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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Border crossings -- 1 Mobility and transnational relationships in alternative media discourse: migration actors, objects and emotions on the road -- 2 Physical, affective and symbolic immobility in the videos made by Sub-Saharan migrants at the EU external borders in Northern Africa -- 3 Orientalism, deterritorialization and the universe of refugees in the Brazilian Telenovela: the case of Orphans of a Nation -- 4 Representing diversity during COVID-19: minority and migrant communities in UK television news -- 5 Transnational queer screen mobilities: quick media application, home, love, and sex online -- Part II Transnational encounters -- 6 Global service, transnational stories: streaming privileged and precarious mobility in Netflix's original films -- 7 Going Viral: YouTube, Village Life and Digital Cultures in South India -- 8 Reimagining pastoral life in China: rural microcelebrities on YouTube -- 9 Remixing transcultural mobilities on screen: Remapping Europe, a Remix Project (2013) -- Part III Connections and dislocations -- 10 Mobility, place and geographic filming in South African Broadcasting Corporation's Khumbulekhaya: giving meaning to apartheid and post-apartheid dislocation(s) of the South African black people -- 11 Traversing the Urban Sitcom: the Narrative Trope of Transport and Urban Sociality in NBC's 'Must-See TV' Sitcoms -- 12 Televised stations in Italy: the visualisation of mobility on transportation hubs video networks -- 13 Booktubing and bookstagramming: the boundary spanning and disembedded nostalgia of shelfies -- Part IV Symbolic geographies -- 14 Entertainment mobilisation: Nordic noir fans and screen tourism.

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Kantian Resonances and Dissonances -- Gadamer's Dialogue with Kant -- Gadamer's Critique of Aesthetic Consciousness -- Gadamer's Post- Truth and Method Dialogue with Kant -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Hegelian Resonances and Dissonances (and a Heideggerian Coda) -- Hegel and Art as a Thing of the Past -- Gadamerian Riffs on Hegelian Themes: Thinking with and Beyond Hegel -- Art as Festival -- A Heideggerian Coda -- Gadamer and Heidegger on Verweilen, die Weile, and Vollzug -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Romare Bearden's Collages and Art's Address: On World De-fabrication and Reconfiguration -- Bearden's Art: Subversive Hybridity and "Harsh Poetry" -- Bearden's Three Folk Musicians, Social Construction, and "Riffing" on and Beyond Picasso -- Gadamer's Critique of Aesthetic Consciousness and Aesthetic Differentiation -- Gadamer on Participatory Aesthetic Engagement, Self-Understanding, and Tragedy -- Contemporaneity and the Task of Integration -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Banksy, Street Art, and a Benjaminian Coda -- A Brief Introduction to Banksy's Street Art -- Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics and Banksy's Street Art -- Banksy's Street Art: Provocations, Controversies, and Complicities -- A Critical Reading of Nicholas Riggle's Definition of Street Art -- Benjaminian Coda -- Notes -- Chapter 5: It's All about (Hermeneutical) Movement: Play, Leeway, Difference, and a Coda on Free Jazz -- Play ( Spiel) -- Leeway (Spielraum) and the Rules of Play -- Hermeneutic Identity -- Playing and Being Played -- The Spirit of and Space-for-Play -- Play's Tasks, Tensions, and Freedom -- Art's Play as Presentation for Someone -- Art's Transformation into Gebilde.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Public Services -- Evaluating the Impact of Trust in Government on Satisfaction with Public Services -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions and Related Works -- 2.1 Service Quality and Satisfaction -- 2.2 Trust in Government -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Subjects -- 3.2 Measures -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Data Analysis -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Measurement Model Evaluation -- 4.2 Hypothesis Testing -- 5 Discussion and Final Considerations -- References -- Adoption of Public e-services versus Civic Tech Services: On the Issue of Trust and Citizen Participation in Ukraine and Belarus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Ukraine and Belarus: Two Different Backgrounds for E-government, Citizen Trust and Participation -- 3.1 Ukraine -- 3.2 Belarus -- 4 Material and Methods -- 5 Results and Analysis -- 5.1 (Pre-war) Ukraine: Challenges of Citizen Trust that Underly Multiple Digitalisation and Decentralization in Public Administration -- 5.2 (Post - 2020 Elections) Belarus: No Political Trust, but Citizen-to-Citizen Trust Through Civic-Tech Initiatives as Service Alternatives to Suppressive Government -- 5.3 Political Trust and Citizen Non-engagement Understood Through the Soviet Legacy of Public Services -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Applying Central Data Catalogues to Implement and Maintain Digital Public Services. A Case Study on Catalogues of Public Administration in Poland -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Governance Challenges of Delivering Digital Public Services -- 3 Data Catalogues in Public Administration -- 4 A Case Study on Catalogues of Public Administration in Poland -- 4.1 The Process of Updating the Description of Public Services -- 4.2 The Process of Public Entity Data Update -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- No-Stop Government: Expected Benefits and Concerns of German Young Adults -- 1 Introduction.

