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Audio Description Learning and Assessment in Interpreting Classes (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)
by Jackie Xiu Yan Kangte LuoThis book presents a series of studies conducted on an AD module that has been integrated into interpreting training at universities in Hong Kong. It represents the outcome of the synergies and many years of collaboration among regional scholars began in 2018. This book demonstrates the innate connection between AD and interpreting, as both are forms of translation delivered orally, the former being inter-semiotic and the latter interlingual. This book serves as a practical reference book at the forefront of the AD field for scholars and graduate students.
Introducing ASL-English Educational Interpreting (Translation Practices Explained)
by Stephen Fitzmaurice Deborah CatesThis textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often without specific preparation for the developmental and educational needs of deaf children.The book explores the structure of school interpreting, the roles of key stakeholders, and the language and literacy development of deaf learners. It also examines interpreter responsibilities, practical strategies, and the day-to-day logistics of classroom work.With guidance on interpreter assessment, tools for collaboration with teachers, and tips for creating inclusive classrooms, this is an essential resource for students in interpreting and related programs, as well as educators and practitioners seeking to support deaf students more effectively.
Youth Diversion: Exploring Criminal Justice Perspectives through An Australian Case Study (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)
by Estrella PearceUsing New South Wales as a case example, this book engages with central themes of discretionary decision-making processes regarding youth diversion away from court and the broader political and policy constraints that impact implementation to full potential.Drawing on mixed quantitative and qualitative data, including interviews with experienced police officers, magistrates, and youth justice personnel, this study examines discretionary decision-making processes under the Young Offenders Act 1997 (NSW). While focusing on the Australian experience, the shared colonization history with other Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom allow for the insights to be globally applicable. Readers will gain insights into implementing diversionary justice, understand theoretical frameworks shaping contemporary youth justice, and access evidence-based analysis for improving outcomes internationally.Youth Diversion will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and practitioners of criminology, legal studies, sociology and social policy.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
A Feminist Autoethnography of Language Education and Childhood on Slavic Soil and Stateside (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)
by Margaret A. BergThis book replicates and offers a fresh reconceptualization of the 1970 comparative education book Two Worlds of Childhood, U.S. and U.S.S.R., researched and written by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who later drew on the experiences to propose a comprehensive framework of human development: Bronfenbrenner・s Ecological System Theory (BEST), published in 1979.BEST situates the human at the center of four ・systems・ of a social environment where the highest level of culture (or ・macro□system・) affects all lower levels down to the individual person, but where the lower levels can also influence higher levels. This interplay between culture and a person lies at the heart of autoethnography, and in this book, the author, an English teacher of 30 years, applies this framework to her experience preparing future teachers of the English language in a Northwestern Russian university. As the seasons change, she reflects upon her six years of teaching on Slavic soil and her eight-year-old daughter・s transition to a Russian public school after three years of learning in a dual□language English/Russian school in the United States. The text provides observations of elementary, secondary, and college□level classrooms and translations of poems found in the elementary Russian language and literature program.Exploring the vulnerability of educating a child in a foreign context through the perspective of a mother-scholar, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in comparative and international education, literacy education, and autoethnography.
Political Modernity and Beyond: Crisis, Struggles and Reconfigurations (Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries)
by José Maurício Domingues da Silva, Filipe CarreiraAmidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical perspective on the forces that may redefine the futures of political modernity.It asks whether a transition is unfolding and whether a new phase of modernity is emerging, or whether it is only an inflexion that we are witnessing, with the prepandemic imaginary and institutions retaining their strength, apart from smaller adaptions. Drawing on a range of cutting-edge contributions emerging from a conference at the Social Sciences Institute of University of Lisbon, it tackles issues of democracy, statehood, empire, coloniality, authoritarianism, the Anthropocene and the social bond, to offer a systematic analysis and conceptualization of ongoing changes. It offers a global perspective on the debate. Empirical and theoretical threads are brought together by the idea that we are transitioning to a world somehow yet unknown but whose contours we can already fathom.An innovative, empirically based and path-breaking analytical contribution it will appeal to specialists, researchers and postgraduate students of sociology, social theory and political theory.
