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Modern Jews on Diaspora
Authors: Kraemer David
Published: February 2025

This chapter considers Jewish responses to diaspora in the twentieth century. At this time, Jews experienced unparalleled growth and creativity in the western diasporas, joining general society in a fuller way than ever before. But all was not idyllic. Pogroms, followed by the Holocaust, made it clear how tenuous Jewish “at-homeness” could be. Yet even after the Holocaust, surviving centers saw a surge in Jewish life. In America, Jews thrived, and in Palestine, a new Jewish state was born. How could a Jew make sense of a world in which it was both “the best” and “the worst of times”? Those offering profound reflections on these conditions, while continuing to defend diaspora, included philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, historian Yehezkel Kaufmann, and social critic, Hannah Arendt. Artists and writers, too, offered defenses of Diaspora, including Philip Roth, Ruby Namdar, and even renowned Israeli author Shai Agnon.
Mary Shepherd's An Essay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect
Authors: 9780197649657
Published: February 2025

Mary Shepherd’s An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, first published in 1824, was a pioneering work in metaphysics and epistemology. Together with her 1827 Essays on the Perception of an External Universe, they make her one of the most important philosophers of her era. Although widely neglected by the history of philosophy in the decades after her death, her works have recently begun to attract the attention and sustained study they deserve. In the course of her writings, Shepherd offers trenchant and detailed rebuttals of the arguments and conclusions of many prominent predecessors—including George Berkeley, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, William Lawrence, and especially David Hume—but she is no merely negative thinker. On the contrary, her critiques are always in the service of her own distinctive and highly original doctrines, which are of striking contemporary interest. Appearing two hundred years after its original publication, this is the first full modern edition of her first book, which presents and defends the theory of causation and scientific knowledge that constitutes the cornerstone of her entire philosophy. The edition includes an extensive introduction and scholarly notes throughout that provide historical and philosophical context while explaining the central ideas of the work. It also includes Shepherd’s two essays published in 1828 and all of her known letters—all but one of them published here for the first time—which shed significant additional light on her philosophical ideas.
The Internet Remaking of Memory
Authors: Wang Qi , Hoskins Andrew
Published: February 2025

This chapter offers an introduction to this ambitious volume by way of a dialogue between the two editors, Qi Wang and Andrew Hoskins, from their different disciplinary traditions and perspectives (human and social sciences, respectively). It probes the key issues and effects of the remaking of memory in the Internet Age and the challenges for its interdisciplinary study, and the unique visionary, theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances made by the contributors to the volume. The chapter discusses how this volume sets a milestone for the study of memory in the age of the Internet and social media and provides guidance for future investigations. It highlights the theoretical frameworks, methodological recommendations, and firsthand empirical data that are rich resources for researchers, practitioners, and platform designers interested in how the social and technological features of a social media platform influence people’s engagement online and shape individual and collective memories.
The Forgetting Ecology
Authors: Hoskins Andrew
Published: February 2025

The idea of an active, willed, functional, deliberating human memory as fundamentally part of human identity that functionally changes with time is threatened by a shift from a healthy reliance to a dependency on social media and related technologies, an addiction, a placing of the past beyond our control. With these shifts toward ever greater digital participation and entanglement, what is our remaining past? This chapter argues that the dependency on apps, platforms, networks, and all the vagaries of the Internet shapes a systemized and inescapable ecology of forgetting. Through a framework of “ecology”, a past that is crushed between unrealistic expectations of total memory management and the impossibility of both forgetting and of ever being forgotten, becomes graspable.
Continued Influence of Misinformation and the Information Disorder
Authors: Tay Li Qian , Ecker Ullrich K. H.
Published: February 2025

The Internet has made it easier than ever to produce and consume misinformation, contributing to the pollution of the information environment—also referred to as the “information disorder.” One particularly pernicious aspect of misinformation is that it often influences individuals’ reasoning and decision-making even after clear corrections. This lingering influence is known as the continued influence effect and stems from a range of factors, including failures in memory integration and retrieval. This chapter provides a theoretical synthesis of the information-disorder and continued-influence literature, paying particular attention to the following three questions: (1) What individual and contextual factors exacerbate misinformation influence? (2) How can interventions address the information disorder? (3) What are some key methodological opportunities and challenges? To this end, the chapter presents a graphical-causal model of information disorder, aligns existing interventions along the model, and provides reasons for how psychological insights may reduce unwanted ancillary impacts and enhance intervention effectiveness.
Between Coping and Commodification
Authors: Niemeyer Katharina , Keightley Emily
Published: February 2025

