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  • 1
    ISBN: 9783031303081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 260 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: EADI global development series
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Political science ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungsmodell ; Entkolonialisierung ; Alternative ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Weltordnung ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1.Rethinking development and decolonising development studies -- Chapter 2. Essentialist approaches to global issues: the ontological limitations of development studies -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives -- Chapter 4. In search of alternatives to development: learning from grounded initiatives -- Chapter 5. Why Is Development Elusive? Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue durée -- Chapter 6. Cultivating post-development: pluriversal transitions and radical spaces of engagement -- Chapter 7. Beyond Deconstruction and Toward Decoloniality: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design in SWANA & South Asia Studies in US Higher Education -- Chapter 8. Data collection versus knowledge theft: relational accountability and the research ethics of Indigenous knowledges -- Chapter 9. Assuming power in new forms: Learning to feel ‘with the other’ in decolonial research -- Chapter 10. Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis -- Chapter 11. South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality -- Chapter 12. Decolonising Development Management: Epistemological Shifts and Practical actions -- Chapter 13. What is ‘development’, and can we ‘decolonise’ it? Some ontological and epistemological reflections -- Chapter 14. EADI Roundtable: Re-casting development studies in times of multiple crises.
    Abstract: This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of political barriers these might encounter. From a variety of perspectives and contexts, these chapters examine how decoloniality and solidarity can be developed, offering in-depth historical, theoretical, epistemological, and empirical analyses. Henning Melber is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Uma Kothari is Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Laura Camfield is Professor of Development Research and Evaluation and Head of the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
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    ISBN: 9783031449239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 219 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Religion ; Literature
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Dialectics -- Chapter 2: The Wisdom-Power Dialectic -- Chapter 3: The Ethics-Morality Dialectic -- Chapter 4: The Ideology Utopa Dialectic -- Chapter 5: The Theism-Atheism Dialectic -- Chapter 6: Summation and Closing Thoughts.
    Abstract: This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study—independently of one another—used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world. Howard Ira Einsohn was a part-time instructor at Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning for a combined total of 15 years (2004-2019), most of which were spent at the former institution. During this period, he taught courses in writing, advanced writing, technical writing, literature surveys, drama and the short story, as well as courses on Ibsen, Flannery O’Connor, and Tim O’Brien.
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    ISBN: 9783031465536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 257 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    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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    ISBN: 9783031450655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 227 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Literature, Medieval. ; Europe ; Religion ; Islam ; Philosophy, Medieval.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction. Friendly Chivalrous Enemies: Contradiction, Stereotypes, and Colonialism in the Representations of Muslims by Medieval Christians -- Chapter 2. Indispensable Enemies, Subjects, and Friends: The Political Instrumentalization of Muslims in the Cantar de mio Cid -- Chapter 3. The Learned Conquerors and Their Muslims: Intercultural Conflict and Collaboration in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Llibre dels fets -- Chapter 4. From Great Muslim Heroes to Good Christian Subjects: Converting the Legend of the Seven Infantes of Lara -- Chapter 5. Across the Mediterranean and Beyond: Fighting Islam by Embracing Muslims in Tirant lo Blanch -- Chapter 6. An Empire of Faith and Its Infidels: Portuguese Colonialism and Muslims, According to Os Lusíadas and Its Sources -- Chapter 7. Conclusion. Christian Supremacy and Contradictory Non-Christians Beyond Muslims and Iberia.
    Abstract: This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy. Ambivalent depictions of cultural difference are essential for colonizers to promote their own superiority, as explained by postcolonial critics and observed in medieval and early modern texts in Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese, such as the Cantar de mio Cid, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Llibre dels fets, Estoria de España, Crónica geral de 1344, Tirant lo Blanch, and Os Lusíadas. In all these works, the contradictions of Muslim enemies, allies, and subjects allow Christian leaders to prevail and profit through their opposition and collaboration with them. Such colonial dynamics of simultaneous belligerence and assimilation determined the ways in which Portugal, Spain, and later European powers interacted with non-Christians in Africa, Asia, and even the Americas.
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    ISBN: 9783031404078
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 163 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Economic development. ; New York Stock Exchange history ; New York Stock Exchange ; NYSE ; Bid-ask spread ; Competition between exchanges ; Impact of the telegraph ; Communications technologies ; Financial markets
    Abstract: Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: The Telegraph, NYSE, Bloomberg, and Uber -- Chapter 3: Winner Takes All -- Chapter 4: NYSE’s rise to Pre-eminence -- Chapter 5: The Usual Suspects -- Chapter 6: Data as Clues -- Chapter 7: When. The Numbers Through a Telescope -- Chapter 8: Why. The Numbers under a Magnifying Glass -- Chapter 9: Conclusions and Implications for the Evolution of Financial Markets -- Chapter10: What the Telegraph can teach us about Uber -- Chapter 11: Antitrust Policy; To Intervene or To Not Intervene: That is the Question.
    Abstract: In the 1830s, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston each had a stock exchange. These were the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and Boston Stock Exchange. As there was no reliable means of communicating between these cities in real time, each exchange served its local market. The 1840s brought an innovation in communications technology: the telegraph, which, in time, brought these exchanges into competition with each other. Three previously independent stock markets became, in effect, a single market. If a security was listed on more than one exchange, potential buyers and sellers could choose the exchange on which to execute a trade in this security. This book closely analyzes this competition. The NYSE emerged as the winner of this competition. It became the place to trade securities that evoked regional and eventually national interest, while the Boston and Philadelphia exchanges remained regional exchanges. This book explores when and why this happened. This analysis is applied to the competition between (i) stock exchanges today; (ii) car rental aggregator services such as Uber and Ola; (iii) restaurant to home, food delivery services, such a Zomato and Swiggy; and (iv) doorstep delivery services, such as Blinkit and Zepto. Sonali Garg is an independent researcher based in New Delhi, India. She has worked as a regulator at the Competition Commission of India and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University. Views expressed in the book are the author’s.
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    ISBN: 9783031319907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 381 p. 14 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Economic development. ; Sustainability. ; International organization.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing Power, Agents, Structures, and Aid Relationships -- 3. Sustainability of Health Assistance -- 4. The role of structural factors in selected health programs -- 5. The “Community Action for Health”: the Project Life Cycle -- 6. Sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” project -- 7. Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the “Community Action for Health” Project -- 8. The Global Fund Grants: Project Life Cycle -- 9. Sustainability of Global Fund grants -- 10. Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the Global Fund Grants -- 11. “Missing Link” -- 12. Conclusion and general implications of this study.
    Abstract: This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis of development projects to identify the factors that are also applicable to similar initiatives in comparable contexts. Empirically, it focuses on two health initiatives, both implemented in the Kyrgyz Republic, a country pursuing a sector-wide approach to health aid. Unique primary material provides insights into a geographic region that is mostly neglected, and will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, development studies, international health and those focusing on the post-Soviet region and Central Asia. Gulnaz Isabekova is a Researcher at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining the CRC 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy,” she participated in the MSCA ITN “Around the Caspian.” Gulnaz received her Ph.D. from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.
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    ISBN: 9783031538698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 95 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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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: 9783031473395
    Language: English
    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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    ISBN: 9783031482700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 699 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Christianity. ; Religion ; Africa ; Africa ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I Mentors -- Chapter 2. The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden -- Chapter 3. The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti -- Chapter 4. The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings -- Chapter 5. Elizabeth Isichei’s Contributions to the Study of Christianity -- Chapter 6. The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls -- Chapter 7. The Writings and Legacy of Lamin Sanneh -- Chapter 8. The Writings and Legacy of John Peel -- Chapter 9. The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity -- Chapter 10. The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi -- Chapter 11. The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu -- Part II Trans-Atlantic Christianity in Africa -- Chapter 12. Missionaries and African Christians -- Chapter 13. Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450–1800 -- Chapter 14. African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914 -- Chapter 15. Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa -- Chapter 16. Continental ProtestantMissions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880) -- Chapter 17. European Settlers and Christianity in Africa -- Chapter 18. Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885 -- Chapter 19. European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa -- Chapter 20. “New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa” -- Chapter 21. Catholic Missions and Colonial States -- Chapter 22. Protestant Missions and Colonial States -- Chapter 23. Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa -- Chapter 24. Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project -- Part III The Rooting of Christianity in Africa I: Christian Life from Ancient Times to the Independence Era -- Chapter 25. Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa -- Chapter 26. Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia -- Chapter 27. Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens -- Chapter 28. Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa -- Chapter 29. African Women Christians -- Chapter 30. Ethiopianism in Africa -- Chapter 31. Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa -- Chapter 32. The East African Revival -- Chapter 33. The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to African Christians -- Part IV The Rooting of Christianity in Africa II: Christian Life in Contemporary Africa -- Chapter 34. Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa -- Chapter 35. Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa -- Chapter 36. Christian Femininity in Independent Africa -- Chapter 37. Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation? -- Chapter 38. Significant Trends in Contemporary African Pentecostalism -- Chapter 39. African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective -- Chapter 40. Missions and Contemporary African Rulers -- Chapter 41. African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project -- Chapter 42. African Christians Outside of Africa./.
    Abstract: This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history of Christian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the time of Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world. While common narratives about Christianity tend to present Christianity as a set of ideas and beliefs imposed on Africa from the outside, such narratives hold little meaning for African Christians or for those seeking to understand Christianity in Africa as an indigenous faith. The proposed collection of chapters therefore provides a set of scholarly starting points for a new set of narratives. The chapters collected here communicate an idea of Christianity as it has been embraced among African peoples at particular historical moments. It therefore grants voice to the various strands of African Christianity on their own terms, and offers scholarly study of what these voices teach us about how the world's most adhered to religion is practiced and understood on the continent of Africa. Andrew E. Barnes is Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of The Social Dimension of Piety: Associative Life and Religious Change in the Penitent Confraternities of Marseille 1499-1792 (1994), Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (2009), and Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism and the Shaping of African Industrial Education (2017). Presently he is working on a monograph of the evolution of Ethiopianism among Christians of African descent across the Atlantic, 1780-1930. Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031530708
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 264 p. 17 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Economic policy. ; Foreign Direct Investment ; EU Periphery ; Ireland ; Late Industrialisation ; Late Developing Countries ; Irish Economy ; Celtic Tiger ; Irish indigenous companies ; Sectoral growth in Ireland ; Irish economic growth
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Before the Boom: The Historical Background -- Chapter 3: A Review of Explanations for the Boom -- Chapter 4: Sectoral Growth and Export Earnings -- Chapter 5: Irish Indigenous Companies -- Chapter 6: Foreign-Owned Companies -- Chapter 7: The End of the Boom -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland’s case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector, alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly. Eoin O’Malley was a researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, for twenty-five years. He has been a consultant to the European Commission and to various public sector bodies in Ireland including the National Economic and Social Council. He was also a Research Associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
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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: 9783031543241
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 149 p. 5 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Economic development. ; Technology. ; History. ; Dutch paper industry ; paper ; mechanic papermaking ; technological innovation ; Dutch business history ; natural resources ; pulp and paper industry ; raw materials for paper industry ; groundwood ; Dutch "golden age" ; phases of capitalism ; industry survival ; industrialization ; Post-Fordism ; deregulation
    Abstract: 1. Networked industry survival -- 2. Capital networks and early papermaking -- 3. Building paper industria -- 4. Corporatization of paper manufacturing -- 5. Transnational capital and paper production -- 6. Networked capitalism.
    Abstract: “The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present is not your typical history book. Adopting a historical materialist perspective, Ehrich’s work exposes the complicity between capitalism and networks and significantly enriches contemporary economic history scholarship by providing essential insights for those intrigued by critical analyses of the paper industry and the broader history of capitalist development.” —Professor Steffen Boehm, Professor in Organisation and Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, UK This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry’s centuries-long survival. Previous historical research has shown that sets of colonial, trade, merchant and family networks, tightly interwoven through a dense web of capital, were crucial for paper production and trade in early modern Europe. This book situates the Dutch paper industry within these overlapping contexts and their shifting dynamics over time, and historicizes the challenges and obstacles it had to overcome through four phases of capitalism: the rise of Dutch capitalism (1580–1815), Dutch monarchic liberalism (1815–1914), Fordism (1914–1980), and post-Fordism (1980 until now). Each chapter covers not only technological advancements in the industry, but its development alongside further determining dimensions, such as state-industry relations (industry policies), labour-capital relations (unions) and competition and cooperation, overall painting a picture of how the industry adapted to and endured changes in national and global networks surrounding the industry. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of economic and business history, as well as industrial history, political economy, and management studies. Martha Emilie Ehrich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Germany, researching gender equity policies in the film industry. Having completed a PhD at Radboud University in the Netherlands, Ehrich’s primary research interests span network research, economic history and political economy.
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    ISBN: 9783031547195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 148 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Religion ; Science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Preliminary Metaphysical Discourse -- Chapter 2. The Theseus’ Ship Paradox: Possibilities and Limits of a Trans-/Posthumanist Interpretation -- Chapter 3. Theseus and the Minotaur, Ariadne and the Labyrinth. Addressing Contemporary Monsters, Death, and Trans-/Posthumanist ‘Mysticism’.
    Abstract: “Any book of contemporary metaphysics that draws so heavily on Bruno and Leibniz is clearly on the right track! Mattia Geretto does that and more in his book, which extends new materialism down unexpected paths. This is a learned and imaginative work.” —Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA “In this compact but rich and erudite book, Geretto accomplishes the nearly impossible, reconciling contemporary trans-/post-humanist theories with key texts and concepts—modern and classical, secular and spiritual—threatened with obsolescence in the ongoing deconstruction of the Humanist tradition. In elaborating the possibility of a different metaphysical basis for posthuman thought, Geretto balances the turn to a radical materialism with a pre-modern mystical tradition that locates the immateriality of intelligence in the materiality of being-beyond-the-human.” — Russell Kilbourn, Wilfried Lauriel University, Canada This book addresses the most suggestive themes of transhumanism and critical posthumanism by placing them in dialogue with classic problems of metaphysics, and with some great thinkers of the past (Bruno, Spinoza, and above all Leibniz). The main purpose of this comparison is to invite transhumanists and critical posthumanists to consider a highly complex problematic tradition rooted in the history of philosophy. This study also makes use of examples drawn from the history of mythology, angelology, and mysticism. At the same time, the book promotes dialogue between scholars of classical metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and the potential metaphysical/spiritual theories developed independently by transhumanist and posthumanist thinkers within an anti-dualist and naturalistic philosophical framework. The goal is to ‘enhance’ contemporary transhumanism and posthumanism by promoting the need to safeguard intelligence as a principle, without falling into the trap of a violent and egotistic metaphysics. Mattia Geretto received a PhD in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Perugia, Italy. Among his publications, L’angelologia leibniziana (2010) and many other articles on Leibniz. Since 2011 he is affiliated to Ca' Foscari University of Venice. .
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    ISBN: 9783031557071
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 122 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Religion ; Social sciences ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethos as Spiritual Dimension of Human Person -- 3. Do We Really Want a World Lacking of Silence– and Humanity? -- 4. Cinematic Time as a Spiritual Memory: Tarkovsky and Kierkegaard -- 5. Language and its Cultural Future -- 6. Albert Schweitzer´s Philosophy of Culture and Spiritual Awakening -- 7. Ortega y Gasset and the Bigotry of Culture -- 8. Actuality of Spirituality in the Paradigm of Human Flourishing -- 9. Cultural Evolution of Human Self-Awareness.
    Abstract: This book seeks to generate a theoretical and a reflective framework to re-connect people with culture and spirituality. It seeks to recreate important links between these domains to provide interpretative, foundational, and ethical perspectives. It is distinctive in that it focusses on the challenges that humanity is facing at a cultural, social, moral, and spiritual level. It provides a philosophical understanding of humanity from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective (encompassing ethics, language, art/cinema, political, cultural and gender approaches) and offers a variety of ways of how we can rethink our culture and our society for the future. Catalina Elena Dobre has a PhD in Philosophy and is National Researcher and Professor at University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Rafael García Pavón has a PhD in Philosophy and is National Researcher, Professor and Coordinator of Research Area in University El Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico. Francisco Díaz Estrada has a PhD in the Humanities and is National Researcher and Associate Dean of Research in School of Humanities and Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey University, Mexico.
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    ISBN: 9783031504112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 211 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of. ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Epistemological Relevance of Disagreement -- Chapter 3. Disagreement and Meaning -- Chapter 4. Disagreement and Belief I: Puzzles About Disagreement -- Chapter 5. Disagreement and Belief II: Managing the Puzzles -- Chapter 6. Disagreement from the Radical Interpreter’s Point of View -- Chapter 7. Interpretation, Meaning, and Disagreement -- Chapter 8. Disagreement in Religion.
    Abstract: This book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement. It thus broadens the philosophical discourse by relating the epistemological discussion of (peer) disagreement to inquiries into the nature of disagreement and disagreeing. By doing this, it paints a new picture of the epistemological situation evoked by disagreement: To the same extent that an interpersonal dispute undermines the justification of the disputing persons’ beliefs, it also presents an obstacle to interpersonal understanding. This follows from the nature of meaning, belief and communication, rightly understood. In demonstrating the relevance of this to philosophical reflections on peer disagreement and resolution of disagreement, the book addresses arguably the most contentious kind of disagreement, namely, religious disagreement. It shows that apparent disagreement in religion suggests that the dialog partners might not have reached sufficient mutual understanding. This has important ramifications for the rationally right conduct in the face of religious disagreement, and for the possibility of rational resolution of religious disputes. Åke Wahlberg is a post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His main research interests are in the fields of philosophy of language, philosophy of religion and ethics. .
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    ISBN: 9783031474798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 173 p. 261 illus., 258 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; International economic relations. ; Imperialism. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Massa Day Done or 'Same Old Khaki Pants ? - contextualising Caribbean political corruption -- Chapter 2: Smokescreens and Pipe Dreams - Examining Anti-Corruption Measures in the Eastern Caribbean -- Chapter 3: Analysing Governance Arrangements – Freedom of Speech & Press and Elections -- Chapter 4: Analysis of Governance Arrangements for Controlling Corruption and their Effectiveness -- Chapter 5: Corruption: The Lived Experience – Interview Participants’ Perspectives.
    Abstract: A ground-breaking scholarly text with resonance and relevance in emerging post-globalism discourse, it provides a theoretical and empirical framework not only for decolonising Caribbean political corruption studies but also for giving agency to small island development outside Western narratives -an exciting prospect of 'small walking tall'. ---Simon Lee, independent scholar and Caribbeanist This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity. In tracing the history and development of Caribbean political systems and corruption, it collates and synthesizes existing data, indispensable to current and future research. Rigorous analysis of international corruption measurement tools demonstrates deficiencies and limited validity for small island states in the Caribbean and worldwide. Highly detailed case studies and fieldwork research investigating perceptions of corruption and democratic capacity present invaluable new empirical data and offer insights into remodelling corruption analysis. With its wide cross-disciplinary appeal, this book makes significant and timely contributions to decolonial studies and an emerging decolonization discourse in the Caribbean. Dr. Dawn De Coteau is an international lawyer who practices in England & Wales and the Caribbean region. She obtained the award of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 2022, with her thesis entitled 'Corruption in Caribbean Politics - Examining Cultural Tolerance’.
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    ISBN: 9783031557255
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 239 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater. ; Theater ; Economic development.
    Abstract: How do theatre and development partnerships operate? What issues impede collaborations between various institutions and individuals? Why do relations between global North and South partners often fail to reflect important values such as equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit? This is the first book to examine theatre and global development partnerships. It focusses on the UK and East African countries of Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, presenting the author’s own experiences, case study analyses and perspectives from practitioners and scholars involved in theatre and development. It argues that simplistic binaries pervade partnerships, whereby the global North is regarded as ‘modern’ and ‘developed’ versus the ‘under-developed’ global South. This results in unequal power relations between collaborators, less effective projects with communities, and a lack of reciprocity and mutual benefit. Consequently, this book revitalises how we conceptualise partnerships. Issues such as widening inequalities, conflict, health and the climate crisis impact all countries. How, then, can we work across borders to support interconnected learning and action on these challenges? In this regard, principles of solidarity and mutual responsibility, as well as critical openness, enable us to reflect honestly about the failures of the partnerships we participate in and move beyond simplistic binaries of global North and South. The book is of importance to applied and socially engaged performance scholars and practitioners, and to development workers interested in arts and social change. Bobby Smith is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and course director of the MA Applied Theatre at the University of Warwick, UK. Through his research, creative practice and teaching he aims to develop innovative approaches to activism, education, and social change. He has worked internationally to explore issues including violence prevention, health education, peacebuilding and the climate crisis.
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    ISBN: 9783031510199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 243 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Economic development. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Africa
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction Dr. Adeoye O. Akinola -- Chapter Two: Historicing Coup d’etat in Africa Dr Omololu Fagbadebo -- Chapter Three: The Political Economy of Military Coups in Africa Professor Femi Mimiko -- Chapter Four: The Nature of Post-Colonial State and Military Coup Dr. Adeoye O. Akinola, Ms. Ratidzo C. Makombe -- Chapter Five: Military Coups and the Question of Misgovernance Dr. Gwinyai R. Taruvinga -- Chapter Six: Patterns and Case Studies of Coups in Contemporary Africa Dr. Issaka Souaré -- Chapter Seven: Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions as a Response to Coup D’états in Mali Delcio P. Maianhai and Dr. Emmaculate Asige Liaga -- Chapter Eight: Security Reform and the Politicisation of the Military Dr Maggie Dwyer -- Chapter Nine: Coups and the Roleof African Regional Organisations Dr. Emma Birikorang, Kofi Annan -- Chapter Ten: The Role of External Powers in African Military Dr Adeoye O. Akinola.
    Abstract: This book presents the reality of democratic reversals and waves of coups cutting through Africa, explores the political economy of coups, and through a case study approach, provides a nuanced analysis of the negative impacts of coups in Africa and interrogates the roles of African regional organisations in curtailing coups and foreign powers in distorting the security architecture of African states, particularly in the Sahel region. It proffers sustainable policy templates for politicaldevelopment,professionalism of the military and the subsequent withdrawal of the military from African politics. Apart from its policy relevance, it will serve as a resource pool for researchers working in the area of African political development, peace and security, and security sector reforms. With the incremental exit of France from the Sahel, the book will also offer a nuanced perspective on the ‘scramble for the soul’ of the Sahel by non-Western powers, such as China, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Dr Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching, and Head of the African Union Studies Unit at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation / Institute for Global African Affairs, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He obtained a doctorate in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was a Visiting Professor at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) Africa Regional Programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and a Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, between 2007-2012.
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    ISBN: 9783031509148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 250 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Religion ; Judaism ; Judaism. ; Theology. ; Islam
    Abstract: Introduction: From Theological to Secular Claims -- Part I: Secular Claims -- Chapter 1: Conquest, Treaties and Self-Determination -- Chapter 2: From Discovery to Rediscovery -- Chapter 3: Possession and Dispossession through Labor and Purchase -- Chapter 4: History as Legitimacy -- Part II: Theological Claims -- Chapter 5: Judaism; A Multiplicity of Interpretations -- Chapter 6: Christianity; A Kaleidoscope of Theologies -- Chapter 7: Islam: Encountering a Contemporary Challenge -- Part III -- Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections.
    Abstract: “This is one of the most important books on Israel and Palestine to appear in some time” —Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame, Past President, Association for Israel Studies, author of Israel/Palestine “One of the leading figures in the field of Israel Studies, Ilan Troen demonstrates the vast range of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theological claims and their impact on our supposedly secular political debates. Sensitive to both religious and political interests, Troen brings a new depth of understanding to the conflict.” —Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College “An important, accessible, and much needed contribution toward understanding the many entangled factors that make the conflicts in the Middle East so intractable.” —Philip A. Cunningham, Professor of Theology, President of the International Council of Christians and Jews, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about control of sacred territory that involves local Jews, Muslims, and Christians as well as worldwide faith communities, each with their own interests and stake in what transpires. This balanced introduction to a complex subject presents the multiple positions within the great monotheistic traditions. It demonstrates that the secular discourses in the public square concerning ownership privileges, historical precedence, political rights, and justice that have allegedly replaced religious claims actually coexist with, and often complement, the theological. It explores the century-long tangle of secular and theological debates about Israel’s legitimacy. Whether readers support a Jewish state or are resolutely opposed, the serious and substantial scholarship of this well-reasoned and innovative book will contribute to a nuanced and better-informed understanding of this persistent issue that has entered its second century on the international agenda. S. Ilan Troen is Lopin Professor of Modern History Emeritus at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Stoll Family Professor in Israel Studies Emeritus at Brandeis University, USA, and founding director of the Israel Studies centers at both institutions. He is Founding Editor of the journal Israel Studies, and 2023 recipient of the Association for Israel Studies “Lifetime Achievement Award.”.
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    ISBN: 9783031504501
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 234 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International political economy series
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; Economic development. ; Africa ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozialversicherung ; Altersversorgung ; Mauritius
    Abstract: Chapter I: Introduction: Historical Antecedents Behind Remarkable Variance in Welfare Policy Outcomes in South Africa and Mauritius -- Chapter II: SA Tale of Two Countries: Theoretical and Analytical Framework in Comparative Social Inquiry -- Chapter III: Research Design: South Africa and Mauritius in a Macro-causal Social Inquiry -- Chapter IV: State-Building and the Making of the Racially ‘Exclusive’ Welfare State in South Africa -- Chapter V: State-Building and the Emergence of a Social Democratic Consensus in Colonial Mauritius, 1598 to 1968 -- Chapter VI: Retaining the Social Democratic Welfare Consensus in Post-Colonial Mauritius, 1968 – present -- Chapter VII: State (Re)-Building and Welfare State Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter VIII: Welfare Paradigms of South Africa and Mauritius: Reflections and Prospects for Future Research.
