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Conversations with Dostoevsky
Authors: Pattison George 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Conversations with Dostoevsky is a series of fictional conversations taking place between November 2018 and spring 2019 in the narrator’s Glasgow apartment and elsewhere in the city. Starting with Dostoevsky’s story A Gentle Spirit, the conversations spell out Dostoevsky’s response to the vision of a loveless world with which the story ends and move on to his advocacy of faith in God, Christ, and immortality. The themes discussed include suicide, truth and lies, guilt, determinism, literature, the Bible, Mary, Christ, Dostoevsky and film, ‘the woman question’, nationalism, the Church, the Jewish question, immortality, and God. The main text is accompanied by a series of commentaries that contextualize the issues discussed in the conversations with references to his novels, journalism, letters, and notebooks as well as engaging the relevant critical literature. The work is not a conventional academic study and instead of chapters there are (fictional) ‘conversations’ followed by a series of ‘commentaries’. This should be clear in what follows, although the abstracts/keywords format does not in all cases facilitate representation of the fluid nature of the ‘conversations’.
NPM (2.0)
Authors: Karlsson Tom S. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter concerns (re)emerging discourses over political and administrative organisation in pre- and post-NPM contexts. Its analytical framework is based on a typology of market and management, and it poses the questions of (i) which problems are being identified, and (ii) how solutions are being proposed during two different time periods. It shows how discourses concerning slow government and excessive regulation (re)emerge as problems, and that the proposed solutions are similar over time. It is argued that an era of NPM 2.0 is now emerging, wherein political and administrative organisation react to similar problems and cope through similar solutions thereby risks reiterating the same outcomes as previous reforms has done.
Foundations of Property Law
Authors: von Bar Christian 
Published: February 2024

