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Book SynopsisEmpathy is sometimes a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. This volume looks for the common ground between the results of Digital Media ideas on the subject, fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, and finally even in Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from Oxford  Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar 2 In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and Revolution  Josefa Ros Velasco 3 Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional Suffering  Victoria Aizkalna 4 From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume’s Moral Philosophy  Gerardo López Sastre 5 Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral Psychology of pitié  Nina Lex 6 Empathy in Education: the Successful Teacher  Giovanna Costantini 7 Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological Journey  Irina Ionita 8 Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology Clinic  Judy Rollins 9 Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles’ Ajax  Christopher J. Staley 10 Empathy in Experimental Narratives  Baris Mete 11 On the Bearability of Others Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its Justification  Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar 12 The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an Exploration  Paulus Pimomo 13 Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of ‘Empathic Unsettlement’  Rosa E. Belvedresi 14 Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global Justice  Johannes Rohbeck Index of Subjects Index of Authors

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Book SynopsisPlaces of Privilege examines dynamics of privilege and power in the construction of place in a period of the rapid social transformation of places, borders and boundaries. Drawing on inter-disciplinary perspectives, the book examines place as a site for the making and re-making of privilege, while considering new meanings of community, and examining spaces for cultural identity and resistance. Chapters point to a range of conceptual resources that can be utilised to produce critical analyses of place-making. As the authors point out, power and privilege shape place but these dynamics are in turn shaped by the specific place based histories and social dynamics within which they are located. Contributors are: Lutfiye Ali, Alison M. Baker, Paola Bilbrough, Tony Birch, Jora Broerse, Sally Clark, Josephine Cornell, Yon Hsu, Lou Iaquinto, Karen Jackson, Shose Kessi, Rebecca Lyons, Chris McConville, Nicole Oke, Amy Quayle, Alexandra Ramirez, Kopano Ratele, Christopher C. Sonn, and Ramón Spaaij.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1. Introduction to Places of Privilege  Nicole Oke, Christopher C. Sonn and Alison M. Baker Part 1: Place, Power and Boundary Making 2. Colombian Berraquera: Personal and Cultural Experiences on the Journey from Displacement to Belonging  Alexandra Ramírez 3. Reconstructing the Transit Experience: A Case Study of Community Development from Cisarua  Sally Clark 4. The Unlimited Refugee: The Politics of Race and Refugee-Ness in Two Screen Representations of Sudanese Australians  Paola Bilbrough 5. A Conversation between Normal & Abnormal  Lou Iaquinto Part 2: Place-Making – Privileges of Culture and Identity 6. Exploring Meanings and Practices of Indigenous Placemaking in Melbourne’s West  Christopher C. Sonn, Karen Jackson and Rebecca Lyons 7. Sport and the Politics of Belonging: The Experiences of Australian and Dutch Somalis  Ramón Spaaij and Jora Broerse 8. Gentrification: Power and Privilege in Footscray  Chris McConville and Nicole Oke 9. ‘We’ve Seen the End of the World and We Don’t Accept It’: Protection of Indigenous Country and Climate Justice  Tony Birch Part 3: Place, Privilege and Social Settings 10. Eating Chinese in White Suburbia: Palatable Exoticism for Home and Belonging  Yon Hsu 11. Dynamics of Privilege, Identity and Resistance at a Historically White University: A Photovoice Study of Exclusionary Institutional Culture  Josephine Cornell, Shose Kessi and Kopano Ratele 12. Reflexivities of Discomfort: Unsettling Subjectivities in and through Research  Alison M. Baker, Amy Quayle and Lutfiye Ali Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPlaces of Privilege examines dynamics of privilege and power in the construction of place in a period of the rapid social transformation of places, borders and boundaries. Drawing on inter-disciplinary perspectives, the book examines place as a site for the making and re-making of privilege, while considering new meanings of community, and examining spaces for cultural identity and resistance. Chapters point to a range of conceptual resources that can be utilised to produce critical analyses of place-making. As the authors point out, power and privilege shape place but these dynamics are in turn shaped by the specific place based histories and social dynamics within which they are located. Contributors are: Lutfiye Ali, Alison M. Baker, Paola Bilbrough, Tony Birch, Jora Broerse, Sally Clark, Josephine Cornell, Yon Hsu, Lou Iaquinto, Karen Jackson, Shose Kessi, Rebecca Lyons, Chris McConville, Nicole Oke, Amy Quayle, Alexandra Ramirez, Kopano Ratele, Christopher C. Sonn, and Ramón Spaaij.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1. Introduction to Places of Privilege  Nicole Oke, Christopher C. Sonn and Alison M. Baker Part 1: Place, Power and Boundary Making 2. Colombian Berraquera: Personal and Cultural Experiences on the Journey from Displacement to Belonging  Alexandra Ramírez 3. Reconstructing the Transit Experience: A Case Study of Community Development from Cisarua  Sally Clark 4. The Unlimited Refugee: The Politics of Race and Refugee-Ness in Two Screen Representations of Sudanese Australians  Paola Bilbrough 5. A Conversation between Normal & Abnormal  Lou Iaquinto Part 2: Place-Making – Privileges of Culture and Identity 6. Exploring Meanings and Practices of Indigenous Placemaking in Melbourne’s West  Christopher C. Sonn, Karen Jackson and Rebecca Lyons 7. Sport and the Politics of Belonging: The Experiences of Australian and Dutch Somalis  Ramón Spaaij and Jora Broerse 8. Gentrification: Power and Privilege in Footscray  Chris McConville and Nicole Oke 9. ‘We’ve Seen the End of the World and We Don’t Accept It’: Protection of Indigenous Country and Climate Justice  Tony Birch Part 3: Place, Privilege and Social Settings 10. Eating Chinese in White Suburbia: Palatable Exoticism for Home and Belonging  Yon Hsu 11. Dynamics of Privilege, Identity and Resistance at a Historically White University: A Photovoice Study of Exclusionary Institutional Culture  Josephine Cornell, Shose Kessi and Kopano Ratele 12. Reflexivities of Discomfort: Unsettling Subjectivities in and through Research  Alison M. Baker, Amy Quayle and Lutfiye Ali Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrance experienced an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks in 2015. Following these tragic events, social science researchers felt the need to undertake new work to better understand the dynamics of this new radicalism. This book is the result of one of these attempts. A large quantitative and qualitative survey was conducted among French Lycée students in order to gather substantive information and propose an interpretation of the penetration of radical ideas, be they religious or political, among them. How widespread are these radical ideas? What are the main characteristics of youngsters who share them? Are there links between religious radicalism and political radicalism? How do young people feel about the 2015 terrorist attacks? How do young people use media and social media to keep abreast of and understand radical acts and opinions? Those are the main questions explored in this book. Contributors are: Vincenzo Cicchelli, Alexandra Frénod, Olivier Galland, Laurent Lardeux, Anne Muxel, Jean-François Mignot and Sylvie Octobre.Table of Contents List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel Prologue: Field Work Diary   Alexandra Frénod 1 Radicalism in Question   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel 2 Religious Radicalism: from Absolutism to Violence   Olivier Galland 3 Students’ Reactions to the 2015 Paris Attacks   Jean-François Mignot 4 Political Radicalism: between Protest and Violence   Anne Muxel 5 Deprivation, Discrimination and Radicalism   Laurent Lardeux 6 Conspiracy Theories and Informational Radicalism   Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre  Afterword   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in analysing the various impacts that the intensifying interaction between Chinese and Africans in their roles as ethnic and cultural others, entrepreneurial migrants, traders, employers, employees etc. have on local developments and transformations within the host societies, be they on the African continent or in China. The dynamics of social change addressed in case studies cover processes of social mobility through migration, adaptation of business practices, changing social norms, consumption patterns, labour relations and mutual perceptions, cultural brokerage, exclusion and inclusion, gendered experiences, and powerful imaginations of China. Contributors are Karsten Giese, Guive Khan Mohammad, Katy Lam, Ben Lampert, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Laurence Marfaing, Gordon Mathews, Giles Mohan, Amy Niang, Yoon Jung Park, Alena Thiel, Naima Topkiran.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change  Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel Part 1: Others in Distant Places: Opportunities for Social Mobility 2 Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Ghana: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs  Katy N. Lam 3 The Impact of Migration of the Chinese Women in Niamey on Gender and Family Relations  Naima Topkiran 4 African Cultural Brokers in South China  Gordon Mathews 5 Early Chinese Migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contract Labourers and Traders  Yoon Jung Park Part 2: Encounters with the Other, Stimuli for Social Change 6 Grassroots Social Change Triggered by Africa-China Encounters in Urban China  Kelly Si Miao Liang 7 Business Partners and Employers: Chinese Traders as Facilitators of Grassroots Social Innovation in West Africa  Karsten Giese 8 A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria  Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan 9 The Chinese Factor in Senegal: Changing Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Socio-Economic Restructuring  Amy Niang Part 3: The Products of Others: ‘Made in China’ as Imaginary and Opportunity 10 This “Made in China” that Gets Africa Moving: Chinese Motorcycles and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso  Guive Khan-Mohammad 11 “Made in China” and the African “China Dream”: An Alternative to the West?  Laurence Marfaing 12 Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra’s China Trade  Alena Thiel Index

