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In 2004 year Lithuania became a member of Europe uninion and began to get support from EU foundations. The main EU foundations goal is to decrease the differences of regions in economical and social aspects. The problem is that it is very hard to decide and to check if this support in real helps to decrease the difference of regions, maybe it has no influence or even has the adverse influence. In my paper work I tried to find out the EU foundations influence for decreasing social and econimical differences between Lithuanian' regions. The results are so that Lithuanian government consist with a lot of problems regarding EU foundations, it has confirmed region policy, but there is not fully checked if the support is really used for projects which can help to decreased the social and economical differences between Lithuanian regions. Besides there are more and more research made which shows that if the country do not have strong control of how is making its regional policy, the use of ES foundatios suport can make huge adverse influence for long period.

1. Introduction : globalization and contestation -- 2. The dialectics of concept and reality -- 3. The making of global civil society -- 4. Global governance : constituting global civil society -- 5. 'Dialectics of presence' at the World Social Forum -- 6. Situating contestation at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth -- 7. Transversal hegemony -- 8. Conclusions : global civil society and the global political imagination.

Governing in the extractive industries : an introduction / Lori Leonard and Siba N. Grovogui -- Tendencies in tension : resource governance and social contradictions in contemporary Bolivia / Tom Perreault -- Mining, criminalization, and the right to protest : everyday constructions of the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian state / Emily Billo -- Preserving illusions : the rule of law and legitimacy under the Chad Pipeline Project / Siba N. Grovogui -- "We own this oil" : artisanal refineries, extractive industries and the politics of oil in Nigeria / Omolade Adunbi -- Converting threats to power : methane extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda / Kristin Doughty -- Politics in the public sphere : ENGOs and oil companies in the international climate negotiations, 1987-2001 / Simone Pulver -- Preventing the resource curse : ethnographic notes on an economic experiment / Gisa Weszkalnys -- Illness, compensation, and claims for justice : lessons from the Choropampa mercury spill / Fabiana Li -- Wars of words : experts, oil, and environmental governance in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Post-script : mapping neo-extractive frontiers across Africa and Latin America / Brenda Chalfin

"Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. While the internet, mobile phones, and social media offer their users many options, they also engender concerns about their manipulations and intrusions. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people's engagements with them. This book critically examines evidence on the role of digital media in emotional life. Offering a sociological perspective, and using ideas from science and technology studies and media studies, it explores: . The dimensions and operations of the online emotional economy . Growing concerns about online harms and abuse, especially to children . 'Deep-fakes' and other forms of image-based abuse . The role of hope in shaping online behaviours . 'Digital wellbeing' and its market . COVID-19's impacts on perceptions of digital media and Big Tech . Growing challenges to centralised control of the internet, and the implications for future emotional life The book breaks new ground in the sociological study of digital media and the emotions. It reveals the dynamics of online emotional regimes showing how deceptive designs and algorithm-driven technologies serve to attract and engage users. As it argues, digital media rely on the emotional labours of many people, including social media influencers and content moderators who make the internet seem smart. The book provides an invaluable overview of the evidence and debates on the role of digital media in emotional life and guidance for future research, policy, and action"--

"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still high and influencing societies' overall development. It is against this background that this Handbook provides an up to date analysis and overview of the topic from a large variety of theoretical and methodological angles. Organized into four sections, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. The first section investigates conceptual issues and relates concepts to people's relative position in society and the understanding of justice. The second section shows how poverty has developed. It will combine existing empirical knowledge with regional/national understanding of the issue of poverty. The third section analyses policies and interventions with the aim of reducing or alleviating poverty within a national as well as global context. It will and intends to include a variety of countries and examples. The last section tells us what can be done about poverty, what instruments are available to end poverty as we know it today. This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, development studies, international relations and politics"--

Examines Black men in politics and government, foreign affairs, the civil rights movement, urban schools, as prisoners, in the media, and their health and role in the economy; 10 articles. Also covers dance, music, theater, and film, the American West, 1528-1990, and foreign-born men.

Examines three principles of discourse on and comprehension of the state's role in social protection of unemployed people, and related policies and programs, focusing on Canada, France, Germany, and Sweden; 1990s, chiefly. Summary in English.

