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Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders

The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia. Dijana Jela?a is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Theater at St. John s University, USA.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The damaged notions of East and West: main concepts -- 1. The politics of critical Islam -- 2. Critical Islam inside academia -- 3. North-American post-colonial studies and European polemics against Islam -- 4. Literary voices turned political -- Conclusion: Beyond the damaged notions of East and West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Recent U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy banned transgender personnel from serving openly in the military. Potential changes to this policy raised questions regarding access to gender transition--related health care, the range of transition-related treatments that DoD will need to provide, the potential costs associated with these treatments, and the impact of these health care needs on force readiness and the deployability of transgender service members. A RAND study identified the health care needs of the transgender population and transgender service members in particular. It also examined the costs of covering transition-related treatments, assessed the potential readiness implications of a policy change, and reviewed the experiences of foreign militaries that permit transgender personnel to serve openly"--Publisher's description

"Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada's rural population grew throughout the century after 1871--even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, long distances, and poor land, they typically relied on three ever-shifting pillars of support: the sale of cash crops, subsistence from the local environment, and wage work off the farm. Canada's Rural Majority is an engaging and accessible history of this distinctive experience, including not only Canada's farmers, but also the hunters, gardeners, fishers, miners, loggers, and cannery workers who lived and worked in rural Canada. Focusing on the household, the environment, and the community, Canada's Rural Majority is a compelling classroom resource and an invaluable overview of this understudied aspect of Canadian history."--

This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Immigration as Emergency -- 2. The Borderlines of Family Reunification -- 3. Exiled Mothers and Mothers of Exiles -- 4. Inaugurating Neoliberal Crimmigration -- 5. Over-Looking Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Die Piazza San Pietro, die Place Royale oder Covent Garden - diese Plätze spiegeln die historischen, kulturellen und sozio-politischen Erfahrungen ihrer Gesellschaften wider. Sie erzählen Geschichten von Macht und Herrschaft in ihrer Zeit. Die Beiträge de

A common answer to disparate questions: envisioning Caribbean federation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century -- Moving toward the crossroads of our destiny: black diaspora politics and the pursuit of West Indian nationhood (1930-1945) -- From long-standing dream to impending reality: Caribbean federation and the mobilization of black diaspora politics (1945-1950) -- Finalizing, defining, and welcoming the new nation (1950-1958)

Applications of New Governance Approaches in the Humanitarian ContextStandardizing versus Diversification; Accountability and Supervision in UN Humanitarian Assistance; Strengths and Shortcomings of New Governance; Assessment in Light of the Research Objectives; 2 Legal Background: Post-disaster Humanitarian Aid Law and Policy; Introduction; Meaning of Humanitarian Aid; Legal and Policy Issues in Humanitarian Aid; Legal Basis and Regulation of Humanitarian Aid; Challenges in Implementing Humanitarian Legal Obligations; Principles Regulating Humanitarian Aid

Die Neurowissenschaften versprechen nicht zuletzt die Verbesserung der geistigen Eigenschaften gesunder Menschen - das sogenannte »Neuroenhancement«. Dieser Band gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über den Diskussionsstand in unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Die Beiträger_innen beschreiben nicht nur ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Verfahren, sondern zeigen zudem, wie groß die Bandbreite an Zielen ist, die mit »Neuroenhancement« verknüpft werden: Geht es darum, geistig leistungsfähiger, moralischer oder kreativer zu werden? Oder wird letztlich nur der Druck auf das Individuum erhöht, besser, klüger und vielseitiger zu werden?

Introduction: American studies encounters the Middle East / Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy -- Diabolical enterprises and abominable superstitions: Islam and the conceptualization of finance in early American literature / Adam John Waterman -- Salim the Algerine: the Muslim who strayed into colonial Virginia / Judith E. Tucker -- "Race" and "blackness" in Moroccan rap: voicing local experiences of marginality / Cristina Moreno Almeida -- Call and response, radical belonging, and Arabic hip-hop in "the West" / Rayya El Zein -- The reception of U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution: between the popular and the official / Mounira Soliman -- Arab Spring, American autumn / Brian T. Edwards -- The uses of modernization theory: American foreign policy and mythmaking in the Arab world / Waleed Hazbun -- Travelling law: targeted killing, lawfare, and the deconstruction of the battlefield / Craig Jones -- Drone executions, urban surveillance, and the imperial gaze / Ashley Dawson -- Technology's borders: the U.S., Palestine, and Egypt's digital connections / Helga Tawil-Souri -- The counterrevolutionary year: the Arab Spring, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East / Osamah Khalil