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"This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in context of the migration process using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and Epistemologies of the South. The discussion surrounding Central American migrants has increased exponentially with the emergence of the caravans and the increased security measures along Mexican and US borders. Explicitly focused on the plight of children and young people, the examination of migration includes exploring the global context and dynamics that influence migratory trends and framing Central American migrant processes and youth strategies of survival and resistance. Contributing to existing conversations about the migration of people from Central America, this text seeks to understand the phenomenon's root. This book will interest scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those studying the global dynamics of power and studies of migration, governance, as well as practitioners involved in decision-making with governments and international organizations"--

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain this profound change? What are the primary drivers behind the deterioration of civic culture and the toxification of public discourse? Trolling Ourselves to Death moves beyond the familiar picture of trolling by recasting it in a broader historical light. Contrary to the popular view of the troll as an exclusively anonymous online prankster who hides behind a clever avatar and screen name, Hannan asserts that trolls have emerged from the cave, so to speak, and now walk in the clear light of day. Trolls now include politicians, performers, patriots, and protesters. What was once a mysterious phenomenon limited to the darker corners of the Internet has since gone mainstream, eroding our public culture and changing the rules of democratic politics.Hannan shows how trolling is the logical outcome of a culture of possessive individualism, widespread alienation, mass distrust, and rampant paranoia. Synthesizing media ecology with historical materialism, he explores the disturbing rise of political unreason in the form of mass trolling and sheds light on the proliferation of disinformation, conspiracy theory, "cancel culture," and digital violence. Taking inspiration from Robert Brandom's innovative reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Trolling Ourselves to Death makes a case for building "a spirit of trust" to curb the epidemic of mass distrust that feeds the plague of political trolling

This interdisciplinary textbook serves as a solid introduction to the future of legal education against the background of the widespread use of AI written by colleagues from different disciplines, e.g. law, philosophy/ethics, economy, and computer science, whose common interest concerns AI and its impact on legal and ethical issues.

"What is the status of indigenous religious rights in the world today? Despite important legal advances in the protection of indigenous religious beliefs and practices at the international and national levels, there are still many obstacles to the full implementation of these provisions. Using a unique large-scale comparative approach, this book aims to identify the fundamental issues that characterize the law of indigenous religions in several countries, as well as certain avenues that may prove useful in state-implementation of the the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples regarding the practice, promotion, transmission, protection, and access to spiritual heritage"--

"Poverty is a complex global challenge rooted in intertwined social, economic and political factors, which excludes people from participating fully in normalised social and market-based activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated poverty-related issues such as food insecurity, and growing numbers of people are having to rely on welfare assistance. This pandemic, coupled with austerity measures implemented across many European countries over the past years, has impacted negatively on towns, cities, regions and countries, leaving places and communities depleted. This edited volume curates a collection of relevant research addressing the challenges of poverty and the political-economic measures that perpetuate it. It adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to covering relevant theories, methodologies and policy-oriented research, highlighting the interlinkages between poverty and austerity that have resulted since the 2008 financial crisis. In particular, the book focuses on food insecurity as one of the most extreme manifestations of poverty, but also addresses interconnected issues such as unemployment, homelessness and poor health. The contributors primarily utilise diverse qualitative methods that give voice to lived experiences of poverty, while also considering quantitative approaches that are essential for measuring food insecurity and modelling the impacts of austerity. The book will be of significant interest to anyone researching poverty and austerity with an interest in social policy, human and cultural geography, marketing and consumer culture, economic policy, public health and sustainability"--

