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Book SynopsisThis book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particularly from non-western contexts. It examines characteristics and profiles of vulnerable populations, intervention strategies, and recommendations for public policy actions in developing and emerging countries.As the world becomes increasingly connected and localities become more diverse, researchers and practitioners working to ameliorate human suffering cannot rely on one-size-fits-all solutions, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable members of society. The book argues the need for interdisciplinary research and action, and it challenges popular discourse on vulnerable groups and intervention strategies in Western societies and developed countries. In particular, it includes a Latin American perspective seldom considered in research about vulnerability worldwide.With interdisciplinary contributors from four continents, working in diverse fields such as social psychology, pedagogy, community psychology, medicine, sociology, clinical psychology, anthropology, and social work, this edited collection brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: physical vulnerability, psychological vulnerability, and social vulnerability. The book not only presents exhaustive solutions to any of the problems discussed therein, but it also offers examples of the considerations that should be afforded when working with groups who have unique vulnerabilities. Among the topics covered in the chapters:Poor Doctor-Patient Communication: How Social Vulnerability Turns into Physical VulnerabilityArt Therapy: Focus to Decrease Vulnerability Condition and Increase Sense of CommunityPedagogical Guidelines for Vulnerability in PostmodernityWorking with Vulnerable Populations: Final Reflections and Implications Working with Vulnerable Populations: A Multicultural Perspective presents case studies, original research, and literature reviews that would engage students and professionals interested in social work, psychology, community organizing, public health, allied health professions, and other helping professions. Readers will gain insight into how work being conducted in various localities speaks to the challenges they may face in their own work or research. By exploring the unique issues facing vulnerable populations around the globe, we can apply those same considerations in our own communities.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung – Das Dreiecksverhältnis von Demokratie, Digitalisierung und Partizipation.- Forschungsstand – Die (persistente) Krise der Demokratie und politische (Online-) Partizipation.- Theorie – Die „guten Gründe“ politischer Online-Partizipation.- Daten und Operationalisierung.- Empirische Analysen – Wirkungszusammenhänge zur politischen Online-Partizipation.- Diskussion – Gute Gründe reichen nicht.- Schluss – Bedeutung eines Anreizmodells für die politische Soziologie.

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Book SynopsisThis book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in the region of the Upper Guinea Coast, authors take into account the impact and repercussions of specific historical experiences as well as the continuities and changes of social patterns affected by the interaction of local and globalized values, institutions, and models of social organization. Rather than providing an(other) analysis of wars and violence as such, contributors aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms that affect both the processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.Trade ReviewIn: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 18:2, 466-510 '.......The chapters (by anthropologists David Berliner, James Fairhead, Christian Højbjerg, William Murphy, Krijn Peters, Ramon Sarró, Susan Shepler, and Elizabeth Tonkin, and historians Stephen Ellis, Bruce Mouser, Peter Mark, and Jodi Tomàs, plus the editors) are individually strong. Important new insights are frequent. Among the highlights on the anthropological side is a splendid essay by Ramon Sarró showing that identity among the Baga of the coast of Guinea is at any one point in time the product of temporally and spatially variable processes of social incorporation and exclusion. This should be mandatory reading for any manipulator of a ‘large N’ conflict data set inclined to code ‘ethnicity’ as a single variable. Excellent contributions by the historians include an especially significant chapter by Stephen Ellis on Liberian politics, since it expands and modifies his widely discussed earlier arguments about violence and the occult. Space excludes further discussion of admirable contributions by Wilson Trajano Filho, Bruce Mouser, Krin Peters, and others, but it is safe to say that no anthropologist or historian interested in modern Africa or armed conflict and violence will want to be without this collection'...... Paul Richards Wageningen University and Research Centre,Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Maps Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (PRE-)COLONIAL LEGACIES Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast William P. Murphy Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century Bruce Mouser Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border James Fairhead A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity Elizabeth Tonkin ‘Traditional’ Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspectives of an Historian and an Anthropologist Peter Mark & Jordi Tomàs REVISITING THE POLITICS OF ELITE CULTURE The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-Bissau Wilson Trajano Filho The Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics Stephen Ellis Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity Jacqueline Knörr THE POWER AND POLITICS OF MEMORIES Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours) Ramon Sarró The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry) David Berliner Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea) Christian K. Højbjerg CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN INTERGENERATIONAL AND GENDER RELATIONS Are ‘Child Soldiers’ in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon? Susan Shepler Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War Krijn Peters Index

