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"This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It builds on a highly novel integration of elements from relational ontologies, critical theory, political ecology, and intercultural philosophy in support of emancipatory perspectives on sustainability and development. Critical Sustainability Sciences begins by uncovering the weaknesses of mainstream sustainability science and debates on sustainable development. The new field of Critical Sustainability Sciences has grown out of a deep engagement with relational ontologies, which helps to overcome the dualist ontology underlying mainstream notions of sustainability and development. Dualist ontologies reinforce problematic divisions, for example between humans and nature, subjects and objects, mind and matter, body and soul, etc. Examples from indigenous peoples in Bolivia, India, and Ghana - as well as integrative movements in Chile, Brazil, and Europe - show that relational conceptions of life, rooted in eco- and cosmosophy, can provide an intercultural philosophical foundation for Critical Sustainability Sciences. The book concludes by describing three key topics for exploration in Critical Sustainability Sciences: societal reorganization in view of emancipatory, existential, and cognitive self-determination; living labor and commons; and the development of new comprehensive relational scientific paradigms. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of emancipatory and intercultural approaches to sustainability and development"--

In "Repression in the Digital Age", Anita R. Gohdes provides an in-depth look into the relationship between digital technologies and state violence. Drawing on original data, Gohdes argues that mass access to the Internet presents governments who fear for their political survival with a set of response options, which in turn support different forms of violence by state forces. As digital communication has become a bedrock of modern opposition and protest movements, Repression in the Digital Age breaks new ground in examining state repression in the information age.

Introduction : beyond ideas, interests, and institutions -- Identity capital and fields : framing markets and political power -- Applying identity capital to trade negotiations -- Globalization meets national identity during the Doha round -- Race and structural power asymmetries in liberalizing Brazil -- Religion as an instrument for trade policy in India -- Whiteness and the rise of protectionism in the United States -- Identity capital and the rise of far-right populism after 2008 -- Generalizing identity capital for explaining trade and populism -- Conclusion : fields of power, identity, and intermestic phenomena.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Links between Past, Present, and Future: Context for Understanding Communication in Reunion -- 2. Communicating Family with "Strangers": Initial Reunion Meetings -- 3. Korean Birth Parents, Westernized Adoptees: Navigating the Terrain of Cultural Differences during Reunion -- 4. (Not) Speaking Korean: Learning to Communicate with Family across Languages -- 5. Adoptees In-Between: Communicating Family with Birth Parents and Adoptive Parents -- 6. Long-Term Relationships with Birth Families: Communicating across Space, Time, and Difference -- 7. Concluding Recommendations -- Coda: Korean, Adopted, and Reunited during a Pandemic -- Appendix: Interview Guides -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the multiple, often conflicting and entangled representations and goals at diverse peace museums and other sites around the world. Hailing from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds, the contributing authors explore what sort of messages museums for peace are promoting, teaching and propagating, and what messages they are rejecting and opposing, suppressing and censoring. Investigating how institutions interact with political and cultural forces, the volume demonstrates that some museums resist authoritative tropes to reveal silenced histories, including peace histories, while others reinforce hegemonic narratives. Several contributions to the book reveal how the design of space, the choices to include or exclude artifacts, the presentation, and 'performativity' support or detract from museums' vision and mission. Authors also consider the value of museums for peace for the health and well-being of humanity and the environment. Museums for Peace will appeal to academics and students in museum studies, heritage studies, peace studies, memory studies, social justice and human rights. Those working in cultural studies and trauma studies will also find this volume valuable"--

In 'Farmed Out', Clare R. Brock uses U.S. agricultural policy as a vehicle to explain how the rapidly polarising political environment has altered the role of interest groups in Washington. Drawing on over two decades of lobbying behaviour data in the agricultural sector, Brock argues that polarisation has given interest groups greater influence over policy content, particularly among their ideological and partisan allies. Brock makes an important and original contribution to our understanding of how interest groups now operate within a context of heightened partisanship, lengthened time horizons, and declining institutional capacity.

Convergences in Pakistan-China Development: Perspectives of the Pakistani Ambassador -- Croatia and China in the Diamond Era of Bilateral Relations -- Future milestones in Switzerland-China relations -- China and Sri Lanka: Neighbourly Relations in a Rapidly Evolving World -- For a useful dialogue between Spain and China -- Status and Prospects of EU-China relations.

This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name "Lampedusa" as a means of restoring a sense of subjectivity or agency to migrants themselves. Jacopo Colombini argues that the work of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome), the self-organised refugee group Lampedusa in Hamburg, and the Lampedusa-based Collettivo Askavusa offers an alternative to the stereotypical, often racially connoted, public discussion of migrant presence in Italy and Europe. He also demonstrates, however, that the marginalisation of migrant and refugee voices in the public discourse is also partially and unavoidably reproduced in the cultural projects that wish to restore their agency

Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil -- 1 The Legal-Administrative Changes of the Post-Constituent Pluralist State -- 2 Religious Activism and Rights -- 3 Part 1. Pluralism: Minority Rights, Religious Freedom and Secularism -- 4 Part 2. Human Rights as Language -- References -- Part I: Pluralism: Minority Rights, Religious Freedom and Secularism -- Religion and Laicity in Dispute: Two Categories Under Construction in Brazil´s Legal Debate on Religious Education in Public S... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Religious Education as a Public Issue in a Historical Perspective -- 2.1 Religious Education in Republican Constitutions -- 2.2 Religious Education Regulations in the National Education Guidelines and Framework Law of 1961, 1996 and 1997 -- 2.3 Religious Education Regulations in the Agreement Between the Holy See and Brazil -- 3 Debates on the Unconstitutionality of Religious Education in the Public Hearing -- 3.1 The Characters and the Game´s Rules -- 3.2 The Rules -- 3.3 The Debate: Presentations, Categories, Arguments, and Positions -- 3.4 Presentations of Executive and Legislative Representatives -- 3.5 Arguments of Legislative Representatives -- 3.6 Presentations and Arguments of Civil Society Representatives -- 3.7 Demonstrations by Representatives of Religious Organizations -- 3.8 Demonstration by Representatives of Non-Religious Organizations -- 4 Final Considerations -- References -- Evangelical Jurists and Human Rights in Brazil: A Case Study of the National Association of Evangelical Jurists (ANAJURE) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 3 The Political Context of the Emergence of ANAJURE -- 4 The Process of Mobilizing Jurists on Behalf of Evangelicals -- 5 The Supreme Federal Court´s Criminalization of Violence Against Homosexuals.

Growing Up and Out of Crime details how developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18-25 have diverged from previous generations, shifting the role of maturation that prompts us to examine if and how this maturation can influence desistance from crime

During the course of the nineteenth century, the British publishing industry was transformed as the related commercial, technological and legal structures changed rapidly. This four-volume collection brings together contemporary source material that charts these changes, and explores some of the key contexts and debates of the period

Smart home in a digital environment / Yash Gulati, Rahul Nijhawan and Deepshikha Bhargava -- Adoption of IoT in smart home / Tulika Baranwal, Rahul Nijhawan and Sonali Vyas -- Home automation for urban infrastructure / Komal Saxena, Yagya Buttan and Vinod Kumar Shukla -- Optimizing LPWAN using particle swarm for smart city / Sindhu Hak Gupta, Asmita Singh, Abhishek Tyagi and Jitendra Singh Jadon -- Smart parking system using image processing / Venkat Sai Karanam, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Shaurya Gupta and Preetha V K -- IoT and RFID in sports industry / Bakari Juma Bakari, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Preetha V K, Deepa Gupta -- Smart innovation in hospitality and tourism industry / Amit Verma, Wonda Grobbelaar and Vinod Kumar Shukla -- A study of intelligent transportation system / Raja Kunal Pandit and Rahul Nijhawan -- AI and intelligent transport systems for urban transportation / Aiman Siraj, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Sonali Vyas, Soumi Dutta -- Intelligent communication system for urban things / Yashi Yashi, Rahul Nijhawan and Deepshikha Bhargaw -- Addressing smart fire detection management through IoT and Arduino / Sameera Ibrahim, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Shaurya Gupta, Purushottam Sharma -- Development of IoT products for smart cities / Sonali P. Banerjee, Prasoon Banerjee, Rahul Gupta, Sunetra Saha, Deepak Jain -- Smart intelligent approaches for healthcare management / Simra Nazim, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Fatima Beena, Suchi Dubey -- Factor influencing the building of smart city in developing countries : the case of Vietnam / Van Chien Nguyen and Lam Oanh Ha.