This chapter focuses on nostalgia as a specific mode of remembering, especially on social media platforms and media environments. The affordances of digital technology, have allowed nostalgia to be embedded into processes of media production, content, and use on an unprecedented scale. By taking into consideration the historical and epistemological shifts of nostalgia as a theoretical concept and an active practice within psychology, memory studies, literature, and anthropology, the chapter provides insights into significant conceptual frameworks and recent empirical studies that have emerged in media, sociology, and cultural studies that discuss the multifaceted and ambiguous nature of nostalgic remembering as a dynamic relationship between coping, loss, and commodification.
The Experimentation Principle
Authors: Fisher Greg
Published: February 2025

Entrepreneurial progress entails experimenting to get stakeholder feedback on possible solutions. It’s impossible for an entrepreneur to know upfront which solutions will work best to solve the problem they intend to address. To discover this, they need to test out potential solutions with target stakeholders. This entails testing product types, customer segments, recruitment tactics, pitch design, marketing messages, channels, and processes with key stakeholders including customers, investors, and others. A founder can use data from such tests to learn about the best possible solution to address the focal problem. Carefully experimenting to uncover the best possible solution entails specifying the vision for a product or service, laying out the critical assumptions, developing a prototype, specifying the target audience, running an experiment with that target audience, and then iterating or persevering based on the outcome of the experiment.
The Hustle Principle
Authors: Fisher Greg
Published: February 2025

Entrepreneurial progress entails acting in urgent, unorthodox ways to overcome challenges. Entrepreneurship is about action. It’s about an individual or small team recognizing that they have the agency and ability to do something meaningful. But to do that, often they need to act in ways that are unorthodox and do so with a sense of urgency. Acting in ways that are unorthodox means going beyond the obvious to solve problems, embracing novel, creative, and often surprising ways to overcome challenges. Acting with a sense of urgency entails pushing and rushing to make things happen more quickly than might seem reasonable. Entrepreneurs recognize that they are the energy behind what they are doing; they can’t rely on anyone else to generate that energy and make things happen. Combining urgency and unorthodoxy allows an entrepreneur to get things done and achieve outcomes that might not otherwise be achievable.
Conclusion
Authors: Fisher Greg
Published: February 2025

Can entrepreneurship be distilled down to a core set of ideas or principles that, if applied consistently, would help anyone navigate the complexity and uncertainty of embarking on the entrepreneurial journey? This is the question I set out to answer here. The 12 principles I have shared in this book are what I view as the core to making progress as a venture founder. Applying these principles does not guarantee success, but doing so will certainly give you a better chance of making meaningful progress toward a more successful outcome. So, if you wish to embark on an entrepreneurial path, then these principles can help you make progress. They are not silver bullets or secret recipes. They are merely simple, fundamental ideas that enable microbursts of progress on the messy, often challenging path of launching, building, and growing a new venture.
The Art of Collaboration
Authors: 9780197673157  , Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne
Published: February 2025

This book invites all interested in cultivating a higher level of group artistry to gain a deeper understanding of working productively and joyfully within a musical ensemble. The concepts and techniques in this book help artists develop a vocabulary and tools to refine their music making process and learn how to work well as a team. It offers a systematic approach to individual preparation for rehearsal, score study, planning and implementing a constructive and effective rehearsal, and the interpretive process. The authors address tension and conflict within groups, including strategies for working well together and creating a healthy environment for rehearsals and performances. Approaches for researching and discovering the context, character, and meaning of musical works, as well as collaborating with living composers are highlighted. The final chapters include practical techniques, organized by their intended purpose for everyday use in rehearsals and teaching. Based on forty years of rehearsing, performing, and teaching by the Cavani Quartet, these techniques are designed to give each ensemble member an equal voice in the interpretive process while solving technical issues. Detailed explanations of the rehearsal techniques and guidance for chamber music students and teachers are illustrated with photos, diagrams, and score examples. Topics include cueing and breathing, rhythmic alignment and ensemble, intonation, sound production, projecting expression, strategic listening, and balance. The final chapter includes a capstone technique called LBAD (Live, Breathe, and Die) that heightens the connection between ensemble members through nonverbal communication. Video demonstrations of selected techniques are included on the companion website.
Individual Preparation
Authors: Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne
Published: February 2025

Individual preparation is integral to a successful chamber music experience. This chapter offers a systematic approach to individual preparation for rehearsal. Chamber music playing requires that each ensemble member is responsible for contributing as an equal partner to the team. Included are sections on preparing parts and scores, practicing one’s individual part, developing an interpretation, and what to bring to rehearsal. The chapter concludes with a discussion of co-leadership: Each ensemble member should assume a leadership role to ensure all voices are heard during rehearsal. Co-leadership implies that each member contributes equally when playing together. A description of the ideal member of a high-functioning chamber music group includes the following qualities: supportive, inspirational, honest, committed, passionate, reflective, decisive, creative, and problem-solver.
Techniques for Strategic Listening and Balance
Authors: Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne
Published: February 2025