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Book SynopsisDecolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis presents research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice. It pertains to the ways in which individuals, groups, and communities engage with the logic of epistemic colonial power within areas of citizenship, migration, education, Indigeneity, language, land struggle, and social work. The contributions in this edited volume empirically document the conceptual and bodily engagement of racialized and violated individuals and communities as they use anti-colonial principles to disrupt criminalizing institutional discourses and policies within various global imperial contexts. The terms ‘Decolonization’ and ‘Anti-colonialism’ are used in diverse and interdisciplinary academic perspectives. They are researched upon and elaborated in necessary ways in the theoretical literature, however, it is rare to see these principles employed in applied forms. Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis provides a much needed contemporary and representative reclamation of these concepts from the standpoint of racialized communities. It explores the frameworks and methods rooted in their indigeneity, cultural history and memories to imagine a new future. The research findings and methodological tools presented in this book will be of interdisciplinary interest to teachers, graduate students and researchers. Contributors are: Harriet Akanmori, Ayah Al Oballi, Sevgi Arslan, Jacqueline Benn-John, Lucy El-Sherif, Danielle Freitas, Pablo Isla Monsalve, Dionisio Nyaga, Hoda Samater, Rose Ann Torres, Umar Umangay, and Anila Zainub. Table of ContentsForeword  George J. Sefa Dei Acknowledgements 1. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Concept of Khudi and Anti-colonial Praxis  Anila Zainub 2 Palimpsest, Contrapuntal and the Medicine Wheel: An Exploration of Decolonizing Thinking  Umar Umangay 3 Civic Resistance: Towards a Conceptualization of Anti-racist Civic Engagement  Sevgi Arslan 4 Dancing to the Lyrics of Death  Ayah Al Oballi 5 Reaching for My Multiplicity of Identities: My Decolonizing Journey as an English Language Proficiency Examiner  Danielle Freitas 6 Re-appropriation of the Indigenous Peoples in the Latin American National Discourse  Pablo Isla Monsalve 7 A Pedagogy of Palestine: Israeli Settler Colonialism as a Metaphor for Understanding Canadian and US Settler Colonialism  Lucy El-Sherif 8 Decolonization, Contestation and the Voices of Black Women: (Re)Defining Feminist Resistance, Activism and Empowerment  Jacqueline Benn-John 9 An Anti-colonial Reading of Eurocentricity, the Fragmentation, and the (Mis)Representation of Indigenous Cultures  Harriet Akanmori 10 A Call for Change that Recognize and Integrate the African Indigenous Healing Practices into the Social Work Profession  Hoda Samater 11 Education, Neoliberalism and Humanizing Curriculum  Dionisio Nyaga and Rose Ann Torres 12 Those Migrant Souls  Anila Zainub Index

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Book SynopsisIn Voices on Birchbark Jos Schaeken explores the major role that writing on birchbark – an ephemeral, even ‘throw-away’ form of correspondence and administration – played in the vibrant medieval merchant city of Novgorod and other cities in the Russian Northwest. Birchbark literacy was crucial to the organization of Novgorodian society; it was integrated into a huge variety of activities and had a broad social basis; it was used extensively by the laity, by women as well as men, by villagers as well as landlords. Voices on Birchbark is the first book-length study of this unique corpus in English. By examining a representative selection of birchbark texts, Jos Schaeken presents fascinating vignettes of daily medieval life and a holistic picture of the pragmatics of communication in pre-modern societies.Trade Review"Jos Schaeken has produced a subtle, impressively thorough (despite its brevity) and up-to-date guide to an important, intriguing and deceptively complex set of sources. His book is a very welcome addition to the lamentably limited English-language bibliography of the subject." -Simon Franklin, Clare College, University of Cambridge in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019 "Le livre de J. Schaeken est une belle et multifacette représentation de tout le corpus des documents sur écorce de bouleau." -Timofey V. Guimon in Cahiers de civilisation Médiévale, 2019

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Book SynopsisWhat does it look like to let go of Whiteness? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires sharing power, opportunity, and access. Removing barriers to the knowledge created in higher education is an essential part of this process. The process of unhooking oneself from institutionalized whiteness certainly requires fighting hegemonic modes of thought and patriarchal views that persistently keep marginalized groups of academics in their station (or at their institution). In the explosive Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps, editors Hartlep and Hayes continued the conversation they began in 2013 with Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States. This third and final volume focuses on the writers' processes to let go of the pathology of Whiteness. The contributors in this book have once again come from an intersection of races, ethnicities, sexual identities and gender identities and includes conversations across these multiple intersections. The editors move from prepared précises on multicultural education toward actionable conversations that drive social justice agendas and have the power to eliminate educational inequities.Table of ContentsPreface: Unhooking from Whiteness: #BlackLivesMatter!  Issac Carter About the Cover: Cruising the Political Landscape in 1992 Los Angeles  Luis-Genaro Garcia List of Figures and Tables About the Contributors Prologue: Corpus Delecti  Lasana D. Kazembe 1 Unhooking from Whiteness: Beginning the Journey  Cleveland Hayes, Issac Carter and Kathy Elderson 2 Decivilization in the Trump Error: A Call for Humanity without the Whiteness of Man  Issac Carter 3 Four Domains of Benefiting from Racism: A Multi-Year Autoethnography of a High School Student Exchange  Andrew J. Schiera 4 Loving Blackness to Dismantle Whiteness: On Pushing Ideals of Social Justice to Unhook from Whiteness  Brenda Juarez Harris 5 Gay Is Not the New Black: Decentering Whiteness in the Quest for Equality  Cleveland Hayes 6 The Least Racist White Person in the Room: Towards Critical Authenticity  Dennis L. Rudnick 7 I Must Confront What Is Uncomfortable  Adonay Montes 8 Diversity Bang: Who Benefits from Interest Convergence in Higher Ed?  Naomi W. Nishi 9 Defecting from Whiteness: Coalescing toward Liberation  Zachary S. Ritter and Kenneth R. Roth 10 “Hey, I Live There!”: Unpacking Environmental Justice Education and Whiteness in a Rust Belt City  Monica L. Miles, Kate Haq and Eve Shippens 11 Complicating the Ally/Enemy Dichotomy: White Teachers, Critical Whiteness, and Racial Justice Identifications  Jamie Utt 12 The Enemy Is White Supremacy: How South Korea and China Got Hooked  Hannah R. Stohry, Jing Tan and Brittany A. Aronson 13 Beyond the Color Lines: A Duoethnography of Multiraciality and Unhooking  Cristina Santamaría Graff and Josh Manlove 14 Your Whiteness Is Showing, and Yes, It Is Racist: How Whites Stay in the Dark  Jared J. Aldern and Peter M. Newlove 15 There Is No Turning Back  Kathy Elderson Afterword  Nicholas D. Hartlep Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it look like to let go of Whiteness? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires sharing power, opportunity, and access. Removing barriers to the knowledge created in higher education is an essential part of this process. The process of unhooking oneself from institutionalized whiteness certainly requires fighting hegemonic modes of thought and patriarchal views that persistently keep marginalized groups of academics in their station (or at their institution). In the explosive Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps, editors Hartlep and Hayes continued the conversation they began in 2013 with Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States. This third and final volume focuses on the writers' processes to let go of the pathology of Whiteness. The contributors in this book have once again come from an intersection of races, ethnicities, sexual identities and gender identities and includes conversations across these multiple intersections. The editors move from prepared précises on multicultural education toward actionable conversations that drive social justice agendas and have the power to eliminate educational inequities.Table of ContentsPreface: Unhooking from Whiteness: #BlackLivesMatter!  Issac Carter About the Cover: Cruising the Political Landscape in 1992 Los Angeles  Luis-Genaro Garcia List of Figures and Tables About the Contributors Prologue: Corpus Delecti  Lasana D. Kazembe 1 Unhooking from Whiteness: Beginning the Journey  Cleveland Hayes, Issac Carter and Kathy Elderson 2 Decivilization in the Trump Error: A Call for Humanity without the Whiteness of Man  Issac Carter 3 Four Domains of Benefiting from Racism: A Multi-Year Autoethnography of a High School Student Exchange  Andrew J. Schiera 4 Loving Blackness to Dismantle Whiteness: On Pushing Ideals of Social Justice to Unhook from Whiteness  Brenda Juarez Harris 5 Gay Is Not the New Black: Decentering Whiteness in the Quest for Equality  Cleveland Hayes 6 The Least Racist White Person in the Room: Towards Critical Authenticity  Dennis L. Rudnick 7 I Must Confront What Is Uncomfortable  Adonay Montes 8 Diversity Bang: Who Benefits from Interest Convergence in Higher Ed?  Naomi W. Nishi 9 Defecting from Whiteness: Coalescing toward Liberation  Zachary S. Ritter and Kenneth R. Roth 10 “Hey, I Live There!”: Unpacking Environmental Justice Education and Whiteness in a Rust Belt City  Monica L. Miles, Kate Haq and Eve Shippens 11 Complicating the Ally/Enemy Dichotomy: White Teachers, Critical Whiteness, and Racial Justice Identifications  Jamie Utt 12 The Enemy Is White Supremacy: How South Korea and China Got Hooked  Hannah R. Stohry, Jing Tan and Brittany A. Aronson 13 Beyond the Color Lines: A Duoethnography of Multiraciality and Unhooking  Cristina Santamaría Graff and Josh Manlove 14 Your Whiteness Is Showing, and Yes, It Is Racist: How Whites Stay in the Dark  Jared J. Aldern and Peter M. Newlove 15 There Is No Turning Back  Kathy Elderson Afterword  Nicholas D. Hartlep Index

