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"Louis Brownlow, one of public administration's historical thinkers, once argued that "the principal requirement of a good administrator is an insatiable curiosity." This book is rooted in the notion that public administrators must practice insatiable curiosity to be effective, fair, and democratic. By seeking to uncover how the world works, and therefore practicing curiosity, public administrators may be more likely to move toward evidence-based decisions, improving the efficacy and efficiency of public service. Curiosity encourages public administrators to seek answers in a caring manner, and in doing so empathize with the communities that they serve. First, the book incorporates the concept of curiosity into the field of public administration. Scholarship in philosophy, business administration, social science, and other scholarly fields address curiosity, but public administration has yet to examine this concept in detail. This book fills that hole in the literature. Second, the book presents novel primary data on curiosity in public agencies by examining curious organizations and surveying local government officers. Third, the book presents novel primary data on how public affairs faculty view curiosity and incorporate the concept in their research and the classroom. Lastly, author William Hatcher integrates this information in the book's final chapter to present a model of administrative curiosity, focusing on creating a guide for future research and teaching. Thus, this book serves as a roadmap for developing a new doctrine of curiosity in public administration theory and practice, and it will be of enormous interest to students enrolled in public affairs courses as well as practicing public administrators and nonprofit managers"--

"For 35 years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers rights. In 2012, shortly after one of their biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed their headquarters. Fire Dreams is an innovative collaboration between WWAV and Laura McTighe, who work in community to build a social movement ethnography of the organization's post-arson rebirth. Rooting WWAV in the geography of the South and the living history of generations of Black feminist thinkers, McTighe and WWAV weave together stories from their founders' pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with other movements for liberation around the globe. Together, they refuse the logics of racial capitalism and share WWAV's own world-building knowledges as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise"--

What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popular entertainment for Arabic-speaking audiences, many of whom were uneducated and striving to contend with modernity s anxiety-inducing realities? Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century s transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely focussed on concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups. Highlighting overlooked aspects of this movement, this book shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences. Its ten contributions range in scope, from music and visual media to theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, this book heeds the call for translocal/transnational cultural histories, while contributing to timely global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality. Focusing on the often-marginalized frequenters of cafés, artist studios, cinemas, nightclubs, and the streets, it expands the remit of who participated in the nahda and how they did

"Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls' potential to multiply investment, interrupt intergenerational poverty, and predict economic growth. Girls in Global Development presents case studies from established and emerging scholars to collectively theorize and examine the concept of "Girls in Development" (GID), a distinctive way of approaching notions of girls and girlhoods in locations around the globe, at various points in history, through a critical feminist lens"--

Introduction COVID in the Asia Pacific : a survey / Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou -- Indonesia's response to the Covid-10 pandemic : from herbal cure-alls to a science-based response / Yohana Susana Yembise, Rob Goodfellow -- Pandemic, migrant workers and the economy of Bangladesh / Mamta B Chowdhury -- Japan : moralised politics in countering COVID-19 in Japan / Yukiko Nishikawa -- Making sense of the behavioral restrictions and institutional controls : the Philippine COVID-19 experience / Leslie A. Lopez, Jessica Sandra R. Claudio, Dennis B. Batangan, Joselito T. Sescon, Haraya Marikit C. Mendoza -- COVID-19 in Vietnam / Toan Dang -- Nepal : pandemic and unusual state response / Uddhab Pyakurel, Supriya Gurung -- Australia and COVID 19 : cracks in the commonwealth / Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou -- Taiwan : how COVID-19 sharpens Taiwanese identity / Tse-Min Hung -- Cambodia : the thin line between development and human rights during COVID-19 / Natalia Szablewska, Muy Seo Ngouv, Ratana Ly -- Aotearoa New Zealand : is the grass really greener here? Social, political and cultural implications of Covid-19 in New Zealand / Christina Ergler, Nichole Georgeou, Sarah Lovell, Bob Huish.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Extremely Sharp Power -- 2. Methods of Sharp Power: Definitions -- 3. The Context: One Hundred Years of Latvian-Russian Bilateral Relations -- 4. History Still Matters: The Kremlin's Memory Diplomacy as One of the Main Elements of Sharp Power -- 5. Russian Compatriot Policy against Latvian Educational, Language, and Citizenship Policies -- 6. 'Russian World': Geopolitics, Values, and Culture -- 7. The Russian Orthodox Church and Latvia -- 8. Russian Media in Latvia: Much More than RT and Sputnik -- 9. Social Media as a New Ground for Confrontation -- 10. Elections and Referenda in Latvia: 'Neighbour's Footprints in the Backyard' -- 11. The Regional Dimension: Separatism of Latgale That Never Materialized -- 12. The Emotional Side of Sharp Power: From Humour to Rudeness -- Conclusions -- Index.

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Lenore Manderson -- Introduction -- 1. The First 1,000 Days: Origin Stories -- 2. Situated Biologies: The View from Khayelitsha -- 3. The Traveling Technology of Mother and Child -- 4. Life between Protocols -- 5. Intergenerational Transmissions: The Work of Time -- 6. Ambivalent Kin: On Gender and Violence -- Conclusion: The Politics of Potential -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Series List.

