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Enhancing Dissemination Through Marketing and Distribution Systems
Authors: Verdecias Niko , Steensma Joseph T. , Kreuter Matthew W. , Bernhardt Jay M. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
The vision of taking a more market-oriented approach to dissemination likely raises more questions than it answers. Who would build and operate such a system? Who would pay for it? Would researchers who have developed and evaluated public health interventions cooperate in sharing their programs and products? What tangible incentives can be created at each step of the process to encourage dissemination and adoption? What would constitute success for such an effort and how would we measure it? All are important questions and worthy of thoughtful answers that match their complexity. Doing so is beyond the scope of this chapter, but ongoing in our work. It is hoped the ideas presented here will stimulate others’ thinking about systems and infrastructure to enhance dissemination and welcome critiques, refinement, and additions to the proposed model.
Scale-up and Sustainment of Effective Interventions
Authors: Wolfenden Luke , Sutherland Rachel , Shelton Rachel C. , Yoong Sze Lin , Nathan Nicole 
Published: March 2024

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The widespread and ongoing use of most beneficial health interventions is required to maximize the benefits of the health system to the community. Within implementation science, the field of “scale-up” and “sustainability” have an important role to play in contributing to improving the health system to this end. Diverse and inconsistent use of terminology remains and represents challenges for the advancement of the science of scale-up and sustainability. While conceptual understanding of each continues to evolve, formative research has identified their complexity and documented a range of factors that influence program implementation and sustainability. Perhaps most nascent is experimental studies and other research methods to better understand the factors that are causally related to the scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions and, importantly, the effectiveness of strategies in facilitating such outcomes. The conduct of these studies represents a significant opportunity for further research.
Secular, Religious, Islamic
Authors: Jackson Sherman A. 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter lays out the meanings and deployments of “secular,” “religious,” and “Islamic,” as they emerge out of the Western discourse on religion, including, ultimately, Islam, and how these are deployed in the present thesis. It establishes two modes of the secular—the macro-mode, which essentially removes God from the cosmos, and the micro-mode, which does not remove God but simply circumscribes the authority of what God says, that is, via revelation. On the micro-mode, religion retains its authority, but that authority is limited and cordoned off from certain pursuits, primarily the state, the economy, and science. The chapter describes the Islamic Secular as a micro-mode of the secular. But while “secular” in the West separates the religious from the non-religious, the Islamic Secular simply separates that which is adjudicated on the basis of what God says, that is, sharī‘ah and its sources, from that which is not—both of these realms, however, remaining religious, that is, within the scope of the divine gaze of the God of Islam. The chapter then deals with “religion” as a construct, noting the difference between religion-as-concrete-doctrine and practice and religion-as-psycho-dynamic orientation. It argues that while these two notions of religion separated in the West, where they now compete with each other, Islam, and thus the Islamic Secular, joins them together. Finally, the chapter lays out the Islamic Secular’s understanding of “Islamic” and places this in conversation with leading theories on this topic.
The Islamic Secular and the Secular State
Authors: Jackson Sherman A. 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter engages with the thesis of Abdullahi An-Na’im in his book Islam and the Secular State. An-Na’im argues for a secular state because he believes that only it, in contradistinction to the Islamic State, can accommodate human rights, citizenship, and constitutionalism. I argue that by ignoring the Islamic Secular, An-Na’im exaggerates the role of sharī‘ah and from there sees the solution exclusively in the wholesale elimination of sharī‘ah from the state apparatus. This is particularly crucial, according to An-Na’im, given the presence of non-Muslims in Muslim-majority states. In this regard, I argue that An-Na’im imputes the legal monism of the modern state to sharī‘ah, whereas pre-modern jurists, operating on the logic of the “empire state,” recognized that sharī‘ah applied to non-Muslims only in limited ways, where it applied at all. I also argue that so much of what modern states are called upon to regulate or provide falls into the realm of the non-shar‘ī, Islamic Secular. As such, the idea that many of the problems he raises can only be resolved by removing sharī‘ah from the state is simply misplaced. In fact, I argue, many of the problems An-Na’im raises are actually created by this very oversight.
Withered Orchid and Dead Ox
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter shows how the perception of Buddhist institutions as sanctuaries manifests in nonlegal Buddhist doctrinal texts. This is an important expansion, because compared with Buddhist monastic law texts, to which only ordained monks and nuns had access, nonlegal doctrinal texts were open to a much wider audience, including the most desired audience of the Buddhist campaign for clerical legal privileges: kings, ministers, law enforcement officials, and other laypeople. In these nonlegal texts, the Buddhist fight for clerical legal privileges unfolded in slightly different ways. In this stage of the campaign, Buddhist legal writers explained why monks and nuns committed their crimes, an explanation that is absent in the Buddhist monastic law texts. These Buddhist writers also recounted stories featuring wild animals and hungry ghosts who are unwilling to harm convicted criminals they mistakenly assume to be ordained Buddhists.
A Fallen Abbot
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter analyzes the case of a Chinese Buddhist monk, Xuecheng, to understand how the negotiated jurisdictional boundary between the state and the Buddhist establishment operates in legal practice in contemporary China. In 2018, before facing charges of sexual, financial, and administrative misconduct, Xuecheng was both the abbot of the Dragon Spring Monastery and the president of the Buddhist Association of China. This chapter examines the legal procedures adopted in investigating the accusations against him. It reveals that the State Administration of Religious Affairs led the initial investigations before inviting the Buddhist Association of China and the local police to conduct further investigations. This chapter thus argues that by inviting a hybrid legal agency, not the monastic or state court, to lead the investigations, China’s law enforcement quietly let the tripartite legal infrastructure define the undertone of the country’s legal treatment of religious practitioners who faced criminal charges.
Introduction
Authors: Winkler Kevin 
Published: March 2024