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Book SynopsisMobilizing Public Sociology, coedited by Victoria Carty and Rafael Luévano, combines theory and scholarly perspectives with a grassroots approach to challenges that Latin@ immigrants face in the United States. Public sociology calls for scholars and community activists and practitioners to engage in dialogue and to work together in the struggle for social justice. The contributors to this collection—scholars, immigrants, practitioners, and community activists—share their scholarly perspectives and personal experiences on a wide range of issues related to immigration, including deportation and criminalization, undocumented youth and higher education, legislation, and community activism. The collection encourages ongoing collaboration in dealing with some of the most pressing problems affecting our communities with the hope of breaking down barriers and misconceptions. Contributors are: Amelia Alvarez, Fawn Bekam, Victoria Carty, Kristin E. Heyer, Patricia Huerta, Rusty Kennedy, Oliver Lopez, Rafael Luévano, Raquel R. Marquez, Eileen McNerney, Patrick Murphy, Jerry Price, Lisa D. Ramirez, Harriett D. Romo, Suzanne SooHoo, Madeleine Spencer, Daniele Struppa, and Bishop Kevin William Vann.Table of ContentsPreface  Jerry Price Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction  Victoria Carty with Daniele Struppa, Jerry Price, and Bishop Kevin William Vann Part 1: Immigrant Oppression and Resistance Movements 1 Collaboration between Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement: Gang Injunctions, Gang Databases, and Immigration Consequences  Amelia Alvarez and Fawn Bekam 2 Gentrification, Gang Injunctions, and the Impact on Latin@ Communities in Southern California  Madeleine Spencer and Victoria Carty 3 The Politics of Immigration and a Catholic Counternarrative: A Perspective from the United States  Kristin E. Heyer 4 Embracing the “Other”: Dreamers Navigating Higher Education  Harriett D. Romo and Raquel R. Marquez Part 2: Immigrants and Community Narratives 5 Latin@ Immigrant Youth in the Age of Mixed Messages: A Perspective on Deferred Action and Unaccompanied Minors  Lisa D. Ramirez 6 America’s Love/Hate Relationship with Immigrants and OC Human Relations’ Voice for Understanding  Rusty Kennedy 7 Public Sociology in Action: The Struggle to Assist Undocumented Latin@ Youth  Eileen McNerney, CSJ 8 Revolution of the Heart: Assisting Migrants in Their Quest for Dignity  Patrick Murphy, CS 9 A Life’s Pursuit: The Journey to Higher Education of an Undocumented Student  Oliver Lopez 10 At the Partnership Table: Bridging Academia and Community through Horizontal Dialoguing  Suzanne SooHoo and Patricia Huerta Conclusion: The Public Sociology Migrant Narrative  Rafael Luévano Index

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Book SynopsisThe Citizenship Experiment explores the fate of citizenship ideals in the Age of Revolutions. While in the early 1790s citizenship ideals in the Atlantic world converged, the twin shocks of the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary Terror led the American, French, and Dutch publics to abandon the notion of a shared, Atlantic, revolutionary vision of citizenship. Instead, they forged conceptions of citizenship that were limited to national contexts, restricted categories of voters, and ‘advanced’ stages of civilization. Weaving together the convergence and divergence of an Atlantic revolutionary discourse, debates on citizenship, and the intellectual repercussions of the Terror and the Haitian Revolution, Koekkoek offers a fresh perspective on the revolutionary 1790s as a turning point in the history of citizenship.Trade Review"René Koekkoek has written one of the most important, and most provocative comparative studies of the late eighteenth-century Atlantic Revolutions since R.R. Palmer's The Age of the Democratic Revolution. Based on exhaustive research in original French, Dutch and American sources, and written in exceptionally lucid prose, The Citizen Experiment makes a bold argument about how the reaction to the violence and perceived excesses of the French "reign of Terror" and the Haitian Revolution led revolutionaries throughout the Atlantic world to embrace far more narrowly national and circumscribed ideas of citizenship than they had done at the start of their respective revolutions. All historians of the period will want to read, and engage with this book." - David A. Bell, Princeton University "The Citizenship Experiment presents a highly original study of the American, French and Dutch eighteenth-century revolutions. Instead of a traditional side-by-side comparison of the three revolutions, René Koekkoek demonstrates that political ideas on citizenship and equality circulated in an Atlantic political space and cannot be well understood in national frameworks. Koekkoek identifies a radical-democratic Atlantic historical moment in the early seventeen-nineties, followed by a conservative turn impacted by the Terror in France and the successful slave revolution in Haiti. His book is an inspiring example of intercrossing history, highlighting the entanglement of domestic and colonial politics in the making of citizenship in the Age of Revolutions." - Siep Stuurman, author of The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History (Harvard, 2017)Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Cover Illustration  Introduction  1Citizenship in the Age of Revolutions  2The Terror and the Haitian Revolution  3A Comparative Approach to the ‘Atlantic Thermidor’  1‘The Kindred Spirit Tie of Congenial Principles’  1Rights Declarations and the Constitutional Framework of Citizenship  2Converging Revolutionary Citizenship Ideals  3The French Revolution and the Heyday of a Transatlantic Ideal of Citizenship  4Regimes of Exclusion  2Saint-Domingue, Rights and Empire  1The Logic of Rights and the Realm of Empire  2The Nation’s Colonial Citizens  3Slavery and Civic Inequality in the US before Saint-Domingue  3The Civilizational Limits of Citizenship  1The Enlightenment Language of Civilization  2Unity and Hierarchy in the French Empire  3Levelling Principles and Remorseless Savages  4The Turn Away from French Universalism  1Citizenship and Inequality in the Dutch Republican Empire  2‘The vile machinations of men calling themselves philosophers’  3The French Colonial Thermidor  5Uniting ‘good’ Citizens in Thermidorian