"This book is about the economy, rather than economics. It explores the structures, inner workings and problems of modern economies, showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the analysis there is the economic system, characterised by organisational components carrying out economic functions (production, consumption, distribution, and establishment and control of the economic activities as well as provision of public goods and services), and by a co-evolving dynamic with the state. The economic system is thus a 'machine' that modern states have organised through their laws and international agreements. The book incorporates a historical approach which reveals the varieties, structure and evolution of capitalism as the defining economic system of the modern age. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the economic sphere and the political sphere are the two powers ruling people's lives: the economy is the result of their interactions. This book will be of great interest to readers in political economy, economics, sociology and political science"--

"Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe. The edited volume analyses how identities related to class, ethnicity, gender and political ideologies were negotiated within and between minorities through confrontations with domestic and international fascism. By developing and expanding the study of Jewish anti-fascism and resistance to other minority responses, the book opens the field of anti-fascism studies for a broader comparative approach. The volume is thematically located in Central and Eastern Europe, cutting right across the continent from Finland in the North to Albania in the Southeast. The case studies in the fourteen research chapters are divided into five thematic sections, dealing with the issues of 1) minorities in borderlands and cross-border antifascism, 2) minorities navigating the ideological squeeze between communism and fascism, 3) the role of intellectuals in the defence of minority rights, 4) the anti-fascist resistance against fascist and Nazi occupation during World War II, as well as 5) the conflictual role ascribed to ethnicity in post-war memory politics and commemorations. The editors describe their intersectional approach to the analysis of ethnicity as a crucial category of analysis with regard to anti-fascist histories and memories. The book offers scholars and students valuable historical and comparative perspectives on minority studies, Jewish studies, borderland studies, and memory studies. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of race and racism, fascism and anti-fascism, and Central and Eastern Europe"--

"Kurdistan is among the world's most notorious cases of self-determination denied, and why this outcome remains unachieved reveals as much about the biases of international law as it does about the merits of the case for Kurdistan. On the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, 24 July 1923, the last of the international instruments establishing the new international order after WWI, this book explores the potential blind spots of international law regarding its differential application in the Middle East. Tracing self-determination over the past century, the work explores how the law applies to Kurdish aspirations and to what extent the Kurds can rely upon the current law of self-determination to achieve internationally recognised statehood. The book offers an exhaustive historio-legal analysis of changing international legal concepts and geopolitical upheaval, providing a blueprint for Kurdish self-determination in international law. Shedding light on the law's structural biases, it represents a comprehensive historico-legal account of Kurdish aspirations to territorial independence within international law literature, offering a guide to relevant legal problems. It will be of interest to students and academics focused on international law, specifically, peoplehood, statehood, secession, human rights law, political science, and anthropology. Moreover, policymakers, government officials working in peace and conflict, research and advocacy institutes, think tanks as well as scholars of international relations, historians, political scientists, regional specialists, diplomats, and NGO activists will find it a useful reference. The book also illuminates the human rights status of the Kurds in their host states, making it relevant to scholars and activists. Its findings have implications extending beyond Kurdistan to self-determination struggles in Scotland, Catalonia, Ukraine, and elsewhere"--

"How do corporations use their instrumental and structural power within markets and states to advance their policy agendas? Capitalism and Class Power examines corporate power through chapters on the U.S. military industrial complex, the rise of billionaire wealth in the U.S., the role of a transnational investment bloc in U.S.-Saudi relations, the rise of global disinformation firms, Canadian imperialism in the English-speaking Caribbean, the power of an EU corporate bloc in Caribbean trade agreements, the relationship between capitalism and poverty in rich capitalist countries, and the relationship between "neoliberalism" and capitalism. Professor Cox concludes the volume with reflections on the importance of corporate power research to achieving systemic change. Contributors are: Melissa Boissiere, Aram Eisenschitz, Jamie A. Gough, Adam D. Hernandez, Tamanisha J. John, Mazaher Koruzhde, Rob Piper and Bryant William Sculos. Ronald W. Cox is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He has published six books on corporate power in the global economy and is editor of the open access online journal Class, Race and Corporate Power"--

Introduction : the complexity of Italian neofascism and the extreme right after World War II -- Ideological and political inhomogeneity of the Italian far right during the Years of Lead -- Conceptual and operational structure of the Strategy of Tension : Ordine Nuovo (ON), Avanguardia Nazionale (AN), and the Italian and American secret services -- Redating the Strategy of Tension to 1947 and the LOS ANGELES Net Project : the 'Bands of Revolutionary Action' (Fasci di Azione Rivoluzionaria) and the American intelligence -- Hate speech of the opposing extremisms during the Years of Lead : a late and precarious truce -- Giovane Europa (GE) : an ideological classification to be corrected : the origin of National Bolshevism -- The second neofascist generation of the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR) and Terza Posizione (TP) : anarcho-fascism versus extreme right-wing hierarchism -- The esoteric neo-Nazi group Ludwig and its relations with other far-right organizations -- Eowyn magazine (1976-1982) and the personalizing feminism of neofascist women -- The Russia-Ukraine war explodes the historical contradictions of the far right : militants of different radical groups fight each other at the Ukrainian front -- Italian foreign fighters of the extreme right and left on the Ukrainian front.

"The Toxic Museum examines the use of pesticides in German museum collections at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It reconstructs the research of substances against harmful insects in museum collections within the historical context of the formation of nation states, colonialism, a strengthening chemical industry, the First World War and the resulting, broad-based hygiene movement, through the lens of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Berlin. Due to their persistence, the consequences of the use of pesticides in museum collections are now unmistakable and well documented in many places. Numerous objects are highly contaminated and only accessible under difficult conditions regarding occupational health and safety. This creates obstacles for conservation and scientific processing, as well as for mediation in the context of exhibitions and external loans. The most precarious and difficult situations arise when contaminated museum objects are repatriated to their countries of origin. This monograph examines contemporary challenges in the 21st century museum landscape and contextualizes the history of pesticide use at the turn of the 20th century. The Toxic Museum will be of great interest to students and scholars working in conservation, museology, monument preservation, art and cultural studies, ethnology, history, and economics"--