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This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together international media and communication scholars, digital storytellers, filmmakers, musicians, and educators to discuss the significant contributions made by mobile storytelling within academia, culture and society, resulting in a vibrant and interdisciplinary collection that will be a valuable resource to researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences.This edited collection is a result of the collaboration between Mobile Studies International (MSI) and the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (MINA) at the International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China

"As countries around the world seek to enhance their economies while facing the challenges of climate change and income inequality, national competitiveness is an important marker of the related strengths and weaknesses that policymakers will need to address. Among the existing reports on national competitiveness and rankings, such as IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook and WEF Global Competitiveness Report, there are sizable discrepancies in the ranking order for the same countries. As a result, confusion arises as such an outcome creates difficulties for government officials when translating these findings into real-world policies. The reality is that these discrepancies are due to the differences in logic and analytical models used by IMD and WEF. Therefore, in recognizing such problems and limitations, The Competitiveness of Nations 2 presents the IPS model as a new approach. Building on from Michael Porter's diamond model, it demonstrates a robust set of methodologies as well as offers several key policy implications for economies around the world that wish to enhance their competitiveness. The analytical tools used in this book can be further utilized for other units of analysis such as industries and individual firms. As this book provides a series of sophisticated methodologies and specific guidelines for enhancing national competitiveness, both academics and practitioners can derive useful implications. This annual book series was launched in 2021 and has included timely topics and in-depth discussion on national competitiveness. The first edition dealt with the COVID-19 global pandemic and the US-China trade war as its key focus. For this second edition, the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) issue has been selected given its growing impact on strategic decision-making at both firm and economic levels for sustainable competitiveness. This edition explores the development of ESG in various regions including Asia (Japan, Korea, India), Europe (Russia), Latin America (Peru), and Africa (Sub-Saharan Africa). It addresses how firms can contribute to ESG, and what governments should do to incentivize or regulate firms' engagement in its practices"--

This book adopts an innovative historical approach to terrorism, focusing on the weaknesses of terrorist states and organizations as reflected in the ideologies, methodologies, and propaganda of Russian populist, National Socialist, and Islamic terrorism

Introduction: Highland Asia as a world region / Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise -- The middle highlands of modern China as a historical inter-Asian zomia: Human-nature diversity in the Hengduan mountains / Dan Smyer Yèu -- Human-nonhuman relations in the making of place in Kham / Gillian G. Tan -- Amdo: Social landscapes and change / Eveline Washul and Yumjyi -- The Tibetan frontier: From regional boundaries to disputed borders / Nadine Plachta & Galen Murton -- The Uyghurs: Conceptual highlanders of Xinjiang / Ildikâo Bellâer-Hann -- Kyrgyzstan: Relating to land, nation and territory / Nienke van der Heide -- Pamirs at the crossroads / Hermann Kreutzmann -- Islam in the trans-Himalayan ecumene / Radhika Gupta -- Forming communities and negotiating power in a highland borderland: The Bhotiya on the Indo-Tibet border / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- Infrastructures of change: Development among pastoralists in Dolpo, Nepal (1990-2020) / Phurwa Gurung & Kenneth Bauer -- Nepal central highland: Resistance and the state / Mukta S. Tamang -- Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the high Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa -- Ethnic belonging and the reinvention of tradition in Eastern Nepal / Martin Gaenszle -- The desire to be 'primitive': The Nepalis of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas and claims for tribal recognition / Tanka B. Subba -- Bhutan: History, scholarship and emerging agency in the Bhutanese narrative / Yedzin Wangmo Tobgay -- Arunachal Pradesh: from a nonstate space to a contested state space / Zilpa Modi -- Highlanders and lowlanders in Bangladesh: reflections on borders, connectivity and disconnection in highland Asia / Ellen Bal & Nasrin Siraj -- Peopling the Yunnan-Bengal corridor: An ethnographic history of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people / David Zou -- The uplanders of Tripura: Changing questions of identity / Harirar Bhattacharyya -- Migration narratives and ritual regeneration among the Karbi and Tiwa of highland Assam / Dharamsing Teron & Manas J. Bordoloi -- Rethinking ethnographies on Garo Hills / Erik de Maaker -- Ethnic attachments and alterations among Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar borderland / G. Kanato Chophy -- Gendering Kachinland: Challenging the gender blindness of an ethnographic area in highland Asia / Mandy Sadan & Ja Htoi Pan Maran -- The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands: Identities and polities in the maelstrom of world-system cycles / Magnus Fiskesjèo -- Karen: Mobile peoples with prophetic movements in Myanmar & Thailand / Mikael Gravers -- The uplands of northern Thailand: Language and social relations beyond the Muang / Nathan Badenoch -- Animism and cosmological dynamics in highland Laos / Guido Sprenger -- From 'slaves' to Indigenous peoples: Shifting identities in northeastern Cambodia / Ian G. Baird -- On both sides of the Annamese Cordilleras: The Bru of Vietnam and Laos / Gâabor Vargyas -- Remoteness and connectivity: The variegated geographies of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau / Tim Oakes and Zuo Zhenting -- Ethnography in the northern Vietnamese highlands / Jean Michaud.

"The Fulton Fish Market started out in 1822 as a general food market like others in the city because it was located in a residential neighborhood. The merchants who operated there began to specialize in fish during the 1850s because there were efficiencies associated with wholesaling one product from a central location. In its heyday during the late-nineteenth century, fishing boats would bring their catch directly to the market's dock and sell them off the boat to the wholesalers with stalls there. From shad to salmon, oysters to turtles, everything from the water that people in the New York area wanted to eat came through this market. Despite its many difficulties, the Fulton Fish Market lasted longer than other legendary neighborhood-based business districts because its denizens recognized that in at least one important sense it had to change with the times. As fishing grew in scale and dietary importance, fishmongers learned more about the environmental effects of their business than even fishermen themselves. Even though volume at the market increased over the course of the twentieth century, the Fulton Fish Market and the area that surrounded it became a museum neighborhood, a place to go where people could observe a dying way of life and still get the freshest fish possible at that time. Gentrification overtook the market, much as it did other parts of Manhattan, not because its operations were inefficient, but because no industry could afford to remain on real estate which had become so valuable, so quickly. The working lives of the people who operated every part of the fish provisioning chain - with the Fulton Fish Market at its center - serve as the basis for explaining larger changes in the city and in society that led to this gradual but important transformation. The book straddles economic history, food history, urban history, environmental history, and the history of immigration. It is very clearly written, and should also reach general readers interested in NYC history"--