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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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 …
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Police, as the most visible arm of government and the primary interface between a state and its population, signify and implement a state’s right to engage in actions intended to ensure legislated acceptable behaviours from its populace (Dunham & Alpert, 2010; Pollock, 1998). The power and authority assigned to state police place police and acts…
Each year I bring students from Harvard University to a Camphill community—usually, either Camphill Village USA in Copake, New York, or Heartbeet Lifesharing in Vermont. At Camphill my students encounter a social world that is different from their own. We travel from the busy streets of Cambridge to dirt roads and mountain valleys, where our passage may be bl…
Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are responding to demands for Indigenous representation and autonomy and in what ways the ongoing project of decolonization may unsettle the practice of democracy. B…
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond …
What can Hip Hop culture and its art forms (dance, rap, DJing, graffiti/style writing) contribute to the development of individuals, communities, and even society? To answer this question, this book delves into Hip Hop activism in social work, education, and political movements in New York and Dakar. It follows the work of Hip Hop practitioners who teach their art forms in high schools, in neig…
“More Jamaican women migrating to Canada, Statistics reveal” is a headline inthe Jamaican newspaperThe Gleanerin January (2018) discussing the recent cen-sus results gathered in Canada from 2012 to 2016. The data indicates that almost20,000 more Jamaican women than men migrated to Canada within that timespan,demonstratinga recentdisparity in migrants’genderdistribution.The socio-economic …
In the early 1990s, Mr. H, who was in his thirties at that time, was already the general manager of a state- owned tea company in the Jiangxi province of China. However, he was struggling to find customers for tea produced in his county, Wuyuan— which had been famous for its green tea for more than 1,000 years— in a free and open market after the government had ceas…
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Menjadi sosok yang sukses dan berhasil dalam mencapai cita-cita tentu menjadi keinginan setiap orang. Tidak ada satupun orang yang ingin gagal, bukan? Namun, di balik kesuksesan seseorang, pasti ada latar belakang yang mengikuti. Salah satunya tak terlepas dari sebuah kata, yaitu passion. Kata ini sudah tidak asing lagi untuk kita dengar, terutama bagi kaum muda yang masih berada dalam fase men…
Hayo, siapa yang punya mimpi di masa depan nanti? Kita semua pasti punya sebuah impian ataupun cita-cita. Memiliki impian dan cita-cita untuk masa depan adaalh suatu hal yang wajar di masa muda setiap orang. Namun, impian dan cita-cita yang dimiliki tidak harus besar atau tinggi, loh. Cita-cita juga bisa dalam bentuk sederhana. Tidak ada aturan dalam mewujudkan impian dan cita-cita. Tidak heran…
This book is based on a research study which took place within CASCADE at Cardiff University, between October 2014 and March 2019. Funded by Health and Care Research Wales, the study was divided into several stages and incorporated a mixed method design. The study was specifi cally concerned with the Welsh context and each of the 22 local authorities in Wales participate…
When people talk about the ‘abortion question’, what they generally mean is something like this: how should we balance the protection of unborn human life against the rights and interests of a pregnant woman to control her own body? Possibly, they also have in mind a further important (but analytically distinct) issue: how should law (criminal or otherwi…
The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution was ratified in 1983,1and provides—in the form of Article 40.3.3—that:The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.At first glance, the 8th Amendment may seem innocuo…
Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries,…
Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation. This book delves into both the institutional and lived realities of t…
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and Jame…
Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity, and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change. Global poverty is one of the wor…
o ‘articulate’ media means to understand them by locating their connections in space and time. Articulating Media offers new approaches to the writing of technology and the technologies of writing by twinning an investigation of language with an attention to location. Where does media theory take place? How should media theory understand its own occupation of the spaces of media? What mater…
More than 965 million women and men in Africa cannot afford a healthy diet (FAO et al. 2020). Many governments and practitioners in the land sector expect that strengthening smallholder productivity will provide sufficient food and en-able rural Africans to move out of poverty (Gassner et al. 2019; Lawry et al. 2017). Recent literature examining the link between land tenure security (LTS) and …
Have the people of Africa always starved? Most people have never heard this question posed. So ingrained is the idea of “Africa” as a scarce place that the con-tinent has become synonymous with need in popular thought.1 Preoccupied by images of hungry children and drought-ravaged landscapes, we have come to expect that we will find food insecurity in every…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative has the potential to set the direction for a future world that works for everyone. The SDGs were approved by 193 United Nations member countries in September 2016 to help guide global and national development policies in the period to 2030. The 17 goals build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, while also includin…
Tis book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The dream was of the progressive utility of statistical knowledge, and was shared by many a nineteenth-century statistician. Their dream would be fulfilled in three phases. First, data about society would be gathered in every country, employing uniform methods…
This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system, this book argues for a radical change in farming and food consumption.…
In late April 2004, photographs taken in the Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison and electronically shared among American troops were leaked, causing outrage around the world. The images showed American military personnel torturing, humiliating, and sexu-ally abusing Iraqi detainees, in some cases to the point of mur-der, in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions. Among all the photographs, …
A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by North America’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations. Using the Innu of Labrador-Quebec as one powerful contemporary example, Colin Samson shows how the processes of displacement and assimilation today resemble those of the 19th century as the state and corporations scramb…
Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film a…
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In the twenty-first century, the internationalcommunity and states face the challenge ofreconciling the economic and technologicaldevelopment of our post-industrial societieswith the prevention or mitigation of globalenvironmental problems such as climatechange, ocean degradation, and biodiversityloss. Nowadays, international environmentallaw leaves up to the sovereignty of each statemost o…