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1. Introduction -- 2. Spiritualism: A Modern Movement -- 3. Understanding Mediumship -- 4. Case Study I: Portobello Spiritualist Church -- 5. Shamanism in North American Scholarship: the Genealogy of a Model -- 6. Case Study II: the Evenki -- 7. Conclusions: An Apprenticeship Model of Shamanic Practice.

Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why prison? In addressing this question, the authors connect contemporary penological thought with an enquiry that has received the attention of some of the greatest thinkers on punishment in the past. Through critical exploration of the theories, policies and practices of imprisonment, the authors analyse why prison persists and why prisoner populations are rapidly rising in many countries. Collectively, the chapters provide not only a sophisticated diagnosis and critique of global hyper-incarceration but also suggest principles and strategies that could be adopted to radically reduce our reliance upon imprisonment

In my dissertation, I take up the question of immigrant assimilation in a unique way, using youth soccer as a lens to investigate the topic. I examine the role that the sport has played in the assimilation of immigrants, focusing particularly on its potential to develop social capital between immigrants and non-immigrants. Over 18 months of fieldwork with three youth soccer clubs in San Diego, dozens of interviews with experts, and archival research into the history of youth soccer in the United States, I find that the sport does little to bring together immigrants and non-immigrants. Although Latinos, the largest immigrant group in Southern California, play soccer in significant numbers, they play it mostly separately from the affluent suburbanites who are the other main group involved with the sport. The history of soccer, long seen as an un-American sport until it became the sport of youth in the growing suburbs in the post- World War II period, helps to explain this finding. As soccer has been taken up by increasingly affluent suburbanites looking for a sport to serve as a means of distinction, it has enabled them to perform their social status. The world of suburban soccer today remains one of affluence, and many involved with this world have much to gain from it retaining this status. Although young male Latino players, the children of largely working-class Latino immigrants who have arrived in such large numbers since 1965, are often among the most talented youth players, they are often underrepresented on top-level youth soccer teams. Sports have often been presented as a panacea to social problems, including immigrant assimilation. Political scientist Robert Putnam has suggested that sports can foster connections between diverse people who might not otherwise interact. But Putnam's idea that sports can foster the development of social capital between diverse people assumes everyone comes to the field on equal footing. As my dissertation shows, the playing field is far from equal, and in the end youth soccer does more to reinforce the continued segregation of immigrants than it does to foster their assimilation

Abstract
In the late Upanishads and the Mahabharata, one begins to encounter descriptions of Yogis who are possessed of the power to exit their bodies—via “rays” (raśmi) that radiate outward from their eyes, heart, or fontanel—as a means to rising up to the sun or to entering the bodies of other creatures. In the centuries that follow, this power becomes a commonplace of yogic theory and yogic lore, with ritual, narrative, and philosophical texts describing the Yogi′s appropriation of other creatures′ bodies in both symbiotic and predatory modes. In the former case, the yogic “fusing of the channels” is the means by which a Tantric teacher initiates his disciple: exiting his own body, his mindstuff travels along a ray to enter his disciple′s body, which he transforms from within. In the latter, the practice of “subtle yoga,” as described in the ninth-century Netra Tantra, becomes a means by which a Yogi may take over another person′s body, either to inhabit it or to draw its energy back into his own body, thereby increasing his own power. Through these techniques, the Yogi is said to possess the power to enter multiple bodies simultaneously, creating armies of “himself” in the process. These practices, which are attested in hundreds of documents, fly in the face of received notions of so-called “classical yoga,” in which the emphasis is placed on turning the senses inward to isolate the mind-body complex from the distractions of the outside world. In the light of these practices of yogic self-externalization, a re-evaluation of “classical yoga” itself is in order.

In the inevitable interactions between an African culture based largely on tribal patterns and on agricultural subsistence and a nationalistic Western culture based largely on complex technologies, there is bound to be pain. Whether or not the West tries to meet the aspirations of Africa, the actions of the West can be classed as interference. Yet we have no choice but to interfere, and to help, and no way is more effective than education. To educate Africans in the West in techniques so specialized they will not be of any use if the student returns home is, in some aspects, immoral. We should concentrate on helping African schools and universities to handle the whole educational needs of their own countries.

