"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction to social engineering use by bad guys
• The continuum of social engineering approaches
• Criminal social engineering activities
• Securing organizations against social engineering attacks
• Social engineering attacks leveraging PII
• Hacking the democratic electoral process
• Socially engineered attacks by insiders
• Educating people to prevent social engineering attacks
• The accent of cyber darkness.

"This book explains how social engineering methods are being commonly used and how organizations and individuals can socially engineer their culture to help minimize the impact of the activities of those who lie, cheat, deceive, and defraud whether they do so from a former Soviet state or from Washington, D.C"-- Provided by publisher.

• Unit One: Foundations of Social Media Measurement and Management
• 1. Social Crowds, Voice, and Personal Branding
• 2. Concepts and Campaigns
• 3. Social Network Sites (SNS) Measurement and Management Unit Two: Strategic Social Media Measurement Tools
• 4. Social Media Metrics and Management Tools
• 5. Academic Social Media Research Unit Three: Best Practices in Social Media Measurement
• 6. Integration of PR, Advertising, and Marketing Plans
• 7. Social Media Data Laws and Ethics
• 8. Customer Relationships and Content Unit Four: Social Media Planning and Campaigns
• 9. Employee Engagement
• 10. The Future of Social Media Measurement and Management Appendix A: Social Media Planning Appendix B: Social Media Marketing Evaluation.
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This new textbook applies a critical and practical lens to the world of social media analytics. Author Jeremy Harris Lipschultz explores the foundations of digital data, strategic tools, and best practices in an accessible volume for students and practitioners of social media communication. The book expands upon entrepreneurship, marketing, and technological principles, demonstrating how raising awareness, sparking engagement, and producing business outcomes all require emphasis on customers, employees, and other stakeholders within paid, earned, social, and owned media. It also looks to the future, examining how the movement toward artificial intelligence and machine learning raises new legal and ethical issues in effective management of social media data. Additionally, the book offers a solid grounding in the principles of social media measurement itself, teaching the strategies and techniques that enable effective analysis. A perfect primer for this developing industry, Social Media Measurement: Entrepreneurial Digital Analytics is ideal for students, scholars, and practitioners of digital media seeking to hone their skills and expand their bank of tools and resources. It features theoretical and practical advice, a comprehensive glossary of key terms, and case studies from key industry thought leaders.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction.-
• Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Shame and Blame. -
• Chapter 3. Asymmetric Lifeworld Encounters.-
• Chapter 4. The Neglected Contributions of Middle-Range Social Theory.-
• Chapter 5. The Salience of Macrosociology. -
• Chapter 6. Towards a Sociology of Shaming and Blaming.- Chapter 7.Conclusion.
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This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions. Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure-the political economy. A Sociology of Shame and Blame contends that stigma is being `weaponised' as part of a calculated political strategy favouring capital accumulation over justice, and addresses how the shame associated with stigma has taken on the additional dimension of blame through micro-interactions. The unique Insider-Outsider approach that Scambler harnesses draws on micro and macro social theory to identify links between the prevalence of stigma and agency, culture and structure, and will be an original and key reference point for students and scholars across the social and behavioural sciences, including, but not limited to, sociology, anthropology, psychology, public health and social policy.
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• Chapter 1: The Intellectual Context
• Chapter 2: Insterstice Openers
• Chapter 3: Interstice Exploiters
• Chapter 4: Interstice Closers
• Chapter 5: Exceptions, Exclusions, and Discussion
• Chapter 6: The Dynamic Sovereign Order.
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This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched. These "sovereign interstices" are inextricable from the negative spaces of the great war-regulating sovereign orders, but they are also characterized by recurring characteristics among the fighters who are recruited to fight proxy wars within them. States have changed greatly in the last four hundred years, but interstitial fighters have changed far less, and the same can be said of the recurring styles in which their powerful patrons employ them to go where those patrons cannot. By charting these continuities, the author shows how a deeper awareness of interstitial war not only clarifies much concerning our contemporary world at war, but also provides a clear path forward in legal, military, and scholarly terms.