    Abstract: This study traces the welfare regimes of Mauritius and South Africa from the early 20th century focusing on the historical circumstances that gave rise to the dominance of state-funded old-age pensions within their respective welfare frameworks. It highlights intersections between powerful business interests, the state, and social forces that sowed the seeds of social entitlements. Due to different mobilisation efforts of these social actors, both countries have spawned welfare regimes of different persuasions. Mauritius has maintained its long-standing traditions as a social democracy stretching back to the late 1950s, while South Africa continues relentlessly in pursuit of a liberal welfare state, a journey it has treaded since 1928 when the old-age pension laws first came into effect. While unravelling the innermost workings of welfare state development in Mauritius and South Africa, it also probes the present political and economic circumstances that have kept these two welfare regimes resolutely unchanged. Against this backdrop, it draws parallels between current welfare outcomes and those of old as they continue to chart their way into the future. Elias Phaahla, Ph.D. taught at the University of Cape Town (UCT) before joining University of Johannesburg where he is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations. His main research interests include, but not limited to, the politics of welfare reform with particular focus placed on the old-age pension schemes of Mauritius and South Africa. This work was made possible through the support of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
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    ISBN: 9783031546563
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 314 p. 166 illus., 164 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Latin America ; Identity politics. ; Social policy. ; Race.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Is Trinidad And Tobago Unique -- Chapter 2. Political Development: Parliament And Political Parties -- Chapter 3. Political Development: The Executive Size And Quality -- Chapter 4. Political Development: Payoffs To The Voter Base And Corruption -- Chapter 5. Economic Development: From Sugar To Hydrocarbons And Beyond -- Chapter 6. Economic Development: The Macroeconomic Perspective -- Chapter 7. Economic Development: Labour Market -- Chapter 8. Economic Development: The Private Sector -- Chapter 9. Social Development: Education -- Chapter 10. Social Development: Health -- Chapter 11: Social Development: Crime -- Chapter 12. Social Development: Who Are We: Values And Happiness -- Chapter 13. Conclusions. .
    Abstract: This book delves into Trinidad and Tobago's development with a fresh lens. It stands as the inaugural empirical exploration of the country's unique attributes, including its diversity, ex-British colony status, small-state categorization by population size, and its dependence on hydrocarbons. Through meticulous empirical analysis, this book scrutinizes the nation's economic, social, and political outcomes within the context of these four distinctive parameters, offering fresh insights into the country's development trajectory. What sets this book apart is its unwavering commitment to a data-driven approach. Drawing upon a vast array of databases from both international and national sources, it provides a thorough examination of development indicators, household welfare metrics, firm-level performance, and individual perspectives on a wide range of political, economic, and social issues. For scholars, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in understanding how unique contextual factors shape a Trinidad and Tobago's development, this book offers an enlightening and data-rich perspective on the nation's journey towards progress and prosperity. Jeetendra Khadan is a Senior Economist with several years of experience at major international development institutions. He has published articles and books on a variety of macroeconomic and development topics. Inder Jit Ruprah is a former Regional Economic Advisor for the Caribbean at the Inter-American Development Bank. He has published articles and books on a variety of development topics with emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    ISBN: 9783031557040
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 161 p. 15 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Knowledge, Sociology of. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual framework -- Chapter 3: Empirical approach -- Chapter 4: Methods for data collection and analysis -- Chapter 5: Empirical findings -- Chapter 6: Empirical findings across cases -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This book is a pioneering attempt to systematically and concretely analyze diverse knowledge actors, focusing on a typology of their modalities of knowledge interaction. Highly recommended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners interested in shaping the future of knowledge partnerships.” ---Izumi Ohno, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan "The authors in this timely and very accessible book, leaning on a wealth of experiences across the world, expose the diverse modalities of knowledge production and exchange which already occur and probably should occur in the realm of interactions we call 'development'. They emphasize the need for co-production of knowledge, while wisely refraining from replacing one form of modernism by new high-modernist state building projects and their models of knowledge for development." ---Kristof Van Assche, Professor Planning, Governance & Development, Universityof Alberta, Canada In this open access book, we provide evidence to support the conceptual discussion of what constitutes “modalities of knowledge interaction” and suggest an analytical framework for effective knowledge cooperation. In practice, knowledge cooperation is realised through different modalities that serve as a toolbox to co-create, share and communicate knowledge among actors. Effective knowledge cooperation is crucial to addressing global challenges. It is increasingly attracting attention due to the rise of South–South Cooperation, to which it is central. Our empirical cases (Germany, India, Republic of Korea and Rwanda) comprise South-South cooperation and traditional development cooperation actors. Dr Stephan Klingebiel is Head of the Research Programme “Inter- and Transnational Cooperation” at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University (Graduate School of InternationalStudies), Seoul. Flora L. Hartmann graduated from the M.Sc. Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security at the United Nations University (UNU-EHS). Elisa Madani studied International Management at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in Berlin and the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur in Paris. Jonas Paintner studied Global Political Economy as well as International Development and was part of the Postgraduate Research Programme at IDOS. Rebekka A. Rohe studied International Relations (MA) at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Potsdam University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lisa Trebs studied Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. Teodor Wolk has an academic background in human- and economic geography.
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    ISBN: 9783031475009
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 317 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Religions. ; East Asia. ; Religion ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Southeast Asia ; Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; Christentum ; Christian theology ; Christianity ; Cultural studies ; Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; History of religion ; Kulturwissenschaften ; Oriental religions ; Ostasiatische Religionen ; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General ; RELIGION / Christianity / General ; RELIGION / Christianity / History ; RELIGION / Eastern ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Theologie ; Philippinen ; Philippines
    Abstract: 1 Philippine Christianity: 500 Years of Resistance and Accommodation -- 2 Indigenization as Appropriation (What Being Baptized Could Have Meant for the Natives of Cebu in 1521) -- 3 The Double Truth of (Colonial) Mission -- 4 Rethinking Encounters and Re-imagining Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-colonial Philippines -- 5 The Glocal Filipins and the Pasyon Through the Lens of Ethnicity -- 6 An Independent Catholic, Nationalist People’s Movement: The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church) -- 7 Philippine, Independent and International: The Relationship Between—the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and the Old Catholic Churches -- 8 Indigenous Inculturation: A Hermeneutics of Serendipity -- 9 Decolonizing the Diaspora through the Center for Babaylan Studies -- 10 Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux -- 11 The Ygollotes’ Pudong and the Insurrection of the Reeds In the Post-Human Commune -- 12 Introducing Jeepney Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible as Canaanites -- 13 Inang Diyos, Inang Bayan: The Virgin Mary and Filipino Identity -- 14 Bangon Na, Pinays Rise Up: Reclaiming Pinay Power Dismantled by a Christian Colonial Past and Present -- 15 Re-Baptizing Spirit in Land and Ancestry: An Approach for Un-Doing Christian Colonialism -- 16 Toward Reclaiming the Wisdom of our Forebears: Nature and Environment from a Filipino Perspective.
    Abstract: The year 2021 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines. With over 90% of the Filipin@s (Filipino/as) in the country and more than eight million around the world identifying as Christian, they are a significant force reshaping global Christianity. The fifth centenary called for celebration, reflection, and critique. This book represents the voices of theologians in the Philippines, the United States, Australia, and around the world examining Christianity in the Philippines through a postcolonial theological lens that suggests the desire to go beyond the colonial in all its contemporary manifestations. Part 1, “Rethinking the Encounters,” focuses on introducing the context of Christianity’s arrival in the archipelago and its effect on its peoples. Part 2, “Reappropriation, Resistance, and Decolonization,” grapples with the enduring presence of coloniality in Filipinreligious practices. It also celebrates the ways Christianity has been critically and creatively reimagined. Cristina Lledo Gomez is the Presentation Sisters Lecturer at BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education (BBI-TAITE) and a Research Fellow for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her role at BBI-TAITE is directed toward promoting women’s spiritualities, feminist theologies, and ecotheologies. Agnes M. Brazal is a Full Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Education at De La Salle University Manila, The Philippines, former President of DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines), and author/editor of eleven books that include A Theology of Southeast Asia: Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Philippines (2019). Ma. Marilou S. Ibita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Education at De La Salle University, The Philippines, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her research centers around biblical literature and Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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    ISBN: 9783031177521
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 343 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Ancient. ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Renewing Atheism -- Chapter 2: Starting at the Bottom -- Chapter 3: The One Emanates the Forms -- Chapter 4: The Cosmic Forms -- Chapter 5: The World Tree -- Chapter 6: The Emergence of Value -- Chapter 7: Emergence of Life -- Chapter 8: Platonism as a Way of Life -- Chapter 9: Multiverse Rebirth -- Chapter 10: To Call the World Tree -- Chapter 11: Atheistic Mysticism.
    Abstract: Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. It shows how any jobs allegedly done by God are better done by impersonal Platonic objects. Without Platonic objects, atheism degenerates into an illogical nihilism. Atheistic Platonism instead provides reality with foundations that are eternal, necessary, rational, beautiful, and utterly mindless. It argues for a plenitude of mathematical objects, and an infinite plurality of possible universes. It provides mindless rational grounds for objective values, and for objective moral laws for the persons who evolve in universes. It defines a meaningful way of life, which facilitates self-improvement. Atheistic Platonists argue for computational theories of life after death. Atheistic Platonism includes a rich system of spiritual symbols. It values transformational practices and ecstatic experiences. Where atheisms based on materialism fail, atheisms based on Platonism succeed. Eric Charles Steinhart is Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. Among many articles and books, he has authored Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death and Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism.
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    ISBN: 9783031137419
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 419 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Rechtsordnung ; Internationales Recht ; Rechtsstaat ; Responsibility to Protect ; Innerstaatliches Recht ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Staatensukzession ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Role of the Judiciary in Development of an ISDS Mechanism in Vietnam by Dr. Chau Huy Quang -- Chapter 2. How U.S. Courts Handle GDPR in Discovery Process: An Examination of a US Patent Infringement Case by Azam Zare Chahoki -- Chapter 3. Frozen Conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, and International Law by Oleksandr (Alex) Biryukov -- Chapter 4. Restorative Justice and Non-Custodial Measures as Panacea For Prison Decongestion in A Covid-19 Era: Nigeria in Perspective by Hon. Judge Dr. Ani Comfort Obi -- Chapter 5. Kazakhstan's Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity Initiatives by Prof. Dr. Dana Rizyeva -- Chapter 6. Judicial Misconduct: Analyzing the Code Of Conduct For Judicial Officers in Nigeria by Dr. Ndubisi J. Madubuike-Ekwe -- Chapter 7. Principle of Responsibility to Protect: Implications For Sovereignty by Dr. Eustace C. Azubuike -- Chapter 8. Ankle Monitors in The U.S. Asylum System: International Legal Issues and Recommendations by Giulia Rettagliati -- Chapter 9. The American Judiciary and Judicial Institutions on Trial by Dr. Ifeanyi Innocent Onwuazombe -- Chapter 10. The Unconformity of California Gender Quota Law With The Contractual Theory of Corporate Law by Dr. Murat Can PEHLİVANOĞLU -- Chapter 11. Surrogacy, Religious Culture and the Imperatives of the Law: Any Caveats for Law Makers? By Dr. Obiajulu Nnamuchi -- Chapter 12. Nganjiwa V Federal Republic of Nigeria – Judicial Contrivance of Immunity For Judges? By Prof. Osita Nnamani Ogbu -- Chapter 13. Recovery from International Trade Crisis by Dr. Ramesh Bikram Karky -- Chapter 14. States Succession in International Law by Prof. Andrew Conteh -- Chapter 15. The Case for Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights in Bangladesh: Preliminary Observations by Prof. Dr. Zakia Afrin -- Chapter 16. Development of International Commercial Arbitration in Virtual Reality During The Covid-19 Pandemic by Dr. Aileen Huang -- Chapter 17. The Continuing Relevance and Importance of Pacta Sunt Servanda in Contemporary International Law: A Re-Appraisal by Judge A.G. Koroma.
    Abstract: This book provides contributions in international law, development, and international relations from a cross section of jurists and scholars including a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a former Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The project, conceived as a festschrift in honor of Professor Christian Okeke, aims to amplify the voices and perspectives that are not often accorded the limelight in international legal discourse. Additionally, the contributors discuss such relevant issues as frozen conflicts in Eastern Europe, counter-terrorism and cyber-security in Central Asia, and judicial contrivance in African countries. Bridging the gap between political science and legal scholarship, the book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the emergence of an international rule of law and development. It also provides much needed empirical research on the implications of multi-level governance and global legal pluralism for the rule of law beyond the nation state. This book will be highly relevant to scholars, academics, researchers, and students in the fields of international relations, law, and development. Emeka Duruigbo is Professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University. Remigius Chibueze is Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, CA. Sunday Gozie Ogbodo is Professor and Dean at Faculty of Law, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783031128981
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 296 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
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    Keywords: Science—History. ; Medicine—History. ; Europe—History—476-1492. ; Philosophy—History. ; Religion—History. ; Science ; Medicine ; Europe ; Philosophy ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Roger Bacon and the Unnatural State of Man -- 3. Learning to Prolong Life -- 4. The Corpus Equale -- 5. Medicines and their Effects on the Body -- 6. Debate and Authority in the Reshaping of Medicine -- 7. Franciscan Understanding of the Ideal Human Body -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines Roger Bacon’s alchemical theories, and explains how he believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of the universities, but in the study of alchemy. Though twelfth- and thirteenth-century alchemy was generally concerned with the transmutation of metals, Bacon’s alchemy was a much larger area of study, and encompassed the generation and corruption of all material things in the sublunary world. It was this aspect of alchemy, which Bacon referred to as speculative alchemy, that explained how the four elements of fire, air, water, and earth interacted with each other to make the basis of reality as man could know it. Thus, the study of alchemy in conjunction with humoral medicine could explain not only how the human body worked, but how it interacted with the materials around it, illuminating the method of prolonging life to extreme lengths. .
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    ISBN: 9783031178047
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 274 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Violence and peace in sacred texts
    Keywords: Religions. ; Religion and sociology. ; Religion and politics. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewalt ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Violence and Peace in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa -- Chapter 3. Spectres of Violence and Landscapes of Peace: imagining the religious other in patterns of Hindu modernity -- Chapter 4. Jewish Interpretations of Biblical Violence -- Chapter 5. A Hermeneutic of Violence in Jewish Legal Sources: The Case of the Kippah -- Chapter 6. Buddhism and the dilemma of whether to use violence in defence of a way of peace -- Chapter 7. Apologists and Appropriators: Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence -- Chapter 8. Roman Catholic Teachings on Violence and Peace: The Credible Re-enactment of the Kingdom -- Chapter 9: Interpretations of Qurʾānic Violence in Shīʿī Islam -- Chapter 10. Sacralized Violence in Sufism -- Chapter 11. The Predicament of the Sant-Sipahi (Saint-Soldier): Sanctioned Violence and Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition -- Chapter 12. Experiences with Violence: Studying Sacred Text in Interreligious Dialogue. .
    Abstract: This volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and peace in relation to its sacred text. The traditions covered are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. The role of religion in conflict, war, and the creation of peaceful settlements has attracted much academic attention, including considerations of the interpretation of violence in sacred texts. This collection breaks new ground by bringing multiple faiths into conversation with one another with specific regard to the handling of violence and peace in sacred texts. This combination of close attention to text and expansive scope of religious inclusion is the first of its kind. Maria Power, FRHistS, is a Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland (2020) and From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland 1980-2005 (2007). She is editor of Building Peace in Northern Ireland (2011). Helen Paynter is a UK Baptist Minister, tutor in Biblical Studies at Bristol Baptist College, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s Wife (2020), God of violence yesterday, God of love today? Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament (2019), and Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031143465
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 715 p. 26 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Environmental Politics and Theory
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    Keywords: Human ecology—Study and teaching. ; Political science. ; Environmental policy. ; Environment. ; Economic development. ; Human ecology ; Innenpolitik ; Umwelt ; Ökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Auswirkung ; Klimaschutz ; Theorie ; Politische Theorie ; Ökologische Bewegung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: “The Time for Social and Political Transformation Based on the Environment is Now.” -- Chapter 2. Environmentalism and Political Ideologies -- Chapter 3 Democracy, Citizenship and Nationalism in Environmental Political Theory -- Chapter 4. Eco-anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness -- Chapter 5. Biosphere Breaking Bad: The Imperatives of Deep Adaptation -- Chapter 6. Animal Citizens: Do We Need to Rethink the Status of Animals or Citizenship Itself? -- Chapter 7. Degrowth: A State of Depense -- Chapter 8. The Nature of the State: A Deep History of Agrarian Environmentalism -- Chapter 9. The Environmental Political Role of Counter-Hegemonic Environmental Ethics: Replacing Supremacist Ethics and Connecting Environmental Politics, Environmental Political Theory and Environmental Sciences -- Chapter 10. Critical Feminism: A Feminist Environmental Research Network (FERN) for Collaborative and Relational Praxis -- Chapter 11. Property and the Anthropocene: Why Power on Things is Central to Our Ecological Predicament -- Chapter 12. Ecosystem Policy and Law: A Philosophical Argument for the Anticipatory Regulation of Environmental Risk, etc.
    Abstract: “The Palgrave Handbook on Environmental Politics and Theory seeks to reclaim a space for critically engaged scholarship that encourages dissent and speaks up for the many communities that are mobilizing for a radical change of political course. By confronting systems of denial and inviting conceptual and ethical innovation, the chapters form a powerful collective response.” —Eva Lövbrand, Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden “Written by an impressive array of both established scholars and new voices, Kassiola and Luke are to be congratulated for assembling such a variety of topics, scholars and approaches, which has produced an excellent addition to the Palgrave Handbook series.” —John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom This Handbook is exhibits the latest interdisciplinary explorations in environmental politics, an urgently burgeoning field of intellectual and practical importance., Environmental politics and theory encompasses empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions unfolding across many disciplines. Through the volume’s contributions emphasizing environmental policy issues, normative prescriptions, and implementation strategies, the next generation of thinkers and activists will have useful profiles of the theories, concepts, and movements central to environmental politics and theory. It is the editors’ aspiration that this volume will become a go-to resource on the myriad perspectives relevant to studying and improving the environment for advanced researchers as well as an introduction to students seeking to understand the basic foundations and recommended resolutions to many of our environmental challenges. Environmental politics is more than theory alone, so the Handbook also considers theory-action connections by highlighting the past and current: thinkers, activists, social organizations, and movements that have worked to guide contemporary societies toward a more environmentally sustainable and just global order. Joel Jay Kassiola is Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, Department of Political Science, San Francisco, California, USA. He serves as Series Editor for Palgrave's Environmental Politics and Theory book series. Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA. Chapter “Eco-Anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031368295
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 832 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Religion and sociology. ; Peace. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: 1. Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: An Introduction -- Part I Contextualising Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 2. Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: A Critical Appreciation -- 3. Religion and Peacebuilding in African Religious Studies and Theology: An Overview and Preliminary Evaluation -- 4. Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: Challenges -- 5. The Bible, Peace Building and Sustainable Development in Africa -- 6. Teaching About Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 7. Intersectionalities: Whiteness, Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 8. Climate Security and Religion in Africa: Towards Sustainable Development Goals -- Part II Country Case Studies on Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 9. Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Rwanda -- 10. Building Resilience and Everyday Peace at the Micro-Levels in South Sudan -- 11. Developing Transformatively: Religion and Peace Mediation in Nigeria -- 12. Ethnic and Political Conflicts Resolution in Burundi: The Contribution of Religious Organisations -- 13. Reclaiming Everyday Peace in the Micro-Spaces in Burundi -- 14. Religion and Peacebuilding in Tanzania: Institutionalisation of Interfaith Peace Committee -- 15. Religion and Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) -- 16. Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Uganda -- 17. Indigenous Spirituality, Peacebuilding, and Development in Eswatini -- Part III Diverse Religions in Africa, Peacebuilding and Development -- 18. The Role of Traditional Authorities in the Promotion of Electoral Justice and Peacebuilding in Ghana -- 19. Rastafari Insights into Peace-building and Sustainable Development -- 20. Islamophobic Agenda: An Analysis of Media Representation of Radicalization and Terrorism in Kenya Since 2000 -- 21. Islam, Conflict, Peace and Security in Africa -- 22. Apostolic Churches and Youth Response to Social Challenges Post-Violence in Zimbabwe -- Part IV Actors in Religion, Peacebuilding and Development -- 23. African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: Engaging with Emmanuel Katongole -- 24. Traditional Leaders and the Quest for Sustainable Peace in Kenya -- 25. Decolonising Peacebuilding for Development in South Africa: African Traditional Spiritual Leaders as Critical Assets -- 26. Religious Peacebuilding’s Response to Violent Extremism in Informal Settlements in Egypt -- 27. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: The Role of Church Leaders During Political Electioneering Periods in Kenya -- 28. Religion, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, and Development in Ghana: The Role of the National Peace Council -- 29. The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC): Youth, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa -- Part V Interfaith Networks, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 30. Interfaith Networks, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: Analysis of the Contribution of the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches to Peacebuilding -- 31. Interfaith Dialogue, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: A Case of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) -- 32. Xenophobia, Interfaith Networks, Peace Building and Development in Botswana -- 33. Role of Islamic Networks in Peacebuilding and Development in Kenya, and the War on Terror -- 34. Re-building Muslim-Christian Relations and Everyday Peace in West Nile, Uganda -- 35. Gender, Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Zimbabwe -- 36. Religion, Feminist Peace, and Security in Nigeria and Uganda -- 37. Gender, Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Zambia: Doreen Mazuba Malambo’s Trajectory in Peacekeeping Missions -- 38. Disability and Migration: Religious and Traditional Disability Beliefs as Causes of Migration of Zimbabwean Mothers of Children with Disabilities to South Africa -- 39. Gender, SDG 16, Peacebuilding and Development in Kenya -- 40. The Role of Women Church Leaders in Peacebuilding and Social Economic Transformation in Post-Conflict Uganda -- Part VII Topical Issues in Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa -- 41. Ubuntu, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: Reflections on the Promises and Challenges of a Popular Concept -- 42. Shaping the Instruments of Peace: Religion in Digital Peacebuilding in Africa -- 43. Religion and Agriculture for Peacebuilding in Rwanda: Analysing the Role of Christian Faith-Based Organisations in the Post-genocide Agrarian Change -- 44. Arts, Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Post-conflict Northern Uganda -- Part VIII Conclusion -- 45. Imagining the Future of Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa.
    Abstract: This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used to fuel violence and underdevelopment. Contributors to this volume offer theoretical discussions from existing literature, as well as experiences of practitioners, to deepen the readers’ understanding on the role of religion and religious institutions in peacebuilding and development in Africa. The Handbook provides reflections on possible future developments as well, thereby aligning with the goals of SDG 16.
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    ISBN: 9783031342714
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 294 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Axiological Skeptical Theism Proved -- 3. Deontological Skeptical Theism Proved -- 4. Skeptical Theism and The Problems of Evil -- 5. Skeptical Theism and Other Arguments for Atheism -- 6. Skeptical Theism Defeated? -- 7. Faithful Skeptical Theism -- 8. Theodicy and Natural Theology -- 9. Commonsense Problems of Evil.
    Abstract: “Perry Hendricks raises the discussion of skeptical theism to a new level of sophistication, relying on detailed arguments to support skeptical theism instead of just intuitions and analogies. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the intellectual problem of evil.” -Paul Draper, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University “Skeptical theism—which expresses skepticism about our ability to accurately evaluate divine permission of suffering and evil—is one of the most popular contemporary replies to the atheistic argument from evil. Perry Hendricks’ book, Skeptical Theism, is a must-read work for anyone interested in this response to the problem of evil or in atheistic arguments more generally. It is chock-full of novel and compelling reasoning, both in support of skeptical theism and in response to all of the major objections to that view to date.” -Michael Bergmann, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Does divine hiddenness provide an evidential problem for theism? Is our evolutionary history evidence that God doesn’t exist? Skeptical theism is the view that humans are cognitively limited in important ways that prevent us from providing affirmative answers to these evidential questions. In this book—the first monograph published on skeptical theism—Perry Hendricks gives careful, novel, and compelling arguments in favor of skeptical theism and provides a comprehensive defense of it, addressing all major objections to skeptical theism on offer. The implications of skeptical theism are teased out: it undermines the most prominent arguments for atheism on offer, which significantly lowers the epistemic status of atheism. Perry Hendricks is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has published numerous articles in such journals as: Analysis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Ergo, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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    ISBN: 9783031447808
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 328 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Philosophy, Ancient. ; Women ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Greece -- Chapter 3. Thales and Anaximander -- Chapter 4. Pythagoras and Heraclitus -- Chapter 5. Parmenides and Empedocles -- Chapter 6. Anaxagoras and Democritus -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: "Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr.’s account of the complex origins of the philosophical tradition in the west skillfully crosses disciplinary boundaries and speaks at once to scholars of Nietzsche, feminism, and the presocratics—groups that are not always on speaking terms with one another. The author’s analysis of women and the feminine in presocratic thought and of philosophy itself as partnership is sure to find a receptive readership among those interested in re-examining the story of western philosophy’s inception in preclassical Greece." —Paul Fairfield, Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University Kingston Ontario This book is the first sustained scholarly account of women and goddesses in presocratic philosophy. It approaches the origin of western philosophy via Nietzsche, Feminism, and Embodied Cognition in order to argue that the presocratics were reviving, within the largely patriarchal and death-glorifying culture of archaic Greece, a paleo/neolithic goddess-centered religiosity that affirmed life and rebirth. By taking readers from prehistoric Europe to classical Athens, Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. provides a novel narrative of the dawn of western philosophy which is more comprehensive than traditional accounts and which helps us address contemporary problems—the patriarchal attitudes and ideas that continue to corrupt academic-philosophical culture; the fascist-dominator lifestyle that continues to threaten western democracy and which is encouraged by the patriarchal aspects of academia; and the consumerism that continues to result from a materialistic-secular paradigm that is being increasingly recognized as both intellectually untenable and socially unsustainable. Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 2021, and is currently an independent philosopher and yoga instructor. .