The techniques in this chapter focus on improving and deepening listening skills. Strategic listening is the ability to highlight different musical lines. Establishing a balance between voices can be challenging for all types of ensembles and repertoire. The techniques in this chapter offer solutions to problems related to balance and voicing. These practices aid in the production of a resonant, well-balanced, integrated sound. Included are a listening game and techniques to highlight musical lines within the ensemble, switching seats to force listening to different ensemble members, and playing with backs to each other. These techniques also serve as effective team building activities.
“HIP for All” or Specialized Training
Authors: Landerkin Kelly , Michon Claire
Published: February 2025

This chapter presents different approaches of European educational institutions in the field of early music. In order to offer the widest possible spectrum of educational possibilities for a diverse population of aspiring professionals in the historical music sector, both specialist academies and generalist institutions are vital and necessary forms of vocational and academic training centers. Regardless of the institutional type, central to the learning environment is the close connection between musical performance and research. Recent developments in the field of historical music pedagogy add new dimensions to the teaching and learning of historical music and to the performance possibilities of the next generation.
The New Dutch Recorder Sound of the 1960s
Authors: Ehrlich Robert
Published: February 2025

In the 1950s the recorder was perceived by its advocates and its detractors alike as an essentially inexpressive musical instrument: “objective,” “clear,” “undifferentiated,” and “poor in affect.” The Dutch virtuoso Frans Brüggen challenged this paradigm, pioneering a profound transformation encompassing instrument design, repertoire, and playing style in the mid-1960s. Despite some initial hostility, particularly among amateur players in the United Kingdom, the new expressivity cultivated by Brüggen and his students in the Netherlands soon won over critics, captivated new audiences, and inspired an unprecedentedly large number of professional musicians to choose the recorder as their principal or even sole instrument.
Conclusion
Authors: Paris William M.
Published: February 2025

This conclusion summarizes the arguments made throughout the book concerning a “critical theory of utopia.” Utopia is not the work of creating blueprints of what a future society will look like. The work of utopia is to bring agents to confront the limits of their form of life so that they may transcend them. The critical work of utopia is always “untimely” insofar as it must be estranged from the present form of life while always in response to it. By making clear the gap between present experience and the future expectation of a new form of life utopia can make space for agents to act and bring about an emancipated society.
German Unification in NATO
Authors: Ross Dennis
Published: February 2025

This chapter discusses how effective statecraft by the Bush 41st administration made the seemingly impossible unification of Germany and its integration into NATO possible. Recognizing the enormity of the stakes, President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker exercised statecraft superbly by framing the issue early on, creating a process that included the Soviets in managing the issue, addressing the Soviet need for an explanation, using back channels and constant consultation to preempt problems, and helping Gorbachev get cash and a line of credit when he needed it. The chapter also discusses the role of public diplomacy and back channel relationships in effective statecraft and explains how those elements, along with luck and timing, produced a unified Germany in NATO against all odds.
Lessons of Statecraft for Today
Authors: Ross Dennis
Published: February 2025

Synthesizing the lessons of the prior chapters' case studies, this chapter explains the common factors that affect the effectiveness of statecraft. The author explains the impact of timing and context, emotional and physical fatigue, and Presidential leadership, including the president's decisiveness, on how statecraft has been practiced, and how this should be taken into consideration for future global challenges. The chapter also highlights that the case studies yield common lessons, chief among them the need for real, local partners and the ineffectiveness of finely calibrated response in effectively deterring adversaries. Governmental harmony is also discussed as a crucial element of good statecraft; poor statecraft almost always is characterized by division and dysfunction. In the good cases of statecraft, there was a good understanding of the circumstances and a recognition of America’s leverage and how to apply it. Just the opposite has been true in the cases of poor statecraft.
Suspicion, Surveillance, and Survival in Kashmir
Authors: Bhan Mona
Published: February 2025

In this chapter, the author draws on her research in Indian-occupied Kashmir’s densely militarized villages to show how the state’s policing of territorial boundaries went hand in hand with the policing of wayward relationships. The author examines how, even before the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rise to power, doing ethnography as a young, female Kashmiri was difficult and often treacherous. She recounts numerous instances of sexual(ized) harassment by senior members of the Indian military and broader societal questioning of her decision, as a Hindu woman, to be in a relationship with a Muslim man. The author also explains how she ended up being surveilled by the military after she wrote a report on a particular village for a colonel who later ended up falling under investigation.
Gender and Societal Expectations
Authors: Jumet Kira D. , Mekouar Merouan
Published: February 2025

This chapter provides strategies for addressing obstacles concerning native scholars’ gender identity and related societal expectations. While gender may be a challenge for academics conducting fieldwork in any setting, scholars researching in their native illiberal or socially conservative countries cannot benefit from the relative tolerance extended to their non-native colleagues and must adhere to local cultural norms and societal expectations. Violating cultural codes of conduct may adversely impact the reputation of not only native scholars but also their families, while abiding by these restrictions may impede data collection. In addition to examining the types of harassment native researchers face (e.g., sexism and sexual[ized] harassment) and how to address these risks to their safety and emotional well-being, the authors also review ways in which both men and women native researchers can navigate their gender-segregated societies to access interviewees of the opposite gender and gather data.
“Come Back as a Piece, Not Pieces”
Authors: Ibrahim Musa
Published: February 2025

This chapter discusses the author’s fieldwork during the Boko Haram crisis in northern Nigeria between 2014 and 2020. At that time, non-native scholars were avoiding conducting fieldwork in the region due to security challenges such as kidnappings for ransom by jihadist and banditry groups. While the author was subjected to a wide range of security threats related to his fieldwork, his position as a native scholar in his home country at times proved to be an asset. However, as a Nigerian living in the diaspora, his insider-outsider status presented obstacles. In this chapter, the researcher offers self-critical perspectives that highlight the rigorous questioning of his own positionality, moments of confusion in regard to being both an insider and outsider, and instances of shared experiences and solidarity that characterize knowledge production in the field.
Legal Threats and Red Lines
Authors: Jumet Kira D. , Mekouar Merouan
Published: February 2025

In repressive regimes, rule of law is often arbitrary and interpretations subject to the whims of those in power. Laws may be phrased vaguely to allow for their application against a broad spectrum of dissenting voices, and the government may take extrajudicial approaches (e.g., enforced disappearances) to manage opposition. One major set of challenges that researchers conducting fieldwork in their native repressive countries face is legal threats from their home government. This chapter provides strategies for addressing fieldwork obstacles and risks related to the particular red lines and legal threats that scholars researching in their repressive and/or illiberal home countries face, including banning and purging. The authors discuss the dilemma of whether to self-censor, the potential consequences of choosing to express oneself freely, the confusion surrounding whether to obtain official government research authorization, and the possibility of various types of government retaliation.
Navigating Dangerous Fields
Authors: Ozcan Omer
Published: February 2025

This chapter addresses ethnographic research in a Kurdish border town in the southeastern tip of Turkey in the summer of 2012 during a heightened time of conflict between Kurdish guerrillas and the Turkish army. Conducting ethnographic research under these conditions as a native anthropologist posed considerable risk not only to the author but also to his interlocutors, family, and friends. Instead of immediately writing down or digitally recording his fieldwork data, he turned to Kurdish oral tradition and storytelling as the primary mechanism to record data safely. Postponing the process of “writing down” was a tactic the author developed during his fieldwork as he learned how local Kurds used waiting as a distinct temporal orientation to evade state control. This chapter also offers practical advice on how to develop flexible research designs and navigate repressive and/or militarized settings.
Introduction
Authors: Darden Robert F. , Newby Stephen M.
Published: February 2025

The book is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of research by authors Robert F. Darden, who is also founder of the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program (BGMPP) and has written extensively on gospel music, and Stephen M. Newby, a university professor and composer with degrees in music and theology who continues to serve broadly in church and para-church ministries and now leads research at the BGMPP and Gospel Music Archives. Soon & Very Soon is neither a hagiography nor a critical, theory-based analysis. It is instead a highly readable deep dive into Andraé’s world, a joyous life-and-works exploration of his influences, collaborations, compositions, lyrics, life, and sometimes tumultuous times.
Soulfully
Authors: Darden Robert F. , Newby Stephen M.
Published: February 2025

In the summer of 1972, Explo ’72 became the largest gathering of the new Jesus Movement and Andraé Crouch and the Disciples became the most energetic, best-known artists of the era. Their performances in Dallas even led to an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The group returned to Light to record the album Soulfully, but Crouch chafed under the restrictions of the label’s production system, which employed outside arrangers and producers. Still, the LP produced two more major songs, “Through It All” and “It Won’t Be Long,” both of which were immediately picked by churches and youth choirs across the country.
I’ll Be Thinking of You
Authors: Darden Robert F. , Newby Stephen M.
Published: February 2025

