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Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the corridors of power during a major crisis or after a ministerial reshuffle? How do new government ministers get to grips with their portfolios and priorities? Who guides and supports them? And why, sometimes during events such as Partygate do things go wrong?In this meticulously researched book, former senior civil servant Alun Evans lifts the lid on a vital but little-known cog in the machinery of government: private office and the private secretaries who work within it.Private secretaries exercise huge influence, and yet most of us have never heard of them. They are the ones who manage the flow of work, who whisper quietly in ministers ears and who have been Prime Ministers closest, most trusted and most discreet confidants. At critical moments in our national history from the Falklands War to the Westland affair, from Black Wednesday to the 2008 financial crash, from New Labour to the coalition government they have been central but hidden players.With exceptional access to former Prime Ministers and decision-makers, Evans explores what private office is and why it matters to British democracy. He argues that following the egregious constitutional breaches of Boris Johnsons premiership, private office must once again be taken seriously so it can return to being the independent junction box of government and a vital part of the British constitution.

Metal Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary research field. However, different specialist traditions, differing theoretical and methodological approaches, and also terminological "translation difficulties" make collaboration within the field difficult. This volume aims to explore the potential and limitations of interdisciplinary work by examining an example area - the laws of Heavy Metal - from the point of view of central disciplines. Laws are regarded as social conventions - i.e., rules that are made by human beings and are culturally stable. Examples of laws include conventions of musical language, the dress code in the metal scene, behavioural norms, and conventions in writing song lyrics.The volume includes contributions from the fields of law, social ethics, art history, religious studies, musicology, sociology, linguistics, and cultural history.

In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous.This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldiers responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces.

Muitos cristãos proeminentes afirmam que a igreja cristã precisa se render à teoria evolutiva contemporânea e, portanto, modificar ideias bíblicas tradicionais a respeito da criação da vida. Defendem

A alimentação é uma necessidade fisiológica básica, um direito humano e um ato sujeito a tabus culturais, crenças e diferenças no âmbito social, étnico, filosófico, religioso e regional. Já a nutriçã

Bildmedien wie Filme, Skulpturen, Fotografien, Comics oder die verschiedenen, im Internet zirkulierenden visuellen Inszenierungen stellen Orte dar, wo nahe an den Sinnen emotional aufgeladene und oft ambivalente Bilder in Bezug auf Identitat und Andersheit verbreitet werden. Dabei werden sowohl Selbst- als auch Fremdbilder figuriert, zelebriert oder auch problematisiert. Zugleich fungiert Fremdheit vor allem in jungerer Zeit vermehrt als Spiegel des Eigenen wovon zum Beispiel Bilder des exotischen oder pittoresken Nomaden Zeugnis geben.Der Band setzt sich in pluraler Weise mit Sichtbarkeiten in Zusammenhang mit Identitatskonstitutionen auseinander und vereint demensprechend Beitrage aus verschiedensten kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskursschulen. Er zeichnet nach, wie Vorstellungen und Gewissheiten in Bezug auf Selbst und Andersheit und darauf, was als das Eigene und das Fremde gilt, auch uber Artefakte der Visuellen Kultur entstehen und in Zirkulation gehalten werden. Die Beitrage thematisieren aber auch, wo und in welcher Weise Bildmedien an diesbezuglichen Auseinandersetzungen und Verschiebungen beteiligt sind. Denn Bilder konnen zu Ereignissen werden, die Konflikte anstoen und Ubergange ("Konversionen") zwischen Weltsichten provozieren. Sie konnen unsere Vorstellungskraft aber auch anregen und das Gestalten weiterer Bilder in Gang setzen. Ein Fokus des Bandes liegt darauf, wie Bildmedien an aktuellen politischen und kulturalisierten Auseinandersetzungen beteiligt sind.

Mitte Marz 2018 skandalisierten Medien die Datenberatungsfirma Cambridge Analytica und den Milliardenkonzern Facebook wegen fragwurdiger Methoden, die wahrend der Brexit-Kampagne und des US-Wahlkampfs 2016 Anwendung fanden. Die Affare um die beiden Unternehmen machte deutlich, dass viele Skandalfalle nicht an Landergrenzen Halt machen und je nach kulturellem Hintergrund unterschiedlich beurteilt werden."Scandalogy 2: Cultures of Scandals Scandals in Culture" vereint aktuellste Forschungsergebnisse internationaler Forscher zum Themenfeld "Skandale". Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf der Skandalberichterstattung, etwa durch eine Langzeitstudie in Grobritannien oder durch eine Analyse der Berichterstattung uber Spionage im Kalten Krieg in den USA. Andere Beitrage widmen sich Online-Skandalisierungformen wie dem sogenannten "Shit Storm".Der Sammelband richtet sich an Forscher und Studenten, insbesondere in den Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften, der Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie. Die Befunde sind auerdem fur Berufspraktiker, vor allem fur PR-Berater, Pressesprecher und Krisenkommunikationsexperten, von hohem Interesse.

