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"This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance. The book critically investigates a global migration-development agenda that aims to harness remittances for development by incorporating remittance flows and households into global financial circuits. The book develops a multidisciplinary perspective and combines insights from economic, development, and financial geography as well as international political economy and economic anthropology. It sets out a geographies of remittance marketisation approach to investigate the intricate and grounded ways in which remittance markets are constructed, the extent to which remittance flows and households can be (re)configured and incorporated into global finance, and why such processes are always fragile, contested, and in need of constant renegotiation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork research, the book provides an in-depth critical interrogation of the policies and initiatives that underpin remittance marketisation in Senegal, Ghana, and beyond. This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international development, contemporary geographies of finance and market making, and migration and remittances. It should also prove of interest to policymakers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between migration, remittances, and finance in the Global South"--

Religious Appeals in Power Politics examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case studies of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, Peter S. Henne demonstrates that religion, although not as high profile or well-funded a tool as economic sanctions or threats of military force, remains a potent weapon in international relations. Public policy analysis often minimizes the role of religion, favoring military or economic matters as the "important" arenas of policy debate. As Henne shows, however, at transformative moments in political history, states turn to faith-based appeals to integrate or fragment international coalitions. Henne highlights Saudi Arabia's 1960s rivalry with Egypt, the United States's post-9/11 leadership in the global war on terrorism, and the Russian Federation's contemporary expansionism both to reveal the presence and power of calls for religious unity and to emphasize the uncertainty and anxiety such appeals can create. Religious Appeals in Power Politics offers a bold corrective to those who consider religion as tangential to military or economic might.

"The ongoing COVID-19 disater-and the universal realization of the unceasing threat of even worse pandemics in the future-has resulted in a wealth of books, scientific papers, and journalistic analyses on the politics, medicine, and human tragedy of recent events. The Nature of Pandemics is not an outcrop of COVID-19 publication frenzy. It was conceived in the period between the SARS and Ebola pandemics, intended to address the critical, but commonly overlooked issues, that limit our readiness, immediate recognition, and rapid response to pandemic outbreaks. The book is the first to look holistically at the nature of pandemics as a phenomenon, and the challenges of mounting an organized, concerted global response to a worldwide lethal bioevent. While the majority of healthcare professionals at national and international levels recognize the danger, the establishment of consistent and effective countermeasures in the form of a global anti-pandemic network is, at best, still sporadic and inconsistent. The need to react quickly, and unhesitatingly mobilize all needed resources-rather than embark on a slow, deliberative and politically safe approach-is probably the paramount obstacle to the effective containment of a pandemic disease. Chapters are written by internationally known and widely respected experts from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, and South America. They represent a cross-section of professions, many with academic and medical prominence supported by their direct involvement at the very forefront of the war against pandemic outbreaks, several knowing the personal and operational challenges involved with counter-pandemic responses. All involved are active in their respective fields and offer practical, real-world expertise based on hands-on work at the "front lines," providing profound, first-hand knowledge and recommendations for best practices. The opinions, often highly personal and perhaps even controversial, are based as much on theoretical considerations as on their extensive personal and highly insightful experience. As such, The Nature of Pandemics offer a multifaceted insight into problems that, if ignored initially, come to mar all subsequent response and mitigation efforts. The approach is rigorously intellectual and, in a field that often evokes passions, is equally rigorously dispassionate. It has to be so: in the modern world of pandemics "past is the prologue." Coverage provides solutions in developing readiness and mobilizing response to the current pandemic, and future ones. Addressing, military and security issues, government roadblocks to response, mutual aid agreements, ethics, global health organizations and response agencies-and the harsh realities of potential mass fatalities-the book examines the myriad complexities of pandemics and the real threat outbreaks"--

1. Controversies, challenges, and change -- 2. Indigenous Courts -- 3. Problem solving courts -- 4. Coroners' Courts and death investigations -- 5. The Family Court -- 6. Civil courts and tribunals -- 7. Children and young people in court -- 8. Juries in the digital age -- 9. Bail decisions -- 10. Victim participatory rights -- 11. Injustices and inequitable outcomes -- 12. Delaying justice -- 13. Prosecution in the Magistrates' Courts -- 14. Politics, parliament and public influence over the courts -- 15. Courts and the media -- 16. Debates and future directions.

"First book in the Movement Rhetoric/Rhetoric's Movements series! September 17, 2021, marked the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Headlines this week have included "Was Occupy Wall Street the 'Beginning of the Beginning'?" (NY Times), "Occupy Wall Street Won the Future" (WSJ, opinion), "Lessons from Occupy Wall Street for today's tax fight" (The Hill), "Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think (The Atlantic). In The Democracy Ethos: Authenticity and Instrumentalism in US Movement Rhetoric after Occupy, A. Freya Thimsen asks the question implicit in these headlines: ten years later, what were the lasting impacts of Occupy? If it is evaluated solely in terms of specific, near-term policy outcomes, it cannot help but be found wanting. But the longer view, Thimsen argues, suggests that the democratic ethos consolidated and disseminated by the Occupy demonstrations plays an important role in the way that more mainstream US pro-democracy advocacy groups disclose their practices of self-organization in order to prove their commitment to democracy. The democratic ethos, she says, is a flexible, repeatable set of rhetorical tactics. The book begins by contrasting the democratic ethos drawing on Left radicalism and liberal instrumentalism that was consolidated in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011, and the "ironic instrumentalism" of the "Democracy Vouchers" used in the 2017 Seattle municiple elections--a pro-democracy strategy to reform campaign finance enacted through the undemocratic means of large private donations. In subsequent chapters, Thimsen shows how the democratic ethos born from Occupy has been adapted by collective actors working in the existing political system--in the contexts of amending the Constitution, Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's work to provide legal aid to municipalities fighting corporate incursion. While Occupy began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, its long-term importance rests in how its performative techniques have been folded into more common, less "interruptive" forms of politics. It changed what "counts" as credibly democratic and how democracy is performed, with impacts visible in the current Movement for Black Lives, immigrants' rights activism, and political campaigns"--

Einleitung -- Neue Konzepte für den Grundrechtsschutz in der digitalen Welt -- Governance der EU-Datenschutzpolitik: Harmonisierung und Technikneutralität in und Innovationswirkung der DSGVO -- Zum Zusammenspiel zwischen Unternehmen und Verbrauchern in der Datenökonomie: Herausforderungen und neue Gestaltungsansätze -- Privatheit und Digitalität: Zur soziotechnischen Transformation des selbstbestimmten Lebens -- Privatheit, Ethik und demokratische Selbstregulierung in einer digitalen Gesellschaft -- Von Schutzbedürfnissen und Schutzverhalten: Eine medienpsychologische Analyse des individuellen Privatheitsschutzes -- Digitaler Fußabdruck -- Datenschutz und Privatheitsschutz durch Gestaltung der Systeme.

Introduction : Population, Provocative Counterorganization, and the War on Politics -- The Possibility of Politics : People's Committees, Sanctuary Spaces, and Dissensus -- "Gazas of Istanbul" : Threatening Alliances and Militarized Spatial Control -- Provocative Counterorganization : Violent Interpellation, Low-Intensity Conflict, Ethnosectarian Enclaves -- Good Vigilantism, Bad Vigilantism : Crime, Community Justice, Mimetic Policing, and the Antiterror Laws -- Inspirational Hauntings : Undercover Police and the Spirits of Solidarity and Resistance -- Gezi Uprisings : The Long Summer of Solidarity, and Resistance and the Great Divide -- Epilogue : Policing as the Generation of (Dis)Order.

This book, geared towards both students and professionals, examines the synthesis of artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology in detecting mis-/disinformation in digital media content, and suggests practical means to intervene and curtail this current global 'infodemic'. This interdisciplinary book explores technological, psychological, philosophical, and linguistic insights into the nature of truth and deception, trust and credibility, cognitive biases and logical fallacies and how, through AI and human intervention, content users can be alerted to the presence of deception. The author investigates how AI can mimic the procedures and know-hows of humans, showing how AI can help spot fakes and how AI tools can work to debunk rumors and fact-check. The book describes how AI detection systems work and how they fit with broader societal and individual concerns. Each chapter focuses attention on key concepts and their inter-connection. The first part of the book seeks theoretical footing to understand our interactions with new information and reviews relevant empirical findings in behavioral sciences. The second part is about applied knowledge. The author looks at several known practices that guard us against deception, and provides several real-world examples of manipulative persuasive techniques in advertising, political propaganda, and public relations. She provides links to the downloadable executable files to three AI applications (clickbait, satire, and falsehood detectors) via LiT.RL GitHub, an open access repository. The book is useful to students and professionals studying AI and media studies as well as library and information professionals. Examines how artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology can aid in detecting mis-/disinformation and the language of deceit in digital media content; Suggests practical computational means to intervene and curtail the global 'infodemic' of fake news; Presents how AI can sift, sort, and shuffle digital content, to reduce the amount of content needed to be reviewed by humans.

In this book Pragati Rawat and John C. Morris identify and evaluate the impact of factors that can help explain the difference in e-participation, public participation using information and communication technology, in different countries. While cross-sectional studies have been covered, few have taken an in-depth look at cross-national studies. This book attempts to fill the gap using quantitative panel data to explore the influence of technology and institutions, and the impact of their complex relationships in a mediation and moderation analysis, on e-participation. The current study reviews the scholarly work in the field of "offline" and "online participation" to identify a set of antecedents that influence e-participation. A conceptual framework is developed, supported by the theories from the public policy and socio-technical premise. The authors utilize secondary data, primarily from the UN and World Economic Forum, for 143 countries from three waves of surveys to measure the dependent and explanatory variables. The panel data is statistically analyzed and findings reveal the role of technology as a mediator as well as a moderator for institutions' impact on e-participation. The Effects of Technology and Institutions on E-Participation provides a groundbreaking country-level analysis that will appeal to academics and students of e-government and Digital Government, Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Sector Innovation, and Public Participation.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- One ¡Presente! -- Two Enacting Refusal -- Three Camino Largo -- Four Making Presence -- Five Traumatic Memes -- Six We Have Always Been Queer -- Seven Tortuous Routes -- Eight Dead Capital -- Nine The Decision Dilemma -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health. Ghana is endowed with abundant mineral resources. The mineral sector accounts for about 14% of total tax revenue, driven mostly by an increase in export earnings from the gold sector and the commencement of crude oil exports. However, the country has not yet been able to use its natural resources to promote human development, and the majority of the population still lives on less than $2 a day. This book argues for a paradigm shift in the discussion of mineral resources, one that looks to govern natural resources in such a way as to improve standards of living, health, education, income levels, empowerment, quality of work and threats from violence. The human-centred mineral resource governance approach developed by the book will not only be useful to Ghana, but can also be applied to other mineral-rich countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book will be important to upper level students and researchers of natural resource management, international development, and African studies, as well as to NGOs, practitioners, and policy makers who recognise the importance of linking natural resources income to human development"--