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The Necropolitics of Asylum Policy
Authors: Bennett Samuel 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter analyses the third myth of immigration: that Britain has always welcomed those in need. The chapter argues that policies, actions, and discourses place the person seeking asylum in the role of Agamben’s homo sacer, and in doing so such laws are a form of what Mbembe calls ‘necropolitics’ that are at odds with the claim that Britain has helped and will continue to help those in need. To indicate this the chapter analyses the second reading of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 in the House of Commons. The analysis combines mythopoetic legitimation with Cap’s work on proximization to show the dominance of the contradictory threat/victim, securito-humanitarian frames as well a (post)colonial, liberal paternalism that undergirds these frames. Furthermore, the overriding belief in the myth acts as cover for the participants’ cognitive dissonance over the necropolitical effects of immigration policy.
Your Role and Relationship with Your Clients
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Social workers are found in almost every setting where people may require help. They are employed in hospitals, schools, mental health clinics, correction facilities, and more. This chapter helps readers to think about how their role with their clients, within their agency’s context, shapes the tasks that they undertake in their role as a social work practitioner. In addition, it focuses on how to strengthen the client–social worker relationship through focusing on common, shared factors and the working alliance. The chapter also provides some free tools that practitioners can use to measure and strengthen their relationship with their clients.
Assessment
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter introduces readers to the common language that is used when conducting an assessment, including forming a psychiatric diagnosis and the mental status exam. It addresses some of the tools used in the assessment phase with clients, such as the use of standardized instruments, and it helps the reader to identify key areas that they should consider when conducting an assessment with their clients. It also introduces readers to the tool of ethnographic interviewing as a way to approach clients from a cultural humility stance, and it offers useful resources that can be used during the assessment process.
Asking the Difficult Questions
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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Many times the questions that practitioners need to ask their clients can feel intrusive or the practitioner might worry that they themselves are not prepared to respond to the answers that they might receive. This chapter’s aim is to help new practitioners prepare for and be more confident in asking difficult questions. First, it debunks some myths about asking difficult questions and then it reviews specific topic areas that might feel challenging for some new practitioners to explore, such as substance use, religion/spirituality, sexuality, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality. It also provides some important resources that are aimed at addressing such challenging topics.
Assessing the Safety of the Client
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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Social work practitioners must often conduct assessments focused specifically on the safety of their clients. These assessments are often aimed at looking for any form of abuse and/or neglect, suicidal feelings, or other dangerous situations. In this chapter, new social work practitioners are introduced to the requirements of mandated reporting, including what to look for in abusive situations, what to consider when assessing for self-harm and suicide, and the importance of seeking supervision and consultation in such situations. In addition, the chapter provides links to many resources to help practitioners identify other supports when there are concerns about safety.
Evidence-Based Practice and How to Use Research in Treatment Planning
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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Integrating research into the clinical decision-making process is not something that is often discussed in social work courses or in the supervision of new social workers. However, it is imperative that practitioners consider the available research regarding what might help their clients with their current struggles. This chapter helps readers to think about how they can include research into their practices with the goal of finding the best way possible to help their clients using the evidence-based practice process. In addition, an appendix to the chapter details the process by which a reader can evaluate published literature for its veracity and usefulness in intervention selection and application.
Evaluation of Practice
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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Virtually every code of ethics for helping professionals emphasizes the importance of evaluating their practice. It is essential that social workers determine whether what they are doing is actually effective and helping reach the client’s goals as laid out in the treatment plan. This chapter provides readers with very user-friendly tools to evaluate their work with their clients, to ensure that they are working effectively toward their goals. These tools do not involve complicated statistics or high levels of research knowledge. Both objective and subjective measures are used in evaluating practice. Objective measures are based on concrete, unbiased reports of change. Subjective measures are based on the perceptions of the client and the social worker.
Beginning Knowledge of the Brain and Its Functions
Authors: Grady Melissa D. , Dombo Eileen A. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter introduces new social workers to some of the key pieces of information needed to understand how the brain functions and the role that neurobiology plays in their work with clients. The chapter provides readers with an overview of terms and concepts that they may be exposed to regarding neurobiology. It explores the essential features of psychological testing and how such information can be used in their own work with clients. The chapter introduces readers to the various classes of medications that clients may be taking to address a psychiatric condition, and it presents guidelines for collaborating with psychiatrists.
The Governing Order
Authors: Andrade Nathanael J. 
Published: January 2025