Future Flight Governance: Socio-legal, Environmental and Economic Approaches (Routledge Research in Air and Space Law)
by Mariela de Amstalden, Adam Michael Packer and Michael LewisThis book seeks to bridge disciplinary and scholarly gaps by bringing together a range of social science studies to capture state-of-the-art advancements in the field of advanced air technology governance, as the vision for the future of aviation systems evolves.With novel and innovative developments taking place in many different technological fields, the future of aviation is at a pivotal point. Advanced air technologies, including drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles, and electric/hydrogen-fuelled conventional take-off and landing aircraft could transform how we live, move, and transport goods. What we call ‘future flight’ encompasses a complex range of legal, social, economic, cultural, and environmental issues that cut across a diverse range of sectors, stakeholders, and disciplines. This book discusses the transformative nature of emerging advanced air technologies through an inter- and cross-disciplinary lens, with chapters covering law, economics, geography, and accessibility, alongside other relevant issues that look beyond conventional methodologies and traditional disciplines.The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners, policy makers, regulators, and those stakeholders working at the intersection of law, policy and governance of emerging technologies, science, the environment, and the economy.
General Physics I: Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions
by Mehdi Rahmani-AndebiliThis essential study guide is designed for students enrolled in a General Physics I college course. The textbook includes problems with detailed solutions to thoroughly teach students the subject matter. It features partially and fully solved exercises and hints to required formulas and answers, enabling students to practice independently while guiding them through problem-solving procedures. The topics covered include vectors and coordinate systems, linear kinematics, linear dynamics, collisions, center of mass, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, and simple harmonic motion. With detailed solutions, multiple problem-solving methods, and clear explanations of concepts, this hands-on guide will enhance students' problem-solving skills and foster a solid understanding of General Physics I. Additionally, it serves as a valuable resource for instructors in developing questions, tests, and quizzes.
Intelligent Safety and Reliability Analysis of Rail Transit Trains
by Yong Qin Zhi-Peng Wang Lin-Lin Kou Xue-Jun Zhao Yong Fu Li-Min JiaThis book highlights a theoretical framework for architecting the safety and reliability analysis of rail transit trains for active safety assurance. Rail transit is compared to the main artery of regional economy and the backbone of urban travel. The safety and reliability of trains is directly associated with the punctuality and safety of passengers, as well as the transport capacity and efficiency of rail transit. High-intensity operation, complex working conditions, and external random interference have brought new challenges to the effective analysis of the safety and reliability of rail transit trains. The book provides a timely solution to the challenges by providing a theoretical framework that can improve the capacities of systematic, real-time, predictive reliability analysis, and enable it to guide the condition-based repair, operation and maintenance means. The book systematically covers topics including the train operation risk analysis methods, health identification and real-time reliability analysis of key train components, and the polymorphic reliability evaluation and the optimization methods of multi-component condition-based maintenance decision for train systems. It also conducts an in-depth discussion on new advances in safety assurance and health management of rail transit trains. The book can be used as a theoretical reference for postgraduate students in related majors and as a valuable handbook for engineers and technicians working on rail transit trains.
