The touchscreen belongs to a century-long history of hands-on media practices and touchable art objects. This media-archaeological excavation examines the nature of our sensual involvement with media and invites the reader to think about the touchscreen beyond its technological implications. In six chapters, the book questions and historicizes both aspects of the touchscreen, considering “tou…
Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of technical, legal, ethical and methodological challenges, particularly for film and media studies and adjacent fields. In a series of studies and interviews with practitioners, …
At the same time, there has been a growing interest in the analysis of this phenomenon by academics which have conceptualised and drawn attention to different dynamics of volunteer tourism (Salvador, 2019). However, despite the multiple definitions of the concept, there is still a lack of consensus of the critical components of voluntourism (Gofrey et al., 2019). Meanwhile, it is also argued th…
The U.S. Navy is ready to execute the Nation’s tasks at sea, from prompt and sustained combat operations to every-day forward-presence, diplomacy and relief efforts. We operate worldwide, in space, cyberspace, and throughout the maritime domain. The United States is and will remain a maritime nation, and our security and prosperity are inextricably linked to our ability to operate naval force…
Money, as the saying goes, makes the world go round. Everybody uses it; ourmodern societies would not function without it. Credit is just as crucial, as borrowingallows businesses to invest and consumers to buy goods and services today againsttheir income tomorrow. But although money and debt are central in our societies andto our welfare, how they actually function is not easily understood.The…
The purpose of this chapter is to identify remaining research interests in money in the age of digitalization and put my past research topics in perspective. I have no intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the history of money,1 nor to search for the origin of money. n my research, I started the choice of optimal currency denominatio…
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of “time and memory,” “repeating patterns,” “identity formation,” “morality,” “labor,” “pl…
Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. Using ‘need to know’ boxes, step-by-step diagrams, and other eye-catching visuals, How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and many other i…
The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. The book details extensive qualitative research with young people, foregrounding their accoun…
Science communication aims at the successful sharing and explanation of sciencerelated topics to a wider audience. In order to enhance communication between science and society, a better understanding of citizens’ habits and perceptions is needed. Therefore, it is vital to understand how citizens acquire knowledge about science- related issues, how this knowledge affects their beliefs, opinio…
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at diffe…
Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See…
Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dys…
In late October 2012, almost a year after the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampment at Zuccotti Park, Hurricane Sandy hit New York, with first landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey, with winds of 80 mph. At the time, Sandy was the second costliest storm in US history, costing around US $73.5 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina. The human cost was significant: more t…
What exactly is rape? And how is it embedded in society? Hilkje Charlotte Hänel offers a philosophical exploration of the often misrepresented concept of rape in everyday life, systematically mapping out and elucidating this atrocious phenomenon. Hänel proposes a theory of rape as a social practice facilitated by ubiquitous sexist ideologies. Arguing for a normative cluster model for the conc…
he CUIDAR project began as a response to a timely call by the European Commission’s Secure Societies theme within its Horizon 2020 programme for culturally sensitive disaster management plans. So we argued that children and young people should be considered as a cultural group whose perspectives and insights were overlooked in the adultist cultural worlds of emergency planning and disaster ri…
Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…
Price stability is low and stable (non-volatile) changes in the general price level, generally referred to as the inflation rate. History has shown that when inflation is low, it tends to be non-volatile. What is low inflation? The majority of the world tends to subscribe 2-3% pa. Why 2-3% pa and not 0% pa? The jury is out on this one, but present economic lore holds that 0% pa is too close to …
Monetary economics investigates the relationship between real economic variables at the aggregate level (such as real output, real rates of interest, employment, and real exchange rates) and nominal variables (such as the inflation rate, nominal interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and the supply of money). So defined, monetary economics has considerable overlap with macroeconomics more gene…
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This book invites us to critically reflect on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research and identifies ways to enhance its value for policy and practice. It gathers together studies that deploy a wide range of methodologies, including small-scale practitioner-focused research and large-scale empirical studies, consideri…
One key field is economics, broadly defined. Governments, businesses, policy organizations, central banks, financial services firms, and economic consulting firms around the world routinely forecast major economic variables, such as gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, consumption, investment, the price level, and interest rates. Governments use such forecasts to guide monetary and fisca…
There is also certainly a very specific market, of those who are addressed in the marketing of sensory education tools, with a rather limited inclusivity entailed in many of the workshops, books and programs I found, whether through targeted groups or representation in advertisement. As I delve into throughout the book, sensory education is often seen as an antidote to dig-ital maximalism, wh…
Firstly, the focus in this framework is on planning for and adapting to socio-technical change of drinking water infrastructure. This assumes that any strategic planning of drinking water infrastructure needs to consider both the social and technical aspects in relation to each other, not in isolation. Drinking water infrastructure comprises physical elements like pipes and pumps, but they are …
his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…
A visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare — now in paperback! From the clash of galleys in Ancient Greece to deadly encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, explore every aspect of the story of naval warfare on, under, and above the sea.
