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  • 101
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    ISBN: 9783031496042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 242 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Playwriting. ; Dramatists. ; Literature, Modern ; Social history.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 : Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Novels of Bernard Shaw -- Chapter 3: The Plays of Bernard Shaw -- Chapter 4: Transition to Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 5: The Novels of Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (Shaw was twenty-six years older than Woolf), and public demeanor - Shaw sought public attention while Woolf shunned the spotlight - they actively held similar convictions on most of the pressing and controversial issues of the day. This book demonstrates that both engaged in social reform through the Fabian Society; both took public anti-war positions and paid dearly for it; both fought British censorship throughout most of their careers as writers; both sought to strengthen women’s rights; and both endeavored to revolutionize their respective art forms, believing that art could bring about positive social change. The main focus of the book, however, concerns how both also created interior authors - characters who write and who either self-censor their own works or highly publicized messages or are censored by their fellow characters. These fictional authors may be considered reflections of their creators and their respective milieus and serve to illuminate the satisfactions and torments of each famous author during the writing process. Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Ph.D., retired from the University of South Florida, University College, USA, where she served as founding director of the Graduate Certificate Program, the Bachelor of General Studies, and other adult and professional programs. She has taught in the USF English Department where she specialized in early modern, modern, late Victorian, and American drama. She has written or edited eight books and numerous articles, primarily on the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, including Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw (2001). She was guest editor of SHAW 28: Shaw and War. Five of Lenker’s books were co-edited with Dr. Sara M. Deats and focus on literature and social issues, including Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (1999). .
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  • 102
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    ISBN: 9783031465611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 340 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: “This is a stunning book about Scandinavianism, based on huge archival work, demonstrating that a unification nationalism was close to the success enjoyed by Italy and Germany. Another consideration deserves stark highlighting: this is the most exciting book in nationalism studies to have appeared for many years, offering a novel realist theory of nationalism that destroys many taken for granted assumptions, about the nineteenth century for sure—but with implications quite as much for present circumstances as well.” -John A. Hall, Professor emeritus, McGill This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter of size. Whereas their union of 1814 offered Sweden-Norway geostrategic security tempered by fear of Russia, Denmark was the biggest territorial loser of the Napoleonic Wars and faced separatism connected to German nationalism in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This evolved into a national conflict that threatened Denmark’s survival as a nation. Meanwhile, a new generation of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians had come to regard kindred language, culture and religion as a case for Scandinavian union that could offer protection against Russia and Germany. When the European revolutions of 1848 unleashed the First Schleswig War, the influence of Scandinavianism was such that it nearly turned into a Scandinavian war of unification. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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  • 103
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    ISBN: 9783031508752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 305 p. 590 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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    Keywords: Europe ; Social history. ; Women
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Studying Muslim Women in Ethnographic Discourse—A Background -- Chapter 2. Paradigms, Approaches, Issues, Challenges -- Chapter 3. Islam and the Traditional Gender Hierarchy: 1983–1992 -- Chapter 4. Approaching the New Islamist Women: 1994–2006 -- Chapter 5. Women in the AKP Years, 2007–2021: Conservative Politics and Neoliberalism -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences, processes of neo-liberal globalization and globalization of Islamism as well as political, social, cultural and economic transformations at the local level shape these periods. As an exceptional example of modernization in the Middle East and the post-imperial states in South-East Europe, Turkey has been experiencing tensions between Islamic beliefs and practices and Westernization and secularization processes. Countless aspects of Muslim women’s lives appear as symbols and indicators in this society like in many other Muslim majority societies and to scholars of gender and women’s studies in discussing the faith-based patriarchy. Thus, this book exhibits the necessity of developing a critical perspective on ethnographic representations of Muslim women in Turkey. Petek Onur is an assistant professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She was a Marie-Curie fellow at the same department in 2020-2022 and postdoctoral researcher at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies in 2023-2024. .
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    ISBN: 9783031509100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 348 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Keywords: Ecocriticism. ; Literary form. ; Literature ; European literature.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Is there a German-speaking Nature Writing? Broken Traditions and Transnational References -- 3. Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Nature Writing -- 4. "Sie scheinen zu fliehen ": Nature and Poetry in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Italienische Reise (1813/17) -- 5. How to make nature speak? Novalis' Lehringe zu Sais -- 6. Nature Writing in Transcendental Perspective: Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry David Thoreau -- 7. Humboldtian Writing for the Anthropocene -- 8. Living Still: Stifter's Poetics of Nature -- ANKE KRAMER: Fluid "Homeland". Water and Nature Writing in Theodor Fontane's Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg -- 9. From Brehm's Animal Life to a Report for an Academy. Franz Kafka's Animal History as an Early Commentary on Writing about Nature -- 10. Roses, Figs, Gardens in the Work of Gertrud Kolmar and Ilse Langner -- 11. Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Theory of Behavior -- 12. On the Natural History of Nature Writing. Linné's Disciples.-13. The Representation of Alaska in Peter Handke's Langsame Heimkehr (1979) from the Point of View of Nature Writing -- 14. Nature Writing: On the Usefulness of a New Genre Concept for the Understanding of Sebald's Prose on the Example of the Essay Die Alpen im Meer -- 15. Esther Kinsky's Terrain Texts: A 'Non-Modern' Genre of the Nany Possible Ecologies -- 16. German Nature Writing: Notes on a Representational Gap, on the German Tradition of the Popular Nature Book, and on the Phenomenon 'Peter Wohlleben' -- 17. From Both Sides Now: Nature Writing at Literary Festivals.
    Abstract: This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing’ by numerous renowned international scholars. It discusses literary texts of natural history, nature exploration, nature poetry perception and reflection by German-speaking authors since the 18th century, including texts by Ulrike Draesner and on Esther Kinsky’s writing. The book asks whether the here discussed texts can, should, or may also be labeled as 'Nature Writing' and how this new perspective on German literary history might change traditional classifications such as “Naturlyrik” (nature poetry) in German literary history. Gabriele Dürbeck is Professor of Literature and Culture Studies at the University of Vechta, Germany. Christine Kanz is Professor of Modern German Literature within the “Cluster Mitte” co-operation in Linz and Salzburg, Austria and is Visiting Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. .
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  • 105
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    ISBN: 9783031465574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 480 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of 1848-1849 and the Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed both the international political system and nationalism into more ‘realist’ types. The First Schleswig War (1848-1851) having nearly turned into one of Scandinavian unification, the influence of Scandinavianism extended into the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian courts, cabinets and parliaments, attracting interest from the great powers. The Crimean War offered another window of opportunity for Scandinavian unification, before the Danish-German conflict over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein nearly united Scandinavia upon the outbreak of the Second Schleswig War in 1864. The ultimate failure of Scandinavianism in its unification efforts was not predetermined, although historiography has made it appear as such. Napoleon III, Cavour and Bismarck all actively contributed to plans for Scandinavian unification, the latter even declaring himself as “very strongly Scandinavian”. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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    ISBN: 9783031507472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 439 p. 25 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rahman, Andaleeb The future of India's social safety nets
    Keywords: Social policy. ; Agriculture ; Development economics. ; Economic history. ; Economics. ; Social Safety Nets ; Indian Welfare Safe ; Food Policy in India ; Political Economy ; Governance ; Development Economics ; Health Care ; Poverty ; Public Distribution System (PDS) ; Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
    Abstract: 1. India’s Safety Net System, Development and Challenges -- 2. Evolution of Social Safety Nets -- 3. Hunger to Nutrition Nexus -- 4. Poverty and Livelihoods -- 5. Intergenerational Growth -- 6. Health Care -- 7. Filling Gaps in Safety Net Design: Targeting, Modality and Technology -- 8. Political Economy Considerations and Effective Governance -- 9. Way Forward.
    Abstract: “An invaluable springboard for further research and action in this field.” —Jean Drèze, Ranchi University “A vision of the potential for social policy to move beyond palliative measures towards a resilient and inclusive social contract.” —Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute “A must read for those that want to understand the past, present, and future of social protection in the country and beyond.” —Ugo Gentilini, World Bank “It will become a standard reference in the literature.” —Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. COVID-19 unified the international response to human suffering, and the world has a lot to learn about the initiatives implemented in India since its independence. This open-access book covers the conceptualization, design, and impact of notable social welfare programs in India. The Future of India's Social Safety Nets combines insights from social protection, economic development, and social policy. It covers India’s social development in terms of three essential aspects of policy design: focus (intended beneficiaries), form (transfer modalities), and scope (developmental objectives). Highlighting developmental achievements and shortcomings, this book proposes a framework to foster human resilience through social protection. Andaleeb Rahman is an economist at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University. Prabhu Pingali is Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University.
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    ISBN: 9783031498992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 257 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Microeconomics. ; Economic history. ; Industrial organization. ; Music theory. ; music industry ; music piracy ; streaming service ; industrial organization ; microeconomic theory ; modelling ; experiential good ; experiential service ; production of music ; consumption of music ; concert attendance ; COVID lockdown
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Consuming Music -- 3. Basic Producer Theory -- 4. The Music Industry Disrupted: The COVID Era -- 5. The Global Marketplace for Music -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for creators and producers. This second edition includes new information about concert attendance and live performance in the COVID era and what followed, as well as the resultant economic impacts on the industry. Throughout the book, Byun questions how the business of music affects creativity and the extent to which this impacts the creative output of the individual artist. Chapters also address copyright enforcement and online piracy. This is an approachable resource for economists interested in the music industry as well as business and music majors studying the ways in which technology can impact a creative process. Christie Byun is Associate Professor of Economics at Wabash College in the USA. She teaches courses on statistics, econometrics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, and the fashion industry. Byun has done extensive research on the changes in the music industry using applied economic theory.
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    ISBN: 9783031543548
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 307 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Criminology. ; Social justice. ; Victims of crimes. ; Law ; Law
    Abstract: Section I – Introduction -- 1. Doctoring, Distorting, Denying, Doubting: Ignorance Production in the Age of Agnosis. By James Gacek and Richard Jochelson -- Section II - Punishing places and ignorance production -- 2 . “You Just Roll with the Punches”: The Manufacturing of Consent to Violence in Professional Ice Hockey. By Martine Dennie -- 3. Agency, Resistance, and Alienation: The Carceral Geographies of Art in the American Prison System. By Adam C. Morse -- Section III - Of Medical Doctors and ‘Spin’ Doctors: The socio-medical politics of ignorance production -- 4.Pandemic, epidemic, and systemic issues in US healthcare: Discussing the dynamics of a hybrid model and its impact on varied communities. By Amny Shuraydi and Amin Asfari -- 5. Gone, but not Forgotten: The Agnotological Necropolitics of Inquest Fatality Reports. By James Gacek, David Ireland, and Richard Jochelson -- Section IV - Towards Truth? Epistemic (in)justice in the Age of Agnosis -- 6.Faded by Design: Manufacturing Agnosis of Settler-Colonialism in an Era of Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. By Shawn Singh and Brandon Trask -- 7.Fragmenting Epistemologies: Towards Philosophical Foundations for Machine Learning in Law. By Katie Szilagyi -- Section V – Framing Family and Falsehoods: The legal and illegal production of ignorance -- 8.Mothering Under the Snow: Uncovering Mother work Under the Whitewashed Construct of the Good Mother. By Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich -- 9. A ‘need-to-know’ basis. By Charles Louisson -- Section VI – Proving Facts and Vax: The Age of Agnosis in the Age of COVID-19 -- 10. Call it Democracy: The slippage amongst rights, laws, and values in the pandemic era. By Brandon Trask -- 11.Shortfalls of the Bioethical Approach to COVID-19: Vaccine Hesitancy, the Right to Choose and Public Health Management in Canadal. By Shawn Singh -- 12.Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book seeks to further the understanding of the human experience of coerced and forced ignorance on social, human rights and criminal justice related topics, drawing together scholars from multiple, disciplinary fronts. It argues that people in our social world are forced or coerced through either implicatory or interpretive denial that is normalized through specific cultural and social mechanisms by which we refer to this as non-knowledge or agnosis. There has also been a lack of scholarship which examines how human victimization and power intersects by and through the systematic orchestration of forced ignorance and doubt upon daily human life. This book's focus is an examination of the ways in which people find themselves in social spaces without empirical clarity and understand that absence as satisfaction, stability, or perhaps even pleasure. It discusses a range of topics, including for example people's sense of relative safety, despite empirical realities suggesting otherwise. This book seeks to make visible the role of ignorance in governing society, highlighting how the late modern human experience in a post-World War II human rights era subsumes, subverts, and sublimates the complex relationship between knowledge and denial; the empirical gulf between knowledge and resistance may indeed breed complicit bliss. James Gacek is Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. Richard Jochelson is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031525391
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 668 p. 21 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology. ; Ethnology. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Comte -- Chapter 3: Spencer -- Chapter 4: Marx -- Chapter 5: Durkheim -- Chapter 6: Weber. - Chapter 7: Pareto -- Chapter 8: Simmel -- Chapter 9: Functionalism -- Chapter 10: Marxism and Conflict Theory -- Chapter 11: Symbolic Interactionism -- Chapter 12: Phenomenological Sociology -- Chapter 13: The Theory of Rational Choice -- Chapter 14: Theory of Postmodernity -- Chapter 15: Feminist Theory -- Chapter 16: Postcolonial Theory.
    Abstract: “This book offers a clearly structured and well-balanced overview of sociological approaches. It is firmly grounded in the history of the social science tradition and shows with detail and insight the variety of perspectives of leading thinkers and schools up until today. The chapters effectively carve out the niches of the different approaches and show their relevance and applicability to contemporary issues in an easy-to-understand way.” - Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland “By revealing the basic elements of key thinkers and major trends – their similarities as well as disagreements between them – this book shows how to think sociologically. At the same time, it demonstrates that sociological theorising is not confined to the library but may guide interventions in the world of politics, and contestations of power. This is a book for teachers and not only students. Sociological theory as Alessandro Orsini tells it is lively, relevant, and positively edgy.” - Jack Barbalet, Professor of Sociology, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Australia “Alessandro Orsini has delivered a distinctive textbook that should appeal to those searching for a compelling introduction to sociological theory that also delivers a unique slant on the discipline. Alongside chapters on schools of thought, Orsini has provided generous space to thinkers such as Pareto and Spencer whose influence is often overlooked elsewhere - readers will appreciate Orsini’s passion for the historical development of the subject.” - Dr Mark Murphy, Reader in Education and Public Policy, University of Glasgow, UK The first part of this textbook is dedicated to Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Pareto, and Simmel. The second part covers the major contemporary sociological perspectives: Functionalism, Marxism, Conflict theory, Symbolic interactionism, Phenomenological sociology, and Rational choice theory. The third part is devoted to Postmodern theory, Feminist theory, Postcolonial theory, and Race theory. The author uses contemporary examples to demonstrate how sociological theory can explain the most tragic phenomena of our time, including the war in Ukraine, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, US-China competition, nuclear proliferation, neofascism, and radicalization leading to terrorism, while providing an in-depth overview of its main problems. Alessandro Orsini is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9783031560194
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 237 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Liberation theology. ; Religions.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- I. Philosophical and theological foundations of conflict, contestation, and community -- Chapter 2. Theological Perspectives of Conflict, Contestation and Community Formation from an Ecumenical Angle -- Chapter 3. A Radical Theology of Conflict and Contestation -- II. Conflict field: Liturgy -- Chapter 4. Catholic Liturgy Caught Between Polemics About Differences and Embracing Diversity -- Chapter 5. To Be Who We Are - A Dissenting Church: Two Proposals -- III. Conflict field: Canon Law -- Chapter 6. Dealing with Conflict and Dissent in the Roman Catholic Church -- Chapter 7. Dissent as Deviance: Sociological Observations on Structural Conflicts in Church -- IV. Conflict field: Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 8. Seeking allies within the institutional church: reflections from South Africa on partnership as means to unsettling deadlocked conflict? -- Chapter 9. Conflicting Masculinities in Christianity: Experiences and critical Reflections on Gender and Religion.-V. Conflict field: Race / Postcolonial Constellations -- Chapter 10. The Muslim Ban: The Racialization of Religion and Soteriological Privilege -- Chapter 11. The Secularism Paradox of Interreligious Relations and International Relations -- VI. Constructing a Theology / Ecclesiology of Dissent. Chapter 12. Love your enemy: theology, identity and antagonism -- Chapter 13. Disagreement and Religious Relevance.
    Abstract: This book challenges the prevailing notion of stability, cohesiveness, and uniformity within Christian communities, inviting readers to view contestation and disagreement as integral to theological reflection and church identity. While the volume focuses predominantly on the Roman Catholic Church as a case study, various chapters broaden the exploration across other Christian and non-Christian traditions. Beginning with the philosophical and theological foundations of conflict, contestation, and community, the book subsequently focuses on four main conflict fields: liturgy, canon law, gender, and sexuality, as well as race and postcolonial critical theory. The book finishes with a constructive proposal on how to think theologically about identity and antagonisms, as well as how to construct an ecclesiology of dissent. Contributors employ diverse methodological perspectives to offer constructive theological reflections, enhancing both understanding and practice of theology in the context of polarised public debates. This is an open access book. Judith Gruber is an associate professor of systematic theology at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the director of KU Leuven’s Centre for Liberation Theologies. Michael Schüßler is a professor of practical theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen since 2015. Ryszard Bobrowicz is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and an affiliate researcher at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. He serves as the theological advisor for the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe and collaborates with the Atlas of Religion or Belief Minority Rights.
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    ISBN: 9783031541803
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 208 p. 50 illus., 45 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: African Histories and Modernities
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    Keywords: Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Africa ; Economic history. ; Africa ; Africa
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Nature and performance of the South African economy -- Chapter 3: Socio-economic transformation in South Africa -- Chapter 4: Macroeconomic Resilience: South Africa and selected Emerging Market Economies -- Chapter 5: Government and the Market: State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Searching for an Equilibrium: Balancing Economic Development and Market Efficiency -- Chapter 7: The Institutional Architecture: Re-organising Government for Better Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: The South African economy has largely performed below its potential. Although the size of the South African economy has significantly increased since 1994, its performance has lagged behind other comparable economies, and has even been overtaken by Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa. Unemployment, income inequality, and poverty have remained high since 1994. In the past decade, South African economic performance has been so poor that is has resulted in declining per capita incomes. In this study, Vusi Gumede and his co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of the South African economy since 1994, dealing with many important issues, ranging from its history to its political travails in an effort to provide better understanding and find possible solutions to ensuring inclusive growth. Vusi Gumede is the Dean for the Faculty of Economics, Development & Business Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga. Santos Bila is with DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Mduduzi Biyase is an associate professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Shonisani Chauke is a lecturer in Economics in the School of Development Studies at the University of Mpumalanga. Sodiq Arogundade is a research fellow and a part-time assistant lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg.
