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"This book examines EU external border violence and the role of Frontex, and how it can be made legally and politically accountable for these incidents. The volume sets out what the international standards are for monitoring border violence and how monitors' independence must be guaranteed and where these standards come from. The book provides realistic options to resolve the crisis by focusing on how effective and independent border monitoring can ensure better human rights compliance at EU external borders. At the centre of the book is the question: how can we achieve effective monitoring of border police, including Frontex, by competent and independent state authorities which have as a mission human rights implementation? The goal of the book is to examine how states can prevent and investigate allegations of such violence and diminish the apparent impunity of those border police who engage in it. This book will be of interest to students of EU policy, law, migration and refugee studies, and International Relations"--

"This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical interpretations of certain phenomena in the development of China's cultural industry. Using the film and television industries as the major cases, the author proposes suggestions on China's ongoing development of foreign cultural trade. The author argues that China is well positioned to take full advantage of the opportunities of globalization, to develop its cultural industry in a leapfrog manner. China's rapid economic growth drives the country's development from a small cultural market to a large one. Even though it is a middle-income country, its cultural industry still has a relatively large potential to grow. The study on China's foreign cultural trade strategy can contribute to the growing needs of people for a better life and enhance China's "cultural confidence". With an explanation of existing practices, this book also aims to make recommendations on China's strategy for developing foreign cultural trade in the era of globalization. This book will be a good read for students, researchers and scholars of Chinese studies, East Asian studies, culture economics, and those interested in China's film and television industries"--

This new edition includes 7 new chapters on machine learning and its applications to carbon cycle research, on principles underlying carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, a contemporary active research and management issue, and on community infrastructure for ecological forecasting.

Foreword/Acknowledgment -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Retrogressions under Xi Jinping in light of the institutional reforms of his liberal forebears -- The rise of Xi Jinping, his work style, and members of the Xi Faction -- Xi's ideological agenda: to push forward Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era -- Xi Jinping's surveillance-state apparatus and its impact on society -- Xi's economic agenda: boosting party control over business while avoiding decoupling from the global marketplace -- Xi's foreign policy agenda: China to become rule-setter of the world -- Conclusion: The 20th Party Congress and beyond: Xi Jinping becomes leader for life but China faces unprecedented challenges.

"This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent temporality in the modern world in which contemporary time will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet earth and post-COVID-19 futures require a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions. Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies, international studies, international relations, and political science"--

"Geologic Life provides a magisterial account of the specific processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Building on the core idea first explored in her breakout short book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None--that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one--Kathryn Yusoff develops a spatial account of racialization based on rifts and plateaus, what she calls "the stratigraphic imagination"; that structured Enlightenment thought and its colonial conceptions of the world. The book provides a deep and detailed reconsideration of core figures (Louis Agassiz, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, and others) from the emergence of Enlightenment and colonial sciences in the 17th-20th centuries to show how colonial geology (as the classification of the origins of earth and beings) organized, and continues to underpin, racialized accounts of space and time"--

"Space tourism has become extremely significant in recent times, especially in pursuance of the new space race among corporate giants such as Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Space X. Each of these corporate giants has already booked thousands of space enthusiasts for a journey to outer space. Given this wide interest of private space players, space tourists as well as countries in space tourism, it is imperative to understand the legal issues involved in space tourism. This book presents important discussions in the domain of space tourism and its legal implications across the globe. It attempts to find solutions to various challenges like safety and security in space, status of space tourists during emergencies, liability aspects, environmental protection, etc., faced during the recent spurt of space tourism. It also discusses the role of insurance in space tourism, various crimes possible in outer space with the rise of space tourism, the mechanisms for adjudication of such crimes, the aspect of quarantining space tourists, the need to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of space, and other topics, besides examining the contemporary legal and policy-oriented issues of privatisation of space. A must read for scholars and researchers of law, space science, history and other fields who are interested in the space race and outer space law, this book will also be of interest to those exploring space studies, political studies, environmental studies, and political economy. It will be useful for policymakers, bureaucrats, think tanks as well as the interested general readers looking for fresh perspectives on the future of space"--

