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A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and
real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great
city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life
within. In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases
out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another's evolution. She
compellingly articulates how together they transformed the
Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art
infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los
Angeles's burgeoning definition as the global city of the
twenty-first century. Pairing particular works of art with specific
innovations in real estate development, The Speculative City
reveals the connections between real estate and contemporary art as
they constructed Los Angeles's present-day cityscape. From banal
parking lots to Frank Gehry's designs for artists' studios and
museums, Newbury examines pivotal interventions by artists and
architects, city officials and cultural philanthropists, concluding
with an examination of how, in the wake of the 2008 global credit
crisis, contemporary art emerged as a financial asset to fuel
private wealth and urban gentrification. Both a history of the
transformation of the Southland and a forensic examination of works
of art, The Speculative City is a rich complement to the California
chronicles by such writers as Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis.
Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone,
some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by
the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to
think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the
contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of
power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic
society, it deserves scrutiny. Yet it rarely has been given serious
attention. This book fills that gap, bringing together expert
philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and
legal scholars to ask fundamental and pressing questions about
philanthropy's role in democratic societies. The contributors
balance empirical and normative approaches, exploring both the
roles philanthropy has actually played in societies and the roles
it should play. They ask a multitude of questions: When is
philanthropy good or bad for democracy? How does, and should,
philanthropic power interact with expectations of equal citizenship
and democratic political voice? What makes the exercise of
philanthropic power legitimate? What forms of private activity in
the public interest should democracy promote, and what forms should
it resist? Examining these and many other topics, the contributors
offer a vital assessment of philanthropy at a time when its power
to affect public outcomes has never been greater.
The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in
the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private
foundations in the United States have come into being since the
year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone.
This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where
billionaires wield more power over education policy, global
agriculture, and global health than ever before. In No Such Thing
as a Free Gift, author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new
golden age of philanthropy under the microscope-paying particular
attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large
charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of
social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses
fronting the money often create the very economic instability and
inequality the foundations are purported to solve. We are entering
an age when the ideals of social justice are dependent on the
strained rectitude and questionable generosity of the mega-rich.
Featuring contributed chapters from experts within the discipline,
Fundamentals of Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling provides readers
with a vast range of knowledge and skills to help them work
effectively with individuals with disabilities. The text
familiarizes readers with chief concepts and prepares them to move
into expanded explorations of these topics as they continue their
education and training within the field. The textbook opens with an
overview of the historical context of clinical rehabilitation
counseling, relevant rehabilitation legislation, a global
perspective of disability, the impact of abuse and neglect on
persons with disabilities, and the applicability of ethical
concepts in clinical rehabilitation counseling. Additional chapters
introduce the concepts of vocational rehabilitation, work and
disability, as well as the role of assessment, case management,
independent living, assistive technology, and forensic
rehabilitation within the discipline. Readers are presented with
applicable concepts that speak to the challenges clinical
rehabilitation counselors are called upon to champion when aiding
people with disabilities to improve their quality of life on a
global scale. Fundamentals of Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling is
an exemplary textbook for courses in clinical rehabilitation
counseling and clinical mental health counseling.
A VSO volunteer is posted to Tajikistan to work for a local
agricultural extension organisation as an economic adviser. This
memoir is the story of his encounters with the people of this
remote and little known Central Asian republic - his own
Sentimental Journey to a place that once formed part of the Soviet
Union.
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