E-book Living with Monsters : Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

"Did you hear a single thing Uncle said to you, Sarah? A single damn thing?” Marvin shook his head in exasperation. “Don’t go looking for things unless you want them to find you.” These quotes are extracts from some of the chapters that follow, and they superbly condense what we mean by Living with Mon-sters. There is a fundamental distinction between the monsters you will meet on t…

E-book Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes As Hazards, Disasters, and Catastro…

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E-book Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Ryme is found in verbal arts throughout the world. In the appendix tothis introduction, we offer a partial list of languages whose associated verbal arts sometimes have rhyme.Rhyme is most commonly found in texts which are poems, including sung poems (songs). Poems are dened as texts which are divided into lines, where lines are a sectioning imposed on the oral or written …

E-book Brought to Life by the Voice : Playback Singing and Cultural Politics …

In 1975, a reviewer for the Toronto Sun reported on a live performance by Lata Mangeshkar, then the reigning playback voice of Hindi cinema, during her first North American tour. “Lata Mangeshkar is what is known as a ‘playback singer,’” he wrote. “That is the vocalist who replaces the voice of the leading lady [in a film] whenever she breaks into song. …

E-book Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

The book examines the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three West African countries: Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The choice of these three countries enables a fair comparison: all three face similar social, economic and political problems, share similar religious, tra-ditional and cultural backgrounds and, most importantly for this book, all suffe…

E-book Crude Moves : Political Power in Oil-Age Niger

auguration, on 28 November 2011, I received this text message2 calling on the people to make Zinder a “ghost town”. The message was one of several circulated prior to the inauguration which named oil-related grievances, attacked the incumbent govern-ment of new President Mahamadou Issoufou (since March 2011), and called on the population to resist and fight.When Papa arrived …

E-book GDPR and Biobanking : Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research …

Discrepancies in biobank research regulations have commonly been regarded as one of the most significant hurdles for effective research collaboration. One of the more central aspects of biobank research regulation concerns the use of personal data—health and genetic data and other information related to individuals, either as indi-vidual research subjects or participants in a particular scien…

E-book Climate Lyricism

Whenever i think about climate change, which is often, I strug-gle to make sense of its enormity. So much seems to be at stake. Maybe everything. And there’s not a lot of time to try to blunt its most destructive impacts. Yet I don’t know if anything I do matters. I feel powerless. I run through the routine of my days, scurrying from one activity to the next wh…

E-book China Dreams

According to legend, the Jade Emperor called all twelve celestial animals to his palace to assign them their place in the zodiac. The Pig, a lazy if intelligent creature, was still in dreamland when the other eleven turned up to claim their places. He ended up last. And so 2019, the eventful Year of the Pig (coincidentally also marked by swine fever and a severe pork supply shor…

E-book Mapping Selfies and Memes as Touch

This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves as a basis for how Touch is understood as multiply significant – physically, emotionally, intellectually and politically. Andreallo initiates a map of the fundamentals of Touc…

E-book How We Use Stories and Why That Matters: Cultural Science in Action

How We Use Stories and Why That Matters guides the reader through the tangled undergrowth of communication and cultural expression towards a new understanding of the role of group-mediating stories at global and digital scale. It argues that media and networked systems perform and bind group identities, creating bordered fictions within which economic and political activities are made meaningfu…

E-book Undoing Networks

There is a certain sense of strangeness to write the introduction to a book on undoing networks in voluntary self-isolation.1 The once open and connected world is suddenly disconnected and physically more separated than ever before. National borders are being closed, international travel is banned, people are encouraged—orsometimes forced with the threat of a fine—to seek shelter or stayhom…

E-book Solid Waste Management and Recycling

This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics. Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it: -utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis; -provides embedded cas…

E-book Entire of Itself?: Towards an Environmental History of Islands

The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as frontiers and stepping stones of empires. However, the role that island environments have played in creating and shaping these histories has so far received little attention. …