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    ISBN: 9783031240232
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 171 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cerrito, Amalia Albert the Great (c. 1193-1280) and the configuration of the embryo
    Keywords: Europe ; Medicine ; Science ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Religion ; Hochschulschrift ; Albertus Magnus, Heiliger 1193-1280 ; Embryologie
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Albert the Great’s Embryology: An Interdisciplinary Approach -- Chapter 2. The Christian-Neoplatonic Background of Albert the Great’s Doctrine of Virtus Formativa -- Chapter 3. Virtus Formativa and Human Embryology -- Chapter 4. The Transmission of Genetic Inheritance -- Chapter 5. Final Remarks.
    Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great’s (c. 1193–1280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for crucial dynamics in the formation of living beings. Crossing the boundaries between theology and philosophy, the notion of virtus formativa, or formative power, was central in explaining genetic inheritance and the configuration of the embryo. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book reconstructs how Albert the Great, motivated by theological open issues, reorganised the natural-philosophical and medical theories on embryonic development, creatively drawing upon Greek, Patristic, and Arabic sources. A valuable contribution to research, this book offers essential insights for those studying the history of embryology, medicine, and science in the medieval and renaissance periods. Amalia Cerrito is an Associate Member of the Centre for the Studies of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) of Pisa, Italy. Having studied the history of medieval philosophy at the Universities of Pisa and Florence, she has published journal articles on the interaction between natural philosophy and the biblical exegesis of Albert the Great. Amalia’s recent publications are devoted to the theoretical background of Albert the Great’s natural philosophy and Neoplatonism’s influence on his theories of zoology, botany, and embryology.
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    ISBN: 9783031121166
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 193 p. 38 illus., 29 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Comparative government. ; Economic development. ; International organization.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Economy and Foreign Policy in an Uncertain World -- Chapter 2: Development-Foreign Policy Nexus: A Regime Coherence Framework -- Chapter 3: Development and Foreign Policy: State of the Art -- Chapter 4: Economic Governance -- Chapter 5: State-Business Relations -- Chapter 6: Financial Statecraft -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk.
    Abstract: This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey. The authors argue that although the developmental state framework has commonly been employed to explore domestic economic development processes without analytically focusing on the foreign policy dimension, developmental state institutions are highly relevant in the creation and pursuit of a development-oriented foreign policy at a time of growing uncertainty marred by geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions. The book develops a two-level ‘Regime Coherence Framework’ to account for the domestic and international dimensions of development-oriented foreign policy. The main argument posits that the development regime in Turkey and associated foreign policies lack coherence, due to weak institutional complementarities between economic governance, state-business relations, and financial statecraft at the domestic-external nexus. Mustafa Kutlay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at City, University of London, UK. He works on comparative politics, politics of development, emerging powers, Turkish political economy, and the global South. H. Emrah Karaoğuz is Assistant Professor in the International Relations department at Kadir Has University, Turkey. His current research focuses on political economy of development, international/comparative political economy, Turkish political economy, and political economy of innovation.
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    ISBN: 9783031258329
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 327 p. 17 illus., 15 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; International economic relations. ; Development economics. ; Economic geography.
    Abstract: The Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance. Chapter 1. Development Economics, and the Political Economy of International Development -- Chapter 2 – The Future, Development Economics and Global Policy Actions -- Chapter 3. Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth -- Manufacturing Industry and International Development. Chapter 4. The future of manufacturing industry and its implications for developing countries -- Chapter 5. Lights-out Manufacturing and Foreign Direct Investment Decline: Human Resource Based Avenues for Technological Diffusion in Developing Countries -- Chapter 6. National Cars and Product Champions: ways forward for Vietnam’s automotive industry? -- Chapter 7. Manufacturing Development in Bangladesh and Ghana: A Comparative Review of Growth Strategies -- MNCs and International Development. Chapter 8. Transnational Corporations and Globalisation: the development of development? -- Chapter 9. Knowledge Relevance and Emerging Country Multinational’s Knowledge Transfer Advantage -- Chapter 10. Supply Chains and Development: Does Vietnam have to worry about the middle-income trap? -- Finance and International Development. Chapter 11. Financing development through PPPs: What does this mean for inequalities -- Chapter 12. Recent Developments with Personal Remittances to LDCs in the context of Global Crises -- Chapter 13. Shifting Landscapes in Development Finance: The Cautionary Tale of a New Debt Trap -- Chapter 14. Overview and Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: “This excellent volume in the memory of the late Professor Fred Nixson brings together authoritative contributions from a diverse range of scholars on the political economy of global manufacturing, business and finance.” — Kunal Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Finland. “This is a highly recommended volume on the state of the art in terms of understanding contemporary economic development in developing countries.” — Andrew Sumner, Professor of International Development, King’s College London, Department of International Development, UK. “This book offers a refreshing perspective on industrial development, multinational firms, international trade, inequality, and financial development.” — Céline Azémar, Professor of Economics, Academic Dean, Rennes School of Business, France. “Powerful insights into why inequality and transformation are central to the study and practice of development – a fitting tribute to the legacy of Fred Nixson.” — David Luke, Professor in Practice and Strategic Director, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. This book is written as a tribute to Frederick Nixson’s extensive work on industrial development in the Global South, while seeking to actively engage with the latest arguments concerning development economics, together with changes in manufacturing and industrial policy that continue to shape the role of the Global South in the international economy, the impact of the increased concentration of global multinational corporations in that space, along with the rise of new financing tools and debt traps. The chapters pay homage to Fred’s broad view of the international development process and reflect his breadth of perception both theoretically and geographically. The book targets both the scholarly and policymaking audience. Michael Tribe is a Business School Affiliate, Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. George Kararach is a Lead Economist with the African Development Bank Group and Visiting Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031194740
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 319 p. 16 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—History. ; Collective memory. ; Social history. ; Economic development. ; Welfare state. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: “The Appalling Cry of Famine”: Famine in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- 2 Finland, Europe and the Russian Empire, 1809-1855 -- 3 The Crimean War and the “Finnish Famine Relief Committee” -- 4 National Reform and Renewed Famine, 1860-66 -- 5 Reactions to the “Frost Night” of 1867 -- 6 The Role of Private Charity in Finland, 1867-68 -- 7 Poor Relief and Public Works Schemes -- 8 Seeking Refuge at Home and Abroad, 1867-68 -- 9 Famine and Regional Crises in Finland, 1868-1918 -- 10 “A Sacred Responsibility to Remember”? Finland’s Great Hunger Years: Historiography, Literature and Memorialisation -- 11 Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history’s most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s. In 1868, the nadir of several years of worsening economic conditions, 137,000 people (approximately 8% of the Finnish population) perished as the result of hunger and disease. The attitudes and policies enacted by Finland’s devolved administration tended to follow European norms, and therefore were often similar to the “colonial” practices seen in other famines at the time. What is distinctive about this catastrophe in a mid-nineteenth-century context, is that despite Finland being a part of the Russian Empire, it was largely responsible for its own governance, and indeed was developing its economic, political and cultural autonomy at the time of the famine. Finland’s Great Famine 1856-68 examines key themes such as the use of emergency foods, domestic and overseas charity, vagrancy and crime, emergency relief works, and emigration.
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    ISBN: 9783031401619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 225 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Religion ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Avicenna and Anselm on God and Divine Simplicity -- Chapter 3: Avicenna’s Account of Free Will and Divine Freedom -- Chapter 4: Anselm’s Account of Free Will and Divine Freedom -- Chapter 5: Divine Simplicity and Divine Freedom -- Chapter 6: Divine Freedom, Agent-Causal Power, and Reasons-Explanation -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book investigates the compatibility between the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS, hereafter) and divine free action primarily in the works of Avicenna and Anselm with an analytical approach. The book has three main objectives: (1) to thoroughly analyse both philosophers’ views on DDS, divine free will, and their compatibility; (2) to put them into the context of the contemporary discourse of the philosophy of religion, by investigating whether it is possible to have freedom without the ability to do otherwise (as proposed by both philosophers for divine free will) with a reference to the prominent contemporary discussions initiated by Harry Frankfurt’s counterexamples; and (3) to show the plausibility of the agent-causal view for divine freedom (as defended by Anselm and Avicenna) by briefly sketching an alternative account based on Anselmian intuitions (the meta-awareness account) which can avoid the reasons-explanation objection and the luck objection against the libertarian agent-causal view. Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Augsburg University, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031351518
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 725 p.)
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    Keywords: Religions. ; East Asia. ; Religion and politics. ; Religion and law. ; Africa ; Religion
    Abstract: Part 1: Religion and State in Philosophy -- Chapter 1: Religious Reasons in Political Discourse -- Chapter 2: A Plantingan Response to Public Reason Accessibilism -- Chapter 3: Matters of Conscience -- Chapter 4: On the Definition of Religious Belief -- Chapter 5: Natural Law and the American Founding -- Part 2: Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment -- Chapter 6: Why Do We Think the Framers Wanted to Separate Church and State?- Chapter 7: American Church – State Relations: Jefferson’s Conception of Religious Freedom -- Chapter 8: A Liberal and Generous Toleration: John Adams and the Freedom for Religion -- Chapter 9: Nondiscrimination or Accommodation?: Two Competing Visions of the Free Exercise Clause -- Chapter 10: In Praise of Separationism: A Lamentation on the Demise of that Famous Paragraph in Everson v. Board of Education -- Chapter 11: The Requirement of Church and State to be Forever Separate -- Chapter 12: Why Church and State Should be Kept Separate but Politics and Religion Should Not -- Chapter 13: Is Religion Serious Enough to Be Taken Seriously?- Chapter 14: Does the Separation of Church and State Require Secularism?- Chapter 15: Miltonic Liberty and the Grounds for Disestablishment in A Treatise of Civil Power -- Chapter 16: A Marriage of Opposites: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy -- Chapter 17: Public Spirit as Mediating Influence Between Tocqueville’s “Spirit of Religion” and “Spirit of Freedom” -- Part 3: Religion and Law in the American Courts -- Chapter 18: Testing Neutrality: The Courts’ Use of Legal Tests in Determining Establishment and Free Exercise Cases -- Chapter 19: Corporate Religious Liberty After Hobby Lobby -- Chapter 20: The Ministerial Exception and the Distinction between Church and State -- Chapter 21: The Definition of Marriage from Reynolds to Obergefell -- Chapter 22: The Separation of Church and State: The Court’s ‘Secular Purpose’ and the Argumentum ex Ignorantia -- Chapter 23: Changes in Conscience Clauses and the Effect on Religious Affiliated Hospitals and Health Care Practitioners -- Chapter 24: Title: A Very Private, Very Public Matter: Contraception and Religious Freedom -- Chapter 25: Religion and Education: A New Birth of Freedom for Unsettled Times -- Chapter 26: The Global State Church: The Political and Security Roles of Religion in Contemporary Education -- Chapter 27: Sexual Identity, Gender Ideology, and Religious Freedom: The Tug of War over “Who We Are” Schools as Battlegrounds -- Part 4: Religion and the State in Canada, Mexico, and South America -- Chapter 28: Religion and State in Canada -- Chapter 29: Religion and State in Mexico Roberto Blancart -- Chapter 30: Religion and State in Colombia -- Chapter 31: Religion and State in Argentina -- Chapter 32: Religion and State in Brazil -- Chapter 33: Religion and State in Chile -- Chapter 34: Religion and State in the Caribbean.
    Abstract: The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history that has played out throughout time and across the globe. Countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe approach the subject of religion and the state in various ways. While the word religion to westerners usually brings Christianity to mind, in Japan it is Shintoism and Buddhism. Volume II offers chapters on the relationship of both Shintoism and Buddhism to the Japanese state. It is very easy to see how the deeply traditional Japanese citizens may come into conflict with the strictly secular Japanese state. It also contains chapters about mosque and state as well as synagogue and state. .
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    ISBN: 9783031385964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 279 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Economic development. ; Security, International. ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Friedenssicherung ; Internationale Organisation ; Politisches Mandat ; Entwicklung ; Gastland
    Abstract: 1. The Future Trajectory of UN Peace Operations (Alexander Gilder, David Curran, Georgina Holmes and Fiifi Edu-Afful) -- Part 1 Reforming Security -- 2. Reforming Security Institutions: Implications of Local Actors’ Incorporation on the Construction of Democratic Security Environments (Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Juliana Viggiano) -- 3. International Policing and/as the Future of UN Peace Operations (Charles T Hunt) -- Part 2 Resolving Conflict and Ensuring Protection -- 4. Attack Helicopters and Other Technologies for Enforcement in UN Peace Operations (Walter Dorn) -- 5. The Future Dynamics Between UN Stabilisation and UN Peace Operations: Conflict Management Versus Conflict Resolution (Shannon Zimmerman) -- 6. UNTSO: The Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East (Diego Salama) -- Part 3 Strengthening Partnerships -- 7. The Future Of United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) Cooperation On Peace And Security (Ruth Adwoa Frimpong) -- 8. The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (hifz al-salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation’s Sustaining Peace Agenda (Mohammad Sabuj) -- 9. Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping (Dustin Johnson, Catherine Baillie Abidi, Laura Cleave, and Shelly Whitman) -- Part 4 Ensuring Future Accountability -- 10. Accountability for Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: Rethinking Relationships (Sabrina White) -- 11. Safeguarding from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peace Operations: Lessons for the Future (Sarah Blakemore, Rosa Freedman and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert) -- 12. An Alternative Approach: The African Union’s ’s SEA Regulatory Framework (Ai Kihara-Hunt and Roisin Burke).
    Abstract: “This collection of essays is a rich survey of the challenges facing the UN and an examination of the opportunities offered by partnerships, technology and reform.” — Roger Mac Ginty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University, UK. “This volume shines because its contributions showcase the complex nature of contemporary peacekeeping and the multiple operational challenges it must evolve to address.” — Dr Katharina P. Coleman, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada. “This book brings together new voices and fresh ideas on future pathways for UN peace operations.” — Dr Jenna Russo, Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, International Peace Institute, USA Alexander Gilder is Associate Professor of International Law and Security at the School of Law, University of Reading, UK and Associate Faculty at the School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada David Curran is Associate Professor and Research Group Leader: Security, Vulnerability and Resilience at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK Georgina Holmes is Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, The Open University, UK. Fiifi Edu-Afful is Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana.
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    ISBN: 9783031449352
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 300 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hoselton, Ryan P., 1987 - Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the quest for evangelical enlightenment
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2020
    Keywords: United States ; Books ; Europe ; Intellectual life ; Religion ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Protestantismus ; Evangelikale Theologie ; Mather, Cotton 1663-1728 ; Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Spiritually Discerned -- Chapter 2. “Search the Scriptures; Search Your Experiences”: Reading the Bible Spiritually from the Reformation to Early Evangelicalism -- Chapter 3. “Experimental Christians”: Mather’s Philosophical and Biblical Vitalism -- Chapter 4. “Evangelical Illustrations”: Mather’s Experimental Exegesis -- Chapter 5. “Complex Spiritual Ideas”: Edwards, the Spiritual Sense, and Scripture -- Chapter 6. “It Wonderfully Enlightens”: Edwards’ Exegesis of Sensation -- Chapter 7. Conclusion./.
    Abstract: This book explores the early evangelical quest for enlightenment by the Spirit and the Word. While the pursuit originated in the Protestant Reformation, it assumed new forms in the long eighteenth-century context of the early Enlightenment and transatlantic awakened Protestant reform. This work illuminates these transformations by focusing on the dynamic intersection of experimental philosophy and experimental religion in the biblical practices of early America’s most influential Protestant theologians, Cotton Mather (1663-1728) and Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). As the first book-length project to treat Mather and Edwards together, this study makes an important contribution to the extensive scholarship on these figures, opening new perspectives on the continuities and complexities of colonial New England religion. It also provides new insights and interpretive interventions concerning the history of the Bible, early modern intellectual history, and evangelicalism’s complex relationship to the Enlightenment. Ryan P. Hoselton is Associate Pastor at Munich International Community Church and Visiting Scholar at Heidelberg University in Germany, where he taught religious history and historical theology from 2016-2023. He co-edited The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism (2022), and he is editing vol. 7 of the Biblia Americana (Matthew-Luke).
    Note: Dissertation eingereicht unter dem Titel: Spiritually discerned: Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and experiential exegesis in early evangelicalism
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    ISBN: 9783031239403
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 278 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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    Keywords: Great Britain—History. ; Religion—History. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Social history. ; World politics. ; Great Britain ; Intellectual life ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The State of the Literature -- 3. Reconceiving Religion -- 4. Owenite Socialism in Religious Context -- 5. Owenite Religion as a Socialite Religion -- 6. Religion and the History of Socialism -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature of ‘religion’ as advanced through knowledge of the natural and social world, as a prospective source of solidarity which could serve as the unifying bond for communities, and as constituted by ethical conduct. It shows how this re-conception was formed through a sincere and considered reflection upon the problem of religious truth and was shaped by the particular religious context of early-nineteenth-century Britain. It then demonstrates the importance of this reimagination of religion to their understanding of socialism. Their religious interests were not an eccentric adornment to their socialism, an outdated residue yet to be shed and encumbering the development of a mature socialism, or merely instrumental to their temporal goals. Instead, Owenite ambitions of religious reform were grounded in the philosophical preoccupations which animated their socialism. Edward Lucas completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK and now works for the UK government.
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    ISBN: 9783031250170
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 326 p. 11 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Social psychology. ; Economic development. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Rethinking Marxism from the Outside -- Chapter 2: A Class-Focused Marxian Theory: Class and Need -- Chapter 3: Hegemony, Symbolic and the Foreclosed Real -- Chapter 4: Global Capitalist Hegemony and the Foreclosure of World of the Third -- Chapter 5: Economic Dualism: A Critique of Political Economy of Development -- Chapter 6: Global Capital and its Camp -- Chapter 7: Unveiling World of the Third -- Chapter 8: Hegemonic Capital and Social Needs -- Chapter 9: Engagement of Global Capital with World of the Third -- Chapter 10: Ethico-Politics of Anti-Capitalist Critique and Post-Capitalist Praxis.
    Abstract: "Chakrabarti and Dhar creatively and originally combine Marx, Freud, and post-colonialism by rethinking (advancing) each through the lens of the other. They extend and transform earlier such efforts achieving important new insights in and for the now global Marxian tradition." ---Richard D. Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Co-founder, Democracy at work This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in desperate need of aid and development. Thus, for them, the hegemonic form of global capital is engendered through the foregrounding of the poor, victim third world and the foreclosure of the non-capitalist world of the third. Building on what they characterize as an ab-original reading of Marxian historical materialism and the Lacanian real, the authors seek to conceptualize a counter-hegemonic revolutionary subject as a basis for postcapitalist alternatives to the hegemonic form of global capital. Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India. Anup Dhar is former Professor of Philosophy at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031316098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 228 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Human rights. ; Economic development. ; Europe ; Autonomie ; Selbstverwaltung ; Konzeption ; Minderheitenrecht ; Indigenes Volk ; Stammesgesellschaft ; Rechtsstellung ; Grundwerte ; Non-territorial autonomy ; Erde
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Concept of Non-Territorial Autonomy: Origins, Developments, and Subtypes -- 3. Origins and Early Implementations of Non-Territorial Autonomy -- 4. NTA and International Minority Rights -- 5. NTA as a Democratization Tool -- 6. Normative Principles and Non-territorial autonomy -- 7. The Politics of NTA -- 8. The legal and institutional context of NTA -- 9. The Many Faces of Minority Non-Territorial Autonomy -- 10. Cultural Autonomy as Non-Territorial Autonomy -- 11. Operationalizing Non-Territorial Autonomy: Indicators Assessing Mobilization For Empowerment.
    Abstract: This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN – the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA). The themes of each chapter have been selected to ensure a multi- and interdisciplinary overview of an emerging research field and show both in theory and in practice the possibilities of NTA in addressing cultural, ethnic, religious and language differences in contemporary societies. This is an open access book. Marina Andeva is Associate Professor at the School of Political Science, University American College Skopje (UACS), North Macedonia, and Research Fellow at the Institute of International Sociology in Gorizia (ISIG), Italy. Balázs Dobos is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies within the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. Ljubica Djordjević is Senior Researcher and Head of the ‘Justice and Governance’ Cluster at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. Börries Kuzmany is a historian and Slavicist by training, an assistant professor at the Department for East European History at the University of Vienna, Austria. Tove Malloy is Professor of European Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, and External Lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark.
    Note: Open Access , Literaturverzeichnisse, Literaturhinweise
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    ISBN: 9783031122361
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 228 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: France—History. ; Civilization—History. ; Religion—History. ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Goth culture (Subculture). ; Religion ; France ; Civilization
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Creatures of Infamy: Lettres de cachet, Family Honor, and the Uses of Secrecy -- Chapter 3: The Fate of Secrets in a Public Sphere: The Comte de Broglie and the Demise of the Secret du Roi -- Chapter 4: Those Who Know Your Secrets: Jesuit Secrecy and the Proto-nationalism of the Jansenists -- Chapter 5: “I Promise Never to Speak to Anyone”: Polices Practices and the Bastille -- Chapter 6: Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: Bastille Cadavers and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary -- Chapter 7: The Marat of Versailles: Transparency During and After the Terror -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today. Nicole Bauer is Assistant Professor of European History at the University of Tulsa in the USA. A cultural historian of early modern France, she is particularly interested in pulling threads from different directions to understand and uncover the cultural origins of political and social movements.
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    ISBN: 9783031187872
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 118 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion—Philosophy. ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Knowledge and Belief -- Chapter 3: Religious Ambivalence in the Christian Tradition About Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Curiosity and Scientific Knowledge in Opposition To Religious Knowledge -- Chapter 5: Aquinas and Kierkegaard -- Chapter 6: The Neo-Wittgensteinian Treatment of Religious Knowledge -- Chapter 7: Kierkegaard’s Two Treatments of Religious Knowledge -- Chapter 8: Faith and Knowledge -- Chapter 9: Religious Knowledge in Nontheistic Traditions -- Chapter 10: Religious Knowledge and Religious Wisdom.
    Abstract: This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion, particularly within Christianity. The book begins by examining the difference between the general concepts of knowledge and belief, the relation between faith and knowledge, and reasons why belief as faith, and not knowledge, is central to the Abrahamic religions. The book explores the ambivalence about religious knowledge within Christianity. Some religious thinkers explicitly accepted and sought religious knowledge, as did St. Thomas Aquinas, while others, notably Søren Kierkegaard, cast knowledge and seeking it as incompatible with faith. The book also examines two antithetical religious intuitions about knowledge, both at home in the Christian tradition. For one, faith requires a struggle with doubt. For the other, faith requires a certainty that excludes doubt. For the first, religious knowledge would destroy faith. For the second, religious knowledge is compatible with faith and completes it. Though the book focuses on the Christian tradition, it also considers other traditions, including a chapter on the place of religious knowledge in nontheistic religious traditions. The final chapter examines how coming to Wisdom as personified in the Jewish and Christian traditions may be distinct from attaining religious knowledge. The late James Kellenberger was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. Professor Kellenberger's other books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (1997), Dying to Self and Detachment (2012), and most recently Religious Revelation (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031205934
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 238 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political planning. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Economic development. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Introduction: EU Renewable Energy Policy in Context -- Chapter 2. Analytical Framework -- Chapter 3. EU Energy policymaking: Actors and Processes -- Chapter 4. The Emergence of EU Renewable Energy Policy: Unpacking Policymaking Dynamics of RES-E Directive -- Chapter 5. Consolidation of EU Renewable Energy Policy: Renewable Energy Directive (RED) -- Chapter 6. Shaping EU Renewable Policy beyond 2020: RED II -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Dynamics of EU Energy Policy Integration: Insights from EU’s Renewable Energy Policy. .