The precise measurement of media use and exposure to media content posits currently one of the main methodological challenges in communication research. Against this background, new communication technologies have been gaining particular importance because they change existing patterns of media use and create new types of media use. At the same time, these technologies do not only present a challenge for communication research, but they also provide new opportunities for the assessment of media use.The volume regards current developments and trends in the measurement of media use and exposure from various perspectives. Contributions deal with the refinement and advancement of classical approaches, and new methods and measures of assessing media use are introduced and evaluated. They also discuss the advantages and challenges of using online behavioral data as indicators for media exposure. Contributions tackle questions how different methods of measuring media use and exposure can be combined to gain a more accurate picture and what pitfalls can occur.

Kinder als Uberlebende der NS-Verfolgung und als Displaced Persons nach 1945.Im Mittelpunkt des Jahrbuchs 2017 des International Tracing Service stehen Kinder und Heranwachsende als Displaced Persons (DPs). Der Band bietet Einblicke in individuelle und gesellschaftliche Nachwirkungen des Holocaust und der NS-Zwangsarbeit sowie in die Strukturen und Praktiken alliierter Hilfsorganisationen nach 1945. Zudem werden Ansatze fur die historisch-politische Bildungsarbeit zu DPs vorgestellt. Angesichts der aktuellen Migrationsbewegung und der groen Zahl unbegleiteter minderjahriger Fluchtlinge gewinnt die Auseinandersetzung mit den sozialen und politischen Herausforderungen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs auch fur die Gegenwart neue Relevanz.Die Beitrage dokumentieren eine internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung, die vom 30. Mai bis 1. Juni 2016 im Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum in Dachau stattfand.

Regardless of social rank and religion, whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim, Arab women in the middle ages played an important role in the functioning of society. This book is a journey into their daily lives, their private spaces and public roles. First the reader is introduced into the womens sanctuaries, their homes and what occurs within its realm - marriage and contraception, childbirth and childcare, culinary traditions, body and beauty rituals - providing an insight into the rights and rituals prevalent among the different communities of the time. But women were also very present in the public arena and made important contributions in the fields of scholarship and the affairs of state. A number of them were benefactresses, poets, calligraphers, teachers and sales women. Others were singing girls, professional mourners, bath-attendants and prostitutes. How these women managed their daily affairs, both personal and professional, defined their roles in the wider spheres of society. Drawing from the Islamic traditions, as well as legal documents, historical sources and popular chronicles of the time, this book offers an informative study.

La violencia de género sigue siendo desgraciadamente una realidad, un tema de actualidad y una cuenta pendiente en todas las sociedades, no debiendo olvidar que no hay un único tipo de violencia y que se deben tomar mas medidas efectivas para su erradicacion. Esta marcada e influenciada por las relaciones de poder que socialmente se han ido trasmitiendo y donde la supremacia masculina y el sistema patriarcal y androcentrico siguen estando presente en todos los ambitos, llevando a las mujeres a una situacion de desigualdad y discriminacion.A traves de la lectura detallada de los distintos capitulos de este libro ?La intervencion en violencia de genero desde diversos ambitos?, se va a ir profundizando en el papel, importancia, abordaje, casuisticas y particularidades que tienen dicha tematica en los diversos ambitos estudiados, como son, entre otros, la salud, la comunicacion, la economia, la legislacion, la educacion y la pedagogia. De ese paseo por areas que aparentemente parecen tan diversas, se vislumbra como todas ellas confluyen en puntos comunes y elementos que siempre estan presentes cuando se trata de desigualdad y violencia de genero.

As the Internet Age endures and expands, Peter K. Fallon peers into the Pandoras Box of our age. A twenty-first century update to Jacques Elluls masterful sociological study Propaganda, Propaganda 2.1 explores how the digital revolution has transformed the boundaries between individuals, institutions, and centres of power. Coupling historical analysis with a wealth of current examples, Fallon exposes the intricate and insidious ways propaganda alters our daily realities. Propaganda 2.1 is divided into three sections: propaganda 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1. Propaganda 1.0 compares the popular conception of propaganda with persuasive techniques such as rhetoric and coercion; 2.0 reveals how the development of moveable-type printing built the foundations of modern propaganda; and, finally, 2.1 inhabits the post-truth world in its totality. Whilst the media landscape continually shifts, Propaganda 2.1s analysis is an opportunity to tackle this new reality.

