resolution, corporate governance of financial institutions, systemic risk and financial stability, shadow banking and investment funds, fintech, and sustainable finance. He is a member of the expert group advising the European Parliament on bank crisis management matters, a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI), and a Special Advisor to the Unidroit Secretariat on bank insolvency. Gabriella Gimigliano is a Lecturer of Law at the University of Siena, where she held the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Money Law. Her main areas of research include law of money and payments, banking law, Islamic finance, and economic regulation. Dalvinder Singh is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Law at the University of Bergamo. He is the editor of the Journal of Banking Regulation and Financial Regulation International. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI).
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    ISBN: 9783031404238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 112 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern ; Narration (Rhetoric). ; European literature.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Sacrifice, Consciousness, and Narrative Pronoun Shifts -- Chapter 2- May Sinclair and Two Sides of Sacrifice -- Chapter 3 - From Ritual to Narrative in Mary Butts -- Chapter 4 - Mending a Broken Duality in H. D. (Hilda Doolittle).
    Abstract: This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited — it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials. Sanna Melin Schyllert is Visiting Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France, having previously held posts at Lund University, the University of Westminster, and University College London. Her publications include ‘Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts and the Creation of Self in H. D.’s Prose Works’ in The Space Between Journal (2019) and ‘Sacrifice, Community and Narrative Power in Mary Butts’s Taverner Novels’ in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031389023
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 256 p. 6 illus.)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Book History
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    Keywords: Economics and literature. ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Books ; Literature, Modern
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Coffee-table Books: Seriously? -- Chapter 3 What’s in a Name? -- Chapter 4 A New Book-buying Market -- Chapter 5 More Than Meets the Eye -- Chapter 6 David Brower: An American Environmental Publisher -- Chapter 7 Paul Hamlyn: Britain’s Publishing Mould Breaker -- Chapter 8 Lloyd O’Neil: Australia in Colour -- Chapter 9 Conclusion.
    Abstract: The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergence of three important developments: advances in full colour printing technology, social change, and publishing entrepreneurism and innovation. Examining the coffee-table book through a book history lens acknowledges their significant contribution to post-war visual culture and illustrated publishing. Focussing on post-war America, Great Britain, and Australia during the “golden age” era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, this history of the coffee-table book takes an interdisciplinary approach to put the coffee-table book in context in regards to materiality, format, printing, status, and genre.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 260 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: EADI global development series
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Political science ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungsmodell ; Entkolonialisierung ; Alternative ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Weltordnung ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1.Rethinking development and decolonising development studies -- Chapter 2. Essentialist approaches to global issues: the ontological limitations of development studies -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives -- Chapter 4. In search of alternatives to development: learning from grounded initiatives -- Chapter 5. Why Is Development Elusive? Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue durée -- Chapter 6. Cultivating post-development: pluriversal transitions and radical spaces of engagement -- Chapter 7. Beyond Deconstruction and Toward Decoloniality: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design in SWANA & South Asia Studies in US Higher Education -- Chapter 8. Data collection versus knowledge theft: relational accountability and the research ethics of Indigenous knowledges -- Chapter 9. Assuming power in new forms: Learning to feel ‘with the other’ in decolonial research -- Chapter 10. Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis -- Chapter 11. South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality -- Chapter 12. Decolonising Development Management: Epistemological Shifts and Practical actions -- Chapter 13. What is ‘development’, and can we ‘decolonise’ it? Some ontological and epistemological reflections -- Chapter 14. EADI Roundtable: Re-casting development studies in times of multiple crises.
    Abstract: This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of political barriers these might encounter. From a variety of perspectives and contexts, these chapters examine how decoloniality and solidarity can be developed, offering in-depth historical, theoretical, epistemological, and empirical analyses. Henning Melber is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Uma Kothari is Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Laura Camfield is Professor of Development Research and Evaluation and Head of the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
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    ISBN: 9783031330056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 309 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International Series on Public Policy
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Africa ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction to Public Policy in Ghana: Conceptual and Practical Insights. Part I. Governance and Institutional Context of Public Policy -- Chapter 2- The Context and Content of Public Policy in Africa -- Chapter 3- Policy Capacity of the Legislature and Evidence-Informed Policy-making in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis Gedion -- Chapter 4 - The Executive Arm of Government and Public Policy in Ghana -- Chapter 5- It’s Not Only About Value for Money: Evolution and Development of SOEs and the Making of State-Led Economic Development Policy in Ghana -- Chapter 6- Trends, Drivers, and Complexities of Policy Change: The Case of Ghana’s Narcotics Policy Landscape -- Chapter 7- Ghana’s Informal Automobile Repairs and Retail Sector -- Part II. Actors, Knowledge and Policy Matters -- Chapter 8- Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Public Policy Making -- Chapter 9- Research and Knowledge in Policy Making -- Chapter 10- Think Tanks as Collective Policy Entrepreneurs and the Art of Policy Making in Ghana -- Chapter 11- Global pressures in policy making: Insights from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Ghana’s petroleum industry -- Chapter 12- The Politics of ‘Physics Envy’ and the Coloniality of Policy Making -- Part III. New Media, Public Opinion and Policy Publics -- Chapter 13- Public Policy Making in the Age of New Media Wilberforce -- Chapter 14- Political Delivery Marketing in Ghana -- Chapter 15- Public opinion and the policy making process in Ghana’s Fourth Republic -- Chapter 16- An Analysis of Public Participation in Policy Making Processes. .