    Abstract: “The European Union is a global leader in using public policy to drive the transition to renewable energy. This book provides the best comprehensive overview of how those policies were made and how they work. Scholars of European integration will also find in her study that the case of renewable energy provides a clear lens to see how far integration has progressed during the past two decades.” —Professor Robert Henry Cox, University of South Carolina, USA. This book provides a comprehensive account of EU’s renewable energy policy development as it traces the agenda-shaping, policy formulation and decisionmaking phases of the EU’s secondary legislation on renewable energy – that is the three successive directives of 2001 (RES-E), 2009 (RED), and 2018 (RED II). It also explores the EU’s energy policymaking dynamics and assess integration outcomes of these three policymaking instances in the renewable energy field from a comparative perspective. Enriched with elite interviews with the Brussels policy community, and drawing on European integration and public policy literature, the proposed book will resonate with and offer relevant insights to students, scholars, stakeholders, and policymakers interested in EU energy policy, in particular, and European integration, in general. Mariam Dekanozishvili is Associate Professor of International Relations and European Politics at the Department of Politics, Coastal Carolina University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031201271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 260 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A new gnosis
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    Keywords: Comic books, strips, etc.—Influence on mass media. ; Religions. ; America. ; Psychology and religion. ; Popular Culture. ; Comic books, strips, etc. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Comicgenre ; Superheld ; Vergleichende Mythologie ; Tiefenpsychologie ; Popkultur ; Religion ; Geschichte 1960-2022
    Abstract: A New Gnosis: The Comic Book as Mythical Text -- Part I A New Gnosis: Comic Books as Modern Mythology -- Dreaming the Myth Onward: Comic Books as Contemporary Mythologies -- From Horror to Heroes: Mythologies of Graphic Voodoo in Comics -- Mystico-Erotics of the “Next Age Superhero”: Christian Hippie Comics of the 1970s -- The Flying Eyeball: The Mythopoetics of Rick Griffin -- Graphic Mythologies -- Part II Archetypal Amplifications: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology -- Archetypal Dimensions of Comic Books -- All-Female Teams: In Quest of the Missing Archetype -- Infirm Relatives and Boy Kings: The Green Man Archetype in Alan Moore’s The Saga of The Swamp Thing -- The Shadow of the Bat: Batman as Archetypal Shaman -- “To Survive and Still Dream”: Ritual and Reclamation in Little Bird -- Graffiti in the Grass: Worldbuilding and Soul Survival Through Image, Immersive Myth, and the Metaxis -- Afterword: Comics and Gnostics.
    Abstract: “[S]uperhero comics and science fiction…can and do function as transmission sites for what David Odorisio has called the “new gnosis.” Superpowers are real. So are the altered states of knowing and excessively weird paranormal phenomena or “special effects”…that often lie behind the conception and within the very artistic execution of these genres on the page, on screen, and in life. This is, by far, the most important resonance between [my own Mutants and Mystics] and this book—the gnostic transmission. I would immediately add that the vast, vast majority of such psi-fi gnostics will never be known as such. They exist silently in the margins of the culture, which, paradoxically, is also somehow the center." —Jeffrey J. Kripal, from the Afterword Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced “the gods” (and even religion), what does the return of the superhero through our own pop cultural mythologies say to us—or even about us? This collection of essays from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fields of comparative mythology and depth psychology considers the return of the superhero as representative of our own unique emergent modern mythology: a wildly diverse pantheon that reflects back to us our most far-reaching hopes and (im)possible (super)human desires. In placing the interpretive tools of comparative mythology and depth psychology alongside the comic book phenomenon, a super-powered palette emerges that unveils the hidden potential of modern readers’ own heightened imaginations. The essays in this anthology examine select comic book and superhero characters from the “Silver Age” 1960s through contemporary 21st-century adaptations and innovations, as readers are invited to discover and uncover what the (re)emergence of these perennial gods and goddesses have to say about our own secret super selves today. David M. Odorisio is Associate Core Faculty and Co-Chair of the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. He is editor of Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart (2021) and co-editor of Depth Psychology and Mysticism (2018). David teaches in the areas of psychology, religion, and comparative mysticism, and has published in numerous journals in the fields of Jungian and transpersonal psychology.
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    ISBN: 9783031110085
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 338 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion—Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Political science ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction; Sharada Sugirtharajah -- Part 1 Hick’s Religious Pluralism: A Western Reappraisal -- 2. The Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Kenneth Rose -- 3. Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism; Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- 4. Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism; Alan Race -- 5. Ethics and Pluralism; Keith Ward -- 6. Jewish Pluralism and John Hick; Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Part II Re-envisioning Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Indic and Islamic Responses -- 7. Eating Sugar, Becoming Sugar, Both, or Neither? Eschatology and Religious Pluralism in the Thought of John Hick; Swami Medhananda -- 8. On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Re-envisioning and Reconstruction of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Jeffery D. Long -- 9. The Knowable and the Unknowable ‘Real’ in Radhakrishnan’s and Hick’s Thinking; Sharada Sugirtharajah -- 10. Hick’s Theory of Religion and the Inclusive Option; Amir Dastmalchian -- Part III Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Asian and African responses -- 11. Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick’s Religious Pluralism; Zhicheng Wang -- 12. Hick’s religious pluralism and Korean Theology of Indigenization; Iljoon Park -- 13. Japanese Responses to Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Hick’s liberalism inherited from British Idealism; Naoki Kitta -- 14. The Significance of John Hick’s Soteriological and Ethical Criteria for Religiously Pluralistic Nigeria; Olusegun Noah Olawoyin.
    Abstract: This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion, whose works continue to have significant global relevance in today’s religiously diverse and conflict-ridden world. His writings have reset the parameters of religious pluralism. Up till now, Hick’s religious pluralism has been mainly seen in relation to the Western context where Christianity is the predominant religion. This volume includes both Western and non-Western engagement with his thinking in contexts such as Japan, China, Korea, Nigeria, and India, where Christianity is a minority religion with little political power. Its distinctiveness lies in widening the debate on religious pluralism by bringing Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis into a constructive cross-cultural and interreligious conversation with scholars of Hinduism, Jainism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions. In doing so, this collection examines how Hick’s philosophy of religious pluralism has been received, appropriated and appraised by these scholars. It has been appreciated and critiqued in equal measure, and continues to impact on current thinking on religious pluralism. This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate initiated by Hick. Sharada Sugirtharajah, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Theology, Philosophy and Religion, University of Birmingham.
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    ISBN: 9783031190285
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 236 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: 1800-1899 ; Great Britain—History. ; Religion—History. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Children's literature. ; Social history. ; Great Britain ; Literature, Modern ; Religion ; Children's literature, English ; Christian literature for children ; Evangelicalism in literature ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Christliche Kinderliteratur ; Frau ; Lesekultur ; Geistesgeschichte 1780-1900
    Abstract: 1. An Introduction to Evangelical Children’s Literature 1780-1900 -- 2. Defining Distinguishing and Disseminating Evangelical Children's Literature 1780-1900 -- 3. Revolution and Counterrevolutions: Evangelical Children's Literature Within the Socio-Political and Theological Climate of 1780 – 1900 -- 4. Soteriological Themes in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Children’s Literature 1780-1900 -- 5. Biblical Authority in Evangelical Children’s Literature 1780-1900 -- 6. Eschatological Themes in Evangelical Children’s Literature 1780-1900 -- 7. Epilogue: Contextualising Theology and Childhood Today: A Developing Field of Theological Scholarship.
    Abstract: This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children’s spiritual edification because of their personal faith. It explores three prevalent theological and controversial doctrines of the period, namely Soteriology, Biblical Authority and Eschatology, in relation to children’s specifically engendered Christian literature. It traces the ecclesiastical networks and affiliations across the theological spectrum of Evangelical authors, publishers, theologians, clergy and scholars of the period. An unprecedented deluge of Evangelical literature was produced for millions of Sunday School children in the nineteenth century, resulting in one of its most prolific and profitable forms of publishing. It expanded into a vast industry whose magnitude, scope and scale is discussed throughout this book. Rather than dismissing Evangelical children’s literature as simplistic, formulaic, moral didacticism, this book argues that, in attempting to convert the mass reading public, nineteenth-century authors and publishers developed a complex, highly competitive genre of children’s literature to promote their particular theologies, faith and churchmanships, and to ultimately save the nation. Irene Euphemia Smale is an Adviser on Children’s and Family Work for the Church of England and a leading expert in historical research for the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households. She is Chaplain to the Prebendal School in Chichester and Cathedral Deacon for the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Chichester. She is an alumna of the University of Chichester, UK, and was an Associate Lecturer in Practical Theology there for several years. Smale has previously published on children and religion in society from the ancient world to Jesus Christ.
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    ISBN: 9783031228872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 307 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contemporary African political economy
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Regionalism. ; Economic development. ; Africa ; Klimaschutz ; Klimaänderung ; Recht auf Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaft ; Transformation ; Politisches Ziel ; Politik ; Afrika
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Great Climate Transformation -- Chapter 3: Shift in Climate Discourse -- Chapter 4: The Evolving Geopolitics of Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Dynamic Differentiation -- Chapter 6: The Rise of Non-state Actors -- Chapter 7: Emergent Climate-related Policy Issues -- Chapter 8: Governing Complexity -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This book, written by promising African scholars, provides important policy lessons on securing a ‘just transition’ towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient society in Africa, and to the realisation of the African Union Agenda 2063” - Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, former Prime Minister of Niger, and former CEO, African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) “An important contribution to scholarship on International Relations and African Politics, this book offers a solid and well-grounded treatment of how Africa can best achieve sustainable economic development while also taking ambitious action on climate change” - Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Director of the Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Nigeria “By focusing on the need to balance climate and development goals in Africa, the authors fill a conspicuous knowledge gap on the reality that transition pathways for countries in the Global South will look very different to those in the Global North” - Dr Zainab Usman, Senior Fellow and Director, Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace “This book presents a bold new vision for African agency and leadership in a changing climate. It shows how a proactive strategy offers African countries the clearest path to development in a world shaped by climate change” - Prof Thomas Hale, Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford “The authors have done a timely and excellent job in articulating a ‘just transition’ from an African perspective” - Dr Bhim Adhikari (PhD), Senior Environmental Economist, Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) This book examines how Africa can secure a ‘just transition’ to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies. Kennedy Mbeva is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Reuben Makomere is a Research Associate at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Joanes Atela is the Convenor of the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Victoria Chengo is a Research Fellow at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Charles Tonui is the Policy Convenor at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN).
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    ISBN: 9783031274237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 435 p. 27 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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    Keywords: Religion—History. ; Islam—History. ; Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. ; Europe, Central—History. ; Africa—History. ; Imperialism. ; Religion ; Islam ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Europe, Central ; Africa
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa -- 1.1 Previous Scholarship and Sources -- 1.2 Historical Overview and Chapter Plan -- I. Race and Religion: Islam and the 'Arab Revolt' -- 2. Supplanting “Arabdom”: Race and Religion in the German Conquest -- 2.1 Islam and “Arabdom” in the Scramble for East Africa -- 2.2 The “Arab Revolt” in Imperial Reckoning -- 2.3 Insurgent Coalitions and “Arab” Identity -- 2.4 Islam and “Arab” Politics -- 3. Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language -- 3.1 Missionary Philology, Religion, and Romanisation -- 3.2 Kiswahili as Contested Language -- 3.3 The Christianisation of Kiswahil -- 3.4 Race and Language: Colonial Religion and the Disavowal of Hybridity -- II. Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German “Civilising Mission” -- 4. Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom -- 4.1 The Quick Rise and Fall of the German Anti-Slavery Movement -- 4.2 Islam and Christianity in the “Civilising” Regime -- 4.3 Slavery in Missionary Campaigns and Parliamentary Debates -- 4.4 Bureaucratised Manumission and Coercive Labour Regimes -- 5. Educating for Islam? The German Government Schools and “Christian Civilising” -- 5.1 A School for Muslims in Tanga -- .2 “Secular” Schools and Missionary Complaints -- 5.3 Repression and Simple Equivalences -- 5.4 Colonial Instrumentality: Islam, Made in the Image of “Civilising” -- III. Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law -- 6. Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law” -- 6.1 The Schutzgebietsgesetz of 1886 -- .2 Implementing a Racial Divide -- 6.3 Defining Religious Exemptions -- 6.4 Islam in the Colonial Practice of “Native Law” -- 7. Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship -- 7.1 German Orientalism and Islamic Jurisprudence -- 7.2 “Native Law” and Islamic “Influence” -- 7.3 Coloured Justice: The Irreality of Colonial Law -- IV. Political Islam: The Making of “Islamic Danger” -- 8. Phantoms of Muslim Sedition: From Maji Maji to the “Mecca Letters” -- 8.1 Islam in the Maji Maji War -- 8.2 The “Mecca Letter” of 1908 -- 8.3 The Liabilities of “Islamic Danger” -- 8.4 Sufi Piety and Government Interventions -- 9. Mainstreaming “Islamic Danger”: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance -- 9.1 German Scholars and the Geopolitics of Islam -- 9.2 Becker’s Islamwissenschaft and the Colonial Congress of 1910 -- 9.3 Colonial Press and Missionary Activism -- 9.4 Surveying Islam in East Africa -- 9.5 Political Islam: The Swan Song of Wartime Propaganda -- 10. Conclusion: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion -- 10.1 Pluralising Concepts: A Genealogy of Entangled Pretensions -- 10.2 Provincialising Europe: The Force of the Unrepresented -- 10.3 Rhizomatic Topography: The Sprawling Study of Islam.
    Abstract: In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion. Jörg Haustein is Associate Professor of World Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Previously, he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is a scholar of religion in Africa from the nineteenth century onward, specializing in Pentecostal Christianity, colonial Islam, and the intersection of religion and development.
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    ISBN: 9783031345227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 202 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Europe ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Economic development. ; Middle East ; Konfliktregelung ; Konflikt ; Auswirkung ; Wiederaufbau ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Eingefrorener Konflikt
    Abstract: Chapter One - Setting the Scene -- Chapter Two - Moscow’s response to post-war recovery in the aftermath of WWII -- Chapter Three - Russia’s unique approach as a (re)emerging donor -- Chapter Four - Intervention and reconstruction in the Caucasus: The cases of Chechnya, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia -- Chapter Five - Intervention and reconstruction in Syria -- Chapter Six - Ukraine: The context, the case of Crimea, and Moscow’s commitments to annexed territories -- Chapter Seven - Conclusion.
    Abstract: Sultan Barakat is Senior Professor in Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Honorary Professor at the University of York. His research focuses on the study of war-torn societies and their recovery. Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it between 2016 and 2022. Previously he served as Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s center in Doha. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit between 1993 and 2019. Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's commitment for the reconstruction of the war-devasted Eastern regions of Ukraine. It is surprising how little analytical and comparative literature exists about Russia’s experience in post-conflict recovery despite its involvement in a large number of conflict areas, both as an intervenor and as a donor. Against this backdrop, this book explores the role of Russia in the reconstruction of a range of countries and territories including Crimea, the North Caucasus and Chechnya as well as Syria. Based on the author’s three decades-long experience in research and engagement in post-conflict reconstruction, the book offers a valuable overview of the main lessons learned that will be of relevance to Ukraine. The case selection is not intended to offer an exhaustive account of all the recent or contemporary conflicts in which Russia has involved itself. Rather the cases have been selected to illustrate a range of interventions across different periods and geographical areas, highlighting the spectrum of Russian reconstruction policies and strategies.
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    ISBN: 9783031321641
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 248 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Part I: Sustainable Development, Digitalization and Governance -- Chapter 1: Sustainable Development, Digitalization, and the Green Economy Post Covid-19 in Africa -- Chapter 2: Beyond the Rhetoric: Digitalization Policy for Resilience in Africa Post Covid-19 -- Chapter 3: Politics versus Reality: The African State & Governance Post Covid-19 -- Part II: Natural Resources Governance and Socio-Economic Systems -- Chapter 4: Reimagining Natural Resources Governance in Africa – Is digitalization the game changer? -- Chapter 5: Assessing Extractive Natural Resources and Digitalization of Governance Initiatives in Africa: Rethinking Questions of Decline and Resilience -- Chapter 6: Sovereign Wealth Fund, Natural Resources Management, and the Green Economy: Digitalization, Policies, and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Africa -- Part III: The Green Economy, Digitalization and the Race to 2030 -- Chapter 7: Fostering Africa’s Digital Trade in Service and Green Economy Post Covid-19 -- Chapter 8: Green Economic Policies in Post Covid-19 Africa -- Chapter 9: Digitalization of What We Eat and How We Think in Africa Post Covid-19 -- Chapter 10: Sustainable Development, Digitalization, the Green Economy & the Race to 2030 in Post Covid-19 Africa.
    Abstract: “This book masterfully interrogates sustainable development, digitalization, and the green economy in Africa post COVID-19. Drawing on a plethora of perspectives, contributors examine dislocated economies, disrupted global supply chains, and distraught governance systems against the backdrop of transitioning to a green economy. Refreshingly, the book pivots on Africa’s aspirations as defined in AU’s Agenda 2063. A must read for all African political actors, development practitioners, scholars, and students of development.” —Dr. George O. Essegbey, President of African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building (AfricaLics), Nairobi, Kenya “This timely book provides a wide range of theoretical paradigms and perspectives to explore how Africa is leveraging digital technologies for sustainable development, green and inclusive economy post-COVID- 19. Meticulously researched, the book demonstrates that to win, Africa needs better regulation, governance, and a bridging of its digital divide.” —Dr. Isaac Odoom, Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Carleton University, Canada This book examines sustainable development in the broader framework of Africa post COVID-19. Specifically, the book studies digitalization and its impact on governance, natural resources, the green economy, agriculture and education. Contributing authors discuss and highlight pathways to meaningful sustainable development leveraging digital technologies. This analytical exercise will better inform economic and sociopolitical policies and institutions for African development by offering unique insights on digitalization, governance, the green economy, ‘servicification’, and natural resource regime in Africa post COVID-19. Korbla P. Puplampu teaches in the Department of Sociology at Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. Kobena T. Hanson is Principal Evaluation Capacity Development Officer at the African Development Bank Group in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Peter Arthur is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031490316
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 334 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; Great Britain ; Europe ; Philosophy ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume -- Chapter 3 David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion -- Chapter 4 Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society -- Chapter 5 Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature -- Chapter 6 David Hume’s ‘Natural History of Religion’ (1757) -- Chapter 7 William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress -- chapter 8 Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone -- Chapter 9 George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s ‘Science of Man’ -- Chapter 10 John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion -- Chapter 11 James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion. -- Chapter 12 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons -- 13. The Radicalism of James Hutton -- 14. Dugald Stewart, Religion and the End of the ‘Science of Human Nature’ -- 15 Conclusion.
    Abstract: “Robin Mills’ new book is a comprehensive and insightful account of the academic study of religion by philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment. It is especially valuable for its attention to figures who are not well known today, but who were influential in the eighteenth century." Dr James Foster, University of Sioux Falls Religion and Science are often seen as hostile concepts, but as the example of the Scottish Enlightenment shows, this is not necessarily the case. In Robin Mills’ new book he takes us beyond the headline of David Hume’s alleged atheism and explores the enlightened Scottish conversation about religion. In doing so he shows how the Scottish Enlightenment sought to apply an empirically based social theory to explain religion and its evolution, and the impact this had on the religious views of this significant group of thinkers. It sheds new light on an important moment in intellectual history. Dr Craig Smith, University of Glasgow Absorbing and thoughtful, Robin Mills’s book on the natural history of religion in the Scottish Enlightenment fills a conspicuous gap in the history of ideas. With remarkable erudition and no little finesse, he brings home the originality and distinctiveness of the Scottish endeavour to produce a naturalistic account of religion in the second half of the eighteenth century. What is particularly refreshing about Mills’s study, however, is his unfashionable insistence that this venture represented a rupture with previous approaches to the study of religion, inaugurating a recognisably modern outlook. Dr Niall O’Flaherty, King’s College London “There has been a lot of scholarly interest in the Scottish Enlightenment’s thinking on religion, but surprisingly little has been written on the links between this writing and the Scots’ famous ‘Science of Man’. In this excellent volume Robin Mills sets out to remedy this by offering a survey of the social scientific examination of religion by a range of key Scottish thinkers of the time. Clear, concise, and elegantly written, it is a welcome addition to the literature.” — Craig Smith, Professor of the History of Political Thought, The University of Glasgow, UK This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.1740 to c.1800 understood the origin and development of religion. Challenging scholarly disregard for the topic, it shows how most prominent thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment thought deeply about the relationship between religion, human nature and historical change. The Scots viewed this relationship as an important strand within the study of the 'science of human nature' and the 'history of man.' The fruits of this investigation were a sophisticated and innovative account of religious change that is characterized by a striking modernity and naturalism, even by the more devout theorists. The views of the literati surveyed here need to be incorporated into our larger histories of the 'science of religion' as much as they do into our understanding of the social theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. R. J. W. Mills is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews, UK. .
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    ISBN: 9783031094873
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 265 p. 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa—History. ; Africa—Politics and government. ; Ethnology—Africa. ; Culture. ; Economic history. ; Economic development. ; Geography. ; Africa ; Ethnology ; Africa
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Kenya in Historical Perspective; Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Maurice N. Amutabi, Toyin Falola -- Part I: The Long Precolonial Moment -- 2. The Bantu Origin, Migration, and Settlement in Kenya; Pius Kakai Wanyonyi -- 3. The Migration of Nilotes and their Settlement; Opolot Okia -- 4. Cushitic Migration and Settlement in Kenya; Maurice N. Amutabi -- 5. The Arrival of Arabs and Asians in Kenya; Julius Nabende -- 6. Kingdoms, Politics, and State Formation in Pre-colonial Kenya; Kennedy M. Moindi -- 7. Traditional Families and Social Networks in Kenya; Tom G. Ondicho -- 8. Pre-Colonial Economic Activities: Crafts, Industry, and Trade; Kennedy M. Moindi -- Part II: Colonial Encounters -- 9. The Colonial Political Economy in Kenya; Kennedy M. Moindi -- 10. The Kenyan Shilling: History of an East African Currency; Isaac Tarus -- 11. Colonial Agricultural Development; Martin S. Shanguhyia -- 12. The Impact of World Wars I and II on Kenya; Samuel Alfayo Nyanchoga -- 13. Politics and Social Life in White Settler Towns; Maurice N. Amutabi and Linnet Hamasi -- 14. The Environment Under Colonialism; Martin S. Shanguhyia -- 15. The Mass Media and Cultural Change; Kibiwott Kurgat and Caren Jerop -- 16. The Influence of Pioneer Schools and Makerere University on the Kenya’s Post-Colonial Development; Peter Otiato Ojiambo and Margaret W. Njeru -- 17. African Women in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1963; Julius Simiyu Nabende and Martha Wangari Musalia -- 18. The Trade Union Movement in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya; Magdalene Ndeto Bore -- 19. The Rise of Anti-Colonial Nationalism; Robert M. Maxon -- 20. Lancaster House Independence Constitutional Negotiations, 1960-1963; Robert M. Maxon -- 21. Political Consolidation and the Rise of Single-Party Authoritarianism; Wanjala S. Nasong’o.
    Abstract: This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence. The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment, detailing the nature of precolonial Kenyan societies and their economics, politics, gender dynamics, and social organization. Part II examines Kenyan societies’ encounters with British colonialism, critically outlining the impact and implications of these encounters. The volume concludes with an examination of political consolidation after the country’s attainment of political independence and the subsequent foundations for political authoritarianism. Wanjala S. Nasong’o is Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, USA. Maurice N. Amutabi is Professor and Director of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at the Technical University of Kenya. Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa. .
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    ISBN: 9783031205330
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 273 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—History—1492-. ; Judaism—History. ; Religion—History. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World politics. ; Judaism ; Religion ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1 -- Jewry and Ioannis Metaxas -- Chapter 2 -- Jewish communities and Antisemitism in Greece: Nineteenth-century conflict and the rise of political antisemitism -- Chapter 3 -- Twentieth-century hostility and obligatory integration: Marginalization and distrust of the “inassimilables” -- Chapter 4 -- The ideological leanings of the Metaxist regime and Greek Jewry -- Chapter 5 -- Metaxist domestic policies and societal perceptions -- Chapter 6 -- The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jewry: Domestic suspicion and international support -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War. Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology. However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the interwar period. Katerina Lagos is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in the USA, and the Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center and Hellenic Studies Program. Katerina teaches modern European and Greek history, having previously studied at the University of Washington, New York University, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She has published on interwar Greece, minorities, and has co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031230776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 277 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Business ethics.
