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Slavery and the Civil War -- Reconstruction -- The Gilded Age and Jim Crow laws -- The Great Migration, Depression and world wars -- Postwar prosperity and the civil rights movement -- A new Gilded Age and mass incarceration -- Racism rises and America declines.

"Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under public strong scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration? Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration assesses this question by focusing on the European integration process, conceptualized as a political project for the promotion of different flows of mobility. Mobility has been a fundamental tool to strength territorial and political integration among European countries. Based on a realistic understanding of the potentials and limits of mobility, this book pleads for a "resonant mobility" in the interest of a renovated European integration process. It examines how, in opposition to those advocating for national borders and mobility restrictions, the EU needs to explore new regulatory models which limit mobility's adverse social, economic, and environmental impacts and make accessible the benefits of alternative flow models. It also provides an analytical framework for the study of current trends of mobility limitation, migration restriction, and re-bordering, and offers a complementary and innovative framework for the study of globalization. Europe Beyond Mobility will be of interest to academics and students as well as policy makers and practitioners internationally in the fields of mobility, migration, and border studies."

Although the United States has prioritized its fight against militant groups for two decades, the transnational jihadist movement has proved surprisingly resilient and adaptable. Many analysts and practitioners have underestimated these militant organizations, viewing them as unsophisticated or unchanging despite the ongoing evolution of their tactics and strategies. In Enemies Near and Far, two internationally recognized experts use newly available documents from al-Qaeda and ISIS to explain how jihadist groups think, grow, and adapt. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Thomas Joscelyn recast militant groups as learning organizations, detailing their embrace of strategic, tactical, and technological innovation. Drawing on theories of organizational learning, they provide a sweeping account of these groups' experimentation over time. Gartenstein-Ross and Joscelyn shed light on militant groups' most effective strategic and tactical moves, including attacks targeting aircraft and the use of the internet to inspire and direct lone attackers, and they examine jihadists' ability to shift their strategy based on political context. While militant groups' initial efforts to upgrade their capabilities often fail, these attempts should generally be understood not as failures but as experiments in service of a learning process—a process that continues until these groups achieve a breakthrough. Providing unprecedented historical and strategic perspective on how jihadist groups learn and evolve, Enemies Near and Far also explores how to anticipate future threats, analyzing how militants are likely to deploy a range of emerging technologies.

A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' - Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist - to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature - one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines / Davinia Thornley -- Part I. Childfree Subjectivities -- 1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children / Berenice M. Fisher -- 2. Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood / Melanie Elyse Brewster and Olivia Snow -- 3. "You Will Change Your Mind": The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents / Adi Avivi -- 4. Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women / Amanda Michiko Shigihara -- Part II. Childfree Representation -- 5. Childfree in Toyland / Christopher Clausen -- 6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day / Laura Carroll -- 7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television / Natalia Cherjovsky -- Part III. Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives -- 8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body / Rhonny Dam -- 9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children / Laura S. Scott -- 10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene / Erika M. Arias -- Part IV. Childfree Redefinitions -- 11. Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity / Laurie Lisle -- 12. Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women / Anna Gotlib -- Concluding Thoughts / Davinia Thornley -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Theoretical premises for defining the concept of identity in urban planning and architecture -- Public space transformation in the centre of Kiev, and searching for national identity -- National identity in the architecture of the public space in the centre of Moscow -- An urban planning version of the transformation of Berlin city centre's public space and identity in the 20th century -- The identity of public space : trends and regularities of development.

History of the research on Chinese lineages -- Historical background of Sheung Tin and Lee lineage -- Development and segmentation of Lee lineage -- Ancestral rituals and identity of Lee lineage -- Revival of the lineage in Mainland China -- Lineages as cultural and political resources -- Social functions of the written genealogical books.

"Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner's concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death"--

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Encountering global crises -- Approach and structure of the book -- Positioning ourselves -- Part one -- Today's universities: content and challenges -The colonial roots and neoliberal takeover of higher education -- Heading upstream -- Neoliberal enclosure and its origins -- The neoliberal agenda -- Australia's tertiary enclosure -- Hospicing higher education -- The case for transgressive alternatives -- Universities and narratives of crisis -- The climate crisis -- Covid-19, social injustice and universities -- Universities at the crossroads -- The case for change -- Reimagining the university -- The 'glitch' -- Diverse spaces for reimagining the university -- Minor reforms: a life support for modernity -- Major reforms: new possibilities for thinking -and doing -differently -- Beyond reform: hopiscing a system in decline -- Conclusions -- Part two -- values and practices -- Decolonising higher education -- Neoliberalism as colonialism continued -- The ongoing coloniality of universities today -- Toward a decolonial university -- Decolonising pedagogies -- Taking aim at the property paradigm -- Indigenous study on its own terms: the Dechinta Bush University -- Can we decolonise a university of the common good? -- De-centralisation, equity and democratisation -- Introduction -- Bullshit governance: the stifling effects of managerialism -- Colonial shadows: homogeneity and governance -- Cooperative governance: benefits and new ecologies -- Alternative governance regimes -- 'Co-governance' : looking to Latin America -- The social science centre, Lincoln, England -- Towards democratic governance? -- Free universities: free learning, slow learning and decolonial learning on the university's threshold -- Reimagining universities from the outside in -- A brief history of free universities -- Free universities today' -- Class consciousness': revolutionising class content and pedagogies -- Reimagining time -- The decolonial potentials of free universities -- Beyond inside/outside thinking -- New horizons: regenerative and relational universities -- Introduction: beyond sustainability -- Cultures of regeneration and relationality -- Principles of regenerative/relational learning and unlearning -- Regenerative/relational learning within and beyond the academy -- Global movements toward regenerative/relational education -- Head, hand, heart: the Earth University and other regenerative/relational learning projects -- Translating regenerative/relational learning into universities -- Advocating for change -- Transformational change and its obstacles -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- What might we do -collectively -with this moment of possibility? -- Main arguments of this book -- Concluding with key claims.

Ecology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. Paired wiwth a useful companion website with engaging practical applications, the book breaks down ecological principles and explains six threats to biodiversity in terms anyone studying ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, or environmental justice will understand.

"What makes a neo-Nazi become a convinced anti-fascist or a radical left-winger become a devout Salafist? How do they manage to fit into their new environment and gain acceptance as a former enemy? The people featured in this book made highly puzzling journeys, first venturing into extremist milieus and then deciding to switch to the opposite side. By using their extraordinary life stories and their own narratives, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of how and why people move between seemingly opposing extremist environments that can sometimes overlap and influence each other. It aims to understand how these extremists manage to convince their new group that they can be trusted, which also allows us to dive deep into the psychology of extremism and terrorism. This fascinating work will be of immense value to those studying radicalization and counter-radicalization in terrorism studies, social psychology, and political science"--