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"This book explores times, spaces, and imaginings relating to international law through the lens of queer theory. For some time now, queer theorists and legal scholars who think with queer theory have asked, what happens when queer theory moves out of its home base of gender and sexuality? The chapters in this book begin to answer this question by applying insights from queer theory to a diverse array of international law topics, from travaux préparatoires and international judging to the environment, oceans and outer space. While some contributions maintain a focus on gender and sexual diversity, all are characterised by a shift away from questions about LGBTIQA+ people towards wider discussions about power, normality, difference and liberation in international law. Through these engagements, the book demonstrates how queer theory can provide insights into a range of international law issues by allowing us to 'make strange' the taken-for-granted and contributing to a broader practice of reading for difference rather than dominance. The book engages with contemporary challenges in international law, from the climate crisis to new military technologies, such as automated naval vessels. It also showcases the diversity of approaches to queering international law that are emerging, with some authors drawing attention to the violence of (neo-)colonial international law and others engaging in more utopian and reparative thinking. This collection of queer theoretical engagements with international law will be invaluable to scholars of international law and international relations with an interest in critical approaches to these areas; as well as to researchers, activists and practitioners working in cultural, gender, queer, and/or postcolonial studies"--

"Reflecting upon the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research. Social media has completely redefined how children and young people relate to each other, express themselves and present their identities and sexualities. Yet researching social media can be a difficult and daunting task given the ephemerality of the content, its contextual hyperspecificity, the complex power relationships between users, celebrity culture, digital capitalism, and the ethical issues that arise from the reimagining of the public/private space. Using digital ethnography and creative digital storytelling workshops with children and young people aged 13-15 and 13-18 on TikTok, Instagram and Twitch, this book studies their interactions, language, codes, the risks they take and the victimizations they suffer. Researching Social Media with Children will be of use to social scientists conducting online research, and to students and scholars of media studies, digital criminology, psychology and sociology"--

Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era's ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional stories infused with various mating moralities that compel people to pair-bond and reproduce. After taking readers on a 6-million-year journey through hominin mating regimes—with various extents of promiscuity, polygyny, and monogamy—Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder investigates the past millennium's radical evolution of Western mating beliefs. Nordic literary works illuminate the pivotal transitions between the West's First, Second, and Third Sexual Revolutions, which occurred around the years 1200, 1750, and 1968. The conclusion chapter points to the Fourth Sexual Revolution, symbolically placed in 2029. Artificial intelligence and other technologies seem likely to transform our mating practices more radically than any of the previous revolutions.

"As space continues to attract substantial public and private investment and has become ever more active, the third edition of this successful book has been fully updated to cover recent developments. This includes the legal bases of UN Resolution 76/3 The "Space3030" Agenda which envisages 'space as a driver of sustainable development' and sets out an extensive programme for the future. The work also takes account of adaptations and augmentations to basic space treaties. It examines the increasing commercialisation of space in areas such as space tourism and space mining for which four states have already adopted relevant legislation. The impact of new technologies such as the deployment of satellite constellations and micro-satellites are also scrutinised. At a time when space tourism is available to those who can afford it and when the Moon will shortly be revisited with a prospect of permanent bases, this third edition provides a firm base for the next generation of space lawyers. As with previous editions, the work draws from governmental, international organisational and other authoritative sources as well as the relevant literature in the field. The book will be an essential and comprehensive resource for students, academics and researchers as well as space agencies, governments and space-active companies. It will also be of value to technical operatives and managers who need to know the legal context within which they work"--

