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'Screen Stories and Moral Understanding' considers the place of movies, streamed series, and television in the lives of viewers, paying particular attention to their role in leading to moral rumination and learning. The book considers how screen stories can transfer knowledge and cultivate sensibilities and responses. It shows how the affective responses of viewers and viewers' psychological relationships with fictional characters figure into the influence of narrative. It also describes the means by which institutions encourage and direct reflection on screen stories after the viewing has ended.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. More than half of the world's children grow up in Asia, a continent currently undergoing rapid economic and social change. Yet the voices of young people in Asian countries have received far too little attention. Providing a much-needed contribution to the field of childhood studies, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies sets a new agenda in a research landscape that has so far lacked an overarching conceptual framework for illuminating Asian childhoods. Adopting a systematic and comprehensive approach, this pioneering handbook profiles Asian childhoods and youth embedded within their distinctive families and societies as well as in more universal contexts. Locating young people in a variety of social structures, chapters highlight and interrogate strong intergenerational obligations across Asian cultures, even as Asian societies undergo rapid economic change, political transformation, and mass migration. Prioritising Asian youth's perspectives and contributions and revising established analytical frameworks of research, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global conditions and private and public actors in Asian countries.

"An account of the design of West Bank settlements from 1967, when housing settlements were still an abstract idea, to the present, when they have become hotly contested. It addresses the complicated relationship between politics and the built environment and questions assumptions about politics and the built environment. The author looks closely at five settlements-Hebron, Ofra, Nofim, Beitar Illit, and Pnei Kedem-to analyze the settlement movement, the country Israel has become since 1967, and, more broadly, "the production of space in sites of political conflict." For Shoked, the role of contingency is key: government policy shaped the design of settlements, but so too did other actors. As Shoked writes, "the analytic categories of expert and user, above and below, frequently dissolve in the unfolding process of design, construction, and inhabitation.""--

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: home and migration - setting the terms of belonging and place-making on the move -- Part I Backgrounds -- 2. Migrants of identity: cosmopolitan actors at home in the world -- 3. Home and forced migration -- 4. Housing studies, migration and home -- 5. The migrant house: the meaning of its architecture and materiality -- 6. Towards a social history of home and migration -- 7. Moving toward home away from home: a cultural psychology perspective on home and migration -- 8. Between longing and belonging: home, homemaking and diasporas -- 9. The paradox of home: an interview with Les Back -- Part II Questions -- 10. Senses of home in the modern world -- 11. Temporalities of migration and homemaking -- 12. Governing the state as a home: domopolitics and migration -- 13. Settler colonialism and home -- 14. Home and the politics of location and displacement -- 15. On the biopsychosocial impacts of extreme domicide -- 16. Home, nativism and migration -- 17. Moving from home to accommodation - a conceptual alternative for the historical manipulation of home for violent and exclusionary ends: an interview with Barak Kalir -- Part III Lived experience -- 18. Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives -- 19. Feeling at home: migrant homemaking through the senses -- 20. Making home through memories and ritualised social practices -- 21. Moving bricks: strategies for a genealogy of housing, migration, and social movements -- 22. Home and homemaking during refugee journeys -- 23. Migration, home, and homemaking in contemporary visual art -- 24. Fictions of home: contemporary Palestinian narratives of migration -- 25. Religion, immigration, and homemaking: an interview with Peter Kivisto -- Part IV Scales and materialities.

Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity. Paradoxically, however, many basic elements of Japanese culture are not originally Japanese. Since the beginning of its history, Japan has been one of the world s major importers of foreign cultures. Its culture was thoroughly "hybrid" long before that word became fashionable in contemporary global studies. But this does not mean that Japan s culture lacks originality. The Japanese have always made strikingly original contributions, even improvements, to whatever they imported. Even more significantly, the "hybridity" of their culture produced ongoing tensions that served as a kind of creative dynamo for Japanese writers, artists, and intellectuals. This book explores the fundamental creative tension between the native and the foreign in many areas of Japanese culture, from politics and religion to art and literature - a tension also often interpreted as between tradition and modernity

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to Colonial Heritage in West African Cities -- General Outline of the Subject -- Spatial and Temporal Scope of the Analysis -- Objectives, Hypotheses and Research Questions -- Research Methods Applied -- Colonialism - an Outline of Literature On the Subject -- Heritage Studies - an Overview of Basic Concepts -- Material Vs. Non-Material Heritage in Urban Space -- African Colonialisms -- Africa's Decolonisation Process - the Geographical Perspective -- Notes -- References -- 2 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Praia -- Historical Overview -- The Location and Layout -- Buildings in Platô and Its Surroundings -- Portuguese Nomenclature in Praia -- Colonial and New Monuments -- The Cemetery, City Squares and the Marketplace -- The Cemetery -- City Squares and the Marketplace -- Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Praia - a Summary -- Notes -- References -- 3 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Dakar -- Historical Overview and Location of the City -- Three Phases of French Colonial Urban Planning -- Disappearing Colonial Buildings -- Evolution of the French Dictionary of Urbanonyms and Its Decolonisation -- Modern-day Street Nomenclature in the Dakar-Plateau District -- Street Nomenclature in Dakar in the Colonial Era -- Changes in Street Nomenclature in the Dakar-Plateau District During the Colonial Period -- Changes in Dakar Street Nomenclature After 1960 -- Other Elements of Colonial Heritage -- Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Dakar - a Summary -- Notes -- References -- 4 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Banjul -- Historical Overview -- Times of the British Empire -- Independent Gambia -- Buildings and Architecture - British and African Elements.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Feminist Travelling Theories and Imaginary Geographies -- 1.1 Travelling Theory and Women's Rights Demands -- 1.2 Imagination of Europe in the Ottoman Women's Rights Demands -- 1.3 Overview of this Book -- 2 Gender History, Feminist Genealogy and the Archival Turn -- 2.1 Feminist Genealogy: Untangling the past in Following Travelling of Women's Movements -- 2.2 Gender History: The Relationality between 'Herstory' and 'Poststructuralist Feminist' Approaches -- 2.2.1 Herstory and Poststructuralist Feminist Approaches to History -- 2.2.2 Approaching Herstory Research about Turkey -- 2.3 The 'Archival Turn' and Feminist Research: Turns, Terms and Archival Fetishes -- 2.4 Finding Ottoman Women, Returning to KD: Entanglements of the Archive -- 2.4.1 Key Issues about the KD Magazine -- 2.4.2 My Relationship with the Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women and Europe -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 'The Sick Man of Europe': The Contexts Women's Movements Travel -- 3.1 'Waves' and 'Feminism' in 'Non-Western' Contexts -- 3.2 Political Atmosphere During Modernisation and Nationalism -- 3.2.1 Modernisation and Nationalism in 'Non-Western' Problematisations -- 3.2.2 Modernisation in Law and Parliament: The Young Turks and the 'Woman Question' -- 3.2.3 Intellectual Perspectives on Turkish and Muslim Womanhoods -- 3.2.4 Kemalism: A Form of Modernism -- 3.3 Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women's Movements and Magazines -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Negotiations in Discourses on 'Europe': The Production of Occidentalism -- 4.1 Occidentalism: Conceptualising Imagination of Europe -- 4.2 For Progress of Europe: Binaries, Demarcations and Lacks -- 4.2.1 New Directions for Truth and Knowledge: To Europe.

Indology and Sociology -- The Civilizational Approach: Contributions of Surajit Sinha -- A.K. Saran on Modernity, Indian Tradition and Sociology in India -- Sociology and Public Life: Professor Yogendra Singh and his Contribution to Liberal Democracy -- Re-visiting Islamization as a Contribution to Indian Sociology -- Exploring B. R. Ambedkar's Sociology: A Biographical Approach.

How and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold WarAnalysis of the process of military transformation in Italy, Germany and JapanAddresses the impact of historical legacies on the pacing and direction of transformationLooks at the transformation of military doctrine and force structure over three decadesAssesses the impact of different external and internal factors in military transformationWhile armed forces in several countries underwent deep transformations after the end of the Cold War, few if any, however, experiences more radical changes than Germany and Italy, and Japan.The book explores how the three countries modified posture and structure of their militaries over the past three decades. While the three countries all had to overcome a pacifist constitution, a widespread view - in both elites and public opinion - that that war was a taboo, and armed forces designed to defend and deter against large-scale threats, they all became more active security providers over the last decades. Each country followed a distinct path, though. The book reconstructs these paths, trying to show how a mix of external and domestic factors affected the pace and the extent of transformations. The book also identifies critical junctures in such process: any push to change - it is argued - is mediated by the need to come to terms with the cumbersone weight of the past

This concise but comprehensive book engagingly summarizes both the broad themes and specific tenets of First Amendment law, and the strongest arguments for and against protecting controversial speech such as hate speech and disinformation. It explains the many speech-protective legal rules that emerged during the Civil Rights era, demonstrating how essential free speech is for other human rights.

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability in our modern industrial world. This inquiry has raised a host of crucial questions. Just how safe is humanity in a world of toxic chemicals and industrial installations that have destructive potential? Is it feasible to prevent large-scale catastrophes like the ones in Bhopal, Chernobyl, and Fukushima and smaller-scale disasters such as oil spills and gas leaks? How do environmental hazards affect social and political orders? S. Ravi Rajan expertly synthesizes decades of public policy and academic discourse on how societies measure and ultimately come to terms with risk, danger, and vulnerability and offers a fresh, humanistic perspective for grappling with the new global scale and interconnectedness of these threats