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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: "Shared Symbols of a Community": Roger Silverstone and Media Commonplaces -- Chapter 3: "Metaphor Work": Richard Sennett and the Urban Rhetoric of Public Speaking -- Chapter 4: Mainstream Soliloquies: Erving Goffman and the Sociology of Self-Talk -- Chapter 5: Mythic Operators: Jean Baudrillard and the Rhetoric of Designation -- Chapter 6: Imaginary Myths: Roland Barthes and the Rhetorical Induction -- Chapter 7: Faded Metaphors: Walter Lippmann and the Rhetoric of News -- Chapter 8: The Values of the Gutenberg Era: Myth and Media Rhetoric -- Chapter 9: Digital Cosmopolitism: Ulrich Beck and Communication as "Public Bad" -- Chapter 10: The Lure of Rhetoric: Jürgen Habermas and the Faltering European Project -- Chapter 11: Richard Sennett and "the New Rhetoric of the People": A Manzonian Path -- Chapter 12: Presence is Absence. Communication and Rhetoric in Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope -- Chapter 13: "Society is Predictable". Risk and Persuasion in Paolo Sorrentino's The New Pope.

Part 1. Theorising Class and Status -- Chapter 1. From Max Weber -- Chapter 2. A General Theory of Status -- Part 2. Lords, Knights, and Companions -- Chapter 3. Chivalric Honours -- Chapter 4. Aristocratic Honours -- Chapter 5. Imperial Honours -- Chapter 6. Contested Honours.

Introduction -- Urban development and urban complexity -- Urban development -- Task areas of cities and municipalities -- New tasks and communication structures (in) the municipality -- Challenges and problem orientation of politics and administration in the municipality -- Overall social trends and urban development -- Complexity in urban development -- Conclusions -- System(theoret)ic approaches in urban development: development history, perspective and basic positions -- The systemic approach and its system-theoretical background -- System-theoretical insights and core ideas -- Development history of the systemic approach -- City and urban development from a more theorizing perspective -- City and urban development from a more application-oriented perspective -- Self-understanding and basic positions of system(theoret)ic approaches in urban development. City from a systems (theoretical) perspective -- City and urban development from a more theoretical perspective -- City and urban development from a more applied perspective -- Self-conception and basic positions of systems (theoretical) interventions in dealing with urban complexity -- Self-conception -- Four basic positions -- Concluding remarks -- Introduction to the Potsdam lodestar approach -- Starting points and emergence of the Potsdam lodestar approach -- Basic structure of the Potsdam lodestar approach -- Dealing with the lodestar approach and structure of the sections -- Process dimension of control - Art of mediation and negotiation -- What is control? Between optimism and scepticism -- Forms of control: Self-control and contextual control -- Forms of control in urban development practice: knowledge is power -- Recommendations for practice: the guiding principle of soft control -- Control through boundary planning: fields of action, phase models and architecture -- Control through knowledge: Discursive practices, questions and explicitation -- Steering through relationship: trust, appreciation and role clarification -- Concluding remarks -- Process dimension alignment - establishing a future perspective -- The problem with the problem -- On the importance and risk of imagining the future -- Recommendations for practice: concern clarification, vision work and strategy work as three directional fields of work -- Concern clarification - looking ahead from the beginning! -- Vision work - the development of future -- Strategy work - operationalising the path to the future and keeping an eye on it! -- Concluding remarks -- Process dimension of system analysis - creating common hypotheses of reality -- The great importance of analyses and scientific expertises -- Gaining knowledge - expertises for illuminating "new facts" -- Legitimation - expertises for the assertive presentation of "known facts" -- On the opportunities and limits of spatial analyses -- Stabilizing functions of spatial approaches and analyses -- Risks of spatial observation and analysis -- Communicability of expert knowledge and analysis results -- Challenges of analytical and expert-generated knowledge -- The art of connectivity -- Recommendations for practice: the three-dimensional spatial system analysis -- Analysis of the process and network level -- Spatial and subject-specific analyses -- Reflection on the analysis findings -- Concluding remarks -- Process dimension of cooperation - Participants and bridging system boundaries -- Participants in the urban cooperation network: organizations, persons, networks -- Organizations - departments -- Interaction systems and persons -- Co-irritation, cooperation, co-evolution of participants -- Networks for bridging sense and system boundaries -- Citizen involvement and participation -- Your opinion matters to us! Really? -- Explanation of terms: Participation - Participation -- Target groups and their activation -- Modes of urban cooperation -- Conflictual cooperation as a multifaceted everyday occurrence -- Systems-theoretical approach to conflicts -- The factual, social, temporal and spatial dimensions of conflicts -- Typifications of conflicts -- Recommendations for practice: conflict management and participation design -- Dealing with conflicts: between moderation and mediation -- Contextualisation as a framework condition for successful participation -- Concluding remarks -- Process dinebsion reflection - Establishing evaluation-based learning cultures -- Reflective urban development: genesis of a trend -- Three discourses in the background -- Demanded expansion of reflexivity and learning -- Evaluation, learning and reflection in urban development -- Evaluations as planned reflexive observation -- Learning urban development through evaluations? -- Evaluations without guarantee of learning -- The steering function and symbolizing function of evaluation -- The political steering function of evaluation -- Symbolizing learning and reflection through evaluation -- Recommendations for practice: the six decision fields of an evaluation project -- Reflection on the "why" of the evaluation -- Agreement on the design of the evaluation -- Clarification of expectations of the object of evaluation -- Valid observation of the object of evaluation -- Transparent assessment of the object of evaluation -- Organisation of the communication of evaluation results -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion.

