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In this innovative study, Lea David critically investigates the relationship between human rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative fashion, human rights should be treated as an ideology. Conceptualizing human rights as an ideology gives us useful theoretical and methodological tools to recognize the real impact human rights has on the ground. David traces the rise of the global phenomenon that is the human rights memorialization agenda, termed 'Moral Remembrance', and explores what happens once this agenda becomes implemented. Based on evidence from the Western Balkans and Israel/Palestine, she argues that the human rights memorialization agenda does not lead to a better appreciation of human rights but, contrary to what would be expected, it merely serves to strengthen national sentiments, divisions and animosities along ethnic lines, and leads to the new forms of societal inequalities that are closely connected to different forms of corruptions.

Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

"Among other factors, rapid global population growth, our development model and patterns of production and consumption have increased waste generation worldwide to unsustainable rates. This rise has led to crises in many countries where waste management practices are no longer sound. Global Waste Management outlines the emerging global waste crisis considering the perspectives of developed and developing countries around the world and the international relationships between them. This book provides an ecological viewpoint as well as studying these problems from a legal and justice standpoint. Global Waste Management contextualises the problems faced when dealing with waste including the causes and origins. Focus is given to cross border waste transfer, as an ongoing and controversial practice, making waste management a global matter. This book scrutinizes existing international, European and Brazilian regulation on waste to highlight the complexity of the subject and the weaknesses of the law. Using a critical and socio-ecological approach, the book proposes an original model of governance to support a new system of global waste management that takes into account ecological sustainability and social justice to overcome the waste crisis. To create these models, a theoretical framework on socio-ecological justice is developed and combined with different discourses and theories described throughout the book. This is the essential guide to understanding the global waste crisis and the future of waste management"--

Foreword : archipelagic poetics / Craig Santos Perez -- Introduction : isolated above, but connected below : toward new, global, archipelagic linkages / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens -- The fifth map / Craig Santos Perez -- Disciplinary formations, creative tensions, and certain logics in archipelagic studies / Elaine Stratford -- The affirmational turn to ontology in the anthropocene : a critique / Jonathan Pugh -- What is an archipelago? : on Bandung praxis, lingua franca, and archipelagic interlapping / Brian Russell Roberts -- The chronotopes of archipelagic thinking : Glissant and the narrative of philosophy / Lanny Thompson -- Storm tracking, 2016 / Craig Santos Perez -- Chanting the waters / Craig Santos Perez -- The Anglo-Saxon sea of islands / Jeremy DeAngelo -- Archipelago of the Maghreb : mapping Mediterranean movement from transnational migration to transregional mobility / Sarah De Mott -- Archipelagic deformations and decontinental disability studies / Mary Eyring -- Digital currents, oceanic drift, and the evolving ecology of the temporary autonomous zone / Lisa Swanstrom -- Praise song for Oceania / Craig Santos Perez -- Care / Craig Santos Perez -- Literary archipelagraphies : readings from the British-Irish archipelago / Pippa Marland -- Conservation archipelago : protecting long-distance migratory shorebirds along the Atlantic flyway / Jenny R. Isaacs -- The debris of Caribbean history : literature, art and archipelagic plastic / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Family trees / Craig Santos Perez -- Archipelagoes as the fractal fringe of coloniality : de-militarizing Caribbean and Pacific islands / Mimi Sheller -- Sardinia "lost between Europe and Africa" : archaeology and archipelagic theory / Thomas P. Leppard, Elizabeth A. Murphy, and Andrea Roppa -- Sovereignty between empire and nation-state : the archipelago as postcolonial format / Christopher J. Lee -- Archipelagic feeling : counter-mapping indigeneity and diaspora in the trans-Pacific / Haruki Eda -- Off-island Chamorros / Craig Santos Perez -- "Together, but not together, together" : the politics of identity in island archipelagoes / Godfrey Baldacchino -- Small islands, large radio : archipelagic listening in the Caribbean / Jessica Swanston Baker -- The insular and the transnational archipelagoes : the Indo-Caribbean in Samuel Selvon and Harold Sonny Ladoo / Anjali Nerlekar -- On archipelagic beings / Gitanjali Pyndiah -- Thanksgiving in the anthropocene, 2015 / Craig Santos Perez -- Planetary constellations : an afterword / Susan Stanford FriedmanInde.

"Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women's Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards takes a hard look at the multibillion-dollar beauty industry, which promotes unrealistic beauty standards, perpetuates gender stereotypes, and uses sexual objectification to sell products. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 explores the global beauty industry, traces the cultural history of cosmetics, examines the regulatory climate of the cosmetics industry, and profiles the beauty consumer. Part 2 investigates the pervasiveness and persistence of the feminine beauty ideal, explores the globalization of Western standards of beauty, analyzes the myth-making power of beauty advertising, and decodes archetypal and stereotypical portrayals of women in beauty ads. Part 3 investigates the decorative and sexual depictions of women in beauty advertising and analyzes the power of celebrity beauty endorsements. Part 4 looks at the interplay between images of physical perfection in advertising messages and the surge in body modification and enhancement"--

"Why do powerful intervening militaries have such difficulty managing seemingly weak local partners in counterinsurgency wars? Set within the context of costly, large-scale military interventions such as the U.S. war in Afghanistan, this book explains under what conditions local allies, such as the U.S.-allied regime in Kabul, comply with (or defy) the policy demands of larger security partners. Analyzing nine large-scale post-colonial counterinsurgency interventions, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Lebanon, Cambodia, and Angola, the book utilizes thousands of primary source documents to examine over 450 policy requests proposed by intervening forces to local allies in order to dissect the problematic partnerships at the heart of these military interventions. Why did local allies comply with certain policy requests from larger partners, but remained defiant regarding other reforms? While work on counterinsurgency invariably acknowledges the critical importance of politics, the fundamental political dynamics behind managing crucial local partners is only now being examined. Tackling what has been termed the "big influence of small allies," Why Allies Rebel is noteworthy in an emerging field on proxy wars and complex asymmetric partnerships, offering insights regarding how local partners create both opportunities and obstacles in costly interventions."--

"Although the adoption of a democratic system of government based on universal adult franchise has been considered a gamble on the part of the fathers of the Indian constitution, it has undoubtedly paid rich dividends in terms of establishing India as one of the most vibrant democracies in the world. Reconceptualizing Indian Democracy adopts a new prism in analysing the institutional vibrancy and functional dynamism of democratic experiences in India. It suggests that elections are not only mechanisms that change the political guard, but also devices for reconceptualizing the politico-constitutional fabric on which the Indian polity rests. Among the different factors that have made democracy a way of life for Indian people, elections, particularly the Lok Sabha elections, stand out prominently. In the first four general elections, the electorate appeared duty bound to vote for the Congress, but the 5th Lok Sabha elections saw a real churning in the political psyche of the common people. The book, thus, begins with an exploration of the 5th Lok Sabha elections and comprehensively studies each of the general elections from the 5th (1971) to the 17th (2019). By directing attention to the processes changing the texture of Indian democracy, the book highlights the inputs that democratic experiences in India offer to both the literature on democracy and to democratic experiences across the world"--

"Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy brings together the most eminent scholarship in South Asia on India's defence policy and contemporary military history. It maps India's political and military profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, and analyses its emergence as a global player. This edition of the handbook: Canvasses over 60 years of Indian defence policy, it's relation to India's rising global economic profile, as well as foreign policy shifts; Discusses several key debates that have shaped defence strategies through the years; military doctrine and policy; internal and external security challenges; terrorism and insurgencies; Explores the origins of the modern armed forces in India; evolution of the army, navy and air forces; investments in professional military education, intelligence and Net-centric Warfare; reforms in paramilitary forces and the Indian police; Comments on India's contemporary strategic interests, focusing on the rise of China, nuclearisation of India and Pakistan's security establishments, and developments in space security and missile defence. Taking stock of India's defence planning architecture over the past decade, this accessibly written handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and researchers of security and defence studies, international relations and political science, as well as for government think tanks and policymakers"--

"Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 offers a comparative history of sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of the Second World War. Perceived as a failing power, post-war France seized the initiative in European construction, gaining ascendancy in Western Europe; Britain became the sick man. How and why did the French outsmart their arch-rivals? Drawing on American, British and French official records, together with private papers and interviews, Anthony Adamthwaite explores the reasons for French success. As well as reassessing Britain's membership bids for the European Community, the analysis evaluates key influences: the mental maps of decision makers; leadership styles; the post-1945 international system; policy making machinery; the 'democratic deficit' in British and French politics; public opinion. Britain's altercation with the Community's French doorkeeper, argues the author, ignored the elephant in the room - the need for a revived entente in the Cold War era. An Anglo-French couple powering European unity could have repositioned Western Europe as partner, not client of the United States. This enlightening study highlights the importance of contingency and individual actors, and will be of great interest to scholars of modern European history."--

This book scrutinizes the presentations of Christians and Christianity in Israeli state education system. It reveals that despite the changes in Jewish-Christian relations in the last century and the power relations between Jews and Christians in Israel, Christianity has a crucial role in the construction of modern Jewish identity in Israel.