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"How much life can fit in one cubic foot? You may not think it would be much. But as photographer David Liittschwager and zoologist Chris Meyer realized, it can be packed! Along the way, Liittschwager learned that life in a cube can teach people about life on Earth in general. So, step into a cube and see what's around!"--

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 The Problem of War -- Political Violence and Human Insecurity -- Types of Political Violence -- Understanding the Fury of War -- Foucault's Silent War -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Trouble with International Law -- Bourdieu's Fields of Law -- Laws of Political Violence -- Prohibition on Aggressive Armed Force -- International Humanitarian Law -- International Criminal Law -- Transnational Criminal Law -- Contesting the Political Violence of Law -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Tragedy of Human Rights -- Human Rights and the Modernist Project -- War and Human Rights -- Law and Human Rights -- Humanity and the Anthropocene -- Latour's Political Ecology -- Alternative Futures? -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ethnicity without Groups -- 2 Beyond "Identity" -- 3 Ethnicity as Cognition -- 4 Ethnic and Nationalist Violence -- 5 The Return of Assimilation? -- 6 "Civic" and "Ethnic" Nationalism -- 7 Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post–Cold War Europe -- 8 1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia -- Notes -- References -- Index

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020. It analyses the global pandemic, and its ensuing restrictions, as a countervailing force in the production of such narratives. Lives and properties were lost in the spring and summer of 2019 and 2020, when catastrophic bushfires burnt through millions of hectares of mainland Australia. Nearly 3 billion native animals died. And for millions of Australians, and others worldwide, it was through the Australian megafires that the global climate emergency became tangibleandconcrete, no longer a comfortably deferred, albeit problematic abstraction which could be consigned to future generations to deal with. This book explores the legal and other implications of new understandings of climate emergency arising from the fires, and the emergence of a hierarchy of emergencies as the pandemic came to dominate global and domestic political discourses. It examines narratives of culpability, and legal avenues for seeking retribution from government and big fossil fuel emitters. It also considers the impact of the fires on the burgeoning phenomenon of climate activism, particularly in Australia, and the ways in which pandemic restrictions curtailed such activism. Finally, the book reflects on the fires through the lenses offered by climate fiction, and apocalyptic fiction more generally, in order to consider how these shape, and might shape, our responses to them. This important and timely book will appeal to environmental lawyers and socio-legal theorists; as well as other scholars and activists with interests in climate change and its impact. It is recommended for anyone concerned about current and future climate disasters, and the shortcomings in legal, political and popular responses to the climate crisis

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany -- I. THE INSTITUTION OF CITIZENSHIP -- 1. Citizenship as Social Closure -- 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship -- 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany -- II. DEFINING THE CITIZENRY: THE BOUNDS OF BELONGING -- 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany -- 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France -- 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany -- 7. "Etre Français, Cela se Mérite": Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s -- 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"The new, sixth edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course deepens students' understanding of the major theories, themes, and issues related to people and how they interact and change over the life span and with respect to their social environments. The new edition has been updated to reflect and build on new developments and awareness related to systemic racism and social justice and mental health and health-related concerns that were exacerbated and exposed by the pandemic. The text also comes with a rich companion website that includes support materials and six unique cases that encourage students to learn by doing and to apply their knowledge of human behavior to practice. The book works to: Provide balanced, thorough, and accessible coverage of the major theories and perspectives that social workers utilize to understand and address the myriad problems their clients encounter. Integrate crucial information on life course development, associated development phases, and related problem areas into a single, engaging framework. Stimulate classroom discussion and application around key concepts, themes, and issues. The content in this text is supported by a range of fully updated instructor-led and student resources - including presentations; sample test questions; recommended readings; and links for further study/applications to current events - that are available on its companion website, www.routledgesw.com. Comprehensive, engaging, and filled with examples for students to learn how to apply their burgeoning knowledge to realistic practice issues, the new edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment remains invaluable as a tool for courses by the same name in undergraduate and graduate curriculums"--

"A few years ago, while serving as a Professor at Harvard Business School, Rogers created a new course titled "Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship." After learning of the new course, a white professor asked, "Why do we need this course? What is the difference between Black and white entrepreneurs?" In response, Rogers identified the following differences: Black entrepreneurs cannot access capital from traditional financial institutions including banks and private equity firms Many Black entrepreneurs who want to sell to white customers must practice "racial concealment" to be successful Successful Black entrepreneurs who are not athletes or entertainers are virtually invisible in the minds of the general public All of these reasons have a negative impact on Black entrepreneurship which hurts the Black community and the entire country. Successful Black entrepreneurs create jobs for Black, white, and other racial groups. They also have created companies that provide products and services that has benefited society-at-large. For the Black community, Black entrepreneurship has been synonymous with freedom and self-sufficiency. For example, Black entrepreneurs are the largest private employers of Black people in the country. The government is the top public employer. The book will be largely comprised of case studies that Rogers wrote and have been published by Harvard Business School (HBS). These are all case studies that have been individually sold by Harvard Business Publishing, proving that there is a market for this content. A book made up primarily of HBS case studies about Black entrepreneurs has never been published"--

"Few activities or concepts are as maligned or as celebrated as speculation. Speculators cast implausible, seemingly contagious money-making schemes into the future, and their unsubstantiated risks leave untold amounts of collateral damage. At the same time, speculation mediates between the seen and unseen, the natural and the supernatural, and the material present and the abstract, hypothetical future. It builds the worlds that we inhabit now and will inhabit tomorrow, just as it builds worlds that will never come into being. In short, speculation, as it has been identified and defined, is at the center of Western thought, finance, and politics, revealing the limits, possibilities, and excesses of our attempts to create knowledge about and shape our future. In Speculation, Gayle Rogers offers a cultural, literary, and intellectual history of the concept and practices of speculation from antiquity to the present. He traces its origins from its exalted position in Greek, Roman, and medieval philosophy to its denigration by John Calvin who viewed it as sinful. As the concept became increasingly associated with the modern economy in the eighteenth century in the works of Jonathan Swift, Adam Smith, and others, the concept was also seized upon by the Romanticists and Transcendentalists for other intellectual reasons as well as female authors such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, who expanded the concept to debates about "women speculators" of the nineteenth century. With the advent of the stock ticker tape and continuing through today, new technologies have shaped ideas about speculation and how machines might take over a previous human activity."

"Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community. It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States. In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community--plain and simple. This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks. These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages. And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865. Those who read the book will: Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap."--