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1. Introduction : from the scene of the crime to the desk of the prosecutor -- 2. Burglary and kidnapping -- 3. Criminal sexual misconduct, kidnapping, and human trafficking -- 4. Vehicular homicide : accidental or intentional -- 5. A serial arsonist? -- 6. Homicide or suicide -- 7. Your turn : breaking and entering.

"Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent. Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil the governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture-a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity"--

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture—a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Taking Sides -- I Politics All the Way Down -- 1 At the Federalist Society -- 2 Sauce for the Goose -- 3 Of an Age and Not for All Time -- 4 Boutique Multiculturalism -- II Fish on the First -- 5 The Rhetoric of Regret -- 6 Fraught with Death -- 7 The Dance of Theory -- III Reasons for the Devout -- 8 Vicki Frost Objects -- 9 Mission Impossible -- 10 A Wolf in Reason's Clothing -- 11 Playing Not to Win -- 12 Why We Can't All Just Get Along -- 13 Faith before Reason -- IV Credo -- 14 Beliefs about Belief -- 15 Putting Theory in Its Place -- 16 Truth and Toilets -- Epilogue: How the Right Hijacked the Magic Words -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Acknowledgements -- One year, one unit -- Learning disabled women in secure services -- Life on the unit -- Relationships on the locked ward -- Difficult women? -- Moving on : progression through services -- Intersections : making conclusions -- Index.

"What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on both the social model of disability and intersectional feminist methodology, to explore the reasons why the women were placed in the unit, as well their experiences of day-to-day life as played out through relationships with staff and other residents. She raises important questions about the purpose of such units and the services they offer. Through making the women's voices heard, this book presents their experiences and unique perspectives on topics such as seclusion, restraint, and resistance. Exploring how the ever present power disparity works to regulate women's behaviour, the book shows how institutional responses replicate?women's?bad experiences from?the past, and how women's responses are seen?as pathological.?It demonstrates that women are not passive recipients of care,?but?shape?their own identity and futures, sometimes by resisting the norms expected of them (within allowed limits) and sometimes by transgressing the rules.? These insights thus challenge traditional institutional accounts of gender, learning disability and deviance and highlight areas for reform in policy, practice, methodology, and social theory. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to scholars, students, policy-makers and advocates working in the fields of learning disability and disability studies more widely, gender studies and sociology."--Provided by publisher

In 2011, I spent 11 months doing ethnographic fieldwork for my PhD research where I studied three locked wards on a National Health Service forensic unit for women with learning disabilities. I wanted to find out how the service could be improved for women. My aim was to involve the participants in the study and allow them to tell me what was important to them. I found that using ethnography greatly benefited the project, allowing me to spend time with women and staff to explain the project, and to discuss day-to-day events as they happened rather than retrospectively. I found that women's behavior was extremely regulated and that the institutional responses to "bad" behavior sometimes replicated their bad experiences from the past. Women's aggression was seen as pathological and they were described as interpersonally manipulative and complex. However, the women had clear ideas about their future and how to progress through the service. This case study explains the process I followed, including the ethical procedures and how I gained access.

"Look deep in your hearts": making a global domestic workers' movement -- "Dignity overdue": tracing a movement -- Getting "on the map": global policy as an activist stage -- "First to work; last to sleep": central policy debates -- "My mother was a kitchen girl": mobilizing strategies among domestic workers -- "Put yourself in her shoes": NGO, union, and feminist allies -- "A little bit of liberation": moving beyond rights

