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This volume explores cultural transfer with a focus on the combination and modification of material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. Chapters demonstrate the diverse understandings that can be gained by exploring the material remains of past contact, exposing and overcoming limitations of competing models of cultural change.

This book provides a timely examination of different governments' response to investor claims. It focuses on Peru, Argentina, and Ecuador, countries that responded very differently to waves of investor claims.

This edited volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which pandemics are theorized and studied across several disciplines.

This book revisits key debates about state formation and the role of state policies in shaping state-society relations in Africa. It provides a systematic discussion of the political events that led to the institutionalisation of the developmental state in Ethiopia in the course of the 2000s and 2010s.

The ten years of UPA rule has been a crucial passage in the evolution of India's foreign policy, and yet this period has been-until now-curiously understudied. This book bridges this puzzling gap in the literature.

A study of the fiction of Charles Dickens that traces the intersections between nineteenth-century literature and Victorian psychology and theories of the mind.

Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net--as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.

This book will provide an accessible introduction to the important role of race and racism in international law, explain the racialization of today's border controls, and question the conventional history that celebrates the success of antidiscrimination in the international human rights regime.

Studies the afterlife of the Romantic idea of spontaneity in transatlantic modern prose in the work of William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Saul Bellow, to provide a broad-based historical enquiry into what it means to read, write, and live as a modern person.

This book brings together strands of scholarship from law, economics, and political science to explore two key themes: the influence of economic evidence on the discretionary assessments of economic regulators, and the limits of judicial review of economic evidence, supplemented with comparative examination of both UK and US systems.

This book investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political thinking, theory, and language. It explores the diverse dimensions in which silences mould the different core features of the political, as a highly flexible power resource, both enabling and constraining major social practices, traditions, and currents.

The Law of Loyalty elucidates common legal principles underlying the use of juridical powers. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others.

This is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representations of the 'Aum Affair' have hindered social repair and reconciliation.

This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in instability. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that it is group-based cross-pressures that lead to instability in voters' choices.

The literature and jurisprudence of international criminal law relies on the claim that international crimes are exceptionally grave. DeGuzman looks to build the legitimacy of international law by exposing the value choices that the rhetoric of 'gravity' entails, and poses a new framework for assessing the legitimacy of international criminal law.

Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality.

Corporeal Theology brings theology into conversation with the area of cognitive science research known as 'embodied cognition' - which considers the way in which human thinking is shaped by the kinds of bodies we have and the way they navigate their environment - proposing that Christian religious ideas are adapted to embodied ways of thinking.

The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. Instead of recalibrating the much-discussed non-interventionist objective divine action (NIODA) approaches, Simon Maria Kopf advocates a 'reframing' of providence in terms of the virtue of prudence.

Financing the Future explains how the unique governance arrangements and financial models of multilateral development banks shape their behavior, and uses that framework to show how different sets of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are grappling with the challenges of the 21st century.

The Mysticism of Ordinary Life presents a new vision of Christian mystical theology, offering critical interpretations of the theologians, philosophers, and intersectional feminists who draw on mystical traditions to affirm ordinary life, arguing that everyday experiences of divine grace can be an empowering source of social transformation.

Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, this book establishes that the playwright was remarkably attentive to the environmental issues of his era. Combining environmental history with close readings of Shakespearean wordplay, original typography, and performance conditions, this study re-wilds the Renaissance stage.

This volume argues for the relevance of Kierkegaard's employment of the prophetic noir, modelled after the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, to understanding how to live in a time of climate change.

The central claim of Effective and Legitimate Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood is that virtuous circles of governance are possible in areas of limited statehood, but more likely to evolve for external and non-state actors than for the state.

Spanning from the 14th century to the present day, The Legal Concept of Work explores how the role of law and legal concepts, comes to consider some forms of human labour as work, and some forms of human labour as non-work, and why perceptions of these activities change over time.

This book explores why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy, and offering new insights into the continuing appeal of such ideals.