    Abstract: This book provides analytical, conceptual, and practical insights into how public policy processes and outcomes are conceptualized and framed. Drawing on Ghanaian experiences, but with extensive illustrations from other African countries, it showcases issues of commonality and diversity in public policy with analytical insights and real-life policy concerns that specifically addresses how citizens engage with the state, and how they think and function as social actors within the socio-cultural settings of Africa. The book brings public policy to life as a practical and problem-solving discipline, with examples of how policy actors such as the legislature, governance architects, the media, and the judiciary become arenas for contest. Linking public policy to development paradigms, governance, and responsible citizenship, it is important reading for students and scholars of public policy, governance, and politics in Africa, as well as practitioners. Michael Kpessa-Whyte is an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. His research focuses on the nexus between partisan politics and public policy. James Dzisah is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. His research focuses on knowledge production, globalization and development .
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    ISBN: 9783031301797
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 264 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: America ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Race. ; Globalization. ; Emigration and immigration.
    Abstract: Introduction: Beyond Borders. Inclusion and Exclusion in American Culture -- Isamu: Becoming Nisei -- Part I. Perpetuating Otherness. Relocation to the Outside Within -- “Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps -- The Resonance of the Hostage Crisis in Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2004) and the Limits of Hospitality -- Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina -- Part II. Beyond Sovereign Frames: Contesting Imaginaries and National Myths -- Foreigners in their Own Land: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Creation of Tolerated Strangers -- E Pluribus Unum?: Disintegrating the Melting Pot Myth in American Science Fiction Narratives of National Fragmentation -- Inhospitable Homelands: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in African American War Narratives -- Monsters or Men?: Guillermo del Toro’s Allegories of American Othering in The Shape of Water -- Part III. Welcoming the Stranger Inside?: Exclusive Inclusion in the Age of Neoliberalism -- Strangers in the Homeland: Dystopic (in)Hospitality in McCarthy’s The Road -- Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017) -- Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020) -- Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies -- The Ugly Guy (Novel Excerpt).
    Abstract: American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of the nation to the age of globalization and neoliberalism, in order to understand the diverse literary landscapes of the United States from a twenty-first century perspective. The authors confront American exceptionalism, discourses on freedom and democracy, and US foundational narratives by reassessing the literary canon and exploring ethnic literature, culture, and film with a focus on identity and exclusion. Their contributions envision different manifestations of conviviality and estrangement and deconstruct neoliberal slogans, analyzing hospitable inclusion in relation to national history and ideologies. By looking at representations of foreignness and conditional belonging in literature and film from different ethnic traditions, the volume fleshes out a new border dialectic that conveys the heterogeneity of American boundaries beyond the opposition inside/outside. Paula Barba Guerrero is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include African American literature, space studies, memory, nostalgia, and speculative fiction. Mónica Fernández Jiménez holds a PhD in English from the University of Valladolid, Spain, and currently works as a translator in England. Her research interests include Caribbean literature, Postcolonial Studies, American imperialism, and ecocriticism.
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    ISBN: 9783031474606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 229 p. 35 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Human-computer interaction.
    Abstract: Introduction to Integral Communication -- The Power of Integral Networking -- Integral Communication Framework: Mapping, Tagging and Digital Identity -- Perspective of Integral Communication: The IoT Ecosystem.
    Abstract: This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way. Integral communication refers to a specific way of open information exchange which uses all qualities and preferences of subjects in conversation and allows anonymous feedback exchange, which enhances trust, learning and development. The role of integral communication is to promote perceptiveness, collaboration, personal development, and organizational learning among all the actors involved. In this book, the authors propose a new original way of digital communication that uses tags and their metadata to describe qualities and preferences of a particular node in the network. Although most social networks, sharing platforms and e-government frameworks are already applying taxonomies and social tagging to define user identity, none of them is focused on tags exclusively, while within an integral communication framework they represent the basic element of user definition and networking. In addition, other social platforms rarely allow anonymous feedback exchange, and they are usually not focused on the personal development of their end-users. Aside from helping actors present their attributes and preferences, integral communication promotes teamwork, sustainability, trust, organisational learning, and personalized communication with AI machines. After reading this book, readers will learn how to harness the power of integral networking and understand why anonymous feedback is a critical element for learning and development. Ozren Rafajac is an assistant professor at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches e-business and cloud computing and a professor at the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches sales management, HR management, business communications and digital marketing. He has worked on several EU-funded projects. His research interests focus on HR management, organisational intelligence, e-collaboration, communication, tourism, organisational development and leadership. Alen Jakupović is a professor at the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches several courses in programming and project design. His scientific and professional interests include metrics and methods for information systems development, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems development, information and business systems dependability and ICT in education.
