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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Queer Regenerations -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Love -- 3. Hate -- 4. Queer Nostalgia -- Conclusion: Kiss Good Morning, Kiss Good Night -- Epilogue: Beyond the 'most homophobic' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal justice, these experts denied the existence of free will and proposed replacing punishment with invasive "cures" such as the lobotomy. In welfare, they proposed eliminating the poo

"'Ugly as sin', 'ugly duckling', 'rear its ugly head'. The word 'ugly' is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around 'feared and dreaded', ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination. Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley's monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Uglydolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste. Henderson digs into the muck of ugliness, moving beyond the traditional philosophic argument or mere opposition to beauty, and emerges with more than a selection of fascinating tidbits. Following ugly bodies and dismantling ugly senses across periods and continents, [this book] draws on a wealth of fields to cross cultures and times, delineating the changing map of ugliness as it charges the public imagination. Illustrated with a range of artefacts, this book offers a refreshing perspective that moves beyond the surface to ask what 'ugly' truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift"--

This book is an ethnographic study of a group of migrants in Cape Town from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It seeks to understand how migrants overcome structural exclusion by forming and maintaining convivial relationships through the Bay Community Church and how this is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The book argues that ICTs are implicated in the negotiation of conviviality. ICTs allow for a negotiation of intimacy and distance; although their functions may facilitate more contact than is desired or further distance those already separated physically

Intro -- Praise for Hacking H(app)iness -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: BE ACCOUNTABLE -- Chapter 1: YOUR IDENTITY IN THE CONNECTED WORLD -- Chapter 2: ACCOUNTABILITY-BASED INFLUENCE -- Chapter 3: PERSONAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 4: MOBILE SENSORS -- Chapter 5: QUANTIFIED SELF -- Chapter 6: THE INTERNET OF THINGS -- Chapter 7: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- PART 2: BE A PROVIDER -- Chapter 8: BIG DATA -- Chapter 9: AUGMENTED REALITY -- Chapter 10: VIRTUAL CURRENCY -- Chapter 11: SHARED VALUE -- Chapter 12: FROM CONSUMER TO CREATOR -- PART 3: BE PROACTIVE -- Chapter 13: THE ECONOMY OF REGARD -- Chapter 14: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- Chapter 15: FLOW -- Chapter 16: ALTRUISM -- Chapter 17: THE VALUE OF A HAPPINESS ECONOMY -- Chapter 18: BEYOND GDP -- Chapter 19: GETTING H(APP)Y -- Chapter 20: HACKING H(APP)INESS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Climate change affects and will affect livelihood resources and options in Africa, especially among the poor, through changes in temperatures, rainfall, sea levels and ocean acidification. This book focuses on conflict-sensitivity in African climate change adaptation and brings together the voices of academics, practitioners and policymakers from across the globe and Africa. Key questions that frame the contributions are: how does climate change and/or climate adaptation projects cause or contribute to conflicts, and how can adaptation measures be conflict-sensitive? Extensive research provides insight into climate change effects and mitigation and adaption strategies - often in conflict prone or post-conflict states. Further, drawing on African experiences, the highly multidisciplinary nature of the policy and practice of conflict-sensitive adaptation (for example, the need for adaptation to include development, environment and peacebuilding considerations) emerges. As a result, this book provides compelling analyses and recommendations for the development of conflict-sensitive adaptation tools and policies.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1 The Problem and the Challenge -- PART TWO -- 2 'Placement' - the Key to Freedom in the Digital Inferno -- 3 Staying Awake, Keeping Conscious at the Computer Table -- 4 Gaining Mastery over the Mobile Phone -- 5 Speaking on the Phone -- 6 Digital Dancing in Short Sentences and Sound-bites -- 7 Following Through in the Digital Inferno: The Case of Facebook Non-commitment -- 8 Losing the Thread -- 9 Looking at Pixelated Images: A Deal with a Devil? -- 10 Talking to Yourself -- 11 The Attack on Memory - Dancing Back into Sacred Remembering -- 12 Digital Gesturing and the Smiley -- 13 Staying Safe and Secure in the Digital Inferno -- 14 Reclaiming the Whole Narrative -- 15 Parenting the Digital Inferno -- 16 Welcome to the Internet of Things - the Future -- 17 Going Back Consciously into the Digital Realm - Enjoying the Dance -- Bibliography -- Glossary

Sexualisierte bzw. geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt gegen Frauen ist nachweislich ein bestehendes Problem und Arbeitsfeld in der sozialen Arbeit. In der vorliegenden Studie wird die Relevanz des Internets in der Kommunikation über Webseiten zwischen den Frauen, die sexualisierte Gewalt erfahren haben und den Beratungsstellen untersucht. Dabei bilden Befragungen beider Gruppen die Grundlage dieser Studie. Den Gegenstand dieser Studie bilden das Nutzungsverhalten und die Erwartungen an eine Webseite aus der Sicht der Betroffenen wie auch aus der Sicht der BeraterInnen. Andrea Paul hat Soziale Arbeit studiert. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch verbindet sie inhaltliche Schwerpunkte der Beratungsarbeit mit von sexualisierter Gewalt betroffenen Frauen mit dem Thema der Neuen Medien, welches zunehmend auch in dem Bereich der sozialen Arbeit an Bedeutung gewinnt. Sie stellt damit ihre Erfahrungen aus dem Bereich der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und der Gestaltung von dementsprechenden Online- und Printmaterialen in den Zusammenhang mit Erfahrungen aus der Arbeit mit von sexualisierter Gewalt betroffenen Frauen.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- On Piracy -- List of Acronyms -- Part I - Ontology -- The Pirate Imaginary and the Potential of the Authorial Pirate -- To Name a Thief: Constructing the Deviant Pirate -- "You Can't Change our Ancestors Without our Permission": Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy -- Piratical Community and the Digital Age: The Structural Racialization of Piracy in European Law and Culture1 -- Part II - Politics -- Modernity, Law and the Violence of Piracy, Property and the State -- 'Pirates' in EU's (Semi)Peripheries -- The IPR GPR: The Emergence of a Global Prohibition Regime to Regulate Intellectual Property Infringement -- BitTorrent: Stealing or Sharing Culture? A Discussion of the Pirate Bay Case and the Documentaries "Steal This Film I & II" -- The Internet Between Politics and the Political: -- Cultural Resistance or Corporate Assistance: -- Part III - Practice -- The Justifications of Piracy: -- Set the Fox to Watch the Geese: -- Pirate Economies and the Production of Smooth Spaces -- The Collaborative Production of Amateur Subtitles for Pirated TV Shows in Brazil -- After Piracy: Reflections of Industrial Designers in Taiwan on Sustainable Innovations -- Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring: -- An Epilogue Privacy is Theft: On Anonymous Experiences, Infrastructural Politics and Accidental Encounters -- Contributing Authors -- INDEX.

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on

Wie ist der globale Konsum von Liebe möglich? Was geschieht, wenn lokale und globale Semantiken zusammenstoßen? Fördert diese Begegnung die Evolution der Liebessemantik - oder wird sie dadurch behindert? Dieser Band beleuchtet das Spannungsverhältnis von Globalität und Lokalität anhand von unterschiedlichen Rezeptionen der modernen, westlich geprägten Liebessemantik in verschiedenen Kulturkreisen und sozialen Schichten. Systematisch präsentieren und diskutieren die Beiträge verschiedene Rezeptionsprozesse sowie Modifikationen durch die Konfrontation mit lokalen, traditionellen Semantiken und e