France  1The Revolutionary Political Culture of Citizenship, 1792–1794  2Good Citizen / Bad Citizen  3Isolating the Citizen  4What is a Good Citizen? Redefining Civic Virtues  5Narrowing Down Political Citizenship  6The Post-Revolutionary Contestation and Nationalization of American Citizenship  1A Burgeoning Partisan Public Sphere  2‘Whether France is Saved or Ruined, is still Problematical’  3Political Societies, Faction, and the Limits of Democratic Citizenship  4Anti-Jacobinism and the American Citizenship Model  7Forging the Batavian Citizen in a Post-Terror Revolution  1Portraying the Terror between Orangist Restoration and Batavian Revolution  2Limiting Power, Protecting Rights: The Terror and the Need for a Constitution  3Channelling the Participation of the People  4Nationalization  5The End of the Democratic-Republican Citizen  Epilogue. The Age of Revolutions as a Turning Point in the History of Citizenship  Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUtopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. From this theoretical-philosophical plane, the study moves to the liberation practices of social movements in recent Latin American history. Movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, Indigenous feminism throughout the Americas, and Indigenous struggles in Bolivia and Colombia, are among those taken up--most often in the words of the participants. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.Trade Review"The key question driving Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation is this: ‘[a]re there living threads which connect a concept of utopia found in many of today’s Latin American movements and the dialectic as found in Hegel, created anew in Marx, and by others?’ (4). In Parts 1 and 2 of the volume, Eugene Gogol approaches this question directly: first, he unveils ‘certain concepts of dialectical thought […] that can aid us in grasping the dialectic in Hegel as in life’ (28); second, he looks for ‘strands of the dialectic as they emerge from within Latin America itself’ (4). The result is impressive. In clear and unhurried prose, Gogol offers an erudite exploration of some complex theoretical ground, and then deftly applies it to a few instances of popular rebellion in the region." – Eduardo Frajman, in: Marx &Philosoph, 27 July 2016Table of ContentsAcknowledgements XI Introduction 1 I Utopia and the Dialectic as Contested Terrain 1 II The Present Moment 5 III Origins—Dunayevskaya and the Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy 8 IV Structure of the Present Study 10 PART 1: PHILOSOPHIC FOUNDATIONS 1 The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America 15 I “The Right to One’s (Latin America’s) Own Utopia” 15 II “Utopia as Space (Place) of Social Resistance” 17 III Utopia and Latin American Thinkers 20 2 Dialectical Thought—from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day? 25 I Moments in the Hegelian Dialectic 25 II Marx-Hegel—from “Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic” to Capital 33 III Lenin-Hegel—Philosophical Preparation for Revolution? 37 IV Dunayevskaya-Hegel—Reading Absolute Negativity “As New Beginning” 45 3 Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America? 57 I Preliminary Note: The Dialectic of Universal-Particular-Individual Reaching toward Utopias-Projects-Masses 57 II The Challenge in Practice and in Theory: Will Latin America Arrive. Only on the Threshold of a New Society, or Enter into the Realm of Absolute Liberation? 58 III How Do a Latin American Concept of Utopia and the Dialectic of Absolute Negativity Speak to Each Other? 63 PART 2: THE STATE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA 4 Haiti, 1986–1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression 75 I Haiti was the First: A Brief Note on the Significance of the Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804 75 II Haiti in Books and in Life 76 III Theology of Liberation in Concrete Practice: Aristide’s Sermons and Actions 83 IV Epilogue: Post-the Jan. 12, 2012 Earthquake 88 5 The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela—Advances, Contradictions, Questions 95 I The Passing of Hugo Chavez 95 II Preliminary Moments: The Oil Addiction; The First Period of the Chavez Government 96 III Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution a Revolutionary Process Begins 98 IV Chavez’s Call to Build “21st Century Socialism”—What is Its Meaning? How Can It Move “Beyond Capital”? Who are the Social Subjects of Revolutionary Change? What is the Role of the State? The Unions? The Party? 100 V The Venezuelan Debate on 21st Century Socialism: Relation of Party and Mass Movement; What Kind of Party? What Kind of Leadership? The Role of the Intellectual: Excerpts from Forum on “Intellectuals, Socialism and Democracy” 112 VI Is There a Missing Ingredient in Venezuela Today? 116 6 Mexico’s Revolutionary Forms of Organization: The Zapatistas and the Indigenous Autonomous Communities in Resistance 119 I Indigenous and Zapatista Organizational Praxis—The Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands 119 II Anti-Capitalist and from the Left: The 6th Declaration and La Otra Campaña 127 III Once Again, the Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands: The Second Encuentro of the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World—The Power of Indigenous Voices in Rebellion 132 IV The Zapatistas and Mexico’s Left Intellectuals 135 Appendix 1: Zapatista Document: Them and Us—Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos 140 Appendix 2: Zapatista Document: Them and Us—Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés 146 7 Bolivia: In Revolutionary Transformation, 2000–2005; The Pull of State-Capitalism, 2006–2013 152 I The Revolutionary Social Process, 2000–2005 153 II What Happens After? Social Movements under the Threat of State-ism and Neoliberalism in Unity, 2006–2013 161 PART 3: REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN LATIN AMERICA: VOICES FROM BELOW 8 Social Movements in Argentina 171 Francisco T. Sobrino I Background 171 II The Movement of the Unemployed 172 III The Movement of “Recovered Factories” 175 IV The Meaning of the Protests of December 2001 and the Mobilizations of 2002 178 V The Local Assemblies 179 VI Attempts by the New Government and the Dominant Classes to Resolve the Crisis 182 VII The Cooptation of