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This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official. It is in fact, a critical, indispensable debriefing of a UN insider's account as it follows the life of a development practitioner for more than three decades within the global aid sector. It also goes where few others have dared to go before, providing first-hand insights into the realities of a UN career official's life. While many throughout the world may wish to join the "UN family" or have already become part of the development sector, it is presumed they all have a vision to act as vehicles for positive social change. However, expectations can and may differ once realities have sunk in. The book opens a unique space in the international aid sector – particularly, population security – around elements of personal and professional rewards and costs.

Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Imagining a Future of Crisis, Terror and Anxiety -- Our Anxious World -- The Burden of the Desire for Financial Security -- Precariousness, Precarity and Vulnerability -- Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop… -- The Dangers of Living in a Bubble -- 2 Anxiety, Violence and the Social World -- An Anxious Society -- Social Networking Anxieties -- The Trump Phenomenon in an Age of Neoliberalism/Neoconservativism -- Anxiety in Neoliberalism and the Emergence of the Tea Party -- Conclusions: Anxiety in a Neoliberal Age -- 3 Precarious Futures: Young People and the Global Financial Crisis -- The Anxiety in the Middle -- How did the Financial Crisis Affect your Plans for the Future? -- Preparing for Panic! -- Resilience, Risk and Young People After the GFC -- Conclusion: The GFC and Hope -- 4 Guerrilla Selfhood: Imagining Entrepreneurial Futures -- Introduction: The Entrepreneurial Imagination -- From the Self as Enterprise to Guerrilla Selfhood -- The Guerrilla Self and Post-GFC Precarity -- Clifton's GFC -- Robert's GFC -- Isabella's GFC -- Conclusions: The Entrepreneurial Future…Dreaming Dangerously -- 5 Responsiveness and Re-imagining the Future with Occupy and Black Lives Matter -- Fighting for the Future, Fighting for Community -- Occupy the Future -- Black Lives (and White Allies) Matter -- Living with Hope: Decolonising Hope -- Kim -- Nira -- Sue -- Harris -- Conclusions…Where Anxiety Meets Hope -- 6 The Global Financial Crisis in Pop-Culture -- Trendy Poverty in Williamsburg -- Tumblrs and 'Broke Girls' - Representations of Young People in Economic Disadvantage -- Occupying and the Coming Revolution: The Hunger Games and Youthful Imagining -- Katniss Everdeen and the Right Kind of Eyes -- The Hanging Tree -- The Mockingjay

This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism

Witnesses of terrorism, spread throughout the world, watched the 9/11 terrorist attacks in real-time. Images were instantly beamed to audiences both near and far from where passenger airplanes were hijacked and flown into some of the United States' most recognisable locations. These images were captured, recorded and have been replayed incessantly in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It is a decade that quickly became defined for many as a time of terror. This book argues that to understand the meanings and consequences of terrorism, we must understand terrorism's witnesses. Witnesses are unique, and what they witness is subsequently received and understood in unique, subjective ways. But the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism. Witnesses are never distinct from the things that they witness, and witnessing is never merely watching.

Continuing in the tradition of wildly popular New York Times bestselling sensation, The Brothers Bulger, comes Howie Carr's explosive account of John Vincent Martorano's blood drenched years as contract killer for Boston's infamous Winter Hill Gang. After graduating from high school, John turned down seven football scholarships and instead stayed in Boston. Hanging out in the notorious Combat Zone, Martorano fell under the guidance of Stephen Flemmi--high ranking Winter Hill mobster and close associate of James Whitey Bulger--and by the age of twenty-five, Martorano found himself a professional killer. He rapidly became one of the Winter Hill Gang's most prolific enforcers. This is the gripping true-life story of Martorano's years killing for the Winter Hill Gang, told in Carr's arresting inimitable style.

"Between Feminism and Materialism is a bold attempt to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism. Addressing a number of philosophical problems that have engaged feminists over the last few decades - universals and reason, nature and essentialism, identity and non-identity, sex and gender, power and patriarchy, local and global - this innovative book breaks through feminist waves and explains the paradoxes of feminist theory by demonstrating the on-going relevance of dialectics and the concepts of exploitation, ideology, and reification. Drawing on first, second and third 'waves' of feminist theory, this exciting combination of existentialism, phenomenology and critical theory delivers a problem-based, micro-political and coalitional feminism ready to respond to the challenges presented by our thoroughly modern times"--

Between Feminism and Materialism is a bold attempt to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism. Addressing a number of philosophical problems that have engaged feminists over the last few decades - universals and reason, nature and essentialism, identity and non-identity, sex and gender, power and patriarchy, local and global - this innovative book breaks through feminist waves and explains the paradoxes of feminist theory by demonstrating the on-going relevance of dialectics and the concepts of exploitation, ideology, and reification. Drawing on first, second, and third "waves" of feminist theory, this exciting combination of existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory delivers a proactive feminism ready to respond to the challenges presented by our thoroughly modern times

Luke Howie's book considers what steps managers and employees can and should take to protect their businesses from the amorphous and indefinable threat of terrorism. Even where they don't perceive a high level threat, business managers who might face having to account for themselves to some post event Inquiry have taken action in consequence of the situation. Often, that action amounts to the introduction of what can be described as 'Simulated Security' which can be effective in terms of providing the reassurance to counter the terrorist objective of disrupting normal life through fear. With it

"A portrait of Boston's infamous Bulger brothers, Whitey and Billy--one as the city's most feared mobster, the other as a power in the Massachusetts State Senate."--Provided by publisher.