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"Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, thus reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special focus on Bangalore, one of the fastest growing cities in South Asia. It contributes to historic perspectives on the spatial transformation of peri-urban locales, as well as providing much-needed empirical evidence. The book discusses issues related to the context of peri-urban land use, land transactions, demand supply relationships and land prices in the peri-urban land market. The steep rise in land prices of the periphery, rapid changes in the land use pattern, active land transactions, growth of the real estate market and the challenge to implement efficient land use regulations are explored with the help of field evidence. Insights and challenges to land administration addressed in this book are common to other metropolitan cities, and the key message is that a separate peri-urban land policy is required for the major metropolitan cities of India and other developing countries. The book contributes to the understanding of how these spatial markets function in order to work towards an improved implementation of land policy in the context of dynamic rural-urban periphery. As such, it will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of regional, urban and agricultural economics, economic geography, urban and regional planning and environmental science. It will also be of great interest to city planners and policy makers, action-based think tanks focused on urban governance."

With the rise of far-reaching technological innovation, from artificial intelligence to Big Data, human life is increasingly unfolding in digital lifeworlds. While such developments have made unprecedented changes to the ways we live, our political practices have failed to evolve at pace with these profound changes. In this path-breaking work, Mathias Risse establishes a foundation for the philosophy of technology, allowing us to investigate how the digital century might alter our most basic political practices and ideas. Risse engages major concepts in political philosophy and extends them to account for problems that arise in digital lifeworlds including AI and democracy, synthetic media and surveillance capitalism and how AI might alter our thinking about the meaning of life. Proactive and profound, Political Theory of the Digital Age offers a systemic way of evaluating the effect of AI, allowing us to anticipate and understand how technological developments impact our political lives - before it's too late

"This book investigates the concept of Human Landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last fifty years. While metropolitan cities, such as Hong Kong, are experiencing accelerated urban development, underpopulated rural villages are struggling to maintain the cultural heritage of their regions. Rediscovery of Cultural Landscapes in Southern China provides a detailed account into indigenous living cultures in traditional, rural settlements upon natural landscapes. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical framework, the book presents six unique cases including: Tai O, Yim Tin Tsai, Lai Chi Wo, Nga Tsin Wai, Cangdong, and Meinong, while illustrating a relevant comparison between Hakka and Satoyama landscape systems. The spectrum of theoretical and case analyses allows for a rethinking of the evolving cultural landscape's positioning with valuable heritages in the context of a post-industrial society. The book is written towards reinterpreting the Cultural Landscape by conceptualizing the Human Landscape for scholars, practitioners and students interested in rural-cultural conservation and revitalization, heritage management, traditional architecture and landscape planning, and urban-rural development"--

"Racism is imbued within the structures of our society and has been nesting comfortably within the social work profession since its inception (see Chapter 1). The 13th Grand Challenge is boldly calling social workers to extract this systemic stronghold from its profession and breathe new life into a field that has the capacity to transform our society. To facilitate this necessary disruption, social workers must be willing to critically engage in an exploration of the meaning of racism and its impact on social work in order to work towards its elimination from society and the profession. The chapters in this opening section provide a robust examination of race and racism, its role in social work, and the profession's movement towards a posture of anti-racism. In chapter 1, Understanding Race & Racism, Martell Teasley lays important groundwork required for this deep exploration of race, racism, and the social work profession. The author examines ways in which institutional norms produce racial common sense thinking as part of normative consciousness, discourse and social practice. Beginning with the fundamentals, he then provides the scaffolding necessary for understanding the function of race and racism at the micro, mezzo and macro levels"--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- 1 Crossroads of Empires in the Antilles -- 2 A Reaction against Annexation -- 3 Saved by the Empire: Morocco, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico -- 4 Against the Revolution (1868-78) -- 5 Fighting the Revolution across the Atlantic -- 6 The Volunteers and the Reconstruction of Cuba -- 7 The Volunteers and the Emergence of Party Politics -- 8 The Volunteers and the Military Challenges of Peace -- 9 The Volunteers' Last Stand (1895-8) -- 10 The Volunteers in the Philippines -- 11 Dismantling the Volunteers -- 12 After the War -- Sources Consulted -- Index.

