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Intro -- Abstract -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Making Markets: Agricultural Restructuring in Australia -- Introduction -- Why Does This Matter? -- Contribution of This Work -- Applying Governmentality in the Context of Australian Agricultural Deregulation -- A Brief Outline of Recent Agricultural Policy Change -- Deregulation in Australian Agricultural and Regional Policy -- Neoliberalisation, Farm Exits, and Rural Communities -- Impacts of Farm Exits Upon Farmers' Identity, Well-Being, and Relationship with the Land -- The Australian Response to Declining Rural Fortunes: Competitive Productivism and Self-Reliance -- Focus on Shifting Wheat Marketing Policy: From Stability and Security to Individualism and Competition -- The Demise of Statutory Wheat Marketing in Australia -- The Canadian Experience -- Outline of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Governmentality as a Lens for Analysing Agricultural Restructuring in Australia -- Introduction -- Governmentality: An Introduction -- Identity and the Individual -- Making People Knowable -- Discourse and the Shaping of "Truth" and Reality -- Sociology of Quantification -- Operationalising the Rationality of Markets, Firms, and Consumers -- Technologies of Agency -- Technologies of Performance -- Genealogy of Wheat Industry Deregulation -- Documents -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Creating a Reality of Markets, Firms, and Consumers -- Introduction -- The State, the Market, and Society -- Why Efficiency? -- Efficiency as a Truth -- The Depoliticisation of Markets -- Competition as a "Normal" Part of Life -- Marketisation as Common Sense -- The Inevitable Need to Maximise Competition and Efficiency -- Firms and Efficiency -- Creating a Business-Friendly Environment -- Shifting the Focus to Efficiency and Consumer Welfare -- Consumers -- The Technology of the Consumer.

"At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects for juvenile justice. Questions considered include: - How has the history of juvenile justice evolved across Europe and how might the past help us to understand the present and signal the future? - What do we know about contemporary juvenile crime trends in Europe and how are nation states responding? - Is punitivity and intolerance eclipsing child welfare and pedagogical imperatives, or is 'child friendly justice' holding firm? - How might we best understand both the convergent and the divergent patterning of juvenile justice in a changing and reformulating Europe? - How is juvenile justice experienced by identifiable constituencies of children and young people both in communities and in institutions? - What impacts are sweeping austerity measures, together with increasing mobilities and migrations, imposing? - How can comparative juvenile justice be conceptualised and interpreted? - What might the future hold for juvenile justice in Europe at a time of profound uncertainty and flux? This book is essential reading for students, tutors and researchers in the fields of criminology, history, law, social policy and sociology, particularly those engaged with childhood and youth studies, human rights, comparative juvenile/youth justice, youth crime and delinquency and criminal justice policy in Europe"--

"In late 2008, the world's financial system was teetering on the brink of systemic collapse. While the impacts of the global financial crisis would be felt immediately, at every level of the economy, it would also send years-long aftershocks through investment, banking and regulatory circles worldwide. More than a decade after the worst year of the global financial crisis, what has been learned from its harsh lessons? Are governments and regulators more prepared for another financial system failure that would significantly affect the real economy? What may be the potential triggers for such a collapse to occur in the future? This book draws on some of the world's leading experts on financial stability and regulation to examine and critique the progress made since 2008 in addressing systemic risk. The book covers topics such as central banks and macroprudential policies; fintech; regulators' perspectives from the United States and the European Union; the logistical and incentive challenges that impede standardization and collection; clearing houses and systemic risk; optimal resolution and bail-in tools; and bank leverage, welfare and regulation. Drawing on experts across disciplines — including Howell Jackson, John Geanakoplos, Charles Goodhart, Anat Admati, Roberta Romano and Martin Hellwig — Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector is the definitive guide to understanding the global financial crisis, the safeguards being put into place to try to avoid similar crises in the future, and the limitations of those safeguards."--

Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Theorising and Researching Children and Childhood -- 1 The Social Meaning of Childhood -- Introduction -- The 'playing child' construction -- The historical development of modern childhood -- A social history of children -- Radical social constructionism -- Limits to social constructionism -- Childhood: Variations on a theme? -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- 2 Theories of Growing Up: Developmentalism and Socialisation Theory -- Introduction -- The dominant framework -- Developmentalism -- The story of socialisation -- Moving outside the frame -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- 3 Childhood and Social Structure -- Introduction -- Positioning children and childhood -- Feminism and childhood -- Marxism and childhood -- Children's needs and interests -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- 4 Children and Childhood in Late Modernity -- Introduction -- Childhood and individualisation -- Children and the family in late modernity -- The global child -- Individualisation and new inequalities -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- 5 Researching Children and Childhood -- Introduction -- Researching children's social worlds: Methodological issues -- Ethical considerations -- Children as researchers -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- Part Two Children in their Local and Global Contexts -- 6 Childhood in Crisis: Social Disorder and Reconstruction -- Introduction -- The problem of 'youth' -- Street children -- Children and play: Lost on the Net -- Reconstituting childhood -- Conclusion -- Key reading -- 7 Children, Family and the State: Policing Childhood -- Introduction -- The privatisation of childhood -- Modern protectionist strategies -- Protection, welfare and 'Every Child Matters' -- Child protection and the criminal justice system -- Child protection: An international comparison.

"At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects for juvenile justice. Questions considered include: - How has the history of juvenile justice evolved across Europe and how might the past help us to understand the present and signal the future? - What do we know about contemporary juvenile crime trends in Europe and how are nation states responding? - Is punitivity and intolerance eclipsing child welfare and pedagogical imperatives, or is 'child friendly justice' holding firm? - How might we best understand both the convergent and the divergent patterning of juvenile justice in a changing and reformulating Europe? - How is juvenile justice experienced by identifiable constituencies of children and young people both in communities and in institutions? - What impacts are sweeping austerity measures, together with increasing mobilities and migrations, imposing? - How can comparative juvenile justice be conceptualised and interpreted? - What might the future hold for juvenile justice in Europe at a time of profound uncertainty and flux? This book is essential reading for students, tutors and researchers in the fields of criminology, history, law, social policy and sociology, particularly those engaged with childhood and youth studies, human rights, comparative juvenile/youth justice, youth crime and delinquency and criminal justice policy in Europe"--

"At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects for juvenile justice. Questions considered include: - How has the history of juvenile justice evolved across Europe and how might the past help us to understand the present and signal the future? - What do we know about contemporary juvenile crime trends in Europe and how are nation states responding? - Is punitivity and intolerance eclipsing child welfare and pedagogical imperatives, or is 'child friendly justice' holding firm? - How might we best understand both the convergent and the divergent patterning of juvenile justice in a changing and reformulating Europe? - How is juvenile justice experienced by identifiable constituencies of children and young people both in communities and in institutions? - What impacts are sweeping austerity measures, together with increasing mobilities and migrations, imposing? - How can comparative juvenile justice be conceptualised and interpreted? - What might the future hold for juvenile justice in Europe at a time of profound uncertainty and flux? This book is essential reading for students, tutors and researchers in the fields of criminology, history, law, social policy and sociology, particularly those engaged with childhood and youth studies, human rights, comparative juvenile/youth justice, youth crime and delinquency and criminal justice policy in Europe"--

Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity?s fading premodern0Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that0contemporary indigenous peoples are specifically modern societies, profoundly0shaped by their specific ways of dealing with, making use of and transforming the0contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. They do that0from a position alternative to that of the modern West. The book aims to0understand these processes and the resulting forms of indigenous modernities in0Lowland South America through ethnographic case studies. It argues that there is0more about indigenous modernities than the simple assertion that indigenous0peoples are now modern too.0Indigenous groups are modern in multiple, complex and alternative ways. As the0contributions show this holds true for current forms of shamanism and indigenous0Christian churches, new meanings of traditional clothing, as well as indigenous0cosmologies that confront western concepts, technology and welfare programs.0The notion of indigenous modernities refers to a space beyond old modernist0dichotomies. The paradox, like the disturbing Otherness it brings to our attention,0is the result of a relation in which assumptions we take ontologically for granted0are confronted by other realities. Looking at the creative ways indigenous peoples?0practices subvert such assumptions may result in substantial irritation and is a0starting point for a renewed reflection on classical assumptions about modernities0and indigenous ways of both being modern and exceeding modernity in the face of0long-standing power inequalities and the imposition of logics of Western ontology

