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While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad but inevitable traumas to become notorious public events: de facto ";public"; tragedies. In these crises, suffering is made publicly visible and lamentable. Such tragedies are defined by public accusations, social blame, outpourings of grief and anger, spontaneous memorialization, and collective action. These, in turn, generate a comparable set of political reactions, including denial, denunciation, counterclaims, blame avoidance, and a competition to control memories of the event. Disasters and crises are no more or less common today than in the past, but public tragedies now seem ubiquitous. After Tragedy Strikes argues that they are now epochal—public tragedies have become the day's definitive social and political events. Thomas D. Beamish deftly explores this phenomenon by developing the historical context within which these events occur and the role that political elites, the media, and an emergent ideology of victimhood have played in cultivating their ascendence

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Sugarcane and Brazil's Agricultural Modernization -- 1. Indigent Pariahs No More: Agriculture in Brazilian Development, 1918-1960 -- 2. Alternative Revolutions: Imposing a Developmental Model, 1960-1975 -- 3. Ordering Proálcool: The Arc of the National Alcohol Program, 1975-1990 -- Part II: Proálcool's Consequences -- 4. How Brazil's National Alcohol Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers -- 5. The Unnecessary Destruction of Our Rivers: Water Pollution and the Environmental Politics of Ethanol Production -- 6. Food and Fuel: Agriculture's Hunger -- Epilogue: Agriculture's Renewed Energy? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program -- created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime -- aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil's capacity grew and as international oil shocks continued, the regime's planners doubled down on Proálcool. Drawing financing from international lenders and curiosity from other oil-dependent countries, for a time it was the world's largest oil-substitution and renewable-energy program"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Conceptual Footings of Risk and Governance -- Chapter 2. Risk Communication, Local Civics, and Discourse -- Chapter 3. Davis, California -- Chapter 4. Roxbury, Massachusetts -- Chapter 5. Galveston, Texas -- Conclusion. The Civic Politics of Risk -- Appendix. Research Strategy -- Notes -- Index

Our technologies are progressively developing into algorithmic devices that seamlessly interface with digital personhood. This text discusses the ways in which technology is increasingly becoming a part of personhood and the resulting ethical issues. It extends upon the framework for a brain-based cyberpsychology outlined by the author's earlier book Cyberpsychology and the Brain: The Interaction of Neuroscience and Affective Computing (Cambridge, 2017). Using this framework, Thomas D. Parsons investigates the ethical issues involved in cyberpsychology research and praxes, which emerge in algorithmically coupled people and technologies. The ethical implications of these ideas are important as we consider the cognitive enhancements that can be afforded by our technologies. If people are intimately linked to their technologies, then removing or damaging the technology could be tantamount to a personal attack. On the other hand, algorithmic devices may threaten autonomy and privacy. This book reviews these and other issues.

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called 'frozen conflicts' and 'hybrid warfare, ' the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected to nuclear nonproliferation. Continuing from the first volume, which contains Parts One and Two on Chechnya and the Baltic States, this book is comprised of Part Three--Ukraine and other Successor States: Territorial Integrity and its Challengers in the Post-Soviet Space; Part Four--Intervention and International Law; Part Five--Legal Proceedings and Unlawful Claims; and Part Six--Non-Proliferation after Budapest.

"For new and entry level safety professionals who don't have a clue regarding the legalities involved in the safety and health profession. This book is designed for those in the profession with limited knowledge of legal aspects impacting the function of their jobs.The book starts off with a review of the current federal and state law systems and courts. It focuses on OSHA and the OSHRC, workers compensation, ADA and employment related laws."--Provided by publisher.

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How does globalization differ in different places, and how can different instances of globalization be compared? Who is affected by globalization, how are they affected, and how do these effects vary, if at all, over time and space? As world-systems analysis and studies of globalization require interdisciplinary expertise, the contributing authors draw on many fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, philosophy, political science, sociology, and world history. The book's overall goal is to facilitate the dialogue between approaches that, at times, seem to "talk at cross-purposes," and to extend an invitation to scholars from many different areas to explore globalization.

Now we have just cause to destroy them by all means possible -- No army can subsist in this country without rangers -- An unfair way of carrying on a war -- Tarleton's quarter -- The Kentucky reinforcement, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled -- Swamp Fox rangers -- I ain't killed but thirty-two men since this war commenced -- We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux -- All I want to hear are booms from the Burma jungle -- Bamboo telegraph -- To kill them, you'll have to kill me first -- Conclusion