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This book is an abridged translation of the first volume of Gemeineuropäisches Sachenrecht—a milestone in European private law theory, and in comparative property law more broadly, which elaborates property law (the ‘law of things’) as a sub-discipline of European private law for the first time. The English version sets out the conceptual framework of ‘property law’ as a domain of erga omnes monopoly rights that govern the relationship between persons vis-à-vis objects of value. Within that framework, a reflexive relationship appears between property rights and their objects—in which property rights play a role in constituting the very objects (‘things’) in which they are held. With magisterial comparative scope, insights are gleaned from all the jurisdictions of the European Union (including those of the United Kingdom) and brought to bear on the subject matter without the monotony of parallel descriptions of national law. Instead, the property law of diverse legal systems is brought together in a single picture without contradiction or repetition: a systematic elaboration of the objects of property rights, the role that ‘rights’ and ‘things’ play in determining the province of ‘property law’, and various questions regarding the identification of things, their separation, alteration, or combination.
Real Things
Authors: von Bar Christian , Allen Jason Grant 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter elaborates the concept of ‘real things’, a fundamental category of objects of property rights. In particular, it sets out the way that real things—physical, tangible objects—serve as reference points for property rights. It also explores the special position of animals and money in the taxonomy of property law’s objects. Although they are sentient, animals are generally treated as objects (and never as subjects) of property rights subject to certain qualifications that are usually external to the logic of property law itself. In the case of money, it is necessary to distinguish between money per se, ‘money tokens’ (such as banknotes and coins), and the monetary unit. Of these, only money tokens are ‘real things’ and are most straightforwardly apprehended as objects of property rights. Exploring these cases at the margin helps to explain the core of the concept of ‘real things’.
Facio vs. Valla
Authors: Mori Giuliano 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter illustrates the contrast between the two main models of humanist historiography by analyzing the paradigmatic case of a quarrel that broke out in the 1440s between Bartolomeo Facio and Lorenzo Valla. In line with the historiographical tenets espoused by authors such as Leonardo Bruni, Facio blamed Valla’s History of King Ferdinand of Aragon for disobeying the Ciceronian precepts of brevity and verisimilitude, providing an indecorous and ultimately untruthful account of the life of King Ferdinand. Valla responded by advocating a model of truthful history aimed at reporting in a factual manner all transpired events, irrespective of their perceived verisimilitude and decorum. Accordingly, Valla condemned Facio’s call to omit minor and possibly indecorous details as a tool of falsification. By opting for factuality over verisimilitude and exhaustiveness over brevity and selectiveness, Valla’s notion of historical truth was essentially opposite to that of Facio. As Valla argues, revising Aristotle’s Poetics, history does not derive its capacity to relate to universals from the verisimilar character of its materials. On the contrary, history relates to universals by reporting particular examples from which one can draw a universal teaching. History is thus superior to poetry because it does not relate to universals via fiction but through factual examples that Valla considers logically necessary and hence irrefutably true.
The Illegality Defence in the Courts Today
Authors: Burrows Andrew 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter covers the defence of illegality in the courts today. The illegality defence is a question of law subject to a correctness review by the appellate courts. According to Ewan McKendrick, the Patel v Mirza case is one of the legally most significant decisions of the Supreme Court. Common law illegality is applied where the effects of the illegality have not been laid down in statute. The chapter elaborates on the standard of review by an appellate court, while also explaining that courts should take the initiative when dealing with the defence of illegality.
Schrödinger’s Lawful Act Duress: Dead or Alive?
Authors: Chen-Wishart Mindy , Gardner Jodi 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter explores the uncertain content of the category of lawful act duress within English contract law. It references the Times Travel v Pakistan International Airline Corporation (PIAC) case wherein Lord Hodge delivers the majority, while Lord Burrows the minority, judgements. Despite the Supreme Court’s unanimous recognition of the importance of the doctrine of lawful act duress to English common law of contract, neither the majority nor minority judgments yield substantive content beyond that covered by the existing doctrines. The chapter also challenges the negative outcome of the case by questioning the reasoning in both judgements and proposing a test of the bad faith which would give independent content to lawful act duress.
Pain of Punjab
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter narrates the story of Punjab Rai Talwar, an engineer born to a proclaimed wrestler of Raja Jung at that time. He tells how his family had left their ancestral home with 250 silver coins, survived a violent train journey, leaving the grandparents behind, and almost losing one of the family members, before finally settling down in Ludhiana. Read about how he embarks on a journey of reliving all his memories with a complete stranger with whom he was not related by blood but sadly by shared pain. This is the Pain of Punjab; one who misses his childhood friend very dearly and dreams of reuniting with them for one last time.
Daughter of Knight
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter unfolds the story of Anima Syam who studied as the only female student among 40 male students, for the strength inherited from her brave mother. This chapter begins with beautiful fisheries, large ponds, boats carrying flowers, and a lot of natural beauty of Sylhet, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), and then partition takes it to Assam, but it took 13 years for this family of seven kids and two parents to fully migrate. The story, Daughter of Knight is about the mother of the family acted as a knight; strongly guarding the family while taking care of the family business as the father tried to settle down in Assam.
Recipe to Revive
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter unfolds the story of a 19-year-old daughter of a postmaster, Shakuntala Malhotra who was born in Lahore and brought up in Lyallpur. She was living in Delhi in a two-bedroom flat with her husband at the time of partition. She tells how she went back with her husband to take some belongings in Lyallpur which was an ordeal in itself that still gives her shivers every time she recalls them. She also talks about her uncle who was posted in Azad Hind Army. Narrating her story from the United States, her Punjabi vegetarian recipes get published weekly in the paper she wishes only if she had a recipe to revive …
Colour of Blood
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter follows the story of Ashfaq Ahmed Khan. Born in the family of Yousafzais, his father was a policeman who passed away serving at duty. Raised by his elder brother, he remembers his birthplace Rohtak, where people would puff the pipe, attend wedding ceremonies and funerals together. He still remembers the bhajan he recited that saved his life. He tells the scenes he had to witness all through the way which still gives him nightmares. The story is about the man who believes that we all may have different names but the Colour of Blood in our veins is the same. All he appeals for is peace.
Du Bois’s Intellectual and Political Significance for China
Authors: Li Dai 
Published: February 2024

