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Insights from social psychology and the gender and politics literature, as well as discussions and campaigns in the policymaking world, suggest that exposure to counter-stereotypes about gender roles might improve people's attitudes toward gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The authors test this expectation by conducting five survey experiments (N=6,916) and a separate, follow-up experiment (N=3,600) in the US context using counter-stereotypical treatments commonly encountered in the real world. They examine both political and non-political attitudes, manipulate stereotypes about both men and women, and provide visual as well as textual stimuli. The treatments undermined stereotypes about the gender roles depicted in the counter-stereotypical exemplars. However, they failed to alter respondents' generic core beliefs about women and men and increase equitable attitudes. The results improve our understanding of how stereotypes contribute to gender and anti-LGBTQ bias.

South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid reconstructs the South African decision-making and diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear weapons programme and its international status, drawing on new and extensive archival material and interviews. This deeply researched study brings to light a unique disarmament experience. It traces the country's previously neglected path towards accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Rather than relying primarily on US government archives, the book joins the burgeoning field of national nuclear histories based on unprecedented access to policymakers and documents in the country studied. Robin E. Möser, in addition to providing access to important new documents, offers original interpretations that enrich the study of nuclear politics for historians and political scientists.

How can we more deeply understand religious pluralism? In this study, Christopher C. Knight suggests that current explorations of religious pluralism may be supplemented by combining new thinking about divine action with the kind of 'mystical theology' that sees doctrinal statements as aids to contemplation rather than as philosophical truth claims. While Knight sees the 'perennialist' tradition of pluralistic thinking as deeply flawed, he nevertheless proposes that we can adopt a kind of neo-perennialism in which the supposed incompatibilities of different faith traditions may still be seen in the way that perennialists have usually considered them: as relating only to the exotericdimension of religious faith and practice. In this way, he suggests, the perennialist notion of esoteric ecumenism may still be valid. He cautions, nevertheless, that at a methodological level, there may be defensible reasons to hesitate before adopting a full-blown pluralism of this kind.

Those who seek change in civic life have much in common: they each bring valuable expertise to the table and need to strategize with others about what to do. That's why new collaborative relationships between diverse thinkers are essential. Yet they're difficult to form. Collaborate Now! presents a new argument about why that is, along with tools to foster them anew. As with any form of voluntary civic engagement, these relationships require time and motivation. Yet on top of that, collaborators often start off as strangers, and are uncertain about relationality: whether they'll relate to each other in ways that are meaningful and brimming with interaction. Using case studies, field experiments, interviews, and observational data, this book provides a rich understanding of the collaborative relationships needed to tackle civic challenges, how uncertainty about relationality can produce an unmet desire for them, and actionable tools to surface and meet this desire.

With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material trappings of privilege and taste, on the one side, and the stark realities of human bondage, on the other. By examining the history of Cape wine, Paul Nugent offers a detailed history of how, in South Africa, race has shaped patterns of consumption. The book takes us through the Liquor Act of 1928, which restricted access along racial lines, intervention to address overproduction from the 1960s, and then latterly, in the wake of the fall of the Apartheid regime, deregulation in the 1990s and South Africa's re-entry into global markets. We see how the industry struggled to embrace Black Economic Empowerment, environmental diversity and the consumer market. This book is an essential read for those interested in the history of wine, and how it intersects with both South African and global history.

Exploring the interplay of love, money and threat in romance fraud, this Element reveals how language is used to persuade, manipulate, and threaten without causing alarm. It provides the first empirical examination of criminal interactions-in-action that exposes and tracks the grooming process and manipulation techniques from first contact with the fraudster, to the transition between romance and finance, and requests for money and intimate images, before morphing into explicit threats and acts of sextortion. Through the use of a range of interactional methodologies and real romance fraud messages, a new type of criminality in the form of 'romance fraud enabled sextortion' is revealed. The insights contained in this work have clear implications for future directions of academic exploration and practitioner efforts to protect the public. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This Element explores the sentiment and keyword features in both authorship profiling and authorship attribution in social media texts in the Chinese cultural context. The key findings can be summarised as follows: firstly, sentiment scores and keyword features are distinctive in delineating authors' gender and age. Specifically, female and younger authors tend to be less optimistic and use more personal pronouns and graduations than male and older authors, respectively. Secondly, these distinctive profiling features are also distinctive and significant in authorship attribution. Thirdly, our mindset, shaped by our inherent hormonal influences and external social experiences, plays a critical role in authorship. Theoretically, the findings expand authorship features into underexplored domains and substantiate the theory of mindset. Practically, the findings offer some broad quantitative benchmarks for authorship profiling cases in the Chinese cultural context, and perhaps other contexts where authorship profiling analyses have been used. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time. But for both Russia and Japan, these relations have never been a key element of foreign policy, indispensable or intrinsically important for their diplomatic strategy. It is also noteworthy that for most of this time Russia and Japan were enemies, rivals, competitors. For both parties the significance of bilateral relations to a large extent was determined by their geographical proximity. This geographically predestined relationship can be characterized as 'distant neighbors'. At the same time, at certain historical stages, this neighborhood was not so 'distant'. The countries managed to establish relations in the economic sphere while tourism cultural scientific and educational ties were actively developing. The complexity of the relations which developed for just over three centuries is worthy of study. This book analyzes these three centuries of Japan-Russia relations so as not to miss out any essential factors of the relationship.