Explores the historical, geopolitical and conjunctural aspects of European integration, and their relevance to understanding the current crisisBrings long-term perspectives to bear on postwar and post-2000 developments of European affairsAnalyses the overall dynamics of the present crisis, as well as the impact of particular actors and factorsDiscusses the specific problems of peripheries of the EU, especially East Central Europe, underlining the need for a broader Eurasian perspectiveIncludes a comparison of the Habsburg Empire and the EU, plus discussions of efforts to constitutionalise the EU and Islam in contemporary EuropeTo understand the current difficulties and future prospects of European integration, multiple perspectives are required. The essays in this collection explore historical and geopolitical aspects of European integration and their relevance to interpretations of the current climate. They also examine the different regional dynamics of integration and the attitudes that result from those experiences, including in the European peripheries that are so often overshadowed by the dominant centres. In drawing all of these perspectives together, the collection allows the reader to assess the EU's current crisis in context.ContributorsJohann P. Arnason, La Trobe University, Australia, and Charles University, Czech Republic. Paul Blokker, University of Bologna, Italy, and Charles University, Czech Republic. Natalie J. Doyle, Monash University, Australia. Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, GermanyToby E. Huff, Harvard University and University of Arizona, USA.Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, University of Wroclaw, Poland.Helmut Kuzmics, University of Graz, Austria (retired). Dennis Smith, Loughborough University, UK. Bo Stråth, University of Helsinki, Finland

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Participation -- Chapter 2: Jürgen Habermas and the Communicative Sovereignty of Citizens -- 2.1 The Ambiguous Legacy of the French Revolution: Natality and a Philosophy of the Subject -- 2.2 Beyond the Monads: The Interpenetration of Law and Ordinary Language -- 2.3 Communicative Jurisgenesis, the Co-originality Thesis, and the Discourse Principle -- 2.4 A People Made of Citizens -- 2.5 Communicative Sovereignty in a Two-Tracks System -- 2.6 The People and the Affected Ones. Problems with Habermas´s Discourse Principle -- References -- Chapter 3: John Rawls and the Constitutional Identity of `the People´ -- 3.1 Stability for the Right Reasons and a Problematic Conception of the Person -- 3.2 Two Pillars of Rawlsian Methodology: Normative Minimalism and Political Constructivism -- 3.3 The Political Conception of the Person, Fair Cooperation, and the Well-Ordered Society -- 3.4 Rawls´s Post-metaphysical Turn: The Reasonable -- 3.5 Rawlsian Fundamentals in the Time of the Reasonable -- 3.6 Stability Revisited: Overlapping Consensus and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy -- 3.7 Rawlsian Deliberative Democracy: The Unfolding of the Notion of Public Reason -- 3.8 Bruce Ackerman´s Dualist Constitutionalism and the Exemplar of Public Reason -- 3.9 The Constitutional Identity of `We the People´ -- References -- Chapter 4: The Old Kid in Town: Excursus on Participatory Democracy and a ``Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy... -- 4.1 Participatory Democracy and Beyond: Pateman, Macpherson, and Barber -- 4.2 A Paradigm Under Siege: The Protean Critique of Participatory Democracy -- 4.3 Cristina Lafont and Participation as Deliberative, Not `Participatory´.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Subjectivity redundant -- 1. Can algorithmic knowledge be critical? -- Algorithms and you -- Know thyself -- Algorithmic knowledge and human interests -- The performance of algorithmic knowledge -- Subjectivity, algorithms, and privacy -- Interface algorithms -- Subjectivity redundant -- Note -- References -- 2. How algorithms think about humans? -- Media epistemes and the changing conception of the individual -- Seeing the audience in the mass media: The scientific episteme -- Seeing the audience in digital media: The algorithmic episteme -- I User-generated data -- II Inter-connected platforms -- III Algorithms -- Turning data into self: How algorithms see people -- Conclusion: Toward a post-social conception of the individual -- References -- 3. Can algorithms tell us who we are? -- Know thyself, or let algorithms do so -- The selfish ledger: Decoding the self -- The epistemology of the selfish ledger: A summary -- Self, media, knowledge: A historical view -- The personal diary -- Audience and subjectivity: Knowing the self by means of presenting -- Protestantism as an impetus to know -- Between the ledger and the diary -- Conclusion: Knowledge without subjects -- Notes -- References -- 4. Can algorithms make aesthetic judgments? -- Recommendation engines: Automating aesthetic judgment -- Algorithms in culture: Between technical neutrality and political worldview -- Aesthetic judgment and recommendation engines -- I Aesthetic judgment as objective -- II Aesthetic judgment as individualistic -- Arendt's conception of aesthetic judgment and culture -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Do algorithms have a right to the city? -- Roads, traffic, and spatial politics -- Algorithmic spatiality -- Upholding residents' privileged right to the city.

