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Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music.

Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, freedom has been defined through opposition to the unfreedom of most of the world's people. Allison Weir draws on Indigenous political theories and practices of decolonization in dialogue with western theories, to reconstruct a tradition of relational freedom as a distinctive political conception of freedom: a radically democratic mode of engagement and participation in social and political relations with an infinite range of strange and diverse beings perceived as free agents in interdependent relations in a shared world.

Family Dispute Resolution brings together some of the field's leading practitioners, researchers, teachers, and policymakers to share their expertise and experience. This overview of family dispute resolution processes and practices is designed to help professionals who assist separating and divorcing parents make decisions about the future of their families. It is essential reading for legal and mental health professionals in the field and law and graduate students who intend to work with separating and divorcing families.

Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict explores the legal dimension of strategic competition below the threshold of war, assessing the key legal and ethical questions posed for liberal democracies. Bringing together diverse scholarly and practitioner perspectives, the volume introduces readers to the conceptual and practical difficulties arising in this area, the rich debates the topic has generated, and the challenges that countering hybrid threats and grey zone conflict poses for liberal democracies.

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Contested Borderlands: The US-Mexico War, Treaty, and Immediate Aftermath -- Chapter Two. Responding to Conquest: Land Loss, Violence, and Repatriation -- Chapter Three. Asserting Rights, Remembering Loss: Statehood, Property Rights, and Transnational Influences -- Chapter Four. Immigrants and Transnational Circulation of Conquest Memories: School Segregation, Lynching, and Shifting Boundaries -- Chapter Five. Patriotism and Legacies of Conquest: Segregation, Electoral Politics, and Jury Representation -- Chapter Six. The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements: Land Grants, Police Brutality, and the Draft -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction: A Nation of Emigrants -- Chapter One: Choice Not Chance -- Chapter Two: A Spirit of Emigration -- Chapter Three: Human Ramparts -- Chapter Four: Human Balloons -- Chapter Five: The Expatriating Crusade -- Chapter Six: Voluntary Mexicans -- Chapter Seven: Lawless Spirits -- Chapter Eight: My Bones Are a Property Bequeathed to Me -- Epilogue: A World of Emigrants -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Building on past research in the broad field of stakeholder management and entrepreneurship, this book pushes a new agenda for more effective stakeholder engagement and management in entrepreneurial firms in Africa. An essential read for postgraduate students, researchers, and public and private analysts.

Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are constructed and negotiated in the Spanish heritage language classroom, and how the classroom discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the world outside.

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds. This book is an introduction to the key features of social positioning theory.

This book explores the role of private mining rights in the utopian imaginary of space colonisation. It presents a transdisciplinary account and interrogates the new and evolving legislative frameworks that govern access to the mineral resources of space.