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How local governments avoid floodplain development through consistent implementation of routine municipal ordinances, plans, and programs
Authors: Siders A R , Niemann-Morris Jennifer , Hino Miyuki , Shields Elizabeth , Cano Pecharroman Lidia , Doeffinger Tess , Gerber-Chavez Logan , Huang Ju-Ching , Lafferty Alexandra , Tamima Salvesila , Williams Caroline , Agopian Armen , Samoray Christopher , Mach Katharine J 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Avoiding floodplain development is critical for limiting flood damage, yet there is little empirical evidence of how local governments effectively avoid floodplain development. We conduct a mixed-methods study to explain how local floodplain management influences floodplain development in New Jersey, a state with high development pressure and flood risk. We find that 85% of towns developed relatively little in the floodplain from 2001 to 2019, and they achieved this with commonplace land use management tools and modest levels of local government capacity. One hundred twenty-six New Jersey towns put none of their new housing in the floodplain 2001–2019. Our findings run counter to common reports of rampant floodplain development requiring legal innovation and capacity-building campaigns and suggest alternative approaches for promoting floodplain avoidance. We find multiple paths to floodplain avoidance, weak support for previously identified drivers, and strong evidence that the keys to avoidance include having a few high-quality tools that are well-implemented, requiring consistency, coordination, and commitment of local officials. The multiple paths and importance of maximum, rather than average, quality might explain the mixed evidence in prior research connecting floodplain management actions and development outcomes. A lack of attention to towns that limit floodplain development impedes our ability to learn from and disseminate their successes. Contrary to our expectations, we show that floodplain avoidance can be and is achieved through routine municipal practices. Our findings underscore the importance of sustained commitment to development management as a core tool for limiting flood risk.
Musical Culture under Mughal Patronage: The Place of Pleasure
Authors: Butler Schofield Katherine 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter theorizes the place of Hindustani music in Mughal thought and social life, from the last decades of Akbar’s reign until the death of Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir I (1707). Mughal understandings of the human being, and thus of the social and political worlds, were dominated by two parallel binaries deriving from Persianate discourse on ethics and proper governance: the inner struggle between reason and the emotions anger and desire; and the outer struggle between duty and pleasure. For virtue to prevail, reason and duty must ultimately master desire and pleasure. This mastery had to be displayed to the world if it were to be deemed a virtue at all. Hindustani music was understood in Mughal writings as the sonic vehicle of the emotions joy, love, and longing, which belonged to the domain of desire. Musical patronage and connoisseurship therefore became a major social and political arena in which the inner struggle to place desire under rational control could be outwardly manifested. Patronage and connoisseurship of music, recited poetry, dance, youthful beauty, and other ephemeral phenomena were the core practices of the domain of pleasure in the Mughal world, conducted largely within the intimate social institution of the majlis or mehfil (assembly). Listening to music in the majlis could be dangerous for Mughal men because of its exploration of desire, but music was simultaneously indispensable to Mughal courtiers because of its use value in fortifying the primary Mughal virtue of male-to-male affection and as a cure for physical and mental disease.
Contact and Continuity: The Arts of Sindh
Authors: Quraishi Fatima 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter analyzes the artistic products of Sindh between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period during which Sindh underwent multiple political shifts, including its incorporation into the Mughal empire in 1592. Although Sindh has long been understood as a place of encounters, connected by the overland trade routes between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent and the maritime trade network of the Indian Ocean, this chapter also seriously considers the role of local actors and contexts in shaping material culture. It demonstrates how artisans and builders in Sindh were active participants in transcultural artistic traditions and produced objects in a distinct regional style. Through such an examination, this chapter positions the Mughal interventions in Sindh as part of a longer historical narrative rather than as a major rupture from existing traditions.
A Long Road to a Catholic Theology of Parenthood
Authors: Swaner Ann Shepard Feeley 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The theology and ethics of procreation and reproduction and parenthood has traditionally been firmly tied to the theology and ethics of marriage and sexuality in the Roman Catholic Tradition. Conceptions of parenthood are related to conceptions of childhood and both are always considered in the context of “family.” The focus on sexual ethics has tended to make parenthood something of an underdeveloped afterthought. In recent years lay theologians have tried to place family ethics into a larger context of social ethics rather than the more limited arena of sexual ethics; in so doing they are beginning to fill out the content of a specifically Catholic theology of parenthood. This chapter will trace the history of this topic in Scripture and Tradition and in modern magisterial and revisionist theological teaching, and point to some of the concerns and new directions in the discussions in the twenty-first century.
The Roman Catholic Position on Abortion
Authors: Lee Patrick 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article sets out what the teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion is and connects it to the basic principles in Scripture and Church teaching that ground it. It explains how the Church has added precision to this teaching and applied it to disputed cases, and examines how the philosophical issues this teaching has raised have been addressed by Catholic philosophers and theologians. It treats the question of what entities have inherent dignity, the relationship between being a person and a human being, and the relationship between intentional killing and causing death as a side effect.
Muslim Reproductive Ethics
Authors: Sachedina Abdulaziz 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) provides Islamic bioethics a rare opportunity to analyze the ethical ramifications of the impact of science and technology on the sexual and asexual procreation in the light of certain reproductive technologies that transgress the boundaries of normal sexual reproduction. This chapter explores previously under-examined issues of gender, embodiment, and human dignity in Islamic bioethics as they appear in ARTs—including those that involve third-party sperm donors. Building on earlier discussions of normatively conceived human procreation, the threat to the preservation of untainted homologous lineage appears greatest to the multiple parties involved in cases of heterologous ARTs. Whereas homologous ARTs are completely acceptable by all Muslim jurists, heterologous ARTs pose potential problems in Shari‘a, and need additional attention and safeguards. This study also has implications for the development of Islamic bioethics generally, by showing the crucial need to account for well-defined values that govern gender relations not directly and coherently addressed by the historical Islamic interpretive jurisprudence, nor adequately considered at the clinical level.
South African Environmental Histories
Authors: Cane Jonathan 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of South African environmental histories, which has been skeptical of the idea of the Anthropocene. It explains how apartheid still offers profound explanatory value for environmental history as it has been exported to international debates as a sign of institutionalized environmental injustice. However, the environmental histories of South Africa have flourished and developed by exploring the extent of the post-apartheid context. The chapter also looks into decolonial ecologies and Indigenous environmental histories. Moreover, queer, feminist, new materialist, post-human, intersectional and decolonial approaches from the Global South reshaped and enriched apartheid-orientated, environmental justice analysis and postcolonial environmental histories.
The Economic History of Zambia
Authors: Seekings Jeremy , Tembo Alfred 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
From the 1930s the economic history of Zambia has been dominated by the fortunes of its copper industry. In the middle of the twentieth century, copper mining generated rapid export-led economic growth, raising real GDP per capita threefold and transforming Zambia into a semi-industrial economy. At independence, Zambia had a higher GDP per capita than almost any other country in sub-Saharan Africa apart from South Africa. Over the thirty-five years from 1965, however, Zambia’s economy contracted, reducing GDP per capita by one-half. This collapse followed the decline in value of copper exports, as production shrank (especially as a share of global production) and the copper price fell. The weak demand for copper combined with government mismanagement. Only in the 2000s did the economy begin to grow again.
The Zambia Economy
Authors: Chitonge Horman 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter identifies the areas where Zambia has potential for economic growth. It also looks at the challenges the country must overcome in order to take advantage of the emerging prospects for growth. The chapter discusses seven broad areas where the economy seems to have high prospects for growth. This is based mainly on the analysis of economic trends and the current local and global conditions. The chapter argues that opportunities exist in different areas of the economy, but what matters is first to recognize what the opportunities are and then take steps to convert the opportunities into something concrete. The chapter highlights the point that in order for Zambia to take advantage of existing opportunities, it must address the attendant challenges. These opportunities will be difficult to realize if the specific opportunities are not clearly identified and the challenges related are not specifically addressed.
Key Features of Zambia’s Political Economy
Authors: Mutesa Fredrick , Meyns Peter 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses the political economy context within which Zambia’s development trajectory since independence has taken place. It identifies the dominance of the copper industry in the national economy, the central place of presidential power combined with the pervasive patronage politics of the ruling elites while large sections of the urban and rural population remain marginalized as key features of this political economy. The chapter explains how the interplay between economic and political, exogenous and endogenous factors, result in development outcomes in the country that are less relative to its potential. The chapter further highlights how, despite two peaceful regime changes, Zambia did not substantially alter the main features of its political economy. Now, in its third successful regime change, it remains to be seen whether the new administration that ascended to power after the elections of 12 August 2021 will chart a new political economy course for the country.
History of Economic Development Policies and Outcomes in Zambia
Authors: Jones Zulu Jack , Cheelo Caesar 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Economic development policies are well established in academic and policy debates as key determinants of socioeconomic outcomes. There is a plethora of empirical and theoretical literature that suggests that development outcomes are a function of long-term visioning and elaborate economic policies. In this chapter, we have used select economic indicators and applied a historical comparative analysis by gleaning through Zambia’s national plan instruments since independence. The purpose was to pick up any discernible features and policy lessons that have a bearing on past and current economic thinking. The analysis shows that different political parties in power followed different ideologies leading to different economic outcomes. The analysis also finds that policy inconsistencies, slippages, and misalignment have been common features across different governments in power. The chapter finally notes that the economic policy space in Zambia is largely dominated by government and its cooperating partners that include IFIs and bilateral donors.
World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism
Authors: Nagib Lúcia 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter argues that an ethical engagement with material reality defines world cinema’s creative peaks. After a survey of the debates surrounding the concepts of “world cinema,” “realism,” and “ethics,” it looks at the cinematic impression of reality that takes place majorly on the representational realm of verisimilitude and narrative suture. In focus are films from Iran, China and Saudi Arabia, all of which draw on Vittorio De Sica’s foundational masterpiece, Bicycle Thieves (1948). The analysis then defines a physical approach to filmmaking through which presentation of reality takes the upper hand over representation, culminating in some radical examples from China’s independent production, in which the effort toward the decentering of the human being takes the extreme form of self-sacrifice. Setting these trends within a context marked by convergent tropes and recurrent motifs, the chapter proposes realism as an ethical commitment to truth, which binds together peoples across the globe.
The “Labor of Diaspora”
Authors: Bennett Masonya J. , Weissinger Sandra 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter focuses on the role of space, place, material culture, and affect in the production of Black immigrant identities and subjectivities in Charlotte, North Carolina. Black American and Black immigrant spaces and places of consumption in East Charlotte construct a transethnic alternative community fostered by affective kinship. The chapter challenges popular conceptions of the US South by examining the role of agency held by diasporic stakeholders. The projected narrative of the New South is (re)placed via the agency of Black and brown subjects challenging policymakers and corporate entities. These cultural workers, agents and mediators are often Black American and Black immigrant women. As community organizers and social entrepreneurs, these women act as mothers in establishing transnational social/economic networks, nurturing the displaced and/or marginalized, countering contention between Black subjects, and fostering intersectional kinship, activism, visibility and sustainability in the US South. Through a mixed-method ethnographic approach, this chapter explores their work.
The Neighborhood Story Project
Authors: Thurber Amie 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The place-stories and futures of residents of underresourced communities are particularly vulnerable to erasure and marginalization during periods of rapid neighborhood change. Residents can counter this harm through practices of narrative resistance. Drawing on four strategies of narrative resistance, this chapter explores how action research can (1) open spaces of narrative resistance, (2) attune to moments of narrative resistance, (3) nurture early forms of narrative resistance, and (4) mobilize narrative resistance for emancipatory change. The chapter offers a case study of the Neighborhood Story Project, which uses action research to bring together residents whose place-stories are marginalized in the dominant narratives about their neighborhoods. Drawing on interview and observational data with members of seven Neighborhood Story Projects across Tennessee (United States), this study explores the design and facilitation practices that supported narrative resistance, and highlights approaches that may be transferable to other action research projects.
Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Land-Based Struggles Against Racial Capitalist Dispossession in Rural India
Authors: Kapoor Dip 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter considers participatory action research (PAR) initiatives with(in) dis/organized land-based struggles against racial capitalist dispossession in eastern India, seeking to demonstrate how an anticolonial and anticapitalist sociology with Adivasi, Dalit, and Non-Tribal Forest Dweller (ADNTFD) social movements, replete with prospects and contradictions, grapples with social injustices.
Knowledge Justice
Authors: Bialakowsky Alberto L. , Montelongo Luz M. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Historically, the dominance of the scientific system has been consolidated by the three-dimensional complex: science–corporations–state. This has led to the absorption of scientific knowledge by the hegemonic general intellect for the benefit of the capitalist productive forces. It is characterized by commercialization, privatization, patenting, the syndrome of epistemic individualism, and even scienticide. This chapter explores the emergence of renewed dialogical methods, especially coproduction. It develops the theory of investigative coproduction, from a sociopolitical perspective on the material forms in which knowledge is produced and from the perspective of a social justice of knowledge. That is, rather than considering knowledge as a commodity operating through a methodological and epistemic passage, it lays the foundations for the right of the social construction of knowledge as a common good, collectively coproduced, oriented to social justice through cognitive equity.
Movement Struggles and Enforcement Structures
Authors: Gouge Melissa 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has reinvigorated the US farmworker justice movement based on radical political solidarity and has led to improved working conditions and wages for agricultural workers. With ripple effects across industries and national borders, theirs has become a model for human rights organizing worldwide. This chapter offers the historical context CIW farmworkers are resisting; examples of creativity and flexibility in movement tactics; and the story of the establishment and strength of the Fair Foods Standards Council (FFSC) in maintaining hard-earned movement successes. The chapter is also an example of sociology for social movements rather than of social movements. It is a call for scholar-activists, writ broadly, to participate in movements for more justice and to resist institutional currents by cocreating a more humanist discipline of sociology.
We Feed the World
Authors: Fadaee Simin 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Indian farmers have posed one of the biggest challenges to the right-wing government of Narendra Modi, who in 2014 gained the support of large numbers of peasants and agricultural workers. Failure to materialize his promises and the crackdown on farmers’ mobilizations led to creation of a strong and rather unified farmers’ movement in India, which gained momentum after three farm laws were passed by the parliament of India in September 2020. The new laws would mean more deregulation for the agricultural sector, which would deteriorate farmers’ living situation and undermine their food sovereignty. For the government this would be a step forward to encourage large-scale private sector investment in agriculture and consolidate land. This chapter contextualizes the emergence and development of this movement and demonstrates three significant organizational and ideological practices that shaped the cornerstone of the “politics of possibilities” developed by activists.
In Search of One Big Union
Authors: Dolgon Corey 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter examines the experience and impact of a “singing lecture” on music and social movements that the author has performed for twenty-five years. It begins with a historical overview of how the lecture has evolved over time and details the various elements and their intention. In particular, it looks at the pedagogical possibilities of the encounter for students learning about social movements and organizing through songs—not only hearing about them but participating in the performance as well. It also considers the impact of such performances on the author as an activist-scholar and how the continued presentation fits into both the practice of teaching about social movements and also the praxis of encouraging engagement and empowering scholar activism and tools for social justice work.
An Inconvenient Praxis
Authors: Romero Mary 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Reflecting on the structural inequalities exposed by the COVID pandemic, returning to normal everyday life means maintaining the status quo and losing gains made in past collective struggles. Current crises are opportunities not just for capitalists to seize but also for sociologists to engage their discipline in the work of social justice. This chapter addresses the ongoing erasure of the history of American sociology’s roots in social justice. This history has ignored significant research findings on racism and poverty and the intersection of social, political, environmental, and economic influences on epidemiology and climate change. In addition, the chapter discusses the need to incorporate knowledge production in the Global South rather than holding onto colonial arrogance. By drawing on social justice scholarship and engaging in meaningful international engagements with sociologists in the Global South and postcolonial scholarship around the world, sociologists can transform knowledge production and practice in the discipline.
On Doing Public Scholarship
Authors: Sáenz Rogelio , Casura Lily 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The social sciences have been an intellectual domain for addressing and offering solutions to important contemporary issues, but they have strayed from the integral connection between the academy and political and social discourse. Despite the wider recognition of public sociology, there continues to be limited information and understanding of how to actually engage in public sociology or, more generally, public scholarship in our writing. This chapter presents a dialogue between a professor and doctoral student who have collaborated and written extensively in the area of public scholarship. It provides an overview of their experiences in public scholarship and offers tips for doing this type of scholarship. The conclusion emphasizes the need to train graduate students to do this type of writing and develop the voices of people who are excluded and placed in the margin to tell their own stories and to bring in their own perspectives.
Decolonizing Sociology
Authors: Coates Rodney D. , Agozino Anwubiko , Bhambra Gurminder K. , Meghji Ali , Go Julian , Itzigsohn José , Connell Raewyn , Hanafi Sari 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
As scholars and movements pay increased attention to decolonizing universities, in particular, and knowledge production in general, there is a need for a healthy and critical conversation about what decolonization actually means and what it might look like, for both the discipline of sociology and the work of sociologists. This plenary brings together sociologists from around the globe to deconstruct how the discipline has articulated, nurtured, and reconstructed imperialism and its attendant racism, patriarchy, and exploitation. More importantly, however, these scholar activists envision and discuss the challenges and transformations that decolonization will bring to the tasks of not only interpreting the world but also changing it.