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In accordance with World Health Organization guidelines, South Africa (SA) introduced routine periodic high-dose vitamin A supplementation (VAS) in 2002. These guidelines were developed after research in the 1980s and 1990s showed the efficacy of VAS in reducing childhood mortality. However, two recent studies in low- to middle-income countries (2013 and 2014) have shown no effect of high-dose VAS on mortality. Additionally, there is no clear research evidence that 6-monthly doses of vitamin A result in a sustained shift in serum retinol levels or reduce subclinical vitamin A deficiency. These two points should encourage SA to re-examine the validity of these guidelines. A long-term view of what is in the best interests of the majority of the people is needed. The short-term intervention of administering vitamin A capsules not only fails to improve serum retinol levels but may create dependence on a 'technical fix' to address the fundamental problem of poor nutrition, which is ultimately underpinned by poverty. It may also cause harm. Although there are those, some with vested interests, who will argue for continuation of the routine high-dose VAS programmes, SA policymakers and scientists need to evaluate the facts and be prepared to rethink this policy. There is cause for optimism: SA's health policymakers have previously taken bold stands on the basis of evidence. The examples of regulation of tobacco products and taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages, ending the free distribution of formula milk for HIV-positive mothers and legislating against the marketing of breastmilk substitutes provide precedents. Here is a time yet again for decision-makers to make bold choices in the interests of the people of SA. While the cleanest choice would be national discontinuation of the routine VAS programme, there may be other possibilities, such as first stopping the programme in Northern Cape Province (where there is clear evidence of hypervitaminosis A), followed by the other provinces in time.

"Peter Adams' The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 60s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and uncompromising white supremacy. Though Walker failed in his only campaign for office, the deep-state conspiracy theory he wove has echoed through American political culture into the age of QAnon, finding a new home among today's far-right extremists. Walker's following flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, during a period of uncertainty and fear fostered by a sense that America was losing the Cold War and faced threats to white supremacy due to desegregation. He and other ultra-right leaders claimed that a vast conspiratorial network was to blame. Specifically, Walker attracted followers for his suspicion of democratic institutions and belief that there were deep-state actors in the State Department, Pentagon, and the government working with co-conspirators in the Kremlin and UN headquarters to create a one-world government. Walker was a prominent and vocal member of the anti-integration Citizens Councils and the John Birch Society, an organization that brought anti-Communist hysteria to heights that surpassed even Joe McCarthy. A highly decorated World War II and Korean War veteran, Walker resigned his officer's commission in 1961 after the Joint Chiefs of Staff reprimanded him for airing his political views in public. The following year, he led a deadly riot in a sea of Confederate flags against the first African American attempting to register as a student at the University of Mississippi. Arrested on order from the Attorney General and charged with sedition and insurrection for his role in inciting violence against federal troops, he ended up briefly in a federal psychiatric facility. While many on the far right hoped Walker would lead a movement that could unite their disparate forces, his political ambitions went nowhere. Nevertheless, as the public face of militant white supremacy, hysterical anti-communism, anti-statism, and insidious federal conspiracy, he remained a hero to some of the most extreme and violent elements of hyper-conservative America. Walker also attracted the attention of Lee Harvey Oswald, who tried to murder him seven months before assassinating John F. Kennedy. A loner, Walker was reclusive in the years after he was gone from the headlines, holding tight to a secret double life until his arrest for public lewdness essentially outed him as a deeply closeted gay man. As Adams shows in his fascinating biography of Walker, those who flocked to his side believed they were losing the battle to restore a vanishing moral and political order and that time was quickly running out to save America from ruin. A half-century before QAnon, Walker's followers found solutions in his elaborate conspiracy theories and critique of democratic institutions. Restoring American greatness, they believed, was possible but only by rooting out the nation's numerous entrenched enemies and installing men like Walker in positions of power. In many ways, The Insurectionist is an investigation of the roots of the ultra-right and a genealogy of its current beliefs"--

Crowdfunding and place making efforts in New Orleans / Madhuri Sharma -- Exploring the spatial pattern of urban heat island formation in relation to land transformation : a study Paschim Bardhhaman District of West Bengal / Soumen Chatterjee, Sujit Das, Krishnendu Gupta -- Mechanism for brownfield redevelopment : a case of Indore City / Hemadri Raut, Kakoli Saha -- Religious tourism in the age of commodification and reconstruction of heritagescapes : a neighbourhood based study along the stretch of River Hooghly, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India / Anu Rai, S. Das -- Mapping of urban heat island and its mitigation measures in Durgapur-Asansol Industrial Region, India / Santu Guchhait, Tanmay Patra, Nirmalya Das, Subhrangsu Das -- Approaches to season-responsive urban spaces for children : lessons and challenges in Winter Cities / A.G. Andal -- Urbanization and climate change in the Fiji Islands during the 21st century : a tourism perspective / Sakul Kundra, Mohammad Afsar Alam, Ravinesh Rohit Prasad, Asif Iqubal, Unaisi Nobobo-Baba, Mumtaz Alam, Feroz Ali -- The maturity of