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Implications of the confluence of premodern, modern, & postmodern ideologies & the emergence of "strategic ambivalence" in the global society for the viability of progressivist approaches to democracy are investigated. The effects of the emergence of "hypermodern" globalization in contemporary Western society are studied in the context of Belgium. The persistence of globalization since the late 15th century, its connection to capitalist society, & consequences of the appearance of a new globalization for Western nations are reviewed. The cultural dimensions of hypermodernity are examined, highlighting the conflux of various flexibilities & reflexivities, creation of multiple subjectivities, & appearance of a "transitional zone" created by the melding of hypermodernity's multiple forces. Consequently, the establishment of a progressivist approach embedded in radical democratic politics is advocated; the movement in contemporary Belgium to engage radical democracy is discussed. Alternative models of creating a radical-democratic system for hypermodern progressivists are also offered. 69 References. J. W. Parker

It is argued that in order for critical criminology to find a common ground in the contemporary postmodern environment, it is necessary to retheorize & reembrace a utopian vision. Traditionally, critical criminologies were identifiable in their critique of the mainstream political & ideological elements of etiological criminology & their attempts to develop emancipatory ideals, particularly those with potential outside the state system. These practices receded in the late 1970s, due to shifts in Western economic production & consumption & the rise of political conservatism, & was replaced with what is here termed postmodernism's "flexible exploitation" & "legitimation logics". Through the work of idealist theorists, terms such as "society" & "collectivity," along with the notion of "ethics," lost much of their relevance in criminology due to the decentering of universalistic identity & experience. Attempts were made by realist critical criminologists to overcome this fragmentation process, though ironically, these eroded the field's common goal of emancipation by embracing the concept of difference. It is concluded that the new utopian perspective must critique this move toward nihilism, but should retain postmodernism's antisystematic intent. 48 References. J. MacDowell

The Command and Data Management System for Spacelab is described and how it is used to control the Grille Spectrometer, how the experiment data is handled until it finally reaches the Ground Support Equipment in the Payload Operations Control Center for display and storage.

Executive summary In this study, it was investigated whether the mandatory adoption of IFRS from 1 January 2005 by all listed companies in the European Union led to significantly lower levels of earnings management. I found that, despite the stricter character of IFRS compared to national GAAP, accruals-based earnings management has strictly increased as a consequence of the adoption of IFRS. I further found that real earnings management has strictly increased, and that, despite the fact that both manifestations of earnings management strictly increased, due to the introduction of IFRS, they are increasingly used as substitutes of one another. This indicates that management looks for alternatives to manipulate earnings when accruals-based earnings management becomes more difficult, instead of lowering their earnings management activities. I was therefore unable to establish that IFRS has been successful in restricting earnings management

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Eye -- Experience -- Visual Representations of War and Atrocity: The Contributions -- References -- 2 Georges Bataille's Paleolithic Cave Art and the Human Condition -- The Word Is Dead -- Atrocity and the Bourgeois Worldview -- The Lascaux Cave Paintings -- Prohibition and Taboo in Wartime Situations -- The Cave Paintings as Language -- Rebels -- Sovereignty -- References -- 3 The Aesthetics of Violence -- Introduction -- The Phenomenology of the Imaging of War -- Agamben and the Image as Apparatus -- Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: Imaging Jihadi Terrorism and the Construction of the "Subject" -- The They Self of Al-Qaeda and the Transformation of the Subject -- Islamic State: The New Jihadi-Salafist-They -- The Islamic Subject and the Enemy: Aesthesis and the Imagery of the Islamic State -- Closing Reflections -- References -- 4 Images of Atrocity: From Victimhood to Redemption and the Implications for a (Narrative) Victimology -- Introduction -- Kim Phuc: From Napalm Girl to Goodwill Ambassador -- Documentary Photography as Public Narrative -- Documentary Photography and Private Narrative -- War, Atrocity and Victimhood -- Conclusion: Narrative Victimology and Theoretical Lacunae -- References -- 5 Fathers and Sons: Loss and Truth in War Films from Bosnia and Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- The Contexts of War and Postwar -- Telling the Stories: Narrative Plots -- Death on a Full Moon Day (Purahanda Kaluwara) -- Fuse (Gori Vatra) -- Masculine Alterities -- Impairments-The Blind and the Seeing -- Rejecting Community-Outsiders and Keepers of the Memory -- Resisting State Ideology-Unheroic Manhood -- Into Patriarchies-Fathers and Daughters -- Toward Conclusions -- References -- 6 Implicit Criminologies in the Filmic Representations of Genocide -- Introduction.

"Since its inception criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the provocative possibility that criminology does not know what the object of its study is; it merely knows what it is called. Aiming to foster dissent among those who claim to know what criminology is about - and those who don't - writers from different schools of thought come together in this collection to answer the question "what is criminology about?" Building on a resurgence of interest in the nature of the object of criminology, their responses aim to deepen, and to expand, the current debate. They will, then, be of considerable interest to contemporary proponents and students of criminology and law"--

When the call for justice comes through the grief-stricken plea of the mother of a murdered child, it carries a potent affective charge, levying an unassailable demand for our concern and commanding urgent action. Today we are regularly confronted with images of suffering and vengeful crime victims. What kind of response can be envisioned as just? This article stages some encounters arising from press photographs of mothers bereaved by violent acts of criminality. The reflections presented here pose a grave test to the theory of the face. How to respond to the face of the hater, and specifically to the black wrath of the mother of the murdered child? How is the passage from ethics to justice to be negotiated?

Books reviewed in this article:Vincenzo Ruggiero, Movements in the city. Conflict in the European metropolisSophie Body‐Gendrot, The social control of cities? A comparative perspective