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There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure. Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants' individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao--an area in the city's former colonial center--from a place of common homes occupied by the urban poor into a showcase of architectural heritage and site for tourism and consumption. The ethnography provides a nuanced account of the diverse experiences and views of a range of groups involved in, shaping, and being shaped by the urban renewal process--local residents, migrant workers, preservationists, planners, and government officials-- and particularly foregrounds the voices and experiences of marginal groups, such as migrants in the city. Unpacking structural reasons for urban developmental impasses, it paints a nuanced local picture of urban governance and political practice in contemporary urban China. Seeking a Future for the Past also weighs the positives and negatives of heritage preservation and scrutinizes the meanings and effects of "preservation" on diverse social actors. By zeroing in on the seemingly contradictory yet coexisting processes of urban stagnation and urban destruction, the book reveals the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its urbanization practices and, ultimately, in managing its urban future

'A City of Equals' combines a multi-disciplinary literature review and, distinctively, more than 180 interviews in 10 cities in 6 countries: Wolff and De-Shalit provide an account of a city of equals based on the idea that it should give each of its city-zens a secure sense of place or belonging.

Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged 'Judeo-Christian' heritage.

Introduction -- PART I Identifying with Books -- Discussion -- Chapter 1 Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël's Corinne -- or, Italy Seren Nolan -- Chapter 2 Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons (1860-1923) and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate Tom Stammers -- Bridge -- PART II Representing Authority -- Discussion -- Chapter 3 Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France: Brunel, Known as Bétancourt, Being Led to the Scaffold (1670) Tom Hamilton -- Chapter 4 Word and Image in Popular Science Joseph D. Martin -- Bridge -- PART III Order and Disorder -- Discussion -- Chapter 5 Museum Labels: Word and Object on Display Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui -- Chapter 6 Play with Literacy in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets A. Robin Hoffman -- Bridge -- PART IV Authenticity and Interpretation -- Discussion -- Chapter 7 On Taking Artists at Their Word: Artists' Writings and Statements from 1850 to the Present Lucy Whelan -- Chapter 8 Portraiture and Biography: Harmonious Marriage or Difficult Relationship? Ludmilla Jordanova -- Bridge -- PART V Making, Compiling, Arranging -- Discussion -- Chapter 9 Extra-Illustration in Early Twentieth-Century England Ludmilla Jordanova -- Chapter 10 Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album Antonia Miejluk -- Bridge -- PART VI Words in the Visual Field -- Discussion -- Chapter 11 Word as Image: The Verbal in the Photograph J. J. Long -- Chapter 12 Text-Image Hybridity in Know Thyself and Early Modern English Print Finola Finn -- Afterword: Word, Image and Play -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. The Framework -- 2. The Bureaucrat -- 3. The Winner -- 4. The Doer -- 5. The Fixer -- 6. The Billionaire -- 7. The Wrangler -- 8. The Reformer -- 9. The Enforcer -- 10. The Campaigner -- 11. The Capitalist -- 12. The Next Steps -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.

European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonization and decolonization processes have had a profound impact on the formation of the majority of sovereign states that exist today. But how exactly have natural resources influenced the creation of formerly colonized states? And would the world map of sovereign states look significantly different if not for these resources? These questions are at the heart of Fueling Sovereignty, which focuses primarily on oil as the most significant natural resource of the modern era. Naosuke Mukoyama provides a compelling analysis of how colonial oil politics contributed to the creation of some of the world's most unlikely states. Drawing on extensive archival sources on Brunei, Qatar and Bahrain, he sheds light on how some small colonial entities achieved independence despite their inclusion in a merger project promoted by the metropole and regional powers

A heartbreaking portrait of Bria, a teenage girl slipping into addiction despite loathing what the same drugs have done to her family. In the middle of a heat wave, Bria must deal with a bear that wanders into town, unsolicited dick pics texted from a mystery number, and a creeping dependence on what Bria should hate most of all.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface by Susana Caló -- Chapter 1. The White Rat -- 1. The Chainbreakers -- 2. From the Politics of Psychiatry to Psychopolitics -- 3. Bodies Leaking over a Great Divide -- 4. Psychiatry: Utopian or Materialist -- Chapter 2. Barefoot Therapeutics -- 5. The Experience of the Total Institution -- 6. Putting Psychiatry on Its Feet -- 7. Lines of Communication, Paths of Desire -- 8. Nise da Silveira and the "Unity of Things" -- 9. Whither Asylumnia? -- Chapter 3. Demolition Psychiatry -- 10. The Work of the Negative -- 11. A Movement Designed to Self-Destruct -- 12. All Those Who Struggle for Freedom -- Chapter 4. Dreams of Escape -- 13. When the Outside Comes In, the Inside Goes Out -- 14. The Afterlives of the Almshouse -- 15. Ariadne's Conscription -- 16. Dissolving Lunacy into Crime -- 17. 10,000 Paradigm Shifts and Counting -- 18. A. Another Name for Losing Our Shit -- 19. B. The Germophobia of Groupuscules -- 20. American Hydra -- Chapter 5. Violence and the Ward -- 21. Dissensus in Cuernavaca -- 22. A Short History of Psychiatric Violence -- 23. No Longer Lying to Ourselves -- 24. Resounding Failures -- 25. The Uses of Ethnopsychiatry -- 26. A Violent Awakening -- Conclusion -- 27. Illness and Economy -- 28. Nihilist Psychiatry and the Racial Universal -- 29. Illness in or as Economy -- 30. Coda on the Madness of Madness -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- About Common Notions.

Various forms of control play a central role in our lives. Yet the nature of control is a difficult conundrum to probe. Art practices help us to make sense of questions and paradoxes related to the intertwining of control and non-control by putting it on display.

"From acclaimed Lincoln Prize winner Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Abraham Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and -- perhaps most significantly -- voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln's ascent ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split, and ultimately destroy, Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society. Harold Holzer charts Lincoln's political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes, "The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln's leadership, but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the 'nation might live.'" An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first." --