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"Focusing on Bulgaria, this book addresses the key issues of migration and populism, which have grown to become dominant topics of debate within Europe and across the world over the last decade. Ildiko Otova and Evelina Staykova trace the history of migration and populist discourses within Bulgaria from 1989 until the present day. The authors analyse how a lack of clear and coherent migration policies on migration over the years left Bulgaria unprepared for the 2015 European migrant crisis, thus leaving the door open for populist ideology to help shape public perceptions and narratives of migration as a menace and burden to society. Far from being confined to the extreme fringes of the political spectrum, Otova and Staykova reveal how populism has increasingly been co-opted by mainstream parties. This shift to the middle ground has led to what they claim to be a 'normalisation' in populist rhetoric, giving legitimacy to attitudes towards migration as a threat to society, which they argue, in turn, renders constructive policymaking far more difficult. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book is an important tool for postgraduate students and researchers of Political Sciences, Migration Studies, European Studies and European History, as well as practitioners working in the field of international migration and asylum"--

"Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation."--

A personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law banning the teaching "of the acceptability of homosexuality." On May 23, 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting--"Stop Section 28!"--and a scuffle. The papers would announce: "Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian." The next day Section 28 passed into UK law, forbidding local authorities from the teaching "of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." It would send shockwaves through British society: silencing gay pupils and teachers, while galvanizing mass protests and the formation of the LGBTQ+ rights groups OutRage! and Stonewall. Outrageous! tells its story: the background to the Act, how the press fanned the flames and what politicians said during debates, how protestors fought back to bring about the repeal of the law in the 2000s, and its eventual legacy. Based on detailed research, interviews with key figures--including Ian McKellen, Michael Cashman, and Angela Mason--and personal recollection, Outrageous! is an impassioned, warm, often moving account of unthinkable prejudice enshrined within the law and of the power of community to overcome it.

The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages between climate change and the health sector, with chapters on the impact of climate change on health, its connection to pandemics, and its effects on food, nutrition and air quality, while examining gendered and other vulnerabilities. It delves into the different operational aspects of the health sector in India and details how each one can become climate-smart to reduce the health sector's overall carbon footprint, by looking at sustainable procurement, green and resilient healthcare infrastructure, and the management of transportation, energy, water, waste, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and plastics in healthcare. Well supplemented with rigorous case studies, the book will be indispensable for students, teachers, and researchers of environmental studies, health sciences, and climate change. It will be useful for healthcare workers, public health officials, healthcare leaders, policy planners, and those interested in climate resilience and preparedness in the healthcare sector.

Die "Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen" (kurz: Teilhabebefragung) untersucht die Teilhabe von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Behinderungen in unterschiedlichen Lebensbereichen. Im empirischen Vergleich zu Menschen ohne Beeinträchtigung erschließen sich Besonderheiten und spezifische Probleme der Lebenslagen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Behinderungen. Die Teilhabebefragung erfasst sowohl Personen in Privathaushalten als auch Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner in Wohneinrichtungen für Menschen mit Behinderungen sowie Alten- und Pflegeeinrichtungen. Der Abschlussbericht legt dazu sein empirisch orientiertes Konzept zur Messung von Beeinträchtigung und Behinderung unter der Prämisse internationaler Vergleichbarkeit dar. Auf dieser Grundlage stellt der Bericht zentrale Ergebnisse der umfangreichen Befragungen von Menschen mit und ohne Behinderungen vor.

(from table of contents)Prelude.Ghérasim Luca's "Francophonics" /Raphaël Sigal --Introduction.Unsound french /yasser elhariry --Poetry.Sound capture and transmedial resonance: Moncef Ghachem's lyric /Edwige Tamalet Talbayev --Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's secret music /Thomas C. Connolly --Listening to 19th-century Haitian poetry /Martin Munro --Cinema.Hollowed bodies: The aural skin of African cinema /Vlad Dima --"Timbuktu", sonic map of desert futures /Jill Jarvis --Listening back to the sounds of Algiers ... /Maya Boutaghou --Voices.Sounds of Palestine /Olivia C. Harrison --Transcending exoticism? : Sound and voice in Dai Sijie and François Cheng /Shuangyi Li --A walk on the Wilde side : rock music and listening as narrative strategy in Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" /Jennifer Solheim --Outro.The "Tchip" heard 'round the world /Edwin Hill.

Foreword -- How the pandemic plans unfolded -- Lab leak or natural origin? -- Event 201 and the great reset -- COVID-19 strikes the most vulnerable -- Exploiting fear to lock down freedom -- Protecting yourself from COVID-19 -- Pharmaceutical failures in the COVID-19 crisis -- Successful protocols suppressed -- Take back control.

Using all available sources, Boatwright explores the constraints and activities of the women of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE. Livia, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Domna, and others feature in this richly illustrated investigation of change, continuity, historical contingency, and personal agency in imperial women's pursuits and representations.

Introduction: From Solving Mechanical Dilemmas to Taking Care of Digital Ecology / Susanna Lindberg and Hanna-Riikka Roine -- Should a Self-driving Car / Eino Santanen -- Digital Ecologies Today. Three Species Challenges: Toward a General Ecology of Cognitive Assemblages / N. Katherine Hayles -- The Ethos: Description and Formation. Viral Storytelling as the Contemporary Narrative Didacticism: Deriving Universal Truths from Arbitrary Narratives of Personal Experience / Maria Mäkelä -- Authorship vs. Assemblage in Digital Media / Hanna-Riikka Roine and Laura Piippo -- The Logic of Selection and Poetics of Cultural Interfaces: A Literature of Full Automation? / Matti Kangaskoski -- Ghosts Beyond the Machine: Schizoid Nondroids and Fictions of Surveillance Capitalism / Esko Suoranta -- The Ethos: Entanglement and Delegation. The Zombies of the Digital: What Justice Should We Wait For? / Frédéric Neyrat -- Just Machines. On Algorithmic Ethos and Justice / Susanna Lindberg -- Automation: Between Factuality and Normativity / Marc-Antoine Pencolé -- How Agents Lost Their Cognitive Capacities within the Computational Evolution of Market Competition / Anna Longo -- Thinking about Google Search as #DigitalColonialism / Joshua Adams -- The Ethos: Thinking, Computing, and Ethics. The Light of Morality and the Light of the Machine / François-David Sebbah -- What Do We Call Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Moral Machines? / Anne Alombert -- Can a Machine Have a Soul? / Daniel Ross -- The Chiasm: Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts. Our Being with Technology / Lars Botin.