"Within the context of modernity and globalisation, this book investigates how 'illicit' forms of social order contest state sovereignty and provides a thorough account of the processes through which illicit social orders arise and ipso facto contest sovereignty by effectively subtracting territories from states laying claim to them"--

"Data and algorithms are changing our life. The awareness of importance and pervasiveness of the digital revolution is the primary element from which to start a path of knowledge to grasp what is happening in the world of big data and digital innovation and to understand these impacts on our minds and relationships between people, traceability and the computability of behavior of individuals and social organizations.This book analyses contemporary and future issues related to big data, algorithms, data analysis, artificial intelligence and the internet. It introduces and discusses relationships between digital technologies and power, the role of the pervasive algorithms in our life and the risk of technological alienation, the relationships between the use of big data, the privacy of citizens and the exercise of democracy, the techniques of artificial intelligence and their impact on the labor world, the Industry 4.0 at the time of the Internet of Things, social media, open data and public innovation.Each chapter raises a set of questions and answers to help the reader to know the key issues in the enormous maze that the tools of info-communication have built around us"--

"As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires. As marauding crop-raiders, the are despised. As an endangered species, they are cherished. Numerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia. Today, with reduced forest cover, human population expansion, and increasing industrialization, interaction between the two species is unavoidable and conflict is not mere happenstance. What, then, is the future of this relationship? In South Asia, human-elephant relationships resonate with cultural significance. From the importance of elephants in ancient texts to the role of mahouts over centuries, from discussions on de-extinction to accounts of intimate companionship, the essays in this book reveal the various dynamics of the relationship between two intelligent social mammals. Eschewing such binaries as human and animal or nature and culture, the essays present elephants as subjective agents who think, feel, and emote. Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence underscores the fact that we cannot understand elephant habitat and behaviour in isolation from the humans who help configure it. Significantly, nor can we understand human political, economic, and social life without the elephants that shape and share the world with them." -- dust cover

Machine generated contents note: TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements 4 -- Foreword Charles Bazerman 5-9 -- Introduction "A Call for Renewed Attention to Propaganda in Writing Studies and Rhetoric" -- Gae Lyn Henderson and M. J. Braun -- PART I HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OF PROPAGANDA -- Chapter 1 "Democracy and Disclosure: Edward Bernays and the Manipulation of the Masses" -- Sharon Kirsch -- Chapter 2 "Jane Addams: A Foe of Rhetorics of Control" -- Lanette Grate -- Chapter 3 "The Psychological Power of Propaganda: From Psychoanalysis to Kenneth Burke" -- Gae Lyn Henderson -- Chapter 4 "Elizabeth Bowen's Wavering Attitude toward World War II Propaganda" -- Stefania Porcelli -- Chapter 5 "'Propaganda' Defined" -- Thomas Huckin -- Chapter 6 "A Taxonomy of Bullshit" -- Gary Thompson -- PART II: PROPAGANDA'S CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY: SITES AND MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL -- Chapter 7 "Popular Economics: Neoliberal Propaganda and its Affectivity" -- Catherine Chaput -- Chapter 8 "Privatized Propaganda and Broadcast News: Legitimizing the 'Call-to-Arms'" -- John Oddo and Patricia Dunmire -- Chapter 9 "Attention! Rumor Bombs, Affect, Managed Democracy 3.0" -- Jayson Harsin -- Chapter 10 "The Contract with America: A Legal, Social, and Rhetorical Contractual Obligation" -- Meg H. Kunde -- Chapter 11 "Propagandist Management: 'Sustainability' in the Corporatized Public University" -- Laural Lea Adams -- Conclusion "Writing Dissent in the Propaganda Flood" -- Robert Jensen -- Contributors

Computational Racial Capitalism -- The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer -- The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation -- The Computational Mode of Production -- M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital -- M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's "Concise Style" -- Derivative Conditions -- Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival -- An Engine and a Camera -- Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative, Cryptocurrency as Film.

"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices showing how they have shaped and reshaped social, political, linguistic and literary reality, and examines online features and trends which are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian language internet"--