    Abstract: Part 1 Introduction: A framework for analyzing moral situations -- Ethics, naive vs. nuanced -- The is/ought distinction -- Relativism -- Deontological ethics: duty and law -- Teleology: judging cases by consequences -- Insights from medical ethics -- Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics -- Practical tips for instituting ethics in your institution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 2 From Theory to Action -- Ethics Vs Law -- Demanding the “Right” Answer -- The informed argument -- Applying Moral Theories -- Coallating our Observations.-Part 3 Boards and Oversight -- Covid-19 vaccine policy in a medium-sized NFP -- The helpful board member -- When democracy and mission collide -- The employee with family on the board -- Social -- Enterprise vs. Social Service -- The board member’s pet project -- Regime change and the perils of being a hero -- The possessive major gifts officer -- When personal problems threaten the mission -- Part 4 Moral Dilemmas in Executive Leadership.-Meltdown in Monrovia -- Cutting vital services -- Changing staff’s job descriptions -- Child sponsorship in the after school program -- Accepting crypto donations -- The White Savior in the Dark Continent -- Internship or exploitation? -- Graft at the top -- Part 5 Money, Finance and Fundraising -- Misallocation or resources or unreasonable donor? -- Lean or starving? On the tyranny of low administrative cost rates.-That time when your NFP became his PR crisis response plan -- A successful event -- Missing money at the group home -- Bribery or just doing business? -- Coalition building or finder’s fee? -- Inheriting an albatross -- The school for civil war orphans -- The best president we could ever dream of -- The post-mortem “take” -- Missing money? -- “Give me a child you don’t care about” -- Part 6 Inter-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Ethics -- Short-Termer headaches -- “Hire a young woman” -- In our country they would be married -- What counts as diversity numbers? -- Vaccine resistance in vulnerable communities -- The at-least-somewhat racist missionary -- Later that evening, in the same town -- Part 7 Ethics in Program Operations -- The protective guardian -- Dealing with noncompliance in Syracuse -- Putting nationals in harm’s way -- Another feeding program begins -- What could go wrong? -- Land title woes in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Microfinance, interest and Islam -- Indian nationalism and the foreign NGO -- Lying to the Police -- Closing the orphanage -- Professorial Malfeasance Abroad?Part 8 Digital, Online and Cyber Ethics -- Archiving a Nation’s Text Messages -- Where there are no government-issued ID’s -- Political Disinformation, Community Outreach and Vaccine Drives -- Election Season and Viral Online Videos -- Revealing the Location of Vulnerable Women -- Child Porn, Revenge Porn and Non-Fungible Tokens -- Appendix I: Discussion-Leader Tips -- Appendix II: Structuring an Ethics Discussion -- Appendix III Evaluating Ethics Argumentation -- Appendix IV: Examples of good and bad case analyses -- Appendix IV: Discussion Guides to each Case.
    Abstract: This textbook explores ethical issues for not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations, providing discussion-oriented cases for NFP and NGP practitioners. The book begins with an introduction to professional ethics as practiced in industry, not-for-profits and NGO’s. Attention is paid both to classical ethical theories and contemporary variants. Then, combining that theory with an introduction to the morally unique facets of the NFP and NGO landscape, it offers a series of cases which pertain to the underlying theoretical substrate. The reader will find a blend of theory and application within the text as well as guided assignment prompts. Themes covered include board relationships, staff management, work with vulnerable populations, financial transparency, Human Resources ethics and ethical dilemmas unique to international operations. Craig Hanson, Ph.D. currently serves as Associate Professor and Director of the International Development program at Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA. He is an applied scholar and researcher with expertise at the intersection of philosophical ideas and the economy of human behavior. Using this expertise, he has engaged in a career of articulating new solutions to old problems in international development. He has lent his expertise to a large number of projects throughout the world – from Latin America to Southeast Asia – ranging from small faith-based endeavors to large public-private initiatives. A guiding principle of these activities has been the conviction that development requires more than just one focal point, be it religious, governmental, or in the private sector. Only through the effective intersection of these often competing sets of interests can forward progress be made in those places that need it most. He has lectured at institutions across the United States as well as Europe and Africa. He speaks, lectures, and writes in French and English and has conversational competence in a variety of other languages from Spanish to tribal languages of West Africa. He is currently engaged in a variety of projects related to the intersection of the public sector and private interests as well as the ever changing landscape of American Philanthropy.
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    ISBN: 9783030941703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 371 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion—Philosophy. ; Indigenous peoples—Religion. ; Cognitive science. ; Religion ; Indigenous peoples
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective -- Chapter Three: Wilkinson’s “Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion” -- Chapter Four: Edward Tylor’s Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath -- Chapter Five: Animisms: Practical Indigenous Philosophies -- Chapter Six: New Animism as Cultural Critique? -- Chapter Seven: Animism and Naturalism: Practice and Theory -- Chapter Eight: Sensible Animism -- Chapter Nine: Animism: Its Scope and Limits -- Chapter Ten: Scientific Animism -- Chapter Eleven: Childhood Animism and Innate Belief -- Chapter Twelve: An Epistemic Defense of Animism -- Chapter Thirteen: Robotic Animism: The Ethics of Attributing Minds and Personality to Robots with Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter Fourteen: Towards a Cosmopolitan Animism.
    Abstract: Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject having to change their lecture notes. It is the aim of this volume to rectify that failure and to present animism as a live option among the plethora of religious worldviews. The volume addresses four major questions: 1. What is this thing called "animism"? 2. Are there any arguments for or against animist belief and practice? 3. What is the relationship between animism, naturalism, and the sciences? And 4. Should we take animism seriously? Animism and Philosophy of Religion is intended to be the first authoritative scholarly volume on the issue of animism and its place in the philosophy of religion. Ambitiously, it aims to act as the cornerstone volume for future work on the subject and as a key text for courses engaging with the subject. Tiddy Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Massey University. He is the author of The Methods of Science and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield) and has published various articles in journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophia.
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    ISBN: 9783031019494
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(267 illus., 215 illus. in color. eReference.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Human ecology—Study and teaching. ; Environmental sciences—Social aspects. ; Environment. ; Economic development. ; Management. ; Human ecology ; Environmental sciences
    Abstract: Defining Sustainability -- Organization of the Knowledge of Sustainability -- Defining Environmental Sustainability and Major Earth Cycles -- Global Energy Use -- Oil and Natural Gas and Sustainability -- Coal and Sustainability -- Nuclear Power and Sustainability -- Solar Energy -- Wind Energy -- Hydroelectric Power and Sustainability -- Geothermal Energy.
    Abstract: The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three E’s of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south.
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    ISBN: 9783031233050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 293 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: EADI Global Development Series
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Autoritarismus ; Unterdrückung ; Staat ; Bürger ; Personenvereinigung ; Fallstudie ; Erde
    Abstract: Part I: Conceptualizing civil society and civic space -- 1. Introduction: Civil society responses to changing civic spaces -- 2. Interrogating civic space: Applying a civic-driven change perspective -- 3. Repertoires of the possible: Citizen action in challenging settings -- Part II: Contextual dynamics of civic space -- 4. Philanthropy during Covid-19 emergency: Towards a postcolonial perspective? -- 5. Sandwiched? Sri Lankan civic space amidst a repressive regime and a pandemic -- 6. Negotiating CSO-legitimacy in Tanzanian civic space -- 7. Spaces for peace in Mitrovica, Kosovo: Women’s voices for change -- 8. The Algerian Hirak: Civil society and the role of artists in a civic space under pressure -- 9. Constrained humanitarian space in Rohingya response: Views from Bangladeshi NGOs -- Part III: Global connections and local civic space -- 10. Advocacy in constrained settings. Rethinking contextuality -- 11. The changing Amazonian civic space: Where soy meets resistance -- 12. Local civil society initiatives for peacebuilding in North-East Congo -- 13. Conclusions: Spaces of hope and despair?.
    Abstract: This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action. Kees Biekart is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University (The Netherlands). He focuses on social movements, NGOs, civil society, civic-driven change, and participatory action research. Tiina Kontinen is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), where she leads a research group on Citizenship and Civil Society in Development. She has published on civil society, NGOs, and North-South partnership and has led various projects with global research teams. Marianne Millstein is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway). She has published on urban politics, governance and planning, civil society, and citizenship. .
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    ISBN: 9783031285202
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 498 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Asia—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Economic development. ; Regionalism. ; Asia
    Abstract: Chapter 1: New Directions in Kashmir Studies: Unsettling State Power, Military Violence, and Border Regimes Across Kashmir -- Part I: The Princely State and the End of Empire -- Chapter 2: Locating Jammu and Kashmir -- Chapter 3: Locating Azad Kashmir -- Chapter 4: Locating Gilgit-Baltistan -- Part II: Unequal Sovereignties and Contestations for Power Across Kashmir -- Chapter 5: Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan: Politics of Power Sharing and Status Quo -- Chapter 6: Power, Parties and Politics in the Liminal Spaces of Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 7: Peoples’ Struggle for Participatory Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 8: “Democracy”: Making Sense of Grassroots Politics in Kashmir -- Chapter 9: From Incorporation to Elimination: Interlocution as an Apparatus of Occupation in Kashmir -- Part III: Kashmir in Transnational Context and International Law from Below -- Chapter 10: International Law and the Kashmir Dispute: A Critical Reflection -- Chapter 11: Critical Interventions: Human Rights and International Justice in Kashmir -- Chapter 12: Creating Archives of Memory: The Landscapes of Human Rights Documentation in Kashmir -- Chapter 13: Grieving Kashmir: Counter-memory, Accountability and A People’s Tribunal -- Chapter 14: British Kashmiri Workers: Solidarity Networks and Dreams for “Home” and Freedom -- Part IV: Islam, Embodiment, and the Politics of the Human -- Chapter 15: Looking Beyond “Human”: Animal and the Kashmiri Resistance Movement -- Chapter 16: The Logics of Counterinsurgency Education and Resistance in Thirdspace -- Chapter 17: On Kashmiri Men: Disappearance, Nonbeing, Islam -- Chapter 18: Intrusion into the Intimate: Home and the Gendered Anatomy of Crackdowns in Kashmir -- Chapter 19: “Men Had Turned Brutes”: Refugees, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Processes in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, 1947-1952 -- Part V: Belonging, Borders, and Contested Sovereignties -- Chapter 20: Humanitarian Internationalism and Funding Relief for Refugees from Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan, 1947-1951 -- Chapter 21: Sectarianism or Separatism: Iran, Pakistan and the Dynamics of Shia Politics in Kashmir -- Chapter 22: The Blank Space between Nationalisms: Locating the Kashmiri Pandits in Liberal and Hindu Nationalist Politics in Relation to Kashmir and India -- Chapter 23: Making State Space: The Symbolic Reorganization of Borders in the Kashmir Borderland -- Chapter 24: Peace for Kashmir? The (Non-) Politics of “Civilian Peacebuilding” across the Line of Control -- Chapter 25: Ecumenical Voices: Deterritorializing Kashmir -- Part VI: Technology, Power, and Transformative Landscapes -- Chapter 26: Women, Roads and Development: Infrastructures of State-Making in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 27: The Economic Mal-Development of Jammu and Kashmir: Uncovering the Myth of Lagging Behind -- Chapter 28: An Ecopoetics of Refusal: Crisis Epistemologies and Environmental Violence in Pakistan-administered Kashmir -- Chapter 29: Chinese Infrastructure and the Pakistani Military State in Gilgit Baltistan. .
    Abstract: The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexities of regional state formations, national power assertions and geopolitical competitions. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook examine diverse people’s struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability in relation to the colonial-era state consolidations, postcolonial military occupations, interstate wars, intrastate armed conflicts and cold war and post-cold war politics that have shaped and transformed social and political identities in the region. Contributors chart out varied and bold new directions by attending to local constellations of situated knowledges and practices through which people living in different parts of the disputed region make sense of the conditions and contingencies of their political lives. The handbook further initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship and undermined the pursuit of shared intellectual and political projects across physical and epistemological boundaries. Haley Duschinski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University, USA. Mona Bhan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asia at Syracuse University, USA. Cabeiri deBergh Robinson is Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031415357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 81 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Religion ; Philosophy, Medieval.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Anselm in Context: Neoplatonism -- 3. Anselm’s Ontological Argument -- 4. Rebuttal of Rebuttals -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Anselm’s Ontological Argument (Proslogion 2-3) -- Appendix 2. The Life of St. Anselm.
    Abstract: Anselm's ontological argument is one of the most fascinating, most controversial, and most misunderstood arguments in the entire history of Western thought. By centring the argument firmly in the Neoplatonic tradition within which Anselm was writing, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument sheds fresh light and clarity on this enigmatic piece of philosophy. It argues that, far from resting upon a fallacy or illegitimately attempting to define God into existence, Anselm's argument is a powerful and plausible philosophical proof, and deserves to be taken seriously as such. Written to be understandable for specialists and non-specialists alike, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument is ideal for scholars and researchers in philosophy of religion and philosophy in the Middle Ages (especially Neoplatonism) as well as for medievalists in general. Guy Jackson was born and raised in Norfolk, England. He studied Classics at Oxford and Theology at Cambridge. Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument is his second book.
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    ISBN: 9783031376528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 206 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Translation History
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    Keywords: Translating and interpreting. ; Japan ; International relations ; Intercultural communication. ; Religion
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction (Miki Sato and Mino Saito) -- Chapter 2: The Role of Jesuit Missionary João Rodrigues Tçuzu (1561?-1634?): Interpreter, Trade Liaison, and Linguist in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries (Etsuko Nanjo) -- Chapter 3: Oranda-tsūji (Japanese-Dutch Interpreters) in the 18th Century: The Case of YOSHIO Kōzaemon (Kōgyū) (Miyuki Tanaka) -- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Role of Nagasaki Tō-tsūji (Japanese-Chinese Interpreters) in the History of Interpreting Between Japan and China (Yukari Hiratsuka) -- Chapter 5: Japanese-Korean tsūji and AMENOMORI Hōshū in the 18th Century (Hiroko Furukawa) -- Chapter 6: Ryukyuan-Chinese tsūji as an Intermediary in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Mino Saito) -- Chapter 7: The Arrival of Western Ships and English Language Interpreters in Ryukyu During the 19th Century: The Case of ITARASHIKI Chōchū (Mutsuko Tsuboi) -- Chapter 8: Ezo-tsūji (Japanese-Ainu Interpreters in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century: The Case of UEHARA Kumajirō (Miki Sato) -- Chapter 9: The Marginality of Otokichi, a Castaway Turned Interpreter: Into the Unknown Interpreter History in Early-Modern Japan (Mikako Naganuma).
    Abstract: This book introduces English-speaking audiences to tsūji, who were interpreters in different contexts in Japan and then the Ryukyu Kingdom from the late 16th to the mid-19th century. It comprises seven historical case studies on tsūji in which contributors adopt a context-oriented approach. They aim to explore the function of these interpreters in communication with other cultures in different languages, including Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Ryukyuan, English, Russian and Ainu. Each chapter elucidates the tsūji and the surrounding social, political and economic conditions. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, but also readers interested in the early modern history of interpreting and cultural exchange. It will similarly appeal to those interested in the Japanese language, but with limited access to books written in Japanese. Mino Saito is Associate Professor at Juntendo University, Japan. Miki Sato is Professor at Sapporo University, Japan.
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    ISBN: 9783031227820
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 331 p. 47 illus., 26 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Political Campaigning and Communication
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    Keywords: Comparative government. ; Communication in politics. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction to Visual Politics in the Global South -- Part One- Campaigns, governance, and visual politics -- Chapter 2- Playing with accents in the Khede Kasra campaign in Lebanon: Multimodality in visual politics -- Chapter 3- Elections and social media cultures: politics, women and visuals in West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4- Visualising Hegemony and Resistance: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of “Covid-19 Hero” on Chinese Social Media -- Chapter 5- The visual construction of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s populist communication on Facebook -- Chapter 6- Los Pinos, a Presidential Residence: Farándula politics and populism 2.0 in Mexican visual culture -- Chapter 7- Representing Change and Continuity. A Visual Analysis of Television Political Advertising for the 2020 Constitutional Plebiscite in Chile -- Chapter 8- Mapping the formats and significance of signs and meaning in political campaigns in Ghanaian elections -- Part Two- Activism, citizenship and citizen-led visual communication -- Chapter 9- The “Capuchas” Revolution: a performative icon of the Chilean Feminist Movement -- Chapter 10- Visualizing the transversal, parochial, and naïve – the artist as citizen’s trope -- Chapter 11- The visual politics of extractivism -- Chapter 12- ‘Abaixando a Máquina 2’/ Lowering the Camera 2: the power of professional photojournalism in changing the course of the 2013 mass protests in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 13- Protest Images of the 2014 Gaza war in the South Africa media -- Chapter 14- The appropriation of visual campaigns by the Laklãnõ people (Brazil). .
    Abstract: This collection is an essential contribution to the growing field of visual political communication, encouraging scholarly dialogue and recognition for a variety of ‘global-south approaches’ to visual politics. The editors bring together a diverse set of essays on both official political campaigning and grassroots protest politics, with each study examining a specific kind of visuality or visibility across varied cultural contexts. Katy Parry, Associate Professor in Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK Visuals take centre stage in this thorough, timely and telling volume that captures all we need to know about how images are shaping the development of politics in the Global South. Long overdue, the editors ought to be congratulated for their outstanding vision in choosing non-Western societies as a focus of their study on political phenomena in the era of visual imagery. Bruce Mutsvairo, Professor and Chair, Media, Politics and the Global South, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. This is an urgently needed book that pushes for the de-Westernisation and decolonisation of the study of visual politics. What makes the collection especially compelling is how it, well, makes visible the rich diversity of visual politics research in the global South. Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, Professor of Communication, De La Salle University, Philippines It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South. However, little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this book examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns) and everyday politics (e.g grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology). Anastasia Veneti is Principal Academic at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK. Maria Rovisco is Associate Professor in Sociology at the School at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031422720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 493 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Religion ; Philosophy ; Hermeneutics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Nietzsche and the History of Atheism -- 3. Nietzsche and the Quest for the Historical Jesus -- 4. Nietzsche, David Friedrich Strauß, and the post-Straussian Tradition -- 5. Nietzsche’s Methods and Portrait of Christ -- 6. Nietzsche and St Paul -- 7. Nietzsche on Philology -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This study proposes to examine the tension in Nietzsche’s works between two competing discourses, i.e., the discourse of theology and the discourse of philology. It argues that, in order to understand Nietzsche’s complicated standpoint and the aim of his Kulturkritik, we have to appreciate how he operates with two different discourses, one indexed to belief, faith, liturgy (i.e., the discourse of theology) and another indexed to analytical reason, sceptical investigation, and logical argumentation, as well as historical context and linguistic precision (i.e., the discourse of philology). Its core thesis is that, in the end, Nietzsche can no longer believe, because he thinks he has uncovered a fraudulent production of meaning in the texts, in a way that is comparable with his insight into the production of morality in On the Genealogy of Morals (1887). Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow.
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    ISBN: 9783031424823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 261 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Political science. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Empire 2.0: critical perspectives on Brexit -- Chapter 2: The Commonwealth and neo-colonial discourse in Africa-UK ties -- Chapter 3: British aid and economic prerogatives in Africa: the role of DFID -- Chapter 4: ‘Global Britain’ and Africa-UK trade relations -- Chapter 5: UK corporations and a ‘new scramble’ for Africa after Brexit: oil, minerals and land -- Chapter 6: The CDC group and UK private finance in Africa -- Chapter 7: State security and the arms industry in Africa-UK relations.-Chapter 8: Brexit and the future of Africa-UK relations.
    Abstract: "Through the lens of neo-colonialism and global coloniality, the text revitalises the conventional debates on the logic of the UK’s interests in Africa, amidst the reality of Brexit and the resurgence of the ‘new scramble’ for Africa. Mark Langan interrogates the ‘celebrated’ conversations around Global Britain and British exceptionalism." - Dr Adeoye O. Akinola, University of Johannesburg "With an exceptionally in-depth examination of key geopolitical issues such as trade, aid, development finance and security, Langan uncovers how the same old colonial interventions and political rhetoric with racist undertones are being refashioned to perpetuate an emergent Empire 2.0." - Dr Nathan Andrews, McMaster University "Mark Langan offers a powerful critique… [the text] sheds light on the neo-colonial nature of these [Africa-UK] relations, but also highlights the ability of Africans to resist the ‘Global Britain’ project." - Professor Mehdi Boussebaa, University of Glasgow This book examines the implications of Brexit for Africa-UK relations amid a ‘new scramble’ for the continent. Engaging Nkrumah on neo-colonialism and recent scholarship on global coloniality, Langan here underscores concerns that Brexit was fuelled by an imperial romanticism that now gives rise to a Global Britain project involving the perpetration of ‘Empire 2.0’ in Africa. In this context, he examines UK elites’ pursuit of Brexit trade deals and the ‘development’ consequences of premature market opening. Throughout its chapters, this work assesses strategic usages of UK aid monies in terms of economic leverage and the externalisation of migration and highlights the impact of UK development finance and corporate activities for the health and wellbeing of workers and host communities. Significantly, Langan explores the UK’s pursuit of security interests and human rights criticisms and concludes by highlighting African agency to resist the Global Britain project amid the fragility of the British state itself. Mark Langan is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King's College London, UK. He is also the author of Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of 'Development' in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783031276774
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 259 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Religion—History. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Theology. ; Religion and sociology. ; World politics. ; Religion and politics. ; Religion ; Culture
    Abstract: 1. Crisis and Reorientation – Introduction -- 2. Karl Barth’s Performative Theology: Context and Rhetorics in Der Römerbrief 1922 -- 3. “As a tangent touching a circle”: Karl Barth and dialectical theologians rethinking time after 1918 -- 4. Prophecy as a political–theological category in Barth’s Römerbrief? -- 5. From Answers to Questions: Barth and Thurneysen on Dostoyevsky -- 6. The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillich’s Discussion of the Paradox in 1923 -- 7. An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief between neo-Kantian and hermeneutic paradigms of orientation -- 8. Revisiting the crisis theology of Karl Barth in light of Søren Kierkegaard in a new time of crisis -- 9. The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical Aspects of Der Römerbrief -- 10. A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version -- 11. “Theology After Gulag and Beyond”: How Can Karl Barth’s Theology Contribute to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A post-Soviet Case.
    Abstract: This book uses Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that pertained to the human condition as such. While much research has been conducted on Der Römerbrief, most of it has focused on the book’s explicit theology. The aim of the present volume is to mark the centenary of this seminal book with a broader investigation into the movements of thought within Der Römerbrief and its reception and impact within its cultural and intellectual context. This broader approach by a range of Northern European researchers brings attention to interconnections between cultural and theological movements in times of crisis. Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barth’s Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015). Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology (2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783031209284
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 315 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Gender, Development and Social Change
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; World politics. ; Ecology . ; Animal behavior.
    Abstract: 1. Sketching out the contours -- 2. Confronting the coloniality of climate: Weaving reflections on extractivism through feminist political ecology -- 3. Extracting Us: Co-curating creative responses to extractivism through a feminist political ecology praxis -- 4. Ouch! Eew! Blech! A trialogue on porous technologies, places and embodiments -- 5. Aging and feminist political ecology -- 6. More-than-human co-becomings: The interdependencies of water, embodied subjectivities and ethics -- 7. Meanings and practices of care in feminist political ecology: An intergenerational conversation with Khayaat Fakier and Wendy Harcourt -- 8. Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth? -- 9. Perspectives on decoloniality for feminist political ecology -- 10. Emotions and conflict: Debating population in and beyond feminist political ecology -- 11. La Mercadita 2050: Telling tomorrows of a market after oil -- 12. The territory of our own body: A conversation on urban environments in the Andes. .
    Abstract: This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power. Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, The Netherlands and was Coordinator of the WEGO Innovative Training Network (2018-2022). Ana Agostino is Lecturer at the Faculty of Culture at the University CLAEH, Uruguay, and at FLACSO. Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK. Marlene Gómez is PhD candidate of the WEGO Innovative Training Network at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Panagiota Kotsila is ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Coordinator of the Political Ecology research line at the Barcelona lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ). .
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    ISBN: 9783031175978
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 273 p. 44 illus., 17 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Great Britain—History. ; Civilization—History. ; Religion—History. ; Christianity. ; Civilization ; Religion ; Great Britain
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Contentious debate -- Chapter 3: Landscape of the Church of England -- Chapter 4: Changing community and belonging -- Chapter 5: Religiosity and redundant churches -- Chapter 6: Heritage: an uneasy alliance -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “Church closures are a feature of modern times, occurring on an unprecedented scale, a momentous historical change. Yet few people have analysed this phenomenon. Denise Bonnette’s superb book is the exception: a most welcome and fascinating discussion of the reasons and processes of such closures, and what they mean to us today.” —K. D. M. Snell, University of Leicester, UK “This is a compelling book, post-Covid. It rediscovers the historic reasons for the current perilous state of the Church of England. From 1945, cultural changes were a catalyst for shrinking congregations, and crumbling buildings. The Anglican Church wanted to ‘care for all souls’ but this was an unviable spiritual mission, putting at risk a rich architectural history.” —Elizabeth Hurren, Chair in Modern History, University of Leicester, UK This book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the surface far-reaching social and cultural tensions that remain unresolved to this day, and which the pandemic closure of buildings has reignited. Denise Bonnette is an independent scholar who received her PhD from the University of Leicester, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031476976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 220 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Europe ; History, Modern. ; Religion ; Islam
    Abstract: Chapter One: Encountering Hizb ut-Tahrir -- Chapter Two: The Birth of Hizb ut-Tahrir in East Jerusalem -- Chapter Three: Launching the UK Branch -- Chapter Four: Mobilizing the UK Branch (1987-1996): Membership, Structure and Leadership -- Chapter Five: The Golden Period (1990-1996): The Rise to National Prominence -- Chapter Six: The Start of the Fall (1996-1997): Divisions -- Chapter Seven: Restructuring the UK branch (1997-2005) I: The Slow Decline -- Chapter Eight: Restructuring the UK branch (2005-2023) II: Disappearing from the Scene -- Chapter Nine: Decline of Ideology: The Individual and the Group -- Chapter Ten: Conclusion: The End of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK?.
    Abstract: In this book, Farhaan Wali offers an historical investigation of how the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir rose and fell in Britain. Although the book focuses on the UK, it is contextualized in the globalised nature of the group. In other words, Hizb ut-Tahrir was exported from the Muslim world to the UK, where it rapidly grew amongst disaffected young Muslims. The book draws on narratives from the founding figures of the UK branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, generating insight into how Hizb ut-Tahrir emerged, developed, and declined in the UK. Farhaan Wali is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of Radicalism Unveiled (2016), Segregated Britain (2020), and Leaving Islamism (2022). In addition to his academic expertise, he has been involved in a number of cross-cultural research projects in the private sector related to counter-terrorism and British Muslims. Farhaan Wali holds a doctorate in political science from Royal Holloway (University of London).
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    ISBN: 9783031375491
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 368 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
    Series Statement: Politics, economics, and inclusive development
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Peace. ; Economic development. ; Binnenwanderung ; Displaced Person ; Zuwanderer ; Ursache ; Motivation ; Migrationspolitik ; Governance
    Abstract: Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Understanding Internal Migration -- Part I Stakeholders: The State, Migrants, and Hosts. Chapter 3. The Primacy of the State -- Chapter 4. The Many Levels of the State -- Chapter 5. Sympathy for the State: Coping with Internal Migration -- Chapter 6. Migrants in Train: State-Initiated and Managed Migrations -- Chapter 7. Unsponsored Migrants: The Enterprising -- Chapter 8. Unsponsored Migrants: The Expelled -- Chapter 9. Room to Let? Host Community Perspectives.-Part II. What Can Go Wrong. Chapter 10. Migratory Deprivations -- Chapter 11.Migratory Conflicts: Sons of the Soil.-Chapter 12. State Failures -- Part III. What to Do About It. Chapter 13. State Accountability: Theory, Evasion, and Potential Remedies -- Chapter 14. State Responses and Best Practices -- Chapter 15. Societal Responses -- Chapter 16. The International Community -- Chapter 17. Lessons in Governing Internal Migration.
    Abstract: Moving within Borders offers an invaluable contribution. William Ascher and Shane Barter offer an absorbing, cogent, and authoritative account of internal migration across the world today. They offer a set of riveting case studies as well as a compelling theoretical framework for understanding them. They conclude with a set of policy remedies that can enable governments to deal with their internal migrations in ways that lessen the human costs. This book is must-reading for those interested in the plight of human beings who leave their homes in search of a better life. —Michael Lofchie, Professor of Political Science, UCLA If you had no idea that internal migrants outnumber their international counterparts by three to one, then this book is definitely for you. Drawing on an extensive literature and case studies from across the developing world, Ascher and Barter have written the most comprehensive account on internal migration yet. Their policy recommendations that focus on the role states can play complement an unassailably balanced, nuanced analysis that will be the go-to source on the subject for years to come. —Jamie S. Davidson, National University of Singapore This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration. The book is distinctive in examining the full range of modes and motives of internal migration: state-sponsored or unsponsored, coerced or voluntary, land-seeking or market-seeking, urban or rural, and so on. While approaching internal migration holistically, it also emphasizes how it is distinct from international migration, especially the central role of the state, whose internal divisions and defensive reactions often play decisive roles in governing migration. William Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College. His research focuses on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in all developing areas. Shane Joshua Barter is Professor of Comparative Politics at Soka University of America. His research interests focus on separatist conflicts in Southeast Asia, civilian responses to war, conflict IDPs, and territorial autonomy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031387159
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 276 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The political economy of chinese FDI and spillover effects in Africa
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; Economic development. ; Finance. ; Direktinvestition ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Außenhandel ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Technologietransfer ; China ; Africa ; Foreign direct investment ; Development ; Spillover effects ; Linkages formation ; Afrika ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2. Spillovers and the effects of FDI: The overview -- Chapter 3. China–Africa spillovers: The literature review -- Chapter 4. Eurocentrism, FDI and spillovers: Conceptual and methodological challenges -- Chapter 5. Institutional and cultural obstacles of Chinese spillover effects in Angola -- Chapter 6. The institutional and political dimensions of FDI spillovers in Zambia -- Chapter 7. Chinese investors in Zambia and Angola: Motives, Profile, Strategies -- Chapter 8. Chinese manufacturing companies in Zambia: Linkages vs. enclaves -- Chapter 9. Image of Chinese Investments and long-term projects in African and Chinese Media.
    Abstract: This is a timely addition to the literature on China’s economic relations with African countries, as hopes have run high that Chinese investments will kick-start Africa’s industrialisation. The volume shows that foreign capital might be a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the structural transformation of African economies, making it an insightful read – sadly the last one co-edited by Ian Taylor. —Tim Zajontz, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Freiburg This is a much-needed book in the China-Africa space and the larger field of African Political Economy. The book comprehensively contextualises and analyses Chinese FDI in Africa within the context of the continent’s pursuit of structural economic transformation. Underpinned by robust research and insightful case studies that provide valuable perspectives, it is a must-read for scholars, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. —Mandira Bagwandeen, University of Cape Town What are the impacts of Chinese investment in Africa? Is it transforming economic development on the continent? This book is different from many other studies of this issue, as it unpacks the ‘black box’ of technological and learning spillover effects from Chinese firms to others. Rather than using econometric tools, which has now become a standard approach and come with their own set of challenges, the authors investigate the interactions between Chinese investors and African firms in terms of the transfer of technology and learning and explain why such interactions are rare. Only by understanding the reasons behind this rarity can approaches be developed to promote spillovers. Dominik Kopiński is Associate Professor in the Institute of Economics at the University of Wroclaw, Head of the International Economic Relations Department, and Cofounder of the Polish Centre for African Studies. Pádraig Carmody lectures in Development Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Ian Taylor was Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy at the University of St Andrews and also Chair Professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. .
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    ISBN: 9783031344299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 352 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mass conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800-1100
    Keywords: Europe ; Religion ; Asia ; Civilization ; Africa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Christentum ; Islam ; Konversion ; Geschichte 800-1100
    Abstract: 1. Introduction - Tsvetelin Stepanov and Osman Karatay -- 2. Approaching Salvation: Early Process of Christianisation in Viking-Age Denmark and Sweden - Władysław Duczko -- 3. The Christianisations in Scandinavia - Henrik Janson -- 4. Bruno of Querfurt and the Practice of Mission - Ian Wood -- 5. Who Converted the Poles? - Przemysław Urbańczyk - 6. Great Moravia: The Uneasy Beginnings of Slavic Christendom - Alexandar Nikolov -- 7. The Christianisation of the Kingdom of Hungary - Nora Berend -- 8. Choice of Faith in Early Medieval Eastern Europe: Individual and Mass Conversion - Vladimir Petrukhin - 9. The Times of St. Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (852-889; † 907): Between the Real Historical Facts of the Ninth Century and the 'Facts' of Selective Memory - Tsvetelin Stepanov -- 10. The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars to Islam - István Zimonyi -- 11. Islamization of the Turks: A Process of Mental Change - Osman Karatay -- 12. Establishment of Islam in Central Asia: Geo-Cultural Patterns and Geographical Realities - Erkan Göksu -- 13. Islam in India: Acceleration under the Ghaznavids (10th–11th Centuries) - M. Hanefi Palabıyık -- 14. Postscript: Conversion as History - Vladimir Gradev. .
    Abstract: This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Taking a comparative perspective, contributors explore the processes at work in these conversions. Focusing on Christianity and Islam, it contrasts religious conversion in the period with earlier conversions, including those of Manichaeism in central Asia; Buddhism in east Asia; and Judaism in Khazaria, exploring why conversions to Christianity and Islam led to centralized political structures. Tsvetelin Stepanov is Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria. Osman Karatay is Professor in History at the Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. .
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    ISBN: 9783031182648
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 191 p. 39 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: 2004-2012 ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; J-Kurve ; Strukturwandel ; Investition ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Georgien ; Economic development. ; Finance. ; History. ; Finance, Public. ; Economics. ; Georgian economy ; Economic growth ; Rose Revolution ; Political economy ; Georgia ; Growth ; FDI ; Foreign Direct Investment ; Georgia (Republic)
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Reforms, state building and the legacy -- Chapter 2: The Soviet Union – the twilight -- Chapter 3: 1991-2003: early Post-Soviet Transition and the Revolution of Roses -- Chapter 4: Georgia’s J-curve. How to rebound? -- Chapter 5: Russia -- Chapter 6: Public leadership -- Chapter 7: The Ten Commandments of State-Building -- Chapter 8: National governance -- Chapter 9: Size and effectiveness of a government -- Chapter 10: Structure of a public expenditure -- Chapter 11: Market-based approach in agriculture and healthcare -- Chapter 12: Pensions and public sector salaries -- Chapter 13: Public debt, capital markets and international assistance -- Chapter 14: Wealth generation, taxes, customs, trade and logistics -- Chapter 15: De-regulation, privatization, public services and competition -- Chapter 16: Banking -- Chapter 17: Territorial development and urbanization -- Chapter 18: Dollarization – a thought framework -- Chapter 19. Parliamentary elections in 2012 -- Chapter 20. The margin of error.
    Abstract: How can developing countries become high-income nations? What are the reference points for measuring national development, public leadership and government performance? What is the nexus between public policies and geopolitical, political, emotional, historical, national governance-related, social and cultural norms, forces and factors which shape the process of the state building? This second edition of the book elaborates on many of these critical interconnections, focusing on 9 years after Georgia's Revolution of Roses in November 2003. The book explains what can be accomplished in two electoral terms at a given starting level of GDP per capita and which pitfalls to avoid. It contributes to documenting an almost decade-long history of Georgia. Dimitri Gvindadze was the Deputy Finance Minister and the Finance Minister of Georgia in 2005-2012.
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    ISBN: 9783031420726
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 310 p. 3 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Economic development. ; Economics. ; Political economy of trade ; Sustainable development ; Industrialisation ; Indus Valley Civilisation ; Rig Vedas ; Mahajanapadas ; Upanishads ; Nanda Empire ; Agricultural production ; Alexander the Great ; Mauryan Dynasty ; Ramayana ; First Chola Dynasty ; Institutional development
    Abstract: 1. Before the Indus Valley Civilisation – 5000BC to 2999BC -- 2. The Indus Valley Civilisation – 3000BC to 1600BC -- 3. The Rig Vedas – 1599BC to 1000BC -- 4. The Mahajanapadas and the Upanishads – 600BC to 345BC -- 5. The Nanda Empire – 400BC to 322BC -- 6. Alexander the Great, Bactria and Indo Greek States – 327BC to 10AD -- 7. The Mauryan Dynasty – 332BC to 184BC -- 8. The Ramayana and the First Chola Dynasty – 300BC to 275AD -- 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book, the first of two volumes, explores India’s economic development from 5000BC through to the India’s independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century. The transition from the primary section to the secondary sector, through the process of industrialisation and in turn the move towards the services sector, is discussed in relation to climate change and the pressure on resources posed by population growth. This book aims to contextualise India’s economic development within the political economy of trade, sustainable development and culture with a particular focus on the institutions that have emerged in the Indian sub-continent since 5000BC. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history, development economics, and the political economy. Sangaralingam Ramesh is a Departmental Tutor in Economics at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and a Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics at University College London, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031411342
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 373 p. 5 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Economic development. ; Islam ; Islamic Economics ; Economic and Social Justice ; Alternative economic system ; Risk Sharing ; Sustainable Development
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Polar visions of the Economy -- Chapter 2: Critiques of Mainstream Economic Doctrines -- Chapter 3: Critiques of the Current State of Islamic Economics -- Chapter 4: Ethics of Iqtisaad -- Chapter 5: Islamic Perspectives on the Cycle of Civilization and Problem of Knowledge -- Chapter 6: Islamization of Economics? An Impossibility Theorem -- Chapter 7: Behavioral Norms and Institutional Structure of Iqtiṣād-driven Economy -- Chapter 8: Rethinking the Essence of Macroeconomic Policies in the Iqtisad Paradigm -- Chapter 9: Risk Sharing and the Stability of Iqtisad-driven Economy.
    Abstract: This book discusses the need for a paradigm shift from Islamic economics universe of discourse to Iqtisād, a socio-economic system that is entirely independent from other economic doctrines and systems of thought. It provides an overview of critiques of the science and dogma of mainstream, orthodox, neoclassical, or simply Economics, with its axioms of rationality, scarcity, and unlimited wants. There is also a critical analysis of Islamic economics, and its failures to set its own policy agenda and development objectives. Our contention in this book is that Iqtisād--the Qur’an’s vision of how the economy is to be arranged—provides such a paradigm with a radically different philosophical foundation from that of Economics to the point that makes grafting one onto the other Impossible. Iqtisād offers a genuine and authentic Islamic paradigm with unique etymological and philosophical foundations. It is a unique system that derives its organizing principles from the principal source of the Quran, rather than Economics. The logical coherence of its immutable system of rules compliance, institutional structures, and risk-sharing relations provides the foundations for economic dynamism, financial stability, and shared prosperity. It ensures that resources are efficiently managed, poverty is eradicated, income and wealth mal-distributions are corrected, and the internal sources of economic injustices gripping human societies are eliminated. The Impossibility Theorem proposed in this book implies that, metaphysically, ontologically, epistemologically, axiologically, and teleologically, the two polar cases of Iqtisād and Economics are so radically different to rule out any grafting of one onto the other in order to present an intermediate paradigm with a synthetic discipline called Islamic economics. Given its multidisciplinary contents, this book will be of interest to a wide audience, including economists, policymakers, philosophers, theologians, and jurists, and can guide also free-thinking readers to a clarity of understanding about the conditions of humanity and the imperative of change with a sincerity of purpose and coherence in knowledge. Nabil El Maghrebi is Vice President at Wakayama University, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science, Osaka University, Japan. Abbas Mirakhor is a retired Professor of Economics and the Former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Tarık Akın is Head of the Department of Participation Finance at the Finance Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye. Zamir Iqbal is the VP Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Islamic Development Bank. Prior to that he served at senior positions at the World Bank. .
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    ISBN: 9783031387234
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 585 p. 82 illus., 57 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; World politics. ; Latin America ; Economic development. ; Development economics. ; Latin America ; Economic History ; Political History ; Latin American History ; Latin American Economics ; Latin American Development ; Development Studies ; Latin American Studies ; Caribbean Studies ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Latin American economic history in the light of the recent economic cycles -- Chapter 3: The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence -- Chapter 4: Checks and Balances in the Colonial Government of Peru: Evidence from Office Prices -- Chapter 5: Attached once, attached forever: The persistent effects of concertaje in Ecuador -- Chapter 6: Public Education and Indigenous People in Bolivia, 1880’s-1950’s -- Chapter 7: The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth and Selection Patterns -- Chapter 8: European Immigration and Agricultural Productivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1898-1920 -- Chapter 9: Modernizing Elites in Latin America: Social-network Evidence from the Emergence of Banking in Antioquia -- Chapter 10: Colombia: Democratic but Violent? -- Chapter 11: Political Conflict and Economic Growth in Post-Independence Venezuela -- Chapter 12: The Plantation Economy of Surinam in the 18th Century -- Chapter 13: The Legacy of the Pinochet Regime -- Chapter 14: Missionaries and Soldiers in the Forging of Modern Paraguay -- Chapter 15: Uruguay: the Rise of a Monocentric Economy -- Chapter 16: The Lasting Development Impacts of El Salvador’s 1980 Land Reform -- Chapter 17: Global Firms and Local Development -- Chapter 18: Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala -- Chapter 19: The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900 -- Chapter 20: Conclusion: Historical Persistence, Possibilism and Utopias in Latin America and the Caribbean.
    Abstract: “How can it be that Latin America is so poor when its governments over the past two centuries have experimented with just about every known model of economic development? Read this book and learn how a new generation of Latin Americanist social scientists, using frontier empirical methods and systematically gathered data, provide an answer based on the region’s social and political organization since the 16th century.” —Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University “A phenomenal synthesis with new insights on the roots of Latin American political economy. A vital read to grasp the origins of macroeconomic management and populism, the stubbornly high inequality, and social tensions.” —Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, London Business School “This fantastic new book maps the latest and most interesting methodological advances in the fields of historical economics and historical political economy onto the history of Latin America. The result is a fascinating new understanding of the persistent effects of historical phenomena in the region – including institutional and cultural changes – on each country’s path to development and economic prosperity, or lack thereof.” —Alberto Bisin, Professor of Economics, New York University This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It, uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. This book is critical reader for scholars and students of economic history, political science, political economy, development studies, and Latin American, and Caribbean studies. Felipe Valencia Caicedo is Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Research Affiliate of CEPR. His primary research interests are in economic history, development economics, and economic growth, with an emphasis on Latin America.
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    ISBN: 9783031173820
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 410 p. 71 illus.)
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    Keywords: Russia—History. ; Europe, Eastern—History. ; Soviet Union—History. ; International economic relations. ; Economic history. ; Economic development. ; Economics. ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Russia ; Russian economic policy ; regional development ; social policy ; institutions and governance ; natural resources ; Russian studies ; the economics of transition ; the economics of emerging markets ; contemporary Russian economic history ; economic geography of Russia ; Russia's role in the global economy ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I: Natural and Human Resources -- Chapter 1: Natural resources, geography, and climate (by Leonid Limonov) -- Chapter 2: Human resources (by Irina Denisova and Marina Kartseva) -- Part II: Historical Roots -- Chapter 3: Capitalist industrialization and modernization: since Alexander's reforms until World War I (the 1860s – 1917) (by Carol Scott Leonard) -- Chapter 4: The Soviet economy (1918-1991) (by Carol Scott Leonard) -- Part III. Institutions and Their Transformation -- Chapter 5: Constitutional foundations of the economic system and the role of government in economic activity (by Christopher Hartwell) -- Chapter 6: Regulatory environment and business climate (by Marek Dabrowski) -- Chapter 7: Evolution of ownership structure and corporate governance (by Alexander Radygin) -- Part IV: Major Sectors and Regional Diversity -- Chapter 8: Structural changes in the Russian economy since 1992 (by Boris Kuznetsov) -- Chapter 9: Energy sector (oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity) and energy intensity (by Przemyslaw Kowalski) -- Chapter 10: Agriculture (by Evgeniya Serova) -- Chapter 11: Science, research and innovation (by Boris Kuznetsov) -- Chapter 12: Regional diversity (by Leonid Limonov) -- Part V: Russia in the Global Economy -- Chapter 13: Trade (by Arne Melchior) -- Chapter 14: Foreign investment (by Kalman Kalotay) -- Chapter 15: Sanctions and forces driving to autarky (by Marek Dabrowski) -- Part VI: Economic and Social Policy Challenges -- Chapter 16: Economic growth (by Ilya Voskoboynikov) -- Chapter 17: Macroeconomic vulnerability, monetary and fiscal policies (by Marek Dabrowski) -- Chapter 18: Labour market, employment, and migration (by Vladimir Gimpelson) -- Chapter 19: Living standard and social policy (by Irina Denisova and Marina Kartseva) -- Chapter 20: Summary: changes in an economic system since the early 2000s (by Marek Dabrowski).
    Abstract: This textbook offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian economy (as it functions in the early 2020s) concentrated on the economy, economic policy, and economic governance. Chapters cover recent Russian economic history, the economic geography of Russia, natural resources, population, major sectors and industries, living standards and social policy, institutions, governance, economic policy, and Russia's role in the global economy. The book will provide a comparative cross-country context, analysing how the Russian economy and its institutions perform compared to its peers to help students and instructors understand Russia’s strengths, weaknesses, and future challenges. Prepared by a team of leading Russian and international experts on the respective topics, this textbook will be of interest to those studying Russian economics. It will be valuable reading for undergraduate and graduate students of Russian studies, the Russian economy, Russian politics, the economics of transition, the economics of emerging markets, and international relations. Marek Dabrowski is a Non-Resident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels, Professor of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and Co-founder and Fellow at CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw. He was a co-founder of CASE (1991), former Chairman of its Supervisory Council and President of Management Board (1991-2011), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CASE Ukraine in Kyiv (1999-2009 and 2013-2015), and Member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific Council of the E.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy in Moscow (1996-2016). .
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    ISBN: 9783031180262
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 300 p. 35 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; Economic development. ; Economics. ; International relations. ; China ; Latin America ; Regional order ; Global order ; Trade ; Infrastructure ; Finance ; Economic growth ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Alessandro Teixeira and Aaron Schneider) -- Part I. Sectoral and Historical Issues. ­Chapter 2. History: The Long Trajectory of a Relationship Yet to be Fulfilled (Rafael R. Ioris and Marco Cepik) -- Chapter 3. Chinese Economic Policy: Internationalization in LAC and Future Perspectives (Mathilde Closset, Cecilia Plottier and Zebulun Kreiter). – Chapter 4. Chinese Economic Development: Impact on LAC countries (Menghuai Xiang and Mingyuan Li) -- Chapter 5. Chinese Foreign Policy: Context, Decision, and Implementation (Marco Cepik and Cui Shoujun) -- Chapter 6. Infrastructure: The Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America (Alessandro Teixeira and Nicolas Azocar) -- Chapter 7. Trade: Competition or Complementarity? (Alessandro Teixeira, Wenying Chen, and Zhengyu Jiang) -- Chapter 8. Geopolitics: China, US, and Latin America - Conflict, Competition, or Collaboration? (Louis W. Goodman and Aaron Schneider) -- Part II. Regional and National Questions -- Chapter 9. Central America (Aaron Schneider and Henrique Estides Delgado) -- Chapter 10. The Mexico-Queretaro Train, Dragon Mart, and the Ups and Downs of the Mexico-China Trade Relation (Luz María Gallardo Castro and Juan Carlos Morales Marcucci) -- Chapter11. Sino-Brazilian Relations (Jorge Arbache and Gabriel Condi) -- Chapter 12. A Comparative View of Chinese Relations with Peru (Alvin Camba and Victoria Chonn Ching).
    Abstract: “The extraordinary expansion of China’s ties to Latin America marks a turning point in the region’s engagement in the international arena, and this timely volume illuminates the implications across key countries and sub-regions as well as different economic and strategic domains.” —Eric Hershberg, Professor of Government, American University “This volume not only presents a rich and comprehensive analysis of China-Latin American relations, it also offers important insights into China’s overall economic, foreign policy and geopolitical strategies and limitations as an emerging global power. Required reading for anyone interested in a deep and contextual analysis of China and world order.” —Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor of International Relations, American University “The volume makes an important contribution to the literature on China’s rising power behavior in one of the most important regions of the world. Strongly recommended for anyone who is interested in Chinese foreign policy, great power relations, and regional dynamics in Latin America.” —Suisheng Zhao, Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and Editor of Journal of Contemporary China This book offers accounts of the ways in which Chinese engagement with Latin America will shape the regional and global order. The historical, sectoral, regional, and national stories told here seek to change the narrative on China-Latin American relations. In particular, the book argues that there is room for cooperation between the US, China, and Latin American nations towards development, peace, and equity. Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira is Professor of Public Policy at School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and Professor of International Business at Schwartzman College, Tsinghua University, China. Aaron Schneider is Leo Block Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver, United States.
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    ISBN: 9783031203824
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 549 p. 94 illus.)
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Labor economics. ; Development economics. ; Education economics ; Human capital ; Role of education in employment ; Higher education in Europe ; Role of education in economic developement ; Role of education in social developement ; Education economics policies ; Economic scale of education
    Abstract: 1. Introduction – The Temporal Dynamics of Education -- PART I. The Emergence of Education and Its Economic Dimension -- 2. Education: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches -- 3.Theories and Models on the Relationship Between Education and Economic Development -- 4. Economic Scale of Education. 5. Higher Education for the Social and Economic Development -- Part II. Practice Beats Theory -- 6. Case Studies of Best Practices in Higher Education. 7. Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Higher Education and Economic Development -- Part III. Understanding the Numbers and Narratives. Good and Bad News -- 8. Trends and Evolutions of Higher Education Related to the European Integration and Membership -- 9. Systems of Benchmarking Indicator Characterizing Modern Economy -- 10. The Relationships GCI-ELLI-HCI -- 11. The 2020 Strategy -- 12. Quantification of the Impact Level of Education on the Economic Development of Nations -- Part IV. Detached From Contemporary Reality -- 13. Empirical Research on the Gap between Level of Education and Employability Based on Work Satisfaction -- 14. Conclusions Regarding the Social and Economic Dimension of Education.