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Book SynopsisDecolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis presents research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice. It pertains to the ways in which individuals, groups, and communities engage with the logic of epistemic colonial power within areas of citizenship, migration, education, Indigeneity, language, land struggle, and social work. The contributions in this edited volume empirically document the conceptual and bodily engagement of racialized and violated individuals and communities as they use anti-colonial principles to disrupt criminalizing institutional discourses and policies within various global imperial contexts. The terms ‘Decolonization’ and ‘Anti-colonialism’ are used in diverse and interdisciplinary academic perspectives. They are researched upon and elaborated in necessary ways in the theoretical literature, however, it is rare to see these principles employed in applied forms. Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis provides a much needed contemporary and representative reclamation of these concepts from the standpoint of racialized communities. It explores the frameworks and methods rooted in their indigeneity, cultural history and memories to imagine a new future. The research findings and methodological tools presented in this book will be of interdisciplinary interest to teachers, graduate students and researchers. Contributors are: Harriet Akanmori, Ayah Al Oballi, Sevgi Arslan, Jacqueline Benn-John, Lucy El-Sherif, Danielle Freitas, Pablo Isla Monsalve, Dionisio Nyaga, Hoda Samater, Rose Ann Torres, Umar Umangay, and Anila Zainub. Table of ContentsForeword  George J. Sefa Dei Acknowledgements 1. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Concept of Khudi and Anti-colonial Praxis  Anila Zainub 2 Palimpsest, Contrapuntal and the Medicine Wheel: An Exploration of Decolonizing Thinking  Umar Umangay 3 Civic Resistance: Towards a Conceptualization of Anti-racist Civic Engagement  Sevgi Arslan 4 Dancing to the Lyrics of Death  Ayah Al Oballi 5 Reaching for My Multiplicity of Identities: My Decolonizing Journey as an English Language Proficiency Examiner  Danielle Freitas 6 Re-appropriation of the Indigenous Peoples in the Latin American National Discourse  Pablo Isla Monsalve 7 A Pedagogy of Palestine: Israeli Settler Colonialism as a Metaphor for Understanding Canadian and US Settler Colonialism  Lucy El-Sherif 8 Decolonization, Contestation and the Voices of Black Women: (Re)Defining Feminist Resistance, Activism and Empowerment  Jacqueline Benn-John 9 An Anti-colonial Reading of Eurocentricity, the Fragmentation, and the (Mis)Representation of Indigenous Cultures  Harriet Akanmori 10 A Call for Change that Recognize and Integrate the African Indigenous Healing Practices into the Social Work Profession  Hoda Samater 11 Education, Neoliberalism and Humanizing Curriculum  Dionisio Nyaga and Rose Ann Torres 12 Those Migrant Souls  Anila Zainub Index

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Book SynopsisIn Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the role of migration in the reproduction of contemporary society. He demonstrates how immigration constitutes a political dilemma that embodies the ethnic and demographic transformation of advanced societies. En Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales propone un modelo teórico para el entendimiento de las migraciones en la reproducción de la sociedad contemporánea. En las sociedades avanzadas la inmigración establece un dilema político concerniente a la transformación étnica y demográfica de sus poblaciones.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Migration and Reproduction: Basic Premises  1 Three Glances at the Reproduction Approach   1.1 Demography and Population Reproduction   1.2 Reproduction in the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu   1.3 Gunnar Myrdal and the Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation   1.4 Migration and Reproduction: A Preliminary Synthesis  2 From the Social Reproduction of Migration to Migration as Reproduction of Society  3 Conclusion: Migration and Reproduction 2 International Migration in Neoclassical Economics: A Critical Perspective  1 Approaches of Neoclassical Economic Theory and of the New Home Economics  2 Limitations of Neo-classical Theory: Imperfections of the Market  3 Rational Choice: Theoretical or Axiomatic Principle?  4 Neoclassical Economics: An Ahistorical Theory 3 Migration and Development: Three Theses and a Corollary  1 Migration and Development: The Pitfalls of a Misleading Discourse   1.1 The Immigration Issue in Host Countries   1.2 Is Migration a New Development Paradigm for Origin Countries?  2 Migration and Development: a Critical Perspective  3 Conclusion: Three Theses and a Corollary on International Migration   3.1 Corollary: Towards a Global Model of Understanding Migration 4 Migration and Reproduction: Beyond the Critique of Methodological Nationalism  1 Globalization as a Critique of Methodological Nationalism  2 Transnational Communities and Transnationalism  3 Migration, Social Networks and Transnationalism  4 Migration and Reproduction 5 The Role of Migration in the Global System of Demographic Reproduction  1 Thesis  2 From Demographic Transition to a Global System of Reproduction  3 International Migration and Demographic Change in Sending and Receiving Societies   3.1 Aging Population and the End of Demographic Transition   3.2 The Second Demographic Transition   3.3 The Demographic Dividend: Dynamics of Population in Origin Countries  4 Demographic Change and Migration: Towards a Global Model of Population Reproduction  5 Migration and Demographic Change: The Contradictions of the Model  6 Conclusion: Dilemmas and Contradictions of a Model 6 Migration and the Reproduction of Capital  1 Thesis  2 From the Circular Flow of Income to the Reproduction of Capital  3 Labor Migration and the Reproduction of Capital   3.1 Deindustrialization and Tertiarization in the New Labor Matrix   3.2 Immigration and Labor Deficit  4 Transnationalism, Social Networks and Remittances: The Reproduction of the Labor Force  5 Conclusion 7 Migration and Social Reproduction  1 Thesis  2 Social Networks and Social Reproduction  3 Migration and Social Reproduction in Host Societies   3.1 Globalization and Employment Polarization   3.2 Racializing Social Inequality and Class Structure in the United States   3.3 Migration, Work and Social Reproduction in Advanced Societies  4Migration and Social Reproduction: Towards a Global and Comprehensive Vision 8 The Central Place of Migration in the Reproduction of Advanced Societies  1 Thesis  2 International Migrations: The Theoretical-methodological Debate Revisited  3 Migration and the Reproduction Approach  4 The Central Place of Migrations in Advanced Societies  5 The Contradictions of the Model: Demographic Replacement 9 Latinos in the USA: The New American Dilemma  1 Thesis  2 Demographic Change and Ethnic Replacement  3 The Racialization of Inequality and the New American Dilemma   3.1 Occupational Segregation and the Racializing of Social Inequality   3.2 Productivity, Wages and Economic Discrimination  4 Final Reflections: Latinos and the New American Dilemma References 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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Book SynopsisThe De concordia, published by Juan Luis Vives in 1529 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, is a comprehensive analysis of the social and political problems which were then afflicting Europe. It is the only such analysis undertaken by any of the Renaissance humanists. The De concordia merits a much more important place in Vives’ oeuvre than scholars have hitherto given it. It is structured around the Augustinian concept of concordia and its antithesis, discordia. As such, it is an explicit attempt to understand current history in metaphysical terms. Vives’ intention is not to give strategic or tactical advice to Charles V, but to examine the general disorder of Europe with a view to determining its fundamental nature and significance. This is the first critical edition of the De concordia and the first English translation.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Title Page of the 1529 Edition Introduction The Present Edition Selected Bibliography Sigla De Concordia et discordia in humano genere: Latin Text and English Translation Epistula Praefatoria Liber Primus Liber Secundus Liber Tertius Liber Quartus Index Locorum Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction   Catherine Bartlett 2 “The Penitents”: Attitudes of Jewish Society to Marranos in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Safed   Eyal Davidson 3 The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem: A Borderline Case   Michael T. Miller 4 Rights of the Stranger in Jewish Moral: Reactions to M. Lazarus’ Ethics of Judaism in Imperial Germany   Mathias Berek 5 The Origins of the Stranger: Georg Simmel’s “The Stranger,” Moritz Lazarus’ “Was Heisst National?” and the Jewish Question of the Fin-de-Siècle Period   Søren Blak Hjortshøj 6 The Jewish Stranger in Germany and America   Chad Alan Goldberg 7 (Friendly) Strangers in Their Own Land No More: Third-Generation Jews and Socio-Political Activism in the Present in Germany   Dani Kranz 8 “They Are Not My People”: Mysticism and Political Extremism in Henry Bean’s Script The Believer (2001)   Federico Dal Bo 9 Between Language and Ethnicity: Russian Jewish Writers in the Post-Soviet World, the Question of Self-Identification in Literature and Life   Olga Tabachnikova 10 Jews as Strangers, Strangers as Jews in the Twentieth-Century French Novel   Maxime Decout 11 Exorcizing the Stranger: The “Daughter of Germany” in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination   Efraim Sicher 12 Muslims as Brothers or Strangers? French Jewish Thinkers Confront the Moral Dilemmas of the French-Algerian War   Ethan B. Katz 13 The Christian Orphan as the Stranger in Nineteenth-Century European Jewish Fiction   Catherine Bartlett 14 The Strange Face and Form of the Stranger in Levinas   Benda Hofmeyr 15 Conclusion: Jews and Strangers. Perspective from History   Joachim Schlör Index