social innovations for the adaptation of cities to climate change -- the case of Poland / B. Wieteska-Rosiak, B. Ocicka, G. Wieteska -- Role of urban green space fostering environmentally modified attitude and behaviour : reflection from a highly expanding medium size town in India / Swatilekha Sen, Sanat Kumar Guchhait -- Urban spaces and smart city development : issues and future challenges / Vishal Soodan, Supernova Chakraborty, Richa Mitra -- Urban soundscape and noise pollution : an introduction / Tallal Abdel Karim Bouzir, Djihed Berkouk, Hamza Benacer, Uday Chatterjee, Sushobhan Majumdar -- Transportation sustainability assessment using indicator based method : a case of Kochi, Kerala, India / Cladia Anna Jose, Mohammed Firoz C -- The relation between urban physical indicators and solar irradiation availability on building envelopes : using Tehran as a case study / M. Ghorbanian, Z. Chehregan -- Urban water quality index of commercial capital city of Bangladesh / Prabal Barua -- Urban sprawl, blight, and the COVID-19 pandemic / Anzhelika Antipova, Ehsan Momeni, Reza Banai -- Improving food security in African cities towards smartness : a bibliometric analysis / Joan Nyika -- Analysis of urban sprawl and blight using Shannon entropy index : a case study of Memphis, Tennessee / Anzhelika Antipova, Ehsan Momeni, Reza Banai -- A geospatial analysis on effects of wetland changes in coastal urban area in Ampara District / A.L. Iyoob, R.M.K Rathnayake -- Geospatial analysis of solid waste management in Badulla Municipality -Uva province, Sri Lanka / S.A. Sudusinghe, R.M.K. Ratnayake, D.K.D.A. Ranaweera -- Building a sustainable green space system in Bhubaneswar City, Odisha by using remote sensing and GIS technology / Ashis Chandra Pathy, Gopal Krishna Panda -- Identification of landslide hazard zone of Gangtok urban area in Sikkim Himalayas with the help of multi -- criteria evaluation method using geospatial techniques / Bappaditya Koley, Uday Chatterjee, Anindita Nath, Subhajit Saraswati, Nilendu Chatterjee, Bidhan Chandra Ray -- Designing sustainable urban blocks; an effort to optimizing 3D form and achieving the maximum amount of solar radiation / Amir Shakibamanesh, Omid Veisi -- Rethinking disaster resilient cities : a close integration of planning with geospatial technology / Navneet Munoth, Divya Jain, Apurva Deshmukh, Nirmoha Mandal -- Analysis of multi environmental geo-hazards challenges for the City Coimbatore, South India / Dhanya Praveen, Ganapathy Pattukandan Ganapathy -- Monitoring of urban climate using geospatial techniques / Archisman Barat, P. Parth Sarthi, Sunny Kumar, Aakriti Asim.

Section 1 : Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships -- Chapter 1: communication and culture : a multispecies endeavour: recognising kinship with multiple species -- Chapter 2: Pandemic in South Africa: reflections on lock down -- Chapter 3: From old to new taxonomies of rights, relationships and responsibilities to protect habitat -- Chapter 4:Interview: Recognising our Hybridity and interconnectedness' -- Chapter 5: Consciousness for Balancing Individualism and Collectivism -- Chapter 6: Prospects for sustainable development linked to a focus on interrelatedness, interdependence and mutuality: Some African perspectives -- Chapter 7: Habitat loss and near extinction of plants and insects in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Stewardship : an anthropocentric misnomer -- Chapter 9 : Social engagement to redress the banality of evil and the frontiers of justice: Limitations of the social contract to protect habitat and why an international law to prevent the crime of ecocide matters -- Chapter 10 : From polarisation to multispecies relationships: re-membering narratives -- Chapter 11: Vignette: Why thinking matters: constructivism, relationships and the performative universe -- Chapter 12 : Responsibly and Performatively researching multispecies relationality -- Chapter 13: City life in Vietnam: Autoethnographic reflection and application of Nussbaums's ten capabilities -- Section 2: Reframing and Re-claiming the commons through a-Priori and aposteriori approaches -- Chapter 14: Social and environmental justice: the legacy of Structured Democratic Dialogue and the potential of Pathways to Wellbeing -- Chapter 15: Social engagement to protect multispecies habitat: implications for re-generation and food security -- Chapter: 16 Educational curriculum and multispecies relations -- Chapter 17: The potential of eco-facturing: Towards social and environmental justice through vocational education and training -- Chapter 18: From Eduation as usual to creating a post national learning community -- Chapter 19: The co-laboratory of democracy archetypes: Engaging stakeholders in deliberative democracy to respond proactively to diversity -- Section 3: Case Studies and Vignettes: Loss, Hope and Common Ground -- Chapter 20: McIntyre-Mills, J. The Greta factor: turning point and need for transformative research -- Chapter 21: Gender Quotas in Local Government: Implications for Community-Climate Action in Bangladesh -- Chapter 22: Balancing the interests of wildlife and humans resulting in sustainable ecotourism: the case of Boabeng-Fiema monkeys' sanctuary, Ghana -- Chapter 23: Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: a tale of deliberate human and environmental devastation in Vietnam -- Chapter 24: Reflection on the Changing Role of Women in a Post Disaster Environment, Central Sulawesi Indonesia -- Chapter 25: Vignette: At the margins -- Chapter 26 : Biopolitics and food security to protect social and environmental justice -- Chapter 27: Vignette: Cannibalising the South Pacific -- Chapter 28: Systemic Praxis : narratives on steps towards re-generation -- Chapter 29: Crisis : what crisis? -- Chapter 30 Vignette: Creating Common Ground.-Chapter 31: Advancing a modern ethos for oneness with all life through archaic story title.-Chapter 32: Vignette: Relationships, narrative and memory -- Chapter 33: Vignette : Knackered , 'We are all flesh' -- Chapter 34: Vignette :Emergence , Regeneration and hope in the context of extinctions? -- Chapter 35: Objectifying intersubjectivity for a scientific (re)volution through inclusion -- Chapter 36 : Natural Inclusiveness -- Chapter 37 : Voices from below for social and environmental justice.

