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"Drawing on ethical and sociological theories of food, this book presents a new approach to food education that moves beyond nutrition-centered education by focusing on taste education. Food education has gained increasing scientific and political importance in many countries as a promising way to change contemporary eating. However, many practices fail to address two epistemological obstacles regarding its very components - 'food' and 'education'. Food has largely been thought of from a nutritionistic viewpoint alone and the ethical issues over children's freedom of choice and well-being have been largely absent. This book resolves these problems by applying ethical and sociological theories of food and analysing food education in two pioneering countries: Japan and France. The book focuses on taste education and gastronomy, as two key concepts which have great potential to positively impact food education. Taste education is a promising alternative to nutrition-centred pedagogy which foregrounds the experience and enjoyment of eating food, creating an environment of taste sensibility and food curiosity. From taste education, the picture can be broadened to examine the role and impact of gastronomy in food education. Examining the cultural traditions of France and Japan reveals how gastronomy can impact eating habits and eating cultures and how these criteria should be an intrinsic part of food education. The book concludes by constructing an integrative theory for food education that moves beyond nutrition-centred education for the benefit of society. This book will greatly interest students, scholars, policymakers and educators working on food education, food related issues at the intersection between nutritional and social sciences, and 'gastronomes' searching for a pedagogical guide for developing their capabilities to eat in a more humanistic way"--

Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around renewable power, sparking a global revolution in solar and wind technology. But this pioneering energy transition has been plagued with problems. In this volume, Stephen G. Gross explains the deeper origins of the Energiewende – Germany's transition to green energy – and offers the first comprehensive history of German energy and climate policy from World War II to the present. The book follows the Federal Republic as it passed through five energy transitions from the dramatic shift to oil that nearly wiped out the nation's hard coal sector, to the oil shocks and the rise of the Green movement in the 1970s and 1980s, the co-creation of a natural gas infrastructure with Russia, and the transition to renewable power today. He shows how debates over energy profoundly shaped the course of German history and influenced the landmark developments that define modern Europe. As Gross argues, the intense and early politicization of energy led the Federal Republic to diverge from the United States and rethink its fossil economy well before global warming became a public issue, building a green energy system in the name of many social goals. Yet Germany's experience also illustrates the difficulty, the political battles, and the unintended consequences that surround energy transitions. By combining economy theory with a study of interest groups, ideas, and political mobilization, Energy and Power offers a novel explanation for why energy transitions happen. Further, it provides a powerful lens to move beyond conventional debates on Germany's East-West divide, or its postwar engagement with the Holocaust, to explore how this nation has shaped the contemporary world in other important ways.

Reflections on a Life in Middle Eastern History -- Map -- Understanding Islam -- 1 An Introduction to Islam -- 2 The Foundations of State and Society -- 3 Does Pre-Modern Islamic Thought Allow for a Secular Realm? -- Islamic law and ethics -- 4 An Introduction to Islamic Law and Islamic Jurisprudence -- 5 Consultation and the Political Process in the Middle East of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Centuries -- 6 The Idea of the Jihād in Islam before the Crusades (with Ridwan al-Sayyid) -- 7 Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy -- 8 Brother and Brotherhood in the Qur'ān -- Islamic societies -- 9 The Shu'ūbīya Controversy and the Social History of Early Islamic Iran -- 10 Bureaucracy and the Patrimonial State in Early Islamic Iran and Iraq -- 11 Some Attitudes towards Monarchy and Absolutism in the Eastern Islamic World of the 11th and 12th Centuries -- 12 Oaths and Public Vows in the Middle East of the 10th and 11th Centuries -- 13 Qur'ānic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfāl VIII:41) -- Islamic education -- 14 The Transmission of Learning: The Role of the Islamic Northeast -- 15 Traditional Shi'ite Education in Qom -- 16 The Najaf Ḥawza Curriculum -- Islamic economics -- 17 A Note on the Tasbīb -- 18 The Economic Thought of al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī -- Islamic cities -- 19 Administration in Buyid Qazvin -- 20 Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture (with Mehrdad Amanat) -- 21 Faith and Practice: Muslims in Historic Cairo -- 22 Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside -- Shi'ism -- 23 Keeping the Shi'ites Straight -- 24 Shi'ite Political Thought and the Destiny of the Iranian Revolution -- 25 The Quandaries of Emulation: The Theory and Politics of Shiʻite Manuals of Practice -- Recent history in the middle east.

