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"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is Fantasy?" -- "Understanding Fantasy" -- "Notes Towards the Orders of Fantasy" -- "First-Order Fantasy" -- "Second-Order Fantasy" -- "Third-Order Fantasy" -- "Fourth-Order Fantasy" -- "Nostalgia and Fantasy" -- "Nostalgia as Desire" -- "Defining Disney Fantasy" -- "Notes Towards a Dialectic of Desire" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 2 Capital, Crisis, and the Rise of Disney Fantasy" -- "Disney Fantasy as the Discourse of the Other" -- ""The Dirty Thirties"" -- ""The Three Little Pigs"" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 3 Walt Disney, Snow White, and the Trauma of the Real" -- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" -- "The Problem of Fantasy" -- "Disney Fantasy" -- "Walt Disney" -- "Snow White and the Death of the Mother" -- "The Death of the Mother" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 4 Disney Fantasy as the Discourse of the Other" -- "The "Golden Era" as Point de Capiton" -- "Pinocchio" -- "Fantasia" -- "Animators' Strike" -- "Dumbo" -- "Bambi" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 5 Disneyland and the Perversity of Disney Fantasy" -- "Disney Fantasy and the Perverse Psychic Structure" -- "The Roots of Disneyland" -- "The E-Ticket" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 6 Disney, Pixar, and Neoliberal Nostalgia" -- "A Whole New World Order" -- "More Golden Eras" -- "Case Study: Disney, Pixar and Monsters, Inc" -- "Frozen Gender" -- "Elsa and Hysteria as Agency" -- "Zootopia and the Normalization of the Surveillance State" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Empire Expands—Star Wars as Disney Fantasy" -- "Robert Iger, George Lucas and Disney as "White Slavers"" -- "THX-1138 as Reflective Nostalgia" -- "American Graffiti" -- "Star Wars as Disney Fantasy" -- "Star Wars and the Force" -- "Disney and the Dialectic of Desire" -- "Bibliography

All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communication impairment. The contributors look at a wide range of approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for a variety of impairments, including autism, profound learning disabilities, deafblindness, severe early neglect and dementia. This wide perspective provides insight into what it feels like to struggle with a communicative impairment

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Unintended consequences -- chapter 3 The origin of money -- chapter 4 Segregation -- chapter 5 The invisible hand -- chapter 6 The origin of money reconsidered -- chapter 7 Models and representation -- chapter 8 Game theory and conventions -- chapter 9 Concluding remarks.

International audience ; The article analyses the place of corporate relations in the system of civil law. The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the lack of a clear definition of the concept and essence of the corporation in the legislations of the countries of the post-Soviet space, in contrast to the laws of foreign countries. The task is to determine the main criteria for assessing modern corporate relations from the point of view of existing civil law. A comparative analysis of the essence of corporate relations in Ukraine and abroad was conducted, their place in the system of civil law relations was determined. An objective assessment of the results obtained during the study is given, the prospects for research in this area are indicated. The relevance of the topic is due to the lack of a clear definition of the concept of corporation and corporate relations in existing regulations of civil law. In this regard, there is uncertainty in the interpretation of the concept of corporate relations from the point of view of the current legislation. In this paper, the task is to conduct a study of corporate relations in the aspect of the current civil law of Ukraine, as well as the countries of Europe, Central Asia and the United States, with the aim of determining the main criteria for designating these relations in relation to current regulatory legal acts. The method of comparative analysis of the work of domestic and foreign researchers in this field was selected in order to identify general trends in assessing the topic under study. The current legislation in the field of civil law governing the activities of corporations and corporate relations was evaluated. The applied value of this material is to identify the main criteria for the compliance of corporate relations with civil law with a view to the subsequent application of the results in a practical aspect. Also, of practical legal value is the comparison of existing laws governing civil law in Ukraine and countries taken for comparison.

The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2015 includes a forecast of worsening global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind it, such as continuing inequality and falling wage shares. The report looks at the drivers of the rising middle class in the developing world as well as the risk of social unrest, especially in areas of elevated youth unemployment

"A state's financial power is built on the effect its credit, property, and tax policies have on ordinary people: this is the key message of Leonard Seabrooke's comparative historical investigation, which turns the spotlight away from elite financial actors and toward institutions that matter for the majority of citizens. Seabrooke suggests that everyday contests between social groups and the state over how the economy should work determine the legitimacy of a state's financial and fiscal system. Ideally, he believes, such contests compel a state to intervene on behalf of people below the median income level, leading the state to broaden and deepen its domestic pool of capital while increasing its influence on international finance. But to do so, Seabrooke asserts, a state must first challenge powerful interests that benefit from the concentration of financial wealth." "Seabrooke's novel constructivist approach is informed by economic sociology and the work of Max Weber. This book demonstrates how domestic legitimacy influences the character of international financial orders. It will interest all readers concerned with how best to transform state intervention in the economy for the good of the majority."--Jacket

The understanding of child sacrifice requires the broader understanding of the history, context of and rationale for the concept of sacrifice in all its forms including human sacrifice. Historically, sacrifices were made to atone for sins or wrong-doing and to ask for blessings. The forgiveness was for or blessings included but were not limited to material wealth (particularly land, domestic animals and other tangible possessions), children, health, and prosperity. In spite of the variations in understanding sacrifice, common to all is the underlying guiding principle of the value for value. It means the higher the value of the blessings to be sought or wrongs to be atoned, the higher the value of the sacrificial item. Overtime, this principle has been expressed in varied forms including human sacrifice, in general, and child sacrifice, in particular. These practices are closely associated with dominant cultural value systems that people hold in relation to what is important in life and how to get it. Despite economic progress of economies characterised by sophisticated wealth computations, predictions and protection through insurance, sacrifices remain part of the social fabric for solicitation, utilisation, maintenance and protection of wealth. This chapter, therefore, broadly analyses and explains the role of economic structures and institutions on society and the influence of society on the nature of economic structures and institutions. Though there is no established scientific basis for a correlation between human sacrifice and wealth acquisition, the sacrificial items are goods of high economic value and they bring economic returns to those involved in their exchange. It is important to explain how economic wealth creates and is further re-created by sacrifices, particularly, human sacrifice. Human sacrifice is strongly dominated by child sacrifices which are believed to be without blemish and of higher atoning value. Any attempt to destroy the practice of human and child sacrifice for wealth acquisition must first destroy the dominant cultural mentalities or values systems on which they are based.

Making sense of one another while crossing borders: social cognition and migration politics /Ilka Vari-Lavoisier and Susan T. Fiske --Migration decision-making and its key dimensions /Mathias Czaika, Jakub Bijak, and Toby Prike --Conspicuous mobility: the status dimensions of the global passport hierarchy /Yossi Harpaz --Does increasing immigration affect ethnic minority groups? /Danying Li, Miguel R. Ramos, Matthew R. Bennett, Douglas S. Massey, and Miles Hewstone --Many rivers to cross: social identity, cognition, and labor mobility in rural India /Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, and Suneha Seetahul --The anxiety of political uncertainty: insights from the Brexit vote /Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva --Forecasting under uncertainty: how network composition shapes future-oriented cognition /Ilka Vari-Lavoisier --Immigration and the future of the welfare state in Europe /Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, and Hillel Rapoport --North American attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in the time of COVID-19: the role of national attachment and threat /Victoria M. Esses, Alina Sutter, Joanie Bouchard, Kate H. Choi, and Patrick Denice -- Intervening in anti-immigrant sentiments: the causal effects of factual information on attitudes toward immigration /Maria Abascal, Tiffany J. Huang, and Van C. Tran --Urban space and social cognition: the effect of urban space on intergroup perceptions /Kim Knipprath, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring, and Xuechunzi Bai --How an interdisciplinary approach to narrative can support policymaking on migration and integration at the city level /Jacqueline Broadhead --"What Is Truth?" Negotiating Christian convert asylum seekers' credibility /Lena Rose and Zoe Given-Wilson.

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have been through in their spiritual worlds. The book discusses this concept together with Chinese experience, two aspects of the transformation of the Chinese mentality that resulted from the unprecedented social changes since 1978, and which have given this unique era historical meaning and cultural values. At the same time they offer a dual perspective for understanding this great social transition. Further, the book considers what will happen if we only focus on the "Chinese Experience" while neglecting the "Chinese Feeling"; the changes the Chinese people undergo when their desires, wishes and personalities have changed China; and how their emotionally charged social mentality foll ow ebbs and flows of the changing society. Lastly it asks what embarrassment and frustration the population will be faced with next after the tribulations their spiritual world has already been through

Introduction: collateral damage of social inequality -- From the agora to the marketplace -- Requiem for communism -- The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times -- Strangers are dangers ... are they indeed? -- Consumerism and morality -- Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity -- Luck and the individualization of remedies -- Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question -- A natural history of evil -- Wir arme Leut' ... -- Sociology: whence and whither?