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    ISBN: 9783031532542
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 262 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: European literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Medicine and the humanities.
    Abstract: Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake’s Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake’s Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake’s Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake’s Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre.
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    ISBN: 9783031589423
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 237 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Victims of crimes. ; White collar crimes. ; Crime. ; Technology. ; Crime
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Healthcare corruption An interdisciplinary problem -- Chapter 3. Types of Healthcare Corruption and the Problem of Measurement -- Chapter 4. The Costs and Impacts of Healthcare Corruption -- Chapter 5. Telemedicine Healthcare at a distance -- Chapter 6. Substandard, Unlicensed and Counterfeit Healthcare Products -- Chapter 7. Defensive Healthcare Practice An Environment for Corruption -- Chapter 8. The Healthcare Sector as part of a Carceral State -- Chapter 9. Exposing Corruption in the Healthcare Sector An Impenetrable Edifice -- Chapter 10. Uncaring Homes Control and Exclusion -- Chapter 11. Rational Choice and Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 12. A Nudge in the right Direction Persuading People to change -- Chapter 13. Reflections and Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a broad international analysis of healthcare corruption, drawing upon criminology, sociology, psychology, law, political and behavioural economics and nudge theory. It engages with the existing key debates on how to define healthcare corruption and the measurement of it but builds on this and offers new analysis of these issues in the private healthcare sector too. Furthermore, it moves beyond the analysis of funds lost to healthcare and includes the impact and costs of healthcare corruption on victims and family members of victims and the CJS. It also uniquely considers that the healthcare sector victimizes patients and its own employees, with the healthcare sector as part of a carceral state to help highlight how different disciplines can contribute to our understanding in reducing healthcare corruption. Graham Brooks is Professor of Criminology and Anti-Corruption at the University of West London, Institute of Police Studies, UK. He specialises in corruption in an international context. Graham has been plenary speaker at the Cabinet Counter Fraud Conference 2012, part of a team measuring fraud in overseas aid for the Dept. of Internal Development (2011-2013), keynote speaker at European Health Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN) 2015, in The Hague, and in Athens in 2018, part of Cabinet Office Round-Table discussion on anti-corruption in 2016. Graham has also contributed to Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) workshops on ‘Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering in the United Kingdom’ (London, 2018) and ‘Anti-Money Laundering (AML) responses in online businesses’ (London, 2019). He was recently part of team that developed a FAWE (Fraud, Abuse, Waste and Error) skills development course for the private healthcare sector (2021-2022) and is a member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers Expert Panel (2023). .
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    Series Statement: Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
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    DDC: 305.908
    Keywords: Discrimination against people with disabilities
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Thinking Through Ability, Disability, and Ableism -- Chapter 1: Making Disability a Different Kind of Issue in Schools: Disability Studies in Education -- Chapter 2: How Ability Is Constructed and Organizedin Schools -- Chapter 3: Detangling the Relationship Between Race, Class, and Perceived Ability -- Part II: How Students Are Organized by Ability -- Chapter 4: Special Education Program, Identification and Placement -- Chapter 5: Academic Streaming and Hierarchies of Ability -- Chapter 6: Implicating Gifted and Talented Education -- Part III: Practical Strategies for the School and Classroom -- Chapter 7: Critical Approaches to Inclusion -- Chapter 8: Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice -- Conclusion: Moving Forward and Setting New Conditions for Justice -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9783031389177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 481 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; America ; Public Diplomacy ; Diplomatie ; Internationale Politik ; Politische Kommunikation ; Mitarbeiter ; Praxis ; Geschichte ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I Precursors and Concepts -- Chapter 1. Colonial Era Foundations -- Chapter 2. Turning Points in a New Nation -- Chapter 3. Framing Practitioner Communities -- Part II, 20th Century Practitioners -- Chapter 4. Borrowing from Civil Society, 1917-1947 -- Chapter 5. Foreign Service – Building a Foundation, 1948-1970 -- Chapter 6. Foreign Service – Transforming Diplomacy, 1970-1990 -- Chapter 7. Cultural Diplomats -- Chapter 8. International Broadcasters -- Chapter 9. Soldiers -- Chapter 10. Covert Operatives and Front Groups -- Chapter 11. Democracy Builders -- Chapter 12. Presidential Aides -- Part III 21st Century US Diplomacy -- Chapter 13. Reinvention and Fragmentation -- Chapter 14. A Failure to Communicate? -- Chapter 15. Drivers of Change -- Chapter 16. What Happens Now? -- Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
    Abstract: This book tells the story of how innovative and rival practitioner communities have shaped American diplomacy’s public dimension. It is the fi rst book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. “…not only original but also potentially fi eld shifting. This is not simply another good book on American public diplomacy: it will be the book on American public diplomacy.” —Professor Geoffrey Wiseman, DePaul University, U.S.A “American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension, a masterful historical overview of American diplomatic communication, provides fi rst-time insight into the evolution of U.S. public diplomacy from the colonial era to the present day. This book also offers a nuanced assessment of contemporary public diplomacy practices in the face of rapid technological transformation and increasingly ‘societized’ diplomatic engagement. An exceptional blend of public diplomacy scholarship and deep institutional knowledge, this major work will appeal to diplomatic practitioners, professors, and policymakers.” — Vivian S. Walker, Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy “Gregory thinks like an academic while seeing public diplomacy through the lens of the work of the men and women who have put fl esh on the bones of U.S. public diplomacy policies… This book is steeped in deep knowledge and his exceptional dedication to getting our understanding of public diplomacy right.” —Professor Jan Melissen, Editor-in-Chief, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Bruce Gregory taught graduate and undergraduate courses on public diplomacy at Georgetown University and George Washington University for 17 years. Prior to that, his 33-year government career included positions at the Department of State, U.S. Information Agency, 13 years as executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and three years on the faculty of the National War College. Publications include peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, public policy reports, and a bimonthly literature review. P.
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    ISBN: 9783031518331
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    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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    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: 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: 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: 9783031534140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 260 p. 1 illus.)
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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: 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: 9783031472114
    Language: English
    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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 259 p.)
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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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    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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 313 p. 23 illus.)
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    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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    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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    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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    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 (XV, 264 p. 44 illus., 37 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave pivot
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Macroeconomics. ; Financial services industry. ; Monetary policy ; Monetary economics ; The operational framework of MP ; the Federal Reserve System ; Central Bank Digital Currency ; the European Central Bank ; Central banking
    Abstract: Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – The literature on monetary policy implementation -- Chapter 3 – The operational framework of monetary policy: a simple model -- Chapter 4 – The European Central Bank: twenty-five years of single monetary policy in the euro area -- Chapter 5 – The Federal Reserve System from the traditional operating framework to the new normal -- Chapter 6 – Unconventional monetary policies in UK and Japan -- Chapter 7 – Future challenges: central bank digital currency and greening monetary policy.
    Abstract: This book addresses the implementation of monetary policy (MP) and focuses on the operations used by the central banks to implement their policies: the so-called operational framework of MP. The operational framework has become of paramount importance in the last fifteen years, due to the profound transformations taking place in this period. The financial crisis, started in August 2007, has rapidly changed the way in which MP is implemented around the world. Further, innovations have been introduced to address other crises in the following years: a new set of “unconventional” instruments have been adopted, like the large-scale purchases of private and government securities and the long-term refinancing operations. The balance sheets of central banks have increased by huge amounts. The recent surge of inflation has induced several central banks to exit those exceptional policies. However, instead of going back to the traditional “interest rate steering” approach, they are going towards a “new normal” that combines some features of that approach with others inherited from the “quantitative easing” experience. The book therefore addresses the following questions: Which are the common stylized patterns of the unconventional MP across the different countries? Did the economic profession work out a theoretical framework within which to place the unconventional MP? Which are the issues related to the exit strategy from unconventional MP? Which are the main features of the operational framework under the “new normal” approach? This book answers these questions by looking at the experiences of the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve System alongside other central banks, and providing some original modelling and empirical evidence, which will be of interest to academics, researchers in banking and finance, policy makers, and practitioners in the financial industry. Angelo Baglioni is Professor of Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan, where he teaches Monetary Policy and Financial Economics. He is Director of Osservatorio Monetario, President of REF Ricerche, and Member of the editorial board of lavoce.info. He was Member of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority. His main research interests are in the fields of monetary policy and financial intermediation. He has written several books (including The European Banking Union: A Critical Assessment, Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and articles published in international scientific journals.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 281 p. 32 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Communication in politics. ; Communication.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 “Conceptualizing propaganda” -- Chapter 2 “War propaganda: past and present” -- Chapter 3 “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” -- Chapter 4 “Presidents talk” -- Chapter 5 “Signals lost and recovered” -- Chapter 6 “Searching for the truth, finding truths” -- Chapter 7 “Propaganda in social media” -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the discursive dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It analyzes how political leaders, mass media, social media, and ordinary people in Ukraine, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France discuss the war. War propaganda and counterpropaganda structure discourses about the invasion, strengthening post-truth conditions. The book highlights the consequences of the growing distrust in the institutional truth-teller, mass media. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the first social media war. Social media became the principal source of information about the invasion. The rise of digital media did not change the tendency of the discourses about war to be territorially segregated according to national boundaries. Nationalization of discourses about war continues to prevail over their globalization. The corpora containing more than 180 million words in four languages inform the analysis. The data was collected during the first year and a half of Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine. Dr. Anton Oleinik is a professor of sociology who taught in Canada (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s), Kazakstan (Academy of Public Administration, Astana), Mongolia (National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar) and Russia (Smolny College, St. Petersburg). His areas of expertise are political sociology, social data science, text-as-data, content analysis and mixed methods research. He previously authored Building Ukraine from Within: A Sociological, Institutional and Economic Analysis of a Nation-State in the Making, The Invisible Hand of Power: An Economic Theory of Gatekeeping, Market as a Weapon: The Socio-Economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia and Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies.
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    ISBN: 9783031538018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 316 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Queer Politics
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Sex. ; Identity politics. ; Human rights. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From Homophobia to Hate Crime Laws -- Chapter 3: International Responses to Hate Crime -- Chapter 4: Polish, Catholic and…Gay? -- Chapter 5: Hate Crime and LGBT Advocacy in Poland -- Chapter 6: Transnational Hate Crime Advocacy -- Chapter 7: Not Just Homophobia: The Hate Crime Law Debate in Poland -- Chapter 8: Creeping Change: Policing and Monitoring of Hate Crime -- Chapter 9: Laws are Not Enough: Hate Crime in South-East Europe -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a much-needed analysis of the difficulties associated with providing state protection from violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe. Focusing on Poland as a national case study, encompassed in the broader European context, the book provides a holistic analysis of internal and external factors influencing state-level policy outcomes. By focusing on hate crime advocacy and carefully dissecting it from the rest of the LGBT rights “package,” the book fills a gap in queer scholarship, which has overlooked this aspect of mobilisation. The book also examines the emerging international standards and provides a comparative analysis of national laws, policies and practices on anti-LGBT hate crime across Europe. Highlighting variance in outcomes in different areas of LGBT rights, this book considers the role of lesser-known actors and mechanisms who are key in enacting critical policy changes. State Responses to Anti-LGBT Violence provides a critical reflection on the complicated relationships between queer communities and the state. Dr Piotr Godzisz is Associate Professor in Criminology and Co-Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at University of Leicester.
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    ISBN: 9783031445613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 482 p. 14 illus.)
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Semiotics. ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: Ch. 1 – Laure Gardelle, Elise Mignot & Julie Neveux, “Why the morphosyntax / semantics interface matters for nouns” -- Part 1 – Combining syntax and semantics for new insights into the definition of nouns -- Ch. 2 – Paolo Acquaviva, “Nouns, names, and abstract kinds” -- Ch. 3 – Manon Philippe, “Proper names and the ‘noun’ / ‘name’ categories: pseudo-nouns, real names” -- Ch. 4 – Yayoi Nakamura-Delloye, “The noun class in Japanese: Morphosyntactic and semantic properties” -- Ch. 5 – Peter Lauwers, “Conversion vs coercion in the nominal field: two phenomena at the lexis-grammar interface” -- Part 2 – Interactions between the interpretation of nouns and their syntactic and semantic environment -- Ch. 6 – Wiltrud Mihatsch & Désirée Kleineberg, “The interaction of morphosyntax and semantics in Romance object mass nouns” -- Ch. 7 – Evelien Keizer & Elnora ten Wolde, “Of birds of prey and men of honour: head-classifier constructions in English” -- Ch. 8 – Laure Gardelle, “A swarm of helicopters, the last couple of weeks: a constructional analysis of the syntax/semantics interface for the classification of N1 as ‘collective’ or ‘quantificational’” -- Ch. 9 – Anne Jugnet & Philip Miller, “Polar nouns and Polar Concealed Questions” -- Ch. 10 – Olivia Reneaud-Jensen & Elise Mignot, “God, it’s amazing the junk people will buy! When a construction impacts lexical choices: The case of nouns in concealed exclamations” -- Part 3 - Nouns as syntactic and semantic organisers at phrase and discourse level -- Ch. 11 – Jan Rijkhoff, “Nouns and Iconicity of Distance: when syntactic proximity to the noun mirrors semantic closeness” -- Ch. 12 – John Flowerdew, “Resumptive post-modification as a cohesive feature of signalling nouns” -- Ch. 13 – Marie Turlais, “Influence of the headnoun and integration of the dependent in near-compound nominals such as high executive” -- Part 4 - Alignments and mismatches between morphology and lexical or contextual semantics -- Ch. 14 – Laurie Bauer, “The semantics of English nominalizations: How much is usage?” -- Ch. 15 – Julie Neveux, “From productive -ness word-formation to creative suffix -iness: the case of truthiness” -- Ch. 16 – Chris A. Smith, “How is stickage different from sticking? A study of the semantic behaviour of V-age and V-ing nominalisations (on monomorphemic bases)”. .
    Abstract: This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between their formal and semantic characteristics. The introductory chapter offers a thorough state of the art on the morphosyntactic and semantic angles in definitions of nouns, provides evidence of misalignments between morphosyntactic and semantic features, and argues that a multi-criterial angle is in fact inherent in the definition of the class of nouns. The following chapters bring together a representative cross-section of international-level research on the morphosyntax/semantics interface for nouns, covering a wide variety of languages from French-based creoles, German and Japanese to English, French, Italian, Russian and Uzbek. The focus of the volume is to take a special focus on the currently underestimated dynamic interplay between morphosyntax and semantics, at both language and discourse levels. It will be of interest primarily to academics (specialists of nouns, as well as anyone interested in the interplay between morphology, syntax and semantics) and graduate students in areas such as syntax, semantics, morphology, theoretical linguistics and discourse analysis. Laure Gardelle is Professor of English Linguistics and Dean of the doctoral school of languages and literature (ED LLSH) at Grenoble Alpes University, France, and Chair of the French society for English linguistics (ALAES). Her research interests include the morphosyntax/semantics interface in the grammatical categories of gender and number, especially the tension between transparency and the opacification caused by language-internal parameters (such as grammaticisation or morphological attraction). Elise Mignot is Professor of English Linguistics and Head of the research centre CELISO (Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne) at Sorbonne University, France. Her research focuses on the morpho-syntax /semantics interface in processes of noun-formation, studied in relation with the cognitive operation of categorization. Julie Neveux is a Senior lecturer in English Linguistics at Sorbonne University, France, and chair of the French association of English stylistics (SSA). Initially trained in philosophy, she develops a phenomenological approach of language, semantics and style, defining style as a phenomenon whose effects rely on the perceptibility, in discourse, of the speaker’s motivation (embodied cognition). .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 175 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Sombart, Werner ; Economics ; Europe ; Economic history. ; Finance, Public. ; socialism ; capitalism ; spirit of capitalism ; Max Weber ; Werner Sombart ; modern capitalism ; Marxism
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Werner Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism -- 2. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1900-1910 -- 3. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1910-1920 -- 4. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1920-1930 -- 5. Sombart and Modern Capitalism-The Essays -- 6. Conclusion: Sombart's "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism.
    Abstract: This book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism. Although the notion of the ‘spirit’ of modern capitalism is most associated with Weber, it was Sombart who first used this phrase, with Weber focusing mainly on socioeconomics while Sombart continued to develop his ideas around modern capitalism. This book critically analyses Sombart’s groundbreaking work, “Der moderne Kapitalismus” among his other writings to demonstrate how they may be read as a complementary alternative to Weber, providing a more detailed, sustained, and a comprehensive account of the genesis and nature of modern capitalism. This book will be of interest to a scholarly audience including students and researchers of the history of economic thought, as well as areas of sociology, politics, and political economy. Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist who has concentrated on social-political and social-economic issues in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Germany. His recent books include Carl Schmitt on Law and Liberalism (Palgrave 2020), Max Weber's Path from Political Economy to Social Economics (Routledge 2021) and The Early Austrian School of Economics: Money, Value, Capital (Routledge 2022). He also published Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion (Palgrave 2015). .
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    ISBN: 9783031375224
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 374 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Moral development.
    Abstract: Part 1: What is Empathy? -- 1: A Brief Historical Reconstruction -- 2: The Way to a Definition -- 3: A Taxonomy of Empathy -- 4: Conclusions to Part 1 -- Part 2: Empathy and Morality -- 5: Anti-Empathism -- 6: The Bright Side of Empathy -- 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish it from other similar emotional phenomena such as sympathy or compassion The second part focuses on the role that this phenomenon can play on the ethical-moral level. The question is whether empathy is necessary or at least important for morality, and if so, to what extent, in what way and for what reasons. This is an open access book.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 159 p.)
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    Keywords: Ethics.
    Abstract: 1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value? -- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There? -- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value? -- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To? -- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)? -- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights -- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned? -- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do? -- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values? -- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera -- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.
    Abstract: In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 239 p. 22 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Structuralism. ; Science ; Poststructuralism. ; Literature ; Continental Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Natural magic -- 2. Postmodern utopias -- 3. The debate: Cuvier and Geoffroy -- 4. Adaptationism and the author -- 5. Formalism and autonomy -- 6. The poetic function -- 7. Constitutive relations of life -- 8. The interpreting organism -- 9. Literary and biological evolution -- 10. The post-structuralist subject -- 11. Constructed views of life -- 12. Working with the whole organism.
    Abstract: The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to similar ideas in structuralist philosophy and literary theory. This analogy is then used to shed light on debates among biological scientists from the turn of the 19th century to the present day, including Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Dawkins, Crick, Goodwin, Rosen and West-Eberhard. The book critiques the endorsement of genetic manipulation and bioengineering as keys to solving agricultural and environmental problems, suggesting that alternative models have been marginalized in the promotion of this discourse. Drawing from the work of philosophers including Cassirer, Saussure, Jakobson and Foucault the book ultimately argues that methods based on agroecology, supported by molecular applications (such as marker-assisted selection, MAS), can both advance agricultural development and remain focused on the whole organism. .
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    ISBN: 9783031494918
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 313 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Education ; Social sciences ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems -- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems -- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism -- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism -- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World -- 6. What We Need to Do -- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction -- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.
    Abstract: Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how. First, knowledge is to be acquired; once acquired, it can be applied to help promote human welfare. But this philosophy of knowledge-inquiry is an intellectual and humanitarian disaster. It violates three of the four most elementary rules of rational problem solving conceivable, and as a result fails to give priority to the task of helping humanity resolve those conflicts and problems of living, such as the climate and nature crises, that need to be resolved if we are to make progress to a better world – a world in which there is peace, democracy, justice, liberty, and sustainable prosperity, for all. Very few academics today are aware of this rationality scandal. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities around the world, wherever possible, so that academic inquiry puts all four rules of rational problem solving into practice, and becomes rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to make progress towards a better world. Knowledge-inquiry needs to become wisdom-inquiry, rationally devoted to helping humanity create a wiser world. Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Science
    Abstract: Introduction -- Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy -- Polanyi’s Copernican Realism: Content, Reception, and Relation to Three Contemporary Realisms -- From Epistemology to Metaphysics -- The Material and the Immaterial in a Post-Critical Platonist Metaphysics -- Aristotle, Plato, and Polanyi on Access to Forms -- Post-Critical Platonism -- Conclusion./.
    Abstract: “A provocative interpretation of such Polanyian ideas as fields, ordering principles, and comprehensive entities which re-energize Plato’s notion of the Forms.” —Walter Gulick, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities and Religious Studies, Montana State University Billings “Some of the most intellectually exciting work in Polanyi studies. It promises to have an important impact beyond most all that has gone before. It makes plain how Polanyi fits into the history of metaphysics and it enables us to see beyond Polanyi's own shortcomings and lacunae qua philosopher, resolving many of the long-standing controversies among Polanyi scholars.” —Dale Cannon, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Western Oregon University This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher – bridges the gap between speculative metaphysics and scientific practice, thus making sense of the broad swathe of human experience in a phenomenologically satisfying fashion. The central proposal is that Polanyi is a Platonist due to his affirmation of the ontological status of abstract objects, with particular focus placed on the question of uninstantiated universals. The book engages contemporary, speculative realists from both continental and analytic traditions as it introduces Polanyi’s influential epistemology and unpacks the fascinating metaphysics implied thereby. It then proceeds to develop Polanyi’s rather unsystematic metaphysics into a coherent, post-critical Platonism which incorporates his well-known theory of tacit knowledge, thus achieving something akin to the ancient Neoplatonic synthesis of Plato and Aristotle in our contemporary, scientific context. Martin E. Turkis II is a philosopher, teacher, and musician residing in San Francisco. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy with honors from the University of Navarra. His interests include political economy, virtue ethics, and philosophy of education. He is an associate editor of the journal Tradition and Discovery.
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    Keywords: Continental Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Applied ethics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Acting Before Future Generations -- 3. Nuclear Waste and the Site of Intergenerational Responsibility -- 4. Derrida: Iterability and Biodegradability -- 5. Turning Towards Irradiated Futures -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book argues for the necessity of a re-evaluation of our thinking about responsibly relating to future generations in the context of environmental philosophy. Using long-term nuclear waste disposal as its paradigmatic case, this book makes the case that the predominant mode of thinking the future in terms of continuity and repetition of the present requires a critique informed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in order to think responsibility adequately. The book begins by surveying contemporary accounts of intergenerational responsibility before outlining the specifics of nuclear waste disposal policy. With these stakes established, the contributions of Jacques Derrida to future-oriented ethics are introduced. These include discussions of communication across contexts, the relationship between inheritance and responsibility, and the political imperatives that result from this critique. This book concludes by arguing for an intergenerational environmental policy that rejects policy and infrastructural projects that depend on the present reproducing itself indefinitely.
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Africa ; Africa, Sub-Saharan
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Managing Resilience in Pastoralism: An Introduction -- Part I Regional Memories of Disasters -- Chapter 2. Historical Research Methods: Regional and Local Cases -- Chapter 3. Social Memory on a Historical Scale: Configuring Cyclic Disasters, 1500–the 1900s -- Chapter 4. Colonial Trans-frontier Grazing Controls: Responses to Political and Climatic Shocks, 1908–1962 -- Part II Reorganization and Adaptive Diversities -- Chapter 5. Collapse and Transformation of Pastoralism: Pathways of Land-use Change, the 1960s–2000 -- Chapter 6. The Individual in Drought Livestock Management Strategies: Mobility as a Proxy for Pastoral Resilience, the 1980s–2011 -- Chapter 7. Impacts of Decadal Droughts on Cattle Populations: Tracking Household Wealth Dynamics, 1982–2011 -- Part III Collapse and Transformation of Social Capital Networks -- Chapter 8. Resilience of Social Capital Networks: Collapse and Transformation, 1991–2012 -- Chapter 9. Resilient Neighborhood Household Food Security: Women’s Social Capital Networks, 1987–1996 -- Chapter 10. Innovating Pastoral Resilience in the Future: A Synthesis./.
    Abstract: This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it uses social memory to reconstruct an 'event history calendar', thus combining social memory and written historical records to reconstruct the adaptive strategies of pastoralists. It explores the climate history of the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier, considering, in particular, the impact of the colonial period and independence thereafter, providing a significant contribution to debates in African environmental history. Gufu Oba is Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. .
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    Series Statement: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Medicine ; Science ; Europe ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: The Age of Empire, The Making of the Modern Nation and the Advancement of Medical Sciences; Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli- Part I. Tropical Medicine in the Evolution and the Collapse of Empires -- 2. Tropical Medicine and the “Consolidation” of the Portuguese Empire, 1902-1966; Isabel Amaral -- 3. Dutch Colonial Medicine and Empire-building in the Tropics: The Cases of Leprosy and Drug Use in the Dutch East and West Indies; Stephen Snelders -- Part II. Tropical Medical Institutions and Imperial Commercial and Political Expansion -- 4. The Business of Tropical Medicine: Connections between Anti-malarial Campaigns in Sierra Leone, 1899-1901, and Jamaica, 1908; Juanita De Barros -- 5. Leishmaniases in Brazil: A Historical Approach; Jaime Larry Benchimol -- Part III. Circulation of People, Objects and Ideas -- 6. Tropical Medicine, the Nation, and Colonial Expansion in the View of Italian Royal Navy Physicians at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli -- 7. From Universal Rats to Future Jungle Foci: Actors and Places of Plague in Brazil, 1899-1940s; Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva -- 8. Anti-fascist Medicine and the International Peace Campaign against Urban Raids in Spain and China, 1936-1939; Carles Brasó Broggi.
    Abstract: This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies from other colonial experiences in Africa, Asia, and South America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Each of these systems adopted different approaches to colonial health and medicine. By studying their diversity, it is possible to obtain a more comprehensive picture of what we now call ‘tropical medicine.’ The authors emphasise that the British model cannot be adapted to all colonial experiences, drawing on relevant cases from both interoceanic and continental empires. The collection comprises three sections. The first examines the role of tropical medicine in the evolution and collapse of empire in countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands. The second part analyses the links between tropical medical institutions and imperial commercial and political expansion in Britain and Brazil. Finally, the authors tackle the crucial interrelated circulation of people, objects, and ideas amongst countries including Brazil, China, Italy, and Spain. Using a medical lens to analyse the inter-connected processes of nation-building and colonial expansion in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this book provides valuable reading for scholars of imperialism and medical history alike.
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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    Keywords: Islam ; Islam ; Religion and sociology. ; Sex. ; Anthropology of religion.
    Abstract: Part I South and Southeast Asia -- Matrifocal, Matrilineal, or Matriarchal? Cultural Resilience and Vulnerability Among the Matrilineal and Muslim Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Adat Perpatih in Malaysia: Nature, History, Practice, and Contemporary Issues -- Cultural and Social Integrations in Matrilineal, Matriarchal, Matrifocal Muslim Communities of South India -- Part II Northeast Asia -- Affective Matrivocality and Women’s Voices: A History of Muslim Women Writers in China -- Matriarchal Family Structure in Korea’s Jeju Island and its Implications for the Muslim Community in Korea -- The Maternal Initiative Role in the Japanese Muslim Community: Japanese Muslim Wives as Mediators Between Muslim Immigrants and Japanese Society -- Part III Africa -- Muslim Family Under Portuguese Rule: Sharı ̄ʿa and Matrilineal Custom in Colonial Coastal Northern Mozambique (ca. 1900–1974) -- Asante Nkramo and Fantse Nkramo: Unravelling the Paradox of Islam and Matriliny in Ghana -- Part IV Andalusia and Americas -- The Tuareg, from Arabia to Americas -- The Origins of Andalusian Muslim Matrilineal Systems.
    Abstract: Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they have been practised by integrated and indigenised Muslim communities. In matrilineal descent systems, in contrast to the more common mosaic of patrilineal patterns, children belong to the mother’s ancestry group. Matrilineal Muslims therefore follow a social system in which people are identified with their mother's lineage, and the inheritance of property as well as succession are transferred through the matriline. This volume focuses on matrilineal, matrifocal and matriarchal Muslims and their unique folk natures, integrated social structures, adopted legal systems, and so on. It provides a unique perspective for understanding global Muslim communities that have succeeded in integrating the matrilineal tenets of local practices with religion, adhering to essential Islamic values in a way that makes traditional women-centred cultures acceptable to mainstream Islam. Abbas Panakkal, The School of History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. Nasr M Arif, Visiting Professor, University of St Andrews, UK and Professor of political science, University of Cairo, Egypt.
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Social history. ; Emigration and immigration ; Race. ; Europe ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Scottishness and Foreignness: The Developing Structures, Powers and Capacity of the Scottish ‘Machinery of Government’ before 1939 -- Chapter 3: The ‘Alien’ Concept: The ‘Scottish’ State and Foreignness, 1885-1914 -- Chapter 4: The ‘Alien’ Concept: Foreignness and Scottish State Institutions, 1914-39 -- Chapter 5: Scotland’s Foreigners: Making Identities in Scotland -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the period between 1885 and 1914, the book explores how the Scottish machinery of government handled the administration of ‘foreigners.’ The author uses a comparative, thematic approach to analyse migrant experiences, identities, and relationships with state institutions. Drawing from state records held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, the book argues that Scottish officials in semi-autonomous boards began to recognise, describe and enumerate the presence of the ‘foreigner’ in the early twentieth century, framing their handling of foreignness in accordance with the Aliens Act of 1905. The author goes on to explain that institutions operating in Scotland developed a distinctly Scottish approach to alien matters, which continued up until the Second Word War. Therefore, an increasing number of important decisions affecting migrants were taken by a distinctly Scottish machinery of government, impacting on how Scottish officials understood foreignness, and how those identified as foreigners understood their identity in relation to Scottishness. Contributing significantly to current heated debates on migration and identity amongst researchers and the general public in Europe and beyond, this book provides essential insights into the ways in which a ‘sub-state’ began to develop practices, processes and attitudes towards migration which were not always in line with that of the central government. Terence McBride is an Honorary Associate in History at the Open University in Scotland. He has published widely on the migrant experience in Scotland, including articles in Immigrants and Minorities and Historical Research.
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    Keywords: United States ; History, Modern. ; International relations.
    Abstract: I1. Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations -- 2. Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations -- 3. Isolationism/Internationalism: Concepts of American Global Power -- 4. U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization after World War II -- 5. Bread not Bullets: Mobilizing American Farmers for the Postwar World -- 6. Slow March to Jerusalem: Domestic Politics and the History of the U.S. Embassy in Israel -- 7. Too Sweet a Deal: American “Candy Men” and International Cocoa Negotiations in the 1960s -- 8. The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics -- 9. Framing the Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations -- 10. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Originsof Globalization -- 10. Squandering the “Peace Dividend”: Domestic Politics and the Political Economy of Defense Conversion, 1989-2000.
    Abstract: Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign relations and world affairs. In so doing, the collection underlines that, even in a global age, domestic politics and phenomena were crucial to the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations more broadly. Daniel Bessner is the Annett H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA. Michael Brenes is Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031464560
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 300 p.)
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    Series Statement: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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    Keywords: Animal welfare ; Animal culture. ; Human ecology ; Philosophy of nature.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: ‘caught with ourselves in the net of life and time’ -- Part I. Animals as Experiencing Entities, Theories and Perspectives -- 2. Je suis, Je suis – I am, I follow: Formation of Animal Individual and Cultural Selves -- 3. Pain in Context: Indicators and Expressions of Animal Pain -- 4. Critical Animal Historiography, Experiential Subjectivity and Animal Standpoint Theory -- 5. Sensing Life: Intersections of Animal and Sensory Histories -- Part II. Animals’ Experiences in Narratives and History -- 6. History According To Cattle -- 7. A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres -- 8. From French Guinea to Florida: Chimpanzees as Multi-Purpose Objects of Research (1920s-1940s) -- 9. Animals And Colonial Indian Archives: Locating Nonhuman Agency and Subjectivities -- 10. Law Through the Eyes of Animals -- 11. Stolen Children of the Endless Night. A Critical Account of the Lives of British PitPonies.
    Abstract: “In an era when the collective human footprint threatens not only the future of other species, but our own, we need a radical reassessment of our place in the pantheon of life. Specifically, we need a rebuke of anthropocentrism. This book— with contributions from a variety of academic disciplines—delivers.” —Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows and Super Fly “Science clearly shows that numerous nonhuman animals are sentient, feeling beings who care about their own well-being and quality of life along with that of their family and friends. For decades we’ve known that animals’ inner lives are complex, rich, and deep, and this book makes the inarguable case that it’s high time to use what we know on their behalf.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power—usually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as experiencing entities is what links the chapters and characterises the volume. Broadly each author in this volume contributes in one of two ways. The first group, in Section 1, theoretically engages animal subjectivity, animal experiences, and ways in which these are to some extent accessible and knowable to humans. The second group of authors, in Section 2, offer narrative accounts about specific animals or groups of animals and explore to some extent their subjective historical experiences. In summary, the first section diversely theorises about animal experiences, while the second section’s authors assume animals’ subjective experiences and construct narratives that take into account how animals might have subjectively experienced historical phenomena. Michael Glover is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Australasian Animal Studies Association. Les Mitchell is a Research Fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. He is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
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    ISBN: 9783031188923
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 311 p. 35 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; History.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The ‘long, long story’ -- Chapter 2: ‘Keep an eye on Hitler’: 1923 - 1932 -- Chapter 3: ‘The Nazis are Coming, Hurrah, Hurrah’: 1933 – 1935 -- Chapter 4: In Plain Sight: 1936 - 1939 -- Chapter 5: Looking into the Abyss: 1939 - 1941 -- Chapter 6: ‘They are killing all of us Jews’: 1941 –1944 -- Chapter 7: ‘One More Horror Camp’: 1944 – 1945 -- Chapter 8: War Trials, Refugees and Holocaust Awareness: 1945-1949 -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Reckoning.
    Abstract: This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of Hitler’s political ascent in the 1920s through to the Nazis’ extermination campaign, it culminates in the accounts of the trials of Nazi war criminals and the post-war transnational migration to Australia of Holocaust survivors, to a country far from universally welcoming in its reception of them. The book also tells the story of the journalists who reported on these tragic events and the editors who published them, along with the political, social and cultural context in which they worked, in an environment influenced by exclusionary ideas about race and nationality that did not necessarily inspire sympathy for Jews and their trauma. This book sheds light on the ethics of reporting human suffering, violence and genocide and – centrally – on the role of the press in shaping Australia’s collective memory of the Holocaust. It encourages readers to think critically about media power, public apathy, advocacy, and the importance of truth. Disturbing evidence of increasing anti-Semitism in Australia as elsewhere, along with continuing Holocaust denial, provide an additional urgency to this study. Fay Anderson is Associate Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She has published widely on media history, war journalism, genocide, press photography, trauma, memory and crime. Fay has authored and edited four books, including An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom (MUP, 2005); her co-authored book with Richard Trembath Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting (MUP, 2011); and Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia, co-authored with Sally Young (MUP, 2016).
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    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Military history. ; Great Britain ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Britain, the Middle East, and Oman -- Chapter 3: The Course of the War -- Chapter 4: Coalition Warfare and the International Dimension -- Chapter 5: 'Hearts and Minds' -- Chapter 6: Intelligence and Covert Operations -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour governments in office during this time provided military and security assistance to Oman’s rulers without parliamentary or press scrutiny. Based on archival material and witness accounts, as well as existing secondary source literature and memoirs, this study provides new insights into Britain’s clandestine embroilment in the Dhofar War, an often overlooked but historically significant intervention in the Middle East. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the complex and often controversial history of Britain’s involvement in Middle Eastern politics in the post-colonial period. Geraint Hughes is Reader in Diplomatic and Military History at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK. He is the author of Harold Wilson’s Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970 (2009) and My Enemy’s Enemy: Proxy Warfare in International Politics (2012).
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    Keywords: Phenomenology . ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Expelled From The Nest -- Part I: Merged With The World -- Chapter 2: Born Of Soma And Germ Cells -- Chapter 3: Space-Time Of The Living -- Chapter 4: The World Of Human Beings -- Part II: Domination Of Spirit Over Soul -- Chapter 5: The Burial Of Touch -- Chapter 6: Anesthesia Of Soul By Spirit -- Chapter 7: A History Cut Off From Germ Cells -- Part III: The Question Of Being -- Chapter 8: Confusion Of The Living With The Made -- Chapter 9: To Be As A Conjunctive Verb -- Chapter 10: An Ontology Of The Living -- Part IV: Feeling Nostalgic For The Dynamism Of Germ Cells -- Chapter 11: What Desire Grants Us Life? -- Chapter 12: ‘My Dear Little Soul' -- Chapter 13: Dynamism Necessary For Our Becoming -- Part V: Emergence Of Germ Cells At Individual And Collective Levels -- Chapter 14: The Touch Of Grace -- Chapter 15: From Individual To Couple And To Community -- Chapter 16: Importance Of Touch For Democracy -- Part VI : Approach To Touch As Such -- Chapter 17: An Immediate Access To Transcendental -- Chapter 18: The Communion Between Beings -- Chapter 19: Elements Of A Culture Of Touch -- Chapter 20: By Way Of Epilogue: The World Born Of Our Embraces.