What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a major stage in history, recent years have seen the chiefdom come in for increased attention. As its importance has been more fully recognized, it has become the object of serious scholarly analysis and interpretation. In this volume specialists in political evolution draw on data from ethnography, archaeology, and history and apply fresh insights to enhance the study of the chiefdom. The papers present penetrating analyses of many aspects of the chiefdom, from how this form of political organization first arose to the role it played in giving rise to the next major stage in the development of human society--the state.

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result is blasphemy against socialisms canon of saints. Marx and Engels publicly advocated genocide in 1849; Ruskin called himself a violent Tory and a Kings man; and Shaw held the working classes in utter contempt. Drawing on an impressive range of sources from Robert Owen to Ken Livingstone, the author demonstrates that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantageous to the poor. There have even been socialist monarchs - Napoleon III was one. Two chapters of the book study Hitlers claim that the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx, and bring to light the common theoretical basis of the beliefs of Stalin and Hitler which led to death camps. As a literary critic, George Watsons concern is to pay proper respect to the works of the founding fathers of socialism, to attend to what they say and not what their modern disciples wish they had said. The dust grows thick on many of these tomes, while present-day socialists follow a few ossified slogans plucked selectively from the best-known books. Socialist ideas are now rescued from priggish and woolly-thinking moralists so that genuine debate can be revived. This invigorating book forces the reader to abandon long-standing assumptions in political thought. It is certain to ruffle feathers, blue as well as red.

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result is blasphemy against socialisms canon of saints. Marx and Engels publicly advocated genocide in 1849; Ruskin called himself a violent Tory and a Kings man; and Shaw held the working classes in utter contempt. Drawing on an impressive range of sources from Robert Owen to Ken Livingstone, the author demonstrates that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantageous to the poor. There have even been socialist monarchs - Napoleon III was one. Two chapters of the book study Hitlers claim that the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx, and bring to light the common theoretical basis of the beliefs of Stalin and Hitler which led to death camps. As a literary critic, George Watsons concern is to pay proper respect to the works of the founding fathers of socialism, to attend to what they say and not what their modern disciples wish they had said. The dust grows thick on many of these tomes, while present-day socialists follow a few ossified slogans plucked selectively from the best-known books. Socialist ideas are now rescued from priggish and woolly-thinking moralists so that genuine debate can be revived. This invigorating book forces the reader to abandon long-standing assumptions in political thought. It is certain to ruffle feathers, blue as well as red.

Tracing the History of Abortion in America by Looking beyond the Laws to the Dramatic Stories and Colorful Personalities of the People They TouchedFifty years ago, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion-on-demand sparked nationwide tensions that continue to this day. In the decades since that ruling, abortion opponents and proponents have descended on the Capitol each year for marches and protests. But this story didnt begin with the Supreme Court in the 1970s; arguments about abortion have been a part of American history since the 17th century. So how did we get here?The Story of Abortion in America traces the long cultural history of this pressing issue from 1652 to today, focusing on the street-level activities of those drawn into the battles willingly or unwillingly. Authors Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas show complex lives on both sides: Some sacrificed much to help the poor and others sacrificed the helpless to empower themselves. The Story of Abortion in America argues that whatever happens legally wont end the debate, but it will affect lives. A Fair Survey of the History of the Debate: Opening with a foreword by renowned social conservative thinker Robert P. George, this book explores historic cases and key cultural moments from 1652 to 2022 Examines 5 Selling Points Used by Each Side in Different Eras: Anatomy, Bible, Community, Danger, and Enforcement Chronicles the History of Abortion through Personal Narratives: Includes the memorable stories of Isaac Hathaway, Susan Warren, Elizabeth Lumbrozo, John McDowell, Hugh Hodge, Madame Restell, Augustus St. Clair, Inez Burns, Robert Dickinson, Sherri Finkbine, Henry Hyde, John Piper, Lila Rose, Terrisa Bukovinac, Mark Lee Dickson, and many others Written for a Diverse Audience: While particularly useful for Christians who want to understand the history of abortion and its impact on American politics and culture, the book speaks to anyone who cares about abortion

The words of Martin Luther King Jr.s "I Have a Dream" speech have become enshrined in US history. But after the end of Kings generation of leadership, what happened to the African American struggle for freedom? Like the ancient Israelites, the African American community has survived a four-hundred-year collective trauma. What will it take for them to reach the promised land that King foresawto be truly free at last?In this classic historical and cultural study, Carl Ellis offers an in-depth assessment of the state of African American freedom and dignity. Stressing how important it is for African Americans to reflect on their roots, he traces the growth of Black consciousness from the days of slavery to the 1990s, noting especially the contributions of King and Malcolm X. Ellis examines elements of Black culture and offers a distinct perspective on how God is active in culture more broadly. Free at Last? concludes with a call for new generations of "jazz theologians" and cultural prophets to revitalize the African American church and expand its cultural range. The book also includes a helpful glossary of people, events, and terms.Ellis writes, "It is my prayer that the principles contained in this book will play a role in building bridges of understanding and facilitating reconciliation where there has been alienation." With a new preface by the author, this groundbreaking book is now available as part of the IVP Signature Collection.

