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Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Media as a Carrier of Information -- 2 Old Front Lines of New Wars. The Role of the Media as a Carrier of Information About the War in Ukraine -- Introduction -- Media About War-from Information to Entertainment -- Summary -- References -- 3 Information and Information Technologies in the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian War -- Introduction -- Information War in the Russian Doctrine -- The First Phase of the War 2014-2016 -- The Main Directions of the Warfare in the Information Domain After 24 February 2022 -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Conspiracy Theory Mobilisation Mechanisms in the Context of the War in Ukraine: A Study of Polish Twitter -- Introduction -- Twitter as an Attractive Space for Mobilizing Conspiracy Theory Supporters -- Research Framework -- Results Findings -- Preliminary Analysis -- Reach -- Accounts -- Tweets -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 5 Online Frontline: Analysis of Contents of Polish Memes Related to War in Ukraine -- Introduction -- Memes as Communication Phenomenon -- Mediatization of War -- Compassion Fatigue -- Methodology -- Themes of Memes -- Tone of Memes -- Forms of Memes -- Functions of Memes -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 6 A Redefinition of the Essence of Social Media in Ukraine in the Era of Russian Aggression of 2022 -- Introduction -- Legal Regulations vis-à-vis Functioning of the Media During Wartime -- The Importance of Social Media in Ukraine During the War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 All the Faces of the First Lady: The Media Coverage of Olena Zelenska in Poland and Ukraine During the War -- Discussion of the Roles of First Ladies in the Literature -- Status of the First Lady in Ukraine -- Methodology -- Olena Zelenska in the Polish Newspapers.

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

Verlagsinfo: What can creative methods offer our understanding of military power and militarised cultures? What constitutes 'creative research' in military studies? And, what are some of the challenges of this type of work? This edited volume brings together authors working at the cutting edge of creative research in military studies, to explore how creativity and creative practice can shed new light on often taken for granted concepts in critical military research. In twelve empirically and conceptually rich chapters, authors from a diverse range of disciplinary fields draw on theatre, model-making, songwriting, dance, spoken word, paper making, and more, to question what military research can and should look like. As a collection, the book explores topics of central concern in military studies such as militarism, military experience, and militarised cultures, as well as more practical questions around ethics, positionality, and research relationships. This path-breaking new volume considers what exactly constitutes creativity in critical military research, while offering the tools for researchers to think anew about big questions in the field.

De-globalization is one of the pivotal but seriously under-studied challenges of our time. Using case studies from Malaysia, this volume offers timely and invaluable insights into how de-globalization is taking place and its consequences for world peace and prosperity. ----Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor, American University, Washington DC This book focuses on the discourse of de-globalisation in Malaysia by looking at the implications of this process politically, economically, socially, and environmentally.The rise of right-wing political parties and a decline in global economic interdependence have rapidly fuelled the de-globalisation process by creating conflicts and uncertainties in many parts of the world. The battle against the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred a great challenge among the global community, thus becoming a catalyst in the de-globalising process worldwide. While there have been contested opinions on whether we are now in the temporary phase of de-globalisation, what is clear is that the pandemic adds momentum to the trend. Now that the world has entered the post-Covid-19 phase, is the discourse of de-globalisation still relevant? Since the emergence of this pandemic, Malaysia has been facing not only a change of government but also a rapid decline in its economy, a rise in unemployment and living costs, with the human rights situation deteriorating as the State of Emergency was imposed. All of these add up to a shift toward de-globalisation. Chapters in this book, therefore, engage with this issue from different perspectives, such as conventional warfare, bio-constitutional implications to the right to health, labour, migrants and refugees, digital education, indigenous people and so forth. Khoo Ying Hooi is an associate professor at Universiti Malaya. She specialises in human rights, power politics, democratisation and civil society in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Timor-Leste. Kavitha Ganesan is a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, with a primary interest in Malaysian literature in English, specifically female life-writings and postcolonial indigenous studies. Anantha Raman Govindasamy is an associate professor in politics at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. His research focuses on Malaysian politics, specifically the ethnic Indian minority and East Malaysian politics

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, Body and Space, offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media, analyses two case studiesDeaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, The Body and Image, provides a pair of case studies from Singapore, on male fans of the popular manga boys love genre and on ways that the Chinese zodiac system is determined from birth and continues to be spiritually embedded in the body of a Chinese individual through ritual practices. Part IV, The Body as Container: Taming the Bodies?, presents a single case study from Thailand of spirit possession among schoolchildren. Though wide-ranging, all the case studies posit that the body is a site of constant negotiation. The way the body is presented and the way it is seen are shaped by a complex array of social, cultural, political and ideational factors. Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of the body in East and Southeast Asia and for those with wider interests in the field of critical anthropology

Women's agency in conflict: A description of theory and methodology -- (Un)Gendered Political History of Swat Region: Arrival of Yousafzais, Religion and State Building and the Rise of Taliban -- Social Structures of Swat Region: Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, Class and Gender with Women's Agency -- Women in Conflict: In-Between Victimhood and Agency (2005-2007) -- Women's Sufferings, Resistance and Resilience (2007-2009) -- Epilogue.