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in Art as an Agent for Social Change, presented as snapshots, focus on exploring the power of drama, dance, visual arts, media, music, poetry and film as educative, artistic, imaginative, embodied and relational art forms that are agents of personal and societal change. A range of methods and ontological views are used by the authors in this unique contribution to scholarship, illustrating the comprehensive methodologies and theories that ground arts-based research in Canada, the US, Norway, India, Hong Kong and South Africa. Weaving together a series of chapters (snapshots) under the themes of community building, collaboration and teaching and pedagogy, this book offers examples of how Art as an Agent for Social Change is of particular relevance for many different and often overlapping groups including community artists, K-university instructors, teachers, students, and arts-based educational researchers interested in using the arts to explore social justice in educative ways. This book provokes us to think critically and creatively about what really matters!Trade Review“Art as Agent for Social Change deftly explores the connections between art and social change through a rich telling of the journeys of knowledge work of artists, researchers, educators and activists. The cover artwork lingers as a ‘framework’ for future journeys of knowledge production highlighting the necessity of introspection, but also interaction, interdependence, inter-connectedness, and intersection required for wholesome scholarship for social change in complex and uncertain times. The editors have brought together a powerful text that opens up possibilities for innovation in connecting art, research, teaching and community activism, enabling the authentic and respectful interbeing of individuals and communities, vitalising the work they do. The interdisciplinary text makes a timeous and important contribution to the field of arts-based research.” – Naydene de Lange, Professor Emeritus, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa “A superb collection of provocative, educative, and imaginative artful narratives that celebrates arts and their significance in bringing about personal, social, and ecological transformations. Given the inclusive, holistic, contemplative, and collaborative nature of the contributions, this volume emphasizes interconnection, hope, well-being, and empowerment and contributes to a burgeoning global movement for social justice and change. An important read for all educators!” – Ashwani Kumar, President, Arts Researchers and Teachers Society, Canada “In a time of dire need for social change, this book offers a captivating collection of ‘snapshots’ that showcase the transformational power of arts in education. It allows us to witness inclusive research practices, recognize multiple global perspectives, challenge pre-conceived perceptions, and appreciate arts-based methodological approaches with the goal of re-imagining education.” – Sara Hashem, PhD, Arts Educator, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  Judith Marcuse Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 In Focus: Snapshots of Social Change through the Arts  Mindy R. Carter, Claudia Mitchell and Hala Mreiwed PART 1: Community Building 2 “Imagining Things Being Otherwise”: Rethinking Community and the Art Museum Experience  Sage Kincaid and Callan Steinmann 3 Voices from the Heart: Using Community and Art to Foster Social Change in Pre-Service Teachers  Sheryl Smith-Gilman 4 Art Hive: A Relational Framework for Social Change  Leah Lewis, Heather McLeod and Xuemei Li 5 The Murder Next Door: Developing Healing Responses and Building Community Following Trauma Using Research-Based Theatre  Rosemary C. Reilly 6 Lost in Transition: Brecht’s Theatre as a Social Change Agent for Youth Empowerment in the Time of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Hong Kong Handover  Lo Wai Luk and Ho Ka Lee Carrie 7 Making Stone Soup: Arts-Based Organisational Interventions and Participants’ Communication, Teamwork, and Sense of Wellbeing  Mariam Ugarte and Warren Linds 8 Visions of Hope in Education: Fostering Student Teachers’ Identities of Becoming Agents of Change through a Photo Competition and Exhibition  Avivit M. Cherrington 9 Empty Jars: Using Memoration to Confront the Settler Colonial Project through Arts-Based Research  Deanna Del Vecchio PART 2: Collaborations 10 Walking with Wonder: Attunement to the Senses and Relationality in Photographic Inquiry  Amélie Lemieux and Boyd White 11 Expression and Action for Change: A Contemporary Arts Center and School Collaboration  Deborah Randolph and Karen Morris 12 Moving beyond Celebration toward Action: Affordances and Tensions in Screening and Audiencing Cellphilms and Participatory Verbatim Films  Casey Burkholder and Matt Rogers 13 Cameraless Film-Making in the Education Classroom: A Professor-Student Artistic Collaboration  Lisa A. Mitchell and Kerri Kennedy 14 Choreography as Poetic, Pedagogical, and Political Action in Contemporary Times  Tone Pernille Østern 15 Teaching the Mind-body: Integrating Knowledges through Circus Arts  Madeline Hoak, Alisan Funk and Dan Berkley 16 Contemplative Arts-Based Practices in Education  Giang Hoang Le Nguyen, Trinh Ngoc Phuong Bui and Jodi Latremouille 17 The Generative Act of Critical Pedagogy: Animating Children’s Books and Games as Research Practice  Sue Uhlig, Amy Migliore and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh PART 3: Teaching & Pedagogy 18 Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning  Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan 19 Eight Weeks, Eight Verses: Using Arts-Based Inquiry to Explore Educator Subjectivity and Reflexivity during a Time of Social Change  Marguerite Müller and Frans Kruger 20 Dear Artemisia: Art as Transformation in Sexual Violence Prevention  Victoria Dickman-Burnett 21 Fiction for Social Change: Addressing Gender in and through Popular Films  Esther Armaignac 22 Unconscious Acts: An Auto-Ethnographic Investigation into Euro-Centric White Normative Consciousness in Theatre Training Programs in Canada  Makram R. Ayache 23 A Pedagogy of Presence: Attending to Context, Process, Being, and Belonging  Rébecca Bourgault 24 Conceptualising a Black Feminist Arts Pedagogy: Looking Back to Look Forward  Amber C. Coleman 25 Working Toward Sustainable Creative Social Justice Practices: Advancing Equity and Justice in the Academy  Amanda Claudia Wager and Kristen P. Goessling

