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"Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total emancipation of working people, Jones's legacy made an enduring mark on both sides of the Atlantic. This ground-breaking biography traces Jones's remarkable life and work, beginning with her immigration to the United States and culminating in her advocacy for the emancipation of the most oppressed. Denise Lynn reveals how Jones's radicalism was forged through confronting American racism, and how her disillusionment led to a life committed to socialist liberation. But this activism came at a cost: Jones would be expelled from the US for being a communist. Deported to England, she took up the mantle of anti-colonial liberation movements. Despite the innumerable obstacles in her way, Jones never wavered in her commitments. In her tireless resistance to capitalism, racism, and sexism, she envisioned an equitable future devoted to peace and humanity - a vision that we all must continue to fight for today." --

Ist der von zahlreichen UN-Gremien sowie internationalen und israelischen Menschenrechtsorganisationen gegen Israel erhobene Vorwurf der Apartheid wegen seiner Politik in den besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten begründet oder bloßer Ausdruck von - vielleicht sogar antisemitisch motivierter Israelfeindlichkeit? Dieser Frage will diese Untersuchung mit Blick insbesondere auf die Situation im Westjordanland auf den Grund gehen. Dabei wird zunächst der Begriff der Apartheid in seiner rechtlichen Dimension erklärt und die betreffende Praxis anhand des südafrikanischen Präzedenzfalls kontextualisiert. Sodann wird dieser Rechtsbegriff auf die Situation in den besetzten Gebieten angewendet. Das Ergebnis fällt differenzierend und vorläufig aus. In jedem Fall ist Israel zu raten, sich ernsthaft mit dem Vorwurf auseinanderzusetzen. Denn auch in diesem Fall kann es, wie zuletzt wegen eines möglichen Genozids im Gazakrieg, zu einem Verfahren vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof und zu strafrechtlichen Ermittlungen beim Internationalen Strafgerichtshof kommen

"This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines the impact of COVID-19 on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic's environmental impact."

"In 2000, Seattle became the first city in the United States to grant permanent legal status to a peer-operated tent encampment, forever changing Seattle's urban landscape. Today, cities across the west such as Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Sacramento have followed suit. In this manuscript, Tony Sparks explores how residents of Tent City 3-a large, longstanding tent encampment in Seattle-attempt to create and sustain a sense of home in the context of the displacement and exclusion that we often refer to as "homelessness."

"This book will explore issues affecting food security in Asia since the onset of COVID-19. Highlights include discussions on the current state of production on food of vital importance to Asia such as rice, vegetable and fish, as well as information on their future trends in production and consumption. Two case studies are presented on how the two most populous countries in Asia - China and India - have tackled their food security. Other topics include nutrition security, novel foods and food waste valorization. It also has specific chapters on the technologies likely to determine the future of food security in Asia, as exemplified by digital technology, biotechnology, physical technology like recirculating aquaculture systems, nutrition enhancing technology, and urban agriculture."

"With a team of anthropologists and geographers, Insidious Capital explores "value and values" in what may well be the last phase of capitalist globalization. In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that move from East to West, the book explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off shoring of "immaterial" labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it. This is a book about the variegated frontlines of value within an uneven, but not random, geography of capitalist expansion."

"Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face hard tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges."