Chapter 1 sets out the foundations of the book, beginning with a basic discussion of what is climate change and the global climate crisis. The chapter then moves on to the important Global North-Global South colonial context and the fundamental issues of environmental justice, climate justice and carbon colonialism. From there, the discussion ventures into an overview of who bears the brunt of climate change, concluding in a final section on the calls for a gender-based approach to solving the global climate crisis and the rationale for the book.

Lawrence’s rewriting of the third generation of The Rainbow created strains that were heightened in his revision of its typescript; they are supposed to be reconciled by the rainbow that Ursula sees at the end of the novel. Lawrence’s revision of the proofs introduced into the willed optimism of Ursula’s recovery from her injury, and the loss of her unborn child, an elevated language of eternity. Lawrence took this up from late July 1915 in rewriting his Italian travel sketches of 1912–13 for Twilight in Italy. The most striking additions are evocations of extreme states of being, deployed as diagnoses of how the war had come about. A major shift in his thinking, rejecting the language of eternity, can be located in a heavily overwritten two-page typescript fragment of ‘The Lemon Gardens’. The shift was inspired by John Burnet’s Early Greek Philosophy, especially by Empedocles’ embrace of opposing principles as explanations of change, thus (for Lawrence) undermining the subject–object divide fundamental to subsequent Western epistemology. ‘The Crown’, written almost in tandem with the travel book, took this further, but elusively.

In an era in which recycling is becoming almost an obligation that allows us to ensure the preservation of our planet, it is relevant to analyze the interferences between IPRs in the recycling activity. In this sense, it has been considered appropriate to study in this chapter the impact of the protection of artisanal and industrial geographical indications, especially now, when the European Union has adopted a new regulation. In Europe, artisanal and industrial geographical indications will protect porcelain, clothing, jewellery, and a wide variety of products resulting from the cultural heritage of European countries. It will be interesting in this regard to assess the limits that apply to geographical indications as IPRs. In particular, it will be interesting to analyze cases where parts of these protected products are used to create other recycled composite products, as well as the possibility of using recycled products for the creation of the protected products.

Chapter 5 explores women’s substantive representation in the MENA. Whereas most previous studies have focused predominantly on what portfolios female politicians have been offered, the analysis here centres on which policy areas female parliamentarians in the MENA have pursued with a view to uncover the factors behind such choices. In other words, do female parliamentarians pursue portfolio areas based on their own gender and the presumed gendering of the portfolio area? According to their own experiences, does the number of women in parliament, women’s status in politics and women in central positions within the party leadership play a role in what policy areas they themselves pursue and are offered? Do they think the electoral system plays a role and, if yes, how? Are they attracted to the climate (or environment) portfolio? And what role do factors such as geography, qualifications and expertise play?

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This chapter analyses the political economy of Rwanda’s financial sector. It presents the evolution of Rwanda’s national banking sector and the ways the Rwandan Patriotic Front has sought to mobilise domestic resources to invest in strategic sectors. It provides an overview of how African financial sectors have been transformed in varied ways through adapting to three kinds of financial sector reforms: policies influenced by the market-led consensus, developmentalist strategies and the influence of offshore sectors. Rwanda, in its attempt to transform Kigali into a financial sector while mobilising state-driven investments for strategic investments and adopting ‘best practice’ financial sector reforms, encapsulates the contradictions associated with being influenced by these three sets of policies concurrently. Next, the chapter describes how the Rwandan government has innovatively mobilised domestic resources to fund strategic investments. Innovations include its pension fund, the Rwanda Social Security Board. The chapter concludes by discussing how elite vulnerability has constrained the capacity of the Rwandan government to concentrate resources and financial expertise in one specific financial institution, thereby inhibiting the effectiveness of strategic investments.

What should a nurse do when non-speakers of the local language come to the ward seeking information about a loved one? What should a receptionist do when they need to book an appointment and a language barrier takes them by surprise? How can an emergency call handler let a caller know that a human interpreter is being contacted? Chapter 3 examines circumstances in which the risks of multilingual AI are ostensibly low. It proposes a distinction between ancillary and core communication but argues that communicative settings are fluid. What starts as ancillary communication can easily turn into core care, so risk is not associated with specific roles or with levels of professional seniority. The chapter argues that, in the sectors under analysis, communication is rarely risk-free. Even where machine translation may not directly lead to harm or loss of life, it may be a feature of complex communicative environments which pose significant systemic risks.