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in Art as an Agent for Social Change, presented as snapshots, focus on exploring the power of drama, dance, visual arts, media, music, poetry and film as educative, artistic, imaginative, embodied and relational art forms that are agents of personal and societal change. A range of methods and ontological views are used by the authors in this unique contribution to scholarship, illustrating the comprehensive methodologies and theories that ground arts-based research in Canada, the US, Norway, India, Hong Kong and South Africa. Weaving together a series of chapters (snapshots) under the themes of community building, collaboration and teaching and pedagogy, this book offers examples of how Art as an Agent for Social Change is of particular relevance for many different and often overlapping groups including community artists, K-university instructors, teachers, students, and arts-based educational researchers interested in using the arts to explore social justice in educative ways. This book provokes us to think critically and creatively about what really matters!Trade Review“Art as Agent for Social Change deftly explores the connections between art and social change through a rich telling of the journeys of knowledge work of artists, researchers, educators and activists. The cover artwork lingers as a ‘framework’ for future journeys of knowledge production highlighting the necessity of introspection, but also interaction, interdependence, inter-connectedness, and intersection required for wholesome scholarship for social change in complex and uncertain times. The editors have brought together a powerful text that opens up possibilities for innovation in connecting art, research, teaching and community activism, enabling the authentic and respectful interbeing of individuals and communities, vitalising the work they do. The interdisciplinary text makes a timeous and important contribution to the field of arts-based research.” – Naydene de Lange, Professor Emeritus, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa “A superb collection of provocative, educative, and imaginative artful narratives that celebrates arts and their significance in bringing about personal, social, and ecological transformations. Given the inclusive, holistic, contemplative, and collaborative nature of the contributions, this volume emphasizes interconnection, hope, well-being, and empowerment and contributes to a burgeoning global movement for social justice and change. An important read for all educators!” – Ashwani Kumar, President, Arts Researchers and Teachers Society, Canada “In a time of dire need for social change, this book offers a captivating collection of ‘snapshots’ that showcase the transformational power of arts in education. It allows us to witness inclusive research practices, recognize multiple global perspectives, challenge pre-conceived perceptions, and appreciate arts-based methodological approaches with the goal of re-imagining education.” – Sara Hashem, PhD, Arts Educator, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  Judith Marcuse Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 In Focus: Snapshots of Social Change through the Arts  Mindy R. Carter, Claudia Mitchell and Hala Mreiwed PART 1: Community Building 2 “Imagining Things Being Otherwise”: Rethinking Community and the Art Museum Experience  Sage Kincaid and Callan Steinmann 3 Voices from the Heart: Using Community and Art to Foster Social Change in Pre-Service Teachers  Sheryl Smith-Gilman 4 Art Hive: A Relational Framework for Social Change  Leah Lewis, Heather McLeod and Xuemei Li 5 The Murder Next Door: Developing Healing Responses and Building Community Following Trauma Using Research-Based Theatre  Rosemary C. Reilly 6 Lost in Transition: Brecht’s Theatre as a Social Change Agent for Youth Empowerment in the Time of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Hong Kong Handover  Lo Wai Luk and Ho Ka Lee Carrie 7 Making Stone Soup: Arts-Based Organisational Interventions and Participants’ Communication, Teamwork, and Sense of Wellbeing  Mariam Ugarte and Warren Linds 8 Visions of Hope in Education: Fostering Student Teachers’ Identities of Becoming Agents of Change through a Photo Competition and Exhibition  Avivit M. Cherrington 9 Empty Jars: Using Memoration to Confront the Settler Colonial Project through Arts-Based Research  Deanna Del Vecchio PART 2: Collaborations 10 Walking with Wonder: Attunement to the Senses and Relationality in Photographic Inquiry  Amélie Lemieux and Boyd White 11 Expression and Action for Change: A Contemporary Arts Center and School Collaboration  Deborah Randolph and Karen Morris 12 Moving beyond Celebration toward Action: Affordances and Tensions in Screening and Audiencing Cellphilms and Participatory Verbatim Films  Casey Burkholder and Matt Rogers 13 Cameraless Film-Making in the Education Classroom: A Professor-Student Artistic Collaboration  Lisa A. Mitchell and Kerri Kennedy 14 Choreography as Poetic, Pedagogical, and Political Action in Contemporary Times  Tone Pernille Østern 15 Teaching the Mind-body: Integrating Knowledges through Circus Arts  Madeline Hoak, Alisan Funk and Dan Berkley 16 Contemplative Arts-Based Practices in Education  Giang Hoang Le Nguyen, Trinh Ngoc Phuong Bui and Jodi Latremouille 17 The Generative Act of Critical Pedagogy: Animating Children’s Books and Games as Research Practice  Sue Uhlig, Amy Migliore and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh PART 3: Teaching & Pedagogy 18 Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning  Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan 19 Eight Weeks, Eight Verses: Using Arts-Based Inquiry to Explore Educator Subjectivity and Reflexivity during a Time of Social Change  Marguerite Müller and Frans Kruger 20 Dear Artemisia: Art as Transformation in Sexual Violence Prevention  Victoria Dickman-Burnett 21 Fiction for Social Change: Addressing Gender in and through Popular Films  Esther Armaignac 22 Unconscious Acts: An Auto-Ethnographic Investigation into Euro-Centric White Normative Consciousness in Theatre Training Programs in Canada  Makram R. Ayache 23 A Pedagogy of Presence: Attending to Context, Process, Being, and Belonging  Rébecca Bourgault 24 Conceptualising a Black Feminist Arts Pedagogy: Looking Back to Look Forward  Amber C. Coleman 25 Working Toward Sustainable Creative Social Justice Practices: Advancing Equity and Justice in the Academy  Amanda Claudia Wager and Kristen P. Goessling

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Book SynopsisListen to the podcast! In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such “green productive forces” are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital. In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 : The Collapse According to Granma 1 Written Sources on the Collapse 2 Granma and the Written News as a Method 3 Analyzing the News Accounts 4 Reflections on the Written News Part 2 : 5 Contextualizing the Testimonies 6 Oral Source Methodologies 7 Analysis of the Interviews 8 Insights from the Oral Testimonies Conclusion: Viewing the Collapse through the PCC Lens Afterword Appendix 1: Information for the Interviewees Appendix 2: Interview Guide Appendix 3 : Core Sources Appendix 4: Example Table for Data Visualization Bibliography 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 SynopsisThe Evolution of the Israeli Third Sector reviews the development of the nonprofit sector in Israel and analyzes it within existing nonprofit theories. It takes a historical perspective in looking at its evolution, in light of political, social, ideological, and economic changes in the world and in the country. It discusses the development of policy and government involvement on the one hand and the unique features of Israeli philanthropy, both Jewish and Arab, on the other. It analyzes Israel’s civil society and social movements as well as social entrepreneurship and their expression in the Third Sector. The book also covers the development of research and education on the Third Sector; it includes a review of research centers, databases, journals, and specific programs that were developed by Israeli universities.

