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"This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland. Here, housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated in recent years, and local urban planning has gained a momentum in efforts to remake the urban landscape for business and tourism. Through a range of methods, each chapter approaches a different aspect of gentrification: the effectiveness of welfare policies against residential gentrification; the importance of retail gentrification and symbolic changes; the role of media and state-led tourism campaigns in promoting gentrification; the rise of vibrancy and sustainability as concepts driving regeneration; and the question of planning principles like participation in confronting gentrification. The reader will find a state system which supports a delicate balance in housing, but a local planning regime related to a more 'generalized' gentrification. The results raise questions about the limits of the welfare state in an age of global competition. While new readers of gentrification will benefit from a deep engagement with the literature, the case of Helsinki is relevant to all students of planning, social sciences, and urban studies, as well as professionals in related fields"--

Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist, and accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Jennifer Saul shows how two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role in this, and have exploited and widened existing divisions in society

We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's Adorno's Grey.Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization-a "chromatics of organizing"-that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color

"This book is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia, it pays special attention to the "refugee crisis", that gave birth to a new border regime based on a permanent suspension of laws, normalisation of violence, and the entrapment of migrants stranded in a liminal space at the gates to the EU, neither able to go further nor back. The book will appeal to an international audience of academics of migration studies, social and political science, and the wider public interested in migration and social and political changes in Southeast Europe."--

Preamble: Why this Book Now? -- Failing Forward: Systems Resilience for International Development -- International Development, Resilience, and Sustainability in Historical Perspective: What We Pursue and Why We Pursue It -- Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO): A Resilient Systems Approach for Sustainable Growth -- The Medium for the Missing: Participatory Animated Media for Ethical and Effective Information Dissemination -- Resilience and Gender: Actionable Educational Steps toward Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals -- Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems: Catalysts and the WIDGET model -- Changing for the Future: Two Case Studies of Resilience, Gender, and ICT4D in Burkina Faso and Ghana -- Contents, Media, and Genres for Learning -- Translating to Connect Local Languages for Learning -- Resilience, Gender, and the Democratization of Development through Digitization.

"The book examines, contemporary globalisation that signifies a growing interconnectedness between people and societies across the world through increasing flows of people, goods, services, finance and ideas across the borders. The concept of globalisation and its meaning is discussed through insights from scholars such as David Held, Anthony Giddens, David Harvey, Arjun Appadurai, Ulrich Beck, Manuel Castells, Saskia Sassen and many other scholars to explain divergent perspectives of globalisation. The book also studies threats like nuclear weapons proliferation, global terrorism, environmental security issues, global justice, poverty, migration, and global shifts. It aims to generate readers' interest in understanding globalisation and analysing the changing dynamics of world politics by studying it from diverse viewpoints. The emergence of Covid-19 and resurgence of great power politics has given rise to the debate of de-globalisation and return of a new kind of 'cold war'. In this context, this volume will also help readers to understand globalisation in the present changing world order. The book will be useful to the departments of Political Science, International Relations, and other interdisciplinary Social Sciences subjects like Political Economy and Global/International Politics"--

"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others-a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to consider-and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces-plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong-include essays, photo essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires"--

Along with the concepts of social role, social group, social network, social class, and social structure, the notion of impersonality is one of the pillars of the sociological imagination: the ability to think beyond individuals and see them as members of particular social categories. Although almost every sociologist is at least implicitly cognizant of the fundamental contrast between personalness and impersonality, it has yet to be explicitly conceptualized. Don't Take It Personally comprehensively addresses the fundamental distinction between the specific and generic visions of personhood. Over the course of the book, Eviatar Zerubavel articulates the fundamental features of impersonality; the process of producing impersonality; the impersonal logic underlying the notion of individuals as countable quantities; the relationship between modernity and impersonality; and considers what is gained and what is lost by impersonalizing so much of social life. Drawing on fascinating examples from diverse social contexts, Don't Take It Personally introduces a general framework to better understand the deeper connection between seemingly disparate phenomena, from racial profiling and hate crimes to "secret Santa" gifting

"In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected the local expression of historical memory. Yet this does not prevent local societies from producing their stories in their own terms, even if often in conflict with both national and Western categories. Producing history, ethnohistory, historical anthropology, and historical geography in the Southeast Asian highlands raises significant questions relating to methodology, epistemology, and ethics, for which most researchers are often ill-prepared. How can scholars manage to competently access information about the past? How is one to capture history-in-the making through events, speech acts, rituals, and performances? How is the memory of the past transmitted-or not-and with what logic? Based on the experiences and reflections of a dozen diverse scholars rooted in decades of work in these three communist states, Chasing Traces is the first book about historical ethnography and related issues in the Southeast Asian highlands. Taking a critically reflexive posture, the authors make a plea for the individual, the hidden, and the backstage, for what life is really like on the ground, as opposed to imagined homogeneity, legibility, and unambiguousness. Their investigations on the history of ethnic minority communities adds archival historiography to ethnographic fieldwork and examines the relationship between the two fields. The individual chapters each tell distinctive stories of the conjunction of fieldwork, archival research, official surveillance, community participation, cultural norms, partnership with local scholars, and the other factors that both facilitate and frustrate the research enterprise of writing about the past in these societies. A timely work, this volume also provides guidelines for alternative ways to document and reflect when physical access becomes limited due to factors such as pandemic, political instability, and violence, and offers creative ways for researchers to cope with these dramatic shifts"--

