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The Sacramento Valley of northern California is a rich, diverse environment that supported some of the densest populations of nonagricultural people in the world. Periodic flooding, however, has buried much of the valley's deep cultural history under alluvium. This volume shares the discovery of four buried archaeological sites, including one dating to 7,000 years ago, filled with a diversified assemblage of artifacts and a rich assortment of food remains. Stone net sinkers and associated fish bones represent the oldest fishery ever documented in the interior of California, while such items as marine shell beads, exotic obsidian, and newly recovered charmstones in California provide evidence for long-distance trade networks. in California provide evidence for long-distance trade networks. The other three sites date between 4000 and 300 years ago and reflect increasing human population density, technological innovation, and the rise of sedentism and territoriality. This historical sequence culminated in findings from a 400- to 300-year-old house complex probably occupied by the Mechoopda Indian Tribe, who collaborated with the authors throughout the project.

This volume tracks 13,000 years of environmental and cultural change in North Warner Valley, part of the Oregon Desert that has largely escaped researchers'attention. The authors present a decade of fieldwork and laboratory analyses that reveals a record of human activity that waxed and waned with local and regional environmental and social change. Open-air sites, lithic technology, plant and animal foods, and bone and shell objects—most from a stratified rockshelter record that spans almost ten millennia—tell a story of people who visited North Warner Valley periodically to collect marsh plants, rabbits, and other resources. Smith and colleagues present their work in a way that allows readers to understand not only how people adapted to local change but also how North Warner Valley fits into the complex mosaic of precontact history in the American West. This research is the most comprehensive work conducted in the northern Great Basin in more than two decades. Its multidisciplinary nature should interest students of natural and cultural history, archaeology, and Indigenous lifeways.

Debunking Scholarly Nonsense is a diatribe against the foolish claptrap that serious and respected scholars sometimes foist upon their peers and the public. The material discussed here does not usually derive from extreme political notions, conspiracy theories, or the ruminations of those who accept astrological control, I Ching divination, crystal healing, or chariots of the gods. Rather, the progenitors are physicists, astronomers, psychologists, psychiatrists, medical doctors, and philosophers. The topics under discussion include Holocaust denial, string theory, multiple universes, alien abductions, extraterrestrials, a simulated or non-existent world, non-sentience or poly-sentience, harmful therapies, denials of climate change and Covid vaccination efficacy, among other possibilities. The authors of these articles, essays, papers, and books are not merely ruminating in a void. Their words and ideas influence others and may have detrimental effects in a world already charged with extreme misery.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2022, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2022.The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Maritime and Port Logistics; Vehicle Routing and Urban Logistics; Warehousing and Location; Supply Chain and Production Management.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 21–24, 2022. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers a valuable asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The work is presented in four volumes.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I would like to discuss the six lectures on foreign policy that I gave at Stanford University. The concept of these lectures stems from my preoccupation with the problems of foreign policy today. #2 The Americans of 1898 had forgotten a great deal that had been known to their forefathers of a hundred years before. They had become so accustomed to their security that they had forgotten that it had any foundations outside their continent. #3 The Spanish-American War was the result of a situation in Cuba. It was a tragic, hopeless situation that marked the decline of a colonial relationship. We have seen other such situations since, and some of them not so long ago. #4 There had been some improvement in the two decades between 1875 and 1895. But in 1897, things went downhill again. The Spanish minister in Washington wrote an indiscreet letter in which he spoke slightingly of President McKinley, calling him a would-be politician. This letter leaked, and was published in the New York papers, causing much indignation and resentment.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Simpson, a member of the Priesthood, was known as an aggressive reporter skilled at uncovering corruption in politics, business, and government. He was invited to speak at a prestigious conference in 2009 alongside some of his profession's biggest names. #2 By the 1990s, online news organizations were appearing and readers and advertisers began flocking to them. The newspaper industry began to collapse and papers nationwide were laying off hundreds of reporters and cutting back on expenses. #3 After the 9/11 attacks, Simpson made terrorist financing his beat, and he wrote articles examining how terrorist groups were moving money to finance their activities by using loopholes in the international banking system or sham charities. #4 Simpson developed a network of private operatives who became sources for his next reporting obsessions: the financial and political worlds inhabited by oligarchs and Russian criminals. One of those articles featured the image of a Russian oil company executive, who after a hearty lunch of dumplings and shots of vodka, keeled over dead.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When a man gives up drugs, he wants big fires in his life. I have ordered more speakers to go with my new McIntosh amp, and a fifty watt boombox for the FM car radio. #2 The District of Columbia has become the Rape Capital of the World. Meanwhile, things like burglaries, street muggings, and random assaults are so common that they are no longer considered news. #3 I arrived in Washington, D. C., not long after dawn, when the city was mostly asleep. I was hauling a huge orange U-haul trailer full of books and papers. I was slow and helpless because the Volvo wasn't made for this kind of work. #4 The author was asked to help drum up cash for a venture that would shuttle cars between Detroit, Toledo, and Cleveland. He was told that he could make a fortune if he could gather enough money to set up a shuttle service. He was curious about the two men who were waiting for help, so he went back to check on them.

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim's letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue's Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt's Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões's Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 25–26, 2021. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers a valuable asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The book is presented in four volumes.

