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Politics and science make strange bedfellows. In politics, perceptions are reality and facts are negotiable. The competing interests, conflicting objectives, and trade-offs of political negotiations often lend themselves to bending the truth and selectively interpreting facts to shape outcomes. In science, facts are reality. This collection examines the conflicts that arise when politics and science converge. In Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking, eleven leading scientists describe the politicization through misapplication or overemphasis of results that favor a political decision or through outright manipulation of scientific findings and deliberations to advance policy agendas.

Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari -- A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish -- Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka -- The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is worthy of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp -- Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy -- Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman -- Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson -- How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma -- The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates -- Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.

Although sexual minorities in Africa continue to face harsh penalties for same-sex relationships, strong anti-homophobic resistance exists across the continent. This book systematically charts the emergence and effects of politicized homophobia in Malawi and shows how it has been used as a strategy by political elites to consolidate their moral and political authority, through punishing LGBT people and dividing social movements. Here, Ashley Currier pays particular attention to the impact of politicized homophobia on different social movements, specifically HIV/AIDS, human rights, LGBT rights, and women's rights movements. Her timely account intervenes in Afro-pessimist portrayals of the African continent as a hotbed of homophobia and unravels the tensions and contradictions underlying Western perceptions of Malawi. It shows that, in reality, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people happily call Malawi home, in spite of heightened antigay vitriol that has generated unwanted visibility for them

In this book leading scientists share their experiences and observations of developing and testing hypotheses, offering insights on the dangers of manipulating science for political gain. It describes how politicization--whether by misapplication, overextension, or outright manipulation of the scientific record to advance particular policy agendas--imposes expenditures of money, missed opportunities, and burdens on the economy.

The paper focuses on the concept of technical rules (according to an Aristotelian interpretation, that is to say as propositions that express a necessity: if you want x, you must do y). The thesis argued is that this concept is helpful in coping with some of the problems of both teleological and deontological planning theories. In particular the concept is useful in emphasizing the role of technical knowledge in planning and in 'solving the relationship' between planning and politics in a way consistent with the characteristics of liberal and pluralist democracies.