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This book seeks for an alternative perspective in analysing cultural phenomena to supplement the norm of Western dominant theorising and conceptualisation. It engages notions and concepts of culture developed by Chinese cultural theorists when addressing Chinese teachers? cross-cultural experiences in Australian school settings. This alternative approach acknowledges the fact that the generation and development of cultural theories is contextually based. Through the reciprocated theory-data examination, it enables the arguments: Chinese culture is rooted in its written language (hanzi) which makes culture inseparable from language teaching; the core of the culture is linked back to, streamlined with and continues from China?s elongated history; this core has been consistently influential on these teachers? practices and the observable cultural shift in them could be non-genuine mimicry for survival. Document analysis witnesses the current political push for the culture?s stability and continuity through the national education system across sectors. This book provides background information for teachers with cultural backgrounds different from their students?, and draws on a bank of practice-based evidence to suggest ways to enhance teacher-student relationships in cross-cultural settings.

• 1. Introduction.2. Understanding Social and Linguistic Change.3. At Risk-Constructs as Research Object: Research Design and Methods.4.Risk in The Times - 1950s to 2000s.5. People and Valued Objects at Risk in The Times - 1780s to 2000s.6. From Substantial Risk to Social Relations and Rhetoric.7. Institutional Strategies and a New Quality.8. Changes in News Production and Linguistic Change.9. Social Forces and the Proliferation of at Risk-Language.
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This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk. Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural and structural transformations, the management of infectious and chronic diseases and climate change. He also explores changes in the public sphere, including the production of the news. Based on an interdisciplinary research project which combines linguistic research tools with sociological analysis of the social contexts, the book contributes to a better understanding of how 'at risk' has become a defining feature of the UK in recent decades, and one which permeates all kinds of social domains. This research will be a point of reference for students and scholars engaging with risk studies from various disciplines including sociology, media studies, history and socio-linguistics. .
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• Preface Acknowledgments About the Author
• Part 1: Understanding what surveys are and how they are used
• 1. What is a survey?
• 2. How are surveys used?
• 3. What are the benefits of doing a survey?
• 4. What is the survey research process from beginning to end?
• 5. How are good empirical research questions developed?
• 6. What are the various types of survey design?
• 7. How do we choose the right survey design?
• Part 2: Addressing ethical concerns in survey research
• 8. What are the main ethical concerns of research?
• 9. If surveys are just about asking people questions, why are ethical considerations important?
• 10. Who ensures that research is ethical?
• 11. How Do IRBs Monitor Research Ethics?
• 12. What is the process of submitting a Survey Study to the IRB?
• 13. What is informed consent?
• 14. What Are Confidentiality and Anonymity, and How Are They Maintained?
• 15. What are the ethical concerns for collecting and analyzing data?
• Part 3: Selecting a sample
• 16. Who is asked to take the survey?
• 17. What Is a Sample, and What Is Sampling?
• 18. What is a sampling frame?
• 19. How do we know if the sample size is large enough?
• 20. How does probability work?
• 21. What is sampling theory?
• 22. What is the Central Limit Theorem?
• 23. What is random sampling error?
• 24. What are the types of probability samples?
• 25. How is a simple random sample collected?
• 26. What is stratified random sampling?
• 27. How is a proportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 28. How is a disproportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 29. How do we make disproportionate stratified samples representative of the population?
• 30. How is a cluster sample collected?
• 31. How do we select a sample if the population is not easy to find?
• 32. What is a response rate?
• Part 4: Writing good survey questions
• 33. What is involved in writing good survey questions?
• 34. How do we connect a theoretical concept to a survey question?
• 35. How do we write survey questions for complex theoretical concepts?
• 36. Do We Need to Create New Questions, or Can We Use Existing Questions?
• 37. What are the basic rules to writing good survey questions?
• 38. Are there more advanced rules to writing survey questions?
• 39. What are the best response options to use with survey questions?
• 40. What Is the Measurement Level of a Survey Question, and Why Is That Important?
• 41. When are open-ended questions used in survey research?
• 42. How do we order the survey questions?