Introduction The Common Law -- 1. The Unity of law - or the dangers of over-specialisation (2013) [Society of Legal Scholars Centenary lecture at the University of Birmingham] -- 2. Law as a system of values (2013) [Jan Grodecki lecture at the University of Leicester] -- 3. First impressions of a new Court of Appeal judge (2018) [talk at Trinity College, Oxford] -- 4. Keynote speech to the Criminal Bar Association (2017) -- 5. Common law, common heritage? (2018) [Talk to Waynesburg Law School summer conference at Jesus College, Cambridge] -- 6. Antigone's law (2019) [talk to Lawyers for Classics] Public law -- 7. Judicial review and the rule of law (2017) [South West Administrative Law Association annual lecture] -- 8. Divided by a common language: constitutional law in the UK and the US (2017) * [Sir David Williams lecture at the University of Cambridge] Published in [2018] Judicial Review -- 9. Interpreting Bills of Rights (2007) [Statute Law Review annual lecture] * Published in [2007] Statute Law Review -- 10. Tribute to memory of Lord Steyn (2017) * published in [2018] Judicial Review Human Rights -- 11. The development of human rights thought from Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2015) * [lecture at conference on Magna Carta] Published in book edited by Robin Griffith-Jones and Mark Hill. -- 12. The moral force of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act (2011) [lecture at Victoria University, Wellington]* Published in [2013] New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law -- 13. The place of the Human Rights Act in a democratic society (2000) * Published in a book edited by Jonathan Cooper -- 14. What is a democratic society? (2018) * [Chevrette-Marx lecture at the University of Montreal] Published by the University of Montreal in a freestanding pamphlet Equality -- 15. Equality: The Neglected Virtue (2003) [Administrative Law Bar Association annual lecture]* Published in [2004] European Human Rights Law Review -- 16. Racial Equality and the Law (2018) * [Sir Mota Singh memorial lecture at Lincoln's Inn] Published in [2019] European Human Rights Law Review -- 17. Religion and the law (2008) * Published in JUSTICE journal [2008] Issue 1, p.33 Privacy and national security -- 18. Privacy and Personal Autonomy (2000) * [essay published in collection, Common Law, Common Values, Common Rights by American Bar Association] -- 19. Privacy and the Media after the Human Rights Act (1998) * Published in [1998] European Human Rights Law Review -- 20. Holding the balance: National Security, Civil Liberties and the Role of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (2019) [Kay Everett memorial lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies] -- 21. Fairness and national security (2020) [John Foster and Miriam Rothschild lecture] International law -- 22. The Use of International Law in the domestic courts of the United Kingdom (2005) [The McDermott lecture] * published in [2005] Northern Ireland Law Quarterly 23. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again": the contribution of Lauterpacht and Jackson to the post-war legal order [lecture to University of Bristol, 30 March 2021] -- Epilogue The Nature of the Judicial Process 100 years on

Chapter 1:Introduction: Expanding the Boundaries of Environmental Labour Studies -- Part I: Histories -- Chapter 2: Labour and the Environment in India -- Chapter 3: Energy Transitions in the Global South: the Precarious Location of Unions -- Chapter 4: The New Struggles to be Born: The Difficult Birth of a Democratic Ecosocialist Working-Class Politics -- Chapter 5: The Green New Deal and Just Transition Frames within the American Labour Movement -- Chapter 6: Working-Class Environmentalism: The Case of Northwest Timber Workers -- Chapter 7: Trade Unions and Environmental Justice -- Part II: Seeking Common Ground -- Chapter 8: 'Beware of the Crocodile's Smile': Labour –Environmentalism in the Struggle to Achieve a Just Transition in South Africa -- Chapter 9: Fighting in the Name of Workers: Exploring the Dynamics of Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala -- Chapter 10: Trade Union Politics for a Just Transition: Towards Consensus or Dissensus? -- Chapter 11: Climate Jobs Plans: A Mobilising Strategy in Search of Agency -- Chapter 12: The Role of Ecuadorian Working-Class Environmentalism in Promoting Environmental Justice: an Overview of the Hydrocarbon and Agricultural Sectors -- Chapter 13: A Just Transition for All? A Debate on the Limits and Potentials of a Just Transition in Canada -- Part III: Farmers, Commoners, Communities -- Chapter 14: Labouring the Commons. Amazonia's 'Extractive Reserves' and the Legacy of Chico Mendes -- Chapter 15: Connecting Individual Trajectories and Resistance Movements in Brazil -- Chapter 16: Whose Labour, Whose Land? Indigenous and Labour Conflicts and Alliances over Resource Extraction -- Chapter 17: Commoning Labour, Labouring the Commons: Centring the Commons in Environmental Labour Studies -- Chapter 18: Agroecological Farmer Movements and Advocacy Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between De-Politicisation and Re-Politicisation -- Chapter 19: Working-Class Environmentalism in the UK – Organising for Sustainability Beyond the Workplace -- Part IV: Trade Unions and the State -- Chapter 20: A Just Transition Towards Environmental Sustainability for All -- Chapter 21: Labour Resistance against Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform: Neoliberal Discourses and African Realities -- Chapter 22: Challenges and Prospects for Trade Union Environmentalism -- Chapter 23: From 'Just Transition' to the 'Eco-Social State' -- Chapter 24: Environment, Labour and Health: The Ecological-Social Debts of China's Economic Development -- Part V: Organic Intellectuals -- Chapter 25: Trade Union Environmentalists as Organic Intellectuals in the US, UK, and Spain -- Chapter 26: Embedding Just Transition in the USA: The Long Ambivalence -- Chapter 27: Caring for Nature, Justice for Workers: Worldviews on the Relationship Between Labour, Nature, and Justice -- Chapter 28: Individuals Transforming Organisations: Spanish Environmental Policies in Comisiones Obreras -- Part VI: Rethinking and broadening Concepts -- Chapter 29: The Commodification of Human Life: Labour, Energy, and Money in a Deteriorating Biosphere -- Chapter 30: Workers, Trade Unions and the Imperial Mode of Living. Labour Environmentalism from the Perspective of Hegemony Theory -- Chapter 31: André Gorz's Labour-Based Political Ecology and its Legacy for the Twenty First Century -- Chapter 32: Rethinking Labour/Work in a Degrowth Society -- Chapter 33: Labour and Societal Relationships with Nature. Conceptual Implications for Trade Unions -- Chapter 34: Society - Labour - Nature. How to Think the Relationships? -- Chapter 35: Labour Centred Design for Sustainable and Just Transitions -- Chapter 36: Technology and the Future of Work: The Why, How and What of Production.

Introduction: Language, gender, and sexuality; sketching out the field / Jo Angouri -- Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality / Penelope Eckert & Robert Podesva -- Sexuality as non-binary : a variationist perspective / Erez Levon -- Perception of gender and sexuality / Kathryn Campbell-Kibler & deandre miles-hercules -- Gender diversity and the voice / Lal Zimman -- Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality / Kira Hall & Jenny Davis -- Gender, language and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions / Sylvia Shaw -- 'Gay, aren't they?' An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality / Jodie Clark -- Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology / Susan U Philips -- Using Communities of Practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions / Ila Nagar -- Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender and sexuality / Piia Varis -- Interactional sociolinguistics : foundations, developments and applications to language, gender and sexuality / Deborah Tannen & Cynthia Gordon -- Leadership and humour at work : using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role of gender / Stephanie Schnurr & Nor Azikin Mohd Omar -- More than builders in pink shirts : identity construction in gendered workplaces / Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra, & Shelley Dawson -- Interactional sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research : benefits and challenges / Corinne Seals -- Language, gender and sexuality : reflections on the field's ongoing critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape / Lia Litosseliti -- Applying queer theory to language, gender and sexuality research in schools / Helen Sauntson -- Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions / Susan Ehrlich & Tanya Romaniuk -- 'I thought you didn't accept gay marriage Fr' : combining corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype in 'Mrs Brown's Boys' / Bróna Murphy & María Palma-Fahey -- The impact of language and gender studies : public engagement and wider communication / Deborah Cameron -- Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality / Bonny Norton -- Analysing gendered discourses online : child-centric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet talk / Jai Mackenzie -- Leadership language of Middle Eastern women : using feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis to study women leaders in Bahrain / Haleema Al A'Ali -- Feminist poststructuralism -- discourse, subjectivity, the body and power : the case of the Burkini / Chris Weedon & Amal Hallak -- Affect in language, gender and sexuality research : studying heterosexual desire / Kristine Kohler Mortensen & Tommaso Milani -- Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders / Roslyn Appleby -- Gender and sexuality in discourse : semiotic and multimodal approaches / Michelle Lazar -- Multimodal constructions of feminism : the transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Vogue / Linda McLoughlin -- Judged and condemned : semiotic representations of women criminals / Carmen Caldas-Coulthard -- Confident appearing : revisiting 'Gender advertisements' in contemporary culture / Kirsten Kohrs & Rosalind Gill -- Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practices / Sirpa Leppänen & Sanna Tapionkaski -- Lovely nurses, rude receptionists and patronising doctors -- determining the impact of gender stereotyping on patient feedback / Paul Baker & Gavin Brookes -- Investigating gendered language through collocation : the case of mock politeness / Charlotte Taylor -- the South African news media and representations of sexuality / Sally Hunt -- Women victims of men who murder : XML mark-up for nomination, collocation and frequency analysis of language of the law / Amanda Potts & Federica Formato.

