Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century. It discusses 2 major methods of market regulation: price stabilization – based on buffer stocks or export quotas – and compensatory finance. The authors analyse whether major commodity policies have reached their primary objectives and to what extent the…
The topic of book has occupied my mind since I finished writing my previous book: A Complexity Theory for Public Policy (2012a). In A Complexity Theory my goal was to present the implications of com- plexity theory for public policy studies. The complexity of public policy processes was recognized by almost everybody who practiced policy ana- lysis or policymaking or who studies policy…
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism provides detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges. The book brings together a global team of authors to review and analyse emerging practices in the automated digital scenario through which journalism is being reshaped, such as novel languages, storytelling forms, and business models. Providi…
This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a 'new publicness' of education. This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the publi…
The classic book Frankenstein, written two centuries ago by English author Mary Shelley, bears an eerie descriptive of our pandemic world today. ‘Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change’, Shelley wrote. Well, say hello to our COVID-19 world, ‘a great and sudden change’ accompanied by waves of pain jolting minds and lives worldwide through lockdowns, quar…
Privileged populations in the global north are increasingly getting hammered by natural disasters, turbo-charged by climate change. In other words, what vulnerable communities everywhere have been experiencing for decades. Climate breakdown is indeed accelerating, and the existential threat is finally impossible to ignore in the halls of power. This makes the debate about the Green New Deal…
In this handbook, we discuss and reflect on two intricately interwoven concepts: privacy and social media. Using social media is fun, allows us to stay connected, to socialize, to be entertained, to seek out news, and to stumble across content we didn’t know we were interested in. Social media are platforms for exploration, games, and the unlikely beauty of the mundane, the ridiculous, and…
Taking a qualitative approach based on original case studies, this book offers a detailed overview of the contemporary media system in Malta. Three Maltese news organisations are examined to understand the editorial routines, ownership and management structures, and social and cultural factors that affect the day-to-day business of creating news. In-depth interviews with key stakeholders of …
Under Science Diplomacy, three types of activities were noted in 2010 by the Royal Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science: (i) informing science and supporting foreign policy objectives (Science in Diplomacy), (ii) diplo- macy facilitating international cooperation (Diplomacy for Science), and (iii) scien- tific cooperation improving international relations (Scien…
This book explains the psychological and social mechanisms that limit political plasticity and shape the possibility of changes in both democratic and dictatorial countries. Students, teachers, and anyone interested in political behavior and social psychology will benefit from this volume.
The selections for this volume appeared in a variety of outlets and formats – thereby providing a window onto the world of letters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The research for this book was made possible by the prize money from the 2014 Tietgen Award, which funded Sarah Anne Ganter’s position as a postdoc- toral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the associated research costs. The work has since continued at the institute as well as at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where Sarah i…
This book investigates the role of arts practitioners in the formation and implementation of cultural policy. In so doing, it challenges a still-recurrent perception that practitioners have little or no involvement in cultural pol- icy activity. The perception is apparent in cultural policy research litera- ture—as will be illustrated in the next chapter—as well as being encountered …
Every book, like its author, is the product of multiple communities. I am fortunate to have met many wonderful people while researching and writing this book and have greatly benefited from their perspec- tives. I thank my teachers, friends, colleagues, and interview partners for their generous engagement and for deepening my understanding of the world.
The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology. This digital challenge has already generated a wealth of implications in the area of smart or intelligent cities, but as yet far less has been achieved in the field of regional planning and…
In autumn 2005, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus came home from Iraq with an idea. Petraeus had participated in the 2003 invasion – he led the initial occupation of Mosul, and he returned to the country in 2004, to lead training of Iraqi troops.
The ubiquity of new technologies in our everyday lives has led to the lead-in of emerging technologies in the public sector. In a recent report by Microsoft and EY [1], entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: European Vision for 2020 and Beyond’, two-thirds of respondents rated AI as a digital priority. Although many local, state, and national governments see the promise…
Fashion’s duality makes it a fascinating object of study. It is an aesthetic and artistic form, infected by centuries of tradition and craftsmanship in cultures around the world while being defned by regular aesthetic change. Fashion is also a globalised industrial system of manufactured commodities that relies in large part on its media to ascribe meaning to its relentless churn of produ…
This book provides a novel understanding of how R2P-related knowledge, activism, diplomacy and administration impact global politics. On the theor- etical level, it challenges the (critical) constructivist understanding of norms by demonstrating the importance of individual agency and the impact of sci- entific knowledge, diplomatic influence, bureaucratic capabilities or practical e…
Judul asli : the subtle art of not giving a fuck Selama beberapa tahun belakangan, Mark Manson melalui blog nya yang sangat populer telah membantu mengoreksi harapan-harapan delusional kita, baik mengenai diri kita sendiri maupun dunia. Ia kini menuangkan buah pikirnya yang keren di dalam buku hebat ini.Argumennya, :tidak semua orang bisa menjadi luar biasa--ada para pemenang dan pecundang di …
Academics have studied communication and religion for some 40 years, but the area only slowly received recognition in the wider area of mass media studies. Media studies grew from the social sciences and like all social sciences initially emphasized empirical or even scientific methods and a secular orientation. Not surprisingly, it took time to incorporate elements like belief and spiri- …
Bangsa Indonesia memandang bahwa apa yang terjadi di dunia ini dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan keramat di alam gaib. Cara pandang ini, disebut-sebut oleh Tan Malaka sebagai "logika mistika". Tan Malaka melihat kemajuan umat manusia melalui tiga tahap : dari "logika mistika" lewat "filsafat" ke "ilmu pengetahuan" (sains). Dan selama bangsa Indonesia masih terkungkung oleh "logika mistika" itu, tak mun…
Territorial politics, intergovernmental relations and federalism Territorial politics has become a field of study that covers a diverse range of disciplines, including geography, economics, sociology, law and of course politics, to study social and political communities as well as the multi- level structures within and also beyond state boundaries (Hepburn and Detterbeck 2018, 2–3).1…