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Policy Dissemination and Implementation Research
Authors: Purtle Jonathan , Crable Erika L. , Cruden Gracelyn , Lee Matthew , Lengnick-Hall Rebecca , Silver Diana , Raghavan Ramesh 
Published: March 2024

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Policy dissemination research seeks to understand how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and integrated into policymaking processes. These studies may aim to describe attributes of a population of policymakers, identify discrete audience segments of policymakers, test the effects of dissemination strategies, characterize the use of research evidence in policymaking, and identify factors associated with the diffusion of policies across jurisdictions. Policy implementation research seeks to understand how the rollout of policies can be optimized to maximize health benefits. Such studies may aim to describe the process through which a policy was implemented, assess stakeholders’ perceptions of implementation and appetite for implementation strategies, and determine the effect of a policy on implementation outcomes, the moderating effect of policy implementation outcomes on policy effectiveness outcomes, or the main effect of policy implementation strategies on policy implementation and/or effectiveness outcomes. The study of evidence-to-policy translation and policy implementation has a rich history but is still an emerging area in the field of dissemination and implementation (D&I) science in health. Developing policy D&I research is critical to maximizing the public health impact of the field of implementation science and also has potential to improve population health and enhance health equity. Policy-focused D&I research is also important to developing effective strategies to combat the effects of actors who seek to influence policies in ways that are diametrically opposed to the goals of public health and health equity.
Implementation Science in the Global Context
Authors: Geng Elvin H. , Moshabela Mosa , Alonge Olakunle 
Published: March 2024

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While the health of the world has improved over the last decades, much progress is still needed—progress that implementation science can contribute to if deployed appropriately. In a global context, the health system plays an important role in deciding which strategies will fit, as well as influence the effects of those strategies. Research on implementation therefore must be attuned to formal and scientific ways to examine that context. Strategies that optimize implementation within workforce shortages (e.g., task shifting); restricted infrastructure (e.g., home-based care); governance (e.g., social accountability strategies); financing (e.g., social insurance schema); and others represent important approaches to optimize the use of evidence-based interventions for health and population health outcomes, especially in lower- and middle-income countries. At the same time, the application in new settings also allows us to conceptualize domains of implementation outcomes relevant where health system building blocks are weak. Some of these concepts, such as ripple effects, unintended consequences, simultaneity, and robustness, have implications in many settings throughout the world and could enrich implementation science more generally.
The Islamic Secular
Authors: Jackson Sherman A. 
Published: March 2024

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This book argues that the common notion of a fundamental conflict between the secular and the religious cannot be applied to Islam. This is not because Islam rejects the secular in favor of the religious; it is because Islam’s concept of the religious includes the secular. This is what is captured by the term “Islamic Secular.” Contrary both to the notion that “religion” in Islam equals “sharī‘ah,” and to the concomitant notion that sharī‘ah is the all-encompassing, exclusive metric of assessment in Islam, this book argues that, while Islam is all-encompassing, sharī‘ah is bounded. This leaves a space between the limited circumference of sharī‘ah and the unlimited circumference of Islam. While both spaces are “religious” in that they come under the adjudicative gaze of the God of Islam, only the shar‘ī space draws directly upon sharī‘ah and its sources, while the non-shar‘ī space does not. In the end, this allows for a “religious secular,” a space wherein matters remain “religious” but their concrete substance is neither based on nor assessed in terms of sharī‘ah or its sources. These shar‘ī and non-shar‘ī elements are not rivals but complements. As such, both “secularism” and “secularization,” as non- or anti-religious tropes, are alien to the Islamic Secular.
Buddhism in Court
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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What happens to Buddhist monks and nuns who commit crimes? Buddhism in Court is the first book to uncover a long-overlooked Buddhist campaign for clerical legal privileges that aimed to exempt monks and nuns from being tried and punished in the courtroom. It unveils this campaign’s origins in Indian Buddhism and shows how Chinese Buddhists’ engagement with it reshaped Buddhism’s place in the jurisdictional landscape of China from the fourth century to the present. In Asia, the jurisdictional boundary between Buddhism and the state was never fixed. Buddhism in Court is the first study to examine Chinese Buddhists’ unique contribution in negotiating that boundary: the creation in the fourth century of “hybrid courts” and “hybrid laws” that would deal exclusively with religious legal matters. Drawing on various premodern and contemporary primary sources in Chinese, Buddhism in Court traces the legacy of the campaign for clerical legal privileges from its origins in India to its transformation in China and its continuing impact in the Chinese courtroom to the present day. Diverting from the dynasty-centered approach to studying religion, law, and history in China, Buddhism in Court expands our understanding of this legacy of early Chinese Buddhism and challenges the notion that the passage between imperial and postimperial China was one of disruption.
On Elizabeth Taylor
Authors: Kennedy Matthew 
Published: March 2024

