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Through a provocative analysis, this book contextualizes, explicates and critically analyses the work of those key theorists and texts that have been most influential in refocusing our gaze on human embodiment. Upon this foundation, the author builds her own distinctive theoretical. Framework towards the analysis of embodiment. This is a valuable addition to the field of body studies' - Chris Shilling, University of Portsmouth. Over the last 20 years, the social sciences have witnessed a remarkable inter-disciplinary surge of interest in the body. The latter is now recognized as a core concept

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Open Data and the Generation of Urban Value -- The World's Most Valuable Resource -- Challenging Urban Information Monopolies -- Rethinking Value: The Potential of Open Data for Cities -- Open Data Strategies for Inclusive Cities, Resilient Cities and Innovative Cities -- Urban Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship -- Information Ecosystems for a More Resilient Society -- Civic Innovation and Transparency -- Conclusion: A Critical Moment for Open Cities -- References -- Part I: Urban Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship -- 2: Homelessness and Open City Data: Addressing a Global Challenge -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology -- Results and Discussion -- Standardization -- Homeless Definition -- Homeless Data -- Consistency -- Comparability and Validity -- CIDOM-1: Totality of the Data Published for an Indicator -- CIDOM-2: Number of Levels of Supporting Data Openly Published -- CIDOM-3: Dominant Format Published -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 3: Open Data and Racial Segregation: Mapping the Historic Imprint of Racial Covenants and Redlining on American Cities -- Introduction: Using Open Data to Further Urban Equity -- Using Historical Data to Address Equity -- Background -- Combining Existing and Archived Datasets -- Mapping and Visualising Existing Open Data -- Compiling, Opening, and Visualising Historical Data -- Documenting Racially Restrictive Covenants and Their Demographic Impact -- Visualising Racially Restrictive Covenants and Their Legacy -- Opening and Visualising Historical Data to Show the Impact of HOLC "Redlining" Maps -- Impacts on Cities -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Safer Cities for Women: Global and Local Innovations with Open Data and Civic Technology -- Introduction.

Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth would require a fundamental change in the engineering, management and regulation of technology.In this volume he exposes the limitations of conventional approaches in these fields. Modern societies urgently need to rethink the intellectual division of labour in science and technology and the corresponding organization of the university, corporation, and government in order to get out of a self-destructive pattern where problems are first created by some than then dealt with by others, making it almost impossible to get to the roots of anything. The result is what he calls the labyrinth of technology, a growing patchwork of compensations that merely displace and transform problems from one place to another. The author's diagnosis suggests the remedy: a new, preventive strategy that situates technological and economic growth in its human, societal, and biospheric contexts, and calls for a synthesis of methods in engineering, management, and public policy, and of approaches in the social sciences and humanities. He also suggests that this same synthesis can be applied in medicine, law, social work, and other professions.The Labyrinth of Technology is a unique and invaluable text for students, academics and laypersons in all disciplines, and speaks to those who are torn between the benefits that modern technology provides and the difficulties it creates in our individual and collective lives

This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly when relegated to the colonial power and privileged experiences of settler. The book does so by arguing that this practice perpetuates procedures of violence and social injustice upon Black and African peoples. The book brings critical readings to Black racial identity, representation and politics informed by pertinent questions: What are the tools/frameworks Black peoples in Euro-American/Canadian contexts can deploy to forge community and solidarity, and to resist anti-Black racism and other social oppressions? What critical analytical tools can be developed to account for Black lived experiences, agency and resistance? What are the limits of the tools or frameworks for anti-racist, anti-colonial work? How do such critical tools or frameworks of Blackness and anti-Blackness assist in anti-racist and anti-colonial practice? The book provides new coordinates for collective and global mobilization by troubling the politics of "decolonizing solidarity" as pointing to new ways for forging critical friends and political workers. The book concludes by offering some important lessons for teaching and learning about Blackness and anti-Blackness confronting some contemporary issues of schooling and education in Euro-American contexts, and suggesting ways to foster dialogic and generative forums for such critical discussions

The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs-and are getting better at what they do.

Introduction -- Max Weber and alienation -- The historical roots of Weber's view of alienation -- Max Weber's methodology : the limits of human knowledge -- Max Weber's ontology : the limits of the individual -- Rationality and the roots of social alienation -- Rationality and capitalism -- Bureaucracy and formal rationality -- Conclusions regarding Weber, alienation, and human subjectivity.

"Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts. As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. This book examines both their elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds, whose social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalization and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture. Demonstrating that games are at the frontline of power relations, she reimagines how we see them - and more importantly how we understand them"--

"With a strong focus on decoloniality and social justice, this volume brings together critical theories, concepts, and practices on TESOL from multiple Brazilian perspectives. The chapters showcase the work of teachers and teacher educators in confronting sociopolitical issues in Brazil, including in the domains of democracy, language education, and knowledge production, as well as prevailing issues within TESOL itself. Contributions stem from an eclectic range of analytical orientations that reflect ontological and epistemological diversity while demonstrating why, where, and how TESOL is done in Brazil. In doing so, this volume also establishes a place for Southern voices to be heard in the move toward challenging complex and long-standing issues of representation, marginalisation, and exclusion that have traditionally characterised North-South relations in TESOL as a field. This volume seeks to promote Southern-based conversations about decoloniality and social justice in TESOL and will be of direct relevance to graduate students, researchers, and scholars in the field of TESOL and foreign language education"--

1. Hybrid media culture : an introduction / Simon Lindgren, Michael Dahlberg-Grundberg and Anna Johansson -- 2. Hybrid embodiment : doing respectable bodies on YouTube / Anna Johansson -- 3. Visibility and surveillance in a hybrid media culture / Eric Carlsson -- 4. The hybrid emergence of Sami expressive culture / COPPéLIE Cocq -- 5. Hybrid political activism and the online/offline divide / Michael Dahlberg-Grundberg -- 6. The hybrid discourse of digital piracy / Simon Lindgren -- 7. Social support online : between closeness and anonymity / Ragnar Lundstrom -- 8. Hybrid churches : transcending the physical, virtual and sacred / Stefan Gelfgren -- 9. Towards a heterotopology : unlayering the reality of hybrid media culture / Simon Lindgren.

Islam in "Liberal" Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Kai Hafez also engages in a theoretical debate revolving around integration, tolerance, multicultural liberalism, and modern liberal democracy. Assessing Islamophobia as it is manifested in politics, society, media, academia, school, and churches, the author debates the question of whether liberal society in Europe, in order to avoid a growing gap between integrative politics and discriminatory societies, needs a complete renewal not only of political ideologies but also of cultures and institutions.

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of contemporary society. We live our lives at great speed; cities have become so enormous that they are unmemorable; consumerism has become disconnected from the labour process; urban architecture has a short life-span; and social relationships are less clearly defined - all of which has eroded the foundations on which we build and share our memories. Providing a profound insight into the effects of modern society, this book is a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers, as well as anyone interested in social theory and the contemporary western world