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"Environmental risk factors - noise, air pollution, chemical agents, and ultraviolet radiation - impact human health by contributing to the onset and progression of non-communicable diseases. Accordingly, there is need for preclinical and clinical studies and comprehensible summary of major findings. This book is a state-of-the-art summary of these myriad severe life stress. The chapters on the different pollutants focus on disease mechanisms (cardiovascular, neurological and metabolic disorders) and on oxidative stress and inflammation. We emphasize emerging mechanisms based on dysregulation of the circadian clock, the microbiome, epigenetic pathways and cognitive function by environmental stressors, and introduce the exposome concept while highlighting existing research gaps"--

"In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar López historicizes the US government's use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solutions to unauthorized border crossing. Contrary to enduring fantasies of the purported neutrality of drones, smart walls, artificial intelligence, and biometric technologies, the cybernetic border represents the consolidation of calculation and automation in the exercise of racialized violence. Chaar López draws on corporate, military, and government records, promotional documents and films, technical reports, news reporting, surveillance footage, and activist and artist practices. These materials reveal how logics of enmity are embedded into information infrastructures that shape border control and modern sovereignty"--

Analysing migrant narratives as an ethnographic project : academic representation as storytelling / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich -- Narratives of absence : making sense of loss and liminality in the post-war Bosnian diaspora / Laura Huttunen -- Home at last: Narrating community and belonging through retirement migration to Spain / Anya Ahmed -- Homecoming as exile? Experiences of rupture and belonging / Anastasia Christou -- Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative / Silke Meyer -- "When you win, you are a German, when you lose, you are a foreigner" : claiming position beyond the meritocratic and discriminatory migration discourse / Claudius Ströhle -- "None of these are jokes, it's just my life..." : migrant narratives and female agency in Shazia Mirza's comedy / Ulla Rathheiser -- The Syrian taxi driver : migrant narratives or narratives of a researcher? / Anton Jakob Escher -- Reluctant stories : silences in women's narratives of war and exile / Marita Eastmond -- Planting the colonial narrative : the migrant letters of James Taylor in Ceylon / Angela McCarthy -- The "Titanic legacy" : collective narratives as resources of diasporic communities / Marie Johanna Karner -- Migrant ethnography on YouTube : "GermanLifeStyle" and the German "refugee crisis" / Mita Banerjee -- The migrant storyteller : mnemonic and narrative strategies in migrant stories / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Silke Meyer.

"Deep-sea mining is a rapidly developing industry. New states, stakeholders and industries are constantly joining the technical race to realise exploitation, given the vast mineral wealth located on the ocean floor. At the same time, States are working hard on developing international, regional and domestic regulations, able to satisfy the technical and environmental challenges posed by deep sea mining"--

"This volume is a call to embrace the power of positionality, telling a new history of law and society through the experiences of successful scholars from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Experts record their positionalities across their research and document what they learned about the law in the process"--

"What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? Focusing on the relation between state violence and racial capitalism, this book excavates an antipolitical worldmaking project which seeks not just better ways of being governed, but an end to governance in its entirety."--

George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.

"This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analyzing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective. The volume deals with questions of how EU Member States' constitutional systems, including the subnational tier, interact with the supranational level. It maps the evolution over time of constitutional strategies in the face of multi-level governance and individuates contextual factors on an empirical basis. The volume includes twelve national reports written by leading experts in constitutional and EU law, and in political science. The countries discussed include the six founding Member States, together with a selection of Member States in which a clear-cut evolution in the national constitutional approach towards the EU can be observed. These include the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. The latter is included as an "extreme" case in which the change in constitutional strategy over time has resulted in withdrawing from the Union altogether. Taken together, the book assembles the building blocks of an explanatory theory of constitutional strategies in the face of multi-level governance. The volume will be of interest to students and researchers in comparative constitutional law, political science and multidisciplinary EU studies. It will also be a valuable resource for policy-makers"--

The significance of Sámi rights in the Nordic countries : an introduction / Dorothée Cambou & Øvind Ravna -- The relevance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to vibrant, viable, and sustainable Sámi communities / Mattias Åhren -- The survey of property rights in Sámi areas of Norway-with focus on the survey of the Karasjok case / Øyvind Ravna -- Indigenous peoples' right to fish : recent recognition of Sámi rights in Finland through civil disobedience and criminal trial / Martin Scheinin & Pia Nuorgam -- The significance of the Fosen decision and its contribution for protecting the cultural rights of the Sámi in the green transition / Dorothée Cambou -- The interplay of politics and jurisprudence in the Girjas court case / Eivind Torp -- The prohibition to weaken the Sámi culture in international law and Finnish environmental legislation / Leena Heinämäki -- The implementation of Sámi land rights in the Swedish Forestry Act / Malin Brännström -- Sámi rights and conservation issues / Elsa Reimersona & Linn Flodén -- A human rights-based approach to Sámi statistics in Norway / Peter Dawson -- Rendering the invisible visible : Sámi rights and data governance / Tamara Krawchenko & Chris McDonald -- Sámi rights and sustainability in early childhood education and care : sustainability in everyday practices in Norwegian kindergartens / Ingvild Åmot & Monica Bjerklund -- Sámi rights in the sustainable transition : concluding remarks / Christina Allard.

