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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of health systems and highlights the need for renewed efforts to finance pandemic preparedness, prevention and response (PPR) mechanisms, and universal health coverage (UHC). Two lessons emerge from this global health challenge. First, it has shown that global problems need global solutions, as well as the agency of local and national actors to make them work, so it is recommended that public health be considered a global public good. This requires solidarity between rich and poor countries to attain a globally "highest attainable standard" for managing pandemics and other public health emergencies. The provision of such a global public good requires substantial public resources. Furthermore, the focus should not only be on preventing the spread of diseases but also on detecting and fighting infectious diseases at their source. The second lesson is that prevention is a good investment, as it costs less than remedial interventions at later stages. Health systems can be considered as the means by which health priorities, such as pandemic PPR and UHC, can be operationalised. Studies show that health systems that could effectively leverage both robust health security core capacities (e.g. laboratories) and fundamental UHC interventions (e.g. accessible health facilities) were often in a better position to protect their citizens against the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the landscape of health financing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), it becomes clear that during the COVID-19 pandemic there was a substantial increase in international health financing. However, continued high out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) in LMICs points to a structural imbalance in health financing, which is one of the major barriers for achieving SDG3. Further contribution from international development assistance and an increase in domestic government expenditure by LMICs through improved mobilisation of domestic resources is therefore impera-tive. Funding gaps to achieve PPR and UHC in LMICs are small in relation to the projected costs of a pandemic such as COVID-19. However, as global debt levels soar, fiscal spaces to close these funding gaps become smaller. The following policy options for governments and international development partners should be considered to protect and improve spending on health in times of shrinking fiscal spaces: reallocation within budgets towards health, better priority-setting of health financing, and greater use of debt-to-health swaps, health taxes and national health insurance schemes. Importantly, investment in health is critical not just for the health benefits, but also because of the positive socio-economic impacts that result, in excess of the level of investment. Improved well-being and health outcomes translate into higher productivity and income, with a benefit–cost ratio of nine for low-income countries and 20 for lower-middle income countries. Given the high rates of unemployment in many LMICs, investments that create jobs in the healthcare sector are also beneficial for other sectors. Evidence shows that for every healthcare professional job that is created, 3.4 jobs are created on average in other sectors. As a large proportion of healthcare workers is female, these new jobs can be an opportunity for young women, in particular, and can help to promote female empowerment and gender equality. Altogether, these long-term benefits affirm that investment in health can enable large spillover effects on the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Air pollution control 101 It is separation technology Wet collection of particulate Dry collection Gas absorption The concept of number of transfer units in absorption The transfer unit concept in gas absorption Hybrid systems Chapter 2. Adsorption devices Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 3. Biofilters Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 4. Dry cyclone collectors Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating/application suggestions Chapter 5. Electrostatic precipitators Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Creation of charge Field charging Diffusion charging Design basics Resistivity of dust Operating suggestions Air load/gas load testing Alignment Thermal expansion Air in-leakage Rapping Insulator cleaning Purge heater and ring heater systems Process temperature Fuel changes Chapter 6. Evaporative coolers Device type Typical applications and uses Primary mechanisms used Design basics Types of gas cooling Gas conditioning Basic sizing The all important atomization A case history example Cost considerations Operating suggestions Chapter 7. Fabric filter collectors Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 8. Fiberbed filters Device type Typical applications and uses Acid mist Asphalt processing Plasticizer/vinyl/PVC processing Coating/laminating Electronics Textile processing Metalworking Lube oil vents and reservoirs Incinerator emissions Internal combustion engine crankcase vents Precious metal recovery Vacuum pumps Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating/application suggestions Filter cleaning Fiberbed filter life Fire protection if the contaminant is combustible Chapter 9. Filament (mesh pad) scrubbers Device type Typical applications Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 10. Fluidized bed scrubbers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 11. Mechanically aided scrubbers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 12. Packed towers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Counter flow Cross flow Operating suggestions Chapter 13. Settling chambers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating/application