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Abstract
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the massive use of the digital in everyday life, in the absence of intercultural - media skills, seemed to have fuelled violence, misinformation, ethnocentrisms, prejudices towards the Other (Urry 2000; Appadurai 2005; Couldry 2015; Ziccardi 2016; Europol 2016; SWG 2017, Vox 2018).
However, social and digital technology can also be re-thought as a civic and moral space (Silverstone, 2009) able to overcome conflict and polarisation, as a strategic medium to improve social policies and the management of migration flows, actively involving host institutions and communities (Buoncompagni, D'Ambrosi 2020).
The panorama of humanitarian aid, in particular, i.e. that typology of interventions aimed at helping populations affected by war events or natural disasters, is completely changing in the way of operating within the world of international migration precisely thanks to the digital infrastructure (IOM 2018). Apps, virtual itinerant maps and self-narratives via social networks, sharing GPS coordinates of the safest routes among migrants, increasing numbers of socially engaged indigenous citizens enrolled in online platforms, are just a few examples of how digital media are acquiring a fundamental role within the migration network in hospitality and aid actions (Brunwasser 2015; Buoncompagni 2021. Only by developing the art of solidarity and the ability to communicate and cooperate globally, opening up to the Other, can the "different" relate effectively and productively in digital society (Chen 2005; Bennet 2015).
Pitirim A. Sorokin himself, a still prominent figure of 20th century sociology, stated that historical and techno-cultural changes have not always produced positive results within societies, but at times also negative (or more precisely 'destructive') ones: individualism, antagonism, excess of technology and rationality, and in particular the fall of the bonds of solidarity towards the different and the loss of the feeling of belonging (Cimagalli 2010; Marletti 2018; Perrotta 2016).
But the sociologist also stressed how altruism could be one of the indispensable ingredients of social life. No society can exist without an "altruistic and creative love" that has as its aim the "altruisation" of individuals and social institutions: a complex process/project capable of encompassing the emotional, supra-rational and spiritual aspects of human relationships (including online), starting from the idea that all men can recognise themselves in certain moral principles, eternal and universal (Mangone, 2020).
And such a condition could be re-created/supported also through digital tools and exist in online environments, thus trying to extend, on a theoretical level, Sorokin's attempt to make sociology (also digital, in this case) a "science of altruism" in the post-pandemic era of global interconnectedness.

"This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Lauren Haumesser here traces how northern and southern Democrats and their partisan media organs used gender to make powerful arguments about slavery as the sectional crisis grew, from the emergence of the Republican Party to secession. Gendered charges and countercharges turned slavery into an intractable cultural debate, raising the stakes of every dispute and making compromise ever more elusive"--

Hierarchical relationships--rules that structure both international and domestic politics--are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict? Daniel McCormack was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His current research focuses on political violence in America.--

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; 1: Complete Determination; 2: To Washington and Beyond; 3: Into South Africa; 4: Year of the Great Storm; Gallery 1; 5: Gugulethu; 6: "Comrades Come in All Colors"; 7: The Amy Phenomenon; Part II; 8: "Welcome to the Struggle, Family"; 9: Time of Trials; Gallery 2; 10: Laying a New Foundation; 11: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission; 12: Amnesty; 13: Mr. and Mrs. Amy Biehl; 14: Makhulu; Gallery 3; 15: The Legacy Lives On; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Cover; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE; Chapter One: Political Representation in Comparative Perspective; Theories of Political Representation; The Conceptual Framework; Methodology; Definitions; The Data; Methodological Limitations; Chapter Two: Representation: Comparisons with Canada and the United States; Measuring Descriptive Representation; Ethnic Representation in Comparative Context; Canada; The United States; Australia; Representation in the Civil Service; Conclusion; Chapter Three: The Historical and Legal-Institutional Context

"The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of European intercultural relations today"--Provided by publisher

"Recent events have proved that colonialism has left indelible prints in history. In 2013, the British Foreign Secretary apologized and promised compensation for the atrocities in Kenyan detention camps in the 1950s and the same year the heads of governments of the Caribbean Community issued a declaration demanding reparation for the genocide of indigenous populations and for slavery and the slave trade during colonialism The discussion and literature on global justice has mainly focused on distributive justice. What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today? What does rectificatory justice mean in the light of colonialism? What does global rectificatory justice require in practice? In seeking to answer these questions, the author fills a significant gap in the literature on global justice."--

Where do powerful strategies come from? How do some companies develop strategies that enable them to outperform others regardless of the state of their industry or the economic climate? How does a company get the essentials to work in regard to the company's strategies, such as leadership buy-in and follow-through on implementations and performance management, without being slow, rigid and check-box focused? This book will provide an understanding of what it takes to develop, implement and run a digital strategy. The internal structure of an organization and the market in which it competes is not going to adapt to a digital strategy process, it must find a process and methodology that works best for it. With big data emerging as a standard framework for decision making, digital strategy and governance have taken on increased importance. In today's online marketplace you are perceived as being always on. --

Intro -- Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Notes to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Contours and the Theory -- Chapter 2: Institutional Failure: Genesis of the War System -- Chapter 3: The Military and the Comfortable Impasse -- Chapter 4: Guerillas and the Impasse -- Chapter 5: Paramilitaries, Organized Crime, and the Dynamics of War -- Chapter 6: The Dominant Classes and the Prospects of Peace -- Chapter 7: Colombia's Civil War in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 8: Third Parties, War Systems' Inertia, and Conflict Termination: The Doomed Peace Process in Colombia, 1998-2002 -- Chapter 9: The War System: From Comfortable Impasse to Unstable Equilibrium, 2000-2012 -- Chapter 10: Bastard Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy of Organized Crime in Colombia Sicarios and Caudillos -- Chapter 11: Colombia's War System in Comparative Perspective -- Appendix: Selection of the Interview Population -- Addendum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- SUNY series in Global Politics, List of Titles.

Green Business Process Management - Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of our society, have always been a major contributor to the degradation of our natural environment, through the resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage production associated with their business processes. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable business processes. Finding solutions to this organizational design problem is the key challenge of Green Business Process Management. This book discusses the emerging challenges of designing "green" business processes, presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, and provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices. The book is of relevance to both practitioners and academics who are interested in understanding, designing, and implementing "green" business processes. It also constitutes a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the fields of information systems, management, and sustainable development

Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope -- Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action -- Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature -- God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution? -- Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism -- The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism -- The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic -- Epilogue: Into the great wide open.

Values in Malta, just as in other Western European societies, are shifting towards greater individualisation. Such a process refers to the growing autonomy of individuals in developing their own values and norms, increasingly turning away from traditional and institutionalised value systems. Individualisation and its concomitant secularisation is believed to be an ongoing and irreversible social process. What follows is an abridged comparative report based on results from the third wave of the Values Survey undertaken for the Maltese Government by Misco International (1995) in comparison to similar surveys held in ten western European countries and in Malta by Gallup in 1984 and 1991. ; N/A