This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and sustainabi…
Women are far less likely than men to work in engineering and technical fields, and women’s relative representation in these jobs is lower than it was in 2018.12 As a result, women in technical roles are twice as likely as women overall to say they are frequently the only woman in the room at work. The fact that they are so often “Only” women may partly explain why women in tech face high…
As this report demonstrates, women are often more economically vulnerable than men and thus are less likely to be resilient in the face of the crisis. As economies emerge out of the crisis, it is important that governments generate long-term gender-inclusive growth by addressing the constraints that women face. Although most of this report was prepared prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemi…
As large numbers of refugees and migrants arrive, children among them are routinely left in conditions that would be deemed unacceptable for native-born children. They languish in overcrowded shelters, end up in makeshift camps or are left exposed to the dangers of life on the streets. Sometimes, compatriots force them to work under exploitative conditions in exchange for shelter and food. Mist…
This book is a humble attempt to contribute to the subject of Women Empowerment by presenting to you our learnings. We have throughout this book, ensured that we bring you these learnings with key insights from our experts and project partners. Chapter two of the book is dedicated to the same. Chapter one will give you a context of Danone, The Ecosystem Fund and also the reason why this topic i…
Based on the experience of the Innu resident in Quebec and Labrador, this book is intended to be a work of advocacy for the full extent of the rights of indigenous peoples whose landholdings have been devastated in the Canadian land claims process. As things stand at present, the Innu who are resident in government villages in Quebec have lost their rights to …
The economy has grown rapidly, with real per capita income doubling in the 12 years to 2013. Human development has improved, marked by a significant decline in poverty and gains across a range of socioeconomic variables. The key sectors of the economy have gone from strength to strength, with Cambodia now the world’s 8th largest rice exporter and Asia’s 10th largest garment producer. The to…
Closely intertwined with the folk devil is the moral panic that subsequently arises with public fear. For Cohen, a moral panic typically takes its starting point in big newspaper headlines where the folk devil is pointed out, yet, as this volume demonstrates, today it may as well arise from a grass-root level, in social media, through political discourses or from alre…
Eating, after all, is not strictly a human activity. Eating beside Ourselvesasks what can be learned by recognizing that what makes food food, in both substance and significance, concerns its relation to a myriad of eaters—not only human eaters but others besides. In turning organic substances into food, acts of eating create webs of relations, interconnected food chains organized by relative…
This book aims to challenge this assumption by analysing the experiences and expectations of foreign-born skilled professionals with the US health care and health insurance systems, focusing on structural and functional discrepancies within health care and health insurance. In the framework of an ethnographic study based in Washington, DC, a highly modern, international metro…
thing of a challenge to the elite and orthodox literary culture ofIndia's classical language, Sanskrit. Only the so-called heterodoxreligious groups, the Buddhists and Jains, accepted and encouragedwriting in a vernacular language. Both Buddhists and Jains used earlyvernaculars, called Middle Indie, for religious texts and secular com-positions. …
Although the urgent COVID-19 pandemic now garners almost all political attention, the more stealthily emerging crisis of climate change will, ultimately, have a more structural and encompassing impact and is, therefore, crucial to the outcome of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. Water is and will be a key factor in how societies will experience, and …
One of the most valuable lessons of the Italian kitchen is to make the most of everything you have available and never to throw anything away. No crumbs or bones are ever thrown in the bin. In a certain sense, a ragù is nothing more than a sauce made with leftover scraps of meat or fish or vegetables. In the classic Italian cookbook …
Racist ideologies and discrimination continue to be a global problem. They are still widespread in our societies and rooted in different channels that enable their diffusion. Racism in education materials is a prevalent issue that must be addressed.These Guidelines intend to increase awareness and improve understanding of how racism manifests itself in educational materials and to provide guida…
Water falls from the heavens, runs into streams, flows into groundwater, feeds lakes, then evaporates. It fuels biodiversity, sustains our crops and animals, helps generate energy and supports our towns and villages. Its scarcity affects people’s daily lives, even if we tend to forget this all too often in the developed world, as water tre…
The influential are no longer only those with celebrity status – but until now there has been no authoritative resource on the theory and practice of influencer marketing. This book will educate and inspire decision makers, researchers, students, and influencers themselves. Diving deeper than the many ""how-to"" books on the influencer phenomenon, this book brings in frameworks from marketing…
In a limited sense, this story is true. 1 Yet it is profoundly misleading. Based on the myth that Christian fundamentalists walked away from politics for decades after the Scopes trial, our thumbnail sketch neglects a continuous pattern of Christian conservative political activism from the 1920s through the 1970s. And it misses the true origin story of this activism b…
One of the most notable features of any survey of the history of energy regimes in the Americas over the past century is the “pendulum effect.” Anecdotal though the observation may be, it is clear that despite the broad and incremental transformational changes that have occurred in the global energy landscape over time, individual countries have un…
Energy poverty refers to issues that span access to energy, energy depri-vation, and its under-use within daily life. Broadly, the central concern ofresearch and policy in this space is with the negative outcomes that a lackof energy use has for wellbeing. Within the UK and many other globalcontexts, the focus has often been on those that cannot afford to heattheir homes, with solutions posed a…
Internet access has increased the flow of diverse information and expanded spaces for different expressions of knowing and being – and opportunities for effecting positive societal change. But it has also exacerbated and accelerated the spread of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech, and online violence. Between January and March 2021, 85, 247 videos violated YouTube hate speech policy…
Work is central to people’s lives and the course of their life. The opportunities and chances an individual can have in their life are significantly connected to work. Individuals' work is also crucial for organisations, companies and for the whole of society. There is a constant need to make changes and readjustments of working life since these can deeply affect the individual and their empl…
This book addresses topics relating to religion, education, science, and technology, and explore their role in developing a more inclusive and sustainable future. With discussions viewed through the lenses of religious and Islamic studies, education, psychology, social science, economics, and natural science, the book is interdisciplinary. It also brings together a range of diverse work by acad…
Configuring an answer starts from the analysis of a few syntheses, representative of the western worldview and genuine cognitive metaphors for the periods in which they were produced. I will trace the paradigms for studying the topic of salt across several stages of human development in order to identify the themes of salt taken into consideration and how they are inter…