Introduction -- chapter 1: steven box: a 'realist of a larger reality'(david scott and joe sim) -- part 1: corporate crime -- chapter 2: corporate crime, regulation and the stat (steve tombs) -- chapter 3. From corporate corruption to rentiership: extending box's power, crime and mystification (steven bittle and jon frauley) -- chapter 4. Power, crime and deadly deception (david whyte) -- chapter 5. Climate change, planetary collapse and the 'mystification' of environmental crime (reece walters) -- chapter 6. Fighting for 'justice for all' in an era of deepening exploitation and ecological crisis (elizabeth bradshaw and paul leighton) -- part 2: power, state crime and social harm -- chapter 7. The neoliberal state: then and now (samantha fletcher and will mcgowan) -- chapter 8. The austerity state, 'social junk' and the mystification of violence (chris grover) -- chapter 9. Steven box and police crime: understanding and challenging police violence and corruption (will jackson) -- chapter 10. 'the first narrative that is put out': the mystification of police institutional violence (Lisa white and patrick williams) -- chapter 11. Immigration control, mystification and the carceral continuum (jon burnett) -- chapter 12. Criminal law categories as ideological constructs: the case of human trafficking (shahrzad fouladvand and tony ward) -- part 3: power, gender and sexual violence -- chapter 13. Power, sexual violence and mystification (kym atkinson and helen monk) -- chapter 14. 'rape kills the soul': the use of sexual violence by state and non-state actors in war and conflict (brenda fitzpatrick) -- chapter 15. Gender, powerlessness and criminalisation (kathryn chadwick and becky clarke) -- chapter 16. Mystification, violence and women's homelessness (vickie cooper and dan mcculloch) -- part 4: demystifying social harm -- chapter 17. Standing on the shoulders of a criminological giant: steven box and the question of counter-colonial criminology (biko agozino) -- chapter 18. The policing of youthful 'social dynamite' within neo-liberal capitalism: continuities, discontinuities and alternatives (jodie hodgson) -- chapter 19. Demystifying injustice: joint enterprise law and miscarriages of justice (janet cunliffe and gloria morrison) -- chapter 20: punishment in 'this hard land': conceptualising the prison in power, crime and mystification (joe sim) -- chapter 21. Demystifying murder: open university pedagogy, social murder, and the legacy of steven box (deborah h. Drake and david scott).

Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders.

"As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious and widespread, the significant decline of per capita deaths is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Death rates from heart attack and stroke have fallen dramatically by 80% in the past 50 years -- the progress has been hard won by a combination of basic and applied laboratory research, broad and far-reaching epidemiological studies by physicians, scientists, and public health experts. Cardiovascular disease is no longer viewed as an as an inevitable feature of the natural course of aging, and complacency has given way to hope. This book focuses on developments that influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900, but also includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee"--

"Cities are playing an ever more important role in the mitigation and adaption to climate change. This book examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance. By studying the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and drawing on scholarship from international relations, social movements, global governance and field theory, the book introduces a theory of global urban governance fields. This theory links observed increases in city engagement and coordination to the convergence of C40 cities around particular ways of understanding and enforcing climate governance. The collective capacity of cities to produce effective and socially equitable global climate governance is also analysed. Highlighting the constraints facing city networks and the potential pitfalls associated with a city-driven global response, this assessment of the transformative potential of cities will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and policymakers in global environmental politics and policy"--

"The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these "Analytical Marxists"--Who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer -- is given a sustained examination and critique in David Gordon's Resurrecting Marx. The charge of the Analytical Marxists that capitalism is inherently exploitative and unjust is the primary subject of Gordon's book. Gordon takes issue with that contention; he argues that the Analytical Marxists' withering criticism of classical Marxism is essentially correct, but that they fail to replace it with a superior theoretical edifice. Gordon also analyzes the Analytical Marxists' reformulation of the Marxian notion of exploitation, the implications of their rejection of the labor theory of value, their differences over what rights people have, and their arguments for the compatibility of markets with socialism."--Provided by publisher.

"The political impulse to secede - to attempt to separate from central government control - is a conspicuous feature of the post-cold war world. It is alive and growing in Canada, Russia, China, Italy, Belgium, Britain, and even the United States Yet secession remains one of the least studied and least understood of all historical and political phenomena. The contributors to this volume have filled this gap with wide-ranging investigations - rooted in history, political philosophy, ethics, and economic theory - of secessionist movements in the United States, Canada, and Europe."--Provided by publisher.