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Birds and Religions
Authors: Gardella Peter (Petra) , Krute Laurence 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Birds and humans have evolved together. All human religions revere birds, and birds have guided humans in migrations and given examples of rituals that humans have followed. Chapters of this book will move from the roles of birds in creating the world to rituals involving birds, then to interventions by birds in history, birds as spiritual teachers and companions to humans, and birds in crises of extinction and apocalypse. The final two chapters describe how thinkers and artists from the Romantic era to the present have developed a religion of nature inspired by birds. In this new religion, women have taken leadership, and new attitudes toward gender and nature are still emerging.
Birds in Romantic Arts, Sciences, and Religions
Authors: Gardella Peter (Petra) , Krute Laurence 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
With industry came intense mining and discoveries in geology and biology that revealed the roles of birds in evolution. Meanwhile a great naturalist and artist, John James Audubon, launched his epic attempt to document all bird species in the United States. Romantic writers and thinkers tried to share the spirit of birds. After Audubon died in 1851, his paintings and books inspired movements to conserve bird species, often led by women who were attending new colleges. Women led Audubon societies and campaigned against fashions in feathers that had nearly destroyed all ostriches and shore birds, even gulls. By 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act united great powers of the world to protect birds. Writers of the early twentieth century made Audubon the saint of a spiritual movement.
Epilogue: How the Cover of This Book, the Artist Who Painted It, and the Albatross He Painted Embody a Religion of Nature
Authors: Gardella Peter (Petra) , Krute Laurence 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Arthur Singer’s cover painting of an albatross can be seen as a summary of the entire book. The artist was inspired by John James Audubon, who helped found the new religion of nature, and the albatross led Samuel Taylor Coleridge to teach reverence for nature in his poetry. Since World War II, humans have learned more about the extraordinary powers of albatrosses and may be moved to save their Pacific habitats and so the world.
Illicit Political Economy
Authors: Han Enze 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter looks at the illicit dimension of China’s regional economy in Southeast Asia. As a result of the recent globalization of Chinese capital, the movement of such criminal networks has accompanied capital flows abroad. The chapter looks at how the growth of the online casino economy has been deeply tied with Chinese capital looking for investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. Closely associated with these opportunities are the online scammers who specifically target ethnic Chinese communities across national boundaries. The chapter then tentatively discusses the relationship between the illicit economies and the existing Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia, and how the lack of state regulation and capacity and rampant corruption have facilitated the growth of these illicit activities.
Conclusion
Authors: Han Enze 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The concluding chapter provides a summary of the intricate landscape of China’s impact on mainland Southeast Asia. It reviews how China has become the primary and diversified partner for Southeast Asia across various fields. The relationship between China and Southeast Asian countries encompasses political, economic, and cultural dimensions, and the influence of China in the region has been profoundly experienced by regional governments and the populace. Additionally, the chapter reflects on the effects of COVID-19 and how the post-pandemic era might shape China’s ties with Southeast Asia. It further projects into the future of this critical geopolitical relationship, as both China and Southeast Asia navigate new challenges and opportunities on the global stage.
Soap Bones
Authors: Berg Anne 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter illustrates the connections between Nazi slave labor and wartime recycling by focusing on the role of soap production and allocation. Soap not only underpinned German sanitization fantasies, it also played a crucial role in the regime’s operations of ghettos and camps, where ideas about cleanliness, hygiene, and contamination were remapped onto the bodies of Jews, forced laborers, and Soviet POWs. While the Germans attempted to extract additional fats for soap production from the occupied lands, they simultaneously restricted soap allocations for Jews, forced laborers, concentration camp prisoners, and civilians in occupied territory, producing conditions of indescribable filth and overcrowding, which they mobilized as “evidence” for the “innate filthiness” of racial others. Inside ghettos and camps, designed as rubbished spaces where hygiene was an impossibility by design, SS ideas about racial pollution and mantras of total extraction came together in a destructive cycle of plunder, sanitization, and murder.
Conclusion
Authors: Berg Anne 
Published: February 2024

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Revisiting the main arguments of the book and offering a concise summary, the Conclusion grapples with the visual record of liberation. Recording their own shock and horror, the Allies photographed piles of corpses, mountains of shoes, and heaps of rags. But in the absence of gold mines and cotton plantations, the still and moving images of murder, plunder, and slave labor in the most industrialized country of Europe lacked the familiar frame that had contained such imagery in the context of colonial slaughter and orchestrated famine. They simply didn’t make sense; instead, they captured the absence of logic and came to enshrine the gravity of the Nazi crimes. However, the images of neatly sorted piles of rags, shoes, and human hair that soon served as a proxy for the victims themselves inadvertently captured the logic of the Nazi waste regime recorded in a landscape of piles.
