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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031450792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 408 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: White collar crimes. ; Criminology. ; Critical criminology. ; Crime ; Law and the social sciences. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Violations of the Social License -- Chapter 3: Institutional Theory Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory Perspectives -- Chapter 5: Legitimacy and the Corporate Social License -- Chapter 6: Corporate Response to Normative Social Pressure -- Chapter 7: The Convenience Theory Approach -- Chapter 8: Considerations on Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 9: Challenging the Social License -- Chapter 10: Social License and the Impact of Corporate Change -- Chapter 11: Compliance-Conformity-Convenience -- Chapter 12: Gendered Perspectives on Social License and Corporate Crime -- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Deviance: Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 14: Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of white-collar and corporate crime through detailed examination of the use, affect, and violation of the corporate social license – a concept frequently extended to a license to operate. Whilst discrete aspects of corporate social responsibility have found their way into the discourse on business deviance and crime, no single book to date has provided a detailed exploration of social licence through a criminological lens. Here, using an interdisciplinary focus which includes illustrative case-studies and large-scale original fieldwork, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore European, North American, Asian, and global perspectives to identify, position, and reveal the impact of the social license on contemporary conceptions of white-collar and corporate deviance and crime. Corporate Social License: A Study in Legitimacy, Conformance, and Corruption will be of interest to scholars of criminology, law, business management, and sociology along with professionals within allied fields. Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Christopher Hamerton is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031418730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 292 p. 51 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy - Technical, Economic and Legal Framework 2
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    Keywords: Environmental law, International. ; Mining engineering. ; Climatology. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state.
    Abstract: Thermodynamics,conservation, and transformation: a conceptual model of sustainability in the mining industry -- A Case Study on the Application of the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources on the Piampaludo Titanium Deposits -- A Sustainability Approach to Optimize the Closure of Continuous Surface Lignite Mines -- Lifecycle of Mine Water -- The German Federal Constitutional Court’s climate-decision and consequences for raw materials supply -- Climate change and the extraterritorial reach of the state duty to protect -- Corporate Climate Liability Clean Energy Transition in Africa's Mining Sector: A Rapid Reflection -- Ventilation on Demand in Brazilian underground mines: current situation and perspectives .-Sustainable activities assessment through Conceptual Sieving method: Case studies in Colombian mining -- The Mongolian Raw Materials Industry -- The importance of Sustainability Criteria for the Professional Education of Geo-engineers and the Role of Academic Institutions.
    Abstract: This book covers several aspects of the application of Sustainable Development Goals to mining related subjects. The included works range from methods to assess and implement sustainability to discussions of legal impacts and relations as well as technological developments and outlooks. First, the challenges and opportunities of clean energy transition in the African mining sector are described. With regard to the assessment of sustainable developments, this book includes the applications of the sieving method, the concept of thermodynamics and the United Nations Framework Classification to mining projects and case studies. The implementation of Sustainable Development Goals into academic project work and education of geo-engineers is covered as well. The legal topics contain discussions of corporate climate liabilities and extraterritorial legal responsibilities as well as an analysis of the impact of the German Federal Constitutional Court's climate decision. Important mining aspects and technological developments like proactive water management, sustainable approaches to mine closure and implementation of ventilation on demand in underground mines are described. In addition, the state and potential of the Mongolian raw materials industry is covered. The Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy Yearbook is not only aimed at researchers and professionals, but at all who want to get an overview of current important technical and legal topics in this field.
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    ISBN: 9783031467271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 316 p. 13 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Legisprudence Library, Studies on the Theory and Practice of Legislation 10
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    Keywords: Law ; Law ; Constitutional law.
    Abstract: 1 Legislative Debates in Parliament as a Source of Statutory Justification. A Framework for Analysis and Evaluation -- 2 Was It Really ‘To No Avail’? The Legislative Deliberation on Underage Girls’ Access to Abortion in Spain -- 3 Legislative Debates on Death with Dignity and Euthanasia. An Approach to the Spanish Situation -- 4 Debating on the Rights of Crime Victims: A Legisprudential Examination of the Parliamentary Deliberation on the Spanish Victim Protection Act -- 5 Expelling, Discussing, and Throwing Values Out – The Parliamentary Debate on the Citizen Security Act and the ‘Push-backs’ at the Moroccan-Spanish Borders -- 6 Parliamentary Debate as a Source of Justification for the Combat against Gender Violence Act -- 7 Parliamentary Debates on Joint Custody Legislation -- 8 Parliamentary Debates on Bullfighting in Spain: Animals Lost in Translation? -- 9 Minimum Vital Income: A Legislative Debate from the ‘Participant-Observer’ Perspective -- 10 Interpreting Fundamental Rights from the (Parliamentary) Bench. Notes on Constitutional Argumentation in Legislative Debates.
    Abstract: This book seeks to explore the potential and actual value of parliamentary debates as a source of legislative justification. Drawing on a sample of recent Spanish legislation, the papers collected here analyse (critically) the rationale of several laws or legislative measures as it can be reconstructed from the respective parliamentary discussions. All issues covered have given rise to intense political, legal and social controversy: they range from the combat against gender violence, the legal status of bullfighting, the protection of crime victims and the so-called ‘push-backs’ at the border, to the regulation of euthanasia, the minimum living income, underage girls’ access to abortion, and joint child custody. The volume is organised into two main parts. The first group of case studies adopt a legisprudential perspective and examine parliamentary deliberations in the light of the theory and methodology of legislative justification; the contributions in the second part follow approaches that fall outside – but are largely compatible with –legisprudence, and deal with aspects such as the rhetorical strategies employed by MPs when debating bills, and the role of elected legislators as constitutional interpreters.
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    ISBN: 9783031478703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 64 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Criminal law.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The making of criminal law as an element of ius puniendi -- Chapter 3. Substantive criminal law in the normative approach -- Chapter 4. Non-state actors as law-makers -- Chapter 5. Regulation issued by the non-state actors. Chapter 6. Conflict of regulation-elements of norms -- Chapter 7. The regulation of non-state actors as elements of the domestic penal norms -- Chapter 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book describes how statements made by non-state actors affect the scope of an individual's criminal responsibility and how they should be taken into account by domestic criminal courts. Sentencing is only possible on the basis and within the limits of the law. In the 21st century, this law increasingly means regulations formulated by various non-state actors: international organisations, human rights tribunals or statutory bodies. The content of these regulations does not only refer to states, but often has a direct impact on the legal situation of individuals. Two worlds collide here. Strict criminal law is influenced by fluid regulations issued by entities that have not been empowered to exercise the right to punish. The book presents an interpretative method to support the court's inference in the cases outlined above, based on the using the concept of two interrelated norms: the norm of the individual and the norm of the court.
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    ISBN: 9783031463563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 68 p. 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Crime. ; Technology. ; Crime
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Study 1 - Effect of BWVs on Assaults and Injuries -- Chapter 4: Study 2 - BWV Activation Trends -- Chapter 5: Study 3 - Perceptions of Frontline Staff Members (Survey) -- Chapters 6: Study 4 - Focus group discussions -- Chapter 7: Study 5 – The Distal Effects of BWVs -- Chapter 8: Discussion and Policy Recommendations -- .
    Abstract: This brief investigates the usefulness of Body-worn videos (BWVs) in non-policing environments. The first study of this kind, this research presents new datasets related to these devices, including: TOCS’ data on assaults and injuries Surveys of frontline members of staff A series of focus groups BWV activation metadata from BWV vendors Surveys with British Transport Police’s criminal justice unit. The data sources for this project span thirteen train operating companies across the UK, varying levels of risk of workplace violence, as well as different types of Public-Facing professionals and different BWV devices. Using a mixed-methods approach, this volume ultimately provides insight into the effectiveness of these devices in preventing and controlling risks of violence in the workplace, and recommendations on how to use them. This book is ideal for professionals working in workplace violence reduction and scholars who study technological advents, violence prevention and jurists who are interested in decisions to prosecute offenders. .
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031445538
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 177 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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    Keywords: Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology. ; Critical criminology. ; Deviant behavior. ; Social control. ; Law and the social sciences.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: From poverty governance to disciplinary practices in prison -- Chapter 2. Pervasive social control: How merit shapes authorities’ perception -- Chapter 3. Being correctional officer: Unattended expectations and coping strategies -- Chapter 4. Identifying as correctional officer: A relational factor -- Chapter 5. Acting as correctional officer: Authority trough discretion -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers’ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers’ perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal trends are enacted in a local context and how the prison systems plays into our understanding of institutional and administrative power. It advances the discussion on organizational and institutional power through the lens of social control and street-level bureaucracy literature. It also explores gender variations in the discretional use of correctional officers’ power. This book has a cross-disciplinary appeal for criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists and to policy-makers. Serena Franchi is Research Fellow at Istituto degli Innocenti research centre, Florence, Italy. Serena holds a PhD in Social and Political Change at the University of Florence and University of Turin and has 12 years of professional and academic experience in researching on the Italian prison system.
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    ISBN: 9783031496929
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 77 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law and Regulation & Innovation
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    Keywords: Commercial law. ; European Economic Community. ; Food security.
    Abstract: 1 Executive Summary -- 2 Background -- 3 Precision Fermentation and GMMs -- 4 Pre-market Authorization -- 5 Labelling: General Product Naming Requirements -- 6 Comparative Analysis.
    Abstract: This book assesses the EU legal framework applicable to dairy products obtained through precision fermentation. It maps the authorisation and labelling requirements for these products to be placed on the EU market. It compares these provisions to those governing the food markets in the USA and Singapore, which are considered to be more innovation-friendly. At the time of writing, the precision-fermented dairy sector is still in the developmental phase, with only a few precision-fermented dairy alternatives available on the market, none of which are present in the EU. Regulatory uncertainty has been cited as significant obstacle for food business operators seeking to introduce alternative protein products in the EU. The book confirms these reports, as the current EU regulatory framework presents several legal uncertainties that are challenging for food business operators to overcome. Broadly speaking, there are two authorisation frameworks applicable to dairy products obtained through precision fermentation in the EU. The choice between these frameworks depends on the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or residues thereof in the final product. If such GMOs or residues are present, the pre-market authorisation procedure is governed by the Genetically Modified Food and Feed Regulation (GMFR). If the final product does not contain any GMOs or residues, it falls under the scope of the Novel Food Regulation (NFR), and the pre-market authorisation procedure is governed accordingly. Both of these authorisation pathways entail high regulatory requirements, which can pose challenges for the development of the precision fermentation sector. Despite the difficulty in accurately classifying products, it is crucial for food business operators to comprehend the applicable legal framework early in the product development process, given that the authorisation paths differ in their standards. In addition to pre-market authorisation requirements, companies must address labelling issues. Food labelling shall provide a basis for consumers to make informed choices in relation to the foods they consume. The primary objective of EU food labelling law is to prevent consumer deception , making it crucial for dairy products and their animal-free alternatives, to adhere to a stringent naming law as stipulated in the Common Market Organisation and specific accompanying legislation. Moreover, it is imperative to consider regulations regarding the use of health and nutrition claims, as well as labels such as “vegan” or “organic”, etc. Furthermore, the labelling of novel foods and genetically modified foods may necessitate mandatory information specified in the authorisation process. The book serves as a comprehensive guideline for food business operators involved in the production of precision-fermented dairy alternatives, aiding them in navigating the intricate European regulatory landscape.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031462894
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 246 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Crime ; Critical criminology. ; Social justice. ; Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: A research agenda for a human rights centred criminology(Leanne Weber and Marinella Marmo) -- Chapter 2. Criminological research for human rights (Elizabeth Stanley) -- Chapter 3. Speaking rights to power or governing through rights?: Making rights matter in the security field (Claire Hamilton) -- Chapter 4. Researching policing from the perspective of the policed: studying human rights from below (Will Jackson) -- Chapter 5. Criminology, humanitarianism, and the right to life at the border (Katja Franko) -- Chapter 6. The promise and pitfalls of human rights in immigration detention (Mary Bosworth and Andriani Fili) -- Chapter 7. An anticolonial, abolitionist, and feminist lens to interrogate human rights penalty (Silvana Tapia Tapia) -- Chapter 8. Human rights for Southern Criminology: Neoliberal colonialism and rights from below (Pablo Ciocchini and Joe Greener) -- Chapter 9. Actioning the Human Rights Agenda and Issues of Access to Justice (Danielle Watson, Julie Berg and Lamese Laponi) -- Chapter 10. Developing a kaupapa Māori rights-focused research agenda (Stella Black, Dave Burnside, Jess Hastings, and Katey Thom) -- Chapter 11. Queer Criminology through the Lens of the Global South and its Impact on Human Rights (George B. Radics).-Chapter 12. Are victim stories human rights stories? Towards an ethics and politics of listening and seeing for victimology (Sandra Walklate) -- Chapter 13. Gendered violence: A human rights agenda for criminology (Nancy A. Wonders and Sydney Shevat) -- Chapter 14. Towards a Human Rights Criminology of Public Health (Raymond Michalowski and Rebecca Annorbah) -- Chapter 15. Carceral Spaces and OPCAT: resisting the temptation of human rights? (Claire Loughnan and Steven Caruana) .
    Abstract: “A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology makes an excellent contribution to thinking through the complexities and potential interrelationships between human rights and critical criminology. There is an array of approaches in the collection which identify various topics and methods, and mark differing understandings of both criminology and human rights. This collection of essays demonstrates the benefit of and need for more refined and clearly articulated conceptual, methodological and theoretical standpoints.” — Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology at Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia “This is a very welcome addition to the academic literature that engages in dialogue across the fields of criminology and human rights. Its many rich and diverse perspectives on a range of subjects are covered deftly by an exceptional collection of authors. The book will undoubtedly stimulate further debate and scholarship on these important topics, exactly as the editors intended.” — Ursula Kilkelly, Professor of Law at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments. It argues that critical criminological research has a significant role to play in identifying whether state and state-corporate power is exercised in ways that align with human rights law and principles, although the discipline has been slow to advance this agenda. This book covers a wide array of topics and seeks to develop critical human rights approaches within criminology and criminal justice. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Leanne Weber is Professor of Criminology at University of Canberra, Australia. Marinella Marmo is Professor of Criminology at Flinders University, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031441882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 378 p. 26 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Constitutional law. ; Law ; Law ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Impeachment in History and Thought -- Impeachment in Latin America -- Legal Aspects of Impeachment in Comparison -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book pursues a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to assess presidential impeachments in Latin America. Mixing methodologies from legal studies and political science, it provides a novel and comprehensive assessment of some of the most controversial questions regarding the constitutional function of impeachment and its place in the theory of government. Presidential impeachments have become frequent in Latin America, yet they are still largely misunderstood by legal practitioners and the general public. As such, impeachments frequently provide for heated and polarizing debates. The misunderstandings stem from skewed expectations arising from different theories of government, legal interpretation, and presidential impeachment. The empirical evidence and arguments presented here will help to find common ground on these topics and pacify some latent tensions in society and academia. In addition, the book’s case studies cover cases that have been rarely or incompletely addressed in the literature. Some cover events so recent that they have never been analyzed elsewhere. The book proposes reconsidering certain assumptions made about systems of government, which are based on skewed expectations of impeachments. It also draws on new evidence to re-examine existing impeachment theories and develop new ones. By doing so, it offers valuable insights that may guide lawmakers to redesign their own systems, optimizing them to achieve certain goals. It will also acquaint legal practitioners with the strategies of prosecution, defense, and decision-making in connection with impeachments.
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    ISBN: 9783031508905
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 204 p. 24 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Elections.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Far Right Failure: Parties of the Far Right in Germany, 1945-2023 -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Populist Far Right Issue Entrepreneurship in an Age of Dealignment -- Chapter 4: Emergence: The AfD and the European Debt Crisis in in the 2013 Federal Election -- Chapter 5: Breakthrough: The Refugee Crisis, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Success of the AfD in the 2017 Federal Election -- Chapter 6: Sustainment: The AfD and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the 2021 Federal Election -- Chapter 7: Strategies for Sustaining Success: Ideological Positioning and Fashioning a Party Brand -- Chapter 8: Sustaining Success Beyond the Core: Campaign Posters and the Professionalization of the AfD -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issue Entrepreneurship and the Future of the AfD.
    Abstract: This book traces the rise of the far right AfD from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasizing the party’s nature as a “populist issue entrepreneur” and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics – the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the topic of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are largely limited to historical treatments and surface level analyses of the political party. This volume has the virtue of being both empirically rigorous as well as conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party’s political trajectory and attraction to supporters by analyzing its voters using advanced quantitative methodologies, as well as interpreting the party’s communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a theoretically well-grounded argument. The argument emphasizes three important explanatory conditions – a favorable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party’s stages of political development. Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031523151
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Communication in science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963) From Novel to Screenplay, Bernard Montoneri, Independent Researcher, Taiwan; Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 2. Travelling through Time and Space in the Works of Russian Speaking Science Fiction Writers, Iryna B. Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine -- Chapter 3. El anacronópete (1884, 1887), the First Journey in a Time Machine in Hispanic literature, Fernando Darío González Grueso, Tamkang University, Taipei Rachid Lamarti, Tamkang University, Taipei -- Chapter 4. The Ice People (1968), a story of humankind’s auto-destruction, Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 5. ‘I’m just a traveller’: Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Histories of Time and Space, Alyson Miller and Eleanore Gardner, Deakin University, Australia -- Chapter 6. Time Travel in M. Bugakov's Master and Margarita, Anna Toom, Touro College & University System, New York, USA -- Chapter 7. Chronotopes, Afrotropes, and Restorative Aesthetics in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany -- Chapter 8. Femi Osofisan’s One Legend, Many Seasons, Oyewumi Olatoye, Agunbiade & Enongene Mirabeau, Sone, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa -- Chapter 9. Time Travel in Japan and The Girl who Leapt through Time, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan -- Chapter 10. The Concept of Time Travel in Vedic Literature- A Perspective, Beena Giridharan, Curtin University, Malaysia.
    Abstract: Time travel is an important theme in literature and other arts. This excellent collection introduces readers to some of the most innovative and influential works and offers insightful discussions of works from different literary traditions and in different forms, both famous classics and new discoveries. For anyone interested in this theme and its various manifestations, reading this collection will be remarkably rewarding. Professor Zhang Longxi, Hunan Normal University, China The book consists of fascinating chapters that explore in depth various themes related to time travel. Each chapter focuses on a different literary work or medium and explores how time travel has influenced different cultures, literature, and philosophies. It is a highly engaging resource for exploring this interesting topic from the perspectives of different literary works and cultures. Professor Yoriko Ishida, National Institute of Technology, Oshima College, Japan. In this wonderful collection, time travel is read under the temporal gaze of capitalism and imperialism, history and modernity, and across the undulating sheets of time. It is an essential edition to the field of time travel studies and a form of revelatory chrononautics. One enters the book and moves across the great and small histories of time and space. Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia. Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema. Bernard Montoneri was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan until January 2020. He is now an independent researcher. He has around 60 publications and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2017. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship since 2019.
