Expanding upon the work begun in What Tech Calls Thinking, Adrian Daub explores which ideas of politics, power, and dominance characterize the tech industry, and how those ideas came to be.

Tech companies increasingly determine who regulates and who governs. And the tech elite increasingly wield political power, seeking to remake your workplace, your child's school, and the federal government in their image. But what do they mean by power?

Taking readers from investor meetings to lecture halls, from science fiction to a neo-feudal worldview, Daub acerbically explores how tech culture approaches hierarchy and dominance, and what role a very specific form of masculinity plays in tech culture's ethos. From billboards to social media, Daub interrogates the way the tech elite exert power in their families and offices, but also in gyms and on YouTube channels, in courtrooms and on their commutes. As What Tech Calls Governing shows, to ask "how do they seek to dominate?" is actually to retell the history of Silicon Valley as the story of a fragile-and precisely for that reason domineering-masculinity intent on all the influence with none of the responsibility.

The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East.

Abu-l-Faraj ibn al-?ayyib (d. 1043) spent his adult life in Baghdad, where he served as a priest in the Church of the East around the turn of the first millenium. He was a polymath - a physician, philosopher, and theologian - and part of an illustrious line of teachers dedicated to the transmission of scientific knowledge from Greek into Syriac and then later into Arabic. He authored commentaries on Aristotle, Galen, and Hippocrates, as well as original treatises on the Trinity, science and miracles, Christian law, and the resurrection. His major works of biblical interpretation included a complete commentary on the Bible, entitled The Paradise of Christianity. The first part of it, his Commentary on Genesis, is translated here into English for the first time and accompanied by a critical introduction to Ibn al-?ayyib's life and writings; the form, method, and content of his biblical interpretation; and his theology of creation and the divine Word.

Based on an ethnographic study of the role and experiences of local businesses, institutions, and community-level actors in Logan Square and Pilsen, two longtime ethnic enclaves experiencing and resisting gentrification in Chicago, Storefront examines local businesses' contributions to communities, how businesses might promote or protest gentrification, and how streetscape transformations can threaten community members' sense of belonging in place. Steven Tuttle untangles issues of community and conflict, segregation and integration, alienation and place attachment, and small business social responsibility from the vantage point of local businesses themselves. In addition to insights about community development, local institutions, and social capital common in qualitative neighborhood studies and gentrification scholarship, Storefront also features a unique focus on local businesses and the racialization of space.

A radical rethinking of empathy's role in light of its weaponization

Justice-motivated caregivers have long viewed empathy as a central tool for addressing political division, intergenerational trauma, racism, sexism, and even evil itself. However, social theorists and scholars of religion who study the political behavior of evangelical and protestant Christians are noting new and unexpected limits for the ethics of empathy. How does one empathize with those who explicitly refuse to reciprocate empathy, who weaponize power imbalances for harmful political ends, and who dismiss all invitations to accountability as acts of intolerance? If working toward justice is what matters most, then these efforts to empathize may actually backfire against practices of political solidarity. There must a better way to work through these potential traps and work more effectively toward justice and healing.

Beyond the Empathy Trap explains why empathy limits interpersonal ethics and how justice-motivated caregivers can better prioritize their psychological investments within their work. Drawing deeply from psychoanalysis, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and pastoral theology, Peter Capretto argues that while empathy remains an essential resource for many forms of social healing, empathy also reaches unavoidable impasses when social injustice targets identity itself. By translating insights from the psychology of religion into high-stakes conflict settings, Capretto's analysis offers the practical payoff of unmasking how political actors with asymmetric power relations frequently exploit the idea of empathic reciprocity as a trap to disarm caregivers and activists in their practices of solidarity.

