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"Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain" by Kieran Connell is a valuable contribution to the study of Britain's post-war black population. The book explores the Handsworth district of Birmingham during the 1980s, focusing on the political organizations, visual productions, Rastafarianism, and everyday life of the Afro-Caribbean community. Connell's use of diverse sources, including archives, photography, film, music, and oral history, provides a comprehensive understanding of black life in Handsworth. While the book lacks some contextual information and contains minor factual inaccuracies, it is still highly recommended for researchers and students interested in black British history and post-war British history. [Extracted from the article]

In I The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions i , Issa's rich ethnographic study in Nahr el-Bared camp illuminates the ongoing suffering and oppression of the Palestinian 1948 refugees in Lebanon. Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization beyond Partition, edited by Leila H. Farsakh. In I The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions i , Issa is critical of viewing political factions as political structures since they have so badly failed to serve the aspirations and needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. [Extracted from the article]

In "Endangered maize. Industrial agriculture and the crisis of extinction," Helen Anne Curry explores the methods used to counter the endangerment of maize, one of the world's most important crops. Curry argues that the urgency to preserve crop varieties through off-site storage is damaging to the crops, the subsistence farmers who cultivate them, and the cultures that have protected them. She suggests that active use of crop varieties on farms is a better way to conserve diversity and support farming communities. Curry emphasizes the importance of understanding the social, cultural, and environmental context of cultivation and learning from traditional farmers. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 3 focuses on Euhemerus of Messene, following recent scholarly interest in the topic (including Marek Winiarczyk's 2002 monograph, republished in 2013, when Whitmarsh's book first appeared). The book contains four previously unpublished studies: Chapter 2, "The Romance of Genre", Chapter 3, "Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the I Sacred Inscription i ", Chapter 11, "Lucianic Paratragedy", and Chapter 14, "Adventures of the Solymoi", preceded by a brief Introduction. Tim Whitmarsh's collection of essays has seen the light of day at a time when the academic world is again reconsidering "classicism" and modernity's relationship to the "classical.". [Extracted from the article]

Drawing on the discussions in Chapter Four, the issues of local adoption of technology and innovation are discussed in Chapter Five, "Technology, Innovation, Craft Mastery". Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan is thus persuasive in arguing that craft culture is a dynamic process that required learning through mind and body in specific social, cultural and economic conditions. Still, the problem of copying and model might be worth pointing out because it is an indispensable practice in craft production in Japan, and thus one will encounter this as soon as entering the world of craft culture. [Extracted from the article]

"Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds" by Colin McFarlane is a critique of the reductionist discourses that oversimplify urban environments. The book explores the concept of the fragment as a lens through which to understand cities and the urban world. It delves into various themes such as fragmented knowledge, fragment urbanism, the politics of fragments, walking cities, and the significance of social and peopled infrastructure. The book draws from a global archive of cities and incorporates diverse sources and voices to provide a comprehensive understanding of fragment urbanism. Overall, it offers a thought-provoking perspective on the complexities of urban life and the potential for transformation within fragmented urban spaces. [Extracted from the article]