"Marc Holzer and Richard W. Schwester have written a fresh and highly engaging textbook for the introductory course in Public Administration. Their coverage is both comprehensive and cutting-edge, including not only all of the essential topics (organizational theory, human resource management, leadership, program evaluation and policy analysis, budgeting, and the politics of public administration), but also reflecting new realities in public administration: the importance of new technology, changes in intergovernmental relations, especially the emphasis on inter-local and shared regional resources, and public performance and accountability initiatives. New to this edition is a dedicated chapter on big data and analytics to support decision-making and problem solving, as well as updates throughout taking stock of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of public administration, including politics, decision-making, inter-governmental relations, and the interpretation of data presented to the public. An important new feature of this fourth edition is a fully updated and full-featured companion website, written by the authors, containing instructor and student support materials including PowerPoint slides, cases, simulations and links to videos, designed to engage and encourage students to immerse themselves in virtual problem-solving experiences. Public Administration, 4th Edition has been crafted with student appeal in mind. Each of the book's chapters is generously illustrated with cartoons, quotes, and artwork-all reinforcing the book's theme that the field of public administration is rooted in the cultural and political world. Each chapter is also supported with a listing of key terms, exercises, and additional resources. This comprehensive, contemporary textbook is an ideal introduction to the subject for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students enrolled in courses in public administration and public management"

"This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinoza's basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of how finite things, especially human minds, are in God. Moreover, because for Spinoza God is identical with the universe, the question becomes how finite things are in the universe. The book shows that for Spinoza finite things are closer to God than what is thought in most contemporary Spinoza studies. It claims that the essences of finite things are degrees or, in a very specific sense of the term "part," parts of the infinite essence of God. The book also shows how Spinoza's basic metaphysics attempts to give us the possibility to unite with God so that we can share some of God's perspective with [TO?] the world. This new knowledge, Spinoza claims, provides the mind with eternity and a kind of individual salvation that is deeply meaningful. The book is not only a study of Spinoza's basic concepts, but it also takes seriously what kind of epistemic attitude is required for experiencing the world truly. It is difficult to see and experience oneself in Spinoza's monistic system where God is the only existing substance. This book offers a novel and engaging interpretation of the Ethics that takes seriously the ontological experience of Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation is an essential resource for scholars and graduate students working on Spinoza, early modern philosophy, and metaphysics"--

Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Introductory reflections on new educational theory through ethnography / Jürgen Budde -- Educational ethnography in an age of technoculture: Exploring noise and glitch instead of fetishizing the new / Felicitas Macilchrist -- Using netnography for educational research in an age of technoculture: Rich, intimate and immersive / Rosetta Gambetti, Rob Kozinets -- Old and new varieties of materialism in ethnographic research: Ethnography matters / Tobias Röhl -- Multispecies ethnography in educational research: Changing perspective in animal-assisted education / Katharina Ameli -- Overcoming "intellectual aristocracy" through Bildung: A new look at the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt by bringing together the history of education and the history of ethnography / Ruprecht Mattig -- Improvisational action, creativity and art in times of crisis (or crisis of time): Is necessity the mother of invention? / Margit Schild -- Part II: Methodological perspectives -- Introductory reflections on new challenges for ethnographical research in educational practices / Georg Rissler -- Outline of a new practice-theoretical conception for ethnographic research of larger nexuses: Constellations ethnography / Jürgen Budde, Georg Rissler, Johanna Gessner -- Addressing the unseen, challenging visual difference: New perspectives in ethnographic research / Anke Wischmann, Valerie Riepe -- Elaborating new insights in transnational ethnographic collaborations: Opportunities and challenges / Magnus Frank, Anja Sieber Egger, Gisela Unterweger, Florian Weitkämper, Clemens Wieser, Susan Wright -- On the vulnerability of epistemological processes: How does 'the new' enter ethnography? / Juliane Engel, Anke Wischmann, Serafina Morrin, Mirja Silkenbeumer, Saskia Terstegen -- Process ontologies and the many potential ethnographies: New materialism's and shifting boundaries between humans, animals and things / Grit Höppner, Cornelia Schadler, Anna Wanka -- Part III: Empirical perspectives -- Introductory reflections on the new in empirical analyses / Anke Wischmann -- Autoethnographic explorations of (post-) Socialist childhood memories through storytelling: Migrating as and with children / Irena Kašparová, Susanne Ress -- Children, belonging and the new: Methodological perspectives on the relationship between construction and reconstruction / Anja Tervooren, Nicolle Pfaff.