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Du Bois visited the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1959 and 1962 and received high-level receptions. His significance was two-fold: he was possibly instrumental in helping the PRC develop relations with newly independent African countries, and he was also deemed an ally in the worldwide class struggle against imperialism. He is extensively studied by historians, literature scholars, and other social scientists. However, he is curiously absent in Chinese sociology. This might be due to the discontinuation of sociology during 1952–1979, which coincided with his visits. The career of Fei Xiaotong, possibly the most influential Chinese sociologist, illustrates that Chinese sociology has long shared a vision of a sociology for the people since its inception. This is similar to Du Bois’s vision of a liberating sociology. Contemporary Chinese sociology can learn from Fei and Du Bois when charting its own path forward.
Albanian-Language Etnopop and the Emergence of a “Balkan” Regional Music Sphere
Authors: Sugarman Jane C. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter traces the development of the Albanian-language musical genre etnopop during the early 2000s, primarily by arrangers in Kosova and North Macedonia. At the heart of Albanian etnopop production lay a paradox. On the one hand, new communications and production technologies enabled Albanians both to maintain close contact transnationally as a self-identified national group and to create an extensive music industry whose products were often a focal point of transnational social interaction. On the other, those same technologies enabled, and often encouraged, personnel within the industry to engage with non-Albanian producers and performers in neighboring countries. The result was a situation in which the Albanian industry maintained a facade of autonomous existence for much of its audience while in fact fostering intricate transnational interconnections. Ultimately, such interactions contributed to what has emerged as a complexly organized southeast European regional music sphere.
The Healthcare Industry
Authors: Donzé Pierre-Yves 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter provides an overview of the development of healthcare as an industry. First, it discusses the nature of the industry and outlines its main characteristics (highly regulated; broad range of actors; fast-growing; high level of technological innovation). Second, it presents the historical evolution of this sector in Western Europe, the US, and Japan, from its formation in the middle of the 19th century, which led to (i) the emergence of hospitals as a crucial actor, (ii) the subsequent creation of health insurance systems, supporting the demand for healthcare, and (iii) increasing government intervention, followed, more recently, by reform attempts driven by neoliberal ideas. It then sketches the spread of this model to countries outside the West and Japan. Overall, the chapter shows that despite hospitals as the dominant organizational form and the international diffusion of technologies, policies and practices, the healthcare industry continues to show significant variations from country to country.
It’s All de Jure
Authors: Ladson-Billings Gloria , Tate William F. , Jones Richard L. 
Published: February 2024

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The narrative about public school segregation in the United States typically casts southern states as villains because of their practice of de jure segregation, or segregation by law. Under this view, the South was committed to entrenching the “separate but equal” doctrine the Supreme Court established in Plessy v. Ferguson in the context of education. The North, according to this narrative, did not engage in de jure racial segregation. To the extent that schools were segregated in the North, that was a product of de facto racial segregation, or a matter of circumstance based on housing patterns. In this chapter, the authors argue that all school segregation is de jure, whether it occurs through the establishment of separate schools or whether it is a result of more “upstream” practices, like the establishment of restrictive covenants, redlining, or discriminatory housing financing and policies. To substantiate this claim, they offer a brief description of the prevailing post-Civil War narratives in the North and in the South. They examine southern strategies to undermine the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, with a particular focus on how pieces of that strategy transcended the North and figured prominently in the Midwestern state of Missouri. The authors highlight massive housing discrimination along the northeast coast and link it to school segregation to further support the thesis that a great majority of US school segregation is de jure.
Race and Contracts
Authors: Houh Emily 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter considers how social identities—including those based on race, gender, and sex--affect contract law, and vice versa. It explains how traditional contract law is a social construct that in turn helps construct racialized and gendered capitalism. Yet, certain equitable doctrines in contract law provide opportunities to think about how and why this is so, and how contracts and race and/or gender intersect. The chapter then discusses three cases about three equitable contract doctrines—undue influence, misrepresentation, and unconscionability—to illustrate how this point.It then offers an example of how contract doctrine might be used to achieve more just results in a way that accounts not only for the parties’ individual transactional conduct, but also for more structural forms of discrimination
Just Like a Freefall
Authors: Arnold Lorin Basden 
Published: February 2024

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While metaphor has long been part of qualitative and critical methodologies in organizational studies, that use has not been untroubled by issues. This chapter discusses the critical theory perspective regarding language, organizational metaphors, and power; the benefits and drawbacks of a critical frame for organizational metaphor research; and suggestions for maintaining the benefits while reducing the problems. It does so with a focus on critical metaphor work proceeding from a “colored lens” or “pigeon-hole” approach (Örtenblad 2016). Benefits of this research include making space for unheard voices, highlighting systems of oppression, and creating possibilities for change. Potential issues include problems related to understanding organizations from a distance, ignoring the multiplicity of meaning, elitism, and ignoring outlying or dissenting voices. Recommendations include highlighting the position of the scholar, examining exploitation and silencing in the research process, embracing the messiness of understanding, and moving beyond producing scholarship for other scholars.
Open Innovation and Coopetition
Authors: Bez Sea Matilda , Le Roy Frédéric 
Published: February 2024