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On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is a complete review of the career of a singular actress and film star of the twentieth century. Each of her sixty-seven film appearances is recapped with background on their sources, production, release, and critical and financial reception. Also included are her television films, select TV guest spots, and live theater. Included is an introduction to the phenomenon of Elizabeth Taylor, with an emphasis on her film stardom. This is followed by a biographical chronology, where her well-covered marriages, illnesses, jewelry collection, and fantastic philanthropy on behalf of people with AIDS/HIV are chronicled. Taylor’s acting, what she brought to the screen, is examined in detail, and includes a consideration of her specific art, the development of her voice, her relationship to the camera, and her canny understanding of the effect she had on audiences worldwide. Responses from her costars and directors are also included. On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is a reference book, but one with a particular authorial voice, offering an appreciation of her skill and unique charisma, and in turn placing her among the greatest film stars of all time. The book invites the reader to access and contemplate the work of Elizabeth Taylor, the great and the not so great, alongside the author. Such engagement makes this book fun to pick up and explore. It’s valuable to anyone who wants to understand what made Elizabeth Taylor such a big and enduring film star.
On Bette Midler
Authors: Winkler Kevin 
Published: March 2024

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Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney’s Hocus Pocus and its 2022 sequel and for sentimental, anthemic ballads such as “Wind beneath My Wings.” She’s initiated green-space projects in New York City and tussled with Donald Trump on Twitter. Her profile is that of an articulate, civic-minded matron enjoying thoroughly mainstream stardom. But more than fifty years ago, she emerged from the steam of the subterranean Continental Baths as the Divine Miss M, her bawdy, campy, fearless alter ego created in front of an audience of towel-clad gay men who came to the baths seeking not just sex but a sense of community and safety from an often harrowing outside world. The Divine Miss M coalesced gay as well as Jewish, feminist, and show-business sensibilities into an outrageously funny and emotionally compelling persona that traveled with surprising ease from the cultural margins to the entertainment mainstream. Her embrace by mom-and-pop audiences, rock fans and critics, and the guardians of middle-of-the-road show business demonstrates just how deeply the tastes and sensibilities of her original audience have been absorbed into popular culture. Fittingly for a book about a multiplatform artist, On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide examines Midler’s impact across media, with chapters on the soaring highs (and occasional cringeworthy lows) of her stage work, movies, recordings, and television appearances and considers her influence as an environmental activist and social-media presence.
Black Students Matter
Authors: Duncan April D. 
Published: March 2024

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Black Students Matter: Play Therapy Techniques to Support Black Students Experiencing Racial Trauma explores the negative effects of racial trauma stressors that contribute to racial trauma in Black students. It reviews direct and systemic racial trauma stressors that aid in racial disparities in school discipline that push Black students out of school and into the juvenile justice system. It also explores play as an innovative solution for school social workers to engage Black students and their teachers and caregivers in individual, group, and family play therapy. Seminal play theories including cognitive behavioral play therapy (CBPT), child-centered play therapy (CCPT), filial therapy, Theraplay, and Adlerian play therapy are all explored as ways to empower Black students experiencing racial stressors daily. The book also includes more than 30 unique music, sand, and art therapy interventions that school social workers can use to address issues around hair discrimination, code switching, and other racial stressors that impact the well-being of Black students. Each play-based intervention is created specifically to use in individual and group play therapy with Black students from kindergarten to high school to address mental health symptoms associated with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. It also reviews the importance of displaying cultural humility when working with Black students and their families to help provide the most accurate diagnosis and treatment planning to support Black students experiencing racial trauma.
What Is International Environmental Law?
Authors: Bodansky Daniel , van Asselt Harro 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 1 reviews the constituent elements of international environment law, and explains the three main approaches—doctrinal, policy, explanatory—through which the subject can be analyzed. The chapter also examines the problems underlying international environmental cooperation, explaining why states may be either inclined to cooperate or reluctant to do so. Against this backdrop, the chapter identifies the various functions of international environmental law in promoting cooperation among states and other international actors, influencing behavior, and helping to ameliorate international environmental problems. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the (limited) role that international environmental law plays in solving global environmental problems.
How We Got Here
Authors: Bodansky Daniel , van Asselt Harro 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 2 offers an account of the history of international environmental law, distinguishing three stages: a conservationist stage, a pollution-prevention stage, and a sustainable development stage. The chapter also reflects on recent developments, arguing that international environmental law has come of age in that it has become both wider and deeper; developed innovative approaches to treaty design to encourage participation and to take account of varying national circumstances; accommodated new modes of normative development, including decisions of the parties to multilateral environmental agreements, private regulation, and judicial decisions; engaged more directly with nonstate actors; become more closely intertwined with other areas of international law; and matured as a discipline.
Shared and contested views of education professionals on the forms of privatization within comprehensive schooling in Finland
Authors: Nivanaho Nina , Haavisto Mikko , Palonen Tuire , Lempinen Sonia , Seppänen Piia 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter examines Finnish education professionals’ views on the forms of privatization within comprehensive education in Finland. Finland has a long tradition of public provision of education, guided by the state and municipalities, and until today, privatization in the country has not proceeded within schooling to the same extent as it has in many other countries. However, recently, emerging education-related business has intensified around Finnish comprehensive education. This survey study explored education professionals’ (n = 227) social-democratic and privatization views on comprehensive schooling. A latent profile analysis showed the majority of education professionals were against endogenous (competition in schooling, schools being business-like) and exogenous (cooperation between public and private entities, outsourcing of schooling) privatization. Nevertheless, a small profile of educators (10.1%) somewhat supported all dimensions of privatization. Regardless of their views on privatization, education professionals strongly supported social-democratic views of equal educational opportunity as a foundational to Finnish education.
COVID-19 and the commercialization of Finnish schooling
Authors: Kiesi Iida , Hogan Anna 
Published: March 2024

