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"This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China's transformation governance remains limited. Drawing on a theoretical framework for policy diffusion and based on extensive data from expert interviews with Chinese decision makers and policy practitioners, Lina Li and Maia Haru Hall focus on the policy of emissions trading systems (ETS) and two key case studies: Shanghai and Hubei. The authors examine the role of the national government and how much freedom the sub-national regions have in developing ETS policy, as well as pinpointing key actors and the role of policy and knowledge diffusion mechanisms. Overall, this book sheds light on the competition between China and the West in the transition to climate-friendly societies and economies, highlighting opportunities for cooperation between them. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics and policy, climate change, urban studies, and Chinese studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

• The corporation and financial markets
• Introduction to financial statement analysis
• Financial decision making and the law of one price
• The time value of money
• Interest rates
• Valuing bonds
• Investment decision rules
• Fundamentals of capital budgeting
• Valuing stocks
• Capital markets and the pricing of risk
• Optimal portfolio choice and the capital asset pricing model
• Estimating the cost of capital
• Investor behavior and capital market efficiency
• Captial structure in a perfect market
• Debt and taxes
• Financial distress, managerial incentives, and information
• Payout policy
• Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage
• Valuation and financial modeling : a case study
• Financial options
• Option valuation
• Real options
• Raising equity capital
• Debt financing
• Leasing
• Working capital management
• Short-term financial planning
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Risk management
• International corporate finance

• Introduction / Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti and Diego Guevara
• I. Rethinking Development and Financial Dependency: Theoretical Reflections
• 1. Dependency, Finance and Development: Echoes of the Past That Resonate in the Present / Manuel Felipe Martínez Mantilla and José Daniel Saade Figueroa
• 2. International Division of Finance: Functionality and Dependency of the System's Periphery / Édivo de Almeida Oliveira and Bruno De Conti
• 3. Latin America: Between Regressive Structural Change and the Pandemic / Diego Guevara and Emilia Ormaechea
• II. Financialization and Financial Reconfiguration in the Pandemic-- 4. Dependent Financialization of Latin America: A View from the COVID-19 Crisis / Armando Negrete
• 5. Latin American Development Banks in the Pandemic Crisis / Marcos V. Chiliatto and Daniela M. Prates
• 6. They Win in Mexico: Pension Funds and Financial Benefits during the Pandemic / Lizeth Alanis and Monika Meireles
• III. Economic Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
• 7. Potential of Coordination Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Experience of Latin America during COVID-19 / Leonardo Rojas Rodríguez and Santiago Castaño Salas
• 8. Countercyclical Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Impulses: Post-Pandemic Challenges
• The Cases of Brazil and Mexico / Teresa López González and Eufemia Basilio Morales
• 9. Effects of International Liquidity Cycles on Argentina during the Pandemic / Ezequiel Greco Laplane.

"The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, punctuated by bouts of economic turmoil and constitutional and political uncertainty. The infamous Darien Scheme, the establishment of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Anglo-Scots Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite rising of 1715, all occurred during this short time span. It was therefore a period which presented Scotland with opportunities, but one in which the country ultimately lost its autonomy. It was also during these years, and against this unsettled backdrop, that the Scottish Financial Revolution commenced. The complexity of the Scottish situation during the late seventeenth and the early eighteen centuries has historically made the identification of a Scottish Financial Revolution difficult. This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period. Using examples of financial developments and innovation driven by Scotsmen in Scotland, Europe, and the colonies, this work defines the Scottish Financial Revolution as a series of developments which took place in Scotland when political circumstances allowed, but which also occurred outwith Scotland through the agency of members of the Scottish diaspora. This monograph is therefore the story of how Scotsmen at home and abroad contributed to financial debate and development between 1690 and 1727. Credit, Currency, and Capital: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727 will appeal to students and scholars interested in the History of Economics and Finance. It will also be of interest to those studying the history of the Anglo-Scots Union and the complex relationship between Scotland and England"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prelude : Field notes, May 5, 2016, The audition marathon on Cinco de Mayo, North Beach, San Francisco, CA
• Introduction
• Sensual knowledge production : a feminist porn archive and queer herstoriography
• Erotic altruism : metamorphic and sensuous brown bodies
• Interlude : feminist art praxis and autotheory
• Erotic resistance : the 1990s renaissance of strip club activism
• Stripper-face and performative heterosexuality
• Conclusion
• Postlude : final field notes, June 10, 2022, place-based writing, San Francisco neighborhoods.