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Histories of Video Power -- The Refusal of Activism Amateur Film Production in the 1950s -- Cybernetic McLuhanism in Television Video from the 1960s to the 1980s -- Satellite Resistance and Video Containment in the 1980s and 1990s -- Flexible Microcasting and Interactive Television in the 1990s and 2000s -- Toward Terminal Video -- References -- Chapter 3: Liberalism and Broadcast Politics -- The Models of Video Producers -- Corporate Liberalism and the Guardianship Model -- Neoliberalism and the Commercial Model -- Social Liberalism and the Public Sphere Model -- Video Producers and Their Models -- The Anti-Monopoly Model -- The Public Interest Model -- The Free Speech Model -- The Access Model -- The Diversity Model -- The Public Resource Model -- The Technology Model -- The Democracy Model -- References -- Chapter 4: Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers -- Proformations -- Case Study: Free Speech TV -- Conclusion: From Corporate Liberalism to Neoliberalism -- References -- Chapter 5: Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet -- Political Rituals and Digital Discourse -- The Internet as Fetish and Myth on the US Presidential Campaign Trail -- Four Digital Discourses of Technoliberalism -- The Triumph of Technocapitalism -- References -- Chapter 6: Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth -- Moral Technical Imaginaries -- Digital Discourse and the Convergence Myth -- The Internet on Television: Shuffle Programming -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Chemosphere Studio -- Hollywood versus Silicon Valley -- An Initial Public Offering -- The Commercialization of User-generated Content -- Diaspora -- Current's Conclusion: Sell to Al Jazeera -- References -- Chapter 7: Silophication of Media Industries -- Grain Silos

Eric Fish provides compelling portraits of young Chinese as they struggle to cope with their country's wrenching socioeconomic and demographic transition after years of lofty expectations. He deftly captures their hopes, disillusionment, and rebellion in a system that is scrambling to keep them in line as they increasingly refuse to conform.

Academic freedom studies : the five schools -- The "It's just a job" school : professionalism, pure and simple -- The "For the common good" school : academic freedom, shared governance, and democracy -- Professionalism vs. critique : the post-Butler debates -- Academic exceptionalism and public employee law -- Virtue before professionalism : the road to revolution -- Coda.

"Techniques of genetic engineering are changing the role of living things in the production process. From rabbits that produce human pharmaceuticals in their milk to plants that produce plastics and other building materials in their leaves, life itself is increasingly harnessed as a force of industry - a living factory. What do these cutting edge developments in biotechnology tell us about our relation to nature? Going beyond the usual focus on the ethics and risks surrounding genetically modified organisms, Kenneth Fish takes the emergence of living factories as an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions concerning the relation between human beings, technology, and the natural world. He examines the coincidence of the living factory metaphor in contemporary accounts of biotechnology and in the work of Karl Marx, who described the machine as "a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories, and whose demonic powers ... burst forth in the fast and feverish whirl of its countless working organs." Weaving together accounts of biotechnology in the molecular- and cyber-sciences, corporate literature, and environmental sociology, Living Factories casts our contemporary relation to nature in a new light. Fish shows that living factories reveal the unique role of capitalism in infusing the forces of nature with conscious purpose subordinated to processes of commodification and accumulation, and that they give a new meaning, and urgency, to the liberation of the forces of production from the fetters of capital."--Publisher's website

"Techniques of genetic engineering are changing the role of living things in the production process. From rabbits that produce human pharmaceuticals in their milk to plants that produce plastics and other building materials in their leaves, life itself is increasingly harnessed as a force of industry - a living factory. What do these cutting edge developments in biotechnology tell us about our relation to nature? Going beyond the usual focus on the ethics and risks surrounding genetically modified organisms, Kenneth Fish takes the emergence of living factories as an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions concerning the relation between human beings, technology, and the natural world. He examines the coincidence of the living factory metaphor in contemporary accounts of biotechnology and in the work of Karl Marx, who described the machine as "a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories, and whose demonic powers ... burst forth in the fast and feverish whirl of its countless working organs." Weaving together accounts of biotechnology in the molecular- and cyber-sciences, corporate literature, and environmental sociology, Living Factories casts our contemporary relation to nature in a new light. Fish shows that living factories reveal the unique role of capitalism in infusing the forces of nature with conscious purpose subordinated to processes of commodification and accumulation, and that they give a new meaning, and urgency, to the liberation of the forces of production from the fetters of capital."--Publisher's website.