"This book, based on extensive original research, examines young Muslim women's groups in Indonesia to show how a new type of young Muslim woman is emerging: pious and loyal to traditional Muslim ideas, whilst at the same time entrepreneurial, comfortable with the world of neoliberal capitalism, living modern, middle class urban lives and above all assertive and forward-looking. The book analyses the different facets of this new approach to Islam, shows how the young Muslim women's groups influence Indonesian society, politics and the economy overall, and highlights that it is young Muslim women's ideas about improving themselves that is key in bringing about the new approach"--

Introduction: Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe / Tenson Muyambo, Fortune Sibanda & Ezra Chitando -- Bridging the 'Social Distance' between Public Health and Religion: Insights from Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in Zimbabwe / Mutsawashe Chitando and Ezra Chitando -- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and COVID-19 : A Case Study of the Ndau in eastern Zimbabwe / Anniegrace Hlatywayo and Sophia Chirongoma -- Unpacking and Repackaging the Shona Funeral and Post Burial Rites in the Context of the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) in Zimbabwe / Beatrice Taringa & Sophia Chirongoma -- Situating mainline Christian churches' responses to COVID-19 vaccination in Masvingo and Bikita Districts, Zimbabwe / Tenson Muyambo, Josiah Taru & Fortune Sibanda -- 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' (John 1:46): The Relevance of Apostolic Women's Empowerment Trust in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe / Tobias Marevesa and Fortune Sibanda -- Muslim response to COVID19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: A focus on Mberengwa ummah / Edmore Dube -- Migrant Communities and COVID-19 Vaccination at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe / Wisdom Sibanda -- COVID-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: Sites and scenes of power contestations through the lenses of spirituality and uncertainty / Tarsisio M. Nyatsanza -- African Indigenous Churches' response to the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe: A case of Johane Marange Apostolic Church / Henerieta Mgovo -- 'Disconcerting Vaccination Voices': Experiences of diasporic Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom / Nomatter Sande and Silas Nyadzo -- Vaccination uptake and power dynamics: Insights from African Initiated Churches and traditional healers in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe / Excellent Chiresh and Mavis Thokozile Macheka -- The Bible and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe: Critical Reflections on the Influence of the Bible on both Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy / Makomborero Allen Bowa -- Vaccination in African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe: A recipe for Church ideological bisection / Bernard Pindukai Humbe -- Shona Traditional Religion, Gender and COVID-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: The case of Buhera South, Manicaland province / Maradze Viriri, Etwin Machibaya & Cuthbert Pisirai -- From Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination to Religion and Development? A Review / Ezra Chitando, Tenson Muyambo and Fortune Sibanda.

"In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades. Friedlander's careful analysis brings out how the idea of natural history inflects Benjamin's conception of the work of art and its critique, his diagnosis of the mythical violence of the legal order, his account of the body and of action, of material culture and technology, as well as his unique vision of historical materialism. Featuring revelatory new readings of Benjamin's major works that differ, sometimes dramatically, from prevailing interpretations, this book reveals the internal coherence and philosophical force of Benjamin's thought"--

Die Analyse des Vordenkers Gene Sharp zum Thema "Regime Change" gilt als Blaupause für Bewegungen, die einen Politikwechsel anstreben. Eine Infragestellung des Systems ist dafür nicht notwendig. Aber strategisch denken muß, wer die politischen Leitgedanken innerhalb der bestehenden Ordnung fundamental verändern will. Mitten in den europaweiten Aufbruch und erfolgreichen Durchbruch rechter und konservativer Politik hinein liefern wir die Übertragung erprobter Ansätze auf unsere Lage. Martin Sellner hat nicht nur Sharp gelesen und verstanden, sondern viele andere strategische Ansätze. Er bündelt sie, gleicht sie mit seinen Erfahrungen als Kopf der Identitären Bewegung ab, analysiert die Lage und formuliert den Fahrplan für einen Regime Change von rechts. Leitstrategie, Non-Strategie, Parlamentspatriotismus, Militanz, Remigration, Reconquista - noch nie ist rechts der Mitte so planmäßig und professionell über Chance, Durchhaltevermögen, Bündelung und Zusammenspiel der Kräfte nachgedacht worden. Sellner lädt zur Debatte ein und formuliert Verhaltenslehren, die sich jeder aneignen sollte, der sich ernsthaft am Kampf um die gute Zukunft unseres Landes beteiligen möchte. (Verlagstext)