As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept across the world, the wearing of medical facemasks has become a hot topic on social media. In China, the relevant discourses are entangled with codes of medical science, national self-esteem and appropriated modernity. These discourses can be dated back to the narrative established by Dr Wu Lien-teh, the great fighter in the Manchurian plagues of 1910–1911 and 1920–1921. This paper reveals that Wu and his colleagues used different strategies when displaying to the Western world their achievements in the anti-plague battle and when proving the effectiveness of the Western medical and hygienic system to Chinese people. Wu and his colleagues used metonymies, analogues and metaphors on or related to medical facemasks to illustrate the possibility of building a modernised nation with sovereignty. Because the construction of a sanitary system in China has always been labelled as a patriotic movement (Rogaski, Ruth. 2004. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 285–298), the wearing of medical facemasks has constituted an important part of the narrative of nationalism and hygienic modernity. This discourse continues to play a significant role in today's campaign against the coronavirus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Class-based parenting logic transcends national culture. This is what we found when applying Laureau's (2011. Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life with an update a decade later (2nd ed.). University of California Press) schema of concerted cultivation for middle/higher class families and accomplishment of natural growth for working-class families to young parents in Singapore. Through in-depth interviews with 10 low-SES parents and eight high-SES parents between the ages of 27 and 37, we found Laureau's distinctions evident even in this young Asian country where the middle class has only recently emerged. Interviewing young adults at a stage in life when they were forming their parenting ideals, the intergenerational transmission of logics was apparent. So were constraints of work and earnings in shaping the intergenerational logics. The findings suggest that improving outcomes of low-SES children requires going beyond parenting programmes to tackling structures in society that harden class lines, e.g. education and work systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study connects to the term 'emotional labour', coined by [Hochschild, A. R. (1983) 2003. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], and explores how skin and spa therapy students are constructed as emotional workers in learning processes surrounding the body. Drawing on a poststructural approach, inspired by Foucault, regularities of description and self-description were analysed in the material, which consist of interviews and field notes derived from observations of classroom interaction. The results show how student subjectivities are produced as a response to the presumption about body availability in the educational arrangements. It also shows how students are positioned and position themselves as emotional workers through three reoccurring issues surrounding the body; the body as a private sphere, the body as a place of pain, and disgusting peculiarities of the body. Here, struggling subjectivities emerge, striving to overcome the obstacles that the body might entail in becoming a professional. The participants self-position and are positioned as responsible concerning each other's' learning processes, making their bodies available for their classmates to practice on, communicating their thoughts and feelings as posing clients, developing their empathic abilities towards future clients. Thus, the participants are not only produced as emotional workers, but emotional students, pinpointing the necessity of educational research on emotional labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico: Catalina M. de Onís. Ultimately, de Onís not only reveals how energy discourses have unfolded on the island, but also takes the crucial step of offering theoretical contributions for ongoing mobilizations toward decolonial, just, and equitable transformations of power in Puerto Rico. Finally, guided by the metaphor of "delinking", de Onís' "(No) Conclusion" wraps up I Energy Islands i with possible directions for energy justice in Puerto Rico (and potentially other colonized islands) through what she calls "the 4 I d i 's of energy justice" - decarbonizing, decentralizing, democratizing, and decolonizing (152). [Extracted from the article]

"Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" by Nicole Fabricant tells the story of a group of high school students in Baltimore who successfully defeated a proposed incinerator and advocated for green redevelopment in their neighborhood. The students' activism was fueled by a critical analysis of environmental injustice and a program based on Paulo Freire's "problem-posing" model of education. The book highlights the students' tactics, such as art pieces, toxic tours, testimony, and direct action, and emphasizes the importance of structural analysis and multisectoral alliances for systemic change. While the book does not focus on air monitoring, it offers inspiration and challenges academic norms by urging readers to strive for "critical solidarity" with marginalized movements. The author's personal involvement in the campaigns is downplayed, but the book is seen as a solid contribution to the canon of environmental justice activism literature. [Extracted from the article]

After Chapter 1 outlines the critical context and methodological approach of the research, Chapter 2 explores how US government and media sources map the Middle East. Wilkins' book unfolds in a logical and captivating way as each chapter develops an intriguing story of US media discourses and their consequences. [Extracted from the article]

We can certainty appreciate that point, especially considering that: In her foundational work, Ferguson ([11]) stated that "[J. E.] Grunig's ([14]) notions of directions of communication (one-way vs. two-way) and degree of symmetry (asymmetric vs. symmetric) will be essential to understanding public relationships" (p. 172). Dong and Morehouse's application of care ethics to OPR research offers a prime example of such growth. Justice and care: Essential readings in feminist ethics (Reprint ed., with deletions from Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, by N. Noddings, 1984, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). [Extracted from the article]

Parker's research and activism, as well as scholar-activism writ large, relies on the understanding that the process of advocacy and social change within a community must begin with members of that community. Parker describes Baker's advocacy style as a "concrete set of communication practices for doing social justice leadership in equitable partnership I with i , instead of I on i , communities" (p. 11). Patricia S. Parker's new book, I Ella Baker's Catalytic Leadership i , documents the rhetorical footprint of Ella Baker. [Extracted from the article]

