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"This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers. It draws mainly on a rich repository of written testimonies from the early twentieth century, the 'great ethnographic period' when new scholarly interest in the region took off. Supplementing the movements and observations of whalers, traders, and missionaries, the early chroniclers offered new knowledge of Inuit life. Although their descriptions of the Inuit bear the marks of their time, the texts have left a deep mark on later developments and contributed to a long-lasting view of human life in the Arctic. The chapters show the infiltration of lives and landscapes, of thoughts and materials, of Inuit and ethnographers. The book will be relevant to anthropologists as well as historians, geographers, and others with an interest the Arctic region and Indigenous studies"--

"A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The post-1945 international free-trade regime was established to foster a more integrated, prosperous, and peaceful world. As US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1933-1944), "Father of the United Nations" and one of the regime's principal architects, explained in his memoirs, "unhampered trade dovetailed with peace; high tariffs, trade barriers, and unfair economic competition, with war." Remarkably, this same economic order is now under assault from the country most involved in its creation: the United States. A global economic nationalist resurgence - heralded by Donald Trump's "America First" protectionism and resultant trade wars with the USA's closest allies and trading partners - now looks to transform over seventy years of regional and global market integration into an illiberal economic order resembling that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Economic cosmopolitan critics of today's retreat from free trade have offered dire warnings that doing so would be catastrophic for global consumers and an existential threat to regional and world peace. But under what circumstances did this ideological marriage of free trade, prosperity, and peace arise? Who were its main adherents? How did this same free-trade ideology succeed in becoming the new economic orthodoxy following the Second World War? And how might the successes and failures of this earlier struggle to reform the economic order inform today's globalization crisis? In Pax Economica, economic historian Marc-William Palen finds answers amid a century of transnational peace and anti-imperial activism that stretched from Britain's unilateral adoption of free trade in 1846 to the founding of the US-led liberal trading system that arose immediately after the Second World War. Over five thematic chapters, considering the period from different perspectives, and utilising archival research conducted in Europe, North America, and Australia, Palen shows that this politico-ideological struggle to create a more prosperous and peaceful world through free trade pitted economic cosmopolitans against economic nationalists. Cosmopolitans sought to counter the industrialising world's embrace of economic nationalism because they believed - much like today's critics of Trump's tariffs and Brexit - that economic nationalism laid the groundwork for trade wars, high prices for consumers, and geopolitical conflict; while free trade created market interdependence, prosperity, social justice, and a more peaceful world. Pax Economica argues that this cosmopolitan fight for free trade laid foundations for a century of anti-imperial and peace activism across the globe - and paved the way for today's global trade regime now under siege."

"This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratization in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship between media consumption and activism in the region, providing thorough analyses on the appropriation of social media for political engagement. Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the 'Arab Uprisings' in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East and North Africa region have changed dramatically. The initial hope of democratic change and governance quality improvements faded, as several regimes in the Middle East have strengthened their repressive tactics toward voices deemed critical of governments' practices, including journalists, bloggers, and activists. This book examines current challenges to media freedom, political participation and democratisation in the region while reassessing the dynamic relationship between media use and political engagement, amidst a complex political environment accompanied by a rapidly changing media landscape. The book's relevance will appeal to varied audiences, such as scholars and students of journalism, communication, political science, and Middle Eastern studies. It will also prove to be an invaluable resource for organizations dedicated to the research of political communication, media freedom and use patterns of non-traditional, or new, media"--

"This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country. A vision of 'just transitions' is increasingly being used by activists and groups to ensure that pathways towards sustainable futures are equitable and inclusive. Exploring this concept, this volume provides a feminist study of what it would take to ensure just transitions in India where gender, in relation to its interesting dimensions of power, is at the center of analysis. With case studies on climate mitigation and adaptation from different parts of India, the book brings together academics, practitioners and policy-makers who provide commentary on sectors including agriculture, forestry and renewables. Overall, the book has relevance far beyond India's borders, as India's attempt to deal with its diverse population makes it a key litmus test for countries seeking to transition against a backdrop of inequality both in the global North and South. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate policy, gender studies, sustainable development and development studies more broadly"--