The International Conferences on Economics and Social Sciences (ICESS) organized by Bucharest University of Economic Studies provide an opportunity for all those interested in Economics and Social Sciences to discuss and exchange research ideas. The conference takes place in Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana 6, Bucharest, Romania.Contact: conference.icess[@]ase.ro The papers presented at the Conference are available online in the Conference Proceedings series (ISSN 2704-6524): Volume 2019 Collaborative Research for Excellence in Economics and Social Sciences, ISBN 9788366675322 Volume 2020 Innovative Models to Revive the Global Economy, ISBN 9788395815072 Volume 2021 Resilience and Economic Intelligence Through Digitalization and Big Data Analytics, ISBN 9788366675704 The past years'uncertainties and pressures resulted from the pandemic, alongside new developments in social technology, 5G, cloud computing, augmented and virtual reality, generated the perfect setting for the metaverse to gain traction. Several companies found there's a critical need to redefine the work environment and started exploring the metaverse concept beyond the entertainment sector. Thus, new tools for collaboration and data visualization within a digital shared space are being created, aiming for a fully immersive interaction between the virtual and the physical worlds within the next few years. While still in its early developments, the metaverse can be seen as an extension of the social media platforms, and an opportunity to leverage remote work even further. ICESS 2022 provides a space for all those interested in Economics and Social Sciences to discuss and exchange research ideas in the light of the work environment, business model, and technological changes driven by COVID-19. We welcome both empirical and theoretical work that is broadly consistent with the conference's general theme. The main topics of the conference are focused on, but not limited to, the following sections: Applied Economics and Statistics and Data Science Management in the Metaverse Era – the Role of Digital Transformation in Fostering Recovery of Public and Private Organizations Financial perspectives in turbulent times Resilient Agri-food and Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development and Agile Entrepreneurship Innovative Strategies and Models in Higher Education Digitalization impact on economic recovery in the context of Covid-19 pandemic Digital Leadership and Resilient Entrepreneurship in the Metaverse Era Marketing and Sustainability The role of accounting frameworks and digitalization in fostering recovery Global world after crisis: towards a new economic model Building business in times of crisis through entrepreneurship Current challenges within demographic data: measurement, collection, retrieval, analysis and reporting Looking into the future of a legal metaverse? Experimental Economics SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 2022 ACELEANU Mirela, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania ALBU Lucian, Academia Romana, Romania ANGHEL Ion, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania <

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2022), held in Goa, India, on July 29–30, 2022. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 21–24, 2022. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers a valuable asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The work is presented in four volumes.

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were brought about.Drawing heavily on police records, private papers, newspapers and memoirs, this work enters the realm of personal time in the lives of the migrant and refugee and follows them to see how the spaces that they inhabited, the city of Calcutta and its suburbs, were transformed to accommodate them and imposed with new meanings and one might say, new borders. It highlights how ‘fear'came to be the dominant emotion associated with the migrants'flight, how it was subsequently politicized and how it became the cornerstone of the refugees'bargaining with the state. Furthermore, it focuses on how the state, in its attempt to become a charitable institution, put in place a gendered structure of relief and later, rehabilitation. This work also shows how camps and colonies became the sites of political contestation, how the refugees found a brand of Leftist politics particularly useful for their purpose and how it became the cornerstone of their newfound identity.A major intervention in Partition studies, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies and politics.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered his last speech as president of the Soviet Union. He signed the papers that would formally dissolve the Soviet Union, and began to speak. His voice was soft and forced at first, but it became more controlled as he went on. #2 The country that had come into existence after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 had ceased to exist minutes later, when Gorbachev passed the nuclear briefcase to Yeltsin. The role played by Alexander Yakovlev in the dismantling of the Soviet Union was second only to Gorbachev's. #3 The Soviet system rested on violence and ideology. The death of Stalin in 1953 put an end to mass terror and repression. Violence, administered by the security services on behalf of the Communist Party, became more sporadic and was now used mainly against dissidents. #4 The collapse of the Soviet Union was not caused by economic problems or a revolutionary uprising in Moscow, but by the dismantling of lies. Without lies, the Soviet Union had no legitimacy.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Even the greatest empires have been shaped by geography. America's political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate of world empires for the past five hundred years. #2 In 1904, Halford Mackinder, the director of the London School of Economics, presented a paper at the Royal Geographical Society titled The Geographical Pivot of History. He argued that the future of global power lay not in controlling the sea lanes, but in a vast landmass he called Euro-Asia. #3 Mackinder's lecture was a foundational moment in the history of geography, and the field of geopolitics. His theory of how geography shapes global power has been proven correct time and time again, and his words still offer a prism of precision when it comes to understanding the geopolitics driving the world's major conflicts. #4 The age of sea power, which lasted just over four hundred years, was characterized by the great powers competing to control the Eurasian world island via the sea lanes that stretched for 15,000 miles from London to Tokyo.

Nick Buckley MBE explores the relationship between “givers” and “takers,” and the damaging symbiotic relationship between them. He examines the motivation of disheveled individuals sitting on street corners holding out paper cups, as well as the intergenerational problem of poverty and welfare dependency. Different types of beggars are highlighted, such as politicians begging for votes, charities begging for donations, and even the woke begging for validation and attention. Buckley shows that begging is a complicated topic, part nature and part nurture, and that many engage in such behavior unknowingly. Unlike most authors on this topic, Buckley explores his own history of begging from being raised in a workless household on benefits, to claiming unemployment benefits as an adult, and the journey that eventually led him to found an award-winning charity. Buckley offers us an antidote to such unbecoming behavior: personal responsibility.

