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"This book comprehensively compares the development of population control policies in China and India, their implementations, and the population changes over the past seven decades. Analysing how populations have changed and affected socioeconomic development in the two societies, this book systematically compares China and India through social and cultural factors including religion and traditional perspectives on population, ethnicity and language, social classes, family, the social status and education of women, and government functions. A brief introduction discusses how China has developed into a highly homogenous society and how India has developed into a highly diversified nation in history, and the influence of other countries on these two societies. With empirical data, the book analyses how population changes are strongly correlated with economic development in the two most populous societies. An insightful discussion of the population issues with a world perspective and historical understanding of China and India is also provided. This book will be valuable reading to students and researchers interested in knowing more about the population policies, population changes and cultures and societies in China and India"--

Introduction : the need for this book / Blaine E. Smith & Richard Beach -- "We are nature defending itself": universal climate literacy DIY with youth media productions and engagement / Marek Oziewicz and Scott Spicer -- Centering utopia : fostering youth climate change education by exploring and envisioning hopeful futures / Michelle Jordan, Catherine Lockmiller, and Steven Zuiker -- General ecology and speculative pedagogies: youth digital media practices for climate justice / David Rousell, Thili Wijesinghe, and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles -- Integrating community-based participatory research approaches with climate justice digital media projects / Emily Polk -- "Our story will be the future": a learner-centered approach to support digital multimodal composing about the climate crisis / Shiyan Jiang, Blaine E. Smith, and Ji Shen -- "Listen, there, to the way the real world thinks in me" : cultivating an empathic imagination to support students' visual stories that address the climate crisis / Linda Buturian -- Addressing climate change and sustainable energy futures through creative music engagement / Evan Tobias, Kyle Bartlett, Steven Zuiker, and Michelle Jordan -- Fostering proactive ecological identity of youth through social media / Nataliia Goshylyk -- Climate writing across media: scribing new stories to live by / Antonio Lopez -- The long haul : three decades of teaching student documentary action research for environmental and climate justice / Steve Goodman -- Resilient by youth engagement : the Alameda Creek Atlas / N. Claire Napawan, Brett L. Snyder, and Beth Ferguson -- Building youth voices: media created by youth, for youth / Liane Xu, Julian Arenas, and Ardra Charath.

Introduction: Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage -- 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone / Haley Laurila -- 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker -- PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge -- 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross -- 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground Leonor / María Martínez Serrano -- 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey -- PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience -- 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour -- 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga -- 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann

"The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (second edition) offers a comprehensive, detailed, and ground-breaking examination of soft power - a key factor in cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, and public diplomacy. This innovative handbook is a definitive resource for inquirers into soft power desiring to familiarize themselves with cutting-edge debates and research. It will be of interest and value to students, researchers and policy makers working in cultural relations, international communication, international relations, public diplomacy, and contiguous fields"--

"This cutting-edge handbook examines moral psychology and behaviour, uncovering layers of human morality through a comprehensive overview of topics and approaches. Featuring an array of expert international contributors, the book addresses five key themes: moral reasoning, moral judgments, moral emotions, moral behavior, and moral self-views. Each section includes empirical chapters that address these themes at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, or intergroup level. Each section starts with a reflective chapter from a leading scholar in this field of study who shares their personal vision on key issues and future developments. Drawing on emerging research and featuring real-world examples, the book offers a deeper understanding of the social psychological factors that shape our moral behavior and how this plays out in our daily lives"--

Hinduism is a global religion with a significant presence in many countries. Hindu Diasporas analyses the religious traditions and practices of Hindus of South Asian descent living outside South Asia, offering a foundation for understanding Hindu traditions in their global diasporic contexts and the dynamic development of Hinduism around the world.

In an era where 'history' had supposedly ended, what was an Army for? This question confronted the US Army at the end of the Cold War. Although public support for the military remained high, fewer were sending their children to enlist and questions were raised about the uncertainty of future operations: How would Army leaders prepare soldiers for difficult peacekeeping operations that called for a more human-oriented approach in light of the promises of high-tech warfare? How best to navigate the broader debates about changing gender and sexual norms in American society? Pulled in different directions, the Army struggled to put forward a compelling vision of who and what the American solder should be. In Uncertain Warriors, David Fitzgerald reveals how, in response to this uncertainty, they eventually fell back on an older vision of martial masculinity, embracing a 'warrior ethos' that was meant to define the contemporary American soldier.

"With Central City's Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968-91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-housing residents' experiences. As Morris's experiential and authoritative narrative voice unfolds in the pages of Central City's Joy and Pain, both the scholarly and lay reader are brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center. The setting of a historic public-housing community provides a rich canvas on which to paint a world through the author's personal experience of growing up there-and his later observations as a researcher and academic. Through its syncopation of personal stories and scholarly research, Central City's Joy and Pain captures what it means to be Black, poor, and full of dreams. In this setting, dreams are realized by some and swallowed up for others in the larger historical, social, economic, and political context of African Americans' experiences during and after the civil rights movement"--

This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life. Chronologically, the study is bookended by two developments, almost exactly a century apart. In 1873, the first laws were passed which required the use of Dutch in some aspects of public administration in Flanders, challenging the de facto use of French among the Flemish ruling class. One hundred and one years later, the last French daily newspaper in Flanders collapsed, marking the end of a once-vibrant French-language public sphere in Flanders. The author contends that the methods and arguments by which French speakers defended the role of French in Flemish public life changed along with the social and political situation of this minority. As the Flemish movement grew over the course of the twentieth century, French speakers' appeals to the "free choice" of language lost traction, and they put forward claims that they represented an ethnolinguistic minority who deserved protection for their mother tongue. Providing new insights for scholars of European history, and in conversation with the literature on liberalism, national identity, and Francophonie, this book demonstrates how the debate over the role of French in Flanders was at the center of Belgium's ethnolinguistic conflict - the repercussions of which continue to be felt to this day

Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today's society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners