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This 18th edition of the 'Jahrbuch des Föderalismus' (Federalism Yearbook) has been conceived as a wide-ranging compendium that provides its readers with an up-to-date overview of various aspects of federal and regional structures and politics. In total, it contains 40 contributions, for example on its main subject of fiscal relations reform in Germany and on issues of current interest in federalism research (digitalisation, domestic security, migration and the federal education system).Reports on European countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia and Switzerland), on non-European countries (India and Canada), contributions on regional and municipal cooperation in Europe (such as a comparison of the Euro-districts), on the EU and European integration (such as that on the structural policy within the EU's new financial framework) and a contribution by Malu Dreyer complete the yearbook.With contributions byMalu Dreyer, Horst Risse, Tilman Hoppe, Christian Seiler, Arthur Benz, Michael Eilfort, Jörg König, Hans-Günter Henneke, Friedrich Heinemann, Anna Gamper, Wolfgang Renzsch, Maria-Artemis Kolliniati, Philipp Stolzenberg, Georgios Terizakis, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, Sabine Kropp, Johannes Schuhmann, Franz Fallend, Peter Bußjäger, Christoph Schramek, Alexander Arens, Tobias Arnold, Sean Müller, Adrian Vatter, Ines Härtel, Jasmin Riedl, Henrik Scheller, Ursula Münch, Hendrik Träger, Sven Leunig, Hans-Jörg Schmedes, Thomas Petersen, Norbert Grube, Werner Reutter, Bernhard Waldmann, Jürgen Dieringer, Stefanie Weiss, Carolin Zwilling, Simon Meisch, Klaus-Jürgen Nagel, Sabine Riedel, Alexander Gorskiy, Wilfried Swenden, Jörg Broschek, Annegret Eppler, Andreas Maurer, Vanessa Götzer, Christian Böttcher, Michael Gerner, Fabrice Gireaud, Otto Schmuck, Peter Becker, Rudolf Hrbek and Martin Große Hüttmann

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Plotting the Reading Experience -- PART 1 THEORY -- 2 The Hidden Foundations of Critical Reading -- 3 What Is a Reading Experience? The Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Understanding -- 4 Reimagining Reading -- 5 Evidence of Reading? The Swedish Public's Letters to Selma Lagerlöf: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to the History of Reading -- 6 Byatt versus Bloom: or, Reading by Patricide versus Reading by Love -- 7 A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Researching the Reading Experience -- 8 Tempering Ambiguity - The Quality of the Reading Experience -- PART 2 PRACTICE -- 9 Fun … and Other Reasons for Sharing Reading with Strangers: Mass Reading Events and the Possibilities of Pleasure -- 10 The Once and Future Self: (Re)reading Personal Lists, Notes, and Calendars -- 11 More Benefit from a Well-Stocked Library Than a Well-Stocked Pharmacy: How Do Readers Use Books as Therapy? -- 12 Literary Reading as a Social Technology: An Exploratory Study on Shared Reading Groups -- 13 The Indescribable Described: Readers' Experiences When Reading about Tragic Loss -- 14 When Comics Set the Pace: The Experience of Time and the Reading of Comics -- 15 Reading Groups in Swedish Public Libraries -- PART 3 POLITICS -- 16 "I readed it!" (Marissa, 4 years): The Experience of Reading from the Perspective of Children Themselves: A Cautionary Tale -- 17 Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences -- 18 Literature in Common: Reading for Pleasure in School Reading Groups -- 19 Desire and Becoming - Multilingual Pupils' Reading Experiences -- 20 Experiencing the Social Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Approaches of Amateur and Professional Criticism

Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on the authors -- Preface -- 1 Rescue, refugees, orphans, and restitution -- Early beginnings of intercountry adoption: missionaries and war -- Race and transracial adoptions: controversies and change -- World War II as a turning point and a conception of refugee children -- Eleanor Roosevelt steps in to help rescue the children of war -- South Korea: over time the most significant country of origin -- A watershed moment in history: the Vietnam Babylift -- Latin America: civil conflict and tough economic times -- China's one-child policy -- Cambodia: a legal case study of child sales and "laundering" -- Child "rescue" in the face of disaster: Haiti's earthquake -- A closer look: sanctioned government intervention in Haiti and the case of the United States -- Restitution as an attempt to recognize and restore human rights -- The Samoan Islands: probation and financial restitution -- Ireland: the Magdalene Laundries and restitution -- Spain: a shift from being a country of origin to a top receiving country -- In conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care facilities -- Stalinist Policy: the case of Romania -- Russia: large-scale institutions, scandal, and significant shifts in adoption policy -- Looking back to understand the moratorium: four cases of Russian adoptees -- Adoption dissolution: mental illness, rehoming, and Russian outrage -- Child-development research evidence and institutional childcare -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Poverty, birth families, legal, and social protection -- What we know about birth mothers in the United States -- Marshall Islands -- Tamil region of India -- South Africa

Intro -- I Forward -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological and Theoretical Issues -- 2.1. The Case of Renaissance -- 2.2. The Case of Enlightenment -- 2.3. The Case of Africa -- 3. The Origin of African Disaster -- 3.1. The Process of Decolonization -- 3.2. The Comprador State and the Mechanism of Underdevelopment -- 3.3. Culture as an Obstacle to Economic Development -- 4. Implementation before debate- The Non-Scientific Approach is Responsible for Africa's Underdevelopment -- 4.1. Import substitution industrialization: A False Strategy -- 4.2. The Structural Adjustment Program(SAPs): some Theoretical Problems -- 4.2.1. Interpreting the Program -- 4.2.2. Methodological Problems of SAPs -- 4.2.3. The Implementation of the Program & its Consequences -- 5. The Aid Industry as an Obstacle to Economic Development -- 6. Foreign Direct Investment as an Obstacle to Real Development -- 7. Globalization, Free trade, and the Production of Poverty in Africa -- 7.1. Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU: Can it bring Real Development or Perpetuates Underdevelopment? -- 7.2. A Way out: Free trade or Protectionism -- 7.3. The Great Confusion: Capitalism or Market economy -- 7.3.1. Market Economy as an Ideology or as an Institution -- 7.3.2. Market Economy as an End or as a Means -- 8. The Meaning of Development and Progress -- 8.1. Progress and Development through Reason -- 9. A Holistic model: An African Perspective -- 9.1. The Concept of Society -- 9.2. The Concept of Social Network System and and how to Create it -- 9.3. The Concept of politics and state -- 9.4. Economic policy: The Problem of Formulating an Appropriate Economic Policy -- 9.5. The Policy of Poverty Alleviation vs. the Policy of Economic Development -- 9.6. The Concept of Economy -- 9.7. Economy, Machine, and Energy -- 9.7.1. Small and Medium Size Industries vs. Large Industries.

"Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers results Committed is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton's Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance. Committed draws its insights from the EDP's living lab: an intensive two-week simulation during which executive-level participants run complex global businesses. The authors have observed over 100 teams collaborating and competing for over 100 combined years in this intense environment. It has yielded fundamental insights about teamwork: what usually goes wrong, what frequently goes right, and the methods and techniques that will help you access your team's full potential. These insights have been distilled into a simple, repeatable process that you can start applying today. Getting teams engaged and aligned is hard. Committed will give you the tools you need to deal with all of the familiar teamwork challenges that get in the way: organizational politics, delegation, coordination, and aligning skills and motivation. Using vivid stories and examples from the worlds of business, sports, and non-profits, it will teach you how to: Understand the dynamics of successful teams Achieve peak performance using a research-backed methodology Gain expert insight into why most teams underperform Learn the critical points common to all great teams Committed gives you the perspective you need to combine the right people with the right way of collaborating to achieve extraordinary results"--

The Silent University', initiated by artist Ahmet Ö?üt in 2012, is an autonomous platform for academics who cannot share their knowledge due to their status of residence, because their degrees are not recognized or regaining access to academia is blocked for other reasons. It is a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who contribute to the program as lecturers, consultants and researchers. 00'The Silent University' proposes a new institution outside of the restrictions of existing universities, migration laws and the other bureaucratic or juridical obstacles many migrants face. At the same time it mimics the idea of exiting universities, using their representational logics by developing alternative structures of pedagogy beyond border politics, race/ethnicity and normative education. 00This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects. In addition, all current branches of the Silent University?in Amman, Athens, Hamburg, London, Mülheim/Ruhr, and Stockholm?describe their very different achievements as well as their struggles and failures. 00The book contextualizes this initiative within a broader picture of migration policies, critical pedagogy, artistic involvement and institutional engagement. It also hopes to be an introduction for all those who might want to get involved in the Silent University?as contributors, lecturers, students in the existing branches, or by initiating new SUs wherever they are needed: a need which is becoming urgent in more and more cities and countries all around the world. 00This book is published as an edition of Impulse Theater Festival, which initiated the foundation of Silent University Ruhr in Mülheim in June 2015

Cover -- A Note on the Author -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Great Acceleration -- Future Perfect? -- 1. Permanent Revolution -- Chips with Everything -- A Quick History of Disruption -- Schumpeter's Children -- The Customer is Always Right -- The Revenge of the Dinosaurs -- Today Silicon Valley, Tomorrow the World -- 2. Quick Reactions -- Brain Candy -- Attention Deficit? -- Stressed Out -- Chained to the Desk -- Sleepless Nights -- The Road To Recovery -- 3. Fast Friends -- The Legend of Zelda -- Growing up Fast -- The Curse of Oversharing -- The Quickening of Desire -- The Swipe is Right -- The Automation of Adoration -- No Such Thing as Society? -- 4. The Art of Acceleration -- Kings of Convenience -- Sinking Deeper -- The Shock of the New -- Following the Crowd -- Watering the Grass Roots -- Playing the Game -- Who Needs Humans Anyway? -- 5. Tomorrow's News Today -- Squeezing the Press -- Speeding Up, Dumbing Down -- Talking Heads -- The Case for Disruption -- Quantity and Quality -- The Next Generation of News -- 6. The Pace of Politics -- The Permanent Campaign -- Governing in a Hurry -- Men of Destiny -- Judging by Appearances -- Riding the Tiger -- Getting Better Government -- Reinventing Government -- Future Imperfect -- 7. Time is Money -- Short Term, Short Sight -- Market Mayhem -- Hot Money -- The Triumph of the Nerds -- Trading at the Speed of Light -- The Case for the Defence -- The Flash Crash -- Mending the Market -- 8. Planet Express -- The Great Deceleration -- Delivering The Goods -- Going Global -- Slicker Cities -- 9. Racing to Destruction? -- Appetite For Destruction -- Global Summer Time -- Planet Of Plenty -- From Feast to Famine -- Reaching the Limits? -- Acceleration to the Rescue -- The Future's Bright -- Conclusion - Fast Forward -- Grey Planet -- A World of Possibilities

