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This book aims to provide cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. The second International Conference of the International Global Ethics Association will be held in Melbourne, Australia in June 2008 on the theme of 'Questioning Cosmopolitanism' and will attract major scholars from around the world. It is envisaged that the best essays.

This book aims to provide cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. The second International Conference of the International Global Ethics Association will be held in Melbourne, Australia in June 2008 on the theme of 'Questioning Cosmopolitanism' and will attract major scholars from around the world. It is envisaged that the best essays from this conference will be published in the proposed book.

"This book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment's nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punitive justice. Questioning Punishment develops its argument through an innovative structure and is organised around five central questions. It starts by unpacking what punishment is; then considers who punishment's targets and subjects are, how punishment is perpetuated and experienced, when and where punishment unfolds and why we punish. The book ends by considering the implications of this enquiry to understandings of punishment and broader pursuits and conceptualisations of justice. This book is essential reading for all those engaged with the sociology of punishment and prisons, criminal justice, and theoretical criminology"--

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: Barbadian Genesis -- HIGHWAY TO VISION: THIS SEA OUR NEXUS -- PART TWO: Creolisation and Creole Definitions/ Meanings and Models Critiqued -- CREEOLISATION AND CREOLE SOCIETIES: A CULTURAL NATIONALIST VIEW OF CARIBBEAN SOCIAL HISTORY -- CREOLE: THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITION -- PART THREE: Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Identity -- ENSLAVED AFRICANS AND THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF SLAVE LIFE IN THE AMERICAS: TOWARDS A RECONSIDERATION OF MODELS OF "CREOLISATION -- RACE AND CREOLE: ETHNICITY IN THE CARIBBEAN -- CONTESTATIONS OVER CULTURE, CLASS, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: "THE LITTLE TRADITION -- THE "CREOLISATION" OF INDIAN WOMEN IN TRINIDAD -- YUH KNOW BOUT COO-COO?WHERE YOU KNOW BOUT COO-COO?": LANGUAGE REPRESENT ATION, CREOLISATION AND CONFUSION IN "INDIAN CUISINE -- PART FOUR: Creolisation and Caribbean Economy, Society and Politics in Slavery and Freedom -- QUESTIONING CREOLE: DOMESTIC PRDDUCER5 IN JAMAICA'S PLANTATION ECONOMY -- CREOLISATION IN ACTION: THE SLAVE LABOUR ELITE AND ANTI-SLAVERY IN BARBADOS -- DRIBER TAN MI SIDE"!: CREOLISATION AND THE LABOUR PROCESS IN ST KITTS-NEVIS, 1810-1905 -- THE POLITICS OF SAMUEL CLARKE: BLACK CREOLE POLITICIAN IN FREE JAMAICA, 1851-1865 -- PART FIVE: Creolisation and Caribbean Cultural Forms -- CREOLISATION PROCESSES IN LINGUISTIC, ARTISTIC AND MATERIAL CULTURES -- AFRICAN SACREDNESS AND CARIBBEAN CULTURAL FORMS -- PART SIX: Poetic Discourses -- TWO POEMS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Concepts of Causationas Developed by Philosophers -- 1. The Discourse Frame -- 2. The Temporal Frame -- 3. The Explanation Frame -- Part Two: Causal Concepts and Research Methods -- 4. Causation in Introductory Psychology Texts -- Editors' Commentary -- 5. Rerum Cognoscere Causas: Dependent and Independent Variables in Psychology -- Editors' Commentary -- 6. On the Concept of "Effects" in Contemporary Psychological Experimentation: A Case Study in the Need for Conceptual Clarity and Discursive Precision -- Editors' Commentary -- 7. Legislating Causal Logic: Scientifically Based Educational Research in the United States -- Editors' Commentary -- Part Three: Causal Concepts and Linguistic Topics -- 8. Triggers and Their Consequences for Language Acquisition -- Editors' Commentary -- 9. Causes of Language Death -- Editors' Commentary -- 10. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: On Causes, Reasons, and Images -- Part Four: Causal Concepts and Medical Contexts -- 11. The Notion of Cause in Biomedicine -- Editors' Commentary -- 12. Causes and Consequences: Pain Research and the Placebo Effect -- Editors' Commentary -- 13. Questioning Causation in Mental Health -- Editors' Commentary -- 14. Understanding the Person with Alzheimer's Disease from a Causes-and-Consequences Perspective -- Editors' Commentary -- Part Five: Causal Concepts and Collective Behavior -- 15. Causality and Protracted Violent Conflicts: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons -- Editors' Commentary -- 16. This Causes Conflict! On the Risks of Establishing Causalities through Conflict Analysis and the Consequences of Implementing Those Logics in Conflict Resolution Strategies -- Editors' Commentary -- 17. Causality in the Study of Collective Action and Political Behavior.

In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical domains as being seperate, then we are essentially den

Designed specifically for criminology students, this book takes them to the heart of the contradictions, confusions and blurred boundaries around the subject of crime, about what crime is, about social regulation and control, and about social responsibility.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Who Is a Jew -- Introduction -- The Caribbean Jew -- The Jewish State and the Law of Return -- The Diasporic Experience - Scattered on the Seas -- The New World - Assimilation and Survival -- French - Haiti -- Dutch - Suriname and Curaçao -- Curacao -- The Spanish - Santo Domingo and Cuba -- Cuba -- English - Barbados and Jamaica -- Barbados -- Jamaica -- The Role of the Jews in the Caribbean -- Chapter 2 -- Jewish Identity -- A Personal Psychology and Philosophy of Identity -- Identity and the Selves -- Identification -- The Role of the Other -- Hyphenated Realities -- Sexual Identity -- Culture -- Creolisation -- Chapter 3 -- The Caribbean Experience -- Jew by Religion -- Jewish Mother-Jewish Father -- Abrahm Ben Emanuel's Story -- Jewish Father-Gentile Mother -- Seth's Story -- Jewish by Conversion -- Miriam's Story -- Rueben's Story -- Jewish By Culture -- Chapter 4 -- Modern Adaptations -- The Rastafari -- Rastafari & Judaism -- From Zion to Rasta and Rasta to Zion -- Chabad in the Caribbean -- Chapter 5 -- Jewish Lives, Jewish Loves -- Forbidden Love -- The Present Situation -- Ab rahm Ben Emanuel & Shoshana -- Seth and Linda -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- 100% Jewish 100% Caribbean -- The Eternal Bond - The Mind, Body and Soul -- The Future of Judaism in The Caribbean -- References -- About the Author -- Index -- Blank Page -- Blank Page

Surrogate motherhood is expanding all over the world. Debates rage over how public policy should consider the signing away of the parental rights of birth mothers in favor of a 'commissioning' couple or an individual. In this book, Daniela Danna describes the situation in English-speaking countries and worldwide, from California to Greece, presenting the legal alternatives regulating (or not) these peculiar exchanges. Should surrogacy remain a private agreement? Should it be treated as an enforceable contract? Are surrogate mothers workers? What happens inside the countries that have chosen different ways of handling this new and controversial matter? And, the most important question of all: How can we live in this era of new techno-medical possibilities and try to stay human? Can we resist commodification in the field of human relations concerning procreation?Contract Children discusses the different ways available to obtain a child through surrogate motherhood. It is fundamental reading for anyone wanting to be involved in the surrogacy process. It gives prospective surrogate mothers and infertile couples the background information necessary for their own informed decision. It is also an essential instrument for policy makers and activists in the field of women's rights, social justice, and children's rights. The question of how to publicly deal with surrogate motherhood touches upon our social vision of motherhood, ultimately marking the position of women in contemporary society