La pandemia causada por el COVID 19 irrumpió en las ciudades alterando la vida pública, social, personal y privada, estimulando el repliegue al espacio doméstico y enfatizando la crísis de cuidados. El espacio publico se manifesto sobre todo como lugar de riesgo y, a la vez, de necesaria subsistencia visibilizando las fronteras de desigualdad social, cultural, urbana y de genero. La crisis de lo domestico y de lo publico en tiempos de pandemia es una obra que se adentra en las complejas dinamicas que esta transformacion desencadeno en la Ciudad de Mexico, Ciudad Juarez y Nogales, analizando los efectos en la experiencia cotidiana de habitar la ciudad. Las catorce contribuciones que integran esta obra producto de una investigacion colectiva, discuten como la reconfiguracion de la relacion entre el espacio privado, el espacio domestico y el espacio de lo publico tuvieron efectos en el trabajo, el cuidado, las formas de comunicacion, de participacion y de resistencia, asi como en la manera de habitar la ciudad vivida por personas, grupos y clases diferentes y desiguales. Desde las centralidades urbanas hasta las periferias las y los autores exploran la vida urbana, la agudizacion de las brechas sociales y de genero, asi como las respuestas ciudadanas en el contexto de transito hacia un modelo de desarrollo, gestion y gobierno diferente al neoliberal. Este libro es una invitacion a comprender las transformaciones de la ciudad, de la vida publica, su relacion con lo domestico y a imaginar futuros urbanos resilientes y solidarios para construir un orden social, economico, cultural y ambiental que haga posible el derecho a la ciudad.

Carl R. Trueman and Other Christian Evangelical Scholars Examine the Life and Work of Renowned Catholic, Social Conservative Thinker Robert P. GeorgeRobert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, is one of the most influential conservative intellectuals of his generation. Among many honors and accolades, George received the US Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush and served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Though a Catholic himself, Georges influence has transcended traditional religious categories to shape evangelical discourse on politics, ethics, and political philosophy throughout his career. In this thorough introduction and careful analysis of Georges work for Protestant audiences, editor Andrew T. Walker gathers essays from high profile evangelical writers and academicsincluding Carl R. Trueman, Hunter Baker, Jennifer Marshall Patterson, and Scott Klusendorfto explore subjects such as faith and reason, Georges New Natural Law theory, and how to collaborate across ideological lines. Social Conservatism for the Common Good helps Christian evangelicals understand Georges philosophy and apply it to their own cultural engagement and public witness.Biography of Influential Conservative Scholar Robert P. George: Explores the breadth of his political philosophy and activism, as well as his relevance to the evangelical community Engaging Political Analysis from a Biblical Perspective: With a foreword by US Senator Ben Sasse, this book covers important cultural and academic topics including human rights, social and public ethics, and pro-life issues Ideal Resource for Evangelical Scholars and Thinkers: Written for pastors, students, and those interested in politics, this robust book appeals to readers of Carl R. Truemans The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Las Reflexiones basadas en Género son una compilación de repertorios de resistencia, incidencia y movilización social en clave feminista. Desde las artes, los saberes y la investigación, textos e ilustraciones comparten experiencias academicas, comunitarias, militantes y politicas. En este libro se discuten determinaciones economicas, ideologicas y culturales dominantes que naturalizan lugares de opresion, explotacion y discriminacion a traves de la apropiacion de los cuerpos, los territorios, las identidades y los lugares de enunciacion.Algunas Reflexiones interrogan el Genero como categoria binaria que sostiene mandatos machistas y misoginos desde una posicion epistemica que reproduce el discurso de la normalizacion de la sexualidad; otras comparten experiencias sanadoras y de reparacion, que si bien no se configuran como terapeuticas, posibilitan nombrar, transitar y resignificar violencias desde la escritura y la literatura; finalmente, otras comparten la experiencia de incorporar una perspectiva de genero en las organizaciones politicas mixtas, reivindicando las luchas de las mujeres, diversidades sexuales y disidencias del genero por sus derechos en estos espacios.Este libro es un ejercicio colectivo que articula a activistas, organizaciones politicas y feministas de la region con la Universidad del Valle seccional Buga. Invita a compartir e intercambiar apuestas de movilizacion social en defensa de los derechos humanos.