Sectors of Intellectuals, Human Right Organizations and a Part of the Left 184 VIII Other Measures Used by the Ruling Classes in order to Solve the Crisis of Legitimacy 186 IX In a Way, a Provisional Conclusion 186 Appendix: Excerpts from an interview with Paula, an Argentine feminist and member of the Gay, Lesbian, Transvestite, Transgender, and Bisexual (glttb) Collective 188 9 Indigenous Struggles for Territory, Autonomy and Natural Resources 195 I The Meaning of Autonomy in Mexico: The Case of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Cópala 197 Brenda Porras Rodríguez and Fernando Alan López Bonifacio II The Nasa: Subjects of Dignity 208 Appendix: Interview with Nasa Activists 225 III The Community Police in Guerrero An Interview with Marciano, an Indigenous Mixtec, on His Work and Experience 228 10 Women as Force and Reason of Social Transformations 231 I Feminisms and Liberations in Our America [Nuestra América] 233 Francesca Gargallo II The Role of Women in the Struggle for Autonomy in Mexico 260 Raquel Vázquez Appendix 1: Women in the Montaña Region of Guerrero: The Other Arm of Community Justice 270 Appendix 2: Political Statement of the Xinka Communitarian Feminist Women: There is No Decolonialization without Depatriarchalization! 279 11 Youth, Popular Education, Teachers 281 I The tipnis March: New Horizons for Popular Education 283 Benito Fernandez II On Urban Resistance and Processes of Formation of Subjects for Emancipatory Action: An Examination of the Cultural Breakthrough Brought about by the Medellin Youth Network, 1991–2011 302 Edison Villa Holguín III The Battle for Oaxaca: Repression and Revolutionary Resistance 328 Eugene Gogol Appendix 1: Yo Soy #132 338 Appendix 2: Chilean Student Protests 351 Camila Vallejo Appendix 3: The Books of the Zapatista Little School Zapatistas from the Indigenous Communities in Resistance 357 PART 4: BATTLE OF IDEAS AND PRACTICES; CONCLUSIONS 12 Horizontal-ism, State-ism, Marxism and the Indigenous Dimension—Raul Zibechi, Álvaro García Linera, Hugo Blanco 375 I Raul Zibechi, Chronicler of Latin America in Social Rebellion 375 II The Statist Marxism of Álvaro García Linera 380 III Hugo Blanco—Peruvian Revolutionary: From Trotskyism and the Peasantry to the Indigenous Movement for Land and Mother Earth 385 Appendix 1: The Organization and Building of Mass Power: Horizontalism and Verticalism, Utopia and Project 389 Rubén Dri Appendix 2: The “Top-Down” State and the “Bottom-Up” State 399 Guillermo Almeyra 13 The Zapatistas and the Dialectic 402 I “The Time of the No and the Time of the Yes” 404 II The Zapatista Concept of Time 404 III The Rewinds: Our Dead, the Living, Biographies, Diversity, Stories, Our History, and Other Subjects 406 14 Marx, Hegel and Dunayevskaya—Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization in the Context of Latin American Liberation 414 I Marx and the Present Moment in Latin America 414 II Hegel’s Revolution in Philosophy—From Master Slave to Absolute Negativity 416 III Dunayevskaya’s Reading of the Dialectic in Marx—Its Significance for Today 419 IV Conclusion: Toward a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy 424 Bibliography 431 Index 438

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Book SynopsisA quarter of a century ago His Royal Highness Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926-2002) formulated his statements on ‘development and equity’. To honour him and his work, a professorial chair in ‘development and equity’ was established in 2003: the ‘Prince Claus Chair’. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Chair, a conference was held in The Hague in November 2012. Each of the ten chair holders presented a paper written from his/her own perspective. These papers have been brought together in this book and show the diversity and richness of the theme. The volume also includes three essays by the promising young scholars who were judged to be the top three in a competition for the best Master’s thesis in ‘development, equity and citizenship’.Table of ContentsContents Foreword: Development Happens from the Inside Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Chair of the Curatorium of the Prince Claus Chair Preface: The Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity The Editors List of Maps, Figures, Tables, Photos and Boxes Development and Equity—Introduction to the Lustrum Conference of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity Leo de Haan, Ton Dietz & Dick Foeken 1 A Fresh Perspective on Economics and Equity Syed Mansoob Murshed 2 ‘Waithood’: Youth Transitions and Social Change Alcinda Honwana 3 Beyond Survival: Militarism, Equity and Women’s Security Amina Mama 4 Development, Equity, Gender, Health, Poverty and Militarization: Is there a Link in the Countries of West Africa? Irene Akua Agyepong 5 The Right to Stay Home: Equity and the Struggle of Migrant Indigenous Peoples Gaspar Rivera-Salgado 6 Towards a Territorial, Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Approach for Sustainable Development Cooperation and Social Responsibility Policies Patricia Almeida Ashley 7 Gender Equality and Muslim Women: Negotiating Expanded Rights in Muslim Majority and Immigrant Contexts Rema Hammami 8 Identities and Access to Energy: A Case From India Atul Kumar 9 Gender Equity and Governance in Pakistan: Looking through Leventhal’s Concept of Organizational Justice Nasira Jabeen 10 Looking through the Leventhal Lens: Is Gender Equity in the Philippines a Puzzle? Stella Quimbo 11 Bargaining Positions and Trust in Ethiopian Coffee Cooperatives: A Gender Perspective Annemarie Groot Kormelinck 12 The Right to Development: Can States be Held Responsible? Nienke van der Have 13 Responsible Business Practices of Dutch Enterprises in Kenyan Agri-Business Lisanne Heemskerk Appendix Equity or Equality? Tenth Anniversary of the Prince Claus Chair Frans Bieckmann List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” …, Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. assemble twenty groundbreaking essays that provide a rationale and parameters for Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise focused on the investigation of esoteric lore and practices in Africa and the African Diaspora. The goals of this new field — while akin to those of Religious Studies, Africana Studies, and Western Esoteric Studies — are focused on the impulses that give rise to Africana Esoteric Traditions (AETs) and the ways in which they can be understood as loci where issues such as race, ethnicity, and identity are engaged; and in which identity, embodiment, resistance, and meaning are negotiated.Trade Review"Overall, the book is well worth the read. For one, its transdisciplinary nature makes it appealing to scholars in the fields of visual and performing arts, history, anthropology, religious studies, African American studies, and business. Moreover, while it does not quite succeed in decentering Christianity, it certainly shows the importance of esoteric traditions alongside and within the religion. Perhaps most importantly, it refuses to reduce the African American experience to a simple narrative of the struggle for political equality. On the contrary, it enriches the realm of scholarly interpretation by persuasively arguing that secrets can drive culture and religion just as well as politics." Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe, Nova Religio, Vol. 20, No. 4Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword Jeffrey J. Kripal Preface Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies: Mapping a New Endeavor Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. Part I: (Pre-) 19th Century 1 Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook Yvonne Chireau and Bon Mambo Vye Zo Kommande 2 Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community Lana Finley 3 The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? Darnise C. Martin Part II: Early to Mid 20th Century 4 Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating ‘Cults and Sects’ in African American Religious History Elizabeth Perez 5 Spiritual is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches Mary Ann Clark 6 The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism Jon Woodson 7 Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan Stephen C. Finley 8 On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (1934-1975) Justine Bakker 9 Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Writings of Henri Gamache Hugh R. Page, Jr. 10 Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics Chad Pevateaux 11 Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism Biko Mandela Gray 12 The “Nu” Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York’s Nuwaubians Paul Easterling 13 Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwanbian Nation of Moors Julius Bailey Part III: Late 20th Century to Present-day 14 Astro-Black Mythology Marques Redd 15 Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic Stephen Wehmeyer 16 Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews 17 Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition Marques Redd 18 Rocking’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual Joyce Marie Jackson 19 Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men’s Musical Praise Alisha Lola Jones 20 Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Approaches to Africana Spiritual Practices Barbara A. Holmes Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: “There Is a Mystery…” Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. Afterword Anthony B. Pinn Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.Trade Review[…] A remarkably erudite scholar, Dufoix […] describes the "social, political, intellectual and economic patterns" that have "rendered (the term) richer, with multiple and often contradictory significations. […] An impressive and, indeed, unique book that will assuredly serve as the definitive work on the history of the frequently invoked term "diaspora."" Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. D. Altschiller, Boston University, CHOICE, August 2017 "With a breadth and depth of knowledge that is simply unrivaled, Dufoix uncovers the genealogy of diaspora from its ancient origins to its extraordinary proliferation in the contemporary era. A work of massive erudition and ambition, The Dispersion is by far the most original, comprehensive, and exciting account of its subject. It is hard to see how this book could ever be surpassed." – Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College, author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction "Old and complex terms like diaspora migrate and mutate. Stéphane Dufoix has tenaciously revealed the social, historical and semantic metamorphoses of diaspora over the last 2300 years. His brilliant and definitive account will excite all scholars in the field of diaspora studies." – Robin Cohen, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, author of Global Diasporas: An IntroductionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Maps, Illustrations, Figures and Tables ... xi Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue ... 1 Part 1: From the Word to the Concept Introduction to Part 1 ... 23 1 The Word of the Septuagint ... 27 2 The Religious Space of Dispersion ... 76 3 Towards a Secular Concept ... 134 Part 2: Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal Introduction to Part 2 ... 181 4 Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror ... 185 5 A Name of One’s Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora ... 231 6 The Reversal ... 279 Part 3: The Name of the Global Introduction to Part 3 ... 337 7 Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies ... 340 8 The Critical Turn ... 392 9 States and Their Diasporas ... 444 Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons ... 495 Bibliography ... 501 Index of Names ... 581

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Book SynopsisIn Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History the editors Jeannine Bischoff and Saul Mullard present a collection of studies of the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Social regulations controlled, shaped and perpetuated Tibetan societies, but close analyses of these historical processes are rarely to be seen in ‘event history’ writing. The contributions to this volume explore the theme of social regulation from the perspectives of religion, politics and administration, while addressing issues of morals and values. Covering a wide range of Tibetan societies, the geographical scope of this volume extends from the Central Tibetan area to the southeastern Tibetan borderlands and the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Sikkim. Contributors are: Alice Travers, Berthe Jansen, Charles Ramble, Fernanda Pirie, Jeannine Bischoff, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Kensaku Okawa, Nyima Drandul, Peter Schwieger, Saul Mullard, Yuri KomatsubaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Saul Mullard: Regulating Sikkimese Society: The Fifteen-clause Domestic Settlement (Nang ’dum) of 1876 Charles Ramble and Nyima Drandul: Reason against Tradition: An Attempt at Cultural Reform in a Tibetan-speaking Community in Panchayat-Era Nepal Berthe Jansen: Monastic Guidelines (bCa’ yig): Tibetan Social History from a Buddhist Studies Perspective Alice Travers: The lCags stag dmag khrims (1950): A New Development in Tibetan Legal and Military History? Peter Schwieger: On the Exercise of Jurisdiction in Southeast Tibet after the Rise of the Ganden Phodrang Government Jeannine Bischoff: Completely, Voluntarily and Unalterably? – Values and Social Regulation among Central Tibetan Mi ser during the Ganden Phodrang Period Yuri Komatsubara: A Study of the Treaty of the First Tibet-Gorkha war of 1789 Kensaku Okawa: A Study of gTan tshigs: A Genre of Land Tenure Document and its Implication in Tibetan Social History Kalsang Norbu Gurung: Different copies of the Iron-Tiger Land Settlement and their Historical Value as Taxation Manuals Fernanda Pirie: State, Law, and Morality in Traditional Tibet Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors to this volume: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy, David D’Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin.Trade Review“Konrad Eisenbichler has brought together a team of scholars that details the development and strength of confraternity studies as well as showcases the lacunae in scholarship in certain aspects of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides a guide to scholars interested in the study of the religious practices of the laity, the social assistance provided by confraternities, and the arts they sponsored. As a whole, it illustrates the richness and complexity of premodern confraternities and the many opportunities still open for further research. Scholars of medieval and early modern European culture will find this volume particularly useful for its detailed introduction to confraternity studies and its array of articles on various aspects of premodern lay religious associations." Nilab Ferozan, McMaster University. In Confraternitas, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2020), pp. 52–53. “This is an excellent volume. […] Any student of confraternities will profit from reading this book.” D. Henry Dieterich, in: The Medieval Review, 21.01.10. “The essays in this volume reveal the undeniable centrality of confraternities between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Each contribution raises possibilities for further research. Early modern political and legal history might benefit from considering confraternal influence on statutory law.” Bianca Lopez, Southern Methodist University. In: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 371–373. “A brief review cannot do full justice to such a rich collection about the growing field of confraternity studies as approached from so many perspectives. Even with this rich tapestry, almost every chapter ends by suggesting areas for further research.” Kenneth Jorgensen, Albertus Magnus College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 1085–1087 (doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.183) “Confraternity studies have grown tremendously in the last thirty years and A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities reflects the depth and width of that growth […]. The team of scholars brought together by Konrad Eisenbichler for this volume highlights the strength and maturity of the scholarship of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides an important guide into this important field of research.” Mark A. Lewis, S.J., Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2019), pp. 707–710 (doi:10.1163/22141332-00604007-04)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities  Konrad Eisenbichler Part 1: Birth and Development 2 Confraternities as Such, and as a Template for Guilds in the Low Countries during the Medieval and the Early Modern Period  Paul Trio 3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent  Davide Adamoli 4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period  Beata Wojciechowska Part 2: Devotion and Prayer 5 The Ethics of Confraternities  Gervase Rosser 6 “A Single Body”: Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images, and Devotion  Danilo Zardin 7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against  Christopher F. Black Part 3: Good Works 8 Guides for a Good Life: The Sermons of Albertano da Brescia and other Instructions for Citizens and Believers in Italian Medieval Confraternities  Marina Gazzini 9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World  David D’Andrea 10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry Colleges  Colm Lennon 11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture, and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age  Nicholas Terpstra Part 4: Confraternities in a Transcultural World 12 National Confraternities in Rome and Italy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Identity, Representation, Charity  Anna Esposito 13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century  Dominika Burdzy 14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America  Murdo J. MacLeod 15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Federica Francesconi Part 5: Arts and Letters 16 Singing Praises to God: Confraternities and Music  Jonathan Glixon 17 Serio Ludere: Confraternities and Drama in Central Italy, 1400–1600  Nerida Newbigin 18 Faith on Stage: The Chambers of Rhetoric and Civic Religion in the Low Countries, 1400–1700  Anne-Laure Van Bruaene 19 Confraternities and Poetry: The Francophone Puys  Dylan Reid 20 Iconography, Spectacle, and Notions of Corporate Identity: The Form and Function of Art in Early Modern Confraternities  Alyssa Abraham 21 Art as Confraternal Documentation: Homeless Children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento  William R. Levin Index

