Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

A movement emerges to challenge the tightening of intellectual property law around the world.At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened th…

Access Denied

A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries. Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens—most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or re…

“The Sting of Death” and Other Stories

Society and social sciences;Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A Common Hunger : Land Rights in Canada and South Africa

Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity. Based on extensive research carried out in both countries, A Common Hunger is a comparative…

“At This Defining Moment: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the N…

In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and political significance of “the Obama phenomenon.” In “At this Defining Moment,” Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by …

Perspectives on Digital Humanism

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Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society = The Digital Drift

This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding the causation mechanisms behind this phenomenon. By examining the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on d…

Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society

What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns…

Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Medi…

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and re…

„Deutschland ist das Land der Chancen“ = Berufsorientierungen junger Gefl…

Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Wie leben und erleben junge Geflüchtete ihren Alltag in Deutschland? Wie stehen sie zur Aufnahmegesellschaft und welche Zukunft sehen sie für sich, insbesondere mit Blick auf den Arbeitsmarkt? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht die SINUS-Studie qualitativ-empirisch nach. Dabei lässt sie die Jugendlichen in Form von zahl…