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Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to net zero building vary widely across the globe and are influenced by different environmental and cultural contexts. Net Zero Energy Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences presents a comprehensive overview of variations in 'net zero' building practices. Drawing on examples from countries such as the United States United Kingdom Germany Japan Hong Kong and China Ming Hu examines diverse approaches to net zero and reveals their intended and unintended consequences. Existing approaches often focus on operating energy: how to make buildings more efficient by reducing the energy consumed by climate control lighting and appliances. Hu goes beyond this by analyzing overall energy consumption and environmental impact across the entire life cycle of a building—ranging from the manufacture of building materials to transportation renovation and demolition. Is net zero building still achievable once we look at these factors? With clear implications for future practice this is key reading for professionals in building design architecture and construction as well as students on sustainable and green architecture courses. | Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

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Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure

Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure

The Cloud is fast becoming the de facto standard for businesses in Corporate America today with Microsoft Azure being one of the most widely used systems. However given its stature it has also become a prime target for the cyberattacker. Thus a Zero Trust Framework is strongly needed. Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure takes a closer look at the Cloud the Zero Trust Framework and how to deploy from both the technical and psychological perspectives.

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The Psychoanalytic Zero A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues

The Psychoanalytic Zero A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues

Winner of the 2020 Gradiva Award The Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues is written from the unique perspective of a Western-trained Asian psychoanalyst and applies principles of Eastern philosophy to understand the psychoanalytic relationship psychoanalytic processes and their uses—and limitations—for alleviating human suffering. Bringing a unique Eastern perspective to a previously Western-dominated discipline and framed within the current relational and ethical trends in psychoanalysis the book enables readers to develop a language for understanding an Eastern ethical viewpoint and explore how this language can change our awareness of psychoanalytic practice and human suffering. Chapters are devoted to the Eastern concepts of nothingness emptiness surrender sincerity silence and narrative and issues including existential guilt of being trauma contingency informed consent the sense of being human and uncertainty. Discussions are illustrated and illuminated through vivid recreations and careful elaboration of therapeutic case studies with traumatized patients. The studies demonstrate the process by which patients regain a sense of being human. This enriched perspective will it is hoped help the analyst treat traumatized patients who are unable to relate to others and who do not experience themselves as being human. The Psychoanalytic Zero will enrich an analyst’s sensitivity to the appearance of the moment without context—the psychoanalytic zero—which opens infinite opportunities for continued growth in a psychoanalytic relationship. It will be of great appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in self-psychological intersubjective and relational theories. | The Psychoanalytic Zero A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues

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Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

Across intellectual disciplines the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities. This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world and spotlights some of the problems with how we currently do conventional social science research. Diffractive Ethnography invites social scientists to consider alternate methodologies that account for the complexity of human behavior situated in larger environmental contexts. For both novice and experienced researchers this thought-provoking book opens new ways of thinking about methodology and raises questions about the ethical and justice orientations of our work. | Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

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The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050. With GHG emissions currently predicted to triple by the middle of the century the fashion industry is far off course to reach Net Zero as set out in the Paris Agreement. With misinformation and greenwashing representing an ever-growing barrier to potential solutions the book aims to demystify the source of GHG emissions from the industry breaking down in detail their origin while identifying the steps that can be taken when designing and sourcing new products. Detailing the market drivers and trends in fashion consumption it argues that change should be guided by science-based quantitative principles. Accessibly written with key insights at the end of each chapter this book will enable the reader to understand the tactics to tackle decarbonisation and ultimately outline five main strategies that can be deployed by the fashion and textile industries to align with the Paris Agreement. This book serves as a practical guide for designers buyers and the fashion industry in general to develop and understand approaches and strategies to reduce energy consumption and the resulting GHG emissions to reach Net Zero. | The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

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Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America

Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America

Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand from a multidisciplinary perspective processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to left-of-center governments and social movements that sought to replace the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. This volume aims to answer the overarching research question: how do state and societal (national and transnational) actors trigger and shape processes of political and socio-economic transitions in Latin America from the rise to the decline of the Left Turn. The book presents case studies in which transitions are moments of change and uncertainty which one cannot predict their definitive outcomes. The various case studies presented in the book place actors and processes in specific historical and socio-political contexts which are influenced directly or indirectly by the historical trajectory of Latin America’s Left Turn. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Social and Political History Latin American History and those interested in the social and political developments in Latin America more broadly.