    Abstract: This book is very courageous as it maps out a new world, connecting the level of education with economic growth in Romania, giving an entire new perspective. Decoupling growth from consumption and providing an alternative, foster knowledge via a new framework of understanding, giving insights to new society models. The libertarian touch on the educational perspective, balanced off by institutionalised governmental approach gives a full view about the links between economics and education and invites for further research. - Researcher Razvan Hoinaru ”Queen Mary” University of London, UK. In today’s taxing environment of burnt-out teachers, publish-or-perish culture in academia, and widespread cultural transformations, where can educators find the energy to inspire new generations? This book aims to not merely help readers survive the most stressful moments, but builds a panoramic vista of thought and learning. In a situation where more and more students and workers leave Romania to find work abroad, the author’s integral approach to education is refreshingly optimistic. - PhD Sid Lukkassen ”Radboud” University Nijmegen, Netherlands. This book explores how education influences economic and social development. With a particular focus on the role of higher education and universities, policies that promote education are analysed to highlight how economic development can be encouraged (and hindered) through policymaking. Comparative trends within Europe and Romania are examined to provide insight into the different ways in which education has evolved across the continent. The relationship between levels of education and employability, personal development, and professional development is also discussed. This book aims to examine how education policies can maximise economic growth and social development. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic development and education economics. Daniela-Mihaela Neamţu, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the ”Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania and a member of the Romanian Statistics Society. She has published over 50 scientific articles and books.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 95 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Economics—Psychological aspects. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Microeconomics. ; Economics ; Literature ; perfect competition ; macroeconomics ; international trade ; economic growth and development ; demand and supply ; monetary theory ; behavioural economics ; pricing ; labour markets ; game theory ; fiscal policies ; information economics ; English literature ; economic themes in literature ; Literature and Economics
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Price of Oysters (demand and supply) -- 3. When You’ve Got to Go, You’ve Got to Go (pricing) -- 4. The Competition is Tough (perfect competition) -- 5. Why Trade is Good 1 (economic welfare) -- 6. Last Copy, Sir: Double Price (monopoly) -- 7. The Kursaal Flyers (game theory and oligopoly) -- 8. Gizza Job (labour markets) -- 9. Greta’s Expectations (externalities and the environment) -- 10. Why Trade is Good 2 (international trade) -- 11. Well, What Do You Know? (information economics) -- 12. Don’t Behave Like That (behavioural economics) -- 13. The Swings and Roundabouts of Outrageous Fortune (business cycles) -- 14. If It Moves, Tax It (fiscal policy) -- 15. The Employers and the Employed (unemployment) -- 16. Interesting Times (monetary policy) -- 17. From Small Things, Big Things Come (modern approaches to macroeconomics) -- 18. Growing Pains (economic growth).
    Abstract: This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens. Drawing on writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell, each chapter is framed around a quote from a classic text of English literature that helps tease out a key economic concept and demonstrate its broader relevance. While rigorous, the book is virtually free of technical language and aims to give a concise overview of all the main topics in contemporary economics – from supply and demand, pricing, labour markets, externalities, and game theory, to environmental and behavioural economics, fiscal policy and business cycles, modern approaches to macroeconomics and economic growth. Interweaving literary examples with easy-to-follow explanations and reflective tasks, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach to economics and literature that requires no prior knowledge in either camp, but which illuminates patterns of real-world behaviour observed by novelists and economists alike. This concise and accessible book will be a valuable tool for students embarking on introductory economics courses, economics modules in business studies, and interdisciplinary courses more broadly, as well as the general reader interested in building their knowledge of economics. Geraint Johnes is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Lancaster University, and has also worked at Dartmouth College New Hampshire, Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, the Australian National Univeristy, and Beijing Normal University. He has also served as director of the London-based think-tank, the Work Foundation, and is regularly in demand as an economic commentator on global TV news channels including the BBC, ITV, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and France 24. He was founding editor of the journal, Education Economics, and was previously editor also of the International Journal of Manpower. He is author of numerous articles in major journals, and has authored and edited books most recently including the Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics (Edward Elgar, 2017).
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 280 p. 9 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Economic development. ; Law. ; Developing economies ; Global economy ; Artificial intelligence ; Digital technology ; Globalization ; Law ; Regulation ; Political polarization ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Property of the Social Media Data -- Chapter 3: “A Giant Glob of Oily Ambiguity”: On the Use of the Concept of Power in Economics -- Chapter 4: Temptation and Crime -- Chapter 5: Moral Costs of Corruption: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 6: Reason-Giving and Rent-Seeking -- Chapter 7: Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Advancing Research, Development, and Ethical Distribution of New Treatments and Vaccines -- Chapter 8: Law and Industrial Policy in the Age of (de)Globalization: The Perspective of IP Protection -- Chapter 9: Neither Crime nor (much) Punishment: India’s Cartel Penalty Practices -- Chapter 10: Legal Challenges for Corporations in the 21st Century.
    Abstract: This book is a major stocktaking of law and economics in the context of developing and emerging economies, and in the light of the dramatic changes in the global economy that we have witnessed in recent years. The rise of artificial intelligence, digital technology, and mega platforms that collect data and facilitate trade is changing the landscape of economics. Rapid globalization has created new challenges for law and regulation, since increasingly contentious cases arise which span multiple countries and several legal jurisdictions. All these changes are giving rise to new problems in developing countries where many people lead precarious lives anyway, healthcare is minimal, and corruption widespread. Alongside these global developments, the discipline of law and economics is also undergoing profound changes, making us re-think some of the founding assumptions of the subject. Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies in the Economics Department and the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, USA. From 2012 to 2016 he was Chief Economist of the World Bank. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2012, he was Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the London School of Economics, Basu has published extensively in development economics, game theory, welfare economics and industrial organization. His recent books include The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics (published in 2018) and Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington, D.C. (published in 2021). Ajit Mishra teaches at the University of Bath, UK. Educated at the Delhi School of Economics, he has been actively engaged in research and lecturing in development economics, public economics, and economic theory. He has taught at various institutions in India and the UK. He served as the Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, India. Besides papers in leading journals, he has edited two books: Economics of Corruption and Markets, Governance and Institutions. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
    Note: "This book is based on the IEA Roundtable on Law and Economic Development held on January 21-23, 2021 - hosted jointly by Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), University of Bath and the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)." - Seite v
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    ISBN: 9783031377761
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 428 p. 45 illus., 44 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Financial engineering. ; Economic development. ; Technological innovations. ; International finance. ; Machine learning. ; Sustainable Development Goals ; The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Addressing Poverty ; Stakeholder Capitalism ; Industry 4.0 ; Sustainable Economic Development ; AI ; Machine Learning ; Financial Inclusion ; Human-Centred AI ; Partnership for the Goals ; FinTech ; Climate Finance ; Fourth Industrial Revolution ; Artificial Intelligence ; Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture ; Food Security ; Blockchain
    Abstract: Part I. Introduction and background -- 1. FinTech and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development: The Role of Smart Technologies in Achieving Development Goals -- 2. Exploring the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution an Overview -- 3. Financial Technology (FinTech) an Introduction -- 4. A Historical Perspective on Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Part II. Advancing the sustainable development goals (sdgs) with fintech and artificial intelligence -- 5. Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Addressing Poverty, Towards Sustainable Development -- 6. The Role of Fintech and AI in Agriculture, Towards Eradicating Hunger and Ensure Food Security -- 7. Financial Technology, Artificial Intelligence and The Health Sector, Lessons Are We Learning on Good Health and Well-Being -- 8. Financial Technology, Digital Transformation, and Quality Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 9. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Making Transport, Safer, Cleaner, More Reliable and Efficient in Emerging Markets -- 10. FinTech and Climate-related Challenges in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 11. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Power Sector -- 12. Block Chain for Digital Financial Inclusion Towards Reduced Inequalities -- 13. The Power of Smart Technologies for Global Partnership for Development -- 14. Fintech and Financial Inclusion: Application of AI to the Problem of Financial Exclusion What Are the Challenges -- 15. FinTech for Sustainable Development in Emerging Markets with Case Studies -- 16. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development Case studies in Emerging markets -- Part III. conclusion and policy recommendations -- 17. Conclusion on FinTech and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development: The Role of Smart Technologies in Achieving Development Goals.
    Abstract: This book investigates how smart technologies can play a crucial role in the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing on FinTech as well as artificial intelligence, the author demonstrates how one of the most effective strategies for accelerating progress toward global development goals is to make use of emerging technologies to broaden and deepen the scope of action. The first part of the book offers a historical perspective on sustainable development, financial technology and the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, while the second part looks in-depth at new technologies that can contribute to the realization of the SDGs. The power of AI to reduce poverty and increase food security, the implications of digital innovations for education, the impact of AI on clean transport, the role of FinTech in mitigating climate change, and ways in which AI can aid financial inclusion are all discussed. David Mhlanga is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research topics include financial inclusion, poverty studies, and Industry 4.0. His wider subject areas include development economics, the economics of artificial intelligence, health, and education economics. He is the author of Digital Financial Inclusion, published by Palgrave in 2022.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 323 p. 53 illus.)
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    Keywords: Economics—History. ; Economic development. ; Economics ; Economic growth ; Ricardo's rent theory ; von Thunen's theory ; Faustmann's optimality rule ; Pareto Optimality ; Capital markets ; Interest rates ; Ramsey's model ; Koopman's theory ; Nordhaus ; Degrowth
    Abstract: Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways -- Chapter 2 Ricardo’s Rent -- Chapter 3 Von Thunen’s Spatial Land Use: Grasslands and Cities -- Chapter 4 Faustmann’s Forest Harvest Rotation -- Chapter 5 Hotelling’s Fossil Fuel Economics -- Chapter 6 Fisheries Bioeconomics under Open Access -- Chapter 7 Irving Fisher’s Capital and Interest. - Chapter 8 Frank Ramsey’s Optimal Savings -- Chapter 9 Robert Solow’s Modern Economic Growth -- Chapter 10 Tjalling Koopmans’s Optimal Economic Growth -- Chapter 11 William Nordhaus’s Optimal Carbon Tax Trajectory -- Chapter 12 The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways with Managing Natural Resources -- Chapter 13 Tendencies for Sub-optimal or Post-growth Pathways.
    Abstract: Every society aspires to be prosperous. It also endeavors to minimize the side effects of economic growth. This book entitled The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways addresses numerous trade-offs faced by society to achieve prosperity and explores the best possible growth pathways. The theories explored in this book serve as a springboard to better understand key challenges and aspects of the economy, including food security, land use, forest and resource management, capital markets and interest rates, oil and gas extraction, fish and marine resources, saving and investment, and climate change. This book elucidates the concept of optimal economic growth pathways while addressing the challenges faced in natural resources and life on the planet. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in resource and environmental economics. S. Niggol Seo is a natural resource economist who specializes in the study of global warming and globally shared goods. Born in 1972, he received a PhD degree in environmental and natural resource economics from Yale University in 2006 and has been a professor in the UK, Spain, and Australia from 2006 to 2015. He previously worked on various World Bank projects on climate change in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He received an Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in Pittsburgh in June 2011. He is currently at the Muaebak Institute of Global Warming Studies.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 358 p. 38 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave CIBFR Studies in Islamic Finance
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Financial engineering. ; Economic development. ; Sustainability ; Maqasid al-shariah and SDGs ; Islamic Social and Sustainable Impact Financing ; Islamic Finance ; Islamic Social Finance and Economic Recovery ; Financial technology and sustainability ; innovative Islamic financial tools ; Fintech and Islamic finance ; Socio-economic policy improvement ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Islamic Finance, FinTech and the Road to Sustainability – Reframing the Approach in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Introduction -- Part I: Re-Framing Islamic Finance Sustainabilit and Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 2: Islamic Finance and Sustainability: The Need to Reframe Notions of Shariah Compliance, Purpose, and Value -- Tools and Conditions for Achieving Sustainable Development in Islamic Finance -- Chapter 3: Maqasid al-Shariah and Sustainable Development Goals Convergence: An Assessment of Global Best Practices -- Chapter 4: The Resilience of Islamic Finance Against Pandemic-Induced Future Economic Crisis -- Chapter 5: Emergence of Islamic Finance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 Post Pandemic Era -- Part II: Innovative Islamic Financial Tools for Sustainable and Socio-Economic Impact -- Chapter 6: Sukuk Innovation: Powering Sustainable Finance in Islamic Markets -- Chapter 7: Mobilizing Funds for Industrialization and Development Through Islamic Value System, Capital Markets, and Social Finance -- Chapter 8: The Role of Green Sukuk in Maqasid Al-Shariah and SDGs: Evidence from Indonesia -- Chapter 9: Is Islamic Microfinance a Resilient Business Model During Periods of Crisis? -- Chapter 10: Empirical Evidence from Arab Countries -- Part III: FinTech Role in The Road to Sustainability -- Chapter 11: Digital Finance and Artificial Intelligence: Islamic Finance Challenges and Prospects -- Chapter 12: Open Banking for Financial Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities in Muslim-Majority Countries -- Chapter 13: Islamic Specialized FinTech for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 14: The Role of Technology in Effective Distribution of Zakat to Poor and Needy -- Chapter 15: Notion of Value-Added in RegTech Research Work: What is there for Islamic Finance?
    Abstract: The recent unprecedented economic downturn and global supply chain disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the urgency for sustainable financing infrastructure that is agile, adaptable, and transformable. Sustainability and the 4th Industrial Revolution are about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policymakers and people from all income groups and nations, to navigate industry disruptions and transitioning to a new normal by harnessing converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centered future. The edited volume provides critical discussions on reframing the Islamic finance approach to sustainability and socio-economic development in the post-pandemic era. It highlights how selected Islamic finance tools alongside FinTech can not only ensure financial sustainability but also promote socio-economic policies that will aid the much-desired value and impact creation in the economy. The book focuses its analysis on the following three areas: reframing Islamic finance sustainability and socio-economic development; innovative Islamic financial tools for sustainable and socio-economic impact; and the role of FinTech in the road to sustainability. The edited volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of Islamic finance, sustainability, and financial technology. Zul Hakim Jumat is a Researcher for the Center of Islamic Economics and Finance (CIEF), College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation. Saqib Hafiz Khateeb is a Research Fellow at College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation. Under the fellowship, he is the Project Lead for IBIR project - a bibliographic databank of Islamic Economics and Finance. Syed Nazim Ali is a Research Professor and the Director for the Research Division, College of Islamic Studies, at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. .
    Note: "The editors of the book acknowledge and appreciate Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority's grant to facilitate the 4th International Conference on Islamic Finance (ICIF): Sustainability and the Fourth Industrial Revolution-Implications for Islamic Finance and Economy in the Post-Pandemic Era, held at the virtually at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University in April 2022 [April 4 - 6, 2021 in Doha, Qatar], which contributed to the content of this volume." - Seite ix
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Economic policy. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economics. ; Macroeconomic equilibrium ; Sustainable growth ; Phillips Curves ; Ecological transition ; Productivity slowdown ; Financial cycles ; Interest rate dynamics ; Poverty and inequality ; Environmental sustainability
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I Growth, macroeconomic imbalances and sustainable development -- 2. Is there any evidence of a deterioration of production capacities in the advanced economies? -- 3. Hysteresis, inflation and secular stagnation -- 4. New thinking of sustainable development and growth -- Part II Financial, monetary and fiscal policies. 5. Interest rates, financial markets and macroeconomics -- 6. New challenges for monetary policy -- 7. Fiscal policy issues -- 8. Beyond mainstream macroeconomic -- 9. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the economic policies that will underpin the evolution of growth in industrialised economies in coming decades. The change in focus of policymakers away from short-term regulation and policies towards problems of structural change is discussed in relation to the Taylor rule and Fisher relationship. Both empirical observations and quantitative analyses are utilised to explore diverse but interrelating topics, including interest rates dynamics, macroeconomic equilibrium, economic vulnerability, poverty and inequality, environmental sustainability, and monetary and fiscal policies. This book aims to propose policies that can produce economic growth without compromising social stability and environmental balances. It will be of interest to researchers and policymakers working within economic development and policy. Gilles Dufrénot is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Aix and member of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France. He has also been a policy advisor to the WAEMU Commission and consultant for the Bank of France, IMF and the European Union. He is also associate researcher at CEPII.
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    ISBN: 9783031330834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 124 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Technological innovations. ; Economic development. ; Financial engineering. ; Computer science. ; Blockchain ; Consensus ; Proof of work ; Proof of stake ; Mechanism design ; Distributed ledgers
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Value of Blockchain Consensus -- Chapter 3: Security versus timeliness -- Chapter 4: Permissioned versus permissionless -- Chapter 5: Proof of work versus proof of stake -- Chapter 6: Cryptography versus incentives -- Chapter 7: Rules versus mechanisms.
    Abstract: “The author provides the reader with an innovative study of blockchain from an economics perspective. The author’s personal experience and credentials adds substantially to the body of literature that aids in our understanding of the blockchain phenomenon. It differs from other comparable studies with his perspective of examining the methodology of constructing mechanisms to accomplish blockchain consensus.” — Rosario Girasa, Distinguished Professor, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, USA "Joshua Gans makes blockchain and consensus accessible to economists by applying his signature approach -- delving into a topic so deeply that he can extract its economic essence." - W. Scott Stornetta, Yugen Partners, Co-inventor of the Blockchain Blockchain technologies have been rapidly adopted for the creation of cryptocurrencies and have been explored for a myriad of applications. While this is of important economic interest, the computer science behind how blockchains operate to provide security and provenance has been largely inaccessible to economists. This book is a bridge between the computer science and the economics of blockchains. The focus is on the value and the achievement of blockchain consensus; that is, how distributed and independent nodes are able to reach an agreement on what the current state of digital ledgers, that are the product of blockchains, are. The book shows that the goals of computer scientists in designing blockchains place very high weight on security beyond what an economist trained in game theory and mechanism design would require. It shows how blockchains can be redesigned to account for key economic trade-offs, and will be of interest to researchers and students of economics, financial technology and computer science, alongside policymakers. Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is also chief economist of its Creative Destruction Lab and oversees its blockchain program for startups.
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9783031268724
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXV, 195 p. 157 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: The Political Economy of Greek Growth up to 2030
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Petrakēs, Panagiōtēs E., 1953 - The future of the Greek economy
    Keywords: Economics. ; Economic development. ; Sustainability. ; Greek economy ; Sustainable development ; Sustainable governance ; Inclusive growth ; Pro-growth behaviors ; Dynamic growth ; Griechenland ; Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Part A: Alternative Futures Analysis -- Chapter 1. Setting the Scenery: Factors Affecting the Future -- Chapter 2. Building Scenarios: the Four Economic Scenarios for Greek Alternative Economic Futures -- Chapter 3. Scenarios and Contextual Factors: Addressing the Implications.-Part B: The Past and the Present of the Greek economy. Chapter 4. Sustainable Development -- Chapter 5. Sustainable Governance -- Chapter 6. Inclusive Growth -- Chapter 7. Cultural Change and Development and Growth -- Chapter 8. The Dynamism of the Economy -- Part C: Alternative Futures for Greece: The Five Scenarios under the Five Pillars of Economic Development. Chapter 9. Alternative Economic Futures and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 10. Sustainable Governance and Alternative Economic Futures -- Chapter 11. The Impact of Alternative Economic Futures on Inclusive Growth -- Chapter 12. Cultural Change and Alternative Futures -- Chapter 13. The Dynamism of the Economy and the Alternative Futures.
    Abstract: This book introduces the Political Economy of Alternative Economic Futures for the Greek economy up to 2035. The analysis is not restricted to the presentation of a series of forecasts but aims to develop a comprehensive framework for Greece’s future. The analysis covers five realms regarding alternative economic futures, which outline the political economy of Greece: sustainable development; sustainable governance; inclusive growth; evolution of human behaviors; and dynamic growth. A growth, an unsustainable growth, a transformation, and a falldown scenario are generated based on the severity of key-uncertainty factors' effects. Panagiotis E. Petrakis is the professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He is the scientific coordinator of Distance Education Training Programs at the NKUA. He is the author of numerous monographs and has extensive publications in recognized academic journals on economic development, entrepreneurship, and cultural background. Pantelis C. Kostis is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the NKUA and a teaching staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. His research has been published in distinguished international academic journals including the Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Business Research, and Economic Modelling. He is also the co-author of several books regarding economic development and growth. Kyriaki I. Kafka is an adjunct lecturer of Economics at the Department of Economics at the NKUA, Greece. She has published books and articles in distinguished academic journals including the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Business Research, and the Journal of Innovation and Knowledge. Her research interests include economic development and growth, economic policy, economic shocks and uncertainty, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Anna-Maria Kanzola is a researcher in the Department of Economics at NKUA, Greece. She holds a B.Sc. degree with honors (9/10) in Economics from NKUA. Currently, she is working toward her M.Sc. at NKUA, in applied economics and finance. She works as a graduate research assistant at NKUA. She is mainly interested in microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, sociology, and anthropology.
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    ISBN: 9783031215841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 312 p. 46 illus., 42 illus. in color.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Abegaz, Berhanu Understanding economic transitions
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    Keywords: Economics. ; Economic development. ; Economic history. ; Comparative government. ; Economic Systems ; Varieties of economic systems ; Transition economy ; plan-market mixes ; post-socialist transition ; New Globalization ; Russia ; China ; Vietnam ; Poland ; Comparative Economics
    Abstract: PART ONE: THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS -- 1. Economic Systems -- 2. Economic Planning in Various Settings -- PART TWO: TWO CANONICAL STATE SOCIALISMS -- 3. The Soviet CPE I: The Process of Planning -- 4. The Soviet CPE II: The Process of Implementation -- 5. The Chinese CPE: Planning in an Industrializing Economy -- PART THREE: SYSTEMIC TRANSITION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 6. The Market-oriented Transition: Theory -- 7. The Isolationist Russian Road to Capitalism -- 8. The Nationalist Chinese Road to Capitalism -- 9. Two Integrationist Variants: Poland and Vietnam -- PART FOUR: TRANSITION UNDER THE NEW GLOBALIZATION -- 10. Market Integration in the Age of Global Value Chains -- 11. The Developmental State and Political Capitalism -- 12. Comparative Economics Redux.
    Abstract: Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy’s demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of modern economic systems. This textbook has four features of particular use to students: (i) Using the prism of comparative institutionalism, it melds theory and evidence to revisit the varieties of planned and market-driven systems today; (ii) It takes economic planning seriously in theory and practice (central, cooperative, or indicative) as the most prominent marker of the ever-changing boundaries between state and market; (iii) It focuses on the dynamics of systemic transition in formerly socialist countries by contextualizing them in terms of the whence (central planning), the how (modalities of transition), and the whither (illiberal or liberal capitalism) of politico-economic transformation; and (iv) It examines the profound impact on these structural processes of the post-1990 phase of economic globalization. With its clear, comprehensive content and useful pedagogical features, this textbook will prepare students to understand how economies transition and why. Berhanu Abegaz is Professor of Economics at William & Mary. He specializes in comparative economics, institutional economics, and development economics. He is the author of four books and two edited volumes on the subjects of economic planning, late industrialization, regional economic integration, and state formation.
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    ISBN: 9783031270154
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 332 p. 6 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: China—History. ; Asia—Economic conditions. ; Economic history. ; Economic development. ; China ; Asia ; The Imperial Mode of China ; Chinese economic history ; China's dynastic cycles ; modernisation ; historical materialism ; institutional analysis ; agricultural economy ; the rise of the West
    Abstract: Part I. Origins 1 -- Introduction 2 -- A Historical Pattern: The Imperial Mode of China 3 -- The Empire-building in the Pre-Qin Period 4 -- Ideas Matter: Profound Thought in the Pre-Qin Period Part II. Trajectories -- 5. Adolescence of the Imperial Mode 6 -- Maturity: The Tang-Song Transition 7 -- Mismatch: The Ossifying Institutions 8 -- Beginning Modernization: The Late Qing and the Republican Period 9 -- Zigzag Modernization in Communist China Part III. "Aufheben" -- 10. The Rise of the West: What Happened and How 11 -- China’s “Peculiarities”: Why China Declined and Rebounded 12 -- To Understand China: The Past and the Future.
    Abstract: Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the ‘imperial mode’ of China. The book aims to innovatively apply a cohesive historical materialist framework to the economic evolution of China, while at the same time offering micro-analysis of China’s institutions throughout its history. Taking a long-run perspective, from ancient China up until the present, the book aims to show how Chinese economic history can be viewed as a dynamic evolutionary process consisting of various stages. The first part of the book lays out the imperial mode as a mode of production based on China’s agricultural economy, with a structure consisting of a central authority, the bureaucratic system, and the peasantry. The second part then chronologically examines the different dynasties through this analytical lens and suggests ways in which China’s resistance to institutional changes in the early modern period has had long-lasting consequences for its economic development. The book goes on to show how the imperial mode is able to facilitate the agricultural economy, but did not foster the modern commercial and industrial economy. It integrates modern China into the long wave of economic history, showing how this imperial mode still exerts influence on China’s current path of development, as well as introducing a new way of understanding communist China from a historical perspective. This book will have interdisciplinary appeal for researchers and students of economic history, economic development, the history of China, economic sociology, and social history more broadly. George Hong Jiang is an assistant researcher in the School of Economics at Peking University and also a visiting researcher in the Max Weber Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg Universität. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He got a doctoral degree in macroeconomics at the Department of Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods, J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9783031278457
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 175 p. 14 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: International finance. ; Economics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Financial engineering. ; financial technology ; cross-border payment systems ; digitalization ; Chinese financial markets ; market-oriented financial systems ; Sino-American financial cooperation ; FinTech ; banking systems ; regulatory environment ; Sino-US tech war ; Sino-US competitive interdependence ; digitalization of financial services
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. A comparative analysis of the Chinese and the US financial system and its regulatory environment -- 3. China’s deepening integration into global financial markets: lessons from the US counterpart -- 4. Pre- and post-pandemic Sino-US inbound and outbound investments -- 5. The rise and decline of China’s shadow banking subject to a deleveraging policy -- 6. Current trends in the digitalization process and related fintech-based businesses of the Sino-US financial markets -- 7. The digitalization of cross-border payment systems and the introduction of the CBDC -- 8. The ongoing Sino-US trade war and subsequent tech war -- 9. The Sino-US technological decoupling and ways to address it -- 10. The future Sino-US financial coupling or decoupling accompanied by fierce rivalry with different national approaches -- 11. The intensifying Sino-US rivalry and its impact on the possible future scenarios about the international economic order -- 12. Conclusions and Recommendations.
