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Explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration and its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll it takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society, the contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the US

This book examines millennials and Generation Z in the context of media and visual culture, considering three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies in different contexts; what they do with media; and the relationship between media and the two generations that make up their target audience

"Diversity and anti-racism work is too often reduced to training, therapy, education, and policy, or what the author calls "Feel-Good" approaches that focus on emotions and morality and prevent us from taking collective action for racial justice, decolonization, and equity in our organizations and communities"--

"In this memoir, pioneering journalist William Gee Wong chronicles a two-generation father-son story beginning from his father's experiences as an immigrant during the Chinese Exclusion Era through Wong's own journey from his beginnings in Oakland's Chinatown to acclaim on the national print stage"--

Um das Ziel der Treibhausgasneutralität bis 2045 gemäß des Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetzes (KSG) in Deutschland erreichen zu können, müssen anthropogen verursachte Emissionen drastisch reduziert werden. Nicht zu vermeidende Emissionen, z.B. aus der Landwirtschaft, müssen folglich durch natürliche Kohlenstoffsenken aufgenommen werden. Hierzu beauftragte das Umweltbundesamt das Vorhaben "Transformation zu einem vollständig treibhausgasneutralen Deutschland", kurz "CARE". Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse zu einem Arbeitspaket abschließend zusammen. Konkret bietet er einen Überblick zu den möglichen Beiträgen der natürlichen Kohlenstoffsenken in Deutschland, um die Klimaschutzziele bis 2045 zu erreichen. Es werden die notwendigen Maßnahmen und entsprechenden Wirkungszeiträume wichtiger Senken- und Emissionsminderungspotenziale dargestellt. Außerdem werden die Sensitivitäten dieser Potenziale aufgezeigt, wenn z.B. zukünftig mit vermehrten Störungen, wie Dürreperioden zu rechnen ist. Maßnahmen, die im Einklang mit natürlichem Klimaschutz stehen, haben Synergien mit dem Erhalt und Schutz von Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen. Sie tragen zur Anpassung der Landnutzung an den Klimawandel bei, indem sie Wasserrückhalt, Kühlung in der Landschaft und die Bodenfruchtbarkeit verbessern. Die Extensivierung der Waldbewirtschaftung zugunsten von höheren Laubholzvorräten ist eine wesentliche Maßnahme, um CO2 aus der Atmosphäre in der Biomasse der Bäume zu binden. Gleichzeitig müssen Holzprodukte langfristig genutzt werden, um den darin enthaltenen Kohlenstoff zu speichern. Die Wiedervernässung von landwirtschaftlich genutzten organischen Böden, ist die effektivste Maßnahme, um Emissionen aus der Landnutzung zu reduzieren. Weitere wichtige Maßnahmen des natürlichen Klimaschutzes sind die Erhöhung des Bodenkohlenstoffs durch die Etablierung von Agroforstsystemen, der Anbau von Zwischenfrüchten und mehrjährigen Kulturen wie Kleegras. Die Pflanzung von weiteren Stadtbäumen ist ebenfalls eine Möglichkeit für zusätzliche CO2-Bindung im Siedlungsbereich.

"This book explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War"--

"This book employs the concept of curating-the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things-to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curating as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted experts leaking out from galleries to hashtags. Its logic encompasses diverse spheres ranging from high-brow art and the fashion world to low-brow experience economies and economies of authenticity, from confidence cultures and relationship gurus to algorithmic spectacles. More than an economy, "curate and be curated" is a diffused imperative amidst the disorienting spread of information that digital platforms enable: What to post, what to wear, what to eat, what friends to have, what music to hear, what films to watch, what places to visit, what socks to choose, and what opinion to have about serious issues like climate change, military coups, AI, genetics, space colonization, and cryonics, or everyday issues like football, fashion, and diet. Drawing on critical platform theory, material culture, and multi-sited ethnography, the book examines curated worlds of coolness, authenticity, and inspiration, including the luxury fashion brands Vetements and Balenciaga, Airbnb food experiences, and the figure of the life coach. The book argues that the curatorial imperative endorses an aspirational class imaginary and the idea that handling self-narratives is a strategic means of socialization that can assist upward mobilities as well as neoliberal narratives of well-being, promotion and success. This book will be of key interest to academics, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, curating, contemporary art theory, critical management studies, and art history, as well as to more general readers interested in new media, platforms, and digital culture"--

Alternative visions of our plural pasts are evacuated and erased, while strategies of labor import, discrimination, racialization, internal colonization, uncertain citizenship, border control, surveillance, ghettoization, the cordoning of land and resources for the few, morph and arc across the long twentieth century. The questions Gandhi asked about imperial nations and how free nations should be made remain unfinished questions at the core of casteist, racist, patriarchal and sectarian regimes.This book examines Gandhi's struggle with the burden of received colonial historiography, legal systems, scriptural texts, racialized and patriarchal vocabulary in the attempt to confront colonial oppression and social exclusion. The openings and impasses, thresholds and limits, successes and failures are equally instructive when read as a series of resolved and unresolved contradictions

A Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of leisure from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:Volume 1: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity (500BC-500AD)Volume 2: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Medieval Age (500-1450)Volume 3: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Renaissance (1450-1650)Volume 4: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)Volume 5: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)Volume 6: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age (1920-2000+)Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: the idea of leisure; the performing arts and their audiences; the cerebral arts and their publics; sports and games; holydays, holidays and tourism; the world of conviviality; the world of goods; the world of nature and representations of leisure, enabling readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.The complete 6-volume set comprises c.1,632 pages, 240 illustrations.Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Leisure is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see bloomsburyculturalhistory.com)

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included women and non-Jews. Yet all of its members embraced a secular Jewish machismo that became a defining characteristic of the contemporary experience. Write like a Man examines how the New York intellectuals shared a uniquely American conception of Jewish masculinity that prized verbal confrontation, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation.Ronnie Grinberg paints illuminating portraits of figures such as Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Mary McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, and Irving Howe. She describes how their construction of Jewish masculinity helped to propel the American Jew from outsider to insider even as they clashed over its meaning in a deeply anxious project of self-definition. Along the way, Grinberg sheds light on their fraught encounters with the most contentious issues and ideas of the day, from student radicalism and the civil rights movement to feminism, Freudianism, and neoconservatism.A spellbinding chronicle of mid-century America, Write like a Man shows how a combative and intellectually grounded vision of Jewish manhood contributed to the masculinization of intellectual life and shaped some of the most important political and cultural debates of the postwar era