• Part 5: Establishing the reliability and validity of survey questions
• 43. How do we ensure our survey questions measure what they are supposed to?
• 44. How is content validity established?
• 45. What is criterion validity?
• 46. What is construct validity?
• 47. What is measurement reliability, and how is it established?
• 48. What is measurement error?
• 49. How can measurement error be minimized?
• 50. How Can Pretesting and Pilot Testing Improve Reliability and Validity?
• Part 6: Conducting the survey
• 51. Once the survey is designed, how is the survey conducted?
• 52. How often can we contact the sample to get them to participate?
• 53. How are the potential members of the sample contacted?
• 54. How are the sample members persuaded to participate?
• 55. What should be included in a cover letter?
• 56. What other strategies can increase survey participation?
• 57. How do we keep track of who has and has not participated?
• 58. How do we conduct a longitudinal study?
• 59. What Other Survey Administration Issues May Arise?
• 60. How do we take care of survey participants?
• Part 7: Entering and cleaning the data
• 61. Do we need to plan ahead for data entry, cleaning, and analysis?
• 62. My data is collected. Now what do I do?
• 63. How do we do data entry?
• 64. What issues might arise with data entry?
• 65. What types of survey questions are difficult to enter into the database?
• 66. What is a codebook, and why is it important?
• 67. What other sorts of documentation are needed, and why?
• 68. What is data cleaning?
• 69. How Are "Other Specify" Responses Coded?
• 70. How are open-ended questions coded?
• Part 8: Exploring the data with univariate statistical analysis
• 71. What are the goals of data analysis?
• 72. What are variables?
• 73. What are descriptive statistics?
• 74. How do we estimate central tendency and variation in categorical and ordinal variables?
• 75. How do we examine central tendency in continuous variables?
• 76. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the median?
• 77. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the mean?
• 78. What are inferential statistics?
• 79. How do we infer the population parameter?
• 80. What is significance testing?
• Part 9: Assessing associations with bivariate statistical tests and regression
• 81. What is meant by association between variables?
• 82. How do we assess an association between two continuous variables?
• 83. How do we determine if a correlation between two continuous variables is statistically significant?
• 84. How do we assess association between a categorical and a continuous variable?
• 85. How do we assess association between two categorical variables?
• 86. How do we display and report these bivariate statistics?
• 87. What is linear regression, and what are its benefits?
• 88. What is OLS regression with a continuous independent variable?
• 89. How do we know if the regression coefficients are statistically significant?
• 90. How do we interpret OLS regression with a categorical independent variable?
• 91. How do we interpret linear regression with more than one predictor variable?
• 92. How do we display and report these regression statistics?
• Part 10: Writing up the analyses in report form
• 93. Who is my audience, and why does it matter?
• 94. What is a good report outline?
• 95. How much of the methodology needs to be included in the report?
• 96. What are the most important parts of the analyses to include in the report?
• 97. How do we report on the sample of respondents?
• 98. How many charts and tables should we include in the report?
• 99. How do we describe charts and tables in the report?
• 100. What is an executive summary, and why is it important? References and Resources Index.
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Students and researchers across the social sciences.
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• Introduction: activists' trajectories in space and time Olivier Fillieule and Erik Neveu-- Part I. From Shades of Red (or Blue) to Shades of Grey: The Ageing of Yesterday's Activists Richard Flacks--
• 1. The diversity of activist outcomes: the role of ideology in shaping trajectories of participation Catherine Corrigall-Brown--
• 2. Biographical impacts of activism in the French 'May '68' Julie Pagis--
• 3. Life stories of former French activists of 'May '68':using biographies to investigate the outcomes of social movements Erik Neveu--
• 4. Women in political activism: the biographical resonances of the '68 student movement in a Latin American context Guadalupe Olivier-- Part II. Terrorist Violence, State Repression and Activists' Experiences Jocelyn Viterna--
• 5. 'Join up', they said! The biographical consequences of engagement in Morocco for the 1970s generation and its children Joseph Hivert and Frederic Vairel--
• 6. From militancy to activism: life trajectories of Sikh women combatants Laurent Gayer--
• 7. 'Married forever', activists forever? What the multi-level and interactionist approaches to the study of 'exit' reveals about disengagement from radical organizations in contemporary Turkey Jordi Tejel--
• 8. Contextualizing the biographical outcomes of provisional IRA former activists: a structure-agency dynamic Lorenzo Bosi-- Part III. Biographical Trajectories in Times of Transition. Social Movement Activists into Politicians? Gilles Dorronsoro--
• 9. When prophecy succeeds: the political failure of dissidents in the new Czech democracy Magdalena Hadjiisky--
• 10. From grassroots activism to the cabinet, round-trip: the puzzling trajectory of a peasant leader in post-Communist Poland Cedric Pellen--
• 11. Red t-shirt or executive suit? About some biographical consequences of contentious engagement in the workers' party in Recife, Brazil Camille Goirand-- Addendum: life history as a tool for sociological inquiry Olivier Fillieule-- References-- Index.