This book is the first coherent presentation of the latest research and practices concerned with how recent advances in mobile information and communication technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are utilized to enhance the value of the city and change the way that city planning and management are carried out. Its salient feature is the pursuit of the individual-oriented evaluative point of view regarding the city. This view considers the value of the city to be the total of visit-values individuals feel and appreciate when they visit the city. The visit-value is conceptualized as the intangible asset value of the attractiveness of the city that visitors form in their minds based on their experiences and activities in the city, transactions with city space, and communications with other people. Visitors to the city may well be quite heterogeneous individuals with different motives and preferences. Thus, to enhance the value of the city, quite different visit values of heterogeneous individuals should be enhanced simultaneously, which necessitates the use of ICT and IoT in living spaces. Based on this view, the city utilizing ICT and IoT to enhance the value of the city is called the social city. Whereas many other books deal with the impacts of the advances in mobile ICT on the city, they only discuss how these advances change the infrastructure of the city but do not discuss how these technological advances can be utilized to enhance the city's value. This book first develops the concept of the social city based on an individual micro-behavioral approach. Then, it presents the latest studies on technological components of the social city, such as the human-sensing technology for estimating individual behavior, decision making, and mood; the visualizing technology of the thermal 3-dimensional environment of the city; and the social-sensing technology using social networking service (SNS) for measuring and creating an atmosphere of city space. Finally,it envisages the future of the social city

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Custodianship of State Policies: A Government Out of Sight -- 1. A Government of Insiders: Unelected Governmental Elites Acting as Custodians of State Policies -- 2. Variations in the Custodian Role: From the NHI Project to the Clinton Plan -- Part II. The Making of Long-Term Health Insiders -- 3. Mapping the Unelected Governmental Health Coverage Policy Elites -- 4. The Clinton Plan Veterans: Career Paths Marked by a Collective Failure -- 5. From Late Clintonism to Obama: Shared Career Paths? -- Part III. The Hidden Origins of the Affordable Care Act: Elite Configurations and Programmatic Changes -- 6. The Clinton Plan: Programmatic Fragmentation and Divided Elites -- 7. The Impossible Government of "Strangers" -- 8. The George W. Bush Years: Clinton Plan Veterans Make the Next Reform Possible -- 9. Behind the Congressional Votes: Custodianship and the Politics of Accommodation -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Methodology: A Programmatic Elite Framework -- Appendix 2. Interviews for the OPERA (2009-2012) and PRoAcTA (2018-2021) Research Programs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1 An Introduction to Social Work Theory -- The view from below -- Ways of knowing -- Why are there so many social work theories? -- Reasons for choosing a particular social work theory -- Wondering why -- 2 Origins, Case Work and Social Reform -- Hard times -- Science and social science -- Charitable works -- Key messages -- 3 Cause and Function -- The pursuit of radical causes -- Modern causes -- Cause to function: case work and social reform in America -- Key messages -- 4 Psychoanalytic Theory -- Enter psychology -- All in the mind -- Talking cures -- The defence mechanisms -- Interpretation and insight -- Transference and counter transference -- The legacy of Freud and psychoanalysis -- Key messages -- 5 Attachment Theory -- Attachment behaviour -- Child abuse, neglect and trauma -- Uniting the developmental sciences -- Key messages -- 6 Behavioural Therapies -- Where is the evidence? -- Behavioural social work -- Social learning theory -- Respondent conditioning -- Operant conditioning -- The ABC of behaviour modification -- Two-factor model of behaviour -- Modelling and social skills training -- Working with ambivalence, the arrival of motivational social work -- Counting as social work -- Key messages -- 7 Cognitive Therapies -- Cognitive therapies and cognitive behavioural social work -- The treatment process -- The ABC of cognitive therapy -- Cognitive-behavioural social work -- Trauma-informed social work -- Trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy -- Key messages -- 8 Task-centred Work -- The pragmatic approach -- The problem-solving approach -- Task-centred work -- Going from strength to strength -- Key messages -- 9 Be Responsible, Think Positive -- Liberty and equality: the myth and reality -- Think positive -- The service user as expert.

Carrie Manning's illuminating text examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy.

How do digital capitalism and the evolving landscape of new media intersect, and what does this mean for the future of media? It is necessary to begin the excavation process, to unearth the insights of experts in these fields to better understand the transformation of the globalized world. In Digital Capitalism in the New Media Era , the intricate relationship between media and society takes center stage, examined through the lens of contemporary technology's impact on this dynamic. Within the confines of this meticulously researched book lies a comprehensive analysis of how the established political economy of traditional media has adapted and responded to the surge of new technologies. As our planet metamorphoses into an interconnected global marketplace, the book expounds on how this phenomenon has created a platform for both the enhancement of societal accessibility and the exacerbation of social disparities. The rise of new tools has inadvertently ushered in a new age of surveillance, marked by sophisticated techniques like digital trace tracking and micro-targeting strategies. This book covers comprehensive topics, including exploiting personal data for both commercial and political ends, the pervasive influence of algorithmic mechanisms and filter bubbles, and the dominion of tech giants in this digital landscape. By contextualizing these developments within the historical trajectory of capitalism, the book paints a vivid portrait of the emergence of digital capitalism. By offering a panoramic view of the contemporary media landscape, this book not only equips researchers, sociologists, and media professionals with an understanding of the intricate interplay between technology and society but also facilitates a deeper comprehension of pressing concerns such as open science, gender equality, and the digital divide