    Abstract: The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating to each other has barely been considered by our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch, we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our bodies. Then we remain immersed in a natural or a cultural universe, incapable of reaching our own individuation and of knowing our fundamental difference from the other(s). Desire, in particular sexuate desire, is a call for touching one another anew. But this touch requires us to have gained our autonomy and to be able to open up to and commune with the other as transcendent to ourselves while staying in ourselves. This book unveils and explores how touch can act as a basic living mediation in love and, more generally, in our comprehensive individual and col-lective human becoming.It also considers how touch can contribute to founding a culture respectful of difference(s) instead of subjecting them to an ideal of same-ness. We need touch as mediation to fulfil our humanity and to build a truly human thinking and world. Luce Irigaray is a retired director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris. She has doctorates in philosophy ( 1974), in linguistics (1968) and in philosophy and literature(1955). She is trained in psychoanalysis and in yoga. She has written more than thirty books translated in various languages. She has also co-edited three books composed of texts by early career researchers as part of a long term undertaking to give birth to a new human being and construct a new world.
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; World politics. ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: PART I - TECHNOPOLITICS -- Comeback to the Forbidden Planet: Dystopia in the Era of Collapse; Andoni Alonso Puello and Iñaki Arzóz -- Unidentified Technical Objects: Not Working, Breaking Laws, Doing Nothing; Eugene Kuchinov and Ivan Spitsyn -- Techno-Naturans Without Terraforming: From the Geoengineering of Mastery to Sympoietic Agency; Jorge León Casero -- Cyberculture, (Dys)Topias and Transformation; Rocío Rueda -- Smart Utopian Cities: Hangovers and Aftermaths; José María Castejón and Enrique Cano -- PART II - POSTHUMANIST BIOPOLITICS -- Post-Apocalyptic Critical Dystopias; Corin Braga -- In the World of Postselves and Posthumans: The Biopolitical Utopia of Postmortalism; Anna Bugajska -- From Utopia to Biopolitical Dystopia: The Creation of New Human Beings in Some Utopias of the Nineteenth-Century; Julia Urabayen -- Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism); Ayazhan Sagikyzy and Anara Asanovna Uyzbayeva -- PART III - NON-WESTERN POLITICS -- Chinese Utopia and Dystopia from Non-Western Point of View; Dmitry Martynov -- Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People! (2005); Angela Yiu -- From the Virtuous City to Yūtubiya: A Condensed Account of Utopia Writings in Arabic; Yehoshua Frenkel -- Latin American Modernity and the Historical Role of the Integration Utopia; Juan Pro -- PART IV - MASS MEDIA AND AESTHETIC POLITICS -- The Creative Utopias of Abolitionist Organizing; Rebecca Zorach -- Surveillance and Utopia; Daniel Panka -- Utopias and Dystopias Through Images: The View of the Future in Films and Television Series; Leticia Florez Farfán and Gerardo De la Fuente Lora -- The Way Out is Through: Co-Produced Critical Utopias as Antidotes to Anthropocene Melancholia; Paul Raven -- Phototopia: (Re)Geneating Life from Photographs; Ana Peraica.
    Abstract: This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). However, this edited collection seeks to show that the post-apocalyptic world in which we live entails a renewed freedom of design for the radical reorganization of institutions. Post-apocalyptic cultures are not obligated to follow the capitalist, anthropocentric, correlationist and sovereign modes of the old political project of emancipation—the Western enlightenment—that has started to collapse. With this in mind, this book is divided into four sections dedicated to the main themes from which to rethink the projects of political emancipation that are possible nowadays: technopolitics; posthumanist biopolitics; non-western politicsl and the crossover between arts and politics. Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles. Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 384 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Military history. ; Religion ; Social history.
    Abstract: Introduction Mike Carr and Nikolaos G. Chrissis -- Part 1. Crusades in Southern Europe and the Balkans -- 1. Crusades against Cathars, c.1207-1229 Rebecca Rist (University of Reading) -- 2. Holy War and Crusade in Southern Italy: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries Francesco Migliazzo (University of Edinburgh) -- 3. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century Gianluca Raccagni (University of Edinburgh) -- 4. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century Leardo Mascanzoni (University of Bologna) -- 5. Crusades against the Byzantines in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Nikolaos G. Chrissis (Democritus University of Thrace) -- 6. The Crusade against “Schismatic” Bulgaria (1238) and its Antecedents Francesco Dall’Aglio (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) -- 7. Crusading against Bosnian Christians, c.1234-1241 Kirsty Day (University of Edinburgh) -- 8. Crusades against the Catalans of Athens, c.1311-1334 Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh) -- Part 2. Crusades in Northern and Central Europe -- 9. Crusades in the Holy Roman Empire (late 1220s to the early 1250s) Giuseppe Cusa (University of Siegen) -- 10. Rus’ as a Target of the Crusades: History and Historical Memory Anti Selart (University of Tartu) -- 11. Crusade against Christian neighbours in the Baltic. Boniface IX’s Crusading Bull of 1401 to Queen Margaret I of the Kalmar Union Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) -- 12. The Crusade of Henry Despenser (1383) Mark Whelan (University of Surrey) -- 13. The Crusades against the Hussites in Bohemia (1419-1436) Alexandra Kaar (University of Vienna) -- 14. Conclusion Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Gianluca Raccagni.
    Abstract: This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic. Whilst the crusades are an immensely popular topic, those launched against Christian rulers and communities have been comparatively overlooked in the past, with existing studies typically focusing on a particular area, period, or campaign. This volume brings together the expertise of thirteen scholars on a variety of primary and secondary sources not often accessible to Anglophone readership, as well as their knowledge of national discourses which have often shaped historiography. It aims to serve as the first port of call for anyone who wishes to approach crusades against Christians within and without the specialism of crusader studies, and to provide the basis for a thorough comparative analysis of this phenomenon, covering its variety as comprehensively as possible. Mike Carr is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. His work focuses on the interactions between Latins, Byzantines and Muslims in the Mediterranean, especially the role of merchants and religious institutions in cross-cultural trade and religious conflict. He is the author of Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352 (2015), and co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (2014), The Military Orders Volume 6.1-6.2: Culture and Contact (2016), and Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE) (2022). Nikolaos G. Chrissis is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests and publications revolve around the crusades, Latin presence in Greek lands, Byzantine-Western relations, papal policy in the Levant, and generally intercultural contacts in the medieval Mediterranean. He is the author of Crusading in Frankish Greece: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282 (2012), and co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (2014) and Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality, 11th-15th c. (2019). Gianluca Raccagni is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests focus on political culture in the central Middle Ages, especially within Communal Italy but also its relations with the rest of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the crusades. Most recently he has been exploring contacts between the Mediterranean and the Nordic World in the eleventh century. He is author of The Lombard League (1167-1225) (2010) and of several journal articles.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 280 p.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Law ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Breaking Free from Private Control Over Knowledge -- Chapter 2: First Prolegomena: A Brief History of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 3: Prolegomena: Rationalisation of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4: Prolegomena: The Dangers of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Social Disintegration and the Privatisation of Knowledge.
    Abstract: The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism is an innovative book that comprehensively discusses and analyses intellectual property under capitalistic social conditions and relations. It not only addresses some historical developments of intellectual property but also brings to the fore the very notion of what knowledge is, knowledge creation, and knowledge production and appropriation within a Marxist framework. Nonetheless, the adopted approach pays heed to multiple fields of knowledge, providing rich discussions that facilitate the understanding of actual social totality in which capitalism, knowledge production and appropriation, and the struggles of appropriation mutually reinforce each other, although not devoid of antagonisms and contradictions. In light of contemporary capitalism, the transformations that social property relations are undergoing must be scrutinised – such as those brought about by the development of digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants. What are the conditions of intellectual property creation today? What theoretical assumptions does it make? Under what social relations is intellectual property produced? Throughout, the emphasis is not on individual cases or symptoms but on the overarching logic: the logic of capitalism as revealed in intellectual property. João Romeiro Hermeto holds a PhD in philosophy from the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 135 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Capital market. ; Financial services industry. ; Money ; Cost of living crisis ; Inflation ; Purchasing power ; The origin of money ; Monetary policy ; financial economics ; Inflation crisis
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Existing Literature: A Brief Tour -- Chapter 3: What is Money? -- Chapter 4: The Origin of Money as the Ability to Obtain Goods and Services -- Chapter 5: Money as the Ability Vis-à-Vis Other Concepts -- Chapter 6: Money as the Ability and Some Related Issues -- Chapter 7: Money as the Ability and inflation -- Chapter 8: The Causes of Inflation -- Chapter 9: Some After Thoughts and the Question of Economic Polices.
    Abstract: The book goes beyond the usual understanding of money—physically, electronically or virtually expressed in term of monetary units like dollars, pounds, gold coins, or bitcoins—and discusses how money is best conceptualised as the ability of a person/party to obtain goods and services from another person/party. This ability may originate from the access of a person/party to money in usual sense (e.g. dollars, pounds) but also via force, social norms, mutual negotiation, altruism, trust or due to human biological characteristics. As the ability to obtain goods and services from others depends on the context — what functions as money in a time and place may not function as money in another time and place — as such money has no universal type or representation. The book explains inflation as the increased need to acquire money, that is the need to employ more physical and mental labour to create the ability to obtain a wide range of goods and services. This book provides an explanation of the post covid price hike and the cost of living crisis by taking this new theory into consideration, which will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy makers and students studying finance, monetary economics and inflation. Mehdi Chowdhury is the Deputy Head of Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, at the Business School at Bournemouth University, UK. He has PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has researched on international migration and refuge crisis. His current research focuses on the economics of money following the post-covid changes to the world economic order.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 219 p. 2 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political leadership. ; Executive power.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction. Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities in the French Fifth Republic. Making a Way into a Multidimensional Puzzle -- Chapter 2. Charles de Gaulle (1962-1965, 1965-1969). The Birth of the Modern French Monarchy, the Fifth Republic.-Chapter 3. Rooting the Fifth Republic: Georges Pompidou (1969-1974). To Be Or Not to Be a Monarchy -- Chapter 4. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (1974-1981): “France Shall Not Fall Back into the Party Regime” -- Chapter 5. The Last Republican Monarch: The Longest Double Presidencies of François Mitterrand (1981-1988, 1988-1995) -- Chapter 6. Jacques Chirac (1995-2002, 2002-2007). Social Gaullism, the Longest Cohabitation, and the Spectrum of the Far-Right -- Chapter 7. Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012). Voluntarism, Hyper-Presidency, and Contestation -- Chapter 8. The Presidency at an Impasse: The Five-Year Term of François Hollande (2012-2017) -- Chapter 9. The Art of Casting: Emmanuel Macron, His Prime Ministers and His Majority (2017-2022). .
    Abstract: “The current French institutional system is rather challenging to fathom properly from abroad. Presidential by some aspects, parliamentary by others, it is difficult to encompass. Furthermore, the chameleon Constitution of the Fifth Republic has gone through almost contradictory interpretations at times, from a nearly regal standpoint to three periods of “cohabitation” having the president stay recluse in his Elysée Palace as the British monarchs in Westminster. This new volume comes then opportunely to introduce the reader to this more than sixty years’ complexity. The book is driven by a strong group of scholars, historians and political scientists, including the eyes of a few non-French academics whose outside position helps usefully to give international readers audience a better understanding of this sospecific country’s political system.” —Philippe J. Maarek, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of Fontainebleau, Paris-Est University, France. This book focuses on the triangle of power dynamics between presidents, prime ministers and parliamentary majorities, and the way it has evolved throughout the French Fifth Republic, the longest-lasting semi-presidential system. What are the main patterns in the functions and interactions of the three institutions? How do the personalities of presidents, prime ministers and leading parliamentarians shape the dynamics of the institutional system and France’s political evolution during each presidential term? To what extent do their ideological and partisan affiliations affect collaboration between key political leaders? How do the dynamics of inter-institutional relations influence the country’s overall stability and progress? And what are the main lessons of the Fifth Republic’s semi-presidential experience for countries that based their institutional systems on the French model? Sergiu Mişcoiu is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo is Associate Professor of History at the University Paris East Créteil, France.
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    ISBN: 9783031416958
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 373 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Popular Culture. ; Human ecology ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal” -- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête -- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution -- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 -- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja -- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy -- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon -- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle -- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals -- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future.
    Abstract: “This is a strong contribution to the field(s) of animal studies and science fiction. Indeed, I would recommend it in both fields separately as well as in the combined field where I work. I am especially impressed by the generous range of texts, from bacteria to games to film to novels, and with some recognition of work beyond the British/American hegemony.” —Joan Gordon, Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College; Co-editor, Science Fiction Studies Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories, poetry, film and TV, photography, erotica, video games, and urban planning documents—that explore the ways works of science fiction can transform how we see and interact with nonhuman others. With an eye toward more just multispecies futures, it argues that speculative imaginaries can be pivotal in changing attitudes toward and understandings of nonhuman animals in our world today. Chapters appeal to those interested in biopolitics, posthumanism, new materialism, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, ocean humanities, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, global sf studies, film studies, and food studies. Taken together, the collection works to showcase a diverse and growing field of scholarly inquiry into animals and science fiction. Nora Castle is an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. She recently completed her PhD, entitled, “Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction,” which explored the future of food in/as science fiction through meat, plants, kitchens, and farms as thematic streams. Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton. Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and international policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031531842
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 214 p.)
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    Series Statement: Crime Files
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Mass media and crime.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper -- Chapter 2. Enter Holmes and Jack -- Chapter 3. Parallel Culture-Texts -- Chapter 4. The Versus Storyworld -- Chapter 5. Palimpsestuous Holmes -- Chapter 6. Polymorphous Jack -- Chapter 7. (Mis)Remembering Secondary Characters -- Chapter 8. Neo-Casting or Decentring the Great Detective -- Chapter 9. Detective Doyle.
    Abstract: "Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko’s ambitious study pursues the endlessly intriguing parallel textual lives of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. The strange case that she sets out to solve is the extensive but neglected corpus of versus narratives: texts in which the great detective sets out to defeat the Whitechapel murderer. Krawczyk-Żywko convincingly reads these works as part of a rich textual constellation influenced by the overlapping Sherlockian and Ripperological culture texts. Her book’s focus will inevitably intrigue aficionados of Holmes and its insights into aspects of adaptation, neo-Victorianism and biofiction mean it will also appeal strongly to scholars in these areas." —Dr Chris Louttit, Radboud University, The Netherlands In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archetypal serial killer using established formulas as well as new narrative and generic features, a combination that results in their mass appeal among authors and audiences alike. The list of primary sources includes 120 titles – novels, short stories, plays, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – which are treated as a dialogic network of transfictional and transmedial texts. This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as serial figures and culture-texts emphasising the increasing palimpsestousness of the former and the multidirectional polymorphousness of the latter, and tracing the overlapping Doylean culture-text. It also addresses the way character constellations are represented, negotiated, and fed back into the versus network, contextualising them within the coalescence of fact and fiction, Gothic and crime fiction frames, cultural memory, neo-Victorianism, and biofiction. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She coordinates the research group 'From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria' and initiated the Changing Narratives conference series. Her research combines neo-Victorian, crime fiction, and adaptation studies and focuses on the rewritings of Victorian villains and detectives.
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    ISBN: 9783031465536
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 257 p. 8 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Culture and Religion in International Relations
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    Keywords: Religion and politics. ; Africa ; Economic development. ; Human rights. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Reading Humanitarianism Critically -- Chapter 2. The Humanitarian Misunderstanding in the Postcolonial Humanitarian African Imagination -- Chapter 3. Extractive Salvation: Zoe’s Ark and the Ethic of Humanitarianism in Africa -- Chapter 4: Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa” -- Chapter 5. Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, and Military Humanitarianism in the Northern Uganda Conflict -- Chapter 6: Engendering Care Revisited: Decolonizing Global Health and Dismantling Gender Stereotypes in HIV Care in Africa -- Chapter 7: How West African Women “Save” the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda -- Chapter 8: ‘Trust no one’: The logics of microfinance, depending on whom you ask -- Chapter 9. Toxic Scavenging in the Digital Divide -- Chapter 10. COVID-19 and the African Disaster that Wasn’t -- Chapter 11: Taking, Giving, Repairing and Reversing -- Chapter 12. The Last Word: Funtumfunafu, Denkyemfunafu: The Individual, the Community Reciprocity and Grace.
    Abstract: In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse. Humanitarian assumptions are challenged by unpacking critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to today’s global networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Who Gives to Whom: Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary is a decolonial gesture that builds onNgūgī’s work as well as that of pan-Africanist and intersectional feminist scholars. Contributions range from assessing the impact of historical legacies of colonialism on gender, religious/secular attempts at “saving” Africans to (South) African unrealized project to reconfigure foreign policy frameworks shaped by apartheid. Case studies of “silver bullet” solutions focus on the incorporation of women in peacebuilding, microfinance, and e-waste disposal, to argue that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being while shortchanging intersectional African forms of agency. Cilas Kemedjio is Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean literary and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, USA. Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 193 p. 18 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
    Uniform Title: Climate stress test
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Financial risk management. ; Climatology. ; Sustainability. ; ESG ; Climate & environmental risk ; Financial institutions ; Transmission channels ; Regulatory framework ; Governance ; Business model ; Climate risk ; Sustainability ; Sustainable finance ; ESG and finance
    Abstract: 1 Climate Risk Scenario -- 2 Regulatory Framework, Standards And Best Practices For The Financial Sector -- 3 Transmission Channels Of Climate Risk -- 4 Integrating Climate Risk Into Commercial Banks Operations -- 5 Insurance Companies -- 6 Governance Implications: The Challenge Of Disclosure.