Chapter 1. Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2. Understanding How We Think: System I and System 2 -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing Your Topic -- Chapter 4. Blackout In Berlin! -- Chapter 5. Terror in Stockholm -- Chapter 6. Conflict or Cooperation in the Arctic? -- Chapter 7. Optimizing the Impact of Your Product -- Chapter 8. Outlook.

Chapter 1. The Russo-ukraine War: a Discursive Introduction -- Chapter 2. Uncertainties of the War: Reframing the Discourse -- Chapter 3. Political Complexities and Problematics of the Russo-ukrainian War -- Chapter 4. A Discontent With the Russo-ukraine War -- Chapter 5. The Sanctions Wars: Impacts and Consequences -- Chapter 6. The Propaganda War and the Fourth Estate -- Chapter 7. Zeitenwende: Nato Renaissance and a New World Order -- Chapter 8. Financing the War and Rebuilding Ukraine -- Chapter 9. Frozen Solutions, Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Richard J. Chacon -- 1. Introduction Rubén G. Mendoza and Linda Hansen -- Part I - Recent Archaeological Evidence 2. Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Rubén G. Mendoza and Gary Velasco -- 3 Shifting Perspectives on Human Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize Cristina Verdugo, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, and James E. Brady -- 4. Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico Cinthia Marlene Campos, José Luis Punzo-Díaz, and Carlos Karam Tapia -- Part II - Iconographic and Contextual Evidence 5. Portals to the Gods: Reciprocity, Sacrifice, and Warfare in the Northern Mixteca Carlos Rincón Mautner -- 6. The Hacha, Decapitation Sacrifice, and Classic Veracruz History Rex Koontz -- 7. Blood and Water: A Mesoamerican Social Cement Annabeth Headrick -- 8. Divine Combat, Warrior Merchants, and Ritual Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Epiclassic, AD 750-1050 Lucha de Luna Martínez -- 9. The Harvest of Souls: Mimesis, Materiality, and Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Rubén G. Mendoza -- Part III - Emerging Theoretical Perspectives 10. Filled with Divine Fire: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Costumed Rituals as Acts of Deicide Mark Wright -- 11. Bodily Transformation and Sacralization: Human Sacrifice in Southwestern Mesoamerica Javier Urcid -- 12. Human Sacrifice at Tula: Reputation, Representation, and Reality Keith Jordan -- 13. The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrifice: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism Linda Hansen Part IV - The Ethnographic Present 14. Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language: Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico Carlos Rincón Mautner -- 15. Deicide and Fertility in Ch'orti' Maya Myth and Ritual Kerry Hull -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2.Overview of the administrative reform in China -- 3. Kick off: Government restructuring in 2009 -- 4. The second phase: Administrative licensing reform, 2010-2011 -- 5. Deepening of the administrative licensing reform: since 2012 -- 6 . The latest reforms in China:continued without substantial breakthrough -- 7. Conclusion.

Chapter 1: Postcolonial Theory and Its Applications in Kazakhstan and Beyond -- Part I: Post-Coloniality and Memory Politics -- Chapter 2: Colonization and Control in the Making of a Eurasian Empire -- Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Soviet Coloniality: the Case of "Az I YA" -- Chapter 4: Public Commemoration and Nationalizing the Cult of World War II in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 5: Culture of Remembrance in Kazakhstan at the turn of the 20-21st centuries -- Part II: Post-coloniality and Current Debates in Societies -- Chapter 6: The New Subaltern and Forms of Resistance in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7: Conspiracies and Cosmonauts: The Baikonur Cosmodrome and popular narratives of ecological disaster in contemporary Kazakhstan -- Chapter 8: Fitting into a Secular Society: Hybrid Practices of the Islamic Public and Islamic Businesses in Astana.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Formation Of The Indian State And Its Post-Colonial Condition: Field, Capital And Doxa -- Chapter 3: We Are Still Here: The Habitus That Resigns And That Challenges Necropolitics -- Chapter 4: Final Considerations: Solidarity, Resistance And Defeat.