Prince Rivers is one of the most consequential Americans about whom Americans know nothing. Born enslaved near Beaufort, South Carolina, Rivers's flight to freedom on horseback in November 1861 became legendary during his lifetime. One of the first Black men in Union uniform and one of the longest-serving men in the Union army, Rivers was integral to the formation of the United States Colored Troops. He astounded his own officers with his speed, strength, stamina, and impeccable manners. "If there should ever be a black monarchy in South Carolina," noted his colonel, "[Rivers] will be its king." True to this prediction, Rivers went on to serve as a South Carolina state legislator and as one of the first Black mayors in the United States. From his seat in Hamburg, South Carolina, Rivers became known as "The Black Prince" and "The Power of Aiken County" as he presided over one of the most successful experiments in interracial democracy this country has ever known. In this first full-length biography, Rivers takes his rightful place with Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman as one of the most remarkable Black freedom fighters of his age.

This book presents a synthesis of the achievements and challenges inherent in the digital education ecosystem of Vietnam. It adopts a thorough, multi-dimensional perspective to investigate the evolution of Vietnam's digital education landscape and amalgamates theoretical constructs with empirical case studies to elucidate how innovation is catalyzing transformations in educational methodologies, policies, and infrastructures. This book encompasses an overview of digital education in Vietnam, including its implications for general education, higher education, and community engagement. It serves as a useful resource for educators, policymakers, educational technology developers, and scholars.

This book traces the forgotten history of a Japanese farm settlement in the Sacramento River delta. Before the wartime removal and incarceration, most West Coast Japanese Americans, including immigrant Issei and US-born Nisei generations, resided in rural agricultural areas. Existing histories of Japanese America have often overlooked this farming aspect of their experience, focusing instead on urban narratives. Centered on the town of Walnut Grove, the "downriver" (kawashimo) settlement was home to Issei farmers, merchants, and laborers who lived alongside their Nisei children in a society characterized by strict racial segregation and landlessness. In the delta basin, a small group of white landowning settlers and corporate interests held power and wealth, shaping social relations and economic opportunities for mostly Asian immigrant settlers and fieldhands.

Combining theories of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and immigrant transnationalism with the techniques of microhistory, Eiichiro Azuma reveals the intricate dynamics of paternalistic interdependency between white landlords and Japanese tenants, as well as the complex interethnic relations among marginalized immigrant groups in the local segregated society and agricultural economy. Through his careful analysis of heretofore overlooked immigrant vernacular sources and oral histories, Azuma sheds important light on a lesser-known aspect of rural Asian American history through the lens of multiracial entanglements on the ground.

Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provincial and imperial borders, Ottoman authorities mobilized medical staff and implemented public hygiene regulations. Secil Yilmaz unravels how a disease long associated with shame and secrecy became a key site through which Ottomans expanded their hegemony and governance, situating medicine and sex at the center of imperial rule.

Anatomy of Empire reveals the multifaceted implications of biopolitics found in the encounters and negotiations among the diseased, sex workers, working-class men, and physicians within a complex imperial bureaucracy. Medical knowledge and practices became effective tools to govern and discipline a population, particularly as Ottoman physicians formulated vernacular forms of sexology that re-fashioned love, desire, and marriage. As syphilis persisted across the world, Ottomans joined their European counterparts in pursuit of bacteriological discoveries to understand the causes behind the resilience of this silent yet destructive disease. With this book, Yilmaz offers a history of gender, sexuality, and medicine, one set in a consequential geography - in the lands of Ottomans at the verge of their demise - and unearths how truth regimes pertaining to the body and sexuality are indispensable components of modern imperial governance.

This volume examines the role of faith-based organizations in providing social support within secular welfare states, with a particular focus on Western Catholic-majority countries. Drawing from historical and contemporary perspectives, the book explores the tensions and synergies between religiously inspired solidarity practices and secular welfare regimes. By addressing these dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens, the volume offers fresh insights into how religious solidarity adapts and persists in post-secular, ethnically and culturally diverse, and crisis-affected societies.

This edited volume examines recent trends towards more global and transnational research within the field of the history of science, technology, and medicine. It focuses on three major themes which are especially important to this shift in perspective: firstly, the analysis of local/global relationships; secondly, the back-and-forth movement across borders involving encounters and exchanges; and thirdly, the significance of historical actors who played a crucial role as go-betweens-especially between Europe and other regions of the world. Distinct in its breadth, this volume offers insights into a range of topics drawn from the history of science, technology, and medicine from approximately 1760 to the present.