    Abstract: Climate change is defining structural modifications that affect the economy and the financial system. Within Europe, supervisors and supervised entities are increasingly focusing on the consequences of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks as they impact the soundness and stability of the financial system or interfere with the transmission channels of monetary policy and price stability as well as raising sustainability financing issues. Focusing on climate-related risks within the broader theme of ESG risks, this book analyzes the evolving overall regulatory framework, the climate risk transmission channels, the peculiarities of climate risk transmission channels with reference to specific business models of financial intermediaries, and the governance and disclosure implications of climate risks. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of banking, financial services, sustainability, ESG, and climate risk. Elisabetta Gualandri is a Full Professor of Banking and Finance in the Marco Biagi Department of Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she is a member of the Center for Studies in Banking and Finance (CEFIN). She is also a Director of the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance – Wolpertinger. Paola Bongini is a Full Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is also the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Business for Society. Her research interests are in empirical banking, financial regulation and financial literacy and education. Maurizio Pierigè is Senior Partner at Prometeia responsible for the Risk Integration activities within the Enterprise Risk Management Practice. As Head of Risk Integration, Advanced Analytics, Climate Change & ESG Risks, he is in charge of the development of Prometeia offerings (scenarios, advisory, models, methodologies, software solutions) on balance sheet forecasting and risk integration topics. Marina Di Janni is a Principal, Risk Integration, Advanced Analytics, Climate Change & ESG Risks at Prometeia. She is in charge of planning, controlling, and risk integration for institutions.
    Note: Translation from the Italian language edition: "Climate stress test. Un primo passo verso una gestione integrate dei rischi climatici e ambientali" by Elisabetta Gualandri et al., © AIFIRM (Associazione Italiana Financial Industry Managers) 2022. - The Book is based on selected Chapters (1, 2, and 8) of the AIFIRM's Position Paper n. 39 “Climate Stress Test - Un primo passo verso una gestione integrata dei rischi climatici ed ambientali”. The Editors of the Book took care of all updates, additions, revisions, and translations of the AIFIRM's Position Paper n. 39 selected chapters
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 217 p.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Studies of masculinities: an introduction -- 3 Poststructuralism and the «dissolution» of masculine identity -- 4 Masculinity as representation -- 5 Boys don’t cry? Masculinity and the politics of emotion -- 6 Dangerous liaisons? Friendships between men in Western history and culture -- 7 Masculinity as violence? Cultural and literary re-visions -- 8 Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence. Josep M. Armengol is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His recent (co-)edited collections include Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017) and Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
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    Series Statement: Literary Disability Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Creative nonfiction. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Ecocriticism.
    Abstract: 1. Preface; Susannah B. Mintz and Gregory Fraser -- 2. Disability and Memoir; G. Thomas Couser -- 3. Disability and Space; Rob Imrie -- Part 1: Into the Wide Open -- 4. Learning the Camino Real—Disability and the Desert; Sheila Black -- 5. Headlamps and Fireside Light; Rachel Kolb -- 6. A Sense of Place and Cyberspace: The Hybrid Way I Live, Work, and Play; Gyasi Burks-Abbott -- 7. Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties); Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Part 2: Metro-Geographies -- 8. Peaks and Valleys: A Collaborative Essay about Disability in the Bronx; Annette Serrano, Cindy Hernandez, Andrew Whyte, Sonia Gonzalez, Jovan Campbell, and Mary Morfe (with an introduction by Julia Miele Rodas) -- 9. Blindness and Dyslexia in the Movements of Everyday Life in Toronto; Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky -- 10. Disability in New York City Schools and Preparing Teachers to Work in Them; Laurie Rabinowitz -- 11. Drenched Lands, Blood Compost: Disability, Land, and the Asylum Project; Petra Kuppers -- Part 3: Liminal (Dis)locations -- 12. A Tide in the River: Auditory Ecologies of Dyarubbin; Nicole Matthews -- 13. Hydra, New Hampshire; Stephen Kuusisto -- 14. Between Places; Leigh A. Neithardt -- 15. The Lie of the Land; Annmaree Watharow -- 16. Body Workers; Ellen Samuels -- 17. Never in one Place: On Waking in a Different Body; Anand Prahlad.
    Abstract: Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical locations. Each chapter engages the question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of movement, work and play, community and activism, artistic production, love and marriage, access and social services, family and friendship, memory and aging—all informed by the places that people inhabit. The book is organized in terms of topographies and vistas, rather than being bound by the map, to emphasize the defining, constitutive effects of place. The authors included in Placing Disability hail from different countries, neighborhoods, climates, and landscapes; from various backgrounds and professions; from a range of disciplinary perspectives and strategies. They are trained as academics, literary critics, poets, students, public speakers, memoirists, educators, philosophers, administrators, and activists. Their essays refine our understanding of the complex dynamic between self and circumstance as they survey the impact of geographical region on their life experiences. This book is intended to be useful in creative-writing workshops, Disability Studies seminars, and classes on environmental literature, and to appeal to general readers of memoir as well as to scholars of contemporary body theory or the Anthropocene. Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College. Her books include the memoir Love Affair in the Garden of Milton (2021) and four scholarly volumes on disability and literature. She is also the co-editor of four collections of work on disability issues, including Disability Experiences (2019, with G. Thomas Couser). Gregory Fraser is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Little Armageddon (2021), and co-author of two writing textbooks. Fraser’s poetry has appeared in journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares. He is the recipient of several awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 147 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics. ; Film genres. ; Language and languages ; Sociology. ; Leisure. ; Literary form.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Reading, Genre, and Crisis -- Chapter 3: Reading and Time -- Chapter 4: Reading as a Coping Strategy -- Chapter 5: Re-reading in the Pandemic -- Chapter 6: Lockdown Experiences of Social Reading. -Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the first UK COVID-19 lockdown affected public reading habits. The authors begin by outlining the background to the study, the research methodology and design, and an overview of the headlines of the data, before going on to survey the literature on the relationship between pandemics, literature (especially the role played by genre and popular fiction) and reading habits. They then examine how participants reported that the lockdown period had affected the amount that they read; how they accessed books and discussed their reading with others; the use of reading as a coping strategy; and returning to re-read books that offered familiarity, reliability, and nostalgia. Finally, the concluding chapter brings together the overall findings of the project and briefly outlines future work in the field. This book will be of interest to academics in fields such as literary and genre studies, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics, health humanities, and sociology, as well as practitioners working in education, in bibliotherapy, and in libraries. Abigail Boucher is Lecturer in English Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in genre and popular fiction of the long nineteenth century, with interests in the body, class, and medicine and science in literature. Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University, UK. His research is in the area of stylistics and specifically in cognitive and empirical approaches to reading literature within different contexts. Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. Her research explores cognitive stylistics, reader response studies and contemporary fiction. Robbie Love is Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK. He is a corpus linguist, specialising in contemporary spoken discourse, and advocates for the application of corpus approaches to address societal challenges. Caroline Godfrey is Researcher in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her work concentrates on the language used to conceptualise English education in the UK, with a particular focus on the use of metaphor.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 196 p.)
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Buddhism and culture. ; Communication.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Buddhist Advocacy and Activism Research -- 3. Historical Developments of Buddhist Advocacy and Activism in Siam and Modern Thailand -- 4. Identification and Humanizing and Dehumanizing Rhetoric -- 5. A Buddhist Rhetoric of Dignity and Degradation -- 6. A Buddhist Rhetoric of Duty: Justifying Advocacy and Activism -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book studies Buddhist public advocacy and activism in Thailand—a movement often broadly called socially engaged Buddhism—from the perspective of rhetorical studies, specifically, on humanizing and dehumanizing communication practices. In modern Thailand and historical Siam, Buddhism has been integral to the social change processes shaping civil society and an emerging democracy. This study examined two problems: How do contemporary Buddhists in Thailand use rhetorical practice to influence the way the issues they work on are understood, and how do these Buddhists justify their advocacy and activism in rhetorical practice? To the first, a rhetoric of dignity, or humanization, was the central answer. To the second, a rhetoric of duty was the central answer. For researchers in Southeast Asian Studies, Thai Studies, and Buddhist Studies, this book offers a fresh perspective on socially engaged Buddhism through the lens of the communication discipline. For researchers in Psychology and Communication, it sheds light on the understudied practices of humanizing communication. The bulk of the current research is focused on its opposite—dehumanization—and most of this literature is in the field of psychology even though humanization and dehumanization are fundamentally and ontologically communication phenomena. For researchers within the field of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, this book advances innovations in the emerging practices of rhetorical field methods by applying rhetorical criticism to interview data in a new way and provides a non-western perspective on communication and rhetorical theory for which there has been continual calls. Craig M. Pinkerton (Ph.D., Ohio University) is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University. He is an educator and researcher of communication with an emphasis in rhetoric, public culture, and qualitative methods combined with interdisciplinary inquiry in Southeast Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies. He has won over fifteen academic awards and honors, including the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for the study of Thai language. Since 2007, he has taught over 20 courses on a wide variety of subjects on communication, including public speaking and presentation communication, argumentation, rhetoric, public advocacy and activism, marketing and public relations, organizational development, interpersonal conflict management, and the dark side of media. From 2011 to 2015, he lived in Thailand teaching communication and researching Buddhist public advocacy and activism.
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    Series Statement: Global Issues
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Comparative government. ; Religion and sociology. ; Islam
    Abstract: Chapter One. INTRODUCTION: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ISLAM AND CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE -- Chapter Two. NO SHARĪʿA IN THE LAND OF SHARĪʿA -- Chapter Three. SHARĪʿA IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SHARĪʿA -- Chapter Four. THE SAUDI MODEL AND SHARĪʿA AS CONSTITUTION -- Chapter Five. THE JURIDICAL DIMENSION OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: THE CASE OF ISIS -- Chapter Six. SHARĪʿA AND THE WEST, AND SHARĪʿA IN THE WEST -- Chapter Seven. CONCLUSION: A FEW REMARKS FOR FURTHER REFLECTION.
    Abstract: GLOBAL ISSUES Series Editors: Jim Whitman · Paolo D. Farah This comparative law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to constitutional comparisons, assuming as a starting point the different legal perspectives implied in the (Sunni) Islamic outlook on the juridical phenomena and the Western concept of law, with particular reference to constitutionalism. The volume adopts a wider and comprehensive viewpoint, comparing the different ways in which the Islamic sharī ʿa and Western legal categories interact, regardless of substantive contents of specific provisions, thus avoiding conceptual biases that can sometime affect present literature on the matter. The book explores the various dynamics subtended to the interactions between sharī ʿa and Western constitutionalism, providing a new classification to the different contemporary models. The philosophical and legal comparisons are analyzed in a dynamic way, based on a wide range of contemporary constitutional systems, virtually encompassing all the States in which Sunni Islam plays a major cultural role, and taking also into consideration non-State actors and non-recognized actors. Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli, PhD, is an Italian diplomat and lawyer,presently serving as Deputy Head of the Mission of the Italian Embassy to Doha, Qatar. He is Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal. In the past, he worked for two years with the Catholic University of Milan in the fields of Philosophy of Law and Legal Methodology. After entering the diplomatic service, he continued his research activity in law, with particular reference to the Muslim world and to the Far East. He is the author of Islamic State as a Legal Order (Routledge, 2022) and has published various articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Comparative Law, Suffolk Law Review, Rivista della Cooperazione Giuridica Internazionale, and Orientalia Parthenopea.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 104 p.)
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    Keywords: Continental Philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Philosophy
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2: Facts And Essences -- 3: Intentionality -- 4: The Incomplete Reduction -- 5: Phenomenology And Non-Phenomenology -- 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a critical re-appraisal of what is perhaps Merleau-Ponty’s most widely read text, the Preface to his Phenomenology of Perception. Although open and enigmatic text, the Preface is still often used to introduce phenomenology in general and Merleau-Ponty’s work specifically to students, scholars in disciplines other than philosophy, and art practitioners. Taking advantage of the fact that many of his course notes have been posthumously published in the last few decades, this book situates the Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception in the context of Merleau-Ponty's later work and shows how it contains many of the threads on which Merleau-Ponty would later pull. In doing so, the book chapters elaborate key themes in the Preface: “Phenomenology and its Paradoxes,” “Phenomenology and its Method,” “Phenomenology and its Incompletion,” “Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology." Readers will learn about the radicality of Merleau-Ponty’s early articulation of phenomenology, how much it already suggests the profound transformation of phenomenology usually associated with his more mature work. .
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    ISBN: 9783031413049
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 221 p. 15 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Renewing the American Narrative
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    Keywords: Ethnology ; Culture. ; Middle East ; Peace.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Training for COIN (counterinsurgency) -- Chapter 3: What We Leave Behind and What We Take to War -- Chapter 4: Going Downrange -- Chapter 5: Going Way Downrange -- Chapter 6: Band of Brothers and Sisters -- Chapter 7: Women On and Off the FOB -- Chapter 8: Sex on the FOB (forward operating base) -- Chapter 9: Under Western Eyes -- Chapter 10: Who tells stories on deployment? -- Chapter 11: The Burning of a Quran -- Chapter 12: Coming Home.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army’s four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters, and concludes with her uneasy return home. She examines the everyday lives of Americans sent to conduct a war of counterinsurgency, including their sexual exploits on base, their superstitions, even the heroic accounts that military contractors recount in their personal stories of past wars, stories that are sometimes a little too good to be true. In turn, she explores the views of ordinary Afghans to this American occupation. Carol Burke is Professor Emerita in English at UC Irvine, and Visiting Scholar in University of North Carolina’s Program in Peace, War and Defense. She combines her ethnographic skills as a folklorist with her interest in literary journalism. Publications include Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight, a study of military culture; Women’s Visions, a book that explores accounts of the supernatural and the uncanny exchanged by women in prison; The Creative Process (coauthored with Molly Tinsley), a creative writing text; Plain Talk and Back in Those Days, collections of family folklore--the latter coauthored with Martin Light; and Close Quarters, a collection of poems. Articles have appeared in magazines like The Nation and The New Republic as well as scholarly journals and collections. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2004, Professor Burke taught courses in literary journalism at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins Universities.
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    ISBN: 9783031433979
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 149 p. 2 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Asia ; Imperialism. ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: 1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia. -- 5.Collecting Memory -- 6.Preserving Memory -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The book presents a rich and multi-layered look at the 1947 partition of India, asking whether, how, and why the disruption and atrocities that partition imparted should be remembered. It is an eloquently written, deeply felt, and nuanced account of partition and its sequalae, not focused primarily on historical facts, but on the meaning of lived experiences at the personal, community, and cultural levels.”– Michelle D. Leichtman, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, USA This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive. Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.
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    ISBN: 9783031538698
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 95 p.)
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Religion ; Psychology and religion.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Initial Considerations -- Chapter 2: Dimensions of Meaningful Aging -- Chapter 3: The Longevity of Justice: Assessing Peter Derkx’s Approach.
    Abstract: Aging is a topic of growing interest. As life expectancy in western societies is increasing, the growing number and proportion of ‘elderly’ persons raise urgent questions on how to age ‘well’. Predominantly, questions on aging are taken from biomedical and economic paradigms, which are intertwined. While people of age are seen as a cost in society, biomedical research aims at curing the declining effects of aging, thus furthering ideals of ‘healthy’ aging, ‘active’ aging, or ‘successful’ aging. In this book, Peter Derkx offers a comprehensive account of meaningful aging with Anthony Pinn responding in a fruitful and constructive way, for the benefit and edification of all of us. Peter Derkx is Professor Emeritus of Humanism and Worldviews at the University of Humanistic Studies. Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University.
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    ISBN: 9783031541254
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Legitimacy in Global Governance -- 2. Subject and Concept of Legitimacy -- 3. Legitimacy, Justice and Democracy -- 4. The All-Affected Principle -- 5. Towards a Standard of Legitimacy for Global Governance Institutions -- Part 2: The G20 -- 6. Nature and Functions of the G20 -- 7. The Legitimacy of the G20 -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Sören Hilbrich’s work on legitimacy and global governance is original, illuminating and very thorough in its discussion of the question of the nature of legitimacy for international institutions. I am especially impressed with the in-depth discussion of the legitimacy of the G20.” —Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona “Sören Hilbrich develops a conception of legitimacy as the right to function, which is applicable to all political institutions. The implication of this conceptually rich discussion is that we should not be too ambitious in our legitimacy standards for Global Governance institutions. This study is a remarkable achievement and is a must for those interested in International Political Theory.” —Michael Zürn, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Global governance has a major impact on the lives of people around the world. However, traditional theories of legitimacy were usually developed for states and are not suitable for the diversity of global governance institutions that exist today. This book first develops a normative concept of legitimacy that is applicable to all political institutions. According to this concept, to regard an institution as legitimate means ascribing it the right to exercise its function in political practice. Secondly, the book discusses how the use of this concept opens up new perspectives in the debate on legitimacy criteria for global governance institutions. In this context, the book analyses the relationship of legitimacy to the values of justice and democracy and discusses the role of feasibility constraints and the all-affected principle in legitimacy judgements. The concept of legitimacy as the right to function opens up the conceptual space to accommodate the insight that legitimacy criteria are not the same for all global governance institutions, but depend on their function and context. Thirdly, the book applies the developed theoretical framework to a specific global governance institution, the G20. Sören Hilbrich is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability in Bonn, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031499456
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 300 p. 17 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Continental Philosophy. ; Aesthetics. ; Literature
    Abstract: Part I Theoretical Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary and Disimagination -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 States Of Image: Elan, Pulsion, Rapt, Rupture, Caesura and Syncopation -- Part II Emergences – Resurgences. Pulsatile Flow -- Chapter 3 Emergences and Resurgences: Notes on the Unformed in Conversation with Henri Michaux -- Chapter 4 Pulsatile Choreography: Rhythm, (Dis)Enchantment, and Disimagination in Premodern Dance -- Chapter 5 Passing and Flowing: Rhythmical Entanglements of Writing, Painting and Knitting in Virginia Woolf and Berthe Morisot -- Chapter 6 Confusion at Sea: The Return to Water -- Part III Tearing Mimesis – Ways Of Disimagination And Re-Incarnation Of Image -- Chapter 7 Incarnation and Déchirure; Annunciation and Crucifixion -- Chapter 8 Painting Matter and Trace. Reflections on Horia Bernea’s art -- Chapter 9 Rite of Spring – Rite of Disimagination: An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre -- Chapter 10 Kneading dreams: Material imagination and agency in performative clay works -- Part IV Vibrant Mimesis, New Materialism, And Otherness -- Chapter 11 Vibrant Mimesis: New Materialism to Mimetic Studies -- Chapter 12 Motor of Darkness: On the Cartographic Visual Drive of Anthropocene Culture -- Chapter 13 A Venture into the realm of the nonhuman - or how artistic performative methods can propose a practice of exchanging knowledge with matter.