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    ISBN: 9783031534140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 260 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Language and languages ; Multilingualism. ; Digital media.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Making The Case For Change -- Chapter 2: Historical Teaching Approaches -- Chapter 3: The Scientific Period -- Chapter 4: The Communicative Period -- Chapter 5: Communicative Language Teaching -- Chapter 6: Other Communicative Approaches -- Chapter 7: The Lexical Approach -- PART II: Establishing a Theoretical Basis -- Chapter 8: First Language Acquisition -- Chapter 9: Foundations -- Chapter 10: Usage-Based Linguistics -- Chapter 11: Empirical Research -- PART III: Designing A Blueprint For Change -- Chapter 12: Principles -- Chapter 13: Materials Design -- Chapter 14: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to existing paradigms such as Steven Krashen's Natural Approach, and Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach. It begins by analysing historical teaching methods to make the case for change. The author argues that Communicative Language Teaching lacks a theory of learning and overemphasises spoken production as a result. The book then examines theories of first language acquisition to establish a theoretical basis for change. It finds that usage-based theories offer a highly plausible account of language learning. The author sets out six principles to guide the application of usage-based theory to second language learning. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers of Applied Linguistics and Language Education. Ian Pemberton has been teaching English for over thirty years, beginning in Japan. After returning to the UK, he completed a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading before a brief stint teaching ESOL and then moving into EAP teaching. He also has extensive experience in preparing students for IELTS examinations.
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    ISBN: 9783031493867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 373 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction (Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko, and Ivana Perica) -- PART I: SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES -- 2: Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve) -- 3: The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanović) -- 4: An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart) -- 5: The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka Štimec) -- PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY -- 6: Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek) -- 7: Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet) -- 8: The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann) -- 9: Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Daković) -- PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM 172 -- 10: The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas) -- 11: Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’s Third Ways (Ivana Perica) -- 12: On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Murašov) -- 13: Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (Davor Beganović) -- PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURE -- 14: Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Božić) -- 15: Literature’s Theories (Svend Erik Larsen) -- 16: Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko) -- PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES -- 17: On Halt! (Vivian Liska) -- 18: Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivić) -- 19: The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatović).
    Abstract: This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory’s procedural nature. In order to assess theory’s procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory’s principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhaps for a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is. Davor Beganović is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of Pripovijedanje bez kraja: "Hrvatska pripovjedačka Bosna" od Ive Andrića do Nebojše Lujanovića (2022). Zrinka Božić is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (2022). Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Pripovjedna proza Slobodana Novaka (forthcoming). Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and author of Die privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031518331
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 340 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Language and languages ; Rhetoric. ; World politics. ; Pragmatics.
    Abstract: 1: Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance -- 2: Corruption and Money -- 3: Enemies, Scapegoats, and Conspiracy Theories -- 4: The Establishment, the Elite, and the Experts -- 5: Identity and Negative Myths -- 6: Leadership Style -- 7: Speeches, Lies, and Narrative (Un-)Truth.
    Abstract: “This is a fascinating comparative study. Well written and well researched. I’d thoroughly recommend it”. -Frank McDonough, author of Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party and The Hitler Years “This thought-provoking book lets us see Trump as a leader in the authoritarian tradition and reminds us that the playbook Hitler used did not vanish after 1945”. -Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen “By comparing the underlying commonalities between Hitler and Trump, de Berg a way to decode the sway charismatic leaders have on their followers across the ages”. -Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: Sefton Delmer, the Genius Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men’s character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses seemingly peripheral issues like the reasons behind Hitler’s toothbrush moustache and Trump’s hairstyle. By demystifying Hitler and Trump, the author throws new light on both of them received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and has been translated into three European languages as well as Chinese. Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His previous books include Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies, which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. .
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    ISBN: 9783031511424
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 338 p. 185 illus., 159 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; Race. ; Diversity in the workplace. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Philosophy. ; Management.
    Abstract: Part I: Africa -- 1. Declining grazing lands and climate change are forcing Maasai to diversify their livelihoods: Antecedents of Maasai entrepreneurial motivations and socioeconomic change -- 2. Herders who fish: Findings from pastoral and agropastoral communities in Kenya and South Sudan -- 3. Did Boru, Moshe Schwartz, Shaher El-Meccawi and Michael Kam: Borana cattle pastoralists in southern Ethiopia are diversifying their livelihoods by cultivating land and raising camels -- Part II: Middle East -- 4. From nomads to agro-pastoralists to urbanites -- 5. The nomad entrepreneurs of Iran: The history, major nomads, entrepreneurial activities, and challenges -- Part III: South Asia – Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh -- 6. Land as a golden tent-peg: Settlement and change among nomads in northern Afghanistan -- 7. Challenges to transhumant pastoralism due to socio-economic and ecological changes in Nepal's high mountains -- 8. Mobility to Sedentarisation: Pastoralism from colonial to post-colonial period in Uttarakhand Himalaya (India) -- 9. The Bede community- A nomadic group in Bangladesh -- Part IV: East Asia - China and Mongolia -- 10. Centralisation of livestock and grassland management through cooperatives in Tibetan pastoral areas of Qinghai, People’s Republic of China -- 11. Transformation from nomadic to sedentary livestock production in Inner Mongolia -- 12. Mongolia’s pastoral nomadism in transition: Putting case studies on socioecological feedbacks and socioeconomic forcing into a conceptual framework -- Part V: Arctic Region -- 13. Mechanisms for the positive transformation of the Arctic indigenous peoples from traditional nomadic reindeer herders to a more settled lifestyle -- 14. Snowmobile revolution and sedentarization of reindeer-herding nomads in the Kola Peninsula and Bolshezemelskaya tundra, northern European Russia -- 15. The Inuit – from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes.
    Abstract: Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm. Wherever nomads are not the dominant group, the trend to settle them continues even today as in the past. This book describes the changes forced upon formerly nomadic groups and how they still attempt to maintain their traditional, social, and cultural practices in their new settings. The book deals with the several modes of livelihood of these communities, including entrepreneurship, and demonstrates the impact of investment-oriented urbanization policies leading to eviction from ancestral lands, and hurdles for nomadic mobility, ultimately threatening their survival. The book illustrates how some groups like the Borana and the Maasai practice livelihood diversity and raise productive livestock, and how other groups migrate to urban centers in search of employment and remit money to family members left in the rural areas. The book aims to raise awareness among the research community, especially those who work on regional and demographic labor policies. It helps in understanding why society needs to help build business and livelihood strategies without harming the values of nomadic groups.
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    ISBN: 9783031544057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 102 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Elections.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Politicians and the Attractions of Incivility -- Chapter 2: The Media Industry of Incivility -- Chapter 3: Citizens and the Seductive Power of Incivility -- Chapter 4: Incivility as a Tool for Social Change -- Chapter 5: Incivility and Democracy.
    Abstract: This book offers a systematization of the recourse to political incivility by different subjects and in different contexts. The authors argue that incivility has now become a strategic resource that can be used by various actors in the public arena to achieve specific goals. We are referring not only to traditional political subjects, but also to journalists, citizens, movements and protest groups, that is to a plurality of actors who, from different angles, contribute to the construction of the “political spectacle”. This resource can be activated according to circumstances and conveniences, whether their nature be political (to place an issue at the center of public debate or a new actor in the offer range), mediatic (to achieve an increase in visibility or viewership) or relational (to expand one’s visibility and centrality in social media). The book identifies common elements linking the different levels of use of incivility, which can be traced in uncivil forms of communication. These are their expressive power (memorable gestures and unequivocal messages, which are immediately recognizable and visible), their aggregation power (they build group identities, and consolidate allegiances and bonds) and their mobilization power (they galvanize people, and inspire them to participate and take action). Sara Bentivegna is Full Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Rossella Rega is Associate Professor at the University of Siena, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9783031549199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 346 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
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    Keywords: Africa ; Elections. ; Political leadership. ; Communication in politics.
    Abstract: 1. Historical Background of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic -- 2. The Nigerian Presidential System.-3. Politics and Presidential Elections -- 4. Political Behaviour and Voting Patterns -- 5. The Electoral Commission, the Conduct of Elections and Party Financing -- 6. Party Politics -- 7. Presidential Powers -- 8. Presidents and Policymaking -- 9. Nigerian Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective -- 10. The Future of Nigeria’s Democracy.
    Abstract: This book provides a uniquely detailed analysis of presidential elections in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The authors explore the changing dynamics of voting patterns, religious politics, politicians’ behaviour and the broader political system to offer new insights into presidential systems in Africa and beyond. In doing so, they address an often-neglected area of political science and cast light on the political challenges facing one of the world’s largest democracies. The book’s comprehensive coverage of Nigerian presidential elections – and the lessons they hold for developing countries across the globe – is a valuable resource for researchers, students, international institutions and non-governmental organisations. Babayo Sule is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of International Relations, Federal University of Kashere Gombe State, Nigeria. Usman Sambo is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Yobe State University Damaturu, Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783031509667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 168 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; International organization. ; Globalization. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to Digital Diplomacy in the OSCE Region -- Chapter 2. Digital Diplomacy in Azerbaijan: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities -- Chapter 3. Balkan Style Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 4. Digitalisation in Central Asia: Progress and Potential -- Chapter 5. German Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 6. A New Frontier in Diplomacy: Digital Diplomacy Implementations in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7. Digital Diplomacy in Spain: A Steep Learning Curve -- Chapter 8. Türkiye's Digital Diplomacy Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 9. UK Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 10. The Impact of Twitter on Digital Diplomacy in the Context of International Media -- Chapter 11. The Impact of Digital Diplomacy on Security: the Case of the Russia-ukraine War -- Chapter 12. Bringing Diplomacy to the Digital Age -- Chapter 13. Essential Attributes Guiding the Danish Practice of Digital Diplomacy on Global Affairs -- Chapter 14. Diplomacy and Challenges in the Digital Age: the Italian Case Study.-Chapter 15. Data-informed Diplomacy: Adapting to the Digital Age in International Relations and Implementation in the OSCE Region.
    Abstract: This edited volume examines the practices and applications of digital diplomacy in the OSCE Region. As a security organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) prioritizes its member states’ cyber security and cyberspace activities. The book examines two key areas where digital diplomacy challenges traditional diplomatic practices of the OSCE member States: institutional adaptation and policy innovation in the OSCE Region. It (1) investigates how capable and motivated foreign ministries are at the institutional level to shift to digital diplomacy, and (2) explores how digital diplomacy affects the fundamental diplomatic tasks of representation, communication, and relationship management at the policy level. Technological advances in IT and the Internet's widespread introduction in the wake of the 2000s provided new territories to conquer for states to pursue their interests. Moreover, technological developments and media attention enhanced information flow and communication through new platforms like online encyclopedias (i.e., Wikipedia), video-sharing sites (i.e., YouTube), and social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). Because of these transformations, public opinion became influential in diplomacy, and a greater need to include foreign publics as part of foreign policy goals emerged. Introducing case studies from several OSCE countries, presented by an international group of authors, this book provides a timely response to current affairs and policy debates by providing pluralistic perspectives from different countries and disciplines, such as international relations, political science, international law, and political economy). It will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of the aforementioned disciplines, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of digital democracy and digital diplomacy in the OSCE region.
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    ISBN: 9783031520341
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 194 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Children's literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: Introduction: Worlds of Difference -- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872) -- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875) -- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) -- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self -- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion -- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995) -- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018) -- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012).
    Abstract: This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of being, this study explores the potential of literature, film and television to act as a catalyst of change in the representation of disability. In addition, this work discusses the texts and technologies that continue to perpetuate questionable and often competing discourses on the subject.
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    ISBN: 9783031541322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 156 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Memory and scales: culture, institutions, and interaction -- Chapter 3: Shifting memory narratives: the macro-meso link -- Chapter 4: Meso-processes: outsourcing the administration of European memory -- Chapter 5: Micro-level implementation: the politics of situations -- Chapter 6: Epistemic authority in the micro-details of pedagogical memory discourse -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values. The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission’s memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects. Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory. Thomas Van de Putte, PhD, is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. His first book, Contemporary Auschwitz/Oswiecim: a synchronic, interactional approach to collective memory was published in 2021. He works on questions of cultural and collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031513701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 208 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- 2. Sanctions: A Theoretical Review -- 3. Annexation of Crimea: Western Sanctions and Russia’s Response (2014-2021) -- 4. The War in Ukraine: Avalanche of Western Sanctions and Russia’s Reaction -- 5. Sanctions Busting: The Role of Various States in Russia’s Resistance to Sanctions -- 6. Assessing Sanctions Effectiveness -- 7. Implications of sanctions to the rest of the world -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is required reading to grasp the dynamics of economic sanctions. Drawing on recent Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy, it provides a persuasive corrective to the dominant perspective that sanctions undermine target countries. -Immanuel Ness, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, NY. This is an outstanding contribution to the literature. It provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the role of sanctions in the contemporary era. -Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA. This important study shows how Russia has survived being the most sanctioned country in the world by reorienting its trade towards the East and creating import-substitution policies and investment in local industries. -Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. A timely contribution to the growing sanctions literature that urges policy adjustment to new geopolitical realities. -Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. This book analyses the goals of Western sanctions imposed on Russia from 2014 to 2023. It explores the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and its political course, as well as the repercussions of the sanctions to the senders and third parties, including spillover effects on neighboring countries and boomerang effects on the senders. While sanctions can be considered relatively effective in terms of economic consequences, the Russian economy is far from being crushed. Importantly, sanctions proved to be ineffective as an instrument of foreign policy. They have failed to alter Moscow’s resolve to continue its military operation and are unlikely to change it in the near future. Dr. Angela Borozna is Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Lada V. Kochtcheeva is Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the North Carolina State University. .
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    ISBN: 9783031491962
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 331 p. 14 illus.)
    Series Statement: International Studies in Entrepreneurship 56
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    Keywords: Technological innovations. ; Economic policy. ; Political science. ; Moonshot policies ; Mission-oriented policy ; Innovation stimulation ; Innovation policy ; European Union ; Economic turbulences ; Economic growth ; Policy debate ; Welfare-oriented policies ; Failed missions ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part 1: Introductory Chapter: 1. Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy -- Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2. State and Markets: Not Whether But How -- 3. Engineering Is Not Entrepreneurship -- 4. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on the Entrepreneurial State and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy -- 5. Innovationism and the New Public Intellectuals -- Part III: Empirical Evidence -- 6. Analyzing the Effectiveness of State-Guided Innovation -- 7. A Case Study on DARPA: An Exemplar for Government Strategic Structuring to Foster Innovation? -- 8. The State of the Entrepreneurial State: Empirical Evidence of Mission-Led Innovation Projects around the Globe -- 9. When “What Works” Does Not Work: The United States’ Mission to End Homelessness -- 10. The Cost of Missions: The Case of Shipbuilding in Brazil -- 11. You Can’t Develop What You Don’t Know: The Realities and Limitations of Foreign Aid Missions -- 12. A Public Choice Perspective on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies and the Behavior of Government Agencies -- 13. Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways -- Part IV: Alternative Paths -- 14. The Entrepreneurial State Cannot Deliver without an Entrepreneurial Society -- 15. How Thinking Carefully About Evolution and Morality Can Overcome the Siren Song of Central Planning -- 16. R&D Tax Incentives as an Alternative to Targeted R&D Subsidies -- 17. Bottom-Up Policies Trump Top-Down Missions.
    Abstract: This open access book raises some central questions: Do we need moonshot policies to spur innovation and economic growth? What are the risks associated with such policies? Economic turbulence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and mounting environmental concerns have paved the way for a renaissance of targeted industrial policy. In particular, the idea that society should be organized around large missions is gaining momentum among high-income economies. However, the authors and editors of this volume contend that this shift has occurred without much critical examination, especially as the European Union has adopted these ideas, and Western economies are now increasingly organizing toward the achievement of large, state-formulated goals. Recognizing the urgent need for continued scholarly attention to question notions of the mission economy, more than 20 scholars discuss the dangers of top-down/vertical approaches to industrial policy and draw attention to the progress of independent enterprise, entrepreneurialism, and market solutions in a sound economy and society. By critically examining mission-oriented innovation policies, using theoretical perspectives and empirical investigations, the book highlights both the mechanisms behind failed missions and alternative approaches. This is a must-read for policy researchers and policymakers alike.
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    ISBN: 9783031515484
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 233 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; International economic relations. ; Peace. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. IGAD Regional Agenda: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration -- Chapter 3. IGAD and Regional Integration: Theories -- Chapter 4. Evolution and Transformation of IGAD -- Chapter 5. Historicising the Logic of Regional Integration in the IGAD Region -- Chapter 6. IGAD and Regional Conflicts -- Chapter 7. IGAD’s Role in Economic Integration -- Chapter 8. Regional Security and the Role of IGAD in Somalia -- Chapter 9. Toward Peace and Security of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
    Abstract: This book delves into the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development's (IGAD) endeavors to enhance security and economic integration in the Horn of Africa. While aspiring to unite and stabilize the region, IGAD faces complex historical, strategic, and geographical challenges. Through a political economy approach, the book showcases IGAD’s strengths and weaknesses and employs neorealist and regional security complex theories to analyze the involvement of states and non-state actors in IGAD's security agenda, particularly in relation to Somalia. The study highlights opportunities and obstacles to sustainable regional integration, offering practical policy suggestions for curbing armed uprisings and inter-state disputes. It dissects the geopolitical dynamics involving international players like the United States and China, as well as regional powers such as Ethiopia, in IGAD's pursuit of security and economic progress. Valuable for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in the Horn's security and development, the book bridges gaps in the literature, shedding light on African political development, regional peace and security. Mohamed Farah Hersi is Head of Somaliland's oldest research think tank institution, the Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeisa. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hargeisa in Somaliland, his Master of Laws degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and his PhD from the University of Peace in Costa Rica. He has 13 years of experience and expertise in the fields of research, technical consulting service, policy creation and analysis. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the co-editor of the IPATC's journal, “Pan-African Conversation: An International Journal”, and specializes in African political economy, resource governance, migration, conflict, and peace studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031512377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 280 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social service. ; Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Being Family in Times of the Pandemic -- Chapter 2. Pandemic – Measures and Consequences: In-creased Global Inequality and Violations of Human Rights -- Part 2: Family Dynamics -- Chapter 3. Family in the Time of COVID-19: Conflict Zone or Resilience Factor? -- Chapter 4. The Maternity Situation and COVID-19: Adaptation of Migrant Women to the World's Southernmost Health System -- Chapter 5. Exploring the Situation of the Family in South Africa During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic -- Chapter 6. Couples in Times of the Pandemic -- Chapter 7. Venezuelan Migrant Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part 3: Child Well-being -- Chapter 8. Stressors and Transitions in Families with a Child Affected by Long COVID: “Behind every sick child is a family that is completely out of balance” -- Chapter 9. The Situation of Separated Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the Situation of Parents and Children in Different Separation Models in Saxony -- Chapter 10. A Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incest-Based Child Sexual Abuse -- Chapter 11. Combating Domestic Violence - Professional Strategies, Informal Systems, and New Challenges During the Pandemic: Records from Germany and India -- Part 4: Social Work with Children and Families -- Chapter 12. COVID-19 as a Driver of Professionalisation in Work with Families in Germany? -- Chapter 13. Social Work Services with Children and Families amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A Case of Rural Communities -- Chapter 14. New Intervention Strategies in Rendering Social Work Services to Families Amidst the Pandemic Crisis: A Social Work Perspective -- Chapter 15. Reflections of a South African Social Work Academic and Practitioner During COVID-19: Managing Family, Work and Personal Dynamics -- Part 5: Gender and COVID-19 -- Chapter 16. The Gendered Toll of COVID-19 on Academics: Increasing Time Allocation Challenges Faced by Female Academics in Turkey -- Chapter 17. Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part 6: Conclusion -- Chapter 18. Lessons Learned?.
    Abstract: This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures. The Corona pandemic, with its unprecedented restrictions on contact, has meant that families have been challenged in their functioning in a very special way. International studies show that socioeconomic factors such as education, income, but also the geographic center of life of families and women in particular, had an important influence on the management of the pandemic. Despite all negative side effects of the Corona pandemic, there were nevertheless also innovative impulses, especially in the field of social work, particularly work with families. The book's 18 chapters, organized in six sections, highlight not only short-term changes but also longer-term developments that either require a corresponding concept of measures or action or can be evaluated as drivers of innovation in the pandemic. Part I: Introduction Part II: Family Dynamics Part III: Child Well-being Part IV: Social Work with Children and Families Part V: Gender and COVID-19 Part VI: Conclusion The special feature of the volume is its global perspective. Authors from different countries describe changes and developments on these topics and make clear what profound effects the pandemic had on families, social inequality structures, and gender-specific situations. The anthology does not comprehensively reflect international perspectives. Rather, it leaves it up to readers to compare the developments in the respective countries with their own country of origin from a comparative cultural perspective. In this way, ideas for future, overarching research projects may be stimulated. Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 is timely and relevant reading for scientists, students, and practitioners in sociology, social work, and political science.
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    ISBN: 9783031490552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 433 p. 397 illus., 373 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Evolution (Biology). ; Social evolution. ; Religion and science. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: 1. Science, society and Darwin’s idealization -- 2. Darwin’s society and science -- 3. Racism and its societal repercussions -- 4. Misogyny and its damaging legacy -- 5. Bringing reality to society and science.
    Abstract: In this book Diogo, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, addresses a question that is critical for the understanding of science, beliefs, idolization, systemic racism and sexism, and our societies in general: why has Darwin been idolized in such a unique way, particularly by Western scholars? Diogo shows that many evolutionary 'facts' stated in Darwin's works, particularly about human evolution, are inaccurate constructions based on Victorian biases and stereotypes: non-Europeans are inferior, women have a lower intelligence than men, Victorian society was the pinnacle of evolution, and so on. Importantly, such inaccurate biased statements about our evolution are markedly in contrast with the mostly accurate, and often brilliant, ideas put forward by Darwin concerning non-human organisms. Importantly, it was precisely the combination of such brilliant ideas, the use of simplistic and sometimes exaggerated metaphors that were catchy and easily absorbed by the general public, and Darwin's intellectual conservatism and biased ideas about women and non-European peoples that led to Darwin's idolization, particularly by Western scientists, as well as to the darkest societal repercussions of his works. By portraying such biased ideas as “evolutionary facts”, Darwin provided easy ammunition for populist political leaders, authoritarians, colonialists, and white supremacists to 'scientifically' defend social hierarchies, sexism, racism, discrimination, oppression, and segregation. A typical argument used to defend Darwin from portraying such erroneous sexist and racist ideas as “facts” is that ‘back then’ everybody was racist and sexist. Diogo deconstructs this argument by providing enthralling case studies and travel descriptions by authors such as Wallace and Humboldt, who often praised the indigenous peoples that repulsed - and criticized the social hierarchies and Western imperialism that marveled - Darwin. The aim of this book is therefore not to 'cancel' Darwin or argue that he was always wrong: not at all, in general he was an extraordinary biologist, but was a much less successful anthropologist due in great part to his Victorian biases. Instead, the book discusses Darwin's writings, ideas, and their repercussions in a broader way, without taboos, omissions, idolization or demonization in order to show Darwin, and science in general, in all their complexity. This is because, if we fail to acknowledge and emphasize the biases, prejudices, inaccuracies, and abuses of our past, and merely continue to blindly idealize it, our kids will be condemned to undertake or suffer similar societal abuses in the future.
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    ISBN: 9783031523670
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 207 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Political Sociology
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Political science. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Formation Of The Indian State And Its Post-Colonial Condition: Field, Capital And Doxa -- Chapter 3: We Are Still Here: The Habitus That Resigns And That Challenges Necropolitics -- Chapter 4: Final Considerations: Solidarity, Resistance And Defeat.
    Abstract: This book engages the concept of necropolitics to present a vision of how to understand the physical body as a space of power and resistance to social order, in the context of the Kashmir resistance. The author sheds new light on the relations between India and Pakistan, with a focus on tensions over the Kashmir region, in order to better understand the emergence and stabilization of the narrative that criminalizes and thus justifies the population that rebels against state actions in the region. The research draws from archival and interview research and presents the reader with new insight into both conceptual and material dimensions of necropolitics. Vinícius Tavares de Oliveira is Assistant Professor in International Relations at PUC Minas campus Poços de Caldas.
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    ISBN: 9783031524448
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 120 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Europe ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Russo-ukraine War: a Discursive Introduction -- Chapter 2. Uncertainties of the War: Reframing the Discourse -- Chapter 3. Political Complexities and Problematics of the Russo-ukrainian War -- Chapter 4. A Discontent With the Russo-ukraine War -- Chapter 5. The Sanctions Wars: Impacts and Consequences -- Chapter 6. The Propaganda War and the Fourth Estate -- Chapter 7. Zeitenwende: Nato Renaissance and a New World Order -- Chapter 8. Financing the War and Rebuilding Ukraine -- Chapter 9. Frozen Solutions, Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties.
    Abstract: This book offers a contemporary, cutting-edge, and advanced critical analysis of the first twenty months of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Following a realist approach and with a focus on political discord, economic sanctions, and media limitations, the book sheds light onto the deadlock between the conflicting parties. It dissects the diplomatic endeavors and missteps, varying political perspectives, Western support strategies, and the intricate global dynamics that triggered this existential crisis. The critical assessment of political antecedents, including the Budapest Memorandum, the Bucharest Summit Declaration, and the Minsk Agreements 1 and 2, uncovers hidden political motives aimed at setting the stage for a proxy war. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the financial dimensions of the conflict, strategies for post-conflict reconstruction, and the emerging Zeitenwende phenomenon reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Global North. This book's insights suggest a potential shift towards a new multipolar global order, representing a significant realignment in the distribution of geopolitical and geo-economic influence. A must-read for scholars and academics seeking a profound understanding of this pivotal conflict and its far-reaching implications.
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    ISBN: 9783031523595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 275 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Gender and Politics
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    Keywords: Identity politics. ; Sex. ; Human rights. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: A historical and institutional perspective on women’s political inclusion -- Chapter 2: Resisting democratisation: Arguments against female enfranchisement among members of the Swedish Parliament 1866–1918 -- Chapter 3: Struggles, resources and strategies: Portraits of six Swedish women suffrage activists -- Chapter 4: Intersectionality, identity and women’s suffrage -- Chapter 5: Why were so few women elected? Political party strategies in Denmark and Sweden during the first parliamentary election after women’s enfranchisement -- Chapter 6: Women’s movements local election campaigns in Norway -- Chapter 7: Practising the right to vote: Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 1915–1944 -- Chapter 8: Her rights at work – women in parliament -- Chapter 9: Still signs of masculine norms in the parliamentary workplace? Political gender equality in Finland and Sweden after a century of universal suffrage -- Chapter 10: Critical culture: The role of institutional norms in gender sensitising parliaments -- Chapter 11: Conclusions: Theorising gendered institutional constraints and feminist strategies for institutional change.
    Abstract: This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term historical perspective that lays the groundwork for theoretical development. In this regard, the book makes two key contributions: it furthers our understanding of different types of gendered institutional constraints on women’s political inclusion and elaborates feminist institutional strategies to counter these constraints. Josefina Erikson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lenita Freidenvall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031404153
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 117 p. 57 illus., 44 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Southern Space Studies
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    Keywords: Law of the sea. ; International law. ; Aeronautics ; Outer space ; Astronautics. ; Latin America
    Abstract: This peer-reviewed book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in enabling Latin America to fulfil its developmental aspirations. Following on from the highly acclaimed Parts 1 to 4, it explains how space and its applications can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of Latin America societies, while being driven by Latin American goals. The Latin American space sector is currently undergoing a phase of rapid and dynamic expansion, with new actors entering the field and with space applications increasingly being used to support the continent’s social, economic, and political development. All across Latin America, attention is shifting to space as a fundamental part of the continental development agenda, and the creation of a Latin American space agency is evidence of this. Additionally, while in recent years, significant advances in economic and social development have lifted many of Latin America’s people out of poverty, there is still much that needs to be done to fulfil the basic needs of the population and to afford them the dignity they deserve. To this end, space is already being employed in diverse fields of human endeavour to serve Latin America’s goals for its future, but there is still a need for further incorporation of space systems and data. This book will appeal to researchers, professionals and students in fields such as space studies, international relations, governance, and social and rural development.
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    ISBN: 9783031522093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 90 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Theater ; Theater ; European literature
    Abstract: “This insightful book tells a neglected story: the history of RSC’s Restoration productions. It combines a loving history of RSC past performance, from the 1960s to the present day, with a bold manifesto for the future. Highly recommended!”– Professor Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company’s history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC’s explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical and cultural meaning. David Roberts is Professor of English at Birmingham City University, UK. He has published numerous books and articles about Restoration and earlier seventeenth-century theatre, including the monographs The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama (1989), Thomas Betterton (2010), Restoration Plays and Players (2014) and George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed (2018), and editions, including Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: the Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor (2013), Congreve’s The Way of the World (2020) and An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber (2022). David has published articles in, among others, Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, The Cambridge Quarterly, New Theatre Quarterly, The Review of English Studies and The Times Literary Supplement. Recent commissioned chapters include essays for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music (2022), The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (2024) and The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship (2024). .
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    ISBN: 9783031522840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 188 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Literature, Modern ; Drama.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Love and Marriage -- Chapter 3: Morals and Manners -- Chapter 4: Comedies of Realism and Romance -- Chapter 5: The Theatre of War -- Chapter 6: Deeper Waters -- Chapter 7: Drama and Contemporary Society -- Chapter 8: Post-War Drama and Fiction -- Chapter 9: Last Plays -- Chapter 10: The Entertainer.
    Abstract: Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical literary approach adopted here places Coward’s success in its wider theatrical context, making the connections with the work of other dramatists. He developed his technique according to what worked with theatre audiences. Taking up the well-made play, he brought in a more colloquial dialogue, explored, for instance, the morality and psychology of marriage and free love, and frequently exploited the dramatic possibilities of characters grouped into two camps. The book considers both the ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ plays (to use the Shavian terms), and the episodic patriotic plays. It Includes Coward’s ambivalent approach to the ‘theatre of war’ in the 20th century. (123) Roger Kojecky: After an Oxford University English Faculty D. Phil. he held teaching positions in Tokyo and London University (lecturing on drama). He has been Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group, Oxford, and edits The Glass, covering a range of academic literature with articles and reviews. .
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    ISBN: 9783031531002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 243 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ecocriticism. ; Science ; Communication in medicine.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Books of Life in the Long Century of the Gene -- 2. Simon Mawer’s Book of Life: Mendel’s Dwarf as Fictional Genetic Life Writing -- 3. There is grandeur in this view of life...or is there? Ian McEwan’s Poetics of Chance and the Unreliable Structures of Genetic Determinism -- 4. Genetics’ Perilous Analogies: Metaphors of Life in A. S. Byatt’s Quartet -- 5. Ecologies of Life: Genetics in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy -- 6. Conclusion: Levels of Life.
    Abstract: Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics. The new genetic paradigm has proposed to rewrite core assumptions about such fundamental aspects of life as the nature of kinship and biological connection, human-environmental relations, or the link between biology and art. Investigating major texts of genetic fiction by A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Simon Mawer and Margaret Atwood, this monograph offers the first systematic study of how these assumptions about life itself have been renegotiated through the contemporary novel’s engagement with genetic science. This book identifies a significant new phase in the novel’s aesthetic exploration of life and demonstrates that the novel emerges as the cultural form uniquely positioned to engage both the imaginative and concrete challenges raised by genetic science for the lifeworlds of the new millennium. Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031535291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 237 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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    Keywords: Translating and interpreting. ; Comparative literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of Goldblatt’s Translation of Mo Yan’s Works -- Chapter 3. Translation, Rewriting and Manipulation -- Chapter 4. The Study -- Chapter 5. Poetological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 6. Ideological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 7. Patronage Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao) -- Chapter 8. Translator Subjectivity in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 9. Discussion -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the influence of three major manipulative powers: poetics, ideology and patronage, as well as his own subjectivity (translator subjectivity), to achieve his objectives as a literary translator. The author analyses both the translation and its paratext to gain a more complete understanding of Goldblatt’s accomplishments, and examines how Goldblatt rewrites the original text under the influence of various patronage factors, such as the original author, publisher, editor, market expectancy, literary collaborator, and the target reader. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the production, reception and dissemination of Goldblatt’s translation, exposing the motivations behind his translation in full measure, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, and Chinese Culture and Literature. Hu Liu is lecturer at the School of Foreign Studies, West Anhui University, China. He completed his PhD in translation studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, from 2016 to 2021.
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    ISBN: 9783031413483 , 3031413482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 333 Seiten) , 1 illus.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Migration and Identity through Creative Writing
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration Government policy ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Human Migration ; Migration Policy ; Sociology of Migration
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 427 p. 18 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Political science. ; Human rights. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Grenzkonflikt ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Internationale Politik ; Innere Sicherheit ; Menschenrecht ; Governance ; Europa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Migration Policies in the OSCE Region (Anisa Abeytia) -- Chapter 2. Early Warning Models in the OSCE: Adoption and Re-Invention (Alina Isakova) -- Chapter 3. NATO and EU Strategic Security Environment (Aybike Yalcin-Ispir) -- Chapter 4. Patterns of Border Disputes Amongst OSCE Countries (Halina Sapeha) -- Chapter 5. Assessing Water (Ir)Rationality in the Disputed Region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Leonardo Zanatta) -- Chapter 6. Vetting as a Tool for Strengthening Judicial Integrity in the OSCE Region (Teodora Miljojkovic) -- Chapter 7. Human Rights Adjudication in Central Asia (Saniia Toktogazieva) -- Chapter 8. Human Rights and Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education (Joanna Kulesza) -- Chapter 9. Digital Citizen Activism in Central Asia: Beyond Contestation and Cooperation (Bakhytzhan Kurmanov) -- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Good Governance vs. Power Grab in Georgia (Shalva Dzebisashvili) -- Chapter 11. Transformations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine towards EU Membership (Malkhaz Nakashidze) -- Chapter 12. Backsliding Rule of Law and “Stabilotocracy” in Montenegro (Mirko Đuković).
    Abstract: This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states. The contributions shed new light on how contested borders and liquid modes of governance have impacted the engagement of international organizations such as the European Union (EU), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and OSCE in security crises and conflict prevention. Delving deeper, a special part dissects the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and examines European and international responses. By analyzing the stances of diverse European countries, their neighborhood, and international organizations, this section uncovers commonalities and disparities in their approaches to the Ukrainian crisis.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 400 p. 28 illus., 26 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies of the Americas
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Part One: History And Foreign Policy -- Chapter 1: Introduction: China And Taiwan In Latin America And The Caribbean: History, Power Rivalry, And Regional Implications. By Cassandra R. Veney And Sabella O. Abidde -- Chapter 2: The Early History Of China And Taiwan In Latin America: Cuba And Peru From 1837 To 1971. By Angela Ju -- Chapter 3: The “One China” Policy: Battleground For Recognition In The Caribbean. By Kavita Johnson -- Chapter 4: The Dragon In The South: Argentina, Uruguay And Paraguay, The Rise Of China And The Implications For Taiwan’s Future. By Jorge Troisi Melean -- Chapter 5: Taiwan’s Diplomatic Instruments And Challenges In Its Relations With China-Aligned Countries In Latin America And The Caribbean. By Fabricio A. Fonseca And Yen-Pin Su -- Chapter 6: Soft Power And China-Taiwan Competition For Influence In Latin America. By Mohamad Zreik -- Part Two: The Politics Of Diplomatic Fidelity -- Chapter 7: What Can I Do You For: The Republic Of China's Cold War Courtship Of The Republic Of Panama. By Justina Hwang -- Chapter 8: Past, Present, And The Future Of Colombia’s Commercial Relations With China And Taiwan. By Meng-Yu Liang, Jorge Andrés Contreras Calderón And Juan Pablo López Agudelo -- Chapter 9: Massive Chinese Investments In Latin America: What Is Taiwan's Diplomatic Fate In That Region?. By Mohamad Zreik -- Part Three: Issues And Policy Approaches -- Chapter 10: Strategic Communication. How China Promotes And Communicates Its Political Agenda In Latin America. By Maria Zuppello -- Chapter 11: China- Caricom Bilateral Engagements: Modalities, Motives, Impacts And Directions For The Regional Integration Agenda. By Dianna Dasilva-Glasgow And Denise Pile -- Chapter 12: The Belt And Road Initiative, China, Taiwan, And Brazil. By Charalampos Stamelos And Konstantinos Tsimaras -- Chapter 13: An Analysis Of The Relations Between China, Taiwan And Argentina And The Belt And Road Initiative. By Athina Moraiti -- Chapter 14: Challenges Facing China And Taiwan In Latin America And The Caribbean. By Priye S. Torulagha -- Chapter 15: Conclusion. By Cassandra R. Veney And Sabella O. Abidde.
    Abstract: The book provides an examination of the evolution of China and Taiwan after 1949. This starting point situates the contestation for power between the two entities in the region after Taipei was recognized by the international community as the representative of China. The ramifications for Taiwan were drastic as country after country switched its recognition to China including those in the Caribbean and Latin America. Taiwan was able to maintain diplomatic relations with several countries in both regions through diplomatic strategies including providing financial assistance. This has waned over time considering China’s economic rise to power and Western Europe’s and the United States’ fall in global economic and political prestige and power. This book discusses China’s and Taiwan’s continuing engagement with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with a particular emphasis on the sharp rise in trade between China and the two regions. China’s foreign policy agenda, and how Taiwan reacts to China’s policies, are also examined. Cassandra Rachel Veney is Executive Director of the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series at Case Western Reserve University. Sabella Abidde is Professor of Political Science at Alabama State University. He is the editor of the two book series: African Governance, Development, and Leadership and Africa-East Asia International Relations.
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    ISBN: 9783031460111
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 267 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World 12
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Civil rights. ; European communities.
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Historical Development and Definition of a Secular State -- The Constitutional Development and Regulation of Turkish Secularism -- The TCC’s Approach to Secularism in Freedom of Religion Cases -- Protection of Secularism within the Framework of the Political Party Regime -- The Impact of the 2017 Constitutional Amendments on the Protection of Secularism -- The ECtHR and Turkish Secularism -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: There are any number of studies on Turkish secularism. However, to date there has never been a comprehensive analysis of the constitutional protection of secularism, one that systematically covers all relevant aspects. Addressing that gap, this book presents a comprehensive and coherent analysis of the constitutional framework of this principle within the Turkish legal system. Secularism is a common fundamental principle of all three Turkish constitutions (1924, 1961, 1982). The principle has been granted an irrevocable status and has been strictly constructed within the Turkish constitutional system. Despite the guarantee of irrevocability, however, its interpretation and application have undergone a drastic transformation in response to changing social and political circumstances. Today, the complaints filed before the domestic and international judiciary predominantly concern the Turkish State’s neutrality and impartiality towards religion and the exercise of freedom of religion by religious minorities. While many observers have interpreted these problems in light of the contemporary policies pursued in the field of religion, a closer look reveals that the problem lies deeper in Turkey’s general constitutional framework. While the 1982 Constitution declares the principle as an unamendable characteristic of the Republic and protects it with multi-layered mechanisms, certain anti-democratic features of the Constitution, including the President’s predominant role in forming the high-ranking judiciary, affect the proper and consistent application of the principle of secularism. The consolidation of the secular state order depends on various factors other than a suitable constitution. However, it goes without saying that constitutions can help or hinder efforts to find solutions. Therefore, this book identifies the deficiencies in the Turkish constitutional and legal framework regarding the protection of secularism. It presents the historical development and definition of a secular state, analyzes the jurisprudence of the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, studies the application of the party prohibition mechanism as a means of protecting the principle, and assesses the constitutional amendments of 2001, 2010 and 2017. Moreover, it proposes much-needed constitutional and legal amendments with a view to improving the application of the principle of secularism.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 154 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; Poetry.
    Abstract: 1. ‘The Bride-Night Fire’: Hardy & the Voice of the Folk -- 2. A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Cliff-Scene and the Literary Sublime -- 3. Moments of (Technological) Vision -- 4. ‘The Withered Arm’ and History -- 5. (Un)Binding the Sheaves: Selfhood and Labour in Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- 6. ‘The Open’: Hardy and Jefferies -- 7. The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity -- 8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle -- 9. Wayfaring -- 10. Hardy’s Lyric Voice: ‘Beeny Cliff’ -- 11. ‘The Face at the Casement’: Window Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry.
    Abstract: This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure. Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031388378
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 452 p. 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values 8
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    Keywords: International law. ; Trade regulation. ; Law and economics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The principles of capitalism questioned -- Chapter 2. Revisiting some building blocks of contemporary capitalism that center selfishness -- Chapter 3. Unsustainability of the capitalist socio-economic order -- Chapter 4. Revisiting an alternative method of money creation on behalf of states and certain, international, and supranational institutions as a possible way out of capitalism -- Chapter 5. From neoliberal punitive states to states of care -- Chapter 6. Alternative methods of money creation for the benefit of the private sectors -- Chapter 7. Conceptualization and sense of reality of some new, legal models for conducting an enterprise -- Chapter 8. Final Conclusions I: Capitalism as an unjust system of socio-economic order -- Chapter 9. Final Conclusions II: Establishing a new monetary order as a foundation for a new type of societies.
    Abstract: The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, espe­cially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring models that prio­ritize the free market over the public interest or even, more generally, government operation. He works out that during four to five decades, globalized, capitalist societies are facing a multiplicity of fundamental problems, such as: (1) increasing debt that severely burdens both the private and public sectors; (2) persistent poverty and an ever-increasing polarization between rich and poor, in addition to (3) intractable environmental problems that, fifty years after the Club of Rome's report entitled ‘Limits to growth’ (1972), has dragged the world into what in recent years has been referred to as "climate change." The book explains why all this is the direct result of value choices made from the late Middle Ages onwards, when in the Western world the societal models of that time were increasingly abandoned for a societal model that came to rely on the primacy of economic interests. The book not only subjects the ethical choices but also examines various problems it has caused and probes for possible ways out. This is an open access book.
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    ISBN: 9783031400513
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 179 p. 13 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Continental Philosophy. ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: Digging, Unburying and Going to Writing School -- 2: Writing Myself Back Together -- 3: The School of the Dead and My Mother: A Story of Hunger -- 4: Finding a Language of My Own: Journeying to the School of the Dead with Cixous -- 5: The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethno-graphic Account inspired by Cixous -- 6: Your Dreambody Must be Heard—Writing Trauma in the School of Dreams -- 7: The Fatal Blow: “Who are I­­­?” A Feminist Autoethnographer’s Encounter with Cixous -- 8: This Writing Chatters, Just Like a Dream: The Ragged Vitality of Teeth and Memory Loss -- 9: Learning Cixous’ Écriture Feminine Through the Flow of Words and Blood -- 10: Metis and Cixous—Cunning Resistance, Bodily Intelligence and Allies -- 11: Denying the Penis: Bringing Women to Writing [With/in and] Through Doc-toral Supervision -- 12: Writing Australian Gardens to Cross Borders Between the Online and Offline Worlds -- Inter-View. .
    Abstract: The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (“feminine writing”), and in this collection authors explore that inter-animation by explicitly engaging with Three steps on the ladder of writing. Three steps is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving reflection on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for writing: The School of the Dead—the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams—the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots—the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Topics covered include: ways Cixous’ work can address the need for loss and reparation in writing critical autoethnography, how Cixous’ writing “makes our body speak” through concepts of birth and the body in, through and of critical autoethnography, whether writing in this way recast and reform prevailing orders of domination and oppression, and how Cixous’ writing around the ethics of loving and giving translates into response-able and non-violent forms of critical autoethnography in relation to otherness and difference. In this collection, we invite you to “Let us go to the school of [critical autoethnographic] writing” (Cixous, 1993, p. 3) with the work of Hélène Cixous, and speak in a different way and through a different medium of academic language, in an approach that reveals the tensions, the paradoxes, the pains and the pleasures of writing with critical autoethnography in the contemporary university.
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    ISBN: 9783031391866
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 208 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Creative nonfiction. ; Creative writing. ; Language and languages ; Rhetoric. ; Literature ; Poststructuralism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Making Truth Claims -- Chapter 3: Critiquing Habit, Habitus, and Modernity -- Chapter 4: Fighting Narration -- Chapter 5: Shifting Roles, Mimesis, Sustaining Community -- Chapter 6: Critiquing and Claiming Memory -- Chapter 7: Making Confessions -- Chapter 8: Reflecting on Self as Other -- Chapter 9: Situating Scenes -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before – and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject. George H. Jensen is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. His recent books include Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family (2000), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), and Identities Across Texts (2002).
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    ISBN: 9783031449956
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 235 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction. ; Economics. ; Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism’s New Orientations -- 2. New Intersections in Fiction: Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Economics -- 3. Narrative Glocality and The Cosmoflâneur in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.-4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Culture and Economics in Zadie Smith’s NW.-5. Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House: The Move Towards Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.-6. Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Post-Covid-19 Sensitivities In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun.-7. Conclusion: The Genre of The Contemporary -- References.-Index.
    Abstract: “A nuanced, carefully articulated and insightful piece of scholarship. Paying attention to urgent political and social developments, including Brexit and Covid-19, Elif Toprak Sakız deepens our understanding of the dynamic interplay between culture and economics in the twenty-first century.” - Kristian Shaw, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Lincoln, U.K “Through an engaging assessment of exemplary works of contemporary British fiction, Toprak-Sakiz provides a rich, thoughtful and critical reflection on the multiple meanings and dimensions of cosmopolitanism. This is an extremely timely and vital discussion on a key topic for our turbulent times.” - Steven Vertovec, Director of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central. Elif Toprak Sakız holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature.
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    ISBN: 9783031462825
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 265 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Just Transitions
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    Keywords: Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Environmental sciences ; Science ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Chapter 1. Energy Justice - The First Step in an Energy Decision Today (Raphael J. Heffron) -- Chapter 2. Energy Justice and the Social Contract Theory (Louis de Fontenelle) -- Part 2: Core Energy Justice Issues -- Chapter 3. The Formation of Energy Law as a Discipline that integrates the Principle of Energy Justice (Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, EJI López-Ibor Mayor).-Chapter 4. Energy Education: A Cosmopolitan Challenge to Ensure Justice in the Transition (Luigi Maria Pepe) -- Chapter 5. Energy Justice and Energy Law - An approach to the differences between both concepts (Íñigo del Guayo) -- Chapter 6. Energy Justice as a key to achieve Affordable Energy (Gonzalo Irrazabal Pérez Fourcade) -- Chapter 7. Cross-border Energy Investment, Energy Justice and International Economic Law (Chung-Han Yang) -- Chapter 8. Enforcing Energy Justice Through the Legal System: A Cascade of Four Conditions (Maciej M. Sokołowski) -- Part 3: Clean Energy Development & Energy Justice -- Chapter 9. An Energy Justice Exploration to the Revival of the Solar Thermal Energy in France (Elodie Annamayer) -- Chapter 10. The Power of Procedural Justice in the Planning of Energy Projects (Nerissa Edem Lawrencia Anku) -- Chapter 11. International Investor-State Disputes Arbitration through Energy Justice Lenses: opening the case for ‘Greening through Free Trade’ narratives (Emmanuelle Santoire) -- Chapter 12. Energy Justice concerns of Nuclear Power in the 2025 Energy Transition Vision of Taiwan and Net Zero Roadmap of 2050 (Anton Ming-Zhi Gao) -- Chapter 13. Social Acceptance for Renewable Energy Technologies: The Role of the Energy Justice Framework (Mohammad Hazrati) -- Chapter 14. Breaking Barriers – Integrating Energy Justice to Overcome Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Roadblocks to Climate Change Mitigation Efforts (Demilade Isioma Elemo) -- Part 4: Energy Justice for Local Communities -- Chapter 15. Energy Justice, Prior Consultation and Energy Supply for Communities in Colombia (Luis Fernando Bastidas Reyes and Luis Bustos) -- Chapter 16. Land for Clean Energy Projects – Responding to Community Energy (Halima I Hussein) -- Chapter 17. Deploying Energy Justice for a meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Energy Decision-Making (Mathilde Stephanie Ngo Pouhe).-Chapter 18. The Power of Energy Justice for Rural Communities (Madeline Taylor) -- Chapter 19. A Pivotal Moment for Energy Community Cooperation in Chile (Elizabeth Stephani) -- Chapter 20. The Power of Energy Justice for attaining and maintaining acceptance for Renewable Energy Projects (José Vega-Araújo) -- Part 5: Energy Justice National & International Perspectives -- Chapter 21. The Quest for Cosmopolitan Justice in the Energy Transition in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Alicia Phillips) -- Chapter 22. Righting the Injustices Within the Nigerian Energy Industry (Ayodele Morocco-Clarke) -- Chapter 23. Utilising Recognition Justice to Bridge Climate and Energy Financing Gaps in the Global South (Susan Nakanwagi) -- Chapter 24. Australian Petroleum and Coal Resources: Taxation, Emissions and Energy Justice (Diane Kraal) -- Chapter 25. Contribution of local energy communities to the realisation of a just energy transition in Spain (Ignacio Zamora) -- Chapter 26. Solving Energy Justice in the European Union (Marzena Czarnecka and Marcin Krazniewski) -- Part 6: Energy Life-Cycle Activities and Justice -- Chapter 27. The Power of Consumers: On the Interplay Between Consumer-Centric Markets and Energy Justice (Anne Michaelis) -- Chapter 28. Energy Justice Concerns of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Amidst Energy Transition (Chioma V Basil) -- Chapter 29. The Energy Justice Imperative for Clean Energy Storage Alternatives (Zinnure Osman Zengin) -- Chapter 30. Just Transitions in Extractive Territories (Tara Righetti) -- Chapter 31. Minimum Standards of Access to Energy Services: Underpinning Energy Justice and Legal Action (Tedd Moya Mose) -- Chapter 32: Empowering those in harm’s way: a Restorative Justice approach (Amina Ahmed Ibrahim) -- Part 7: Conclusion -- Chapter 33. Diffusing Energy Justice into the new ‘Social Contract’ for Society (Raphael J. Heffron & Louis de Fontenelle).
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in society. The focus will be on improving legal systems at local, national and international levels while ensuring that justice is a core issue within energy law, the legal system and more broadly in society. Raphael Heffron is Professor in Energy Justice and the Social Contract at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, TREE, Pau, France. He is also Jean Monnet Professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission (2019-2022). In 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD). His work all has a principal focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy, and combines a mix of law, policy and economics. He has published over 200 publications of different types and is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide for energy law, energy justice and just transition. Louis de Fontenelle is Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France. He is member of the research centre TREE (University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, CNRS, France). His research focuses on issues of law and justice relating to the ecological transition in the context of climate change, in particular energy, sustainable mobility and natural resources. His work is interdisciplinary, involving geography, economics and philosophy. .
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 133 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The European Union in International Affairs
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political planning. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Integration ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. A differentiated European defence architecture in the making -- 4. EU (rope) and regional resilience -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The successive crises the EU has undergone, notably with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have highlighted dramatically how European security includes while spans well beyond defence. Picking up from this cue, this book masterfully expands the notion of European strategic autonomy across different areas while highlighting its fundamental compatibility with the goal of building stronger partnerships beyond the EU’s borders.” — Nathalie Tocci, director at IAI in Rome “European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Context is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to the discourse on European strategic autonomy. Rieker and Giske go beyond conventional notions of defence to highlight the pressing need to address the growing risk of hybrid threats. With meticulous research and a nuanced understanding of contemporary debates on European integration and security, this volume presents a comprehensive approach to fleshing out European strategic autonomy. A must-read for policymakers, academic experts and anyone interested in understanding Europe’s evolving role on the international stage.” — Mark Leonard, director of ECFR “Rieker and Giske provide an innovative analysis of how external differentiation can help improve EU actorness and security. This is the first study that systematically brings together two core issues in European integration: external differentiation and strategic autonomy. Building on a broad empirical basis, the book makes an important contribution to current political and academic discussions on Europe’s foreign and security policy.” — Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, ETH Zurich This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? A common answer to this question is that it is impossible or that this can only be achieved in the long run, if at all. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration (DI) is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be considered to get the full idea of how a more differentiated European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU (ch.2), then this framework is applied both to understand Europe as a global actor (ch. 3), Europe as an actor in security and defence (ch. 4) and Europe as a regional actor (ch. 5). Pernille Rieker holds a position as a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a part-time full professor at the Inland University College (INN). Rieker is part of NUPI's research group on security and defence and is responsible for NUPI's Center for European Studies (NCE). Furthermore, she is the co-editor of the Scandinavian journal for international studies, 'Internasjonal Politikk'. Mathilde E. Giske is a Ph.D. candidate, Department for Political studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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    ISBN: 9783031490149
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 282 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Sustainability.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Push towards urban densification evokes social exclusion in housing -- Chapter 2. Part I: Theoretical approach: Actors-centered new institutionalist political ecology -- Part II: Analytical framework: The Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) and its focus on property rights -- Chapter 3. The Irr Applied To Housing: Governing Densification For Socially Sustainable Housing Development -- Chapter 4. Study design & methodological approach: Densification and urban housing development in Switzerland -- Chapter 5. Study design & methodology: learning from the Swiss scarce land use situation -- Chapter 6. Discussion of key results -- Chapter 7. Final conclusion: governance mechanisms for socially sustainable urban densification.
    Abstract: Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe socio-political problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in older housing stocks planned to be densified or upgraded with higher rents, are being pushed to the margins of the city. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem. However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors (e.g., municipal authorities, landowners) involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules, laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable densification implementation. Finally, this book advises stakeholders on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Gabriela Debrunner has a PhD in geography with a focus on spatial planning and political urbanism. She works as a postdoc, lecturer, and research associate at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL) at ETH Zurich. In her research, Gabriela Debrunner deals with the overarching question of how the city as a social space works from an urban governance perspective.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 248 p. 31 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Cultural property. ; Medicine and the humanities.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: I Introduction -- Chapter 2: Storytelling -- Chapter 3: Inclusivity & Environment -- Chapter 4: Gamification -- Chapter 5: Immersive Technologies -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Future Directions for Neuro-Inclusivity in Museums and Heritage Sites.
    Abstract: James Hutson is Professor and Department Head of Art History and Visual Culture, and Lead XR Disruptor, at Lindenwood University, USA. Piper Hutson is a Corporate Art Curator and Adjunct Professor at Lindenwood University, USA. This book delves into the significant and timely intersection of cultural heritage, neurodiversity, and smart museums, exploring how various immersive techniques can create more inclusive and engaging heritage experiences for neurodiverse audiences. By focusing on these three aspects, the book aims to contribute significantly to the fields of cultural heritage, neuro-inclusivity, and smart museums, offering practical solutions and examples for heritage professionals and researchers. The book highlights the importance of preserving and enhancing cultural heritage by incorporating immersive technologies and inclusive practices that cater to the needs of neurodiverse audiences. It emphasizes the need for museums and heritage sites to be more inclusive and accessible for neurodivergent individuals, showcasing best practices and innovative techniques to engage this audience effectively. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 264 p. 206 illus., 202 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Service industries.
