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• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Getting Organized 2. The Adventures of Speedy 3. Where Are We Going? 4. Shocks and Surprises (Part One) 5. Rules and Regs 6. Shocks and Surprises (Part Two) 7. If You're Not on the List... 8. El Vocho Abandonado 9. Tortoises and Hares (Part One) 10. A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One 11. Tortoises and Hares (Part Two) 12. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Part One) 13. Cast and Crew (Part One) 14. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Part Two) 15. Cast and Crew (Part Two) 16. Puff the Magic Maxi (Part One) 17. Miles to Go Before the Start 18. Puff the Magic Maxi (Part Two) 19. And They're Off! Between pages 146 and 147 are 20 color plates containing 41 photographs 20. A Private Enterprise (Part One) 21. Three Wheels on My Wagon 22. A Private Enterprise (Part Two) 23. Two Primes in One Day 24. Potatoes and Emeralds 25. All in the Family 26. Bangs and Whimpers (Part One) 27. There Go My Pants! 28. Bangs and Whimpers (Part Two) 29. Driver, Navigator, Filmmaker, Spy (Part One) 30. Rio to Montevideo 31. Driver, Navigator, Filmmaker, Spy (Part Two) 32. Trans-Argentina 33. The Beauty Box (Part One) 34. Triumph and Tragedy 35. The Beauty Box (Part Two) 36. Driving on Top of the World 37. So Close 38. The Show Must Go On Epilogue: None Tougher, None Rougher
• Appendix 1. The Entrants
• Appendix 2. The Scoreboard Interviews Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.
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Imagine driving 16,000 miles in 25 days over some of the roughest terrain in the world, at altitudes up to 16,000 feet, where engines and lungs gasp for air. Imagine 500-mile speed trials over rocky mountain tracks, racing against the clock and 95 other cars. Imagine attempting this more than 50 years ago, without GPS or cell phones or modern safety equipment. In April 1970, 241 men and women from more than 20 nations did just that, setting out from London in cars ranging from a dune buggy to family sedans to Porsches, Rolls-Royces, camper vans and a Jeep Wagoneer, determined to get to Mexico City. Drawing on personal recollections of competitors, organizers, marshals and mechanics, this book recounts the ecstasies and agonies of perhaps the toughest endurance motorsports event ever--the London to Mexico World Cup Rally.
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• "The sleep of the saved"
• Happy New Year, 1942
• Confidence
• The Channel dash
• Imperial collapse
• 'Hard adverse war'
• Shipping perils
• Grave deterioration
• Arctic convoys
• Bombing
• Island fortress
• The Desert War
• Global battles
• Disgrace
• Censure
• 'Have you not got a single general who can win battles'
• From the pyramids to the ogre's den
• 'Extreme tension'
• 'The end of the beginning'

'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History Hit Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the collapse in Malaya; the biggest surrender in British history at Singapore; the passing of three large German warships through the Straits of Dover in broad daylight; the longest ever retreat through Burma to the gates of India; serious losses to Rommel's forces in North Africa; the siege of Malta and the surrender at Tobruk. All of this occurred against the backdrop of catastrophic sinkings in the Atlantic and the Arctic convoys. People began to claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was failing badly. Public morale reached a new low. 1942 Britain At the Brink explores the story of frustration and despair in that year prompting the Prime Minister to demand of his army chief 'Have you not got a single general who can win battles?' Using new archival material, historian Taylor Downing shows just how unpopular Churchill became in 1942 with two votes attacking his leadership in the Commons and the emergence of a serious political rival. Most people think that Britain's worst moment of the war was in 1940 when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion. In 1942 Britain at the Brink, Taylor Downing describes in nail-biting detail what was really Britain's darkest hour .
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In 1942 there was a domestic crisis in Britain. Public morale collapsed with a widespread feeling that Winston Churchill was no longer the right man to lead the nation. In the course of the crisis, motions of No-Confidence were debated in Parliament. A credible rival for Prime Minister emerged. This panic followed a series of major military fiascos. If its war effort folded, Britain would have had to negotiate a truce with Hitler. Had Britain been forced out of the war by this in 1942, it would have been almost impossible for the US to fight back in Europe. The survival of fascism, the outcome of the titanic battles on the Eastern Front and the ultimate result of the war could all have been very different.1942 tells the story of this precarious moment when the British people nearly lost it.
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• Part I: 20th century monetary policy
• The rise and fall of inflation
• The great inflation
• Burns and Volcker
• Greenspan and the nineties boom
• Part II: 21st century monetary policy
• The global financial crisis and the great recession
• New century, new challenges
• The global financial crisis
• A new monetary regime: From QE1 to QE2
• Monetary evolution: QE3 and the Taper Tantrum
• Part III: 21st century monetary policy
• From liftoff to the covid-19 pandemic
• Liftoff
• Powell and Trump
• Pandemic
• Part IV: 21st century monetary policy
• What lies ahead
• The Fed's post-2008 toolkit: Quantitative easing and forward guidance
• Is the Fed's toolkit enough?
• Making policy more powerful: New tools and frameworks
• Monetary policy and financial stability
• The Fed's independence and role in society.

• 20th century monetary policy: the rise and fall of inflation
• 21st century monetary policy: the global financial crisis and the Great Recession
• 21st century monetary policy: from liftoff to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 21st century monetary policy: what lies ahead.

"Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke helps readers understand how the Federal Reserve, the steward of U.S. monetary policy, got to where it is today, what it has learned from the diverse challenges it has faced, and how it may evolve in the future"-- Provided by publisher.
"In 21st Century Monetary Policy, Ben S. Bernanke--former chair of the Federal Reserve and one of the world's leading economists--explains the Fed's evolution and speculates on its future. Taking a fresh look at the bank's policymaking over the past seventy years, including his own time as chair, Bernanke shows how changes in the economy have driven the Fed's innovations. He also lays out new challenges confronting the Fed, including the return of inflation, cryptocurrencies, increased risks of financial instability, and threats to its independence." -- Inside front jacket flap.

• With the Tigers
• A Tough Guy in Havana
• La Cosa Nostra
• The Sacred Monsters
• Alternatives to the Crisis
• Operation Liborio: "Cuba in Flames"
• Task Force W: "A Chocolate Milkshake"
• .375 Magnum
• An "Autonomous Operation" and Old Friends
• AM/LASH and Rolando Cubela
• The Condor in Chile
• New York and Miami: Alpha 66
• The Saturnino Beltrán Commando Unit
• Twilight of an Obsession.

"Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban intelligence services, and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical figures and depicts the ensuing cat-and-mouse game in the midst of the Cold War. Written in the style of a political thriller yet based on real events, 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro is a well-researched and documented series of vignettes put together by multiple investigations in Cuba and the experiences of the author, who participated in several of them; dozens of interviews with participants; extensive documentary evidence; and the collaboration of officials, and undercover agents who dismantled these plots. Filled with harrowing stories of deceitful FBI tactics such as moles who infiltrated the revolutionary Cuban government and gained a reputation with them with the ultimate goal of bombing their military bases. As well as undercover attempts to give Fidel poison laced cigars, Escalante takes the reader from DC to New York, Miami to Havana and uncovers the intricate conspiracy to silence dissent and kill Fidel Castro. 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro is filled to the brim with historical details on the CIA, Cuba, the communist movement, US government officials, and Fidel himself. Escalante's first-hand account provides evidence of the lengths to which the CIA went through to assassinate Fidel Castro and the determined efforts to protect him and what he stood for"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Part 1: Coitus, quietus, exodus. From the cradle ; Gray dawn ; A billion ways to die ; People on the move
• Part 2: How population trends shape our world. Warfare and wombfare ; Malthus versus Marx ; The future of global population

As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world's poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. In 8 Billion and Counting, political demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba argues that the story of the twenty-first century is less a story about exponential population growth, as the previous century was, than it is a story about differential growth-marked by a stark divide between the world's richest and poorest countries. Drawing from decades of research, policy experience, and teaching, Sciubba employs stories and statistics to explain how demographic trends, like age structure and ethnic composition, are crucial signposts for future violence and peace, repression and democracy, poverty and prosperity. Although we have a diverse global population, demographic trends often follow predictable patterns that can help professionals across the corporate, nonprofit, government, and military sectors understand the global strategic environment. Through the lenses of national security, global health, and economics, Sciubba demonstrates the pitfalls of taking population numbers at face value and extrapolating from there. Instead, she argues, we must look at the forces in a society that amplify demographic trends and the forces that dilute them, particularly political institutions, or the rules of the game. She shows that the most important skills in demographic analysis are naming and being aware of your preferences, rethinking assumptions, and asking the right questions. Provocative and engrossing, 8 Billion and Counting is required reading for business leaders, policy makers, and anyone eager to anticipate political, economic, and social risks and opportunities. A deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration promises to point toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow.
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Albert Einstein said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." It is in this vein that Sholeh WolpE's mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this lyrical and candid work, her fifth collection of poems, WolpE invokes the abacus as an instrument of remembering. Through different countries and cultures, she carries us bead by bead on a journey of loss and triumph, love and exile. In the end, the tally is insight, not numbers, and we arrive at a place where nothing is too small for gratitude.
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• Preface
• Introduction: Abolition. Feminism. Now.
• I. Abolition
• II. Feminism
• III. Now
• Epilogue
• Appendices. Intimate partner violence and state violence power and control wheel ; Incite! : critical resistance statement on gender violence and the prison industrial complex ; Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end imprisonment

Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate-even incompatible-political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.
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• Unrest Abuela's Photographs Sanctuary First Interlude: The Wonder Woman T-Shirt Ancestry MaNosos Patron Saint of the Cupcake Second Interlude: Adolescence with a Wall in It Sounds at Night Vanity Roadside Chat Third Interlude: Class of '88 A Box of Ash Separation Fieldwork Acknowledgments.
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Standing over two graves, Rigoberto GonzAlez studies the names "Ramon" and "MarIa" under the family name "GonzAlez." "She was MarIa Carrillo, not MarIa GonzAlez, " he thinks. His grandmother is missing. So begins GonzAlez's memoir, a journey to recover a more complete picture of his grandmother, who raised him following his mother's death. GonzAlez travels to his abuela's birthplace, MichoacAn, Mexico, and along the way recovers his memories of a past he had tried to leave behind. A complex woman who was forced to take on maternal roles and suffered years of abuse, his grandmother simultaneously resisted traditional gender roles; she was kind yet unaffectionate, and she kept many secrets in a crowded household with little personal space. Sifting through family histories and anecdotes, GonzAlez pieces together the puzzling life story of a woman who was present in her grandson's life yet absent during his emotional journey as a young man discovering his sexuality and planning his escape from a toxic and abusive environment. From fragments of memory and story, GonzAlez ultimately creates a portrait of an unconventional yet memorable grandmother, a hard-working Indigenous Mexican woman who remained an enigma while she was alive. A grandmother, he shows, is more than what her descendants remember; she is also all that has been forgotten or never known. Through this candid exploration of his own family, GonzAlez explores how we learn to remember and honor those we've lost.
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• Academic outsider
• On love and worth
• Conditional citizenship
• Living in precarity
• Overlapping shifts and COVID-19
• Academic justice.

"Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards--these credentials mark Victoria Reyes as somebody who has achieved the status of insider in the academy. Woman of color, family history of sexual violence, first generation, mother--these qualities place, and have always placed, Reyes on the margins of the academy; a person who does not see herself reflected in its models of excellence. This contradiction allows Reyes to theorize the conditional citizenship of academic life--a liminal status occupied by a rapidly growing proportion of the academy, as the majority white, male, and affluent space simultaneously transforms and resists transformation. Reyes blends her own personal experiences with the tools of sociology, to lay bare the ways in which university communities continue to keep their traditionally marginalized members relegated to symbolic status, somewhere outside the center. Reyes confronts the impossibility of success in the midst of competing and contradictory needs--from navigating coded language, to balancing professional expectations with care-taking responsibilities, to combating the literal exclusions of outmoded and hierarchical rules. Her searing commentary takes on, with sensitivity and fury, the urgent call for academic justice."-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. Bruno Latour: "We Have to Agree to Talk About War" Horizon
• 1. Antagonistic Alliances
• 2. Bernard Stiegler: Deciding on the Accident Horizon
• 2. At the Speed of the Digital Algorithm
• 3. Catherine Malabou: "There Is Nothing Beforehand" Conclusion Works Cited Index.
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In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is enmeshed with the existence and actions of every kind of other being is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has brought forth an urgent need to rethink understandings of human action. One response holds that the transformations necessary to tackle today's crises will emerge from the distinctive capacity of human beings to transcend their environment. Another school of thought calls for seeing action as composite, produced by distributed networks of human and nonhuman agents. Yet the first of these is open to charges of human exceptionalism, while the second, according to its critics, lacks effective political traction. Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of political agency is necessary to break this impasse. Engaging with thinkers such as Bruno Latour, Bernard Stiegler, and Catherine Malabou, Crowley proposes an original account of agency as both distributed and decisive. Challenging the prevailing view of agency as exclusively human, he explores how a politics that incorporates nonhuman agency can intervene in the real world, examining timely issues such as climate-related migration and digital-algorithmic politics. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.
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• PREFACE GLOSSARY SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 1.CHRONOLOGY OF THE CONFLICT IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA, 20111-2020 2.BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SDF 3.SUPPORTING FROM AFAR: KOBANI TO AL-HAWL 4.ON THE GROUND: SHADADI TO MANBIJ 5.SCALING UP: THE RAQQA CAMPAIGN 6.OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE: THE DEIR AL-ZOUR CAMPAIGN 7.STABILIZATION "BY, WITH AND THROUGH" THE SDF 8.ASSESSING AMERICA'S "BY, WITH AND THROUGH" CAMPAIGN IN NORTHEAST SYRIA ANNEX
• 1: ANNOTATED ROSTER OF BATTLES AND CAMPAIGNS IN NORTHEAST SYRIA, 2014-2020 ANNEX
• 2: YPG/SDF CLAIMED COMBAT LOSSES IN 2013-2019 Index.
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The U.S.-led effort to fight the Islamic State in northeastern Syria since 2014 has been as controversial and poorly understood as it has been significant. Advocates of fighting "by, with and through" the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) view the campaign as a near-ideal case study of a cost-effective U.S. military intervention that should be duplicated in the future. Critics of the campaign say that the U.S. allied itself with a terrorist group and endangered its ties with Turkey, a long-stranding NATO partner; losing sight of strategic priorities in order to win tactical victories at low cost. This book combines general research with 50 interviews gathered in Syria with Kurdish, Arab and Christian SDF officers, and 50 interviews with U.S. and French officials and military officers with on-the-ground involvement in the war. It provides an unprecedented window into how the war was really prosecuted, in the eyes of the participants at all levels, uniquely looking not only at how U.S. soldiers view their partner forces, but how the local partners view them in return. This is a unique and essential insight into US strategy in Syria and beyond.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Where the Wild Things Are, Now
• 1: Hot Spots
• 2: The Urban Barnyard
• 3: Nurturing Nature
• 4: Bambi Boom
• 5: Room to Roam
• 6: Out of the Shadows
• 7: Close Encounters
• 8: Home to Roost
• 9: Hide and Seek
• 10: Creature Discomforts
• 11: Catch and Release
• 12: Damage Control
• 13: Fast-Forward
• 14: Embracing the Urban Wild Coda: Lost and Found Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals. The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities-the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems-grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet? The Accidental Ecosystem is the first book to explain this phenomenon from a deep historical perspective, and its focus includes a broad range of species and cities. Cities covered include New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Austin, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Digging into the natural history of cities and unpacking our conception of what it means to be wild, this book provides fascinating context for why animals are thriving more in cities than outside of them. Author Peter S. Alagona argues that the proliferation of animals in cities is largely the unintended result of human decisions that were made for reasons having little to do with the wild creatures themselves. Considering what it means to live in diverse, multispecies communities and exploring how human and non-human members of communities might thrive together, Alagona goes beyond the tension between those who embrace the surge in urban wildlife and those who think of animals as invasive or as public safety hazards. The Accidental Ecosystem calls on readers to reimagine interspecies coexistence in shared habitats, as well as policies that are based on just, humane, and sustainable approaches.
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• Preface
• Frontier foundations for revolution
• Shaanxi's early Communist movement
• Bandits and Bolsheviks
• The rocky road to revolution
• Accidental holy land
• Dawn of the Yan'an era
• Conclusion

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land, " the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary research and numerous field trips to the region, Joseph W. Esherick's book examines the origins of the Communist revolution in Northwest China, from the political, social, and demographic changes of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), to the intellectual ferment of the early Republic, the guerrilla movement of the 1930s, and the replacement of the local revolutionary leadership after Mao and the Center arrived in 1935. In Accidental Holy Land, Esherick compels us to consider the Chinese Revolution not as some inevitable peasant response to poverty and oppression, but as the contingent product of local, national, and international events in a constantly changing milieu.
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• Introduction: Rethinking Marx in Latin America / Karen Benezra
• Property and history. On subsumption as form and the use of asynchronies / Massimiliano Tomba
• "I am he": a history of dispossession's not-yet-present in colonial Yucatán / David Kazanjian
• Latin American Marxism: history and accumulation / Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
• Accumulation as total conversion / Karen Benezra
• Class and totality. José Aricó and the concept of socioeconomic formation / Marcelo Starcenbaum
• An irresolvable tension: the part or the whole? The effects of the "crisis of Marxism" in the work of René Zavaleta Mercado / Jaime Ortega Reyna
• Class and accumulation / Pablo Pérez Wilson
• Sovereignty and debt. The "insurgent subject" versus accumulation by dispossession in Álvaro García Linera and Jorge Sanjinés / Irina Alexandra Feldman
• Debt, violence, and subjectivity / Alessandro Fornazzari
• Psychotic violence: crime and consumption in the apocalyptic phase of capitalism / Horacio Legrás
• Postmigrancy: borders, primitive accumulation, and labor at the U.S./Mexico border / Abraham Acosta
• The subject and nature. Marx's theory of the subject / Bruno Bosteels
• The impasses of environmentalism: subjectivity and accumulation in the World-Ecology Project / Orlando Bentancor
• "Non-capital" and the torsion of the subject / Gavin Walker

"Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: The Obama Presidency from Hope and Change to Missed OpportunitiesPart 1: Domestic Policy and the Legacy of the Obama Presidency
• Chapter 1: Almost, Maybe, Kinda, Transformational: Barack Obama
• Chapter 2: How Obama Set the Stage for Trump's Unilateralism
• Chapter 3: Barack Obama, Intergovernmental Relations, and Economic Policy: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue
• Chapter 4: Obligations to Act: The Rhetorical Legacy of the Rescues of the Domestic Auto Industry
• Chapter 5: The Politics of the New American Welfare State and the Obama Legacy
• Chapter 6: Obama's Education Policy: Moral Thicket or Ticket?
• Part II: The Rhetorical Legacy of the Obama Presidency
• Chapter 7: The Obama Narrative
• Chapter 8: A Lighthouse and a Crossroads: The Rhetorical Strategy of President Barack Obama
• Part III: Foreign Policy and the Legacy of the Obama Presidency
• Chapter 9: From the Audacity of Hope to "Small Ball": How Obama's Retrenchment and Caution Contributed to Trump's Rise
• Chapter 10: President Barack Obama's Counterterrorism Strategy in Afghanistan: Transformational and Transitional
• Chapter 11: The Perils of Retrenchment: The Obama Administration's Middle East Policies
• Chapter 12: Obama and the Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific
• Conclusion: The Obama Presidency: Expectations, Achievements and Missed Opportunities.
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This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan and disciplinary divides. The chapters in this book are grouped into three major legacy categories: domestic policy, foreign policy, and rhetoric. Domestically, the contributors examine the "Obama coalition" and its staying power in the age of Trump, President Obama's legacy regarding the use of executive power, his impact on intergovernmental relations, and his impact on the welfare state and education. On the foreign policy front, the central focus is on whether Obama was in fact much different from his predecessor, what impact he had on the Middle East and Afghanistan, and whether his pivot to Asia yielded the hoped-for results. The contributions in this book also aim to (re-)assess the Obama legacy in light of the subsequent efforts by his successor to undo many of the policies embraced and implemented during the Obama years.
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• Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction to The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen Nathalie Aghoro, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany Part I: Sound Practice Across Media
• 1. Listening in Print Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Columbia University, USA
• 2. When a Poem "Sounds" Through the Body Irene Polimante, University of Macerata, Italy
• 3. Practices of Unmixing: Film Aesthetics, Sound, and the New Hollywood Cinema Christof Decker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany Part II: Soundtracks of Collective Memory
• 4. Voice and Wake: Susan Howe, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the Ecology of Echology Julius Greve, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• 5. Reframing Indigenous Sonic Archives: Jeremy Dutcher and the Cultural Politics of Refusal Sabine Kim, Mainz University, Germany
• 6. Unsettled Scores: Listening to Black Oklahoma on the American "Frontier" Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University, USA Part III: Social Acoustics and Politics of Sound
• 7. The Operator and the Final Girl: Gender, Genre, and Black Sonic Labor in The Call Allison Whitney, Texas Tech University, USA
• 8. Bohemian Like You: The Construction of Cool Sound Collectives in Serial Television Florian Gross, Leibniz University, Germany
• 9. Sonic Sites of Subversion: Listening and the Politics of Place in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange Nathalie Aghoro, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
• 10. From "Dead Spots" to "Hot Spots": Ann Petry's "On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon" Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Binghamton University, USA Index.
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Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV.
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• Introduction: Gender, geslag, Geschlecht, génos, liga, xing bie / Dalila Ayoun
• Review chapters. Gender assignment in mixed noun phrases : state of the art / Kate Bellamy and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
• Empirical evidence for gender biases in language / Yulia Esaulova and Lisa von Stockhausen
• The acquisition of grammatical gender in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish: beyond the source of differences / Alejandro Cuza and Liliana Sánchez
• Child, adult and heritage speakers. The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian / Dalila Ayoun and Stefano Maranzana
• Grammatical gender and article use in beginning learners of German / Peter Ecke
• The non-default gender category in additional-language French / Amanda Edmonds, Aarnes Gudmestad and Thomas Metzger
• Investigating grammatical gender agreement in Spanish : a methodological exploration of eye tracking / LeAnne Spino
• Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech / Brechje van Osch, Ivo Boers, Janet Grijzenhout, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Bo Sterken and Deniz Tat
• Prediction on the basis of gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children / Jasmijn E. Bosch, Mathilde Chailleux, Jia'en Yee, Maria Teresa Guasti and Fabrizio Arosio

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably "an endlessly fascinating linguistic category" (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among "the most puzzling of the grammatical categories" (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity, and even closely related languages present distinct differences, creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas - gender assignment in mixed noun phrases, subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish - while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children, adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian, German, Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.
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• 1. Action ascription in social interaction Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh
• Part I. Constituents of Action Ascription: 2. Temporal organization and procedure in ascribing action Robert B. Arundale
• 3. The micro-politics of social actions Paul Drew
• 4. Action ascription, accountability and inference Michael Haugh
• 5. Attributing the decision to buy: action ascription, local ecology, and multimodality in shop encounters Lorenza Mondada
• Part II. Practices of Action Ascription: 6. Intention ascriptions as a means to coordinate own actions with others' actions Arnulf Deppermann and Julia Kaiser
• 7. Strategy ascriptions in public mediation talks Henrike Helmer
• 8. Action ascription and deonticity in everyday advice-giving sequences Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson
• 9. 'How about eggs?' Action ascription in the family decision-making process while grocery shopping at a supermarket Takeshi Hiramoto and Makoto Hayashi
• 10. Action ascription and action assessment: Ya-suffixed answer to questions in mandarin conversation Yaxin Wu and Guodong Yu
• 11. Actions and identities in emergency calls: the case of thanking Tom Koole and Lotte van Burgsteden
• Part III. Revisiting Action Ascription: 12. Action and accountability in the study of interaction N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell
• 13. The multiple accountabilities of action John Heritage
• Appendices.
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Bringing together a team of global experts, this is the first volume to focus on the ways in which meanings are ascribed to actions in social interaction. It builds on the research traditions of Conversation Analysis and Pragmatics, and highlights the role of interactional, social, linguistic, multimodal, and epistemic factors in the formation and ascription of action-meanings. It shows how inference and intention ascription are displayed and drawn upon by participants in social interaction. Each chapter reveals practices, processes, and uses of action ascription, based on the analysis of audio and video recordings from nine different languages. Action ascription is conceptualised in this volume as not merely a cognitive process, but a social action in its own right that is used for managing interactional concerns and guiding the subsequent course of social interaction. It will be essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students interested in the relationship between language, behaviour and social interaction.
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• Foreword by Gerard Goggin: Imagining and Enacting Hopeful Futures in Human Rights Education
• 1. The Pedagogies of Human Rights: in truthfulness, what should be done?
• Section I: Contexts
• 2. Context-Centred Decolonial Pedagogy for Human Rights Education in Africa
• 3. Human Rights Pedagogy in Context: Critical Indigenous Studies
• 4. "Here We are Equal": Refugee-Run Schools as a Vehicle for Human Rights Pedagogy
• 5. The Pedagogics of Disability-Indigenous Intersectionalities in the Age of Austerity
• 6. Pedagogies of Resistance for Challenging Islamophobia
• Section II: Perspectives
• 7. A Pedagogy of Dissent for Human Rights Education
• 8. Collective Work with People Seeking Asylum: Pedagogical Encounters and the Role of the Human Rights Academic
• 9. Other Echoes in the Garden: Human Rights, Peripheral Vision and Ghosts
• 10. Centring and Decentring the 'Human' in Human Rights Pedagogy
• 11. Human Rights Film Festivals: More than Witnessing
• Section III: Practices
• 12. Cultivating Human Connection in the Everyday: A Practical Model for Solidarity
• 13. Educating the Heart: A Journey into Teaching First Nations Human Rights
• 14. Student Approaches to Learning in Human Rights Education: Supporting Deep and Transformative Learning in Postgraduate Peace and Conflict Studies
• 15. Online Refugee Advocacy Campaigns in Australia: Approaches to Care and an Affective Human Rights Pedagogy
• 16. Mainstreaming Accessible Digital Technologies in Higher Education: A Human Rights Approach to Disability Inclusion
• 17. Roundtable: Connection, Community and Context
• Index.
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In this thought-provoking book, a diverse range of educators, activists, academics, and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture. Addressing approaches and applications to human rights within current socio-cultural, political, socio-legal, environmental, educational, and global contexts, these chapters explore tensions, contradictions, and complexities within human rights education. The book establishes cultural and educational practices as intrinsically linked to human rights consciousness and social justice, showing how signature pedagogies used by human rights practitioners can be intellectual, creative, or a combination of both. Across three sections, the book discusses ways of bringing about holistic, relevant, and compelling approaches for challenging and understanding structures of power, which have become a global system, while also suggesting a move from abstract human rights principles, declarations, and instruments to meaningful changes that do not dehumanise and distance us from intrinsic and extrinsic oppressions, denial of identity and community, and other forms of human rights abuse. Offering new critical cultural studies approaches on how a human rights consciousness arises and is practised, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, education studies, critical sociology, human rights education, and human rights studies.
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• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• 1 Introduction: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
• 1 Literature Review
• 2 Research Design
• 3 Corpus of Analysis
• 4 Structure of the Book
• part 1
• Theoretical Framework and Historical Background 2 The "Reproductive Entrepreneur" Theorizing Neoliberal Politics of Reproduction
• 1 The Entrepreneurial Self
• 2 Biomedicalization, Experts and Scientific Knowledge
• 3 The "Entrepreneurial Self" within the "Culture of Uncertainty" in Contemporary Japan
• 4 The "Reproductive Entrepreneur" in the Network of Technologies of the Self, Biomedicalization and Postfeminist Healthism
• 3 Women's Bodies as Battlefields From "Beget and Multiply" to the "Active Pursuit of Pregnancy"
• 1 Women's Bodies and State Politics: From "Beget and Multiply" to "Family Planning"
• 2 Women Claiming Back Their Bodies: The Women's Health Movement
• 3 Politics of Reproduction and the Low Birth Rate Crisis in Japan
• 4 Gender Backlash and Sex Education
• 5 Assisted Reproductive Technology and Adoption in Contemporary Japan
• 6 Japan as a "Reproductive Gap Society"?
• part 2
• "Active Pursuit of Pregnancy" in Contemporary Japan 4 Mass Media and Postfeminist Politics of Reproduction "Reproductive Entrepreneurship" and Ninkatsu
• 1 The "Active Pursuit of Pregnancy" Appears on Stage
• 2 Marketing the "Active Pursuit of Pregnancy"
• 3 The "Active Pursuit of Pregnancy" in Newspapers
• 4 The Fantasy of the "Reproductive Entrepreneur": From Family Planning to Ninkatsu ?
• 5 The Politics of Science in the Discourse of "Ageing Reproductive Cells" The Gaze of Technology, Happiness and the "Fear of Regret"
• 1 Close-Up Present 's "Unfulfilled Desire to Have Children" - The Shock of Ageing Egg Cells
• 2 Governing the Soul: "Ovarian Ageing" in the Matrix of "Happiness" and "Regret"
• 3 A Remedy for the "Fear of Regret"? A Woman's "Life Game" and Social Freezing in Japan
• 4 The Contemporary "Sperm Crisis", the "Fear of Emasculation" and the "Molecular Gaze"
• 5 Gender, Technology and the "Politics of Science" in Discourses on Ageing Reproductive Cells
• 6 Neoliberal State Politics of Reproduction "Correct Knowledge" and Life Planning as Pronatalist Strategy
• 1 "Correct Knowledge" and Life Planning as Government Strategy in the Context of the Low Birth Rate: An Overview
• 2 Educating the "Reproductive Entrepreneur": Choices and Life Planning
• 3 The Stork Is Back: Infertility Treatment over Contraception in Sex Education
• 4 "A Healthy Life" and Dwindling Egg Reservoirs
• 5 From "Beget and Multiply" to the Strategy of Knowledge Promotion and Life Planning
• 7 Conclusion: Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
• 1 Governing the Population: From "Beget and Multiply" to Life Planning
• 2 Using Technology and Science to Protect the "Normal" Social Order
• 3 (Self-)Governing Body and Soul: Postfeminist Healthism, "Happiness" and "Regret"
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index .
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What is ninkatsu? Who promotes and governs this "active pursuit of pregnancy?" Trying to answer these questions, this unprecedented publication exhibits how mass media, policymakers, and biomedical science-corporate capitalism govern the individual's reproductive choices in contemporary Japan through gendered discourses of self-improvement, life planning, and biomedical technology. Analyzing a broad range of media, popular science, and government material, it links historical and social processes with an original theoretical framework on self-governance, neoliberalism, and postfeminism. While deeply engaging with Japanese sources, this rich scholarship takes the study of reproductive politics beyond Japan. This book is not only of interest for Japanese studies scholars but more broadly also those curious about neoliberal government strategies, gender, and biomedical capitalism.
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How do we take stock of a life-by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. Meanwhile, she becomes the caretaker for her aging stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time-in one piece, the artist confined himself to a cell for a year; in the next, he punched a time clock every hour, on the hour, for a year-and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and tenderly observes her father's slow decline. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, this vivid debut announces Lisa Hsiao Chen as an audacious new talent. Activities of Daily Living is a lucid, intimate examination of the creative life and the passage of time.
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• 1. Introduction, The Syrian Uprising: Between Peaceful Protest and State Failure Part I. Critical Junctures
• 2. Governance amidst Civil War: from Failing Statehood to Competitive regime Re-formation
• 3. Three Faces of the Syrian Contentious Movement: 'Externalisation' of Contention in the Middle Phase of the Syrian Conflict
• 4. The Syrian Civil War's 2015 Impasse: How Russia's Intervention Turned the Tide
• 5. International Conflict Mediation in Syria: From 'Transformation' to 'Containment' Part II. Local Contentious Politics
• 6. The Struggle for Territory: Territorial fragmentation and Competitive Governance in Syria through three case studies
• 7. The Syrian Interim Government: Potential thwarted by domestic 'irrelevance' and foreign neglect
• 8. Who owns the law? Logics of Insurgent Courts in the Syrian War (2012 - 2017)
• 9. The Battle for Deir ez-Zor (2011-2017) Part III. Militarisation, Division, and Regime Resilience
• 10. Alawite Opposition and the Rise of ISIS
• 11. Tribes at War
• 12. Tracing Kurdish Politics in Syria and its Prospects
• 13. How did Muhajiroun become Jihadists? Foreign Fighters and the Geopolitics of the Conflict in Syria Part IV. The War Economy
• 14. Capital, Business Elites and the Syrian Uprising
• 15. Syria's Banking Sector: from crony capitalism to a survivalist strategy amidst the Syrian conflict
• 16. Division and Cooperation among Syrian Businessmen in Turkey: an Investigation of the Political and Economic Behaviour of Syrian Business Migrants Part V. Transnationalism in the Syrian Conflict: Intellectuals to Refugees
• 17. Syrians and the Quest for their voice
• 18. Syrian Intellectuals and the Media: competing narratives and discursive wars
• 19. The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster: Understanding Perceptions and Aspirations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
• 20. Trans-local Activism and the Syrian struggle in global politics - Civil society, agency, and 'new' political spaces.
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This volume covers the "middle" time period of the Syrian uprising, roughly from 2012 when Syria's peaceful protest began to mutate into a violent insurgency and civil war until roughly 2018 when the conflict took on features of a "frozen conflict". The middle period was important as one of key junctures or turning points when the struggle could have reached rather different outcomes. Non-violent protest failed to drive democratization and turned into violent insurrection but revolution from below also failed as did regime counter-insurgency, leaving protracted civil war the default outcome. Second, the consequences of civil war became evident with six themes: failing statehood coexisted with regime resilience; rebel governance emerged as a viable challenge to the regime; social forces were sharply polarized; external actors exacerbated internal divisions; a predatory war economy emerged; and intense violence led to massive displacement of the population. Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that seeks to capture the full complexity of the phenomenon, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the Syrian conflict, therefore it will be of interest to academics, students, journalists and policy-makers interested in the Syrian civil war.
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• Introduction : the richest country in the world
• The coloniality of the resource : historicizing Andean abundance
• Contesting the resource : ecologies of attachment in a time of water precarity
• Staging growth : the choreography of indigenous plenty
• Economies of empowerment : making mature subjects
• Extractive care : cattle, contamination, and climate change at the Tintaya Mine
• Conclusion : returns

Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means-and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach. This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru's new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify income sources; and identifying every dimension of one's daily life as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required. Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant physical and emotional labor, Acts of Growth follows a diverse group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an economy grow.
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• 1. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in Spain: a State of the Art
• Section I. Translations 2. Smith, Campomanes and a Networked Translator: John Geddes and the Early History of English Print in Spain 3. Vicente Alcala-Galiano: an Interpretation of Smith Between the Public Sphere and the State Apparatus 4. A New Analysis of Martinez de Irujo's Compendio de la Riqueza de las Naciones and the Role of Marquis de Condorcet 5. The First Complete Spanish Translation of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: Jose Alonso Ortiz's Riqueza de las naciones (1794) 6. Jose Alonso Ortiz, Adam Smith's translator: a new interpretation
• Section II. Influences 7. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: The First Spanish Readings in Spain, 1777-1800 8. Nuancing Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations' Reception and Influences in Spain, 1800-1820 9. "Readings" of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations by Spanish Economists, 1820-1840
• Section III. Institutions 10. Adam Smith in the Spanish Press, 1780-1808 11. Adam Smith in the Chairs on Political Economy in Spain, 1780-1823 12. Adam Smith and the Cortes of Cadiz (1810-1813): more than Enlightened Liberalism 13. Adam Smith in the Economic Debates during the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823), the Second Liberal Exile and Hispanic America 14. Spanish Translations of The Wealth of Nations: Beyond the Enlightenment, 1792-2020.
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Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book's fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe. This book looks at the long journey of Smith's ideas from Scotland to peninsular Spain, reconstructing in detail the reception, adaptation, interpretation, and application of Smith's central concepts from 1777 up to 1840. In light of methodological advances during the last two decades in the history of economic thought and the studies on the late Spanish Enlightenment and early Liberalism, the book tackles a series of significant issues and gaps in the historiography. In particular: this book sheds new light on the role of France as an intermediate step as the ideas spread from Britain southwards; the analysis draws not just on translations but also handwritten materials, book reviews, syntheses, summaries, plagiarism and rebuttals; a wide range of methods of dissemination are considered including the printing press and periodicals, parliamentary debates, academic chairs and societies; the role of individual translators and agents is given due prominence; the political interpretations of the Wealth of Nations and the ways in which the book was incorporated into the work of Spanish economists in the decades following publication are also considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the reception of Smith's Wealth of Nations, studies of the Spanish Enlightenment and history of economic thought more broadly.
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• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations to Adam Smith's Works
• Introduction
• Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory
• Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law
• Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville
• Whose Corruption, Which Polity?
• The Conspiracy of the Merchants
• Conclusion
• Index.

"A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he matters. Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher--one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. But Smith's contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith's political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change. Rather than seeing Smith as either the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of commerce lay primarily in the corrupting effects of trade, Sagar shows why Smith is more thoroughly a political thinker who made major contributions to the history of political thought. Smith, Sagar argues, saw war, not commerce, as the engine of political change and he was centrally concerned with the political, not moral, dimensions of--and threats to--commercial societies. In this light, the true contours and power of Smith's foundational contributions to western political thought emerge as never before. Offering major reinterpretations of Smith's political, moral, and economic ideas, Adam Smith Reconsidered seeks to revolutionize how he is understood. In doing so, it recovers Smith's original way of doing political theory, one rooted in the importance of history and the necessity of maintaining a realist sensibility, and from which we still have much to learn." -- Book jacket flaps.

• Introduction: Macbeth and Mackbeth, the prequel
• Political Macbeth
• "The gracious Duncan" and "our eldest, Malcolm"
• The return of Fleance
• Noir Macbeth
• Recuperating Lady Macbeth
• Novelizing Macbeth
• Global and racial Macbeth
• Macbeth, the musical
• Epilogue: Macbeth

In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to 'improve' or 'correct' the play's perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth's popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband and wife. The study ranges across elite and popular culture divides: from Sir William Davenant's adaptation for the Restoration stage (1663-4), an early 18th-century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi's Macbeth, through to 20th- and 21st-century adaptations for stage and screen, as well as contemporary novelizations, young adult literature and commercial appropriations that testify to the play's absorption into contemporary culture.
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• 1. Adaptive Collaborative Management: Experiential and Theoretical Forebearers
• 2. Local People's Perspective on Action Learning: Impressions from the Amazon
• 3. Researcher Collaboration Complexities in Participatory Action Research: Zambian Experiences
• 4. Gender and Adaptive Collaborative Management in a Forested Ugandan Landscapes
• 5. Strengthening Women's Tenure Rights and Participation in Community Forestry in Central Uganda
• 6. Capacity Building for ACM: Lessons Learned from Training in Distinct Contexts
• 7. Learning from Adaptive Collaborative Management: A Participatory Tool to Support Adaptive and Reflective Learning in Multi-Stakeholder Forums
• 8. How Adaptive Collaborative Management Can Leverage Changes in Power: Insights from Social Theory
• 9. Can Activist Engagements have Research Outcomes? The Case of ACM and Participatory Action Research
• 10. Circles and Spirals.
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This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities. Many forest management proposals are based on top-down strategies, such as the Million Tree Initiatives, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and REDD+, often neglecting local communities. In the context of the climate crisis, it is imperative that local peoples and communities are an integral part of all decisions relating to resource management. Rather than being seen as beneficiaries or people to be safeguarded, they should be seen as full partners, and Adaptive Collaborative Management is an approach which priorities the rights and roles of communities alongside the need to address the environmental crisis. The volume presents detailed case studies and real life examples from across the globe, promoting and prioritizing the voices of women and scholars and practitioners from the Global South who are often under-represented. Providing concrete examples of ways that a bottom-up approach can function to enhance development sustainably, via its practitioners and far beyond the locale in which they initially worked, this volume demonstrates the lasting utility of approaches like Adaptive Collaborative Management that emphasize local control, inclusiveness and local creativity in management. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development and natural resource management and development studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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• Adaptive mediation and conflict resolution in contemporary and future armed conflicts / Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, and Rui Saraiva
• Adaptive mediation / Cedric de Coning
• Adaptive mediation in Colombia: Toward institutional capacity building amid complexity and uncertainty / Lina Penagos
• Peacemaking from within: Adaptive mediation of direct dialogue in Mozambique's new peace process (2013-2019) / Rui Saraiva
• Adapting from outsider to insider mediation in the Bangsamoro peace process, southern Philippines / Miyoko Taniguchi
• Exploring mediation efforts amid systemic and domestic constraints: The case of the Syrian conflict / Ako Muto
• Adapting to uncertainty: What have we learned from mediation and conflict resolution in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria / Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, and Rui Saraiva.