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Book SynopsisTrust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosophy, and from Britain, the United States, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Japan. They bring their vast knowledge from different historical and cultural backgrounds to illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. The socio-cultural perspective of trust is important and increasingly acknowledged as central to trust research. Accordingly, future directions for comparative trust research are also discussed. Contributors include: Jack Barbalet, John Brehm, Geoffrey Hosking, Robert Marsh, Barbara A. Misztal, Guido Möllering, Bart Nooteboom, Ken J. Rotenberg, Jiří Šafr, Masamichi Sasaki, Meg Savel, Markéta Sedláčková, Jörg Sydow, Piotr Sztompka.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Masamichi Sasaki Part 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives 1 The Experience of Trust: Its Content and Basis  Jack Barbalet 2 Trust in the Moral Space  Piotr Sztompka 3 Trust in Habit: A Way of Coping in Unsettled Times  Barbara A. Misztal 4 Uncertainty and the Economic Need for Trust  Bart Nooteboom Part 2: Historical Perspectives 5 The Decline of Trust in Government  Geoffrey Hosking 6 Trust in Transition: Culturalist and Institutionalist Debate Reflected in the Democratization Process in the Czech Republic, 1991–2008  Markéta Sedláčková and Jiří Šafr Part 3: Dynamics of Organizational and Interpersonal Interaction 7 Trust Trap? Self-Reinforcing Processes in the Constitution of Inter-organizational Trust  Guido Möllering and Jörg Sydow 8 The Relation between Interpersonal Trust and Adjustment: Is Trust Always Good?  Ken J. Rotenberg Part 4: Cross-National Comparative Studies 9 A Cross-National Study of Criteria for Judging the Trustworthiness of Others before a First Meeting  Masamichi Sasaki 10 Social Trust in Japan and Taiwan: A Test of Fukuyama’s Thesis  Robert Marsh Part 5: Methodology 11 What Do Survey Measures of Trust Actually Measure?  John Brehm and Meg Savel Index

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Book SynopsisMedia, Ideology and Hegemony contains a range of topics that provide readers with opportunities to think critically about the new digital world. This includes work on old and new media, on the corporate power structure in communication and information technology, and on government use of media to control citizens. Demonstrating that the new world of media is a hotly contested terrain, the book also uncovers the contradictions inherent in the system of digital power and documents how citizens are using media and information technology to actively resist repressive power. This collection of essays is grounded with a critical theoretical foundation, and is informed by the importance of undertaking the analysis in historical perspective. Contributors are: Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragon, Burton Lee Artz, Arthur Asa Berger, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Marco Briziarelli, Savaş Çoban, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Junhao Hong, Robert Jensen, Douglas Kellner, Thomas Klikauer, Peter Ludes, Tanner Mirrlees, Vincent Mosco, Victor Pickard, Padmaja Shaw, Nick Stevenson, Gerald Sussman, Minghua Xu.Table of ContentsPreface  Vincent Mosco List of Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction  Savaş Çoban 1Global Media Practices and Cultural Hegemony: Growing, Harvesting, and Marketing the Consuming Audience  Burton Lee Artz 2The Return of Radical Humanism in Marxism and Anarchism? The Art of Refusal, Resistance and Humility  Nick Stevenson 3The Culture of Capitalism  Arthur Asa Berger 4Adorno on Ideology: Ideology Critique and Mass Consumerism  Thomas Klikauer 5Hegemony, Ideology, Media  Savaş Çoban 6Hegemony and the Media: A Culturally Materialist Narrative of Digital Labor in Contemporary Capitalism  Marco Briziarelli and Jeffrey Hoffmann 7Distorted Knowledge and Repressive Power  Peter Ludes 8Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs  Padmaja Shaw 9The US Empire’s Cultural Industries, at War: Selling and Subverting the Ideology of Militarism  Tanner Mirrlees 10Donald Trump and the Politics of the Spectacle  Douglas Kellner 11The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War  Gerald Sussman 12American Journalism’s Ideology: Why the “Liberal” Media is Fundamentalist  Robert Jensen 13Media Activism from Above and Below: Lessons from the 1940s American Reform Movement  Victor Pickard 14The Role of the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code (1930–1966) in the Creation of Hegemony  Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón 15MH17as Free-Floating Atrocity Propaganda  Oliver Boyd-Barrett 16Commercial Reform and the Ideological Function of Chinese Television: A New Model in a New Era?  Junhao Hong and Minghua Xu  Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 CEU Award for Outstanding Research The book explores the making of Romanian nation-state citizenship (1750-1918) as a series of acts of emancipation of subordinated groups (Greeks, Gypsies/Roma, Armenians, Jews, Muslims, peasants, women, and Dobrudjans). Its innovative interdisciplinary approach to citizenship in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans appeals to a diverse readership.Trade Review“a sophisticated exploration of the creation of Romania during the long nineteenth century, examined from the perspective of the development and evolution of citizenship […] the book is impeccably edited and handsomely produced.” Paul Michelson, in Slavic Review (2020) "Iordachi’s book on the practice of citizenship is an important work that researchers concerned with legislation as a means of social regulation cannot afford to ignore. It also provides a solid starting point for further analysis of state-building processes in the modern period." Mara Mărginean, George Barițiu Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in Journal of Romanian Studies issue 3.1 (2021), pp 121-3.