The first part of this book contains a selection of Leszek Nowak's (1943-2009) works on non-Marxian historical materialism, which are published here in English for the first time. In these papers, Nowak constructs a dynamic model of religious community, reconstructs historiosophical assumptions of liberalism and considers the methodological status of prognosis of totalitarization of capitalist society. In the second part of the book, new contributions to non-Marxian historical materialism are presented. Their authors analyze mechanisms of the oligarchization of liberal democracy, the democratization of real socialism, and the development of early modern Ottoman and post-war Chinese societies.

Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and in fields including computer science, astronomy, mining, biology, and medicine. The book captures a wide breadth of ethnographic case studies conducted by scholars at different stages of their careers, with various geographical backgrounds, and working across different settings and regions of the world, demonstrating the unfolding of overlapping concerns in unique ways. ‘Among White Coats'is the first systematic and critical examination of the politics and epistemology of doing ethnography in biomedicine and STEM, adding to the extensive production of studies based on the ethnography of medicine and ethnography of science, as well as the ongoing debate on the foundation of ethnography. The book is geared toward academics and research students from different disciplinary backgrounds. It is a resource useful not only for students and Ph.D. candidates but also for expert ethnographers, presenting the most recent debates on ethnography and knowledge production in the STEM and biomedical fields. The book is partly a response to the growing awareness of the increasingly pertinent objective for ethnographers to reflect on their positionalities in their writing. Thus, this book offers a reflexive guide to thinking through the political and practical aspects of ethnographic practice.

Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.” Rafael A. Martínez, an undocu-scholar, intricately weaves his lived experience into this deeply insightful exploration. Martínez's interdisciplinary approach will engage scholars and readers alike, resonating with disciplines such as history, American studies, Chicana and Chicano studies, and borderlands studies. Illegalized shows that undocumented youth and their activism represent a disruption to the social imaginary of the U.S. nation-state and its figurative and physical borders. It invites readers to explore how undocumented youth activists changed the way immigrant rights are discussed in the United States today.

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not always been the case. For a great span of the past—from antiquity through about the middle of the eighteenth century—one of the most pervasive branches of medicine was known as dietetics, prescribing not only what people should eat but also how they should order many aspects of their lives, including sleep, exercise, and emotional management. Dietetics did not distinguish between the medical and the moral, nor did it acknowledge the difference between what was good for you and what was good. Dietetics counseled moderation in all things, where moderation was counted as a virtue as well as the way to health. But during the nineteenth century, nutrition science began to replace the language of traditional dietetics with the vocabulary of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and calories, and the medical and the moral went their separate ways. Steven Shapin shows how much depended upon that shift, and he also explores the extent to which the sensibilities of dietetics have been lost. Throughout this rich history, he evokes what it felt like to eat during another historical period and invites us to reflect on what it means to feel about food as we now do. Shapin shows how the change from dietetics to nutrition science fundamentally altered how we think about our food and its powers, our bodies, and our minds.

This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea. They followed development of chronometers which were carried in ships to show mean time at Greenwich, the chosen prime meridian. Greenwich time could be compared with local astronomical time to determine longitude, but chronometers were mechanical devices that had to be checked for accuracy. Land-based signals that were regulated by astronomical observations evolved from the ideas in 1818 of Robert Wauchope, a British naval officer who served at the Cape of Good Hope. He inspired introduction of time balls, specifically the time ball at Greenwich in 1833 which set the standard for subsequent installations and is still in operation today. The main emphasis is on the external appearance of time signals at different locations around the world and how they were used by mariners for rating chronometers. Time balls and guns also became popular signals for public use and workplace control but then had social and political implications.

Dieser Band enthält 19 Aufsätze von Jakob Tanner, welche Dynamiken und Widersprüche moderner Gesellschaften im langen 20. Jahrhundert aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven erhellen. Ein thematischer Schwerpunkt befasst sich dabei mit Transformationen des Kapitalismus und mit dem Funktionsmodus von Märkten. Fragestellungen der historischen Anthropologie werden in den beiden Themenkomplexen'Konsum und Ernährung'sowie'Körper, Physiologie, Emotionen'aufgegriffen. Ein weiteres Hauptaugenmerk ist die Schweiz, deren transnational verflochtene Volkswirtschaft das territorial kleine Staatswesen mit globalen und europäischen Problemlagen konfrontiert. Der abschließende Schwerpunkt'Trends und Umbrüche'wirft Streiflichter auf spektakuläre Episoden, turbulente Deutungskämpfe und unmerkliche Standardisierungsvorgänge. In allen Beiträgen geht es um eine Kulturgeschichte des Sozialen, welche die Machtstrukturen und die Medienensembles der ambivalenten Moderne auslotet und dabei die materielle Kultur sowie die Körperlichkeit der Menschen im Blick hat.