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    ISBN: 9783031414015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 287 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; Sustainability. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Communication for Development and Sustainable Social Change in Africa -- Chapter 2: Anchoring Participatory Communication in South Africa’s Municipal Citizen Participation During Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Processes -- Chapter 3: Participatory communication for sustainable development: A study of the Access project in Ghana -- Chapter 4: A theoretical framework towards mutual sustainability communication -- Part 2: Strategic Communication in Governance, Planning and Policy Reforms -- Chapter 5: Exploration of the accentuated value of Strategic Communication Management for Inclusive Citizenry Engagement through governance and sustainability -- Chapter 6: Network Governance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development on the African Continent -- Chapter 7: Communication Strategies for Community Development: A Study of World Bank SEEFOR-CDDS projects in Ukwa East communities, Abia State, Nigeria -- Part 3: Communication for Social Change, Bottom-up Development and Social Movements in Africa -- Chapter 8: The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change -- Chapter 9: Invited and Invented Spaces of Public Participation in South African Local Government: The study of community engagement practices and service delivery protests -- Chapter 10: Movement communication practices of students & the poor: The political economy of communication -- Part 4: Cases Studies in applied Strategic Communication, Development, Social Change and Electoral Reform -- Chapter 11: Public health Communication and Growth -- Chapter 12: Using Digital Technologies in Community Radio to Promote Social Change in Kenya -- Chapter 13: Dwindling Voters’ Turnout and Citizenship Participation: A Political Market Orientation Analysis of Nigeria’s 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections -- Chapter 14: The Arena Model as a basis for communication strategy formulation for the National Development Plan -- Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nature of scholarship between the two fields, through the lens of prevailing governance and sustainability challenges facing African countries, today. This edited volume covers issues that have adversely affected the achievement of goals related to humanitarian upliftment, development and social change for all African nations. Consequently, citizen participation, which lies at the heart of these challenges when considering the question of sustainable governance and policy development for social change in an African context is addressed. To this end, a reflection is also made on various case studies that exist where local citizens do not inform sustainable development programmes, while the promotion of bottom-up development and social change is largely replaced by top-down instrumental action approaches and hemispheric communication instead of strategic communication. Themes explored include: ● Communication for social change, bottom-up development and social movements in the local government sphere ● Strategic communication in governance, planning and policy reforms ● The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in achieving development of objectives geared towards good governance in Africa ● Public participation, protests, and resistance from 'below' ● Public sector health communications and development ● Media relations, accountability and contested development narratives with the Fourth Estate ● Social media and eParticipation in government development programs. Tsietsi Mmutle is Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the department of Business Management, he teaches Strategic Communication Management modules at honours and Masters level in the Communication Management unit. Tshepang B. Molale is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, specializing in communication for development and social change. Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola lectures in the Mass Communication department of the Olabisi Onbanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigera. Olebogeng Selebi completed her PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. She was the host of the first Nobel Prize Dialogue event ever to take place on African soil.
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    ISBN: 9783031157981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 280 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Motion picture acting. ; Actors. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Social Body and Its Transformations -- 3. The Romance of Talent -- 4. Character as a Zombie Concept -- 5. Acting and Technology -- 6. The Search for Work -- 7. The Vicissitudes of Persona -- 8. The Star as a Digital Beneficiary. 9. Conclusion: The Condition of Para-Stardom.
    Abstract: This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of training, looking at various theories of what the actor does, debates about casting, and the impact of reality television and social media. In the increasing effort to find ways to overcome the precarious labour market for actors and other performers, the traditional emphasis on theatrical character has been replaced by the celebration of the persona – a public image of the performer as a personal brand. As a result, a physiocratic elite, that literally incorporates the collective labour of cultural workers into the star or celebrity body, has formed. This book explores how the star or celebrity’s appearance and comportment are positioned as the rule of nature, formed and abiding outside capitalism as a mode of production. This book will be of interest to those studying theatre studies and performance, contemporary stardom and celebrity and the impact of technology on the formation of identity. Barry King is Professor of Communications at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author (with Sean Cubitt, Harriet Margolies and Thierry Jutel) of Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Taking Fame to market: Essays on the prehistory and post-history of Hollywood stardom ( Palgrave, 2014). He is on the editorial board of Celebrity Studies and Palgrave Communications and is a project reviewer for the Australian Research Council. King has published a substantial number of articles that explore the relationships been popular culture, celebrity and stardom and digital media. His other publications focus on creative labour, semiotic determinism, the sociology of acting and performance and the New Zealand Cultural industries.
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    ISBN: 9783031444821
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 189 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Literary Disability Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Games. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: 1. Introduction Other Worlds, Other Selves: Moving Beyond Escapism -- 2. ‘Everyone’s a Composite’: Rethinking Three of Cyberpunk’s Overlooked Women Writers as Posthumanists -- 3. The Performing Wiggin Siblings: Reading Ender’s Game through Disability Theory -- 4. The Threat of Silence in Mark Alpert’s Dystopian Simulation -- From Memes to Comics: Virtual Embodiment in Visual Rhetoric -- 5. The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other -- 6. Learning Through Play: An Inclusive Pedagogy for the 21st Century -- 7. Conclusion The Augmented Self: Rethinking Virtual Simulation and Disability.
    Abstract: Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of disability identity in a variety of science fiction texts: adult novels, young adult literature and comics, as well as ethnographic research with gamers. Haukaas argues that instead of being a means of escapism, simulated experiences are a valuable tool for cultivating self-acceptance and promoting empathy. Through increasingly accessible technology and innovative gameplay, traditional hierarchies are dismantled, and different ways of being are both explored and validated. Ultimately, the book aims to expand our understandings of disability, performance, and self-creation in significant ways by exploring the boundless selves that the simulated environments in these texts allow. Anelise Haukaas is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, USA, as well as the faculty advisor of Seaswells, the art and literary magazine. Her research interests include genre fiction, disability studies, folklore and mythology, popular culture, and new media.
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    ISBN: 9783031401572
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 261 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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    Keywords: European literature ; Drama. ; Literature
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power -- 3 “The Bloody Proclamation to Escape”: Edgar and Romantic Outlawry -- 4 Dividing Between Daughters -- 5 Lear’s Redemption -- 6 Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today -- Index.
    Abstract: This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear’s encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben’s models. Goneril’s treason shows the sovereign’s consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear’s crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book’s conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear’s persistent association with the Holocaust. Dr Alexander Thom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His postdoctoral research focuses on the displaced in English Renaissance drama. This book is based on his Midlands3Cities AHRC doctorate, which was awarded in 2020 by the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031345975
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 332 p. 32 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Digital media.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Unlocking Memory Studies: Understanding Collective Remembrance During and of Covid-19 -- Part I Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom? -- Chapter 2. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of Digital Memory Work by Young Women in London During Covid-19 -- Chapter 3. Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing an Ongoing Crisis -- Chapter 4. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil -- Chapter 5. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria -- Chapter 6. Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered -- Part II Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns? -- Chapter 7. “No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration -- Chapter 8. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen Under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kong -- Chapter 9. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil -- Chapter 10. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa -- Part III Memorial Museums and National Days: Did Digital Practices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic? -- Chapter 11. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy -- Chapter 12. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns -- Chapter 13. #DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory -- Chapter 14. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook During the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture? -- Chapter 15. Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?./.
    Abstract: "This jewel of a book sets a new persuasive agenda for memory studies by an international group of scholars. Exploring individual and collective mnemonic practices that took place during Covid-19 and of Covid-19, this book offers indispensable contributions to timely questions: Has the pandemic transformed mnemonic practices? Will Covid-19 become part of collective memory?" —Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "How the Covid-19 pandemic unlocked memory. A truly international cast of authors throw light on archiving, mobilization, and the digitalization of memory – from Athens to Brazil, from Nigeria to Hong Kong. Essential reading for everyone interested in Corona and collective memory." —Astrid Erll, Goethe University Frankfurt "This innovative volume documents a profound transformation in digital memory practices triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. Empirically rich contributions interrogate mnemonic activism as a response to trauma, a form of protest and an homage to legacies of violence. It is an essential reference for the study of memory." —Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics and Political Science This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration. It aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory tracing both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic. Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) and the academic director of the SIT learning center in Serbia. She is the author of Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (2022). Sarah Gensburger is a professor at CNRS-Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent books are Beyond Memory. Can we really learn from the past? (Palgrave, 2020, with S. Lefranc) and Memory on my doorstep. Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood (2019). .
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    ISBN: 9783031466069
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 209 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Science ; Anthropology. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: 1 The New Production of Expert Knowledge in Education: An Overview -- 2 Universality and interdependence in transnational education governance -- 3 The rise of mono-disciplinarity: Learning, Economics and the Production of Non-Knowledge -- 4 Constructing consensus by data -- 5 Beyond objectivity? Story-telling and reflexivity as expert work -- 6 Navigating the Market of Measurement: Data, Quality, and Competition -- 7 New Forms of Expert Knowledge Production in Global Education Governance.
    Abstract: This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European Research Council funded project ‘International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field’ (METRO, 2017-2022), Education, Quantification and Utopia focuses on the ways that metrological realism has constructed a well-supported epistemic infrastructure, built on relationships and practices that go beyond the mere objectivity and reliability of numerical evidence. The book’s chapters outline how the production of new forms of education expertise have led to ideational and institutional interdependencies, and ultimately the making of an intricate, fragmented and opaque knowledge and governance web. Sotiria Grek is Professor of European and Global Education Governance at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. She works on education policy, transnational policy learning, and the politics of quantification, knowledge, and governance. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project “International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field” (METRO). She has recently co-authored ‘Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Public Policy’ (Springer 2022) and co-edited World Yearbook of Education 2021: Accountability and Datafication in Education (Routledge 2020).
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    ISBN: 9783031466373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 226 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Welfare state. ; Administrative law. ; Law ; Human rights.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: transformations of european welfare states and social rights (stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev) -- Part I: State Regulation, Transformation of State egulation, And Agents Acting on Behalf of The State -- Chapter 2. Claim and blame – how welfare law institutionalises deservingness (tobias eule) -- Chapter 3. What is the function of welfare law today? Consequences of the work-line polic (inger-johanne sand) -- Chapter 4. The penal voluntary sector’s role in the nordic welfare states: a shadow state?(annette olesen, maija helminen & emy bäcklin) -- Part II: Encounters Between Welfare Professionals And Citizens -- Chapter 5. A double helix: the intertwined history of the marginalisation of welfare clients and their activist lawyers and advisers in the transformation of the welfare state in england and wales (pete sanderson & hilary sommerlad) -- Chapter 6. The paradoxical reality of welfare professionals: encounters between welfare professionals and citizens within social security in the netherlands (paulien de winter) -- Chapter 7. Asylum case adjudication in sweden, country of origin information and epistemic violence (martin joormann) -- Part III: Citizens’ Mobilisation of Social Rights -- Chapter 8. Access to justice and social rights for victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in sweden (isabel schoultz polina) -- Chapter 9. Welfare clients’ relational legal consciousness: an empirical perspective from the netherland (marc hertogh) -- Chapter 10. Youth homelessness in the danish welfare state: how do young persons in homelessness mobilise rights?(stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev) -- Chapter 11. Conclusion: transformations of european welfare states and social right (stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev).