Religion, Drug, or Cult?: Ayahuasca's Legal Path in Brazil, the United States, and France (Law and Religion in a Global Context #5)
by Henrique Fernandes AntunesThis book explores the emergence of the religious use of ayahuasca as a subject of public interest and state intervention in Brazil, the United States, and France. In Brazil, since the 1980s, ayahuasca use has been permitted by the National Council on Drug Policies exclusively for religious purposes. In the late 2000s, public policies shifted from drug control to cultural heritage, following demands by groups from Acre for recognition of their practices as intangible heritage. In the United States, two Brazilian religions – União do Vegetal (UDV) and Santo Daime – as well as two non-Christian churches – the Church of the Eagle and the Condor and the Church of the Celestial Heart – secured the legal right to use ayahuasca. Through legal battles and settlements, they obtained exemptions from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). In France, ayahuasca was banned in 2005, just three months after a Santo Daime group successfully appealed drug charges. Today, ayahuasca remains illegal; groups are often labeled as dangerous cults and seen as threats to French republican ideals. Inspired by the anthropology of secularism and the sociology of public problems, the book examines how terms like religion, cult, drug, hallucinogen, and cultural heritage are mobilized by various actors in public disputes to shape perceptions and influence policy. It draws on legal cases, public policies, legislation, academic literature, social media, institutional documents, and interviews with key figures involved in regulatory debates. The central thesis – ayahuasca as a lens to understand how states define religion and determine legitimate religious practice – offers fresh perspectives on the intersections of religious freedom, drug policy, and state authority. Bridging multiple disciplines, the book contributes to debates on law and religion, and to a deeper understanding of how democracies manage minority faiths, cultural rights, and the boundaries of state intervention.
The Evolution of Political Ideology: A Natural and Civil History
by Aurelio José Figueredo Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre Steven Charles HertlerThis book applies multilevel selection theory to an examination of both the natural history of ideology, and how that natural history has unfolded through the course of civil history in the Western world. Its authors bring together research from across the fields of history, political science, genetics, neurobiology and social science to offer an unprecedented synthesis.Addressing natural history, Part I evolutionarily explains why political ideology is substantially genetic, correlates with personality traits, and is represented in brain regions associated with risk and emotional processing. Addressing civil history, Part II traces the evolution of political ideology across anthropological transitions from non-human primates to small-scale societies, and across historical transitions from autocratic states through to democratic societies with political parties peaceably transferring power and tolerating opposition. In this way, its authors aim to demonstrate that temperamental antecedents to political ideology that are biologically derived, evolutionarily explicable, and historically palpable.This book presents timely insights into issues the evolutionary history of hyper-partisanship that will be of interest to scholars across the fields of political science, political psychology, evolutionary psychology and history.
Polizei und Menschen in psychischen Krisen: Perspektiven, Handlungsoptionen, Reflexionen
by Swen Koerner Mario S. Staller Benjamin ZaiserDieses Buch beleuchtet aus wissenschaftlicher und praktischer Perspektive den polizeilichen Umgang mit Menschen in psychischen Krisen und Ausnahmesituationen. Polizeieinsätze sind häufig von Zeitdruck, Unsicherheit und einem hohen Eskalationspotenzial geprägt. Im Umgang mit Menschen, die sich in psychischen Ausnahme- oder Krisensituationen befinden, stehen Polizeikräfte dabei vor der komplexen Aufgabe, professionell zu handeln. Dies erfordert Fach- und Hintergrundwissen, um Belastungen und Gefährdungen zu reduzieren. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes bieten eine interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit den zentralen Fragen und Themen in diesem Kontext – von der Kommunikation und Deeskalation im Einsatz über psychosoziale Notfallversorgung, Einsatznachsorge und Krisenintervention bis hin zu Einsatzstrategien und ethischen Entscheidungsprozessen. Weitere Themen sind Ausbildung, Training und Kompetenzentwicklung. Dieses Buch richtet sich an Polizist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und polizeiliche Entscheider*innen. Es verbindet aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zum polizeilichen Umgang mit Menschen in psychischen Krisen mit praxisnahen Ansätzen und bietet wertvolle Impulse für wissenschaftlich fundiertes und reflektiertes Handeln.
Self-organized Operation and Stability Control of Electronized Power Networks: Voltage Magnitude-Frequency Dynamics Perspective
by Yao Sun Xiaochao Hou Mei Su Siqi Fu Shimiao ChenThis book gives a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the development of advanced self-organized control and synchronization stability of electronized power systems from voltage amplitude-frequency dynamics. It presents modeling method from the amplitude-frequency dynamic perspective, oscillation suppression control, transient synchronous stability and self-organized operation of the electronized power systems. For each topic, a theoretical introduction and overview are backed by very concrete programming examples that enable the reader to not only understand the topic but to develop microgrid simulation models. This book will serve as an invaluable tool for researchers, engineers, and designers in the field of the electronized power systems who are involved in the cooperative control of high renewable based power converter networks.
