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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is "An Effort to Understand"? -- I. Life, Communicated -- Communication Is Everything You Do and Everything You Never Do -- Communicating Is Hard Because Being a Person Is Hard -- Ask for What You Want -- Communication Can Bring Us Together, Even in Mutual Appreciation of How Far We Are Apart -- In Communication, Your Enemies Are Your Friends -- When I Get Tired of Listening to the Living, I Talk to the Dead -- If You Know How It's Going to Turn Out, It's Not Communication -- In Communication, the Style Is Part of the Substance -- "Civility" Is Not Communication -- II. Talking Heads: An Empty Limousine Pulled Up, and America's Leaders Got Out (and Read Prepared Remarks) -- Talking with the Poor, and Communicating with the Rich -- Authenticity as the New Eloquence -- Communication Is Action! -- The Unbearable Weight of Gravitas -- If I've Told You a Thousand Times, I've Told You Once -- Your People Aren't Any More Cowardly and Selfish Than You Are -- Once Upon a Time … A Story about Rhetorical Pink Slime -- Real Leadership -- III. What Our Leaders Need from Us (Hint: They Need Us to Grow Up) -- Follow the Leader? -- Speaking Truth to Power: Talking to Myself -- An Open Letter to the "Man in the Arena" -- Our Leaders Have Plenty to Be Vague About -- We Deserve Leaders Who Act Like They Like Us -- "Because They Know, They Understand" -- Civics Is as Civics Does -- IV. We, Citizen: American Patriots Don't Call Their Fellow Americans Nasty Names -- Other Life, Not So Far Away -- We'd Get Along Better if We Listened Better-to Ourselves -- Do You "Vote Your Interests"? -- Hey, Washington: This Can Go All the Way Bad -- Republicans Have Feelings, Too -- Universities Are Not Safe Spaces -- What's Really "Deplorable"? Taking Communication Out of Context.

Abstract This paper presents an overview of the Canadian state's refugee determination processes for persons lodging asylum claims in Canada on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity expression (SOGIE). Canada has an international reputation for being a welcoming nation to SOGIE (as well as other categories of) refugees, a reputation that is much promoted by the Canadian government and mainstream media. However, in my ethnographic research with SOGIE refugee claimants navigating the Canadian refugee determination process, I reveal that claimants must quickly learn how to construct an 'authentically' gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender narrative that meets refugee adjudicators' standards of credibility, or risk being identified as a 'fake' refugee, and thus face incarceration and/or deportation. I argue that sexuality now forms a crucial component of the nation-state's gate-keeping apparatus, with uneven effects for queer migrants.

Through various policy mechanisms deployed in the last seven years, the South African government has pursued the localization of renewable energy manufacturing. These efforts are related to the Department of Trade and Industry's broader goals to industrialize the South African economy by increasing the range and value-add of domestically manufactured products. This thesis uses global value chain analysis to determine what ways local wind and solar manufacturing firms relate to this goal by pursuing innovation, upgrading, workforce development, and regional market penetration strategies. The author uses the theoretical framework of Vertically Specialized Industrialization (VSI) as outlined by Milberg, Jiang, and Gereffi as the basis for assessing firm-level governance strategies. The research was performed through semi-structured telephonic interviews with senior level staff at renewable energy firms and non-governmental organizations, as well as a review of public reports. The findings revealed that wind and solar firms are not significantly pursuing upgrading or innovation strategies as associated with VSI. This is likely the result of insufficient market demand and policy incentives, as well as competition from countries with comparative advantage.

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The penal outstation of Newcastle, New South Wales was an early nineteenth-century British experiment in secondary punishment. Its twenty years of operation from 1804 to 1821 encompassed the Rum Rebellion of 1807, the expansive governorship of Lachlan Macquarie and a population boom of convicts and free settlers following the Napoleonic wars. Defined by contemporary methods of corporal punishment, penology and martial law, it would establish itself as a productive hard labour settlement that at various times provided the new colony – especially Sydney Town – with coal, timber, salt and building lime. It was also a uniquely intimate and human world that housed, fed, broke and occasionally redeemed its motley crew of gaolers and reoffending convicts, whose original population of 100 peaked at a 1000 by 1820. It is also the setting for 'The Heat of Deeds', a creative nonfiction, true crime narrative experiment by Dr Murray, which reconstructs the incomplete, archival traces of some of its residents into stories grounded in the squalor, violence, resilience, desperation and grace of the lived, convict experience. The following extract refers to the outstation's final years as a penal facility.