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The entry into force of the new Criminal Code brought back to the attention and discussion of legal practitioners and theoreticians the criteria that distinguish the continued offense from the concurrence of offenses. Although, subsequent to the Romanian Constitutional Court Decision no. 368/2017, it has practically returned to the existing regulation in the matter of the continued offense under the rule of the old Criminal Code, the concrete situations submitted to the attention of the courts continue to provoke theoretical controversies. This article aims to critically analyse the recent case law regarding the criteria considered by the courts when they delimit the existence of a concurrence of offenses or a single offense, in a continuous form.

This dissertation is a sociolinguistic, data-driven study of authentic job interviews with second language speakers of Danish. The job interviews are part of a Danish governmental initiative aimed particularly at immigrants and newcomers to Denmark, who are assumed to experience linguistic and cultural difficulties at the Danish labour market. The particular designs of the job interviews as well as the explicitly stated evaluations of language and culture create an unusual frame. On the one hand we deal with "traditional" job interviews as institutional gatekeeping instruments; on the other hand we face a tailored selection process meant to address the needs of the vulnerable. These contradictory practices produce certain tensions: although the job interviews in focus are meant to accomplish the target group's special needs, they exemplify a practice in which the good intentions are all dressed up but have nowhere to go.

By asking the question: "What general, testable claims can be made about all media?", Marshall and Eric McLuhan (1988) sought to establish "laws of media" that could be tested, proven, or disproved by anyone, anywhere, anytime. They formulated these "laws" through four questions that can be asked upon the appearance of or regarding any human artifact/technology/media. The importance of this theory is indisputable insofar as its application can identify past, current, and at least partially predict future trends related to some human artifact/technology/media. In this paper we applied this theory to the websites/services for social networking, considering the increasingly widespread and intensive use of these sites/services in the world. Positive aspects are improved and accelerated communication and connection of people, opportunities for creative expression, association and struggle for common goals, and also earnings. The negative aspects range from a potentially bad impact on the user's mental health, pathological addiction, the increasingly difficult distinction between the real and virtual world, being trapped by filter bubbles, all the way to endangering personal data and security.

"Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent countries. Is there such a thing as 'Asian heritage'? Is it more helpful to understand Asia as a single unit, or as a set of sub-regions? What can we learn about Asia's present through its archaeology and heritage? Covering a wide range of countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this book address these key questions. In doing so they look at a number of critical issues, such as UNESCO World Heritage status, cultural propaganda, cultural erasure and difficult heritage. While addressing Asia's past they also observe key issues within present-day Asia, further providing conceptual and practical insights into the methods that are being applied to the study of Asia's heritage today. A valuable resource for scholars and students of Asian history and culture, archaeology, heritage studies, anthropology and religious studies."

"This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving complex problems and difficult decisions made by leaders on pandemic management to shape the security environment and, thus, the well-being of people living in Africa for years to come. Drawing on cases from across the continent, the book demonstrates that, significantly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries and communities frequently displayed regional solidarity, creativity in decision-making, decisiveness in dealing with corruption and opportunism, and resilience and discipline in implementation. Adopting a human security framework, the authors share their lived experiences and explore the impact of epidemics on public policy decision-making, foreign policy implementation, global relations, collaboration in the community dimension, and, ultimately, the future of socio-economic development in Africa. This book will be a welcome addition for practitioners and researchers across the fields of security studies, health management, and African studies, making an essential contribution to the security discourse in a post-COVID world"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Horror is Queer: Theoretical and Ontological Foundations -- Queer Identity and Community -- The Ontological Queerness of Film and the Horror Genre -- Queer Theory, Queerness and Queer Scholarship -- Centring Queers and Queerness in Horror Studies -- A Note on Statistics -- 2. Portrait of a Queer Horror Fan: the Opinions, Habits and Tastes of the Queer Spectator -- Queer Heterogeneity and Consensus -- Gender and Sexual Orientation Diversity of Queer Spectators -- Racial/Ethnic Identifications -- Educational Attainment and Age -- The Othered Lens of Queerness -- Monsters, Victims and the Final Girl -- Women and Queers Represented in Horror -- Fan Status of Queer Spectators -- Childhood Introduction to Horror -- Horror as Interpersonal Connection -- Queer Spectators' Horror Genre Knowledge -- Queer Identities and Identifications as Queer -- Queer Horror Spectators Compared with Female Horror Fans -- Non-Cinematic Modes of Horror Consumption -- Queer Spectators and International Horror -- Cinemagoing and Queer Spectators -- Horror Habits Beyond Film Spectatorship -- Violence, Gore and Tension -- Horror Subgenres -- The Favourite Horror Films of Queer Spectators -- Summarising the Queer Spectator of Horror Film -- 3. Trauma and Camp: Queer Connections to Horror -- Queer Trauma, the Horror Genre and Traumatic Expressions -- Evidencing Queer Trauma, Affect and Catharsis -- The Camp Relationship to Horror -- Evidentiary Data on Queerness, Camp and Horror -- Camp Laughter as a Trauma Processor -- 4. Drag Me to Hell: Queer Performance and Live Cinema -- Establishing Queer Performance as Live Cinema -- The Phenomenology of Queer Live Cinema -- The Cult of Queer Live Cinema -- Drag as Queer Performance and Drag Performers as Horror Hosts.