This book showcases a comprehensive and systematic study on education in India. It introduces the social and cultural basis of education in India, and examines education at all levels in India in multiple contexts such as history, geography, ethnicity, population, political system, economy, culture and religion. It also summarizes the characteristics of education in India, and analyzes the current issues and the direction of education reform in India.

This book forms part of the project 'Research on the Educational Systems of Countries and Regions along the Belt and Road' project, a key initiative under the Philosophy and Social Science Research Program China's Ministry of Education. This project aims to enhance mutual understanding between different countries, promote exchanges in education, enable the sharing of high-quality educational resources, boost the common development of education, and facilitate the construction of the 'Belt and Road' education community.

This book serves as a reference for educational administrators, researchers, and practitioners, as well as university faculty and students in pedagogy and other related subjects.

This volume examines seasonal pastoralism from a diachronic perspective, with case studies that, across the volume, trace its development from the Neolithic to the twentieth century and explore the archaeological methods used to analyse these long-term processes. Bringing together recent research on landscape archaeology to study ancient pastoralism from the perspective of a great variety of academic traditions, it includes chronological specializations and methodological approaches. The work takes various approaches from the archaeology of architecture, ethnographical perspectives, new dating methods and computational analysis to identify and date seasonal pastoralism.

Study areas presented range from the Atlantic mountains of Galicia to the central Slovakian mountains, via the Cantabrian Range, the Pyrenees, and the Slovenian Alps. It provides an overview of the state of the art of the Archaeology of Pastoralism in Europe by examining unpublished data and ground-breaking research in this field. By summarizing the results of the research presented in this book, it is possible to shed light on the historical depth of agro-livestock farming ways of life in mountain areas across Mediterranean regions and other parts of Europe from the Neolithic period onwards. This volume may be of interest to archaeologists, geographers, biologists and other scholars interested in alpine environments, as well as anyone interested in the material heritage of pastoralism in rural regions.

This book presents an exploration of the methodologies and theoretical frameworks involved in the analysis of commingled human remains, featuring twelve case studies (plus an introduction and conclusion) that highlight the complexities of these assemblages. Both intentional and unintentional commingling present significant challenges and opportunities within bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, making this topic increasingly relevant in contemporary research.

Building on previous works, Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains (2014) and Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains (2016) (both published with Springer), this updated work serves as a critical resource for scholars, offering insights into the application of methodologies and theoretical models explored in earlier volumes. The case studies not only reflect current practices but also project future directions for the analysis of commingled remains over the next decade. This book, like those that came before it on this topic, will be an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of the intricacies of commingled remains and their implications in both academic and applied settings.

This edited book brings together scholars of education, sociology, philosophy, migration and political theory to examine how citizenship is made, taught and disputed in contemporary Australia. Using 'contested citizenships' as an analytical frame, the chapters map the shifting boundaries of belonging across schooling and higher education, citizenship testing and language assessment, faith-based pedagogy, labour-market regulation for older workers, and debates about moral agency in liberal democracy. Throughout, the volume shows how formal legal status intersects with lived experience, cultural identity, mobility, and processes of inclusion and exclusion, and how education functions as a microcosm of wider struggles over rights and recognition. By combining conceptual discussion with empirical and practice-oriented analyses, the book offers a nuanced account of Australian citizenship in comparative perspective for scholars and students interest in citizenship studies, political sociology, sociology of education, migration studies and public policy.

This book explores digital politics from an African perspective. It sheds light on how digital technologies are reshaping political landscapes across Africa, and examines the implications and analytical consequences. Each chapter focuses on different aspects of political dynamics, navigating the nexus between the analogue and digital worlds.

Drawing on case studies from East, West and South Africa, the book provides in-depth analyses of political mobilisation, digital identification, medical drones, electoral campaigning and the monetisation of digital platforms. Theoretical discussions include African communitarianism, digital indigeneity, democratisation and changes in political discourse.

