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This book provides practical guidance on establishing wellbeing services and interventions within policing for all of those working in law enforcement, particularly leaders and HR professionals. It also offers insight, provokes thought, and gives guidance on how to navigate and get the most from working life as a police officer or member of police support staff. With a focus on the modern working environment, the book covers the key concepts, history, and practical advice necessary for all those interested in this fascinating field of law enforcement. As workplaces become ever more complex and ambiguous, and the world of work ever more dynamic, understanding how organizations behave and how those in the workplace are likely to respond is key to bringing meaning and purpose to work, the cornerstone of effective policing. The book details how to effectively measure workplace wellbeing in policing and how to interpret and use findings to make improvements and craft interventions. It is a key text for exploring law enforcement, leadership, and wellbeing within policing for all those involved with law enforcement, as well as HR professionals, occupational health professionals, and critically, those with police line management responsibilities. Ian Hesketh is the Wellbeing Lead at the UK College of Policing and the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the National Police Wellbeing Service in the UK. Ian also supports the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Manchester University Alliance Business School. He is Honorary Fellow at Durham University Business School and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University Business School. His research interests are centred on wellbeing, resilience, and transformation in the context of policing. Sir Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, and Past President of the CIPD, President of the Institute of Welfare, and former President of RELATE. He has been advisor to the Home Office on stress in the police service, carried out studies for the Police Federation and the Superintendents Association and an advisor to the College of Policing on their wellbeing national programme. He is also Chair of the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing at Work comprised of 44 global employers.

"This book seeks offers accounts of the ways in which Chinese engagement with Latin America will shape the regional and global order with impacts for development, peace, and equity. It also pays close attention to the traditional role played by the USA in the region, how China differs, and the increasingly triangular relationship between the USA, China, and Latin American countries. The contributors analyze various economic dimensions, including trade, infrastructure, and finance, and the historical, sectoral, regional, and national stories seek to change the narrative on China-Latin American relations. In particular, the book argues that there are opportunities for international cooperation to secure gains in the region, but only if the US and China alter their behavior and Latin American countries work collectively and in more coordinated fashion. Together, the chapters offer coherent social science analysis, policy frameworks, and empirical detail to understand and navigate increased Chinese engagement with Latin America."--Provided by publisher.

The presence of enterprising activity, which now permeates universities globally, leaves a notable legacy and impact on both individuals and institutions. This book explores the universal and growing relationship between entrepreneurship and higher education. Beginning with a general introduction to entrepreneurship education-related applications of pedagogy and educational philosophy, the book goes on to discuss institutional and stakeholder relevancy, followed by the cultural impact of entrepreneurship. In doing so, the book highlights the multifaceted nature of embedded entrepreneurship within institutions pedagogically, philosophically, socially, and structurally. Acknowledging several perspectives of entrepreneurship, the author addresses the core questions for higher education, reflects on thematic case studies concerning enterprise and entrepreneurship within the sector, and presents a new model for university-based entrepreneurship across teaching, research, and business development activities. Robert James Crammond (PhD in Entrepreneurship Education) is a Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). His teaching activity and research publications focus on enterprise and entrepreneurship education, leadership, organisational development, and university-related stakeholders. He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), and a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) with the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). He currently leads, or is involved in, a number of consultancy, knowledge transfer, and small business projects across many sectors. Occasionally, he writes for a number of higher education-relevant organisations in the United Kingdom. These include contributions to Advance HE, CABS, and Wonkhe. He is the author of Advancing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence. In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.

This book clarifies Khomeinis views on nationalism, sectarianism, and peace and war by putting the Iran-Iraq war at center of understanding of Khomeinis ideology. Moreover, by making comparisons between Khomeinis thoughts before and after the revolution with his words during the Iran-Iraq war, this book helps us see how his discourse during the conflict was shaped by such thoughts. Also, such a comparison helps us understand the complexities of Khomeinis doctrines and their evolvements. Additionally, by offering a unique set of methodological tools, this book introduces a new way to study political leaders in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. Meysam Tyaebipour is a researcher and human right activist. Meysams area of interests are the Middle East politics and political ideology.

This book is intended as a major interdisciplinary contribution to the study of Nietzsches thought in particular, and the political right more generally. Historically the assessment of Nietzsches politics has ranged from denouncing him as a forerunner to Nazism to claiming he effectively did not have articulated political convictions. During the latter half of the 20th century he surprisingly became a major theoretical influence on a variety of post-structuralist radical critics, who saw in his perspectivism and genealogy of power useful tools to critique existent structures of domination. This collection of essays reframes the debate by looking at Nietzsches constructive political project defending aristocratic values from the levelling influence of the herd and its liberal, socialist, and democratic spokesmen. The essays will also explore how this defense of aristocratic values continues to have an influence on the political right, inspiring moderates like Jordan Peterson and far right authors and activists like Aleksandr Dugin and Steve Bannon. Matthew McManus completed his Ph.D. in Socio-Legal Studies at York University, Ontario, in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Lesley Jacobs. After completing his postdoctoral research and working on the Committee for International Justice and Accountability, Matthew assumed a Professorship teaching politics, international relations and law at Tec de Monterrey in the State of Mexico. Matthew McManus teaches at the University of Calgary and is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism amongst other books.

Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- The Year 2020: A Historic Choice of Economic Transformation and Upgrading -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Urgent Need for the Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China -- 2.1 A New Question of Contemporary China's Development in Its New Stage -- 2.1.1 New Challenges Contemporary China Is Facing to Leap Over the "Middle-Income Trap" -- 2.1.2 New Requirements for Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects in the New Phase of the Great National Transformation -- 2.2 The Necessity and Urgency of the "Rising" Middle Class in Contemporary China -- 2.2.1 The Urgent Need of Millions of People to Pursue Common Prosperity -- 2.2.2 The Urgent Need to Solve the Prominent Issues in Income Distribution in China -- 2.2.3 The Urgent Need to Promote the Adjustment of China's Economic Structure and the Expanding of Domestic Demand -- 2.2.4 The Urgent Need to Form a Rational Social Structure and Maintain Long-Term Social Stability -- 2.2.5 The Urgent Need to Implement Relevant Fundamental Policies of the CPC Central Committee -- 3 The Origin and Development of the Middle Class -- 3.1 What Is the Middle Class -- 3.1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Concept of the Middle Class in Western Countries -- 3.1.2 The Origin of China's Use of the Concept of the Middle Class and the Perspective of This Book -- 3.2 The Origin and Development of the Middle Class in Western Countries -- 3.2.1 The Origin of the Middle Class in Western Countries in Modern Times -- 3.2.2 The Development of the Middle Class in Western Countries -- 3.3 The Origin and Development of the Middle Class in Modern China -- 3.3.1 The Embryo of the Middle Class in the 19th Century -- 3.3.2 The Development of the Modern Middle Class in China -- 4 Who is the Modern Middle Class in China?.

This book reports on a large research project on community regeneration, which integrated the spatial, social, economic and organizational factors with the dimensions of sustainability, resilience and participation. Upon providing a detailed review on concepts of community and urban regeneration, it analyses a set of successful case studies from 30 European cities, which were selected by the authors from different rankings and awards. Fifty-seven key performance indicators and the results of self-assessment questionnaires are here introduced to allow a comparative study of best practices and eventually to outline 20 guidelines and 100 strategic actions for future community regeneration projects. All in all, this book offers extensive information and a source of inspiration for urban planners, economists, sociologists, public administrators, stakeholders and all those involved in the development and management of sustainable cities.

David Kergel explores the questions of how free and self-determined we are in the digital age, whether the Internet encloses us or whether it opens up new spaces for diversity and education. The starting point is the thesis that the Internet is both heritage and future: postmodern spaces of freedom and neoliberal fixations of the electronic age unfold in the ubiquitous cultural space that digital media span. At the same time, the Internet restructures social spaces in the 'analog world', digitalizes self/world relations or forms digital cultures, which in turn form ourselves. For dealing with the ambivalence of the Internet between postmodern diversity and neoliberal subjectification, an understanding of media education based on educational theory is proposed. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Kulturen des Digitalen by David Kergel, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors. The Content Postmodern Cyberspace The SNS universe of the control society The university in the digital age as a site of postmodern media education The target groups Lecturers and students of cultural, social and educational sciences, media education with a focus on media and educational theory Media educators and media pedagogues The author Dr. David Kergel is Professor for Social Work at the International University of Applied Sciences, Duisburg, Germany.

"This book covers the essential aspects of prevention of childhood statelessness focusing on norms governing the subject through the rights to acquire a nationality and to birth registration, two vital safeguards to prevent statelessness among children. Its unique feature lies in its exposition of the international legal norms focusing on prevention of childhood statelessness and systematic analyses of domestic legal frameworks on nationality and birth registration of the 10 ASEAN Member States. This book is designed for a wide range of readers comprising academics, advocates, students, policy makers, and other stakeholders working on statelessness affecting children, especially in Southeast Asia"--

This book explores the development of the gas industry within Latin Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Through charting the growth of this industry during the 19th and 20th centuries, the technology and public policies used are examined to highlight the long term impact of the industry. Utilising a comparative analysis, similarities and variation between the development of gas within the Latin European countries is compared and contrasted with the aid of specific case studies. This book aims to place the development of gas resources in Latin Europe within a global perspective that takes into account the development of energy resources in the rest of Europe and the world more generally. It will be of interest to students and researchers working within energy economics and economic history. Jesus Miras-Araujo is Professor of Economic History at the University of A Coruna. Andrea Giuntini is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The book forms part of the results of the research project Gas in Latin Europe: a comparative and global perspective (1818-1945), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government and ERDP Funds.

