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"In the Laws, Plato theorizes citizenship as simultaneously a political, ethical, and aesthetic practice. His reflection on citizenship finds its roots in a descriptive psychology of human experience, with sentience and, above all, volition seen as the primary targets of a lifelong training in the values of citizenship. In the city of Magnesia described in the Laws ers̥ for civic virtue is presented as a motivational resource not only within the reach of the 'ordinary' citizen, but also factored by default into its educational system. Supporting a vision of 'perfect citizenship' based on an internalized obedience to the laws, and persuading the entire polity to consent willingly to it, requires an ideology that must be rhetorically all-inclusive. In this city 'ordinary' citizenship itself will be troped as a performative action: Magnesia's choral performances become a fundamental channel for shaping, feeling and communicating a strong sense of civic identity and unity"--

Argues that genetic research, as represented by the Human Genome Project, does not constitute an autonomous source of technologically derived social change but is a product of contemporary capitalism's social relations and the interrelationship of the public, corporate, and scientific sectors; US, chiefly; Marxist perspective.

"How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it's likely to change through reform-these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson's highly lauded American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change. Even in the midst of current challenges, America's past is present in all aspects of the contemporary political system. Jillson uses political development and the dynamics of change as a thematic tool to help students understand how politics works now-and how institutions, participation, and policies have evolved over time to produce the contemporary political environment. In addition, Jillson helps students think critically about how American democracy might evolve further, focusing in every chapter on reform and further change"--

The European integration is the way of current reforms in Ukraine. The main goal of the socio-economic development is to increase the well-being of people in the country. The bioeconomy strategy leads to a sustainable bioeconomy with the higher employment in agriculture, food and drink manufacture as a result of new green jobs, healthy ecosystems, and the new bio-based products. Purpose of this article is to establish effective directions for the intensive development of the bioeconomy strategy in Ukraine, then to determine the features response to European priorities and policies and to demonstrate the role of Ukraine in fulfilling global Commitments as Paris Agreement, SDGs, Bioeconomy strategy. Our comparative analysis of existing national and international strategies in particular European, with a focus on governance, builds on existing legislative documents, knowledge base network and previous work. Scientific abstraction, analyses and synthesis, logical approach and statistics on the development of the bioeconomy in the EU emphasize its socio-economic potential for the intensive development of the bioeconomy strategy in Ukraine. The article analyze the works of scientists on the preconditions, modern features of development, indicators of macroeconomic analysis, conceptual foundations of bioeconomy strategies, mechanisms of state regulation of the agricultural economy in general and the bioeconomy in particular. Biotechnology plays a key role in the following sectors of the economy: construction, agriculture, food and beverages. The importance of biotechnology is substantially reaffirmed once again during the COVID-19 virus pandemic, so that biotechnology could create the vaccine to combat the virus. Bioeconomy development is a mainstream research in the world and in Ukraine in accordance with food security, biotechnologies and environmental protection, circular economy and sustainable development.The different political approaches have many common measures to advance the economic growth with an ecological sustainability and biotechnological innovation, which increase efficiency and value-added potential. Based on the study, the authors propose to focus the attention of entrepreneurs, scientists and local governments on the measures of regional bioeconomy strategies development for further approval of the initiative at the state level. ; Європейська інтеграція - шлях нинішніх реформ в Україні. Головною метою соціально-економічного розвитку є підвищення добробуту людей у країні. Стратегія біоекономіки веде до стійкої біоекономіки з вищим рівнем зайнятості в сільському господарстві, виробництві продуктів харчування та напоїв у результаті нових «зелених» робочих місць, здорових екосистем та нових продуктів на біологічній основі.Біотехнологія відіграє ключову роль у таких галузях економіки: будівництві, сільському господарстві, виробництві продуктів харчування та напоїв. Важливість біотехнології ще раз підтверджується під час пандемії вірусу COVID-19, тому що біотехнологія має можливість створити вакцину для боротьби з вірусом. Розвиток біоекономіки є основним дослідженням у світі та Україні відповідно до продовольчої безпеки, біотехнологій та охорони довкілля, економіки замкнутого циклу та сталого розвитку.Наш порівняльний аналіз сучасних національних та міжнародних стратегій, зокрема європейських, з акцентом на управління, ґрунтується на сучасних законодавчих документах, мережі баз знань та попередній роботі. Наукова абстракція, аналіз та синтез, логічний підхід та статистика розвитку біоекономіки в ЄС підкреслюють його соціально-економічний потенціал для інтенсивного розвитку стратегії біоекономіки в Україні.У статті аналізуються роботи вчених про передумови, сучасні особливості розвитку, показники макроекономічного аналізу, концептуальні основи стратегій біоекономіки, механізми державного регулювання аграрної економіки загалом та біоекономіки зокрема.Різні політичні підходи мають багато спільних заходів для сприяння економічному зростанню за допомогою екологічної стійкості та біотехнологічних інновацій, які підвищують ефективність та потенціал доданої вартості. На основі дослідження автори пропонують зосередити увагу підприємців, науковців та органів місцевого самоврядування на заходах із розвитку регіональних стратегій біоекономіки для подальшого затвердження ініціативи на державному рівні.