    Abstract: Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy. Chapters of this volume engage with the overarching theme of imagination as a pulsatile force embedded in words, images, and all imaginative modes of instantiation of the work of art in their elemental aspects, expressed in visual arts, and literature, as well as bodily schemata of choreographic and musical performances. The papers employ contrasting and complementing methods from literary studies and image theory, especially phenomenology and new materialism, such as G. Bachelard and M. Merleau-Ponty, G. Bataille, J. Kristeva, P. Lacoue-Labarthe and J. Sallis, G. Didi-Huberman, H. Belting and A. Warburg, J. Bennett and Jason M. Wirth, as well as performance studies. Chapters in this volume inquire into the imaginative forces that disrupt and disinhibit the traditional habits of imagination to create pulsatile imaginaries, i.e., a dynamic process of “emergence-resurgence” of image manifested in the act of creation and in perception. This process does not properly imply a destruction of image, but rather a withdrawal of image from the realm of representation to give way to new images and new imaginative experiences. The newly coined term “rite of disimagination” points out to this operation, consecutively implying imagining and disimaging that both denies, as well as validates image – it valorizes matter. The affirmation of the materiality of image is “the re-incarnation of image.” Nicoletta Isar is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). She is author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and the books XOPÓΣ: The Dance of Adam. The Making of Byzantine Chorography (2011) and Elemental Chorology, Vignettes Imaginales (2020).
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    ISBN: 9783031517808
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 204 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; Indigenous peoples ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Leonard and Harriet’s Backgrounds Prepare them to Respect the Ojibwe -- Chapter 3. The Wheelers Adjust to the Ojibwe and Each Other -- Chapter 4. Settling in with the Ojibwe at Bad River -- Chpater 5. Trying to Convince the Government to Honor the 1854 Treaty Destroys Leonard Wheeler’s Health -- Chapter 6. The Wheelers Leave Bad River, but Do Not Forget It -- Chapter 7. William Wheeler Synthesizes Ojibwe and Gilded Age Values -- Chpater 8. Hattie Wheeler’s Writing Succeeds when Loyal to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 9. Wheelers Return to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 10. Mary Warren English Tries to Preserve Ojibwe Culture.
    Abstract: This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with the indigenous Ojibwe. When Leonard and Harriet Wheeler arrived at La Pointe, Wisconsin in July of 1841, hoping to help the Ojibwe understand and accept the value of Christian civility, they did not expect such a profound transformation of their own lives. The Wheelers’ empathy for the Ojibwe not only grew during their twenty-five years of mission work in Northern Wisconsin, much of it spent trying to protect the Ojibwe from predatory whites, it also influenced the lives of their children. Nancy Bunge, a Professor Emerita at Michigan State University, also served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Ghent, and the University of Siegen. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 275 p. 2 illus.)
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    Keywords: Technology ; Technology ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Respect for Humanity -- 3. Mobile Devices and Autonomy: Individual-Level Effects -- 4. The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Ourselves -- 5. The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Others I: Duties of Virtue -- 6. The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Others II: Duties of Right -- 7. The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Group Agents -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate the vast scope of this problem. In the last decade, we have seen a flurry of books making “self-help” arguments about how we could live happier, more fulfilling lives if we were less addicted to our phones. But none of these authors see this issue as one involving a moral duty to protect our autonomy.
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    ISBN: 9783031466304
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 350 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Europe ; Social history. ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Language, Settings, and Networks of Early Modern Private Conversations; Johannes Ljungberg and Natacha Klein Käfer -- Part I: Between Silence and Talking -- 2. Talking About Religion During Religious War: Gilles de Gouberville, Normandy, 1562; Virginia Reinburg -- 3. When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier, 1621; Adam Horsley -- 4. Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeek’s Krinke Kesmes (1708); Liam Benison -- Part II: Navigating Hierarchical Settings -- 5. “Alone amongst ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–97); Krisztina Péter -- 6. “We take care of our own”: Talking About ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households; Barbara A. Kaminska -- 7. “So that I never fail to warn and exhort”: Pastoral Care and Private Conversation in a Seventeenth-Century Reformed Village; Markus Bardenheuer -- 8. “The secret sins that one commits by thought alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France; Lars Cyril Nørgaard -- Part III: Intimate Conversations -- 9. Marital Conversations: Using Privacy to Negotiate Marital Conflicts in Adam Eyre’s Diary, 1647–1649; Katharina Simon -- 10. “Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking About Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village; Tomasz Wiślicz -- 11. Multimedia Conversations: Love and Lovesickness in Sixteenth-Century Italian Single-Sheet Prints; Alexandra Kocsis -- 12. Towards further studies of private conversations; Mette Birkedal Bruun, Johannes Ljungberg and Natacha Klein Käfer.
    Abstract: This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instances in historical sources typically becomes a complex pursuit, full of subtle references that require creative approaches, especially when it comes to more informal practices. Yet, in a reading against the grain, different sources can offer us hints of how conversations took place in private. The book consists of a historiographical and methodological introduction to the study of private conversations, followed by ten case studies from a variety of cities, villages, and countryside across early modern Europe. The concluding epilogue suggests some pathways to further explore the terrain of how people have talked in private in past societies. Johannes Ljungberg is an Assistant Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies, at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on religiously dissenting networks in the Nordic countries and privacy in urban spaces during the early modern period. Natacha Klein Käfer is an Assistant Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies, at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the history of healing and issues of confidentiality between healers and patients as well as networks of knowledge in the early modern period.
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    ISBN: 9783031544194
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 311 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Continental Philosophy. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part Ⅰ. Intentionality and Actions -- Chapter 2. From Speech Act to Intentionality -- Chapter 3. The Structure of Intentionality -- Chapter 4. The Meaningful Action and Commitment -- Part Ⅱ. Collective Intentionality and Normativity -- Chapter 5. Normativity as Rational Ground -- Chapter 6. Normativity as Collective Creation -- Chapter 7. Normativity as Intersubjective Control -- Part Ⅲ. Normativity with Universal Validity -- Chapter 8. Communication and Social Evolution -- Chapter 9. Discourse Ethics and Moral Cognitivism -- Chapter 10. Critique of Cognitive Parallelism -- Chapter 11. Conclusion./ .
    Abstract: This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. According to the naturalistic approach, we can discern the inner structure of social consciousness as a systematic pattern of Intentionality. Social consciousness involves three levels of development: subjective, objective and absolute. With this new pattern of social consciousness, the “naturalism” of the young Karl Marx can be revived. And by grasping the most essential ability of human Intentionality as the source of social formation, it also makes an interdisciplinary study of social philosophy and philosophy of mind possible. Yang Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization and the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2022) and M.A in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031519475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 242 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Africa ; Great Britain ; Finance. ; History. ; Economic history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance -- 2.From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa -- 3.From Market to Exchange: The JSE’s Early Rules, Regulations And Organisation -- 4. Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber Of Mines -- 5.Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance -- 6.Finance and Imperialism at The Exchange: The JSE and the Jameson Raid -- 7.A Modernising Exchange and the South African War -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Lukasiewicz’s book is a deeply researched study of a financial organisation and its intimate links with British imperialism and South Africa’s settler colonialism." —Stephanie Decker, Professor in Strategy, Birmingham Business School “Lukasiewicz deserves commendation for producing this illuminating study of actors and institutions at the intersection of trans-imperial and global finance and politics.” —Ayodeji Olukoju, Professor of History, University of Lagos This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state. Mariusz Lukasiewicz is a Lecturer in African History at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, in Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031465338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 259 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Intellectual life ; Civilization ; Education
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: An alleged crisis of the humanities -- Chapter 2. The division between the different sciences on the singularly and emphatically human and new branches of science -- Chapter 3. New overlaps and reciprocities between the faculties -- Chapter 4. The contemporary turn -- Chapter 5. Whither goest thou? The present predicament.
    Abstract: This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline. Rather than hearkening to the widespread, reactive call for a last-ditch defense of the humanities under attack from an ungracious world, this book fundamentally reverses the perspective and makes a plea for a different, affirmative approach. It contends that the humanities have incessantly arrived at critical turning points since they were first constituted in a form that remains recognizable today and assumed a leading role in knowledge organization with the establishment of the modern university around 1800. Assuming a historical perspective, the monograph takes the human sciences back to their rightful place in the family tree of sciences and gives due recognition to their continuously decisive role in the production of new knowledge and the creation of new fields of knowledge. Situating the ongoing gemmation of the humanities in a broader context, this monograph also offers an encompassing introduction to the over-all development of knowledge in the last two hundred years. Sverre Raffnsøe is Professor of Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School and Editor-in-Chief of Foucault Studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031503924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 342 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Africa ; Human ecology ; Food science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Religion, Climate change and Food security in Africa -- Chapter 2. Prophetic action, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Africa -- Chapter 3. Islam, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Morocco -- Chapter 4. Religion, Climate Change and food availability and accessibility in Africa -- Chapter 5. Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana -- Chapter 6. Rastafarianism, climate change and Crop Failure in Africa -- Chapter 7. Catholicism, climate change and pests in Africa -- Chapter 8. Farming God's Way to avert crop failure and pests in Malawi -- Chapter 9. Crop diseases and Food insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective -- Chapter 10. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Security in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Bota Reshupa (Herbal Porridge) among the Ndau of Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11. Indigenous knowledge systems, climate Change and food security in Kenya -- Chapter 12. African Women, Religion and Food Securityin the Context of Pandemics -- Chapter 13. Gender, Religion, food security and climate change in Africa -- Chapter 14. Women, Religion and food insecurity of urban people in South Africa -- Chapter 15. Climate-related conflicts, religion and food production and distribution in Africa -- Chapter 16. Faith-Based Organisations and Food Security in Africa: A Critical Review -- Chapter 17. Pentecostalism, Theology of Survival and Food Security in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 18. Religion, food security and resilience of Rural people in Ghana -- Chapter 19. Religion, Food security and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case of Luangwa Valley Women of Present Eastern Zambia.
    Abstract: This book addresses the relationship between religion, climate change, and food security in Africa. Contributors to this volume interrogate how and to what extent religion in Africa serves as a resource (or confounding factor) in responding to Sustainable Development Goals 13 (action on climate change) and 2 (achieve Zero Hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture). Approaching the theme from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles, contributors probe the potential role of religion in Africa to accelerate the achievement of these two SDGs, especially the role of religion with regard to food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food systems stability. Loreen Maseno is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Theology and Philosophy, Maseno University, Kenya and Research fellow, University of South Africa (UNISA). David Andrew Omona is an Associate Professor of Ethics and International Relations and Dean School of Social Sciences at Uganda Christian University. Ezra Chitando is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe. Sophia Chirongoma is a Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
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    ISBN: 9783031493256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 279 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Military history. ; Human ecology ; World history. ; Women
    Abstract: 1.All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land -- Part I The Global War -- 2.World War I in East Asia: Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Campaign (August 23–November 7, 1914) -- 3.West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War -- 4.Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune -- Part II Cultures of War -- 5.Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front -- 6.Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War -- 7.Deconstructing Rudolf Berthold: The Brittle, Violent Life of Germany’s “Iron” Aviator -- Part III Between the Home Front and the Front Lines -- 8.Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys -- 9.War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States -- 10.Unionism in Defeat: The Unravelling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns -- Part IV Gender and War -- 11.Blurring the Line and Walking the Street: The Elision of Visual Distinctions Between Prostitutes and New Women in Otto Dix’s Three Prostitutes on the Street (Drei Dirnen auf der Straße) -- 12.“Eminently appalling suffering”: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services, Citizenship, and Remembrance in the Irish Free State During the 1920s -- 13.The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine.
    Abstract: Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh directions from which future work might emerge. Transnational approaches, the cultural and environmental history of war, and gender’s ubiquitous but heretofore marginalized role in the larger conflict together merit fresh research and careful new interpretation. Mandy Link is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. She published Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937: Specters of Empire with Palgrave in 2019. Matthew M. Stith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. He is the author or editor of three books including Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier (2016) and, as co-editor, Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War (2019).
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    ISBN: 9783031422355
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 293 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Comparative literature. ; Literature ; Science ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur -- Chapter 2. Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene -- Chapter 3. Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 4. Settler Colonial Solutions to Settler Colonial Problems: Settler Cinemas and the Crisis of Colonization of Outer Space -- Chapter 5. The Weirdness of White Strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition -- Chapter 6. How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and the Future -- Chapter 7. “I get to exist as a Black person in the world”: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen -- Chapter 8. Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy -- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager -- Chapter 10. The Wild Boar Never Strikes without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu -- Chapter 11. Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People -- Chapter 12. Shadowing the Brutality and Cruelty of Nature: On History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke -- Chapter 13. Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future -- Chapter 14. Building a Kinship Society (short story).
    Abstract: “Proposing a symbiosis between history and speculative fi ction, this wide-ranging collection of essays asks how critical visions of alternative possibility can help us confront the dire legacies of colonialism, the specter of ecological catastrophe, and the burdens of systemic injustice. Historians and literary scholars alike should welcome this intervention.” —John Rieder, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa “This volume makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on speculative fi ction by illuminating how the concept of ‘concurrences,’ as articulated and theorized by Gunlög Fur, can serve as a valuable methodological tool in the study of speculative fi ction. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural and historical sources, the essays in this volume offer useful case studies that render the concept of concurrences more comprehensible through concrete application.” —Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future. John L. Hennessey is a research fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University. He has published on global colonial history and the history of science in journals including Science in Context, History and Anthropology, French Colonial History, Settler Colonial Studies and Japan Review. .
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    ISBN: 9783031461217
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 245 p. 13 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Postcolonialism and Religions
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Liberation theology. ; Christianity and culture. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I Unsettling Whiteness -- 2 Jesus Christ, Once Was a Savage! Selective Memory, Staged Identity, and Stolen Spaces -- 3 ‘The Poor Bugger Has Suffered Enough’: Vernon Ah Kee, Warwick Thornton, and the Unmaking of a White Jesus -- 4 Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation -- 5 Unsettling Theologies Means Unsettling Theological Institutions! -- Part II Dismantling Colonial Systems -- 6 Uncovering the Mat: Restorative Justice for the Dawn Raids? -- 7 ‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth -- 8 Unsettling Providential Partnership: A Critical Examination of Robert Maunsell and George Grey’s Partnership in Māori Education -- 9 Spiritualities of Belonging and Intercultural Politics in Australia -- 10 To Conquer and Subdue: An Ecological Reading of Wilderness in Jeremiah 17:5–8 and Beyond -- Part III Un-silencing Alter-Native Theologies -- 11 Taught to Fish but Still Starving: Unsettling Theological Hermeneutics in Oceania -- 12 Archives: From Places of Silence and Silencing to Places of Regeneration -- 13 Beyond the Tautologa: Tu(akoi) from a Geopolitical Lens -- 14 Unsettling Economies: A Moana Account(ing).
    Abstract: How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds of theological perspectives and approaches are needed in the wake of colonisation and its impact? Unsettling Theologies includes responses to these questions from Aboriginal, Māori, Pasifika, and White scholars. Brian Fiu Kolia is Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Malua Theological College and an ordained minister of the Congregational Christian Church, Samoa. He grew up in Australia and Samoa and his roots go back to the villages of Sili Savaii, Satapuala, Tufutafoe, and Faleaseela. Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland/ Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is a Pākehā New Zealander with Scottish and English ancestry.
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    ISBN: 9783031485091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 270 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Feminist theology. ; Sex. ; African literature. ; Culture ; Ecology .
    Abstract: Chapter 1. African Eco-Feminisms--African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred -- Chapter 2. Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane -- Chapter 3. Creating while black and female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African feminist decolonial imaginary -- Chapter 4. Religion, Gender and Earth Categories in Lauri Kubuetsile’s But Deliver us from Evil (2019) -- Chapter 5. Kwasuka-sukela: A new paradigm to the African stories of women in Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless and They Got to You Too -- Chapter 6. The intersection of Earth, Gender and the Sacred in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names: Eco-Critical African feminist and Social Semiotics perspectives -- Chapter 7. Postcolonial Dislocation and the Psyche: Connecting the dots in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body -- Chapter 8 -- “That’s what happens when two worlds collide”: An intersectional reading of Bessie Heads short stories, “The Collector of Treasures and other Botswana Village Tales” -- Chapter 9 -- Generational search for home: History, race and gendered perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing -- Chapter 10 -- Border Crossing: Religion, Gender, Race and Class in the Journeys of Ifemelu in Americanah -- Chapter 11. The Dragonfly Sea: The Sea, the Land and One African Woman’s Voyage-in -- Chapter 12. The Victims: An African-Ecofeminist Reading -- Chapter 13. Marginality, cultural positioning and religion in ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya’s Singing Away the Hunger: Stories of a life in Lesotho -- Chapter 14. All Water is Connected: African Earth Spirituality and Queering Identity in AkwaekeEmezi’s Freshwater -- Chapter 15. Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku.
    Abstract: This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address the following questions: How do contemporary African women writers depict the Earth/land/environment and its relationship to women in various contexts? How is religion featured in African women’s writing? How does religious literature (scriptures) form an intertextual layer in African women’s writing? The contributors proceed by analyzing the intersection of religion, gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, and ecology in selected texts written by African women. They bring these texts into conversation with broader eco-feminist theological scholarship, exploring the potential of literary writing to contribute to theological discourse of liberation and social justice in the African and global arena. Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Zimbabwe Open University. Musa Wenkosi. Dube is Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Limakatso Pepenene is Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the National University of Lesotho.
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    ISBN: 9783031469299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 532 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Culture. ; Digital media. ; Developmental psychology.