Do you possess 'freedom'-the will to do as you choose-as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don't worry. You've got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; membership in innumerable communities that provide you with huge stores of knowledge and wisdom; and a politico-constitutional order that ought to provide the material and the immaterial conditions that will enable you to pursue a life worth valuing. Drop the simplistic folk-psychology of unfettered freedom, whilst holding on to intentionality, and you might be inclined to adopt a set of social practices and political arrangements that enhance the chances that you and your compatriots will flourish. As many recent studies of consciousness reveal our neurological systems are complex feedback mechanisms designed to create myriad for trial and error and (if you survive) the production of new stores of knowledge. Individuals-comprised of numerous radically heterogeneous, naturally and socially determined selves-are always experimenting, attempting to divine through reflection and action, what 'works' best: even when 'best' means fully embracing who we already are. Choice architects, those persons charged with constructing the environments within which we operate daily, should (if responsible) regularly run experiments that attempt to eliminate biases, and ultimately, deliver norms that nudge us away from negative defaults toward more optimal ends. A constitutional democracy, made up of millions of radically heterogeneous, densely populated individuals, constantly strives to determine what works best for most of its many constituents. Because South Africa's Constitution states (at an extremely high level of generality) only some of the norms that govern our lives, it remains for citizens, representatives and judges to create doctrines and institutions that serve its capaciously framed ends best. After canvassing the relevant literature in neuroscience, empirical philosophy, behavioural psychology, social capital theory, development economics, and emergent experimental governance, this work suggests that manifold experiments in living that fall within the accepted parameters of our shared constitutional norms are likely, over time, to produce more optimal ways of being that can be replicated by other members of our polity. Our reflexive stance toward best practices-a linchpin of this book's take on experimental governance-when inextricably linked to a commitment to flourishing and to the expansion of individual capabilities, should cause us to alter the content of the fundamental norms that shape our lives and bind us to one another. A political order founded upon experimental constitutionalism and flourishing promises an egalitarian pluralist reformation of South African society. The book spins out its novel thesis against the concrete backdrop of political arrangements and judicial doctrines that have emerged during the first 20 years of our truly vibrant constitutional democracy. Its trenchant analysis of political institutions and constitutional case law shows us how far we have come, and how far we still have to go.

International and regional regimes on anti-trafficking -- Genealogies of human trafficking and slavery -- Trafficking in human beings as a crime and as a human rights violation -- Trafficking in transnational criminal law -- The European legal regime on trafficking in human beings -- Trafficking in human beings in the African context -- Human trafficking in the context of labour migration in Southeast Asia : the case of thailand's fishing industry -- Human trafficking in Australasia -- Human trafficking in the Middle East -- Types of exploitation -- Defining exploitation in the context of trafficking : what is a crime and what is not -- Human trafficking for the purpose of organ removal -- Child soldiering in relation to human trafficking -- Tracing the emergence of ict-enabled human trafficking for ransom -- Exploitation through begging as a form of trafficking in human beings : over-estimated or under-reported? -- Particular legal issues -- The non-punishment provision with regard to victims of trafficking : a human rights approach -- Abuse of a position of vulnerability within the definition of trafficking in persons -- Unable to return? : the protection of victims of trafficking in need of international protection -- Prosecution of cases of human trafficking in a common law system -- Prosecution of trafficking in human beings in civil law systems : the example of belgium -- Needs of victims of trafficking -- Trafficking in persons : a victim's perspective -- Child trafficking : a call for rights-based integrated approaches -- The right to a remedy and reparation for victims of trafficking in human beings -- Being home : exploring family re-integration amongst trafficked indonesian domestic workers -- The mental health of trafficked persons -- National referral mechanisms -- Critical discourses of the anti-trafficking framework -- Sex and work : understanding sexual commerce in an era of "globalisation" -- Orwellian rights and the un trafficking protocol -- Collateral damage provoked by anti-trafficking measures -- Disrupting religious privilege : code of conduct for religious institutions, faith communities and faith-based organizations for their work with survivors of forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery -- The interface between trafficking in persons and culture -- Statistics, data and knowledge -- Work in progress: international statistics on human trafficking -- Knowledge production on human trafficking and everyday governance practices -- Assumptions built into code : digital data, human trafficking and human rights : a troubled relationship? part vi: actors, stakeholders and institutions -- Changing the system from within : the role of ngos in the flawed anti-trafficking framework -- The role of the UN special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children -- Trafficking in human beings and international peacekeeping -- Can labour make an effective contribution to legal strategies against human trafficking? -- Economic aspects -- Exploitation of migrant workers and trafficking in human beings : a nexus of the demand by employers, workers and consumers -- Fifteen years lifting of the ban on brothels : the struggle of policy makers between sex workers as agents or victims -- A critical engagement with the "pull and push" model: human trafficking and migration into sex work 40. of coyotes and caporali : how anti-trafficking discourses of criminality depoliticise mobility and exploitation -- Trafficking in human beings and the informal economy -- The business of trafficking in human beings