Front Cover -- Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 The Difference a Shelter Makes: A Tale of Two Aces -- Research Focus -- Definitions -- Narrative Examples -- Key Issues -- Homeless Animals and the Role of Animal Shelters -- Animal Control Versus Animal Welfare -- Animal Sheltering Practices -- Plan of the Book -- References -- 2 Best Practices in Animal Sheltering -- Nature and Maintenance of the Facility -- Data Management -- Population Management -- Animal Care -- Policy and Procedures and Health and Emergency Protocols -- Volunteers -- Animal Enrichment -- Adoption Practices -- Staffing and Training -- Community Relations -- Summary -- Check List for Recommended Best Practices -- References -- Further Reading -- 3 Methodology -- The Case and Legal Environment -- State Guidelines and Model Policy -- Local Animal Control Ordinances -- Shelter Licensing and Oversight -- The Data -- Traits of Responding Shelters -- Summary -- References -- 4 Activities and Practices -- Nature/Maintenance of the Facility -- Data Management -- Population Management -- Animal Care in Shelter -- Health and Emergency Protocols -- Volunteers -- Animal Enrichment -- Adoption Practices -- Staffing and Training -- Community Relations -- Practice and Activity Dimensions -- Summary -- Check List for Recommended Best Practices -- References -- 5 Relationships Among Shelter Traits and Activities -- Shelter Resources and Staffing -- Resources, Staffing, Training, and Activities -- Correlations Among Activities -- Summary -- Findings Counter to Common Expectations -- Reference -- 6 Which Shelter Activities are Associated With Positive Outcomes? -- Outcome Variables -- Barriers to, and Facilitators of, Success -- Factors Affecting Outcomes -- Traits of Shelters and Outcomes -- Activities and Outcomes

At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects for juvenile justice. Questions considered include: How has the history of juvenile justice evolved across Europe and how might the past help us to understand the present and signal the future? What do we know about contemporary juvenile crime trends in Europe and how are nation states responding? Is punitivity and intolerance eclipsing child welfare and pedagogical imperatives, or is 'child-friendly justice' holding firm? How might we best understand both the convergent and the divergent patterning of juvenile justice in a changing and reformulating Europe? How is juvenile justice experienced by identifiable constituencies of children and young people both in communities and in institutions? What impacts are sweeping austerity measures, together with increasing mobilities and migrations, imposing?How can comparative juvenile justice be conceptualised and interpreted? What might the future hold for juvenile justice in Europe at a time of profound uncertainty and flux? This book is essential reading for students, tutors and researchers in the fields of criminology, history, law, social policy and sociology, particularly those engaged with childhood and youth studies, human rights, comparative juvenile/youth justice, youth crime and delinquency and criminal justice policy in Europe.

"Economic geographers have always argued that space is key to understanding the economy, that the processes of economic growth and development do not occur uniformly across geographic space, but rather differ in degree and form as between different nations, regions, cities and localities, with major implications for the geographies of wealth and welfare. This was true in the industrial phase of global capitalism, and is no less true in the contemporary era of post-industrial, knowledge-driven global capitalism. Indeed, the marked changes occurring in the structure and operation of the economy, in the sources of wealth creation, in the organisation of the firm, in the nature of work, in the boundaries between market and state, and in the regulation of the socio-economy, have stimulated an unprecedented wave of theoretical, conceptual and empirical enquiry by economic geographers. Even economists, who traditionally have viewed the economy in non-spatial terms, as existing on the head of the proverbial pin, are increasingly recognising the importance of space, place and location to understanding economic growth, technological innovation, competitiveness and globalisation. This collection of previously published work, though containing but a fraction of the huge explosion in research and publication that has occurred over the past two decades, seeks to convey a sense of this exciting phase in the intellectual development of the discipline and its importance in grasping the spatialities of contemporary economic life."--Provided by publisher

Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naively utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action. Pacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wide. It is similar to other transformative social theories: feminism, ecology, animal welfare, cosmopolitanism, human rights theory. Indeed, behind those theories is often the pacifist idea that violence, power, and domination are wrong. Pacifist theory raises consciousness about unjustifiable violence. This in turn leads to transformations in practical life. Many other books defend nonviolence and pacifism by focusing on failed justifications of war, as well as on the strategic value of nonviolence. This book begins by reviewing and accepting those sort of arguments. It then focuses on what a commitment to pacifism and nonviolence means in terms of a variety of practical issues. Pacifists reject the violent presuppositions of a society based upon power, strength, nationalism, and the system of militarized nation-states. Pacifism transforms psychological, social, political, and economic life. This book will be of interest to those who are disenchanted with ongoing violence, violent rhetoric, terrorism, wars, and the war industry. It gives anyone with pacifist sympathies reassurance: pacifists are not wrong to think that violence and war are immoral, irrational, and insane and that there is always an alternative

Intro -- Degrowth in Tourism Conceptual -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- References -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Preconditions of Development -- 1.1.1 Host acceptability -- 1.1.2 Planning/Management -- 1.2 Searching the Roots of Degrowth -- 1.3 Past Research on Tourism and Degrowth -- 1.4 Contents of the Book -- References -- 2 Development Theories and Paradigms and their Applicability in Tourism: The Need for a New Paradigm -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Nature of Development -- 2.2.1 Development as an evolutionary process -- 2.2.2 Objectives of development -- 2.2.3 Outcomes of development -- 2.3 Development Theories and Paradigms -- 2.3.1 Modernization -- 2.3.2 The diffusionist paradigm -- Spatial differentiation -- Spatial integration -- Spatial diffusion -- 2.3.3 Dependency -- 2.3.4 Neoliberalism or laissez-faire -- 2.3.5 Sustainable development -- 2.4 The Emergence of a New Paradigm -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Degrowth Alternatives in Tourism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Capital vs Labour-Intensive Development -- 3.3 Exogenous vs Endogenous Development -- 3.4 Small- vs Large-Scale Development -- 3.5 Mass vs Alternative Tourism Development -- 3.6 Enclave vs Spread Development -- 3.6.1 Enclaves as 'ghettos' -- 3.6.2 Enclaves as 'all-inclusive resorts' -- 3.7 Bottom-up vs top-down -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Limits to Growth, Social Movements and the Main Principles of Degrowth-inspired Travelling -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Limits to Growth -- 4.3 Steady-state Economy -- 4.4 Social Movements -- 4.4.1 Simple living and voluntary simplicity -- 4.4.2 Slow movement -- 4.4.3 Arts and Crafts movement -- 4.5 Principles of Degrowth -- 4.5.1 Reduced consumption/dematerialization -- 4.5.2 Limited use of technology -- 4.5.3 Reduction of working hours -- 4.5.4 Increased happiness, improved welfare and quality of life

Intro -- British Capitalism After the Crisis -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Theorising Continuity and Change in British Capitalism -- Core Arguments of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2 British Capitalism Before the Crisis -- The Long Transformation of British Capitalism -- Privatised Keynesianism in Britain -- Structural Shift from Manufacturing to Services -- Relatively Stagnant Wage Growth -- Declining 'Wage Share' and Rising Inequality -- Rising Household Debt -- Mortgage Equity Withdrawal and Consumption -- Financial Market Deregulation -- Britain's Finance-Led Growth Model and the 2008 Crisis -- Limitations of the Growth Model Perspective -- Finance-Led Growth 'from above' -- Finance-Led Growth 'from below' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Theorising Capitalist Stability -- Accumulation Strategies, Hegemonic Projects and the State -- Distribution and Legitimation Strategies -- The Strategic Deployment of Ideas -- 'One Nation' and 'Two Nation' Legitimation Strategies -- The Regulation Approach -- Regulationist Approaches to Neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 New Labour's 'Hybrid' Political Economy -- New Labour and Neoliberalism -- Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- Labour Market and Welfare Policy -- The City of London -- New Labour and Social Democracy -- Public Spending Increases -- Redistributive Social Policies -- New Labour's 'Hybrid' Political Economy -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The Coalition's Accumulation Strategy -- The Conservatives' Economic Policy in Opposition -- The Evolution of the Coalition's Accumulation Strategy -- Phase I: Strategic Positioning (May 2010-October 2010) -- Phase II: 'Expansionary Austerity' and Policy Failure (October 2010-December 2012) -- Phase III: Policy Change and Discursive Continuity (December 2012-December 2014).