I’ll Be Thinking of You, released in 1979, found Andraé Crouch at the peak of his career. Within a few months, he was featured in a concert on the lawn of the White House for President Jimmy Carter, was spotlighted as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, had the #1 gospel album, and saw artists of the stature of Stevie Wonder, Patrick Henderson, Philip Bailey, Howard and Linda McCrary, and others guest on the recording of the album and on subsequent tours. The year also saw Crouch sign a four-record deal with popular music industry powerhouse Warner Bros. This was interspersed with relentless touring in the United States and especially in Scandinavia, where Andraé was particularly popular.
No Time to Lose
Authors: Darden Robert F. , Newby Stephen M.
Published: February 2025

With his final album for Light Records in 1984, No Time to Lose, Andraé rediscovered the creative spark that had fueled earlier LPs. Despite a limited budget, Bill Maxwell and Crouch managed to record a number of memorable gospel songs. But Andraé’s obsessive tinkering in the studio and disregard for budgets had been creating a wedge between the two men. Both had been hired to work on the weekly television sitcom Amen and had crafted the hit title song, “Shine on Me” with Vanessa Bell Armstrong. But when the studio rehired Maxwell for a second season and not Crouch, the split widened. While they would tour together occasionally, No Time to Lose was their last album.
The Fine Art of Managing Beach Balls
Authors: Smith Dina Denham , Grandey Alicia A.
Published: February 2025

Leaders face tensions and paradoxes every day that require skilled emotional labor. However, the emotional labor of leadership—managing emotions as a part of your job—is often performed in a reactive way that leads to exhaustion and burnout. The reactive approach of surface acting, where leaders push down their real feelings and put on their “game face,” takes a toll on their health and relationships. Yet many leaders are more confident in their emotional skills than they should be. By examining the consequences of surface acting and the risks of overconfidence, the chapter underscores the importance of emotional upskilling for leaders. We highlight more adaptive strategies like emotion reappraisal and emotional acceptance that help leaders effectively manage their emotions, as well as the emotions of others, for healthier work environments.
Onward and Upward
Authors: Smith Dina Denham , Grandey Alicia A.
Published: February 2025

The modern workplace comes with heightened emotional demands, challenging leaders to navigate a landscape where traditional emotional skills fall short. This book addresses this critical gap, offering insights and tools to enhance the emotional capabilities of leaders. Focusing on understanding and managing emotions, the book empowers leaders to excel without sacrificing performance, relationships, or well-being. This chapter provides highlights from each of the chapters while also providing insights from the authors about their process of writing this book as they faced challenging emotional events in their own work and personal lives. Leaders are encouraged to begin the journey, unlocking the transformative potential of emotional skills and embracing them as their superpower in the evolving leadership landscape.
Higher Restraint: National Security Reporting in an Age of Information Anarchy
Authors: Ambinder Marc
Published: February 2025

In recent years, in response to various pressures (economic, competitive, political), journalism has changed in ways that have allowed its constituents (readers, viewers, ordinary citizens) to call its authority into question. Even in the best of times, national security reporting—journalism that holds those who wield executive (and often lethal) power accountable—is challenging. Journalists responded to near-unprecedented dysfunction within the executive branch, and to former President Donald Trump’s personal attacks on the press, by changing the tools they use. To many, the lived environment of the Trump era constituted a civic emergency which required new rules. But these rules, in order to result in journalism with impact, need to be externally legitimated by the public. And for rules to be seen as legitimate, the perception of fairness is (for good and ill) as important as the truth of whether it can be attained. Too often, the press adopted shortcuts that undermine its mission and the effects of journalism. This chapter traces the evolution of national security reporting norms before the Trump presidency and examines the changes to these conventions that have come out since he took office. It offers a critical appraisal of the profession and suggests new norms that will serve to reinforce its core accountability function.
Open Source Imagery Intelligence: Security Implications in an Era of Unprecedented Access to Satellite Data
Authors: Puccioni Allison
Published: February 2025

High-resolution satellite imagery was long the province solely of the intelligence and military communities of the Cold War superpowers, but over the past fifteen years, it has become an unclassified, attainable data set in the open source community. This chapter seeks to identify the ethical and national security issues surrounding the emergence of satellite imagery analysis in modern media. The use of satellite imagery beyond its use by military and intelligence communities raises a host of problems. These include a lack of appropriate technical and peer review in the analysis of this medium by the media, a trend toward analyzing only images of a nation’s military systems, which risks playing into an artificially hawkish or despotic media narrative of a nation, a lack of journalistic or tradecraft standards applied to the analysis of imagery data, and a lack of understanding of the implications of publishing such data in the wider media.
Using UK Law to Investigate Misuse of Data during the 2016 US Election: Cambridge Analytica and the Internationalization of Voter Analytics
Authors: Carroll David R.
Published: February 2025

In 2015, during the primary season, an obscure voter analytics company called Cambridge Analytica caught the eye of industry observers and researchers long before it became a household name around the world after the stunning whistle-blower story broke in March 2018. Emerging from a shadowy global syndicate of election management and psychological operations active in nations around the world, Cambridge Analytica now sits at the center of investigations in the largest democracies on Earth, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. Understanding from early news coverage that the company was based in London, and being the first US citizen to perform a Subject Access Request under the UK Data Protection Act of 1998 to gain full disclosure of my Cambridge Analytica voter profile, I filed an official complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office in July 2017 after receiving a noncompliant data request in March 2017. The company refused to comply with an official enforcement order to cede my requests for additional information, but the Information Commissioner’s issuance of the order set an important precedent regarding the application of data protection laws internationally. It did not matter that I was a US citizen. The UK Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation that follows it do not exclude by citizenship. Because I proved that my data was processed in the United Kingdom, the ICO exerts its jurisdiction. This chapter narrates the legal questions being probed by this test case and the implications for democracy and transnational election integrity in the twenty-first century.
Securing the Digital Media Ecosystem
Authors: McGregor Susan E.
Published: February 2025

Information warfare—in the forms of “fake news” and social media manipulation—has captured the imagination of both policymakers and the American public. Despite explanations to the contrary, many of these “attacks” are neither technically sophisticated nor especially covert. With increased public attention, however, manipulation efforts will likely move toward exploiting the more universal insecurities of digital dissemination, such as the use of unauthenticated content. Though nearly real-time content alteration, fabrication, and misattribution are already possible, it is also possible to design a digital publication infrastructure that is robust against both present and near-future information manipulation attacks. Implementing these approaches at scale would offer both publishers and the public a path toward greater resilience against disinformation-based security threats.
On the Frontlines of the Information Wars: How Algorithmic Gatekeepers and National Security Impact Journalism
Authors: Radsch Courtney C.
Published: February 2025

Social media and other tech platforms emerged as a battleground in geopolitical conflicts of the twenty-first century, significantly influencing journalism, public opinion, and policy. Dominated by a few American corporations, these platforms play a critical role in determining the reach and visibility of information, forcing journalism to navigate a landscape shaped by sociotechnical interpretations of national security concerns. Based on empirical analysis and firsthand observation, this chapter delves into the complex relationship between journalism, technology, and national security, highlighting the role of tech platforms as algorithmic gatekeepers and the ways that content moderation shapes journalism. The impact of this platformization of journalism is explored through case studies that reveal how these platforms’ policies and algorithmic decisions, under the guise of combating extremism and disinformation, inadvertently affect journalistic practices and content visibility. The challenges of censorship as a by-product of countering terrorism and violent extremism, and the consequences of combating “fake news” on journalistic freedom reveal how national security priorities indirectly dictate tech platform policies, significantly shaping the dynamics of modern journalism.
Intersectionality and the Temporality of Violence
Authors: Giri Keshab
Published: February 2025

Do female combatants experience war and post-war “peace” in the same way? Existing studies on gender and war treat female combatants as a homogenous group with similar identities, interests, and statuses experiencing the war and the aftermath of war uniformly. I argue that female combatants’ experiences of war and post-war “peace” cannot be detached from their multiple statuses, positions, and identities. I follow the stories of female ex-combatants who came from the same rank but from different castes, classes, ethnicities, marital statuses, social statuses, education statuses, and geographical locations. This chapter shows that female ex-combatants’ experiences of the insurgency and their post-insurgency lives have been molded by their intersectional positions and identities in complex ways. The chapter problematizes the essentializing “dominant narrative” of the Maoist insurgency by offering a “critical imagination” through everyday lived experiences of female combatants’ at the margin while also contributing to the holistic understanding of the messy war.
The Politicization of the Private Sphere
Authors: Giri Keshab
Published: February 2025

The Maoists claimed that they devised a framework for the “progressive” and “scientific” governance of marriage and sexuality. This chapter asks, what might such non-coercive, “progressive,” and “scientific” governance of marriage and sexuality tell us about the formation and legitimation of the rebel’s political agendas? What might such governance tell us about militarization, social control, and power politics in the group? Finally, what impacts do the governance of marriage and sexuality have on female combatants at the intersection of multiple oppressions. This chapter argues that the governance of marriage and sexuality not only helped the Maoists to form, consolidate, and legitimize their political agendas but also enabled their social control and political power by militarizing marriage and sexuality. However, the governance of marriage and sexuality further marginalized female combatants already at the margin.
And to Distinguish Cause and Effect in Meaningful Human Action
Authors: Wilson Bart J.
Published: February 2025

Economics has an explanatory problem. After Paul Samuelson and Hendrik Houthakker constructed the framework of so-called revealed preferences in the mid-twentieth century, economists abandoned the Adam Smithian tradition of identifying observable economic causes for observable economic effects. The official doctrine of economics became people have preferences for b if and only if behavior b occurs. Modern behavioral economics is no different. Its methodology is measurement without causes: people have social preferences for b if and only if social behavior b occurs. Economics needs a framework that distinguishes cause and effect in explaining meaningful human action freely taken in the moment.
A Cinema of Fire and Ice
Authors: Norðfjörð Björn
Published: February 2025

Beginning with the great Hekla eruption of 1947, volcanoes have played an important part in Icelandic cinema. This chapter considers their role up to the present day while also addressing the appearance of Icelandic volcanoes in select non-Icelandic films. In doing so, a case is made for a unique form of cinema that straddles documentary and experimental film modes in trying to capture the essence of volcanic eruptions on film. The chapter emphasizes the contribution of filmmaker Ósvaldur Knudsen to this new volcano film while also considering his larger oeuvre, including regional environmental films and sketches of Icelandic artists. Finally, the comparatively minor role of glaciers and ice in Icelandic films is discussed and their different formal strategies vis à vis the volcano film are pinpointed.
Animals and Nature
Authors: Norðfjörð Björn
Published: February 2025

Icelandic cinema has long been associated with nature and beautiful landscapes. As explained in this chapter, while that remains the case, a number of contemporary films represent nature in new and unparalleled ways in Icelandic cinema. Instead of simply providing a picturesque background, these films immerse their protagonists in a natural world that fully permeates their being. A parallel to this is a new relevance for animal life in the countryside; horses and other animals are increasingly seen as sentient beings and not that unlike their human counterparts. The films analyzed include Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses and Men (2013, Hross í oss), Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams (2015, Hrútar), and Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Heartstone (2016, Hjartasteinn).
Introduction
Authors: Youngs Richard
Published: February 2025

The introduction explains the book’s aims and outlines the political significance of the three critical crises represented by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian war on Ukraine. It relates these to ongoing trends in democracy, especially the decade-long democratic regression around the world, and outlines why the three crises constitute defining crossroads for democracy’s future development. It then justifies the book’s focus on the crises’ impact on democratization and autocratization, explains why this focus is needed to update conceptual accounts of trends in democracy, and points towards the need for democratic renewal if open political systems are to show themselves capable of managing the era of polcycrisis.
The Basic Principles of Parent Work
Authors: Temkin-Yu Andrea
Published: February 2025

Chapter 2 guides caregivers on how to prioritize parenting values and introduces core concepts to keep in mind while supporting their teen. It highlights the importance of parent–child relationships to support teen’s mental health now and over time. The chapter also describes why it is important to set realistic expectations around the rate of progress for teenagers who are struggling. Core parenting principles are introduced. Readers will learn about how consistent parental responses impact teen behavior over time. The chapter also introduces how to be specific when encouraging change among youth to facilitate growth and reduce conflict. Finally, it provides a rationale for why parents should be mindful of the intensity of their expressed emotion when interacting with their kids.
Building Meaningful Routines
Authors: Temkin-Yu Andrea
Published: February 2025

Chapter 7 outlines the benefits of creating structured routines and schedules and provides guidance on how to do this. It highlights ways in which routines can promote improved teen mental health and offers a step-by-step method for crafting a routine that works for each teen and household. Readers are provided guidance on setting appropriate household expectations based on teen age, development, and skill level. The chapter also describes the importance of helping teenagers engage in meaningful activities and provides recommendations on how to do this. Chapter exercises and practice worksheets are included to help parents establish their own household routines and put them into place.
The Southern Fault Line
Authors: 9780197770436  , Jones Bryan
Published: February 2025

The white South has always been of two minds on the desirability of democracy. Throughout U.S. history some white Southerners were vigorous proponents of the American democratic project. Others thought that participation in governing was more of a privilege granted only to those who proved themselves worthy through education and wealth. Blacks, treated as chattel property, were at first omitted from the discussion, but when emancipated joined the prodemocracy side of the debate. For most of Southern history, the division was geographic—upland small farmers inhabiting the Appalachian regions supporting the democratic project and the lowland planters and slaveholders opposing it. It reflected a politics of class: poor uplanders versus well-off planters. This book uses historical narratives based on the author’s classically Southern family to explore this division, and what happened to it. Because the family’s Alabama lineage incorporates both uplanders and planters, their stories can be used to map out more fully this division, trace it through history, and explore its impacts on the politics and history of the South. The book carries the narrative of the two Souths up through the 1960s, to the last throes of Jim Crow and the final attempts to revive an interracial Populist coalition of North Alabama whites and Blacks in the cities and on the former plantations. That attempt failed, overwhelmed by the intense politics of racial demagoguery as the civil rights movement reached its apogee.
A Lynching Thwarted and a Brutal Murder
Authors: Jones Bryan D.
Published: February 2025

