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Herman Kahn said recently that Canada is a regional power without a region. Canada is something of a sport, a nuisance to those who like their political geography neat—rather like Australia or Albania. There are arguments for attaching us to various regions or groups of states. If there is one region, however, to which Canada does not naturally belong it is the so-called Western Hemisphere. Although the Rio Treaty somewhat presumptuously included Canada and Greenland in the area to the defence of which Argentina would rush, we are for purposes of election to the Security Council attached to Western Europe. The Western Hemisphere, as I understand it, begins in the east end of London, includes most of England, all of Ireland, and then goes westward into Siberia. The term has acquired a certain geopolitical significance because it has been a handy way to describe the unnatural but historical relationship between the United States and Latin America.

Nature and Value / Jonathan Schell -- The Human Shadow / Jonathan Schell / The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update / Jan Zalasiewicz / The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene / Jan Zalasiewicz / The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science / Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni -- Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority: Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni / Nikolas Kompridis -- Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals / Akeel Bilgrami -- Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary: Response to Akeel Bilgrami / Sanjay Reddy -- Experimenting with Other People / Joanna Picciotto -- The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization / Robert Pollin -- All-Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World / Jedediah Purdy -- Life Sustains Life 1. Value: Social and Ecological / James Tully -- Life Sustains Life 2. The Ways of Re-Engagement With the Living Earth / James Tully -- The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value / Anthony Simon Laden -- Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden / Carol Rovane -- Non-Human Agency and Human Normativity / Nikolas Kompridis -- Natural Piety and Human Responsibility / David Bromwich.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1: Preliminaries -- Part 1.1: Risk management - introduction -- 2 Part 1.1 - overview -- 3 Risk management - setting the scene -- 4 Key elements of risk management -- 5 Risk and opportunity assessment -- 6 Risk control -- 7 Safe systems of work -- 8 Monitoring and measuring losses -- 9 Identifying causes and patterns -- 10 Monitoring and measuring conformity and achievement -- 11 Other elements of occupational health and safety management systems -- 12 Communication and training -- Part 1.2: Human factors - introduction -- 13 Part 1.2 - common themes and overview -- 14 The individual - sensory and perceptual processes -- 15 The individual - psychology -- 16 The human factors environment -- Part 2.1: Risk management - advanced -- 17 Part 2.1 - overview -- 18 Management systems -- 19 Measuring performance -- 20 Advanced accident investigation and risk assessment -- 21 Advanced risk control techniques -- 22 Emergency planning -- 23 Advanced audit and review -- 24 Financial issues -- Part 2.2: Human factors - advanced -- 25 Part 2.2 - overview -- 26 Individual differences -- 27 Human error -- 28 Perception and decision making -- 29 External influences on human error -- 30 Improving human reliability -- Index

Professor Ali Mazrui embodied an optimistic universalism and the capacity to find common ground for global dialogue amidst conflicts. When receiving a lifetime achievement award – Mazrui, in his acceptance speech, pointed to two specific poems of Rumi and Wordsworth as a source of inspiration for awakening the 'love of beauty and the beauty of love.' In the context of the shared humanity of these experiences, one realizes the ability of such experiences to create a common language across barriers, a language of social justice and human rights. Using integrative interdisciplinary approaches from the fields of comparative religion and comparative literature, this essay explores the similarities and differences of the messages of Mazrui, Rumi, and Wordsworth to achieve an awakening. Such an awakening involves the individual's awareness of being a part of something greater, often achieved in nature, which may serve as a basis for the universal grammar of social justice and human rights. Hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches, including intersubjectivity, are employed in the exegesis of the poetic material and its context. Also explored are the historical similarities and differences, anthropological and psychobiographical factors in the life histories of Mazrui, Rumi and Wordsworth. Ultimately, the dialectic between the polarities of themes of the pain of separation and longing for union, often linked to losses and life changing experiences such as migration, can be understood as opportunities for personal growth – motivating individuals to reach toward connection, reparation and the ability to engage in cultural dialogue and move past difference toward social justice and human rights.

"By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education. The author complements current knowledge by applying theoretical resources of policy sociology, in particular the thinking of Pierre Bourdieu, into analysis of educational policymaking in the Chinese context. He takes a policy trajectory approach to trace the (unequal) power relations and structural inequalities invested and realised in the school enrolment policy. Rooted in rich qualitative data from five metropolises, he examines both external influences of politics, economy and public policy on educational policy agenda setting and discursive practices within the educational policy cycle, inherent in the post-2013 restrictive school enrolment policy. Structural constraints and agency in the local context are also explored, indicating that the intersectional effects of political, economic, and civic logic can result in differentiated modes of policy enactment. The study will be of interest to scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in helping address policymaking and social justice in education for migrants and other marginalised groups"--

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Tradition -- Common pasture -- Arable laid out in open fields -- Transformation -- Explaining continuities and transformations -- Continuities in common pasture and open-field systems under narrow CPRS -- Transformation into open-field systems under wide CPRS -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index --

AbstractThe study of inequalities undergirds much of criminology. At times, however, we may take the impact of inequalities for granted and miss opportunities to problematize the strong link between inequalities and crime. In this address, I maintain that it is important to step back and recognize that economic, race, ethnic, gender, and other inequalities are at the core of criminology. More explicit consensus about the centrality of the link between inequalities and crime will allow for our field to speak to the major social and political issues of our time and will strengthen the field. In this address, I highlight some fruitful avenues of research on inequalities and crime. I then argue that the concept of intersecting inequalities can provide additional connective tissue between research focused on economic, race, ethnic, and gender inequalities. By drawing on recent evaluations of the concept in other fields, I discuss key issues that must be addressed in employing an intersecting inequalities approach and then suggest solutions. I conclude that use of an intersecting inequalities approach has the potential to uncover important insights and span research areas, thereby pushing forward our understanding of the impact of economic, race, ethnic, gender, and other inequalities on crime and victimization.

