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The issue of leadership is crucial to Polybius’ desire to explain the rise of Rome over almost the entire known world and provide benefit and utility to readers who may have to assume positions of responsibility. This book focuses on descriptions of leadership behaviors in the Histories, aiming to identify regularly recurring patterns, motifs, and themes in the relevant passages, which could, precisely because of their persistence, heighten our sensitivity to the subtleties of Polybius’ treatment of the subject. Given that the interest in leadership permeates Polybius’ work and engages with his main thematic concerns, this study brings the reader face-to-face with questions of power and control, identity and nationality, the role of fortune, narrative strategies, thereby providing a basis for reading the Histories more generally. At the same time, a major concern throughout the book is with the ways Polybius’ representation of leadership seems to have been influenced by literary depictions of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Polybius’ interplay with his literary context and tradition deepens our understanding of what he is trying to accomplish in the narrative and how he is interacting with the expectations of his audiences.

History, Ancient. --- Leadership. --- Alexander the Great. --- Leaders and Leadership. --- Narrative. --- Polybius. --- History, Ancient --- Leadership

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This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that experiences of shame, shaming and stigma dominated personal and public life. From healthcare workers insulted in the streets to anti-Asian racism, the online shaming of "Covidiots" to the identification of the "lepers of Leicester", public animus about the pandemic found scapegoats for its frustrations. Interventions by the UK government maximised rather than minimized these phenomena. Instead of developing robust strategies to address shame, the government's healthcare policies and rhetoric seemed to exacerbate experiences of shame, shaming and stigma, relying on a language and logic that intensified oppositional, antagonistic thinking, while dissimulating about its own responsibilities. Through a series of six case studies taken from the events of 2020, this thought-provoking book identifies a systemic failure to manage shame-producing circumstances in the UK. Ultimately, it addresses the experience of shame as a crucial, if often overlooked, consequence of pandemic politics, and advocates for a "shame sensitive" approach to public health responses. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust..

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of health --- United Kingdom --- COVID-19 (Disease) --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Shame --- Political leaders & leadership --- Medical sociology --- Public health & preventive medicine

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This text examines the histories of gender, knowledge, families, bodies, art, and political thought in Victorian Britain, contributing to both literary studies and cross-disciplinary feminist scholarship.

Women and literature --- Authors, English --- History --- Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, --- Pattison, Emilia Francis Strong, --- Strong, Emilia Francis, --- Great Britain --- Women authors, English --- Politicians' spouses --- Women art historians --- Women labor leaders --- Feminists --- Dilke, Charles Wentworth, --- Pattison, Mark, --- Marriage. --- Civilization

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"Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of a widely practiced variant of Islam: Sufism. Contemporary analysts suggest that Sufism is on the decline due to war and the ideological hardening that results from societies in conflict. However, in Sufi Civilities, Annika Schmeding argues that this is far from a truthful depiction. Sufi communities have worked as resistance fighters, aid workers, businessmen, actors, professors and daily workers in creative and ingenious ways to keep and renew their networks of community support. Based on long-term ethnographic field research among multiple Sufi communities in different urban areas of Afghanistan, Schmeding examines navigational strategies employed by Sufi leaders over the past four decades to weather periods of instability and persecution, showing how they adapted to changing conditions in novel ways that crafted Sufism as a force in the civil sphere. This book offers a rare on-the-ground view into how Sufi leaders react to moments of transition within a highly insecure environment, and how humanity shines through the darkness during times of turmoil"--

Sufism --- Muslim religious leaders --- Islam and state --- Political aspects --- Afghanistan --- Afghanistan --- Politics and government --- Politics and government --- Afghanistan. --- Authority/Leadership. --- Civil Society. --- Ethnography. --- Islam. --- Minority. --- Pluralism. --- Social Navigation. --- Sufism. --- War/Conflict.

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"Electoral democracies are in crisis. To face it, randomly selected deliberative minipublics such as the citizens' assemblies for the climate are organized. Sortition was widespread in history. Can it contribute to a democratic renewal? This book provides the first reconstruction of the government of chance from Athens to contemporary experiments"--

Civil service. --- Public officers --- Patronage, Political. --- Civil service reform. --- Deliberative democracy. --- Selection and appointment. --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Merit system --- Spoils system --- Patronage, Political --- Clientelism, Political --- Patron-client politics --- Political clientelism --- Political patronage --- Political sociology --- Civil service reform --- Elected officials --- Government leaders --- Government officials --- Officers, Public --- Officials, Elected --- Officials, Government --- Officials, Public --- Public officials --- Civil service --- Public administration --- Bureaucrats --- Career government service --- Civil servants --- Government employees --- Government service --- Public employees --- Public service (Civil service) --- Public service employment --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Deliberative democracy