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The politics of land are vital. They stretch from fights over
fracking, gentrification, and taxation to land grabs,
dispossession, and border conflicts. And they raise crucial
questions about power, authority, violence, populism, and
neoliberalism. This volume of Research in Political Sociology seeks
to carve out a renewed political sociology of land, bringing
together classic questions about the state, commodification, and
social change and contemporary studies of contentious land use in
various parts of the world. An introductory essay sketches
foundations for a political sociology of land and specifies what is
unique about land in comparison to other political objects.
Chapters are based on highly original qualitative, quantitative,
and/or historical analyses to shed light on numerous dimensions of
land politics. They include analyses of anti-fracking campaigns,
property tax caps, and "green gentrification" in the United States,
soil protection regulation in Europe, squatter settlements in Peru,
land grabs in peri-urban China and rural Senegal, violent
expulsions in Colombia, and the privatization of property rights in
Morocco. The volume brings together high quality, peer-reviewed
research, opens up novel comparisons, and enriches theories of the
state, commodification, and collective resistance.
What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and
choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate
into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what
extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can
they really govern global industries? Looking behind the Label
presents an informative introduction to global production and
ethical consumption, tracing the links between consumers' choices
and the practices of multinational producers and retailers. Case
studies of several types of products-wood and paper, food, apparel
and footwear, and electronics-are used to reveal what lies behind
voluntary rules and to critique predominant assumptions about
ethical consumption as a form of political expression.
This open access book explains why, in today's economy, companies
need to implement artificial intelligence (AI) in a responsible and
ethical way and how they can go about doing so. Business use of AI
can produce tremendous insights and benefits. But it can also
invade privacy, perpetuate bias, and produce other harms that
injure people and damage business reputation. The authors
interviewed and surveyed AI ethics managers at leading companies.
They asked why these experts see AI ethics as important, and how
they seek to achieve it. This book conveys the results of that
research on a concise, accessible way that readers should be able
to apply to their own organizations. Much of the existing writing
on AI ethics focuses either on macro-level AI ethics principles, or
on micro-level product design and tooling. The interviews showed
that companies need a third component: AI ethics management. This
third component consists of the management structures, processes,
training and substantive benchmarks that companies use to
operationalize their high-level AI ethics principles and to guide
and hold accountable their developers. AI ethics management
is the connective tissue that makes AI ethics principles real. It
is the focus of this book. This book provides a “snapshot” of
AI ethics management at an array of highly sophisticated,
AI-enabled companies. Other organizations, at an earlier stage in
their AI journeys, should be able to draw from it useful lessons on
how they, too, can pursue ethical and responsible AI and so succeed
in the AI-driven economy.
What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and
choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate
into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what
extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can
they really govern global industries? Looking behind the Label
presents an informative introduction to global production and
ethical consumption, tracing the links between consumers' choices
and the practices of multinational producers and retailers. Case
studies of several types of products-wood and paper, food, apparel
and footwear, and electronics-are used to reveal what lies behind
voluntary rules and to critique predominant assumptions about
ethical consumption as a form of political expression.
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A World-Systems Reader - New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology (Paperback)
Tim Bartley, Albert Bergesen, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Wilma A. Dunaway, …
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This book brings together some of the most influential new research
from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze
new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each
analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the
volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of
world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further
research today.
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