E-book Lost in Digital Translations : Studies of Digital Resistance and Accom…

Our aim in this chapter is to show and discuss what is lost in digital trans-lations as the welfare state and society increasingly use digital technology in welfare production. We argue that there are several unintended conse-quences we need to be attentive to regarding digitalising society and our welfare production, distribution, and consumption. In addition, there is a need to make what is l…

E-book Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor

Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor is addressed to scholars, educators, and students devoted to the struggle against precarity, atomization, and the commodification of knowledge. Through shared reading, discussion, and reflection, and gathered around a shared interest in feminist theory and politics, the authors discovered a model of care within academia that helped t…

E-book Native American Mythology A to Z

Presents detailed coverage of the deities, legendary heroes and heroines, important animals, objects, and places that make up the mythic lore of the many peoples of North America.

E-book Games Without Frontiers : Socio-historical Perspectives at the Gaming/…

I have a confession. I’m not a gamer. Or so I thought. I was having thisconversation with a good colleague of mine, sat outside the train stationin a surprisingly sunny Sheffield: “Really” he said, looking puzzled, “noteven something on your phone?”“oh well, now you come to mention it.....”.That was the point I realised that perhaps I was a gamer after all, justa particular sort. …

E-book Documenting Death : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania

After two long days on the bus, I arrived in Sumbawanga in the beginning of February 2014, the rainy season well underway. The next day, I reported to the Mawingu Regional Hospital and stood up in front of the morning clinical meeting, with nearly one hundred hospital staff members staring back at me, to introduce myself and explain why I wa…

E-book Floundering Stability : US Foreign Policy in Egypt

King George III of Great Britain and Ireland’s opening parliamentary address emphasized his personal connection to the country and commit-ment to the “excellent constitution” that laid out ties between the monar-chy and legislature.1 While the king and parliament held different ideas for governance, both seats of power agreed that Britain’s colonies should fall unde…

E-book Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice : Addressing the Justice Gap

Sexual violence1 in all its forms, whether intra- familial, within institutions, an-onymous, or during conflicts, although frequent and widespread as can be seen in all the media reports, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports seem to suggest that the victims in their great majority do not receive redress. It is a crime with high levels of attrition (Kelly, Lov…

E-book Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity

“Argentina: Escaping crisis, sustaining growth, sharing prosperity” is an analysis on the medium-term agenda to ensure growth and shared prosperity in Argentina and comes at a time when the country is embarking on deepening structural reforms while dealing with recent sudden financial market pressures that emerged in April 2018. The current government came into office at the end of 2015 fac…

E-book Chasing American Monsters: Over 250 Creatures, Cryptids & Hairy Beasts

The Black Dog of Hanging Hills, the Tommyknockers of Pennsylvania, the Banshee of the Badlands?these beasts and hundreds more will hold you spellbound, unable to look away from their frightful features and their extraordinary stories. Come face to face with modern-day dinosaurs, extraterrestrials, dragons, lizard men, giants, and flying humanoids. This illustrated collection includes more than …

E-book Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Han…

Eason provides an extensive overview of the mythology, legends, and folklore surrounding fabulous and strange fantasy creatures from diffferent lands and ages, from Chinese dragons and the Native North American thunderbird to the demon hounds of Celtic and Norse legend. She describes how in various ages and cultures people have identified with the idealized qualities of wise creatures as a sour…

E-book The Fight Against Platform Capitalism : An Inquiry into the Global Str…

This book is about the struggles of platform workers. The ideas for it began in London in June 2016 when I met a Deliveroo rider. I had heard the name Deliveroo before, but did not know much about it. As is often the case with these things, I then started to see riders across the city. I saw them waiting at traffic lights or outside restaurants. The green and…

E-book Debt as Power

On November 20, 2003, in the rural countryside of India, Nagalinga Reddy, a farmer of rice and sunflowers, committed suicide. At fifty years of age, Reddy took his life by ingesting ammonium phosphate tablets—a pesticide used in modernized farming. His rice crops had just failed due to pests and he was deeply in debt to usurious moneylenders, three banks, …