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Book SynopsisBernard Scott has met a long-felt need by authoring a book that shows the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences (including psychology, sociology, and anthropology). Scott provides user-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics, with examples of how they can be used in the social sciences. He explains how cybernetics functions as a transdiscipline that unifies other disciplines and a metadiscipline that provides insights about how other disciplines function. He provides an account of how cybernetics emerged as a distinct field, following interdisciplinary meetings in the 1940s, convened to explore feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems. He also recounts how encountering cybernetics transformed his thinking and his understanding of life in general.Table of ContentsCybernetics for the Social Sciences  Bernard Scott Abstract Keywords Prolegomena  Part 1 About This Publication and a First Look at Cybernetics  Part 2 A Life in Cybernetics  Part 3 The Story of Cybernetics  Part 4 Some Key Concepts of Cybernetics  Part 5 On Messages  Part 6 Cybernetics and the Integration of the Disciplines  Part 7 In Defence of Pure Cybernetics  Part 8 Socioybernetic Understandings of Consciousness  Part 9 Reflections on the Sociocybernetics of Social Networks  Part 10 Some Sociocybernetic Understanding of Possible World Futures  Part 11 Sociocybernetic Understandings of Culture  Part 12 Summing up and What Comes Next  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisThe sociology of sport is a relatively new scientific discipline, which has spread rapidly and developed in different directions across the world. It investigates social behavior, social processes, and social structures in sport, as well as the relationship between sport and society. The book Introduction to the Sociology of Sport aims to give its readers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating topic. For this purpose, it shows the interrelations between sport and identity, social class, gender, socialization, social groups, (mass) communication, the economy, and politics. In addition, the book introduces a new, innovative theory that helps readers understand the social specificity and worldwide popularity of sport.Trade Review“In adopting their approach, the authors widen the lens through which to critically study sport. This more global, theoretical, and comparative approach is academically laudable”. J. R. Mitrano, in Choice Connect, 2022.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1  The subject matter of sociology 2  Sociology of sport: subject area, theoretical approaches, and different methods 3  Sport and society 3.1  Sport and culture: values in society and in sport 3.1.1  Sport and civilization 3.2  Expansion of sport, internal differentiation, and trends 4  Socialization and sport 4.1  Gender roles in sport 4.1.1  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intergender (LGBTI) people in sport 4.2  Social stratification in sport 4.2.1  Physical habitus, somatic culture, and social distinction 4.2.2  Sports of the lower social classes 4.2.3  Sports of the upper social classes 5  Sport and the social group 5.1  Social processes in sport groups 5.1.1  Group size and group task in sport 5.1.2  Group cohesion in sport 5.2  Social facilitation 6  Sport, social recognition, and identity 6.1  Anthropological constants 6.1.1  World-openness 6.1.2  Excentricity 6.1.3  Pursuit of recognition 6.1.3.1  Durkheim’s study on suicides 6.2  Social recognition in sport 6.2.1  Recognition as a member of a group 6.2.2  Recognition in an ascribed role 6.2.3  Recognition in an achieved role 6.2.4  Recognition in a public role 6.2.5  Recognition of personal identity 6.3  African Americans in sport 6.4  Action and representation in society and in sport 6.5  Sport as a social phenomenon 7  Violence and doping in sport 8  Towards the joy of play and movement in sport 8.1  The flow experience in sport 9  Sport and communication 10  Sport spectators 10.1  Social integration 10.2  Identification 10.3  Experiencing suspense and showing intense emotions 10.4  Sport and religion 10.5  On aggression among sport spectators 10.5.1  Causes for aggressive behavior 10.5.2  History of violence in spectator sport 11  Sport and mass communication 11.1  Communicator research 11.2  Content analysis 11.2.1  Content analysis of television sport 11.2.2  Content analysis of sport reporting in newspapers 11.2.3  Sport reporting and gender 11.3  Media research 11.4  Audience research 11.4.1  Audience research in the United Kingdom 11.4.2  Audience research in the USA 11.4.3  Audience research in Australia 11.4.4  Motives for consuming media sport 11.5  Impact research 11.5.1  Theory of the omnipotence of the media 11.5.2  Theory of the relative ineffectiveness of the media 12  Sport and the economy 12.1  Sport marketing and mass media 13  Sport and politics 13.1  The power of sport: A theoretical approach 13.2  Sport, social integration, and national self-representation 13.3  Sport as a means of strengthening a nation 13.4  Sport boycotts 13.5  Sport, globalization, and Olympism

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

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Book SynopsisCe livre propose une analyse historique des conditions politiques et sociales des princesses ottomanes à l’époque moderne, au cœur d’une société de cour dominée par les logiques de discrimination sexuelle. This book offers a historical analysis of the political and social conditions of the Ottoman princesses in modern times, at the heart of a court society dominated by the logic of sexual discrimination.Table of ContentsFigures et TableauxX Introduction  1 Les mal-nommées  2 Les pudeurs historiennes  3 Les oubliées de l’histoire  4 L’œil des registres  5 La voix du silence  6 L’illusion du nombre  7 Le regard extérieur  8 Les temps de vie d’une sultane 1 Naissance et enfance des princesses ottomanes  1  2 Un sang, un titre, un statut  3 Fêter la naissance, célébrer la dynastie  4 Des enfances discrètes 2 Mariages et amours des princesses  1 82  2 Marier pour l’intérêt du sultan  3 Marier pour l’honneur de la dynastie  4 Vivre (parfois) en couple 3 Sociabilités et interactions politiques des princesses ottomanes  1 202  2 Agir en politique  3 Assurer la prospérité de son entourage  4 Promouvoir son lignage 4 Trépas des princesses ottomanes et au-delà  1 286  2 Préparer la mort(e)  3 Célébrer sa mémoire  4 Faire famille Conclusion  1 Des tranches de vie  2 Un sang prédateur  3 Des silences explicites Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisWe are poised at a crossroads between a past that is outgrown and a future we must choose. This book examines the multiple ways that wisdom, grounded in life experience, science and theoretical knowledge, can contribute to positive and sustainable local and global futures. The authors in this book have brought their thinking to various aspects of this existential challenge using the lenses of Wisdom and Wise Practice, in an effort to explore ideas by which society might make choices in planning and acting for a wiser future. Wisdom practices have developed over millennia to assist people in approaching and managing life experiences and difficulties. While such practices were originally considered the purview of academic and religious scholars; at this important time in history, it must become everyone’s responsibility to wisely look ahead if we are to achieve a sustainable future for society. The authors of this book comprise international future-oriented leaders, scholars, practitioners, community members and commentators with a commitment to social justice, human service and development. The book explores the place of wisdom and wise living practices alongside other ways of knowing and acting, for shaping positive futures for people and the world we inhabit. The chapters examine major challenges across political, physical and social life worlds, aiming to promote a quantum shift in discourse and decision making to address current and future challenges. The four parts of the book follow forward thinking ideas of wise professional practice: • Facing future challenges, • Exploring practice pathways, • Examining options and • Future possibilities.

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Book SynopsisWe are poised at a crossroads between a past that is outgrown and a future we must choose. This book examines the multiple ways that wisdom, grounded in life experience, science and theoretical knowledge, can contribute to positive and sustainable local and global futures. The authors in this book have brought their thinking to various aspects of this existential challenge using the lenses of Wisdom and Wise Practice, in an effort to explore ideas by which society might make choices in planning and acting for a wiser future. Wisdom practices have developed over millennia to assist people in approaching and managing life experiences and difficulties. While such practices were originally considered the purview of academic and religious scholars; at this important time in history, it must become everyone’s responsibility to wisely look ahead if we are to achieve a sustainable future for society. The authors of this book comprise international future-oriented leaders, scholars, practitioners, community members and commentators with a commitment to social justice, human service and development. The book explores the place of wisdom and wise living practices alongside other ways of knowing and acting, for shaping positive futures for people and the world we inhabit. The chapters examine major challenges across political, physical and social life worlds, aiming to promote a quantum shift in discourse and decision making to address current and future challenges. The four parts of the book follow forward thinking ideas of wise professional practice: • Facing future challenges, • Exploring practice pathways, • Examining options and • Future possibilities.

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Book SynopsisListen to the podcast! Education was established to create employees for 19th and 20th century manufacturing models. The 21st century requires a rethink. Change is happening fast, with jobs not guaranteed as robots are taking over routines. We must prepare students for uncertainty & higher-level employment – helping them think and communicate instead of retain and recall facts for passing exams. Some curricula is either irrelevant for today or gained at the press of a button. Listening and literate talk (narratives) for collaboratively solving real problems should be the focus, not facts forgotten after tests. The book explores this important debate. Contributors are: Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Irene Glendinning, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Gloria McGregor, Elena Milli, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Eduardo Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster.Table of ContentsForeword  Juan Eduardo Romero Preface: The World Is Shifting and Education Must Evolve  Rosemary Sage List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: How the World Is Changing Education  Rosemary Sage PART 1: The Politics of Education Introduction to Part 1  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 1 Global Trends  Rosemary Sage 2 The Present and Future World: What Education Needs to Consider  Rosemary Sage 3 Is School an Outdated System? Alternatives to Traditional Classrooms  Rosemary Sage 4 Preparing for Work  Nigel Adams 5 A New Model of Workplace Learning  Daryle Abrahams PART 2: Education Policies & Practices Introduction to Part 2  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 6 Creativity for Creativity  Emma Webster 7 Conversational Intelligence: The Basis of Creativity: Learning from Others  Elizabeth Negus 8 University-School Partnerships: Scholars in Residence within a School  Joanna Ebner 9 Imaginative Alternatives to the ‘Macabre Constant’  Pierre Frath 10 Third Generation Doctorates: The Practitioner Model  Rosemary Sage PART 3: Social Issues of Justice Introduction to Part 3  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 11 Academic Integrity: Research from World Studies  Irene Glendinning 12 Prioritising Values to Prepare for Life  Susan James 13 Sociological Aspects of Educational Robotics  Stefano Cobello and Elena Milli 14 Additional Learning Needs: Hearing Development  Gloria McGregor PART 4: Technology in Education Introduction to Part 4  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 15 The Rise and Rise of Digital Learning in Higher Education  Peter Chatterton 16 Technology and COVID-19: Remote Learning and Flipped Classes to Maintain Live Education  Riccarda Matteucci 17 The Maker Faire: Opportunities for Innovators  Riccarda Matteucci 18 E-Learning But Not Always E-Quality  Rosemary Sage 19 A Blueprint for Learning: How World Events Are Changing Education  Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Elena Milli, Irene Glendinning, Gloria McGregor, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster 20 Epilogue: A Review and Reflection  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci

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Book SynopsisListen to the podcast! Education was established to create employees for 19th and 20th century manufacturing models. The 21st century requires a rethink. Change is happening fast, with jobs not guaranteed as robots are taking over routines. We must prepare students for uncertainty & higher-level employment – helping them think and communicate instead of retain and recall facts for passing exams. Some curricula is either irrelevant for today or gained at the press of a button. Listening and literate talk (narratives) for collaboratively solving real problems should be the focus, not facts forgotten after tests. The book explores this important debate. Contributors are: Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Irene Glendinning, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Gloria McGregor, Elena Milli, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Eduardo Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster.Table of ContentsForeword  Juan Eduardo Romero Preface: The World Is Shifting and Education Must Evolve  Rosemary Sage List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: How the World Is Changing Education  Rosemary Sage PART 1: The Politics of Education Introduction to Part 1  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 1 Global Trends  Rosemary Sage 2 The Present and Future World: What Education Needs to Consider  Rosemary Sage 3 Is School an Outdated System? Alternatives to Traditional Classrooms  Rosemary Sage 4 Preparing for Work  Nigel Adams 5 A New Model of Workplace Learning  Daryle Abrahams PART 2: Education Policies & Practices Introduction to Part 2  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 6 Creativity for Creativity  Emma Webster 7 Conversational Intelligence: The Basis of Creativity: Learning from Others  Elizabeth Negus 8 University-School Partnerships: Scholars in Residence within a School  Joanna Ebner 9 Imaginative Alternatives to the ‘Macabre Constant’  Pierre Frath 10 Third Generation Doctorates: The Practitioner Model  Rosemary Sage PART 3: Social Issues of Justice Introduction to Part 3  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 11 Academic Integrity: Research from World Studies  Irene Glendinning 12 Prioritising Values to Prepare for Life  Susan James 13 Sociological Aspects of Educational Robotics  Stefano Cobello and Elena Milli 14 Additional Learning Needs: Hearing Development  Gloria McGregor PART 4: Technology in Education Introduction to Part 4  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci 15 The Rise and Rise of Digital Learning in Higher Education  Peter Chatterton 16 Technology and COVID-19: Remote Learning and Flipped Classes to Maintain Live Education  Riccarda Matteucci 17 The Maker Faire: Opportunities for Innovators  Riccarda Matteucci 18 E-Learning But Not Always E-Quality  Rosemary Sage 19 A Blueprint for Learning: How World Events Are Changing Education  Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Elena Milli, Irene Glendinning, Gloria McGregor, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster 20 Epilogue: A Review and Reflection  Rosemary Sage and Riccarda Matteucci

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Book SynopsisThroughout his career, self-taught Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) violated literary proprieties which discouraged the frank treatment of prostitution, infanticide, and the violence of war. Contemporary reviewers received Hogg’s bluntness rather fiercely because, in so doing, he questioned the ideologies of chastity, marriage and military masculinities that informed emerging discourses of the British Empire. This book reveals the strategic use that Hogg made of the marriage plot to challenge the civilising ideal of the motherly heroine as well as martial and sentimental masculinities which supported the discourse of a strong but tamed national vigour, thereby highlighting Hogg’s critical use of gender stereotypes in relation to norms of class and ethnicity when deconstructing this plot convention.Table of Contents1 Introduction: James Hogg, a Counter-culture Voice  1 Who was James Hogg?  2 Exploding the Marriage Plot and the Family Metaphor for the Nation  3 Hogg, Literary Dialogism, and Early Nineteenth-century Politeness  4 Hogg's Intersectional Dialogue with Stereotypes of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity  5 Summary of the Chapters 2 Exploding the Marriage Plot  1 The Three Perils Novels and the Ideology of the Marriage Plot  2 The Witches' Marriage to the Devil: A 'True Emblem of all Worldly Grandeur'  3 The Chronotope of the Asylum: A Subversive Literary Space  4 Violating a Maternal Body 3 Scottish Masculinities and the British Empire  1 More Than Just Highlanders  2 British Masculinities  3 Demystifying the Highland Warrior  4 Wat o' the Cleuch: A Voracious Scottish Borderer Thief 4 Women's Sexuality and the Scottish Kirk  1 The Authority of the Scottish Kirk  2 Child Murder and 'The Stool of Repentance'  3 When Discourses Clash: Motherhood and Child Murder  4 Mador of the Moor and the Fairies' Abduction of Unchristened Children  5 'Maria's Tale' and the Evils of Female Servants' Seduction  6 Bell Calvert and the Tragic World of 'Women of Ill Fame' 5 Unconventional Heroines  1 Introduction: When Primary and Secondary Heroines Merge  2 'There is Neither Sin Nor Shame in Being Unwedded, but There May Be Baith in Joining Yourself to an Unbeliever': Choosing Spinsterhood When There are no Heroes  3 'Maid of Dunedin, I'm the King o' the Mountain and Fairy School' 6 James Hogg and the North American Literary Market  1 Networking with the United States  2 The Ettrick Shepherd in the American Periodical Press  3 'Bruce and the Spider': The Voice of Abolitionism and Independence  4 'Tales of Fathers and Daughters': Crossing Class Boundaries in the Marriage Plot 7 Conclusion: Reflecting on Hogg's Position in the Literary Canon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed in this collection of autobiographical poems, essays and illustrations about academia. The contributors reflect on individual experiences as well as underlying institutional structures, providing original perspectives on bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other forms of power abuse in academic workplaces. They share their stories in order to break the culture of silence around power abuse in academia and point out pathways for constructive change.Table of Contents1 The Same Old Story? An Introduction  Julie Hansen and Ingela Nilsson 2 The Polyphony of Academia  Ingela Nilsson 3 What My CV Doesn’t Tell You  Julie Hansen 4 Notes from the Margins of Academic Life  Anonymous 1 5 A Decisive Meeting in Department X  Dinah Wouters, Tim Noens, Thomas Velle and Anonymous 2 6 Phantom Libraries: Unspoken Words, Untold Stories and Unwritten Texts  Moa Ekbom 7 On the Occasion of My Retirement  Cecilia Mörner 8 How to Be a Professor in the Twenty-First Century  Wim Verbaal 9 Bad Days  Anonymous 3 10 On Diversity Workshops: Challenges and Opportunities  Kai Dowding, Hanna McGinnis and Ana Núñez 11 Still a World to Win  Anonymous 4 12 Fragments of Missed Opportunities: Or Unrealized Dialectical Exchanges with a Mentor  Anonymous 5 13 Flexing Muscles  Ingela Nilsson 14 Lessons I Learned at University  Ricarda Schier 15 Benevolence or Bitterness  Antony Smith 16 Observations from a Non-Academic on Academic Life  Ken Robertson 17 Harassment and Abuse of Power from a Global Perspective: Or the Importance of a Conversation  Anonymous 6 18 What My Younger Self Would Have Said, Had She Spoken up, and How My Present Self Would Have Replied  Ingela Nilsson 19 The Ghosts of Academia  Veronika Muchitsch 20 The Unbearable Shame of Crying at Work  Anonymous 7 21 Panic Button 111  Ingela Nilsson 22 Quit  Thomas Oles 23 Diving Deeper: The Redemptive Power of Metaphor  Helen Sword Epilogue: The Privilege of Writing One’s Story and Reading Those of Others  Ingela Nilsson Epilogue: Gathering Voices for a Better Academic Workplace  Julie Hansen

