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Ontological Resilience
Authors: Weedman Arthur Kathryn , Ethiopia Tocha Yohannes 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Histories generally portray southern Ethiopians as pagans who lacked kings because they rely on the historical accounts of their northern Abyssinian conquerors, who adopted Christianity in the first century AD. Justified by a call to spread Christianity and suffering the threat of famine and disease to his empire, Abyssinian emperor Menelik II (1889–1913) conquered and colonized southern Omotic-speaking polities, who cultivated a drought-resistant crop, enset (Ensete ventricosum). According to most Ethiopian histories, Boreda were one of the southern Omotic societies, who quickly succumbed to conquest, adopted new agricultural technologies, and paid tribute and corvée labor. Boreda identity and history are entwined with farming enset, a relationship that provided food security, structured their historic settlement landscape, and charted their relationship with technology, each other, and outsiders. The authors argue that everyday practices, such as the farming of enset, are spaces within which Indigenous peoples frame and materialize ontological resilience against colonialism, religious conversion, and persecution. Boreda oral traditions, life histories, and daily practices support their efforts to resist settlers and richly inform the archaeology of their historic places, Bayira Deriya.
Making Social Work Education Relevant under a Popular Authoritarian Regime
Authors: Espenido Gil I. "Jake" 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
A most disappointing phenomenon under the regime of President Duterte was the glaring absence of the social work profession’s response in exposing and condemning the abuse of power committed by the whole government bureaucracy. Worse, at the early part of the war on drugs, the lead government agency, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), was instructed not to extend services to the families of the victims of the extrajudicial killings. In annual board review classes, B.S. in Social Work graduates profess admiration for Duterte’s authoritarian brand of leadership. They even justify their support though it runs counter to their social work ethical foundations and values. Duterte’s regime perverted the justice system; thoroughly mangled and distorted the human rights discourse and practice; and, had no respect for human dignity whereby drug addicts and pushers were not regarded as human beings. The social work curriculum should gradually include and integrate fundamental human rights principles as major content. The more than one hundred schools offering social work education should promote and operationalize the pedagogy of human rights in all social work courses. These efforts can be sustained by also building corps of social work educators who can be advocates and trainers in developing a pedagogy of human rights education in social work, both in the classroom and in field instruction. All these will contribute to the realization of social work as a human rights profession in the country.
Italian Social Workers as Agents of Change
Authors: Sanfelici Mara , Campanini Annamaria 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter focus on Italian social workers’ engagement in policy-shaping processes to advance social justice. The first section, after a brief historical contextualization of social work in Italy, discusses the available literature exploring social workers’ participation in the policy arena, as well as the first attempts of the National Council of Social Workers to give voice to critical analyses on laws and policies and to formulate proposals at the political level as a collective professional group. The second part focuses on the findings from the first national mixed-method study aimed at understanding the characteristics and the frequency of policy engagement of Italian social workers.
In particular, it examines the barriers limiting social workers’ policy practice in the field, as well as the factors that can allow social workers to overcome such barriers, pointing to possible transformations. The conclusion provides suggestions on how to strengthen policy practice competencies in social work education, as well as variables that can facilitate social workers’ involvement in the national and international policy arena.
The Social Media Paradox
Authors: Kajiita Robert Mutemi , Hendricks Eleanor A. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
The core strength of social work practice is building social relationships among individuals, groups, communities, and families during the helping process. Traditionally, this has assumed a face-to-face interface. However, technological advancement in the 21st century has significantly influenced human-related services and interactions within the client systems. Thus, the proliferation of social media and digital platforms impacts various dimensions of social work practice. The use of social media for both professional and personal purposes in the context of social work practice attracts ethical and legal implications for societal and individual well-being. Therefore, social workers ought to recognize the threats, dangers, and benefits of digital technology and social media to their clients. For instance, social media facilitates reporting realities in communities and organizing lobbying and advocacy campaigns with minimal cost. However, some social media platforms are potential avenues for undermining the privacy, confidentiality, and human dignity of individuals, especially vulnerable ones. Against the benefits associated with technology in transformation communities, this phenomenon presents a developmental paradox on whether social media is a tool for promoting positive social change and expeditious service delivery or a platform for perpetuating social injustices. In this chapter, issues of social media ethics and how they may inform and impact the future of social work globally are critically discussed. The discussion is useful in informing social work policies and standards on the use of technology and social media tools to deliver services that promote human dignity and the well-being of individuals and communities.
A Life-Span Perspective on the Effects of Early-Life Adversity on Cognitive Aging
Authors: Manavbasi Ilber E. , Stine-Morrow Elizabeth A. L. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
The effects of early-life adversity on cognition and school achievement during childhood and adolescence are well documented, as are the effects of early-life advantages (“reserve”) on cognitive aging, but less well documented are the long-term effects of early-life adversity on adult cognitive development. This chapter examines conceptual models of early-life adversity and mechanisms through which it may shape intellectual development through adulthood, and considers evidence for the long reach of adversity in impacting cognition into late life. It concludes that early-life adversity is not simply the absence of reserve and that adversity can influence adult cognitive development through multiple pathways, depending on the type of adversity, its timing, and the existence of moderating factors.
Punishment and Resources
Authors: White Mark D. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Philosophers of punishment have paid little attention to resource constraints, which have an undeniable impact on how various approaches to punishment work in the real world. It has fallen on economists, with their central focus on scarcity and opportunity cost, to analyze the resource demands of different philosophies of punishment. However, the utilitarian nature of mainstream economics limits the scope of economic theories of punishment to deterrence, which fits naturally into mathematical economic techniques, as opposed to retributivism, the principled nature of which resists quantification. This chapter explores the resource implications of punishment. It starts by identifying shortcomings of the economic analysis of deterrence, and then considers proposals from economists and legal scholars to incorporate resource constraints into retributivism, many of which introduce some degree of quantification or consequentialism. The rest of the chapter proposes an alternative choice procedure, based on the theory of judicial decision-making of Ronald Dworkin, which enables incommensurate principles and goals to be considered and balanced against each other, with resource constraints serving a secondary role in resolving conflicts. This way of including resource concerns into discussions of punishment emphasizes their importance while avoiding the reduction of all aspects of punishment to the terms of efficiency, which would distort their true nature and introduces unnecessary noise and inaccuracy to the analysis.
Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Authors: Sandy Mark 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores how many twentieth- and twenty-first century poets and novelists self-consciously respond to Byron. The first and second sections focus, respectively, on twentieth-century poetic and prose responses to Byron. A darkly existential Byronic selfhood haunts W. B. Yeats’s poetic mythmaking and struggle for transcendence. By contrast, W. H. Auden’s Letter to Lord Byron (1937) celebrates the ingenuity of wit and accompanying mobility of self championed by Byron’s serio-comic poetry. Byronic questions about a self constantly in flux also inform the writings of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. The chapter’s final section summarizes late twentieth- and twenty-first century novelists’ reimaginings of Byron’s character, life, and legacy. Prompted by Caroline Lamb’s portrayal of Byron in Glenarvon (1816), writers ranging from Tim Powers to John Crawley have found Byron’s biography and literary legacy a source of inspiration for a diverse range of novels across an array of genres.
Byron’s Cosmopolitanism
Authors: Bowers Will 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Throughout his career Byron is intent on considering what it is and what it takes to be cosmopolitan, but such considerations often give rise to cynicism about the notion of cosmopolitanism itself. Much of this cynicism comes from Byron’s worry about how an attempt to be a citizen of the world can be deemed genuine or authentic, which rests on a paradox between public and private truth: to be authentic is to be true to yourself, and yet the judgement as to whether someone’s cosmopolitanism is credible is usually public. The chapter is in three parts. It begins by establishing the facets of Byron’s cosmopolitanism, those tools he used to shape his attitude towards cultures. It then explores Byron’s cosmopolitan voices in the notes to his poems. The final part of this chapter presents a close reading of a section of the greatest product of Byron’s cosmopolitanism, Don Juan. With Juan near the end of his stay on an idyllic Greek island, Byron meditates on what it means to ‘ “do at Rome as Romans do” ’ (DJ, III, 84).
Examples of Diachronic Decay of Vowel Harmony
Authors: Nikulin Andrey 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter is concerned with specific cases of diachronical decay of vowel harmony. In total, 18 varieties belonging to 7 language families (Indo-European, Turkic, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Uralic, Japonic, Kawapanan, and Sumerian) are surveyed. In each case, vowel harmony is shown to have been diachronically affected by processes such as sound change involving trigger vowels, sound change involving target vowels, reduction of harmony domain, analogical generalization of counter-harmonic allomorphs of affixes, and language contact (by means of horizontal transmission of disharmonic vocabulary). In some cases, this results in a complete loss of vowel harmony, while in others harmony survives only in a very restricted set of items, or persists in a different form—for example, as a static condition on morpheme structure.
Vowel Harmony in Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages
Authors: Kenstowicz Michael J. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter reviews the literature on dominant–recessive vowel harmony (VH) in the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages with a focus on its distinctive typological characteristics in the better-documented Chukchi and Koryak, where it remains largely productive. The canonical five vowels split into stable (dominant) {a,o} versus alternating (recessive) {i,u} that lower to {e,o} in the presence of a dominant vowel. The remaining {e} presents considerable analytic indeterminacy, sometimes alternating with {a} like a recessive vowel and sometimes triggering the harmonic change like a dominant vowel. Dialectal divergences raise questions of whether dominant–recessive {e} is distinguished phonetically or is the site of a historical merger. The largely epenthetic schwa presents a similar dominant–recessive contrast. The harmonic change can be triggered by a dominant vowel located in a stem or affix (prefix or suffix); it operates bidirectionally and can create long harmonic spans in these agglutinative languages.
Vowel Harmony in Australian Languages
Authors: Pensalfini Rob 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Vowel alternations are not a widespread phenomenon among Australian languages. Canonical vowel harmony, the iterative spreading of vowel features within a word, is reliably reported for only three Australian languages, which are unrelated and geographically removed from one another. These are discussed in some detail, in particular Jingulu’s unusual harmony in which affixes trigger iterative raising in roots, alongside the more common, though still somewhat unusual, local alterations which affect a single vowel at the edge of specific morphemes in the presence of specific triggers. While some descriptions have called this latter sort ‘vowel harmony,’ the current loose consensus among Australianists is that these are better characterized as ‘assimilation.’
Kant on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
Authors: Boyle Matthew 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Kant’s views on the nature and importance of self-consciousness have been extensively discussed, but his remarks about the nature of consciousness have received less attention. The present essay argues that a sound understanding of the latter topic is a precondition for making sense of Kant’s claims about self-consciousness, and that an understanding of the relation between these two topics is crucial to an appreciation of what is distinctive in his theory of cognition. Questions addressed include: why cognition requires consciousness, whether non-rational animals have consciousness, how the unity of consciousness is related to the capacity for apperception, and how Kant’s views on consciousness bear on contemporary debates about the nature and function of consciousness.
Constitutionalizing Platform Governance
Authors: Tambini Damian 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter proposes a normative framework for understanding the value of digital constitutionalism in a democracy. In contrast with other accounts of digital constitutionalism that are concerned with the power of private actors such as intermediaries and their impact on fundamental rights more generally, the focus of this chapter is on how public and private governance of communication platforms impacts public opinion and the implications of these processes and institutions for democratic legitimacy. It examines contemporary EU developments including the code of conduct on disinformation, the Digital Services Act, and the Media Freedom Act as examples of co-regulatory ‘regulation by design’ and ‘duty of care’ governance. After discussing the legitimacy deficit of such governance tools, it outlines constitutionalism as a normative theory to guide digital governance and institution building in Europe.
Work and Power in Digitally Mediated Capitalism
Authors: Adams Zoe 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter draws on theories of ‘digital constitutionalism’ to explore and critique the institutional framework that has evolved to mediate the exercise of power in the context of an increasingly digitally mediated world of work, a world in which practices of algorithmic management are becoming increasingly wide-spread, and the use of digital technologies to organize, control, and monitor, work and working processes, extremely common. Criticizing the liberal approach to digital constitutionalism and its application in the context of labour law regulation, the chapter goes on to develop a Marxian inspired ‘societal’ model of digital constitutionalism, and explores the scope for such an approach to shape our ‘digital constitution’ today.