E-book Bitcoin and Beyond : Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and Global Governance

Imagine having almost instantaneous access to a permanent record of all digital transactions undertaken across the world. Without revealing precisely who and what is involved in these transactions, this digital database grants you nearly real- time overviews of peer- to-peer exchange within and across national borders. Such unprecedented capacity to monitor direct …

E-book Diaspora, Food and Identity : Nigerian Migrants in Belgium

Writing this book started from an academic quest but writing the thesis it is based on, was not just an academic venture for me. It was a personal journey as well. In the year 2001, I enrolled for a master’s degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. The choice to study for a Masters in European Studies, focusing on European Integration and Development was not made out of any ambitio…

E-book Grey Area : Regulating Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

y first trip to Amsterdam was for a couple of days in the autumn of 2003. A second-year student at the University of Georgia, I was studying abroad at Oxford, just a few hours by air from Amsterdam. Years before, I had learned how to smoke marijuana and enjoy its effects, probably too much so.1 For stoners like my former self, visiting Amsterdam’s coffeeshops is a recreational pi…

E-book Everyday Streets : Inclusive approaches to understanding and designing…

Everyday streets are both the most used and the most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They constitute the inclusive backbone of urban life – the chief civic amenity – though they are challenged by optimisation processes. Everyday streets are as profuse, rich and complex as the people who use them; they are …

E-book Harmful Impacts on Mining

Minerals and metals play a central role in the global economy and mining is an important source of economic development in many countries. However, the harmful effects of mining remain a challenge for society to acknowledge and address. This report presents the results of a recent study by the Responsible Mining Foundation on harmful economic, environmental, social and governance (EESG) impacts…

E-book Food Economics :Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

Each reader of this book brings its pages to life, using your own history and insights to interpret and apply what we have written. Before writing this book, Amelia and William were students then researchers and teachers in a variety of places. We worked in agricultural schools, liberal arts colleges and health-science campuses in the U.S., E…

E-book Hot Property : The Housing Market in Major Cities

Global megatrends are re-shaping the world economic order. From urbanisation, tothe rise of the global middle classes, ageing population and technological trends,these changes all pose major implications for the built environment and demand forhousing in the short- and long-term. According to the latest projections by theUnited Nations, the world’s population is expected to grow by 2.9 billio…

E-book Resilience of Water Supply in Practice : Experiences from the Frontline

Uncertainty and interconnecting crises are no longer exceptional. In almost everypart of the world, living with water crises is an everyday reality for many. Yet,water supply sustains a functioning society, and as such any threat to it must becountered head-on. Frontline water suppliers, routinely forced to respond andadapt so they can deliver water in the face of all challenges, have found tha…

E-book Building a White Nation : Propaganda, Photography, and the Apartheid R…

In a lively black-and-white photograph by Alf Kumalo (1930–2012), small children crowd around an elderly woman who is presenting a portrait of Nelson Mandela to one of the toddlers (Fig. 1). Mandela is dressed in a striped shirt and is frowning slightly, while his bearded face has a tired and sad expression. Engaged in an intense exchange of gazes, …

E-book Cripping Girlhood

In 2017 I was riding a bus in Los Angeles that was barreling down Sunset Boulevard when I came across a curious bus bench billboard. The billboard was an image of a young, white girl with Down syndrome. Her light brown hair was braided and pulled back. This drew my attention to her youthful face, painted in its entirety as an American flag. She was holding a paint br…

E-book Poverty and Wealth in East Africa : A Conceptual History

overty and Wealth in East Africa is a conceptual history of poverty and wealth and of the poor and the wealthy over the past two millennia. It demonstrates the dynamism and diversity of people’s thinking about inequality in the region long before colonial conquest or incorporation into global trade networks. Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic woes and the poverty o…