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Book SynopsisWhat does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed in this collection of autobiographical poems, essays and illustrations about academia. The contributors reflect on individual experiences as well as underlying institutional structures, providing original perspectives on bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other forms of power abuse in academic workplaces. They share their stories in order to break the culture of silence around power abuse in academia and point out pathways for constructive change.Table of Contents1 The Same Old Story? An Introduction  Julie Hansen and Ingela Nilsson 2 The Polyphony of Academia  Ingela Nilsson 3 What My CV Doesn’t Tell You  Julie Hansen 4 Notes from the Margins of Academic Life  Anonymous 1 5 A Decisive Meeting in Department X  Dinah Wouters, Tim Noens, Thomas Velle and Anonymous 2 6 Phantom Libraries: Unspoken Words, Untold Stories and Unwritten Texts  Moa Ekbom 7 On the Occasion of My Retirement  Cecilia Mörner 8 How to Be a Professor in the Twenty-First Century  Wim Verbaal 9 Bad Days  Anonymous 3 10 On Diversity Workshops: Challenges and Opportunities  Kai Dowding, Hanna McGinnis and Ana Núñez 11 Still a World to Win  Anonymous 4 12 Fragments of Missed Opportunities: Or Unrealized Dialectical Exchanges with a Mentor  Anonymous 5 13 Flexing Muscles  Ingela Nilsson 14 Lessons I Learned at University  Ricarda Schier 15 Benevolence or Bitterness  Antony Smith 16 Observations from a Non-Academic on Academic Life  Ken Robertson 17 Harassment and Abuse of Power from a Global Perspective: Or the Importance of a Conversation  Anonymous 6 18 What My Younger Self Would Have Said, Had She Spoken up, and How My Present Self Would Have Replied  Ingela Nilsson 19 The Ghosts of Academia  Veronika Muchitsch 20 The Unbearable Shame of Crying at Work  Anonymous 7 21 Panic Button 111  Ingela Nilsson 22 Quit  Thomas Oles 23 Diving Deeper: The Redemptive Power of Metaphor  Helen Sword Epilogue: The Privilege of Writing One’s Story and Reading Those of Others  Ingela Nilsson Epilogue: Gathering Voices for a Better Academic Workplace  Julie Hansen

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Book SynopsisThis second volume of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society offers several different case studies in their relationship with society. Also here, the focus is the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfullness, in addition to fulfilling economic and regulatory needs. As symbolic forms of collective social practices, artistic and cultural forms weave the meaning of a territory, a context, and a people, but also of the generations who traverse these same cultures. These forms of meaning interact with the social imagery, mediate marginalization, transform barriers into bridges, and are the indispensable tools for any social coexistence and its continuous rethinking in everyday life. Contributors are: Claudio Bernardi, Marco Bernardi, Massimo Bertoldi, Martina Guerinoni, Mara Nerbano, Chiara Pasanisi, Benedetta Pratelli, Roberto Prestigiacomo, Ilaria Riccioni, Daniela Salinas Frigerio, Eleonora Sparano, Emanuele Stochino, Matteo Tamborrino, Tiziana Tesauro, Katia Trifirò, Alessandro Tolomelli, and Andrea Zardi.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 The Impact of Theatre in a Multilingual Province The Case of the Teatro Stabile of Bolzano between New and Old Generations   Ilaria Riccioni 2 The Anomaly of the Teatro Stabile of Bolzano A Public Theater on the Border, between Different Languages and Cultures   Marco Bernardi 3 State Theater of Bolzano. 70 years History and Shows in a Book   Massimo Bertoldi 4 The Interviews for the Research on the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano Some Methodological Considerations   Eleonora Sparano 5 Social Theatre, a Polyphonic Dramaturgy of the Community   Claudio Bernardi 6 From the Creative Process to the Relationship with the City The Theatre of the ‘Margin’ by the Carullo-Minasi Company (Messina, 2011–2021)   Katia Trifirò 7 Theatre Festivals and Urban Public Border Crossing Practices in Comparison   Benedetta Pratelli 8 A Relational Theatre Fabrizio Crisafulli’s “Theatre of Places”   Mara Nerbano 9 Introducing Performing Human Rights   Roberto Prestigiacomo 10 On Stage without a Script A Theatrical Workshop for Professional Training   Tiziana Tesauro 11 The Theater of the Oppressed as a Martial Art Theatre, Community, Pedagogy and Politics   Alessandro Tolomelli 12 Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Theatre of the Word   Emanuele Stochino 13 Dramaturgies of Distancing Dance and Public Space in the Covid Era   Andrea Zardi 14 La Trilogia del naufragio by Lina Prosa Dramaturgy and Poetic of Inclusion   Chiara Pasanisi 15 The Lavanderia a Vapore, from Madhouse to Dancehouse A Contemporary Experience of Relationship between Theatrical Space and Territorial Communities   Matteo Tamborrino 16 Performing Arts and Practices for the Inclusion of Migrants in Milan   Martina Guerinoni 17 Teleaudiencias Teatrales Crisis of a Representation   Daniela Salinas Frigerio Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society inquires the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, in addition to fulfilling economic and regulatory needs. As symbolic forms of collective social practices, artistic and cultural forms weave the meaning of a territory, a context, and a people, but also of the generations who traverse these same cultures. These forms of meaning interact with the social imagery, mediate marginalization, transform barriers into bridges, and are the indispensable tools for any social coexistence and its continuous rethinking in everyday life. The various epistemic approaches present here, refer to sociology, theatre studies, cultural studies, psychology, economy of culture, and social statistics which observe theatre as a social phenomenon. Contributors are: Maria Shevstova, Ilaria Riccioni, Roberta Paltrinieri, Gerhard Glüher, Raimondo Guarino, Mariselda Tessarolo, Raffaele Federici, Marco Serino, Maria Grazia Turri, Elena Olesina, Elena Polyudova, Marisol Facuse, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Laura Gemini, Stefano Brilli, Jessica Camargo Molano, Annalisa Cicerchia, Simona Staffieri and Giulia Cavrini.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Artistic Processes and Characteristics: Key Problems of the Sociology of the Theatre In Dialogue with Pierre Bourdieu   Maria Shevtsova 2 The Social and Political Impact of the Theatre in Contemporary Society   Ilaria Riccioni 3 Theatre at University as a Way to Increase the Sense of Citizenship and Civil Spirit   Roberta Paltrinieri 4 Staged Passages between Art and Everyday Life   Gerhard Glüher 5 Urban Environment, Places for Performance A Groundbreaking Experience: Renato Nicolini and Estate Romana (1976–1985)   Raimondo Guarino 6 The Theatre as the Stage of an Elusive Further Society   Mariselda Tessarolo 7 Paris and Popular Theatre in Robert Michels La foule and the Audience in the Years of Classical Sociology   Raffaele Federici 8 The Undone Discipline A Historical and Critical-Theoretical Account of the Sociology of the Theatre   Marco Serino 9 Theatre as Intersubjective Space for the Mediation of Collective Identity Outline of a Psychoanalytic Perspective   Maria Grazia Turri 10 Historical Reenactment and Theatrical Performance On New Perspectives of Educational Methods   Elena Olesina and Elena Polyudova 11 Political Theatre in the 20th Century Elements for Archaeology   Marisol Facuse 12 Blast Theory between Public Space and Social Space   Vincenzo Del Gaudio 13 Live/Life Sharing The Use of Social Media by Contemporary Theatre Companies in Italy   Laura Gemini and Stefano Brilli 14 Theatre as a Means of “Interpreting” Lockdown The Case of Staged   Jessica Camargo Molano 15 Cultural Welfare Theatre in the Limelight   Annalisa Cicerchia and Simona Staffieri 16 Measuring Culture – How and Why?   Giulia Cavrini Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the conditions of news reporting in today’s information-flooded society, Observing News and Media in a Complex Society looks into the strands of systems theoretical studies of the mass media, journalism and the empirical studies of inter-media agenda setting. Journalism is increasingly exposed to diverse perception and facing its selectivity observed by the public. Considering this context, this book focuses on the movement of solution-oriented journalism, which seeks a new way to answer the question “what is journalism for?” and invites us to expand our understanding of media’s societal role in the societal process of problem-solving and meaning construction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abstract Keywords  Introduction  Part 1 Cybernetics and Communication  1.1 Communication and Recursivity  1.2 Communication as a Social System  1.3 Problem-Solving as a Social Catalyst  1.4 Governing in a Complex Society  Part 2 Media, Journalism, and Society  2.1 Journalism and News Values  2.2 Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of the Mass Media  2.3 Systems Theory of Journalism and the Public Sphere  2.4 The Public Sphere and Journalistic Autonomy  Part 3 Media and Politics  3.1 Politics and the Mass Media  3.2 Politics and Morality  3.3 Conflict and Society I: Terrorism  3.4 Conflict and Society II: Armed Conflict  Part 4 News as Societal Observation  4.1 Structural Change of the Media Constellation and Journalism 4.2 “Source Cycle” between the News Media and the Blogosphere  4.3 Communication and Surplus Meanings  4.4 News as Self-Descriptions of Society  Part 5 Observing News and Media in a Complex Society  5.1 Journalism as Investigative Curator  5.2 Reporting for Governing?  5.3 Media as Societal Facilitators for Problem-Solving  Summary and Conclusions  References

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