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Chapter 1- A comparative journey into COVID-19 policies in Europe -- Part 1 - Patterns of crisis decision-making -- Chapter 2- What's in a Name? European uses of States of Exception during COVID-19 -- Chapter 3 -The role of parliaments in exceptional times -- Chapter 4 - Elections and special voting arrangements. -Chapter 4 - Elections and special voting arrangements -- Chapter 5. Varieties of democracies in the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 6 - Territorial countervailing powers under the pandemic -- Part 2 - Human rights protection in crisis times -- Chapter 7 - Limits and lessons of COVID-19 apps -- Chapter 8 - The impact of measures against COVID-19 on freedom of press and expression -- Chapter 9 - Restrictions on religious worship -- Chapter 10 - Freedom of movement -- Chapter 11 - COVID-19 and Asylum Rights -- Part 3 – Non-pharmaceutical interventions -- Chapter 12- Stay at home! A comparative analysis of the implementation of lockdowns as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 13. Masks and social distancing during COVID-19 -- Chapter 14. Education In Times of COVID-19 -- Chapter 15. Compulsory medical examinations and "green pass" -- Chapter 16 - Lockdowns and mobility rate variation in the Covid19 era.

"In Germany and China, leading international relations expert Andreas Fulda looks critically at the increasingly interdependent relationship between the two countries. Drawing on examples from politics, industry, the development and technology sectors and culture, the book explores how successive governments from Helmut Schmidt to Angela Merkel have pursued ever-closer ties to China in the interests of short term economic gain. Fulda explores the danger of this increasing co-dependency not just for Germany, but for Europe and the international world order"--

Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond is a collection of essays in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, an eminent scholar who through the years has embodied and advanced the possibility of collaboration across borders. The volume is presented to her by scholars working on the study of the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, the intercultural contact and migration of knowledge in the Islamic world, and many other topics. Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, José Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rémi Brague, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko HämeenAnttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information Offers the first book-length study dedicated to the relationship between information and aesthetics in Deleuze's thought Argues for the continuing utility of Deleuze's thought in theorising contemporary digital mediaExplores the concept of "noise" as it relates to both Deleuze's thought and information theoryDraws out and clarifies the often-overlooked concept of the "outside" in Deleuze's philosophyTimothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside

Brings Spinoza's philosophy into engagement with contemporary debates on climate changeRe-reads Spinoza's Ethics from a perspective of concern with current climate change issuesBrings the history of philosophy into direct engagement with conceptual aspects of current climate change issuesChallenges common assumptions about Spinoza's 'rationalism', through a fresh look at his treatment of the inter-relations of Reason, Imagination, and EmotionAcknowledges alternative textual interpretations, while making those scholarly disagreements themselves a source of engagement with contemporary issuesCentral to Genevieve Lloyd's approach is a fresh look at Spinoza's critique of what he regards as Descartes' flawed way of imagining the nature and status of human thought in relation to the rest of Nature. Lloyd argues that the influence of the Cartesian model lingers in the contemporary collective imagination. She challenges a common way of reading the Ethics, which reflects and reinforces the figure of Spinoza as a 'rationalist' — committed to the superiority and dominance of Reason within human minds. By offering a more nuanced account of Spinoza's version of Reason, Lloyd brings his philosophy to bear on a range of familiar, but largely unexamined attitudes, which connect the supposed supremacy of Reason within the human mind to humanity's supposed supremacy within Nature

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Truth, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis in the Late Foucault -- 1 On Dreams, Truth, and the Aesthetics of Existence1 -- Acknowledgments -- 2 Foucault in the Cave with Gadamer On Truth, Understanding, and Experience -- Introduction -- On ἀληθεία and ἄλλη θεία in Apology -- The Politics of the Cave -- The Foucauldian Truth -- Conclusion -- 3 Nothing to Do with the Truth? New Reflections on Foucault's Reading of Artemidorus -- How to Interpret Erotic Dreams: Artemidorus in Le Souci de soi -- Sex para phusin, or What the Margin Reveals -- Artemidorus in the Foucauldian History of Truth: Some Questions and Some Clues -- 4 To Dream the Impossible Dream Parrhēsia and Rhetoric (De Oratore 3) -- I -- II -- III -- 5 From True-Confessions to True-Discourse in Late Foucault -- Parrhēsia in the Fonds Foucault -- Public Parrhēsia -- Coming to Parrhēsia through the History of Sexuality -- Parrhēsia as Ethical Challenge -- 6 Confessing in Communities The Genealogical Exclusion of Joy from Late Antique Christianity -- A Genealogy of the Joyful Subject -- Collective and Aesthetic Aspects of Confession: Confession of Sin -- Ars vitae, ars poetica: Confession-of Joy -- Conclusion: Confession-of the Outside -- 7 Artemidorus as Symptom Freud and Foucault -- Introduction: Foucault's Freud and Situating Artemidorus -- Foucault's Freud: Three Steps along the Way -- Artemidorus as Symptom in Freud's Traumdeutung -- Freud, Stekel, and the Crisis of Interpretation -- Artemidorus' Sex Dreams: The Repression of the Returned -- Foucault's Artemidorus: The Return of the Non-repressed -- 8 The Desiring Subject Seeks Pleasure in History Li Yinhe's Sadomasochistic Fictions and the Cultural Revolution.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women in Islamic law. Whereas Muslim conservatives argue that gender-differentiated legal rulings reflect complementary gender roles, Muslim feminists argue that Islamic law has subordinated women and is thus in need of reform. The shared assumption on both sides, however, is that gender fundamentally shapes an individual's legal status. Beyond the Binary explores an expansive cross section of topics in ninth- to twelfth-century Hanafi legal thought, ranging from sexual crimes to consent to marriage, to show that early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles. Saadia Yacoob offers a restorative reading of Islamic law, arguing that its intersectional and relational understanding of legal personhood offers a productive space for Muslim feminists to move beyond critique and instead think with and through the Islamic legal tradition

