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Rhetorical Strategies in the Book of Ezekiel
Authors: Launderville Dale 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
The overarching rhetorical strategy of the book of Ezekiel is a narrative of the destruction and restoration of the temple of Jerusalem. This narrative aims to persuade a traumatized audience that Yhwh orchestrated the catastrophe of 587 bce, so as to purify the temple, the people, and the land as a summons to repentance. Essential components of a narrative (plot, credibility of narrator, argument, and emotional engagement) build upon the various rhetorical components of the sources of the book (oracles, discourses, visions, sayings, formulae). The juxtaposition of these sources can be complementary or contradictory—which then create gaps for the reader to close. These gaps often address unanswerable questions of meaning that demand ongoing attention (e.g., collective vs. individual responsibility). The central point of the book’s overall chiastic structure emphasizes the narcissistic hubris of the king of Tyre (28:11–19), which echoes the cause of the idolatrous behavior of wife Jerusalem (16:15–59).
Ezekiel as Trauma Literature
Authors: Poser Ruth 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter analyzes the book of Ezekiel as a theological involvement with the besiegement, conquest, and destruction of Jerusalem at the beginning of the sixth century bce, and with the related mass deportations in 597 and 587 bce. After describing the typical features of trauma literature, this chapter identifies and examines some of the book’s traumatic discourses, with a special focus on the tropes of eating and drinking. It explains how the depicted scenes function to articulate the concrete bodily dimensions of the horrors of war, embedding the experience of famine as a core element in the siege’s cultural memory.
Uncertainties in First Contact? Ezekiel’s Struggle Toward a “Comparative Gaze”
Authors: Smith-Christopher Daniel L. 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
This chapter looks at the language of Ezekiel’s visions, especially in chapters 1 and 10, within the context of a forced cultural contact with Babylonian colonizers. This language evidences not only the bewildering effect of inter-cultural contact, as noted by other scholars, but also the traumatic response of the colonized—who are trying to make sense of their new context. Furthermore, an application of the trope of the “comparative gaze” to the prophet’s vision reports can call attention to the othering of both parties in this interchange. Ezekiel’s use of heavily visual language is also evident in more contemporary instances in which speakers or writers are reflecting upon forced cultural contact.
Ezekiel in Its Historical Context
Authors: Sweeney Marvin A. 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
This chapter surveys the historical background for the composition of the book of Ezekiel, covering roughly three centuries—from the reign of Hezekiah until the early Persian period. This background is essential to the book’s proper interpretation, given one of its most characteristic and prevalent features: oracles that are dated. The present chapter not only recounts the rise and fall of successive Assyrian and Babylonian empires, but also shows how the book has addressed the context of that evolving environment. The book’s explicit chronology thus ties this political history to the experience of the Judean exiles in Babylon.
Pastoral Appropriations of Ezekiel
Authors: Tuell Steven 
Published: November 2020

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Although Ezekiel is a difficult book, with disturbing images and themes, it has interesting pastoral applications. This chapter first discusses Ezekiel’s theology, finding in its radical theocentricity the theme of God’s grace. Attention is paid to the sermon in Ezekiel 18 as illustrative of the prophet’s pastoral concern for his community, and to the prophet’s emphasis on the divine presence among the exiles, evident especially in chapters 1–3; 8–11; and 40–48. The chapter discusses pastoral implications of Ezekiel as trauma literature, as well as the book’s problematic treatment of women (esp. chs. 16; 23; and 13:17–23). The use of Ezekiel in Christian liturgy and preaching is addressed by considering its citations in the Revised Common Lectionary (2:1–5; 17:22–24; 18:1–4, 25–32; 33:7–11; 34:11–16, 20–24; 36:24–28; 37:1–14). Exegetical and homiletical suggestions are given for those texts.
Ezekiel as a Written TextArchiving Visions, Remembering Futures
Authors: Wilson Ian D. 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Ezekiel would have functioned as a kind of archive of speech and vision—an idea that challenges commonly held notions of prophetic literature’s function and understandings of its generic intersections with other Judean texts in antiquity. As a written text, Ezekiel would have stood as an organized resource for thinking about the past, and about divine communication in and through that past, in an open-ended way that left room for future possibilities.
Ezekiel and the Foreign Nations
Authors: Crouch C. L. 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
Foreign nations serve several, interrelated functions within the book of Ezekiel. First, the nations are identified as a cause of Israel’s downfall, insofar as Israel has imitated foreign behavior rather than maintained its distinctively Yahwistic practices. The nations are also called into service as agents of divine punishment. As unwitting agents, however, the nations threaten Yhwh’s authority; the oracles against the nations in particular are accordingly devoted to the nations’ proper subordination to Yhwh. They witness to Yhwh’s nature as a powerful, holy, and just God. Having served as a temptation to Israel and a danger to Yhwh’s authority, they are absent from Ezekiel’s visions of Israel’s future.
Novel Physical Simulators for Non-Synoptic Wind Systems
Authors: Hangan Horia , Refan Maryam , Sarkar Partha P. , Zuo Delong 
Published: November 2020

