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This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom’s public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that experiences of shame, shaming and stigma dominated personal and public life. From healthcare workers insulted in the streets to anti-Asian racism, the online shaming of “Covidiots” to the identification of the “lepers of Leicester”, public animus about the pandemic found scapegoats for its frustrations. Interventions by the UK government maximised rather than minimized these phenomena. Instead of developing robust strategies to address shame, the government’s healthcare policies and rhetoric seemed to exacerbate experiences of shame, shaming and stigma, relying on a language and logic that intensified oppositional, antagonistic thinking, while dissimulating about its own responsibilities. Through a series of six case studies taken from the events of 2020, this thought-provoking book identifies a systemic failure to manage shame-producing circumstances in the UK. Ultimately, it addresses the experience of shame as a crucial, if often overlooked, consequence of pandemic politics, and advocates for a "shame sensitive" approach to public health responses. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019. The total of 42 full and 8 short tool demo papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: SAT and SMT, SAT solving and theorem proving; verification and analysis; model checking; tool demo; and machine learning. Part II: concurrent and distributed systems; monitoring and runtime verification; hybrid and stochastic systems; synthesis; symbolic verification; and safety and fault-tolerant systems.

Im Teilen verbirgt sich eine Doppelbedeutung: mitteilen und teilhaben, aber auch zerteilen, Differenzen erfahren. Welche Bedeutung hat das Teilen für die tänzerische Praxis? Welche Formen des Tanzes treten dabei hervor? Und welche Zugänge des Teilens wurden in Online-Formaten entwickelt? Pandemien und Kriege verdeutlichen, wie Gesellschaften mit eingeschränktem körperlichem Miteinander und verringertem Bewegungsradius starre Formen des Teilens aufzeigen. Die Beitragenden des Bandes betrachten Ausschlusspraktiken und untersuchen das Teilen aus intersektionalen Perspektiven, um (Un-)Möglichkeiten des In-Kontakt-Tretens von Kunstschaffenden, Forschenden und Zuschauenden zu entwerfen.

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI systems, digital portraiture, symbolic faces in films, viral communication, alien depictions, personhood in video games, online intimacy, and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar, spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters, post-productions, digital cosmetics, all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings, which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach. The volume will interest researchers, scholars, and advanced students who are interested in digital humanities, communication studies, semiotics, visual studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, and, broadly speaking, innovative approaches about the meaning of the face in present-day digital societies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Integrated Direct Digital Internship (TDDI) represented a new and important method of internship of an experimental nature (in collaboration with the Regional School Office for Tuscany) which had as its primary objective to guarantee all students the opportunity to live this fundamental pre-professional experience. The project, born almost by chance to support the condition of professional fragility caused by the pandemic, has favored the search for a new model which, through the integration of virtual methods, has expanded and enriched the training opportunities for future teachers by implementing courses unpublished. From the point of view of educational and scientific research, it was a question of experimenting, evaluating and developing differentiated professional learning practices through the comparison between innovative tools and traditional tools in order to achieve a reasoned integration.

In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union’s tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South. Rather than approaching this “border externalization” in analytical isolation, he details how it relates to history and social relations in the West African state of Mauritania. The political concern with policing “irregular migration” emerged relatively recently in Mauritania as a result of EU policy cooperation. But as Ould Moctar shows, it intervenes within a deeper historic arc of colonial bordering and racialized population management, while also upholding capitalism’s tendency to cast people out of its development. To trace how this plays out in practice, he offers fine-grained ethnographic accounts of the conditions of migrant workers who have come up against the violence of externalisation at various points in their trajectories. By tying these narratives to equally formative experiences of urban informality and rural dispossession, he demonstrates how the EU border regime intervenes within a colonially inherited framework of racialized territorial belonging and capitalism’s wasteful dynamics in the Global South. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Evangelical mission work in Germany has made little inroads to reach secular people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. This book investigates diffusional patterns that enabled three evangelical church plants to guide converts through processes of transformational conversion. Each church plant in this multi-case study represents a salient expression of their correlating missional movement pointing to contemporary trends in German evangelicalism: Migrant missions, new Pentecostal churches, and American mission efforts in conjunction with globally active church planting organizations.

This book is a detailed practical guide to the steps you should follow when carrying out research on how male violence is represented in literary texts. It provides the academic community with an analytical framework that can be applied rigorously, productively and critically when writing interpretative discourse on literary works that depict violence against women.