"No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism draws critically on the full range of the writings of William James--his psychology, theory of belief and truth, radical empiricism, pluralism, and his accounts of religion, ethics, politics, and society-to develop a powerful case for an original pragmatic world view and temperament resonant with James's philosophy. In a manner that avoids the "vicious intellectualism" that James criticized, the book engages more than a century of scholarship on James, and places him in conversation with both his contemporaries and more recent writers. Throughout the book's seven interwoven chapters, the author moves both with James and at times against James to address and illuminate central issues about the nature of the self, freedom, morality, community, truth, reality, and possibility. The chapters take up, in turn, James's views on: faith and freedom; habit, attention, and flourishing; inclusive and ethical lives; democratic politics; the temperament of pragmatism; a radically empirical ontology of relations; and, a pluralistic and unfinished universe. The focus throughout is practical: the book aims to show the differences in concrete lives that it makes to take up a broadly Jamesian pragmatic, radically empirical, and pluralistic personal perspective across the fallible and "ever not quite" endeavours of our finite lives. "From this unsparing practical ordeal," James noted, "no professor's lectures and no array of books can save us." In this spirit, this book does not pretend to provide, by itself, salvation. Instead, it effectively develops insights in the writings of William James that continue to constitute invaluable resources for new problems, new possibilities, and new forms of personal and social life"--

"Now in its third edition, Cost-Benefit Analysis has been updated, offering readers the perfect introduction to project, programme and policy appraisal using basic tools of financial and economic analysis. The key economic questions of any social cost-benefit analysis are: do the benefits of the project or policy exceed the costs, no matter how widely costs and benefits are spread, and irrespective of whether or not project impacts, such as environmental effects, are reflected in market prices? And which group or groups of individuals receive the benefits and which bear the costs? This book addresses these questions with an emphasis on putting the theory presented in the book into practice. This third edition has several attractive features: Readers are encouraged to develop their own skills by applying the tools and techniques of cost-benefit analysis to case studies and examples, including an analysis of a project which is developed throughout the book. The book emphasizes the use of spreadsheets which are invaluable in providing a framework for the cost-benefit analysis. A dedicated chapter provides guidance for writing up a report which summarizes the analysis which has been undertaken. New pedagogical features, including Technical Notes and Examples, have been added as an aid to readers throughout the text. An appendix provides fourteen additional case studies which can be developed in class or as assignment projects. This updated edition is an ideal text for a course on cost-benefit analysis where the emphasis is on practical application of principles and equipping students to conduct appraisals. It is also a useful handbook for professionals looking for a logical framework in which to undertake their cost-benefit analysis work"--

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the dominant discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and neoliberal democracy, this study situates Islamic politics in broader social settings by examining its nature and trajectories throughout Indonesia⁰́₉s modern political history. The book thus investigates how the practices of Islamic politics, or Islamism, have shaped and been transformed through political contestations and the formation of coalitions of multiple forces in constructing Indonesia⁰́₉s socio-political landscape. Using the concept of hegemony from poststructuralist discourse theory, the analytical framework applied in this book goes beyond liberal epistemologies of Islamism that prescribe the separation of religion from politics and treat Islamism as an object of intervention. Instead, the book is premised on the contention that Indonesia is a political construction, in which Islam has become one of the major discourses that have defined and transformed Indonesia⁰́₉s nation-state throughout history. In this view, it is argued that the nature and dynamics of Islamism are not driven primarily by different interpretations of religious doctrines, cultural norms or by the imperative of institutions. Rather, the struggles of different Islamist projects in their quest for hegemony are contingent on the outcomes of socio-political changes and contestations that involve multiple political forces, both within and beyond the Islamists, in specific historical conjunctures. Luqman Nul Hakim is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations and a director at the Institute of International Studies (IIS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.

"Now in its third edition, Cost-Benefit Analysis has been updated, offering readers the perfect introduction to project, programme and policy appraisal using basic tools of financial and economic analysis. The key economic questions of any social cost-benefit analysis are: do the benefits of the project or policy exceed the costs, no matter how widely costs and benefits are spread, and irrespective of whether or not project impacts, such as environmental effects, are reflected in market prices? And which group or groups of individuals receive the benefits and which bear the costs? This book addresses these questions with an emphasis on putting the theory presented in the book into practice. This third edition has several attractive features: Readers are encouraged to develop their own skills by applying the tools and techniques of cost-benefit analysis to case studies and examples, including an analysis of a project which is developed throughout the book. The book emphasizes the use of spreadsheets which are invaluable in providing a framework for the cost-benefit analysis. A dedicated chapter provides guidance for writing up a report which summarizes the analysis which has been undertaken. New pedagogical features, including Technical Notes and Examples, have been added as an aid to readers throughout the text. An appendix provides fourteen additional case studies which can be developed in class or as assignment projects. This updated edition is an ideal text for a course on cost-benefit analysis where the emphasis is on practical application of principles and equipping students to conduct appraisals. It is also a useful handbook for professionals looking for a logical framework in which to undertake their cost-benefit analysis work"--