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The study of wind effects on buildings and structures is primarily based on physical simulations of wind events. Synoptic, atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) winds have been simulated in boundary layer wind tunnels. Non-synoptic wind events such as tornadoes and downbursts are three-dimensional, dynamic, and non-stationary, and, as a result, a new generation of physical simulators have emerged in the past decades. Some of these simulators, their performances as well as their limitations, are reviewed in this chapter.
Disaster: Student Massacre, 1968 to Earthquake, 1985
Authors: Sluis Ageeth 
Published: November 2020

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The 1968 Tlatelolco Student Massacre and the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake—two catastrophic, “watershed” events—are generally thought to have defined recent Mexican history in leading to great change, especially sociopolitical democratization. In the historiography of modern Mexico, 1968 and 1985 have become gigantic milestones in fomenting demands for social–political transformation. As recent scholarship has demonstrated, however, this interpretation neglects formative precursors of the struggles prior to 1968 and significant developments after 1985. Strikes and protests by railroad workers, doctors, and teachers in the cities as well as the resistance forces in the campo pointed to the underbelly of the Miracle long before 1968. And, after the sismo, it would take another long and contentious fifteen years to bring the PRI’s seventy-year rule to an end.
Drawing on this scholarship, “disaster” is used as a guiding framework to chronicle the major sociopolitical changes in Mexican society without privileging a linear-progressive, teleological model. Instead, it offers an analysis centered on trauma and popular memory to gauge the transformative power of these disasters. The trauma produced by disaster—whether man-made or natural—can give rise to palpable contestations and negotiations in which people draw on memory to challenge official histories. Hence, 1968 and 1985 (and their consolidation into powerful discourses) can be understood as rallying points, rather than stand-alone dates in history. Framed by the narrative arc of disaster, the period spanning the end of the student movement and the start of urban grass-roots organizing proves crucial in contemporary Mexico because of the power of memory.
Provider Conflicts of Interest in European Healthcare
Authors: Roksandić Sunčana 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter assesses provider conflicts of interest (COIs) in European healthcare. A phenomenon called “bias bias” contributes to COI situations across Europe. Very often throughout Europe, COI is found under explanations of the notion of corruption, as indicated in the EU European Commission's Updated Study on Corruption in the Healthcare Sector. The chapter then examines the special nature of the physician–patient relationship in Europe and the main principles that a physician needs to follow in rendering medical care, including informed consent rules. It also considers the role of law and self-regulation in addressing provider COIs within European healthcare, including medical malpractice and anti-bribery law, both civil and criminal. In spite of common fundamental principles as enshrined in the Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, current rules regulating COIs are limited in scope and diverse in many countries across Europe. In addition, when one analyzes the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals, it can be concluded that the European legal order regulates this relationship and its COIs through full legislation, partial legislation, or anti-corruption and transparency regulation.
Identity? How 1970s Punk Women Live It Now
Authors: O'Brien Lucy 
Published: November 2020

