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"How do people live in a time after promises of progress have revealed themselves to be empty? In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann examines the grave, lethal threat posed by long-term air pollution in Baltimore, MD. Focusing on the industrialized community of Curtis Bay-ranked first in the country for air pollutants released from stationary sources-she examines competing visions of the future and the severe human toll they can take. Examining the rifts between white and Black communities, advocates of big industry and environmental activists, and older and younger generations, Ahmann shows how this community has become a battleground in which lives lost to pollution are seen by some as a regrettable side effect on the road to economic renewal. A rigorous, moving study of environmental risk and disaster, this book offers deep insights for our current condition and the possibility of a postindustrial world"--

Will die Friedensbewegung wieder eine ernst zu nehmende Stimme in gesellschaftlichen Debatten werden, so muss sie sich dringend reformieren. Die friedensethischen und -politischen Fragestellungen im Zuge des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine machen wie unterm Brennglas die Defizite der Bewegung sichtbar: Das ideologisierte Erbe der Vergangenheit, die mangelnde Rezeption wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse und das Abdriften in populistische Diskurse haben sie in die Sackgasse geführt. Auf der Grundlage einer kritischen Standortbestimmung zeigt Johannes Ludwig, welcher Reformen es bedarf, um die Friedensbewegung zukunftsfähig zu machen.

"The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health. The book is structured around five sections: 1) social, cultural and political determinants of health; 2) knowledge production in anthropology and global health; 3) persistent invisibilities in global health; 4) reimagining a critical global health; and 5) new horizons in anthropology and global health. Over these five themes a range of topics is explored including: - rare diseases - medical pluralism - universal global health protocols - HIV - health security - indigenous communities - (non)communicable diseases - decolonizing global health The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health is an essential resource for upper-level students and researchers in Anthropology, Global Health, Sociology, International Development, Health Studies, and Politics"--

In Krisenzeiten wird das Vertrauen, das alltägliche Handlungen begleitet und ermöglicht, in Frage gestellt, aber so auch mit einem Male medial wahrnehmbar. Wie werden Vertrauen und Misstrauen unter krisenhaften Umständen sichtbar und thematisierbar? Wie wird darum geworben oder davor gewarnt? Wie verschiebt und verändert sich das, worauf man vertraut? - Solche Fragen eröffnen Zugänge zu einer der wichtigsten Krisenzeiten des europäischen Kontinents: der Frühen Neuzeit, in der Vertrauen als virulentes Problem im Deutschen neu begrifflich fassbar wird. Insbesondere illustrierte Flugblätter wirken als Seismographen dieser Krisen, wodurch sie nicht zuletzt ihre eigene Glaubwürdigkeit affirmieren oder mit der wachsenden Medienskepsis kreativ umzugehen beginnen.In vier Kapitel gegliedert eröffnen die Beiträge eine neue Perspektive auf die mediale Reflexion von Vertrauen und Misstrauen in frühneuzeitlicher Flugpublizistik sowie auf die behandelten Vertrauenspraktiken und -krisen in ihrer politisch-juridischen, ökonomischen und medienreflexiven Ausformung

"From Facebook and YouTube to TikTok and WeChat, this accessible book explores the relationships between public and personal communication on social media to understand their impacts on users' everyday lives. Social media have made possible new kinds of relationships, entertainment, and politics and enabled billions of people to experience new forms of communication, community, and communion. But social media are also profit-driven, data-mining corporations, and their core business model is often built around targeted surveillance that enables the commercial exploitation of their users' everyday lives. Graham Meikle explores the tensions between the different dimensions of social media, engaging with questions of communication, data, remix, news, visibility, citizenship, and regulation. This second edition has been substantially revised: more than half of the text is entirely new to this edition, and those sections that remain have been completely updated. This new edition includes analysis of the data-driven business models of major social media firms, and of how these are expanding into new areas such as AI. It also includes discussion of major developments in news, surveillance, and activism on social media, as well as a new chapter on regulation. This book is an ideal critical introduction to social media in all their complexity"--

Andreas Ströhl stellt in seinem Buch die wichtigsten Medientheorien verständlich vor. Ausgehend von Platon gelangt er über Kant und Hegel zu den Denker:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts, darunter Brecht, Benjamin, Bühler, Shannon und Weaver, McLuhan, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Barthes, Sontag, Luhmann, Postman, Flusser. Auch auf Theoretiker der Postmoderne und Gegenwart, wie Virilio und Kittler, geht er ein.

Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and competencies--and the combination of these factors influence online work practices. Merging case studies with analysis, the authors show how the tactics of online connection and disconnection interact with the complex realities of working in today s media environments. The result is an insightful portrait of fast-changing journalistic practices and their implications for both audiences and professional identities and norms

What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness - the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate the meaning of being British. Using multi-lingual sources and oral history, Kong traces the experiences of multiracial residents in 1910-45 Hong Kong. Guiding us through Hong Kong's global networks, and the colony's co-existing exclusive and cosmopolitan social spaces, this book uncovers the long history of multiracial Britishness. Kong argues that Britishness existed in the colony in multiple, hyphenated forms - as a racial category, but also as privileges, a means of survival, and a form of cultural and national belonging. This book offers us an important reminder that multiracial inhabitants of the British Empire were just as active in the making of Britishness as the British state and white Britons.

The wide range of topics that the book covers are organised into sections reflecting a cradle to grave view of how entrepreneurial, innovative, and tech-savvy approaches can advance environmental sustainability in the fashion sector. These sections include: sustainable materials; innovation in design, range planning and product development; sustainable innovations in fashion supply chains; sustainable innovations in fashion retail and marketing; sustainable alternatives for end-of-life and circular economy initiatives; and more sustainable alternative fashion business models