"This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study and analyse age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and in what ways violations against children can be analysed through the intersections of racist, sexist and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy and praxis on 'child-friendly' and 'child-centred' initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work"--

"The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping's strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a 'new era'. This book joins the current debates about Xi Jinping's 'new era', reflecting upon the continuity and change in the CCP's domestic and foreign policies under Xi's leadership and Xi's capacity to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The international team of contributors evaluate such pressing issues as: Xi's re-centralization of power and securitization of domestic politics, the Chinese economic model, the social credit system, state-civil society relations, Xi's gender policy and return to the traditional family values, Beijing's responses to unrest in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Xi's evolving unification strategies towards Taiwan, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the deterioration of US-China relations. Providing readers with rich empirical assessment of Xi's responses to the political, economic, social and international challenges facing contemporary China, the third edition of Critical Issues will be an essential resource for students of Chinese politics, economy, society and foreign relations"--

"The first edition of this book was published 25 years ago, but the work on it began several years before that. Much has happened in the world and in our understanding of human behavior since then. As we did the research for this seventh edition, we were struck by the momentous changes in the multidisciplinary research on human behavior that have occurred since the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the international transmission of the video of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police in 2020. Other increasingly important themes in human behavior theory and research include the continuing effects of colonialism on both colonized and colonizing people, intersecting systems of identity and oppression, and the important role that non-human elements play in human behavior. Most chapters of the book have been substantially revised since the sixth edition as we tried to integrate and synthesize these evolving themes. Whatever roles we play or settings in which we work, human behavior is the focus of the practice of social work. Sometimes we concentrate on individual behavior; other times the attention is on behavior in families, groups, communities, organizations, social institutions, societies, or some other configuration of relationships. We wrote this book because we think all social work practice should be grounded in the best scientific understanding of human behavior. The more we learn about human behavior, the more complex it appears and the more we recognize it as dynamic, not static, and influenced by many factors. Scientific knowledge about human behavior will always be partial, never complete or final. In addition, published research always lags behind human experience. Even as this book goes to press, new evidence will appear to contradict or expand upon what is reported here. You are a part of the evolving story of human behavior. We hope this book will inspire you to continue to learn about this story. Social work practice involves ongoing learning, unlearning, and relearning"--

"What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts, such as property and beauty, which are usually considered separately. It contributes to the discussion by interpreting and explaining the nature of emergent urban phenomena and suggesting more appropriate design and planning measures. The book explores and untangles these crucial topics in a compact and accessible way by offering fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on the themes of action and interaction, self-organisation, property, neighbourhood adaptability, urban beauty, and suitable public planning and design interventions. It provides novel and crucial insights for students, researchers, and academics in Urban Studies, Planning Theory, Planning Ethics, Planning Law, Legal, Political and Human Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Urban Sociology, and Urban Design. It is essential for anyone interested in exploring the emergent dynamics of complex urban contexts, as well as for those involved in developing various projects and measures who aim to consider the spontaneous nature of cities seriously"--

"Applying a gender and race lens to immigration detention, Immigration Detention and Social Harm argues that calls for detention reform must be replaced by bolder demands for detention abolition - positing that harm is so embedded in immigration detention systems that reform is no longer possible"--

"This volume aims to rethink the intersections of gender and religion, as well as the secular and religious, in implementing and challenging gender equality at individual, institutional and societal levels in the regions around the Baltic Sea. Acknowledging the diversity of societies and the significance of socio-historical contexts, the empirical data discussed in the book draw attention to the under-researched region of post-socialist Baltic states. The analyses presented in the chapters are based on fieldwork carried out in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Norway. The volume includes sociological, anthropological, historical, political science, and theological perspectives and covers five broad research areas: a shifting concept of gender equality and its developments in Baltic and Nordic countries; a diversity of developments within religious groups related to issues of gender equality and the negotiation of competing gender ideologies; inter-religious developments and gender equality; the role of religions in the construction of public discourse on gender equality; and religious socialization, focusing on the promotion of religious gender models through socialization and public education"--