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Taking the view that punk is a constant signifying practice, and that one is not born a woman but becomes one, this chapter uses empirical research to investigate how 1970s punk women in Britain live punk in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a set of eighteen semi-structured interviews, the chapter explores how as women get older the articulation of their punk identity can be—through fashion, art, music, and everyday life—more complex, nuanced, and profound. Far from being a phase of youthful rebellion they have left behind, many consider it vital in the way they manage their lives.
“This Is Radio Clash”: First-Generation Punk as Radical Media Ecology and Communicational Noise
Authors: Goddard Michael 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter argues that in relation to dominant communication media such as newspapers, radio, and television, punk rock operated as a form of noise—less in the literal sense, since noisy forms of rock music were already well established, but in the sense of communicational noise, as an excess of the standard requirements for rock music communication. More than just “ineptness” in relation to professional recordings and instrumental prowess, punk was a short-circuiting of mainstream media channels operating both by an alternative production of media and the production of events unassimilable by the mass media, especially radio and television. The author argues that the first-generation punk band the Clash was as much a form of alternative world service radio, informing listeners about both local and global struggles for freedom and survival, as it was a musical band.
“Caught in a Culture Crossover!” Rock Against Racism and Alien Kulture
Authors: O'Connell Joe 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter provides an overview of the Rock Against Racism movement and its intersection with punk rock, as well as addressing questions regarding its engagement with Asian communities. Rock Against Racism was a grass-roots musical protest movement that operated from 1976 to 1981 in Britain. It sought to diminish the political power of the National Front, a fascist political party that primarily targeted Asian immigrant communities during the period under examination. Primarily associated with punk (largely performed by white musicians) and reggae (predominantly performed by performers from Afro-Caribbean communities), the movement has been criticized for its lack of representation of Asian communities. Drawing on an interview with the band Alien Kulture, three-quarters of whom were second-generation Pakistani, this chapter demonstrates that Asian communities were represented at Rock Against Racism events. Given that Alien Kulture were musically influenced by punk, it then considers whether this was a meaningful approach to improving multicultural cohesion.
Art School Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing the Artistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk
Authors: Dines Mike 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
This chapter charts and explores the complex cultural origins of punk in Britain through three different case studies, beginning with an exploration of the influence of the Situationist International (SI) on the punk ethos and aesthetic around the Sex Pistols. Second, it looks at the musical and artistic trajectory of the anarcho-punk band Crass and, in particular, the contemporary classical music tradition that informed the work of Penny Rimbaud et al., from the late 1960s to the formation of Crass in the 1970s. Third, the chapter turns to the artistic influences of Neil Megson, later to be known as Genesis P-Orridge. Here, emphasis is placed on a timeline of artistic and political activities by P-Orridge, from his time in school, through his forming of COUM Transmissions in the early 1970s, to the early days of the innovative musical ensemble Throbbing Gristle (TG), formed in 1975. The case studies contribute to a wider understanding of the richer cultural references, practices, and traditions that early punk drew on.
Southern Theory and How It Aids in Engaging Southern Youth
Authors: Nyamnjoh Anye-Nkwenti , Morrell Robert 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
Southern theory is as an evolving body of thought that places the Global South, understood as a relational concept and category, at the center of theoretical and methodological debates in knowledge production. It challenges the provinciality of what is traditionally understood as theory by mobilizing the South, frequently undertheorized, as an important epistemological resource in order to explain and transform the geopolitical context of theory production. In marshalling otherwise marginalized experiences and knowledges and presenting them as legitimate intellectual resources, Southern knowledges are recognized, repositioned, and centered. Southern theory thus takes the form of an epistemic and political project. In this analysis, these themes are unpacked by employing Southern theory as a transnational lens with which intersecting issues of youth, gender, and disability can be engaged.
Ideas of Nationhood
Authors: Holbrook Carolyn 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter describes the principal ideas of nationhood that have operated during the European history of Australia. It describes how late Enlightenment beliefs in liberty and progress and their expression in revolutionary France and North America informed campaigns for democratic rights in Australia. While some activists were influenced by republican sentiment, most sought to claim what they believed to be their British birthright. The independent nationalism of the late nineteenth century, with its secular and socialist inflections, dissipated as geopolitical uncertainty drove Australians more deeply into the arms of the British Empire. Federation was driven by a progressive and idealistic nationalism, less radical than the late-nineteenth century version, which was soon snuffed out by the geopolitical ructions that resulted in the First World War. Contemporary Australians are more likely to source their nationalist sentiment from the Anzac mythology than from the literal moment at which the nation was created, leaving Australian ideas of nationhood curiously detached from the civic apparatus of the nation state.
Australian Political Parties
Authors: Gauja Anika 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter charts the evolution of Australian political parties and analyses the characteristics of Australian partisan politics, which are constantly evolving to balance the pragmatism of electoral politics with demands for effective representation and participation. The chapter highlights what is both similar and distinctive about Australian parties in comparative perspective, explores the influence of ideas from other political systems, and reflects on how Australian political culture, institutions, and parties have evolved in symbiosis. It examines changes in the nature of the party system and within parties as organizations, and contemplates the future of political parties as actors in Australian politics. As political parties worldwide continue to face rising levels of public disaffection with formal political institutions and rapidly changing technologies, the evolutionary trajectory of parties in Australia is becoming increasingly complex.
Plus Ça Change? The Dynamics of Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe, 2009–2013
Authors: Noyes Alexander 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter discusses the elements that influenced and constrained Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Zimbabwe during the country’s 2009 to 2013 power-sharing government period. The chapter argues that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF) historically rooted symbiotic links with the security sector and the regional solidarity politics of ZANU-PF’s ruling fellow African liberation struggle parties greatly undermined SSR in Zimbabwe. Thabo Mbeki, of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), an ostensibly ‘neutral’ mediator between ZANU-PF and opposition parties in the power-sharing talks, negotiated an agreement that lacked precise detail on the nature of SSR and how its implementation would be enforced. Coupled with ZANU-PF’s obstruction of attempts to delink the party from the security sector, and opposition parties’ lack of expertise in SSR issues and diplomacy, SSR faltered. The chapter further argues that in the absence of SSR, ZANU-PF was able to use the security sector to out-manoeuvre opposition parties in the power-sharing government and win the 2013 elections decisively. The failure of SSR in the power-sharing phase has had powerful consequences for civil–military relations after 2013. The security sector’s influence on politics mounted, culminating in the military staging a coup against president Robert Mugabe in 2017, which heightened the military’s political influence.
Chan Buddhism and Meditation
Authors: Zhu Caifang 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter features meditation theory from the perspective of Chan Buddhism. Simply known as Chan, or Zen in Japanese, it is regarded as the sinification of Indian Buddhism, especially of Indian dhyāna. There are three major periods of Chan in China. It started with Bodhidharma and his six major successors up to Huì Néng, the sixth patriarch. This period is known as the Pure Chan Period. Then followed the Chanji Era where five houses of Chan Buddhism branched out of Huì Néng’s revolutionary teaching and praxis. Huà tóu Chan and silent illumination are presented here as representatives of the Lín jì and Cáo dòng schools. Finally, the chapter examines Shēng-huó Chan as representative of the contemporary practice of Chan in China. The concept and practice of seated meditation in the Pure Chan Period was revolutionized by Huì Néng. He defined sitting as “having no thoughts arising in the mind when facing all circumstances, good or bad” and meditation as “seeing the innate nature of mind unmoved.” This distinctive conception marks Chan as the road to a pragmatic religious practice, both individual and interpersonal, in the midst of daily practices, lay or monastic. The inner logic behind the perplexing Chan encounters is the free flow of the mind at the “opportune-moment.” The rise of Shēng-huó Chan explores how classical Chan can be accommodated to contemporary life with an integral practice.
Individual Differences in Meditation Outcomes
Authors: Buric Ivana , Brazil Inti A. , van Mulukom Valerie 
Published: November 2020