    Abstract: This Palgrave Pivot investigates how the Chinese and United States financial systems are becoming increasingly interdependent, in spite of a simultaneous technological rivalry and ‘decoupling’ between the two nations. The book offers a comparative analysis of Sino-US financial systems before and after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, demonstrating the deepening integration of China into global financial markets and its move from an indirect bank-based system towards a direct market-oriented system. It discusses the economic and technological competition that has arisen between the US and China, the two largest financial centers based on financial technology, and demonstrates the differences in national interest driving processes of digitalization and FinTech applications. At the same time, the book points to ways in which a market-oriented global financial system and the rapid international growth of financial technology make future cooperation inevitable and necessary. This book places Sino-US financial relations in a broader financial-economic perspective and will be of interest to academics, consultants and students working in banking and finance, international financial markets, comparative economics, monetary theory and Chinese business studies. René W.H. van der Linden is a senior lecturer and researcher in Economics, Finance and Business Research at the International Business program of The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in teaching and research in the fields of economics and finance. His research interests, with practical applications in education, focus on topics in the field of international financial markets, banking and finance, international economics and doing business in Asia and the EU. He has published many papers on the topics mentioned above and, together with Piotr Łasak, published the Pivot The Financial Implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative at Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. Piotr Łasak is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Economics, Finance and Management at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His research focuses on topics related to international financial markets development, including financial market regulation and supervision, mechanisms of financial and currency crises, digitalization of the financial sector, and shadow banking system development (especially in China).
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9783031385896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVII, 468 p. 107 illus., 104 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Agriculture ; Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Latin America ; Economic development. ; Brazil ; traditional crops ; climate change ; Brazilian economic development ; agricultural modernization ; agribusiness ; forestry ; pastoral industries ; cattle ranching ; crops ; agricultural exports ; history of Brazilian agriculture ; coffee industry ; cellulose
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Modernization of Brazilian Agriculture Since 1950 -- 3. The changing structure of Brazilian Agriculture 1920-2017 -- 4. Soybeans -- 5. Maize -- 6. Cotton -- 7. Orange Juice -- 8. Sugar and Ethanol -- 9. Coffee -- 10. Cellulose Industry -- 11. Cattle -- 12. Chickens and Swine -- 13. Sustainability -- 14. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer. The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian agriculture through a government programme which transformed traditional agriculture through subsidized credit, guaranteed prices, stock purchases, land utilization laws, modern research, new technology and major support for exports. It also explores the changing structures of agricultural production and farm ownership over time, analysing national censuses from 1920 to 2017 to illustrate the increasing efficiency of Brazil’s agricultural workers. The book then discusses the history and evolution of the major Brazilian crops in detail, starting with the newer export crops such as soybeans, maize and cotton, before focusing on the traditional sugar and coffee industries. The final section of the book examines two other major areas of agroindustry: forestry and the evolution of the pastoral industries, as well as the growth of a meat exporting sector. The authors also explore questions of sustainability in the context of today’s climate challenges, and the role of Brazilian agriculture in the world market going forward. This wide-ranging study will be of interest to a range of academics, including those working in agricultural economics, economic history, the history of Latin America and the history of agriculture more broadly. Herbert S. Klein is Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University, and was formerly Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American studies at Stanford University (2005-2011). Currently he is Latin American Curator and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Aside from his earlier work on the Atlantic Slave Trade and African Slavery in the Americas, and Spanish Royal Finance he has published extensively on Bolivian and United States history. Francisco Vidal Luna holds a Phd in Economics from the Universidade de São Paulo and was a professor in the Faculdade de Economia e Administração (FEA) of USP from 1973 to 1997. He has also served as the Secretary of Planning in both the State government of São Paulo, and in the city government of São Paulo and was Secretary of Economics in the Planning Ministry of the Federal Government.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9783031235115
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 151 p. 16 illus.)
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    Keywords: Agriculture—Economic aspects. ; Economic policy. ; Economic development. ; Agriculture ; Food security for sustainable development ; Advanced digital technologies in agriculture ; "Smart" agriculture based on AI and deep learning ; Agriculture 4.0 based on AI and deep learning ; Transition from digital agriculture to Agriculture 4.0 ; Automation of agriculture based on AI and deep learning ; Global priorities of the provision of food security ; Agricultural development scenarios in the economy of the future ; Policy implications for the management of food security ; Fighting global hunger with Agriculture 4.0 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part 1. Digital Agriculture and New Opportunities for Providing Food Security in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 1: Strategic Directions for Smart Agriculture Based on Deep Learning for Future Risk Management of Food Security. By Elena G. Popkova, Tatiana N. Litvinova, Olga M. Zemskova, Mariya F. Serebryakova and Anna A. Karpova -- Chapter 2: Food and Water Security of the Middle East (the Case of Egypt). By Denis A. Mirgorod, Gennadii V. Kosov, Elena A. Soloveva, Alihan M. Israilov and Alexander A. Pohilko -- Chapter 3: Best Practices and the Digital Model of Agricultural Development in Developed and Developing Countries. By Elena V. Sofiina, Irina V. Milchik, Igor V. Denisov and Nadezhda K. Savelyeva -- Chapter 4: Monitoring the Compliance of Today’s Agriculture with Food Security Needs for Sustainable Development. By Elena A. Bratukhina, Berik T. Beisengaliyev, Anastasia A. Sozinova and Ksenia V. Borzenko -- Chapter 5: Green Finance: Analysis of Prospects of the Russian Market. By Olga G. Kantor, Yuliya R. Rudneva, Dmitriy Yu. Dunov, Shakhlo T. Ergasheva and Boris M. Leybert -- Part 2. Prospects for Food Security of the Future Economy in the Transition to Agriculture 4.0 Based on Deep Learning -- Chapter 6: Food Security in the Digital Economy: Traditional Agriculture vs. Smart Agriculture Based on Artificial Intelligence. By Aleksei V. Bogoviz, Vladimir S. Osipov, Tatiana M. Vorozheykina, Veronika V. Yankovskaya and Igor Yu. Sklyarov -- Chapter 7: Transition from Digital Agriculture to Agriculture 4.0 as the Most Promising Scenario for Ensuring Future Food Security. By Mikhail S. Kyzyurov, Ayapbergen A. Taubayev, Larissa P. Steblyakova and Larisa V. Shabaltina -- Chapter 8: A New Level of Food Security as a Result of the Transition of Food-Importing Countries to Agriculture 4.0 based on Deep Learning. By Anastasia A. Sozinova, Aigul S. Daribekova, Irina P. Lapteva and Maria V. Makarova -- Chapter 9: Risks of Agricultural Economy and Climate Risk Management for Enterprises of Agriculture 4.0 based on Deep Learning. By Tatiana N. Litvinova -- Chapter 10: Prospects for Using Investment by Agricultural Cooperatives of Kyrgyzstan in the Regional Economy of Central Asia. By Kalil D. Dzhumabayev, Alymkul K. Dzhumabayev, Shukurali A. Jamalov, Elmira K. Kydykbaeva and Taalaigul Azamat kyzy -- Part 3. Applied Recommendations for Shaping Agriculture 4.0 based on Deep Learning to Ensure the Food Security of the Economy of the Future -- Chapter 11: Advanced Digital Technology in Agriculture and its Contribution to Food Security. By Elena V. Karanina, Elena A. Vechkinzova, Yuliya A. Kopytina and Nurlybek T. Malelov -- Chapter 12: Roadmap for the Transition from Digital Agriculture to Agriculture 4.0 based on Deep Learning in the Economy of the Future by 2030. By Nazgul S. Daribekova, Marina A. Sanovich, Nadezhda K. Savelyeva, Tatiana A. Dugina and Anastasia I. Smetanina -- Chapter 13: Automation of Agriculture Based on Deep Learning: Modeling and Management to Improve Quality and Efficiency. By Natalia V. Przhedetskaya, Eleonora V. Nagovitsyna, Victoria Yu. Przhedetskaya and Ksenia V. Borzenko -- Chapter 14: Responsible Production and Consumption in Agriculture 4.0 based on Deep Learning for Sustainable Development. By Yerlan B. Zhailauov, Natalia V. Przhedetskaya and Vasiliy I. Bespyatykh.
    Abstract: This book explores issues of agricultural development and the provision of food security, providing a core framework and recommendations for implementing sustainable development goals in these areas. Focused on the period up to 2030 to match the timeline of the SDGs, the book surveys the current landscape and the prospects for agricultural development, demonstrating how Agriculture 4.0 based on AI and deep learning must follow from digitalization as the next step to ensuring food security. It brings together research based on analytical and statistical data, including the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Report and the Food Security Report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, and reliable mathematical tools including correlation and regression analysis, forecasting with histogramming, probability estimates, and the simplex method, as well as Game Theory methodology and the hierarchical procedure method of Thomas Lorie Saaty to forecast international scenarios for food security in the future economy. Containing theoretical and practical insights, the book will be of interest to those studying agricultural economics, the digital economy, and concepts of Agriculture 4.0 and Industry 4.0. Elena G. Popkova is a Leading Researcher at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), and the President of the Institute of Scientific Communications, Russia. Bruno S. Sergi is an Instructor at Harvard University, USA. He is also an Associate of the Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He teaches Political Economy and International Finance at the University of Messina, Italy.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9783031302039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 429 p. 36 illus., 35 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; International economic relations. ; Cuba ; Foreign investment ; Economic development ; Oil and energy ; Healthcare ; Tourism ; Interview ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1 The Economy and Foreign Investment -- 2 Business -- 3 The Lawyers and the Law -- 4 Oil and Energy -- 5 Health Sector -- 6 Tourism -- 7 The Non-Profits and the NGOs.
    Abstract: This book is a collection of meticulously gathered interviews with government officials, ambassadors, and executives involved in foreign investment and economic development in Cuba. The interviews, many for the first time with a foreign journalist, are valuable from a historical perspective and as a story of development. It offers an “open window” on Cuba into a crucial segment of the country’s economy, erroneously perceived by some as “shuttered” to the outside world. This work is structured by the contextual history of Obama’s opening with Cuba, the bleak days of Trump, the Havana Syndrome, the onset of the pandemic, the election of Biden, and his “unmet promises”, through to economic recovery of the island under the post-pandemic normal. It highlights the work of the ones who lead and invest, create opportunities for themselves and others, initiate change, trigger sustainable development, build infrastructure, improve lives, strengthen the economy, lessen suffering, and create hope. They stimulate forward progress. These are the visionaries with plans seeking to realize the full potential of Cuba, driving a new era of sustainable development and growth. By filling those gaps, this work is an important supplement for any future analysis seeking to examine the country’s potential. The book is divided into parts: government, economy, foreign investment, industrial zones, banking, law, and business, followed by interviews with top executives from Cuba’s primary sectors. This “open window” on Cuba is a compelling fresh take that shows that Cuba is open for serious business. Since 1985, T.K. Hernández has spent extended periods in Cuba as a journalist, a tourist, and with family. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Western University and studied economic development at Oxford University. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, ACES International Alliance of Editors, and the Canadian Network on Cuba. She is the author of two published books. Since early 2015, she is the co-founder and editor of the business news site, Cuba Business Report.
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9783031316982
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 340 p. 63 illus.)
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Economics. ; Economic development. ; Logical modelling of the trinomial preference ; Causality and intelligibility ; Trinomial co-evolution ; Economic growth ; Economic development ; Evolutionary economics ; Co-evolution ; Evolution in the financial market ; Binomial co-evolution ; Information and price as symbolic species
    Abstract: 1. Introductory Concepts – Causality and Intelligibility -- 2. Introductory Concepts – Growth, Development, Evolution -- 3. The Concept of Evolution – General Framework -- 4. The Concept of Co-Evolution – Theoretical Basis -- 5. Binomial Co-Evolution in the Financial Market -- 6. Information and Price as Symbolic Species -- 7. Trinomial Co-Evolution in the Financial Market -- 8. Logical Modelling of Trinomial Preference.
    Abstract: This book offers a systemic understanding of the evolutionary model of financial markets and their place with broader political economic systems. Through examining the co-evolutionary process, where the interplay between financial markets and society is highlighted, insight is provided into the concepts of growth, development, preference, information, and price. After outlining these core concepts, they are applied to co-evolution within financial markets to illustrate the mechanics that underpin economic systems. Binomial and trinomial co-evolution is then discussed in relation to financial market variables, preference and price in terms of symbolic utility, and logical economic modelling structures. This book presents a new research methodology based on a logical to approach economics that looks beyond historical and empirical economic frameworks. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in financial economics. Emil Dinga is an Economist at the Romanian Academy. Camelia Oprean-Stan is an Economist at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Cristina Roxana Tănăsescu is an Economist at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Vasile Brătian is an Economist at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Gabriela-Mariana Ionescu is an Economist at the Romanian Academy.
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    ISBN: 9783031455827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 186 p. 21 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave pivot
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Economic development. ; Economics. ; Neo-Malthusian economics ; Eco-innovation ; Degrowth ; Zero sum society ; Ecological economics ; Sustainable development ; Economic growth
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Malthusians and the Cornucopians -- 3. What to Do About the Detritovores? -- 4. Green Growth -- 5. The Degrowth Movement: A Radical Political Project -- 6. Living in a Degrowth World -- 7. Collapse -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This book addresses humanity’s fateful struggle with excessive success in a very deep and different manner. I have previously moved from being a cornucopian to a modified Malthusian but this book is now moving me towards the third possibility you discuss- collapse as a feature not a bug of complex society”. - Christopher L. Magee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "This fascinating volume is an important contribution to the debate on the ultimate destiny of our civilization. It poses the provocative question whether a constructive collapse, rather than green growth or degrowth, could be the solution to the dangers caused by the increasing environmental footprint. It will be an inspirational source of thinking for all those interested in the future of mankind" - Nicola Dimitri, University of Siena It has been said that, in the light of ecological overshoot, that human civilization faces two future possibilities: a Great Decoupling or a Great Collapse. In this book, two distinct positions to achieve the Great Decoupling are critically evaluated: Green Growth and Degrowth. It is concluded that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will be able to achieve the Great Decoupling. The possibility for society to collapse is then raised, with the potential for a civilizational rebound pondered. Whether collapse may be a feature, and not a bug, of the long-run evolution of complex civilization is discussed. This book offers a thought provoking and unique perspective on the economic and ecological challenges faced by modern societies. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in environmental economics and economic policy. Wim Naudé is Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Fellow at the ASC, University of Leiden. .
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    ISBN: 9783030835668
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 402 p. 18 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Post-Covid economic revival ; Volume 2
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    Keywords: Coronavirus ; Epidemie ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Soziale Folgen ; Europa ; Welt ; Economic development. ; Medical economics. ; Economic policy.
    Abstract: Chapter 27: Post-COVID revival: economy and society -- Part III: Markets at Post-COVID Age -- Chapter 28: The National Technological Initiative of Russia Project Implementation as a Basis for the Development of Perspective Technological Markets and Industries in Russia -- Chapter 29: Opportunities and Prospects for Transition to Post-COVID Circular Economy -- Chapter 30: Disposal of Medical Waste in the COVID-19 and the post-COVID period.-Chapter 31: Pricing in the Context of Structural Modernization in Post-COVID Economy -- Chapter 32: The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture -- Chapter 33: Economic Mechanisms of Regulation of Innovative Industrial Technologies in the Post-COVID Age -- Chapter 34: Post-lockdown Flights: New Strategies for Civil Aircraft Manufacturers and Airlines -- Chapter 35: China's Electricity Market Reform in the Post-COVID Era -- Chapter 36: Creative Industries: a Review of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 37: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Housing and Construction Markets -- Chapter 38: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Automation of Planning and Operational Management of Organizational and Technical Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 39: The Changing Role of the Internal Audit of the Transport Facility in the Post-COVID Period -- Chapter 40: The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Automotive Industry -- Chapter 41: Tourism at the Post-COVID Age -- Part IV: Social Development at Post-COVID Age -- Chapter 42: Influence of COVID-19 on Healthcare System -- Chapter 43: Government Protection of Both Parties in the Operation of the Post-Epidemic Labor Market in China -- Chapter 44: Flexible Employment Development in Post-COVID Economic Revival -- Chapter 45: The Impact and Response of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Market in Post-Epidemic Era -- Chapter 46: The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Healthcare System in Poland -- Chapter 47: Back to the (Ab)normality: Eastern-European Labor Markets after Pandemic -- Chapter 48: Health Insurance Problems of Unknown Infections -- Chapter 49: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market in Poland -- Chapter 50: Analytical Review of the Market for COVID-19 Vaccines: Production, Cost, and Distribution -- Chapter 51: Judicial Institutions and Legal Services in the Post-COVID Period.
    Abstract: This two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of authorities. The uncertainty of the future economic revival obliges scientists around the world to unite in search of effective solutions that will become the basis for prosperity and human wellbeing. The death of millions of people around the world, several waves of coronavirus, and a global pandemic have forced most states to seek extraordinary measures to save people and revive economic activity. The world economy experienced a global shock, probably never experienced before due to lockdowns. The disruptions and gaps in the value chains were primarily caused by the lockdowns of enterprises. The change in the essence of the economic crisis has raised the question of how to overcome it and revive economic activity. The crisis caused a sharp decline in incomes of the population around the world, which led to social upheavals. Post-COVID economic revival in a globalized world has become the most important problem of our time. This book offers contributions of authors from different countries and explores problem solving in the fields of public administration (Volume I, Part I), financial services (Volume I, Part II), different branches (Volume II, Part III) and the social sector (Volume II, Part IV). The second volume of the book is devoted problems in sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, tourism, aircraft, the automotive industry, electricity, culture, etc. The second part of the second volume examines trends in the revival in the social sector—medicine, pharmaceuticals, the labor market and social insurance. Despite the fact that the book is divided into two volumes and four parts, a holistic and systematic perception of the new reality of the post-COVID age can be obtained by reading the entire book. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in public administration and economics, particularly those who are interested in Post-COVID economic revival. Vladimir S. Osipov is a doctor in Economics and Professor in the Asset Management Department at MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia.
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    ISBN: 9783030936549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 119 p. 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Collective memory. ; Citizenship—Study and teaching. ; Economic development. ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Konflikt ; Auswirkung ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Friedenserziehung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Kolumbien
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conventional and Critical Approaches to Peace Education -- 3. Historical Memory and Its (Dis)contents -- 4. Historical Memory-Oriented Peace Education and the Sustaining Peace Agenda -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: ‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. Schultze-Kraft’s new book is an impressive piece of synthesis, a personal manifesto married to a rigorous interrogation of the theoretical literature. It pushes boundaries enhancing the sustaining peace agenda. As such it deserves the critical attention of policy makers at the highest level, as well as scholar-practitioners.’ –Paul Arthur, Professor of Politics, Ulster University, UK ‘This impressive and valuable book delves into the intricacies, shortcomings and potential of historical memory-based approaches to peace education, unafraid of the tough questions and knowledgeably embracing complexities. Schultze-Kraft’s advocacy of the memory culture approach to sustainable peace pedagogy will be of great value to educators and researchers not only in Colombia but also in other countries and regions emerging from violent conflict.’ –Eckhardt Fuchs, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Germany ‘Schultze-Kraft vigorously addresses the concepts and practices of, and political debates on, historical memory in the midst of violent conflict, enabling us to respond to key questions about the transition to peace: how to reconstruct traumatic pasts, how to narrate them, how to process them and how to transmit them to new generations with pedagogical purposes. Offering an exploration of tools for the empowerment of communities and for the elaboration of public policies to turn the aftermath of violent conflict into an opportunity for social transformation, researchers, conflict resolution practitioners and educators will find this book particularly helpful.’ –Gonzalo Sánchez G., Former Director of the National Historical Memory Commission, Colombia Informed by the author’s long-standing fieldwork in the Global South, this open access book presents a comprehensive narrative about the relationship between peace education, historical memory and the sustaining peace agenda, advocating for the adoption of a new perspective on education for sustaining peace through historical memory. Peace education in countries wrestling with, or emerging from, violent conflict is up against major challenges. Incorporating a focus on historical memory into peace education, without losing sight of its own pitfalls, can support learners and teachers to achieve positive change at the individual as well as social and institutional levels. Historical memory-oriented peace education stands to enhance the UN-led sustaining peace agenda and the SDGs. Markus Schultze-Kraft is Professor of Political Science at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, and Arnhold Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783030836580
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 420 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Public international law. ; Public policy. ; Political science. ; World politics. ; Economic development. ; Meinungsfreiheit ; Informationsfreiheit ; Information ; Zugang ; Gesetz ; Transparenz ; Politischer Prozess ; Verantwortlichkeit ; Korruption ; Diamant ; Sierra Leone
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: A Brief Global History of the Emergence, Evolution, Development and Proliferation of Freedom of Information: Principles Definitive of Scope and Substance -- Chapter 2: Myths Surrounding Freedom of Information Laws -- Chapter 3: How FOI aids women’s Empowerment and redcues Gender and Sexual Based Violence -- Chapter 4: Comparative Analysis of Freedom of Information Laws in Sierra Leone and Liberia -- Chapter 5: Sierra Leone’s Resource Curse: How the Abuse of Diamonds, Politics and Power Collapsed a Nation -- Chapter 6: War, Business as Usual: The Global Scramble for Sierra Leone’s Natural Resources -- Chapter 7: Diamonds, War, Poverty and Underdevelopment: A Multidimensional Perspective on the Global Diamond Industry and its Need for Reform -- Chapter 8: The Place of FOI in the Second Republic -- Chapter 9: Localising Transparency and Accountability: Access to Information and Citizen Engagement Under the Local Government Act 2004 -- Chapter 10: The Effect of The EITI Process on Transparency and Accountability in Sierra Leone’s Extractive Industry -- Chapter 11: Conclusion; Breaking Free of the Bog: The Need for a Novel Impetus in the Implementation of the RTAI Act 2013.
    Abstract: This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.
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    ISBN: 9783030893880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 197 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Institutions, Economics and Law
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Manganelli, Antonio Regulating digital markets
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    Keywords: Law and economics. ; Economic development. ; Industries. ; Economics. ; Digital policy ; Competition policy ; Regulation and consumer protection ; Online platforms ; Platform work ; Data economy ; Online information systems ; Public policies for online platforms ; Europa ; Digitalisierung ; New Economy ; Marktregelung
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: digital transformation, big techs, and public policies -- 2 New economy(ies), new economics and new ‘digital’ rights -- 3 Big Techs, Market Power and Public Policies -- 4 Big techs and on-line information system -- 5 Private power and public policies: between antitrust and regulation.
    Abstract: This book explores the regulatory options for digital platforms and data economies. The trade-offs between the market value of information and individual privacy rights are examined to provide rationale for regulation and policy suggestions. A general conceptual framework is provided for digital transformation, big tech, and public policies, with additional analysis of the legal aspects of the digital revolution and how digital intermediaries can influence consumption. This book aims to highlight the impact of digital platforms and to provide insight into the current policy debate. It is relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested the data economy, digital policy, and consumer protection.
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    ISBN: 9783030901158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 288 p. 35 illus., 24 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Business enterprises—Finance. ; Financial services industry. ; Economic development. ; Environmental sciences—Social aspects. ; Firm performance ; COE cost of equity ; ESG Environmental Social Governance ; Corporate Governance ; ESG Investing ; ESG Risk ; Climate Change ; Climate change adaptation ; Sustainable business models ; Environmental policy ; Equity ; Development Finance ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of Sustainability -- Chapter 5: Consortium company, Circular Economy and ESG: the Comieco Case Study -- Chapter 6: Environmental, Social and Governance issues: the empirical literature review around the World -- Part II: ESG, Cost of Equity and Firm’ Performance: empirical evidences across Industries around the World -- Chapter 7: ESG, cost of equity and Profitability in the Oil&Gas Sector -- Chapter 8: Automotive and tyre sector: sustainability as the new “value” for shareholders -- Chapter 9: How much does matter ESG ratings in Big Pharma Firms Performances? -- Chapter 10: Corporate Green Bond: Issuance and equity market reaction -- Chapter 11: The Sustainability Challenge for Asian Emerging Markets: some empirical evidences -- Index.
    Abstract: This book investigates sustainability, CSR, climate change adaptation, the relevance of ESG scores and their impact on firm value and growth. The first part of the book analyses the topics from a conceptual angle. The authors discuss how the concepts of self-consciousness and awareness drive the shift of the traditional concept of corporate mission towards more sustainable business models. The authors propose an in-depth analysis of the main challenges posed by climate change and of the initial policy-makers’ responses and provide their view on the central role of ESG scores and circular economy for growth and development. The authors conclude with an analysis of the main literature on the measurement of the relation between ESG scores and firms’ performance and cost of equity (CoE). The second part of the book contains comparative empirical evidence, supporting these theories across specific industries, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of sustainability and impact finance. Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini is Full Professor of Banking and Finance, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan in the Department of Economic Policy. His main research interests include banking and finance, corporate governance, ESG and sustainability, law and finance, law and economics, microfinance issues, corporate finance, and corporate histories of banks and industrial corporations. Laura Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Banking and Finance, Research Fellow, Lecturer B at the University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy. Her main research interests include banking and finance, corporate governance, corporate finance, systemic risk and sustainability, law and finance, law and economics, political connections and corruption, and stability and efficiency issues in financial intermediaries. Massimo Catizone is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. He is also an investment banker with a leading pan-European investment bank. .
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