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Putin’s “Turn to the East” in the Xi Jinping Era

Putin’s “Turn to the East” in the Xi Jinping Era

Rozman Christoffersen and a team of expert contributors analyze the evolution of Vladimir Putin’s reorientation to Asia since 2012. When Putin announced a “Turn to the East” in Russian foreign policy upon his return to the presidency this was to be strategic reorientation emphasizing multilateralism. As the years have passed however this has turned into a tight reliance on the bilateral relationship with China. Rozman Christoffersen and their team explore how the “Turn” proceeded and developed over the course of a decade ending by examining the impact of the Ukraine war on Sino-Russian relations. Their analysis focuses on Russia’s perspective taking into account an extensive range of Russian publications to look at how priorities shifted. While affirming the continued strengthening of ties between Beijing and Moscow they identify many tensions between them noting especially Russia’s illusions about the relationship. A comprehensive review of Russian policy toward the Indo-Pacific which is essential reading for courses on Russian foreign policy and international relations in East Asia. | Putin’s “Turn to the East” in the Xi Jinping Era

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Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions nothing short of a revolution is required in our use of land our farming practices and our diet. Taking a historical approach the book examines the evolution of agriculture and the food system in the UK over the last century and discusses the implications of tackling climate change for food farming and land use setting the UK situation in an international context. The chapters analyse the key challenges for this transition including dietary change and food waste afforestation and energy crops and low-emission farming practices. This historical perspective helps develop an understanding of how our food farming and land use system has evolved to be the way that it is and draws lessons for how the agri-food system could evolve further to support the transition to net zero and avoid catastrophic climate change. Written in a clear and accessible style this book will be essential reading to students and scholars of food agriculture and the environment as well as policymakers and professionals involved climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry. | Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

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Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

Written by one of the leading experts in the field Paul Ekins Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve ‘real zero’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and negative emissions thereafter which is the only way to stop human- induced climate change. This will require innovation in socio-technical systems and in human behaviour on an unprecedented scale. Stopping Climate Change describes the changes required to meet this goal: in technologies social institutions and individual activities. Paul Ekins examines in detail issues around the supply and demand of energy and materials and the efficiency of their use. It also analyses greenhouse gas removal technologies offsetting and geoengineering and plots the reduction of the non- CO2 greenhouse gas-emitting activities. Having set out the changes required Ekins considers the economic implications in terms of both the innovation and investments that are necessary to bring them about and the effects that these are likely to have on national economies. The evidence presented points clearly to the economic impacts of decarbonisation being positive for the majority of countries and for the world as a whole even before considering the benefits of avoided climate change. When the health benefits of stopping the burning of fossil fuels are factored in the global net benefits of decarbonisation are unequivocal. Drawing on examples from the UK and Europe but with wider relevance at a global scale Stopping Climate Change clearly shows how determined policy action at different levels could stop climate change. It will be of great interest to students scholars and policymakers researching and working in the field of climate change and energy policy. | Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

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A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning the Zero Process and the Construction of Reality

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning the Zero Process and the Construction of Reality

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma presents a theory of the nature of trauma and post-traumatic mental functioning based on the concept of the ‘zero process’. Joseph Fernando presents a novel comprehensive and clinically useful theory of trauma. The author first presents theories of trauma and describes the zero process related to the breakdown of various ego functions such as memory and integration during trauma. Rather than replacing Freud’s ideas of the primary process and repression Fernando expands on the idea of the mind to include both types of functioning identifies how they can be differentiated and examines the different therapeutic techniques they require. He also considers how trauma impacts the construction of reality the role of human development the relation of trauma and borderline disorders and the development of therapeutic technique. Through the unique illustration and narration of cases of three patients Fernando presents conceptual and clinical innovations. A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training. | A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning the Zero Process and the Construction of Reality

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Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of studying them each study producing its own questions and demanding its own methodologies. Drawing together the latest research from a team of senior scholars from around the world to reflect on the experience of research Serendipity in Anthropological Research presents rich new case studies from Europe and the Middle East to examine both new and old questions in novel and enriching ways. An engaging examination of methodology and anthropological fieldwork this book will appeal to all those concerned with writing ethnography. | Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