Preface : the critique of the critique / David Hirsh -- Introduction to Mapping The New Left Antisemitism : The Fathom Essays / Alan Johnson -- A new form of the oldest hatred : mapping antisemitism today / Lesley Klaff -- The Jewish experience of antisemitism / Dave Rich -- The left and the Jews : time for a rethink / Alan Johnson -- What is left antisemitism? / Sean Matgamna -- Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism / Michael Walzer -- Alibi antisemitism / Norman Geras -- Like a cloud contains a storm : Jean Améry's critique of anti-Zionism / Marlene Gallner -- What Corbyn's favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary antisemitism / Matthew Bolton -- Antisemitism and the left : a memoir / Kathleen Hayes -- Denial : Norman Finkelstein and the new antisemitism / Alan Johnson -- 'Toxic gifts' : Israel and the anti-Zionist Left. An interview with Susie Linfield / Susie Linfield -- Soviet anti-Zionism and contemporary left antisemitism / Izabella Tabarovsky -- Communists against Jews : the anti-Zionist campaign in Poland in 1968 / Simon Gansinger -- The German left's undeclared wars on Israel : an interview with Jeffrey Herf / Jeffrey Herf -- Holocaust inversion and contemporary antisemitism / Lesley Klaff -- Hitler and the Nazis' anti-Zionism / Jeffrey Herf -- Holocaust falsifiers : blaming 'Zionists' for the crimes of the Nazis / Paul Bogdanor -- Reflections on contemporary antisemitism in Europe / Kenneth Waltzer -- The unwelcome arrival of the quenelle / Dave Rich -- A modern Orthodox-Christian ritual murder libel : St. Philoumenos of Jacob's Well / David Gurevich -- We shall be as a city on a hill : Trump, 'progressive' antisemitism, and the loss of American Jewish exceptionalism / Shalom Lappin -- The meaning of David Miller / David Hirsh -- From scholarship to polemic? : a case study of the emerging crisis in academic publishing on Israel / Cary Nelson -- Pathologising 'Jewish being and thinking' : Oren Ben-Dor and academic antisemitism / Sarah Annes Brown -- On misrepresentations of the IHRA definition of antisemitism/ Dave Rich -- Political antisemitism : a defence of the IHRA definition / Bernard Harrison and Lesley Klaff -- Misreading Hannah Arendt : Judith Butler's anti-Zionism and the Eichmann Trial / Russell A. Berman -- The pleasures of antisemitism / Eve Garrard -- Intersectionality and antisemitism : a new approach / Karin Stögner -- Left alternatives to left antisemitism : a conversation between Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer / Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer.

"This book introduces readers to Sony, the technology company behind the PlayStation consoles and hit franchises such as Uncharted, God of War, and Gran Turismo. Readers will explore the company's history, its focus on games with immersive and thrilling narratives, and how the company continues to innovate today. Features include infographics, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO"--Amazon

"This book explores Russia's sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia's conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia's special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these concepts in relation to Russia's history and its present behaviour, and also in relation to other countries' views of themselves as exceptional, the book highlights Russia's sense of its own identity as a key factor shaping current international events"--

"This book is focused on militarisation as the nucleus of EU space policy and the interrelatedness of European security, industrial competitiveness and military capabilities in the shaping of this policy. The EU and key member-states have increasingly joined the US, China and Russia, among others, in regarding space assets as critical military, but also economic, industrial and technological, enablers. The book tackles this issue by, first, shedding light on the military aspects of EU space policy, with special emphasis on the security and defence dimensions of projects such as Galileo, Copernicus, Space Situational Awareness, and Satellite Communication. In this context, contributors confront the empirical aspect of developments, including the role of different institutional actors and the involvement of specific member-states. Further, the volume analyzes the discursive, ideological, normative and theoretical foundations of the use of space by the EU for strategic purposes, drawing on the broad spectrum of European integration / International Relations theory. Last, but not least, the volume discusses initiatives outside the EU by key global space players, with an emphasis on the US and transatlantic space relations. All chapters maintain a solid empirical foundation, in the form of geographical or issue-related focus, with an area-specific emphasis on the EU as a whole, transatlantic relations, the policies of key member-states (such as France and Italy), and core space powers such as the US, China and India. This book will be of much interest to students of space power, security studies, European politics and International Relations"--

"What is Sexualized Violence? Intersectional Readings uses an intersectional, queer and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence. Contributing to our thinking about the dynamic relationship between social structure, subject formation, intersubjectivity and violence, this text deploys an intersectional reading to engage with the complex social topography that both offers and imposes violence as a socially-mediated practice. Instead of discussing one particular group at the intersection of race and gender, this book discusses the constitution of positionalities through systems of oppression and includes racialization, gender, sexuality, disability and age. Moreover, the text is also interested in explicitly engaging with how the history of disciplines, institutions and organizations contributed to the current constitution of opportunities for violence. It gives us modes of thinking to confront sexualized violence as a social problem and challenge the discourses and social structures that uphold it. This book is meant to offer questions and approaches for students and scholars, practitioners and policy makers, and survivors of sexualized violence who have an interest in an intersectional perspective on sexualized and violence in general"

Biographical note: Prof. Dr. Lothar Abicht ist Unternehmer, Honorarprofessor für Erwachsenenbildung, Forscher, Trainer und Autor zahlreicher Publikationen sowie gefragter Speaker. Er ist Experte für Bildungsforschung, demografische Entwicklung und die Arbeits- und Lebenswelt von morgen. Zurzeit arbeitet er als Senior Associate bei Themis Foresight an einem Forschungsprojekt zur »5. Industriellen Revolution«. Carina Stöttner ist Mitgründerin und Co-Geschäftsführerin bei Themis Foresight. Die Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin und Soziologin spricht als Keynote-Speakerin über Zukunftsthemen, als Panel-Teilnehmerin bringt sie ihre Perspektive zu viel diskutierten Themen ein.

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view and forms a unique insight into critical modern slavery studies. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to and understandings of exploitation. Drawing from real-world examples across the world, this is a vital contribution to the study of modern slavery