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Meditation generally has small to moderate effects on health and well-being, but some people experience greater benefits from meditation than others. What are the characteristics of the study participants or meditation students that lead to beneficial outcomes of meditation? This chapter adopts a multilevel approach to evaluate the evidence on the relationship between participant characteristics and individual differences in meditation outcomes across four sources of variability: personality and other psychological variables, biological variables, illness severity, and demographic factors. Research in the area is sparse and has several methodological shortcomings, thus the authors recommend the use of multilevel models and meta-regression as ways of properly incorporating the study of individual differences with other variables.
Fairness, Justice, and Economical Thinking in Psychotherapy
Authors: Herschkopf Marta , Brendel Rebecca Weintraub 
Published: November 2020

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Despite a robust and growing evidence base to support the effectiveness of psychotherapy in treating mental illness and promoting mental health, funding and access is often limited. Psychotherapy’s claim on a share of individual and social resources must compete, on the one hand, with other mental health services devoted to treating mental illness, and on the other hand, with a variety of social services that promote mental health and human flourishing. This chapter focuses on different theories of justice to consider (a) whether a case might be made for the unique value of psychotherapy amongst other competing services, and (b) if not, what criteria might be relevant in assessing its relative cost and value. The chapter begins by reviewing some relevant concepts of justice and how they might be applicable to allocation of psychotherapy resources, specifically, Rawlsian, capabilities, utilitarian, and communitarian theories. It then discusses how these concepts of justice can be used to navigate research about psychotherapy outcomes as well as its cost-effectiveness. Decisions about which outcomes to consider are not value-neutral and can be guided by relevant theories of justice. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of lower-income countries.
Ethical Issues in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Authors: Ratnayake Sahanika , Poppe Christopher 
Published: November 2020

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This chapter identifies ethical challenges in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It focuses on cognitive and behavioral techniques separately. The first part examines cognitive techniques, where the authors show that evaluating cognitions in terms of validity and utility entails evaluating failures of epistemic and practical rationality. This reveals concerns for professional ethics. For instance, if evaluating cognition for utility involves evaluating practical rationality, then CBT’s evaluation of cognitions is more value laden than first supposed and consequently presents a richer set of challenges for the therapeutic alliance. The second part highlights ethical challenges in exposure-based therapy (EBT) for behavioral therapy. The initiation of EBT provides particular ethical concerns relating to the issues of harm and informed consent. The authors argue that under a will-oriented conception of harm, EBT involves harm. Therefore, clients encounter EBT with rational ambivalence. The possibility of using motivational interviewing (MI) to resolve this ambivalence is discussed.