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In Jesus’ lifetime, greater Judaea harbored a host of people who acted from political and personal motives. But they also acted to fulfill serious social and moral obligations. Their motives and obligations positioned them in debate and even conflict. Understanding them helps us understand Jesus’ trial and death. All figures of authority involved in governance in greater Judaea had reasons to want Jesus dead. These included the Herodian dynasts, the chief priests, some allied scribal elites, and above all Pontius Pilate. They all were pitted against dissenting figures who challenged their governing legitimacy, their politics, their ethics, or their economic interests. Dissenters also could create social disturbances that the Herodians or chief priests were obligated to resolve, or even get innocent people hurt or killed, especially at the Temple precinct. What were the motives of the people who governed Judaea? How did they pit them against Jesus?
Jesus, Herod Antipas, and Galilee
Authors: Andrade Nathanael J. 
Published: January 2025

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In the Gospels, Jesus does not say much about Herod Antipas. The Gospels also do not depict Antipas as pursuing Jesus consistently. Even so, Jesus’ message did pose a challenge to the Herodian dynasts, and Antipas’ hostility leaves its mark on the Gospels. If they do not focus consistently on Antipas’ pursuit of Jesus, it is because they have other priorities. The Gospel of Mark in particular bears traces of hostility, which the other Synoptics sometimes negate. What are these signs? Why was Antipas hostile?
Jesus’ Followers on Trial (until 250)
Authors: Andrade Nathanael J. 
Published: January 2025

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When Jesus died, his core followers went into hiding. But they eventually began to preach in public, including at the Temple precinct. The Acts of the Apostles is our main narrative source for the activity of Jesus’ followers in the years after his death. Its historical value is open to debate, if not outright dubious. But it suggests that Jesus’ followers at Jerusalem preached without coercion from Roman authorities or the chief priests for stretches of time. Arrests or violence by the chief priests or Roman authorities were occasional and selective. Executions were even rarer. How did Jesus’ followers go from fearing violence to preaching in the open? Why did their public preaching attract only occasional arrest, prosecution, or violence? How did Roman governors and their views on sedition affect this pattern?
Spectra of Atoms and Molecules
Authors: Bernath Peter F. 
Published: January 2025

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Spectra of Atoms and Molecules provides advanced undergraduates and graduate students with a working knowledge of the field of spectroscopy. The book illuminates fundamental principles of spectroscopy for chemists, physicists, astronomers, atmospheric scientists, and engineers, with the primary goal of teaching the interpretation of spectra. Highlights include an entirely new chapter on the spectroscopy of clouds and aerosols, as well as the presentation of group theory as needed to understand spectroscopy. Each chapter includes detailed worked examples, plus numerous problems allowing the reader to work with actual experimental data and spectra. Topics include molecular symmetry, matrix representation of groups, quantum mechanics, and group theory. Atomic, rotational, vibrational, electronic and Raman spectra are analyzed as well. This edition clears up the confusing topic of line strengths as needed for quantitative applications.
Electronic Spectroscopy of Polyatomics
Authors: Bernath Peter F. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter begins with a discussion of orbitals and the labelling of electronic states. Qualitative molecular orbital theory and Hückel molecular orbital theory are presented. The vibrational structure of electronic transitions is illustrated with spectra. The Herzberg-Teller, Jahn-Teller, and Renner-Teller effects are defined. Non-radiative transitions are illustrated with a Jablonski diagram. Photoelectron spectra are presented. Rotational structure in electronic spectra is illustrated with formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.
The Republican Dilemma
Authors: Moen Lars J.K. 
Published: January 2025