The racist justice system put in place by Redeemer governments allowed white-on-Black violent vigilante justice and extra-judicial executions by lynchings. When Blacks did go to trial, they faced all-white juries and poor legal representation, since lawyers providing representation could lose clients. This chapter explores three incidences of white challenges to that system. The author’s great-uncle Julius Davidson and grandfather M.M. Davidson defended Black men in murder trials. Julius rescued his client from a sure lynching; M.M. prevented his client’s execution by hanging. The third involved the prosecution of a Klan murder of a participant in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. These were courageous events. While some would say they were white savior stories, in the American apartheid there were no Black lawyers to do the saving.
Roll Tide at High Tide
Authors: Jones Bryan D.
Published: February 2025

The author was an undergraduate at the University of Alabama at the high tide of the civil rights movement. Those years were punctuated with all the major events that characterized a critical turning point in American history—the legal end of Jim Crow. The chapter recounts his observations of the bitter end of legal segregation, and the end of the hope of restoring the interracial democracy of Populism. The chapter recounts the author’s participation in some of these events, and his activities during the 1966 governor’s election that elevated George Wallace’s wife Lurleen to the governorship. The chapter argues that this election was a major turning point in the once-liberal North Alabama electorate into one buying in to George Wallace’s racism.
Critical Feminist Justpeace
Authors: Riddle Karie Cross
Published: February 2025

Critical Feminist Justpeace draws on field research conducted in Manipur, India, among women’s peacebuilding groups between 2013 and 2015 to produce a gender-sensitive, grounded theory of change for local-level peace work. Employing tools from Brooke Ackerly’s approach to critical feminist methodology, this work treats women peacebuilders as political theorists who revise John Paul Lederach’s ideas about conflict transformation and its goal, justpeace, to better suit their experiences and their context. Critical feminist justpeace is an intersectional orientation toward conflict transformation that reduces structural power hierarchies and direct forms of violence, increases equitable justice outcomes across public and private life, and targets historically marginalized participants. This theory contributes to two scholarly literatures and aims to guide practice. It engages first with the feminist scholars and practitioners who work on the United Nations’ Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. While it represents a landmark international achievement, the WPS agenda is not appropriate for all contexts in which women pursue peace, for reasons ranging from global power relations to national political constraints to local and cultural differences. Peacebuilders in Manipur demonstrate what women can accomplish outside of the WPS agenda. Second, the theory engages with peace studies literatures on the local turn, away from top-down peacebuilding and toward ordinary people’s contributions to peace. The theory of critical feminist justpeace serves as a flexible guide for the women’s local work, helping them to address local hierarchies through their own ideas while they push for peace across difference.
Mapping Biblical Assemblages
Authors: Strømmen Hannah M.
Published: February 2025

This chapter introduces the theoretical underpinnings of the book by proposing a multidimensional approach to biblical reception more generally. Offering a critique of the idea that the Bible is the privileged centre for the study of biblical reception, it addresses the way Bible-use is significant—though not always obviously central—to the contemporary far-right ideology and practice that is the topic of ensuing chapters. By drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of assemblage, the chapter argues that the “mapping” of “biblical assemblages” is a key task for biblical scholars. Mapping biblical assemblages allows for the analysis of diverse forms of Bible-use. Such mapping goes beyond the notion of the Bible as a text to be read and interpreted, to address questions of agency, affect, and materiality.
Deterritorialising Biblical Assemblages
Authors: Strømmen Hannah M.
Published: February 2025

This chapter returns to Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of mapping as more than a descriptive task. As the analysis in this study has demonstrated, biblical reception as an exercise in mapping contributes to the identification of territorialisations of Bibles. But mapping also consists in setting in motion deterritorialisations of Bibles. By drawing on postcolonial scholarship on Bible-use, the chapter argues that biblical assemblages should be analysed as major or minor assemblages. In this process, biblical scholars can pay attention to the stabilisation of dominant biblical assemblages, diagnose how they work and their resistance to change, but also make visible the emergence of minor biblical assemblages that resist and challenge dominant assemblages. Turning to Brian Massumi and Erin Manning’s SenseLab projects, the chapter ultimately proposes “BibleLab” as a collaborative practice for experimenting with Bibles that open up for change.