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Finland is often promoted as having a “successful” public school system that has protected itself through strong state regulations from the narrow logic of the global education reform movement. However, over the course of the COVID-19 emergency, we see evidence of the Finnish edu-ecosystem rapidly mobilizing a commercial response to the crisis. In this chapter, we follow this edu-ecosystem, made up of edu-businesses, publishing houses, consultancies, state actors, and newly emerged coalitions to chart how they used the pandemic as an opportunity for an immediate “digileap” in Finnish schooling and a longer-term reimagining of the global school system in which Finnish edtechs are leading the digitalization of schooling (on a for-profit basis). We argue that commercial edtech is being used to deliver new forms of online, blended, or hybrid systems of public schooling and call for an urgent debate about what this means for the understanding of publicness in Finnish schooling.
The Birds (1963)The Birds (1963)
Authors: Murphet Julian 
Published: March 2024

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“The Birds (1963): Trauma and the right of reply” examines the shot in which Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) wakes from traumatized slumber on the Brenner family couch, only to find herself plunged psychologically back into the horrific assault on her by dozens of birds in the attic just a few minutes before. In it, Melanie looks directly into the lens of the camera and, as it pushes further into her pain, pushes it back. It is the great emotional climax of this film, and it is a kind of “right of reply” from the actor forced to endure the shoot. The film’s star, Hedren, whose inarticulate, spasmodic gestures—seemingly spontaneous and quite unpremeditated—functions as a warding-off of the camera’s complicity and ours in all this senseless assault, had good reason to fight the camera and its director, as this chapter explains.
Borrowed Influences
Authors: Kaczynski Richard 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 5 explores the influence of British Agnosticism on the new religious movement of Thelema, including both its ideas and its operations. Following the example of the Rationalist Press Association’s Cheap Reprints series and its Literary Guide and Rationalist Review, Crowley formed his own imprint—the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth—to publish inexpensive reissues of his works, while the motto of his new literary journal, The Equinox, echoed the spirit of Agnosticism: “The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion.” Crowley would later refer to his evidence-based approach to magick as “Scientific Illuminism.” Writers championed by the Agnostics, including Max Müller, Swami Vivekananda, T. W. Rhys David, and James George Frazer, also filled The Equinox’s review and commentary pages, as did—significantly—works arguing that Christianity co-opted older pagan symbols of phallic worship, such as J. M. Robertson’s Pagan Christs (1903) and J. G. R. Forlong’s Faiths of Man (1907).
Introducing the Cases
Authors: Liu Shelley X. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThis chapter provides an overview of the two primary cases that are examined in the book: the Zimbabwe Liberation War (1972–1979) and the Liberian Civil War (1989–1996). It situates these two conflicts within their respective historical contexts at the regional and international levels. Despite vast differences in conflict motivations and contexts, sub-national variation in civilian attitudes toward the conflicts are important for understanding the two rebel victors' post-war constraints. These constraints, as further explained in subsequent chapters, lead the victors to choose similar resource allocation strategies to consolidate power.
Foregrounding the Servant
Authors: Hai Ambreen 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 3 focuses on In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenudin’s 2009 collection of interlinked short stories. It argues that Mueenudin does something new compared to earlier South Asian English writers, and that his powerful stories render both the psychic interiority of servitude (through nuanced, empathetic representations of male and female servant characters and their subjectivities) and system (the outer world of power and hierarchy that entraps some individuals, empowers others, and constitutes all their relationships). It elaborates on Pakistan’s postcolonial feudalism that coexists with late capitalism as the system in which these stories are embedded. It pays close attention to Mueenuddin’s formal choices and narrative techniques, examining how the interlinked short story enables comparison of diverse servant perspectives and experiences. Mueenuddin’s goal, it suggests, is to rehumanize those dehumanized, to change habituated ways of seeing and not-seeing, connecting inner and outer worlds, the private and the public.
From Periphery to Center
Authors: Hai Ambreen 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 4 argues that Sri Lankan British writer Romesh Gunesekera’s novel Reef pioneers a new mode of centralizing the servant, with a canny portrayal of a young boy’s experience of and emergence from servitude, but offers, especially in comparison with Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, a somewhat muted, depoliticized account of domestic servitude. Using the forms of fictional autobiography and Bildungsroman, both novels invert earlier modes of representation by making a male servant their sole narrator and protagonist. Both explore homoerotic master-servant relationships and the intersection of masculinity with servitude. Reef centers the servant boy’s experience and interiority, yet glorifies the benevolence of the master; it minimizes the vicissitudes of servitude, yet shows how even a hegemonized servant eventually seeks independence from his master. This chapter reads Reef as a critical exploration of the psychological effects of servitude, and as a novel insufficiently questioning of some dominant ideologies of servitude.
Sharing Space: Alternating Female Servant-Employer Narratives in Thrity Umrigar’s The Space Between Us
Authors: Hai Ambreen 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 6 examines how, unlike Gunesekera’s and Adiga’s monologic narratives, two transnational women writers choose a different formal strategy: sharing narrative space equitably between servants and employers. Setting up a comparison between Thrity Umrigar’s The Space Between Us and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, it focuses on Umrigar’s alternation of the narratives and perspectives of Bhima, an aging Hindu widow, and Sera, the middle-class Parsi woman for whom Bhima works. It discusses three key aspects of Umrigar’s novel: her evocation of the micropolitics between a female servant and female employer who have built an understanding and interdependence over decades, the impact of intergenerational servitude on the servant and her family, and the ethical implications of the servant’s final betrayal. It suggests how in a novel seemingly concerned with the intricacies and intimacies of interpersonal domestic interactions, servitude becomes a national question, tied to questions of postcolonial freedom and democracy.
Bonding, Bridging, & Bypassing
Authors: 9780197743980  , Fox Colm A. 
Published: March 2024

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Why do candidates make ethnic appeals in election campaigns? More specifically, why do some candidates appeal to their ethnic group while others reach out to different ethnic groups or abandon ethnic appeals altogether? This book develops key concepts of ethnic bonding, bridging, and bypassing to interpret ethnic politics in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest and most ethnically diverse emerging democracies. Examining local and national elections over two decades, it draws on a content analysis of religious and indigenous appeals coded from newspaper election reports and over 25,000 election posters. Findings show that three core factors—electoral rules, party ideology, and ethnic group viability—interacted to guide candidates’ ethnic appeals. Under party-centric electoral rules, candidates’ bonding, bridging, or bypassing strategies were shaped by their party’s ethnic or nonethnic ideological stance. Under candidate-centric rules, candidates disregarded party ideology. Instead, they sought out and appealed to any viable co-ethnic groups within their constituency. To be viable, a group had to be large enough to enable electoral victory and there had to be no social norms restricting candidates from appealing to that group. In the absence of a viable ethnic group, candidates turned to bridging or bypassing strategies. The book goes beyond the standard view that the politicization of ethnicity is problematic by specifying the microfoundations for candidates’ ethnic appeals. It allows us to predict which ethnic identities will become politicized in future elections and provides prescriptions on how to curb divisive ethnic politics.
What Is an Ethnic Appeal?
Authors: Fox Colm A. 
Published: March 2024

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Chapter 2 discusses the book’s approach to understanding and measuring ethnic appeals. Drawing on previous work, it defines an ethnic group as an identity category based on descent-based attributes. Furthermore, it illustrates how ethnicity has different dimensions (e.g. religion) and categories (e.g. Christian). This discussion clarifies the range of ethnic dimensions and categories to which candidates can appeal during elections. The chapter discusses how an ethnic appeal has been conceptualized in other works, before defining it in terms of its explicit and implicit forms, means of delivery, tone, and goals. It then explains the varieties of ethnic appeals: ethnic bonding, broad ethnic bridging, cross-ethnic bridging, and ethnic bypassing. These measures allow us to summarize and compare candidates’ ethnic appeals in different contexts, across regions, by political party, and over time. In addition, politically salient ethnic categories emerge from the distribution of ethnic appeals rather than being identified a priori.