Back in 1905, some workers formed a new union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). A century or so ago, life for many American workers was more like life today than the decades between. Gig workers have technical skills and may earn hourly wages far higher than, say, migrant workers. [Extracted from the article]

Some of the thinkers Carrico examines espouse outright political independence from the PRC (a I bona fide i Republic of Hong Kong) while others embrace different paths for a more autonomous Hong Kong still under PRC sovereignty. Hong Kong independence activists, facing the expansion of the Chinese Communist Party's security state into Hong Kong, have been given three options: fade into silence, flee into exile, or go to prison. (p. 164) This jarring state of affairs is how Kevin Carrico, a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University, describes the muzzle the People's Republic of China (PRC) has foisted upon Hong Kong since imposing a strategically vague and far-reaching "National Security Law" (NSL) in late June 2020. [Extracted from the article]

Romero chooses to focus on the crucial role of industrial waste, at least prior to World War II, to understand how agriculture engaged in toxicity-based pest control. Still, covering the technoscientific, industrial and commercial issues of waste use, Romero develops a fascinating study of the political economy that turned toxicity-based solutions into a profitable and necessary mechanism of industrial agriculture. With chapter three, the narrative enters the era of petrotoxicity when petroleum-based pesticides promised to overcome the limits of existing poisons in terms of insect resistance. [Extracted from the article]

Linebaugh draws from a wealth of contextual materials to flesh out the bare bones story of the Despards, arguing that much can be claimed about them with strong probability because it can be correlated to the locations and times of their lives. Dismissed from service and dogged by lawsuits of the "Baymen", Ned, along with Kate and their son James, went to London in 1790, where he was incarcerated in debtors' prison from 1792 until 1794. Peter Linebaugh, an acclaimed expert on eighteenth-century England, is unflinching in his ambitions for I Red Round Globe Hot Burning i : "This book in its quest for Edward and Catherine Despard, and in its quest for the meaning of Despard's last words, promises to vindicate his motives and bring their project, shared with [Robert] Emmet, out of its uninscribed obscurity" (65). [Extracted from the article]

Daniel M. Gross's assessment of Martin Heidegger's Marburg lectures on Aristotle, as well as Philip Melanchthon's reflections on rhetoric are substantial and original. Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening: by Daniel M. Gross, Oakland, University of California Press, 2020, viii + 250 pp., $85.00/ 66.00 (cloth), $34.95/ 27.00 (paper), $34.95/ 27.00 (ebook) To demonstrate this point, Daniel M. Gross, in the first chapter, begins his discussion with a re-evaluation of German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger's I Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy i ( I Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie i ), a lecture course given at the University of Marburg in 1924. [Extracted from the article]

Recent years have seen an increase in the visibility of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children in the public sphere. Jack Halberstam [(2018). Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Vol. 3). University of California Press] is very critical of middle-class parents of TGD children, arguing that much of their activism is based on a normalizing model of individual rights as opposed to a more transformative activism that might de-stabilize gender-power systems that are restrictive for everyone. Following this pronouncement, this paper takes up the opportunity to inquire further into the everyday negotiations of middle-class parents of TGD children. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with twelve middle-class parents of TGD children aged 5–13 in Ireland, this paper provides in-depth insight into the classed, precarious, gendered, disruptive and arduous nature of parents' work as they negotiated schools and laboured to follow a child-led parenting philosophy amidst the judgement of others and rigidly gendered worlds. Ultimately, this paper's argument is two-fold – it alerts us to social class inequality in parenting TGD children but it also complicates the figure of the middle-class parent of a TGD child, offering in-depth insight into the shape and effects of child-led parenting with TGD children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This approach could draw lessons from scholarship on how to build regional partnerships for mutual gain, such as Myron Orfield's I American Metropolitics i (Orfield, [3]). Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta: Dan Immergluck (2022). The book's maps and charts powerfully link real estate and infrastructure investment to Black people's displacement and enduring disadvantage in Atlanta. [Extracted from the article]

