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Whether considered from an American or a European perspective, the
past four decades have seen family life become increasingly
complex. Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution
examines the various stages of change through the image of a
kaleidoscope, providing new insights into the field of family
dynamics and diversity. Contributions from both eminent and
contemporary scholars provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary
perspective encompassing over five decades and two continents. This
is the kaleidoscope, showing the diversity and complexity of
contemporary families. Each chapter is a new turn with the built in
mirrors reflecting new insights into the colored glass and beads.
Through this analogy, this book explores family transitions in the
US and Europe, gender dimensions of family transitions, children in
new families, intersectional approaches of demographic processes
and policy perspectives as well as offering thoughts on a future
outlook. Unique and accessible, this book will appeal to students
and researchers in a variety of fields including demography, the
sociology of the family, gender studies and family law. It will
also be of value to policy makers for children and families as well
as those involved in family social care. Contributors include: E.
Alofs, T. Brouckaert, C. Defever, D. De Wachter, K. Featherstone,
F.F. Furstenberg Jr., T. Kil, K. Matthijs, P. Meier, D. Mortelmans,
L. Murinko, K. Neels, J. Scott, B. Segaert, W. Sigle, I. Szalma, L.
Toulemon, J. Vergauwen, J. Wood
Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with
complex environments in which they need to take collective
decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at
different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with
different actors. The negotiation and decision-making processes
raise issues of legitimacy, leadership and communication. Modern
societal systems are not only affected by horizontal specialization
and diversity but also by a vertical expansion of governance
layers. The national level is no longer the sole, or even the most
important, level of governance. In these complex environments,
cognitive abilities and personalities of political and societal
elites have gained importance. This book addresses the impact of an
increasingly complex environment on the legitimacy and transparency
of polities, on the role of leadership and political personality
and on motivated images, rhetoric and communication. Examining how
these issues interact at the macro and theoretical level, the types
of problems decision-makers face and how they communicate ideas
with their audiences, it brings together leading experts in
political psychology, law and political science to bridge the gap
in the way these disciplines explore the issue of complex
decision-making.
This book engages with the thorny question of global urban
political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement
that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state
governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing
global challenges. Cities can act politically on the global scale,
but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be
firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the
chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and
space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured
through coalitions between a wide range of public and private
actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual
underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a
variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second
part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses
of global urban political agency in cities around the globe. This
book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global
cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for
scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies
who are looking for an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded
understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of
contexts and a plurality of forms.
This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st
century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope. On the one
hand, the notion of resistance is redefined and applied to
contemporary practices of cultural production and entrepreneurship.
On the other hand, contributors reconsider the connection of
subcultures to everyday culture, exploring more mainstream forms of
cultural production and consumption across a wider range of social
groups. As a consequence, this book extends the scope to look
beyond the white, male, adolescent, urban cultures identified with
earlier subcultural studies. Contributors also examine fusions and
crossovers between Western and non-Western cultural practices.
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social
responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related
practices. This book critically examines sport-related social
interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting
local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace,
integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective
of sport and play, and the power position of global sport
organizations with corporate features is discussed from the
perspectives of good governance, legal issues and fair trade.
Referring to Foucault's concept of biopolitics, this book
contributes to the discussion on the rising power position and the
social responsibilities of sports and sport organizations. It is a
valuable contribution to the understanding of interconnections
between sport and society for students in sociology, policy and
politics of sport, for sport leaders, and for policy and
decision-makers in sport.
This book engages with the thorny question of global urban
political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement
that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state
governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing
global challenges. Cities can act politically on the global scale,
but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be
firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the
chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and
space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured
through coalitions between a wide range of public and private
actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual
underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a
variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second
part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses
of global urban political agency in cities around the globe. This
book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global
cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for
scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies
who are looking for an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded
understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of
contexts and a plurality of forms.
Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable
and increasingly important part of the present. States,
organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make
decisions about future actions, financial investments or
technological innovation, without much knowledge of what will
exactly happen in the future. Science and technology play a crucial
role in this collective attempt to make sense of the future.
Technological developments such as nanotechnology, robotics or
solar energy largely shape how we dream and think about the future,
while economic forecasts, gene tests or climate change projections
help us to make images of what may possibly occur in the future.
This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments
of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the
formation of human, ecological and societal futures. Rooted in
different disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, and science
and technology studies, it explores how various actors such as
scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act
upon that imagination. Bringing together case studies from
different regions around the globe, including the electrification
of German car infrastructure, or genetically modified crops in
India, Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society shows
how science and technology create novel forms of imagination,
thereby opening horizons toward alternative futures. By developing
central aspects of the current debate on how scientific imagination
and future-making interact, this timely volume provides a fresh
look at the complex interrelationships between science, technology
and society. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students
interested in Science and Technology Studies, History and
Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology,
Political Sciences, Future Studies and Literary Sciences.
Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable
and increasingly important part of the present. States,
organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make
decisions about future actions, financial investments or
technological innovation, without much knowledge of what will
exactly happen in the future. Science and technology play a crucial
role in this collective attempt to make sense of the future.
Technological developments such as nanotechnology, robotics or
solar energy largely shape how we dream and think about the future,
while economic forecasts, gene tests or climate change projections
help us to make images of what may possibly occur in the future.
This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments
of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the
formation of human, ecological and societal futures. Rooted in
different disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, and science
and technology studies, it explores how various actors such as
scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act
upon that imagination. Bringing together case studies from
different regions around the globe, including the electrification
of German car infrastructure, or genetically modified crops in
India, Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society shows
how science and technology create novel forms of imagination,
thereby opening horizons toward alternative futures. By developing
central aspects of the current debate on how scientific imagination
and future-making interact, this timely volume provides a fresh
look at the complex interrelationships between science, technology
and society. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students
interested in Science and Technology Studies, History and
Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology,
Political Sciences, Future Studies and Literary Sciences.
Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with
complex environments in which they need to take collective
decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at
different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with
different actors. The negotiation and decision-making processes
raise issues of legitimacy, leadership and communication. Modern
societal systems are not only affected by horizontal specialization
and diversity but also by a vertical expansion of governance
layers. The national level is no longer the sole, or even the most
important, level of governance. In these complex environments,
cognitive abilities and personalities of political and societal
elites have gained importance. This book addresses the impact of an
increasingly complex environment on the legitimacy and transparency
of polities, on the role of leadership and political personality
and on motivated images, rhetoric and communication. Examining how
these issues interact at the macro and theoretical level, the types
of problems decision-makers face and how they communicate ideas
with their audiences, it brings together leading experts in
political psychology, law and political science to bridge the gap
in the way these disciplines explore the issue of complex
decision-making.
This book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund
international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of
peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and
reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding
parallels the broader story of liberalism's rise and fall in world
politics, including the attempt to remedy an ailing patient by
administering a magic medicine - "the local turn". Its contributors
further write about what may come after peacebuilding as we still
know it. They describe more locally rooted attempts at building
peace and how they operate in the shadows of, and in an ambiguous
relationship with, governmental and international peacebuilders.
The book finally suggests that reports of the pending death of
peacebuilding are probably premature. Peacebuilding is a resilient
international practice, apt to adjust itself to a changing
environment, and too important a source of legitimacy for those
that wield power.
This book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund
international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of
peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and
reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding
parallels the broader story of liberalism's rise and fall in world
politics, including the attempt to remedy an ailing patient by
administering a magic medicine - "the local turn". Its contributors
further write about what may come after peacebuilding as we still
know it. They describe more locally rooted attempts at building
peace and how they operate in the shadows of, and in an ambiguous
relationship with, governmental and international peacebuilders.
The book finally suggests that reports of the pending death of
peacebuilding are probably premature. Peacebuilding is a resilient
international practice, apt to adjust itself to a changing
environment, and too important a source of legitimacy for those
that wield power.
This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear
weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear
deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace,
recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear
weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of
non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the
nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part
reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present,
with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses
on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear
revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting
Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace
anew. The third and last part explores the practical and
institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons.
If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have
to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global
governance or world government.
This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which
arise from children's and adolescents' social media use. It
investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary
perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media
have become an integral part of young people's lives. While social
media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relational
development, adolescents might also be confronted with some
threats. The first part of this book deals with how young people
use social media to express their developing identity. The second
part revolves around the disclosure of personal information on
social network sites, and concentrates on the tension between
online self-disclosure and privacy. The final part deepens specific
online risks young people are confronted with and suggests
solutions by describing how children and adolescents can be
empowered to cope with online risks. By emphasizing these
different, but intertwined topics, this book provides a unique
overview of research resulting from different academic disciplines
such as Communication Studies, Education, Psychology and Law. The
outstanding researchers that contribute to the different chapters
apply relevant theories, report on topical research, discuss
practical solutions and reveal important emerging issues that could
lead future research agendas.
This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which
arise from children's and adolescents' social media use. It
investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary
perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media
have become an integral part of young people's lives. While social
media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relational
development, adolescents might also be confronted with some
threats. The first part of this book deals with how young people
use social media to express their developing identity. The second
part revolves around the disclosure of personal information on
social network sites, and concentrates on the tension between
online self-disclosure and privacy. The final part deepens specific
online risks young people are confronted with and suggests
solutions by describing how children and adolescents can be
empowered to cope with online risks. By emphasizing these
different, but intertwined topics, this book provides a unique
overview of research resulting from different academic disciplines
such as Communication Studies, Education, Psychology and Law. The
outstanding researchers that contribute to the different chapters
apply relevant theories, report on topical research, discuss
practical solutions and reveal important emerging issues that could
lead future research agendas.
This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st
century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope. On the one
hand, the notion of resistance is redefined and applied to
contemporary practices of cultural production and entrepreneurship.
On the other hand, contributors reconsider the connection of
subcultures to everyday culture, exploring more mainstream forms of
cultural production and consumption across a wider range of social
groups. As a consequence, this book extends the scope to look
beyond the white, male, adolescent, urban cultures identified with
earlier subcultural studies. Contributors also examine fusions and
crossovers between Western and non-Western cultural practices.
This collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to
understand the various factors at work in genocidal processes and
their aftermath. The strong emphasis on legal norms, legal concepts
and legal measures in other studies fails to consider further
significant issues in relation to genocide. This book aims to
redress this balance exploring social dynamics and human behaviour
as well as the interplay of various psychological, political,
sociological, anthropological and historical factors at work in
genocidal processes.With contributions from top international
scholars, this volume provides an integrated perspective on risk
and resilience, acknowledging the importance of mitigating factors
in understanding and preventing genocide. It explores a range of
issues including the conceptual definition of genocide, the notion
of intent, preventive measures, transitional justice, the
importance of property, the role of memory, self or national
interest and principles of social existence.Genocide, Risk and
Resilience aims to cross conceptual, disciplinary and temporal
boundaries and in doing so, provides rich insights for scholars
from across political science, history, law, philosophy,
anthropology and theology.
This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages
between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social
dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the
interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and
historical factors at work in genocidal processes.
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social
responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related
practices. This book critically examines sport-related social
interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting
local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace,
integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective
of sport and play, and the power position of global sport
organizations with corporate features is discussed from the
perspectives of good governance, legal issues and fair trade.
Referring to Foucault's concept of biopolitics, this book
contributes to the discussion on the rising power position and the
social responsibilities of sports and sport organizations. It is a
valuable contribution to the understanding of interconnections
between sport and society for students in sociology, policy and
politics of sport, for sport leaders, and for policy and
decision-makers in sport.
This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a
revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice. It takes
as its point of departure the observation that although 'just war
thinking' has long been dominant in Western debates about war and
peace, recent events have served to temper enthusiasm about the
doctrine. Pacifism has been much less prominent a stance in recent
decades, but there is the impression that it may be staging a
return. Just war thinking has to a large extent failed. Outright
bellicism remains as undesirable as ever. Pacifism presents itself
again as a possible alternative. Once upon a time the peace
movement was popular, and pacifism with it. Pacifism appealed to
people. It stirred hearts and minds. It inspired political action
and institutional designs. This volume examines whether pacifism
can claim its ground again and how it should be redefined in light
of today's world-political circumstances.
This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear
weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear
deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace,
recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear
weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of
non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the
nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part
reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present,
with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses
on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear
revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting
Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace
anew. The third and last part explores the practical and
institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons.
If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have
to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global
governance or world government.
This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a
revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice. It takes
as its point of departure the observation that although 'just war
thinking' has long been dominant in Western debates about war and
peace, recent events have served to temper enthusiasm about the
doctrine. Pacifism has been much less prominent a stance in recent
decades, but there is the impression that it may be staging a
return. Just war thinking has to a large extent failed. Outright
bellicism remains as undesirable as ever. Pacifism presents itself
again as a possible alternative. Once upon a time the peace
movement was popular, and pacifism with it. Pacifism appealed to
people. It stirred hearts and minds. It inspired political action
and institutional designs. This volume examines whether pacifism
can claim its ground again and how it should be redefined in light
of today's world-political circumstances.
In a world society ruled by economic globalisation, by political
interests and theories such as Huntington's « clash of
civilisations that widen the gap between the North and the South,
the question should be asked of the role of the religion. To what
extent religion and politics can work together? Can faith still be
thought as a mean of saving the world? Considering that
Christianity, Islam and Judaism have much in common, this
collection of miscellanies wonders if these religions can join
their forces for public benefit. Senior and junior scholars from
all over the world, gathered for an interdisciplinary seminar,
analyse the contemporary international relationships and
geopolitics through the prism of religion, discussing whether it
can provide practical solutions to solve conflicts and increase the
respect of human rights.
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