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In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping the visions and experience of migration in increasingly global contexts.

With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these "pandemic media" reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which they are entangled. Highlighting media's adaptability, malleability, and scalability under the conditions of a pandemic, the contributions to this volume track and analyze how media emerge, operate, and change in response to the global crisis and provide elements toward an understanding of the post-pandemic world to come.

In this book the author addresses certain matters of urgent global concern. These include migration across national borders, the current refugee crisis, ethno-racial prejudice, subjective distress of minorities, and, above all, the forever-present ominous shadow of terrorism. Akhtar evolves and advocates a uniquely 'anthropological psychoanalysis' which is a blend of depth psychology and humanities, including sociology, economics, political science, history, and , of course, anthropology. He deconstructs what seems self-evident and confronts his readers with some socio-politically unpleasant realities, both within psychoanalysis and in the prevalent perspectives on the on-going turmoil and bloodshed in today's world

This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis, exploring how they interact in key social, cultural, and political arenas on a global scale. The contributors examine the neoliberal market in anthropological and ethnographic terms to question whether "market logic" has won out against social aspects of human existence in a framework of minimal state protection and the devaluation of human labor. Fruitfully combining empirical data and theoretical approaches, the volume investigates the extent to which ordinary people accept unequal allocations of resources and examines their sense of belonging in an expansive neoliberal economy.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of maps and figures -- Introduction: Deakin surveys the continent -- 1. Missions and the state in North Australia -- 2. Knowing and ruling Northern Aborigines -- 3. Governments, churches, parents, spouses and children, 1897-1940 -- 4. Did 'protection' protect? -- 5. Global awareness and the recession of race -- 6. World Wars and the Cold War -- 7. Towards racial equality -- 8. From the referendum to 'self-determination' -- 9. The Indigenous Estate in Land and Sea -- 10. Asserting 'Southern' Aboriginality -- 11. The Indigenous middle class -- 12. Family, community and the crisis of self-determination -- Epilogue: Within a single field of life -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Introduction / Edward L. Glaeser, Tano Santos, and E. Glen Weyl -- Stochastic compounding and uncertain valuation / Lars Peter Hansen and José A. Scheinkman -- The good banker / Patrick Bolton -- How to implement contingent capital / Albert S. Kyle -- Bankruptcy laws and collateral regulation: reflections after the crisis / Aloisio Araujo, Rafael Ferreira, and Bruno Funchal -- Antes del Diluvio: the Spanish banking system in the first decade of the euro / Tano Santos -- Are commodity futures prices barometers of the global economy? / Conghui Hu and Wei Xiong -- Social learning, credulous Bayesians, and aggregation reversals / Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote -- Finance and the common good / E. Glen Weyl

This book explores how the first decade of the 21st century was nothing short of "les années folles". The impressive growth rate of emerging economies changed the crisis-ridden world in a very short time, and in the early 2000s the emerging world's weight in the global economy was 38%, now 50%. This statistic confirms the political reality of the century of the emerging world. The monograph shows that the long-term tendencies inaugurated during this decade represent a silent revolution, as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and this will lead to a

1. Globalization of higher education policy : the case of Thailand -- 2. Selective borrowing and the historical development of Thai higher education -- 3. The changing role of the Thai state and higher education administration -- 4. The Asian economic crisis as window of opportunity : autonomous university policy -- 5. Internationalization of teaching : quantitative and qualitative challenges -- 6. The politics of international ranking and Thailand research landscape -- 7. The emergence of quality policies and their rationales -- 8. The global-local nexus of quality policies : the case of Onesqa -- 9. The intended and unintended consquences of quality policies -- 10. The culture of borrowing and Thailand reform fatigue.

"Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the US and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, seek to assess the current unprecedented rates of environmental degradation, expanding economic inequality, and wide-spread social injustice. Without dividing worker from wilderness, or labor from landscape, they present solutions to the global climate crisis. Ultimately, this book advances the idea of a working-class ecology that must be an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development"--

1. Abortion : pro-choice versus pro-life / Ruth Ann Strickland -- 2. Death penalty : just punishment or legalized homicide? / Brent S. Steel and Mary Ann E. Steger -- 3. Gay rights : nature or nurture? / Margaret E. Ellis and Nina Therese Kasniunas -- 4. Hate crimes : protected prejudice or punishable motive? / Scott Yenor and Jon Schaff -- 5. God and country : debating religion in public life / Ted G. Jelen -- 6. Gun control : constitutional mandate or myth? / Robert J. Spitzer -- 7. Global warming : environmental crisis or scientific hoax? / Byron W. Daynes and Glen Sussman -- 8. Animal rights : subordinate or equal species? / Stephanie A. Slocum-Schaffer.

Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. We Become What We Measure --1. More, Better, Faster: The Beginnings --2. The Origins of Bling: The Spirit of Economic Growth --3. The Crucible of Crisis: The Great Depression and the Need for Economic Indicators --4. Born from Disaster: The Making of a Key Measure --5. Forged in War --6. Global Domination: The Age of GDP --7. Today's ABC of GDP --8. More Is Not Enough --9. "The People of Plenty Are a People of Waste" --10. From Alchemy to Reason: What If? A Thought Experiment --11. Looking Forward --Appendix A. The Measure as Guide --Notes --Bibliography --Index.

1. The Iranian economy before and after the revolution -- 2. Islamic fundamentalism in action : the case of Iran -- 3. Iran's unemployment crisis -- 4. Islamic social justice : Iranian style -- 5. Iran's 20-year economic perspective : promises and pitfalls -- 6. Iran's Oil Stabilization Fund : a misnomer -- 7. Khatami's legacy : dashed hopes -- 8. Sanctioning the Islamic Republic : a new global wave -- 9. Iran : the rial saga -- 10. Iran : the subsidy dilemma -- 11. Ahmadinejad's legacy -- 12. Nuclear Iran : perils and prospects -- 13. Iran's oil as a blessing and a curse -- 14. The Islamic Republic of Iran : facts and fiction -- 15. Iran's economy facing a challenging year.

This Seminar Studies title is a succinct study of modern British foreign policy, focusing on the period from 1945 to the present day. Since the end of the Second World War, Britain has been engaged in international conflicts from the Suez Crisis to the Gulf War and has actively sought involvement in transnational and global affairs. Starting with a brief overview of the rise and fall of the British Empire and continuing chronologically with detailed chapters covering the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, Alasdair Blair discusses the highs and lows of B

This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations? Since 2003, the EU has carried out six military operations. What accounts for this historic development? The EU and Military Operations examines the dynamics behind the EU ́s collective use of force and situates the EU in the context of a global division of labour with regard to military crisis management. It centres on the study of two main cases of EU military operations: the non-case when an operation was planned in the Lebanon war 2006 but did not occur, an.

"The Politics of Total Liberation vividly articulates the crises haunting the social and natural worlds, which are coming apart under the impact of global capitalism, human overpopulation, species extinction, and runaway climate change. Steven Best contextualizes the 21st century as the decisive moment in human history wherein our actions will determine whether the future will be merely burdensome or catastrophic. Overcoming this crisis demands a new politics of total liberation that unites the disparate movements for human, animal, and earth liberation. Avoiding bravado or false optimism, Best questions humanity's ability to rise to the occasion, and dares to imagine a 'world without us'"--Provided by publisher.