COVID-19 Impact on Economy, Environment and Healthcare
by Alok Raghav Goo-Bo Jeong Hamid AshrafThe book is to provide new updates to presently available scientific content and data worldwide related to positive and negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare, economy and environment. Besides focusing on impact, this book will also focus on the strategies that will be helpful in overcoming such impact so that world will be prepared in coming future if any pandemic comes. This book will present a complete guide covering all factors that have impact on day to day life. This book will elaborate the healthcare system role that collapsed due to unpredictable numbers of COVID-19 patients and will also share the solutions from experts&’ experiences for how they overcame such limitations in order to manage such infections. Worldwide lockdown during COVID-19 infection somehow significantly showed positive impact on our environment, therefore this book will also touch on certain landmark policies made by certain governments after COVID-19. This book will also explain fundamental issues and approaches with easily understandable explanations, and contains basic problems with their solutions, case studies, equations, and informative tables and schemes to let readers learn faster. This book will easily gain acceptance among the audience from healthcare, economy and environmental sciences.
Civilian Oversight of Military Operations in Afghanistan: The Case of SIGAR (Palgrave Studies in Global Security)
by Patrick J. SullivanThis book assesses the oversight regime in Afghanistan to identify and characterize the oversight failures, and then links them to specific negative strategic outcomes. Although there are high-quality analyses available about what went wrong in Afghanistan and why, few of them are grounded in scholarly research that uses empirical methods. This book fills that epistemological gap as well as provides a unique contribution to the body of literature, which does not contain any comprehensive studies of Afghanistan oversight. This type of study is important because certain characterizations of an oversight failure—e.g., Congress knowing that things were going badly in Afghanistan but choosing not to do anything about it—point to several pathologies about political control of the military and the incentive structures contained therein. Understanding and proactively managing these pathologies will be critical to improving strategic outcomes in future complex military interventions of the Afghanistan type.
Transition zur Mutterschaft von Frauen im Alter ab 40 Jahren: Rekonstruktion des Erlebens zwischen Differenz und Normalisierung
by Karin NiessenFrauen, die in höherem Alter Mutterschaft verwirklichen, erleben diesen Prozess als Differenz zwischen ihrer individuellen Lebensgeschichte und einer alterskritischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive. Diese kolportiert nicht nur Mutterschaftsnormen, sondern auch die bio-medizinische Risikoperspektive und stellt die Entscheidung von Frauen zur späten Mutterschaft infrage. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie zeigen nach Analyse von 28 leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Frauen im Alter zwischen 40 und 54 Jahren in einem Phasenmodell, wie bedeutsam und heterogen der Weg der Familiengründung für das Erleben von Schwangerschaft und im Beginn der Mutterschaft ist. Im Handlungs- und Interaktionsmodell bildet sich das spezifische Erleben von Differenz und Normalisierung ab. Die Rekonstruktion des Erlebens mithilfe der Grounded Theory Methodologie zeigt, mit welchen Strategien die befragten Frauen den alterskritischen Einflüssen begegnen. Drei Entwicklungslinien zeigen die Identitätsentwicklung von Frauen in dieser Lebenssituation. Die Ergebnisse zeigen erstmalig im deutschsprachigen Raum, wie Frauen in höherem Alter der Herausforderung Mutter zu werden begegnen. Die Autorin leitet nicht nur weiteren Forschungsbedarf ab, sondern gibt Empfehlungen für Hebammen, Mediziner*innen und alle Berufsgruppen, die Frauen in der reproduktiven Lebensphase beraten und begleiten.