Manjushree Thapa's The Tutor of History (2001), set in post-1990s Nepal, portrays characters pursuing romantic and economic desires amid democratic and market reforms. This chapter examines desire, choice, and action in Thapa's novel to explore how democracy challenges traditional power structures and empowers women. Thapa's novel presents a democratic ethos that extends beyond formal institutions to everyday experience. By examining how democratic practices shape the experiences of gendered “others,” I argue that the novel envisions women as active citizens shaping a more equitable society.

The Tutor of History follows an election in a small Nepali town and a courtship between Binita, a widow who runs a teashop while caring for her daughter and cousin, and Rishi, a history teacher and communist activist. The romance links the election campaign with domesticity, connecting democratic practices to private life and public opinion to private desires. The characters hope that democracy's transformative potential will challenge entrenched power structures, empower marginalized women, and foster inclusive development. Desire in the novel erupts from “the gaps in history” that fail to remember marginalized others (Thapa 2001: 57). When Binita and Rishi express their amorous desire for each other, their romantic desire presents them with an opportunity to start a new life that is free from the oppressions brought to a widowed woman by the past, tradition, and orthodoxy. The novel imagines women as full citizens in a democracy where universal suffrage allows them to dream of and choose new ways of living. Desire, choice, and action thus become tools for political and personal transformation. The novel envisions a democracy where individuals can pursue their desires without coercion from the state or institutions tied to gender, caste, and class.

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It is proposed that spirituality and psychiatry, commonly held to be separate concerns, are in fact deeply entangled and inseparable. Meaning-making, an important concern of spirituality, is important to human well-being and needs to be taken more seriously by psychiatry. The damage done by historical antagonisms between psychiatry and religion needs to be undone by affirmation of spiritual concerns within psychiatric practice and by closer partnerships between psychiatry and faith communities. Professional boundaries need to be understood not as protecting psychiatry as secular space (which many religious patients find hostile to their spiritual concerns) but as protecting safe therapeutic space within which psychological recovery and spiritual growth may occur. Psychiatrists need to develop an interest in clinical theology, as a way of understanding the ordinary theological concerns of patients (including their ‘atheologies’). Psychiatry needs to be more spiritually attentive – to shed light on what patients desire spiritually and psychologically – rather than focussing only on the metaphorical shadows of psychopathology. Psychiatry needs to keep spirituality in mind.

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The excerpts mentioned above are part of a debate, which took place in 1984–1985, on the arguable failure of political parties and the emergence of groups referred to as non-party political formations. Defending the emergence of these groups, Sethi argues that the formation of such groups was necessitated because political parties had been ‘side-tracking the issues of direct concern to the people’. In contrast, Karat, on behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M]), argued that non-party groups played into an ‘imperialist strategy’ and were anti-left.

Against the backdrop of the existing scholarship on masculinities, this chapter examines iterations of masculinity in South Asian literature, particularly in literature from Nepal. As such, the chapter analyzes Yogesh Raj's 2018 Madan Puraskār winning novel, Rahahār (Defeat at War), and Laxmi Prasad Devkota's poem “Pāgal,” or “Crazy,” published in 1953. The choice of these two literary works is partly subjective, and partly because they not only fit the topic of hegemonic masculinity and its other seamlessly, but there is scant scholarship on these works that is available to a wider audience. Even though Raj's novel revolves around the Kathmandu Valley of the eighteenth century and showcases social and gender dynamics during that time frame, the novel also demonstrates a continuum of masculinity at work, and not just orthodox or primitive masculinity as one would assume given the story's timeline. While the Gorkhali forces of King Prithivi Narayan Shah embody aspects of primitive or orthodox masculinity, King Ranajit Malla of Bhaktapur not only practices heterodox masculinity, but he also comes close to what some critics call “cacodoxy,” that is, an iteration of masculinity that overlaps with elements of femininity. As the ironic title of the novel suggests, King Ranajit practices supple forms of masculinity during his long reign of the Bhaktapur city-state, and, after his defeat at the hands of the Gorkhali, he accepts his position of a defeated king, begging the victor to grant him one last wish, namely to go to Kanshi, the present-day city of Varanasi in India.