• Introduction: A place for health and resilience
• "We, who would otherwise not meet" : the people of the ministries
• Much more than watermelon roadkill : the place of the ministries
• Healthy things : resilience resources of the ministries
• Uncertain sanctuary : the ministries' collaboration with cocaine anonymous
• Silence in our midst : (in)visibility and voice at the ministries
• Change gon' come : the flourishing and decline of the ministries
• Faith-based best practices : how a fractured ministries can heal

"Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Note on the text and translation
• Daily Worship
• Ballad in the Melody of Hope
• Discourse with the Siddhas
• Thematic Compositions
• Selections Across Musical Modes
• Notes to the translation
• Concordance
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology. The scripture was expanded and enriched by his nine successors, and Sikhs continue to revere it today as the embodiment of their tradition. Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers a compilation of spiritual lyrics showcasing the range and depth of Guru Nanak's literary style while conveying his pluralistic vision of the singular divine and his central values of equality, inclusivity, and civic action. This new English translation includes celebrated long hymns such as "Alphabet on the Board" and "Ballad of Hope" alongside innovative shorter poems like "The Hours." It is presented here alongside the original text in Gurmukhi, the script developed by the Guru himself.
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• Introduction: Something new in the world
• The lucky bag
• Mastering power
• The two hats
• Richover made us do it
• Another Dreyfus case?
• Underway on nuclear power
• Atoms for peace
• Nautilus 90 North
• Education and freedom
• A different kind of man
• The chair with the short legs
• The Crusade
• Ships and horse turds
• The longest-serving officer
• Epilogue: like falling in love
• Acknowledgements
• Notes

Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy," Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899-1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to steam, his development of nuclear-propelled submarines and ships transformed naval power and Cold War strategy. They still influence world affairs today.0 His disdain for naval regulations, indifference to the chain of command, and harsh, insulting language earned him enemies in the navy, but his achievements won him powerful friends in Congress and the White House. A Jew born in a Polish shtetl, Rickover ultimately became the longest-serving U.S. military officer in history.0 In this exciting new biography, historian Marc Wortman explores the constant conflict Rickover faced and provoked, tracing how he revolutionized the navy and Cold War strategy

• Foreword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA) Introduction 1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: Introduction Caren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA) Part I
• Thought After Fascism 2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War Pedagogy Jakob Norberg (Duke University, USA) 3. Breathtaking Leaps, " or from Doorknobs to Fascism Oshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno's Philosophy of the Nonidentical)
• Part II
• The Effects of the Aphorism 4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada) 5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia Wyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA) Part III
• A Labor Theory of the Present 6. "The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job": Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the Capitalocene Clint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 7. Self-Preservation, Self-Destruction Caleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA)
• Part IV
• Adorno's Ecology 8. Adorno and Animality After Auschwitz Andrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA) 9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the Anthropocene Caren Irr (Brandeis University, USA) Bibliography Index.
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This interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century. Contributing authors situate Adorno at the heart of contemporary debates on the ecological crisis, the changing nature of work, the idea of utopia, and the rise of fascism. Exploring the role of critical pedagogy in shaping responses to fascistic regimes, alongside discussions of extractive economies and the need for leisure under increasingly precarious working conditions, this volume makes new connections between Minima Moralia and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of Minima Moralia and its connection to Adorno's wider commitment to small and minor literary forms, which enable capitalist critique to be both subversive and poetic. This critique is further located in Adorno's discussion of a utopia that is reliant on complete rejection of the totalising system of capitalism. The distinctive feature of such a utopia for Adorno is dependent upon individual suffering and subsequent survival, an argument this book connects to the mutually constitutive relationship between ecological destruction and right-wing authoritarianism. These timely readings of Adorno's Minima Moralia teach us to adapt through our survival, and to pursue a utopia based on his central ideas. In the process, opening up theoretical spaces and collapsing the physical borders between us in the spirit of Adorno's lifelong project.
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• 1. A brief history of the economics of sport Robert Butler
• 2. Methods and theories commonly applied in sports economics Robert Simmons
• 3. Economics, analytics and decisions: some insights from professional team sports on the importance of context Bill Gerrard Part I Team sports 4. Introduction to the economics of major league baseball Rodney Fort
• 5. Understanding the NBA through the lens of economic research Alex Cardazzi and Brad R. Humphreys
• 6. The economics of Association Football David Butler and Robert Butler
• Part II English "bat and ball" sports 7. It's just not cricket: rules and the gentleman's game James Reade, Carl Singleton and Sarah Jewell
• 8. Incentive effects: assessing effort and heterogeneity in professional tennis Ferdi Botha and Byron Chadwick
• 9. The rise of T20 and the Indian Premier League Patrick Massey
• Part III Horse racing and sports betting 10. The peculiar economics of horse racing David Forrest
• 11. Economic issues of horse racing in Ireland Tracy Bradfield, Robert Butler and Thia Hennessy
• 12. All jockeys are equal but some jockeys are more equal than others Vanessa Cashmore
• 13. The economics of sports betting and sports betting in economics Julio del Corral and Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez
• Part V Refereeing 14. On and off-field behaviour of match officials in professional team sports Peter Dawson, Patrick Massey and Paul Downward
• 15. Do umpires prefer blonds (and other noticeable types) to take Charlie home? Liam J. A. Lenten
• Part VI Indigenous football 16. Playing senior inter-county Gaelic games: the time commitments given and consequences Elish Kelly
• 17. Comparing tie breaker modes in an alternate Australia football league draft-pick allocation policy Noel Boys and Liam J. A. Lenten
• Part VII Economics of sports funding 18. Public finance and sport John Considine
• 19. Spatial distribution and sports infrastructure John Eakins.
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The data that professional sport generates, which is almost unparalleled in any other industry, provides a wealth of information for the economist to analyse. Sport offers economists the opportunity to study the behaviour, choices and outcomes of the decisions of players, referees, regulators and governments. Advances in Sports Economics is a collection of newly commissioned essays that examine a wide range of different sports, including baseball, basketball, cricket, football, horse racing, rugby, tennis and Gaelic games. The contributors consider economic issues such as incentives, rule changes, labour markets, competition structure, gambling, gender equality, match official behaviour, superstar players, funding and sports infrastructure as well as interogating the methods and theories used in sports economics. The essays showcase how the application of economic analysis can provide us with a better understanding of the mechanics of professional sport.
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The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, and a spy. The first to tell his own story, in his massive autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love affairs, as well as dramatic sagas of duels, swindles, arrests, and escapes. He knew kings and an empress, Catherine the Great, and most of the famous writers of the time, including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on seldom used materials, Leo Damrosch situates Casanova fully in the multiple subcultures he inhabited. Reading Casanova's memoir with a critical eye and engaging extensively with his non-autobiographical writings, he brings alive this extraordinary figure and the eighteenth-century world that Casanova knew so intimately. Casanova aspired to a life of freedom from restraints, but, Damrosch asks, freedom at whose expense?

• Daoist realism : the challenge to the school of law in the radical Lao-Zhuang tradition and its lessons for realist theories of international relations / John A. Rapp
• The Han Feizi and the presidential bubble / Gordon B. Mower
• Han Fei and ethics in the corporate realm / Eirik Lang Harris
• Applying Han Fei's critique of Confucianism to contemporary Confucian meritocracy / Zujie Jeremy Huang
• The legal vocation of Chinese scholar-officials : a plan for reform / Kenneth Winston
• Hegemony : China's foreign policy through Han Feizian lenses / Henrique Schneider
• Politics, language, and mind in early Chinese legalist ideas : focusing on the comparison of Shen Buhai with Han Fei / Soon-ja Yang
• Chinese legalist analysis of German administrative law-tripolar action modes and reconceptualized rulership / Philipp Renninger
• Han Fei's genealogical arguments / Lee Wilson
• Amoral desert? Han Fei's theory of punishment / Eirik Lang Harris
• Ideal interpretation of political texts / Al Martinich

"Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, for example in international relations and the morality of the public sector"-- Provided by publisher

• Adventure
• Holderhaven
• Scenes from the renaissance
• Ash City stomp
• Horses blow up dog city --The master key --Circa
• At the fair
• Pete and Earl
• The ornithopter
• Stronghold
• Delta function
• Give up
• Chcemistry set
• Under green
• Sunnyside

"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's the historic house, where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school, and couldn't resist going to see where it led. Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of the way. Butner's allusive and elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of life-where there are no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a tree might talk to just one person, where Death's Fool is not to be ignored.
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"Ælfric of Eynsham stands supreme as a distinguished homilist, translator, and moralist - one whose writings were sought by the most powerful churchmen and landed warlords of his day. In his sermons, the dead are raised to life, innocents are betrayed, civilizations come to ruin, prophecies are finally fulfilled, and sorrow is swallowed up in salvation. He offers guidance regarding sex, financial counsel, botanical excursuses, etymological asides, lions cowed by roosters, arch-heretics disemboweled, and seemingly inconsequential figures receiving everlasting crowns. He also considers the origin of Antichrist, recounts supernatural visions of damnation and deliverance, teases out the tension between predestination and free will, explores the multifarious nature of the soul, seeks to categorize creation, and presses the boundaries of conceptual capacity in describing the divine nature. Treatises take up such subjects as the Holy Spirit, cognition, penitence, and proper comportment. Private prayers appear alongside public declarations of the Christian faith found in the Paternoster and the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds.The thirty-one texts presented here, with facing translations, span the course of his career: Old English and Latin, ordinary and alliterative prose, pithy prayers and exhaustive exegesis. Nine appear in print for the first time; others for the first time in well over 100 years. Introductions to the texts offer overviews of the content, composition, and circulation of each work, using the fruits of the latest research to envision real-world contexts for their use in specific places, among particular groups, and by certain individuals. Meanwhile, the commentary traces Ælfric's role in the history of ideas, examining his relationship to over 100 sources, 200 other Ælfrician works, and over 1,000 biblical passages; it seeks to clarify Ælfric's compositional aims and further to establish the authorship and date of these remarkable writings from early England." -- Publisher's website

• Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1. Towards the End of the Millennium: 1992-9 1992 Angels in America Faith Healer Moby Dick The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
• 1993 Is there Life after Deptford? 400 Years since the Death of Christopher Marlowe Arcadia Moonlight Cabaret
• 1994 The Atheist's Tragedy Footfalls John Gielgud: a celebration of his 90th birthday The Queen and I/Road Measure for Measure Pentecost The Life and Legacy of John Osborne
• 1995 Blasted Letters to the Editor about Blasted Dealer's Choice Skylight The Importance of Being Earnest/ Private Lives Mojo
• 1996 Shakespeare on Screen The Beauty Queen of Leenane Divine Right Hedda Gabler Ashes to Ashes
• 1997 Bird and Fortune Ivanov A Six-Point Plan for Theatre Playhouse Creatures Blue Heart The Weir
• 1998 An Experiment With An Air Pump Naked Cleansed Copenhagen The Merchant of Venice/As You Like It Via Dolorosa
• 1999 The Colour Of Justice Lift Off 71 House and Garden Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants Mnemonic Noel Coward Centenary
• 2. Hopes of Renewal: 2000-9 2000 The Island Celebration/The Room Richard II Blue/Orange 4.48 Psychosis The Bogus Woman Is there a Crisis in Black Theatre?
• 2001 A Raisin in the Sun Alive From Palestine Mother Clap's Molly House The Seagull No Man's Land
• 2002 The York Realist Up For Grabs The Marriage of Figaro Frozen The Coast of Utopia Joan Littlewood A Number
• 2003 Iphigenia Henry V Fallout The Elephant Vanishes Iain Duncan Smith's Leader's Speech at the Conservative Party Conference The Sugar Syndrome Cut-Price Shakespeare Lear's Daughters
• 2004 The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? When Harry Met Sally Endgame Festen Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads Guantanamo Stuff Happens Thou shalt not cough Don Carlos
• 2005 Professor Bernhardi Mammals Is the Fashion for the 90-minute Play suffocating Dramatists? Elmina's Kitchen Talking to Terrorists Death of a Salesman Blackbird The Wild Duck
• 2006 Nights at the Circus Resurrection Blues The Clean House Rock 'N' Roll Frost/Nixon A Moon for the Misbegotten Krapp's Last Tape
• 2007 The Seagull Black Watch King Lear Macbeth The Crisis in West End Theatre Noughts and Crosses
• 2008 Tribute to Paul Scofield 1922-2008 Gone With the Wind The English Game The Pitmen Painters Her Naked Skin Hamlet Breaking the Rules: Leading Article on Harold Pinter Tribute to Harold Pinter
• 2009 Be Near Me Death and the King's Horseman The Arts in the 1980s: Reflections on Theatre under Margaret Thatcher The Great Game: Afghanistan The Contingency Plan Jerusalem Enron Critic's Notebook
• 3. Bright Spots in the Lost Decade: 2010-19 2010 Off the Endz Sweet Nothings Ruined Religion and Theatre The Persians The Game Onassis Men Should Weep
• 2011 What's Wrong with Spoilers? The League of Youth The Merchant of Venice truth and reconciliation Othello Tribute to Shelagh Delaney Foxfinder The Animals and Children Took to the Streets
• 2012 Signs of Second-Rate Plays Julius Caesar Ten Billion Three Sisters This House All That Fall Red Velvet The Effect
• 2013 The Audience Chimerica A Season in the Congo Handbagged The Scottsboro Boys 50 Years of The National Theatre
• 2014 Ellen Terry With Eileen Atkins King Charles III Khandan (Family) Wonderland Ballyturk The James Plays Gypsy
• 2015 Oppenheimer The Hard Problem Nicholas Hytner's 12-year-reign as Director of the National Lampedusa The Trial Hamlet Hangmen Tribute to Brian Friel Elf the Musical
• 2016 Escaped Alone Cleansed Hamlet The Flick 246 Sixty Years of the Royal Court Why Shakespeare lives on 400 Years after his Death Father Comes Home from the Wars Oil The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism King Lear
• 2017 Hamlet Consent The Ferryman An Octoroon Barber Shop Chronicles Donald Trump and Shakespeare Fatherland Girl From The North Country Tribute to Sir Peter Hall Albion Ken Dodd at 90
• 2018 The Inheritance The Writer Nine Night Red The Jungle The Lehman Trilogy Caryl Churchill at 80 Company The Watsons Sweat
• 2019 Our Lady of Kibeho Rutherford and Son Betrayal Kunene and the King Small Island Romersholm Ian McKellen The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil Fleabag A Very Expensive Poison Three Sisters Letter to Oliver Dowden in The Guardian
• Index.
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"The best theatrical read of the year." - British Theatre Guide A book of selected theatre reviews from 1992 to 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Starting each chapter is a brief commentary on the developments of that era and the social, political and cultural context within which this theatre was being produced. Also included are key obituaries and letters in response to reviews written, providing a rich collection of curated archival material. Following on from his first collection, One Night Stands, Michael Billington's chronicle offers a rich, authoritative insight into British theatre over the last 3 decades from his unique professional perspective. It begins with Tony Kushner's UK premiere of Angels in America at the National Theatre in 1992 and culminates with Inua Ellams's celebrated adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the same venue almost 30 years later. En route, we're exposed to the fallibility of theatre criticism through his much-regretted original criticism of Sarah Kane's Blasted and its role in identifying major talents at the first opportunity. Having recently retired from his 48-year position as the Guardian newspaper's drama critic during which time he wrote around 10,000 theatre reviews, Michael Billiington was Britain's longest-serving theatre critic. Through his work, he was present at an eye-watering number of premieres during this time and witnessed first-hand the exciting developments in British theatre over the past 30 years and the substantial pressures it faced - never more so than today.
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"This timely book presents the contexts and perspectives needed for imagining possible decolonial futures for twenty-first century Puerto Rico"-- Provided by publisher.

• Afghanistan's many pasts
• Kabul
• Moscow
• Islamabad
• Peshawar-Panshir
• Washington
• Nasir Bagh
• Geneva
• Back to Kabul
• Epilogue.

"Offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Cold War. Based on extensive, multilingual research in archives across South Asia, Europe, and North America. Draws on recently declassified US documents"-- Publisher's website.
"A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of the world's superpowers would go to vie for supremacy in the global Cold War. The Soviet war, and parallel covert American aid to Afghan resistance fighters, would come to be a defining event of international politics in the final years of the Cold War, lingering far beyond the Soviet Union's own demise. Yet Cold War competition is only a small part of the story. Soviet troops entered a country already at war with itself. A century of debates within Afghanistan over the nature of modern nationhood culminated in a 1978 coup in which self-described Afghan communists pledged to fundamentally reshape Afghanistan. Instead what broke out was a civil war in which Afghans asserted competing models of Afghan statehood. Afghan socialists and Islamists came to the fore of this conflict in the 1980s, thanks in part to Soviet and American involvement, but they represented a broader movement for local articulations of social and political modernity that did not derive from foreign models. Afghans, in conversation with foreigners, set many of the parameters of the conflict. This sweeping history moves between centres of state in Kabul, Moscow, Islamabad, and Washington, the halls of global governance in Geneva and New York, resistance hubs in Peshawar and Panjshir, and refugee camps scattered across Pakistan's borderlands to tell a story that is much more expansive than the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - a global history of a moment of crisis not just for Afghanistan or the Cold War but international relations and the postcolonial state."-- Publisher's website.

• Introduction: "Impatient of oppression" in early African American writing in transition / Rhondda Robinson Thomas
• Part I. Limits and liberties of early Black print culture: Early Black evangelical writing and the limits of print / Joseph Rezek
• The circulation of early Black Atlantic literature / Eric D. Lamore
• What makes a text "Black"? from authorship to metadata / Jordan Alexander Stein
• Part II. Black writing and revolution: Anglo-Africans writing themselves into history during the Age of Revolution / Daniel C. Littlefield
• Joining the revolution African American writing in the Era of Independence / Thomas J. Davis
• Black literary engagement with the Haitian Revolution / Ronald Angelo Johnson
• Part III. Early African American Life in literature: Reading and building a nation; or, everyday living (while Black) in early America / Tara A. Bynum
• Respectability politics and early African American literature / Cassander L. Smith
• Early Black futures / Brigitte Fielder
• Part IV. Evolutions of early Black literature: Black authors and British national identity, 1763-1791 / Ryan Hanley
• The Competing demands of early African American literature / Katy L. Chiles
• Black letters close the eighteenth century / John Saillant.