Digital Constitutionalism and Consumer Protection
Authors: van de Kerkhof Jacob , Goanta Catalina 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Digital constitutionalism has traditionally focused on limiting private power in the digital realm in a constitutionalist manner, focusing on the public role platforms fulfil. However, the New Social Media is characterized by increased commercialization of the digital realm through content monetization structures. In light of the commercial nature of the digital realm, it makes sense to turn to consumer protection in the search for digital constitutionalism. Consumer protection has a track record of limiting private power through mandatory limitations in the freedom of contract, and a strong enforcing power regarding private entities, which is relatively absent in fundamental rights law. In levelling the power imbalance between consumer and platform, consumer protection law fits the paradigm of digital constitutionalism well. Aside from its enforcing power, consumer protection law has gained recognition as a fundamental right in Article 38 of the Charter for Fundamental Rights of the European Union, underlining its normative importance. Such recognition reflects the central role the European Union has given to consumer protection in its law and policy. This chapter investigates the role consumer protection law can take in the search for digital constitutionalism, proposing that consumer protection law can lead to a new facet of digital constitutionalism: ‘commercial constitutionalism’.
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership
Authors: Middleton Alia , Randall Nick 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Understanding how political leaders use social media during election campaigns is a growing area of research, with existing literature focussing on single-election examinations of platform usage (Smith 2021). This paper instead conducts a longitudinal examination of political leadership on Twitter/X at the 2015, 2017, and 2019 UK general elections, focussing on the different ways in which leaders portray their competence, ordinariness, and authenticity. In analysing 2,694 posts during the short campaign period by the various leaders of the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, and the Scottish National Party, enables the examination of both changing social media behaviours and individual constructions of leadership under the same party label.
Local roots and rebellion: Constituency connections and legislative behaviour of British MPs, 2010–21
Authors: Reuter Christin , Stolz Klaus 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This study explores the relationship between the local roots of Westminster MPs and parliamentary party discipline, a central principle of the British system of responsible party government. While recently the local base of MPs has attracted increasing academic attention, only little effort has been put into investigating how this might influence the political behaviour of parliamentarians. In order to do so, this study utilizes a comprehensive database on the local base of British parliamentarians, which includes data on all Westminster MPs from 2010 to 2021, supplemented with information on parliamentary dissent. Contrary to theoretical assumptions and existing international studies, localness is shown to have no positive influence on MPs propensity for parliamentary rebellion. This suggests that the increasing recruitment of local candidates does not challenge the traditional functionality of the responsible party system of government, yet nor should localness be seen as a panacea for the perceived representational deficits of British democracy.
A posteriori Russellian physicalism: a new solution to the meta-problem of consciousness
Authors: Botin Marcelino 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
The meta-problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why we believe that there is a hard problem of consciousness. A solution to the former promises to take us one step closer to solving the latter. While many hope for a physicalist realist solution to the meta-problem, I argue that the two prominent physicalist realist positions in the literature, orthodox Russellian and type-B physicalism, cannot deliver a solution. I then introduce a posteriori Russellian physicalism, a Russellian version of the phenomenal concept strategy, and show that it can overcome the difficulties of traditional Russellian and type-B physicalism. If successful, the paper shows that physicalists need not turn to illusionism because the prospects for a physicalist realist answer to the meta-problem are bright.
Liquidity and the strategic value of information
Authors: Kadan Ohad , Manela Asaf 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
In Kyle (1985), the ratio of fundamental variance to price impact measures the value of information to a monopolist strategic informed investor. We show that this same statistic provides an approximation for the value of information in a more general setting with multiple differentially informed investors, and estimate it using high-frequency stocks data. We find that the value of information rises during crises. The value of information is higher for large, growth, and momentum stocks. Its most dramatic spikes occur at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, when the Fed announces liquidity facilities.
Interracial and Interethnic Marriages: Given Recent History, Have Things Been Getting Better?
Authors: Woolley Michael E , Greif Geoffrey L , Stubbs Victoria D 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Interracial and interethnic marriages have been increasing in the United States, growing from 7.4 percent in 2000 to 10.2 percent by 2016. Given the growing number of such marriages, more research is needed to inform social work practice, policy, and programming to effectively serve these couples, and their multiracial families. The current research reports on findings from a 2022 survey of 413 partners in interracial or interethnic marriages. Respondents were asked whether over the past five years they felt things have been getting better, about the same, or worse for intermarried couples in our society. Predictive of feeling things had been getting better included reporting support from extended family, living in a community with a number of multiracial and/or multiethnic families, intentionally seeking out social groups or settings with other interracial/interethnic couples, and having children. A few variables predicted feeling things have been about the same or getting worse. These included being male, the couple discussing recent racially related traumatic events such as the murder of George Floyd, and reporting being more frequently consciously aware of the interracial or interethnic nature of their marriage. Implications for practice with interracial and interethnic couples are discussed.