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"What happens behind the scenes at a Canadian human rights tribunal? And why aren't human rights tribunal processes working for Indigenous people? Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals opens the doors to the tribunal, revealing the interactions of lawyers, tribunal members, expert witnesses, and Indigenous litigants. Bruce Miller provides an in-depth look at the role of anthropological expertise in the courts, and draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of tribunal decisions to show how specific cases are fought and how expert testimony about racialization and discrimination is disregarded. His candid analysis reveals the double-edged nature of the tribunal itself, which re-engages with the trauma and violence of discrimination that suffuses social and legal systems while it attempts to protect human rights. Grounded in expert experience, this important book asks hard questions. Should human rights tribunals be replaced, or paired with an Indigenous-centred system? How can anthropologists support an understanding of the pervasive discrimination that Indigenous people face? It definitively concludes that any reform must consider the problem of symbolic trauma before Indigenous claimants can receive appropriate justice."--

"In this 15th edition of Political Behavior of the American Electorate, noted authors Elizabeth Theiss-Morse and Michael Wagner again continue the tradition of Flanigan and Zingale, using American National Election Study data to provide a thorough analysis of the 2020 elections and of American political behavior more generally. The authors explore get-out-the-vote efforts and the reasons people voted the way they did, as well as the nature and impact of partisanship, issues, and news media coverage in 2020-all with an eye toward understanding the trends that led up to the historic results"--

Despite his significant influence across the humanities, Cavell's work has attracted little attention from political theorists. This book addresses that gap by explicating the political dimensions of his thought and placing it in conversation with contemporary debates within the discipline, focusing on the challenge of post-truth politics.

"Author of The Divine Right of Capital exposes the myths of capitalism today and calls for an end to wealth supremacy and capital bias. Wealth Supremacy makes a case that no one else is making: instead of pointing to billionaires as the sole problem or being another analysis of wealth inequality, it clearly articulates the pervasive, unnamed bias toward wealth that invisibly pervades the system. We know the system is rigged-what isn't commonly understood is how. Marjorie Kelly skillfully reveals how bias toward capital works, breaking down the pretenses that legitimize and obscure the deep operating system that drives large corporations and extractive investing."

PART I Historical and theoretical bases of post-war labour market reconstruction in the SADC region -- On post-war labour market reconstructions in Southern Africa -- Historical background to the reconstruction of post-war labour markets in Southern Africa -- Conceptual and theoretical issues in the making, unmaking and remaking of labour markets in the SADC region -- PART II Labour markets and post-war labour market reconstruction in the SADC region: Insights from the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Dynamics in the making of labour markets -- Post-war labour market reconstruction and public labour market institutions -- Post-war labour market reconstruction, private labour market institutions and non-market actors -- Post-war labour market reconstruction and challenges in the construction, retail and telecommunications sectors -- PART III Empirical and theoretical contributions to the study of labour markets and post-war labour market reconstruction -- The burden of getting a job in reconstructed post-war labour markets: Some concluding remarks.

This book focuses on feminist activist campaigns in the Australian context over the last decade, contending that the increased velocity of feminist discourse and engagement in the Australian mediascape represents a critical nexus for potential larger scale, feminist-led mass awareness campaigns.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Prologue -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Lippmann's "Phantom Public" -- 1.3 Dewey's Criticism of Lippmann: The Methodological Component -- 1.4 Dewey's Criticism of Lippmann -- 2 How Does Science Work? -- 2.1 Methodological Premises: Descriptive and Normative Aspects of Science and Democracy -- 2.2 Scientific Inferences and the Controllability of their Conclusions -- 2.3 The Fallible Character of Science and its Social Consequences -- 2.4 The Controllability of Scientific Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon -- 2.5 The Diachronic Aspect of the Control of Hypotheses and the Evolution of Social Norms -- 2.6 The Role of Criticism in the Decisional Processes of a Democracy -- 3 How Does Democracy Work? -- 3.1 Democracy and the Equality Principle as Founded in the Free Access to Scientific Knowledge -- 3.2 Democracy as the Government of the People: A Comparison with the Majority Principle in Science -- 3.3 Democracy as Separation of Powers and the Cross-control of Scientific Hypotheses -- 4 Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy, and Scientific Specialization -- 4.1 Two Kinds of Democracies -- 4.2 Populism, Direct Democracy, and its Problems -- 4.3 The Risk of Technocracy: Three Objections tothe Compatibility of Autonomous Decisions and Delegations to Experts -- 4.4 The Confutation of the Three Objections and the Social Character of Knowledge -- 4.5 The Disagreement Among Experts -- 5 Scientific Disinformation and the Distrust in Experts -- 5.1 Three Reasons Why we Intuitively Trust Science -- 5.2 Swindlers and the Origin of Disagreement Among Experts -- 5.3 Swindlers -- 5.4 Doubts and Trust -- 5.5 Scientific Fraud and Inductive Risk: Two Additional Sources of Disagreement.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Existential Gratitude: A Social-structural Account -- 2 Gratitude and Resentment: A Tale of Two Weddings -- 3 Gratitude and the Human Vocation -- 4 Generous Existence? Gift, Giving, and Gratitude in Contemporary Phenomenology -- 5 Gratitude for Life-force in African Philosophy -- 6 On the Contingent Necessity of the World -- 7 Existential Gratitude in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing -- 8 Lessons from Anti-natalism on God and Gratitude for Our Existence -- 9 Thank You: William Desmond's Metaphysics of Gift and Ethic of Gratitude -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Copyright.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Authority, tribal tradition and identity in the UAE -- 2 The Islah movement -- 3 State-led reform in the UAE -- 4 Foreign policy in an uncertain era -- 5 The UAE's post-Arab uprisings security approach -- 6 Conclusion: A new framework for understanding regime legitimacy in the UAE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The global food system is neither healthy, nor sustainable. Food production is a major driver of climate change and environmental resource use, whilst consuming unhealthy diets is a leading risk factor for chronic diseases and mortality. It has been estimated that without changes towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns, there is little chance of avoiding dangerous levels of climate change and staying within the environmental limits of the food system with regards to land, water, and fertilizer use. Although there is a broad consensus on the long-term need for global dietary changes, much less information is available or accessible at the national level. This report fills this gap by distilling estimates of the environmental and cost impacts of dietary changes for Germany from a series of global modelling studies with regional detail, and by discussing their policy implications.