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While the open innovation literature has acknowledged competitors as a source of innovative knowledge, competitors have been relatively neglected relative to other sources such as universities, suppliers, customers, and employees. Research in open innovation increasingly includes this counter-intuitive partner and acknowledges that the drivers and management of the open innovation practice with competitors are different from those with a non-competitive partner. In parallel and independently from the open innovation literature, research on coopetition and coopetitive innovation has grown and explored when, why, and how a competitor is a relevant partner for innovation. These frameworks develop by the coopetition literature brought into the open innovation research to generate new insights and a whole research agenda. The main insight is: coopetitive open innovation, defined as open innovation with competitors embracing a “coopetitive mindset” and specific managerial principles (i.e., cooperation and competition, should be simultaneously pursued and the competition dimension should not be reduced).
What the Kālamukhas Can Tell Us about Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan
Authors: Schwartz Jason 
Published: February 2024

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This essay represents an initial attempt to revive the rather moribund study of the Kālamukhas by turning to fresh archives and methodologies. The designation “Kālamukha” by and large does not designate a discrete doctrinal formation but instead indexes vibrant and internally diversified “context-specific” religious imaginaries, few of which have yet been adequately historicized given surviving documentary, textual, and material cultural evidence. Toward this end, I offer three brief case studies: one purely textual, one concerned with visual culture in situ, and one offering regional institutional histories over the longue durée. These case studies aim to speak to the composite nature of Kālamukha imaginaries on and off the page, in the process urging us to think more robustly about not merely the content of our sources, whether in text or stone, but also their workmanly dimensions. They also suggest the need for reassessing the relationship between the idealized prescriptive textualities on which we focus and the lived realities within which our sources circulated. What emerges in each case study is an acute sense that the lived realities of the early medieval Deccan were all but defined by the blurring of the boundaries between Atimārga and Mantramārga, and that it is the monastic networks of the Kālamukhas themselves that become heavily invested in the transmission of Tantric knowledge and practice.
Arms Control and the Myth of Peaceful Uses in Outer Space
Authors: West Jessica 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis chapter considers the concept of peace in outer space, which has been fundamental to the development of its governance, yet, despite early indications of success, non-armament has been an intractable challenges of space governance. The prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS) has been on the international agenda for decades with little progress. Existing explanations for this are unconvincing. Drawing on theory of political myth, the chapter contends that the failure to restrict weapon use in space is a consequence of an abiding myth of the peacefulness of outer space. While there is some evidence to suggest that this emphasis on the peaceful use of outer space has made the deployment of weapons in space taboo for most, it is also true that a general belief in this myth has permitted some space actors to engage in military competition, cloaked by a fog of peace.
California’s Channel Islands
Authors: Perry Jennifer E. , Jazwa Christopher S. , Radde Hugh D. 
Published: February 2024

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California’s Channel Islands have been home to Island Chumash and Tongva and their ancestors for more than 13,000 years, along with a diverse array of plant and animal species that were central to their livelihoods. After the displacement of island populations to the mainland by the mid-eighteenth century, animal grazing and other Euro-American farming and ranching activities promoted environmental degradation, including large-scale landscape changes. Since that time, and throughout the 20th century, the Channel Islands have been the site of extensive archaeological research, with disparate and intersecting themes across the eight-island archipelago including human ecology, colonization, exchange, and hunter-gatherer complexity. This chapter highlights developments in theoretical and methodological approaches, including historical ecology and human behavioral ecology and their applications and intersection. It also considers some of the broad questions that the Channel Islands are poised to address, including the timing and process of early colonization of the Americas and the development of social complexity among hunter–gatherers. These historical and contemporary trajectories of island research have the potential to advance future studies on the Channel Islands and their relevance to understanding human–coastal interactions globally.
Native American Archaeology of the Coastal American Southeast
Authors: Thompson Victor D. , Holland-Lulewicz Isabelle 
Published: February 2024

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In this comparative synthesis the authors summarize the most recent archaeological research in the coastal regions of the American Southeast, focusing on the Gulf coast of Florida and the lower Atlantic coast. Specifically, they outline the evolution of coastal ecosystems in this region, explore early adaptations to coastal environments and the emergence of villages and their concomitant new social institutions, and provide the most recent evidence for the construction of monuments and expanding ritual economies. In the latter part of this chapter, they compare some of the well-studied peoples of this region who were known to inhabit the area during the sixteenth century. These groups include the Calusa, Tocobagans, Timucuans, and Guale. Research on these peoples has provided critical information on coastal economies, the impacts of colonialism, and the role of Indigenous governance in the greater Southeast. In the final section, the authors consider the archaeology of the region and its importance in documenting large-scale cooperative endeavors, including how these groups sustainably managed fisheries over long periods and what that can say about the future of these environments in the face of large-scale climate change.