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Activists Forever? explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life. While much of the research in this area has focused on the motivations of entire protests groups, the editors of this volume propose an approach that focuses on actors. This book examines political involvement's socio-biographical effects, or the ways in which political commitment generates or modifies dispositions to act, think, and perceive, in a way that is either consistent with or in contrast to the results of previous socialization. The contents explore what political involvement leads to rather than what causes involvement. Using a variety of case studies, this collection of essays provides global coverage with a focus on participation in major protests in the 1960s and significantly broadens our understanding by looking outside the United States. These essays look at the lasting effects of activists' knowledge, connections, and symbolic capital on their future participation in politics, as well as their personal and professional lives.
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• 1. Conceptualising Adventure.2. Adventure and Contemporary Society.3. Daily Adventure Practices.4. Adventure and Risk.5. Adventure, Capitalism and Corporations.6. Adventure, Technology and Social Media.7. Adventure and Equalities.8. Adventure and Identity.9. Adventure and Personal and Social Development.10. Adventure and Tourism.11. Adventure and Sustainability.
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This book provides a broad overview of the ways in which `adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education, tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term `adventure' and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper inquiry.
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How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young peopleBoyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support "connected learning"-learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development. While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.
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• Foreword
• Introduction : why African culture matters
• Normalizing abnormality
• Sources of Africa's cultural fragility
• The evolution of African identity
• Thinking differently about African institutions
• African social capital's triple threats
• Modern African state institutions
• Case study: how identity affirmation works against Pan Africanism
• Liberating human capital
• Banking social capital
• Ten figments of re imagination.

Africa Reimagined is a passionately argued appeal for a rediscovery of our African identity. Going beyond the problems of a single country, Hlumelo Biko calls for a reorientation of values, on a continental scale, to suit the needs and priorities of Africans. Building on the premise that slavery, colonialism, imperialism and apartheid fundamentally unbalanced the values and indeed the very self-concept of Africans, he offers realistic steps to return to a more balanced Afro-centric identity. Historically, African values were shaped by a sense of abundance, in material and mental terms, and by strong ties of community. The intrusion of religious, economic and legal systems imposed by conquerors, traders and missionaries upset this balance, and the African identity was subsumed by the values of the newcomers. Biko shows how a reimagining of Africa can restore the sense of abundance and possibility, and what a rebirth of the continent on Pan-African lines might look like. This is not about the churn of the news cycle or party politics - although he identifies the political party as one of the most pernicious legacies of colonialism. Instead, drawing on latest research, he offers a practical, pragmatic vision anchored in the here and now. By looking beyond identities and values imposed from outside, and transcending the divisions and frontiers imposed under colonialism, it should be possible for Africans to develop fully their skills, values and ingenuity, to build institutions that reflect African values, and to create wealth for the benefit of the continent as a whole--Publisher's website.

• Introduction: Not to be left behind: African languages, media and the digital sphere
• 1. Access, Skills, African Perspectives and `Development'? in Africa: Local Knowledge in Local Languages
• 2. Alaroye, Isolezwe and the adoption of digital technologies
• 3. Okun Radio Online as an Impetus for Maintaining the Dialects and Cultural Heritage of Okun-Yoruba People
• 4. Grassroots Media and Social Media Adaptation: Case Study of Urhobo Today
• 5. Breaking Protocol: Indigenous Language Usage Practices in Online Readers' Comments in Zimbabwe
• 6. Perceptions of and motivations for accessing Swahili Online newspapers among students at the University of Dar es Salaam
• 7. Use of Indigenous Languages for Social Media Communication: The Nigerian Experience
• 8. Politics of language, ethnicity, and identity in Zimbabwean ethnolinguistic online communities
• 9. `Digital Chieftaincy': Social Media, Register and Community Policing in Kenya
• 10. New Technologies, Indigenous Language Media Practice and Management for Development in Nigeria
• 11. Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: The YoruIbai example
• 12. African language online journalism in Malawi: Challenges and Prospects.
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While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp have been appropriated by African language media. Using a wide range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examining the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: African Polities of Failure
• Chapter 2: Consensus as Communitarian
• Chapter 3: The Values of Communitarian Democracy
• Chapter 4: Modern African Communitarianism
• Chapter 5: Structure of Modern Afro-Communitarianism Bibliography.
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In going beyond African socialism and consensual democracy's use of communitarianism, Bernard Matolino demonstrates that there is a mode of understanding communitarianism that need not necessarily be traditionalist. It is from this ever-evolving communitarian notion that an African-rooted form of democracy may arise. Such a democratic theory is one that seeks to prioritize reality and factors that have shaped and continue to shape current experience of life on the African continent. The work advocates a new mode of communitarianism, without the idealism of traditional foundations of kin connections and one which takes the ontological equality of the community and the individual. Such a communitarian outlook will secure the basic requirements of democratization without abdicating its communitarian responsibility. The communitarian democratic theory advocated here takes seriously the particular situation of each individual and yet points out the need to appreciate the inevitability of the connections among the same individuals.
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• Preface - Phil Scraton Introduction - Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany Grenfell Tower, June,
• 2017 - a poem by Ben Okri
• 1. Everyday Life and Death in the Global City - Dan Bulley
• 2. Organising on Mute - Daniel Renwick Photo Essay - Samuel Boal
• 3. Before Grenfell: British Immigration Law and the Production of Colonial Spaces - Nadine El-Enany
• 4. Struggles for Social Housing Justice - Radical Housing Network, Becka Hudson and Pilgrim Tucker Ghosts of Grenfell - Lowkey
• 5. A Border in Every Street: Grenfell and the Hostile Environment - Sarah Keenan Photo Essay - Parveen Ali
• 6. Grenfell on Screen - Anna Sborgi
• 7. Law, Justice and the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire - Patricia Tuitt The Interloper - Jenny Edkins
• 8. From Grenfell to Windrush - Gracie M. Bradley
• 9. Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell - Nigel de Noronha Photo Essay - Yolanthe Fawehinmi
• 10. ComeUnity and Community in the Face of Impunity - Monique Charles Equity - a poem by Tony Walsh Afterword: The Fire and the Academy - Robbie Shilliam.
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On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and academics come together to respond, remember and recover the disaster. The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic order; the continued logic of colonialism, the disposability of working class lives, the marketisation of social provision and global austerity politics, and the negligence and malfeasance of multinational contractors. Exploring these topics and more, the contributors construct critical analysis from legal, cultural, media, community and government responses to the fire, asking whether, without remedy for multifaceted power and violence, we will ever really be 'after' Grenfell? With poetry by Ben Okri and Tony Walsh, and photographs by Parveen Ali, Sam Boal and Yolanthe Fawehinmi. With contributions from Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley and The Radical Housing Network.
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• Introduction: the soul of democracy
• A declaration of interdependence: the science of democracy
• "The lightning of possible storms": theories of social change
• "Go social, go green": environmentally sound and socially just economic development
• "Belonging, not belongings": an economy of gratitude and reciprocity
• Global connections and cultural humility: the science and artistry of community engagement
• Just living: practices of catalytic social engagement
• Conclusion: the soul of democracy.