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System beyond Latin America
Authors: Engstrom Par 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) offers crucial insights into the past, present, and potential future of global human rights governance. From this analytical point of departure, this chapter aims to provide a corrective to the disparate gloomy assessments of the present state and possible future trajectories of international human rights. More specifically, the chapter highlights three areas of contributions of the IAHRS to the theory and practice of global human rights governance. First, by adopting a historical perspective on the institutional development of the IAHRS, we are reminded of the global and interconnected character of the evolution of the modern international human rights regime. Far from a straightforward narrative of international human rights as a result of Western imposition, the origins and early developments of the IAHRS demonstrate the central protagonism of the Global South in the emergence and consolidation of global human rights governance. Second, the IAHRS has played a central role in the normative construction and evolving interpretations of international human rights standards. Third, the IAHRS has made important contributions to the theory and practice of human rights governance as an exemplar of how international law and institutions can advance the realization of rights even in the absence of robust enforcement mechanisms and in often inhospitable political conditions. These distinct contributions of the IAHRS are often overlooked in discussions of the evolution and impact of international human rights. The result is often a distinct sense of distortion in the analysis of international human rights, whether past, present, or future.
The Inter-American Human Rights System’s Impact on the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment
Authors: Guanipa Henry Jiménez , Barraco María 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter analyzes inter-American standards concerning the environment, as well as their evolution through the innovative jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System and domestic courts. First, the chapter describes instruments, jurisprudence, standards, and dialogues related to the right to a healthy environment, as developed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Next, the chapter argues that this acquis has a direct impact on the region demonstrated by pivotal decisions of domestic courts as well as public policies that recognize human rights related to the protection of the environment. Finally, the chapter concludes that there is an emerging ius commune on environmental human rights that serves as a baseline for environmental protection and that should be expanded and strengthened in the near future.
The Rights of the Child According to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Authors: Beloff Mary 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses how the rights of the child have been interpreted within inter-American case law with special focus on the way in which the Inter-American Court has focused on ACHR Article 19 (special protection measures) and on the principle of the best interest of the child. Given the singular impact that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has had on Latin American countries, the chapter examines the development of the international corpus juris on the protection of the rights of the child according to decisions, advisory opinions, and provisional measures adopted by the Inter-American Court. The chapter comprehensively analyzes the progress made by the Court with regard to the rights of children, while also highlighting the limits and possibilities for further advances in the Inter-American Human Rights System.
The Standards of the Inter-American Human Rights System regarding Migration and Its Impact on the Region’s States
Authors: Salmón Elizabeth , Blouin Cécile 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The protection and guarantee of the rights of migrants is one of the most important challenges currently facing the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). In addition to the complex dynamics of migration and the increase of restrictive migration policies in Latin America, it is important to understand the transformative impacts of the IAHRS jurisprudence on the States. This chapter analyzes the progress made by the IAHRS in terms of protection and guarantees of migrants’ rights, and the magnitude of the impacts of these standards in the region. To this effect, the chapter first differentiates three specific stages in the construction of IAHRS migration standards. Following that analysis, the chapter examines the migration and asylum normative frameworks in Latin America and the role of Courts to protect and guarantee the rights of migrants within the IAHRS standards. The chapter suggests that there are some pending issues for the IAHRS in order to protect the rights of migrants from a broad understanding of migration. Regarding transformative impacts, most States in the region have adopted increasingly protective internal normative frameworks, and IAHRS standards have influenced the judicial and constitutional work of the States of the region. In some cases, national courts and national normative frameworks have set standards that go beyond those established by the IAHRS. However, significant challenges remain concerning the transformative impacts linked to the gap between the regulation and its implementation and the still incipient role of national courts in defending the rights of migrants in the region.
Strategies of the Due Process of Law Foundation for the Promotion of New Standards and Expansion of the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Authors: Salazar Katya , Cerqueira Daniel 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter addresses some strategies carried out by the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) to expand the impact of the decisions of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). Based on DPLF’s own experience, one of a regional civil society organization user of the noncontentious faculties of the IAHRS, this chapter provides examples of its joint initiatives with local and national organizations to promote and obtain a greater impact of the IAHRS standards. The chapter explains how DPLF has incorporated the demands of its counterpart civil society organizations in the development of new narratives and in its advocacy work with the IACHR, with special emphasis on two issues: corruption and human rights, and the extraterritorial responsibility of the home countries of corporations involved in human rights violations.
Working Together
Authors: Hebl Mikki , King Eden 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The racial and gender reckonings exemplified by the #BLM, #StopAsianHate, and #MeToo movements shine light on biases that affect every part of life, including the workplace. An unspoken truth underlying the terrible events that fuel these movements—the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, acts of xenophobia against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the sexual violence perpetrated by Harvey Weinstein—is that people are being harassed, stereotyped, demeaned, and victimized in the context of work. Police officers and movie producers are perpetrators of terrible actions while they are working. What is happening in the American workplace to allow these events to unfold? And, of critical importance, what can leaders do to make lasting change? In this critical moment in the United States’ history, organizational leaders have the opportunity and obligation to build strategy and practice in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This book will help all leaders rise to the challenge by describing state-of-the-art science and practice. Expert scholars and professionals blend descriptions of case studies with large-scale robust evidence to help leaders recognize the imperative of diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations; identify their own personal barriers and those of their organizations; and specify strategies for achieving positive and persistent change by working together.
Are There Downsides to Diversity?
Authors: Hebl Mikki , King Eden 
Published: February 2024

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A balanced conversation does not just include talking about the realistic, financial, and moral motivations to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). It also includes the potential challenges that emerge in relation to diversity. This chapter presents six potential downsides that are commonly studied and that are reflected in MBA students’ descriptions of their lived experiences: (a) Diversity often removes people from their comfort zones; (b) diversity can lead to mistrust, miscommunication, and conflict issues; (c) diversity initiatives may lead people to believe that they are being told how to think and act, which can give rise to a range of unfavorable reactions; (d) targets may also react negatively or suffer, even when the diversity initiatives are often intended to help them; (e) diversity is often left in the hands of one unprepared individual or of workers in human resources functions; and (f) creating and sustaining DEI is hard work.
What Can Allies Do?
Authors: Hebl Mikki , King Eden 
Published: February 2024

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In the workplace, employees who hold power or status have the opportunity to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equity for their diverse co-workers. Such employees may be allies to LGBTQ co-workers and/or allies to any number of other marginalized co-workers. In this chapter, an evidence-based framework for thinking about allyship is introduced and situated in the context of MBA students’ experiences. The chapter describes the ally initiatives and behaviors shown to be particularly helpful in reducing discrimination and supporting people from minoritized backgrounds at work: educate oneself and become aware, fight conformity, act, assume psychological standing and use it, and stand up in the absence of targets.
The Unknown God
Authors: Starr Martin P. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This book is the first documentary study of Thelema, a 20th-century new religious movement in the magical family, founded by the occultist and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). The history of the Thelema movement is recounted through the biography of its leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), who was an early convert to Crowley’s revealed religion, a unique brand of apocalyptic esotericism. Smith established Crowley’s occult orders, primarily the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), in British Columbia and in California. Crowley provided the concepts; Smith and his associates made them take flesh, applying Crowley’s doctrine of “Do what thou wilt” and the sex magic teachings of the OTO, cementing them as an essential part of the esoteric religious underground of the 20th century. This study provides a contextual overview of the elements of Crowley’s novel bricolage, which includes Freemasonry, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Neo-Gnosticism, and other related forms of Western Esotericism, demonstrating the considerable overlap between apparently disparate ideologies, groups, and participants. The book reconstructs Smith’s social network, which included Cal Tech rocket scientist Jack Parsons, the Rosicrucian leader H. Spencer Lewis, the Hollywood film star John Carradine, and gay liberationist Harry Hay.
British Columbia Lodge No. 1
Authors: Starr Martin P. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses the North American inauguration in 1915 of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), an esoteric order with an outward-facing appearance and structure of an esoteric masonic rite and secret inner teaching on sexual magic. The order was started by Charles Stansfeld Jones and Smith in Vancouver, British Columbia. The masonic origins of the OTO are traced through the career of its founder, Theodor Reuss, along with the order’s relationship to contemporary movements in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism in which Reuss was active. The structure of OTO under Reuss was a composite adapted from 19th-century masonic rites, leading to the revelation of sexual magic as its central secret. The acceptance of OTO is circumscribed by questions of regularity of origin of its masonic authority. Crowley adopts the OTO as a form of esoteric “outer work” suitable for groups and capable of raising funds.