In "Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest," anthropologists Britt Halvorson and Joshua Reno explore the cultural significance of the American Midwest and its role in perpetuating racial inequality. They argue that the region's seemingly ordinary and average image hides a deep investment in the imagination of whiteness. The authors examine various cultural representations of the Midwest, from literature to film, and highlight how these representations often reinforce notions of white virtue and industry. They also discuss the erasure of indigenous and minority histories in the region. Overall, the book presents a critical perspective on the construction of the Midwest and its connection to white supremacy. [Extracted from the article]

Deer love the forest-meadow interface and are the cause of thousands of car-deer accidents along forested roads. And Wild animals that live with us provide benefits...to see the good in wildlife and to work to coexist with it, even with creatures that can sometimes be annoying is also to see good in human kind, to work toward a more just, humane and sustainable future. Wild animals belonged in the rural area, domesticated animals in the city. [Extracted from the article]

From the cycle rickshaws waiting under the shadows of the Metro station to the African students who were attacked by a large Metro crowd, these scenes and the various social relationships recorded in them show that the Metro space can magnify social issues that otherwise remain invisible. Sadana then contextualizes the expansion of Delhi's Metro in relation to rapid urbanization, explaining how the "spontaneous" growth of the Metro network has generated new understandings of modernity and urbanism. From Mandi House to Chawri Bazar, from the yellow line to the purple line, Rashimi Sadana's I The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure i takes the reader on a journey through the mesmerizing network of Delhi's Metro. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 6 shows the photographs on the international stage as Hore returns to the role of photography in establishing "ownership" over a land. In I Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism i , Jarrod Hore explores the ways in which photography has been deployed as a tool of Indigenous dispossession in colonial expansion from the 1860s onwards. [Extracted from the article]

Wheeler and Rosan have bravely gathered a wide swath of these challenges into their new book, I Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities i . Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities: Stephen M. Wheeler and Christina D. Rosan (2021). Although Gates focuses only on climate change and reaching net I negative i carbon emissions, like Wheeler and Rosan, he also uses questions. [Extracted from the article]

The history of humanitarianism is bound up with that of the media through which it forges its distant connections: with photography, and then with moving pictures, i.e. with film representations. Baughan shows that the same kinds of imagery were subsequently, from the 1930s, applied to Africa, implying the whole continent was immature and in need of imperial mentorship, and at play in the SCF's 1968 campaign in Biafra, during the Nigerian Civil War, the biggest campaign run by the SCF since the Russian famine appeal of 1921-22. [Extracted from the article]

Walvin reminds us that slaves were treated as property, that slave families were torn apart for economic gain, and that brutality was necessary to control slave resistance. Also, Walvin reports that Brazil imported the most African slaves and was the last to end the practice, but the major part of the book is about the Caribbean and especially US slaving history. A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power: By JAMES WALVIN. [Extracted from the article]

Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality and the Urban Question: Tom Slater (2021). Slater traces policy debates over housing vouchers and rent control. This disproportionate influence of knowledge-producing elites has created a "vested interest urbanism" that promotes "policy-driven research at the expense of research-driven policy" (p. 4, italics removed). [Extracted from the article]

I Bite Back i (with its clever title) is a clearly organized and well-documented book on the contemporary struggle to achieve a "democratic food system" (p. 4) against colossal corporate power. The Foreword by Marion Nestle positions the book squarely in the literature of the food justice movement/food democracy movement. [Extracted from the article]

The book would have benefitted from a clearer overarching argument that would connect all of the chapters, as well as a more definitive sense of its purpose; is it a book about Horton, or a book about Highlander? Much has been written about an institution as longstanding as Highlander Research and Education Center (formerly Highlander Folk School). Overall, Preskill's book on Horton and Highlander makes a significant contribution to the field, and is valuable for scholars of Highlander, Southern activism, and the early to mid-twentieth century South. [Extracted from the article]

Ellis's work makes a valuable complement to the scholarship on nineteenth-century mapping, and suggests (but does not fully explore) new insights into how the aerial view was adapted to include "balloon views" of entire continents. The book not only explores the instruments or technical means (which he terms "aeroscopics") that make the fresh perspectives of the aerial view possible, but also encourages careful thought about how society reacted to them. The media and experiences that Ellis connects and compares provided humans with new perspectives on their world from above. [Extracted from the article]