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"This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa's post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped by competing value frameworks. The first part of the book invites planners, city-makers, and ordinary urban citizens, to consider a new self-understanding, reclaiming their agency in the city-making process. Through the metaphor of "becoming like children", planning practice is deconstructed and re-imagined. A praxis-based methodology is presented, cultivating four distinct moments of entering, reading, imagining and co-constructing the city. After deconstructing urban spaces and discourses, the second part of the book explores a concrete spirituality and ethic of urban space. It argues for a shift from planning as technocracy, to planning as immersed, participatory artistry: opening up to the "genius" of space, responsive to urban cries, and joining to construct new, soul-full spaces. Local communities and interconnected movements become embodiments of urban alternatives - through resistance and reconstruction; building on local assets; animating local reclamations; and weaving nets of hope that will span the entire city. Providing a concrete methodology for city-making that is rooted in a community-based urban praxis, this book will be of interest to urban planning researchers, professional planners and designers and also grass-root community developers or activists"--

Introduction -- Fieldwork site and research methodology -- Pro-rural migration -- Japanese agriculture -- Accessing land and housing: property, abandonment, and Japan's land crisis -- Acquiring farming know-how: quality, labour, and enskilment -- Accessing capital: subsidies for small and big farms -- Accessing markets: marketing, food distribution, and price formation -- Conclusions.

Early education -- The lasting legacy of McGill -- Harvard, Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics -- Modern production among backward peoples (1935) -- American interlude -- The colonial office and LSE -- Colonial monetary conditions -- Towards a conclusion -- Ida Greaves : a pioneer development economist?

This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens. In 2005, member states of the United Nations (UN) accepted a 'Responsibility to Protect' against four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Despite this commitment, mass atrocities remain a pervasive aspect of the international landscape. In addressing R2P reform, the book utilises a 'transitional cosmopolitan' lens. The aim of this transitional cosmopolitan approach is to promote incremental progress towards solving moral problems by operating within particular contexts and practical barriers to change. Three areas for reform are explored: the UN Security Council P5's power of veto, to prevent the veto obstructing timely and decisive R2P response action; the powers of the UN General Assembly as an alternative means for responding to mass atrocity situations; and the establishment of an 'R2P Commission' to hold states accountable for their R2P commitments. These are not advocated as the definitive areas for R2P reform. However, each of the recommendations made can contribute at least some positive progress towards a more cosmopolitan application of the R2P that would help in curbing mass atrocity and improving the protection of fundamental human rights.

This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?.

In der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe wird ein Methodendefizit bezüglich sozialer Diagnostik bemängelt. Durch ein eigens entwickeltes Verfahren – die Inklusionschart-Familiendiagostik (IFa) – wird im vorliegenden Manual darauf eine praxistaugliche Antwort gegeben. Bei der IFa handelt es sich um ein sozialpädagogisches Verfahren zur Dokumentation und diagnostischen Analyse familiärer Lebenslagen. Bestehende Ressourcen und Resilienzen, aber auch soziale Probleme können systematisch beobachtet werden. Dies unterstützt die Hilfeplanung und Evaluation sämtlicher Interventionen. Das Instrumentarium ist eine direkte Weiterentwicklung des Inklusions-Charts (IC) von Peter Pantuček-Eisenbacher. Das vorliegende Manual setzt die Grundlage des ICs für die Systematisierung sämtlicher sozialdiagnostischer Prozesse für das Feld der ambulanten Kinder- und Jugendhilfe um. Was entsteht, ist nicht weniger als ein innovatives, eigenständig anwendbares Diagnoseverfahren in noch nie dagewesener strukturierter Form.