suggestions Chapter 14. Spray towers/scrubbers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 15. Nitrogen oxide (NOx) control Device type Typical applications and uses Combustion sources Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Different forms of NOx NOx measurement units Thermal NOx Fuel-bound NOx Thermal-NOx control strategies Dilution strategies Staging strategies Postcombustion strategies Operating/application suggestions Chapter 16. Thermal oxidizers Device type Typical applications Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 17. Tray scrubbers Device type Typical applications and uses Operating principles Primary mechanism used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 18. Vane type scrubbers Device type Typical applications Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating suggestions Chapter 19. Venturi scrubbers Device type Typical applications Operating principles Primary mechanisms used Design basics Operating/application suggestions Chapter 20. Wet electrostatic precipitators Device type Typical applications and uses Primary mechanisms used Design basics Types of wet precipitators Configuration Arrangement Irrigation method Selecting a wet electrostatic precipitator Operating suggestions Appendix A: Additional selected reading General topics Industrial ventilation Air pollution engineering manual Fan engineering McIllvaine scrubber manual Psychrometric tables and charts Cameron hydraulic book Mass transfer operations Various corrosion guides Publication details

"To date, every scholarly book on the history of medicine and slavery has a single author. Each is thus beholden to the practical limitations of single-authored texts. "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery," by contrast, brings together scholars of diverse places and empires around the Atlantic to make a novel intervention into these histories by including diverse actors, wide-ranging periodization, and spanning across multiple empires. Contributors provide perspectives on sites in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. They examine the historical constructions of health and medicine among indigenous Americans, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants, and Europeans and Euro-Americans. The collection serves as a state-of-the-field picture of the history of slavery and medicine. Contributors include several award-winning historians, such as Lauren Robin Derby, Sharla Fett, and Leslie Schwalm; authors of important, recent monographs on slavery and medicine, such as Deirdre Cooper Owens and Rana Hogarth; and emerging scholars in the field of slavery and medicine. The variety of contributors in terms of rank, expertise, and experience allows the volume to take stock of the past, present, and future of a field of inquiry whose development has accelerated in the last decade. "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery" illuminates the everyday practices of dealing with disease and illness that were fundamental to the order of slavery and the construction of race. The history of medicine and healing is a core facet of the early Atlantic World: bodies both sick and well were specific sites for contests of power, cultural exchange, and identity-making. The volume demonstrates how larger cosmologies of the Atlantic World-such as Enlightenment rationalism, Taino Zemis (stone idols), and various Afro-Atlantic spiritual traditions from Haitian Voodoo to Yoruba-constructed medicine and healing. Not only are the chapters in the collection topically diverse, they collectively cover the temporal breadth of Atlantic slavery. Essays span from the early enslavement of indigenous people in the Caribbean to the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Likewise, contributors consider the British, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch empires. By breaking down traditional temporal and geographical borders, the contributors ask to what degree the spaces of enslavement around the Atlantic shared the experienced disease, healing, and medicine, and to what degree they were historically specific and contingent. The volume complicates Western biomedicine's assumptions as a unique healing tradition, revealing how its modern instantiation depended to a significant extent on the bodies and expertise of enslaved and free people of color in colonial spaces. Ultimately, the collection uses this comprehensiveness to argue that medical and healing traditions framed the Atlantic slave system's lived experience. Its essays' foundational nature positions the volume to provoke future studies in both medical and Atlantic history"--

About the author -- Overview -- Introduction -- Identifying the need -- Purpose of this resource -- How young people learn about sex and relationships -- Sex, porn and the law -- Guidelines for teaching sre that includes pornography -- Continuing professional development -- Keeping parents and carers informed -- Partnership agencies and involving the wider community -- Guide to using this resource -- Facilitating group learning -- Supporting different learning needs -- Creating a safe learning environment -- Key vocabulary -- Overview of each chapter -- 1. what is porn? -- Activity 1: what is pornography? -- Activity 2: pictures not porn, please -- Activity 3: legal attitudes -- Activity 4: the great porn debate -- Activity 5: porn stereotypes -- Activity 6: viewing numbers -- Activity 7: who is responsible? -- Activity 8: porn as sex education -- Activity 9: pornography and the curriculum -- Activity 10: where is the danger? -- Activity 11: is that even legal? -- Activity 12: revenge porn and the law -- Shopping, music and the media -- Activity 1: where do you stand? -- Activity 2: sex on the high street -- Activity 3: shops and marketing -- Activity 4: what did you say? -- Activity 5: mug messages -- Activity 6: selling the song -- Activity 7: cartoon messages -- Activity 8: create your own superhero -- Activity 9: the only way is reality -- Activity 10: reality sex -- Activity 11: guess the product -- Activity 12: advertising : facts and opinions -- Porn and body image -- Activity 1: porn statements -- Activity 2: perfect people -- Activity 3: industry influences -- Activity 4: under the knife -- Activity 5: 100 years of glamour -- Activity 6: curvy bottles -- Activity 7: body image game -- Activity 8: the muff march -- Activity 9: changing body image through art -- Activity 10: behind the mask -- Activity 11: sexual stereotypes -- Activity 12: body image pot shots -- Porn v. real life relationships -- Activity 1: four words -- Activity 2: porn v. reality -- Activity 3: why do people have sex? -- Activity 4: fantasy or truth? -- Activity 5: at what age are you ready? -- Activity 6: backwards fairy tales -- Activity 7: gossip, rumours and lies -- Activity 8: relationship bullying -- Activity 9: powers of persuasion -- Activity 10: flirting or sexual harassment? -- Activity 11: personal boundaries -- Activity 12: ground rules in relationships -- Activity 13: how to say what you want to say -- Activity 14: identifying relationship boundaries -- Activity 15: someone to trust -- Sexting, revenge porn and online sexual bullying -- Activity 1: please share -- Activity 2: sexting and the law -- Activity 3: using social media -- Activity 4: truth or lie? -- Activity 5: social media quiz -- Activity 6: please forward -- Activity 7: photo stories -- Activity 8: taking risks -- Activity 9: social media profile review -- Activity 10: online dating -- Additional information and support -- Appendix 1. example letter for parents/carers : schools -- Appendix 2. example letter for parents/carers : youth services -- Appendix 3. example invitation to a parental information workshop -- Appendix 4. quick guide to staying safe online and social media for parents -- Appendix 5. evaluation form

Machine generated contents note: About the author Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Structure of the book Chapter 2 Theoretical Context Management context Project transitions Project management as practice Systems theory and networks Transient relationships Dyadic contractual relationships and structure Permanent and temporary organising Structure and networks Information classification Nodes and linkages Summary Chapter 3 Networks and Projects Network definition Origins and history Problems with projects Actor role classification and ritualistic behaviour Routines Are networks a response to uncertainty in projects? Temporary project systems and their replication# Beyond the iron triangle Why networks? Individuals and firms Problems associated with the use of SNA in project research Summary Chapter 4 Why Networks? Definition Why choose social network analysis? Problems associated with the use of SNA inn project research Concepts and terminology Defining the population What is a network? Actor characteristics Some final thoughts Conclusion Chapter 5 Self-organising networks in projects What do project clients want? Dangerous assumptions Implications if these assumptions are incorrect Networks and uncertainty Does it matter how we conceptualise the project? Procurement through markets and hierarchies; project design and delivery through networks Summary and conclusions Chapter 6 Game Theory and Networks Some history to start Game theory applied to construction projects What is a game? Key assumptions Benefits of applying game theory to project networks Other considerations Choices about actions and co-players: The Prisoner's Dilemma Nash equilibrium Anti-coordination behaviour: Hawk-Dove and Chicken Game theory and information exchange network formation Game theory and five dangerous assumptions Summary and conclusions Chapter 7 Network roles and personality types Network roles: prominent disseminators, gatekeeper hoarders, isolates, dyads and triads, boundary spanners and bridges Personality traits Humour and behaviour in networks Profiling and ideal project network actor Specific personality traits Network roles and personality traits Summarising on actor traits and project networks Chapter 8 Network enabling What do we mean by network enabling? Trust Empathy Reciprocity, favours and psychological contracts Implications for violations of psychological contracts in networks Generosity Characteristics of individual that are destructive for networks Narcissism Egotism Summary Chapter 9 Project Networks and BIM BIM origins BIM and information management Information management and organisation structure The BIM model as an artefact Self-organising networks in the context of design BIM and networks, a research agenda Chapter 10 Introduction to the Case Studies Technical overview Researcxh funding Summary Chapter 11: Case Study No.1- Communities in Self-Organising Projects Networks Data collection Data analysis Findings Communities in self-organising project networks Summary Chapter 12: Case Study No.2 -- Dysfunctional Prominence in Self-Organising Project Networks Data collection Data analysis Actor prominence measures Summary Chapter 13: Case Study No.3 -- Costing Networks Conceptual framework Network costs Data analysis Summary Chapter 14: Summary and Conclusions Brief summary of each chapter Theoretical Issues What might industry learn from the content of this book? Appendix References Index

