1. Exploring eco-design strategies for E-textiles in sports performance applications -- 2. Taking ownership - exploring the need for a blockchain based intellectual property system for fashion designs -- 3. The Role of Fashion Trends in the Circular Economy -- 4. Conveying natural dyes in the fashion industry through design-driven innovation -- 5. Consumer perceptions of app functions designed to reduce unnecessary fashion purchases -- 6. Design Direction tackling Fashion overconsumption with a Mindset change -- 7. Morality Retail: The Case of Dutch Store, Crafted Stories, and Its Common Good Strategy -- 8. Degrowth Implementation in Fashion Brands: A Multi-Case Study -- 9. Blockchain and fashion's sustainable development: a systematic literature review -- 10. Education for Sustainability, the link between Food and Fashion Industries: Case-based learning -- 11. Fashion Academia x Fashion Activism: Co-creating a 'Data for Sustainable Fashion'Course -- 12. Towards transformative sustainable fashion education: The Fashion Business School's approach -- 13. Implementing a Circular Ecosystem from post-consumer textiles: New Cotton Project -- 14. Exploring the wool futures through circular design perspective in Japan -- 15. Endeavoring Policy for the Global Fashion Industry: Learnings from the New York State Fashion Act -- 16. Design Strategies based on UN intergovernmental guidelines -- 17. Closing the Equity Gap: The Case for Fashion Reparations.

In the face of globalized ecological and economic crises, how do religion, the postsecular, and political theology reconfigure political theory and practice? As the planet warms and the chasm widens between the 1 percent and the global 99, what thinking may yet energize new alliances between religious and irreligious constituencies? This book brings together political theorists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion to open discursive and material spaces in which to shape a vibrant planetary commons. Attentive to the universalizing tendencies of “the common,” the contributors seek to reappropriate the term in response to the corporate logic that asserts itself as a universal solvent. In the resulting conversation, the common returns as an interlinked manifold, under the ethos of its multitudes and the ecology of its multiplicity. Beginning from what William Connolly calls the palpable “fragility of things,” Common Goods assembles a transdisciplinary political theology of the Earth. With a nuance missing from both atheist and orthodox religious approaches, the contributors engage in a multivocal conversation about sovereignty, capital, ecology, and civil society. The result is an unprecedented thematic assemblage of cosmopolitics and religious diversity; of utopian space and the time of insurrection; of Christian socialism, radical democracy, and disability theory; of quantum entanglement and planetarity; of theology fleshly and political.

Biblical scholars and theologians search for the meaning of the common good for our time.

Alex John London defends a conception of the common good that grounds a moral imperative with two requirements. The first is to promote research that enables key social institutions to effectively, efficiently and equitably safeguard the basic interests of individuals. The second is to ensure that research is organized as a voluntary scheme of social cooperation that respects its various contributors' moral claim to be treated as free and equal. Connecting research to the goals of a just social order grounds a framework for assessing and managing research risk that reconciles these requirements and justifies key oversight practices in non-paternalistic terms. The result is a new understanding of research ethics that resolves coordination problems that threaten these goals and provides credible assurance that the requirements of this imperative are being met.--

This book is a vigorous reassessment of the nature of politics and political theorizing.

Consisting of the full text of eight papal social encyclicals dating back to 1891 and the papacy of Leo XIII, and one important papal radio address on Christian social ethics, this reference work also introduces, outlines, and summarizes the texts in a clear, understandable language. Each encyclical was intended to be a commentary on and modernization of Leo XIII's masterly and foundational encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Rousseau brings them together using their standard paragraph numbering system for easy reference. This valuable reference represents a unique thematic approach to these important religious and social documents. Readers will better understand the social, economic, political and thoroughly Christian ideas of Popes throughout the 20th century with the outline and summary interpretation of each text.

This study offers a major reinterpretation of medieval political thought by examining one of its most fundamental ideas. If it was axiomatic that the goal of human society should be the common good, then this notion presented at least two conceptual alternatives. Did it embody the highest moral ideals of happiness and the life of virtue, or did it represent the more pragmatic benefits of peace and material security? Political thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham answered this question in various contexts. In theoretical terms, they were reacting to the rediscovery of Aristotle's Politics and Ethics, an event often seen as pivotal in the history of political thought. On a practical level, they were faced with pressing concerns over the exercise of both temporal and ecclesiastical authority - resistance to royal taxation and opposition to the jurisdiction of the pope. In establishing the connections between these different contexts, The Common Good questions the identification of Aristotle as the primary catalyst for the emergence of 'the individual' and a 'secular' theory of the state. Through a detailed exposition of scholastic political theology, it argues that the roots of any such developments should be traced, instead, to Augustine and the Bible.