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"Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city. The analysis focuses on two specific historical eras: 2002-2003 and 2020-2022 and shows that despite recent improvements in employment opportunities and greater mobility for young women, their lives reflect ongoing challenges reminiscent of those faced two decades earlier. While national and global organizations acknowledge the nation's economic and social progress, those on the outskirts of society continue to grapple with enduring poverty. They are excluded from the advantages of economic growth, oppressed by unjust local, national, and global systems, discriminatory laws, and policies. Their struggles go unnoticed as they confront a slew of challenges, including slum evictions, enforced lockdowns, income losses, food insecurity, and ongoing crises related to health, injuries, fatalities, and exploitation and harassment by law enforcement and influential individuals within the slum and the city. After two decades, these obstacles persist, and life remains tenuous, with health severely compromised. This book will appeal to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, as well as professionals engaged in urban health and poverty-related work"--

Rather than simply showing how the state in Kosovo is being built by and through women and feminist encounters, this volume is interested to problematise women and feminist subjectivities vis-à-vis the state and statebuilding. The book challenges three main arguments related to the processes and subjects of statebuilding in Kosovo. First, the academic literature on Kosovo has a tendency to take the international intervention of 1999 as the originary point of statebuilding processes in Kosovo. Second, and relatedly, given Kosovo's unprecedented exposure to Western intervention and statebuilding, the majority of works start from the presumption that liberal interventionism in Kosovo (and elsewhere) is normatively more progressive than the previous system, and that the liberal interventionism and statebuilding are naturally gender progressive and gender-equal. The third argument has to do with the existing legal architecture on gender and women's rights in contemporary Kosovo. The aim of the volume is to, on the one hand, problematise the evidence against the backdrop of everyday manifestations and/or performances of statebuilding and on the other hand interrogate the co-constitutive gender aspect. In terms of methodology, the volume brings together contributions that rely on traditional and multi-sited ethnography, and narrative research rooted in projects and initiatives in Kosovo. This allows the contributors to unearth new and silenced actors, entry points, subjects and subjectivities in processes of and related to statebuilding in Kosovo; feminist frictions and challenges to statebuilding in Kosovo; as well as encounters of heteronormative statebuilding.

Defining luxury in the watch industry: exploring the gestalt of Swiss luxury watches -- Trends and challenges in the Swiss luxury watch industry: insights from an expert survey -- Luxury watches and ethical hubris: a comparative overview of illustrative cases -- Gestalt-switch of luxury products: exploring pitfalls of inconsistent value expressions in conspicuous consumption -- "Some of my customers [...] take off their Rolex prior to a client meeting" luxury display at work and the social (re)construction of the organizational image -- The transitory Janus-face of surveillance: studying blockchain-based product identifiers in the Swiss luxury watch industry -- Censored and sensored luxury: a new theory, combining retouching of public luxury display and digital product identifiers -- Future outlook: how cutting-edge technologies and new consumer generations reshape the luxury environment.

This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices such as lying, spying, manipulation, and covert action. However, in the defence of national security, such practices may not only be morally permissible, but may also under some circumstances be morally obligatory. One approach to the ethics of national security intelligence activity has been to draw from the just war tradition (so-called 'just intelligence theory'). This book identifies significant limitations of this approach and offers a new, institutionally based, teleological normative framework. In doing so, it revises some familiar principles designed for application to kinetic wars, such as necessity and proportionality, and invokes some additional ones, such as reciprocity and trust. It goes on to explore the applications of this framework and a revised set of principles for national security intelligence institutions and practices in contemporary and emerging political and technological settings.

What is at Stake -- Africa and the Challenge of Modernity -- Understanding Modernity, Its Systems and Imaginaries : Habermas, Taylor, and Wallerstein -- The Epistemic Ramifications of Modernity : Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Subaltern Epistemologies -- The Idea of Interconnectedness in Igbo Thought : Society, Politics, Religion and Morality -- Solidarity and the Challenge of Modernity -- Birthing 'Other Modernities' from Endangered Knowledges.