    Abstract: This open access edited book investigates European social rights in practice from socio-legal perspectives. It brings together fourteen socio-legal scholars, representing Nordic and Western European countries, who analyse different aspects pertaining to European social rights, namely the regulation of social rights, encounters between welfare professionals and citizens, and citizens’ mobilisation of social rights. These three different aspects from the structure for the sections in the anthology, each analysing transformations related to regulation, encounters and rights mobilisation. The book contributes to the existing literature as it focuses on interdependent transformations on macro, meso and micro levels which are key for understanding processes and contexts related to European social rights in practice. It speaks particularly to academics in sociology of law and/or regulation. Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen is Postdoc in the Department of Law at University of Southern Denmark. Ole Hammerslev is Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031409349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 281 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature. ; Art, Modern
    Abstract: I. Introduction. Rewriting the Soul: the Persistence of a Concept 2 -- II. Writing the Soul 23 -- 1. Egyptian Souls in Victorian Minds: The Transmigration of the “Ka” in Egyptianising Fiction -- 2. E. S. Dallas’s Literary Theory: The “Hidden Soul” and the Workings of the Imagination -- 3. “You haven’t let me call my soul my own”: Soul, psyche and the thrill of nothingness in May Sinclair’s fiction -- 4. Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo -- 5. Forging in the smithy of David Foster Wallace’s postmodern soul -- III. The Aesthetics of the Soul -- 6. Transmutations of the Soul: Anima and her Heart in Christopher Harvey’s School of the Heart (1647) -- 7. Let us go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn de Morgan -- 8. “Dancing the American Soul: Secular and Sacred Motifs in the Choreographic American Renaissance.”- 9. Casting the Soul: Antony Gormley’s sculptures -- Sweet Soul Music -- IV. The Ethics and Politics of the Soul -- 11. Colliding Circles: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concept of the Soul Between Spiritual Self-Realization and Materialistic Expansion -- 12. “Souls on Board”: A Counter-History of Modern Mobility -- 13. African American Women’s Literary Renaissance: A Template for Spiritual Fiction in the 21st Century?- 14. “Persisting souls in a persisting myth: appropriation and transmigration in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013).”.
    Abstract: This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, spanning cultures and schools of thought. Drawing on philosophical, religious and psychological theories of the soul, it emphasizes the far-reaching and enduring epistemological function of the concept in literature, art and politics. The authors argue that the concept of the soul has shaped the understanding of human life and persistently irrigated cultural productions. They show how the concept of soul was explored and redefined by writers and artists, remaining relevant even as it became removed from its ancient or Christian origins. Estelle Murail is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the Catholic University of Paris and Associate Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Paris, France. She has published several articles on the flâneur and cities, and co-edited Dickens and the Virtual City (Palgrave, 2017). Her current research focuses on urban spaces, the environment, crossings and networks, and the notion of persistence. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Paris, France. Her research mostly focuses on the interplay of individuality with history and politics in fiction and autobiographical writings. Spirituality is central to her reflection on literary representations of individual and collective identities. .
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    ISBN: 9783031449239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 219 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Religion ; Literature
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Dialectics -- Chapter 2: The Wisdom-Power Dialectic -- Chapter 3: The Ethics-Morality Dialectic -- Chapter 4: The Ideology Utopa Dialectic -- Chapter 5: The Theism-Atheism Dialectic -- Chapter 6: Summation and Closing Thoughts.
    Abstract: This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study—independently of one another—used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world. Howard Ira Einsohn was a part-time instructor at Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning for a combined total of 15 years (2004-2019), most of which were spent at the former institution. During this period, he taught courses in writing, advanced writing, technical writing, literature surveys, drama and the short story, as well as courses on Ibsen, Flannery O’Connor, and Tim O’Brien.
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    ISBN: 9783031439650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 164 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Service industries. ; Communication and traffic.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: How Digital Platforms are Changing Music -- 2. Streaming: Where it Comes From -- 3. Platforms: Why Music Depends on Them -- 4. Algorithms: Who Selects Music for Us -- 5. Listeners: How They Shape Music Consumption Practices -- 6. Artificial Intelligence: Where the Music of the Future is Heading -- 7. Conclusions: What is the Value of Music. .
    Abstract: "Magaudda and Bonini present a look into digital platforms that will change the conversation about how platforms operate. Instead of assuming that platforms are neutral, Magaudda and Bonini show that platforms are embedded in networks of people. As a result, they show how platforms have become the new gatekeepers for cultural content. This book will change the way we think about platforms for years to come." —David Arditi, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA "Magaudda and Bonini are two of the most prolific and thoughtful scholars on the topic of music and technology. In this book they provide insight into how streaming platforms are shaping music production and consumption cultures. This book will help us better grasp how we can intervene in creating a music ecosystem that benefits everyone.” —Robert Prey, Assistant Professor at the Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today’s society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners. Tiziano Bonini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Siena. He has co-edited the book Radio Audiences and Participation in the age of network society (with B. Monclus, Routledge, 2015) and co-authored the book Algorithms of Resistance (with E. Treré, MIT Press, 2024). Paolo Magaudda is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Padova. He is author of History of Digital Media (with G. Balbi, Routledge, 2018) and Youth People and The Smartphone (with M. Drusian and C.M. Scarcelli, Palgrave 2022). .
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    ISBN: 9783031398926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 303 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Cultural property. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Peace.
    Abstract: CHAPTER 1: Introduction. Mass atrocities, memory and cultural representations in the Global South - Lungile A. Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu and Shepherd Mpofu -- CHAPTER 2: Decolonizing memory studies - Lungile Augustine Tshuma -- CHAPTER 3: The Cold War politics and the dynamics of conflicts in the Global South - Mphathisi Ndlovu and Lungile A. Tshuma -- CHAPTER 4: Resisting oblivion and memory: The destruction of Gukurahundi memorial plaques in Zimbabwe - Shepherd Mpofu and Siphosami Malunga, Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and a human rights lawyer -- CHAPTER 5: A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death and the Spectrality of Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico - Pedro J Gonzalez Corona, PhD, Assistant Professor - Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA -- CHAPTER 6: Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo - Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka -- CHAPTER 7: Memoricide, Apologias, and Representation: Centring Rwanda’s ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse in the Present Tense - Nick Mdika Tembo, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Malawi -- CHAPTER 8: Fiction literary texts as sites of alternative memory and archive making. By Gibson Ncube, PhD, Lecturer at Stellenbosch University and Yemurai Gwatirisa, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe -- CHAPTER 9: “Carving their place in history”: Reconstructing Public Memories of Colonial Struggle through Women’s Writing. By Asante Lucy Mtenje, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Malawi -- CHAPTER 10: Genocide, memory work and the falsehood of human rights in postapartheid South Africa - Khanyile Mlotshwa, PhD, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) Global Scholarly Dialogue Programme research fellow -- CHAPTER 11: ‘Witnessing’ and ‘postmemories’ in Gukurahundi Documentary Films: A case study of The Children of the Genocide (2021) - Mphathisi Ndlovu -- CHAPTER 12: Exploring the representation of genocidal rape in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007): A gendered perspective - Blessed Ngwenya, PhD, Research Associate at the University of South Africa, and Mcebisi Ngwenya, Independent Researcher -- CHAPTER 13: The constructions of the Homoine massacre in Mozambican mainstream newspapers - Isaias Carlos Fuel, PhD candidate at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Alexandre Dinis Zavala, PhD, Lecturer at Escola Superior de Journalismo, Mozambique and Carlos Vitannisso, lecturer at Escola Superior de Journalismo, Mozambique -- CHAPTER 14: On memory-making: Truth telling, reconciliation and peacebuilding in Zimbabwe - Darlington Tshuma, policy analyst and governance specialist/2021 Africa Policy Fellow of the School of Transnational Governance (STG) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Talent Moyo, Lecturer at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
    Abstract: This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics. Mphathisi Ndlovu is a research fellow at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Mphathisi is also an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). He is also an alumnus of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) fellowship at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Mphathisi holds a PhD in Journalism from Stellenbosch University. His research interests are in collective memory, identity politics and digital cultures. Mphathisi’s works have been published as book chapters, and peer reviewed articles in journals such as Digital Journalism, African Cultural Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, and Nations and Nationalism. Mphathisi is also co-editor of a book titled The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses and EpistemicStruggles (2022). Lungile Augustine Tshuma holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a Senior PostDoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Lungile is also an Associate Professor in the department of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). His research interests are in journalism, photography and memory. He has published in local and international peer reviewed journals and among them are: African Journalism Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Media Culture and Society, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of South Africa. He has published several articles on communication, media and journalism in Africa. His body of work covers social media and politics; social media and identity; social media and protests. He is the co-editor of New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures (Palgrave 2023); Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge 2023) and Mediating Xenophobia In Africa (Palgrave 2020). He is editor of The Politics Of Laughter In The Social Media Age: Perspectives From The Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Digital Humour In The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives From The Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031407918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 245 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; America ; Emigration and immigration. ; Women ; Literature
    Abstract: Section I: Irish American Women’s Activism (1880-1920) -- 1. Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League -- 2. Mother Jones, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Famine Memory -- 3. Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee, American Feminist -- Section II: Famine Memory and Irish American Women’s Writing -- 4. From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: the Transportability of Famine memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey and Alice Nolan -- 5. Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883); an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History -- Section III: The Global Famine Diaspora: Mary Anne Sadlier and Her Contemporary Female Authors -- 6. Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant Women Writers’ Perceptions of the Famine Migration and Resettlement in British North America -- 7. Sentimentally Irish, Racially White: The Balancing Act of Irish-American Identity in the Novels of Sadlier and Meany.
    Abstract: The Famine Diaspora and Irish-American Women’s Writing considers the works of eleven North-American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection examines the ways the writings of these women contributed significantly to the construction of Irish North-American identities, and played a crucial role in the dissemination of Famine memories transgenerationally as well as transnationally. The included annotated excerpts from these women writers’ works and the accompanying essays by prominent international scholars offer insights on the sociopolitical position of the Irish in North America, their connections with the homeland, women’s activities in transnational (often Catholic) publishing networks and women writers’ mediation of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Furthermore, the volume illustrates the generic variety of Irish-American women’s writing of the Famine generation, which comprises political treatises, novels, short stories and poetry, and bears witness to these female authors’ profound engagement with political and social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and woman’s vote. Marguérite Corporaal is Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She was PI of Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921), is a NWO-VICI grant recipient for her project Redefining the Region (2019-24), and PI of Heritages of Hunger, a Dutch research council-funded NWO-NWA project (2019-24). She is the author of Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847–70 (2017). Dr. Jason King is Academic Coordinator of the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and a member of the Government of Ireland National Famine Commemoration Committee. His recent publications with Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran include More Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger (2022, 2021) and Irish Famine Migration Narratives: Eyewitness Testimonies, vol II, The History of the Irish Famine (2019). Peter D. O’Neill is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. With David Lloyd, he co-edited an essay collection, The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas, (Palgrave Macmillan; 2009). His award-winning book, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, was published in paperback in 2019. .
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    ISBN: 9789819935857
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 346 p. 16 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Asia ; Political sociology. ; Identity politics. ; Regionalism. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter-1: Introduction and Theoretical Outline of Human Security -- Chapter-2 Imaginations and Constructions: Rethinking Human Security -- Chapter-3: From Traditional Security to Human Security: A Conceptual Framework -- Chapter-4: State’s Role in Vietnam’s Pharmaceutical Industry: An Approach to Sustainable Development for Human Health Security -- Chapter-5: Approaches and Challenges of Japan’s Human Security Policy: An Evaluation -- Chapter-6: A Comparative Study between the Minorities of India with the Minorities of Pakistan and Bangladesh: Question of Human Security -- Chapter-7: Security Concern of Women at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh: Analysis form Human Security and State Security Perspective -- Chapter-8: Food Security in Bangladesh: Searching for Durable Strategies -- Chapter-9: Human Insecurity in Myanmar: Varied Responses and the Way Forward -- Chapter-10: Human Security as National Security: Understanding Pakistan in 21st Century -- Chapter-11: Human Security and Livelihood in Afghanistan -- Chapter-12: A Decade of Armed Conflict and Vulnerability of Children in Nepal: In Search of the Ray of Solution -- Chapter-13: Challenges to Human Security in Central Asia: The Impact of Aral Sea Crisis and Covid-19 Pandemic.