International and regional regimes on anti-trafficking -- Genealogies of human trafficking and slavery -- Trafficking in human beings as a crime and as a human rights violation -- Trafficking in transnational criminal law -- The European legal regime on trafficking in human beings -- Trafficking in human beings in the African context -- Human trafficking in the context of labour migration in Southeast Asia : the case of thailand's fishing industry -- Human trafficking in Australasia -- Human trafficking in the Middle East -- Types of exploitation -- Defining exploitation in the context of trafficking : what is a crime and what is not -- Human trafficking for the purpose of organ removal -- Child soldiering in relation to human trafficking -- Tracing the emergence of ict-enabled human trafficking for ransom -- Exploitation through begging as a form of trafficking in human beings : over-estimated or under-reported? -- Particular legal issues -- The non-punishment provision with regard to victims of trafficking : a human rights approach -- Abuse of a position of vulnerability within the definition of trafficking in persons -- Unable to return? : the protection of victims of trafficking in need of international protection -- Prosecution of cases of human trafficking in a common law system -- Prosecution of trafficking in human beings in civil law systems : the example of belgium -- Needs of victims of trafficking -- Trafficking in persons : a victim's perspective -- Child trafficking : a call for rights-based integrated approaches -- The right to a remedy and reparation for victims of trafficking in human beings -- Being home : exploring family re-integration amongst trafficked indonesian domestic workers -- The mental health of trafficked persons -- National referral mechanisms -- Critical discourses of the anti-trafficking framework -- Sex and work : understanding sexual commerce in an era of "globalisation" -- Orwellian rights and the un trafficking protocol -- Collateral damage provoked by anti-trafficking measures -- Disrupting religious privilege : code of conduct for religious institutions, faith communities and faith-based organizations for their work with survivors of forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery -- The interface between trafficking in persons and culture -- Statistics, data and knowledge -- Work in progress: international statistics on human trafficking -- Knowledge production on human trafficking and everyday governance practices -- Assumptions built into code : digital data, human trafficking and human rights : a troubled relationship? part vi: actors, stakeholders and institutions -- Changing the system from within : the role of ngos in the flawed anti-trafficking framework -- The role of the UN special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children -- Trafficking in human beings and international peacekeeping -- Can labour make an effective contribution to legal strategies against human trafficking? -- Economic aspects -- Exploitation of migrant workers and trafficking in human beings : a nexus of the demand by employers, workers and consumers -- Fifteen years lifting of the ban on brothels : the struggle of policy makers between sex workers as agents or victims -- A critical engagement with the "pull and push" model: human trafficking and migration into sex work 40. of coyotes and caporali : how anti-trafficking discourses of criminality depoliticise mobility and exploitation -- Trafficking in human beings and the informal economy -- The business of trafficking in human beings

Preface: human aggression : how far have we come? / Jane L. Ireland, Philip Birch, Carol A Ireland -- Understanding general aggression -- The development of aggression in childhood and adolescence : a focus on relationships / Debra Pepler -- Sex differences in aggression / Kaj Bjorkqvist, Karin Osterman -- Hegemonic masculinity and aggression / Ruschelle M. Leone, Dominic J. Parrott -- The biology of human aggression / Tracy A. Bedrosian, Randy J. Nelson -- Aggression motivation and inhibition : theoretical underpinnings and a new model / Ioan Ohlsson -- Homicide adaptations / Joshua Duntley, David M. Buss -- Human aggression from a cross-cultural perspective / Douglas P. Fry -- Treatment intervention for aggression : promoting individual change / Jane L. Ireland, Syeda Batool -- Bullying across contexts -- Integrating multi-disciplinary social science theories and perspectives to understand school bullying and victimisation / Jun Sung Hong, Dorothy L. Espelage, Simon C. Hunter, Paula Allen-Meares -- Aggression in the workplace / Al-Karim Samnani -- Cyberbullying / Robin Kowalski -- Alterophobic bullying and violence / Stephen James Minton -- Relationships and family aggression -- Chapter13. violence to partners : gender symmetry revisited / John Archer -- Stalking and harassment / David V. James, Rachel D. MacKenzie -- Animal maltreatment in households experiencing family violence / Shelby Elaine McDonald -- Treating stalking behaviour : a framework for understanding process components / Philip Birch, Jane L. Ireland, Niki Ninaus -- Using the research evidence to inform the assessment and treatment of intimate partner aggression / Louise Dixon, Devon L. L. Polaschek -- Attitudes towards "honor" violence and killings in collectivist cultures : gender differences in Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian (menasa) and Turkish populations / Roxanne Khan -- Towards evidence-based treatment of partner violence in LGBT relationships / Erica Bowen -- Raising awareness, improving victim safety : exploring the efficacy of proactive domestic and family violence prevention measures / Philip Birch, Irena Veljanova -- Sexual aggression -- The development of sexual aggression : a tripartite model and a life span perspective / Howard E. Barbaree, Lynn O. Lightfoot, Robert A. Prentky -- Examining harmful sexual behaviour in male children : considering the implications for practice / Carol A. Ireland -- Females who sexually offend : theory, research, and treatment / Emily Blake, Theresa A. Gannon -- Assessment of sexual violence / Jan Looman, Jeffrey Abracen -- Thinking outside of the box : advancements in theory, practice & evaluation in sexual offending interventions / Kerensa Hocken, Neil Gredecki -- Contemporary and emerging issues -- The impact of violent media on aggression / Barbara Krah -- Homophobic and non homophobic aggression : examining its portrayal in print media / Philip Birch, Rebecca Ozanne, Jane L. Ireland -- Narrowing the scope of psychopathy in explanations of offending : towards an understanding of persistent violence / Evan C. McCuish, Raymond R. Corrado, Jennifer Yang -- Victims of violent crime : the emerging field of victimology / B. Roebuck, L.A. Stewart -- Psychosocial determinants of violence and trauma-informed implications for treatment / Deborah Horowitz, Margaret Guyer, Kathy Sanders -- Jihadi-salafi terrorism and violent extremism in the era of al-qaeda and the islamic state / Greg Barton -- Drive-bys in Chiraq or ethnic genocide in Iraq : can violent street gangs inform our comprehension of the islamic state? / Matthew Valasik, Matthew D. Phillips -- Gang violence and social media / Keir Irwin-Rogers, James Densley, Craig Pinkney -- Group process and gang delinquency intervention : gang activity regulation and the group nature of gang violence / Matthew Valasik, Shannon E. Reid, Jenny S. West, Jason Gravel

Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two basic insights that have led to this volume: the authors included here hope to queerly go where no thinkers have gone before. The combination of queer theory and religion has been happening for at least 25 years. People such as John Boswell began to examine the history of religious traditions with a queer eye, and soon after we had the indecent theology of Marcella Althaus Ried. Jay Johnston, one of the authors in this issue, is among those who have used the queer eye to interrogate authority within Christian theological traditions. At the same time, there have been many queer interrogations of "nature," perhaps most notably in the works of Joan Roughgarden and Ann Fausto-Sterling, and more recently in the works of Catriona Sandilands and Timothy Morton (an author in this volume). However, the intersections of religion, nature, and queer theory have been largely left untouched. With the exception of Dan Spencer, who writes the introduction for this volume and is one of the early pioneers in this realm of thought with his book Gay and Gaia (Pilgrim Press, 1996), and the work of Greta Gaard in developing a queer ecofeminist thought, religion and nature, or religion and ecology, have largely ignored the realm of queer theory. In part, the blinders to queer theory on the part of eco-thinkers (religious or otherwise) are similar to the blinders eco-thinkers have when it comes to postmodern thought in general: namely, if there are no absolute foundations, how does one create an environmental ethic and a "nature" to save? For this reason and many others, this volume on religion, nature, and queer theory is groundbreaking. Though these essays span many different disciplines and themes, they are all held together by the triple focus on religion, nature, and queer theory. Each of these essays offers a unique contribution to the intersection of religion, nature, and queer theory, and all of them challenge strict boundaries proposed in religious rhetoric and many discourses surrounding "nature." Carol Wayne White's essay draws from a queer reading of James Baldwin to develop an African American religious naturalism, which highlights humans as polyamorous bastards. Jacob Erickson's essay examines Isabella Rossellini's "Green Porno" and Martin Luther's work to develop an irreverent theology. Jay Johnson draws from personal relationships with his late dog, and Master/Pup fetish-play, to blur the boundaries between humans and other animals, specifically within ethical and theological discourse. Whitney Bauman reflects on how the very processes of globalization and climate change queer our identities and call for a queer and versatile planetary ethic. Finally, Timothy Morton leads us through a reflection on queer green sex toys to challenge the ontology of agrologistics. Each of these essays in their own way is concerned with fleshing out more meaningful encounters with the planetary community. Without being too ambitious, we hope that these sets of essays will help to open up a new trajectory of conversations at the intersection of religion, nature, and queer theory.

'Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative. This standpoint is all the more valuable in an age where the proactive decision-making of small powers often goes unobser ved. Professor Wong's Destined Statecraft offers a fresh lens for discerning world issues, helping to extend the reader's vision beyond the exterior towards a greater perception of the world we live in.' --Mr Sungnam Lim, Vice-Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea This book considers the post-2010 strategic shifts in the Anglo-American geopolitical approach to Asia as a pivotal new strategy in the U.S. geo- strategic containment plan, which has been reformed to rebalance the rise of China and the Eurasian heartland in the course of the two decades since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. At this critical global-historical juncture, the People's Republic of China has also devised a new counter-containment endeavor - the 'One Belt One Road' initiative, which aims to re-connect it with all the countries on the Eurasian landmass, forming a single community. Against this backdrop of the intensifying geopolitical and geo-economic competition between the U.S. and China, this book calls for the revival and reinvigoration of selected Eurasian small powers' embedded geopolitical, political-economic and strategic-cultural structures. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus, the book argues that these self- changing and unceasingly structuring structures do not only constrain and limit, but also enable and galvanize small powers' strategists and policy- makers to proactively generate creative means-and-ends calculations, conduct prudent security assessments, and devise measured and responsive strategic deployments. In this context, the book proposes that the small powers return to their own religious, cultural and intellectual roots. It also argues for the need to rediscover their own strategic cultures as an essential means of re-inventing and implementing their own unique models of national development. As a substantial contribution to the subfields of small power politics and strategic cultures in international relations, the book marks a paradigm shift in both theory and practice. Exploring historical case studies from such diverse African, Asian and European powers as the Philippines, Liberia, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, the European Union, Ukraine, Poland and the United Kingdom as well as China, the book presents engaging dialogues with a wealth of classical and contemporary Western and non-Western strategic thinkers, including: Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Halford Mackinder, Kautilya, King Solomon, Li Zongwu, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Karl Haushofer, Carl Schmitt and the Malayo-Polynesian datu, as well as John Mearsheimer. In light of the post- 2017 U.S. 'America First' foreign policy agenda, this book represents an essential guide for small powers' strategists, foreign policy-makers, security practitioners and national development planners - introducing them to a broader spectrum of strategic options that will help them not just survive, but thrive in the constantly shifting geopolitical currents of our time.

