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"Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century" is a book that sheds light on the dangerous conditions faced by journalists in Mexico. The authors, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly, provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges faced by Mexican journalists, including the high number of journalist murders and the influence of organized crime groups. The book also explores the role of social media in disseminating news and the efforts of global networks and transnational organizations to bring about change. Overall, "Surviving Mexico" offers a valuable and humanizing perspective on the experiences of journalists in Mexico and makes a significant contribution to journalism research. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the book "Heritage Discourses in Europe: Responding to Migration, Mobility, and Cultural Identities in the Twenty-First Century" by L. Colomer and A. Catalani. The book explores the role of cultural heritage in understanding and responding to migration and mobility in Europe. It examines how cultural organizations and heritage sites can become meeting points for discussions and creative exchanges between different cultures. The book includes chapters on topics such as the experience of Syrian refugees, the role of museums in responding to the refugee crisis, heritage education in Spain, and the heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania. While the book offers valuable insights, it is relatively short and lacks depth in some areas. Overall, it contributes to the ongoing project of addressing heritage and inclusion in the European Union. [Extracted from the article]

Bosworth's book is part of a growing body of literature focused on "environmental populism", which can be understood as the study of populism (and/or populists) regarding environmental issues. In I Pipeline Populism i , Kai Bosworth presents a fascinating study of US grassroots resistance movements fighting the construction of a series of oil-carrying pipelines in the mid-2010s using ethnographic methods. Even if Bosworth does not fully propose populism as a solution, there is not enough engagement with the very real possibility of (his understanding of) populism turning - or revealing itself as - undemocratic. [Extracted from the article]

Regarding porn, and what to do about its harmful impact on our collective sexual imagination, the official conclusion of Srinivasan's discussion is pessimistic: "How such a negative education is to be achieved is unclear. Amidst the lively and often highly positive reception of this best-selling collection of six essays in feminist philosophy, some critics have complained that it does not seem to argue for very much.[1] They appeal to Srinivasan's questioning rhetorical style, and her own declaration that her goal is not always to be decisive, but to be ambivalent on some matters so as to do justice to their complexity (p. xiv). Srinivasan argues, against a perceived sex-positive orthodoxy, that the radical critique of porn is fundamentally right on several points. [Extracted from the article]

Part II shows a tension between market and government with the state goal of keeping economic growth. Besides, the chapter points out a turning point that economic development in China transformed from local developmentalism in the 1980s to urbanism in the 1990s as a result of a tax reform recentralizing government finance. The first two parts include contributions on the general political context in which the state supports growth, offering a panorama of the state's political and economic condition. [Extracted from the article]

Andreas Kaplan's book, "Higher education at the crossroads of disruption: the university of the 21st century," explores the challenges facing universities in the 21st century, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaplan argues that universities must adapt to new changes in the external environment in order to maintain their status and value. The book covers topics such as new instructional approaches, the role of universities in society, the shift towards lifelong learning, and the importance of community and physical space in avoiding disruption. Kaplan's views are based on his experiences in Europe, but offer insights that may be applicable to higher education globally. Overall, the book prompts readers to consider the future of universities and how they can navigate the changing landscape while staying true to their core values. [Extracted from the article]

Heinrich Detering, Was heißt hier "wir"? Zur Rhetorik der parlamentarischen Rechten (Dietzingen: Reclam Press, 2019). Clare Copley, Nazi Buildings: Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Sidney A. Rothstein, eds., Imbalance: Germany's Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). Benedikt Schoenborn, Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020). Tiffany N. Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020). Ingo Cornils, Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020). Christian F. Ostermann, Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trentmann (pp. 427) cites Becker for "the extension of economic theory to marriage, divorce and childrearing" at a time when "the treatment of households as units of production and consumption" was one part of a broader shift towards treating consumers as "miniature businessmen" (p. 427). Trentmann is strikingly fond of pointing out that Marx himself was addicted to consumption. Pepe, Tommaso Frank Trentmann, Empire of things: How we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first. [Extracted from the article]

Holly Gayley, ed. I Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century i . I Voices from Larung Gar i concludes its exciting exploration into the lives and minds at Larung Gar by highlighting the achievements of Buddhist nuns, a previously underrepresented group in Tibetan Buddhist communities. [Extracted from the article]

Gardner balances those observations by noting that US companies are finding business opportunities helping China combat pollution and that, facing even worse urban air quality, "India would do well to learn from the Chinese experience" (60). China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet by Li, Yifei and Shapiro, Judith. I Environmental Pollution in China i cites figures that attribute to China more than a quarter of the plastic waste in the world's oceans, along with air pollutants that strain relations with neighboring countries and have been tracked across the Pacific to North America. [Extracted from the article]