Death and the city: an introduction / Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace -- I. Death and Disease -- Puerperal fever in Dublin: the case of the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital / Philomena Gorey -- Stacking the coffins: the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Dublin / Ida Milne -- II. Death and the State -- 'That woe could wish, or vanity devise': Crimean War memorials in Dublin's Anglican churches / Paul Huddie -- A new kind of death: the Niemba funeral and Irish military funerary ceremonial / James McCafferty -- 'No hanging here': the persistence of the death penalty in twentieth-century Ireland / Ian Miller -- III. Burial Practices -- Death, burial and commemoration in sixteenth-century Ireland / Eamon Darcy -- Politics, patriotism, and posterity: the funeral of William Conolly in 1729 / Patrick Walsh -- Burial in eighteenth-century Dublin, the city and its hinterland / Fionnuala Parnell -- Burying poor and gentry: St James' Church and Graveyard, Dublin / Sean J. Murphy -- Funerary traditions and commemorative practices in Glasnevin Cemetery and Museum / Siobhán Doyle -- IV. Coming to Terms with Death -- 'You may be young enough to live, but you are old enough to die': life and death in the sermons of James Gallagher, William Gahan and Silvester Goonan / Ciarán Mac Murchaidh -- Photography and loss in Dublin / Orla Fitzpatrick -- 'Well may we be proud of him': living with the deaths of the Easter Rising leaders, 1916-17 / Brian Hughes -- V. Appendices: Sources for Death -- The Representative Church Body Library, Dublin: a Church of Ireland perspective on death / Raymond Refaussé -- An overview of the Glasnevin Board minutes / Patricia Bedlow -- The cost of dying: a case study from an undertakers archive / Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace -- List of crypts, cemeteries and Graveyards (sourced from Dublin City LIbrary and Archive's Graveyard Directory)

Preface -- Globalization's promise : different, like everyone else / Robert E. White and Karyn Cooper, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, and others -- Dialectics of globalization and the future of capitalism / Dragoljub Stojanov and Pavle Jakovac, Full Professor, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, and others -- The swirl of globalization through the U.S. political economy / Cal Clark and Evelyn A. Clark, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, and others -- Emerging countries and trade multilateralism : hypothesis on the rising powers' global political economy / Mehdi Abbas, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Faculty of Economics, France -- Supply chain modelling for the globalised age / Safaa Sindi and Michael Roe, Graduate School of Management, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK -- Globalisation, national politics and youth unemployment in Uganda / Johnmary Kanyamurwa, Lecturer, History and Political Science Department, Kyambogo University, Uganda -- Friend or foe (or do we really know)? : intelligence community contemporary challenges / John Michael Weaver, Assistant Professor for Intelligence Analysis, History and Political Science Department, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, USA -- Globalization and regional revitalization in a local university of Japan / Shiro Horiuchi and Tatsuhiro Takahashi, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan -- Critical review of the internet crimes law in Turkey : social structure, social media and legislative regulations / Tutku Akter, Assoc.Prof. Dr., Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta/North Cyprus -- Critical perspectives in the study of globalization, equity and diversity : grounds for anti hegemonic subaltern responses / Siri Gamage, School of Education, University of New England, Armidale, Australia -- Socially equitable schemes in Latin America and European Union: the role of geographical indication legislation / Maria Cecilia Mancini, Department of Economics, Parma University, Parma, Italy -- Index

Strategic alliances in regional environmental organization and regime building : problems and prospects / A.B.A. Ghani and B.S. Sunarko -- Tatar politics of identity in the global arena / L.R. Nizamova -- Scientometrics and methodological tools in the research of the competitiveness of enterprises / M.A. Fedotova and N.N. Polzunova -- Economic conditions as heterogeneity source of the factors of supply and demand / N.Z. Safiullin and N.G. Bagautdinova -- Estimation of investment requirements in providing potential of reliability of Energy Provider / T. Palei, A. Nagimova, M. Zainullina and P. Afonin -- The problem of limits to growth: The Russian traditions of scientific research / A.R. Toumashev and M.V. Toumasheva Investments in education system : do the results correspond to the expectations? / A. Nagimova, M. Zainullina and T. Palei -- Animated films for children as an agent of socialization (based on the results of content analysis) / A.V. Makhiyanova and M.R. Zainullina -- Trends to the social structure formation of a rural society : the ideal and real models / A.V. Makhiyanova, T.A. Burganova and E.F. Huzieva -- Letting marketing play a more active role in education / N.V. Kalenskaya and A.Z. Novenkova -- Identification of research fronts by studying Small and Medium Enterprises : methodical approaches / N.M. Filimonova, N.V. Morgunova and D.A. Sinyavskiy -- New automata definition of language for game development / M.T. Ziatdinov and M.R. Khafizov -- The IFRS impact on the effectiveness of a company's economic security system / R.G. Kaspina, L.E. Kaspin and L.A. Molotov -- Improving the competitive positions of the territory based on the formation of Industrial Profile / A.R. Safiullin and L.R. Gataullina -- The structure of intangible capital / J. Kolesnikova, E. Fakhrutdinova and V. Zagidullina.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Foundations -- Chapter 1: Langdon Winner. 'Do Artifacts Have Politics?' Daedalus 109.1 (1980), 121-136 (excerpt from 'The Whale and the Reactor') -- Chapter 2: Arie Rip. 'Introduction of New Technology: Making Use of Recent Insights from Sociology and Economics of Technology.' Technology Analysis & -- Strategic Management 7.4 (1995), 417-432 -- Chapter 3: Bill Joy. 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us.' Wired, (April 2000) -- Chapter 4: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 'A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.' In Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita (eds), AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001 (2001), 77-83 -- Part 2: Ethics and Public Policy -- Chapter 5: Braden Allenby. 'The Industrial Ecology of Emerging Technologies.' Journal of Industrial Ecology 13.2 (2009), 168-183 -- Chapter 6: Amy Gutmann. 'The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging Technologies.' Hastings Center Report 41.4 (2011), 17-22 -- Chapter 7: Gary Marchant, Ann Meyer and Megan Scanlon. 'Integrating Social and Ethical Concerns into Regulatory Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies.' 11 Minnesota J. Law Science & -- Technology (2010), 345-363 -- Chapter 8: Richard Owen, Phil Macnaghten and Jack Stilgoe. 'Responsible Research and Innovation: From Science in Society to Science for Society, with Society.' Science and Public Policy 39.6 (2012), 751-760 -- Chapter 9: Alfred Nordmann. 'Discussion Paper: Responsible Innovation, the Art and Craft of Anticipation.' Journal of Responsible Innovation 1.1 (2014), 87-98 -- Part 3: Public Perception and Participation.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Central and Eastern Europe's Dependence on Russian Gas, Western CIS Transit States and the Quest for Diversification through the Southern Corridor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Market changes in Europe and Gazprom, with special attention to the pricing and the CEE region -- 3. Gas demand and production in Central and Eastern Europe -- 3.1 Role of gas in primary energy consumption in Central and Eastern European countries -- 3.2 Gas demand -- 3.3 Internal gas production in Central and Eastern Europe, with special attention to unconventional gas -- 4. Transit through the western CIS states and Central and Eastern Europe -- 4.1 Bypass pipelines and their effect on transit -- 5. The role of Russian gas in Central and Eastern European countries -- 6. Diversification projects in the Southern Corridor -- 7. Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Norms and Interests in Turkey's Southern Corridor Policy -- 1. Changes in Western energy policies regarding natural gas -- 2. Weakening U.S. commitment to global gas supply security -- 3. European demand concerns -- 4. Arab Spring and growing tensions in the Middle East -- 5. From geopolitics to pragmatism - the new context of the Southern Corridor -- 6. EU-Turkish relations and the issue of Turkish gas transit -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Turkey's Energy Policy and the EU's Energy Demand -- 1. Turkey's energy policy -- 2. Geopolitical considerations -- 3. The Nabucco dilemma -- 4. The Challenge of Reclaiming Impetus -- Chapter 4 Energy as a Significant Material Factor Shaping Turkey's Foreign Policy Preferences towards the South Caucasus: What Role for Turkey as an Energy Transit State from Caspian to Europe? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emergence of Energy in the Caucasus and Central Asian Politics

The relationship between established powers and emerging powers is one of the most important topics in world politics. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated how the leading state in the international system responds to rising powers in peripheral regions—actors that are not yet and might never become great powers but that are still increasing their strength, extending their influence, and trying to reorder their corner of the world. In the Hegemon's Shadow fills this gap. Evan Braden Montgomery draws on different strands of realist theory to develop a novel framework that explains why leading states have accommodated some rising regional powers but opposed others.Montgomery examines the interaction between two factors: the type of local order that a leading state prefers and the type of local power shift that appears to be taking place. The first captures a leading state's main interest in a peripheral region and serves as the baseline for its evaluation of any changes in the status quo. Would the leading state like to see a balance of power rather than a preponderance of power, does it favor primacy over parity instead, or is it impartial between these alternatives? The second indicates how a local power shift is likely to unfold. In particular, which regional order is an emerging power trying to create and does a leading state expect it to succeed? Montgomery tests his arguments by analyzing Great Britain's efforts to manage the rise of Egypt, the Confederacy, and Japan during the nineteenth century and the United States' efforts to manage the emergence of India and Iraq during the twentieth century.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- Bristol and the trade in Africans before 1698 -- Bristol and the illegal slave trade -- Bristol in the Caribbean -- Bristol and the African trade, 1698-1750 -- Making money from the slave trade -- John Duckinfield and other slave traders -- Bristol as a slaving port -- Notes -- 2 Cultural Exchanges: The Representation of Black People and the Black Presence in Bristol, c. 1700-75 -- Representation and race -- Crewmen's tales -- Africans in Bristol: subaltern voices on the black presence -- The case of the Old Calabar princes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Gentility and Slavery: Bristol's Urban Renaissance Reconsidered, c. 1673-c. 1820 -- The city, 1676-1713 -- The urban renaissance in Bristol -- Green mansions: stately homes and slave wealth -- Gentility -- Notes -- 4 Thinking about the Slave Trade: Abolition and Its Opponents, 1760-91 -- The culture of abolition -- Literature, gender and abolition -- Anti-abolition -- The theatre of race -- Evasive manoeuvres: Bristol anti-abolitionists and the middle passage -- Political activity: anti-abolition rhetoric in Bristol -- Notes -- 5 Abolition in a Cold Climate, 1792-1807 -- Respectable anti-slavery -- Romanticism and anti-slavery -- Sierra Leone and Bristol, 1787-99 -- Black people in Bristol in the age of abolition -- Theatrical reactions: Bristol and slavery at a time of war -- Theatrical rituals -- Abolition subdued? The Caribbean interest and Bristol politics, 1800-7 -- Notes -- 6 The Struggle for Emancipation -- Political radicals and the issue of colonial slavery -- The election of 1812 and the West India interest -- Changing public attitudes towards slavery, 1814-30 -- A political engagement?.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to Instructors, or, Is This the New Textbook For Your Intro Course? -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Chapter One Knowledges -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- The Manly Art of Pregnancy -- "The Illest": Disability as Metaphor in Hip Hop Music -- One Is Not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality -- The Muslim Woman: The Power of Images and the Danger of Pity -- The Language Puzzle: Is Inclusive Language a Solution? -- Chapter Two Identities -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- The Power of My Vagina -- Racialized and Colonized Bodies -- Viagra and the Coital Imperative -- The Medical Gayz -- "Guys Are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality -- Chapter Three Equalities -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- Privilege -- Access to the Sky: Airplane Seats and Fat Bodies in Contested Spaces -- Their Laws Will Never Make Us Safer -- "Where?": To Pee or Not to Pee [excerpt] -- Death By Masculinity -- PART TWO -- Chapter Four Bodies -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- The Rest of My Chest -- Widening the Dialogue to Narrow the Gap in Health Disparities: Approaches to Fat Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Promotion -- What's on the Menu? -- The Body, Disability, and Sexuality -- "National Security" and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border -- Chapter Five Places -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- Disability, Embodiment and the Meaning of the Home -- The Globalization of Care Work -- Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal -- Sexuality, State, and Nation -- Where Is Home?: Fragmented Lives, Border Crossings, and the Politics of Exile -- Chapter Six Representations -- Preview of Readings -- Readings -- Popular Culture Constructs Sexuality