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"A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they've come to define all that's wrong with America. We hear it all the time: "Sorry, it was just an accident." And we've been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how the term "accident" itself protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harm's way, preventing investigations, pushing off debts, blaming the victims, diluting anger, and even sparking empathy for the perpetrators. As the rate of accidental death skyrockets in America, the poor and people of color end up bearing the brunt of the violence and blame, while the powerful use the excuse of the "accident" to avoid consequences for their actions. Born of the death of her best friend, and the killer who insisted it was an accident, this book is a moving investigation of the sort of tragedies that are all too common, and all too commonly ignored. In this revelatory book, Singer tracks accidental death in America from turn of the century factories and coal mines to today's urban highways, rural hospitals, and Superfund sites. Drawing connections between traffic accidents, accidental opioid overdoses, and accidental oil spills, Singer proves that what we call accidents are hardly random. Rather, who lives and dies by an accident in America is defined by money and power. She also presents a variety of actions we can take as individuals and as a society to stem the tide of "accidents"--saving lives and holding the guilty to account."--

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Mexico's Record of Economic Growth -- CHAPTER THREE The Influence of the Revolution : I -- CHAPTER FOUR The Influence of the Revolution : II -- CHAPTER FIVE Income Distribution and Development -- CHAPTER SIX Income Distribution, Consumption, and Saving -- CHAPTER SEVEN Perspectives on Inflation -- CHAPTER EIGHT Taxation, Saving, and Consumption -- CHAPTER NINE Government Expenditures for Education and Welfare -- CHAPTER TEN Political Democracy and Economic Development -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Conclusions : Income Distribution and Demand in Economic Development -- Bibliography of Sources Cited -- Index

"Never has Peter Singer's Why Vegan? been more relevant and more necessary, in a world still reeling from a global pandemic crisis. Peter Singer's groundbreaking essay collection denounces human tyranny over animals and demonstrates the need for all of us to eliminate our dependence on meat. Collecting his most important writings from as early as the 1970s-some even before the 1975 publication of his seminal Animal Liberation-Singer illuminates his personal path and the trajectory society needs to take after the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, Why Vegan? makes a devastating case against our failure to confront the consequences of mistreating other beings-not only for the lives of animals, but also for the endangered health of our planet. Whether examining the meat industry's disastrous contributions to climate change or showing how westerners cannot blame China for the repercussions of a live animal market without also acknowledging the viral danger of their own factory farm practices, Singer urges us to reconsider how we lead our lives in the twenty-first century"--

"Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions, ideas, and beliefs that possess the United States today. With chapters by an international selection of leading authors, the book covers ideas both broad and specific, and presents unique insight into the current state of the nation."--

"Vision, Reality and Complex brings together a rich selection of Thomas Singer's scholarship on the development of the cultural complex theory and explores the relationship between vision, reality and illusion in politics and psyche. This collection of essays demonstrates how the cultural complex theory applies in specific contexts while simultaneously having cross-cultural relevance through the reemergence of complexes throughout history. It is essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology and international studies as well as for practicing and trainee analysts alike"--

"In From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Thomas Singer collates his investigations into soul both in its personal and collective manifestations. This text is a valuable resource for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and American studies as well as for anyone interested in the current state of the US"--

The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful and dramatic involvement in Chinese affairs. It also gave them the opportunity to gain recognition as a viable and responsible part of the Chinese polity. In the end, these revolutionary youths were not successful in proving their reliability. Too "idealistic" to compromise with the bourgeois way, their sense of moral rectitude also made it impossible for them to submerge their factional differences with other revolutionary mass organizations to achieve unity and consolidate proletarian victories. Many young revolutionaries were bitterly disillusioned by their own failures and those of other segments of the Chinese population and by the assignment of recent graduates to labor in rural communes. Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation of youths, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, their membership in mass organizations, the educational system in which they were placed, and their perception that their skills were underutilized. To most educated young people in China, Singer concludes, the Cultural Revolution represented a traumatic and irreversible loss of political innocence, made yet more tragic by its allegiance to the unsuccessful campaign of an old revolutionary to preserve his legacy from the inevitable storms of history.

Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to fall into one of two camps. The side that dominates much of public discourse is those who conceive of the corporation as purely economic. According to this view, corporations are "nexuses of contracts" that have no greater duties than to maximize profits for their shareholders and that should be given legal and political deference to do so. On the other side are those who conceive of the corporation in almost entirely political terms. In this view, corporations are created by government and exercise powers and privileges that are conceded to it by the state; governments have a responsibility to organize and constrain corporations such that they act for the benefit of society as a whole. This text offers a third way that sees the corporation as being both economic and political

More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new activists through its portrayal of Henry Spira and the animal rights movement. With a new preface from the author, this edition celebrates the continued importance of social movements and provides a path towards furthering changes in our world.

The physical and social dimensions of climate change -- The rise and role of social inequality in the production of climate change -- Maintaining inequality : the ideology of denial and the creation of climate change uncertainty -- The polluting elite and the political economy of climate change denial -- Anthropological lens on climate change -- Changing world of the indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat peoples -- Water vulnerability and social equity in Ecuador -- On the bottom rung of a low lying nation : social ranking and climate change in Bangladesh -- Haiti : a legacy of colonialism, a future of climate change -- Mali: climate change, desertification, and food insecurity -- The consequential intersection of social inequality and climate change : health, coping, and community organizing

Cover -- Inhalt -- 1 Einführung -- 1.1 Entwicklung der Fragestellungen der Arbeit -- 1.2 Begründung der Fragestellungen und methodisches Vorgehen -- 1.3 Thesen der Arbeit -- 1.4 Aufbau der Arbeit -- 2 Der pädagogische Inklusionsbegriff -- 2.1 Problemfelder des (sonder-)pädagogischen Inklusionsdiskurses -- 2.1.1 Entwicklung des pädagogischen Inklusionsbegriffes im deutschsprachigen Raum -- 2.1.2 Verkürzung des pädagogischen Inklusionsverständnisses -- 2.1.3 Begriffliche Unklarheiten und nebulöses Diskursfeld -- 2.1.4 Moralisierung des pädagogischen Inklusionsdiskurses -- 2.1.5 Verhältnis der Heil- und Sonderpädagogik zum pädagogischen Inklusionsbegriff -- 2.1.6 Bildungspolitische Umdeutungen -- 2.1.7 Bewertung und Zusammenfassung -- 2.2 Abgrenzung vom soziologischen Begriffsverständnis -- 2.3 Die Theorie der pädagogischen Inklusionsidee -- 2.3.1 Übergeordnete Zielsetzungen des inklusionspädagogischen Ansatzes -- 2.3.2 Zur Begründung des inklusionspädagogischen Ansatzes -- 2.3.3 Theoretische Grundannahmen des inklusionspädagogischen Ansatzes -- 2.3.4 Zusammenführung: Beurteilung der Theorie der "Normalität der Verschiedenheit" -- 2.4 Beurteilung der Theorie der Inklusion im Vergleich zur Theorie der Integration -- 2.4.1 Theoretische Verortung des Inklusionsbegriffes durch Hinz -- 2.4.2 Vergleich der Integrations- und Inklusionstheorie -- 2.4.3 Fazit zum theoretischen Vergleich von Integration und Inklusion -- 2.5 Fazit und Zusammenfassung -- 3 Der pädagogische Diskurs um Heterogenität und Fremdheit -- 3.1 Einführung -- 3.2 Der pädagogische (Integrations- und Inklusions-)Diskurs um Heterogenität -- 3.2.1 Vergleich des Heterogenitäts- und Inklusionsdiskurses -- 3.2.2 Heterogenität als relative Verschiedenheit im pädagogischen Inklusions- und Integrationskonzept.