The published article represents a review of the monograph by S.M.Khenkin Spain: Modern Unstable Society. The monograph examines Spain's experience at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, as a country that, due to historical circumstances, faces instability and unpredictability of development (so typical in the modern world) in an especially acute and concentrated manner. Khenkin identifies and describes, one by one, factors that characterize and explain the unstable state of the modern Spanish socio-political system, consistently integrating the current issues into the general context of the historical development of the Spanish society, its political and cultural traditions and comparing what is happening there with the situation in other European countries. Based on his research, he comes to the conclusion that several acute and persistent socio-political conflicts make high instability a distinctiveness of the country's life. In the monograph the author provides careful and multilateral analysis of the transition from Francoism to consolidated democracy; various aspects of the ongoing transformations in the society; the specifics of the Spanish party-political system and its evolution; national-regional issue. He documents a radical change in the sentiments in the Spanish society with the appearance of a new generation, which clearly manifested in the reassessment of the transition, with harsh criticism replacing earlier approval, and in the conflict around "historical memory". The author analyzes the relationship between the central government of the country and regional separatists and does not see any prospects for a prompt resolution of the conflict. According to his reasoned assessment, separation from Spain of any of its regions will inevitably cause irreparable damage to all parties to the conflict.

Image testimonies witnessing in times of social media / Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl -- Epistemologies of testimonies -- Credibility in crisis : contradictions of web video witnessing / Sascha Simons -- Affective images and the political trial / Jonas Bens -- In conversation: fearless filming¿video footage from syria since 2011 / Marianna Liosi with Guevara Namer and Amer Matar -- Affective witnessing -- "Moroccan lives matter" : practices and politics of affecting / Kerstin Schankweiler -- Drone's-eye view : affective witnessing and technicities of perception / Michael Richardson -- Social media practices -- Photographic witnessing, the occupation, and palestinian politics / Simon Faulkner -- Witnessing to survive : selfie videos, live mobile witnessing and black necropolitics / Penelope Papailias -- Eye, flesh, world : three modes of digital witnessing / Paul Frosh -- Witnessing destruction -- "Living martyrs" : testifying what is to come / Verena Straub -- Testimonies to a new social order : the islamic state's iconic iconoclasm / Christoph Günther, Tom Bioly -- From cape town to timbuktu : iconoclastic testimonies in the age of social media / Tobias Wendl -- List of contributors

"Recognition theory is now an influential approach to the study of identity, social conflict, multiculturalism, distribution, democracy and justice. By aligning the literature on Axel Honneth's theory with that of political communication, this study examines a neglected, but significant topic, namely the interfaces between struggles for recognition and the media. Rousiley Maia, in collaboration with a number of experts, uses empirical research to construct a sophisticated debate on the main controversies in Honneth's work - the morality of recognition, ideological forms of recognition, 'feelings of injustice', problems of claim justification, the notions of non-recognition, misrecognition, and moral evolution. This collection presents a set of intriguing case studies addressing mass communication representations, practices within networked digital media and social change in the media arena. These cases focus on the struggles for recognition of slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients, women exposed to child labor exploitation, deaf individuals, LGBTQs, black women and people with disabilities"--

Defining and measuring the economic vote -- Patterns of retrospective economic voting in western democracies -- Estimation, measurement and specification -- Competency signals and rational retrospective economic voting -- What do voters know about economic variation and its sources? -- Political control of the economy -- Responsibility, contention, and the economic vote -- The distribution of responsibility and economic vote -- The pattern of contention and the economic vote.

AbstractEnvironmental issues are an important aspect of party competition and voters' political preferences. Yet political behaviour research often considers environmental attitudes as a component of a broader 'second‐dimension' and either subsumes it into this or omits it. Using data from the fifth wave of the European Values Study, we demonstrate through factor analysis that environmentalism loads as a separate dimension across Western Europe, that environmentalism has somewhat different social predictors and that it has important associations with party preference that differ from those of other second dimension issues. Our findings have crucial implications. Firstly, not accounting for environmentalism in studies of political behaviour misses an important part of the picture. Secondly, subsuming environmentalism into a broader 'cultural' dimension may lead to incomplete conclusions about both social predictors and the electoral consequences of political attitudes and values. Thus, allowing for a separate environmental dimension opens up novel perspectives on political representation in Western democracies.

"Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions"--

This book analyzes the rise of socially and politically engaged Algerian documentaries, created in the period immediately following the end of the Algerian civil war (1991-1999). It uses case studies to highlight the works of four Algerian filmmakers, and devotes a chapter to each: Malek Bensmail, Hassen Ferhani, Djamel Kerkar, and Karim Sayad. The book makes visible productions that have been overlooked not only in distribution circuits but also within academia, and examines the political significance and the esthetic power of some of the most influential Algerian documentaries produced since the 2000s. Meryem Belkaid is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, USA. Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of North African Studies and Expressions maghrebines. She uses her expertise in Tunisia and Algeria to work as a contributor for Slate Afrique, The Huffington Post Algeria, Orient XXI, Maniere de Voir and other Algerian media outlets like Radio M and 24H Algerie.

This book addresses new conceptual bases for thinking critically about communication as a necessary way in which to confront power, property and the market as part of the daily resistance of Latin American subaltern cultures. The chapters research an urgent field of situated knowledge and spark a much-needed dialogue. The editors view emancipatory communication experiences as disruptive acts of resistance, prompted mainly by social movements. These experiences have opened up political modes of communication by establishing a decolonising axis in the field of communication and reconstructing the history and memory of Latin America. This book is a valuable reference for researchers, academics and students interested in the role of communication and culture in processes of social transformation. Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas is Professor and Director of the Doctorate in Communication at the University of La Frontera (UFRO), Chile. Francisco Sierra Caballero is Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group for Studies on Communication, Politics and Social Change at the University of Seville, Spain. .