This book is an ethnographic account of education and migration from the perspective of three groups of South Koreans in contemporary China: migrant parents, children/students, and educational agents. The book reveals how these temporary migrants make choices, plan their trajectories and engage with the authorities, both in China and South Korea. Migrant subjectivities among these groups are driven by and respond to the education-migration regimes of both the sending and receiving countries. As 'people in between', they occupy flexible and multiple positionalities that are transnationally distributed. However, paradoxically, they experience a juxtaposition of privilege, integration and separation, which is indicative of the Chinese style of internationalisation. The book adds weight to the argument that China is a temporary destination for foreigners and not one for long-term settlement.

Aby Warburg gilt als Wegbereiter der modernen Kulturwissenschaften. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge der renommiertesten Warburg-Forscherinnen und -Forscher. Sie befassen sich mit Warburgs herausragender Bedeutung für das Verständnis kulturellen Transfers und des Einflusses von Bildern und Texten über Zeit und Raum. Einmal mehr wird die anhaltende Bedeutung von Warburg für unsere Zeit deutlich. Eine unerlässliche Lektüre für alle, die sich mit den vielfältigen Formen des Überlebens der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart und den komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Bildern und Gesellschaft befassen. Publiziert in Kooperation mit dem Warburg Institute in London und mit Unterstützung der Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America an der Columbia University, New York. Blick ins Buch

Der Sammelband nimmt die erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskussionen und Forschungsperspektiven auf, die sich im Spannungsverhältnis von Normalisierung und Pathologisierung im Rahmen der Schule eröffnen. Überlegungen und Untersuchungen zu Prozessen der Individualisierung oder gesellschaftliche Debatten zu schulischer Heterogenität und sozialer Ungleichheit sind hierin ebenso eingeschlossen wie die Relevanz medizinisch-psychiatrischer und psychologischer Diskurse für die Pädagogik. Hieraus ergeben sich vielgestaltige Anfragen an allgemeine erziehungswissenschaftliche Aspekte im Rahmen der Begriffsbildung, der (ethischen und politischen) Diskussion um Teilhabe, Chancengleichheit oder Bildungsgerechtigkeit wie auch an aktuelle Debatten über die Institution Schule und Bildungssysteme – etwa im Kontext von Inklusion – sowie über Professionsverständnisse.

Während der Stalinzeit waren im Gulag, dem System der Zwangsarbeitslager in der Sowjetunion, mehr als 18 Millionen Menschen inhaftiert, darunter auch zahlreiche Musiker:innen. Von den vielen musikbezogenen Berufsgruppen, die damals im Gulag repräsentiert waren, konzentriert sich dieser Band auf die der Komponist:innen. Er dokumentiert die nach gegenwärtigem Kenntnisstand gesicherten Fakten zu diesem Thema und stellt die Schicksale der betroffenen Personen in einen weiteren Rahmen, indem er nach den Hintergründen der Inhaftierungen fragt, diese in den Kontext weiterer Repressionen gegen Musiker:innen in der Sowjetunion stellt und Seitenblicke auf andere Künste am selben Ort wirft.Mit Beiträgen vonInna Barsova | Friedrich Geiger | Igor Golomshtok | Galina Ivanova | Inna Klause | Marina Lobanova | Urve Lippus | Wolfgang Mende | Victoria Mironova | Jascha Nemtsov | Dorothea Redepenning | Vitaly Shentalinsky | Oleg Timofeyev | Semyon Vilensky | Igor Vorobyov | Andreas Waczkat | Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal | Stefan Weiss | Vsevolod Zaderatsky