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This collection addresses human rights and development for
researchers, policymakers and activists at a time of major
challenges. 'Critical issues' in the title signifies both the
urgency of the issues and the need for critical rethinking. After
exploring the overarching issues of development and economic
theory, gender, climate change and disability, the book focuses on
issues of technology and trade, education and information, water
and sanitation, and work, health, housing and food. The chapters
then examine how to operationalize human rights in development
through accountability, the right to development, indicators and
the Sustainable Development Goals. The conclusion proposes
international standards and social mobilization for human rights
and sustainable development as normative and policy-oriented tools
for addressing the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic,
social inequality, racial injustice, and the rise of populist
authoritarianism and for advancing social justice and the equal
value of all human beings. This book is of interest to students of
development and human rights studies, international relations,
international law and contemporary social issues, as well as
professionals working at government, intergovernmental and civil
society organizations dealing with these issues.
Most colonies became independent countries after the end of World
War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of
their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern
state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural,
and political development. In 1921, Taiwanese intellectuals
initiated a Petition Movement for the Establishment of a Taiwanese
Parliament under the colonial government. Leaders of the
enlightenment also established the Taiwan Cultural Association
(TCA) on October 17, 1921. These two movements led to a series of
socio-cultural, political, and economic developments during the
past century. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the
emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past
century. It contains four major sections on identity and political
developments and explores international relations, economic
development. educational and societal development, and culture and
literature development. This thorough exploration will prove
invaluable to graduate and undergraduate students in Taiwan
history, literature, and the cultural and political economy of
development as well as students studying East Asia. It offers the
same wealth of information to researchers and practitioners in
Taiwan-China-US trilateral relations and in cultural anthropology
and practices in East Asia politics and business.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Setting out a new,
path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this
timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science
capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse
and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the
heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven
urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising
population growth, density and inequality, and global political,
economic and health crises. Chapters collapse traditional binary
notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local
and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of
uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical
and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for
substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new
ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology,
financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of
markets. Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and
rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the
topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for
those engaged in rural development policy and practice.
"These case stories focus on an important event, mishap, management
practice, or ethical question, and present important lessons to the
reader. Their objective is to educate, inspire, motivate,
challenge, and encourage food professionals to better understand
food safety management and to help increase job effectiveness and
productivity with ethics and integrity. Each case addresses its
subject in terms of relevance and application to food safety and
covers all types of risks (e.g., microbial, chemical, physical)
associated with each step of the food chain. In an engaging format,
the book provides an analysis of incidents or near misses. It
highlights pitfalls in food safety management and provides key
insight into the means of avoiding them. The book captures the
real-life experience of food safety professionals around the world
in very challenging situations, and invites the reader to reflect
on and discuss the situations depicted. It is an essential
reference for students and food professionals, including
scientists, managers, trainers, food inspectors, public health
officials, and more. Each of the 87 short cases includes a
paragraph on "Discussion and key learnings", which will appeal
equally to educators, students and working professionals in this
field."
Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the
creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic
components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into
allegedly value-neutral medical research.
As the World Heritage Convention enters its 50th year, questions
are being raised about its failures and successes. This topical
book draws together perspectives across law and heritage research
to examine the Convention and its implementation through the novel
lens of compliance. The book challenges the widely held view that
managing the 'world's heritage' is a non-regulatory,
incentive-based task with limited sanctioning options. Combining
theoretical perspectives with deep technical analysis and
historical investigation, the book tackles the compliance question
through an examination of 12 diverse cases. Analysing past World
Heritage properties like the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman) and
Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), as well as at-risk properties, like
the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Group of Monuments at Hampi
(India) and Everglades National Park (United States), chapters
trace the evolution and application of key non-compliance
mechanisms like Reactive Monitoring, the In Danger List, and the
Deletion procedure. In so doing, this book provides a comprehensive
understanding of the Convention's compliance architecture and the
tools available to respond to instances of non-compliance.
Illustrating how an improved compliance system is a critical
component of a functioning and legitimate World Heritage regime,
this book provides an invaluable resource to heritage and
environmental policymakers and organisations looking to understand
obligations under the Convention, as well as students and scholars
coming to terms with the impact of the regime.
From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and
school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has
been rife with activism. Although very different from one another,
each of these movements has created alliances across borders, with
activists stressing that their concerns are not confined to
individual nation states. In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that
global efforts of this kind are not a recent phenomenon, and that
as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross
them. Activism Across Borders since 1870 explores how individuals,
groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for
political and social change, and considers the impact of national
and ideological boundaries on their efforts. Focusing on Europe but
with a global outlook, the book acknowledges the importance of
imperial and postcolonial settings for groups and individuals that
expressed far-reaching ambitions. From feminism and socialism to
anti-war campaigns and green politics, this book approaches
transnational activism with an emphasis on four features:
connectedness, ambivalence, transience and marginality. In doing
so, it demonstrates the intertwined nature of different movements,
problematizes transnational action, discusses the temporary nature
of some alliances, and shows how transnationalism has been used by
those marginalized at the national level. With a broad
chronological perspective and thematic chapters, it provides
historical context, clarifies terms and concepts, and offers an
alternative history of modern Europe through the lens of activists,
movements and campaigns.
This unique book explores what subregions are in a European context
and what roles they fulfil in relation to the European integration
process, exploring how subregional cooperation and integration in
Europe largely take place in the shadow of the European integration
process. Mats Braun examines how subregions fulfil two specific
functions in relation to the European integration process: they
compensate for the fact that countries are connected to the
European Union in different ways, and they facilitate cooperation
in fields where the EU has failed to do so. The book analyses two
of the European subregions in detail, the Nordics and the Visegrad,
and explores how these groups gain legitimacy. Braun suggests that
Nordic cooperation is based on perceptions of shared norms
relating, among other things, to peace, while the Visegrad Group
has become widely known only in the aftermath of the migration
crisis and is now developing a new narrative based on protecting
Europe. Elaborating on a theoretical framework based on
postfunctionalism, this book will be critical reading for scholars
and students of European politics and policy, international
relations and regional studies. Its focus on the two case studies
will also be beneficial for policy makers and analysts interested
in the politics of the Nordic and Visegrad countries.
Gerald Diffey has spent four decades immersed in the world of food,
wine and hospitality, from early days waiting tables in old English
hotels to establishing two of the best places in the world to drink
and eat: the award-winning Gerald's Bar in North Carlton -- Heston
Blumenthal described it as 'a proper, proper old-fashioned sort of
bar' -- and Gerald's Bar in San Sebastian. Beggars Belief is a
collection of funny, poignant, insightful and just plain ludicrous
stories from Gerald's life in kitchens and behind bars: his
formative years in the UK, memories of food and family; tales and
tips from forty years of service; journeys and meals, people and
places, from lunch on the side of a volcano in Sicily to dinner on
a beach in East Timor; stories and recipes and drinks suggestions
from North Carlton and San Sebastian; vignettes, slices of life,
observations. 'Romance', writes Gerald in the introduction. 'That's
what I sell. Sensual pleasures. Sights, sounds, smells, touch,
taste. Cyrano de Bergerac said: I have tried to live my whole life
with panache. If I said that, I'd sound like a twat. But you get
the drift. I'm off to bone some quails.'
The majority of the world's population now live in cities, nearly a
quarter of which boast populations of one million or more. The rise
of globalisation has granted cities unprecedented significance,
both politically and economically, leading to benefits and problems
at national and international levels. The Handbook of Emerging
21st-Century Cities explores the changes that are occurring in
cities, and the impacts that they are having, at the local,
national and global scale. Bringing together voices from around the
world, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary view of the
changes that are happening in emerging cities, examining a range of
topics from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. With
chapters covering changes in urban economies, social dynamics, and
emerging technology this Handbook radically rethinks the dynamics
of cities in the 21st century, including those in the global south.
The Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities is an important
addition to the literature, and is a useful resource for students
of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology and urban
planning. Its insights will also be of value for public
administrators and urban planners, and anyone else whose work
impacts on, or is impacted by, cities. Contributors include: R.
Aijaz, K. Archer, K. Bezdecny, R. Bower, M.M. Brannon, P. Carmody,
Y.-w. Chu, B. Coffyn Mitchell, E. Fekete, R. Ghadge, R. Grant, L.A.
Herzog, W.G. Holt, D. Honnery, A. Jansson, O.A. K'Akumu, M.
Klausen, J. Lauermann, P. Moriarty, J.T. Murphy, A.C. Oner, F.
Owusu, B. Pasin, V. Peiteado Fernandez, J. Richardson, C. Saldana,
B. Warf, P.D.A. Wood
Offering a comprehensive review of contemporary research on
inclusive innovation, chapters address the systemic, structural
issues that present the 'grand challenges' of our time. With 27
contributions from 57 expert scholars, this Handbook highlights
both emerging practices and scalable solutions. Acting as a call to
action, the chapters place social impact at the heart of theory and
practice, providing fresh insight into global issues and practical
solutions. Organized into five distinct sections to reflect current
theoretical approaches and frameworks, contributions cover social
innovation as practice; community and place; systems, institution
and infrastructure; individual, organizations and organizing, and
networks and social change. This Handbook emphasises the
fundamental shift needed in management scholarship to address
global problems and achieve social impact through sustainable
development goals. This will be an invaluable resource for those
championing social inclusion in both research and practice,
including innovation researchers and management scholars more
broadly.
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian
studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary
insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand
agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It
highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by
theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The
Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies
about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes
in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives.
Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the
concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the
field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies
used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the
topic and trajectories for future research and development. This
will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and
activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical
and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of
environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and
development economics, human geography and socio-cultural
anthropology.
This comprehensive Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the
nature of East Asian economic integration alongside thoughtful
insights into contemporary issues, such as digital technology and
the environment. Contributors provide detailed explanations of the
origins of the topic, tracing the evolution of production networks
and guiding readers through contemporary policy issues. Key
feaatures: Trade, poverty and Aid-for-Trade Skills and human
capital development policies of ASEAN Institutional reforms,
regulatory reform and measuring integration Agricultural
development, structural transformation and East Asian trade The
Handbook concludes with a considered review of regional security
and discusses how improvements in this area can cause obstructions
to economic integration, highlighting future approaches for how
these issues can be resolved. Accessible and engaging, this
Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars of Asian and
regional economics and studies. Policymakers within the media and
financial institutions will also benefit from the practical case
studies and suggested avenues for future policy improvements.
Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female
lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz
explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part
oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal
fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later. Katz-with
the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew-reveals that
although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender,
sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife,
controversy, and shortcomings. Men-both on screen and off-would
taint the show's reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing
networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show's
tone. Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews
with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma
Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth
Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk,
Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon
Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z.
Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends
of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace,
Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Into Every
Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom,
and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see
the world but how we exist within it.
Ons praat Afrikaans – diverse mense – een taal is meer as net nog
’n fotoboek: dit is die eindproduk van ’n projek wat sy ontstaan
gevind het in een individu se liefde vir die Afrikaanse kultuur en
taal, Douw Greeff. Die projek is geloods in 2016 toe fotograwe
(amateur en ook professioneel) genader is om werke in te skryf wat
hulle voel die Afrikaanse kultuur en taal raakvat. Verskeie
inskrywings is ontvang en die top foto’s het deurgegaan na ’n
beoordelings-rondte, waar ’n paneel die beste foto’s gekies het om
in hierdie pragpublikasie te pronk.
This publication benefited from the support of the Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.
This collective volume concentrates on the concept of
transposition, exploring its potential as a lens through which to
examine recent Francophone literary, cinematic, theatrical,
musical, and artistic creations that reveal multilingual and
multicultural realities. The chapters are composed by leading
scholars in French and Francophone Studies who engage in
interdisciplinary reflections on the ways transcontinental movement
has influenced diverse genres. It begins with the premise that an
attentiveness to migration has inspired writers, artists,
filmmakers, playwrights and musicians to engage in new forms of
translation in their work. Their own diverse backgrounds combine
with their awareness of the itineraries of others to have an impact
on the innovative languages that emerge in their creative
production. These contemporary figures realize that migratory
actualities must be transposed into different linguistic and
cultural contexts in order to be legible and audible, in order to
be perceptible-either for the reader, the listener, or the viewer.
The novels, films, plays, works of art and musical pieces that
exemplify such transpositions adopt inventive elements that push
the limits of formal composition in French. This work is therefore
often inspiring as it points in evocative ways toward fluid
influences and a plurality of interactions that render impossible
any static conception of being or belonging.
This timely book explores a critical new juncture where
globalisation is in retreat and global norms of behaviour are not
converging. Frank Vibert provides an expert analysis on how this
situation has arisen from a combination of changes in the relative
power and position of nations and the different values behind the
organisation of domestic government in democracies and
authoritarian states. Vibert challenges the assumption that
differences in the way countries organise their domestic form of
government can be kept separate from rulemaking at the
international level. The book examines how democracies can defend
their own values relative to others, the methods of influence, and
the ways of managing conflict between contending values. Comity
maps a path away from impasse to where democracies cooperate to
make rules for themselves that can then be extended to others. It
also discusses the legitimacy of this form of international
rulemaking. Vibert concludes with the need for democracies to
address their own democratic backsliding and to refresh their
alliances with other democracies. This book steps back from
conventional claims that we are heading towards an ever more
globalised world and sets out the importance of norms in shaping
institutions, relationships and the techniques of rulemaking. The
book will be critical reading for scholars of international
relations, constitutional and administrative law, regulation, and
international politics. It will also be useful for practitioners in
international organisations, governments and administrative bodies.
This authoritative Handbook provides a thorough exploration of
development policy from both scholarly and practical perspectives
and offers insights into the policy process dynamics and a range of
specific policy issues, including corruption and network
governance. Chapters deliver critical analyses of complex issues
within the economic, social, technological and environmental
development sectors, such as climate change and environmental
protection. This important Handbook synthesises diverse
perspectives on policies and their implications for development,
and features regional and country-specific case studies
highlighting the field's expansive nature. The editors bring
together leading contributors who deliver insightful research into
topics such as human rights, policy networks and development policy
praxis. With an accessible and comprehensive approach, this
Handbook will appeal to practitioners exploring development policy
issues and be welcomed by scholars and researchers looking to gain
an insight into the world of development.
Global emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental
concerns, have challenged the readiness of societies and forced
them to operate in more innovative ways. In response, the world has
witnessed new technologies emerge and researchers continually
finding better solutions to cope with these situations. It is
crucial that these innovations are investigated so that we may
better the world during times of crisis. Impact of Disruptive
Technologies on the Socio-Economic Development of Emerging
Countries provides relevant case studies, innovative disruptive
applications, and the latest empirical research findings in the
digital technology space. Additionally, it provides accounts of the
design, development, and usage of digital solutions that have an
impact on addressing societal problems in emerging economies.
Covering topics such as e-social work, social media addiction, and
adaptive testing, this premier reference source is an essential
resource for government officials, entrepreneurs, politicians,
business leaders, students and educators of higher education,
sociologists, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
This unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many,
forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene.
Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the
crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study
of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through
thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli
suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that
follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various
forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities
become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality
changes. Examining how one viral crisis can trigger more crises,
prompting radical self-assessment in the new orders of life,
Tzanelli suggests that the Virocene and the Anthropocene interact
in ways that may lead to multiple ecological failures or produce
the key to better futures. This interdisciplinary book analyses
contemporary events from a range of perspectives, providing a
large-scale qualitative assessment of recent phenomena. It will be
a key resource for students and scholars of cultural sociology,
sociological theory, geography, anthropology, environmental
humanities and communication studies, while also benefiting
practitioners in crisis management and policymaking interested in
alternative approaches to pandemics and social change.
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