A collection of new essays that brings archaeological insights and discoveries at the Tibes Ceremonial Center up to date

Die Fähigkeit eines jeden Menschen gestaltend, sinnkonstruierend und verstehend zu lernen, ist der Schlüssel zum Begreifen von Lernentwicklungsproblemen. Die in der Lehrerbildung tätige Lerntherapeutin Margarete Liebrand betritt ein Terrain mit vielen offenen Fragen. Die Antwort auf fehlende Standards für die Definition der Schwierigkeiten bei der Entwicklung des Lernens und für die Normierung von Kriterien eines Umgangs mit ihnen sucht sie in theoretischen Klärungen, die ihre Veranschaulichung in vier Einzelfallanalysen finden. Die Autorin zeigt die Vielschichtigkeit der Lernentwicklungsprozesse auf. Sie entfaltet die These, dass sich Lernentwicklungsvorgänge sozialkulturell und psychisch vermittelt vollziehen. Die vielfach beklagte Lücke einer Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Didaktik und Lernpsychologie beantwortet sie mit einem Problemaufriss zur Beziehung von Wissens-, Fertigkeits- und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Annahmen zum Verhältnis von Lernen und Entwicklung führt die Rede vom Lernversagen ad absurdum. Die Erkenntnis, dass Lernende stets etwas für sich selbst bei der Entwicklung ihres Lernens tun, wird zum Bezugspunkt für die Analyse der Herausforderungen einer Tätigkeit von Lernschritten. Die zentrale Entwicklungsaufgabe verortet die Autorin in den Prozessen des Erlernens eines Denkens in Bedeutungen. Jene Fähigkeit, Verstehensprozesse anzueignen, interpretiert sie als ein Entwicklungspotential im Aspekt der Lerntätigkeit und zugleich als eine Schwierigkeit der Lernentwicklung. Ihr nachzukommen, kann unter bestimmten Bedingungen des Lebens und Lernens zu Teufelskreisen bei der Organisation des Lernhandelns führen und zu psychischen Verstrickungen. In Fragen der Unterstützung von Lernentwicklungen werden Zusammenhänge zwischen einer fachdidaktisch adäquaten Aufbereitung des Unterrichts und einer Begleitung von Lernenden untersucht, die sich als Subjekte des Lernens selbst zu finden haben, wenn sie ihr Lernhandeln tätigen. Es werden Aneignungsvorgänge des Was und Klärungs- sowie Entscheidungsprozesse des Wie und Wozu eines Vollzugs von Lernschritten analysiert. Die Fallanalysen werden als eine Erkenntnissuche konzipiert, die sich an Kriterien der theoretischen Erarbeitungen orientiert. Die Autorin lässt sich beim therapeutischen Handeln und beim Nachdenken über Ereignisse im Lehr-Lerngeschehen über die Schulter schauen. Vor allem aber kommen diejenigen zu Wort, um die es geht – die Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Lernproblemen, die dauerhaft Probleme bereiten.

This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar values, culture, and history yet are independent and unique societies. The book exhibits both the convergences and the diversity of the Nordics in fiction and fandom as well as in research.It traces the roots of Nordic speculative fiction, how it has developed over time, and how the changes in Nordic environments and societies caused by overhanging shared global issues – such as climate change, mass migration, and technological acceleration – find space in speculative practices. The first of its kind, this book allows for deeper insights into the unique characteristics that make Nordic literature and art recognisable and allows for a better understanding of the place of the Nordics within wider global culture systems. The chapters range from literary critiques, film and television studies, creative works by three Nordic creative writers, transcultural text comparisons, and contributions on speculative art to theoretical and methodological discussions on fandom, worldbuilding, and semantics.Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this book contributes to connecting Nordic speculative fiction scholarship to the wider global community within the field. It will be of interest to scholars and general enthusiasts of speculative fiction and those with interest in Nordic fiction; film and television studies; literary, culture, or media studies; comparative literature; and cultural history or art-based research.

This textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Public Administration, Political Science and UPSC aspirants. Lucid, accessible and student-friendly Public Administration in India: Familiarizes students with the theory, practice and evolution of Indian administration through contextual analysis Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach in discussing the traditional and emerging issues of the Indian administration Focuses on the processes of administration with reference to their constitutional provisions as well as socio-economic and political contexts; and Highlights new issues and challenges in the field of public administration in India through critical analysis of its growth and development since Independence This book will be key reading for the candidates appearing for various civil service examinations as well as for students and researchers of political science and public administration.

Questo contributo propone di mettere in relazione una Filosofia dell'educazione di orientamento lacaniano, cui è dedicata sistematicamente la prima parte del volume, e l'attenzione alle sottoculture giovanili come contesto di espressione artistica e di autoformazione. Nello specifico, la scena underground di Ljubljana negli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso è il terreno dei giovani punk nati nella Repubblica Socialista della Slovenia, ma anche della Scuola Psicoanalitica di Ljubljana (oggi nota attraverso il suo maggior esponente Slavoj Žižek). Underground è il termine chiave che lega i due volti dell'indagine: da un lato, è lo sguardo al terreno dell'inconscio e dunque alle strutture latenti in atto in ogni soggettivazione; dall'altro, è il racconto di un sodalizio – quello tra intellettuali e sottoculture slovene – presentato per mettere in luce un contesto “minore”, ma non per questo meno significativo. Inoltre, il testo ospita per la prima volta in lingua italiana gli esiti teoretici, estetici ed etnografici del sodalizio in questione, presentando i movimenti giovanili come “oggetto sublime” di ricerca e facendo tesoro della ricezione contemporanea del pensiero di Jacques Lacan in prospettiva transdisciplinare.

