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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Online Celebrity Practices in China -- The Emergence of Knowledge Celebrities on Digital Platforms -- Research Motivation -- What This Book Presents You -- Organization of Chapters -- Part 1-Knowledge Celebrities: Who Are They? -- Part 2-Why Are They Attractive to Users? -- Part 3-Why Are Users Willing to Pay for Knowledge? -- References -- Part I: Knowledge Celebrities: Who Are They? -- Chapter 1: What We Know and Don't Know About Knowledge Celebrities -- 1.1 Overview of Online Celebrities -- 1.2 Problem Statement -- 1.2.1 Research Question -- 1.2.2 Research Goal -- 1.2.3 Relevant Research Streams and Gaps -- 1.2.4 Specific Research Objectives -- 1.3 Significance of the Book -- 1.3.1 Potential Theoretical Contributions -- 1.3.2 Potential Practical Contributions -- 1.4 Research Delimitations -- 1.5 Organization of the Rest of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Related Literature and Theoretical Lens -- 2.1 Theoretical Underpinning: Social Informatics Perspective -- 2.1.1 Overview of Social Informatics -- 2.1.2 Principles and Elements of Social Informatics Perspective -- 2.1.3 How Social Informatics Perspective Informs the Book -- 2.2 The Characteristics of Knowledge Celebrities -- 2.2.1 Content of Self-portraits -- 2.2.2 Attributes of Knowledge Products -- 2.3 Perceived Attractiveness of Knowledge Celebrities Enhanced by Social Interactions -- 2.3.1 Information Self-disclosure and Interaction Approaches -- 2.3.2 Users Impressions of Knowledge Celebrities in Social Interactions -- 2.4 Users' Willingness to Pay Influenced by the Perceived Attractiveness of Knowledge Celebrities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. How Sororities Harness Belonging -- 2. "First, Finest, Forever": Belonging via History -- 3. "I Love the Pin": Belonging through Propriety -- 4. "Advancing Sorority Together": The Business of Belonging -- 5. "We Live for Each Other": Belonging and Sisterhood -- 6. "Hear Us Sing with One Accord": Belonging and Diversity -- Index.

Pasts : toward a critical paleoeconomics -- Cities : archaeology and egalitarian urbanism -- Citadels : the low-growth birth of stratified economies -- Measurement : a deep history of political metrology, money and value -- Merchants : Bronze Age millionaires and the rise of the affluent classes -- Billionaires : the Iron Age origin of oligarchy -- Futures.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Homeless Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses: Global and Indian Scenario -- A Beautiful Mind Revisited! -- Homelessness and Serious Mental Illnesses within the Global and Indian Context -- What Is Home? -- Defining Homelessness: The International Perspective -- The Indian Perspective of Homelessness -- Factors Contributing to Homelessness in India -- Homelessness and SMI - The Vicious Loop -- Statistics of HMI Persons - How Severe is the Pan India Epidemic? -- Mental Health and Illness-Related Studies of HMI Persons in India -- HMI Persons' Life within the Hierarchies: Identifying the Gaps of Interest and Beyond -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Exploring Voices of Suffering, Recovery, and Empowerment: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches -- Understanding Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process for HMI Persons within the Framework of Recovery and Empowerment -- The Relevance of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process in HMI Persons -- Recovery and Empowerment: The Pillars of Psychiatric Rehabilitation -- Challenges to Recovery and Empowerment in HMI Persons -- The Methodological Lens of Exploring Voices of Suffering, Recovery, and Empowerment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Suffering of the Forgotten Voices -- Ruhi -- Aspects of Social Suffering Associated with the Process of "Becoming" HMI Person Shaped by Familial and Socio-political Context -- Challenges to the Process of Recovery and Empowerment -- Kavita -- Aspects of Social Suffering Associated with the Process of "Becoming" HMI Person Shaped by Familial and Socio-political Context -- Challenges to the Process of Recovery and Empowerment -- Lavanya.

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around the world which led millions of people and families to flee from wars, terror, poverty and exploitation. Minors have been denied human rights such as access to education, food and health services. They have been kidnapped, sold, manipulated, mutilated, killed, and injured. This has been and continues to be the case in both developed and developing countries, and it does not look as if the situation will improve in the near future. Rather, current geopolitical developments, political and economic uncertainties and instabilities seem to be increasing the vulnerability of minors, especially in the wars and armed conflicts currently being waged not only in Europe, but on almost every continent. How can risks children and youth are exposed to in times of transition be reduced? Which role do state agencies, non-governmental organisations, as well as children's coping strategies play in mitigating the vulnerabilities of minors?This volume addresses risks to which children and young people are exposed, especially in times of transition. The focus is on different groups of children in the European wartime and post-war societies of the Second World War, 'occupation children' in Germany, teenage National Socialist collaborators in Norway, and more recent cases such as child soldiers, refugee children, and children of European "Islamic State" fighters. The contributions come from international scholars and different academic disciplines (educational and social sciences, humanities, law, and international peace and conflict studies) and are based on historical, quantitative, and/or qualitative analyses

Untangling the tentacles of colonialism is not an easy task, theoretically or in practice. Presenting a holistic view of Decoloniality, its genetic makeup, and its complexities, this book examines how colonialism has become embedded in power, language, culture, institutions, and social structures across the globe, as well as what it might take to relinquish postcolonial thinking in search of a decolonized future. Incorporating perspectives from both the Global North and the Global South, this book dismantles colonial ways of thinking, clearing the way for indigenous and marginalized groups to share their knowledge and expertise in fighting global issues such as climate change. Encouraging intersectional frameworks to open up to to new possibilities for inclusion, author Hamid H. Kazeroony also explores colonization as a gendered process tied to global capitalism and what this might mean for feminist activism and scholarship. To achieve a decolonized future, we must first understand our colonial past, keeping those lessons close as we seek to reconsider and restructure the ontology of epistemic inquiries.

