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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds (NRFs) -- Chapter 2: The Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund – Divergent Paths, Divergent Outcomes -- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of the Angola Fund -- Chapter 4: Botswana's Natural Resource Fund (The Pula Fund) -- Chapter 5: Chile: A Successful Story in Latin America? -- Chapter 6: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Fund Management in Ghana -- Chapter 7: States and the Construction of Privilege over the Creation of Oil Funds in Nigeria -- Chapter 8: A Less than Sovereign Wealth Fund: Norway's Government Pension Fund, Global -- Chapter 9: Old Fund, New Mandate: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) -- Chapter 10: The Timor Leste Petroleum Fund: From Buying Peace to White Elephants -- Chapter 11: Practices and Models: Prospects for Commodity-based SWFs -- Index.

Toward an Analytics of Social Decay / Ghassan Hage -- Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert -- Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall -- The Dialectic of Construction and Ruination in the Study of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer -- "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld -- Decay or Fresh Contact? Exposure, Mixture, and Moral Panic after War's End / Bart Klem -- Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli -- Accelerated Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein -- Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage -- Relational Decay: White Helpers on Australia's Colonial Frontier / Cameo Dalley -- Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn.

Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonial state-building projects in Tunisia and how this relates to other state-feminist projects across the Middle East and during the Cold War. Here we see how the notion of modern womanhood was central to a range of issues from economic development (via family planning) to intellectual life and the growth of Tunisian academia. Looking at political discourse, the women's press, fashion, and ideas about love, the book traces how this concept was reformulated by women through transnational feminist organizing and in the press in ways that proposed alternatives to the dominant constructions of state feminism.

Migration Practice as Creative Practice: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Migration presents an in-depth evaluation of migrants' contributions to modern socio-economic structures. Leading with a discussion of the historical construction of migration and what it signifies in the modern globalised economies, an interdisciplinary range of contributors examine the interaction of migrants with new cultures, migrants' embeddedness into new environments and what that signifies for community relations. The book discusses the creative energies that migrants bring to the private and public spheres. Migration Practice as Creative Practice examines how migrants use their social lives, lived experiences, the process of identity formation and histories to inject positive 'newness' into host cultural and economic architectures. The book calls for more creative ways of researching migrant lived experiences and brings to life the different ways of approaching migrant research for scholars today.

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline.For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. 'Terra-Sorta-Firma' documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy.It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation

What Is Life-Cycle Costing? / Jason J. Czarnezki and Steven Van Garsse -- The European Union Law of Life-Cycle Costing / Marta Andhov, Roberto Caranta and Anja Wiesbrock -- Life-Cycle Costing in the Member States : Does the Tool Meet its Goals? / Raquel Carvallo -- Life-Cycle Thinking and Public-Private Partnerships / Steven Van Garsse -- Moving to a Quintuple Helix Approach in SPP: Collaboration and LCC for Lighting Procurements / Rodrigo Lozano, Sigrid Peterssen, Anette Jonsall, Camilla Niss, Björn Bergström -- LCC Criteria for Procurement of ICT Products and Services : the Need for Taking a Flexible Approach / Raluca Suciu and Dacian Dragos -- The Role of Eco-labels in Creation of Life-Cycle Criteria : the Case of Textile and Clothing Products / Malgorzata Koszewska -- Life-Cycle Costing Within the Construction Sector: a Tool for Social Housing? / Deidre Halloran

Iran's Relations with the United States : Current Conditions in Historical Perspective / Shireen T. Hunter -- The Iranian Threat : The Construction of Insecurity / Andreas M. Bock -- The Fate of the JCPOA / Heinz Gärtner -- Iran's Endogenous Role in the International Economic System / Mahdi Ghodsi -- The Impact of Economic Sanctions on the Iranian Middle Class / Mahnaz Zahirinejad -- Iran and Europe : The never-ending hope for strong and efficient relations / Bernard Hourcade -- Irans's unequal partners : Russia and India / Erzsébet N. Rózsa -- The Iranian Nuclear Issue and China: Sino-Iranian Interactions Within and Beyond the UNSC / Mher D. Sahakyan -- Iran and the International Order : Historic Transitions and New Challenges / Abbas Milani -- Transparent Veil / Mitra Shahmoradi -- Iran before the revolution : some considerations concerning socio-cultural aspects of urban life in the Sixties of the past century / Bert G. Fragner.

Antonio di Pietro Averlino, called Filarete, in his Libro architettonico, written between 1460 and 1464 in the form of a dialogue between the author and Duke Francesco Sforza and his son Galeazzo Maria Sforza, tells of the planning, founding and construction of the city named after its owner »Sforzinda« and a city by the sea connected to it. In addition to the practical aspects of architecture and theory in the narrower sense, the first monographical examination of the Codex is also devoted to passages and illustrations that have hitherto been neglected or not at all Filaretes' source writings that go beyond the usual art-historical reference points to show Libro as an outstanding, crystalline document of its time as a whole, which expands and corrects our picture of the Renaissance, shaped by the winners of history.

