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Overcoming Social Division
Locked in our worldview communities and polarised through increasingly radical campaigning, we are anxious of today's great uncertainty and our politicians have little incentive to reach across party lines. The problem of social division is real. The Brexit vote led to the highest spike in hate crimes in Britain ever recorded and heated situations like the far-right rally in Charlottesville, USA are increasingly boiling over. Overcoming Social Division is not another book about dying democracies, because horror scenarios don't make you act. Instead, it is an optimistic response on what can be done, and about how we can coexist in fragmented and polarised societies. Anatol Valerian Itten expl...
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
Including 42 chapters, organized across 9 sections, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP)--the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains--while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities. The Handbook highlights scholarship from a broader range of regions and includes approaches from political science, anthropology, sociology, geography, gender theory, law, human rights, and development studies.
国家治理与公共安全评论（2022年第1辑）
本书由西南政法大学主管、西南政法大学期刊社指导、政治与公共管理学院主办，以国家治理与公共安全为主题，从国家机构改革、重大工程风险评估、校园安全建设、基层治理等方面，探讨国家治理体系与治理能力现代化及提升公共安全水平问题，涉及领域包括国家治理、社会稳定、重大工程风险评估、校园安全建设、城乡基层治理、民族地区社会治理、社会治理的国际比较等，且以实证研究为主，主要关注当前我国在相关领域的重大现实问题，辅之以比较研究。本书常设栏目有“国家治理”“基层治理”“公共安全”“学界观察”等。
Schweigen
Stille und Schweigen sind im Alltag und in der Politik ständig präsent, aber warum sprechen wir so selten darüber? Wir lieben die Stille, die Ruhe, wenn wir sie brauchen, halten sie aber kaum aus, wenn wir ihr Gegenüber sind. Im Geheimnis verschweigen wir etwas, das uns beschützt und hilft zu leben. Auf der anderen Seite wird manches buchstäblich totgeschwiegen, das zur Sprache gebracht werden müsste, um Heilung zu ermöglichen. Untertanen werden mit diktatorischem Gehabe zum Schweigen gebracht – eine kommunikative Machtdemonstration. Dieses Buch beschreibt und analysiert aus sozialpsychologischer, kulturhistorischer und philosophischer Perspektive das menschliche Verhalten im Bezug zur Stille. Eindrucksvoll bringt der Autor zu Wort, was seine Erfahrungen, Gedanken, Textforschungen und Expertengespräche rund um dieses vielschichtige Thema hergeben, und lässt so neue, überraschende Verbindungen zwischen Stille, Schweigen und Ruhegeben entstehen. Ein erzählender Wegweiser mit nachdenklich stimmenden und amüsanten Erkenntnissen für alle Menschen, die dem Schweigen in all seinen Aspekten auf den Grund gehen möchten.
The Art of Silence and Human Behaviour
This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest. Silence and being quiet are present in everyday life and in politics, but why do we talk about it so rarely? Silence can be cathartic and peaceful, but equally oppressive and unbearable. In the form of communication, we keep secrets to protect ourselves and others, but on the other hand subjects can be silenced with dictatorial posturing - a communicative display of power – and something can be literally ‘hushed up’ that needs to be disclosed. In unique and...
An Ethnic At Large
This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.
Why Societies Need Dissent
Dissenters are often portrayed as selfish and disloyal, but Sunstein shows that those who reject pressures imposed by others perform valuable social functions, often at their own expense.
Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650)
Bernhard Varenius’ books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (Descriptio regni Japoniae, 1649) from a European perspective, exclusively based on a diversity of sources. But the impact of his Geographia generalis (1650) explains his ranking among the founding fathers of geography as a science. He called ‘general’ geography a branch of (applied) mathematics which does not deal with regional specifics. The contributions in this book focus on his multi-faceted work, the influence of his books and the tragically short life of this young polymath from Germany who benefited from the intellectually stimulating milieu of Leiden and Amsterdam. Contributors include: Horst Walter Blanke, Reinhard Düchting, Klaus Lehmann, Robert Mayhew, Sandra Rebok, Folker Reichert, Frank Richter, Margret Schuchard, Denis J.B. Shaw, Ulrich Staffhorst, Johann Anselm Steiger, Rienk H. Vermij, and Ernst-Christian Volkmann.
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. These new processes of public participation are reimagining the relationship between citizens and institutions. This Handbook advances understanding of democratic innovations, in theory and practice, by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. The overarching themes are a focus on citizens and their relationship to these innovations, and the resulting effects on political equality. The Handbook therefore offers a definitive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice.
