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This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice. This entanglement is investigated in the different contributions through theoretical and empirical analyses of heritage-led resistance to neoliberal economic development, violation of the subaltern, authorised narratives and state-invented traditions, colonialism and settler colonialism, and even dominating discourses of social movement, to name just a few. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of heritage and resistance studies, these analyses bring new insights into several timely debates, especially those concerned with the interrelated critical questions of displacement, gentrification, exclusion, marginalization, urbicide, spatial cleansing, dehumanization, alienation, ethnic cleansing and social injustice. Following our purposeful and future-driven approach, we wish to bring new energy to the field of heritage studies through the focus on the potential of heritage and resistance for hopeful change rather than adding to the field yet another overwhelming engagement with conflict and war

"People pursue their own interests, whatever those interests might be. Some people have interests that are narrow and selfish, others have interests that are broad and altruistic, still others have interests that are somewhere in between. The idea that people are self-interested underpins all of economic analysis and raises two fundamental questions: 1. How do people choose the actions they think will further their own interests? 2. Can the potentially interests of different people be made to 'mesh' in some sort of socio-economic equilibrium? This book is devoted to a detailed study of the first question. Its Companion Volume (Economy-Wide Microeconomics: Equilibrium, Optimality, Applications and Tests) makes a detailed study of the second question. This book begins with the Arrow-Debreu theory of consumer choice. This theory supposes people choose so as to maximize a complete, continuous, transitive, and reflexive binary preference relation over a non-empty and compact choice set, under certainty. The book then studies numerous modifications, relaxations, and generalizations of each of these restrictions - up to and including recent work on Behavioral theories of choice. The study is presented from the Primal, Dual, and Revealed Preference points of view. Consumers are not the only agents in the economy, as Producers are present as well. Starting with the Arrow-Debreu idea that producers choose from a convex production set so as to maximize profit, a study is made of some of the extensions, modifications, and generalizations of this framework that have appeared in the literature. The study is presented from the Primal and Dual points of view. The final chapter in the book provides a link to its Companion Volume. The Chapter indicates how the theories of consumer and producer choice studied here inform answers of the second question posed above."

Foreword: Strategy and management perspective / Howard Thomas -- Foreword: Medical perspective / Randeep Guleria -- Prologue: The impossible trinity in a pandemic : life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness -- Strategy and financial inclusion : is life or livelihood a false choice? / Aurobindo Ghosh -- Universities in and beyond a pandemic / Lily Kong and Sovan Patra -- The global pandemic and management education : is management education a valuable long-lived financial asset? / Howard Thomas and Aurobindo Ghosh -- Economic bifurcations and asymmetries / Taimur Baig -- Taming the pandemic by doing the mundane / Satarupa Bhattacharjee, Shuting Liao, Debashis Paul and Sanjay Chaudhuri -- Virtual fireside conversations with business leaders / with Aurobindo Ghosh (AG), Amit Haldar (AH) and Kalyan Bhaumik (KB) -- Navigating an unchartered sea : finding the right test and testing pathway / Amit Haldar -- The efficacy of mask mandates in US during the early days of the pandemic / Rajesh Ranjan Nandy -- View from the frontline : New York City / Vikramjit Mukherjee, Himanshu Deshwal and Alok Bhatt -- COVID-19 herd immunity and role of vaccines / Arnab Ghosh, Kapil Goyal and Mimi Singh -- Virtual fireside conversations with professionals business leaders / with Dr. Amit Haldar -- Life in the time of coronavirus : perspective of a divorce lawyer / Kalyan Bhaumik -- No one can be safe until everyone is safe / Sunanda K. Datta-Ray -- Judiciary and the pandemic / Debangsu Basak -- Covid-19 and micro, small and medium enterprises : many misses, some hits / Anurag Srivastav -- Bridge over troubled water : a CEO's perspective on navigating the pandemic / Ajay Bhattacharya -- Virtual fireside conversations with business leaders / with Advocate Kalyan Bhaumik (KB) -- Epilogue : the unknown unknowns and residual impact in a post COVID-19 world.

Phasing out certain antibiotics in food animals : the U.S. approach in light of precaution and cost-benefit analysis / Kuei-Jung Ni -- The role of scientific evidence in European food assessments / Alie De Boer -- Regulating gene-technology in food : American approach and practice / Neal D. Fortin.

"Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and power differences shape continental and intercontinental relations in Africa through the creation of identities and values which militate against intra-continental or regional relations. The author assesses inclusionary and exclusionary, rational and irrational relationships, interactions and non-interactions which occur between geographical, linguistic, racial and religious entities in Africa. He suggests that, in these moments, one entity will negatively relate, interact or refuse to interact with another entity for the gains of the former and to the detriment of the latter, or even to the detriment of both entities. Examining the possibility of creating identities and values that can unite Africa as a continent and Africans as a people, this book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, international relations and political theory"--

"This book defines Digital Twins as virtual replicas of physical entities that are created in software and that can be represented by devices, people, processes or systems and offer insights into domains such as ethics, data governance, cyber-security, inclusion, diversity and sustainability"

"This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in most histories of the idea of Europe the Mediterranean is conspicuously absent. This might partly be explained by the fact that historians have often identified Europe with modernity (and the Atlantic world) and, therefore, in opposition to the classical world (centred around the Mediterranean). This book will challenge such views, showing that a plethora of thinkers, from the early nineteenth century to the present, have refused to relegate the Mediterranean to the past. Importance is given to the idea of a distinct 'meridian thought', a notion first set forth by Albert Camus and now reworked by French and Italian thinkers. As most chapters argue, this might represent an important tool for rethinking the Mediterranean and, in turn, it might help us challenge received notions about European identity and rethink Europe as the locus of 'modernity'. Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in European studies and Mediterranean history"--