«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying, this book is paradoxically a delight and purgative to read! An antidote to the very thing it explores.» (Professor Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema)What is Toxic? This volume provides a timely and original examination of the concept of «toxic» that today seems to inform all areas of popular culture and society. Connoting many forms of negativity, denial or disillusion, «toxic» has become central to the experience of living in the twenty-first century.Comprising twenty-nine original essays by experts in their fields, this collection offers something of a guide to how areas of toxicity often overlap and/or inform other ones. Topics as diverse as «fake news», environmental denialism, toxic nostalgia, deep fakes, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and cancel culture are covered. Studied texts include popular culture from the film Get Out (2018) to the Pussy Hat Movement, from social media «sadfishing» to governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.This companion unravels the often purposely entangled narratives that are used to fuel much cultural and political populism. It serves as an important intervention into the conversations occurring around extreme partisanship and divisive views on where we might be heading and how dystopian the future will really be.

Part I Pre-Disaster -- 1. Impact of Mexican Public Policies in the development of COVID-19 Pandemic -- 2. Clustering of Highly Vulnerable Mexican Municipalities to Develop Humanitarian Public Policies -- 3. Strategies that improve the performance of the humanitarian supply chain -- 4. Water resources in Mexico and their implications in the phenomenon of drought -- 5. A Proposal to the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emission in Inventory Replenishment: Mitigating the Climate Change -- 6. Theoretical approach to risk reduction since urban form -- 7. Allocation Model Applied to Preventive Evacuation for Volcanic Risk in Localities Near the Popocatepetl Volcano in Puebla, Mexico -- 8. Identification of homogeneous hydrological administrative regions in Mexico using analysis of variance -- Part II Post-Disaster -- 9. Optimising distribution of limited COVID-19 vaccines: Analysing im-pact in Argentine -- 10. Location of Regional Humanitarian Response Depot (RHRD) in the Seven Regions in the State of Puebla -- 11. Location of Humanitarian Response Distribution Centers for the State of Chiapas -- 12. Distribution of Personal Protective Equipment, derived from the Pres-ence of the COVID-19 Virus in Mexico -- 13. A prediction model to determine a COVID-19 patient's outcome based on its risk factors -- 14. Application of a Markov Decision Process in Collection Center Opera-tions -- 15. Decision-Support Tool for Coordination of Volunteers during Lock-downs -- 16. Facilities Location under Risk Mitigation Concerns -- Part III Multi-criteria approaches -- 17. An Integrated FAHP-based Methodology to Compute a Risk Vulnera-bility Index -- 18. A multi-criteria decision-making framework for the design of the re-lief distribution routes.

