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This article explores the politics of belonging in Iceland in the context of an ethico-political project focused around increased transparency following the country&rsquo ; s 2008 banking collapse. By employing literature on autochthony (i.e., a return to, and interpretation of, &ldquo ; the local&rdquo ; ), it examines the tensions that are reignited within and between nation-states during economic crisis. Through ethnography with ordinary Icelanders and the members of two protest movements, this research shows how Icelanders are cultivating a public voice to navigate the political constraints of crisis and reshaping Icelanders&rsquo ; international identity from below in the wake of the collapse. To this end, the article accounts for the role of populist politics in re-embedding Iceland into the European social imaginary as an economically responsible and egalitarian nation. It then turns to highlight the push for meaningful democratic reform through collaborative, legislative exchange between the government and the people that resulted in a new&mdash ; if not actually implemented&mdash ; constitution. By exploring protest culture in Iceland, the article highlights the importance of public witnessing and empathic solidarity in building intercultural relations in an era of globalized finance and politics.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Governance, Power, and Elephants -- Chapter 3: Green Global Policy Assemblages -- Chapter 4: The Genesis of CBNRM as GGPA in Namibia -- Chapter 5: Climate Change: Local Challenges, Global Opportunities? -- Chapter 6: Assembled Governance from the Local to the Global Community -- Chapter 7: Development, Climate Change, and Green Global Policy Assemblages.

This book examines the politics of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia. CBNRM and similar forms of conservation across southern Africa have long been studied for their potential benefits as domestic policy tools to help improve sustainable development. However, they have often failed to achieve their stated goals. By assessing the initiation, design, implementation and outcomes of CBNRM, the book argues that communities are often unable to attain the degree of empowerment that these forms of resource governance promise. It also considers the impact of climate change on CBNRM programmes, and the responses of international actors involved in their governance. In doing so, the book demonstrates how the power imbalances that are built into the global political economy have ensured that those most marginalized in society are no better off as a result of this new form of resource governance. It will appeal to all those interested in CBNRM, conservation studies and environmental governance in Africa, as well political economy and international relations. Andrew Heffernan is Part-Time Professor in Political Science and International Development at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Exploring Bourdieu and his theories in higher education settings -- Chapter 2. Introducing Bourdieu and higher education -- Chapter 3. Habitus -- Chapter 4. Field -- Chapter 5. Habitus -- Part II: Life in the Modern University -- Chapter 6. Vice-Chancellors and Presidents: Surveying National and International Academic Markets -- Chapter 7. Deans: The Faculty's New Managers -- Chapter 8. Academics: The Business of Teaching and Research -- Chapter 9. The fields of higher education -- Chapter 10. The new structure of the modern university -- Chapter 11. Bibliography.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part I: Prediction Addiction -- Chapter One: False Profits -- Chapter Two: Does History Repeat Itself? -- Chapter Three: Flukes and Mutations -- Part II: What Would You Do If You Were Free? -- Chapter Four: No Available Datasets -- Chapter Five: Go Fast, Go Far -- Chapter Six: Think Like an Artist -- Chapter Seven: Cathedrals -- Part III: Life Happens -- Chapter Eight: Simple, Not Easy -- Chapter Nine: Who Wants to Live Forever? -- Chapter Ten: Be Prepared -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Cover -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part One: Addiction Prediction -- 1 False Profits -- 2 Does History Repeat Itself? -- 3 Well-Ordered Sheep -- Part Two: What Would You Do If You Were Free? -- 4 No Available Datasets -- 5 Go Fast, Go Far -- 6 Living the Questions -- 7 Building Cathedrals -- Part Three: Life Happens -- 8 Simple, Not Easy -- 9 Who Wants to Live Forever? -- 10 Be Prepared -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Endnotes -- Index -- Copyright.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Evolution Ain't Engineering: Animals, Robots, and the Messy Struggle for Existence -- Chapter 3: Demystifying the Intelligent Machine -- Chapter 4: Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology and Existential Risk: A Critique -- Chapter 5: Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare -- Chapter 6: The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 7: Fiction Meets Science: Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Industry -- Chapter 8: Rossum's Mimesis -- Chapter 9: Race and Robotics

Argues that the historical primacy of youth politics in Limpopo, South Africa has influenced the production of generations of nationally prominent youth and student activists - among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, and Peter Mokaba.

"In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women's bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan's book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West." --