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• Introduction
• Part 1. Unveiling dancers' artistry. Performing: A transcendent experience
• Breath, movement, emotion and music
• Expressivity, harmony, creativity and artistry
• Technique, training and changes in dancers' brains
• Dealing with challenges
• Part 2. The magical motor system. The science behind the scenes
• Pathways to new skills
• Part 3. The art of training dancers. Our role as ballet teachers
• Skills in cueing and feedback
• Discovering technique
• The speaking body
• Discovering the dancer inside
• Afterword.

"This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together twelve chapters featuring the work of over thirty authors from around the globe. The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures. The twelve chapters focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, demonstrating both individual and collective experiences of climate change and struggles for achieving climate justice from the Majority World. This includes activism, resistance, and social movement organising in India and Brazil, lived experiences and understandings of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa, consequences of and responses to disasters in Mozambique and Puerto Rico, and contested accounts, narratives, and futures in the Maldives and Pakistan, among other topics. By adopting a decolonial lens, this book provides rich empirical content, insightful comparisons, and novel conceptual interventions. It foregrounds climate justice from an intersectional perspective and contributes to the ongoing efforts by scholars and activists to address epistemic injustice in climate change research, policy and practice. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate-level students, academics, activists, policymakers, and members of the public concerned with the impacts and inequalities of climate change in the Majority World. Neil J. W. Crawford is a Research Fellow in Climate Action and member of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, UK. Their research focuses on forced migration and displacement, refugee rights, climate justice and the inequalities of climate change, gender and sexuality, and cities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• "Open the Floodgates of Heaven": Amazonian Climate Change in Pre-Columbian Times
• The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource
• Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology
• Indigenous People Prevented Climate-Induced Ecological Change for Millennia: Evidence from the Prairie Peninsula and Fire-Loving Forests of Eastern North America
• Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests
• Different Relational Models have Shaped the Biocultural Conservation over Time of Araucaria araucana Forests and Their People
• Ancient and Ongoing Land-Use as Climate Change Mitigation in Ts'msyen, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv Homelands
• Clam Gardens Across Generations and Places Support Social-Ecological Resilience to Global Change
• Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom: Archaeological Perspectives of Caribbean Coastal Food and Habitat Security during Times of Climate Crises
• Whose Climate Change Is It? A Thousand-Year Example of Kali'na Responses to Shifting Coastal Landscapes in the Lower Maroni River
• Long-Term Ecological and Climate Changes through Amazonian Indigenous Oral Histories
• Owning Climate Change among the Makushi and Akawaio
• Postface.

"This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced climate change effects such as altered weather patterns, seasonal irregularities, flooding and drought, and difficulties relating to subsistence practices. Understanding and dealing with these challenges has drawn on peoples' longstanding experience with climate variability and in some cases includes models of mitigation and responses that are millennia old. With contributions from specialists across the Americas, the volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Problematising Violence
• Curriculum Studies, Genealogy, and the Power of Life and Death
• Regeneration Through Violence
• Bringing War Home
• The "Great Replacement": International Ethnonationalism
• Non-Violence and the Future of Democracy
• Affirmative Biopower, Truth, and the Prophetic
• Epilogue: The Return to the Self.

• Introduction: Revealing cultural confluences
• Language, value, and branding in confluent dance spaces
• Critical engagement with aesthetic systems in dance
• Navigating cultural confluences and envisioning new spaces
• Choreography, improvisation, and "just steps"
• Cultural knowledge production in dance academia.

• What is swearing?
• Swearing's secret offensive ingredient
• There is no secret ingredient
• Different kinds of wrong
• Taboo, aggression, and harsh sweary sounds
• How to be a really offensive swearer
• You talkin' to me?
• A regulatory fucking mess
• How to do things with swearing
• Fairer swearers
• Swears versus slurs
• Cunt and cocksucker
• Cunt and 'cunt'
• How the f*** do asterisks work?
• Swearing as a force for good
• The value of offensiveness
• Conclusion : you're all fucking superheroes.

"Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond. Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games' players. Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers"-- Provided by publisher.

• Proposing the posthuman gamer
• Who am "I"? : troubling the self
• From acting to intra-acting
• Enacting and embodying empathy
• Emergent subject positions
• From emergence to (susp)endings
• A contingent conclusion.

• Introduction : war never changes, but Fallout does
• Origins of the world of Fallout : Fallout 1 and Fallout 2
• Reviving the world of Fallout : Fallout 3 and Fallout 4
• Expanding the world of Fallout : Fallout Spinoff Games
• The world of Fallout as told by fans : Fallout 76, Fallout Mods, and Fallout tabletop games
• Conclusion : success and failure, design strategies, and the future of the world of Fallout.

"Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games, this book explores the world of the popular role-playing video game, Fallout. Kenton Taylor Howard examines the maps of the games, the design of their worlds, and how the franchise has been expanded through fan-created video game modifications and tabletop games. This book highlights the importance of worldbuilding in the Fallout franchise, examining the extensive alternate history the game creates - diverging from real-world history in the early 1900s and resulting in a world that is destroyed by nuclear apocalypse in 2077 - and exploring how the series builds this detailed world over the course of many games. The book also examines how the franchise has served as an extended commentary on American militarism and expansionism. The series is closely examined through the lens of critical media studies, as well as relying on theoretical frameworks relating to video game design and world design. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and enthusiasts of video game studies, video game design, media fandom and fan studies, transmedia studies, and imaginary worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : understanding xenophobia and nativism in the global South / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz
• Xenophobia and nativism in South Africa : exceptional phenomena or standard
• Africa-wide practices? / Ayabulela Dlakavu
• Colonial roots for contemporary xenophobic attitudes : Dominican hatred towards the Haitians / Antonio J. P Tortosa and Nairobi Rodríguez
• Citizenship, belonging and the "stupid federation" : the colonial roots of contemporary xenophobia and nativism in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe / Sitinga Kachipande
• Aliens and strangers in West Africa States : interrogating the 1969/1983 Ghana-Nigeria post-colonial immigrants crises / Yemisi Olawale
• Global perspective on xenophobia : the African Experience, 2015-2019 / Vincent Chenzi
• When xenophobes turn their faces on foreigners : whom to blame? the government or the natives / Anslem W. Adunimay and Tinuade A. Ojo
• Factors influencing xenophobic attacks recurrences and their implications on South Africa's foreign policy / Eric B. Niyitunga
• Haitian migration, the Bahamas, and the wider Caribbean / Anne Ulentin
• Migration and xenophobia in Southern Africa : assessing the benefits of social inclusion in South Africa and Zimbabwe / Darlington Mutanda and Enock Ndawana
• Xenophobia and nativism against Haitian immigrants in Brazil and Chile / Angela Ju
• Othering our neighbors : examples of nativism and xenophobia in Calypso / Alison McLetchie
• Caribbean xenophobia and nativism / Raymond Ramcharitar
• Conclusion : xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, Michael R. Hall, and José de Arimatéia da Cruz.

"This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines how xenophobia and nativism impact the political cohesion and social fabric of states and societies in the regions and offers solutions to aid policy formation and implementation. Rather than utilising an overarching framework, individual theory is applied to chapters to analyse the diverse connections between xenophobia and nativism in the regions. The book explores the economic, nationalistic, political, social, cultural, and psychological triggers for xenophobia and nativism and their impact on an increasingly interconnected and interrelated world. In addition to the individual and comparative examination of these triggers, the book outlines how they can be decreased or altered and argues that Pan-Africanism and the unity of purpose among diverse groups in the western hemisphere is still an ideal to which Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean can aspire. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of African history, African Studies, Caribbean and Latin American studies, cultural anthropology and comparative sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• ch. I. L'ethnie originelle des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba : de l'Afrique meridionale préhistorique aux antiques Éthiopie, Soudan et Égypte
• ch. II. L'ethnie originelle des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba, du Soudan oriental au Soudan occidental ou Afrique de l'Ouest (Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Ghana, Togo)
• ch. III. Les Nawdba, de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) à Niamtougou (Gnamrtougou), Baga (Baaga) et Siou (Soukou)
• ch. IV. Apports linguistiques à l'identification de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• ch. V. Apports socio-culturels à l'identification de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• ch. VI. Vestiges de l'administration traditionnelle et coloniale dans la gouvernance de l'ethnie originelle perdue des Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa et Tangba
• Conclusion.

"La recherche des origines de son ethnie, les Nawdba du Togo, a conduit l'auteur de cet ouvrage à la découverte d'autres groupes de même langue, de même culture et de même origine : une origine soudano-égyptienne. Disséminés en Afrique de l'Ouest, au Burkina Faso, au Bénin et au Ghana, Mossi, Nawdba, Yowa, Tangba et autres groupes non encore déterminés, sont issus, selon cet auteur, d'une même ethnie et sont originaires du Soudan Antique. Convaincu que l'histoire de chaque ethnie en Afrique dort dans la mémoire des prêtres animistes, des ethnomédecins et des notables initiés aux cultes ancestraux, cet ouvrage invite les africains 'à réveiller ces histoires' afin de 'connecter' l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui à celle d'hier."--Page 4 of cover.

• Chapter 1. The Bark as a Bioindicator of Atmospheric Contamination by Heavy Metals According to Vehicular Traffic Intensity in El Tambo, Huancayo, Peru
• Chapter 2. Nipa Sap (Nypa Fruitican) as Supplementary Feedstock for Bioethanol Production in the Philippines: The Pamplona Experience
• Chapter 3. Optimization of Fuel Cell Power Systems using Biogas from Palm Oil Mill Plant
• Chapter 4. Identification of Community-Level Sustainability Indicators: A Climate Change and Risk Management Perspective
• Chapter 5. Study of extreme precipitations in corn culture in Chupaca, Junn - Per 2009 2019
• Chapter 6. Spatiotemporal Mapping of Agroforestry Degradation of Five Districts of Uttarakhand, India with Spectral Indices
• Chapter 7. Wood as a Catalyst for Construction and Architecture that facilitates the creation of sustainable and resilient communities. The case of the Palafitos de Chilo, Chile
• Chapter 8. Identifying the most significant factors affecting urban housing sustainability and their scales/sectors of influence: a systematic review of the recent literature
• Chapter 9. Academic Study of Tourists Pro-Environmental Behaviour: A Literature Review
• Chapter 10. Green Building Design as a mechanism to strengthen resilient and sustainable communities. The case of the churches and the palafitos, Chilo Chile
• Chapter 11. Analysis of the Vicugna pacos (alpaca) wool fiber in the properties of concrete
• Chapter 12. Assessment of Bridge Damage Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process
• Chapter 13. Hill-Patch system as a strategic management model to activate and conserve urban axes: The case of the San Bernardo Green Corridor, Santiago, Chile.

This proceedings volume presents the selected papers from the 2022 8th International Conference on Advances in Environment Research (ICAER 2022), held as an online event from April 22-24. The papers presented at the meeting and published here cover issues of environmental sustainability from both ecological and socioeconomic perspectives, including but not limited to cutting-edge topics such as biogas, green building design, climate change, and sustainable forest management. This book aims to educate readers on how sustainability research can help society understand and combat our most pressing environmental challenges. The proceedings will be helpful for graduate students, researchers, environmental planners, and industry professionals interested in understanding the utility of environmental sustainability research for improving our lives and sustaining our planet.