Introduction : media technologies and the digital humanities / Katharine D Scherff and Lane J Sobehrad -- From audits to confessionals : the influence of accounting technology on medieval penitential pedagogy / Nancy Haijing Jiang -- As nimble as the pen of a scribe : the mediating tongue in Aquinas's commentary on the Psalms / Albert Marie Surmanski -- Current investigations of an eighteenth-century technological procedures : the Tombeaux De Princes / Anne Weinshenker -- Maps, views, and chorographies : an examination of the depiction of place and the representation of architecture in the Civitates orbis terrarum / Brittany Forniotis -- Ars combinatoria : deciphering earthly and divine in the medieval world and beyond -- [formally circling around the truth -- rotating symbols in the mechanization of thought and reality] / Beatrice Bottomley and Arianna Dalla Costa -- "It's like I'm actually there!" : Jumbotrons, liveness, and the Corpus Christi / Katharine D Scherff -- Simulating the seventeenth century Dutch art market in the twenty-first century classroom / Margaret Mansfield -- The virtual renaissance : adopting virtual reality to transform how art history is taught / Eric R. Hupe and Caitlyn Carr -- Reflections / Lane J Sobehrad and Susan J Sobehrad.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A New Direction in Global Chinese Studies? -- 1 Between Diaspora Identity and Citizenship: Social Capital in Transnational Space -- 2 Place-Making, Flexible Citizens, and the Reality of Living "In Between" -- 3 Soft Power and Diaspora Diplomacy -- 4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making -- 5 Australia: A Country-Specific Approach -- 6 Chinese-Language Media as an Instrument of Chinese Influence? -- 7 Methods and Approach -- 8 Chapters -- 1 Media, Migration, and the New Chinese Diaspora: History, Politics, and Context -- 1 History of Earlier Chinese Migration -- 2 New Migrants from the PRC -- 3 "New New" Migrants from the PRC -- 4 Changing Demographic Patterns and Characteristics -- 5 Changing Political Climate -- 5.1 Agents of Public Diplomacy? "Pull" Factors from China -- 5.2 Spies and Agents of Influence? The "Push" Factor from Australia -- 5.3 Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 5.4 Ambiguity and Ambivalence -- 6 Chinese-Language Media in Australia -- 6.1 Early Decades Prior to the Arrival of PRC Migrants -- 6.2 The Emergence of the Mandarin-Language Media Sector -- 6.3 The Threat of Online Media -- 6.4 The Diversity and Complexity of the Chinese-Language Media Landscape -- 2 WeChat Subscription Accounts: Regulation, Business Model, and Institutional Context -- 1 WeChat and WeChat Subscription Accounts -- 2 The Political and Economic Context -- 3 Typology of WSA s and Their Regulatory Framework -- 4 Top Fifty WSA s in Australia: A Collective Portrait -- 5 Beyond a Simplistic Notion of Control: Conclusion -- 3 Production and Consumption of News on WeChat: Platform, Market, and Readers -- 1 Methods -- 2 Top Ten WSA s: Typology of Content and Style -- 3 Case Studies: Hong Kong Protests and Horton Versus Sun.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: A Conversation Between Two Accomplices -- 1. Introduction: The Time and Space of Immigrant Detention -- The Immigrant Industrial Complex -- Conditions in El Salvador -- Notes -- 2. Carla's Letters -- 3. Can the Detained Speak? From the Classroom to Detention, and Back: Student Activism and Carla's Release -- Engaging Off Campus -- On the Road -- Petty Sovereigns Abound -- Mutual Vulnerability? -- Frenzied Time -- The Student Campaign -- 4. In the Courtroom: How to Tell One's Story, and the Pressure of the Linear Narrative -- What Is a Credible Fear? -- In the Courtroom -- Finding Hope -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons. Violence has a foundation and a context. It comes from somewhere and is directed at someone or something, and it has an ambience established through generations of social, cultural, political, financial and religious strategies. It fashions nation-states' hegemonic ideology and frames individual behaviours and attitudes, thus creating a milieu that enables the normalisation of violence. The focus is on violence-infused behaviours and actions in the public realm, a multifunctional environment for social and cultural activities, as well as a workplace, entertainment and transport hub. It is a public setting, sometimes demanding onerous deftness of individuals to stay safe. Attitudes, values and beliefs around violence, harassment and discrimination in the public realm frequently occur openly without anyone noticing that a crime has been committed, including by close bystanders. An audience steeped in societal hegemonic social and cultural patriarchal ideology might be oblivious to harassing or discriminative behaviours and attitudes against females, minority genders and ethnic minority groups. The habitual nature and normalisation of these invisible crimes make them easy to dismiss. Violence materialises on all societal levels: the hegemonic structural (macro) level, consisting of the society's dominating political, financial, social, cultural and religious leaders, educational and community institutions (meso) level and the individual-agency (micro) level, hence the nationstate's populace. Societal order is underpinned by structural, systemic and symbolic violence, all integrated into contemporary society's cultural and social fabric, thus inconspicuous social norms as ingrained through internalisation. The book is written from a sociological perspective and within the risk society discourse, where the risk of violence in the public domain is omnipresent. Discourses of Arendt, Bauman, Bourdieu, Marx, Foucault, Galtung and Beck and present-day analysis underpin the discussions. The agency and political leadership research emphatically show that violence and discrimination are normalised and ingrained in the contemporary milieu

"LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality. This book challenges the cultural commodification of sex and sexuality, and it encourages the reader to experience 'being sexual' rather than 'doing sex' or 'looking sexy'. This is crucial to our development of sexual self-esteem, particularly in the digital era of pornography, dating and hookup apps. Bringing the material of the first edition up to date, chapters include anatomical diagrams and social commentary with a focus on trauma and Polyvagal Theory. Diversity and cultural changes are also addressed, including a more expansive understanding of gender identity, and greater awareness of the impact of power and rank in sexual relationships. Lastly, each chapter features a new partnered exercise alongside every solo exercise from the first edition. The book's accessible language makes it a valuable resource for sex and relationship therapists and trainees, general mental health and sex/relationship professionals, and clients themselves"--