"This volume provides an illuminating exploration of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective-in Africa, England, and the Americas. It juxtaposes analyses of writings by familiar authors like Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano with those of lesser known or examined works by writers such as David Margrett and Isabel de Olvera to explore how issues including forced migration, enslavement, authorship, and racial identity influenced early Black literary production and how theoretical frameworks like Afrofuturism and intersectionality can enrich our understanding of texts produced in this period. Chapters grouped in four sections-Limits and Liberties of Early Black Print Culture, Black Writing and Revolution, Early African American Life in Literature, and Evolutions of Early Black Literature-examine how transitions coupled with conceptions of race, the impacts of revolution, and the effects of religion shaped the trajectory of authors' lives and the production of their literature. Rhondda Robinson Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University specializing in early African American literature. She is the author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770-1903 (2013). Her essays have appeared in African American Review and American Literary History. She is a member of the Society of Early Americanists"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface Acknowledgments
• 1. Indiana Becomes a State
• 2. Early Indianapolis
• 3. The Shame of Indianapolis
• 4. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
• 5. "Negroes, Yaw Go Back to Africa!"
• 6. The Civil War and Beyond
• 7. Post-Civil War Achievement
• 8. Power of the Fourth Estate
• 9. Dawn of the Struggle
• 10. The Twentieth Century-Going "Up South"
• 11. Francis "Frank" Flanner
• 12. White Policemen Murdered! Where's Jesse Coe?
• 13. The Indianapolis Recorder-Catalyst for Change-The Monster Meetings/Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A.
• 14. Madame C. J. Walker and Early African-American Female Trailblazers
• 15. The Roarin' Twenties!
• 16. David Curtis Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan
• 17. Crispus Attucks High School
• 18. A Decade of Turmoil/Lockefield Gardens
• 19. Heroes and Sheroes of World War II
• 20. The 1950s
• 21. Entertainment Industry Flexes Its Muscle
• 22. The Black Community Battles Negative Stereotypes and Introduces Jazz and Poetry
• 23. Indiana Avenue Jazz Connection/MacArthur Conservatory of Music/The Exodus
• 24. Historic "Firsts" of the 1950s and Its Movers and Shakers
• 25. Urban Renewal or Negro Removal?
• 26. Woman of Valor Bibliography Index.
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Indianapolis has long been steeped in important moments in African American history, from businesswoman Madame C. J. Walker's success to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the founding of Crispus Attucks High School, which remained segregated through the 1960s. In African Americans in Indianapolis, author and historian David Leander Williams explores this history by examining the daunting and horrendous historical events African Americans living in Indianapolis encountered between 1820 and 1970, as well as the community's determination to overcome these challenges. Revealing many events that have yet to be recorded in history books, textbooks, or literature, Williams chronicles the lives and careers of many influential individuals and the organizations that worked tirelessly to open doors of opportunity to the entire African American community. African Americans in Indianapolis serves as a reminder of the advancements that Black midwestern ancestors made toward freedom and equality, as well as the continual struggle against inequalities that must be overcome.
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• Introduction: Imagining of a Post-COVID-19 Church in Africa Martin Munyao
• Chapter 1: Understanding COVID-19 Disease and the Church in Africa: Infections, Containment, and Vaccines Natalia Gitu and Peter Martin Gitu
• Chapter 2: 'Can these Bones Live?': African Christianity and Human Security in Post-Covid-19 Era Chammah J. Kaunda
• Chapter 3: The Church and Food Security in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Call for Decolonializing the African Mind Joseph Muutuki
• Chapter 4: Environmental Justice and the Church in Post-COVID-19 Era Peter Durito
• Chapter 5: Religious Diplomacy and Interstate Relations During COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Interfaith Engagements in Mediating for Peace and Harmony in the East African Region Martin Munyao and Maureen Muturi
• Chapter 6: The Church and Humanitarian Crisis in The Post-Covid-19 Era Sylvia Tuikong
• Chapter 7: The Church, Family, and Gender-Based Violence in the Post-COVID-19 Era Patrick Musembi, Joseph Muutuki, and Josephine Munyao
• Chapter 8: Assessing the Preparedness of the Church in Handling Mental Health Cases in Society in the Post-COVID-19 Period John Mudegu
• Chapter 9: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Socioeconomic Vulnerability of Households: An Assessment of Poverty Eradication Strategies Employed by Christian Chapel, Kenya Patrick Musembi
• Chapter 10: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Education in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities Evelyn Jepkemei and Martin Munyao
• Chapter 11: The Church Will Provide: The Church and Public Education in Kenya Wandia Njoya
• Chapter 12: Church, COVID-19, and Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: Strategies for Intervention by the Post-COVID Church Sylvia Muriuki.
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The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church's role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.
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"One of the most unprecedented developments in the history of the scientific study of psychology in postcolonial Africa is the recent welcome inclusion of the study of African psychology within the psychology degree curriculum of some foreword-thinking African universities. In each of those universities (such as the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa), there now exists a gradual entrenchment of the African-derived psychology in the curricular provisions of their psychology degree programmes. With particular reference to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, for instance, a number of African psychology-based modules have recently been developed, approved and incorporated into the list of modules for psychology degree students at the undergraduate, Honours, and the Master's degree levels (see University of KwaZulu-Natal, College of Humanities' Handbook, 2018)"-- Provided by publisher

hwaet, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly... Welcome to Denmark's Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, Saxon's cradle-made monster. Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and monstrous backlash, a Mediaeval fracas that only the eponymous Beowulf can quash. Sailing across the whaleroads, he arrives to "quell and queltch and quatch the Grendel beast." Beowulf, that still-recognizable hero, embodies a "blank" function, a motive-driven yet motiveless megastar. He's the young, fit, male, self-sacrificing protagonist-interloper who will fight any monster to protect his people. Or to defend strangers. Or to gain a reputation. Or because he just really wants to... In her rendering of Beowulf, Nicole Markotic offers a rollicking cover song of fantastical text. These pages will surprise readers as they introduce new ways to embrace, challenge, or click with Anglo-Saxon heroics. Writing original poems, Markotic de-stories the story of one man, who mostly does not play well with others, who fights monsters (and defeats their mothers, too), and who practically invents the poetic tradition of entitled bravery. Upending the tale with her fresh and enchanting style, Markotic gives a nod to previous translations, winks at canonical critics, bares historical biases, all while gifting transmogrifying pages that will whet your whimsy! "Nicole Markotic takes the original English-language epic and reprocesses it. That is, she rereads, rewrites, reimagines, rethinks, and retells it, all at the same time. The result is the story re-understood. The phrasing and incantation is Markotic's own (and our era's own), deployed with deliciously textured and diverse registers of language. Blake saw infinity in the palm of his hand. Markotic puts a millennium in yours." -Wayde Compton, author of The Outer Harbour "Beowulf, with its unfathomable monsters and monster-slaying hero, its bro world of mead, boasting, weapons, and booty, remains a stubbornly relevant template for much of our contemporary scene. Nicole Markotic's After Beowulf handles all this with dazzling sprezzatura. It is a pleasure to follow the narrating, condensing, commenting voice as it sashays through a range of verbal registers from high Olsonic to comic book pratfall, snark to scholarship. After Beowulf provides an up-to-date reading of Beowulf through the eyes of a feminist poet. And it continually suggests what things might be like after Beowulf." -Bob Perelman, author of Jack and Jill in Troy "The collision of ancient and colloquial language creates bursts of humour as my dude Beowulf makes his way into the banquet hall and beyond. Linger here to experience the aesthetics of poetry in action: vibrant and intensely moving, we feel the wrenching pain of Grendel's mother. Markotic's language is thick with meaning and light with humour: a creation of the most projective of verses." -Jacqueline Turner, author of Flourish.
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An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time "Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth reading."-Andrew Stark, Wall Street Journal "Aims to persuade America's 'relentlessly rational' elites to acknowledge the existence of 'divinity.' . . . Kronman's ambition is to repair 'the schism between those for whom religion continues to matter and those who view it with amusement or contempt.'"-Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal Many people of faith believe the meaning of life depends on our connection to an eternal order of some kind. Atheists deride this belief as a childish superstition. In this wise and profound book, Anthony Kronman offers an alternative to these two entrenched positions, arguing that neither addresses the complexities of the human condition. We can never reach God, as religion promises, but cannot give up the longing to do so either. We are condemned by our nature to set goals we can neither abandon nor fulfill, yet paradoxically are able to approach more closely if we try. The human condition is one of inevitable disappointment tempered by moments of joy. Resolutely humanistic and theologically inspired, this moving book offers a rational path to the love of God amidst the disenchantments of our time.
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• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE: The Latin American Decolonial CHAPTER TWO: Indigeneity, Gender and Law CHAPTER THREE: Religion and Culture: Popular, Indigenous and Hegemonic CHAPTER FOUR: From Popular Culture to the Cultures of the People: Evangelical Christianity as a Challenge to the Decolonial
• CONCLUSION: Democratizing Democracy
• NOTES REFERENCES.
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After the Decolonial examines the sources of Latin American decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinas and its historical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropology of ethnicity, law and religion and of the region's modern culture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawing inspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, and from a lifelong engagement with issues of development, religion and race. The decolonial places race at the centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquely unsettling nature of Latin American race relations, which perpetuate prejudice and inequality, yet are marked by metissage, pervasive borrowing and mimesis. Moreover, it has not integrated its own disruptive feminist branch, and it has taken little interest in either the interwoven history of indigenous religion and hegemonic Catholicism or the evangelical tsunami which has upended so many assumptions about the region's culture. The book concludes that in Latin America, where inequality and violence are more severe than anywhere else, and where COVID-19 has revealed the deplorable state of the institutions charged with ensuring the basic requirements of life, the time has come to instate a universalist concept of social justice, encompassing a comprehensive approach to race, gender, class and human rights.
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• Russians in Paris: Cast of characters
• La Tournée des Grands Ducs
• "We really did stagger the world"
• "Paris taught me, enriched me, beggared me, put me on my feet"
• "We had outlived our epoch and were doomed"
• "I never thought I would have to drag out my life as an émigré"
• "Paris is full of Russians"
• "How ruined Russians earn a living"
• "We are not in exile, we are on a mission"
• Emperor Kirill of all the Russias
• "Ubiquitous intriguers," spies, and assassins
• "A far violin among near balalaikas"
• "I forever pity the exile, a prisoner, an invalid"

"From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all Belle Epoque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation such as Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents plotted espionage and assassination from both sides. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon. This is their story"-- Provided by publisher

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Taikōki: a fictional hero emerges
• Hideyoshi's war: Yoshikawa Eiji's Shinsho Taikōki and Hideyoshi as World War II hero
• The salaryman samurai: Hideyoshi as business model
• The women of the realm: Hideyoshi as social criticism
• Things best left unseen: the problem of Hideyoshi in the twenty-first century
• Epilogue: Whither Hideyoshi?