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This introduction traces Bette Midler’s early life as part of a religious (Jewish) and racial (white) minority on the outskirts of Honolulu and her later kinship with the gay men who championed her appearances at the Continental Baths. With their encouragement, she created a new form of cabaret, one that gave gay male sensibilities a broader expression. Her early New York experiences working with experimental theater figures such as Tom Eyen also influenced her humor and sense of theatrics. Her song program, developed with musical director Barry Manilow, was a mélange of mostly neglected American popular music, all unified by her sense of purpose as a singing actor. Midler’s identity as a Jewish singer with a large gay following led to comparisons with Barbra Streisand, but their similarities were superficial. Midler’s success with her camp-nostalgia repertoire, eclectic fashion sense, and emotional way with ballads led to a rebirth in the city’s nightlife scene.
“And Me, I Was Your Hostess!”
Authors: Winkler Kevin 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter examines Bette Midler as a theater artist who in her early performances at the Continental Baths was already curating an act that she would refine and expand for the next fifty years. Her increasingly elaborate shows were hybrid Broadway musical/rock concert/cabaret performances laced with comic characterizations and withering observations on popular culture and politics. Midler’s success in films and recordings brought her new fans, and their embrace of her stage performances demonstrated how successfully she had transferred the gay camp humor of her Divine Miss M persona to a wider audience. Midler and the mainstream had somehow met just left of center. The chapter also looks at her later return to traditional plays and musicals, culminating in a record-breaking run in the 2017 Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!
“Some Say Love . . .”
Authors: Winkler Kevin 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter looks at Bette Midler’s recording career and her efforts to capture the excitement of her live performances on disc. The success of her first two albums proved that the general record-buying public would respond to the camp elements, musical daring, and jubilant role play of her onstage Divine Miss M alter ego as keenly as her concert audiences. These recordings also established a loose formula: songs from across eras and genres unified by settings that showcased her skill at musical characterization. But they were followed by a depressing run of albums and singles that stalled on the charts. Midler’s recording career rebounded and hit a peak with “Wind beneath My Wings” and “From a Distance.” The popularity of these mawkish ballads overshadowed Midler’s versatility as a recording artist, and the chapter concludes with a call for a career retrospective including unreleased and live recordings going back more than fifty years.
The Politics of Slow Harms in the Latin American City
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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This introductory chapter introduces the problem of slow-moving environmental harms in Global South cities and summarizes the book’s contributions to the literatures on urban politics in the Global South, environmental justice, and environmental politics. The chapter unpacks the relationship between collective risk perception and issue identification, linking it to social capital and network theory to explain modes of environmental activism. What follows introduces the comparison of advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in the urban and industrialized capital regions of Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. The argument centers on the role of impacted communities (bonding mobilization) and resourced allies (bridging mobilization) in forming environmental advocacy networks, strategies that were strengthened in settings with established human rights movements and supportive left-of-center political administrations. The chapter previews the outcome under study of river remediation reforms, how cases varied across reform outcomes, the book’s methods, case selection strategies, and alternative explanations.
Slow Harms
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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Individuals adjust their strategies based on anticipated time horizons, reacting to, for example, whether an event is unfolding quickly, or how much time is left. Temporalities of environmental dangers produce differences across threat types that impact the likelihood of collective action. This chapter argues that environmental harms vary based on temporal proximity to bodily harm (imminent or gradual) and geographical dispersion of perceived threats (concentrated or dispersed). Slow targeted harms, the topic of this book, are gradual, long-duration events, with concentrated impacts on distinct communities, producing a complex social process that makes them part of the everyday landscape. This chapter presents the concept of “slow harms,” introduces key issues in wastewater pollution as a type of slow harm, and traces the common history of slow harms accumulation across three polluted urban river basins in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Lima.
Expansive Policy Shifts in Argentina
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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Slow-moving environmental harms on the Matanza-Riachuelo River were historically ignored in Argentina’s heavily industrialized capital region. Strong grassroots activism over environmental injustice, or bonding mobilization, ignited across the large territory, but it was only when strong resourced outsiders contributed bridging mobilization that expansive river remediation policies were adopted. Bridges were strong because they were resourced, had preexisting ties, and were rooted in a robust human rights network that grew under propitious political and economic conditions. Slow-harms mobilization included litigation, participatory institutions in the judiciary, protests, marches, rallies, and media campaigns to demand and oversee a new era of policy reform for environmental regulations. The Argentina case shows how environmental concern developed not due merely to the passage of a court ruling nor a postmaterial concern about environmental conservation but as a reconceptualization of pollution as a human rights crisis.
Cities, Pollution, and Democracy
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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The concluding chapter revisits the book’s framework for understanding slow-harms advocacy centered around bridging mobilization, and then unpacks the role of cities as unique sites of disruption and bridging. Increased attention to legacies of political violence and civil society organizing can help explain the challenges cities face in environmental crisis management. Building on the book’s key insight that the right to disrupt and dissent undergirds environmental governance in Latin American cities, the chapter explores the relationship between democracy and environmentalism through reviews of environmental policymaking under authoritarian regimes in post-Soviet countries and China. The book concludes by emphasizing the role of citizen collective action in Global South regulatory regimes.
Teachers Play, Too!
Authors: Duncan April D. 
Published: March 2024