In the Red Room of Rose Croix
Authors: Starr Martin P. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses how issues of the “Sex Questions” thwarted harmony among the Vancouver members of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Wilfred Talbot Smith begins to practice sexual magic. Aleister Crowley’s “Gnostic Catholic Mass” begins to circulate among the OTO. Its origins and the Neo-Gnosticism of the Gnostic Catholic Church of the OTO are explored. The previously unchartered relationship between Crowley and George Winslow Plummer (1876–1944), along with Plummer’s Rosicrucian school, order, and church are explored as the source for Crowley’s episcopal standing. Crowley rekindles his arguments against the post-Blavatsky leaders in Theosophy and their support of Krishnamurti as the “World Teacher,” which role Crowley claimed for himself as the prophet of Thelema. The massive disruption occasioned by Jones’s “Great Initiation” in December 1917 sets the stage for Jones’s ultimate liberation from Crowley’s mentorship.
Psychomagia
Authors: Starr Martin P. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses Charles Stansfeld Jones and his “Psychomagian Society” (PMS), a novel group created by Jones to teach “Psychomagia,” a bricolage of Coueism and Thelema with details borrowed from the United Lodge of Theosophy (ULT). The income potential of the PMS adds to the growing rift between Jones and Aleister Crowley over the former’s accepting money for occult teaching and not remitting the sales proceeds of the latter’s books. Contributing to the growing split between Crowley and Jones is the latter’s published revelation of a new path of initiation, reversing the Tree of Life. Concurrently Jones claims to have surpassed Crowley in initiatic status. Smith finally abandons the UB. The death of Theodor Reuss in 1923 is revealed, leading Jones and Heinrich Tränker to declare Crowley the head of Ordo Templi Orientis in 1925.
Rosicrucian Amity
Authors: Starr Martin P. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter details how organized opposition to Cecil Frederick Russell and his Choronzon Club by Aleister Crowley and Wilfred Talbot Smith led to defections to the Ordo Templi Orientis. Smith attracts aspirants and starts initiating in OTO again. Publicity about Smith and the OTO opens communication with the various rival Rosicrucian orders in the United States and their leaders or proxies, with the main opponents H. Spencer Lewis (Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis, AMORC) and R. Swinburne Clymer (Fraternitas Rosae Crucis), with Crowley and the OTO as the cudgel between them; the respective histories and relations to Crowley are discussed at length. Crowley tries to woo Lewis and then threatens to sue Lewis to take control of AMORC, claiming it as a subsection of OTO. Smith’s OTO activities in Hollywood halt after further attacks by Max Schneider endorsed by Crowley’s correspondence.
Due Process, Free Expression, and the Administrative State
Authors: Redish Martin H. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter focuses on due process purely in a constitutional setting—specifically, the so-called “First Amendment due process” context. This focus is narrowed even further by being confined to issues of First Amendment due process in the context of administrative adjudication and regulation—issues that most often arise in the context of commercial speech. The chapter argues that administrative adjudicators, by their very nature, have too many associative prejudices to be deemed the truly neutral and independent adjudicators demanded by adversary democratic due process. These due process issues become more serious in the context of fragile rights of free expression, where the danger of suppression and chilling effect on the speakers is a very real possibility. The chapter urges the imposition of strict limits on the power of inherently interested administrative adjudicators.
Pandemic and Prisons
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter examines the intersection of the pandemic with the challenge of mass incarceration. It discusses how mass incarceration made the United States more vulnerable to contagion and how the burden of incarceration is not evenly felt, disproportionately harming communities of color. The chapter suggests that a core lesson of COVID-19 is that preventing future poor health during pandemics means mitigating the challenge of mass incarceration.
Will We Stop Being Afraid?
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses the fear that was collectively experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenge of learning to mitigate that fear in the face of the continued presence of COVID-19. Although the threat of the virus is not what it once was, the disease remains, as does the fear. Learning to live with this fear is central to people’s ability to move forward in a post-pandemic era.
Can We Forget?
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter addresses COVID-19 in the context of memory. It asks, What will be the lasting recollection of this period? What aspects of the pandemic will be talked about years from now and what might be kept silent or repressed? At this turning point moment, how such questions are answered will have much significance for how people move forward together.