"Retirement. Downsizing. Selling your business. Children leaving the nest. Layoffs. A major health event. Losing a loved one. Important life transitions remind us of what once "was," leaving large gaps of free time and less to look forward to in the future. Afterwork acknowledges these tectonic shifts and offers revealing insights, powerful disciplines, and practical applications to help you step forward into a new and remarkably fulfilling season- regardless of how you've defined "work." Afterwork is a healthy and hopeful approach to retirement, and it may be different than the conventional wisdom you've been sold. It's an honest discussion about the retirement lie we've bought into: A self-focused, uber-comfortable, and vacation-minded retirement is what we want. But such thinking is a down payment toward purposelessness. The truth is that you're more than the assets in your retirement account; you're a person with incredible talent and value, and you're more resourced than ever to leave your mark on the world! Practical, trustworthy, encouraging, and accessible, Afterwork explores 10 key disciplines that will steer you away from the destiny of disillusionment and open you to a life filled with confidence, joy, and peace: Purpose, Calendar, Movement, Journaling, Faith, Connection, Learning, Awareness, Generosity, and Awe. Most retirement resources tell us, "You've earned this; now here's how to make life all about you." Afterwork reveals the fallacy of viewing the coming years as nothing more than cashing in on the money you've squirreled away, hoping it doesn't run out before you die. Instead, experience greater satisfaction by living with an outward focus that can help you escape the retirement lie"--

"Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, she reveals the constellations of violence, neglect and marketization that pervaded schools, and shows how young people negotiated the state and national belonging. By approaching schools as key disciplinary and nation-building institutions, this book outlines the various ways in which citizenship was produced, lived, and imagined during those critical years. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

"Boccara analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on the large group unconscious defenses that were mobilized against the anxieties that the pandemic created. He, in turn, argues that humanity will only be able to successfully manage future systemic crises if public policies and country dialogue systematically take into account the underlying psychosocial dynamics"--

Intro -- Preface -- Writing Viral -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Part I: The First Wave -- On the Periphery -- Screen Memories -- A Week of (Not) Knowing -- To Be AND Not to Be a Citizen -- Virtual Mourning, Virtual Loss -- Déjà vu -- The Viral Sublime -- Anger -- Flickers of Ordinariness -- Microphantasms of the Pandemic -- Memento mori -- Legislative Intimacies -- The Other World, or Cacophony and Ethnography in Malaysia -- Communicating with and Through a Face Mask -- Family -- Sanitizing New York -- On Shopping and the Desire to Buy Shit During a Pandemic -- The Workout -- No Mask -- Queer life in Quarantine -- Stroud Playground -- Touch (In Progress) -- Gentle Exile -- Dancing With in COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Part II: The Second Wave -- "It's Covidtastic" -- The Morning Commute -- Toothpaste -- DiCTATURe eN COURS -- How Everything Can Collapse -- Virtual Travels -- Rinse and Repeat -- Music -- I Lost You -- Working From Home -- Nine days -- Online Lifeline -- Migrants' Stories in Pandemic Times -- Transnational Pain -- Breathing with Others -- The Paranoid Style -- Goldilocks-Down -- Chronochromatic Maps -- Alone, Performing to the Wall -- Fresh Flowers and State Violence -- Deferred Returns -- Chapter 3: Part III: Photos from the New Year -- Change (Figs. 3.1 and 3.2) -- Boy, It's Scary Out There -- The Same River Twice (Fig. 3.5) -- A Sign of the Times (Fig. 3.6) -- Photo of a Photo (Fig. 3.7) -- Listen to Nature! (Fig. 3.8) -- Getting Ready for a Lonely New Year's Eve Party (Fig. 3.9) -- Creation Destruction Creation... (Fig. 3.10) -- Tree Disposal (Fig. 3.11) -- Winter Evening in Savoy, Illinois (Fig. 3.12) -- Chapter 4: Part IV: Calculations -- Viral Load -- COVID-19 Daily Spatiotemporal Calculations -- The Calculi of Pleasure -- 2021 -- Vaccine on the Mind -- The Second (And Third) Shift.

In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing war and famine to fretting over the best cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people's anxieties is the result of policies that made Vietnam the second-fastest-growing economy in the world and a triumph of late capitalist development. Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change— even for the better—can be difficult to handle.
A Life of Worry unpacks an ethnographic puzzle. What accounts for the simultaneous increase in anxiety and economic prosperity among Ho Chi Minh City's middle class? At a time when people around the world are turning to the pharmaceutical and wellness industries to soothe their troubled minds, it is worth asking whether these industries might be part of the problem.
"A fascinating study of an important global phenomenon." — LI ZHANG, author of Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
"A Life of Worry takes us from Ho Chi Minh City's lively cafes to its burgeoning psychotherapy centers to offer an original phenomenological approach to anxiety as it is felt and enacted, often as a form of care for others, in Vietnam today." — JOCELYN LIM CHUA, author of In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India

Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new 'digital feudalism', we find precarious employment via digital platforms, we buy goods and services in perpetuity through subscriptions, and we pay for it all with debt. Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.

Foreword by Cynthia A. Connolly --Prologue --Preventorium historyEndless dream --Arrival --One child among many --My only friend --Fear and ecstasy in the night --The crux of the matter --Unkown punishment --School days --The most girl part of me: A brief return home --Holiday --Found memories: Photos and newspaper articles --What I never told anyone --All the children gather --Homecoming --A complicated and fierce woman --Lasting impressions --Epilogue: A last wish --Acknowledgments --Bibliography.