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"Homo Ecophagus brings population back to the fore in the analysis of how the human world has been brought to a point where human extinction is foreseeable. Identifying a "malignant ecopathological process," Warren Hern documents a wide array of human systems activities that are subject to break down if current trends continue"--

"Offering contributions and vignettes from teachers, school leaders, and scholars, this volume purposefully dismantles practitioner-academic divides to invite dialogue around diverse understandings of Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Recognising that the field of GCE is often explored and conceptualized by educators and academics in isolation, this book confronts this issue by focusing on how schools, educators, and researchers alike can support the enactment of GCE in international and national settings and, in doing so, overcome issues of westernization, inequality, access, and divergence between GCE policy and practical implementation. Offering real-life narratives and research-based practices through a novel dialogical format, the book promotes rarely heard perspectives and ideas on GCE. Ultimately, the volume offers important insights for those looking to make GCE a reality in schools the world over, and illustrates the value of dialogic exchange in this endeavour. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of international and comparative education, the sociology of education, and citizenship more broadly. Those involved with multicultural education policy and citizenship in the context of political sociology and social policy will also benefit from this volume. Sarah Lillo Kang is Assistant Professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Southeast Missouri State University, USA. Shona McIntosh is Lecturer in International Education at the University of Bath, UK"--

Introduction -- Who Is the Independent Voter? -- Independents in American History -- Independent Voter or Shadow Partisans? -- Independents and Their Uses of Power -- Can Independents be Key to Bridging the Political Divide? -- Free the Voters: The Legal Barriers and Biases Against Independents -- Independents Speak: "We're Not a Party. We're a Mindset" -- What Binds Independents Together -- Democracy's Dilemma -- Part One -- Democracy's Dilemma -- Part Two.

"Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and their concerns about Brexit. The book looks at Brexit through the eyes of Britain's European citizens ('Europe in Britain'), while also looking at European perceptions of Britain as a nation ('Britain in Europe'), via a geographical journey-from West to East-across Europe. The book assesses how these countries, their citizens, and their cultural productions engage with the questions and challenges posed by Brexit. It brings together an exciting line-up of European academics and scholars, both early-career and well-established, from a variety of subject disciplines. Some live and work within UK Higher Education Institutions and thus look at Britain from within, while others reside within their countries of origin and look at Britain from the outside. Their chapters assess Brexit via a plethora of cultural outputs - Brexit fiction from their individual countries, opinion pieces, press discussions, but also narratives of compatriots affected by the UK's decision to leave the European Union. The authors' individual focal points on fiction, journalism, blog posts, theatre performances, and other cultural productions offer an innovative and comprehensive picture about thoughts on Brexit from around Europe that will fill an important gap in the market. This book will appeal to the academic market at undergraduate, postgraduate, and academic researcher level in a wide variety of disciplines including Literature, Politics and International Relations, European Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Media Studies"--

"This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long twentieth century. Presenting a broad range of topics - from the changing sounds of the Kyoto kimono making industry to radio in late colonial India - the book explores how the study of Asian sound cultures offers greater insight into historical accounts of local and global transformation. Challenging us to rethink and reassemble important categories in sound studies, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of sound studies, Asian studies, history, postcolonial studies, and media studies"--

Trend anxiety and conflict intention : defensive aggression in the competition for regional dominance -- The "Philip trap" and the strategic overdraft of the rise of a sea-land composite power -- The "William's dilemma" and the strategic choice of the rise of a sea-land composite power -- Same color competition and different color complementarity : strategic counterattack caused by the thinking of "developing both sea and land" -- Reverse strategy : the check and balance of the weak navy -- How can a weighted country raise its own price? : A research on the "Corinth puzzle" in alliance politics under the bipolar pattern -- The analysis of the utility of geostrategic psychology in cracking the "sandwich" check-and balance structure of rising countries -- Edge trapping : an analysis of the effectiveness of anti-containment strategy under the bipolar system -- Role cognition and discourse construction : the political logic of selective intervention by hegemonic powers -- Unintentionally doing evil without punishment : the application of geostrategic psychology in avoiding hegemonic containment.

"Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seek to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a 'them' and 'us', where the person with profound disability becomes the problematic 'other'. Attempts to bridge the 'them' and 'us' risk reducing everyone to the same where disability is not taken seriously. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, philosophy and anthropology"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Abortion Is the Beginning -- 2. Abortion Is Mine -- Interlude: Abortion Is a Story (Some Notes on Language) -- 3. Abortion Is Yours -- 4. Abortion Is Sex -- 5. Abortion Is Justice -- 6. Abortion Is Indigenous -- 7. Abortion Is Nature -- 8. Abortion Is Care -- Interlude: Abortion Is All the Stuff in My Doula Bag -- 9. Abortion Is Survival -- 10. Abortion Is Pain -- 11. Abortion Is a Crime -- 12. Abortion Is Safety -- 13. Abortion Is Parenthood -- 14. Abortion Is Community -- 15. Abortion Is Power -- 16. Abortion Is Hope -- 17. Abortion Is Transformation -- 18. Abortion Is a Holy Blessing -- 19. Abortion Is Ceremony -- 20. Abortion Is Queer -- 21. Abortion Is for Every Body -- 22. Abortion Is Consent -- 23. Abortion Is Grief -- Interlude: Abortion Is a Gift (Some Things to Make and Buy and Share and Send) -- 24. Abortion Is Creation -- 25. Abortion Is Joy -- 26. Abortion Is Love -- 27. Abortion Is the Beginning -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Resources -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

"This book offers an introduction to public administration by a veteran practitioner, written for planners, as well as students seeking a public administration career and individuals simply wanting to learn more about responsible government. The narrative provides an overview of public administration theory and the importance of leadership in today's contentious political environment. The book contains five broad sections including an introduction, sections on management, the public sector, government programs, and some impressions on why this subject is so critically important in our society today. Typical administrative responsibilities are addressed as well as issues not typically covered in books on public administration, along with observations about sound public administration. Each section also contains practical exercises, discussion questions, and references to other texts and academic resources. Because public administration is fundamentally about relationships with people and communities, the book provides lessons that can be applied easily to one's personal life and experiences. It is a timely narrative on public administration today that will be valuable reading for planners and planning students looking to better understand public administration and policy"--

"This book is about older women's strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing. Older women represent the great majority of older people. The book describes instances of age and gender discrimination and examples of social inclusion and protagonism of older women in Europe. It solicits a change in perspective, focussing on the necessary societal changes to make space to older people and older women in particular. How is society going to address age and gender discrimination in social and institutional settings? How the work settings should change to effectively make space to older workers and in particular older women? How the pension system should change? How the public health systems could provide effective care to older people and be sustainable? This edited collection focuses on older women's rights rather than their needs adopting a Human Rights Based Approach. The preservation of older women's dignity, autonomy and security is its central topic, that is, ensuring that their rights are recognized. This collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of Human Rights activists, professionals, policy makers and social scientists and older women themselves"--

"This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies"--