Studies the captivity and enslavement of Greek Christians across the breadth of the late medieval MediterraneanTranscends the borders of Byzantium and of Byzantine Studies to trace the diaspora of Greek captives across the MediterraneanFounded upon a data set of around 2400 captives and slaves attested in Latin and vernacular archival documentsFocuses on ordinary people, challenging the traditional bias of Byzantine Studies towards the culture and institutions of Constantinopolitan elitesPlaces captives in social, cultural, demographic and political contextEmploys previously unpublished or little-known sources, notably Greek letters written by clergy to help captives raise moneyWritten in accessible English with a simple and clearly labelled structureCaptivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the shrinking Byzantine Empire. By bringing together literary and documentary sources spanning a geographical canvas from the Aegean to Egypt and from Cyprus to Catalonia, this book tells that story in full for the first time. It traces this crisis of captivity from its origins in thirteenth-century Asia Minor to its explosion into a Mediterranean-wide phenomenon, interrogating different types of unfreedom and forced movement and evaluating their significance for Greeks' religious and diplomatic relationships with their neighbours, both Christian and Muslim.This book tells the story of thousands of ordinary people caught up in conflict and dispersed across the Mediterranean against their will. It is the first study to examine the social, cultural and political ramifications of this late medieval trade in Greeks. The book's wide geographical horizons and its accessible style ensure that it will appeal to anyone interested in the medieval Mediterranean or the history of slavery. Its use of previously unpublished or little-known textual sources and its extensive synthesis of Byzantine, Latin European and Islamic sources and scholarship ensure that it will offer new perspectives and revelations for the specialist

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of "corporate Catholicism," James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities between providers and recipients; how these inequities may deepen aid recipients' dependence and lead to resistance to organized benevolence; how institutional financial deficits harmed clients and providers; and how the same modes of charity or philanthropy that previously caused harm can be redeployed to repair damage and rebuild "charitable brands." The culmination of more than a decade of advocacy and research on behalf of the Haitians in Boston, this groundbreaking work exposes how Catholic corporations have strengthened—but also eroded—Haitians' civic power

Frank Lautenberg was the embodiment of the American dream. The son of Eastern European immigrants who toiled in the factories of northern New Jersey, he rose to become a Fortune 500 CEO and eventually a five-term US senator. Yet his is not a simple rags-to-riches tale, but is rather the story of someone who used his newfound affluence and influence to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. Told by one of the people who knew him best, his widow Bonnie, Frankly Speaking reveals the political strategies that made Lautenberg one of the Senate's most powerful advocates for the health and safety of America's citizens. He championed seemingly minor, unglamorous reforms that made a big difference to everyday lives, from raising the national drinking age to preventing domestic abusers from purchasing guns. These campaigns earned him powerful enemies in the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms industries, and he was subjected to some of the most brutal campaign mudslinging in American history. Yet, as this inspiring biography reveals, New Jersey's longest-serving senator was not afraid to take big political risks if it meant standing up for his principles, whether that meant opposing the Iraq War or protecting LGBTQ and women's rights

In 2015, Patricia Roos's twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story—and outlines the possibilities of a more compassionate and effective approach to addiction treatment. Weaving together a personal narrative and a sociological perspective, Surviving Alex movingly describes how even children from "good families" fall prey to addiction, and recounts the hellish toll it takes on families. Drawing from interviews with Alex's friends, family members, therapists, teachers, and police officers—as well as files from his stays in hospitals, rehab facilities, and jails—Roos paints a compelling portrait of a young man whose life veered between happiness, anxiety, success, and despair. And as she explores how a punitive system failed her son, she calls for a community of action that would improve care for substance users and reduce addiction, realigning public health policy to address the overdose crisis