This book offers a tour of “the known galaxy”, here defined as the region of interstellar space closest to Earth. The phrase “the known galaxy” has a particular resonance in science fiction, as it refers to the part of the Milky Way that from the perspective of a point in time centuries from now may have been explored and settled by human beings. In the known galaxy, there are gloomy ocean worlds illuminated by the light of exploding stars. There are worlds where precious gems could be as common as pebbles. There are planets eternally wandering between the stars like the Flying Dutchman. There are lava worlds, steam worlds, hot Jupiters, cold Jupiters and maybe even worlds like our Earth. The purpose of the book is to begin to give this region a sense of place, in the same way that Mars is now starting to be appreciated as a location rather than just a planet. In doing so, the book merges our current scientific knowledge of the known galaxy with speculative fiction and with older legends and myths.A sense of place is the feeling that some locations have a special meaning. This emotional connection arises from a combination of cultural and environmental factors that make individuals care about a particular place. It is challenging to create a sense of place for distant locations that no human has visited and for which our current knowledge is limited. This book attempts to take a step in this direction, by dividing the known galaxy into a number of clearly described distinct regions, by providing scientific descriptions of the likely environmental conditions on the known planets of these regions, and by linking these planets to their literary and mythological context.The book is aimed at fans of both science fact and science fiction. It combines a tour of real planets outside of our solar system with tales of their fictional counterparts. The combination of solid scientific facts and analysis with speculation and imagination will be appealing to readers who want to gain a feeling for these planets as places with a back story, rather than just as names somewhere out there in the sky.

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third, and fourth (Indigenous people's) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian postdemocracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate megaconglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world but also of many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.

Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86, were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957–1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn doktè, returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality's fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places of belonging through improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination. By centering on Haiti and the Caribbean, the book offers insights not just into the Haitian experience but also into how fractures have come to typify more aspects of life globally and what we might do about it.

Professor Madry, one of the world's leading experts in the field of the practical applications of satellites and space technologies, provides in a condensed form, a quick yet comprehensive overview of all aspects of satellite navigation. This new edition concisely addresses the latest breakthrough technologies, the various national systems, the many applications, the regulatory issues, and the strategic implications of satellite navigation systems. The future directions of autonomous aircraft and the role drones play in satellite navigation networks are also evaluated. Moreover, the industry's strengths and weaknesses are discussed, as well as reviews of all the various national systems now being deployed. The motivation behind the proliferation of these systems, in this book, evaluates the overall societal and ethical issues of these invisible yet pervasive parts of our modern digital world.

Karl Marx entwickelt, in der Tradition der idealistischen Philosophie Hegels, eine Konzeption der menschlichen Lebensform, die er in Gestalt einer philosophischen Anthropologie und einer kritischen Sozialphilosophie entfaltet. In diesem Buch werden die zentralen Konzeptionen und Theoreme der Philosophie von Karl Marx herausgearbeitet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Marx eine pragmatistische Anerkennungstheorie in Gestalt einer Philosophie des gegenständlichen Gattungswesens und eine kritische Sozialphilosophie entwickelt. Erstere verbindet Elemente der philosophischen Anthropologie und der Religionskritik Feuerbachs zu einer perfektionistischen Ethik. Letztere liegt in Gestalt einer Kritik der politischen Ökonomie vor, in der Marx den Kapitalismus als prinzipiell scheiternde Realisierung der menschlichen Lebensform analysiert. Die philosophische Explikation des Marxschen Denkens zeigt, dass er in der Tradition der Hegelschen Philosophie eine eigenständige Konzeption entwickelt hat.

This book will make the case for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI). The structural logic of the digital economy as presently constituted widens inequality and, through its use of automation for increasingly complex, as well as mundane, tasks, threatens jobs. The book will investigate the extent of this disruption to traditional labour markets and of individual livelihoods, and argue that alternative means of supporting people financially, like UBI, can mitigate the digital economy's most baleful impacts. The book will also highlight the positive social and environmental benefits that would accrue from the introduction of UBI, as unconditional financial support would reduce workers'anxiety in insecure labour markets, and the expending of valuable resources would be lessened if energy consumption was determined by society's needs rather than by the requirements of labour markets tasked primarily with maximising employment. An explanation as to why arguments against its introduction on the grounds of cost and its supposed encouraging of idleness, are, while superficially compelling, ultimately without foundation, will form the centrepiece of the concluding political argument for UBI.

Wie funktioniert geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung? Der Historiker Ewald Frie und der Soziologe Boris Nieswand erklären, wie der Drang nach Prestige, der Wettbewerb um Forschungsförderung, die Suche des Nachwuchses nach Stellen und der Spaß an neuen Ideen und Einsichten eine kritische Masse bilden, aus der tatsächlich neues Wissen hervorgeht. Ein ungewöhnlicher, scharfer, geradezu verführerischer Blick in den Maschinenraum des Geistes. Weltfremde Männer vor verstaubten Folianten, deren Bücher niemand liest: Das Image von Geisteswissenschaftlern könnte besser sein. Dabei hat sich geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten grundlegend geändert. Immer mehr Frauen bekommen eine Chance. Die Digitalisierung hat das Suchen, Lesen, Auswerten und Schreiben beschleunigt. Teamarbeit ersetzt das stille Kämmerlein. Zugleich ist der Druck gestiegen, sich im Wettbewerb zu behaupten. Ewald Frie und Boris Nieswand haben zwölf Jahre lang in einem Sonderforschungsbereich zum Thema «Bedrohte Ordnungen» gearbeitet. Die Tübinger Keplerstraße 2 wurde für viele Forschende Anlaufpunkt und Arbeitsplatz. Auf der Grundlage ihrer eigenen Erfahrungen und von Interviews mit Beteiligten berichten die Autoren, wie von ersten Ideen und Theorien über Planungen und Anträge, Präsentationen und Evaluationen das Wunder vollbracht wird, dass man neue Erkenntnisse nicht planen kann, es aber trotzdem tun muss und damit auch noch Erfolg hat – jedenfalls meistens.

'An excellent book'Vince Cable |'A must read'Jo Johnson |'A fascinating read'Bill Dudley A timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.A New Cold War is underway. Whereas the first Cold War was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the new front line is economic and financial, but still dominated by technology. Who controls its future will help decide the outcome of the geopolitical struggle between China and the US. Since the end of the Second World War, the US dollar has been the global reserve currency, which has ensured American dominance of the world economy. But no longer. More than a hundred countries are developing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), digital equivalents to cash that will utterly transform how we do business at home and abroad. China was the first country to recognise the potential of this new money. The West's media focused on the new currency's role in China's surveillance state, creating widespread concern about all CBDCs. But they have largely overlooked a more important aspect of its existence: as a tool through which to'de-dollarise'the developing world at the speed of light. When China's President Xi Jinping officially launched the digital yuan in February 2022, he also agreed a pact of'limitless co-operation'with Russia. Within days, Russia launched its war on Ukraine, secure in the knowledge it could bypass US sanctions.Urgent, clear-eyed and groundbreaking, Smart Money shows us how CBDCs are going to impact all of our futures in ways that most of us have failed to even consider. If the West is to compete, it needs to act fast to develop its own global digital currencies that reflect the values of liberal democracies.

'Family Household'explores the evolving concept of family across human history and diverse cultures, offering a comprehensive examination of family dynamics. The book delves into three key areas: the historical development of family structures, cultural variations in family systems, and socioeconomic impacts on family units. By tracing family structures from prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies to modern urban environments, it illuminates how factors like agricultural revolutions, industrialization, and globalization have shaped family compositions and roles. Central to the book's argument is the idea that family structures are not universal or static, but diverse and adaptable systems influenced by cultural, economic, and social forces. This perspective challenges readers to reconsider their assumptions about what constitutes a'normal'family. The book's global approach examines a wide range of family systems, from polygamous arrangements in some African societies to multi-generational households in East Asia, providing valuable insights for policymakers, social workers, and educators working with diverse populations. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, sociology, economics, and history,'Family Household'progresses logically through its chapters, exploring historical developments, cultural variations, and socioeconomic factors influencing modern families. Its holistic approach and accessible language make it suitable for both students of social sciences and general readers interested in understanding the complex interplay between family dynamics and broader societal forces.

'Asylum Seeker HowTo'offers a comprehensive guide to navigating the complex world of asylum seeking, addressing a critical question: What would you do if fleeing your home country was your only option for survival? This book delves into the legal framework of asylum, practical steps for seeking protection, and the psychological impact of displacement. It provides a unique blend of legal expertise and on-the-ground advice, making it an invaluable resource for those facing persecution and individuals seeking to understand the global asylum system. The book traces the evolution of asylum laws from the 1951 Refugee Convention to current policies, highlighting how geopolitical events have shaped modern practices. It argues that while seeking asylum is a fundamental human right, the process is often convoluted and challenging. By equipping readers with accurate information and practical strategies, the book aims to improve the chances of successful asylum claims. Drawing on international law, case studies, and expert interviews, it offers a holistic understanding of the asylum-seeking process and its broader implications. Structured in three parts, the book covers:1. The concept of asylum2. A step-by-step guide to the application process3. Long-term implications of seeking asylum Its clear, accessible style balances comprehensive information with readability, making it suitable for asylum seekers, their supporters, and anyone interested in immigration and human rights issues. By addressing ongoing debates and controversies in the field,'Asylum Seeker HowTo'contributes to a more informed and compassionate discourse on this critical issue.

Derzeit haben Endzeitszenarien Konjunktur. Wegen zunehmend instabiler Verhältnisse in der Politik befürchten einige das Ende der Demokratie. Die »Letzte Generation« warnt angesichts der drohenden Klimakatastrophe vor dem Ende der Menschheit. Und die ökologische Krise lässt sogar ein beispielloses Ende biologischer Arten befürchten. Doch das Nachdenken über das Ende ist nicht neu. Wie die Beiträge dieses interdisziplinär angelegten Bandes zeigen, setzt sich der Mensch seit jeher mit dem Ende von Dingen oder Zeiten auseinander, die ihm wichtig sind. Denn der Mensch ist das Wesen, welches das Ende denken kann. Er kann es fürchten wie den eigenen Tod oder das Ende einer guten Beziehung. Er kann es aber auch nur beschwören, um es zu vermeiden helfen, oder es festsetzen, um Epochen voneinander abzugrenzen. In jedem Fall macht sich der Mensch eine Vorstellung vom Ende und versucht, es gedanklich vorwegzunehmen oder im Nachhinein zu deuten, die Zeit bis dahin zu nutzen und vielleicht sogar das Ende zu einem Neuanfang umzudeuten.