Based on a comprehensive theoretical framework and grounded in empirical research, this book offers critical reflection and a deeper understanding of digital politics. It will appeal to students, researchers and scholars of African studies, media and digital studies, African politics, political science and area studies, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of digital politics in Africa.

Indigenous nations shaped Alaska's destiny before-and long after-Russia or America claimed the region

Alaska's past is often told through Russian and US imperial histories. In The Great Land author Thomas Michael Swensen overturns those narratives by reconstructing Alaska's history from Indigenous perspectives, showing how Native communities forged the region's political, economic, and cultural foundations. He constructs a timeline based on Indigenous archives, oral traditions, and Native-authored sources-what he terms first space.

Beginning with Indigenous encounters with Russian expeditions in Unangan territory in the 1740s, Swensen traces how key features of modern Alaska emerged from Indigenous labor and knowledge. The book demonstrates that after being drawn into coercive relationships with the Russian American Company, Native people navigated the territory's transfer to the United States in 1867 and engaged democratic institutions to pursue citizenship and political influence by the early twentieth century.

Across more than two and a half centuries, Alaska Native communities defined the region and state's cultural and political life-from designing the state flag to leading movements that culminated in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The book details that through statehood, Cold War tensions, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Indigenous people articulated cultural beliefs and practices that are central to Alaska's political life.

By framing Alaska as an Indigenous homeland rather than a colonial frontier, The Great Land offers a powerful new understanding of how Native peoples shaped the modern Alaskan state.

This edited book provides a structured introduction to the key sociological theorists and theories relevant to understanding the phenomenon of school bullying. Each chapter includes an introduction to the theorist and key concepts, an overview of previous research, an analysis of one or more empirical examples using the concepts, and a discussion of implications and potential for future research. The book will be a much-needed resource for researchers, students and practitioners interested in school bullying from a sociological perspective.

A compelling call to transform isolation into solidarity and turn shared action into lasting change

Liberation Is Other People offers a bold and timely exploration of how we confront the immense, interconnected challenges of our time. It begins with the truth that many of the crises we face - climate collapse, war, systemic inequality - are human-made and therefore humanly transformable. Yet such "wicked problems" cannot be solved by individuals alone. Every attempt to repair exposes how deeply our lives are entangled across histories of power, privilege, and vulnerability.

Rejecting the idea that personal virtue or guilt can solve the world's problems, Alexis Shotwell offers a philosophy and practice of collective freedom through collective struggle. Drawing on thinkers such as Angela Davis and Ursula K. Le Guin, she argues that freedom is not the power to act alone but the capacity to shape the world with others. Through sustained engagement with climate politics, white settler responsibility, and the reimagining of sexuality and gender, Liberation Is Other People shows how embracing complicity and acknowledging that none of us stand outside the systems we wish to change can open new possibilities for solidarity and transformation.

Rather than a call to purity or perfection, Liberation Is Other People is a vision of politics as a shared, necessarily imperfect process of creation. Shotwell builds a compelling case that solidarity can be a source of joy, inspiration, and political power. In an age of division and isolation, Shotwell insists that our greatest possibility lies not in fixing the world by our individual selves but in remaking it-together.

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We Will Receive Justice explores how Native people in the southern San Francisco Bay Area-the ancestors of today's Ohlone community-navigated the collapse of the California mission system. The volume spans from Mexican independence in 1821 through the region's annexation by the United States in 1846, as Native people from Mission Santa Clara and Mission San Jose fought for emancipation and restitution amid rapidly changing colonial circumstances.

The narrative is driven by a reexamination of archives related to the Pueblo of San Jose, the territorial capital of Monterey, and early U.S. court cases regarding Mexican-era land grants, contextualized through an in-depth analysis of mission records that illuminate the complex social connections of Native individuals and families. We Will Receive Justice offers an ethnohistorical lens for viewing the Indigenous history of Mexican California, examining not simply the history of colonization but how Native people drew on cultural traditions and social relationships to create new lives for themselves in the wake of the Franciscan mission system.