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Liberal Citizenship: an Interdisciplinary Approach Part 1 From the Old Regime to the Nation-State: Toward a Unified Moldo-Wallachian Citizenship, c. 1750–1858 1 The Greek “Proto-Question” and the Birth of Modern Citizenship 2 “Restoring” the Regime of Nobility Estates: Citizenship under the Organic Regulations, 1821–1858 3 The Slavery Question: Abolitionism and the Emancipation of Roma, 1831–1856 4 The Romanian Question: the Great Powers, “European Public Law” and the Union of the Principalities, 1856–1858 Part 2 Peasants into Romanians: the Construction of Romanian National Citizenship, 1859–1866 5 Emulating the Second French Empire: the State-National Citizenship Model, 1859–1866 6 Shifting to an Ethno-National Citizenship Model: the Regime of Constitutional Nationalism Part 3 Constitutional Nationalism and Minorities, 1866–1918 7 The Jewish Question: the Exclusion of Jews from Citizenship 8 The Internationalization of the Jewish Question: Actors and Networks, 1866–1879 9 Duties without Rights: Jews under Constitutional Nationalism, 1879–1913 10 The Woman Question: Gender, Property, and Citizenship 11 The Dobrudjan Question: Constitutional Nationalism and the Assimilation of a Border Region, 1878–1914 12 Liberalism Renewed: War, Civil Society, and Emancipation, 1913–1918 13 The Language of Citizenship: Imperial Legacies, Legal-Political Concepts, and Historical Time Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council’s Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Change in Africa” (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders. Contributors are: Sabine Baumgart, Andrea Behrends, Marc Boeckler, Martin Doevenspeck, Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer, Karsten Giese, Katharina Heitz Tokpa, Shahadat Hossain, Anna Hüncke, Gabriel Klaeger, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Andreas Mehler, Felix Müller, Detlef Müller-Mahn, Wolfgang Scholz, Sophie Schramm, Jannik Schritt, Michael Stasik, Florian Weisser, Julia Willers, and Franzisca Zanker.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors 1 African Spaces of Global Order: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa  Marc Boeckler, Ulf Engel and Detlef Müller-Mahn Part 1: Territories and Sovereignties 2 Struggling for Sovereignty: Political Authority and the Governance of Climate Change in Ethiopia  Detlef Müller-Mahn, Florian Weisser and Julia Willers 3 Adaptation to Climate Change and New Spaces of Facilitated Control in Rwanda  Claudia Gebauer and Martin Doevenspeck 4 Ethiopian Federalism Revisited: Reterritorialization, Nationality, and the (De)legitimization of Ordering Practices  Felix Müller 5 Territorialisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Claims to Space and Conflict Management  Franzisca Zanker and Andreas Mehler Part 2: Borders and Mobilities 6 Territorial Power without Sovereignty: Hunters and the State on Côte d’Ivoire’s Northern Margins  Katharina Heitz Tokpa 7 At a Crossing Point: Negotiating Access to Spaces at the South African-Zimbabwean Border  Anna Hüncke 8 Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China  Karsten Giese and Kelly Si Miao Liang Part 3: Infrastructure and Order(s) 9 Reordering Ghana’s Roadside Spaces: Hawking in Times of Infrastructural Renewal  Michael Stasik and Gabriel Klaeger 10 On-demand Connections, Formalization and Multiplications: Dis/ordering Water Supply in Kimara Mwisho, Dar es Salaam  Sophie Schramm 11 Territorialisation, Urban Planning and Spatial Dis/order in Dar es Salaam  Shahadat Hossain, Wolfgang Scholz and Sabine Baumgart 12 “Western” and “Chinese” Oil zones: Petro-Infrastructures and the Emergence of New Trans-territorial Spaces of Order in Niger and Chad  Jannik Schritt and Andrea Behrends Index

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Book SynopsisAutomatization and systematic exclusion are beyond common sense within U.S. public schools. The failure to address social problems spills over to schools where youth who refuse to conform to the broken system are labelled as deviant and legitimately excluded. Students who conform are made real by the system and allowed back into society to keep manufacturing the same inequalities. This is the Pinocchio Effect. It involves the legitimization of hegemonic knowledge and the oppression of bodies, mind, and spiritualities. The book analyzes the impact of colonialities within U.S. public education by examining the learning experiences that influence teachers’ and students’ spiritualties, affecting the construction and oppression of their identities. Consequently, the author examines how educators can decolonize the classroom, which functions as a political arena as well as a critical space of praxis in order to reveal how realities and knowledges are made nonexistent—an epistemic blindness and privilege.Trade Review“The Pinocchio Effect takes decolonial work squarely into the next step of empirical qualitative research by focusing on situated feminist decoloniality both in her lived experience as a teacher and the classroom. All this comes together in her critical and decolonial autoethnography, showing how crucial it is the Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT) in the classroom, as a decolonial turn. It is impossible to overstate the importance of Janson’s thinking documented in her first book, as she starts to answer the questions: What does decolonial teaching in public schools mean, look like, feel like? What does feeling, doing, and thinking decolonial teaching and learning look like?” – James Jupp University of Texas Rio Grande Valley "Janson's study is an awesome composition of erudite, touching, moving, humorous, playful, artistic, tragic, in sum a heroic tribute to the teacher and teaching profession in our neoliberal times. The Pinocchio Effect redefines, intensifies and creatively mingles the borders of an internationalization of curriculum studies beyond geographical maps toward a novel intellectual itinerant curriculum theory cartography by introducing the elements of Curriculum of the South at the heart of neoliberal education and curriculum practices, in the United States.” - Tero Autio, Tallinn University, EstoniaTable of ContentsSeries Introduction On (De)Coloniality: Curriculum Within and Beyond the West Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Colonial Heart and Silenced Spiritualities 2 Need for Decolonial Autoethnography in Education 3 Colonialism, Colonialities, and Imperialism within and beyond U.S. Education 4 Canary in the Mind: Colonialities, Biopolitics, and Body-Politics 5 The Pinocchio Effect: Biopolitics and Coloniality 6 Colonialities and Spiritualities: Voices, Silences, and Experiences in the Classroom 7 Decolonial Manifesto for Public Education References Index

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