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EPDF and EPUB are available open access under CC BY NC ND licence. This publication was supported by University of Essex's open access fund. Peter Appleton builds on research interviews with care-experienced young adults, and on cross-disciplinary theories of planning and of emotions, to develop a model of planning for young people leaving care.

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three "development decades.".

The book explores the psychological-cultural dimension of the United States-Canada relationship by analyzing how each country has viewed the other. Drawing on a wide range of data the books explores how Americans and Canadians have viewed one another from the moment they were launched on separate trajectories.

This book brings an innovative study of marriage migration in Australia, offering new insights into issues of intimacy and authenticity online. In doing so, it delivers on five main objectives: exploring emotional attachment and personal life in global spaces; interrogating stereotypes and their pervasive influence on personal relations; analysing attitudes and social practice within the institution of marriage; investigating immigration policy, marriage, and citizens' rights; theorizing gender and class relations in the current global order. The analysis moves between 'online' and 'offline' social relations and processes, with comparative data enabling a critical framing of the data on marriage relationships developed online. This important contribution places contemporary forms of transcultural marriage and marriage brokering in a historical context of 'marriage' in the 'Anglosphere' tradition, and in particular historical forms of marriage migration in settler colonial and now multicultural Australia-including histories of colonial era 'bride ships' and post WW2 'proxy brides' from southern Europe

"This introduction sets the stage for an exploration into how populist and traditionalist sentiments have influenced American politics and, by extension, global dynamics. The ensuing narrative is not merely concerned with academic examination; it encapsulates a living history unfolding in real-time, charting the trajectory of a political movement marked by its evocation of a romanticized past and its opposition to the perceived elite establishment"--

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction -- Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi -- Section I: Creative practices -- Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices -- Karina Horsti -- 1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism: A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography -- Nadica Denić -- 2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies -- Irene Gutiérrez Torres -- 3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective: A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake -- Rosa Wevers with Ahnjili Zhuparris -- Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking -- Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking -- Mihaela Nedelcu -- 4. Friendship, Connection and Loss: Everyday Digital Kinning and Digital Homing among Chinese Transnational Grandparents in Perth, Australia -- Catriona Stevens, Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding -- 5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism -- Fungai Machirori -- 6. YouTube Became the Place Where "I Could Breathe" and Start "to Sell my Mouth": Congolese Refugee YouTubers in Nairobi, Kenya -- Marie Godin and Bahati Ghislain -- Section III: Affect and Belonging -- Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging -- Athina Karatzogianni -- 7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Elisabetta Costa -- 8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation: The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies -- Nishant Shah -- 9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies -- Yener Bayramoğlu -- Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media -- Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media -- Giorgia Aiello -- 10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I. ASCoR's History -- 1. How International, National, and Local Research Strategies Shaped ASCoR's History in Its First 25 Years -- Peter Neijens, Sandra Zwier, Claes H. de Vreese, Jochen Peter, Rens Vliegenthart, and Theo Araujo -- 2. How Technological and Societal Developments Shaped the Agenda of ASCoR -- Peter Neijens and Patti M. Valkenburg -- Part II. Empirical Findings and Theoretical Insights -- 3. Communicating Delegitimisation: Political Information and Challenges to Democracy -- Michael Hameleers, Emily Gravesteijn, Linda Bos, and Alessandro Nai -- 4. Disenchantment with Political Information: Attitudes, Processes, and Effects -- Alessandro Nai, Susan Vermeer, Linda Bos, and Michael Hameleers -- 5. Youth and the Digital Society -- Jessica Taylor Piotrowski -- 6. The Media Entertainment Success Cycle -- Jeroen S. Lemmens -- 7. Organisations, Media, and Society -- Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Christian Burgers, Sandra H. J. Jacobs, Pytrik Schafraad, and Mark Boukes -- 8. Contested Issues and Organisations: Media Debates about Sustainability and Diversity -- Anke Wonneberger, Anne Kroon, Linda van den Heijkant, Christel van Eck, and Jeroen Jonkman -- 9. Tailored Health Communication in a Digital World -- Eline S. Smit, Annemiek J. Linn, Minh Hao Nguyen, Adriana Solovei, Melanie de Looper, and Julia C. M. van Weert -- 10. The Importance of Consumer Empowerment in Dealing with Digital Persuasion -- Edith G. Smit and Eva A. van Reijmersdal -- 11. Persuasion in an Algorithmic Context -- Guda van Noort, Hilde Voorveld, and Joanna Strycharz -- 12. Human-Machine Communication -- Jochen Peter, Theo Araujo, Carolin Ischen, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Margot J. van der Goot, and Caroline L. van Straten -- 13. How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing ASCoR's Research -- Claes H. de Vreese.

Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894).

Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism traces the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and applies anthropological and psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of religions, particularly their fanatical and fundamentalist expressions