La guerra in Ucraina ha causato la più grave emergenza umanitaria in Europa dalla fine del secondo conflitto mondiale, con quasi sei milioni di persone costrette alla fuga. Le istituzioni europee hanno reagito tempestivamente in aiuti e supporto alla popolazione travolta dal conflitto; il processo di accoglienza dei rifugiati, in Italia come in molti altri paesi, si è distinto sin da subito per unitarietà dell'azione politica e tentativi di innovazione istituzionale. Anche tra individui e famiglie si è prodotto uno slancio solidaristico da molti percepito come senza precedenti. Una reazione apparentemente molto diversa rispetto a quanto avvenuto durante altre crisi migratorie, pure recenti, come quella siriana, o quelle che si verificano con i flussi di rifugiati «ordinari», provenienti da Medio Oriente e Africa. Partendo da questa constatazione, un gruppo di ricerca multidisciplinare, composto da sociologi, politologi e linguisti, ha intrapreso uno studio con l'obiettivo di verificare l'effettiva esistenza di questo presunto «differenziale di solidarietà» e capirne le ragioni. Quanto conta la posizione delle forze politiche, in primis i partiti populisti e di destra? Qual è il potere dei media nell'indirizzare l'opinione pubblica o nell'assecondarla? E quanto è rilevante il fatto che alcuni rifugiati ci appaiano – per tratti somatici, per cultura, per vissuto – più simili a noi di altri? L'indagine ha mostrato risultati per certi versi sorprendenti. Se vi sono in effetti differenze significative nei giudizi e nelle percezioni dei rifugiati ucraini ed extra-europei, tali differenze «simboliche» e «rappresentazionali» non si traducono in modo equivalente e meccanico in comportamenti: nelle azioni di solidarietà messe in campo dagli intervistati – dalle semplici donazioni fino all'accoglienza presso la propria abitazione – non si ravvedono particolari differenze tra i due gruppi di rifugiati; non si riscontra una sproporzione di aiuti in favore degli ucraini, come ci si sarebbe potuto aspettare. In tutte queste forme di sostegno, al contrario, si scopre un netto rifiuto per i trattamenti differenziati: esiste dunque, sottotraccia, quotidiana ma tenace, una solidarietà che, pur portata avanti con discrezione, sceglie di non discriminare.

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That's what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and opportunities are no longer shaped by what we learn or earn but by whether we have access to the Bank of Mum and Dad. We're living in an inheritocracy, where parental support is what matters most – whether that's covering the cost of university, stumping up for a house deposit or helping with childcare. And let's be honest, this isn't something we like to talk about with our friends, families or as a society. It's a modern taboo. In these pages, generational expert Eliza Filby explores the emergence of this inheritocracy through her own life story, revealing how her family's financial circumstances shaped everything from her education to her dating life, from her career to her class identity. Inheritocracy is a thought-provoking and candid blend of memoir and cultural commentary, told through Eliza's humorous and insightful voice. With trillions of pounds set to be passed down the generations over the next two decades, a significant divide is emerging between those who can rely on family wealth and those who can't. Inheritocracy offers a fresh, captivating and honest look at our recent past and a future that will be shaped – for better or worse – by family fortunes.

Written by an array of seasoned Christian leaders, theologians and academics, this book captures the various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with the view of drawing lessons for the future. It examines the pandemic from historical, biblical, theological, medical, psychological, socio- cultural, political, economic, educational as well as mission and evangelistic perspectives. It also discusses the impact of the pandemic on Africans in the diaspora, family life, church administration, and the youth. The book makes several recommendations on how the church must reposition itself in the post-COVID-19 era to enable it to maintain and expand its missional activities without compromising the core values of the Christian faith.

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, because the information provided by these agencies is often produced using different concepts, underlying data, and methods, the resulting estimates of poverty, inequality, mean and median household income, consumption, and wealth, as well as other statistics, do not always tell a consistent or easily interpretable story. Measures also differ in their accuracy, timeliness, and relevance so that it is difficult to address such questions as the effects of the Great Recession on household finances or of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing relief efforts on household income and consumption. The presence of multiple, sometimes conflicting statistics at best muddies the waters of policy debates and, at worst, enable advocates with different policy perspectives to cherry-pick their preferred set of estimates. Achieving an integrated system of relevant, high-quality, and transparent household ICW data and statistics should go far to reduce disagreement about who has how much, and from what sources. Further, such data are essential to advance research on economic wellbeing and to ensure that policies are well targeted to achieve societal goals. Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth reviews the major household ICW statistics currently produced by U.S. statistical agencies and provides guidance for modernizing the information to better inform policy and research, such as understanding trends in inequality and mobility. This report provides recommendations for developing an improved 21st century data system for measuring the extent to which economic prosperity is shared by households throughout the population and for understanding how the distribution of resources is affected by government policy and economic events.

Wir leben in einer Ära des Übergangs – weg vom fossilen Zeitalter und hin zu einer klimaneutralen Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Eine wahrhaft historische Aufgabe, bei der es um viel geht. Der Weg dahin stellt uns vor gewaltige Herausforderungen. Gewohntes wird infrage gestellt. Viele blicken mit Sorge auf das, was kommt. Gesellschaftliche Spannungen wachsen. Dieser Band versammelt hochkarätige Autorinnen und Autoren, die der Frage nachgehen: Wie können wir die Transformation so gestalten, dass unsere Gesellschaft bei all der Veränderung zusammenbleibt? Und woraus können wir die Zuversicht schöpfen, um gemeinsam die Chancen des Neuen mutig zu ergreifen?

Development thought emerged as the governing principle of First World global hegemony in the new world order marked by the end of the Second World War and decolonization. Six decades later, at yet another critical geopolitical conjuncture marked by globalization and neoliberal resurgence, History of Development Thought revisits the major strands in the development debate from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. The volume places classic international interventions in critical development thinking alongside major contributions to the discourse from the Indian context.Beginning by juxtaposing W. A. Lewis's classic liberal theory of the dual economy with P. C. Mahalanobis's schema for planned development in India, the volume tracks the trajectory of the development debate — from the Latin American neo-Marxist paradigm, through the ‘mode of production'debates in India, to Indian and international feminist perspectives on development. It explores the departures of the 1980s in India and elsewhere as theorists, including Pranab Bardhan, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Partha Chatterjee, A. O. Hirschman, Samuel Huntington, and Amartya Sen, sought to address from various perspectives the reasons for the failure of development to live up to expectations. It ends with excerpts signposting the emerging strands of the development (and post-development) debate at the turn of the twenty-first century. Throughout, the volume remains committed to the paradigm of development as a horizon of critical thought and a field of democratic politics, while paying attention to the multiple storylines of the discourse over the last 60 years. This anthology, together with its critical introduction and rigorous prefatory remarks for each extract, will be invaluable to students and researchers in the social sciences and the humanities, especially those in development studies, history, politics and economics, as well as to activists, administrators, and professionals in health, education, and development.

This title was first published in 2000: This volume addresses the prominent role given to institution-building, institutional change and governance in the regional development strategies and policies. The establishment of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, and the arrival of regional development agencies in England highlighted the need to put the initiatives into some context, drawing on experience from across Europe on the critical factors in the determination of the potential and success of regions. Central to the discussions presented here by a group of European experts are the question of governance - how does an ongoing process of institution-building affect the ways in which regions and localities are governed, including questions of democracy, participation, regional self-determination, public-private partnerships, networks and accountability; and the consequences of new modes of governance and institutional change for regional development strategies and policies, particularly in the context of large-scale industrial restructuring and city-region and urban regeneration.

This title was first published in 2003. An exhaustive and synthetic framework for the use of Internet tools in customer-supplier relationships is one aspect of e-business that is still missing from existing literature. This book analyses the main management implications related to the adoption of the Internet in the supply chain and unifies different research studies and contributions in order to build such a framework. It is based on wide empirical evidence including four in-depth case studies in both Europe and the US, a cross-industry survey of more than 160 US companies and website research describing emerging Internet initiatives in B2B relationships. By creating a concrete link between theory and practice it should appeal to academics and practitioners alike.

This title was first published in 2001. A discussion of managerial, occupational and organizational stress research. The volume is in seven parts. The first part explores the theoretical or conceptual frameworks in occupational and organizational stress that have developed out of empirical work and work with others in different countries. The second part provides the reader with reviews of literature on different topics in the field of workplace stress. Part Three highlights a range of studies undertaken by UMIST and their collaborating colleagues in different institutions. The research that highlights issues and problems of current relevance is found in the fourth part, while the methodological studies involving instrument development, refining of existing measures, and more, is found in Part Five. The studies linking stress and health follows on from this, and the new area of investigation, evaluating stress management interventions, concludes this survey of research in this field.

Dilemma in Politics underlines the major faults and fissures in the academic discourses around the themes emphasizing upon the prevalence of dichotomy between ‘what ought to be'and ‘what is'in the political sphere.How do political values get marginalized, if not compromised, in the name of ideological conflicts and alliances? This book highlights this dilemma across a range of themes which explore the gaps in the practice and the praxis of politics. The chapters in this volume present detailed analytical perspective on issues concerning environment, female empowerment and feminist discourses and identity-based politics and its limitations, among various other key themes. Further, it analyses the concept of rights in the neoliberal democratic context, caste and class politics and its inherent dilemmas, and it also illustrates the gaps in the political discourses to discussion on possible alternatives or solutions.With contributions by eminent political scientists working on Indian politics, this book would be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers of political science, political philosophy, public administration, governance, public policy, political participation, democracy and South Asia studies, and will be of interest to bureaucrats, policymakers and the general reader.

Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America, Asia, and more recently, Africa. However, the city is politically mixed, organizationally underserved, and situated in a relatively anti-immigrant state. This makes Houston a challenging context for immigrant rights despite its rapidly diversifying population. In Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston, Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson recount how local and multi-level contexts shape the creation, contestation, and implementation of immigrant rights policies and practices in the city. They examine the development of a city immigrant affairs office, interactions between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement officials, local public-private partnerships around federal immigration benefits, and collaborations between labor, immigrant rights, faith, and business leaders to combat wage theft. The case study of Houston provides a bellwether for how other U.S. cities will deal with their growing immigrant populations and underscores the importance of public-private collaborations to advance immigrant rights.