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"Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation weaves engaging first-person accounts of the lives of baby boomer drug users, including the author Miriam Boeri's own knowledge as the sister of a heroin addict. The compelling stories are set in historical context, from the cultural influence of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll to contemporary discourse that pegs drug addiction as a disease punished by incarceration. Boeri writes with penetrating insight and conscientious attention to the intersectionality of race, gender, and class as she analyzes the impact of an increasingly punitive War on Drugs on a hurting generation"--Provided by publisher

This study aims to find out how the strategy used by the Government of Indonesia, in this case the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (MoTCE), in utilizing Instagram social media as a means of communication for the tourism sector crisis in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. This study uses a qualitative descriptive content analysis to describe the strategies used by MoTCE in using Instagram account @kemenparekraf.ri, by first mapping all posts for one month for later analysis. This study also uses the concept of crisis response strategies representing the actual responses that organizations use to overcome crises where crisis response strategies involve words (verbal aspects) and actions (nonverbal aspects) that are directed by organizations towards crises (Allen & Caillouet, 1994 and Benoit, 1995 in Coombs, 2015). The validity of the data in the study was carried out by analyzing data in the form of data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The result of the research is that various topics/themes are raised in response to various events related to Covid-19, the use of certain hashtags, policies that have been taken and campaigns that have been carried out consistently conveyed to the public regarding Covid-19, as well as a timeline of events that can be concluded as important efforts that have been carried out by MoTCE at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The aim of this writing is to contribute to the analysis of the specific aspects in which the relationships between ethics and economics occur. In particular, to show that economics, considered in its neoclassical synthesis, can hardly sustain the distinction between normative economics and positive economics. Since any notion of efficiency linked to social welfare implies sustaining normative propositions in a non-trivial sense. Not only that, the most well-known results of welfare economics, such as Arrow's impossibility theorem, are only valid if a very restricted informational structure of utility functions is considered. In this sense, it is necessary to use a less restrictive framework to think and model differents criteria of social welfare. Considering this, it is shown that the interaction between economics and ethics must be strengthened, since interdisciplinary work allows evaluating public policies from perspectives that are not always visible to the economists' own tools. ; Este escrito tiene como objetivo global contribuir al análisis de los aspectos específicos en los que se dan las relaciones entre ética y economía. En particular, mostrar que la economía, considerada en su síntesis neoclásica, difícilmente puede sostener la distinción entre economía normativa y economía positiva, ya que toda noción de eficiencia ligada al bienestar social implica sostener proposiciones normativas en un sentido no trivial. No solo eso, los resultados más conocidos de la economía del bienestar, como el teorema de imposibilidad de Arrow, solo son válidos si se considera una estructura informacional de las funciones de utilidad muy restringida. En este sentido, es necesario utilizar un marco menos restrictivo para pensar y modelar distintos criterios de bienestar social. Considerando lo anterior, se muestra que la interacción entre economía y ética debe ser fortalecida, ya que el trabajo interdisciplinario permite evaluar políticas públicas desde perspectivas que no siempre están a la vista para las herramientas propias de los economistas.

The article analyzes theoretical and legal, comparative and applied as well as terminological and conceptual aspects of the process of interpretation by the administrative courts of Ukraine of general and military-special regulations that are important for making informed decisions in military and legal public disputes. In order to determine a systematic approach to the possibility of reversing the execution of court decisions in administrative cases on appeals against decisions, actions and omissions of the subject of power, the subject of which is the payment of one-time cash benefits to servicemen, conscripts and reservists in case of death, total or partial disability, a systematic analysis of terms, words and phrases in the context of the normative content of Article 381 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine has been conducted. Based on the study, a logical conclusion has been made regarding the diversity and ambiguity of general legal terms, terminological phrases enshrined in the normative content of Article 381 of the CAP of Ukraine and their inconsistency with military-special terms and phrases enshrined in the normative-legal legislation of Ukraine, in particular in the field of military service and military-social legal relations. The results of the study allow the application of the provisions of Article 380 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine on the reversal of a court decision to the disputed military-protective legal relations. Further research on the peculiarities of the application of military and social legislation by administrative courts of Ukraine should be carried out by taking into account the requirements of military and social legislation of developed foreign countries and the current practice of the European Court of Human Rights.

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.

"Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all? Why, she asks, has the view of 'fat' as a problem-a symptom of immorality, a medical pathology, a public health epidemic-come to dominate more positive framings of weight-as consistent with health, beauty, or a legitimate rights claim-in public discourse? Why are heavy individuals singled out for blame? And what are the consequences of understanding weight in these ways? What's Wrong with Fat? presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we've come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. Saguy shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, she reveals that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses."--Provided by publisher

From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Osagie, a native of Sierra Leone, digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials.

Intro -- Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change -- PART 1 Others in Distant Places: Opportunities for Social Mobility -- 2 Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Ghana: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs -- 3 The Impact of Migration of the Chinese Women in Niamey on Gender and Family Relations -- 4 African Cultural Brokers in South China -- 5 Early Chinese Migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contract Labourers and Traders -- PART 2 Encounters with the Other, Stimuli for Social Change -- 6 Grassroots Social Change Triggered by Africa-China Encounters in Urban China -- 7 Business Partners and Employers: Chinese Traders as Facilitators of Grassroots Social Innovation in West Africa -- 8 A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria -- 9 The Chinese Factor in Senegal: Changing Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Socio-Economic Restructuring -- PART 3 The Products of Others: 'Made in China' as Imaginary and Opportunity -- 10 This "Made in China" that Gets Africa Moving: Chinese Motorcycles and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso -- 11 "Made in China" and the African "China Dream": An Alternative to the West? -- 12 Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra's China Trade -- Index.

"Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion. Offering unique perspectives that consider the impact on modern day policy and practice, the book scrutinizes a range of issues such as abortion, hate crime and desistance as well as reflecting upon the influence religion can have on criminal justice professions. The book acts to renew the importance of, and recognise, the influence and impact religion has in terms of how we view and ultimately address crime and deliver criminal justice. One of the first books to cover the area of crime, criminal justice and religion, the book is split into three parts, with part 1 - Contextualising Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion providing an introduction to crime, criminal justice & religion and reflections on the role religion has had, and continues to have, in how crime is understood and how we respond to it. Part 2 - Appraisal of Institutions & Professional Practice considers the issue of religion through institutions and professions of criminal justice, such as the police and legal profession, while part 3 - Appraisal of Contemporary Issues explores a range of crime and criminal justice issues in on which religion has impacted, such as the death penalty and terrorism. Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion will be of primary interest to academics, researchers and students in criminology, law, sociology, psychology, social policy and related HASS disciplines. It will also be of interest to theologians, both as scholars and practitioners. The book is a body of work that will appeal at an international level and will also be a key resource for a range of practitioners across the globe working on issues concerning crime and criminal justice"--

Taking the distinction made by Patrick Hassenteufel between statutory and identity-based citizenship as a starting point, this article investigates expressions of the latter citizenship in early twentieth-century France. More specifically, this article focuses on how 'ordinary' men and women from a rural area in the Rhône department perceived their place in French republican society shortly before and during the First World War. The war years were a time when (claims to) social policies were continuously renegotiated, in relation to men and women's commitment to the Republic. Whether they had political voting rights or not, 'ordinary' citizens took part in these negotiation processes, yet in an informal (and therefore still underexposed) way, through written communication with a parliamentary representative (député).Men and women who shared the same social background used similar rhetorical tactics in their requests for help, support, or a favour. Men's expressions of gratitude towards 'their' député could, however, entail a promise of a vote, whereas women were still not enfranchised. Though reminiscent of the image of a clientelist rural France at first sight, neither men's nor women's letters were characterised by mere trade-offs. Instead, they were increasingly revealing of how the letter-writers (re)imagined the notions attached to their citizenship. The connections between those concepts, such as (social) rights, duties, and knowledge (and the impact of the war on rhetorical constructions of these aspects of citizenship) are analyzed from the letter-writers' viewpoints. Focusing on such a micro-level allows for insights into the mutually educational nature of the common practice of sending letters to a French Third Republican parliamentary representative.