This book comprises eighteen wide-ranging essays that share a common theme: the centrality of joint commitment to human life, both private and public. After an opening chapter that introduces joint commitment and the themes of the book, It is divided into four sections: shared agency; collective attitudes; mutual recognition, promises, and love; and political life. An important aspect of joint commitment is its provision of directed obligations and rights to the parties. These obligations are to be distinguished from moral requirements with or without special features. Another significant aspect of of joint commitment is that it can plausibly be said to unify the parties. In addition, it binds or obligates them to one another in a particularly intransigeant way: no one party is in a position unilaterally to rescind the joint commitment. Invoking one or more of these features of joint commitment, Margaret Gilbert offers reasoned accounts of a variety of phenomena both small and large in scale—from the mutual recognition of two people to patriotism, from marital love to political obligation. Overall the essays in this book continue the development of the plural subject theory for which Gilbert is now famous, both refining or amplifying her earlier accounts of important social phenomena such as social conventions, and offering new applications of her theory, as in her account of shared values, and her discussion of the unity of the European Union.

How are renewable energies being deployed in France today, with what constraints and for what results? National and European legislation sets ambitious targets for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. However, it is up to local authorities, private operators, investors and landowners to build the installations. At a time when the development of renewable energies depends on a multiplicity of local projects bringing together coalitions of players with their own specific trajectories, is it really possible to plan the energy trajectory of a country like France? This book has a strong operational dimension. It adopts the point of view of local authorities and territories faced with these new challenges, and also takes care to integrate into the reflection the logics of state control as well as those, financial and technical, of operators. It is aimed at urban planners and developers, both public and private, as well as local authority managers in charge of transition issues. It will also be of interest to all project managers, from major industrialists to local associations, who need to find their way through the maze of procedures and territorial controversies. More broadly, by examining the gap between reality and the trajectories put forward by public policy, it will be of interest to all those concerned by the energy transition.

Since the late twentieth century, wealthy nations and international organisations have claimed a monopoly on humanitarianism. Even critical views of this regime of global aid and assistance have reinforced the image of a phenomenon shaped by secularised Christian ethics and Euro-American politics of life. At the same time, around the world various humanitarian institutions and practices have flourished that remain outside this realm. Mostly invisible to Western publics, these forms of humanitarianism have reshaped global landscapes of aid in tangible ways; from protecting Indigenous communities in Canada to African diasporic initiatives in response to the Ebola pandemic; from Islamic economies of giving and Buddhist concepts of the human to crowdfunding aid in Ukraine. Written by leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism from Below? forcefully illustrates that these humanitarian actors do not merely represent grassroots initiatives but have altered humanitarianism at large, involving alternative economies and politics. Drawing on original ethnographic and historical research, Humanitarianism from Below? addresses a wide audience of scholars and students in humanitarian and development studies, anthropology and political science. This volume considers humanitarianism’s multiple histories and relations of power and offers a profound reassessment of humanitarian pluralism today.

Assessing the structural integrity of unreinforced masonry structures is a complex and time-consuming process that necessitates the knowledge of various experts and meticulous cross-referencing of diverse data to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the building. In recent years, the Architecture and Construction Industry has witnessed a digital transformation, largely driven by Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIM has proven immensely valuable in the conservation of historic buildings. However, while it excels in new construction projects, its full potential is not fully realized when dealing with existing structures. A clear example of this limitation can be observed in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format, which lacks instances necessary for accurately representing existing building features. This research contribution aims to advance the process of semantic enrichment of BIM for existing buildings, building upon findings from existing literature. Leveraging the Linked Data Approach and utilizing both existing ontologies and newly proposed domain ontologies, the objective is to facilitate the identification of vulnerabilities and potential local failure mechanisms. The geometric information of the building is represented in the IFC STEP format and enriched semantically by establishing new relationships between classes that are not present in the standard IFC. This approach is applied to a case study in the historical center of Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy. The results of this work demonstrate how the proposed model, enhancing the BIM representation of existing buildings and enabling better identification of potential weaknesses, contributes to improved preservation and seismic resilience of historic structures

The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenous societies and cultures of the pre-colonial Caribbean were already united in diversity. This work seeks to study the patterns of this pre-colonial homogeneity and diversity and uncover some of their underlying processes and dynamics. In contrast to earlier studies of its kind, this study adopts an archaeological network approach, in part derived from the network sciences. In archaeology, network approaches can be used to explore the complex relations between objects, sites or other archaeological features, and as such represents a powerful new tool for studying material culture systems. Archaeological research in general aims to uncover the social relations and human interactions underlying these material culture systems. Therefore, the interdependencies between social networks and material culture systems are another major focus of this study. This approach and theoretical framework is tested in four case studies dealing with lithic distribution networks, site assemblages as ego-networks, indigenous political networks, and the analysis of artefact styles in 2-mode networks. These were selected for their pertinence to key research themes in Caribbean archaeology, in particular the current debates about the nature of ties and interactions between culturally different communities in the region, and the structure and dynamics of pre-colonial socio-political organisation. The outcomes of these case studies show that archaeological network approaches can provide surprising new insights into longstanding questions about the patterns of pre-colonial connectivity in the region.