"This volume collects 26 papers covering channels of international technology transfer; multinational firms, market structure, and welfare; intellectual property rights, foreign direct investment, and innovation; flexibilities contained in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); exhaustion of intellectual property rights and compulsory licensing of patents; trade, foreign direct investment, and industrial policy; and, oligopolistic competition, research and development, and vertical contracts."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 A Critical Perspective On Digitalization -- Chapter 1: Getting Lost in the Digital -- 1.1 Limited or Liberated by Ubiquitous Digital Technology? -- 1.2 It Could Be Otherwise (ICBO): The Foundation of Critical Thinking -- 1.3 Opening the Black Box -- 1.4 A Response to Political and Corporate Solutionism -- 1.5 Digitalization as a Topic for Science and Technology Studies (STS) -- 1.6 A Critical Sociotechnical Perspective -- 1.7 The Structure of This Book -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: What Is "Digitalization," Exactly? -- 2.1 Digitalization as a Technological Fix -- 2.2 Defining Digitalization -- 2.3 Defining Digitalization as a Political Act in Itself -- 2.4 A Digitalized World -- 2.5 Digitalization as a Sociotechnical Process -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Analytical Tools -- Chapter 3: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Digitalization -- 3.1 What Is a Sociotechnical Perspective on Digitalization? -- 3.2 What Do We Mean by "Technology"? -- 3.3 Technologies and Their Agency -- 3.4 Why Technological Determinism Is a Dead End -- 3.5 Technological Reductionism -- 3.6 How Social Determinism Is Equally Problematic -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Domestication: User Perspectives on Technology -- 4.1 A User Perspective on Technology -- 4.2 Domestication Theory -- 4.3 The Dimensional Model of Domestication -- 4.4 The History of Domestication -- 4.5 Strengths and Weaknesses of Domestication Theory -- 4.6 Re-domestication and Dis-domestication -- 4.7 What Non-Users Can Teach Us about the Use of Technology -- 4.8 Normativity and Use -- 4.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Script: Technology's Manuscript for Use -- 5.1 Script as Technology's Manual -- 5.2 The Historical and Theoretical Position of Script Theory.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Anarchy in Translation, or Can Translation be Anarchist? -- 1 Surveying the Horizon -- 2 Dissociating Anarchism from Anarchy -- An unthought -- A theft -- A disavowal -- 3 On the Virtue of Chorus Leaders -- The aporias of Aristotle's Politics -- First aporia: citizens, rulers, ruled -- Second aporia: "regime" and "governing body" as synonyms -- Third aporia: the subject of Politics -- Politics and domination, the return of oikonomia -- 4 Ontological Anarchy -- Anarchy, metaphysics, and "deconstruction" -- Critiques of anarchism -- Anarchy and meditation on principle -- On Aristotelian teleocracy -- From archē to principium -- Principle - of nothing -- The emergence of anarchy as a political question -- The time of anarchy -- Reading Plotinus: politics as event -- Reading Foucault -- "What should we do today?" -- Double bind -- Delegitimizing philosophy, disarming the contradictory injunction -- The (Greek) temple in the sun -- To understand … -- 5 Ethical Anarchy -- On dissociation -- Beyond deconstruction -- Substitution without dual injunction -- Two, but not double -- Heteronomies -- Consequential autonomy -- Election and slavery -- The figure of the subject subordinated to the tyrant -- The figure of the proletarian -- Who is elected? -- Election and revolution -- A blind spot appears -- First level of opacity: anarchism of the state -- Which state? -- Israel in general -- Second level of opacity: the entirely other heteronomy -- 6 "Responsible Anarchism" -- Is deconstruction anarchism? -- Yes and no: deconstruction and anarchism -- The anarchy question -- Beyond principle: alternative and its two reasons -- First reason: Freud presents anarchism with the most serious question of all -- Second reason: Freud requires a special deconstructive reading.

Models for Non-Modelers focuses not on how to design models, but on how to understand and critically appraise them. Data and statistical models are widely used in disciplines such as epidemiology, climate science and systems design, but it can be difficult for those without the necessary training to understand and implement them

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co2libri" networking initiative, with longstanding collaborative partners based in the global South. "Co2libri" stands for "conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction". As an interdisciplinary and transregional oriented initiative, co2libri envisages a multicentric perspective that integrates neglected positions of Southern theory and praxis into the heart of academic conversations. Co2libri's collaborative endeavor builds on long-standing active connections with partners in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Instead of setting an agenda from the North, it proposes to figure out ways forward through collaborative engagement, building on relationships of mutual trust. Using formats that facilitate substantial and open-ended discussion, we are re-thinking theory and method, academic practices, and research ethics, while keeping material inequalities in view.

Ängste sind Teil einer krisenhaften Lebenswelt. Die Texte des Bandes gehen von einer Beobachtung der Dialektik der Aufklärung aus: Diese sieht die Intention der Aufklärung darin, "von den Menschen die Furcht zu nehmen und sie als Herren einzusetzen", doch die "vollends aufgeklärte Erde" erscheine "im Zeichen triumphalen Unheils". In den vorliegenden Aufsätzen geht es darum, wie konkrete Furcht unter Bedingungen sozialer Herrschaft in diffuse Ängste diffundiert. Die Texte analysieren und kommentieren gesellschaftliche Phänomene, wie sie sich im Medium philosophischer, literarischer und bildkünstlerischer Bearbeitung darstellen. Thematisiert werden auch sozialphilosophische und -wissenschaftliche Modelle der Beschreibung sowie die Analyse und Kritik soziokultureller Phänomene. Alle Texte sind verbunden durch eine ideologiekritische Perspektive auf die Widersprüchlichkeit von Aufklärung - und durch die Erinnerung an Grundpositionen des kritischen Materialismus. Gerhard Schweppenhäuser zählt zu den führenden Kennern und Kommentatoren der Kritischen Theorie und ist Gründungs- und Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie

"This book examines how civil society engaged with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context. Based on socio-legal research, the study focuses on three types of civil society groups dealing with the legacies of the Soviet repression in Russia - a prominent organisation that works on recovering historical truth, the International Memorial; a parish of the Orthodox Church of Russia operating at a former mass execution and mass burial site, the Church at Butovo; and contentious groups that could hinder attempts at reckoning and promote state narratives built on the Stalinist and World War II victory myths. This book explores an often-overlooked case of Russia's transitional justice 'from below.' It provides insights into how even in authoritarian contexts, civil society can adopt imaginative, piecemeal, and, at times, unconventional ways of seeking justice outside and in the absence of official and institutionalised transitional justice measures. This book will appeal to scholars of transitional justice, memory studies, human rights, and democratic and civil society theory, as well as policymakers and practitioners in these fields, and others with interests in Russian and post-Soviet studies"--

This Handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others