    Abstract: Part I From Established to New Perspectives on Children and Young People’s Use of Digital Technology -- 1. How Can We Understand the Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People? -- 2. Digitally Disengaged and Digitally Unconfident Children in Europe -- 3. The Digital Divide: Understanding Vulnerability and Risk in Children and Young People’s Everyday Digital Lives -- 4. Children’s Digital Boundary Crossings When Moving in Between Porous Ecosystems -- 5. Investigating Patterns of Digital Socialisation During Leisure Through Multimodal Social Research -- 6. Children’s and Young People’s ICT Experiences in School Education: Participatory Research Design to Engage Children and Young People as Experts in Research -- Part II Exploring Agency and Well-being in Everyday Digital Lives -- 7. A Developmental View on Digital Vulnerability and Agency of Children Under 10 Years of Age -- 8. Discourses and Gender Divides in Children’s Digital Everyday Lives -- 9. ICT Use and Children’s Self-reported Life Satisfaction -- 10. ‘Of Gaming and Other Demons’: Defining Children and Young People’s Meaningful Leisure Activities in the Digital Era -- 11. Perspectives of Children and Young People on Their Education as Preparation for Their Future in the Digital Age: In-depth Qualitative Study in Five European Countries -- 12. Social Media as a Shaper, Enabler, and Hurdle in Youth Political Participation -- 13. Talking About Digital Responsibility: Children’s and Young People’s Voices -- 14. Intersecting Knowledge on Young People’s Well-Being and Use of Digital Technology Across Contexts: A Scoping Review Synthesis -- Part III A New Response to Risk and Vulnerability: Influencing Social Policy in the Digital Age -- 15. Developing a Toolkit for Contributing to Digital Competence: A Review of Existing Resources -- 16. EU Policy Reflections on the Intersections Between Digital and Social Policies Supporting Children as Digital Citizens -- .
    Abstract: This Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday lives. The portrait is framed by the ecological-systems theory and situated across four domains: home, leisure time, education, and civic participation. Various methodological approaches are used in innovative ways to analyze data collected in a large-scale EU Horizon 2020 project. The purpose of this edited collection is to shed light on both beneficial and harmful effects of digital technology from a perspective that children are active agents who are empowered to accentuate the positives of digital technology use and over common challenges that inhibit digital competence with support from education stakeholders. This is an open access book. Halla B. Holmarsdottir is Professor at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Idunn Seland is associate professor at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Christer Hyggen is Research professor at the department of Youth research under the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Norwegian Social research at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Maria Roth is a Professor Emerita at from Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania.
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    ISBN: 9783031469398
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 381 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
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    Keywords: Women ; Europe ; World history. ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Towards a Gendered, Decentered History of Cultural Mediation in the Eighteenth Century, Mónica Bolufer and Laura Guinot-Ferri -- Part 1: Discussing Gender in Transnational and Transatlantic Settings -- 2. Discussing Gender, Discussing Modernities in the Global Enlightenment. The Many Lives of a Spanish Defence of Women in Europe and America, Mónica Bolufer -- 3. ‘Man, secluded from the company of women is… a dangerous animal to society’: the History of Women in Scotland’s Enlightenment; Silvia Sebastiani -- 4. Gender and Education in Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Newspapers; Mariselle Meléndez -- Part 2: Women of Letters across Frontiers -- 5. Female Faces in the Fraternity. Printed Portraits Galleries and the Construction and Circulation of Images of Learned Women in the Republic of Letters; Lieke van Deinsen -- 6. A Woman of Two Cities: Louise d’Épinay, Paris and Geneva; Anthony J. La Vopa -- 7. Language, Gender and Authority in the Letters of Isabelle de Charrière; Amélie Jaques and Beatrijs Vanacker -- Part 3: Rewriting through Translation -- 8. Elsewhere. Women Translators and Travelers in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin in the Age of Enlightenment; Luisa Simonutti -- 9. Translating Genre and Gender for Madrid Audiences. The case of María Rosa Gálvez; Elizabeth Franklin Lewis -- 10. The Role of Women in Translation History: Translating and Collaborating in the Re-shaping of Italy in the Early Romantic Period; Mirella Agorni -- 11. Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters; Elisavet Papalexopoulou -- Part 4: Mediating Knowledge, Making Publics -- 12. Women’s Libraries and “Women’s Books”, 1729-1830; Alicia C. Montoya -- 13. The Production and Circulation of Literature for Women Between Europe and America: A Perspective from the Hispanic-American World; Laura Guinot-Ferri -- 14. Women and Novels: Educating the Female Public in the Age of Enlightenment; Patrizia Delpiano.
    Abstract: This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in the long eighteenth century. It aims to decenter perspectives on traditional Enlightenment geographies, by emphasizing cultural transfers between Southern Europe and the rest of Europe, as well as with the Americas; by focusing on a variety of cultural mediators—women authors, female (and male) translators, readers, travelers, and disseminators; and by examining diverse written and visual sources—from correspondence, travel narratives, and philosophical essays, to novels, opera, portraits. Mónica Bolufer is Professor of Modern History at the University of Valencia, Spain. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project CIRGEN: Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies. Laura Guinot-Ferri is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valencia, Spain, and part of the CIRGEN team. Carolina Blutrach is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valencia, Spain, and part of the CIRGEN team.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Party System Change and Democracy -- 3. The changing context and evaluation of democracy in Slovenia -- 4. Party system changes in 1989–2022 -- 5. Relations between party system instability and democracy in Slovenia -- 6. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on the nexus between “party system stability” and “democratic consolidation”, using Slovenia as a case study. Its findings are presented from a comparative perspective to illustrate the commonalities and differences found in research on Central European post-socialist countries and former Yugoslav countries. On the one hand, Slovenia’s characteristics (including the characteristics of its transition to democracy) are far more similar to those of Central European post-socialist countries than Western Balkan countries. On the other, Slovenia shares some similarities with other parts of the former Yugoslavia – especially its experiences with the political system of socialist self-management, elements of a market economy under socialism, and war following the end of socialism (albeit the conflict in Slovenia was very short and rather mild in comparison to those in other parts of socialist Yugoslavia). Slovenia’s experiences with rapid but limited democratic backsliding under the Janša government (March 2019–June 2022) were halted by the 2022 national election – in contrast to the more widely known cases of Hungary and Poland, where such backsliding took place incrementally over a longer period of time that included several election cycles. Danica Fink-Hafner is Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 438 Seiten)
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    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Crime ; Peace. ; International relations. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Preface -- 1. Rapid cascades, coupled crises -- 2. Containment of crises -- 3. Containing states rarely, temporarily -- 4. Institutions to manage threats -- 5. Containing Weapon Systems -- 6. Restorative diplomacy -- 7. Contest political ritualism -- 8. Taking simple institutional virtues seriously.
    Abstract: This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises – climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are identifiable simple institutions that international society can strengthen and some simple principles that can help humankind to control the expanding gamut of complex catastrophes that confront the planet including simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies. It draws on a wide range of current and past crises and challenges, from the Cold War to COVID-19, and from Weapons of Mass Destruction to restorative diplomacy with States like China, to provide an urgent and timely path forward. It speaks to those interested in criminology, public policy and international relations, political science, sociology, public health and economics. John Braithwaite is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University and an interdisciplinary scholar of peacebuilding, war crime, business crime, criminological theory, and regulation and governance. He founded and was the first Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU. Many of his previous works can be downloaded from johnbraithwaite.com.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 150 p.)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethics. ; Political science ; Philosophy of nature. ; Climatology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction to collective and shared responsibility for climate change -- 2. Calling all collective agents -- 3. Responsibility as members -- 4. Shared social orientation and responsibility as constituents -- 5. Carbon inequality and direct responsibility -- 6.Why we need ethical arguments to set good climate policies.
    Abstract: "In this innovative book, Hormio effectively argues for an 'all hands on deck' approach to assigning climate change responsibility to a wider array of agents than is typically recognized, making the case that ethical analysis matters for complex policy problems like climate change.” —Steve Vanderheiden, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA "By interweaving philosophical argument with real-world examples, Säde Hormio makes an important contribution to debates about collective responsibility for climate change." —Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change. Other collective agents, such as corporations, need to also come onboard. Additionally, the book argues that climate change is not solely a problem for collective agents, but also for individuals, as they are members of collectives and groups of several kinds. Therefore, framing climate change responsibility exclusively from either the collective or the individual perspective leaves out something crucial: how we all are influenced by the collectives we belong to and how, in turn, collectives are influenced by individuals. The focus of the book is on areas of climate change responsibility that are often left out of the picture or get too little attention in climate ethics, such as carbon inequality within countries. But why should any theoretical arguments about normative issues matter when we have a real-life climate crisis on our hands? Säde Hormio argues that ethical arguments have an important role in setting climate policy: they can highlight what values are at stake and help ground normative arguments in public deliberations. Säde Hormio is an Academy Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her research focuses on shared and collective responsibility.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 151 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Human geography. ; Environmental sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Eco-welfare in the field of social sciences -- Chapter 3. Eco-welfare and energy: navigating an emerging interplay -- Chapter 4. Eco-welfare, populations, and vulnerabilities -- Chapter 5. Eco-welfare tools: Renewable Energy Communities -- Chapter 6. Concluding remarks.
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging interplay that runs between energy – seen as a basic need and a providential material service from the viewpoint of welfare studies – and eco-welfare, seen as an emerging analytical and policy paradigm that hold together the social crisis on the one hand, and the ecological crisis, on the other hand. At a time of energy transition, the interplay between the theoretical framework of eco-welfare and the topic of energy supply is little explored, and therefore, this book fills a need in the literature by providing a comprehensive framework to navigate this emerging relationship. Such a framework is strengthened by insights on energy poverty and renewable energy communities, identified as cornerstones of the analysis between energy transition and eco-welfare. Lorenzo De Vidovich is a sociologist with a PhD in urban planning and research fellow at the University of Trieste, where he teaches sociology of territory and energy transition. His main field of interest is the territorial dimensions of welfare policies, addressed through the themes of energy transition, energy poverty, the governance of welfare services in suburbs and peripheries, and the socio-spatial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in suburban areas. He was project manager for the applied research Community Energy Map of RSE (Ricerca Sistema Energetico) and Luiss Business School, and he is currently working as project manager on energy poverty for C40 Cities, Climate Leadership Inc. and the Municipality of Milan.
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    ISBN: 9783031514296
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 199 p. 26 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Industrial policy. ; Development economics. ; Economic policy. ; Economic development in Western Balkans ; Capability building ; Technology upgrading ; Economic growth rates ; Innovation capabilities ; Firm performance heterogeneity ; Organizational capabilities ; Management capabilities ; Business performance ; Policies for technology upgrading ; Physical and human capacities ; Industrial policies
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature and analytical framework -- 3. Capability building and technology upgrading in Western Balkan economies -- 4. Policies for technology upgrading in the Western Balkan economies -- 5. New industrial policy approach -- 6. The economic context of the Western Balkans and some basic economic indicators -- 7. Physical and human capacities -- 8. The role of resources and organizational capabilities.
    Abstract: This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country. It provides a brief introduction to some new industrial policy approaches and proposes a new industrial policy framework that focuses on development of the national innovation system through technology upgrading and increased exploitation of technology to build the foundations for sustainable development. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of the technological capabilities of the manufacturing firms operating in in Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo. It delves into the technical-economic properties of these Western Balkans countries and identifies some strategic options for industrial policy. It emphasizes the need for a form of governance that emphasizes on industrial development and innovation capabilities, which are required for the implementation of these new industrial policies. The analysis draws on the current industrial policy literature and work on developing (catch-up) economies, technological upgrading and innovation studies, which represent current academic thinking in these fields. Fadil Sahiti is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo. His research interests are in the area of firm capability building and technology upgrading, exploring industrial policy issues that enable or constrain the emergence of innovative firms in less developed economies.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 302 p.)
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Intercultural communication. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2. Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Transnational Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4. Digital Media -- 5. Jihad and Digital Media in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Case Study--Al-Shabaab's Digital Media -- 7. Case Study--Boko Haram's Digital Media -- 8. Case Study--The ADF's Digital Media -- 9. Online Jihadist Magazines -- 10. Thematic Analysis of Online Jihadist Magazines -- 11. Discussion, Theoretical Implications, and Solutions.
    Abstract: This book examines how jihadist groups in sub-Saharan Africa have managed to advance their extremist agenda and recruit new followers thanks to digital media fueled by the information revolution since the dawn of the 21st century. This examination is based on a mixture of historical accounts, contemporary descriptions, case studies, theoretical applications, and an in-depth applied study (in the late chapters of the manuscript). An important conclusion is that the progress of jihadism in sub-Saharan Africa has been commensurate with the development and availability of digital media. This book breaks new ground in three ways. It is the first major academic work to devote most of its content exclusively to the use of digital media by jihadist groups in that region. Examples of jihadist digital media include social networking sites, online instructional videos, propaganda videos, and online jihadist magazines―among others. Secondly, it provides detailed case studies of both well-knownAfrican groups (e.g., Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram) and lesser-known ones― e.g., the Allied Democratic Forces in the Congo (which have, nevertheless, wreaked so much damage). Lastly, it is the first book to include an in-depth thematic analysis of online jihadist magazines―Inspire, Dabiq, Rumiyah, and Gaidi Mtaani―on their content dedicated to sub-Saharan Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031569289
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 256 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; Europe ; Intellectual life ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Framing the Ottoman nation -- Ottomanism between ideology and realpolitik -- Revolution and disillusion -- Identity policies in action -- Claiming the homeland? -- Reframing the nation -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic cleansing, genocide, the empire's disintegration, territorial and demographic changes, and the emergence of new states. In the face of these events, a multitude of old and new formulations and imaginings of nation and national identity took shape and interacted with each other. This book focuses on highlighting the diversity of concepts and trajectories that existed during the period and how these played out within a complex web of inclusionary and exclusionary processes, and the various ways in which the nation was constituted and conceptualized.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 187 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
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    Keywords: Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Victims of crimes. ; Human rights. ; Critical criminology. ; Criminology.
    Abstract: 1 The safety paradox and beyond: why we should study inter-prisoner victimisation -- 2 Who’s who? Individual characteristics of those involved in sexual assaults in adult men’s prisons in England and Wales -- 3 Every victim is unique: Explaining victimisation among prisoners in Flanders -- 4 The victim-offender overlap in prisons -- 5 Vulnerability and victimhood in prison -- 6 Independent monitoring and victimisation in prisons -- 7 Methodological challenges to victimisation studies.
    Abstract: People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society. However, while in prison, they often get victimised themselves. Research has demonstrated that prisons tend to be unsafe environments where various forms of victimisation take place. These forms of victimisation often go unnoticed and usually do not attract much interest from policymakers or society at large: prisoners are, indeed, far from ‘ideal victims’. This book is devoted to understanding prisoner victimisation, in particular from a European perspective. Chapters in this volume focus on recent empirical work in a number of European countries (Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands). These chapters are complemented with a series of reflections from a conceptual, methodological and human rights perspective.
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    ISBN: 9783031523991
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 264 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Elections. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: 1.The Puzzle -- 2.Socioeconomic Status and Voting in Africa: A Closer Look -- 3.Group Membership and the Mobilisation of Resource-Poor Voters -- 4.Reward Mobilisation and the Participation of Resource-Poor Citizens -- 5.Egime Type, Democratic Quality, and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens -- 6.Policy Preferences and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens -- 7.Institutional Context -- 8.Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent. Building upon the author’s previous works relating to political participation, behavior and electoral processes, this work focuses specifically on 35 sub-Saharan African political system case studies and analyzes why resource-poor Africans tend to display greater electoral participation than their more comparatively affluent counterparts. Drawing from a methodological–theoretical framework utilizing Afrobarometer data and group mobilization theories such as the civic voluntarism model, electoral clientelism, democratic quality, preference theory and institutional perspectives, this book makes an original contribution to analyzing African regions less well-examined in existing comparative participatory political science literatures. Elvis Bisong Tambe is a senior lecturer in Political Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests lie in the field of political behavior, political participation, public opinion, voting and electoral processes, with a focus on new and emerging democracies. He is the author of Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies: Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia and Post-Communist Europe (Routledge, 2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031567797
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 224 p.)
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Part I. General Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research questions, aims and expected results -- 1.1. A philosophical problem: research questions and aims -- 1.2. Book structure and expected results -- Chapter 2. Methodological remarks -- 2.1. A methodology between reconstruction and interpretation -- 2.1.1. A focus on Adam Smith’s style -- 2.2. Adam Smith’s articulation of the concept of ‘human being’ -- 2.3. Thematic contexts of Smith's elaboration of the concept of the human being -- 2.4. A moral glossary on Smith’s conception of human beings: merit, virtue and propriety -- Chapter 3. Adam Smith’s historical and biographical context -- 3.1. A sketch of Adam Smith’s historical framework -- 3.2. Biographical outline of Adam Smith -- Part II. Adam Smith On Nature And Human Nature -- Chapter 4. A semantic overview of ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.1. Nature, human nature and morality -- 1.2. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. A synthesis of Adam Smith’s conception of human nature -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Sources and theoretical contexts of Adam Smith’s moral conception of human nature -- 2.3. Sociability, the role of language and the human propensity to exchange -- 2.4. Human nature, harmony and society -- 2.5. Human nature and morality: Adam Smith’s conception of self-love -- 2.6. Harmony between oneself and the others in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy: the desire to better one’s condition and the desire to gain deserved approval -- 2.6.1. Some reflections on the role of happiness in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Part III. The Origin And Development Of The Self In Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: History And Natural Self Correction -- Chapter 6. Philosophy of history, morality and human beings -- 1.1. Adam Smith’s philosophy of history: conjectural history and four-stage theory -- 1.1.1. History and human nature -- 1.2. Historical context and the self: Adam Smith’s conception of the savage -- 1.3. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Natural self correction and human beings -- 2.1. Natural self correction and morality: infancy, sympathy and self-development -- 2.2. A focus on the psychological origin of the self -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Part IV. Adam Smith’s Model Of The Mind: Sympathy, Imagination, The Impartial Spectator And Immediacy -- Chapter 8. Perfect and imperfect sympathy in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Passions in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.2.1. The immediate dimension of passions -- 1.3. Natural and moral imagination -- 1.4. Perfect and imperfect sympathy -- 1.5. The terminological shades of sympathy -- 1.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Immediacy as philosophical problem in Adam Smith’s moral theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Imagination, human nature and perception -- 2.2.1. Imagination, harmony and aesthetics -- 2.3. Pleasure and pain in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 2.4. Harmony, imagination and the impartial spectator -- 2.5. Prudence, the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.6. The origin and expression of moraljudgment: the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral standpoint? To do this, Riccardo Bonfiglioli explores the relationship between the concepts of ‘human nature’, ‘mind’ and ‘the self’ in order to reconstruct Smith’s theory of subjectivity. After providing a systematic reconstruction of Adam Smith’s conceptions of ‘human nature’ , ‘mind’ and ‘the self’ – exploring some aspects of Smith’s philosophy (nature, philosophy of history, sympathy and imagination) and their empirical expressions (education, conduct and character) – Bonfiglioli argues that, in Adam Smith’s work, the meaning of ‘moral human beings’ would depend on the human being’s effort to live in harmony with oneself and the others. According to Bonfiglioli, in Smith’s moral theory, this ‘harmony with oneself and the others’ would be achieved in relation to a certain kind of awareness that can be possible when human beings try to judge the conduct and try to act according to the impartial spectator. Specifically, this impartial spectator is reinterpreted by the author in the light of the concept of immediacy. Riccardo Bonfiglioli is academic tutor and subject expert at the University of Bologna. He is associate member of the Walras-Pareto Centre (University of Lausanne), dynamic psychology researcher and MBSR instructor (Aim Milan).
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    ISBN: 9783031541841
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 186 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Human rights. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2. Terrorism, counterterrorism and democracy: theoretical tools and empirical methods -- Chapter 3. Fighting terrorism in transition: Tunisian CT between the local and the global -- Chapter 4. The Discourse of the War on Terror in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia -- Chapter 5. The price to be paid. The impacts of counterterrorism on a new democratic polity -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This volume offers a critical examination of how counterterrorism measures influence democratic processes, with a specific focus on the case study of post-2011 Tunisia. More concretely, it assesses the effects of counterterrorist discourses and practices on the democratic transition initiated after the Dignity Revolution of 2010-2011. Tunisia has been the only Arab country to experience a structured democratic transition after the Arab uprisings. However, the measures taken to counter the rise of salafi jihadism in the country strongly marked the transitional process. This research analyses the detrimental impact of counterterrorism on Tunisian political transition and democratic consolidation. It highlights human rights violations and their legitimization, the strengthening of repressive mechanisms, the enactment of liberticidal laws, the normalization of exceptional governance, and the constriction of public space, while also detailing its negative effects on the state's economy. The book posits that the counterterrorism rhetoric and policies have played a significant role in facilitating the democratic backsliding witnessed in Tunisia beginning in 2021. The research adopts a discursive-ethnographic approach that integrates critical analysis of presidential and parliamentary discourse with extensive fieldwork among institutional and associative actors in Tunisia. The volume represents the first comprehensive and holistic assessment of counterterrorism discourses and policies implemented in post-2011 Tunisia, highlighting their progressive impact on democratic transition. Guendalina Simoncini is post-doctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.
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    ISBN: 9783031440731
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 478 p. 38 illus., 20 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Identity politics.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I Transcultural Comparative Analyses -- 2 Political and Psychological Processes Contributing to European Populisms of the Left and Right -- 3 The Inner Logic: An Intergroup Approach to the Populist Mentality in Europe -- Part II Psychosocial Constructs in Action -- 4 COVID-19 Threat and Populism: The Mediated Effect of Epistemic and Significance Motivations -- 5 Conspiracy Ideation and Political Populism -- 6 Populist Thin Ideology: From a Theoretical Conceptualisation to the Development of a New Scale -- Part III The Italian Case -- 7 This is not the End. How the Appeal of Populism Changed Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 8 Representations of Populism, Pandemic, and War among Italian Citizens of Different Political Orientations. A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis of their Associative Productions (2019-2022) -- Part IV Populist Communication in the Blogsphere -- 9 Italian populist leaders and their followers on Facebook (2019-2022). Representational fields and empirical evidence from a psycho-social linguistic perspective -- 10 Double Bind or Political Advantage? The Negotiation of Womanhood in the Online Discourse of Female Right-Wing Populist Politicians -- 11 Concluding remarks.
    Abstract: This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the authors outline the various psycho-social precursors of populisms that have emerged from empirical investigations. Using both mainstream and critical perspectives, the book shows how the field has stimulated multiple research programs and methodologies. The opinions, attitudes, and representations of lay persons and some populist leaders are analysed through questionnaires and analysis of political communication via social media. The volume is aimed at researchers, students, and readers with good expertise on the subject. It collects contributions from scholars in the psychological-social field, proposing an innovative reading on the social-cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that can lead to adhering to populism. Gilda Sensales is Associate Professor in Social and Political psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her main research interests are the representations of populism, political communication between mainstream and new media, gender and sexism in politics, critical history of social psychology.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 378 p. 27 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Poetry. ; Books
    Abstract: Introduction: “What is Liberty without Universal Toleration”: the Recovery, Reconstruction, and Remediation of Blake’s Manuscripts -- 1: “Hang Philosophy”: Blake’s Metaphysical Forays in An Island in the Moon -- 2: From Reynolds to Wright of Derby: Visual References in Blake’s An Island in the Moon -- 3: “Blake and ‘the wondrous art of writing”: Letter Faces, Letter Formation, Capitalization -- 4: “On Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions”: Re-assessing Blake’s Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses -- 5: The Page Embodied: Laying Out The Four Zoas -- 6: Blake’s Vala, or, The Four Zoas, and the Antiquarians -- 7: Blake’s labyrinth of discordant paths: verbal/visual complexity in the two seventh Nights of The Four Zoas -- 8: Illuminating VALA: A Prolegomenon to a Digital Exhibition of Blake’s Manuscript -- 9: “All that we See is Vision”: William Blake’s Four Zoas Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging -- 10: "Go on Conquering”: A Re-threshing of Blake’s Letters -- 11: From Silken Fetters to Arrows of Desire: Behn, Blake, and the License of Pastoral -- 12: Illuminating Incompleteness: from Tiriel to Blake’s Final Imprint -- 13: The Book of Oothoon: Transtextuality, Transexuality, Palimpsests and Skin in Blake’s Manuscripts -- 14: "By the Voice of the Servant of the Lord": Blake's New Jerusalem and Swedenborgianism in the work of Sheila Kaye-Smith.
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences. With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital repository of Blake materials online, scholars have been able to access Blake’s work in as close its original medium, leading to important insights into Blake’s creative process and mythopoetic system. Recent advancements in digital editing and reproduction has further increased interest in Blake’s manuscripts. This volume brings together both established Blake scholars, including G.E. Bentley Jnr’s final essay on Blake, and upcoming scholars whose research is at the intersection of digital humanities, critical theory, textual scholarship, queer theory, transgender studies, reception history, and bibliographical studies. The chapters seek to cover the breadth of Blake’s manuscripts: poetry, letters, notebook entries, and annotations. Together, these chapters offer an overview of the current state of research in Blake studies on manuscripts at a point when his manuscripts have become increasingly available in digital environments, and gesture to a possible future of Blake scholarship in general.
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    ISBN: 9783031421822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLIX, 304 p. 22 illus., 17 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Motion picture plays, European. ; Motion picture industry. ; Television broadcasting.
    Abstract: Section I: European Policy and Streaming Cinema -- 1.Is the European Film Co-production as We know It in Peril?: The Cases for and against Article 13 of the Revised EU’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD) Petar Mitric, University of Copenhagen -- 2. Integrating Global SVOD Platforms into the French Regulation System Ana Vinuela, Associate professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle -- 3.New AVMSD, Old Purpose: EU Film Policy and the Portuguese Case Mariana Liz, University of Lisbon -- 4.The Process of Becoming Non-European: The Online Distribution of UK Film in the EU Post-Brexit Virginia Crisp, King’s College, London Section II: SVOD platforms and the Circulation of European Films -- 5. Researching Online Film Circulation: Netflix and Other SVOD platforms Roderik Smits, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid -- 6. Algorithm vs. Curation: The Logics of Recommendation and the Realities of Discoverability and Availability in the European VOD Experience Mattias Frey, University of Kent -- 7.Researching Online Film Circulation: Netflix and Other SVOD platforms Roderik Smits, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid -- 8.Researching Online Film Circulation: Netflix and Other SVOD platforms Roderik Smits, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid -- Section III: SVOD-Financed European Production -- 9. Producing Spanish Cinema (and Television) in the Streaming Era: Morena Films and the Global SVOD Platforms Christopher Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid -- 10.Transnational SVOD Production in the European Periphery Petr Szczepanik, Charles University in Prague -- 11. Accidental Films Inside a Bigger Strategy: Investigating the Film CoProduction Agreement between Mediaset and Netflix Luca Barra (Università di Bologna) and Paolo Noto (Università di Bologna) -- 12.Particularising the Universal in Aléxandre Aja’s Oxygène Reece Goodall (University of Warwick) and Mary Harrod (University of Warwick) -- 13.Undercovering. An Analysis of the Production and Textual Strategies of Local(ized) Transmedia Storytelling: The Case of Netflix’s Series Undercover and its Film Spin-Off Ferry Eduard Cuelenaere (University of Ghent) and Stijn Joye (University of Ghent).
    Abstract: ‘Timely and wide-ranging, this is a lucid and essential read. It offers a telling account of the far-reaching impacts of the global streaming revolution on all facets of today’s European film industries, as they transition from the recent sweeping changes to a still evolving future.’ Laura Rascaroli, Professor of Film and Media at University College Cork ‘This excellent collection demonstrates how European producers, distributors and exhibitors have found various ways of engaging with the streaming platforms – oppositional, evasive or integrational. What constitutes “Europeanness” is being revised and redefined through the work of numerous important scholars in the field.’ Andrew Spicer, Professor of Cultural Production, University of the West of England This collection examines the impact of streaming platforms on European cinema. It is structured from three distinct points-of-view: the policy issues related to streaming platforms, equally at the European level and in individual countries; the impact of platforms on the circulation of European films, including some of the global players, multi-national and single-nation platforms operating in Europe; and the production activities of the platforms in the form of specific ‘original’ films. By bringing together scholars working on various national cinemas, including those of France, Spain, Britain and other countries, this collection illuminates the many ways in which the European film industry is responding to the digital revolution. Christopher Meir is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Roderik Smits is Research Fellow in Film and Media Studies at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031558061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 151 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Religion and sociology. ; Psychology and religion.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2: Meaningful aging via lifelong growth and development -- 3: Meaning in life and social connectedness -- 3: Wisdom and meaningful aging -- 4: A locked room: The meaning of empathy and being seen, particularly for older adults -- 5: Art of living and art of aging -- 6: Dementia: considerations of what makes a meaningful life -- 7: Gathering data on meaning-in-life among older people: two explorative approaches -- 8: Conclusions on meaningful aging: humanist views.
    Abstract: The main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging. The collection aims to enhance and complement the predominantly biomedical and sociological debates and provide a more comprehensive and highly topical view on aging and old age. By purveying a meaning-in-life perspective to the current debate we want to enrich and to deepen the research on aging, thus aspiring to an ideal of meaningful aging. The starting point of this book is a humanistic meaning frame for addressing basic needs of a meaningful existence, such as having goals in life, a sense of self-worth, connectedness with others, moral justification, a certain degree of understanding (comprehensibility), direction and influence with a view to cohesion in life, and not in the least place: (living) pleasure or excitement. Taken together, the essays show that experiencing a meaningful life contributes to one’s mental resilience, conceived as the ability to realize a humane individuality (autonomy) in thinking and acting in situations of adversity and vulnerability, particularly those faced by older people.
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    ISBN: 9783031369544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 115 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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    Keywords: Creative writing. ; Ecocriticism. ; Literature and technology. ; Mass media and literature. ; Literature ; Feminism and literature.
    Abstract: 1 -- Introduction: Digital Life Writing, Women Vloggers, and Rural Life -- 2 Li Ziqi: Narrativising Rural China through Vlogging and the Digital Ecobiography -- 3 Dianxi Xiaoge: Constructing Rural Life Vlogging, Cultural Ecology and the Digital Archiving of Rural Community -- 4 Jonna Jinton: Ecospiritualty, the Walking Body and Landscape -- 5 The Green Witch: The Celebration of Witchcraft, Beauty and Wild Remedies -- 6 The Cottage Fairy: Becoming Rural Dweller to Resist the Attention Economy -- 7 Conclusions: Rural Life Vloggers Becoming Ecofeminist Life Writers.
    Abstract: This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of ‘nature life writing’ in the Anthropocene. Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, Jonna Jinton, Annabel Margaret and Paola Merrill draw on their culture and use technological equipment and social media (especially YouTube) to build dynamic narratives about living in the countryside. Through their online platform they show unique, picturesque footage of their daily routines and rural environments, and present the ways in which they nurture connections between people in the community and animals and landscapes. The study shows how, paradoxically, their digital life writing projects attempt to resist the attention economy but at the same time use strategies to sustain it. Through the various lenses of ecobiography, cultural ecology, digital archiving, ecospirituality, phytography, and ethological poetics, this book also foregrounds the significance of plant life and landscapes – they are reminders of how human lives are inextricably entangled with traditional values and the natural world. Alberta Natasia Adji is a contemporary author and researcher in women’s life narratives. She completed her PhD on auto/biographical fiction at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, in 2023. Her autobiographical project focuses on family history of Chinese Indonesians from 1959 to 2014. Adji was awarded the 2023 School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal by ECU for the quality of her doctoral research thesis. Before coming to Australia, she has published two novels in Indonesian language, Youth Adagio (2013) and Dante: The Faery and the Wizard (2014). Since then, she has continued publishing her short fiction works in New Writing, Meniscus, and TEXT as well as refereed articles in academic journals.
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    ISBN: 9783031531545
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 351 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Asia ; Economics. ; Economic history. ; China ; Economic development. ; Chinese Crony Comprador Capitalism ; market socialism ; economic development in China ; market Leninism ; princelings ; state-owned enterprises ; New class ; semi-peripheral development ; the rise of China ; state capitalism
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. From ‘New Class’ to ‘New Bourgeoisie’: An Unintended Legacy of the Cultural Revolution -- 3. Market Socialism or Market Leninism? The institutionalization of China’s Crony Capitalism -- Part II -- 4. The Origins of China’s Comprador Capitalism -- 5. The Rise of China in a Semi-Peripheral Orbit -- 6. The new ‘Cold War’ and Xi Jinping’s ‘Reverse Course’: The Nazification of the Chinese Economy? -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This timely and highly original book mercilessly dissects the sources of China’s impending ‘imperial decline’. Its unique insights rest equally on western and Chinese scholarship and on a large measure of inside knowledge. It offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the evolution of China’s ‘decrepit Leninist Leviathan’ from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping. And its conclusion that the economic illiteracy and personal venality of the Communist leadership has locked China into dependent development and helped summon up the ‘new Cold War’ is brilliantly provocative.” – MacGregor Knox, Stevenson Professor of International History emeritus, The London School of Economics and Political Science “Jianyong Yue’s book provides a freshening and insightful perspective on China’s development over the past several decades. It is very impressive in its historical depth, conceptual power, and analytical rigor; its explanation of China’s economic ‘successes’ and their sociopolitical quintessence hits the nail on the head.” – Guoguang Wu, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on China’s Economy and Institutions This book offers a multidisciplinary redefinition of China's model of crony comprador capitalism. The author argues that this model emerged through the fusion of market Leninism and global capitalism in the early 1990s within the post-Cold War and post-Communist global context. While driving robust export-led growth, this approach hindered China's structural transformation and limited its ascent, ironically leading to the regime's accelerating totalitarian turn and the onset of a new Cold War. In line with the call for ‘Capitalism 3.0,’ the book advocates Western decoupling from China and promoting the country's transition to a democratic developmental state, fostering a safer world for democracy over autocracy. It will be of interest to academics and policy-makers in a wide range of fields, including political economy, political studies, international relations, and economic history. Jianyong Yue is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and previously taught Chinese politics and development at LSE and King’s College London. He published China’s Rise in the Age of Globalization: Myth or Reality? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
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    ISBN: 9783031480317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 134 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political science. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Linking regional responses to citizens’ perceptions: a framework -- 3. The Covid-19 crisis: global challenges and regional answers? -- 4. Communicating the crisis: between regional and national logics -- 5. Citizens’ perceptions: the impact of Covid-19 on public opinion -- 6. Conclusions.
    Abstract: "The Covid19 pandemic contributed to shed light on the unresolved issues that have long underpinned Italian regionalism. This book re-constructs and assesses them from a multi-dimensional perspective, offering an original, rigorous and timely analysis of territorial governance dynamics that will be valuable also for other countries." —Gianfranco Viesti, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Bari, Italy. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of multi-level governance, political communication and public opinion in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. It demonstrates how the crisis acted as a catalyst in amplifying and exacerbating existing territorial disparities, while also highlighting the resilience and adaptability of some regions to cope with the emergency. The book also delves into the national and sub-national responses to the pandemic, examines how politicians and regional leaders presented them to the public, and how they were perceived by citizens. Through this analysis, it provides deeper insights into the intricate interplay between centralization and decentralization, as well as the diverse strategies employed by policymakers to address a wide spectrum of health, social, and economic challenges. Ultimately, by shifting the focus from institutions to citizens, the book reflects on how external shocks can both challenge the democratic underpinnings of decentralization and offer opportunities to strengthen them. These findings have important repercussions for many other nations, where debates over centralization and decentralization remain a pertinent and important issue. Arianna Giovannini is Associate Professor in Political Sociology in the Department of Economy, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. Antonella Seddone is Associate Professor in Political Science in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy. Davide Vampa is Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics and co-director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031557750
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 187 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Fiction. ; Literature
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2: Initiation in Limbo -- 3: Toxic Masculinity, Pseudo-Intellectualism, and “Sexo-Religious Psychology” in Mortal Coils -- 4: Irony, Popular Art, and Progressive Education in Little Mexican -- 5: Nonsense, the Other, and Applied Science in Two or Three Graces -- 6: Religion, Seduction and Spiritual Education in Brief Candles -- 7: Uncollected Stories -- 8: Conclusion. .
    Abstract: Aldous Huxley’s Short Fiction analyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with distinguished modernists than is usually believed. The book also explores other features of Huxley’s short stories, focusing on themes such as consumerism, mainstream education, shallow intellectualism, women’s emancipation, toxic masculinity, and sensational journalism, themes that correspond with both Huxley’s time and our world, and position him among the most prophetic authors of the twentieth century. This study demonstrates that Huxley’s short fiction can provide answers to questions that remain confusing or partially explained in the research on Huxley’s work. It illustrates the constants and changes in Huxley’s opinions on organized religion, mysticism, and the relation between sexuality and spirituality, while also clarifying Huxley’s political opinion, which is often misunderstood due to his advocacy of pacifism. Finally, the in-depth interpretations of Huxley’s short stories reveal the dynamics of his literary style, especially his complex humor and irony, areas he developed more than any other modernist author of short fiction. Andrija Matić is an adjunct assistant professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA. He is the author of five novels, a collection of short stories, and a study on T. S. Eliot’s complete works. He has also published many articles on Anglo-American literature, especially on modernist poetry and short fiction. Andrija Matić has taught at universities in Serbia, Kuwait, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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