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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Collecting Shubra -- Chapter 3: "The Word Became Flesh" -- Chapter 4: Living (and Writing) in Times of Hegemony -- Chapter 5: Tricks that Matter -- Chapter 6: Martyrologies of Rubble -- Chapter 7: Jails with(-out) Miracles -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Introduction: Day Zero in Cape Town -- Christianity and the middle class in South Africa -- Middle-class morality and Christianity in South Africa -- Spiritual and class insecurity in South Africa -- Middle-class moral insecurity in South Africa -- Race, class, and habitus in South African churches -- Anomie and vocation in South African Christian ministry -- Musicking, unity, and sincerity in South African churches -- Conclusion: Covid-19 in Cape Town.

Technologies re-abstract trauma in complex ways. Approaching trauma in its cultural forms, this book considers how technologies of trauma in the guise of cultural artefacts presents moral and ethical challenges from the vernacular of storytelling and witnessing to livestreaming of terror today.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Collecting Shubra -- Chapter 3: "The Word Became Flesh" -- Chapter 4: Living (and Writing) in Times of Hegemony -- Chapter 5: Tricks that Matter -- Chapter 6: Martyrologies of Rubble -- Chapter 7: Jails with(-out) Miracles -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Preface: Hostility as Affective ImperialismChapter 1: Borders and Non-Hominization: Hostility and Unmaking of the HumanChapter 2: The Migrant Other: Animality, Monstrosity and Non-HominizationChapter 3: Calais at the Margins of Civilization: The Jungle and the Racialized Migrant Chapter 4: Migrant Channel Crossings: Death, Drowning and Invasions in BoatsChapter 5: Immigration Incarceration and Detention Estates: Languishing Bodies, Entrapment and ResistanceChapter 6: Razor-Wire and Abject Flesh: Wounded Bodies, Trauma and the Migrant Crisis Chapter 7: Children of the Jungle: The Child Refugee and the Hostile EnvironmentChapter 8: The Vietnamese Box(ed) People: Entombment, Lorry Deaths and Irregular MigrationChapter 9: Conclusion: Empire, Hostility and the Other

"This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society. Africa's history is characterised by youth movements. The continent's youth populations played pivotal roles in the campaign against colonialism, and ever since independence, Africa's youth have been at the center of social mobilisation. Most recently, social media has contributed significantly to a further rise in youth-led social movements. However, the impact of youth voices is often marginalised by patriarchal and gerontocratic approaches to governance, denying them the place, voice, and recognition that they deserve. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, this book analyses the drivers and long-term impacts of youth-led social movements on politics in African societies, especially in the area of peacebuilding. The book draws attention to the innovative ways in which young people continue to seek to re-engineer social space and challenge contexts that deny them their voice, place, recognition and identity. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movement studies, youth studies, peace and conflict studies, history, political sciences, social justice, and African studies"--

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years. The European ⁰́₈migrant crisis⁰́₉ from 2015 onwards has been characterised by an extremely intimidating atmosphere which denies the basic humanity of refugees and migrants. Deep rooted in Western Enlightenment trajectory, this racially-driven politics is linked to the Western theories of scientific superiority which went on to become the basis of eugenics and coloniality as part of modernity. Focusing on the ⁰́₈migrant crisis⁰́₉, Brexit, and the impacts of the global pandemic, this book unpicks the waves of crises and neuroses about the ⁰́₈Other⁰́₉ in Europe and the UK. The chapters analyse the rhetoric of camps, refrigerated death lorries, the notion of channel crossings and ⁰́₈accidental⁰́₉ drownings, the formation of relationship with border architecture such as the razor wire, and corporeal resistance in detention centres through hunger strike. In examining such specific sites of rhetorical articulation, policy formation, social imagination, and its incumbent visuality, the chapters deconstruct the intersection of dominant ideologies, power, knowledge paradigms (including the media) as part of the public sphere and their combined re-mediation of the dispossessed humans in the shores and borders of Europe. This important interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies.

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) play an increasingly important role in the political, economic, and social dynamics that shape daily lives across the world. Encompassing a diverse range of organisations, objectives, and activities, the CSO sector is an expansive terrain characterised by dynamic relationships between leaders, agents of action, the communities, and the global challenges that drive their agenda, which span from poverty to climate emergency to injustice to inequalities. Drawing on case studies from Brazil, India, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Turkey, this book explores the distinct challenges faced by CSO leaders, their current operational practices, and their strategies for future development. The book highlights the roles, contributions, and challenges of young CSO leaders in particular, at a time when they are taking an increasingly active role as agents for change and development. Overall, the book emphasises the ways in which CSO leaders are not only shaped by profound challenges such as Covid-19, but also proactively react and respond. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of global development, business studies, peacebuilding, international relations, and civil society.

"This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa. Youth engagement and contribution to civil society and local peacebuilding can play a crucial role in development, however there is often a lack of effective engagement, policies and opportunities for young people in policy and practice. This book analyses their experiences of civic engagement and community participation and the challenges they face, across diverse areas including youth empowerment, freedom of expression, mobilisation, ideologies, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Drawing on cases from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories, this book offers new insights on how youth are not only are shaped by, but also react to policies, conflict and constraints and challenges. The insights drawn from this interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers of civil society, youth, peacebuilding and development, as well as to policymakers, donors, and NGO staff"--

"Posthuman Capitalism critically reviews the manifestation of capitalist agenda online by examining the phenomenon of the 'posthuman' in the data economy. The chapters examine our posthuman condition, where we are constantly asked to partake in platforms which perform to capitalist agenda while socializing us into new platforms of living, consuming and interacting online. Labelling these modes of our experiential extractions, transactions and re-making of our mortal lives as posthuman capitalism, the book reviews the human entanglements from sociality, friendship, desire, memory, transgressions of privacy and co-production of value through the data economy. Offering innovative and interdisciplinary conceptualisations and vantage points on our contemporary data society, this book will be a key text for scholars and students in the areas of digital media, communication studies, sociology, philosophy and social psychology"--