This resource guide explores the meaning of values and ethics in the context of the Olympics and Paralympics. It considers the moral philosophical underpinnings of Olympism and examines their application and resultant issues. The annotated bibliography highlights texts which provide an introduction to Olympic Ethics, journal articles covering both broad and specific perspectives, and official Olympic and Paralympic resources relating to ethics and values.

Foundations are prime constructors of hegemony, by promoting consent and discouraging dissent against capitalist democracy. There is considerable collaboration among foundations and their networks of nonprofits; between philanthropic foundations and profitmaking corporations; and between the foundation world and government entities, local, state, national and international. We do not have to posit any secret conspiracies (although they may well exist). The proponents of "civil society" celebrate the erosion of boundaries, especially those between the public and private sectors, while "networks" consisting of funders and grassroots organizations enable the powerful to appear as just another participant. These developments, as Zbigniew Brzezinski has observed, "obscure asymmetries in power and influence." Democratic institutions are quietly being supplanted by a "new feudalism."

AbstractThis article argues that the Mongol empire's famous religious tolerance cannot be explained solely through its adoption of Inner Asian imperial political traditions of ruling over ethnically and religiously diverse subjects. Instead, this pluralism can be ascribed to a wider religious pattern of the Mongols. The first part argues that the analytical category of immanentist religions explains not only the inter-cultic transparency exhibited by the Mongol courts, but also the few explicit instances where the Chinggisid rulers reacted with 'religious' violence. The article further explores the strategies employed by the religious vectors, mainly Buddhists and Muslims, to address, accommodate, and subvert the Chinggisids' patterns of religiosity and primarily their pluralism, and the Mongols' deified mode of sacralizing kingship. Focusing on the Mongol-Ilkhanid court in Iran, the article examines how religious representatives used conceptual affinities and equivalences between the Mongol traditions and certain principles of their own religious frameworks to gain influence and favour, and persuade the khans to convert or retain their earlier commitment to the new religious affiliation. Employing this assimilative approach, they manoeuvred within the religious, immanentist paradigm of their nomadic patrons while moulding and manipulating it to their own religious, transcendentalist ends. The article further demonstrates how this 'translation' process of Chinggisid patterns became an arena of Buddhist–Muslim rivalry and competition, but also cross-cultural fertilization.

This article compares the discourses, practices and politics of film education in France and Germany, and outlines their historical development. The discourses on film education in the two countries are fundamentally different: whereas German film education is anchored in the global politics of media education and around notions of Medienkompetenz (media competence), cinema in France is a field of art education centred on the transmission du cinéma (film mediation) or l'éducation artistique (art mediation). While the first initiatives in film education in both countries date back to the beginning of the twentieth century, this article explores how they developed in significantly different ways. In France, the establishment of film education was promoted and influenced by the culture of cinephilia, which imposed the notion of film as an art form. In Germany, film education – after having been pushed by the Nazi regime – suffered for a long time from sceptical attitudes towards the media and their ideological impact, and was formed by the critical approach of the Frankfurt School. This article details how history and the 'state of the art' of film education are interlinked with the different discourses and cultures of cinema in both countries, as well as the extent to which present political and educational practices draw upon long-standing historical and cultural traditions. In doing so, this article contributes to reflections upon film education at a wider European or international level, where similar debates around film or media literacy are taking place.

Ten years ago justice and home affairs (JHA) did not yet even exist as a EC/EU policy-making area. Yet—after modest beginnings in the context of the Maastricht Treaty's "Third Pillar" in 1993—the development of EU policies in the JHA area was transformed into a fundamental treaty objective by the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam on 1 May 1999, Article 2 TEU providing for the maintenance and the development of the European Union as an "area of freedom, security and justice" (AFSJ). This new integration objective was strengthened by the introduction of a range of new policy objectives, the communitarisation of asylum, immigration and other issues of the former "Third Pillar", the incorporation of the Schengen acquis, new and more appropriate legal instruments and improved judicial control. This, and the results of the Tampere European Council of October 1999, led to a further expansion of the scope of policy-making in justice and home affairs, with dozens of new legislative acts being adopted, a considerable number of new legislative initiatives and even the establishment of new bodies—such as the prosecution agency Eurojust and the European Police College. There is no other example in the history of EC/EU integration process of an area of previously loose intergovernmental co-operation ever having made its way so quickly to the top of the Union's political and legislative agenda.

It's said that well-behaved women rarely make history, and that's certainly true in the case of Emma Goldman, famed activist, anarchist, and women's rights advocate. In this essay, Goldman takes on the misogyny and oppression that were the lot of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and offers a series of elegant critiques of romantic love and the institution of marriage

In this essential new book an international team of authors under the editorship of Specialist HIV Dietitian Vivian Pribram bring together the latest research to provide the practicing dietitian and nutritionist with a practical guide to the nutritional care of the HIV and AIDS patient. Students and other health care professionals working and studying this area will also find Nutrition and HIV an important and valuable resource