Cover -- Advert Page -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures & -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Statecraft in the Twenty-First Century: In Search of a New Paradigm -- 1.1 Structure of the Book -- 2. Traditional Approaches to Statecraft -- 2.1 Hard, Soft and Smart Power -- 2.2 Diplomacy -- 2.3 Subversion -- 2.4 Challenges to Traditional Statecraft -- 3. Rethinking Geopolitics -- 3.1 Traditional Concepts of Geopolitics -- 3.2 Contemporary Critiques of the Geopolitical Approach -- 3.3 Critical Geopolitics -- 3.4 Strategic Geography -- 3.5 The Continued Relevance of Geopolitics -- 4. Meta-Geopolitics and the Seven Dimensions of State Power -- 4.1 Social and Health Issues -- 4.2 Domestic Politics -- 4.3 Economics -- 4.4 Environment -- 4.5 Science and Human Potential -- 4.6 Military and Security Issues -- 4.7 International Diplomacy -- 4.8 The Seven State Capacities -- 5. Statecraft and Neurophilosophy -- 5.1 What State Leaders Must Know about Human Nature -- 5.2 Dignity-Based Governance -- 5.3 Symbiotic Realism -- 5.4 Sustainable National Security -- 6. Just Power -- 6.1 Realism and Overreliance on Hard Power -- 6.2 The Concept of Smart Power -- 6.3 The Concept of Just Power -- 6.4 Are There Just Wars? -- 6.5 Just Power and Humanitarian Intervention -- 6.6 Occupations and Jus Post Bellum -- 6.7 Just Economic Power -- 6.8 Applying Justice to All Five Global Security Dimensions -- 6.9 Comparing the Concepts of Smart and Just Power -- 6.10 Justice in a Transnational World -- 7. The Concept of Reconciliation Statecraft -- 7.1 Individual Interests -- 7.2 Group Interests -- 7.3 National Interests -- 7.4 Regional Interests -- 7.5 Cultural Interests -- 7.6 Global Interests -- 7.7 Planetary Interests -- 7.8 Moral Interests -- 7.9 Th e Need to Reconcile the Eight Interests.

This book explores the concept of resilience in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from trauma and towards resilience in framing and understanding human responses to calamitous events. The contributors to this volume show how resilience-speech has been militarized, and deeply entrenched in imagined communities. As the concept travels, it is applied in diverse and often contradictory ways to a vast array of experiences, contexts, and scientific fields and disciplines. By embracing diverse methodologies and perspectives, this book reflects on how resilience has been weaponized and employed in highly gendered ways, and how it is central to neoliberal governance in the twenty-first century. While critical of the use of resilience, the chapters also reflects on more positive ways for humans to respond to unforeseen challenges. Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of 16 books and over 120 academic articles. Her books include An Intimate History of Killing, What It Means to be Human, and Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. Robin May Schott is a philosopher and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in the unit on Peace and Violence. She is the author or editor of 10 books and over 60 academic articles. Her books include Discovering Feminist Philosophy and Cognition and Eros.

This book offers a novel treatment of one of the most important and long-standing research agendas in critical political economy: the theorizing of stages of capitalist development. Albritton advances the work of Japanese economist, Kozo Uno, to explore capital accumulation and its ideological, legal and political supports, not only in the stages of mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism, but also in the post-World War II capitalist stage of consumerism. The power of Albrittons adoption of this Japanese approach resides in the crisp clarity it achieves over the way stage theorizing of capitalism draws on both economic theory and historical analysis. In the new, fully revised edition, written with Richard Westra, two new chapters are added. One meticulously examines the tendencies of capitalism euphemized as globalization and financialization which followed the crisis of the stage of consumerism. The other deals with current threats to civilization posed by burgeoning militarism, environmental destruction and climate apocalypse. The concluding chapter argues for the necessity of major social change to ensure a liveable future for humanity. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of political economy and the history of economic thought, as well as a wider audience interested in the transformation and crises of capitalism Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at York University, Canada. Richard Westra is University Professor in the Institute for Political Science at University of Opole, Poland and Adjunct Professor in the Center for Macau Studies, University of Macau.