Spatial Language Understanding: Representation, Reasoning, and Grounding (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
by James Pustejovsky Marie-Francine Moens Parisa KordjamshidiThis book provides an overview of multiple aspects of spatial language understanding and explores recent trends of modeling based on very large foundational models and their applications. The authors address the following five main themes: spatial semantic representations in both symbolic and sub-symbolic spaces; spatial information extraction computational models; reasoning over spatial language; commonsense spatial understanding; and multiple modern and state-of-the-art downstream applications of spatial language understanding including dialogue systems, narrative discourse, and grounding language in the physical world with the multi-modal problem settings. One of the essential functions of natural language is to express spatial relationships between objects. Linguistic constructs can encode highly complex structures of objects, spatial relations between them, and patterns of motion through space relative to a reference point. The complexity of spatial language understanding and its importance in downstream tasks that involve grounding the language in the physical world has become evident and important to the natural language processing research community. In addition, this topic has recently attracted the attention of various sub-communities in the intersection of natural language, computer vision, and robotics.
Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums)
by Wayne Modest Peter PelsMuseum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past? Since the nineteenth century, the globalization of the museum has spread specific understandings of permanence and temporariness that inform museum display, separated the modern from the traditional, and promoted preservation and development in ways that tacitly assume a North Atlantic cultural outlook as the end point of history and the standard that determines a hierarchy of science, art, technology, craft, and natural history. Questioning linear and epochal genealogies that assume Enlightenment surveys of the classifiable universe as the origin of the museum, Modest and Pels present evidence that global exhibitionary complexes will fail to sufficiently address questions of decolonization and restitution if they do not make room for the ethnographic museum as a principal site where suggestions for the future of all museums can be generated. They show that any attempt to address the problematic and painful relationship that museums have to colonial pasts requires them to reorient their relationship to time. The chapters in this volume assembles building blocks for a theory and practice of museums that no longer assumes the need for identities, objects, and collections to be permanent; for the museum to be the end point of knowledge; and for "art" or "science" to be the universal measure to which other forms of cultural production can only aspire. This pathbreaking collection centralizes and develops current concerns in critical museology and is valuable reading for scholars and students
How Not to Hate Advertising: A Creative’s Guide to A Long and (Dare I Say) Happy Career in A Remarkably Silly Industry
by Nick SonderupWritten by an award-winning Chief Creative Officer (CCO) and featuring insights from agency and freelance advertising pros, this book is the creative professionals’ guidebook, self-help book, and halftime speech/pep talk book all wrapped up in one. It's written for working creatives to help them sustain and succeed in an industry that has plenty to hate about it.This is not a “how to break into the business” book, and it doesn’t aim to explain the creative process and how to come up with ideas. Instead, it accepts and expects that the reader has already done the hard part of breaking in and (hopefully) getting some work produced that they’re proud of – it’s the “what’s next” to avoid burnout, filled with practical tips, sage advice, and real stories from an array of people who have definitely hated advertising at some point – but stuck with it anyway.A sort of treasure map that creatives can use to guide them through different stages of their career, this book is pure gold for advertising professionals and students who want to thrive in their chosen industry while taking care of their whole selves, now and into the future.
The Humanized Internet: Dignity, Digital Identity and Democracy (River Publishers Series in Computing and Information Science and Technology)
by Monique J. Morrow Akram AlfawakheeriEnterprising the Internet has been a process over the past years and while this book does not set judgement, it does call for a moment of pause and reflection on the impact of these technologies to individuals. There are constant key themes throughout this book such as the notion of identity and identity sets, e-sovereignty and privacy, but most importantly, the function of an Internet that is inclusive and not “controlled” by a few organizations for their own profitability. This is The Humanized Internet. These tenets may sound libertarian, but in fact we are talking about the core principles that guide the development and perhaps the return of the Internet to the people, especially those who are underserved. “Do no evil” should not just be a company motto, but the driving principle behind the development of any technologies that do impact us as individual consumers of these technologies and corresponding products. Indeed, there is a polarity between and Internet that is used for mass empowerment and one that can be used for mass destruction. Privacy, security, and the management of your digital footprint should be done by you.With the progression of human and machine interaction due to advances in biotech and the brain/computer interface, the cloud, and virtual/mixed reality, we need to understand the impacts of these technologies to identity overall. Do we require a new definition of identity? What is e-sovereignty and its application moving forward if we posit that the institutions that exist today may no longer be relevant in their current structure? We have all read about the abuses that occur when your data falls into the hands of other entities, intentionally or not. The Humanized Internet is therefore a call to action…your action.
Societies at an AI Crossroads: Choices and Value Conflicts (Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture)
by Ignas Kalpokas Julija KalpokienėThis book highlights some of the crucial crossroads – moments in which choices as to the future relationship between humans and digital technologies have to be made – that societies face in light of the growing development and adoption of AI.As contemporary societies undergo profound transformations driven by artificial intelligence and related technologies, a unilinear vision of inevitable ‘progress’ and development increasingly dominates public discourse. This book offers a counterpoint, challenging such deterministic narratives by mapping out the complex crossroads where futures ought to be shaped rather than passively received. Exploring a multiplicity of domains as diverse as education, heritage, creativity, the biological and technological boundaries of humans, work, war, and space colonialism, both the dominant (typically progressivist) and alternative (critical) ways of framing the present and the future are outlined, identifying choices to be made. The book teases out the underlying tendencies and underscores a recurring necessity to make value choices as to our further development, not only as societies but also as humanity, and in terms of regulatory choices. It reveals how decisions in these domains are shaped by ingrained intellectual, ideological, political, value-based, and economic assumptions, often hidden beneath the rhetoric of inevitability. These crossroads are not just technical or economic choices, but moral and societal: Between maximising efficiency and safeguarding plurality; between treating technological possibilities as imperatives and critically evaluating their desirability; between moral blindness and care. By illuminating the options available, the book invites readers to take an active role in choosing the future shape of societies and of humanity itself.This interdisciplinary and creative text will benefit all graduate-level and scholarly readers working on AI within the fields of media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology.
Intangible Heritage Law and Cultural Diversity: A Comparative Approach (Routledge Studies in Cultural Heritage and International Law)
by Thiago BurckhartThis book explores the intricate relationship between intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and cultural diversity (CD), focusing on the challenges arising from the integration of CD within legal and policy frameworks for ICH safeguarding.As groups, communities and individuals increasingly advocate for the recognition of their cultural practices, the governance of CD in ICH law reveals significant tensions. These tensions are particularly apparent in countries with varied legal traditions and political landscapes, such as Brazil and France. Despite valuable sociological and anthropological insights into this intersection, legal analysis of the ICH-CD relationship remains underdeveloped at both international and national levels. Through a comparative analysis, the book examines three primary mechanisms outlined in the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: the creation of national inventories, the engagement of communities in safeguarding processes and the implementation of safeguarding measures. These mechanisms are tested within each country’s legal context to understand how CD shapes the effectiveness of ICH law at both national and international levels. By focusing on Brazil and France, this book contributes to the theoretical and practical development of cultural heritage law, offering a model for fostering cultural diversity and empowering communities to take an active role in the management and preservation of their intangible cultural heritage.This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of comparative law, public international law, cultural heritage studies and public policy.
Pub Rock in the UK and Australia: From the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by Andy Bennett Jon StrattonThis book critically examines two versions of the genre identified as pub rock as they evolved in the UK and Australia. Both developed in the communal spaces of pubs and both had their heyday in the mid‑ to‑late 1970s. Indeed, the two have so much in common that AC/DC, sometimes thought of as the quintessential Australian pub rock group, became hugely popular in the UK, while other Australian groups such as the Sports, outliers of pub rock, also had success there. At the same time UK pub rockers like Graham Parker and the Rumour and Rockpile toured Australia. Three of Parker’s albums climbed to higher places on the Australian chart than on the UK chart. However, a great deal separated the two genres. In the UK, pub rock is often misleadingly viewed as the insipid music which was violently replaced by the uproarious and rebellious punk sounds of Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Slits and the other do-it-yourself groups of 1977 and later. Many members of groups later identified as punk, including Sex Pistols and the Clash, had previously played in groups identified as pub rock. In Australia, pub rock, played by groups including Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Angels and Rose Tattoo, formed the basis for the mainstream guitar rock sound that dominated Australian popular music through the 1980s and into the 1990s. This book makes a valuable contribution to cultural sociology, popular music and cultural studies.