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The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies The Work of Andrew Samuels

The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies The Work of Andrew Samuels

This unique book showcases the cutting-edge work of researchers in Jungian and post-Jungian studies focusing on the advances being made at the University of Essex UK and operating as a Festschrift for Professor Andrew Samuels. The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies includes contributions from innovative authors who specialise in Jung but incorporate ideas from other psychoanalytic schools and from a range of disciplines. The book includes chapters which shed new light on concepts including alchemy archetypes and individuation and which examine art relationships and politics. It both honours the work of Andrew Samuels and sets the foundations of an ‘Essex School’ of Jungian studies. A wide-ranging collection this book will be essential for academics and scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies. It will also be a key title for all readers with an interest in the work of Andrew Samuels. | The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies The Work of Andrew Samuels

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Mapping the Affective Turn in Education Theory Research and Pedagogies

Mapping the Affective Turn in Education Theory Research and Pedagogies

Passions are high in education and this edited volume offers bold new ways to conceive of the affective intensities shaping our present historical moment. Concerns over school practices deemed ineffective disruptive irrational or even promising are matters modulated by and through feelings such as optimism shame enhanced concentration or empathy. The recent turn to affect offers vibrant methodological and theoretical material for an educational present marked by high stakes rhetoric heated debate teacher and student vulnerabilities and extreme educational measures. Affect studies are a part of new materialist and post-humanist turns and this volume connects these new theoretical directions within education. This comprehensive volume on affect crosses educational subfields and responds to the transdisciplinary interest in thinking through pedagogy education and feeling. This comprehensive reader addresses affect in education from a wide range of styles topics and perspectives. This collection offers an introduction to theory empirical research studies interviews with affect studies scholars and an assessment of the current and future significance of affect studies in education. Contributors utilize a range of theoretical and interpretive approaches to thinking with and through schooling phenomena. Interviews with affect scholars in the humanities and social sciences address affective dimensions of teaching. The editors’ introduction different foci and interdisciplinary genres of writing help readers feel their ways into what affect studies in education does and might do. This field-defining collection will be of interest to a range of readers-from graduate students to established scholars-with varying levels of expertise and familiarity putting affect theories to work in education. All the contributions are accessible to those new to the theory methods and debates in this vibrant area of educational studies. | Mapping the Affective Turn in Education Theory Research and Pedagogies

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Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining research health power generation and weaponry. Central to this polyvalent 'report' on the infiltration of our lives and control over them exerted by the industrial-military complex are critiques of the creation storage and use of atomic weapons the exploitation of Australian Aboriginal people and their lands through British atomic testing in the 1950s and an exposé of a language of denial in the world of nuclear mining/energy/military usages. 'Nuclear' is also parenthetically investigated in its function as extended metaphor and question for poetry and poetics. Key is a consideration of the use of the language of the 'atomic' in cultural spaces and in 'the arts'. Indigenous land-rights claims in the face of uranium mining the semantics of waste and of the glib usage by nuclear power companies of the fact of global warming to suit their own corrosive agendas. The triumphalism of scientific and cultural discourse around 'nuclear' and the threats by nuclear fission are by association brought into question. The nuclear cycle throws the whole future of human beings into doubt and this book seeks to assemble new resources of resistance through creative and critical mediums including poetry and poetics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

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Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance? Managing Crime in High Crime Areas

Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance? Managing Crime in High Crime Areas

First published in 1999 this volume presents arguments which compare two inner-city wards of Salford and look to introduce such a subtlety to the understanding of the management of crime in high crime communities and derive from a longitudinal research study which took place over a two and a half year period. Between 1994 and 1996 researchers based at the University of Salford and the University of Keele embarked on research into two similarly structured neighbourhoods within the city of Salford in the North of England. This research set out to situate an understanding of the risk from and fear of crime in a comparative urban context – to uncover how people who live work and go to school in designated ‘high-crime’ areas manage their routine daily lives and construct their own responses to ‘risk of’ and ‘fear of’ crime. The authors go on to highlight the similarities between these wards and other wards with which they have a clear resonance across Britain. | Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance? Managing Crime in High Crime Areas

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Queer Theories: An Introduction From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn

Queer Theories: An Introduction From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn

This is a short and accessible introduction to the complex and evolving debates around queer theories advocating for their critical role in academia and society. The book traces the roots of queer theories and argues that Foucault owed an important debt to other European authors including the feminist and homosexual liberation movements of the 1960–1970s and the anticolonial movements of the 1950s. Going beyond a simple introduction to queer theories this book situates them firmly in a European and Italian context to offer a crucial set of arguments in defence of LGBTQI+ rights in defence of the freedom of teaching and research and in defence of a radical idea of democracy. The narrative of the book is divided into three short chapters which can be read independently or in sequence. The first chapter argues that queer theories are rooted in the critical philosophical tradition the second presents a critique of heterosexism and the binary inherent to the gender-sex-sexual orientation system and the third chapter sketches a history of the queer debate. The book offers a useful typology of queer theories by sorting them into three basic paradigms: Freudo-Marxism radical constructivism and antisocial and affective theories clarifying the complexities of the nature of the debates for undergraduates. The book is both accessible and original and is suitable for both specialist researchers and undergraduate students new to queer studies. It will be essential reading for those studying philosophy sexuality studies and gender studies. | Queer Theories: An Introduction From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn

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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

This book argues that due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing James Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps journalism artwork or photography and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system. | Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

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Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force The Turn to Information Ethics

Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force The Turn to Information Ethics

Examining the thematic intersection of law technology and violence this book explores cyber attacks against states and current international law on the use of force. The theory of information ethics is used to critique the law’s conception of violence and to develop an informational approach as an alternative way to think about cyber attacks. Cyber attacks against states constitute a new form of violence in the information age and international law on the use of force is limited in its capacity to regulate them. This book draws on Luciano Floridi’s theory of information ethics to critique the narrow conception of violence embodied in the law and to develop an alternative way to think about cyber attacks violence and the state. The author uses three case studies – the 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia the Stuxnet incident involving Iran that was discovered in 2010 and the cyber attacks used as part of the Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election – to demonstrate that an informational approach offers a means to reimagine the state as an entity and cyber attacks as a form of violence against it. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to an international audience of scholars in international law international relations security studies cyber security and anyone interested in the issues surrounding emerging technologies. | Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force The Turn to Information Ethics

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Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

This is the decade for climate action. Internal and external stakeholders demand action. How we choose to act in the next ten years will determine our foreseeable future. Businesses hold a critical role for climate futures. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned but how to achieve reductions in a credible way is neither clear nor easy once you’ve tackled the obvious energy culprits. Climate Positive Business lays out the path of business climate strategy highlighting how your business must set goals measure impact and improve performance. Greenhouse gas protocols can instruct you on the core accounting process that lies at the heart of climate strategy. At least as important to success are the details that protocols don’t tell you: the sticking points; the areas of controversy and the best practices. Rooted in real experience and written in an entertaining and engaging style this book provides you with the tips tools and techniques to tackle your company’s carbon footprint and it helps you do so in a way that is credible and appropriately ambitious to meet stakeholder expectations. The book will equip you with tools to think critically about GHG reduction carbon offsets and carbon removal as well as help ensure we collectively implement real solutions to slow and eventually reverse the climate crisis. It includes lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and provides a plan of action for readers to implement. A go-to book for business looking to understand manage and reduce their carbon footprint it is an invaluable resource for sustainable business practitioners consultants and those aspiring to become climate champions. | Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

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Routledge Revivals: Charles Booth's London (1969) A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century Drawn from His Life and Labour of the

Routledge Revivals: Charles Booth's London (1969) A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century Drawn from His Life and Labour of the

First published in 1969 this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London the classic early study of the poor in the urban environment. The original text consists of a vast compendium of descriptions of families homes streets conditions of work cultural and religious practices much of it illustrated with charts maps and statistics — giving the public an idea of the dimensions and meaning of poverty. The editors have selected the extracts in this book for their vividness readability and intrinsic interest and their introduction conveys the context of 1880s London — relating Booth’s investigations to contemporary concerns. | Routledge Revivals: Charles Booth's London (1969) A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century Drawn from His Life and Labour of the

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A `Social Turn’ in the European Union? New trends and ideas about social convergence in Europe

A `Social Turn’ in the European Union? New trends and ideas about social convergence in Europe

Social Europe is a key topic in the construction of the EU and its institutions. This volume examines the current state of and perspectives for Social Europe as well as key issues in European social policy including the posting of workers the impact of the free market and regulations on social convergence work automation digitalisation taxation and democracy in the workplace. The aim of this volume is to identify a course to be followed in integrating the EU’s social policies and point to areas in which co-operation between member states is likely to produce best results. While a Social Europe was previously seen to be a natural consequence of political and economic integration it is now viewed as a separate area that requires active policies to preserve the European project. The EU’s big question today concerns the level at which this policy should be pursued: the volume’s contributors outline difficulties with harmonising social policies across the Union but they nevertheless argue that owing to the common challenges faced by Europe the idea of a Social Europe must not be abandoned and requires specific action. The volume consists of 11 chapters written by a variety of expert authors analysing the idea of a Social Europe and proposing ways in which it could be put into practice. Social policy can no longer be seen as derived from economic policy but rather as a separate driver of development that could be of interest to the northern southern and eastern states of the EU. Jacek Kubera PhD Assistant Professor Faculty of Sociology Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Tomasz Morozowski PhD candidate Faculty of Political Science and Journalism Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and analyst at the Poznan Institute for Western Affairs. | A `Social Turn’ in the European Union? New trends and ideas about social convergence in Europe

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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race space class and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down from the body the ground zero of spatiality to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener on Wall Street to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany NY during the Depression to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings together these spatial narratives the volume reveals how beyond the boundaries that characterize each space every location has loose ends that are impossible to contain. | Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes Social Movements and Empowerment

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Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing the nonhuman turn poses a number of challenges and opportunities for rhetoric. To date many of the responses to the nonhuman turn in rhetoric have sought to address rhetoric’s compatibility with new conceptions of materiality. In Rhetorical Realism Scot Barnett extends this work by transforming it into a new historiographic methodology attuned to the presence and occlusion of things in rhetorical history. Through investigations of rhetoric’s place in Aristotelian metaphysics the language invention movement of the seventeenth century and postmodern conceptions of rhetoric as an epistemic art Barnett’s study expands the scope of rhetorical inquiry by showing how realist ideas have worked to frame rhetoric’s scope and meanings during key moments in its history. Ultimately Barnett argues that all versions of rhetoric depend upon some realist assumptions about the world. Rather than conceive of the nonhuman as a dramatic turning point in rhetorical theory Rhetorical Realism encourages rhetorical theorists to turn another eye toward what rhetoricians have always done—defining and configuring rhetoric within a broader ontology of things. | Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

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Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics economy and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and its Diaspora the author calls for a radical turning over of a new leaf predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1) decolonization/decoloniality – articulating the meaning and contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity – examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an embodiment of resistance and possibilities development and self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement – of African political economy as entangled in the colonial matrix of power and the African Renaissance as weakened by undecolonized political and economic thought; and (5) knowledge – the role of African humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and International Relations Development Sociology African Studies Black Studies Education History Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. | Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

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Inmate Radicalisation and Recruitment in Prisons

Inmate Radicalisation and Recruitment in Prisons

It is traditionally viewed that vulnerable inmates form captive audiences for violent terrorist offenders who in turn are destined to turn prisons into training grounds for militant activities; all the while forming alliances with more hardened criminals to produce an even greater threat. However there is limited empirical grounding to underpin these assertions. Inmate Radicalisation and Recruitment in Prisons challenges existing perceptions about prison radicalisation. Whilst not downplaying the seriousness of the prison radicalisation threat it seeks a more balanced interpretation of current discussion. Drawing on original research in the Philippines and case studies from Australia the US Canada Indonesia the UK France the Netherlands and Belgium the authors posit an alternative view that suggests that the imprisonment of a terrorist may mark the beginning of physical disengagement and psychological de-radicalisation. Offering evidence-based insights to help determine how best to house terrorist offenders this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice Terrorism Prisons and Organised Crime.

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