Part 1. International experience, cooperation, and trade in global food markets in support of the sustainable development of the agrarian economy based on digital technologies and smart innovations -- 1. Formation of New Mechanisms for Sustainable Development of the Rice Farming in Kyrgyzstan -- 2. Accumulation and Consumption in the Agricultural Sector of the Russian Economy -- 3. Rural Tourism as a Factor in Overcoming Poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic -- 4. Changing the Global Production and Trade of Citrus Fruits -- 5. International Banana Trade: Volumes, Countries, and Trends -- 6. Market Pattern Analysis of Russia-Vietnam Chocolate Confectionary Trade -- 7. Transformation of the Positioning of Countries as a Result of the Transition of the World Economy from Globalization to Regionalization -- 8. The Impact of Parallel Imports on the Activities of Russian Marketplaces -- 9. Ways to Improve the Innovative Development of Kyrgyz Agriculture -- 10. The Impact of Anti-Russian Sanctions on the EU -- 11. Prospects for Development Cooperation between China and the Republic of the Congo -- 12. Investment Сooperation in Agriculture between China and Russia: Current Status, Problems and Prospects -- 13. International Cooperation in the field of Food and Mineral Fertilizers -- Part 2. Applied organizational and management solutions for the sustainable development of agrarian organizations based on digital technologies and smart innovations -- 14. Comparative Comprehensive Assessment of Agricultural Organizations Toolkit -- 15. The Concept of Re-equipment of Nevinnomysskiy Azot JSC Production in the Conditions of the Development of Agricultural Economy Based on Digital Technologies -- 16. SDG7. New Assessment Methods -- 17. Exit Interview as a Tool to Reduce Staff Turnover in an Organization -- 18. Prospects for the Development of Innovations in Digital Marketing -- 19. Parameters of the Development of Organizational-Economic Processes of Agriculture in the Conditions of Transformation -- 20. Financial Transparency of Economic Activity as a Principle of Corporate Management of Agricultural Enterprises -- 21. Potential Effect of Digitalization of Fixed Asset Management at the Enterprises of the Agro-Industrial Complex -- 22. Shaping Buying Behavior with Regard to Food Selection and Consumption -- 23. Assessment of Adaptation Activity of Agricultural Business Subjects in the Project-based Approach -- 24. Method for Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Digital Technologies in Dairy Farming Considering Changes in Process Parameters -- 25. Marketing of Contemporary Agricultural Businesses: Problems and Growth Prospects -- 26. Agile Project Management as a Factor of Competitiveness of Russian Companies in a Turbulent Economic Environment -- Part 3. Social and legal aspects of the sustainable development of agrarian economy based on digital technologies and smart innovations: staffing, human resources management, and ESG governance -- 27. Agricultural Policy in Russia: Prospects for Transformation in the Context of Deglobalization -- 28. Food Security of Russia in the Context of International Economic Sanctions -- 29. Agricultural Insurance as a Factor of Sustainable Agricultural Development -- 30. Preparing Future Teachers to Use Digital Learning Technologies -- 31. The Problem of Training Digital and Creative Personnel for the Production Sector of the Economy -- 32. Human Resource Management Tools for Companies Based on ESG Guidelines -- 33. Development of Vocational Education in the Context of Sustainable Development of Society -- 34. Theoretical Foundations for Creating a System of Independent Assessment of the Educational Results of Future Teachers -- 35. Regional Labor Market in the Period of Digital Transformation of a Traditionally Agricultural Region: Assessment and Forecasting of the Conjuncture -- 36. ESG-Principles in the Practice of Sustainable Economic Development -- 37. Competition as a Form of Exercising the Right to Entrepreneurial Activity: A Civilistic Aspect -- 38. Legal Presumptions of Good Faith and Reasonableness of Entrepreneurial Activity -- Part 4. Advanced digital technologies, smart innovations, and prospects for their application in the agrarian economies of countries, regions, and organizations in support of food security -- 39. Export Potential of the Region: Problems of Estimation, Modelling, and Forecasting -- 40. Water Resources as a Strategic Factor of the Region's Sustainable Development -- 41. Analysis of the Dependence of Agricultural Production Efficiency in the Regions of Russia on the Availability of Resources Based on the Multidimensional Grouping Method -- 42. Assessment of Consumer Demand for Organic Products in the Moscow Region -- 43. Relationship of Vegetation Indices of Winter Wheat Determined by Digital Device on Different Agricultural Backgrounds in the Chernozem Zone of Stavropol -- 44. Physical Condition of Soil in Sorghum Seeds Depending on Forecrop and Yield in Arid Zone Conditions -- 45. Factors and Conditions for Ensuring the Sustainable Development of Viticulture and Winemaking in Russia -- 46. Using Visual-block Programming Environments to Create Robotic Systems -- 47. Methodological Basis for Assessing Negative Factors of Mineral Extraction on Beds of Rivers and Watercourses -- 48. Development of Land Surveying Science and Education as Factors of Reliable Provision of the Country's Food Security -- 49. Structural Transformation of Accumulation and Consumption in Agricultural Production as the Basis of its New Industrialization -- 50. Directions for Increasing Rice Yield and its Predicting.