This is an open access book. Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as new human rights. It approaches the question whether animals can and should have human rights through a comprehensive review of contemporary human rights philosophy, discussing both naturalistic and political justifications of human and animal rights. On philosophical as well as practical grounds, this book argues that there are compelling conceptual, principled, and prudential reasons for modernizing the human rights paradigm and integrating animals into its protective mandate. Moreover, this book proposes the novel One Rights approach as a new (post-)human rights paradigm for the Anthropocene. One Rights advances a holistic understanding of the indivisibility and interdependence of human and animal rights. This book explores how the systematic subjugation, exploitation, and extermination of animals simultaneously contributes to some of the gravest social and environmental threats to human rights, such as animalistic dehumanization and climate change. This book submits that, in light of their socio-political and ecological interconnectedness, human and animal rights are best protected in concert. The themes of this book are part of a larger conversation about postanthropocentric legal paradigms emerging in the Anthropocene. For human rights to survive in this era of anthropogenic crises, we need to abandon the toxic ideology of human exceptionalism and embrace a more inclusive version of (post-)human rights that tends to the nonhuman. This book intends to show that a holistic One Rights approach promises to achieve better rights-protective outcomes for humans, animals, and their shared planetary home.

A Public Sector Journey to Operational Excellence links effective government operations to the ability to accomplish bold social goals. The book illustrates how the principles and techniques of continuous improvement can be applied to public sector management and public policy development. The linkage of management to policy is woven throughout the four sections: Part 1 begins with the history and application of the principles of continuous improvement (CI). Readers are introduced to Lean and related methodology. CI principles are then juxtaposed with John M. Bernard's categorization of three stages of maturity in government. Next, guidance is provided on how to launch a CI initiative in the public sector, leading to a discussion of public administration in theory and practice. Part 2 examines the application of CI to governmental operations. Examples, such as the VA's hiring process, underscore the need to Lean bureaucratic and regulatory processes. Profiles of CI work in several states illustrate both the potential and the pitfalls, leading to recommendations for an optimal model. Part 3 acknowledges that among the responsibilities of government, the public policy function is the most difficult to Lean. It discusses the complexities inherent in government since the public policy is both a political and an administrative function. Toyota Kata methodology is illustrated, with its potential application to the challenges of policy development. It could be a force multiplier when civics and politics meet CI. Part 4 links the promise of CI to make government more effective, enabling it to solve complex problems. Strategies are proposed to overcome the threats and sustain the gains in these initiatives. Cognizant of the many challenges, the book closes with a range of recommendations and a reflection on the purpose of government.

A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels—most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America.But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville's voyages—by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot—across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville's character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary.Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change—the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria.Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of boxes -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Intro -- Chapter outline -- A study guide -- 1 Theoretical Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict -- Introduction -- The ethno-national conflict -- The concept of identity in Northern Ireland -- Marxist accounts -- The colonial interpretation -- Consociational theory -- 2 Background to the Conflict -- Introduction -- The historical context -- Home Rule and partition -- The Stormont regime -- The civil rights movement -- Onset of 'the Troubles' -- Communal divisions -- 3 Political Parties and Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland -- Introduction -- Ulster Unionist Party -- Democratic Unionist Party -- Social Democratic and Labour Party -- Sinn Féin -- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland -- Progressive Unionist Party -- Republican paramilitaries -- Loyalist paramilitaries -- 4 Finding a Solution: from Sunningdale to the Framework Documents -- Introduction -- Introduction of direct rule -- Sunningdale Agreement and Executive 1973-4 -- Rolling devolution 1982 -- Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 -- Brooke-Mayhew talks 1991-2 -- Downing Street Declaration 1993 -- Framework Documents 1995 -- 5 British and Irish Government Policy -- Introduction -- The British Government: cause of the conflict or neutral arbiter? -- The British Government and republicanism -- The British Government and unionism -- The Irish Government: the irredentism claim -- The 'pan-nationalist front' -- The Irish Government and unionism -- British and Irish convergence -- 6 Peace Process to Good Friday Agreement -- Introduction -- From negotiations to a deal -- The Good Friday Agreement: an 'historic' deal -- Support for the Agreement -- Opposition to the Agreement -- 7 Institutional Framework of the Agreement -- Introduction -- Strand One: the Northern Ireland Assembly -- Strand One: the Executive -- Strand Two: north-south cooperation -- Strand Three: east-west relations -- The decommissioning stalemate -- Police reform -- 8 Towards Restored Devolution -- Introduction -- Devolution in the UK -- Suspension and stalemate -- Review of the Agreement -- St Andrews Agreement 2006 -- Northern Ireland Assembly election March 2007 -- Return to power sharing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their own terms, between local forms of associational life and global markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics that find little space in the national and global policy vision of a rural sector geared towards growth – a vision that is peculiar to African states, including Tanzania.
Informed by anthropological theory and de-re-agrarianisation/de-re-peasantisation debates, and grounded in ethnographic evidence, the book eschews 'orthodox' approaches that see (rural) people as passive recipients of policies, and policies as instruments of oppression. Instead, it departs from the rural land/place-based practices of grazing, fishing and farming to look at rurality in Tanzania as a blend of old and new meanings, values and practices at the local-global interface, continually reshuffled as rural people encounter different social and economic spheres. As the world rediscovers the urgency of questions connected to neo-colonialism and de-colonisation, this book brings to the forefront the position, worldview and ambitions of African rural peoples intersecting with international policy models, visions and objectives.

This book discusses how tensions and unknowns may impact future relations between a post-Brexit UK, the EU and the countries of the Gulf, including Iran. The authors of this book consider, in different ways, whether British and EU27 relations with the Gulf States may change or whether the traditions and the weight of their history reinforce the preexisting patterns of these relationships. Ongoing changes in the Gulf, the present disputes and the trajectories economic reform also influence these discussions. The book analyses the changing positions of the US, China and Russia that are likely to impact Europe's interests. It explores outcomes of ongoing world challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the crash of oil prices, to further examine Post-Brexit Europe and UK policy challenges towards Iran and the GCC States. Dr. Geoffrey Edwards, Emeritus Reader in European Studies, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies, and Emeritus Fellow Pembroke College Cambridge and Jean Monnet Chair in Political Science Dr. Abdullah Baabood is a graduate in business studies and international relations. He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA), a Master in International Relations (MA) and a Doctorate in International political Economy (PhD) at Cambridge University. He particularly focuses on the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and their economic, social and political development as well as external relations. Dr. Diana Galeeva is currently an Academic Visitor to St Antony's College (Oxford University), having previously also been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. She completed her PhD at Durham University (UK). Her research interests include International Relations theory, Gulf Cooperation Council states' foreign policies, and Russia and the Middle East.

"In eleven chapters this book addresses the issue of the re-emergence of China and a new global order on the world stage, with implications for the existing US hegemonic liberal international order. The Re-Emergence of China reviews the history of China's astounding economic growth and geopolitical development over the past 30 years. It explores the economic, technological, and global development of China during this period; explores the political philosophy and praxis from imperial neo-Confucian times to the present socialist regime; the cultural and social development of China and the role of the Chinese diaspora; and examines the prospects for a new international order with a major role for China. This book will fit comfortably into the required reading schedule for graduate class modules in Chinese and East Asian studies, political theory, economic development, and contemporary political history. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the role of the Chinese diaspora in modern China's development. The authors' focus on the contemporary conflict between the US and China will also be of wider interest to political commentators as well as academic researchers in Chinese studies. The Re-Emergence of China can provide a guiding narrative for academics, researchers, policymakers, industry leaders and many other relevant professionals on how global society can be reshaped in the wake of China's re-emergence in the new global era. By focusing on China's integration with the economic and political world order, in terms of both its advances and setbacks, in addition to the historical contexts, readers can navigate the book's succinct coverage and conclusions on the development of a China polity which has become increasingly connected to the world in some ways, yet more disconnected in others."

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- PART 1 Post-Keynesian neo-Marxism: the trajectory -- 1 The core of Marx's economics and the monopolisation of capitalism: an introduction to some major issues -- 2 The Oxbridge connection: Sraffa, Kalecki, Steindl -- 2.1 Piero Sraffa's notes and publications -- 2.2 The Kalecki-Steindl nexus: some biographical data that are relevant to our story -- 2.3 Capitalist long-run economic development: the views of Kalecki and Steindl in a nutshell -- 3 The other side of the Atlantic -- 3.1 Influence of Kalecki's neo-Marxism on Baran and Sweezy: evidence from the Baran−Sweezy correspondence -- 3.2 Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital -- 4 Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson: two directions of post-Keynesian neo-Marxism -- 4.1 Sraffa's way: picking up the thread where it was left by Ricardo and Marx -- 4.2 The Robinson direction: building on Keynes, Marx, and Kalecki -- 5 What remains of post-Keynesian neo-Marxist economics? An unfinished integration -- PART 2 Piero Sraffa's neo-Marxist theory of value and distribution -- 6 The work and life of Piero Sraffa -- 6.1 Sraffa's life and work: a short overview -- 6.2 Sraffa as a Marxist -- 6.3 Sraffa's circular flow model and some relevant results -- 6.3.1 Sraffa's price equations -- 6.3.2 The standard system -- 6.3.3 Joint production -- 6.3.4 Switching and re-switching of production techniques -- 6.3.5 Basic and non-basic commodities -- 6.4 Long road towards Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities -- 7 Let one hundred schools of thought blossom ...: some major differences compared with Marx -- 7.1 Embodied labour as the substance of value -- 7.2 Sraffa's wage rate and Marx's social necessary consumption.