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This roundtable asks what queer studies might offer to an analysis of debates on campus safety. New approaches in queer studies take as their object of study not only sex and gender but also the cultural politics of liberalism; in turn, scholarship on the geopolitics of injury demonstrates the situatedness of both identity and economic forms. Brought together, these scholarly approaches provide an important lens on many of the contradictions of contemporary college campuses. Rendering classrooms and other places on campus as intrinsically embedded in global relations of militarization, securitization, dispossession, and risk management, "safe space" is elaborated in this roundtable in material, administrative, and pragmatic terms: from the conceptualization of alert systems to the racialized fears driving insurance calculations for international study programs to the struggles over academic freedom and student organizing.

The expendability of penal battalions has provided genocidal regimes with ample fodder for conventional wars, genocidal warfare, and cases in which such conscripts may become either perpetrators or victims. The unresolved charges of those who massacred civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, in 2022 extend to include suspects from a private military security company (PMSC) known as the Wagner Group. Vladimir Putin's regime has regularly contracted Wagner since its founding in 2014 in operations that led to its adaptation and development as a tool for war and very likely also the world's first for-hire band of perpetrators. This study tracks histories of penal battalions before outlining the evolution of Wagner as a significant force in global politics and conflict. The findings suggest that prosecution, prevention, or intervention will become even more difficult than it already is for institutions of international law. The apparent successes and rapid growth of Wagner tend to indicate that the use of penal battalions in genocidal wars is not confined to the pages of history. The unaccountability of such suspects could increase both the recruitment of many more genocidal offenders and further risk the expendability of what Richard L. Rubenstein identified as surplus populations. By framing penal battalions that die en masse in genocidal wars, the case of the Wagner Group may ultimately include civilian victims in Ukraine, perpetrators for-hire, and victims within the group's own battalions that the Kremlin deployed to die across the war's frontlines.

The Arctic is warming at a rate of at least twice the global average. With this rapid warming, permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, is thawing. When permafrost thaws, the organic matter inside begins to break down and releases carbon dioxide and methane, the latter about 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide, as a greenhouse gas over a 20-year period. One of the most visible signs of thawing permafrost is 'drunken forest'--trees leaning at odd angles as they lose their footing in the unstable soil. In Nov 2007, large areas of drunken forest were spreading near Nelemonoye, a Yukaghir community along the upper Kolyma River in the Sakha Republic. Thawing of terrestrial permafrost also has major impact on ecology, hydrology, and human infrastructures, as homes, buildings, roads, and runways can collapse as the ground underneath begins to buckle. Here, Banerjee looks at the 'circumpolar north' in its new, ever-warmer configurations. Adapted from the source document.

This is true of booze, of drugs, of tobacco and, yes, jet engine parts: Ryanair has found "fake parts" in two of its aircraft engines during scheduled maintenance checks, becoming the latest airline to be impacted by a brewing scandal.The parts were discovered during assessment in Texas and Brazil over the past few months and have since been removed from the engines, the low-cost carrier's chief executive Michael O'Leary told Bloomberg News.It comes as the global aviation industry is grappling with a fake parts scandal that has left airlines and regulators scrambling to assess engines and trace equipment.We do not, of course condone this. But we do know quite a bit about it as a result of having been out there in that international and global economy for all these decades. The difficulty is that the nut, bolt or screw for a jet engine is worth 5x to 10x with the right piece of paper than it is without. Let's not make the situation more complicated than that. It's righteous that it should too, traceability of parts in something so complex, so horrendous in effects if failure occurs, is a very good idea indeed.But, it's always going to happen that people will try to trade across a 5x to 10x price difference. Note that this is not a result of markets or capitalism. This isn't neoliberalism run riot - this is just what happens among humans. This also doesn't mean that people who do even fake jet engine parts should not be righteously jugged, not that we should not investigate allegations of it - as here, allegations only so far.What it does mean is that governments simply cannot go around creating 5x and 10x price differences as will be true of banning tobacco and so on. Because people simply will trade across those differences. As they do with drugs, at large scale, and as currently also does happen with both tobacco and booze. With jet engines the consumers - the airlines - absolutely do not want fake parts at any price. For knowing use of them would likely violate both their insurances and also their licences. Now switch the model to one where consumers do desire the item on offer - drugs, booze, baccy. There is that demand, there is that profit margin, trade will happen across it.This then being the message for the prohibitionists. Even if it were true that society would be better without these things - it wouldn't - it still won't work. And there's absolutely no point at all in implementing a policy that won't work. So, don't.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Is Global Warming? -- Chapter 2 Is Global Warming Happening Now? -- Chapter 3 Can Human Beings Cause Global Warming? -- Chapter 4 What Is the Possible Impact of Global Warming? -- Chapter 5 Can Anything Be Done About Global Warning? -- Timeline -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Gesellschaften stehen vor der Herausforderung zunehmender multipler Krisensituationen, wie etwa den Folgen des globalen Klimawandels, kriegerischen Konflikten oder Pandemien. Die Politik ist gefordert, angemessene Antworten auf Fragen nach dem Umgang mit zukünftigen Bedrohungen zu finden. Im Zuge der COVID‑19‑Pandemie konnten zahlreiche Erfahrungen mit in diesem Zusammenhang eingesetzten Frühwarnsystemen gesammelt werden. Auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrungen wird im vorliegenden Artikel diskutiert, wie Krisenwarnung im politischen Raum zukünftig verbessert werden kann.