When the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricades From the Women's March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump's America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change? This book is an invaluable resource for anyone invested in the fight for social justice. Welch highlights examples of social justice work accomplished at the institutional level. From the worlds of social enterprise, impact investing, and sustainable business, After the Protests Are Heard describes the work being done to promote responsible business practices and healthy, cooperative communities. The book also illuminates how colleges and universities educate students to strive toward social justice on campuses across the country, such as the Engaged Scholarship movement, which fosters interactions between faculty and students and local and global communities. In each of these instances, activists work from within institutions to transform practices and structures to foster justice and equality. After the Protests Are Heard confronts the difficult reality that social change is often followed by spikes in violence and authoritarianism. It offers important insights into how the nation might more fully acknowledge the brutal costs of racism and the historical drivers of racial injustice, and how people of all races can contain such violence in the present and prevent its resurgence in the future. For many members of the social justice community, the real work begins when the protests end. After the Protests Are Heard is a must-read for everyone interested in social justice and activism - from the barricades and campuses to the breakrooms and cubicles.
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National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic action committees and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons. Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role of such empowered social actors? This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.

• Normative concerns
• Public sector applications
• Governing algorithmic systems.

"As the power and sophistication of of 'big data' and predictive analytics has continued to expand, so too has policy and public concern about the use of algorithms in contemporary life. This is hardly surprising given our increasing reliance on algorithms in daily life, touching policy sectors from healthcare, transport, finance, consumer retail, manufacturing education, and employment through to public service provision and the operation of the criminal justice system. This has prompted concerns about the need and importance of holding algorithmic power to account, yet it is far from clear that existing legal and other oversight mechanisms are up to the task. This collection of essays, edited by two leading regulatory governance scholars, offers a critical exploration of 'algorithmic regulation', understood both as a means for co-ordinating and regulating social action and decision-making, as well as the need for institutional mechanisms through which the power of algorithms and algorithmic systems might themselves be regulated. It offers a unique perspective that is likely to become a significant reference point for the ever-growing debates about the power of algorithms in daily life in the worlds of research, policy and practice. The range of contributors are drawn from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives including law, public administration, applied philosophy, data science and artificial intelligence"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• It takes a village : where the American dream lives
• Progress at a price : the changing American dream, 1955-2018
• "They've chosen not to keep up" : is it economics or culture?
• American decay : broken places, broken people
• "I don't" : the dissolution of the family
• Bowling alone : the dissolution of civil society
• It's about church : America's indispensable institution
• Overcentralization : how big business and bit government erode civil society
• Hyper-individualism : how the modern economy and the sexual revolution erode civil society
• The alienated : Trump country
• The elites : the village of man
• The church people : the village of God
• Overcoming alienation : problems and solutions.

"[This book] identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclaimed, 'the American dream is dead,' and this message resonated across the country. Why do so many people believe that the American dream is no longer within reach? Growing inequality, stubborn pockets of immobility, rising rates of deadly addiction, the increasing and troubling fact that where you start determines where you end up, heightening political strife--these are the disturbing realities threatening ordinary American lives today. The standard accounts pointed to economic problems among the working class, but the root was a cultural collapse: While the educated and wealthy elites still enjoy strong communities, most blue-collar Americans lack strong communities and institutions that bind them to their neighbors. And outside of the elites, the central American institution has been religion. That is, it's not the factory closings that have torn us apart; it's the church closings. The dissolution of our most cherished institutions--nuclear families, places of worship, civic organizations--has not only divided us, but eroded our sense of worth, belief in opportunity, and connection to one another. [The author] visits all corners of America, from the dim country bars of Southwestern Pennsylvania, to the bustling Mormon wards of Salt Lake City, and explains the most important data and research to demonstrate how the social connection is the great divide in America. He shows that Trump's surprising victory was the most visible symptom of this deep-seated problem. In addition to his detailed exploration of how a range of societal changes have, in tandem, damaged us, [the author] provides a framework that will lead us back out of a lonely, modern wilderness."-- Dust jacket.