This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential pathways towards happiness and well-being globally, and answers calls - voiced in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - for more socially and environmentally sustainable models. Leading global organizations including the OECD, UNICEF, and UNESCO are now proposing human happiness and well-being as a more sustainable alternative to a myopic focus on GDP growth. Yet, the definition of well-being offered by these organizations derives largely from the philosophies, social sciences, and institutional patterns of Europe and the United States. Across seven chapters this book carefully probes the inadequacy of these approaches to well-being globally and reveals the distorting effect this has on how we imagine our world, organize institutions, and plan our collective future(s). It shares a wealth of evidence and examples from across East Asia - a region where interdependence remains foregrounded - and concludes by provocatively arguing that interdependence may provide a more sustainable approach to happiness and well-being in the 21st century. A timely and accessible book, it offers fresh insights for scholars and policymakers working in the areas of psychology, health, sociology, education, international development, public policy, and philosophy. This is an open access book

"The central mission of Black Liberation through Action and Resistance: MOVE is to provide additional context to an ongoing discussion regarding Black liberation and proper allyship. This book will use the term co-conspirator as a preferred descriptor for Black/non-Black liberation-collaboration and provide a more direct ask of journeying anti-racist white Americans"--

Technocracy and deliberative democracy -- E-government and e-governance -- Technological determinism: A technocratic rationale and American democracy -- Permissionless innovation and the precautionary principle -- The concept of money -- Cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and the concept of money -- Government regulatory efforts of the cryptocurrency industry in U.S. federal system.

This book argues that the nature of counterproliferation strengthens the effect of cultural factors in policy choices, and illustrates this by focusing on US and Israeli policy toward the Iranian nuclear program. The United States and Israel have been the two states most active in opposing Iran's nuclear ambitions; however, the respective strategies of each of these states have changed repeatedly. This book explores how competing cultural schools of thought on grand strategy within each state inform and shape the key policy decisions in their attempts to prevent a nuclear Iran. Drawing on numerous interviews conducted with former high-level officials in each country as well as published memoirs, this book first describes in detail the belief systems of the competing schools and then analyses the internal debates and key decisions on policy toward the Iranian Nuclear Program, while critically assessing the extent to which these beliefs influenced policy in the face of material-structural pressures. This in-depth analysis of the internal debates and dilemmas within the national leadership of the two states most prominent in the effort to prevent a nuclear Iran constitutes an indispensable guide for scholars and policymakers who will inevitably face similar dilemmas in dealing with this ongoing challenge and additional cases of nuclear proliferation around the world.

The unconventional path -- Evolutionary negotiation -- Promoting advocacy for good governance -- Fighting corruption in fragile societies -- Citizen inclusion at the governance and negotiation tables -- Detecting corruption risks -- The corruption-negotiation connection -- Marshaling the psychology, creativity, and values of negotiation processes.

Part I: Diplomacy and COVID- -- Transformation of the international system and security conundrum during the COVID-19 pandemic / Ferhat Pirinççi and Tunç Demirtaş -- Far-right movements in the COVID-19 era / Dolapo Fakuade -- Virtual diplomacy as a new frontier of international dialogue / Alessia Chiriatti -- Diplomacy 3.0 in the pandemic: digital diplomacy and beyond / Erman Akıllı and Gülnihan Cihanoğlu Gülen -- Science diplomacy and COVID-19 politics / Ebru Canan-Sokullu and Atakan Yılmaz -- Part II: national and regional responses to COVID-19 -- Global health diplomacy and Türkiye / İdris Demir -- Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: comparative health policies in the US and Canada / Çağrı Erhan and Efe Sıvış -- China's global health diplomacy in the post-pandemic era: implications for Southeast Asian countries / Cemre Pekcan -- COVID-19 and South Korea: focusing on cultural public diplomacy with Hallyu / Yunhee Kim and Erman Akıllı -- ASEAN's COVID-19 pandemic response: regional and global reflections / Hatice Çelik -- Beyond central Asia's chessboard: human movement, policies, and COVID-19 / Olga R. Gulina -- The COVID-19 pandemic and the middle east: changing policies and the mindset of regional states / Muhittin Ataman and Mehmet Rakipoğlu -- The UK's new migration policy: post-Brexit and Post-COVID implications / Ayşe Gülce Uygun -- Post-pandemic world order and Russia / Fırat Purtaş -- South Caucasus and COVID-19: vulnerabilities, setbacks, responses / F. Didem Ekinci -- Part III: global responses to COVID-19 -- Human impact on the environment and the increased likelihood of pandemics / Ana-Belén Soage -- The world health organization and the COVID-19 pandemic / Haydar Karaman and Burak Güneş -- The COVID-19 pandemic as a security issue and its implications for NATO / Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu -- Post-pandemic effects on the realisation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for OECD countries / R. Arzu Kalemci and Mehmet Güray Ünsal -- The African Union and COVID-19: regional coordination and solidarity / Bilge Sahin -- Europe in the post-pandemic world order: a human rights perspective / Ebru Demir -- Globalisation in the era of power transition: lessons post-COVID-19 for China and the US / Matti Izora İbrahim, Büşra Yilmaz and Murat Çemrek -- Conclusion: per aspera ad astra / Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş and Ahmet Gökbel.