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What are the role and place of secret services and covert operations in democratic settings? How do states balance the need for both secrecy and openness? What are the challenges to creating effective intelligence practices? Focusing on these crucial questions, the authors of The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies examine the purposes and processes of intelligence communities in today's security environment

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component -- CHAPTER 3 Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala Its Historical Evolution from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 4 Central and North Mexican Shamans -- CHAPTER 5 A Comparative Analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans -- CHAPTER 6 Mistress of Lo Espiritual -- CHAPTER 7 Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Indigenous Midwives From the Mexico–United States Border to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec -- CHAPTER 8 Maya Midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala -- CHAPTER 9 Relations between Government HealthWorkers and Traditional Midwives in Guatemala -- CHAPTER 10 Mesoamerican Bonesetters -- CHAPTER 11 Mexican Physicians, Nurses, and SocialWorkers -- CHAPTER 12 Mesoamerican Healers and Medical Anthropology: Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- References Cited -- Contributors to the Volume -- Index

This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and contemporary debate. Fully updated, it contains: • a new foreword by Professor Kate Pickett, acclaimed co-author of The Spirit Level • two new chapters on disability and chronic illness, and UK education policy respectively • updated examples and data, reflecting changes in black and minority ethnic demographics in the UK • a post-script from a minority student on her struggle to make a new home in Britain Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social policy, sociology and applied social sciences, its global themes of immigration, austerity and securitisation also make it of considerable interest to policy and welfare practitioners

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE -- Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion -- Response -- Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino/a Theology -- Response -- PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING BODIES AND REPRESENTATION -- Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh -- Response -- Using Women: Racist Representations and Cross-Racial Ethics -- Response -- PART THREE. LITERATURE AND RELIGION -- This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Response -- Freedom Is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology -- Response -- PART FOUR. MUSIC AND RELIGION -- The Browning of Theological Thought in the Hip-Hop Generation -- Response -- The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur -- Response -- PART FIVE. TELEVISION AND RELIGION -- TV "Profits": The Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices -- Response -- Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater -- Response -- PART SIX. VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION -- Response -- The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation -- Response -- PART SEVEN. FOOD AND RELIGION -- She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practice of Political Activism -- Response -- The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making -- Response -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Abstract
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic compromised access to essential meals for many children. In response, a public/private partnership known as the Emergency Meals-to-You program was established to deliver meals in affected rural areas of the United States. This study builds on this using a scorecard approach adapted from the United Nations Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient to identify and prioritize actions for strengthening food system resilience. A pilot food system resilience scorecard facilitated data collection from five workshops with professionals familiar with the program, emergency management, public health, or food systems. Data analysis and interpretation identified nine priority actions. These included integrating the food sector and schools within emergency management, mapping local food sector capacities, working with schools to receive de-identified data about nutritional, allergy and other health needs, developing disaster plans for sustaining food access at the school district level, and protecting ecosystem services and agricultural areas. There is an urgent need to embed the food sector and schools within emergency management. These systems are local, designed to coordinate complicated tasks in crises, multidisciplinary, and are used in many countries. Providing a ready-made framework for locally driven initiatives to strengthen food systems now and into the future.