    Abstract: Section One: Record -- 1. An Introduction to How Sound Works -- 2. Speakers -- 3. Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) -- 4. Digital -- 5. Hardware -- 6. Gain Staging -- 7. Microphones -- 8. Phase -- 9. Room Acoustics -- 10. Recording Tips -- Section Two: Mix -- 11. Equalisers (Eq) -- 12. Dynamics -- 13. Effects -- 14. Subgroups -- 15. Monitoring in Mono -- 16. Mid-Side Processing -- 17. Transients -- 18. Panning -- 19. Plosives -- 20. Zero Crossing and Crossfades -- 21. Mixing Tips -- Section Three: Master -- 22. What is Mastering -- 23. Prepare Your Track for Mastering -- 24. Mastering Tools -- 25. Dither -- 26. Metering -- 27. Mastering Your Song – Things to Consider.
    Abstract: This textbook is a practical guide to achieving professional-level audio productions using digital audio workstations. It contains 27 chapters divided into three sections, with specially devised diagrams and audio examples throughout. Aimed at students of all levels of experience and written in an easy-to-understand way, this book simplifies complex jargon, widening its appeal to non-academic creatives and is designed to accelerate the learning of professional audio processes and tools (software and hardware).The reader can work through the book from beginning to end or dip into a relevant section whenever required, enabling it to serve as both a step by step guide and an ongoing reference manual. The book is also a useful aid for lecturers and teachers of audio production, recording, mixing and mastering engineering. Simon Duggal is an award-winning producer/composer who has been producing, writing, recording, editing and mixing music for more than 30 years. He has made records for many top international artists including: Shania Twain, Maxi Priest, Erasure, Apache Indian, Janet Kaye, Errol Reid (China Black), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Beat, Luciano, Desmond Dekker, Dillinger and many more. Duggal has composed music for adverts for companies including: Pepsi, Intel, Toshiba, Etisalat, Etihad and composed title and incidental music for a BAFTA winning UK TV drama. He is also an MA specialist mentor at the British and Irish Modern Music University in Birmingham, UK. Paul Rogers is the Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies at the British and Irish modern Music University in Birmingham, UK, and a seasoned music industry veteran. He holds a PhD in music composition from Goldsmiths (UK).
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    ISBN: 9783031411847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 351 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Keywords: Ecocriticism. ; Oriental literature. ; Human ecology ; Communication in the environmental sciences.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Christian CULAS: Protected Area Narratives in Vietnam: An Anthropological and Mesological Approach -- Part 2: Indigenous and Spiritual Narratives of the Environment -- 3. NGUYEN Thi Kim Ngan: Legends of Forest Spirits in the Central Vietnamese Highlands -- 4. Achariya CHOOWONGLERT: Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam -- 5. THACH Mai Hoang: Animal Mercy Release, Environmental Conservation, and the Media in Vietnam -- Part 3: War Narratives and the Environment -- 6. HOANG Cam-Giang: Narratives of the Natural World in Vietnamese Postwar Movies (1986-2020) -- 7. Montira RATO: Ecopedagogy, War Memories, and Sensory Experiences of Nature in Contemporary Vietnamese Children’s Literature -- 8. Conor LAUESEN: Dinh Q. Lê's The Pure Land and Ecological Phantoms: Levitating Sarcophagi, Submerged Spirits -- Part 4: Communism, Global Markets, and the Environment -- 9. Ben TRAN: Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment -- 10. Sarah GRANT: Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands -- Part 5: Environmental Literature in Vietnam -- 11. NGUYEN Phuong Ngoc: Environmental Travel Narratives in the Magazine Nam Phong -- 12. CAO Lan: Gender and Environment in Nguyễn Ngoc Tu’s Narratives -- 13. TRẦN Tịnh Vy: When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà's Phố vẫn gió -- 14. PHAM P. Chi: Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction.
    Abstract: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures. They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government, have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences between nationalist nation-building projects and economic integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction to contemporary news media represent different environmental cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book. Ursula K. Heise is holds the Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies. She is co-founder and Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature and the environmental humanities; environmental literature, arts, and cultures in the Americas, Germany, Japan, and Spain; literature and science; science fiction; and narrative theory. She is co-editor of Literatures, Cultures and the Environment series for Palgrave Macmillan. Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). She is the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN).
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    ISBN: 9783031461293
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 289 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political ethics.
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Theoretical and Legal Framework -- Chapter Three: Biharis in Bangladesh -- Chapter Four: Findings of the Field Work -- Chapter Five: Biharis’ Access to Citizenship Rights: Theory, Law, and Reality -- Chapter Six: Conclusions and Recommendations.
    Abstract: This book deals with the citizenship status of the Biharis in Bangladesh and their ability to access rights associated with citizenship. The main argument of the book is that although legally the Biharis are citizens of Bangladesh, they still do not have access to many important rights of citizenship that can make their citizenship meaningful. Their inability to access many important citizenship rights made them de facto stateless, although they are de-jure citizens. Taking a law and society approach this book examines both legal and non-legal factors behind the deplorable conditions of the Biharis in Bangladesh. Based on fieldwork, this book analyses that the Biharis’ inability to access citizenship rights is inconsistent with citizenship theory, citizenship laws, and the Constitution of Bangladesh. To make the Biharis citizenship effective or meaningful the author suggests some recommendations for policy changes that would enable Biharis to access rights associated with citizenship. Zaglul Haider is a professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi.He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University and an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School.
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    ISBN: 9783031404238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 112 p.)
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern ; Narration (Rhetoric). ; European literature.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Sacrifice, Consciousness, and Narrative Pronoun Shifts -- Chapter 2- May Sinclair and Two Sides of Sacrifice -- Chapter 3 - From Ritual to Narrative in Mary Butts -- Chapter 4 - Mending a Broken Duality in H. D. (Hilda Doolittle).
    Abstract: This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited — it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials. Sanna Melin Schyllert is Visiting Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France, having previously held posts at Lund University, the University of Westminster, and University College London. Her publications include ‘Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts and the Creation of Self in H. D.’s Prose Works’ in The Space Between Journal (2019) and ‘Sacrifice, Community and Narrative Power in Mary Butts’s Taverner Novels’ in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031389023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 256 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Book History
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    Keywords: Economics and literature. ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Books ; Literature, Modern
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Coffee-table Books: Seriously? -- Chapter 3 What’s in a Name? -- Chapter 4 A New Book-buying Market -- Chapter 5 More Than Meets the Eye -- Chapter 6 David Brower: An American Environmental Publisher -- Chapter 7 Paul Hamlyn: Britain’s Publishing Mould Breaker -- Chapter 8 Lloyd O’Neil: Australia in Colour -- Chapter 9 Conclusion.
    Abstract: The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergence of three important developments: advances in full colour printing technology, social change, and publishing entrepreneurism and innovation. Examining the coffee-table book through a book history lens acknowledges their significant contribution to post-war visual culture and illustrated publishing. Focussing on post-war America, Great Britain, and Australia during the “golden age” era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, this history of the coffee-table book takes an interdisciplinary approach to put the coffee-table book in context in regards to materiality, format, printing, status, and genre.
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    ISBN: 9783031303081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 260 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: EADI global development series
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Political science ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungsmodell ; Entkolonialisierung ; Alternative ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Weltordnung ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1.Rethinking development and decolonising development studies -- Chapter 2. Essentialist approaches to global issues: the ontological limitations of development studies -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives -- Chapter 4. In search of alternatives to development: learning from grounded initiatives -- Chapter 5. Why Is Development Elusive? Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue durée -- Chapter 6. Cultivating post-development: pluriversal transitions and radical spaces of engagement -- Chapter 7. Beyond Deconstruction and Toward Decoloniality: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design in SWANA & South Asia Studies in US Higher Education -- Chapter 8. Data collection versus knowledge theft: relational accountability and the research ethics of Indigenous knowledges -- Chapter 9. Assuming power in new forms: Learning to feel ‘with the other’ in decolonial research -- Chapter 10. Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis -- Chapter 11. South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality -- Chapter 12. Decolonising Development Management: Epistemological Shifts and Practical actions -- Chapter 13. What is ‘development’, and can we ‘decolonise’ it? Some ontological and epistemological reflections -- Chapter 14. EADI Roundtable: Re-casting development studies in times of multiple crises.
    Abstract: This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of political barriers these might encounter. From a variety of perspectives and contexts, these chapters examine how decoloniality and solidarity can be developed, offering in-depth historical, theoretical, epistemological, and empirical analyses. Henning Melber is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Uma Kothari is Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Laura Camfield is Professor of Development Research and Evaluation and Head of the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
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    ISBN: 9783031474606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 229 p. 35 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Human-computer interaction.
    Abstract: Introduction to Integral Communication -- The Power of Integral Networking -- Integral Communication Framework: Mapping, Tagging and Digital Identity -- Perspective of Integral Communication: The IoT Ecosystem.
    Abstract: This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way. Integral communication refers to a specific way of open information exchange which uses all qualities and preferences of subjects in conversation and allows anonymous feedback exchange, which enhances trust, learning and development. The role of integral communication is to promote perceptiveness, collaboration, personal development, and organizational learning among all the actors involved. In this book, the authors propose a new original way of digital communication that uses tags and their metadata to describe qualities and preferences of a particular node in the network. Although most social networks, sharing platforms and e-government frameworks are already applying taxonomies and social tagging to define user identity, none of them is focused on tags exclusively, while within an integral communication framework they represent the basic element of user definition and networking. In addition, other social platforms rarely allow anonymous feedback exchange, and they are usually not focused on the personal development of their end-users. Aside from helping actors present their attributes and preferences, integral communication promotes teamwork, sustainability, trust, organisational learning, and personalized communication with AI machines. After reading this book, readers will learn how to harness the power of integral networking and understand why anonymous feedback is a critical element for learning and development. Ozren Rafajac is an assistant professor at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches e-business and cloud computing and a professor at the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches sales management, HR management, business communications and digital marketing. He has worked on several EU-funded projects. His research interests focus on HR management, organisational intelligence, e-collaboration, communication, tourism, organisational development and leadership. Alen Jakupović is a professor at the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches several courses in programming and project design. His scientific and professional interests include metrics and methods for information systems development, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems development, information and business systems dependability and ICT in education.
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    ISBN: 9783031444821
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 189 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Literary Disability Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Games. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: 1. Introduction Other Worlds, Other Selves: Moving Beyond Escapism -- 2. ‘Everyone’s a Composite’: Rethinking Three of Cyberpunk’s Overlooked Women Writers as Posthumanists -- 3. The Performing Wiggin Siblings: Reading Ender’s Game through Disability Theory -- 4. The Threat of Silence in Mark Alpert’s Dystopian Simulation -- From Memes to Comics: Virtual Embodiment in Visual Rhetoric -- 5. The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other -- 6. Learning Through Play: An Inclusive Pedagogy for the 21st Century -- 7. Conclusion The Augmented Self: Rethinking Virtual Simulation and Disability.
    Abstract: Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of disability identity in a variety of science fiction texts: adult novels, young adult literature and comics, as well as ethnographic research with gamers. Haukaas argues that instead of being a means of escapism, simulated experiences are a valuable tool for cultivating self-acceptance and promoting empathy. Through increasingly accessible technology and innovative gameplay, traditional hierarchies are dismantled, and different ways of being are both explored and validated. Ultimately, the book aims to expand our understandings of disability, performance, and self-creation in significant ways by exploring the boundless selves that the simulated environments in these texts allow. Anelise Haukaas is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, USA, as well as the faculty advisor of Seaswells, the art and literary magazine. Her research interests include genre fiction, disability studies, folklore and mythology, popular culture, and new media.
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    ISBN: 9783031466373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 226 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Welfare state. ; Administrative law. ; Law ; Human rights.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: transformations of european welfare states and social rights (stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev) -- Part I: State Regulation, Transformation of State egulation, And Agents Acting on Behalf of The State -- Chapter 2. Claim and blame – how welfare law institutionalises deservingness (tobias eule) -- Chapter 3. What is the function of welfare law today? Consequences of the work-line polic (inger-johanne sand) -- Chapter 4. The penal voluntary sector’s role in the nordic welfare states: a shadow state?(annette olesen, maija helminen & emy bäcklin) -- Part II: Encounters Between Welfare Professionals And Citizens -- Chapter 5. A double helix: the intertwined history of the marginalisation of welfare clients and their activist lawyers and advisers in the transformation of the welfare state in england and wales (pete sanderson & hilary sommerlad) -- Chapter 6. The paradoxical reality of welfare professionals: encounters between welfare professionals and citizens within social security in the netherlands (paulien de winter) -- Chapter 7. Asylum case adjudication in sweden, country of origin information and epistemic violence (martin joormann) -- Part III: Citizens’ Mobilisation of Social Rights -- Chapter 8. Access to justice and social rights for victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in sweden (isabel schoultz polina) -- Chapter 9. Welfare clients’ relational legal consciousness: an empirical perspective from the netherland (marc hertogh) -- Chapter 10. Youth homelessness in the danish welfare state: how do young persons in homelessness mobilise rights?(stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev) -- Chapter 11. Conclusion: transformations of european welfare states and social right (stine piilgaard porner nielsen & ole hammerslev).
    Abstract: This open access edited book investigates European social rights in practice from socio-legal perspectives. It brings together fourteen socio-legal scholars, representing Nordic and Western European countries, who analyse different aspects pertaining to European social rights, namely the regulation of social rights, encounters between welfare professionals and citizens, and citizens’ mobilisation of social rights. These three different aspects from the structure for the sections in the anthology, each analysing transformations related to regulation, encounters and rights mobilisation. The book contributes to the existing literature as it focuses on interdependent transformations on macro, meso and micro levels which are key for understanding processes and contexts related to European social rights in practice. It speaks particularly to academics in sociology of law and/or regulation. Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen is Postdoc in the Department of Law at University of Southern Denmark. Ole Hammerslev is Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031409349
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 281 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature. ; Art, Modern
    Abstract: I. Introduction. Rewriting the Soul: the Persistence of a Concept 2 -- II. Writing the Soul 23 -- 1. Egyptian Souls in Victorian Minds: The Transmigration of the “Ka” in Egyptianising Fiction -- 2. E. S. Dallas’s Literary Theory: The “Hidden Soul” and the Workings of the Imagination -- 3. “You haven’t let me call my soul my own”: Soul, psyche and the thrill of nothingness in May Sinclair’s fiction -- 4. Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo -- 5. Forging in the smithy of David Foster Wallace’s postmodern soul -- III. The Aesthetics of the Soul -- 6. Transmutations of the Soul: Anima and her Heart in Christopher Harvey’s School of the Heart (1647) -- 7. Let us go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn de Morgan -- 8. “Dancing the American Soul: Secular and Sacred Motifs in the Choreographic American Renaissance.”- 9. Casting the Soul: Antony Gormley’s sculptures -- Sweet Soul Music -- IV. The Ethics and Politics of the Soul -- 11. Colliding Circles: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concept of the Soul Between Spiritual Self-Realization and Materialistic Expansion -- 12. “Souls on Board”: A Counter-History of Modern Mobility -- 13. African American Women’s Literary Renaissance: A Template for Spiritual Fiction in the 21st Century?- 14. “Persisting souls in a persisting myth: appropriation and transmigration in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013).”.
    Abstract: This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, spanning cultures and schools of thought. Drawing on philosophical, religious and psychological theories of the soul, it emphasizes the far-reaching and enduring epistemological function of the concept in literature, art and politics. The authors argue that the concept of the soul has shaped the understanding of human life and persistently irrigated cultural productions. They show how the concept of soul was explored and redefined by writers and artists, remaining relevant even as it became removed from its ancient or Christian origins. Estelle Murail is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the Catholic University of Paris and Associate Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Paris, France. She has published several articles on the flâneur and cities, and co-edited Dickens and the Virtual City (Palgrave, 2017). Her current research focuses on urban spaces, the environment, crossings and networks, and the notion of persistence. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Paris, France. Her research mostly focuses on the interplay of individuality with history and politics in fiction and autobiographical writings. Spirituality is central to her reflection on literary representations of individual and collective identities. .
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    ISBN: 9783031449239
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 219 p.)
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    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Religion ; Literature
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Dialectics -- Chapter 2: The Wisdom-Power Dialectic -- Chapter 3: The Ethics-Morality Dialectic -- Chapter 4: The Ideology Utopa Dialectic -- Chapter 5: The Theism-Atheism Dialectic -- Chapter 6: Summation and Closing Thoughts.
    Abstract: This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study—independently of one another—used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world. Howard Ira Einsohn was a part-time instructor at Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning for a combined total of 15 years (2004-2019), most of which were spent at the former institution. During this period, he taught courses in writing, advanced writing, technical writing, literature surveys, drama and the short story, as well as courses on Ibsen, Flannery O’Connor, and Tim O’Brien.
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    ISBN: 9783031472466
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 119 p. 119 illus., 111 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series
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    Keywords: Landscape architecture. ; Geometry. ; Architecture ; Arts.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Anamorphosis as a visual metaphor: A necessary interaction between the artwork and the observer -- Anamorphic different scales: Landscape, urban space, architecture and design in the work of Felice Varini -- Optical and perspective illusion -- Dual view anamorphosis -- Shadow anamorphic art -- Anamorphic installations against urban decay -- Drawing the illusion: Geometries of the anamorphic transcriptions.
    Abstract: This book intends to focus exclusively on anamorphic experiments in contemporary art and design, leaving an in-depth historical examination of its Baroque season to other studies. Themes, languages and fields of application of anamorphosis in contemporary culture are critically analyzed to make the reader aware of the communicative potentiality of this kind of geometrical technique. The book also has the aim to teach the reader the most appropriate geometric techniques for each of them, in order to achieve the designed illusion. Each typology of anamorphosis is accompanied in this book by contemporary installations, a geometrical explanation by means of 3D models and didactic experiments carried on in collaboration with the students of the Department of Architecture in Naples.
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    ISBN: 9783031439650
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 164 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Service industries. ; Communication and traffic.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: How Digital Platforms are Changing Music -- 2. Streaming: Where it Comes From -- 3. Platforms: Why Music Depends on Them -- 4. Algorithms: Who Selects Music for Us -- 5. Listeners: How They Shape Music Consumption Practices -- 6. Artificial Intelligence: Where the Music of the Future is Heading -- 7. Conclusions: What is the Value of Music. .
    Abstract: "Magaudda and Bonini present a look into digital platforms that will change the conversation about how platforms operate. Instead of assuming that platforms are neutral, Magaudda and Bonini show that platforms are embedded in networks of people. As a result, they show how platforms have become the new gatekeepers for cultural content. This book will change the way we think about platforms for years to come." —David Arditi, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA "Magaudda and Bonini are two of the most prolific and thoughtful scholars on the topic of music and technology. In this book they provide insight into how streaming platforms are shaping music production and consumption cultures. This book will help us better grasp how we can intervene in creating a music ecosystem that benefits everyone.” —Robert Prey, Assistant Professor at the Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today’s society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners. Tiziano Bonini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Siena. He has co-edited the book Radio Audiences and Participation in the age of network society (with B. Monclus, Routledge, 2015) and co-authored the book Algorithms of Resistance (with E. Treré, MIT Press, 2024). Paolo Magaudda is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Padova. He is author of History of Digital Media (with G. Balbi, Routledge, 2018) and Youth People and The Smartphone (with M. Drusian and C.M. Scarcelli, Palgrave 2022). .
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    ISBN: 9783031462931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 419 p. 27 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Business. ; Africa. ; Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; Technological innovations. ; SDG 9 ; innovation ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; sustainable development ; infrastructure ; sustainability ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Capacities as Facilitators of Sustainable Development in sub-Saharan Africa’s Informal Economy Ibidunni, A.S.; Ogundana, O.M.; and Olokundun, M.A. -- Section One: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Informal Entrepreneurship Ecosystem -- Chapter 2. Jump On The Bandwagon: Finding Our Place in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discourse Oladele, S.; Adigun, O.; and Laosebikan, J. -- Chapter 3: Small and Medium Enterprises Sustainability Strategies beyond the Periods of Environmental Shocks: Evidence from a Developing Economy Agbi, B.D. and Ibidunni, A.S. . – Chapter 4: Motivating entrepreneurial activities to achieve sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa Onoshakpor, C. and Ogundana, O.M. -- Chapter 5: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and the Role of Telecom Multinationals in Achieving SDG 9 in Developing Economies Umoru, U; Udie, J. A; and Udeozor, V. -- Section Two: Innovations in Entrepreneurship Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 6: Towards an Integrative Model of Innovative Entrepreneurship Education for Institutional Sustainability Ogbari, M.E.; Chima, G.U.K.; Olanrewaju, F.O.; Olokundun, M.A.; and Ufua, D.E. -- Chapter 7: Informality in Africa In Relation To Sustainable Development Goals and 9: Framework For Innovation And Sustainable Industrialization Amuda, M.O.H. -- Chapter 8: Transportation and Economic Development: Advancing Technological Innovation and Sustainability in the Transportation Sector of a Developing Nation Olowogbon, T.S.; Fakayode, S.B.; and Adebisi, L.O. -- Chapter 9: Drivers of Eco-Innovation among Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria Popoola, O.A. and Popoola, G.O. -- Chapter 10: Open Innovation across The Innovation Value Chain: An African Perspective Mdaka, L. E. and Longweni, M. -- Chapter 11: Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Institutions on Innovative Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan African Countries Olarinde, M.O. and Auta, S. -- Section Three: Economic Impact of Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Microfinance as a Vehicle for Zero Poverty and Gender Equality in Nigeria Ude, D.K. -- Chapter 13: Financial Inclusion and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa Region Achugamonu, B.U.; Akintola, A.F.; Owolabi, F.; and Isibor, A. -- Chapter 14: Adaptiveness of MSMEs during Times of Environmental Disruption: Exploratory Study of Capabilities-Based Insights from Nigeria Ibidunni, A.S.; Ayeni, A.A.W.; and Otokiti, B. -- Chapter 15: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: A Leadership Framework Opute, A.P.; Irene, B.O.; Jawad, C.; and Agupusi, P. -- Chapter 16: Conclusion: Informal Economy as a Springboard for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development in sub-Saharan Africa Ibidunni, A.S.; Ogundana, O.M.; and Olokundun, M.A.
    Abstract: This edited collection aims to demystify the interconnectedness between the factors and actors involved with innovation and entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) informal economy. This is set against the backdrop of a rising population and decreasing opportunities for white collar jobs, as well as the continent’s limited access to resources. Exposing the underlying motivations in Africa’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, particularly in the informal sector, the editors argue that there is a significant knowledge gap, which this book seeks to fill. It concerns institutionalization, motivational factors, the harnessing of innovative potentials of Africa’s informal sector entrepreneurs and their supporting role in achieving a more sustainable African region. By identifying patterns of domesticating entrepreneurship theories and showcasing the latest research, the book covers a wide array of topics discussing a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective to entrepreneurship theory and practices in Africa. In this way it contributes to the goals of SDG 9 (Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation) in Africa. Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Business Administration Department at Chrisland University, Nigeria. His research interests are Strategic Management, Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship in developing economies. Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University UK, specializes in Entrepreneurship, Venture Growth, & International Business. Notably, he has received awards for his contributions, holds the position of Associate Editor, and is a regular reviewer for top academic journals. Maxwell Ayodele Olokundun is a researcher and member of faculty in the department of business management at Covenant University. He holds a PhD with specialisation in Business and Entrepreneurship. Maxwell is a start-up coach and an entrepreneurship consultant for firms in the retail and oil and gas sector. .
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    ISBN: 9783031540899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 218 p. 21 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Computer crimes. ; Law and economics. ; Criminology. ; Africa ; Crime. ; Technology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Cyber Crime in Nigeria – Reviewing the problems -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Nigerian Financial Crimes Agencies and the Nigerian Police Force – research findings on forensic digital readiness -- 5. Implications for Financial Crime in Nigeria -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996. The scale and magnitude have been quite disturbing, not just for Nigeria but also for the international community, given the limitless boundaries of cybercrime. Like any other type of fraud, Internet fraud is primarily driven by financial gains. This book investigates the extent of the lack of digital forensic resources in Nigeria’s financial crime agencies. It is vital to have a proper resource inventory and capabilities to successfully confront the growing threat of financial crimes. While a few studies have suggested the lack of forensic capabilities in Nigerian cybercrime investigative agencies and the justice system, none have examined this in great detail, particularly in relation to specific skills gaps and resources needed in Nigeria’s financial crime agencies. This book contributes to the growing body of knowledge and clarifies the scope of the lack of digital forensic resources. Understanding the extent of the deficiency and its impact on caseloads could be crucial for developing a roadmap toward building forensic readiness and capability maturity for the agencies. This book presents the deficiencies in forensic readiness and recommends measures to fill this gap. This book also examines the specifics of the cybercrime caseloads and conviction records in Nigeria, identifying trends and patterns. The book explores other cybercrime complexities in Nigeria, such as common cybercrime taxonomies, prosecution, and conviction dynamics, juxtaposing it with select case studies in other jurisdictions. Drawing on extensive research, the book offers crucial insights for policymakers, researchers, and the public interested in new trends in cybercrime, digital forensic readiness, Nigerian financial crime agencies, and cybercrime investigations. .
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    ISBN: 9783031541469
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 101 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Juvenile delinquents.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Risk factors for youth offending and recidivism -- Chapter 3 Protective factors for youth desistance -- Chapter 4 Quantitative analysis -- Chapter 5 Qualitative analysis -- Chapter 6 Prevention of Youth Offending and Recidivism -- Chapter 7 Conclusions and Recommendations.
    Abstract: This book aims to advance knowledge about the recidivism of young offenders. It reviews knowledge about risk factors for recidivism and about protective factors that encourage desistance. It then reviews quantitative research on predictors of recidivism versus desistance of young offenders in Buenos Aires, Argentina, based on following up over 100 young offenders during a two-year statutory monitoring period. Numerous factors are identified that predict recidivism: family, educational, social, community, demographic, offence history, substance use history. It then presents qualitative research based on offenders’ narratives, using extensive verbatim quotations, that explain their recidivism versus desistance. Finally, it reviews research on the prevention of recidivism of young offenders and makes recommendations based on the quantitative and qualitative analyses. This book should be of great interest to all academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers who are interested in juvenile offending and recidivism, including criminologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social scientists and criminal justice practitioners. Provides quantitative and qualitative evidence for prediction of recidivism in the lesser-studied context of Argentina; Reviews most significant risk factors for youth delinquency, recidivism and protective factors for youth desistance; Reviews key research on the prevention of youth offending and recidivism. .
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    ISBN: 9783031395000 , 303139500X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 215 Seiten) , 32 illus., 22 illus. in color.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: Arctic Encounters
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Researching with Proximity
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Environmental sciences Social aspects ; Human geography ; Human ecology ; Civilization History ; Ethnology ; Environmental Social Sciences ; Human Geography ; Environmental Anthropology ; Cultural History ; Sociocultural Anthropology
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    ISBN: 9783031504587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 244 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Krieg ; Stellvertreterkrieg ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Ethik ; Moral ; Internationale Norm ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 The Nature of Proxy Relationships and their Ethics -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 1: Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 2: The Cold War -- Chapter 4 Jus ad Bellum and the Implications for Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 5 Mitigating the Moral Hazards of Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Applying the Proxy Moral Framework.
    Abstract: “At a time when proxy wars are being fought across the globe, this book should be required reading for senior military and national security officials. Professor Pfaff, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Just War, gives us a fresh and indispensable guide to the ethics and legality of proxy wars and how they fit into the long tradition of Just War. He also provides a much-needed blueprint for the containment and resolution of such conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East.” –Michael Hirsh, Columnist, Foreign Policy Magazine “Professor Pfaff's book brings clarity and rigor to an increasingly important feature of international relations: states' use of proxies to achieve indirectly what they prefer not to do directly. It makes a crucial contribution to the normative analysis of international competition by carefully identifying the potential moral harms and hazards of this type of relationship. In an era in which many conflicts feature hostilities between proxies, this book is an essential guide to understanding their nature and complexity.” --Mitt Regan, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center "Tony Pfaff's excellent book examines the ethics of an increasingly important aspect of warfare: supporting proxies who do the actual fighting and dying to accomplish their national objectives while furthering their sponsor's interests. Highly recommended for those who care about keeping America both safe and morally strong." --Dr. John Nagl, Professor Warfighting Studies, US Army War College, and author of Eating Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam Proxies can effectively transfer risk and lower the costs of international competition; however, they set conditions for moral failure and hazard. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book addresses how international actors can address those challenges and establish ethical and effective security relationships. DR. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) is the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Senior Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031535987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 630 p. 169 illus., 146 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 913
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Transportation engineering. ; Traffic engineering. ; Statistics .
    Abstract: This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice. The book presents the most relevant findings discussed at the 23rd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat 2023), which took place as a hybrid event on October 19 – 21, 2023, in/from Riga, Latvia. It spans a broad spectrum of advanced theories and methods, giving a special emphasis to the digitalization of transport systems, as well as smart, artificial intelligence, and digital twins applications.
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    ISBN: 9783031493904
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 330 p. 84 illus., 69 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 846
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Transportation engineering. ; Traffic engineering. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: This book presents various models and approaches, specific proposals, and recommendations on a whole range of areas for smart cities' development. This book proposes to look at the problem through a broad overview of all elements of a smart city as a single system: smart governance, smart buildings, smart transportation, smart tourism destinations, smart economy, and smart environment. The book is intended for both young and experienced scientists who want to get acquainted with the latest trends and data for using them in their research.
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    ISBN: 9783031508608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 341 p. 94 illus., 88 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Big Data 143
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Environmental management. ; Big data. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Environmental risks put one in six people at risk, as well as our complex ecosystems. Today, IoT sites can monitor the environment and assess risks. Clean technologies can help detect toxic substances, chemical spills, hazardous pollutants, and other issues, enabling both governments and industries to clean or protect the air, land, water, and other environments, and how IoT can support these processes. IoT-enabled environmental intelligence is the constant measurement and collection of our physical environment, through sensors and smart devices. Integrated sensors in irrigation facilities, water supply systems, pipelines, cisterns, weather stations, ocean, and industrial facilities—anywhere on the globe—can record temperature, relative humidity, water content, leaks, and any other physical parameters.
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    ISBN: 9783031569500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 563 p. 220 illus., 174 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 956
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems). ; Engineering ; Medical informatics.
    Abstract: This book concentrates on advances in research in the areas of computational intelligence, cybersecurity engineering, data analytics, network and communications, cloud and mobile computing, and robotics and automation. The Second International Conference on Advances in Computing Research (ACR’24), June 3–5, 2024, in Madrid, brings together a diverse group of researchers from all over the world with the intent of fostering collaboration and dissemination of the advances in computing technologies. The conference is aptly segmented into six tracks to promote a birds-of-the-same-feather congregation and maximize participation. It introduces the concepts, techniques, methods, approaches, and trends needed by researchers, graduate students, specialists, and educators for keeping current and enhancing their research and knowledge in these areas.
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    ISBN: 9783031519826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 340 p. 180 illus., 154 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 870
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Part I: Industry -- Numerical study through CFD of the behavior of a centrifugal fan for dust extraction systems -- Optimization of the stamping process of oven sides panels for domestic cooking through finite element modeling -- Topological optimization of swing arm for electric motorcycles -- Micromechanical modeling of biobased sisal polylactic acid compounds -- A Proposal of a Fair Voting Ensemble Classifier Using Multi-Objective Optimization -- Physical-Chemical Characterization of Cocoa Oil Subjected to an Accelerated Fermentation Process -- Control system for a cacao drying process: case study cylindrical dryer -- Comparative study of multivariate statistical methods for predicting the academic performance of students at the University of Guayaquil -- Calculation of the efficiency of an electromagnetic coil according to the induction resistance of the pot -- Development of a Control System for a Biomechanical Prosthetic -- The Impact of Intranet Use on Internet Sales During COVID-19: A Study of Companies in Ecuador -- Embedded Systems for Tracking and Detection of Pets through an IoT Network -- Mobile Application for Online Procedures in the Municipality of San Miguel de Ibarra -- Assessment of decommissioning cost of proton therapy centers depending on the shielding material in the building process -- Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) -- Part II: Infotelecom -- Use of leaderboards to gamified drive student performance as a motivational strategy in VLE environments -- Microlearning as a learning consolidation strategy for the university blended learning modality in a VLE -- Physical and Organoleptic Evaluation of 12 Cocoa Clones (Theobroma cacao L.) of National Type, in Cocoa Liquor – A Study from Ecuador -- External factors and socioeconomic influence on users acceptance of online payments -- Proposal of evaluation cases for the standardization of the validation activities of neutron unfolding codes -- Function and Management Emulation of CEDIA Backbone: The Ecuadorian Advanced Network Updated From IPv4 to IPv6 -- Implementation of an Intelligent Platform for Sustainable Urban Water Consumption Management: A Case Study of Digital Transformation in Zaruma City, Ecuador -- Governmental portal of the National Transit Agency of Ecuador: Web usability aspects and user satisfaction aimed at the elderly. -- Development of a Web Application for evaluating corporate social responsibility practices -- Performance evaluation of an internet-of-things platform based on open-source -- Development and evaluation of an intelligent chatbot for the management of citizen procedures in the GAD San Miguel de Ibarra -- Software for Speech Therapy Support Through PECS Oriented to Digital Learning Environments For Children With Moderate ASD -- Development of a Brain-Computer Interface to Control Finger Movements of a Robotic Hand -- Proposal of an Agile Approach based on Scrum for Managing Continuing Education Programs -- Development of a Compact Synchrotron Proton Therapy Center Model for Monte Carlo-Based Radiation Protection Studies.
    Abstract: This book is dedicated to exploring the practical applications and future perspectives of intelligent technologies. It delves into various domains, including industry, mobility, telecommunications, and environmental considerations. The innovative nature of this text enables us to draw connections between technical advancements and experiences aimed at enhancing the integration of emerging technologies on local, national, and regional scales. It showcases the strides made in diverse engineering domains, underlining the book’s multidisciplinary appeal. This book is intended for a wide readership, catering to master's and doctoral students, professors, and researchers in the field of cutting-edge technologies. It also extends its relevance to businesses engaged in engineering development. The contents offer insights into novel methodologies, real-world case studies, and innovative techniques designed to optimize systems, ultimately contributing to societal progress.