Chapter 1. Framing the Complexities of Chinese Investments in Africa -- Part I: Land -- Chapter 2. Chinese Agricultural Investments in Uganda and the Paradox of "Idle Land" -- Chapter 3. Land Displacements, Production Relations and Resistance in the Context of Chinese Investments in Mozambique -- Chapter 4. Problematising the Mutuality Discourse in Chinese Agricultural Investment in Uganda -- Part II: Agriculture -- Chapter 5. Complexities arising from the Role of Chinese Firms in the Renaissance of the Tobacco Industry in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 6. Narratives and Experiences of Chinese Agro-Investments in Zambia: A Case Study of Cotton -- Chapter 7. Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre and Peasant Empowerment in Zambia: Discourse and Reality -- Part III: Mining and Infrastructure -- Chapter 8. An Analysis of China's Investments in South Africa's Mining Sector -- Chapter 9. Socio-Economic Impacts of China's Mining Investments in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 10. Contested Chinese Investment in Africa: The Case of Dam Construction in Upemba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Far Right Failure: Parties of the Far Right in Germany, 1945-2023 -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Populist Far Right Issue Entrepreneurship in an Age of Dealignment -- Chapter 4: Emergence: The AfD and the European Debt Crisis in in the 2013 Federal Election -- Chapter 5: Breakthrough: The Refugee Crisis, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Success of the AfD in the 2017 Federal Election -- Chapter 6: Sustainment: The AfD and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the 2021 Federal Election -- Chapter 7: Strategies for Sustaining Success: Ideological Positioning and Fashioning a Party Brand -- Chapter 8: Sustaining Success Beyond the Core: Campaign Posters and the Professionalization of the AfD -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issue Entrepreneurship and the Future of the AfD.

Performing landscape -- Policies, landscape and politics -- Global landscape governance on the XXth anniversary of the European Landscape Convention -- Landscape Policy and Governance: an introduction -- Landscape planning policy as a measure of implementation of the European Landscape Convention -- Policy and governance challenges facing European rural landscapes -- Landscape Policies of Europe -- Landscape policy in Portugal. Where are we? -- A country through crisis and beyond: the case of the Greek landscape -- The ELC, a game changer in the Scottish policy discourse -- One territory, one plan, many authorities: the future to really protect the landscape -- The daily governance of the landscape: the contribution of the Local Landscape Commissions -- Enclosing the horizon: Land privileges and the right to landscape -- Landscape Observatory Västra Götaland & Balaton Ecomuseum – A Swedish-Hungarian Interaction for Sustainable Landscape Management -- Landscape and public participation in Norwegian local planning –an example of implementing the European Landscape Convention -- Implementing landscape policies by promoting sustainability, democracy, and participation. Awareness raising and landscape education in Trentino, Italy -- Common property in Europe: landscape design evolution over time -- Collaborative Governance for reviving Tiber Landscapes downstream of Rome -- Planning the adaptation of European Landscapes to climate change: the experience of the EIT CLIMATE- KIC AELCLIC Project -- The European Baykal- Regional development inspired the European Landscape Convention -- Twenty years of landscape policy and governance in Europe, and the way ahead.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What is semiotics? -- Chapter 3: Two Major Theories of Sign (Dyadic & Triadic) And Their Application to Fake News Analyses -- Chapter 4: Fake News Discourse: Semiotic Analyses Examples -- Chapter 5: Analysis of Fake News Narratives: Exercises.