A graduate of Fordham University, she explores the impact of sociocultural factors on self-image and cultural identity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018 (ISBN 978-1-4958-3433-8; ISBN 978-1-4985-3434-5) Namulundah Florence was born in Bungoma, Kenya and teaches at Brooklyn College (CUNY). [Extracted from the article]

For Darity and Mullen the primary goal of their reparations plan is to eliminate the "racial wealth gap." Darity and Mullen review extensively economists' calculations of how much is owed to African Americans for their "stolen labor" and discriminatory treatment since the founding of the republic. Unfortunately, Darity and Mullen fail to explain why it would be necessary to prove that an ancestor had been enslaved in the United States to be eligible to receive reparations funds. [Extracted from the article]

Merike Blofield, Fernando Filgueira, Cecilia Giambruno, and Juliana Martínez Franzoni capture and explain in chapter 9 the structural trends concerning changing household needs and how these interact with markets and state transformations. The third section of the book reflects on the possible end of an era in social development in the region with the return of right-wing administrations in several countries after more progressive experiences. In the case of health reforms (concentrated between 1984 and 2005), countries with a left-wing government have developed a welfare approach, while in countries with center-right governments, the residual, market, or mixed approach has prevailed (79 - 81). [Extracted from the article]

Significantly, finance capital that dominates social formations it expands to refers to the monopolist unification between industrial capital and financial capital (pp. 104-106), and thus, finance capital cannot be identified with financialisation (pp. 106-109). While technology-intensive sectors of the Third World rather represent assembling industries that depend on the import of complex components, the Third World capital begins to function as the subcontractor of imperialist capital significantly through global value chains. King, Sam Imperialism and the Development Myth: How Rich Countries Dominate in the Twenty-First Century, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021; 296 pp.: ISBN 9781526159014, £80.00 Sam King offers an important intervention to critical/radical/Marxist literature on the political economy of (under) development in the Third World/Global South in the neoliberal era by critically and comprehensively engaging with the notion of imperialism. [Extracted from the article]

New towns for the twenty-first century: A guide to planned communities worldwide: edited by Richard Peiser and Ann Forsyth, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, US$55.00 (hardback), 600pp. It is organized into four parts (Overview of New Towns in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, New Towns Around the World, Lessons on How to Build New Towns, and New Town Futures) collectively comprised of an introduction and 23 chapters. What some new town aficionados may not appreciate fully is that a key ingredient of successful new towns is the tedious work of a governance structure that pays the bills and sustains cohesive communities. [Extracted from the article]

Still, Prainsack believes that a better personalized medicine can be pragmatically fostered by insisting that it indeed is the patient who I should i benefit from the possibilities that data intensification is bringing in its wake. Justice and Solidarity in Post-genomic, Post-personalized Times: Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? Given these particularities, how different are Prainsack's figures of "the patient researcher", "the self-tracking patient", "the participating patient" or "the prosumer" in Europe and America respectively?. [Extracted from the article]

Reading this book makes us realize that it is far more difficult to envision inter-Asian ties for Burma today than it was seventy-five years ago, when Aung San declared that "Asia is marching" and Burma's future depended on the "helping hand" of other Asian nations.[5] As we imagine Burma's different futures, inter-Asian relations deserve more thoughts than Thant Myint-U offers in I Hidden History i .[6] Footnotes 1 Thant Myint-U prefers "Burma" to "Myanmar." Thant Myint-U skillfully weaves this personal background into a historical narrative of contemporary Burma, which is presented in nine chronologically ordered chapters. 3 Thant Myint-U, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [Extracted from the article]

CBA can help us determine whether we should find negligence in a variation on that fact pattern, Graph HT ht . Assume that it is settled law that, for some fact pattern Graph HT ht , the defendant acted negligently. But even where it is unclear whether Graph HT ht , CBA can still be useful to bring coherence to the law. The larger the Graph HT ht , the more reasonable a search is; the smaller the Graph HT ht , the less reasonable it is. [Extracted from the article]

Gillum (Chapter 6) utilizes a randomized survey experiment to assess Muslim views on how the police treats Muslims versus non-Muslims. Calfano, Dincer, McLaughlin, and Sarfati (Chapter 8) conduct an Internet-based survey experiment to evaluate how priming and framing influences trust in religious out-groups. [Extracted from the article]

Kitching comes from a background in the political economy of development, imbued with a strong sense of historical evolution, inspired by both Marx and E.P Thompson.[3] Kitching stands back from the current angry critique of neo-liberal forms of economic management pursued by very many countries at present - some under duress from the World Bank and the IMF, to take a broader look at the dynamics of development inherent in capitalism as a system. Kitching advocates a cautiously positive attitude to capitalism as the starting point for such conversations, along with a commitment to the practices of liberal democracy. In many parts of the Western world, the liberal and democratic values and institutions on which planning ideas are based have been under sustained attack or crumbling in the face of globalising capitalism and consumer culture. [Extracted from the article]