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"Critically assessing meanings of the term 'public', this book situates the emergence and expansion of 'public services' within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a 'bourgeois public sphere'. The author explores opportunities for more expansive forms of non-marketized public services, examining emerging debates on the theory and practice of equitable, participatory and sustainable forms of publicness that go beyond mere ownership. The book then asks how we can build a robust international 'pro-public' movement that juggles universal needs with local context. With a focus on essential public services such as water, electricity and health, the text is global in its scope and written for a broad audience. It will be useful for those interested in social and public policy, public services and public administration, political theory, economic geography, social movements, sustainability and development"--

In October 2019, the Internal Revenue Service offered its first guidance on cryptocurrency reporting standards in nearly five years. As digital investments become more commonly accepted, the need for regulation and guidance becomes clearer. Issues such as how to classify cryptocurrencies and how a transaction's purpose impacts reporting standards are currently being addressed across the globe as governments work to develop protocols that organize this rapidly developing field. This note analyzes the developing reporting standards of select countries and the potential impacts on use as cryptocurrencies become more mainstream as a potential investment and method of payment.

The continuing security of our country and the achievement of worldwide peace have seldom been more dependent upon the wisdom and judgment which professional military leaders can contribute to the highest councils of our nation.

But even so, the long logistic support lines to South Vietnam have once again brought out the fact that the heavy lift mobility-without which no military effort-ancient or modern-can be sustained, must rely upon water transportation.

Willard Sunderland and Peter Holquist find in the same cohort of imperial officials—the "technocrats" in the Resettlement Administration—a key moment in the history of Russian statecraft (gosudarstvennost'), linked in turn to the Russian state's career as a "modern colonial empire." Thus, each historian seeks to ensconce within a larger institutional historical framework the burgeoning discussion occasioned over the last two decades by the "imperial turn" in Russian and European historiographies.However, each article situates the resettlement administration in very different developmental narratives, reaching equally distinctive conclusions. guided by the foucauldian notion of "governmentality" and james scott's insights on statecraft, sunderland presents the resettlement administration as a proto-ministry of asiatic russia, whose "experts" would impose in asiatic russia the institutionalization of "difference" between metropolis and periphery—defined and explained by the new hilfsiuissenschaften—that european empire-builders had applied in civilizing their own overseas colonies.

David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing "resistance" in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation. The first of its kind, this book offers an in-depth ethnomusicological analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributing a performative perspective to the larger scholarly conversation about one of the world's most contested humanitarian issues. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Provided by publisher. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Nationalism, belonging, and the performativity of resistance -- Poets, singers, and songs : voices in the resistance movement (1917-1967) -- Al-Naksa and the emergence of political song (1967-1987) -- The Intifada and the generation of the Stones (1987-2000) -- Revivals and new arrivals: the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2010) -- "My songs can reach the whole nation" : Baladna and protest song in Jordan -- Imprisonment and exile : negotiating power and resistance in Palestinian protest song -- New directions and new modalities : Palestinian hip-hop in Israel -- "Carrying words like weapons" : DAM brings hip-hop to the West Bank. ; David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing "resistance" in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation. The first of its kind, this book offers an in-depth ethnomusicological analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributing a performative perspective to the larger scholarly conversation about one of the world's most contested humanitarian issues. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Provided by publisher. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Description based on print version record.