"Erotic Resistance is an act of memory preservation regarding San Francisco's foundational role in the erotic entertainment and sex industries of the United States. It highlights the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental at key moments in the city's history concerning labor as well as the LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in San Francisco for the first time in US history, although cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. In yet another first instance in US history, San Francisco activist-strippers, who were also artists, led successful class action lawsuits and efforts to unionize in the strip club industry in the 1990s. Using diverse methods, including ethnography, visual and performance analysis, and historiography, Erotic Resistance relates these phenomena through archival materials, artworks, and original interviews with women who performed in San Francisco's burlesque scene and strip club industry during these time periods"-- Provided by publisher.

• Is digital feminist activism defining GBV?
• Gender-Based Violence and Digital Technologies
• African Feminist Ideology Politics and Gender Based-Violence
• Gender Digital Activism Offline and Online GBV "Talk"
• The Nature of GBV Social Media "Talk," Language and Audiences
• Epilogue.

"Over the course of the 19th century European societies started thinking of themselves as 'civilisations of work'. In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general principle of order, progress, and governance. How did work become so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition? The book addresses this question by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific 'fragment' of history in the early 1830s marked by a pandemic crisis and the first consequences of industrialisation. It combines the analysis of both political institutions and social movements to retrace the rise of a labour-based social contract revolving around the 'citizen-worker' as the quintessential subject of rights. The first part of the book highlights the role played by the genesis of the modern social sciences and analyses it as a political process that established work as an 'object' of governance and scientific investigation, thus fostering pioneering measures of welfare centred on work conditions. The second part focuses on the emergence of the concept of 'working class' and the modern labour movement, which structured the world of work as a collective political 'subject'"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Editors
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Social Constructionism: Intervention in Social Reality and Diversity
• 2. Social Intervention from Social Constructionism: Building Intervention Models
• 3. New Challenges to Participatory Action Research in Academia: Notes from the Field
• 4. Health Recovery and Reconstruction in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Social Construcionist Approach

• 5. The Erotic-Amorous Relationships of Young University Students in Saltillo: Constructionist Approach Applied to the Investigation of Their Communicative Practices
• 6. Narratives of Family Abandonment: A Constructionist Intervention in Institutionalized Adolescents
• 7. The Resilience That Is Built in the Interaction of Migrant Children and Adolescents: A View from the Institutional Care of Refugee Families
• 8. The Needs Felt by Female Breast Cancer Survivors Participating in a Reflective Communicational Support Group in Saltillo, Mexico

• 9. Social Reconstruction of Women Carers of Children with Disabilities: A Model from Socio-Constructionist Intervention
• 10. Social Constructionism and Male Narratives in Reflection Groups for Men Who Exercise Violence Toward Their Partners in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
• 11. Qualitative Constructionist Evaluation of Social Intervention Projects
• Index

• Exploring the phenomenology of shopping as social practice : an inquiry into the multimodal and linguistic repertoires in markets in Sydney / Dariush Izadi
• Between sensorial pleasure and economic reason : accepting or rejecting offers to taste a the market / Lorenza Mondada
• Reassembling meaning while shopping / Emi Otsuji and Alastair Pennycook
• Multimodal engagement and interaction and the appearance of contemporary non-traditional retail shopping / Gitte Rasmussen
• Trust, transparency and transactions : revealing participation in collocated and hybrid auction sales / Sylvaine Tuncer, Christian Heath and Paul Luff
• Checking before checkout : how customers deal with trust and accountability in grocery shopping in online and brick-and-mortar shops / Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen
• Curating a lifestyle experience : how Pottery Barn makes it so / Louise Ravelli
• Going shopping : a social semiotic study of resources for walking offline and online / Søren Vigild Poulsen
• Community or commerce : the story of eBay / Theo Van Leeuwen.

"What gives someone a moral right to parent? What role should the liberal state play in the creation of families? Are prospective parents allowed to create a child in a world facing a changing climate and full of parentless children? This book defends a new theory of the moral right to parent by focusing on the special role of parents in creating the conditions for the flourishing of their children irrespective of whether there is a biological connection between them. It also argues that although procreative and adoptive parenting enjoy equal moral standing, justice toward children requires that the liberal state makes adoption more desirable and feasible for its citizens. Finally, the book provides a partial theory of child-rearing which focuses on the goods of childhood that parents are primarily responsible for fostering: carefreeness, enjoyment-driven or curiosity-driven achievement, and friendship"-- Provided by publisher.

• A civil police?
• The coloniality of policing
• The birth of the civil police in London, 1829
• Cotton colonialism and the new police in the US and England, 1830s-1850s
• The new imperialism at home
• Police "reform" and the colonial boomerang in the US, 1890s-1930s
• "Our problems...are not so difficult": militarization and its limits in Britain, 1850s-1910s
• Informal empire and urban insurgency
• Tactical imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s
• Cycles of policing & insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980s.