E-book Understanding Psychology: Understanding Students' Thinking

This textbook is about how students learn and how teachers can teach well. Although this textbook assumes no prior knowledge about educational research, it is intended to be much more than just an “introduction” that will lay the groundwork for you to learn to teach later on. On the contrary, as you read this book, you will learn theory- and research-based skills that you could apply right …

E-book Ableism in Academia : Theorising experiences of disabilities and chron…

In the contemporary context of social rights and activist movements such as those associated with combatting sexual harassment, gun and knife crime or climate change, we can observe a typical pattern of public responses. These movements offer voices to those who are marginalised, and indeed provide the confidence needed for many people to stand up for specific issues. This, …

E-book A Tale of Two Unions : The British Union and the European Union After …

nhisautobiographyInterestingTimes,theeconomichistorianEricHobsbawmused an unforgettable image when he spoke of writing books. He referred to‘the desert island on which we usually sat, writing messages for unknown re-cipients in unknown destinations to be launched across the oceans in bottlesshapedlikebooks.’1IthasbeensohardtogetATaleofTwoUnionspublished,thatIfeellikesomeonewhosebottleislaun…

E-book International Aid and Urban Change : Humanitarian Presence in Bamako, …

This work is the result of research started in 2014, on the processes of urban transformations in Bamako Juba, Nairobi and Abidjan in relation to the pres-ence and security policies of UN missions and international aid. The results of this research highlight an uneven process of territoriality where humanitarian organisations operate.The focus of this work or…

E-book The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine : The Mass Killing that Changed the World

The chapter describes importance of the Maidan massacre of the police and the Maidan protesters in Kyiv in Ukraine on February 18–20, 2014, and its role in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government and ultimately in the start of the war in Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and conflicts of Russia with Ukraine and the West that Russ…

E-book Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous …

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom of speech, and it can be a much more powerful tool against dangerous and toxic speech than blocking and censorship. In the face of online hate speech and disinformation, co…

E-book Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings

This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on…

E-book Positive Psychology in the Military

Functionally fit1 leaders are likely to be more effective than leaders struggling with personal issues that may interfere with professional competence, critical decision making and genuine care and concern for soldiers under their command They are those leaders who are not just physically fit, but mentally robust as well with sound psychological health to endure highly stressful and de…

E-book Driving Digital Transformation : Lessons from Seven Developing Countries

The road’s potholes were a stark contrast to the destination of the coach-loadof young women driving over them: a brand new building housing one ofBangalore’s many internet-enabled service companies—this one providingaccountancy support services—newly built on the outskirts of the city. Thiscontrast is not something we saw only in India. In the overcrowded streets ofIndonesia’s capita…

E-book University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing…

This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world. Chapters in this volume describe programs in the United States (California) as well as Germany, Italy, Spain, Uganda, and Uruguay.…

E-book Heroism in Doctor Who 1963 – 2020

Doctor Who (1963–1989, 2005–) is a curiosity in the vast landscape of British tele- vision history. What started out as an educational children’s programme has transformed into a “pop-cultural artefact”1 and a “cultural phenomenon”.2 The Doctor, the eponymous hero of the BBC’s time travel programme, is a figure invested both with personal memori…

E-book Making a Homeland : Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement

This emotional statement describes the long-distance ‘homecoming’ experi-ence of a young volunteer, a third-generation Armenian American from theBoston area, who arrived in Yerevan at the Zvartnots International Airport inJune 2007 to ‘discover’ his ‘ancestral homeland’ and to ‘move mountains’ inmodernArmenia.Thiswasnotajourneyalongapilgrimagetour.However,theperception of encoun…

E-book Holding down the Fort : Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Po…

Policing is one of those defining concepts of modernity about which much haswritten—to the point where it is difficult to imagine that there is much left to besaid—that is, at the same time, decisively modern. The modern conceptualizationof police referring to a fixed and commonly identifiable role, occupation andorganization, rather than simply a practice performed by the state through its…