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Wohnungsfragen sind soziale Fragen und werden vor allem in den großen Städten intensiv von Politik, Verbänden und sozialen Bewegungen diskutiert. Angesichts steigender Mieten und sozialer Versorgungsprobleme werfen diese Debatten sozial- und wohnungspolitische Fragen nach den Ursachen, dem Ausmaß, dem Muster der Betroffenheit und auch Lösungsmöglichkeiten auf. Mit der vorliegenden Analyse zur Entwicklung der Wohnverhältnisse und der Wohnversorgung in 77 deutschen Großstädten mit mehr als 100.000 Einwohner*innen bringen wir uns in die Debatte ein. Die Auswertungen von Mikrozensusdaten zeigen, dass sich im Zeitraum von 2006 bis 2018 die soziale Ungleichheit im Bereich des Wohnens verschärft und hohe Mietkostenbelastungen verfestigt haben: Wenngleich die Mietbelastungsquote im genannten Zwölfjahreszeitraum über alle Haushalte in den Großstädten weitgehend stabil geblieben ist, zahlten 4,1 Millionen bzw. 49,2 Prozent aller Mieter*innenhaushalte im Jahr 2018 mehr als 30 Prozent ihres Einkommens für die Miete und überschritten damit die Grenze der Leistbarkeit. Weitere Auswertungen zeigen die sozialen Versorgungsdefizite in der Wohnraumversorgung auf: Im Jahr 2018 lebten 4,4 Millionen Haushalte in zu kleinen oder im Verhältnis zu ihren Einkommen zu teuren Wohnungen. Das entspricht einem Anteil von fast 53 Prozent aller Mieter*innenhaus-halte, die in nicht leistbaren bzw. in nicht angemessen großen Wohnungen lebten.

Introduction: Peace Education and the Humanities -- Philosophy in the Pursuit of Peace -- "You Can't Really Change the Heart Without Telling a Story " : Poetry as Peacebuilding -- Promoting Peace in Cultural and Language Studies -- Rhetoric and Peace Studies -- The Study of Religion in Comprehensive Education for Peace: On Learning to Make Room for Difference -- The Past's Presents for a Just and Peaceful Future -- "A Choir Is a Beautiful Thing" : Peacebuilding and Reconciliation through the Cultivation of Beauty.

"Sarah Fayen Scarlett's book examines the development and social consequences of suburbanization in Michigan's Copper Country. Scarlett argues that as mining towns began to fail in the late nineteenth century, an emerging middle-class elite began building architecturally unique housing, following national trends but using preexisting materials and company housing policies, to escape the multiethnic workers' housing within the old company town. This unusual form of suburbanization belies the assumption that suburbs and industry were independent developments"--

"Panoramic and provocative in its scope, this handbook is the definitive guide to contemporary issues associated with male sex work and a must read for those who study masculinities, male sexuality, sexual health and sexual cultures. This groundbreaking volume will have a powerful impact on our understanding of this challenging, elusive subject. While the internet has brought the previously hidden worlds of male sex work more starkly into public view, academic research has often remained locked into descriptions of male sex workers and their clients as perverse. Drawing from a variety of regions, the chapters provide insights into the historical, popular cultural, social and economic aspects of sex work, as well as demographic patterns, health outcomes and policy issues. This approach shifts thought on male sex work from a hidden 'social problem' to a publicly acknowledged 'social phenomenon'. The book challenges myths and reconceptualizes male sex work as a discrete field. Importantly, it provides a vehicle for the voices of male sex workers and new and established scholars. This richly detailed, humane and innovative collection retrieves male sex work from silence and invisibility on the one hand, and its association with scandal and stigma on the other. The findings within have profound implications for how governments approach public health and regulation of the sex industry, and for how society can make sense of the complexities of human sexualities. A compelling scholarly read, and a major contribution to a commercial sector that is often neglected in policy debates on sex work, this handbook will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, gender studies, cultural studies and all those interested in male sex work"--

The term "geoengineering" refers to technologies that counteract the effects of anthropogenic climate change by deliberately intervening in Earth systems. In the midst of a climate crisis, and with disparate views on whether planetary-scale design is the appropriate response at all, The Planet After Geoengineering employs a speculative fiction approach to think with and against geoengineering as a form of planetary management. The graphic novel makes climate engineering and its controversies visible in a series of five stories that are collectively assembled into a planetary section from the deep underground to outer space. Each geostory - Petrified Carbon, Arctic Albedo, Sky River, Sulfur Storm, and Dust Cloud - depicts possible future Earths that we come to inhabit on the heels of a geoengineering intervention all while situating such promisory visions within a genealogy of climate-control projects from nineteenth-century rainmaking machines and volcanic eruptions to Cold War military plans. Such fabrications of an engineerable earth open a space to forge a new geo-politics that includes the actual Earth - its dimensions, processes, and lifeforms - as constitutive of design and the planet