Populism has lately experienced a meteoric rise to become one of the most widely used terms in academic and wider public discourses and a supposedly defining feature of both domestic and world politics. Situated at the intersection of International Relations (IR), Political Theory and Comparative Politics, this book makes a critical intervention into the burgeoning IR scholarship on populism and problematizes the often hyperbolic and sweeping usage of the term as a general descriptor for non-centrist politics of different persuasions. The book seeks to move into a different theoretical direction and broaden the empirical focus of existing IR research. Theoretically, it bridges the gap between theories of populism and IR by bringing the Laclauian, discursive approach and IR poststructuralism together in a theoretical framework. The proposed framework moves away from the search for the policy preferences and impact of populism, and instead conceptualizes foreign policy and world politics as potential sites for practicing populism, ranging from the articulation of societal grievances to the construction of populist identities such as the people. Empirically, the book takes IR scholarship beyond the predominant focus on the populist radical right and single-country and -region studies. Building on the discourse analysis of an original data set, it offers a comparative analysis of right-wing and left-wing populist discourses in different world regions as well as populist cross-border collaboration and identity construction. Thorsten Wojczewski is Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University, UK.

This book deals with the current economic policy of the People's Republic of China. In addition to a brief overview of the economic history since the founding and the economic models, an overview of both the forms of enterprises and the Chinese labor market is given. The book pays particular attention to the development of China's e-commerce sector. Equally significant are China's environmental issues against the backdrop of the climate crisis. Without innovations, for example in energy production and waste management, the Chinese economy will hardly be able to continue growing. Therefore, one focus of the book is on environmental economic policy. Finally, foreign policy, including the Silk Road Initiative, is examined. The aim of this book is to highlight the above developments. It is aimed at practitioners involved in China business as well as first-year students who want an overview of economic policy institutions and current developments. The content State structure and actors of the economy Current economic development Labour market E-commerce Food, environment and energy policy International Relations The Editor Barbara Darimont is Professor of China Economics at the East Asia Institute of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences. Before that, she worked for ten years at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law in Munich, where she set up the China Department with renowned Chinese institutions. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

1. Introduction -- Part 1: Representations as Gendered Violence -- 2. Towards a conceptualization of second and third rape in Akan news coverage of Rape incidents in Ghana -- 3. Representing the victim: transnational feminist interventions on mass rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 4. Posing as a Hero / Harasser in the Age of Metoo: The Vári Case from Hungary and the Standards of Public Apology for Former Perpetrators of Sexual Harassment -- 5. Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence -- 6. Do the Media Make Sexual Violence 'Congolese'?: Phallo- and Ethnocentrism in the International Coverage of Dr Mukwege's Story -- 7. War rapes as a tool of ethnic othering: the case of Norma Cossetto -- 8. Gender-Based Violence and the Romanian New Wave -- 9. From #MeToo to #NousToutes: The Emergence of a Transnational Francophone Feminism -- Part 2: Representations Exposing GBV -- 10. Mónica Mayer's "The Clothesline Proyect": Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Violence Against Women in México -- 11. Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday -- 12. The Aesthetics of French #MeToo Activist Posters: Unveiling Ubiquity -- 13. Albinism and Gender-Based Violence in Africa: From literary representation to literary advocacy in African women's writing -- 14. Homeless at Home: Gender and Violence in the Postcolonial Home in Inch'Allah dimanche by Yamina Benguigui -- 15. Acid attacks in Italy: gender-based violence, heteronormativity and media representation -- Part 3: Representations Contesting GBV -- 16. Why We Shouldn't Call Rape 'Sex Minus Consent' -- 17. Contending victimhoods: 'comfort women' neglection, denial and erasure -- 18. Russian Orthodox Church and survivors of domestic violence: hopes, expectations and media representation -- 19. Representation of Gendered Violence in "New Turkey" -- 20. Staging trauma and the traumatic staging of Wajdi Mouawad's play Incendies -- 21. Topless in La Habana: The role of embodiment in representing gender violence.

This handbook offers a unique approach to the question: How do scholars write the future of global politics? Written in futur anterieur style, around the 200-year anniversary of the birth of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline, the contributions engage in world-building and imagine different futures of IR. Set in a multiverse, 23 chapters draw on a range of possible themes and imaginaries, for instance post-pandemic conditions, the Anthropocene, and not least academic practices and the role of researchers. A concluding chapter anchors these explorations in contemporary discussions. The book mirrors the format and style of existing handbooks, combining outlines and discussions of theories, structures, processes, and core issues in IR with an academic science fiction account of how these might play out over the course of the next century. In doing so, the book challenges IR and provides alternative imaginaries, rather than predicting future conditions for all humanity. The book invites readers to reflect on how thinking about the future has become an increasingly radical, but more than ever necessary act. Laura Horn is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. Aysem Mert is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden. Franziska Muller is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at University of Hamburg, Germany.