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    ISBN: 9783031519970
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 669 p. 86 illus., 65 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 223
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Technological innovations. ; Engineering mathematics. ; Engineering
    Abstract: How Men React to Social Media Marketing is New Evidence for Marketers -- THE MALAYSIAN PEOPLE'S WELL-BEING INDEX TRENDS FROM 2016-2022 -- GREEN INVESTING AND FINANCIAL EDUCATION: THE CASE OF CHINA'S A-SHARE MARKET -- Revitalizing China Rural Industries through Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education: A Conceptual Framework -- BUILDING A RESEARCH MODEL FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTERPRISE INNOVATION VALUES AND EMPLOYEES INNOVATION BEHAVIOR: WITH INNOVATION SELF-EFFICACY AS A MEDIATOR -- Unpacking Financial Herding Behaviour: A Conceptual Study of Youth and Working Adults in Chongqing, China -- Systematic Literature Review: Behavioural Biases as The Determinants of Herding -- Conceptual Framework: Understanding the Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policies on Investor Behavior in China's Renewable Energy Sector -- THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INTEREST RATES, VOLATILITY, AND HERDING: INSIGHTS FROM THE CHINESE SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET -- THE ROLE OF VOLATILITY IN MEDIATING THE IMPACT OF RESERVE REQUIREMENT RATIO ON HERDING IN CHINESE SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE -- Enhancing Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing: A CNN-LSTM Hybrid Approach for Reliable Component Failure Prediction -- Advancing the Upper Echelon Theory with Environmental Dynamism and Big Data Analytics Capabilities -- APPLICATION OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE DUAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- Consumption Values and Subscription Loyalty: A Survey of Mobile Network Service Users -- Artificial Neural Network Approach for Predicting Student Achievement in Scratch Training -- Temperature control in wine fermentation using programming in LabVIEW -- ‘Roam the World, Share Your Heart’: Fostering re-participation intention among local voluntourists in Malaysia -- The Influence of Corporate Governance Structure on Directors’ ‎Remuneration Disclosure in Malaysia: An Analysis of The FTSE30 ‎Companies -- Factors Affecting Brand Loyalty Towards the Use of the Media Platform of the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Council (MAIWP) Among the Muslim Community in Kuala Lumpur -- The Development Status and Trends of Chinese Express Delivery Packaging in a Green and Low-Carbon Context -- Green Data Centers: A review of current trends and practices -- Economic Impact of Employment Generation Policies in India and Rural Poverty Alleviation: An Analytical Review -- An Empirical Study: Long Run and Short Run Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Indian Stock Market Prices -- Last-Mile Delivery Innovations: The Future of E-commerce Logistics -- IS ESG THE KEY TO STIMULATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE? AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION -- The Impact of High-Performance Work System on ‎Intellectual Capital, Organizational Resilience and ‎Innovation Growth: Evidence from the Micro Small ‎Medium Enterprise -- Role of Mosque Management Committee in Empowering the Muslim Community in India - A Systematic Review -- Beyond Humor: How Memes Shape Brand Associations and Drive Purchase Choices -- Green Consumers Purchase Intention and Sustainable Consumption of Organic Food Products: A Conceptual Framework for the Indian Middle-Class Market -- Voices of the Future: Generation Z's Views on AI's Ethical and Social Impact -- The Influence of Perceived Information Quality on Travel Satisfaction in Kuala Lumpur: A Perspective of Generational Difference -- A Study on Industrial Sustainability and the Growth of Environmental Stability: Path towards Green Development: A Review -- JUVENILE WORKER - AN IMPACT OF BPL FAMILY -- Quality Management Practices and Strategic Impact ‎on Performance Measures in Yemen's Construction In‎dustry -- Reforms in Indian Banking Sector: A Paradigm Shift in Growth and Financial Inclusion in India -- The mediating impact of strategic leadership on the relationship between digitalization and strategic planning of retail pharmacies -- The Role of Innovation in Waste Management for Enterprises: A Critical Review of the Worldwide Literature -- Application of High-Performance Work System with AI in employee recruitment and performance evaluation -- Training Needs Assessment for Operator Level Employees in Parking Management DKI Jakarta -- EXPLORING ECOLOGICALLY CONSCIOUS CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR (ECCB) SCALE FROM THE OUTLOOK OF HOUSEHOLD CONSUMERS -- The Role of Transportation Vehicle, Transportation Infrastructure, and Resistance to Change in Public Transport Towards Climate Change -- An Impact Analysis of Non-Performing Asset (NPA) of Banks on Profitability of the Banks in India -- The Impact of Online Learning and Soft Skills on College Student Satisfaction and Course Feedback -- Factors affected EMA adoption: The moderating role of ‎resource bricolage -- Optimizing Supply Chain Through Risk Analysis: A Path to Enhanced Efficiency and Resilience -- SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL – ‎MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: A MEDIATING VARIABLE OF CULTURE -- Capacity for innovation frugal: the look from companies incubated in park ‎technology and inco-working spaces -- CUSTOMS LOGISTICS IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR IN UKRAINE -- People's Perceptions of the Benefits, Risks, and Acceptance of Services Delivered ‎by Drones in the United Arab Emirates -- Exploring the Dynamics of Bitcoin Volatility During the ‎COVID-19 Pandemic and Vaccination Rollout -- Financial Literacy Scale Development: Reliability and Validity Analysis on Managers in ‎Institutions Affiliated to Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate -- Limited Ownership and the Power of Sharing Tangible ‎and Intangible Assets -- SATISFACTION OF TRAVELERS TOWARDS USING INSTAGRAM ‎AS MEDIUM OF SEARCHING FOR DESTINATIONS WITH ‎REFERENCE TO BANGLORE CITY- SEM APPROACH -- A Look on Sustainable Human Development, Gender Gap and Welfare: Evidence from ‎Capital Markets.
    Abstract: This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between technology and business and its implications for future growth and innovation. In today's rapidly changing world, technology plays a crucial role in shaping the business landscape. Advancements in artificial intelligence, blockchain, data analytics, and automation have revolutionized how organizations operate, compete, and achieve success. Understanding the profound impact of technology on business is vital for entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, and academics alike. This book aims to explore the connection between technology and business, highlighting its importance in driving transformative changes across various industries. We welcome scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share their expertise and insights in this exciting endeavor. This book captures the essence of exploring the dynamic relationship between technology and business, emphasizing the potential for innovation and growth. It conveys the idea of embracing the transformative power of technology within the business realm and the opportunities it presents for unleashing new ideas and strategies. By delving into various aspects such as emerging technologies, business strategies, innovation, and ethical considerations, it aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the symbiotic relationship between technology and business. It offers insights into the integration of technology into decision-making processes, the transformative impact on different industries, and strategies for leveraging technology to drive organizational growth and sustainability. Furthermore, the book highlights real-world case studies, explores emerging trends, and discusses the ethical and social implications of technology adoption in the business context. It serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, academics, and anyone interested in understanding and harnessing the potential of technology for business success. This book aims to be a valuable resource for individuals interested in the transformative power of technology in the business realm. By compiling a collection of insightful chapters, it offers readers a diverse range of perspectives, frameworks, and case studies that shed light on the complexities and opportunities associated with technology-driven business environments.
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    ISBN: 9783031477218
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 885 p. 329 illus., 248 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 822
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation.
    Abstract: The book is a unique collection of studies involving intelligent systems and applications of artificial intelligence in the real world to provide solutions to most vexing problems. IntelliSys received an overwhelming 605 papers which were put under strict double-blind peer-review for their novelty, originality and exhaustive research. Finally, 227 papers were sieved and chosen to be published in the proceedings. This book is a valuable collection of all the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and smart systems. It provides a ready-made resource to all the readers keen on gaining information regarding the latest trends in intelligent systems. It also renders a sneak peek into the future world governed by artificial intelligence.
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  • 72
    ISBN: 9783031485732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 616 p. 261 illus., 219 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 838
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Exploring the Impact of Deep Learning Techniques on Evaluating Arabic L1 Readability -- Performance Analysis of Two Serial Concatenations of Decoders over a Rayleigh Channel -- Blockchain and Reputation Based Secure Service Provision in Edge-cloud Environments -- Exploring the Impact of Convolutions on LSTM Networks for Video Classification -- Classification algorithms implementation for fire prevention data on multiple wireless node sensors -- Implementation of an intelligent monitoring system based on Quality 4.0 of the Induction Hardning process -- Lithium-Ion Battery State of Charge Estimation Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine -- Intrusion Detection in Software-Defined Networking using Machine Learning Models -- Neural Network for link Prediction in social network -- Design and optimization of a compact Microstrip band-pass filter using on open loop rectangular resonators for wireless communication systems -- YOLO-based Approach for Intelligent Apple Crop Health Assessment -- A comprehensive review on the integration of Blockchain Technology with IPFS in IoT ecosystem.
    Abstract: This book is to provide a comprehensive reference for professionals in the field of data science and applications: artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, and blockchain. In summary, this book is expected to function as a helpful resource and manual, enabling readers to navigate the intricate domain of artificial intelligence, the Internet of things (IoT), and blockchain in smart environments. This book covers many topics related to integrating AI, IoT, blockchain, and smart environments. It begins by laying a solid foundation, introducing each technology's fundamental concepts and principles. Subsequent chapters explore applications and real-world use cases, demonstrating how AI, IoT, and blockchain can effectively address critical challenges within data science and applications.
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  • 73
    ISBN: 9783031530227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 517 p. 179 illus., 152 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 901
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Education
    Abstract: This book contains papers in the fields of engineering pedagogy education, research in engineering pedagogy, and games in engineering education. The authors are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. The pandemic period left us with profound changes in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools, mainly used by students, is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are absolutely necessary. The 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2023), which took place in Madrid, Spain, between September 26 and 30, 2023, was the perfect place where current trends in higher education were presented and discussed. Since its beginning in 1998, this conference has been devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in higher education. Nowadays, the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in learning and engineering pedagogy. In this way, the authors try to bridge the gap between ‘pure’ scientific research and the everyday work of educators. Interested readership includes policy makers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, schoolteachers, learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.
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  • 74
    ISBN: 9783031523885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 478 p. 198 illus., 147 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 904
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Environmental sciences
    Abstract: This book encapsulates the innovative discussions held during the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD'2023), which took place at Mohammed 6 University of Sciences and Health Casablanca, Morocco. This book delves into the multifaceted realm of advanced intelligent systems, specifically focusing on digital health technology. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge research and breakthroughs in this dynamic field, providing a holistic perspective on the latest advancements. Within these pages, you will find papers covering an array of captivating topics, including AI-driven diagnostics, wearable health devices, predictive analytics in health care, and much more. Each contribution delves into the synergy of intelligent systems and digital health, showcasing how these technologies intertwine to shape the future of healthcare. Designed for researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts alike, this book serves as an invaluable resource for staying updated on the latest trends and developments in the intersection of advanced intelligent systems and digital health technology. Whether you are seeking to broaden your knowledge or seeking practical insights, this book caters to a diverse readership eager to harness the potential of these innovative domains.
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  • 75
    ISBN: 9783031514494
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 125 p. 36 illus., 21 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 877
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Transportation engineering. ; Traffic engineering.
    Abstract: Development of a camera-based parking monitoring system with an automatic parking spot identification -- Energy-efficient radio platforms for implementation of nodes of sensor networks -- A heuristic approach to assess the performance efficiency of road intersections in urban environments from the resilience perspective -- The ecological footprint of embedded rail structures -- Vectors of development of mountain tricycles.
    Abstract: This book presents many valuable tips for making decisions related to road traffic in transport networks. The knowledge base in practical examples, as well as the decision support systems described in this volume, finds interest among people who face the daily challenge of searching for advanced solutions and practical applications in road traffic engineering. The publication is therefore addressed to local authorities related to the planning and development of development strategies for selected areas with regard to transport (both in the urban and regional dimension) and to representatives of business and industry, as people directly involved in the implementation of traffic engineering solutions. The tips contained in individual sections of the publication allow to look at a given problem in an advanced way and facilitate the selection of the appropriate strategy (among others, in relation to the heuristic approach to assessing the performance efficiency of road intersections in urban environments from the resilience perspective, modeling the distribution of transport pollutants in a naturally ventilated road tunnel, development of a camera-based parking monitoring system with an automatic parking spot identification). In turn, due to a new approach to theoretical models (including, inter alia, problems with the safety of passengers at tram stops or energy-efficient radio platforms for the implementation of nodes of sensor networks), the publication also interests scientists and researchers carrying out research in this area. The publication entitled "Road Traffic Analysis, Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions" contains selected papers submitted to and presented at the 19th “Transport Systems. Theory and Practice” Scientific and Technical Conference organized by the Department of Transport Systems, Traffic Engineering and Logistics at the Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology. The conference took place on September 18–19, 2023, in Katowice (Poland).
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9783031441318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 438 p. 135 illus., 113 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 773
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Engineering
    Abstract: Comparative study between ecological and economic methods of cryptocurrency mining -- A mobile educational application based on transfer learning and computer vision for teaching semantics fields in children with intellectual disabilities -- Exploring the Factors Affecting the Service Quality of Online Shopping Applications: An Empirical Study -- A basic-electronics educational kit for memory and visuomotor coordination stimulation in senior citizens -- IPv6 in IoT -- Students' perception of professional accountant skills and knowledge -- Proactivity, a need, or a trendy word? -- A systematic review of Green intellectual capital.
    Abstract: This book presents advances in the research of various entities in the world, which are working on the application of technology or management in tourism. Indeed, one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic was tourism, likewise one of the post-pandemic effects is the rapid recovery of the sector, but more importantly is the great innovation that has occurred in marketing strategies for tourism using technology and applying management strategies not only to be more profitable but to have the best customer satisfaction. The book is aimed at the general public that seeks to innovate, learn from lessons learned and establish a knowledge base in mechanisms that apply technology or management in tourism, with the aim of improving the experience of all those involved in the business chain. This compendium aims to share all those great experiences and researches in the areas of: Managements, Tourism, Marketing strategies in Management, Tourism and Technology, Technology, Applied Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Business Administration, Cloud Computing, Educational Management, Finance, Insurance and Services Management, Health Tourism, Human Resource Management, Information Systems Planning and Management, Information Technologies in Tourism, Internet Technology, Knowledge Management, Management of Supply Chain and Logistics, Marketing Innovation, Robotics, Strategic Management Innovation, Sustainability Management, Technical Economy Management, Technical Innovation and Management, Technology in Tourism and Tourist Experience, Tourism Industry and Ecology, Tourism Management, a total of 77 research projects and many spaces and relationships between researchers to collaborate in the advancement of science are presented.
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9783031519796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 553 p. 145 illus., 122 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 899
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Education
    Abstract: This book contains papers in the fields of collaborative learning, digital transition in education, and AI and learning analytics in engineering education. The authors are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. The pandemic period left us with profound changes in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools, mainly used by students, is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are absolutely necessary. The 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2023), which took place in Madrid, Spain, between September 26 and 30, 2023, was the perfect place where current trends in higher education were presented and discussed. Since its beginning in 1998, this conference has been devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in higher education. Nowadays, the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in learning and engineering pedagogy. In this way, the authors try to bridge the gap between ‘pure’ scientific research and the everyday work of educators. Interested readership includes policy makers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, schoolteachers, learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.
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  • 78
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031477157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 873 p. 335 illus., 274 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 824
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: The book is a unique collection of studies involving intelligent systems and applications of artificial intelligence in the real world to provide solutions to most vexing problems. IntelliSys received an overwhelming 605 papers which were put under strict double-blind peer-review for their novelty, originality and exhaustive research. Finally, 227 papers were sieved and chosen to be published in the proceedings. This book is a valuable collection of all the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and smart systems. It provides a ready-made resource to all the readers keen on gaining information regarding the latest trends in intelligent systems. It also renders a sneak peek into the future world governed by artificial intelligence.
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9783031508837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 178 p. 34 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Intelligent Systems Reference Library 249
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Tourism. ; Management.
    Abstract: This book offers a fresh perspective on smart tourism, introducing unique frameworks and insights with the potential to shape the industry's future. It explores the convergence of technology, tourism, and smart cities, emphasizing the use of smartphones, social media data, AI, blockchain, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing to enhance tourism experiences. What sets it apart is its focus on practical solutions that require minimal infrastructure investments, making it accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. This book addresses knowledge gaps and proposes cutting-edge frameworks for smart tourism development. It is intended for researchers, academics, and professionals in tourism, technology, and urban planning. Key uses of this book include providing a comprehensive overview of the evolving smart tourism landscape and serving as a valuable resource for researchers and educators in this dynamic field.
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  • 80
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031489181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 342 p. 153 illus., 149 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1129
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Mathematical optimization.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chaotic Maps and Meta-Heuristic Algorithms -- Chaotic Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm -- Chaotic Teaching Learning-Based Optimization -- Chaotic Biogeography Based Optimization -- Chaotic Differential Evolution -- Chaotic Water Evaporation Optimization -- Chaotic Artificial Bees Colony -- Chaotic Imperialist Competitive Algorithm.
    Abstract: In this book, various chaos maps are embedded in eleven efficient and well-known metaheuristics and a significant improvement in the optimization results is achieved. The two basic steps of metaheuristic algorithms consist of exploration and exploitation. The imbalance between these stages causes serious problems for metaheuristic algorithms, which are immature convergence and stopping in local optima. Chaos maps with chaotic jumps can save algorithms from being trapped in local optima and lead to convergence toward global optima. Embedding these maps in the exploration phase, exploitation phase, or both simultaneously corresponds to three efficient and useful scenarios. By creating competition between different modes and increasing diversity in the search space and creating sudden jumps in the search phase, improvements are achieved for chaotic algorithms. Four Chaotic Algorithms, including Chaotic Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm, Chaotic Water Evaporation Optimization, Chaotic Tug-of-War Optimization, and Chaotic Thermal Exchange Optimization are developed.
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9783031534454
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 595 p. 208 illus., 189 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1136
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Industrial engineering. ; Production engineering. ; Multiagent systems.
    Abstract: Part I: Digital Twins and Software Implementation in Smart Manufacturing -- An architecture to integrate digital twins and machine learning operations -- Digital twin for decision-support: an insight into the integration of simulation models into digital twin architectures -- Modular Architecture for Embedded Digital Twin: Application to Assistive Technologies Design -- Data acquisition system for developing digital twin solutions: a practical guide -- Digital twin based augmented reality concept for no-code robotics -- Holonic Systems for Traceability in Fruit Supply Chains -- Part II: Resilience and Decision-making in Smart Healthcare Systems -- Exploration of (De-)centralising Scheduling in an Emergency Department -- Risk Assessment for Digital Twins applied in Systems Medicine.
    Abstract: The scientific theme of the book is “Sustainability for the digital manufacturing era” which is focused on how the technological enablers of digital systems drive the sustainability for products, processes, manufacturing, and logistics systems in the industry of the future. The book’s chapters describe sustainability drivers specific to the technological advances that motivate, encourage, and engage the economic, social, and environmental aspects within intelligent manufacturing and logistics systems. The novelty of this approach consists in extending the economic sustainability of digital manufacturing with the ethical perspective at human social scale. The general scope of the book is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems and in this context to promote concepts, methods, and solutions for the digital transformation of manufacturing through service orientation in holonic and agent-based control with distributed intelligence. The book’s readership is comprised of researchers and engineers working in the value chain of products and processes, who develop digital control solutions in the “Industry of the Future” vision. The book is also addressed to master’s and Ph.D. students enrolled in Engineering Sciences programs.
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9783031379789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIX, 1403 p. 348 illus., 247 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 733
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems). ; Agriculture.
    Abstract: The scope of this book is cyber-physical systems used for the sustainable development and productivity of the agricultural sector. The book contains proceedings of the conference “Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research in the Development of Agriculture in the Far East” (AFE-2022, Tashkent, Uzbekistan). The results of research in the following areas are presented here: software-as-a-service solutions for orchard management, ICT components of Smart Agriculture (SA), farm management platforms, yield monitoring and estimation, IoTs in farming, water management, and smart agriculture machines. The book contains information on the latest technologies in precision agriculture, including real-time technology and big data analytics, fertilizer and sprayer controllers, robotics, variable rate irrigation, networks and remote sensing technologies, etc. The research results presented in the book help in making the right decisions about the allocation of resources in agricultural systems.
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9783031534881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 374 p. 143 illus., 93 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 912
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Industrial engineering. ; Production engineering.