The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation are no longer fit for purpose and lack the instruments, resources and legitimacy to address the catastrophic risks threatening our future Twenty-eight contributors offer thoughtful proposals for reforming existing international institutions and creating new ones to build a more peaceful, prosperous and just world, covering themes such as the management of weapons of mass destruction, collective security arrangements, justice and equity in economics, human rights, migration and refugees, climate mitigation, and food security, all bearing on the health of both people and planet. The vital project of this century is building institutions that will underpin global governance in coming decades, requiring imagination, persistence, empathy, and confidence that we will find a path to enhanced mechanisms of binding international law and the resources to make that happen.

Germany and Four Future / Robert Legvold -- The End of Civilian Power : Russia's War Is Changing German Policy / Liana Fix -- Technological Change, Innovation, and German National Security / Amy J. Nelson -- Nuclear Zeitenwende(n) : Germany and NATO's Nuclear Posture / Tobias Bunde -- German Musings about a Franco-German or German Bomb / Barbara Kunz and Ulrich Kühn -- German Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons : Before and after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine / Michal Onderco -- German Efforts to Halt the Disintegration of Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control / Wolfgang Richter -- The Greens and Nuclear Weapons : Torn Between Disarmament Aspirations and Pragmatism / Giorgio Franceschini -- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons : Changing Disarmament Discourses in Germany? / Katja Astner and Moritz Kütt -- Germany and the Nonproliferation Treaty / Harald Müller -- Germany and the Puzzling End of Nuclear Latency / Ulrich Kühn -- Germany's Role in the Success and Failure of the Iran Nuclear Deal / Cornelius Adebahr -- Of Dependence and Conservatism : Conclusions for German Nuclear Policies in the 21st Century / Ulrich Kühn.

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit Umgangspraktiken mit Fremdheit aus der Perspektive von nach Deutschland zugewanderten Menschen aus zwei unterschiedlichen Migrationsphasen: Zugewanderte der 1990er Jahre und als Geflüchtete seit 2015 nach Deutschland zugewanderte Menschen. Latente Spannungen, Ängste, Konflikte, Ausgrenzungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozesse zwischen den früh und neu Zugewanderten deuten auf eine Etablierten-Außenseiter-Figuration zwischen den beiden genannten Zuwanderungsgruppen hin. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Beziehung zwischen den "etablierten Migrant*innen" und den als Außenseiter stehenden Geflüchteten zum einen auf Prozesse deutet, dass und wie früh Zugewanderte zu "Einheimischen" wurden und somit eine Phase des Fremdseins offenbar überwunden haben. Zum anderen deuten aktuell wahrnehmbare Vorurteile, Zuschreibungen und Rassismen von Zugewanderten der 1990er Jahre darauf hin, dass die eigenen Fremdheitserfahrungen in der Zeit des Ankommens in Deutschland nahezu verdrängt oder verdeckt wurden. Die Autorin Tatevik Mamajanyan arbeitet als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in verschiedenen Forschungsprojekten im Fachbereich Sozialwesen an der Hochschule Fulda. Sie hat im hessischen hochschulübergreifenden Promotionszentrum Soziale Arbeit promoviert. Außerdem ist sie Lehrbeauftragte für Qualitative Sozialforschung an der Ernst-Abbe Hochschule in Jena und Mediendidakterin für digital gestützte Lehre im Förderprojekt "GO-IN" an der Hochschule Fulda.

1. James Mill and the History of the History of British India -- 2. The Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers and the Colonizer-Colonized Dialectic -- 3. Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Hierarchical and Oppressive -- 4. Imagining the Hindus and Hinduism -- 5. Mill's Colonial-Racist Discourse in School Textbooks -- 6. Damaging Psychological Consequences of the Discourse.