The author used the 1956 Hungarian anti-Stalinist rebellion as the starting point for a thorough rethinking of the political structures of man's existence, in particular of political power. Such a rethinking is based on the insight regarding the autonomy of the political with regard to the economic and class structure of society. From this is derived not only the specific rationality of state and politics, but also the specific political evils related to the very nature of political power. Specific rationality, specific evil -- therein lies the double and paradoxical originality of the political. It is the task of political philosophy to make this originality explicit and to clarify its paradox: the greatest political evil is linked with the greatest political rationality, and political alienation exists precisely because the political is relatively autonomous. The autonomy of the political is not only the idea of man's stepping into man-hood through citizen-hood, but also the distinctive character of the political connection in relation to the economic connection. The understanding and criticism of the political paradox can be approached only if one sets clear boundaries to the political sphere and perceives the validity of the distinction between the political and the economic. Every criticism presupposes this distinction, and it does not abolish it in any respect. In order to rediscover the sense of the political, one must return to Rousseau's reflection in continuation of a return to the thinkers of classical antiquity (Aristotle's Politics in particular) as basis for any criticism of power. The truth of the political, as the reality of state ideality, is the legal equality of all before all, irreducible to class conflicts, to the dynamics of economic supremacy and alienation. But the state is also -- will, administration and physical coercion. Thus the political as a reasonable organisation implies politics as decision: the political is always accompanied by politics. Unlike the political, which exists only in great moments, in "crises", at "turning points", at crossroads of history, politics is perceived as a set of actions aimed at winning, executing and retaining power. Precisely politics poses the problem of political evil. This however does not mean that power is identical to evil. But power is particularly prone to evil; throughout history it has been perhaps the greatest opportunity for evil and the greatest demonstration of evil. The reason for this is that power is a momentous thing, that power is the instrument of historical rationality of the state. This is the fundamental political paradox. A practical solution to this paradox -- to achieve that there is a state, but that there is not too much of it -- is possible only through democratic control of the people over the state and through invention of institutional techniques the purpose of which is to make possible the exercise of power and to make impossible any abuse thereof. Adapted from the source document.

The author looks into Habermas' theory of deliberative democracy in the context of the present-day debates on the theory of morals & politics. The starting point of Habermas' theory is his idea of discourse ethics. This is cognitivist ethics in the tradition of Kant, Rawis, Tugendhat & Apel that is built around the concept of normative correctness analogous to the descriptive notion of truth. This idea is best expressed by Kant's categorical imperative, according to which the validity of norms depends on their generalizability. Habermas, in line with Kant, is aware of the impossibility to rationally found universalist ethics. Instead of the final (deductive) foundations he offers the reflexion about the assumptions of a meaningful discourse i.e. the argumentation rules that must be respected if language communication is to be meaningful. Habermas' outline of the theory of law in his book Between Facts and Norms (Faktizirat und Geltung) builds on this moral-theoretical position. In modern society the function of law is to facilitate social communication: law is the legitimate framework of social communication on which the actors can rely. Habermas considers the specific link between human rights & popular sovereignty as the source of legitimacy. Human rights & popular sovereignty mutually condition each other & at the same time there is tension between them. The absolutization of individual rights makes democracy impossible since decision-making is obstructed; absolutization of popular sovereignty leads to the tyranny of the majority & the loss of rights. Habermas thinks that law can be legitimized by communicational mediation between the individual rights & popular sovereignty, in line with the principle that the claim to validity can only be laid by those norms that are approved of by all potentially affected individuals as rational discourse participants. Popular sovereignty is consistently procedurally interpreted. On the one hand, it is practised by means of public discourses & on the other through decision-making processes within democratically structured political institutions. The two dimensions of legitimizing law are different yet complementary: public discourses take place in civil society, political decisions are made in democratic institutions of the state. This is also an outline of the specific position of Habermas' political theory of deliberative democracy. It is equally distant from the model of liberal democracy which emphasizes possessive individualism & the protection of citizens' private interests, & from the republican democratic model that emphasizes political participation of active citizens. The theory of deliberative democracy emphasizes the importance of civil society: It is a sort of a practical verification of discourse ethics. Civil society is a sphere of autonomous public communication that is complementary to state administration but cannot substitute it. Communication power is exercised in the "siege mode" i.e. multiple discourses of civil society should contribute to the rationality & legitimacy of the decisions made by the political system, but do not have to replace them nor expose them to populist pressures. 2 Figures, 16 References. Adapted from the source document.

