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"This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of deliberative constitution making are today. It seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically and empirically grounded. Distinctively, the book studies not only established democracies and well-known cases of deliberative constitution-making but also such practices in authoritarian and less consolidated democratic settings and departs from a traditional institutional perspective to have a special focus on actors, and in particular underrepresented groups. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of deliberative democracy, constitutional politics, democratization and autocratization studies, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, social policy and law"--

"Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places. This completely revised 5th edition organizes community resources into 8 interrelated forms of capital, creating an innovative framework for maximizing social, economic, and environmental benefits."--

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction presents a comprehensive view on the destruction of cultural heritage and offers insights into this multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon; the methods scholars have used to study it; and the results these various methods have produced.

"This book examines two patterns of democracy - collegial and personal - through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracy. Central institutions in democracy are classified according to their levels of personalism and collegialism, including political parties, candidate selection methods and electoral systems, legislature, and cabinets and governments. The book presents preliminary findings concerning the causes for this variance between the two democratic regime types. The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties, democratic institutions, personalism and personalization, and, more broadly, democracy"--

"Although thinkers of the past might have started from presumptions of fundamental difference and inequality between (say) the genders, or people of different races, this is no longer the case. At least in mainstream political philosophy, we are all now presumed to be, in some fundamental sense, basic equals. Of course, what follows from this putative fact of basic equality remains enormously controversial: liberals, libertarians, conservatives, Marxists, republicans, and so on, continue to disagree vigorously with each other, despite all presupposing some kind of basic equality. They may argue about who gets what, how much, and why, but the starting point - that all people are in some sense deserving of prima facie equal consideration - has become an axiom of our moral and political thinking. But why? Why are we basic equals? The trouble is that as soon as one asks for an explanation of this foundational premise, it begins to look shaky. After all, on any conceivable metric human beings are notably unequal, and often to striking degrees. Philosophers in this area tend to talk of equal worth, but often without trying to specify what exactly that means. Philosophically, basic equality is neither acceptable nor rejectable. It is not rejectable because we appear to be, as a matter of fact, profoundly committed to the truth of the claim that we are all one another's basic equals. But to the extent that there appear to be no philosophical arguments for believing in the truth of basic equality, it is not acceptable either. The aim of this book is to try and show why basic equality is acceptable. To do so, however, it will also contend that we need to approach the question rather differently to how it has mostly been handled so far. What's required is an exercise in what Bernard Williams called 'impure philosophy': it must include insights from other areas of human intellectual endeavour, whether psychology and history or even what we learn from how we go about practicing basic equality in our collective lives"--

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model's systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape

"Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the Corpocene: a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"--a raw material for brands to use--with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life"--

"One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "Anglosphere" to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers. This is the first study to explore how Jews in these countries organized themselves, brought their oppressors to court, while seeking to convince their governments that an attack on Jews was a threat to the social order. The book analyzes the networks of knowledge and the personal relationships between and among key actors and institutions of the "Antisemitic International." Nazi "nationalists" always participated in networks that transcended borders. Case studies from Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, illustrate the ways in which different mechanisms of Jewish resistance were deployed throughout the mid-to-late 1930s. They embody significant concerns about the "turn to law" and the importance of litigation and legislation. Grounded in original archival research on three continents, the book examines the ways in which professional legal discourse about public order and democratic citizenship proffered by Jewish communities and individual Jews was countered by their Nazi opponents with legal and political arguments about "truth," "persecution," and Jewish perfidy. The book will be of interest to students, academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History, History, Jewish Studies, the study of Antisemitism, and the History of the far right, fascism and Nazism"--

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword | Dr. Timothy Longman -- Introduction | Sankar Raman with Nancy E. Dollahite, The Immigrant Story -- One. So Much to Tell the World -- Two. The Holocaust in Hungary | Les and Eva Aigner (Hungary) -- Three. Pol Pot and His Deadly Utopia | Sivheng Ung (Cambodia) -- Four. Myanmar and the Plight of the Rohingya People | Mohammed Husson Ali (Myanmar) -- Five. Broken Bodies, Damaged Psyches, and an Elusive Search for Justice in Rwanda | Emmanuel Turaturanye (Rwanda) -- Six. With a Backdrop of Faith | Abdulah and Hatidza Polovina (Bosnia) -- Seven. A Country in Near-Constant Conflict | Rudwan Dawod (South Sudan) -- Eight. Music to Soothe a City's Soul | Dijana Ihas (Bosnia) -- Nine. An Ancient History, a Rocky Present, an Uncertain Future | Baher Butti (Iraq) -- Ten. A Vibrant Jewish Presence Is Snuffed Out | Evelyn Banko (Austria) -- Eleven. War in the Time of Childhood | Saron Khut (Cambodia) -- Twelve. A Crisis That Shocks the Conscience | Rama Yousef (Syria) -- Thirteen. A Long History of Occupation and Oppression | Nour Al Ghussein(Gaza) -- Fourteen. The War That Changed the World-and One Man's Life | Tim Tran (Vietnam) -- Afterword -- A Brief Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography and Suggested Reading.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Knowing in Algorithmic Regimes: An Introduction -- Juliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, and Hendrik Heuer -- I. METHODS -- 2. Revisiting Transparency Efforts in Algorithmic Regimes -- Motahhare Eslami and Hendrik Heuer -- 3. Understanding and Analysing Science's Algorithmic Regimes: A Primer in Computational Science Code Studies -- Gabriele Gramelsberger, Daniel Wenz, and Dawid Kasprowicz -- 4. Sensitizing for Algorithms: Foregrounding Experience in the Interpretive Study of Algorithmic Regimes -- Elias Storms and Oscar Alvarado -- 5. Reassembling the Black Box of Machine Learning: Of Monsters and the Reversibility of Foldings -- Juliane Jarke and Hendrik Heuer -- 6. Commentary: Methods in Algorithmic Regimes -- Adrian Mackenzie -- II. INTERACTIONS -- 7. Buildings in the Algorithmic Regime: Infrastructuring Processes in Computational Design -- Yana Boeva and Cordula Kropp -- 8. The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages -- Stefanie Büchner, Henrik Dosdall, and Ioanna Constantiou -- 9. Algorithm-Driven Reconfigurations of Trust Regimes: An Analysis of the Potentiality of Fake News -- Jörn Wiengarn and Maike Arnold -- 10. Recommender Systems beyond the Filter Bubble: Algorithmic Media and the Fabrication of Publics -- Nikolaus Poechhacker, Marcus Burkhardt, and Jan-Hendrik Passoth -- 11. Commentary: Taking to Machines: Knowledge Production and Social Relations in the Age of Governance by Data Infrastructure -- Stefania Milan -- III. POLITICS -- 12. The Politics of Data Science: Institutionalizing Algorithmic Regimes of Knowledge Production -- Bianca Prietl and Stefanie Raible -- 13. Algorithmic Futures: Governmentality and Prediction Regimes -- Simon Egbert -- 14. Power and Resistance in the Twitter Bias Discourse -- Paola Lopez.