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If we are skeptical about the truth of religious or moral belief, what should we do about those ways of talking and thinking? According to the fictionalist, they provide pragmatic benefits that do not depend on their truth. This volume examines religious fictionalism, moral fictionalism, and the relation between these views.

"The man walked across the tarmac toward the Boeing 727 carrying a briefcase containing the $30 wig, a pair of rubber gloves, a smoke grenade, and two guns-a Spitfire machine gun with the stock and front grip removed and eleven inches cut off the barrel, making it compact enough to fit in the briefcase, and a small-caliber pistol. It was Friday, June 23, 1972, just after 2 p.m. and about 80 degrees, but not particularly humid for St. Louis, with a light breeze. He had paid $70 for the roundtrip ticket to Tulsa and back, under the name "Robert Wilson." As was almost always the case in the era before metal detectors and heightened security, he had walked through the terminal and directly to his gate without stopping. No one asked to see what he was carrying"--

"This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: - introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; - highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches; - gives insights from projects across different cultural contexts and academic disciplines, showing ways in which older participants can be involved in co-designing different stages of the research cycle; - examines key issues to consider when involving older participants at each step of the research process; - includes the voices of older adults directly; - draws out conclusions and points ways forward for future research. This Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the field of ageing and/or participatory methods, as well as for those policy stakeholders in the fields of ageing and demographic change, social and public policy, or health and wellbeing who are interested in involving older adults in policy processes. It will be useful for third sector advocacy organisations and international non-governmental and public agencies working either in citizen involvement/participation or the ageing sector"--

Chapter 1. Staying proximate (Outi Rantala, Veera Kinnunen, Emily Höckert, Bryan S.R. Grimwood, Chris E. Hurst,Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Salla Jutila, Carina Ren, Michela J. Stinson, Anu Valtonen, and Joonas Vola) -- Chapter 2. Inquiring with hospitable methodologies (Emily Höckert and Bryan S.R. Grimwood) -- Chapter 3. Becoming fragile (Salla Jutila, Emily Höckert, and Outi Rantala) -- Chapter 4. Being Corpus: The tourist body as place, touch and departure (AyA Autrui) -- Chapter 5. Cultivating Proximities: Re-visiting the familiar (Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson and Carina Ren) -- Chapter 6. Sensing morally evocative spaces (Brynhild Granås) -- Chapter 7. Walking-with landscape (Elva Björg Einarsdóttir and Katrín Anna Lund) -- Chapter 8. Following pollen mobilities (Martin Trandberg Jensen and Kaya Barry) -- Chapter 9. Slowing down with stinging nettle (Veera Kinnunen, Françoise Martz, and Outi Rantala) -- Chapter 10. Made-to-measure – In and out of touch with the old-growth forest (Joonas Vola, Pasi Rautio, and Outi Rantala) -- Chapter 11. Inviting engagement with atmospheres (Chris E. Hurst and Michela J. Stinson) -- Chapter 12. Composing the incomprehensible — A Cinematic Inquiry into Anthroposcenic Proximity (Joonas Vola) -- Chapter 13. Suggestions for future wanders (Emily Höckert, Veera Kinnunen, and Outi Rantala).

This book presents a candidate-based approach to party evolution, conceptualizing candidates as 'party genes' that ultimately decide what a party does and what it stands for. It draws on extensive new data from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to show that candidate change is linked to changes in party organization, programmes, and leadership.

This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism; the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time. This is an open access book.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of why and how social economy organizations create superior value for society. The chapters discuss the social economy's role in promoting innovation for impact, as well as its role as an agent of societal change and as a partner to businesses, governments, and citizens.

What happens to those living at the margins of US politics and policy - trapped between multiple struggles: gender-based violence, poverty, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, mass incarceration and immigration? In this book, Margaret Perez Brower offers the concept of 'intersectional advocacy' to reveal how select organizations addressing gender-based violence are closing policy gaps that perpetuate inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Intersectional advocacy is a roadmap for rethinking public policy. The book captures how advocacy groups strategically contest, reimagine, and reconfigure policy institutions using comprehensive new strategies that connect issues together. As these groups challenge traditional ways of addressing the most pressing social issues in the US, they uncover deep inequities that are housed within these institutions. Ultimately, organizations practicing intersectional advocacy illuminate how to redraw the boundaries of policies in ways that transform US democracy to be more representative, equitable, and just.

"In "They Came but Could Not Conquer," Diane J. Purvis reveals the centuries-long histories of environmental destruction and settler violence against Alaska Natives and their villages by successive European empires and states: Russian, British, French, and American"--

"This book spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock 'n' roll, showing how the region's musical activities reveal deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture"--