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Republicans consider freedom as non-domination an attractive political ideal for a modern pluralistic society that cannot be found in liberalism. This book shows how this view is untenable. By analyzing freedom as non-domination as it is understood by contemporary republicans, the book rejects the widely held view that this freedom concept is superior to liberal understandings of freedom as non-interference. In fact, setting up institutions to promote non-domination is shown to also promote non-interference. The book demonstrates how it is the focus on making an ideal suitable for a modern society that leads republicans to a view of freedom with no normative insight that cannot also be found in liberalism. However, the book also shows how republicans can adjust their freedom ideal so that it actually offers a distinctly republican contribution to political philosophy. By understanding freedom to require that citizens commit to an especially high level of political participation to deny powerholders opportunities to act against the common good, republicans can reject liberalism and freedom as non-interference. But this freedom ideal does not respect the many citizens in a modern society whose conceptions of a good life do not involve such a high level of political engagement. Republicans therefore face a dilemma: they can promote a freedom ideal suited for modern conditions, but they then end up endorsing a liberal theory promoting freedom as non-interference. Alternatively, they can promote a distinct freedom ideal, but this ideal will be unsuited for a modern society.
Robustness
Authors: Moen Lars J.K. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter introduces the robustness dimension and positions republican freedom and pure negative freedom along this dimension. It also shows, importantly, that scope and robustness are inversely related, so that an enhancement of scope implies a reduction in robustness, and vice versa. Republican freedom has greater robustness than pure negative freedom does. This difference does not, however, imply a difference in the measurement of freedom, as pure negative freedom theorists can justify interference for the sake of more robust protection insofar as it enhances overall pure negative freedom. This observation points toward a key point in the book: to maintain that promoting republican freedom differs from the promotion of pure negative measurement of freedom, republicans must give their core freedom ideal an extensive robustness requirement and a correspondingly restricted scope requirement.
Pluralism
Authors: Moen Lars J.K. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter distinguishes between moderate and strong understandings of republican freedom. The two interpretations are different trade-off between the scope and robustness dimensions of freedom. On the moderate view, a scope restricted by a reasonableness condition allows for only a moderate robustness requirement, which demands no more than citizens’ “virtual control” of their government. Thus understood, the freedom ideal respects the pluralism of modern society and is based on a liberal theory promoting pure negative freedom. To distinguish their position such a liberal theory, republicans must demand more robustness, and thereby restrict the scope of freedom. The ideal then requires citizens to commit to a high level of political participation to ensure “active control” of powerholders, involving a high level of vigilance. On this strong interpretation, republican freedom breaks away from liberalism and pure negative freedom, but it also conflicts the pluralism of modern society.
Dialogic Methodology for Transdisciplinary Practice-Based Research
Authors: White E. Jayne , Janfada Mahtab 
Published: January 2025

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In this book the reader will be introduced to the premises, processes, and practices of dialogic methodology as a legitimized approach to the transdisciplinary study of practice. With the aid of dialogic scholars across the globe—whose dynamic interview excerpts are peppered throughout the book—the authors take the reader on a pathway of discovery from conception to fruition of their possible or proposed research study. The reader will be introduced to the previously impenetrable writings of Russian transdisciplinary thinker and doer Mikhail Bakhtin, whose ideas forge the basis of dialogic methodology. As a consequence, the reader will be able to identify and apply a series of dialogic concepts, principles, and designs at their creative disposal in and for practice. The book introduces a series of contemporary scholarship across the disciplines of practice and invites speculative inquiry that resists certainty whilst maintaining fidelity to its origins in thought and practice. There are opportunities to respond to questions posed, and the reader will be exposed to the latest literature at their fingertips. Complex ideas are translated into real-life practice contexts, calling for methodological rigour while resisting the pull to certainty that permeates the field. This book is the first of its kind and a must-read for any research scholar who takes dialogues seriously (and perhaps not so seriously too!).
Locating Dialogic Methodology
Authors: White E. Jayne , Janfada Mahtab 
Published: January 2025

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Bakhtin described dialogic methodology as a ‘special science (scientific discipline)’ with its own governing principles that set it apart from other methodologies. Dialogic methodology is a unique approach to research, one deeply influenced by a series of philosophical and political layers of thought. This chapter presents the kernel of this specificity as an orienting framework for practice-based research. It introduces some of the paradigms and assumptions that orient its meaning and then considers its specific potential for practice-based transdisciplinary research. The chapter primarily sets the scene for explaining the types of research issues or tensions that orient dialogic methodology and why.
Designing Dialogic Methodology With Practice
Authors: White E. Jayne , Janfada Mahtab 
Published: January 2025

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In this chapter we look closely at the methodological task involved in designing research of this nature—from research questions to the so-called methods at your disposal for analysis. How each method contributes to the overall methodological design and implementation of research in this field is highly creative, and nuanced, according to your purpose. The process is an iterative one with practice and with those involved. We draw from the experiences of others in the field to provide some beginning inspiration for design which you may find helpful in orienting your research quest. By the end of this chapter, you should be well poised to critically engage with the design of existing practice-based research projects that subscribe to dialogic methodology. You will be able to add your own creative flair and even design aspects of your methodological approach for practice-based inquiry—if, indeed, this is (still) your quest.
Dialogic Methodology for Future Practice
Authors: White E. Jayne , Janfada Mahtab 
Published: January 2025

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In this final chapter, we summarise the key features of dialogic methodology that we have explored throughout this book and, in the spirit of Bakhtin, brought forth with a ‘feeling for the future’. With this orientation to forward movements in time, we pose a future-oriented series of possibilities for transdisciplinary practice-based research. These possibilities, we contend, will enhance the potential for dialogic methodology to bear fruit in and with existing paradigms as well as domains beyond traditional research, thus opening up contemporary and future spaces for the study of dialogic encounters with ‘possibilist thinking’ for practice. However, we also remind ourselves of the limitations of dialogic methodology. Accordingly, we end this chapter with a series of unfinalized propositions to help you not only contemplate the relevance of these ideas for your own work but also workshop ideas with and through transdisciplinary approaches to practice.
What Is All This?
Authors: Fiocco M. Oreste 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter introduces the present work, which begins by questioning what the world as a whole is via the question of what a thing (any thing at all) is. A novel method of inquiry is needed to answer such general questions. This chapter also introduces this method: original inquiry. Original inquiry is presuppositionless in that it makes no assumptions about the world or what is in it. The feasibility of such inquiry is defended. Engaging in original inquiry reveals the significance of temporal phenomena, viz., inconstancy and constancy, and of time itself to a comprehensive account of the world. The chapter distinguishes the grand metaphysical inquiry pursued in the present work from other, more familiar projects in the history of philosophy. It concludes with an overview of the book put forth in synoptic accounts of each of the subsequent eleven chapters.
Two General Views of Temporal Reality
Authors: Fiocco M. Oreste 
Published: January 2025

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There are two generic approaches to accounting for all temporal phenomena, including inconstancy and constancy. On one, the world in time is ontologically homogeneous. There are (infinitely) many, equally real moments with no peculiarly temporal thing distinguishing any one of these from any other. Each thing in time has a permanent existence: each moment exists without ceasing to be and whatever exists at any moment exists ceaselessly at all moments it exists. The key feature of the opposing approach to temporal reality is that, according to it, there are significant structural and, hence, ontological differences in the world when it goes from being one way (at one moment) to a different way (at a distinct moment). This approach, based on difference, admits of much greater variation than does the one based on ontological homogeneity; the unifying feature of all these many versions is that the world in time is ontologically heterogeneous.
All This and Why It Matters
Authors: Fiocco M. Oreste 
Published: January 2025

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The world in its entirety is the things inside and outside of time. The insightfulness of this answer turns on the account of what a thing is, and so this chapter considers again, from the perspective afforded by the preceding discussion, the method of original inquiry and the discipline of metaphysics. Metaphysics is definitive; it can be undertaken once and for all, producing a universal theory that constrains all other inquiry. The generality of the discipline is the basis of its significance, but also its limitations. Metaphysics is not entirely general, though, for original inquiry does reveal the existence of certain substances, most importantly, time. Metaphysics and the metaphysics of time begin at the same point and are dependent upon on each other. The former reveals the ontological structure in reality, the latter its temporal and modal structure. Together, the two define the means and limits of all inquiry.
Where to Draw the Line
Authors: Drake H. A. 
Published: January 2025

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“Democracy” is usually the word that comes to mind when thinking of the ancient Greeks, but far more fundamental to modern life is their search for principles that led to the first serious examination of the options individuals have when their personal sense of right and wrong comes into conflict with the demands of the society to which they belong. This is a question that does not come up in the kind of kin-based, traditional society in which Greek thinking about the state originated. If the state is just one large family, there are no grounds for conflict: what is good for the family is good for everyone in the family. With the growth of the polis, however, a cleavage emerged, as Sophocles saw in his play Antigone. When Socrates applied the new method of cross-examination (“dialectic”) to ethical questions, his brilliant student Plato used this method to produce a classic of political theory, The Republic. Here, and by his personal example, Socrates analyzed situations in which justice demands individuals obey their conscience, even if that means going against the state.
“Your Magnificent Citizenship”
Authors: Drake H. A. 
Published: January 2025

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Rome conquered the Mediterranean with its mighty legions, but a more important reason for its success lies in its diplomacy. From earliest times, Rome made treaty arrangements with neighboring states that obliged them to provide soldiers to Rome on demand. In return, they were given a path to full Roman citizenship. The result was a manpower pool that no other ancient state could match. When Rome suffered a catastrophic defeat in 216 bce, losing upwards of 80,000 men in a single day, it had reserves of more than 700,000 troops to draw on. The Greek historian Polybius, who lived in Rome for twenty years, attributed its success to a different cause: the stability of its government, which he described as a mixed constitution of checks and balances. His theory had a long and influential life, eventually influencing the framers of the United States Constitution. Equally important was the historian Livy, whose portrait of noble citizens who put sacrifice for Rome above all else, helps explain the use of classical architecture in so many modern capitals.