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century.

Judging the future and the future of judging : the anthropocene judgments project / Nicole Rogers -- Takayna/Tarkine and the EPBC Act : from heritage frameworks to habitat thinking / Brad Jessup and Christine Parker -- Are nonhuman animals entitled to dignity, privacy, and non-exploitation? a smart dairy farm of the future / Natalia Szablewska and Clara Mancini -- The sea casts its net of justice wide : a speculative judgment for what has been left to the waters of despair / Foluke Adebisi -- Swan by her litigation representative Bella Donna of the champions v administrative algorithmic transformer and Minister for immigration and border protection / André Dao -- The doctrine of quantum entanglement / Kate Galloway -- The case of young people v government of Ireland / Aoife Daly and Orla Kelleher -- The truth and reparations commission : climate reparations for the anthropocene / Zoe Nay and Julia Dehm -- How to blow up a coalmine : the Trial of the Waratah / Nicole Rogers -- Piccadilly circus water lilies : a judgment on participation and place experience in future planning decisions / Chiara Armen -- The problem with cooperative action problems : conceptions of agency and the understanding of environmental crises / Oscar Davis, Bindi Bennett, and Kelly Menzel -- A voice, truth, and treaty thought experiment / Robert Cunningham -- The disillusion of international law / Jo Bird and Greta Bird -- Imagining ecocentric bioregional law in Australia / Michelle Maloney -- A bleak future beckons climate refugees / Ayesha Riaz -- How will 2050 forms of artificial intelligence (AI) judge the anthropocene? / Tania Sourdin and ChatGPT -- After the law / Elena Cirkovic -- Former people of planet earth v the world corporate alliance / Susan Bird and Mark Brady -- More-than-human relations on the third rock from the sun / Michelle Lim.

Flexible Authoritarianism examines the nature of regimes that incentivize individual personal growth and creative thinking while simultaneously repressing political freedom. Both neoliberal techniques and authoritarian practices inform the governmental style that characterizes this kind of regime. The book conveys the look and feel of flexible authoritarianism in Russia and its reception by those who experience the regime first-hand. It demonstrates how flexible authoritarianism is stabilized ideologically by the insignia of cool start-up capitalism, by familiar cultural forms such as the summer camp, and by the authoritarian practices of actors in politics, business, and civic life. The author's approach combines bottom-up and top-down perspectives, drawing on field observations, in-depth interviews, and analyses of documents and video clips. The book critically evaluates how loyalty to a flexible authoritarian regime is produced and contested in Russia among young people who appear likely to occupy key positions in politics, business, the public sector, and creative industries, and who thereby may support the regime in the future. While these potential strategic elites strive to attain the kinds of conveniences enjoyed by middle classes in economically prosperous states and are outspoken in their critique of corruption and favoritism in their country, they also accept and amplify the Russian government's practice of blaming poverty and slow development on passivity, indifference to the common good, and a lack of patriotism among ordinary citizens, rather than on self-serving indifference in the higher echelons of power.

Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international law / Matilda Arvidsson -- Flat ontology and differentiation : in defence of Bennett's vital materialism, and some thoughts towards decolonial new materialisms for international law / Anna Grear -- Aesthetics, new materialism, and legal matter : the 'art' of Anglo-American colonialism / Delaney Mitchell -- The common heritage of kin-kind / Emily Jones, Cristian van Eijk, and Gina Heathcote -- A monument to E. G. Wakefield : new and historical materialist dialogues for a posthuman International law / Jessie Hohmann and Christine Schwöbel-Patel -- Neither national nor international : a posthumanist retelling of tax sovereignty / Hedvig Lärka -- After homo narrans : botany, international law, and senegambia in early racial capitalist worldmaking / Vanja Hamzić -- Terraqueous feminisms and the international law of the sea / Gina Heathcote -- Becoming common -- ecological resistance, refusal, reparation / Marie Petersmann -- The war on drugs as the war on the non-human / Kojo Koram and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera -- Supplanting anthropocentric legalities : can the rule of law tolerate intensive animal agriculture? / Maneesha Deckha -- Will human rights save the 'anthropos' from the 'Anthropocene'? limitations of human rights strategies in responding to the climate crisis / Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp.