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""This book examines the role of social media in trade unionism and the neo and postmodern facets of digital activism. It also explores the potential of digital activism to effectively engender social and political change in the world"--Provided by publisher"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction -- 2. The Research Network -- Section I Receiving communities -- Introduction -- 3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": -- 4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: -- 5. Living through Displacement: -- 6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: -- 7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: -- 8. Permanent Temporariness: -- Section II Social networks -- Introduction -- 9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: -- 10. "We need to get together with each other": -- 11. The Women of Renaissance Village: -- 12. Twice Removed: -- 13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora -- Section III Charting A Path Forward -- Introduction -- 14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: -- Author bios -- Index

"Explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting of the extended family meal into the public realm of the festive, extraordinary, and unique. He shows how foodways relate to class relations, gender roles, religious practices, cosmology, ethnicity, and even local and national politics. This evocative study departs from conventional anthropological research on food by stressing the rich meanings, generative capacities, and potential subversion embedded in foodways and eating."--Publisher's description

L'un des phénomènes pérennes de la ville est la permanence du processus de recomposition sociale de l'espace, par le jeu inextricable de décisions individuelles, de trajectoires et de politiques. Au cœur de ce processus opère, dans son aspect dialectique, mouvant et ouvert, le rapport entre d'un côté les politiques et pratiques urbaines des décideurs et de l'autre, les phénomènes d'appropriation de l'espace par les individus (H. Lefebvre, H. Raymond, N. Haumont, J.P. Frey). L'appropriation de l'espace est entendue comme l'ensemble des actions des hommes dans l'espace, consistant simultanément à lui donner des configurations spatiales matérielles et des significations (H. Lefebvre, 1970). Réinterroger les termes du colloque à partir de ces prémisses, conduit à une lecture plus complexe des couples pérennités/métamorphoses et traces/turbulences. En somme, selon les contextes, les traces ou les agencements spatiaux d'un lieu peuvent garder une permanence dans le temps long mais donner lieu à des recompositions sociales opposées, comme c'est le cas du centre de Nowa Huta. Les métamorphoses peuvent également affecter simultanément les traces spatiales et les représentations que se font les individus de l'espace en question, ainsi que l'illustrent les transformations incessantes à Cherarba, un quartier populaire informel de la périphérie algéroise.

L'un des phénomènes pérennes de la ville est la permanence du processus de recomposition sociale de l'espace, par le jeu inextricable de décisions individuelles, de trajectoires et de politiques. Au cœur de ce processus opère, dans son aspect dialectique, mouvant et ouvert, le rapport entre d'un côté les politiques et pratiques urbaines des décideurs et de l'autre, les phénomènes d'appropriation de l'espace par les individus (H. Lefebvre, H. Raymond, N. Haumont, J.P. Frey). L'appropriation de l'espace est entendue comme l'ensemble des actions des hommes dans l'espace, consistant simultanément à lui donner des configurations spatiales matérielles et des significations (H. Lefebvre, 1970). Réinterroger les termes du colloque à partir de ces prémisses, conduit à une lecture plus complexe des couples pérennités/métamorphoses et traces/turbulences. En somme, selon les contextes, les traces ou les agencements spatiaux d'un lieu peuvent garder une permanence dans le temps long mais donner lieu à des recompositions sociales opposées, comme c'est le cas du centre de Nowa Huta. Les métamorphoses peuvent également affecter simultanément les traces spatiales et les représentations que se font les individus de l'espace en question, ainsi que l'illustrent les transformations incessantes à Cherarba, un quartier populaire informel de la périphérie algéroise.

"Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society focuses on important challenges to democratic values posed by our computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human creativity and the collapse of critical thinking with the social media fueled rise of conspiranoia. Digital networks allow for a granularity and pervasiveness of surveillance by government and corporate entities. This creates power asymmetries where each citizen's daily 'data exhaust' can be used for manipulative and controlling ends by powerful institutional actors. This volume explores key erosions in our fundamental human values associated with free societies by covering government surveillance of library-based activities, cognitive enhancement debates, the increasing business orientation of art schools, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories in network media. Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions of privacy and encryption encompassing research from Communication, Rhetoric, Library Sciences, Art and New Media"--

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalising forces. Including case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport in divided societies, former global empires and aspirational nations within federal states. Each chapter looks at sport not only as a reflection of national rivalries but also as a changing cultural tradition that facilitates the reimagining of borders, boundaries and identities. The book questions how these national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices, both in the past and the present. Truly international in perspective, it features case studies from across Europe, the UK, the USA and China and touches on the topics of race, religion, terrorism, separatism, nationalism and militarism. Sport and National Identities: Globalisation and Conflict is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sociology of sport or the relationship between sport, politics, geography and history.

Maps -- Prologue: This SIM card is our life -- A note -- Timeline of important events and relevant statistics -- Immigration statistics -- Where it ends and where it begins -- Sudan : through the desert -- Libya : the twenty-first century slave trade -- Ain Zara and Abu Salim : new life and new death -- Libya : escape to Hell -- Triq al Sikka : burned alive -- Disunited nations -- Tunis : the last days of Rome -- Abu Salim : love finds a way -- Khoms Souq al Khamis : a market of human beings -- Sierra Leone : the Temple Run and the left-behind women -- Brussels : migration crisis "over" -- Triq al Sikka : going underground -- Tripoli : war erupts again -- Qasr bin Ghashir and Zawiya : shots fired -- Zintan : Libya's "Guantanamo" -- UNHCR gathering and departure facility : the hotel -- Tajoura : war crimes and war slaves -- Rwanda : a new route to safety -- Tripoli : closing the gathering and departure facility -- The Mediterranean Sea : Fortress Europe -- Addis Ababa : smugglers on trial -- Paris and Berlin : Europe on the dock -- Europe : Home sweet home -- Epilogue : Luxembourg: Kaleb.

This volume offers an analysis of the intertwined relationship between public health and the biopolitical dimensions of state- and nation building in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It challenges the idea of diverging paths towards modernity of Europe's western and eastern countries by not only identifying ideas, discourses and practices of "solving" public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region; it also uncovers the ways in which, since the late nineteenth century, the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework. The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the post-socialist era, the book makes an original contribution to scholarship examining the relationship between public health, medicine, and state- and nation building in Europe's long twentieth century. Close readings and dense descriptions of local discourses and practices of "public" health help to reflect on the transnational and global entanglements in the sphere of public health. In doing so, this volume facilitates comparisons on the regional, European, and global level