Introduction, David Garbin (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent, UK) and Anna Strhan (Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK) -- Part One: Power, visibility and the politics of space -- 1. On the Road: Pentecostal Pathways through the Mega-City, Simon Coleman (Chancellor Jackman Professor, University of Toronto, Canada) and Manuel A. Vásquez (Professor of Religion, University of Florida, USA) -- 2. Urban Planning and Secular Atheism in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore, Peter van der Veer (Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and University Professor at Large, Utrecht University, Netherlands) -- 3. Occupying the Global City: spatial politics and spiritual warfare among African Pentecostals in Hong Kong, Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds, UK) -- 4. Pentecostal Productions of Locality: Urban Risks and Spiritual Protection in Cape Town, Marian Burchardt (Post-doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) -- Part Two: Religious media, publics, and global cultural flows -- 5. 'The Future as news': Astrology and mediated religion in Global Bangalore, Sahana Udupa (Associate Professor, Central European University, Hungary, and Senior Research Partner, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) -- 6. Theorizing Mediatization and Religious Agency in European Global Cities, David Herbert (Professor of Sociology, Kingston University, UK and Professor of Religion and Society, University of Agder, Norway) -- 7. Godlessness in the Global City, Lois Lee (Lecturer in Secular Studies, University of Kent, UK) -- Part Three: Centralities, peripheries, and religious reterritorialization -- 8. Marching for Jesus in Paris: Religious territorialization, public space, and the appropriation of centrality in a fragmented city, Yannick Fer (CNRS Researcher, GSRL, France) and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer (post-doctoral research student, GSRL, CNRS-EPHE, France) -- 9. Transnational religion, multiculturalism, and global suburbs: a case study from Vancouver, Claire Dwyer (Reader in Geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK) -- 10. Place And The (Un-)Making Of Religious Peripheries: Weddings Among Kenyan Pentecostals In London,Leslie Fesenmyer (ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at COMPAS, University of Oxford, UK) Part Four: Global migration, everyday multiculturalism, and religious place-making -- 11. At Home in The Multicultural City: Islam and Religious Place-Making in Stuttgart, Germany, Petra Kuppinger (Professor of Anthropology, Monmouth College, USA) -- 12. Religion as 'urban white noise' - material practices of everyday religion at the 'unquiet frontiers' of the hyper-diverse city, Chris Baker (William Temple Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Chester, UK and Director of Research for the William Temple Foundation) -- 13. Between wandering and staying put: Piety and urban mobility among young Somali women in multicultural London, Giulia Liberatore (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at COMPAS and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK) -- 14. Religion, Migration, and the 'Worlding' of Urban Daily Life: Local and Transnational Pentecostalism in Rio De Janeiro, Gerda Heck (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, Egypt) and Stephan Lanz (Senior Lecturer, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examining Ecology: Exercises in Environmental Biology and Conservationexplains foundational ecological principles using a hands-on approach that features analyzing data, drawing graphs, and undertaking practical exercises that simulate field work. The book provides students and lecturers with real life examples to demonstrate basic principles. The book helps students, instructors, and those new to the field learn about the principles of ecology and conservation by completing a series of problems. Prior knowledge of the subject is not assumed; the work requires users to be able to perform simple calculations and draw graphs. Most of the exercises in the book have been used widely by the author's own students over a number of years, and many are based on real data from published research. Exercises are succinct with a broad number of options, which is a unique feature among similar books on this topic.The book is primarily intended as a resource for students, academics, and instructors studying, teaching, and working in zoology, ecology, biology, wildlife conservation and management, ecophysiology, behavioural ecology, population biology and ecology, environmental biology, or environmental science. Students will be able to progress through the book attempting each exercise in a logical sequence, beginning with basic principles and working up to more complex exercises. Alternatively they may wish to focus on specific chapters on specialist areas, e.g., population dynamics. Many of the exercises introduce students to mathematical methods (calculations, use of formulae, drawing of graphs, calculating simple statistics). Other exercises simulate fieldwork projects, allowing users to 'collect' and analyze data which would take considerable time and effort to collect in the field.Facilitates learning about the principles of ecology and conservation biology through succinct, yet comprehensive real-life examples, problems, and exercisesFeatures authoritatively and consistently written foundational content in biodiversity, ecophysiology, behavioral ecology, and more, as well as abundant and diverse cases for applied useFunctions as a means of learning ecological and conservation-related principles by 'doing', e.g., by analyzing data, drawing graphs, and undertaking practical exercises that simulate field work, and moreFeatures approximately 150 photos and figures created and produced by the author Dr. Paul A. Rees is Senior Lecturer in Wildlife and has been an instructor for various levels for nearly four decades. In 2002, he introduced Wildlife Programmes at Salford and in 2005 established the first undergraduate program in the UK focusing on zoo biology (BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation with Zoo Biology). He currently teaches courses in Introduction to Zoo Biology, Zoo Animal Management, Zoo Organisation and Regulation, and Wildlife the Law. His research interests include the behavior and welfare of animals in zoos (especially elephants), the ecology and behavior of mammals (particularly African large mammals), biological education and wildlife law. He has a particular interest in the importance of policy and legislation in influencing the pivotal role of zoos in the conservation of biodiversity and the welfare of animals living in zoos. He has previously authored books in the area including An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management (Wiley, 2011).