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This paper discusses water as a source of inspiration in music and more generally in the arts. Water, it is proposed, has lost its 'innocence' in the contemporary world as shown by widespread debates about climate change and environmental degradation. Water is discussed both as a physical object and as a symbol; specifically, how water relates to the author's work as a composer in a wide range of music created over 30 years. Works by Andrew Schultz that are discussed include, Beach Burial, Black River, Dead Songs, Diver's Lament, Journey to Horseshoe Bend, The Meaning of Water, Peace, Sea-Change and Southern Ocean. The literary, artistic and political backgrounds to each work are discussed. The discussion also includes the ways in which observation of water in the natural world (for example, ocean waves, river flow and torrential rain) has been used as source of ideas for composition.Philosophical and aesthetic concepts such as catharsis, violence and repose are discussed and a diagrammatic general model for understanding the transformation of water into art is proposed. Concepts discussed also include ideas about the universality of water symbolism from Sigmund Freud, Veronica Strang and indigenous Australian cultures. The work of other artists and writers, including Pablo Neruda, Edward Baugh, Kenneth Slessor and Margaret Scott, is briefly discussed in the context of their use of imagery and metaphors related to water and specifically in terms of how they have influenced musical compositions by the author.

Population is a dangerous political category. It is not separable from the racist and class-based valorisation and devaluation of different lives. From global contraceptive implant programmes to right wing anti-immigration discourses, demographic interpretations of multiple current crises legitimise the states' grip on childbearing and mobility. The results are complex dimensions of reproductive racism and restrictive border regimes. Meanwhile, global social inequalities and racial capitalist extractivism stay out of the game.The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states' grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies of reproductive bodies and behaviours.Several chapters explore current reproductive racism, establishing a hierarchy between the birth of desirable and undesirable people. An upward redistributive family policy in Germany is promoting births within the privileged middle classes. And international population programs revive targets in order to increase the use of long-acting contraceptives in the Global South, within a market-oriented setting of Big Pharma promotion. Reproductive racism is also effective in migration policy strategies: narratives about 'migrant birth rates' circulate among ultra-right forces as well as seemingly apolitical demographic policy consultancy. The last sections discuss state-theoretical approaches and the intersectional feminist concept of reproductive justice in order to provide tools for critique and resistance.

From his rebellious youth through his yearning for sainthood as one of the 20th century's leading Christian philosophers, the quest for liberation defines Jacques Maritain (1882-1973). Throughout the 20th century, Maritain rejected the egocentric isolation rampant throughout liberal society, as well as totalitarian collectivism. Maritain promoted the human person, open by way of nature and grace to integral liberation and redemption through authentic community. This book argues that Maritain contributes to our understanding in the 21st century of the myriad, yet coalescing, movements seeking to address global economic sustainability, the fostering of human rights and participatory democracy. Through a series of papers published over the course of more than 20 years, from the tail-end of the 20th century through the first decades of the 21st century, Maritain's social and political thought engages contemporary thinkers and movements with penetrating insight.