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This book presents the first sustained analysis of the digital game industry's carbon footprint and its role in exacerbating global climate change. Identifying the ways videogames can actually help combat the climate crisis, it argues for the urgency of transitioning to a fully carbon neutral games industry, exploring the challenges and opportunities inherent in this undertaking. Beginning with an analysis of debates around the persuasive power of games, the book argues that real impact can only be achieved by focusing on the material conditions of game production - by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making, selling, and playing games, as well as the hardware used to play them. Abraham makes a compelling argument that a sustainable games industry is possible, and outlines the actions that everyone can take to reduce the harms that digital games cause to people and planet

Louisiana's Angola prison is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. However, it is also known for its significant musical contributions. Instrument of the State combines oral histories and archival research to piece together an account of how prisoners at Angola have used music for over 120 years. This book expands folkloric definitions of 'prison music' and considers the broader musicality of the prison as a way of understanding state power and the fragments of hope and joy that remain in its wake.

"In this timely book, Benjamin J. Cohen identifies and analyses a range of critical pathologies currently afflicting the field of international political economy (IPE) and offers remedies to restore the field's vitality. The book addresses the purpose of IPE as a field of study, highlighting the key questions posed by scholars since the modern field's inception, and explores how research seeks to engage with politics in practice. Tackling contemporary factionalism in the field, chapters consider IPE's remarkable diversity and fragmentation of research traditions across the globe and draw attention to the lack of clear methods and behavioural assumptions established as 'best practice' internationally. To rejuvenate the field, Cohen argues, reforms are needed that would both encourage more policy engagement by IPE scholars and maximize opportunities to enjoy the benefits of the field's diversity. The book offers a cutting-edge research agenda, emphasising the need for collaboration across scholarly divides and the obligations of leading professional associations and societies to countervail the forces that keep these groups separated. A powerful critique and a rousing call-to-arms, this book is crucial reading for scholars of IPE in search of innovative ways to develop new research and revitalise the field as a whole. It also offers key insights for students who need to understand the challenges facing IPE and its potential research trajectories."

American Crusade -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860-1920 -- 1. "The God of Justice Is the God of Battles": Northern White Protestants and the Civil War -- 2. "Heavy Is the Guilt That Hangs upon the Neck of This Nation": The African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Civil War -- 3. "A War of Mercy": White Mainline Protestants and the Spanish-American War -- 4. "I Look upon This War as an Impudent Crime": Roman Catholicism, Americanization, and the Spanish-American War -- 5. "A Louder Call for War": The Protestant Mainline and the Twentieth-Century Crusade -- 6. "There Will Be a Day of Reckoning for Our Country": Missouri Synod Lutherans Face World War I -- Conclusion: The Mere Echo of the Warring Masses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conflict to be a modern-day crusade. American Crusade examines the "holy war" mentality prevalent between 1860-1920, juxtaposing mainline Protestant support for these wars with more hesitant religious voices: Catholics, German-speaking Lutherans, and African-American Methodists. The specific theologies and social locations of these more marginal denominations made their ministries much more critical of the crusading mentality. Religious understandings of the nation, both in support of and opposed to armed conflict, played a major role in such ideological contestation. Wetzel's work questions traditional periodizations and suggests that these three wars should be understood as a unit. Grappling with the views of America's religious leaders, supplemented by those of ordinary people, provides a fresh way of understanding the three major American wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE The American School -- CHAPTER TWO The British School -- CHAPTER THREE A Really Big Question -- CHAPTER FOUR The Control Gap -- CHAPTER FIVE The Mystery of the State -- CHAPTER SIX What Have We Learned? -- CHAPTER SEVEN New Bridges? -- References -- Index

For over a quarter of a century, the author has ventured systematically into the emerging field of international political economy, an area traditionally dominated by political scientists. Crossing Frontiers - the title refers both to national and disciplinary boundaries - brings together for the first time a dozen of his essays. These essays exhibit a pragmatism, a preference for practical applications over abstract theory, and a willingness to face the complexity of the real world rather than adopt simplifying assumptions.

"Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Not only have aesthetic values shaped the making of environmental law, such law also governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One. From Currency to Capabilities -- Two. From Capabilities to Statecraft -- Three. A Theory of Currency Statecraft -- Four. Youth -- Five. Maturity -- Six. Decline -- Seven. When Statecrafts Collide -- Eight. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Flint first : the injustice of the Flint water crisis -- How did it happen? : two tales of the origins of the crisis -- Poisoned by policy : the political narrative of the crisis -- The pro-democracy struggle in Michigan and the pre-history of the water movement in Flint -- The rise of the water warriors : transforming personal troubles into political action -- Demanding the impossible : deliberation and activism in the battle over the river -- The water is (not) safe : citizen science and the science wars -- From poisoned people to people power : fighting for justice, expanding.

"The Dutch Republic was the most religiously diverse land in early modern Europe, gaining an international reputation for toleration. In Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, Benjamin Kaplan explains why the Protestant Reformation had this outcome in the Netherlands and how people of different faiths managed subsequently to live together peacefully. Bringing together fourteen essays by the author, the book examines the opposition of so-called Libertines to the aspirations of Calvinist reformers for uniformity and discipline. It analyzes the practical arrangements by which multiple religious groups were accommodated. It traces the dynamics of religious life in Utrecht and other mixed communities. And it explores the relationships that developed between people of different faiths, especially in 'mixed' marriages"--

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The American school -- America's "Left-Out" -- The British school -- Britain's "Far-Out" -- Continental Europe -- Latin America -- China -- The geography of IPE -- What have we learned? -- Index