"In 2006, a group of residents in Yungay, a working-class neighborhood of lowrises in the center of Santiago, attended a public hearing organized by city officials. The neighbors had expected a perfunctory event, and attended somewhat by chance. Instead, to their surprise, officials informed participants of a plan to change zoning laws that would have dramatically augmented the construction of high-rises in their neighborhood. Residents knew that the threat was real. They had already observed waves of high-rises being built throughout the city, as the mayor pursued flagship projects and infrastructure modernization to position Santiago as a competitive center for international investment. This was taking place in the heart of a country considered the historical hotbed of neoliberalism: unions were weak, and the fiscal, planning, and taxation environment had traditionally and strongly favored developers"--

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory proposes that late Freudian theory has had an historical influence on the configuration of contemporary life and is central to the construction of twenty-first-century capitalism. This book investigates how we continue to live in the Freudian century, turning its attentions to specific crisis points within neoliberalism - the rise of figures like Trump, the development of social media as a new superego force, the economics that underpin the wellness and self-care industries as well as the contemporary consumption of popular culture - to maintain the continued historical importance of Freudian thought in all its dimensions. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, cultural studies, and political theory, this book assesses the contribution that an historical and theoretical consideration of the late Freud can make to analyzing certain aspects of late capital.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Moving-Image Media and Embodied Spectatorship -- Media Convergence and Remediation -- 1 Film and the Embodied Mind -- Technogenesis: The Coevolution of the Biological and Technological -- The Phatic Image of Cinema-Reassessed -- "Consciousness Is an Epiphenomenon" -- Dual Temporalities of Media and the Mind -- Postcinematic Reflections on Spectatorship -- 2 1900: Film Transforms the Media Landscape -- Film as Prosthetic Visual Consciousness -- Mechanized Culture and the Moving Image -- Remediation: The Convergence of Film and Writing -- Film and the Tyranny of Writing: Franz Kafka -- 3 2000: Cinema and the Digital Image -- Intermedial Constructions of Cinema's Virtual Reality -- Digital Mediations of Movement, Space, and Time -- Cinema and Singular Consciousness -- 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 -- Z.

Introduction : multiple populisms : Italy as democracy's mirror / Paul Blokker and Manuel Anselmi -- The construction of the people / Valentina Pazé -- Neo-populism and the subversion of democratic quality / Leonardo Morlino and Francesco Raniolo -- Depoliticization, anti-politics and the moral people / Fabio De Nardis -- Anti-party-ism as a structural component of Italian democracy / Nadia Urbinati -- "Particracy" : the pre-populist critique of party democracy, and its implications / David Ragazzoni -- Populist anti-party parties / Lorenzo Viviani -- Technopopulism and direct representation / Michele Sorice and Emiliana De Blasio -- Intellectuals and cultural populism / Massimiliano Panarari -- Penal populism in the multi-populist context of Italy / Manuel Anselmi and Stefano Anastasìa -- Citizen democracy : "new politics" in "new participation" models information classification / Marco Damiani -- The populist assault on the constitution / Paul Blokker -- Four Italian populisms / Cecilia Biancalana -- Conclusions : the Italian populist challenge in comparative perspective / Oscar Mazzoleni.

This book explores the relationships between popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem. More precisely, it looks at infrastructures and practices of music making and consuming primarily in the post-Napster era of digitization - with some chapters looking back on the technological precursors to digital culture - marked by the emergence of digital tools and platforms such as YouTube or Spotify. The first section provides a critical overview of theories addressing popular music and digital technology, while the second section offers an analysis of the relationship between musical cultures, taste, constructions of authenticity, and technology. The third section offers case studies on the materialities of music consumption from outside the western core of popular music production. The final section reflects on music scenes and the uses and discourses of social media.

Understanding anthropology -- Understanding and studying culture -- The origins of cultural anthropology -- Language and social relations -- Cultural construction of persons : personality and gender -- Iindividuals and identities : race and ethnicity -- Health, illness, body and culture : seeing culture as a whole -- African American women facing a future with HIV/AIDS -- Economics : humans, nature and society -- Kinship and non-kin organization : being, becoming, and social organization -- Politics : social order and social control -- Religion : relating to the non-human worldseeing culture as a whole -- Magic, matrilineality, and (re)production in the Trobriand Islands -- Cultural dynamics : Tradition and change -- Colonialism and the origin of globalization -- The struggle for political identity in a mobil and undertain world -- Economics in a globalized world : development, modernization and neoliberalism -- Cultural survival and revival in the 21st century -- Waiting for a future delayed : passing time in India and beyond.

The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and fieldwork, brings out commonalities, differences, and the mutual co-construction of the 'citizen' in both places. It also reveals the way in which developments across the border, such as communal violence, could directly impact on minority rights in its neighbour. Questioning stereotypes of an increasingly 'authoritarian' Pakistan and 'democratic' India, Sarah Ansari and William Gould make a major contribution to recent scholarship that suggests the differences between India and Pakistan are overstated.