This book provides an in-depth look into key political dynamics that obtain in a democracy without parties, offering a window into political undercurrents increasingly in evidence throughout the Latin American region, where political parties are withering. For the past three decades, Peru has showcased a political universe populated by amateur politicians and the dominance of personalism as the main party-voter linkage form. The study peruses the post-2000 evolution of some of the key Peruvian electoral vehicles and classifies the partisan universe as a party non-system. There are several elements endogenous to personalist electoral vehicles that perpetuate partylessness, contributing to the absence of party building. The book also examines electoral dynamics in partyless settings, centrally shaped by effective electoral supply, personal brands, contingency, and iterated rounds of strategic voting calculi. Given the scarcity of information electoral vehicles provide, as well as the enormously complex political environment Peruvian citizens inhabit, personal brands provide readymade informational shortcuts that simplify the political world. The concept of "negative legitimacy environments" is furnished to capture political settings comprised of supermajorities of floating voters, pervasive negative political identities, and a generic citizen preference for newcomers and political outsiders. Such environments, increasingly present throughout Latin America, produce several deleterious effects, including high political uncertainty, incumbency disadvantage, and political time compression. Peru's "democracy without parties" fails to deliver essential democratic functions including governability, responsiveness, horizontal and vertical accountability, or democratic representation, among others. Omar Sanchez-Sibony is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University.

This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation. It discusses the recent 'environmental enthusiasm' in the oil- and gas-rich Gulf monarchies by asking how political power can be constituted through advocating environmental sustainability. While hydrocarbon-wealthy Gulf monarchies have been viewed as the globe's 'hydrocarbon powerhouse' with an immense ecological footprint, efforts towards sustainability and environmental protection measures are increasingly monitored. Climate Change, environmental, degradation and the global pressure towards a low-carbon development are threatening the very basis of economic and political power of the oil- and gas-exporting Gulf monarchies. So far, discussions about this fundamental transformation have barely elaborated how it affects and reorganizes political power games in the region. This book attempts to overcome the dominant focus of techno economic drivers of change and uncovers how environmental sustainability impacts state-society and state-elite relationships as well as shaping regional and even global geopolitics. Dr. Tobias Zumbraegel is a postdoctoral researcher at the cluster of excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) of the University of Hamburg and a researcher at the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO). He studied History, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies in Cologne, Tuebingen and Cairo and holds a Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, which was awarded with the dissertation prize of the German Middle East Association.

This book offers a unique perspective on the Brazilian communication environment in the middle of its most serious political crisis after a military dictatorship. The 2013 protests were an important turning point in the political life of the country, and are often seen as the trigger of many communicational and political dynamics that have led to recent political events, such as the election of a far right wing president. Understanding the transformation of the communication environment at that moment, as well as its consequences, helps to explain what is happening in the country today. The books argument finds its foundations in the following: a systemic view of the communication environment, a conception of technology as structured and transformed by its use, and an understanding of communicational dynamics as an essential part of democratic systems. Drawing on both interviews with key actors in the protests and on analysis of a corpus of tweets, the book assesses the relationship between the use of social media and the formation of mainstream discourses surrounding the concept of mediactivism. It also investigates alternative paths of information made possible by the use of social media when new mediators emerge, going on to search for an understanding of the consequences of social media visibility dynamics on the construction of the common world. Nina Santos is a Post-doctoral fellow in Digital Democracy at the Brazilian National Institute of Science & Technology, Brazil. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre d'Analyse et de Recherche Interdisciplinaires sur les Medias (Universite Paris II), France. .

The U.S. city is undergoing constant change. In the East and Midwest, most cities were founded as trading posts on waterways. They boomed during the industrial era and reached their population peak in the mid-20th century, before suburbanization and deindustrialization caused them to decline in importance. Traces of decay were everywhere, and the prognosis for the future was conceivably poor. As Barbara Hahn shows in her book, this trend now seems to have been broken: Things are looking up again for the US. Some of the former industrial cities have succeeded in structural change. In the south and west of the country, cities have developed into new growth centers. However, not all cities are benefiting from this positive development, and many continue to shrink at an alarming rate. As the author points out, similar processes such as neoliberalism, deregulation, privatisation and gentrification can be observed in all cities, regardless of their location and level of development. Due to the large number of didactically prepared graphics, the book is suitable as a study read for students and scholars. The characteristics of the U.S. city, which are elaborated on the basis of current examples, as well as the illustrative photos also illustrate the change of the U.S. city to the interested reader. The Author Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn holds the chair of economic geography at the University of Wurzburg, Germany and has been observing the transformation of the U.S. cities since the mid-1980s in the course of many travels and research projects. .