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A fresh and non-stereotypical take on smuggling in Latin America. Contraband Cultures reframes smuggling activities across Latin America (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas through the lenses of kinship, political movements, economic exchange, and resistance to capitalist state hegemony, countering the popular representations of smuggling in the region as chaotic, lawless, violent, and exotic. This book includes a broad range of chapters from social science and humanities scholars, and it uses various methodologies, theoretical traditions, and analytic approaches to explore the efficacy and valence of smuggling as a lens to examine personhood, materiality, statehood, and political (dis)connection across Latin America. Its combination of historic documentation and contemporary ethnographic research highlights the development of these cultural practices while grounding them in the capitalist and colonial refashioning of the entire region since the sixteenth century.

Diversity equity and inclusion meet foreign language and translation education. In Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education, editors Alejandro Bolaños, García-Escribano, and Mazal Oaknín, emphasize the latest developments in literary and audiovisual translation education and teaching foreign languages while exploring the relevance of equality, diversity, and inclusion. They propose best practices and pieces of training, inviting readers to incorporate social issues affecting marginalized groups in their language and translation teaching practices.

An overdue criticism of large-scale solar energy adoption. Solar energy is the world's largest growing source of power. Recently, this energy transition has produced a series of cognate challenges and conflicts in diverse geographies, yielding effects far beyond electricity generation. Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions illustrates how solar energy governance--both state-based and market-driven--is evolving to address these conflicts. Throughout the book, leading energy scholars examine relevant case studies, drawing necessary attention to the multitude of issues with solar power use, including formulating new place-specific solar energy visions and strategies, financing specific deployment scales, expanding and replacing electricity infrastructure, accessing land, resolving conflicts with competing land uses, incorporating charging technologies for transport and storage, adopting flexible energy production/consumption relationships, displacing fossil fuel energy production with renewables, enabling new energy ownership models, and addressing environmental and social injustices across the value chain of solar expansion.

An interdisciplinary and insightful examination of heritage studies. Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies offers succinct and accessible analyses of the current debates, intellectual legacies, and practical innovations on heritage value today. Using archaeology, anthropology, history, and geography, this multidisciplinary textbook is designed to support students, researchers, and practitioners, inviting them to review discussions of key problems and argumentative interventions in heritage studies.

Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures is the fifth volume in the series of Fabricate publications. The first conference - 'Making Digital Architecture' - explored the ways in which technology, design and industry are shaping the world around us. Since then, we have become finely attuned to the negative impacts of this shaping. The 2024 conference, hosted in Copenhagen, sets focus on the pressing need to develop new models for architectural production that rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment.This book features the work of designers, engineers and makers operating within the built environment. It documents disruptive approaches that reconsider how fabrication can be leveraged to address our collective and entangled challenges of resource scarcity, climate emergency and burgeoning demand. Exploring case studies of completed buildings and works-in-progress, together with interviews with leading thinkers, this edition of Fabricate offers a plurality of tangible models for design and production that set a creative and responsible course towards resourceful futures.

Recommendations for enhancing belonging in STEM higher education. In Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury examine the role of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pedagogies in facilitating belonging, variable impacts across student characteristics, and the experiences of STEM students in higher education. Through case study contributions, the book analyzes the unique educational environments for STEM staff and students throughout Europe and Asia, challenging the assumptions that STEM fields are inherently unemotional and impersonal disciplines.

From Shakespeare to Autofiction studies authorship throughout modernity, from oral tradition to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction.

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 13 contains the texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between 1 July 1828 and his death on 6 June 1832.

Brings together historians of popular politics, the civil wars, state welfare, and criminal justice to unveil the widespread influence of petitions in shaping politics and social dynamics in Early Modern Britain. The humble petition was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare, and litigation. People at all levels of society, from noblemen to paupers, used petitions to make their voices heard, and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors to this volume survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary, and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes, and strategies of those involved but also assess the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change, and state formation.

The Science of Naples highlights the importance of Naples in the history of science, exploring the city's contribution to the production of new knowledge from 1500 to 1800.

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world.

A critique of current childcare systems, advocating for a transformative shift towards universal, publicly supported early childhood education and parenting leave. Written by two leading experts in early childhood education, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services and parenting leave across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of childcare services, widespread privatization and marketization, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems and the causes and consequences of these failings. But this book is ultimately about hope, about how these failings might be made good through major changes. In other words, it is about transformation: Why transformation is both necessary and possible at this particular time? What transformation might look like? And how it might happen? Part of that transformation concerns the need for new policies and structures. Furthermore, it is about how the Anglosphere thinks about early childhood. The authors call for a turn away from speaking of early childhood services as "childcare," conceptualizing it in terms of business and marketized commodities. Instead, they should be envisaged as a public good with universal access for children, supported by well-paid, individual entitlements to parenting leave. Using examples from the Anglosphere and beyond, the book argues that a transformation of thinking, policies, and structures is desirable and doable.

This unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries reveals widespread failings, both in systems and the thinking behind them. The book plots a path towards a transformed early childhood system - public, universal, education-based and meeting many needs.

Developing Theatre in the Global South proposes a fundamental re-examination of the historiography of theatre in emerging countries after 1945. It investigates the institutional factors that led to the emergence of professional theatre in the post-war period throughout the decolonizing world.

Developing Theatre in the Global South proposes a fundamental re-examination of the historiography of theatre in emerging countries after 1945. It investigates the institutional factors that led to the emergence of professional theatre in the post-war period throughout the decolonizing world.

The first English-language collection of critical essays by Gianni Celati, one of Italy's most important contemporary authors. Selected Essays and Dialogues is a collection of translations of Italian essayist Gianni Celati's theoretical and musing work from the late 1960s to the present. Its topics range from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge to street theater, writing, photography, cinema, and translation. The book provides a framework of key literary, theoretical, and artistic movements of the past fifty years, as well as a guide for English-language readers to place Celati's work in historical, cultural, and biographical contexts. Celati's fondness for the unexpected ordinary tempts readers to wander and become lost in the webs of his daring thoughts. Indeed, a genial adventurousness can be found within all of his writings collected here, driven by an affectionate and light-hearted engagement with the surrounding world. This collection offers a taste of his adventures of the mind and body, led by a lithe sensitivity not restricted to the so-called high arts or letters, but also very much engaged with the everyday lives, places, and tales we all constantly share.

The first English-language collection of critical essays by Gianni Celati, one of Italy's most important contemporary authors. Selected Essays and Dialogues is a collection of translations of Italian essayist Gianni Celati's theoretical and musing work from the late 1960s to the present. Its topics range from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge to street theater, writing, photography, cinema, and translation. The book provides a framework of key literary, theoretical, and artistic movements of the past fifty years, as well as a guide for English-language readers to place Celati's work in historical, cultural, and biographical contexts. Celati's fondness for the unexpected ordinary tempts readers to wander and become lost in the webs of his daring thoughts. Indeed, a genial adventurousness can be found within all of his writings collected here, driven by an affectionate and light-hearted engagement with the surrounding world. This collection offers a taste of his adventures of the mind and body, led by a lithe sensitivity not restricted to the so-called high arts or letters, but also very much engaged with the everyday lives, places, and tales we all constantly share.

Urban Informality and the Built Environment brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts.

Urban Informality and the Built Environment brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts.