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16/08/2026

Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature
edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson and Michael Eilenberg
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-30

political science, biopolitics, wildlife management, biosecurity, economics

Dr. Annika Pohl Harrisson teaches in the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.

Associate Professor Michael Eilenberg teaches anthropology at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Their book discusses how in 2018, the viral disease African swine fever (ASF) threatened to damage Denmark’s pork industry.

To prevent wild boar from migrating from Germany, Danish lawmakers had a 70 kilometer-long fence constructed across the entire border in less than a year.

In another example, in 2015, a razor-wire security fence was built by Slovenia along its border with Croatia to discourage refugees.

However, the fence also restricted the movement of wild animals such as deer, bears and wolves between the two countries.

Croatia complained to the European Union (EU) that the fence prevented the free movement of animals.

As more fencing is planned, ecological and sociological analysis of its impact may help to predict its potential consequences.

Fencing may be used in different contexts to preserve or ensure biosecurity by separating species or biological matter.

Human and non-human species are affected by this separation.

The authors observe:

“Fences universally represent a complex blend of fears, frustrations, ambitions and aesthetics.

They can enhance or mar the landscape, evoking a range of conflicting intellectual and emotional reactions.”

Fences provide protection, but also create division.

They define and safeguard what is ours, yet isolate us from others.

Biosecurity refers to preventing the introduction or spread of harmful organisms, to protect animals, humans and plants from infectious disease, which may harm health, welfare and productivity.

Preventative biosecurity has increased in recent decades, due to the rapid emergence and spread of infectious diseases across national borders and continents.

Biosecurity measures, which involve managing risk, are often seen as apolitical, but in reality they are highly political.
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16/08/2026

Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
by Timothy Thurston
Open Access book for free download here:
https://uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/satirical-tibet

Asian studies, Tibet, anthropology, literature, sociology, psychology

Associate Professor Timothy Thurston teaches contemporary Chinese studies at the University of Leeds, the United Kingdom.

Amdo, also known as Domey, is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions.

Associate Professor Thurston’s research indicates that Tibetans deal with Communist Chinese oppression as they have dealt with life’s problems for centuries, with Buddhist worship as well as comedy and satire.

Tibetan religious activities and institutions are limited by the People’s Republic of China.

Their ability to use their own language in education and government is constrained.

They are termed backward by the Han Chinese-dominated regime; and their leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, is excluded from his homeland and considered a dangerous separatist by China.

Tibetan satirists have mocked official corruption, village and clan feuds over money, and anti-female discrimination in education, among other subjects.

In these comedy routines, every dialogue, skit, or rap is about a social problem of some sort.

Where straightforward critiques might endanger the speaker, the ambiguity of humor can convey meaning.

This encourages Tibetans and provides evidence of their strength of character of people who endure a repressive regime.

According to a Tibetan proverb:

“There’s no way to talk without joking./

There’s no way to eat without making offerings.”

The author notes:

“More than mere entertainment, […] these comedies were conveying important messages about contemporary Tibetan life and shaping attitudes about language, culture, urbanization, and more.”

He interviewed noted comedians and their fans to explore how comedies represented a wide-ranging social critique about issues facing Tibetan society.

In a traditional Buddhist culture, Associate Professor Thurston observes, dinners among friends often include repeated toasting with liquor until inhibitions in the gathering are lowered and

“teasing and reminiscing might devolve into uncontrolled hilarity.”

In this way, humor and wit become a lifesaving element for a nation under stress.
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16/08/2026

Families Affected by Addiction: A Handbook
edited by Gallus Bischof and others
Open Access book for free download here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-82583-5

allied health science, psychology, psychotherapy, sociology, anthropology, family studies

Dr. Gallus Bischof is a German clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.

His book notes that family members are often affected by a close relative’s use of alcohol or drugs or gambling.

Many receive no help for the issues created for them.

Researchers have estimated that over 100 million people worldwide are impacted by addiction problems of their relatives.

They experience stresses, coping problems, and lack of information and support.

Many countries lack comprehensive policies to tackle alcohol or gambling behavior and misuse, while drug use is criminalized.

The World Health Organization Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol states that family non-drinkers are harmed by alcohol abusers.

The Addiction and the Family International Network (www.afinetwork.info) was founded to unite researchers, practitioners, and public servants.

Its goals include to

• promote research about experiences of family members affected by relatives’ addictions

• formulate prevention and treatment practice meeting the needs of affected family members

and

• advocate with policymakers, including international organizations and national governments, for greater awareness of the needs of family members affected by their relatives’ addictions

Data suggests that many people are impacted by a relative’s addiction-type problem.

These effects should be seen as a public health issue.

The damage done by these types of problems affects many relationships and may be found in different cultures.

Although children appear to be most severely affected, the harm caused to adult family members has so far been largely neglected by researchers.

The amount of ill-health caused to families by addiction-type problems is considerable, with high rates of psychiatric and physical illnesses.

These ailments are significantly reduced after the relative has been successfully treated for addictive behavior.

Therefore, more assistance should be offered internationally to family members of addicts.

They should routinely be offered the option of participating in the treatment of their relatives.
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09/08/2026

Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters
by Eve Darian-Smith
Open Access book for free download here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_monograph/book/126855

education, political science, global studies, international studies, sociology

Professor Eve Darian-Smith teaches global studies & international studies at the University of California Irvine, the United States of America.

Her book argues that higher education in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Britain, Thailand, Hungary, Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Poland, the Philippines, and Argentina is targeted by extreme politics and authoritarian-leaning governments.

Guest speakers are uninvited, curriculum censored, and tenure denied to outspoken faculty.

Educational conflicts should be considered in terms of intensifying battles over economic, political, and social power.

Mass migrations, global warming, pandemics, nuclear escalation, famine, and heightened inequality are contributing to destabilization.

Controlling how people on university campuses think and behave has become especially important to international leaders seeking to maintain economic, political, and social dominance.

Today’s crisis in higher education is part of a global pattern that demands new analytical questions and approaches.

Attacking scholars is a strategically shared practice among far-right politicians who learn from one another and exchange ideas and strategies.

International far right leaders expressly target scholars and students of color and LGBTQ+ identity.

In the United States, a planned Republican Party campaign has promoted anti-intellectualism and defunded public education over several decades.

By contrast, academic freedom is a contested, dynamic, and fragile concept.

Generally, academic freedom allows scholars, teachers, and students to research, teach, and transmit evidence-based knowledge without fear of political or religious oversight, pressure, censorship, or sanctions.

Academic freedom means different things according to diverse scholarly communities and specific cultural contexts.

In times of political and economic instability and war, the concept of academic freedom usually becomes more limited as political forces try to suppress scholarly challenges to those in power.

Today’s global rise of the far right amid worldwide economic and political instability explain why scholars now have less academic capacity for challenging antidemocratic laws and policies.
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09/08/2026

Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking
by Michael Howlett and others
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/bad-public-policy/243B9A67362A16D36D4CCB99A7572734

political science, policy studies, risk management, law, civil rights, sociology

Professor Michael P. Howlett teaches political science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

His book notes that policy studies often assume that honest governments strive to create public value and the public responds in good faith with fair dealing in the public interest.

Good policies may be expected to result from open participatory procedures in which the public can express its preferences and policy-makers listen to, and act in good faith on, what has been discussed.

Yet even in liberal democratic governments worldwide, this is not how policy-making occurs.

Instead, bad public policy is produced, reflecting partial knowledge or serving special interests, often for self-enrichment.

Rather than focusing on the social good, policy-making is used to punish political opposition or groups and individuals deemed undesirable.

Ineffective outcomes happen when uncertainty, harmful policies, poor compliance, lack of preparation for new or existing challenges and problems, and a failure to learn from past experiences are present.

Such policies can remove state funding from underprivileged sectors and create little or no public value, or even damage it.

The authors suggest that it is essential to understand and plan for this dark side of policy-making, especially as most studies of policy design tend to be unrealistically optimistic.

Misunderstood information can confuse government policy, particularly when state and governance knowledge bases and capacities are limited.

Decision-making is often motivated by interests other than the creation of public value.

Policy targets whom governments try to manage are often guilty of unlawful misconduct such as fraud, evasion, and deliberate non-compliance to undermine government intentions.

The essence of democracy or rule of the people demands that the public be able to properly evaluate government performance and reward or punish them in elections for incompetence, corruption, or other kinds of policy and political scandals and failures.
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09/08/2026

Brunei Darussalam’s Economic Transition in a Shifting Global Asia
edited by Ahmed M. Khalid and Bruno Jetin
Open Access book for free download here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-6926-1

economics, business, ASEAN studies, Brunei Darussalam

Professor Ahmed M. Khalid teaches economics at the University of Brunei Darussalam.

Associate Professor Bruno Jetin teaches at the Faculty of Law, Politics and Social Sciences of Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France.

Their book observes that Brunei’s economy is dependent on oil and gas resources.

Given the depleting oil reserves and volatility of oil prices, this has led to uncertainty about sustainable economic growth.

Therefore, the country must diversify economically, reducing dependence on oil and gas, and expanding its sources of income to other sectors.

In the 1960s, the nation aimed to diversify the economy through accelerated development of agriculture and industry.

In 2007 the government announced Brunei Vision 2035 as a long-term development plan for the country.

It outlined three specific goals to be achieved by 2035 through the use of eight strategies:

1. The accomplishment of its well-educated and highly skilled people, measured
by the highest international standards

2. A high quality of life that is among the top 10 nations in the world

3. A dynamic and sustainable economy with income per capita within the top 10
countries in the world

The eight strategies identified to achieve these goals:

1. Education

2. Economy

3. Security

4. Institutional development

5. Local business development

6. Infrastructure development

7. Social security

8. Environment

Although several initiatives were taken to accelerate economic diversification, the implementation process was slow.

The halal industry aimed to become a hub for halal products and services in the region, but there is competition from larger markets and population bases.

At the same time, attention was given to the Islamic finance industry, including Islamic bonds and Islamic insurance as another area of focus.

The editors conclude that Brunei has made some progress but more needs to be done since economic conditions are changing rapidly.
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02/08/2026

Fomenting Friendship: The Politics and Policy of Interpersonal Warmth
by Andrea Chandler
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003626138/

psychology, political science, international relations, sociology, anthropology

Professor Andrea Chandler teaches political science at Carleton University, Canada.

Her book argues that in an age of increasing social isolation, government policy should aim to create friendships among citizens.

The verb foment in the title of her book means to provoke or stir up.

Psychologists and sociologists agree that there are benefits to friendship, and being friendless can be harmful.

Governments can work to make friendship available to all, much as they offer education or retirement pensions to everyone.

Personal interactions may often be considered a private matter, rather than a public responsibility.

Yet states may create conditions to improve access to friendship and acknowledge that friendship is unequally distributed in capitalist society.

People with disabilities, insecure employment or housing, and minority group members generally have more difficulties making friends than others.

To improve access to friendship, political leaders must encourage interpersonal contact and confront the forces that inhibit friendship.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle asserted that a capacity for friendship was the best proof that someone may empathize with the needs of another person, and hope for the best for them.

Democracy requires that people be willing to consider the needs of others rather than their own exclusively.

If friendship is accepted as part of political experience, when people are excluded, ostracized, and isolated, society is clearly damaged.

Friendship is political insofar as it is less available to those who are unconventional, materially deprived, or overworked.

A policy to encourage friendship should attempt to establish it as a universal citizenship right.

Elected officials should also deal with aspects of life that weaken relationships.

These include expanding capitalism, international and internal migration, automobile culture, and uncertain employment.

Despite the existence of online bullying, social media can complement and enhance extant friendships, and create new possibilities for building political movements.
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02/08/2026

Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
by Jess Reia
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/urban-music-governance

music, urban studies, economics, data management, sociology, popular culture, history, technology policy

Assistant Professor Jess Reia teaches data science at the University of Virginia, the United States of America.

Busking means to play music in the street or other public place for voluntary donations.

The term busking derives from a Spanish word meaning to seek, since buskers play music in search of payment.

Wandering performers have existed around the world for centuries, intertwined with urban life.

Yet the history of the music performed in public spaces is usually found in the laws banning it, as well as in newspaper articles about the inconvenience it causes, and in police department archives.

It is difficult to know how many street performers are active n any city.

There is no demographic report on these informal workers.

This overlooked activity keeps these performers invisible in city government data.

This can result in a lack of cultural policy created for them, no proper funding for their activity, and ongoing economic uncertainty for them as informal laborers.

This makes it challenging to participate in policymaking to regulate or improve cultural policy in cities.

However, as with other categories of informal workers such as street vendors, attempts to count them exactly can result in more police surveillance and control as well as restrictive laws that negatively impact their work.

By occupying a street corner to play, buskers change controlled public spaces by holding temporary shows and then moving along.

By existing, street performers overturn established ideas about public order.

City governments try to control these informal activities in public spaces, usually without evidence or statistics to justify any policy.

So they decide who has the right to occupy certain parts of the city and under which circumstances.

Studying the sociology of street entertainers involves matters of access and exclusion, gender, immigration, class, race and ethnicity.
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02/08/2026

Family Matters: How Romantic Partners Shape Politicians' Careers
by Olle Folke and others
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/family-matters/FD6AA14FAD0F05DBA9213E4A37FA109A

political science, history, gender studies sociology, economics, ethnology

Associate Professor Olle Folke teaches politics at the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

His book observes that in most countries, women are underrepresented in positions of power in most professional fields.

Women advance more slowly in their careers than men and often do not reach as far.

Women still comprise only around 25 percent of parliamentarians around the world, fewer than 10 percent of Fortune 500 chief executive officers, and less than a third of tenured university professors.

Therefore, it is unsurprising that romantic partners play a role in gender inequality in politics.

They may serve as a support system for advancement in politicians’ careers or a source of challenges.

Women politicians receive less career support from their partners than men, and that this helps explain their slower political career advancement.

Based on study of almost 80,000 political careers in Sweden over a half-century, the research argues that a lower level of career support from romantic partners leads to a lower likelihood for political promotion among women politicians.

Additionally, there is greater stress on women politicians' relationships when they do advance.

Women politicians tend to prioritize their male partner's career.

For this reason, political advancement doubles the divorce rate for women.

For these women politicians, the romantic partner becomes a greater source of stress and tension as their careers advance.

Women are expected to choose between a stable family life or a career in politics.

For this reason, career promotions may require more personal sacrifice for women.

Yet partners may offer unique emotional and practical support to people who want to invest the considerable time and energy needed to pursue higher political office.

Ongoing gender norms for couples prevent women’s economic and political empowerment.

What is true of the political sector applies in the world economy.
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26/07/2026

Innovations in Digital Comics: A Popular Revolution
by Francesca Benatti
Open Access book for free download here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/innovations-in-digital-comics/E7F321812D3D20FC303E4A1783E24928

media and communications studies, visual arts, sociology, Korean culture

Dr. Francesca Benatti is a senior research fellow in digital humanities at The Open University, London, The United Kingdom.

Over the past twenty years, webcomics produced and read entirely digitally have innovated in the comics publishing business.

On digital platforms with participatory cultures, international authors collaborate with audiences to surpass established print comics conventions.

Most comics published in the twenty-first century are to some extent digital, insofar as they are produced, distributed and consumed in ways mediated by a computer.

Other comics exist only in digital formats.

These digital comics, webcomics or webtoons, represent an increasingly significant area for the readers and creators.

Freed from limitations of print technologies and the printed page, often produced by independent creators without a publisher’s oversight, webcomics have few limits in subject matter.

This freedom allows creators from marginalized communities to address their audience directly.

Webtoons are a type of episodic digital comics that originated in South Korea, usually meant to be read on smartphones.

The largest webtoon publisher is the English-language version of the South Korean platform WEBTOON, which attained 100 billion global page views in 2019.

Webcomics have launched the professional careers of many female, nonbinary, and le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, and others (LGBT+) creators, due to the expressive liberties of the medium.

Authors who publish on WEBTOON Originals successfully tend to be mainly female.

Authors or editors identifying as female or nonbinary are present in over three quarters of creative teams.

Female creators concentrate on the Romance and Fantasy genres, which are followed the most enthusiastically by consumers.

They also produce much-appreciated comedies such as “My Giant Nerd Boyfriend.”

As webcomics, especially webtoons, are revolutionizing the comics medium in format and publishing, authors and readers on the largest webcomics platform, WEBTOON, should be further studied to anticipate future developments.
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