The author looks into Habermas' theory of deliberative democracy in the context of the present-day debates on the theory of morals & politics. The starting point of Habermas' theory is his idea of discourse ethics. This is cognitivist ethics in the tradition of Kant, Rawis, Tugendhat & Apel that is built around the concept of normative correctness analogous to the descriptive notion of truth. This idea is best expressed by Kant's categorical imperative, according to which the validity of norms depends on their generalizability. Habermas, in line with Kant, is aware of the impossibility to rationally found universalist ethics. Instead of the final (deductive) foundations he offers the reflexion about the assumptions of a meaningful discourse i.e. the argumentation rules that must be respected if language communication is to be meaningful. Habermas' outline of the theory of law in his book Between Facts and Norms (Faktizirat und Geltung) builds on this moral-theoretical position. In modern society the function of law is to facilitate social communication: law is the legitimate framework of social communication on which the actors can rely. Habermas considers the specific link between human rights & popular sovereignty as the source of legitimacy. Human rights & popular sovereignty mutually condition each other & at the same time there is tension between them. The absolutization of individual rights makes democracy impossible since decision-making is obstructed; absolutization of popular sovereignty leads to the tyranny of the majority & the loss of rights. Habermas thinks that law can be legitimized by communicational mediation between the individual rights & popular sovereignty, in line with the principle that the claim to validity can only be laid by those norms that are approved of by all potentially affected individuals as rational discourse participants. Popular sovereignty is consistently procedurally interpreted. On the one hand, it is practised by means of public discourses & on the other through decision-making processes within democratically structured political institutions. The two dimensions of legitimizing law are different yet complementary: public discourses take place in civil society, political decisions are made in democratic institutions of the state. This is also an outline of the specific position of Habermas' political theory of deliberative democracy. It is equally distant from the model of liberal democracy which emphasizes possessive individualism & the protection of citizens' private interests, & from the republican democratic model that emphasizes political participation of active citizens. The theory of deliberative democracy emphasizes the importance of civil society: It is a sort of a practical verification of discourse ethics. Civil society is a sphere of autonomous public communication that is complementary to state administration but cannot substitute it. Communication power is exercised in the "siege mode" i.e. multiple discourses of civil society should contribute to the rationality & legitimacy of the decisions made by the political system, but do not have to replace them nor expose them to populist pressures. 2 Figures, 16 References. Adapted from the source document.

For an introduction to this article see SA 0206/E9423. The article is a reprint from Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1944, 25, 2, 100-117. Res is presented which inquired into the readjustments that have taken place in Negro fam life as 'a result of war emergency (WWII), & to what entent these readjustments may have been conditioned by the factor of minority group status. 1, 000 Tex Negro fam's were selected from various towns & cities in East Tex according to the proportional representation of the Negro pop in these areas. 50 Negro fam heads were asked to write letters giving an account of how the present war has affected their fam's. The following aspects are dealt with: (1) changes in fam formation; (2) changes in place of residence; (3) changes in econ functions of fam members; (4) relation of fam readjustment & minority group status. Data show that under the influence of WWII Amer fam's come into existence more rapidly & become dissolved more rapidly than in peace time. Negro fam's are no exception. Fam's had an abnormally high rate of mobility during the 3-yr period immediately following 1941, & their reasons for moving were based upon attempted adjustment to the labor demands of the US war economy. Responding to the expanded labor demand in specific industries, members of these fam's shifted from a group of agri'al & domestic service workers to a mass of factory labor. Although this shift intensified racial friction, it resulted in a change of the position of these fam's & the establishment of a new pattern of life which they defined as better than the old. The att's of white & Negro Coll students revealed a willingness of whites to tolerate this change in ES as long as the traditional SR of the races are maintained. 4 Tables, 5 Charts. Henry A. Bullock, SOME READJUSTMENTS OF THE NEGRO FAMILY IN 1944 AND 1970-offers an explanation of how the author viewed Negro fam readjustment in the first instance & how he views it now. In 1944 the concern was with the degree & manner in which an instit accommodates to new circumstances imposed upon it by the external environment in which it is enmeshed. Then the quality of black fam's was judged in terms of how they deviated from WASP norms. Now the Amer assimilation ideal is being abandoned. Blacks want to be black. Negro fam's could now be observed in terms of the efficiency with which they are org'ed to meet needs generated by conditions under which black people have to live. In a ghetto, a WASP style of fam org would be a poor tool for fam survival. Today's res'er should probe beyond the structural horizon & into the dynamics of fam org itself. This will lead to a further & beneficial fading of the demarcation line between pure & applied res. M. Maxfield.

Wie die Global Governance ist auch die Ocean Governance von einer ausgeprägten Mehrebenenpolitik gekennzeichnet. Lokale, nationale und globale Strukturen wirken zusammen, und es ist eine Vielzahl an staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen Akteuren beteiligt. (APuZ)

在2019年夏天尚未結束前,沒有人會想到:一個貌似單純的逃犯條例修訂案居然可以成為延燒半年的反送中運動。百萬香港人在沒有大台的領導下,穿著黑衣、戴著口罩上街頭和理非,要求特首林鄭撤回修例草案。但林鄭態度強硬,堅持不修。港人於是加大力道、每個週末都上街頭:五大訴求,缺一不可。過程中有反抗者絕望地結束自己的生命,林鄭雖在龐大壓力下宣布撤回修例,但港警獲得中國官方的支持,反制抗爭者的行動愈趨暴力,逼使抗爭者從和理非快速轉向勇武派。以full-geared的年輕人為主的勇武派,被設備精良的港警丟催淚彈、用警棍打、用實彈射擊、逮捕、群毆、性侵、疑似被自殺。原本Be Water的游擊策略到了11月,甚至演變成進入中大、理大、浸大、城市大的陣地戰。烈火黑潮背後,是回歸22年的情結積累,反修例的6個月催化了反中的心結。歷經四任特首,中國治理方式全然改變,共產黨透過第二支線以中聯辦治港;在香港的菁英階層分化為民主派和親中派;港警在此次運動中更看出不再只聽令於港府。香港全城演變為支持建制派的藍區以及支持民主派的黃區,雙方在1124的區議會選舉決一勝負,民主派在超高投票率之下囊括了85%的議席,無疑給定性香港抗爭者為「暴民」的林鄭、建制派和中國政府丟了一枚震撼彈。從回歸前出於文化差異和經濟發展對中國的優越感,到近年對中的憎惡感,這樣的差異讓香港人在2012年反國教運動、2014年傘運和2015年的魚蛋革命中,不斷地重新界定自己的身分,要區別自己與中國。這場運動在香港本地是建制與民主的對抗,區議會的選舉只是中場,中國與香港的認同之爭,才正要開始。《烈火黑潮》是台灣媒體《報導者》對香港反送中運動的第一手紀實,書名描繪了白晝裡行進的大批黑衣人,黑夜裡燃燒的汽油彈,試圖用如此高反差的影像來表達香港人外在的肅穆與內在的憤怒。在六個月的實地採訪中,本書記錄了來自各行各業、不同世代、不分男女的行動以及他們對行動的看法,同時作為來自台灣的媒體,試圖透過香港人談香港,來給台灣讀者一個足以自我參照的文本。

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international', 'neoliberal', 'biopolitical' and 'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally