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"Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. Building on key insights in the environmental and energy humanities, Diamanti introduces the concept of the 'terminal landscape' as a site of storage, transformation and transition, essential to critical ecology in the 21st century. Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum presents these scenes of transformation as sites through which post-industrial capitalism distributes fossil fuels into the world. Diamanti uses this concept to redefine the post-industrial landscape by revealing the global flows of exchange and storage that precede the distribution of fossil fuels into the world as social form. Advancing a new media theory of energy, fossil fuels and other finite resources become new types of distributable media. Through this line of thinking, the book makes solid connections between media technologies and energy cultures that help to shape a radical critique of the current energy infrastructure that characterises global capitalism. Arguing that this infrastructure rests on millennia of compact matter, centuries of colonial violence, and decades of technological development, Diamanti's analysis deepens our understanding of the environment as a 'terminal landscape' through case studies of oil companies, countries, artworks, and historical events. Using his under-examined typology of global energy further theorises and politicises the climate crisis for scholars and activists alike."

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Consumer Culture and Its Futures: Dreams and Consequences -- Introduction -- Dreams of Consumption -- Cockaigne and Peasant Dreams of Abundance -- Court Society Dreams of Splendour and Luxury -- The Birth of a Consumer Culture -- The American Dream -- Consumer Rhythms and the Timing of Consumption -- Consume Productively 24/7 -- Profiling, Tracking, and Data Harvesting -- Immaterial and Informational Lifestyle Construction -- Consumption Experiences, Prosumption, and Curating Lifestyles -- The Consequences of Consumption -- Consumer Culture Futures -- References -- "You Are a Socialist Child Like Me": Goods and Identity in Bulgaria -- Introduction -- Socialist Consumption: Coping with Shortages -- Overvaluation of Goods in Socialism: "Be Mine Forever" -- Postsocialism: The Unusual Consumers -- Conclusion -- References -- Consumer Culture from Socialist Yugoslavia to Post-socialist Serbia: Movements and Moments -- From Scratch: Affirming Consumption in Socialist Yugoslavia -- "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards": Continuities and Discontinuities -- Changing Society -- Changing Attitudes Toward Materiality, Materialism, and Money -- Changes in the Imaginary Community of Consumers -- Conclusion -- References -- Overview of Consumer Culture in Bulgaria: From Perestroika to Facebook -- Before 1989 -- Bulgaria's Transition to Consumer Society -- The V-Like Structure of the Consumer Revolution from 1989 to 2008 -- The Bulgarian New Deal (1999-2008) -- New Forms of Consumption After the Rise of Social Media -- The Rise of Brands -- Practices and Rituals -- E-Consumption on Facebook -- Names -- Profile Pictures -- Family and Relationships -- Cover Photo -- Timeline/Status -- Likes -- Albums -- Conclusions -- References.

In the following article you will rescue the importance and the concept of inclusion, relating it to the project entitled training Centre for Vulnerable People Focused on Demobilized (CVPFD), identifying the social responsibility of enterprises in all economic sectors against the social inclusion, in this case with relation to the different actors involved in the current process of peace signed by the Colombian government with the group insurgent of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (RAFC). Taking as a starting point, the processes of peace signed by other countries such as: Honduras, Salvador, Peru and Mexico; where is highlighted, that to meet the objective of the peace processes, should be so constant dialogues to negotiate and establish different aspects influencing the time of signing, emphasizing how has been the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the incorporation of demobilized combatants; being excluded and discriminated against because of its judicial background, in the same way it has presented a constant difficulty in its incorporation when integrating to a new work environment. Why you want to identify the opportunities, skills and strategies that have been implemented by different Governments after the signing of the processes of peace, participation of the productive and educational sector in the development of strategies to face the challenge of incorporating people in a condition of reinserted into life civil. ; En el siguiente artículo se rescatará la importancia y el concepto de inclusión, relacionándolo con el proyecto denominado Centro de Capacitación para Personas Vulnerables enfocado en Desmovilizados (CCPVD), identificando la responsabilidad social de las empresas de todos los sectores económicos frente a la inclusión social, en este caso con relación a los diferentes actores involucrados en el actual proceso de paz firmado por el gobierno colombiano con el grupo insurgente de las Farc. Tomando como punto de partida, los procesos de paz firmados por otros países como: Honduras, Salvador, Perú y México; donde se resalta, que para cumplir el objetivo, de proceso de paz, se deben mantener de manera constante, diálogos para pactar y establecer diferentes aspectos que influyan en el momento de la firma, haciendo énfasis en cómo se ha manifestado la responsabilidad social empresarial (RSE), en la incorporación de la población desmovilizada; siendo está excluida y discriminada por sus antecedentes judiciales, del mismo modo ha presentado de manera constante dificultades en su incorporación al momento de integrarse a un nuevo ambiente laborales. Por ello se quiere identificar las oportunidades, competencias y estrategias que han implementado diferentes gobiernos luego de la firma de procesos de paz, participación del sector productivo y educativo en el desarrollo de estrategias para afrontar el reto de incorporar a las personas en condición de reinsertadas a la vida civil.

Introduction : exploring spaces of security / Mark Maguire and Setha Low -- Security urbanism and the counterterror state in Kenya / Zolt n Glck -- Comparative surveillance regimes : a preliminary essay / Katherine Verdery -- Borderization and public security in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson and Br¡gida Renoldi -- From panopticon to pansonic : the architecture of fear in mega-events / Carmen Rial -- Securing security : recursive security assemblages in South Africa / Thomas G. Kirsch -- Domesticating security : gated communities and cooperative apartment buildings in New York City and Long Island, New York / Setha Low -- Domesticating spaces of security in Israel / Nurit Bird-David and Matan Shapiro -- The political economy and political aesthetics of military maps / Catherine Lutz -- Enigmatic presence : satellites and the vertical spatialities of security / Stephen Graham -- Re-spatializing social security in India / Ursula Rao

"This book is designed to explain these varied interpretive tools and perspectives and show them in operation. Our strategy is first to present the dominant modes of thinking about environment-society relations and then to apply them to a few familiar objects of the world around us. By environment, we mean the whole of the aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric non-human world, including specific objects in their varying forms, like trees, carbon dioxide, or water, as well as the organic and inorganic systems and processes that link and transform them, like photosynthesis, predator-prey relationships, or soil erosion. Society, conversely, includes the humans of the Earth and the larger systems of culture, politics, and economic exchange that govern their interrelationships. From the outset we must insist that these two categories are interlaced and impossible to separate. Humans are obviously environmental beings subject to organic processes. Equally problematically, environmental processes are also fundamentally social, in the sense that they link people and influence human relationships. Photosynthesis is the basis of agriculture, for example, and so is perhaps the most critical environmental process in the history of civilization. More complex: human transformation of carbon levels in the atmosphere may further alter global photosynthesis in a dramatic way, with implications for human food and social organization. Obviously, it is difficult to tell where the environment leaves off and society begins. On the other hand, there is not universal agreement on these relationships and linkages. The perspectives summarized in this text present very different views about which parts of society and environment are connected to which, under what conditions these change or can be altered, and what the best courses of action tend to be, with enormous implications for both thinking about our place in the ecosystem and solving very immediate problems like global warming, deforestation, or the decline in the world's fisheries"--

Socialist and Social Democratic parties leave few political observers and citizens indifferent. For several years, a certain number of actors on the political scene have presented it as a political family in crisis, lacking in imagination and dynamism, incapable of renewal and doomed to fade into insignificance. Others, on the contrary, describe it as a grouping with a promising, even brilliant future.This book does not set out to confirm either of those two visions. Its aim is to analyse in-depth the transformations which are affecting, at the current time, the different aspects of Social Democracy: new organisational models, changes in political and electoral performance, changing relations with the trade unions and civil society associations, reactions to the emergence of new political rivais and new values, new ideological trends and political programmes, etc. For the first time, the analysis does not concern exclusively Western Europe, but also deals with the Social Democratic parties of the consolidated democracies and the organisations that claim to be part of democratic socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and highlights the specific characteristics and points in common. At the dawn of the 21st century, it is therefore the challenges and the different responses to those challenges that are analysed by several of the leading European specialists in Social Democratic parties in Europe.

"How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about largescale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people's reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. We know little about why and how these habits are sometimes tempered to promote more successful coexistence. To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Justin Gest looks to the past. In Majority Minority, Gest wields historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors produce different social outcomes. Gest concludes that, rather than yield to people's prejudices, states hold great power to shape public responses and perceptions of demographic change through political institutions and the rhetoric of leaders. Through subsequent survey research, Gest also identifies novel ways that leaders can leverage nationalist sentiment to reduce the appeal of nativism--by framing immigration and demographic change in terms of the national interest. Grounded in rich narratives and surprising survey findings, Majority Minority reveals that this contentious milestone and its accompanying identity politics are ultimately subject to unifying or divisive governance."--Amazon.com

Three aspects of social validity were evaluated in a program using videotaped peer modeling to teach job-related social skills to adults with mental retardation. Social validity of training objectives was addressed through a literature search and interviews with local professionals, who identified the most relevant training objectives. Social validity of training procedures was evaluated by trainers, who rated the procedures for ease of use and appropriateness Social validity of training outcomes was addressed by three judges. Results indicated that most clients enjoyed the videotapes and participated in the discussions that followed. The judges rated the clients'posttraining performances in the job-related social skills as improved over pretraining. It is suggested that criteria for evaluating outcome studies in social work practice include measures of social validity.

Some contracts (academic employment, for instance) carry voting rights on some issues and other contracts do not (health club memberships). Voting is one way of resolving noncontractible uncertainty; dictatorship is another. Majority rule resolves noncontractible uncertainty efficiently for issues where all players' stakes are expected to be about the same; dictatorship is efficient when one player's stake is much higher than any other players'. In general, weighted voting schemes where weights depend positively on expected stake and negatively on expected benefits are efficient when player's benefits are independent; the quota required is larger the lower are expected social benefits. Correlation modifies these results; minorities, for instance, have votes that count more under some circumstances. I apply this method to representative government and municipal governance.

"Close analysis of individual titles--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs"--Provided by publisher

`A key text in the exploration of social, political and historical changes around child social care. It offers a broad overview of key themes in all areas and aspects of child care within the UK. It is an essential resource for students studying the degree in social work and will support and encourage their knowledge of fundamental issues' - Sarah Thomas, Programme Director BA (Hons) Social Work, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. This book offers an authoritative overview of child care policy and practice in the UK. It covers assessment and family support services, understanding child ma

Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements. By analyzing the intersection of disability and politics, Ambassadors of Social Progress enables a deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini significantly contributes to the little-studied history of disability in socialist Europe, and ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an import from the West in the post-1989 period, but rather had a long and meaningful tradition that was rooted in the socialist system of welfare and needed to be reinvented when this system fell apart