"By analyzing representations of the famous sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi in historical fiction, this book explores how and why Hideyoshi has had a continued and ever-changing presence in Japanese popular culture. These multiple fictionalized histories reveal a Hideyoshi who is always changing to meet the needs of the current era, expanding our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Zero hour?
• In ruins
• The great migration
• Dancing frenzy
• Love amidst the rubble
• Robbing, rationing, black-market trading
• lessons for the market economy
• The economic miracle and the fear of immorality
• The re-educators
• The cold war of art and the design of democracy
• Afterword: Happiness

"A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher
The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins: no mail, no trains, no traffic. Bodies were still being found beneath the rubble. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future-- and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today. -- adapted from jacket

• The Mediterranean
• Baptism of fire
• Sicily
• Mud, mules and mountains
• Bloody ridge
• Naples
• The agony of Anzio
• Breakout
• France
• La belle France
• Blitzkrieg in Provence
• The quarry
• The frozen crust
• At all costs
• Germany
• "Murphy crowds Britt"
• "The heart of darkness"
• Peace
• No peace within
• Coming home

"The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II -- all Medal of Honor recipients -- from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress. As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be -- and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?"-- Provided by publisher

• How to fornicate
• Against heaven
• We would hex the president but
• Love poem -1: Chicago (CST) to Bangalore (GMT+5:30)
• Black as:
• Voice clear as
• The lion Tamer's daughter learners the rules
• Sunday closet
• A financial planner asks about my goals, or golden shovel with cardi B's "money"
• Mr. Hotep says #Blacklivematter and he'd kill a dyke
• Love letter from Pampeii
• The lion tamer's daughter vs. the whip
• No more white girls, or what I learned from father
• 44 questions to ask while bingeing
• Catatonia mercy/or what i learned from mother
• The virus
• against heaven
• Excerpt from the book of oceans
• Theory of plate tectonics
• Prayer in child's pose
• The oldest song
• After we ruin my love's heart, the God of Annihilation prays back to me
• The lonely dream in fevers
• The lion tamer's daughter vs. full moon in leo
• Soft & beautiful just for me relaxer, no-lye conditioning creme, children's regular
• At H&M, when another black girl asks if I work here
• Undelivered message to the sky: November 9, 2016
• Depression proposes to me again
• Against heaven
• The lion Tamer's daughter vs. the ledge
• You must believe in spring
• Eulogy for the voice in my head
• The lonely sleep through winter
• Dendrochronology of this want
• Against heaven
• Polyamory defense #324
• Goodbye letter to my lover's wife
• A wedding, or what we unlearned from Descartes
• Free fucked
• Planet fka the lion tamer's daughter, mapped
• Against heaven.

Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions--those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise defined by the pleasure and possibility of Black, queer fugitivity. Through tender love poems, righteous prayers, and vital provocations, we see the colonizers we carry within ourselves being laid to rest. Against Heaven is a praise song made for the flames of a burning empire--a freedom dream that shapeshifts into boundless multiplicities for the wounds made in the name of White supremacy and its gods. Alabi has written an astonishing collection of magnificent range, commanding the full spectrum of the Black, queer spirit's capacity for magic, love, and ferocity in service of healing--the highest power there is.

• Contents and AbstractsIntroduction: Is Progress More? chapter abstractSummarizing that IP law is a new terrain over which to fight about old problems-of equality, privacy, distributive justice, and institutional resiliency-in service of an updated form of "progress" focused on shared and vital resources in the Digital Age.
• 1Everyone's a Photographer Now: The Case of Digital Photography chapter abstractChapter 1 introduces the book's themes through a case study of professional photographers. This creative and entrepreneurial community has experienced industry-wide cataclysmic change in the digital age. Based on interviews with a wide range of photographers as well as observations at their studios and professional gatherings, chapter 1 describes their adaptive aesthetic and business practices and the particular problems they confront in order to continue to make pictures, work together, and earn a living with digital technology and internet platforms.
• 2Equality chapter abstractChapter 2 uncovers equality and anti-hierarchy principles structuring milestone intellectual property cases from the U.S. Supreme Court. This chapter reorients analysis of these cases from a market-driven intellectual property framework to one debating the contours of equality in our constitutional system that adapts to evolving technological contexts. Through famous Supreme Court cases about intellectual property, the chapter canvases categorical variations of equality's meaning, considering important distributional questions such as "equality of what?" and "equality for whom?" Applying that analysis to milestone intellectual property cases reveals new and urgent stakes for everyday creators and innovators grounded in contemporary equality concerns. As such, it begins the refinement of "progress" for the twenty-first century for those who aim to continue producing and distributing creative and innovative work.
• 3Privacy chapter abstractChapter 3 examines the large and growing set of disputes linking copyright and some patent law to privacy interests. These disagreements range from authors and heirs attempting to shield work from unwanted exposure (such as protecting diaries and unpublished manuscripts) to authors or subjects of copyrighted works or patented inventions suppressing dissemination for reputational and emotional reasons. The chapter explores many such intellectual property disputes in terms of privacy's constitutional contours-bodily privacy, spatial privacy, relational privacy, and informational and intellectual privacy-illuminating the transformation of conflicts between artists, inventors, and audiences in our new age of rapid distribution when privacy (if not creativity) feels scarce.
• 4Distributive Justice (or "Fairer Uses") chapter abstractChapter 4 examines how everyday creators and innovators consider a range of borrowing behaviors essential to their professional work and personal well-being. This range evidences a misalignment between formal intellectual property law, which would treat that borrowing as unlawful infringement, and grounded everyday practices, which do not. It generates from personal accounts of creative and innovative work nuanced and refined categories of borrowing, sharing, and adaptation that are explained by principles of moderation and reasonableness, mutual obligation and interdependence, fair apportionment, expanding opportunities, and avoiding undeserved windfalls. The variations described in this chapter provide a new lexicon for tolerated uses of intellectual property in the internet age, or "fairer uses."
• 5Precarity and Institutional Failures chapter abstractChapter 5 builds from the interviewees' diverse, personal accounts and focuses on descriptions of harms suffered within creative and innovative communities. Typically, intellectual property injuries (uncompensated benefits, foregone licensing fees, or substitutional rivalry) are conceived in individual terms and as economic harm. But accounts from everyday creators and innovators instead describe harms to communities, systems, and institutions. They concern patterns of violence, institutionalized corruption, incumbency biases, and disproportionality. The underlying concern is that these harms, which intellectual property law in the digital ecosystem appears to promote, erode the interdependent connections and mutual obligations that secure individuals in groups (communities, organizations, and institutions) on which we rely to live and work. This leads to a sense of personal and professional precarity that further degrades essential structures and relations as well as institutional trust and resiliency, threatening an essential faith in our shared fate in these times of hyperconnectivity.
• Conclusion chapter abstractSummarizing that IP law is a new terrain over which to fight about old problems-of equality, privacy, distributive justice, and institutional resiliency-in service of an updated form of "progress" focused on shared and vital resources in the Digital Age.
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When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "progress of science and the useful arts" by granting rights to authors and inventors. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of "progress" may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP's emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests. Against Progress considers contemporary debates about intellectual property law as concerning the relationship between the constitutional mandate of progress and fundamental values, such as equality, privacy, and distributive justice, that are increasingly challenged in today's internet age. Following a legal analysis of various intellectual property court cases, Jessica Silbey examines the experiences of everyday creators and innovators navigating ownership, sharing, and sustainability within the internet eco-system and current IP laws. Crucially, the book encourages refiguring the substance of "progress" and the function of intellectual property in terms that demonstrate the urgency of art and science to social justice today.
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• Introduction / Peter Wade and Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa
• The formation of Mestizo nations / Fernando García, Antonio Sérgio Guimarães, Emiko Saldívar, and Mara Viveros-Vigoya
• Anti-racism, intersectionality, and the struggle for dignity / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Mara Viveros-Vigoya
• Bodily anti-racism: what bodies can "do" to contest racism in public spaces / Krisna Ruette-Orihuela
• Territory and anti-racism / Peter Wade
• Upward mobility, professionalization, and anti-racism / Gisela Carlos-Fregoso
• Giving meaning to racial justice: symbolic uses of law in anti-racist struggles / María Moreno
• Anti-racism in Mestizo societies / Peter Wade
• Conclusion / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Peter Wade

Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgement of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous identities and cultures. Multiculturalism may focus on identity and visibility and address more casual and social forms of racism, but can also distract attention from structural racism and racialized inequality, and constrain larger anti-racist initiatives. Additionally, multiple understandings of how racism and anti-racism fit into projects of social transformation make racism a complex and multi-faceted issue. The essays in Against Racism examine actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts and build common ground with other marginalized groups. The organizations in this study advocate an approach to deep social structural transformation that is inclusive, fosters alliances, and is inspired by a radical imagination. "By approaching race through anti-racism, this exemplar of teamwork in social research charts a major innovation in thinking about race in Latin America and beyond. Interweaving themes, cases, and countries, race appears in social activism even when it is not named, and even when it is named it may not be the only factor building support and strategy." --David Lehmann, author of The Prism of Race: the Ideology and Politics of Affirmative Action in Brazil "This far-ranging volume, the product of a deep and expansive collaboration among scholars based in Latin America and the global North, with different racial identifications, and belonging to different generations . . . forces us to confront complex questions with no easy answers and will have a significant impact on how race, racism, and anti-racist movements are studied, not only in Latin America but also in other parts of the world." --Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University "With great prescience and precision, this book captures the emerging moment in Latin America, when multifaceted anti-racist organizing has come to the fore. The project's ambitious scope and collective character--four countries, more than a dozen researchers--uncovers a central analytical challenge, which opens onto the book's central contribution. . . . The authors offer a salutary reminder of the topic's immense complexity, yet always guided by the drive to imagine and work toward societies--to evoke Stuart Hall's memorable phrase--no longer structured in racial dominance." --Charles R. Hale, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction: Making Something Out of Nothing 1. Origin Problems 2. Small, but Mighty: A Little Funding for a Huge Cause 3. Violent Straightening and the Function of the State 4. The International Implications of Domestic Sex Education Policy 5. Alternatives, Not Adjustments
• Imagination, Not Intervention Conclusion: Clandestine Praxes Notes Bibliography Index.
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why do we have sex education? For whom does it exist, and who is it against? This book explores these questions, ultimately calling into question the very existence of sex education itself. The analysis is centred on the marginalised lives of sex workers. This focus allows us to see sex education and sex work in a new light and provides insights into the implications of sex education in public schools and teacher education. By considering the relationship between sex education and sex work, Caitlin Howlett reveals the way in which sex education exists as a form of state violence, and continues to maintain close ties to sexism, racism, colonialism, and capitalism. Drawing on Foucauldian genealogy, feminist history, epistemology, post-humanism, and queer of color critique, Howlett calls for an end to sex education as a federally funded project and argues for new pedagogical approaches to educating about sex, gender, and sexuality in schools.
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