Die Lebenszufriedenheit ist nach den Befunden der meisten (inter)nationalen Studien in Kleinstädten höher als in den einwohnerstärkeren Stadttypen. Um einen detaillierten Eindruck von der Situation in Deutschland zu bekommen, wird in diesem Beitrag mittels einer Bevölkerungsbefragung in acht deutschen Kleinstädten untersucht, wie stark die Bedeutung der Infrastrukturausstattung als Aspekt von Lebensqualität sowie der Erreichbarkeit von Infrastruktur für die Lebenszufriedenheit vor Ort ist und ob nicht der Faktor des sozialen Zusammenhalts stärker auf die Zufriedenheit wirkt. Es lässt sich festhalten, dass das Infrastrukturangebot als Aspekt objektiv messbarer Lebensqualität nicht am stärksten auf die Lebenszufriedenheit wirkt. Die Bevölkerung der Kleinstädte in zentralen Lagen nimmt offenbar die Infrastrukturangebote der benachbarten Großstädte und anderer Orte wahr und ist sehr zufrieden mit dem Leben vor Ort, trotz eines geringen Zufriedenheitswerts bezüglich der Infrastrukturausstattung. Damit bestätigt die Untersuchung tendenziell das Borrowing-Size-Konzept, wonach kleine Städte im Umland von den Funktionen der Kernstadt profitieren. Dagegen sind es die beiden Faktoren des sozialen Zusammenhalts und die Zufriedenheit mit den Leistungen der örtlichen Verwaltung, die stark mit der individuellen Lebenszufriedenheit vor Ort zusammenhängen. Es stellt sich für die weitere Forschung die Frage, welche Faktoren lokalen Gemeinsinn erklären und wie dieser durch politische Maßnahmen verbessert werden kann. ; According to most (inter)national studies, life satisfaction in small towns is higher than in other types of towns with more inhabitants. With a population survey in eight German cities, we examine the importance of the infrastructure as an aspect of quality of life and the accessibility of infrastructure for local life satisfaction and whether or not the factor of social cohesion has a stronger impact on life satisfaction. The results show a differentiated picture: First, the infrastructure offer, as an aspect of objectively measurable quality of life does not have the greatest impact on life satisfaction. The population of the small towns in central locations apparently takes advantage of the infrastructure offers of their neighbouring towns and other places. Somehow, they are very satisfied with life on site, despite a low level of satisfaction with the infrastructure. The study thus tends to confirm the borrowing size concept, according to which small towns in the surrounding area benefit from the functions of the core city. On the other hand, the two factors of social cohesion and satisfaction with the performance of the local administration are closely related to the individual life satisfaction on site. For further research, the question arises, as which factors can explain local common sense best and how this can be improved through political measures.

BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown that various social integration variables represented by social capital are beneficial to communities, including collective health. However, the rapid decline in fertility rates and the breakup of familyism in developed countries require a new approach to social disintegration, but the literature is insufficient. Here, we explored the contextual effects of social integration and social disintegration on the health of individuals. METHODS: The research data consist of merged datasets of 6909 respondents who were quota-sampled by approximately 30 people from 229 local governments in Korea. The individual-level independent variable is a social integration measure consisting of 26 questions in four areas. The community-level independent variables are five integral and aggregate variables extracted from 81 indicators. The dependent variable is self-rated health status. Potential confounders are gender, age, annual income, educational attainment, district type, and the number of beds in medical institutions per 1000 people. RESULTS: The results showed that at the individual level, the higher the inclusive attitude of in- and out-of-networks, after adjusting for potential confounders, the less likely the respondent belongs to the unhealthy group (p < 0.001). At the community level, the higher the proportion of single-person households in a community after adjusting for potential confounders, the less likely the respondent belongs to the unhealthy group (p < 0.05). The effect size was 0.22. CONCLUSION: Thus far, social integration has been preferred, with the positive aspects of social capital being emphasized. However, this study shows that in some cases, social disintegration can instead positively influence an individual's health. Therefore, further studies of the various conditions of social context effects on health are necessary.

1. K12 Schools and COVID-19: Context and Framing -- 2. COVID-19: What Is and Is Not Known -- 3. Schools and the Pandemic -- 4. Deciding to Reopen Schools -- 5. Reducing Transmission When School Buildings Are Open -- 6. Recommendations and Urgent Research -- Epilogue -- References -- Appendix A: The Committee's Review of Existing Evidence -- Appendix B: Guidance Documents Collected by the Committee -- Appendix C: Example District Plans for Reopening Schools -- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff.

"If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly marketing and selling ourselves--we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly eloquently tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility maximisation and the common good. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary examples, from self-help literature and marketing jargon to political speeches and governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vallelly coins several terms--including "the futilitarian condition," "homo futilitus," and "semio-futility"--to demonstrate that in the neoliberal decades, the practice of utility maximisation traps us in useless and repetitive behaviors that foreclose the possibility of collective happiness. This urgent and provocative book chimes with the mood of the time by at once mapping the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, developing an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounting the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. At a time of epoch-defining disasters, from climate emergencies to deadly pandemics, countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future" -- Publisher description