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Teachers working with Black students often struggle with supporting their mental and emotional needs. This chapter assesses the negative effects of school discipline in Black students including impaired teacher–student relationships that further feed the cycle of the preschool-to-prison pipeline. It also acknowledges the lack of support teachers receive in combating vicarious trauma when working with students experiencing high levels of trauma. The chapter explores the use of group therapy and child–teacher relationship training (CTRT) to support teachers in enhancing their skills in addressing classroom management needs. It also explores the use of solution-focused play therapy (SFPT) and mindfulness in classrooms to assist with self-regulation in teachers and students. Fun play therapy interventions to promote self-esteem, decrease anxiety, and integrate brain breaks into the classroom are also discussed.
Who’s Who in the Legal Process
Authors: Bodansky Daniel , van Asselt Harro 
Published: March 2024

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Nonstate actors are playing an increasingly important role in the development of international environmental law. Chapter 7 discusses the main types of nonstate actors, including environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), business, epistemic communities, and affinity groups (e.g., indigenous peoples, women, youth), as well as subnational authorities. The chapter examines the roles these actors play in the making, implementation, and enforcement of international law. It explains why nonstate actors are in some cases able to influence outcomes; how they are able to influence states, international institutions, and other nonstate actors; how they are beginning to affect environmental outcomes as independent actors in their own right; and what effects they are bringing about. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how international environmental law applies indirectly to nonstate actors.
How and Why Do States Implement Their Commitments?
Authors: Bodansky Daniel , van Asselt Harro 
Published: March 2024

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Through national implementation, international environmental norms get translated into action. Chapter 11 examines which actors are primarily responsible for implementing international environmental law, focusing particularly on the important role that states have in giving effect to international norms. The chapter then turns to the ways in which states can implement international obligations, distinguishing between the roles of legislative, executive/administrative, and judicial branches of government in implementation. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the factors that help explain why states implement their international commitments, including calculations of self-interest, a sense of normative commitment, bureaucratic routines, and pressure by environmental groups.
School financing and equal educational opportunity A review of policy interventions
Authors: De Witte Kristof , Smet Mike , Van Assche Ruben 
Published: March 2024

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As private education involves risks for equal opportunity in education, this chapter provides a structured overview of the literature on school financing programs in the context of equal opportunity in education. First, we summarize the literature on the main financing principles of equity, efficiency and adequacy. Second, we discuss several financing policies and programs, and their effect on equity, efficiency and adequacy. In particular, we discuss empirical evidence at the school level on interventions rooted in class-size reduction, extending school time, extra funding for information and communication technology (ICT) and additional funding for staff in schools serving disadvantaged students. The chapter also reviews the literature on interventions that impact teachers, such as higher net wages, improved working conditions, and incentive programs. Finally, we focus on interventions aimed at students and their families such as voucher programs and conditional cash transfer programs. We find that the effects of these programs are highly context-dependent and differ significantly among interventions.
Sabotage (1936)Sabotage (1936)
Authors: Hughes Helen 
Published: March 2024

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“Sabotage (1936): A thriller and its aftereffects” focuses on the image, and its affect, of a ruined London double-decker bus in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Sabotage of 1936. The author, a Londoner, explains that the shot recalled for her two terrorist attacks that took place in the capital city: the Aldwych bus bombing of 1996 and the July 7 bombing on Southampton Row in 2005. Finding the film surprisingly shocking, she undertakes an investigation to find out what the reaction to the scene was at the time the film was released and discovers a history of rejection, as well as attempts to understand what Hitchcock was trying to achieve with the scene. With reference to Joseph Conrad’s source novel, and with a discussion of essays on the film, she concludes that the film adaptation must have been pivotal in Hitchcock’s development toward coherent but closed narratives that shut out direct references to the politics of the wider world outside.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Authors: Robson Melanie 
Published: March 2024

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“Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Performing a murder(er)” examines how Hitchcock uses performance to develop suspense. It focuses on the murderous Uncle Charlie and how his guilt is revealed through facial close-ups performed only for the camera. While his family believe him to be their affable, kind relative, his deadpan, cold stare that the camera observes marks the duality of his character. The shot this chapter interrogates—a close-up of Charlie at the family dinner table—is the first time this duality has been on display to his family, and it begins to dissolve his carefully constructed façade. To examine the impact of this manipulative performance, this chapter considers the casting of Cotten, and how the film draws on expectations of his typical character as a trustworthy figure. Such expectations are ultimately subverted by scrutinizing Cotten’s facial expressions in moments like this shot.
To Catch a Thief (1955)To Catch a Thief (1955)
Authors: Viegas Susana 
Published: March 2024

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“To Catch a Thief (1955): Stanley Cavell and the end of a conventional myth” discusses one of Hitchcock’s most memorable scenes: the night Frances (Grace Kelly) and John (Cary Grant) kiss passionately during a firework show. While the standard interpretation of this scene focuses on the psychoanalytic explanation of the fireworks, Stanley Cavell offers another perspective. Cavell focuses on the couple and how they (do not) pay attention to each other. Frances showing off her fake jewelry sets the tone to the couple’s overcoming of their skepticism and achieving self-knowledge. What does the image show without telling? Is the film an obsolete fairy tale, or is it the end of conventional myths? This chapter rethinks the standard interpretation of this scene by considering what we are seeing, what the evidence is, and the historical and social context in which the film was shot.
Marnie (1964)Marnie (1964)
Authors: Brooks Jodi 
Published: March 2024

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“Marnie (1964): Restroom” examines Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, a film that is perhaps most loved for its sadness, though the location and nature of that sadness are not the same for all. Rather than turning to one of the film’s more celebrated or signature shots, this chapter turns to the shot of Marnie waiting in a women’s restroom and argues that this seemingly minor shot can sharpen our ears to the currents and sites of sadness within the film. Taking its cue from Tania Modleski’s discussion of how recent Hitchcock criticism has marginalized or dismissed the place and roles of women in Hitchcock’s work and paid little attention to questions of gendered spectatorship or feminist criticism, the chapter is attentive to the female “counter voices” that might be audible in or through the film for a feminist spectator.
Feline Mermaid
Authors: Hassan Waïl S. 
Published: March 2024

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Until today, there continues to be a noticeable dearth of Arab Brazilian women writers, in contrast to the United States, where women are a majority among contemporary Arab American poets and novelists. This dearth explains the surprising fact that it was not until Ana Miranda (b. 1951) published her sixth novel Amrik (1997, America) that a woman of Arab descent figured as narrator or protagonist of a Brazilian novel. Formally and stylistically innovative in its portrayal of the Arab community in São Paulo at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel features a Christian Lebanese belly dancer as narrator and protagonist. The novel also explicitly invokes the authority of British and French Orientalist texts in its portrayal of Arab women in the stereotypical role of belly dancer. As such, Brazilian feminism seems incapable of conceiving Arab womanhood beyond the confines of colonial Orientalism’s masculinist imaginary.