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An eye-opening look at youth in contemporary Egypt, from the role they play in advancing political change to their everyday strugglesIn Youth in Egypt, Nadine Sika explores the political world of young people in Egypt, focusing on their experiences under authoritarianism. From the reigns of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat to that of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, she offers an on-the-ground perspective through the eyes of multiple generations of young people who lived through consecutive periods of political upheaval and state militarization.Drawing on surveys, interviews, and focus groups, Sika shines a light on youth who have participated in protest movements, civil society organizations, and political parties. She shows us the different opportunities for economic and political participation that exist for them, explaining why young Egyptians may choose to either mobilize against or—surprisingly—in support of the regime. Sika underscores how youth in Egypt have been regarded as both the "hope of the nation" and a "threat to the nation." Youth in Egypt shines a light on the rising generation of young people that represents Egypt's future and also has significant implications for the broader Middle East and North Africa region

The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent at the turn of the ninth century CE. Defining primary production groups of plant ash glass has been a challenge due to the high variability of raw materials and the smaller scale of production. Islamic Glass in the Making advocates a large-scale archaeometric approach to the history of Islamic glassmaking to trace the developments in the production, trade and consumption of vitreous materials between the eighth and twelfth centuries and to separate the norm from the exception. It proposes compositional discriminants to distinguish regional production groups, and provides insights into the organisation of the glass industry and commerce during the early Islamic period. The interdisciplinary approach leads to a holistic understanding of the development of Islamic glass; assemblages from the early Islamic period in Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Egypt, Greater Syria and Iberia are evaluated, and placed in the larger geopolitical context. In doing so, this book fills a gap in the present literature and advances a large-scale approach to the history of Islamic glass

We are surrounded by thousands of animals, alive and dead. They are an intimate and ever-present part of our human lives. As a society, we privilege veterinarians as experts on these animals: they are our educators and teachers in what they say, what they do, and the decisions that they make. Yet, within the field of education, there is little research on the curriculum, pedagogy, and experiences of veterinary school and students. What do veterinarians learn in veterinary school? How do their experiences during those four years shape their perceptions of animals? How do the structures, curriculum, and pedagogy of veterinary college create and influence these experiences? Learning Animals opens up this conversation through an exploration of the complicated, fascinating and often painful stories of a cohort of veterinary students as they make their four-year journey from matriculation through graduation. The book examines how the experiences of veterinary students shape how humans relate to animals, from public policy and decision-making about the environment and animals slaughtered for food, to the most personal decisions about euthanizing companion animals. The first full-length, critical, qualitative study of the perspectives of our primary teachers about animals, this will be a thought-provoking read for those in the fields of both educational research and veterinary education.

This book establishes a typology of the arguments made about climate change in the German-speaking Swiss media between 2007 and 2014. By combining corpus linguistic, pragma-dialectical, and discourse analytical approaches, the sectoral theory of argumentation developed in this volume and embedded within its discourse-historical approach provides access to the material topoi of mass-media discourse about climate change.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Images -- Introduction -- 1 Art's Resistance -- 2 Figures of Life -- 3 From Depths and Ashes -- 4 Mad Love -- 5 Signs Without Name -- 6 Of Scars, Smiles and Past-Future Signs -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Focusing on the rule of Heraclius (610–643), this study examines the development of the Byzantine monarchy at the threshold between antiquity and the Middle Ages. It shows how the reigning Emperor responded to the domestic and external political challenges that endangered his rule and brought the Byzantine Empire to the brink of collapse.

Food Waste wird sichtbarer. Damit werden Forderungen nach weniger Lebensmittelabfällen und neuen Formen der Organisation und Bewertung lauter. Doch wie werden sichtbar gewordene Lebensmittelabfälle organisiert und bewertet? Die Beiträger*innen identifizieren Möglichkeiten für einen neuen gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Food Waste und entdecken gleichzeitig Widersprüche und Schwierigkeiten.

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Danksagung -- Vorwort -- Organisation und Bewertung von sichtbar gewordenen Lebensmittelabfällen -- Plattform versus Lebensmitteltafel -- Wertzuschreibungen durch Food-Waste-Apps -- Nachhaltige Energie oder verstromtes Essen? -- Food-Waste-Management im Supermarkt -- »Und die Eimer füllen sich mit Unmengen an Essen, die der Gast nicht konsumierte« -- Vom Konsumieren zum Kochen -- Wie das Abfallprodukt in den Warenkorb kommt -- Warum Kreislaufwirtschaft allein nicht genügt -- Die soziale (Nicht-)Essbarkeit von Fleisch -- Epilog -- Autor*innenverzeichnis

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Beast Within -- 1 How Ethology Became Popular -- 2 The Alchemy of Aggression -- 3 Weapons Created Man -- 4 The Biology of Love -- 5 The Aggression Debate -- 6 Sociobiology and Pop Ethology: Contextualizing E. O. Wilson -- 7 Genes and Gender: The Sociobiology Debate -- Conclusion On the Shores of Lake Turkana -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: A Divided Nation-English Theatre and Social Abjection -- From Welfare State to Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism = 'Wasted Humans' -- Theatre and Social Abjection -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 'Anti-Northern Prejudice': Representing the Northern Subaltern -- Constructing the North as 'Other' -- The Industrial/Deindustrialised North -- It's Grim up North: Staging the Socially Abject North -- 'There's More to Life Than Culture, There's Dirt and Smoke and Good Honest Sweat': Nostalgia, the North and Mining Communities -- References -- 3 'You're All the Same, Lads with Bricks': Riots and Rioters -- Reading Riots: England 1981-2011 -- Reading Riots: Common Responses -- An Urgent Response Is Necessary: Oi for England -- It's Not 'Criminality, Pure and Simple': The Riots -- Wasted Youth/Wasted Communities: Bryony Lavery's Goliath -- More Than 'Race Riots': Mixed up North -- Who Speaks and Who Is Heard?: Alecky Blythe's Little Revolution -- References -- 4 Blighting These Green and Pleasant Lands: Gypsies and Travellers -- Sedentarism Versus Nomadism: Gypsies and Travellers as Disruptive Anti-citizens -- 'But This Is Your Place. This Is Your Place' -- Narratives of Expulsion: Gypsies and Travellers in the Twenty-First Century -- 'Now Kiss My Beggar Arse, You Puritans!': Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem -- Conclusion: The Gypsy as Cipher -- References -- 5 'The Beast That Lies Dormant in the Belly of Our Country': Race, Nation and Belonging -- Brexit and the Crisis of Multiculturalism -- 'Restore Our Sense of Dignity, of Community, of Pride': Class, Race and Culture in Anders Lustgarten's a Day at the Racists -- 'The Beast That Lies Dormant in the Belly of Our Country': Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier.

In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan's capitalist development and industrialization. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this imagination, connecting European and Japanese thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. This book investigates the emergence of a strand of non-violent anarchism, reassessing in particular the role of geographical thought in modern Japan as both a vehicle of political dissent and a basis for dialogue between Eastern and Western radical thinkers. By tracing Ishikawa's travels, intellectual interests and real-life encounters, Nadine Willems identifies a transnational "geographical imagination" that valued ethics of cooperation in the social sphere and a renewed awareness of the man-nature interaction. The book also examines experiments in anarchist activism informed by this common imagination and the role played by the practices of everyday life as a force of socio-political change.