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We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a theory of criminal law, as an institution that can play an important but limited role in the civil order of a political community: it shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained

"In the present political climate, qualitative researchers can bring rigorous research findings to public communities outside of the academy. Their findings can directly affect public policies, social justice, education and diversity issues, amongst others. The distinguished contributors of this book form a call to arms for the ever-increasing relevance of qualitative research in the public sphere"--

A Life for Animals is the story of Christine Townend, founder of Animal Liberation Australia, and her life devoted to a radical idea: that animals should be treated with dignity and respect. She records the successes and challenges of animal welfare work, and the personal, philosophical and political consequences of sharing a life with animals.

Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: A Framework -- Introduction -- The Project of 'Entrepreneurialism Urbanism' -- Anchoring 'Entrepreneurial Urbanism' in India -- Mission of Urban Exclusion -- Discussion: Contextualizing 'Entrepreneurial Urbanism' in India -- Urban Governance and Institutions -- Political Economy of Urbanization -- Urban Inclusion and Exclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Urban Governance and Institutions

"In Remaking Cities, design theorist Tony Fry addresses the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience from a conceptual design perspective. In a typically provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' - a radical approach which expands the concept of 'retrofit' up to city scale, and places social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart."--

"This book offers a discussion of many of the opportunities offered by digital democracy, juxtaposed with the many challenges which academics, educators and government administrators should finding insightful. This book discusses topics such as the complex intermingling of technology, political ideals and human practices within society raises new social, ethical, economic, legal, and educational concerns"--

Slavery/neo-feudalism -- The basics of America's social order -- The Civil War -- The American caste -- The post Civil War -- The social and political economy of caste -- The paradigm shifts -- The Civil Rights Movement -- The southern strategy -- The politics of commensality -- The age of Obama -- The brown Americans & the racial contract -- The sociopolitical effects of the racial contract.

"Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact on American society. The entrenched institutions within the political and cultural establishments that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian principles of the movement, underpinned an era of civic protest that brought an end to the Vietnam War"--

The contributors usually focus on one film from the period, put it in the historical, cultural, political and, above all, the formaesthetic context of its creation - and elucidate other works of the investigated director or process-related films. This creates a panoptic of aesthetic innovation in the late silent film with its selected and outstanding artifacts

11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s)12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec's Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives; 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and Their Consequences; 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right, and Europe's New Authoritarian Order; 15 Conclusion; Contributors.

"Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, Indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes offscreen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media."

"The Cox-Kwasniewski mission was part of the EU's final, all-out effort to save the Agreement and give millions of Ukrainians the hope of a European future. After an intricate political game of chicken between the European Union and Victor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president, Yanukovych swerved at the last second. Ukrainians took to the streets"--

The paradox of neoliberal ethics -- Producing the ethical capitalist subject -- The ethical power of neoliberalism -- The political power of neoliberal ethics -- The institutional power of neoliberal ethics -- The personal power of neoliberal ethics -- The subjective power of neoliberal ethics -- Fighting the power of neoliberal ethics -- The ethics of neoliberalism : the business of making capitalism moral.

Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--

pt. 1. Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- pt. II. The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- pt. III. Connecting spaces : networks and systems, merchants and political economies -- pt. IV. The complexity of networks : formal and informal exchange mechanisms and rupture of merchant cooperation.