Chapter 1. Introduction and overview / John D. Bitzan, James H. Peoples and Wesley W. Wilson -- Chapter 2. Airline productivity and efficiency: concept, measurement, and applications / Chunyan Yu -- Chapter 3. Benchmarking US all-cargo carriers: a productivity and cost competitiveness analysis / Matteo Balliauw, Hilde Meersman, Evy Onghena and Eddy Van de Voorde -- Chapter 5. Modeling airline efficiency -- a comparison of international airlines using data envelopment analysis / Stefan Sjögren -- Chapter 6. The effects of mergers on airline performance and social welfare / Jia Yan, Xiaowen Fu, Tae Hoon Oum and Kun Wang -- Chapter 7. Airline mergers in the United States since 2005: what impact have they had on airline efficiency? / Mark R. Greer -- Chapter 8. Air transport and high speed railway: how would collaboration affect service performance? / Mikio Takebayashi -- Chapter 9. Managing freight operations chains of passenger airlines at international airports / Rico Merkert and David Wayne Alexander -- Chapter 10. Multi-product cost analysis of US airports / Patric McCarthy -- Chapter 11. Regional development and airport productiviity in China / Clement Kong Wing Chow, Michael Ka Yiu Fung and Japhet Sebastian law -- Chapter 12. Airline fuel efficiency: assessment methodologies and applications in the U.S. domestic airline industry / Bo Zou, Irene Kwan, Mark Hansen, Dan Rutherford and Nabin Kafle -- Chapter 13. The convergence of low-cost and legacy airline operations / Kevin E. Henrickson and Wesley W. Wilson

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Development in the Long Run -- Economics and Maltese History -- Development under Colonialism -- Critique of Colonial Rule -- The Colonial Economy in Comparative Perspective -- Prices and Wages -- Development in Post-Colonial Malta -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Agriculture, 1800-1964 -- Geographical Setting -- Agricultural Areas4 -- Climatic Conditions -- Agricultural Output and Productivity -- Agriculture During World War II -- Shifting the Output Mix -- Using Excess Capacity in Agriculture -- Improved Farming Practices -- Reallocation of Resources -- State Intervention in the Wartime Economy -- Attempts at Agricultural Modernization -- Tariffs and the Grain Trade -- Government as Regulator and Advisor -- Credit for Agricultural Sector -- Land and Labour in Agriculture -- Civil Government and War Department Ownership -- Roman Catholic Church Ownership -- Private Ownership -- Farmer Ownership -- Ownership and Productivity -- Increase Unit Prices -- Merge with Fellow Farmers -- Part-Time Farming and Emigration -- Welfare and Crisis -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Industry and Trade, 1800-1938 -- The Role of the Colonial Government -- Education -- Infrastructure -- Public Service -- Deindustrialisation and the Fate of Cotton Handicrafts -- Manufacturing Failure -- Limits and Potential of Manufacturing -- Manufacturing Fetish -- British Military Expenditure and the Dockyards -- The Development of Naval and Military Establishments -- Effects and Non-Effects of Naval and Military Expenditure in Malta -- The Entrepôt: Coaling, Shipping, and Banking -- Emergence of Entrepôts -- Economic Benefits of Entrepôt Activity in Malta -- Banking and Entrepôt Trade -- Maltese Trade and Commerce in the Long Run254 -- Industrial Diversification in the Interwar Period -- Big Push Policies