    Abstract: This book discusses Human Security from a theoretical perspective. It builds theories in order to understand a phenomenon in a structured and well-ordered way. It sheds light on the conditions of the economy, food, health, community, environmental and political security in Asian states. It explores the idea of human security to understand the issues jeopardizing an individual’s security in the Asian continent and suggests policies to overcome these problems. This book argues that the nature of the government and the constitution are equally essential in ensuring the human security of a country. Some countries in Asia are not only economically vulnerable but also politically disrupted. The issues of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, militancy, terrorism, and ethnoreligious conflicts have posed threats to human security. The pandemic COVID-19 has brought a great humanitarian crisis. The role of the Asian states in combatting COVID-19 and protecting public health is highlighted in this book. With a multidimensional outlook this edited volume attempts to delineate an interdisciplinary discourse of human security in an Asian context. Debasish Nandy (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor and Head of, the Department of Political Science at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. Dr. Nandy is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies at the same university. Dr. Nandy was the Visiting Faculty in the Department of Foreign Area Studies at Tajik National University, Tajikistan in 2019. Dr Nandy was the Visiting Faculty at the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2022. He was the Visiting Faculty at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany in 2023. Dr Nandy has edited 12 books and is the author of 5 books. He has published 54 research articles in various reputed journals and contributed 63 book chapters in edited volumes. His research areas are India’s Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Peace Studies, Refugees and Migration, South Asian Politics and Environment. Debtanu Majee (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bidhan Chandra College, Rishra, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, and a Ph.D. research scholar in the Department of Political Science, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. Dr Majee is also a Guest Faculty member in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research interest includes Human Security in South Asia.
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    ISBN: 9783031462931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 419 p. 27 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Business. ; Africa. ; Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; Technological innovations. ; SDG 9 ; innovation ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; sustainable development ; infrastructure ; sustainability ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Capacities as Facilitators of Sustainable Development in sub-Saharan Africa’s Informal Economy Ibidunni, A.S.; Ogundana, O.M.; and Olokundun, M.A. -- Section One: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Informal Entrepreneurship Ecosystem -- Chapter 2. Jump On The Bandwagon: Finding Our Place in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discourse Oladele, S.; Adigun, O.; and Laosebikan, J. -- Chapter 3: Small and Medium Enterprises Sustainability Strategies beyond the Periods of Environmental Shocks: Evidence from a Developing Economy Agbi, B.D. and Ibidunni, A.S. . – Chapter 4: Motivating entrepreneurial activities to achieve sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa Onoshakpor, C. and Ogundana, O.M. -- Chapter 5: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and the Role of Telecom Multinationals in Achieving SDG 9 in Developing Economies Umoru, U; Udie, J. A; and Udeozor, V. -- Section Two: Innovations in Entrepreneurship Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 6: Towards an Integrative Model of Innovative Entrepreneurship Education for Institutional Sustainability Ogbari, M.E.; Chima, G.U.K.; Olanrewaju, F.O.; Olokundun, M.A.; and Ufua, D.E. -- Chapter 7: Informality in Africa In Relation To Sustainable Development Goals and 9: Framework For Innovation And Sustainable Industrialization Amuda, M.O.H. -- Chapter 8: Transportation and Economic Development: Advancing Technological Innovation and Sustainability in the Transportation Sector of a Developing Nation Olowogbon, T.S.; Fakayode, S.B.; and Adebisi, L.O. -- Chapter 9: Drivers of Eco-Innovation among Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria Popoola, O.A. and Popoola, G.O. -- Chapter 10: Open Innovation across The Innovation Value Chain: An African Perspective Mdaka, L. E. and Longweni, M. -- Chapter 11: Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Institutions on Innovative Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan African Countries Olarinde, M.O. and Auta, S. -- Section Three: Economic Impact of Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Microfinance as a Vehicle for Zero Poverty and Gender Equality in Nigeria Ude, D.K. -- Chapter 13: Financial Inclusion and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa Region Achugamonu, B.U.; Akintola, A.F.; Owolabi, F.; and Isibor, A. -- Chapter 14: Adaptiveness of MSMEs during Times of Environmental Disruption: Exploratory Study of Capabilities-Based Insights from Nigeria Ibidunni, A.S.; Ayeni, A.A.W.; and Otokiti, B. -- Chapter 15: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: A Leadership Framework Opute, A.P.; Irene, B.O.; Jawad, C.; and Agupusi, P. -- Chapter 16: Conclusion: Informal Economy as a Springboard for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development in sub-Saharan Africa Ibidunni, A.S.; Ogundana, O.M.; and Olokundun, M.A.
    Abstract: This edited collection aims to demystify the interconnectedness between the factors and actors involved with innovation and entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) informal economy. This is set against the backdrop of a rising population and decreasing opportunities for white collar jobs, as well as the continent’s limited access to resources. Exposing the underlying motivations in Africa’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, particularly in the informal sector, the editors argue that there is a significant knowledge gap, which this book seeks to fill. It concerns institutionalization, motivational factors, the harnessing of innovative potentials of Africa’s informal sector entrepreneurs and their supporting role in achieving a more sustainable African region. By identifying patterns of domesticating entrepreneurship theories and showcasing the latest research, the book covers a wide array of topics discussing a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective to entrepreneurship theory and practices in Africa. In this way it contributes to the goals of SDG 9 (Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation) in Africa. Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Business Administration Department at Chrisland University, Nigeria. His research interests are Strategic Management, Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship in developing economies. Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University UK, specializes in Entrepreneurship, Venture Growth, & International Business. Notably, he has received awards for his contributions, holds the position of Associate Editor, and is a regular reviewer for top academic journals. Maxwell Ayodele Olokundun is a researcher and member of faculty in the department of business management at Covenant University. He holds a PhD with specialisation in Business and Entrepreneurship. Maxwell is a start-up coach and an entrepreneurship consultant for firms in the retail and oil and gas sector. .
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789819949779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 157 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics. ; Translating and interpreting. ; Lexicology. ; Intercultural communication.
    Abstract: Related Studies on Formulaic Sequences -- MT-oriented Analysis of Chunk Composition in Business Correspondences -- Chunk Extraction in Business English Correspondences -- Corresponding Relationship and Rules -- Construction Mode and Application of a Chunk Bank.
    Abstract: This book sheds new light on chunk in business correspondence in order to promote the advancement of machine translation. By presenting a bilingual chunk table for correspondence and providing basic theoretical and empirical data on the construction of an MT-based English-Chinese chunk bank for business correspondence, it seeks to improve the accuracy of machine translation systems in a new way. It mainly addresses two questions: (1) How can business English correspondence chunks be defined in machine translation? (2) What are the correspondences between English-Chinese business letter chunks for machine translation? With the aid of a parallel corpus, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and the construction grammar theory, the book puts forward a theoretical model of chunk composition analysis. Further, the findings presented here can be used for the machine translation of English-Chinese business letters, helping to break down communication barriers and promote international business and exchanges. .
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    ISBN: 9789819951871 , 9819951879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 133 Seiten) , 5 illus.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corneliussen, Hilde G Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Science Social aspects ; Sex ; Industrial sociology ; Technology Sociological aspects ; Information technology ; Science and Technology Studies ; Gender Studies ; Sociology of Work ; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) ; Science, Technology and Society
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Singapore : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789811541865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 337 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Constitutional law. ; Administrative law.
    Abstract: Basic Theories of Representative System -- History of Representative System -- Representative System and Popular Sovereignty -- Representative System and Electoral System -- Representative System and State Organs -- Representative System and Party System -- Representative System and Interest Groups -- Comparison of Capitalist Parliamentary Systems -- Comparison of Socialist People’s Representative System -- Comparison of Capitalist Parliamentary System and Socialist People’s Representative System.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates the social and historical conditions for the existence and development of the representative system and uncovers the laws dictating its occurrence, development and operation. Due to the barriers of language and cultural communication, the understanding of democracy differs in western and Chinese cultures, which leads to many misinterpretations and even bias. The book displays the merits and drawbacks of different forms of democracy on the basis of a comparative study of the different representative systems and argues that different representative systems can co-exist side by side and that the selection of the appropriate form of democracy must reflect the actual conditions in a given country. Therefore, a blind evaluation or criticism is unreliable. The book could provide good opportunities for western scholars to see how the Chinese scholars understand democracy and the representative system, help the westerners to understand the forms of democracy with Chinese characteristics and rationality of the socialist people’s representative system, grasp the true essence of Chinese Constitution and democracy and give up their bias towards China for a better communication and mutual understanding. This book constructs a theoretical framework for studying the representative system and provides a solid foundation for its further research, promoting the improvement and development of constitutional jurisprudence. Even today, the comparative study of the basic theories, system building, and operation of the representative system are of great theoretical significance and practical value in the Chinese political development and reform. The book is primarily intended for graduates and scholars in the areas of constitutional jurisprudence on China and abroad. It is a must-read for constitutional researchers and those who want to know the essential differences between Chinese and Western constitutional jurisprudence.
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    Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore | Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    ISBN: 9789819953622 , 9819953626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 400 Seiten) , 9 illus.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ikeda, Sanford A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human geography ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Urban policy ; Economics ; Sociology, Urban ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Human Geography ; Social Theory ; Urban Policy ; Economics ; Urban Sociology ; Regional and Spatial Economics
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031504587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 244 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Krieg ; Stellvertreterkrieg ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Ethik ; Moral ; Internationale Norm ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 The Nature of Proxy Relationships and their Ethics -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 1: Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 2: The Cold War -- Chapter 4 Jus ad Bellum and the Implications for Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 5 Mitigating the Moral Hazards of Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Applying the Proxy Moral Framework.
    Abstract: “At a time when proxy wars are being fought across the globe, this book should be required reading for senior military and national security officials. Professor Pfaff, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Just War, gives us a fresh and indispensable guide to the ethics and legality of proxy wars and how they fit into the long tradition of Just War. He also provides a much-needed blueprint for the containment and resolution of such conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East.” –Michael Hirsh, Columnist, Foreign Policy Magazine “Professor Pfaff's book brings clarity and rigor to an increasingly important feature of international relations: states' use of proxies to achieve indirectly what they prefer not to do directly. It makes a crucial contribution to the normative analysis of international competition by carefully identifying the potential moral harms and hazards of this type of relationship. In an era in which many conflicts feature hostilities between proxies, this book is an essential guide to understanding their nature and complexity.” --Mitt Regan, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center "Tony Pfaff's excellent book examines the ethics of an increasingly important aspect of warfare: supporting proxies who do the actual fighting and dying to accomplish their national objectives while furthering their sponsor's interests. Highly recommended for those who care about keeping America both safe and morally strong." --Dr. John Nagl, Professor Warfighting Studies, US Army War College, and author of Eating Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam Proxies can effectively transfer risk and lower the costs of international competition; however, they set conditions for moral failure and hazard. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book addresses how international actors can address those challenges and establish ethical and effective security relationships. DR. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) is the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Senior Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. .
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