Media Literacy and E-Democracy in the EU (Politics, Media and Political Communication)
by Mateja RekMedia Literacy and E-Democracy in the EU examines the crucial role of media literacy in strengthening e-democracy within the European Union (EU).In an era where digital media increasingly shape democratic processes, the EU faces both new opportunities and challenges in promoting active citizenship and transparent governance. This book explores how media education aimed at advancing digital media literacy can serve as the foundation for informed and responsible civic engagement, helping to build a more resilient democratic society. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of current e-democracy initiatives in the EU, the book offers a fresh perspective on the relevance of media education to advance citizens’ digital media literacy. It focuses on the EU due to its unique governance features and distinct digital policy framework. However, its insights and best practices are relevant globally, as media literacy and democratic engagement are universal challenges. The interplay between fast advancements of digitalisation of communication, media literacy and citizens’ ability and willingness to participate actively in public affairs is examined in depth.Interdisciplinary in approach, this book will interest students and scholars in political science, media studies, sociology and European studies, as well as policymakers and civil society actors focused on digital governance and civic engagement. Media professionals, journalists and educators will also find it valuable for understanding and shaping democratic participation in the digital age.
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
by Greig Charnock Ramon Ribera-Fumaz Jose MansillaThe Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in low‑quality employment, among other damaging results.Today, innovation districts are widely seen as a disruptive but generative solution to post‑industrial decline and inefficient land use in urban centres and as an effective means of bringing inclusive economic dynamism, quality jobs, and improved public spaces to city neighbourhoods. Their advocates often point to the pioneering transformation of the 22@ District. This book challenges the celebratory discourse surrounding the Barcelona case, and with a critical eye on how innovation district transformation is conditioned by the prevailing global political‑economic context. It also chronicles how this transformation has continually ignited forms of class‑based struggle in Barcelona by embattled residents angered at how their own neighbourhood has been used as an urban laboratory and site for speculative forms of capital accumulation. Ultimately, this book challenges the notion that ‘innovation’ is always a beneficent force through a critical examination of the disruptive consequences of innovation district transformation, by engaging with existing literature and interrogating the dominant narratives that celebrate them as being universally beneficial. Instead, it underscores the tensions and contradictions inherent in them.With its focus on the historical development of global capitalism and the retention of a narrow repertoire of entrepreneurial approaches towards urban governance, The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism will be of great interest to scholars and students researching globalisation and urbanisation.
Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)
by Mark J. Cherry James Stacey TaylorThis volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics’ most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from leading scholars who explore the moral, political, and practical dimensions of organ markets.The volume addresses critical questions at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and economics: Would financial incentives for organ donation save lives or exploit the vulnerable? Can organ markets be ethically regulated to prevent abuse? How do principles of distributive justice apply to organ allocation? Should bodily autonomy extend to selling one’s organs? Contributors include both proponents who argue that properly regulated markets would increase organ supply and reduce suffering, and opponents who contend that commodification of organs violates human dignity and risks exploitation. The collection examines utilitarian, libertarian, and communitarian approaches while considering real-world policy implications. It also offers nuanced analysis of paternalistic prohibitions, feasibility concerns, and alternative procurement systems. By presenting multiple viewpoints in dialogue, the volume provides readers with the intellectual tools to form their own informed positions on this controversial issue.Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation is an ideal resource for researchers, students, and healthcare professionals interested in the ethical dimensions of transplant medicine.