    Abstract: This book presents the proceedings of the 12th World Conference "Intelligent systems for industrial automation", WCIS-2022 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on November 25-26, 2022. It includes contributions from diverse areas of intelligent industrial systems design, intelligent information systems, decision making under imperfect information and others. The topics of the papers include hybrid control systems, pattern recognition, industry 4.0, information security, neural computing, fuzzy computation, decision making and support systems, and others.
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9783031523823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 258 p. 146 illus., 114 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 875
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Biomedical engineering. ; Medical informatics.
    Abstract: This book presents a collection of scientific articles on recent research on innovations in biomedical engineering. Articles are divided into two chapters covering broad areas of experimental research and biomedical engineering, engineering of biomaterials as well as informatics and modelling in biomedical engineering. Given its scope, it offers a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers, and students alike. The topics include not only theoretical considerations but also practical applications of research conducted in cooperation between engineers, doctors, and physiotherapists. .
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9783031533822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 531 p. 137 illus., 108 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 911
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Education
    Abstract: We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. The pandemic period left us with profound changes in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools, mainly used by students, is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are absolutely necessary.The 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2023), which will take place in Madrid, Spain, between 26th and 30th September 2023, will be the perfect place where to present and discuss current trends in Higher Education. Since its beginning in 1998 this conference is devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in Higher Education. Nowadays the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Learning and Engineering Pedagogy. In this way we try to bridge the gap between ‘pure’ scientific research and the everyday work of educators.
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  • 86
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031508035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 96 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Science and Fiction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Fiction. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Telecommunication. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Human-computer interaction. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems).
    Abstract: Introduction -- The DARPA Dilemma -- Scattered Avatars -- Topsy Turing -- Fractured Memories -- Artificial Neurogenesis -- The Assimilation -- The Collective Singing the ‘I Can’t Decrypt Them’ Blues -- SANDI’s Environment -- Chatbot Lydia -- Asimov’s Failure -- The Hackers get Hacked -- Dangerous Liaisons -- SANDI’s Dilemma -- Dead. Yet Alive -- Answers at Last -- Preparing to Bring them Home -- The Collection Process -- The Final Preparations -- The Integration Begins -- The Integration of MAXWELL -- The Integration of ISAAC -- The Integration of SANDI -- The Integration of ELYSE -- When Robots Hug -- The Science Behind the Novel -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: By 2027, it had been seven years since the scientists’ sea-changing research on artificial psychology and robotics. The work debuted around the same time as Large Language Model Chatbots, and the power of the integration of the two technologies put many industries in a tailspin. The commercial and defense industries especially were still scrambling to regulate their use in research and universities. The sought-after scientists signed with DARPA to build reliable and secure AI entities, but the agency grew fearful of the technology’s power and ultimately decided it was too dangerous to bring to market and demanded the scientists destroy the work. The researchers couldn’t bring themselves to discard 20 years of research, so instead sent the entities to various research labs around the world. But unbeknownst to them, each AI-entity embraced its new home, growing, adapting, evolving, and ultimately connecting beyond what the researchers could envision. In the end, as the scientists catch up to each one, they realize the entities have discovered a very human means of interacting: the power of physical contact; and not physical contact between humans and technology, but physical contact between robotic entities. And with this discovery, the entities join forces to only grow stronger. This development ushers in a new paradigm where the difference between AI-entities and human entities becomes less and less discernible. All the AI and robotic science featured in the book is real; the story line is fictional, but with how fast innovation moves, it’s not hard to envision.
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9783031522550
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 354 p. 150 illus., 133 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 902
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems). ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Proposal design of an autonomous photovoltaic plant on potentially liquefiable soil in the isolated rural community of Agua Fría, Ecuador -- Seismic design considerations for the installation of photovoltaic systems on flat reinforced concrete roofs: A case study in Ecuador -- A brief guide to the implementation of lean tools in the Ecuadorian context -- Analytical study of the behavior of tubular elements reinforced with natural fibers under dynamic loads -- Landstorfer antenna structure shaping based on parameterized parallel curves -- Solving the generation and transmission capacity expansion planning framework modeling the AC power flow problem and incorporating reactive compensation devices -- Reconstruction of the boundary condition of the convection–diffusion–reaction equation with automatic selection of the step length -- Assessing carbon capture, transport, and storage processes: A critical review -- Antenna densification in non-uniform linear and planar arrays -- Greinacher rectifier evaluation for WiFi band energy harvesting -- Experimental measurement of potential energy in stairways with hydraulic damping systems -- Vulnerability characteristics of wetlands in the Guaranda wasteland, central Ecuador – Implications of long-term sustainability -- Climate variability and its effect on flood risk through dynamic modeling in the Quigushuaycu stream -- Network Neutrality policies in the 5G South American market -- Evaluation of the internal temperature and hours of thermal discomfort produced by sunshine: Study of a hot dry climate -- Review of biomass and biopolymers synthesized in Ecuador -- Solar energy conversion systems thermal management applying constructal theory: a comparative analysis -- Quantification of the decrease of droplets expelled from the human respiratory tract during expiratory activities when using masks -- Impacts of park-and-ride systems on vehicle emissions in intermediate cities -- Machine learning regressors in forecasting mechanical properties in advanced manufacturing processes -- Comparative evaluation of performance efficiency in terms of temporal behavior and resource utilization, according to the ISO/IEC 25010 model, in a web application developed with Angular, React.js, and Vue.js -- Prediction models of oral diseases: A systematic review of the literature -- How can personal knowledge graphs contribute to precision nutrition? -- Interactive e-Books in mathematics learning: A systematic mapping study.
    Abstract: This book covers different aspects of advances in research, technological development, and innovation results in artificial intelligence, computational modeling, electrical, electronics, telecommunication, data communications, defense engineering, innovation, technology and society, managing technology and sustained innovation, business development, security and cryptography, and software engineering. In addition, the volume focuses on research results focused on finding innovative solutions in intelligent systems concerning the topics mentioned above, which are developed in national and international postgraduate programs and associated research groups and networks. This book interests the industry, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers working in intelligent systems, security and defense, and technological, human, and administrative sciences. .
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  • 88
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031533853
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 198 p. 41 illus., 31 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1139
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data.
    Abstract: A Study on the Factors Influencing the Intention to Use MyData Service -- A Study on the Intention to Use the Urban Air Mobility Passenger Transportation Service -- A Study on the Integration of Endpoint Security Service Operations Management - Focusing on Cloud Services -- A Study on the Factors Affecting the Korean Financial Institution’s Switching Intention to Open Source Software - Focused on System Software -- A Study on the Intention to Utilize Overseas Developers through Offshoring - Using the Value-Acceptance Model (VAM) -- The Role of Co-creation Experience and Switching Cost in the Relationship between Service Recovery and Customer Loyalty -- A Comprehensive Analysis of Security Measures for MyData in South Korea Based on AHP -- A Study on the Factors Influencing the Performance of Korea Venture Capital Funds -- A Research on Factors Influencing the Survival of Small Businesses: Focusing on Franchise Convenience Stores -- A Study on Purchase Intention for Innovative Products: Focusing on Oxygen-generating Air Purifiers -- The Impact of Company's ESG Activities on Corporate Reputation -- The Impact of ESG Activities in Midsize Manufacturing Companies on Purchase Intentions: Focusing on the Mediating Roles of Corporate Reputation, Brand Image, and Perceived Quality -- A Study on the Intention to Utilize Overseas Developers through Offshoring Approach and Strategy for Economic Cooperation between South and North Korea Using the Value-Acceptance Model (VAM) - Based on the Case Study of the Kaesong Industrial Complex -- A Study on the Intention to Use Home Network Services -- A Study on the Impact of Green Patent Data on ESG Environment Indicators. .
    Abstract: The book reports state-of-the-art results in Big Data and Data Science Engineering in both printed and electronic form. Studies in Computation Intelligence (SCI) has grown into the most comprehensive computational intelligence research forum available in the world. This book publishes original papers on both theory and practice that address foundations, state-of-the-art problems and solutions, and crucial challenges.
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9783031539602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 724 p. 298 illus., 233 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 919
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Telecommunication.
    Abstract: Using ChatGPT-4 to Grade Open Question Exams -- Usable Security: Cultural Impacts on Graphical Passwords Usability -- Eye Disease Prediction using Ensemble Learning and Attention on OCT Scans -- Complementing Robotic Process Automation with Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT), Case of Robocorp -- Architectural Scalability of Conversational Chatbot: The Case of ChatGPT -- Hybrid Approach Involving Genetic Algorithm and Hill Climbing to Resolve the Timetable Scheduling for a University -- Chatbots: An Overview of Current Issues and Challenges -- Text Simplification System for Legal Contract Review -- Audio-based Detection of Anxiety and Depression via Vocal Biomarkers -- Automatic Detection and Spline-based Pixel-length Estimation of Fishes from Images.
    Abstract: The book is a valuable collection of papers presented in the Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC), conducted by Science and Information Organization on 4–5 April 2024 in Berlin. It received a total of 401 paper submissions out of which 139 are published after careful double-blind peer-review. Renowned and budding scholars, academics, and distinguished members of the industry assembled under one roof to share their breakthrough research providing answers to many complex problems boggling the world. The topics fanned across various fields involving Communication, Data Science, Ambient Intelligence, Networking, Computing, Security, and Privacy. .
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9783031534331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 388 p. 105 illus., 92 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 192
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Environmental sciences ; Engineering
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Reconsidering a Sustainable Future through Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in the Context of Circular Economy (Georgios Lampropoulos, Harjinder Rahanu, Elli Georgiadou, Dimitrios Siakas, and Kerstin Siakas) -- Chapter 2. The Digital Paradigm: Unraveling the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (Hanane Thamik, Juan David Figueroa Cabrera, and Jiang Wu) -- Chapter 3. The role of the Artificial Intelligence of Things in Energy Poverty alleviation (Ascensión López Vargas, Agapito Ledezma-Espino, and Araceli Sanchis-de-Miguel) -- Chapter 4. AIoT-Enabled Smart Grids: Advancing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Integration (Fadele Ayotunde Alaba, Usman Sani, Emmanuel Gbenga Dada, and Baydaa Hashim Mohammed) -- Chapter 5. Achieving SDGs using AI Techniques and Digital Twins for Nuclear Power Plants: A Review (Kousik Barik, Sanjay Misra, and Harald P-J Thunem) -- Chapter 6. Carbon and Decarbonization Disclosure: Role of Responsible Innovation in Adoption of Artificial Intelligence of Things towards SDGs (Assunta Di Vaio, Anum Zaffar, and Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente) -- Chapter 7. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Fadele Ayotunde Alaba, Abayomi Jegede, Usman Sani, and Emmanuel Gbenga Dada) -- Chapter 8. AIoT-Enabled Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Crop Disease Management: Advancing SDGs through Graph Attention Neural Networks (Muhammad Bello Kusharki and Bilkisu Larai Muhammad-Bello) -- Chapter 9. Sustainable Healthcare 5.0: Integration of IoT and Blockchain Technology with Federated Learning Model for Securing Healthcare Data (Arudra Vamshikrishnaa, Dharavath Ramesha, Rahul Mishraa, and Nazeeruddin Mojammadb) -- Chapter 10. IoT-Enabled Machine Learning for Enhanced Diagnosis of Diabetes and Heart Disease in Resource-Limited Settings (John Abubakar, Aghedo Emmanuel Odianose, and Omolola Faith Ademola), etc.
    Abstract: This book covers various topics and trends regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in society, industry, and environment for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suggested by the United Nations. Additionally, it discusses their advancements and fusion as well as the realization of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). The book aims to provide an overview and recent research into the fusion, integration, advancements, and impact of these technologies in the context of SDGs achievement. The topics include the applications of AI, IoT, big data, AI-based and IoT-based cloud computing, machine learning and deep learning techniques, and blockchain among others for achieving SDGs. It also presents findings and discussions on potential application domains, addresses open issues and challenges, offers solutions, and provides suggestions for future research for achieving SDGs. The chapters are clustered, according to particular SDGs or areas of focus, into: i) the realization of AIoT for SDGs, ii) the role of AIoT in achieving society and wellbeing-related SDGs, iii) the fulfillment of industrial sectors, infrastructure, and economy-related SDGs through AIoT, and iv) the use of AIoT to aid natural resources and environment-related SDGs. The book assists researchers, practitioners, professionals, and academicians of various scientific fields in exploring and better understanding these state-of-the-art technologies, their advancements, impact, future potentials and benefits, and their role in successfully achieving SDGs. The book: · Offers an in-depth overview of AIoT for achieving SDGs. · Presents the fusion of AI and IoT for bringing a significant change in everyday life and fulfilling SDGs. · Highlights innovative solutions and results of AIoT integration in several domains for achieving SDGs. · Showcases the influence of AIoT on promoting and improving sustainability in the context of SDGs. · Discusses the issues, benefits, solutions, and impact of AIoT in society, industry, and environment for achieving SDGs.
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    ISBN: 9783031368950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 978 p. 252 illus., 218 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 489
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Engineering ; Engineering mathematics.
    Abstract: 1.Universal Adversarial Perturbation -- Automated Environmental Mapping with Behavior Trees -- Multi-objective Automatic Clustering with Gene Rearrangement -- Impact of immersive technology and virtual work environment, on innovative work behaviour -- Innovation capability and the relationship between entrepreneurial resources and micro-business performance. -- Impact of Cloud Computing as a digital technology on SMEs sustainability -- Digital innovation and agri-business -- The Usage of Artificial Intelligence in management process -- Artificial Intelligence to Human Resources Management -- others.(Green Finance, Digital Finance, and their challenges on traditional businesses -- Artificial Intelligence and Public Governance: citizens perspective in the context of a developing nation -- Fintech Innovations and the potential for green investment -- Blockchains, tokens and entrepreneurship).
    Abstract: Intelligent systems research is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the development of systems that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously. This can include areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and robotics. The goal of intelligent systems research is to develop systems that can understand, learn from, and adapt to their environment, to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. Business and innovation research is an interdisciplinary field that examines how organizations can create, develop, and implement new ideas, products, and services. This can include areas such as organizational behaviour, strategic management, and marketing. The goal of business and innovation research is to understand how organizations can foster an environment that encourages creativity and innovation, and how they can develop and implement new ideas in a way that leads to success. Intelligent Systems, Business and Innovation Research is a research area that brings together these two fields to study the use of intelligent systems and technologies in the business context to drive innovation, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. The book aims to understand how intelligent systems can be used in business applications, how to design and implement them, how to manage the associated challenges, and how to leverage them to foster innovation, create new business models, and gain competitive advantage. It offers guidance on how to navigate potential conflicts and challenges that may arise during multidisciplinary research in areas such as Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, modern machine learning, software agent applications, and data science. The book focuses on the various fields in which intelligent systems play a critical role in enabling the development of advanced technologies that can perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. For example, in smart/control systems, intelligent algorithms can be used to optimize the performance of machines and devices, while in cyber security, they can be used to protect networks and data from cyber-attacks. In bioinformatics, intelligent systems can be used to analyse large amounts of biological data, while in virtual reality and robotics, they can be used to create realistic and responsive simulations and automatons. Additionally, the book also highlights the rapidly advancing theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, mathematical logic, and non-classical logic. These are important theoretical frameworks for the development of intelligent systems, as they provide the foundation for the representation and manipulation of uncertainty, complexity, and imprecision. These theoretical foundations are essential in the development of intelligent systems that can make decisions and perform tasks in uncertain, complex, and dynamic environments.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9783031514975
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 564 p. 244 illus., 227 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics 28
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: This book of the SPAR series contains 39 scientific articles presented in the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems conference organized in November 28–30, 2022, in Montbéliard, France. The contributions are covering a broad scope of topics within distributed robotics including mobile sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, multi-agent systems, algorithms for multi-robot systems, modular robots, swarm robotics, and reinforcement learning or deep learning applied to multi-robot systems.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9783031535550
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 651 p. 317 illus., 262 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 193
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data.
    Abstract: Few Shot Ner on Augmented Unstructured Text from Cardiology Records -- The Influence of Financial Literacy and Financial Technology on Smes' Sustainability -- The Effect of Digital and Human Capital Transformation on Sme Performance With Accounting Information Systems as an Intervening Variable -- Openvslam-based Development Framework for Web-based Vr Tours Using 360vr Videos and Its Extensions -- Implementation of a Fuzzy-based System for Assessment of Logical Trust Considering Reliability as a New Parameter -- Source Code Vulnerability Detection Based on Graph Structure Representation and Attention Mechanisms -- An Efficient Vulnerability Detection Method for 5g Nas Protocol Based on Combinatorial Testing -- Graph-based Detection of Encrypted Malicious Traffic with Spatio-temporal Features -- Fuzzing Iot Devices via Android App Interfaces with Large Language Model -- Towards the Automated Population of Thesauri Using Bert: A Use Case on the Cybersecurity Domain -- Network Scanning Detection Based on Spatiotemporal Behavior -- Iotaint: An Optimized Static Taint Analysis Method in Embedded Firmware -- An Innovative Approach to Real-time Concept Drift Detection in Network Security -- Formal Analysis of 5g Eap-tls 1.3 -- Perceiving Human Psychological Consistency: Attack Detection Against Advanced Persistent Social Engineering.
    Abstract: The book presents original contributions to the theories and practices of emerging internet, data, and web technologies and their applicability in businesses, engineering, and academia. As a key feature, it addresses advances in the life-cycle exploitation of data generated from the digital ecosystem data technologies that create value for the knowledge and businesses toward a collective intelligence approach. Internet has become the most proliferative platform for emerging large-scale computing paradigms. Among these, data and web technologies are two most prominent paradigms, in a variety of forms such as data centers, cloud computing, mobile cloud, and mobile web services. These technologies altogether create a digital ecosystem whose corner stone is the data cycle, from capturing to processing, analysis, and visualization. The investigation of various research and development issues in this digital ecosystem is boosted by the ever-increasing needs of real-life applications, which are based on storing and processing large amounts of data. Researchers, software developers, practitioners, and students interested in the field of data and web technologies will find this book useful and a reference for their activity.
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    ISBN: 9783031523564
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 135 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Capital market. ; Financial services industry. ; Money ; Cost of living crisis ; Inflation ; Purchasing power ; The origin of money ; Monetary policy ; financial economics ; Inflation crisis
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Existing Literature: A Brief Tour -- Chapter 3: What is Money? -- Chapter 4: The Origin of Money as the Ability to Obtain Goods and Services -- Chapter 5: Money as the Ability Vis-à-Vis Other Concepts -- Chapter 6: Money as the Ability and Some Related Issues -- Chapter 7: Money as the Ability and inflation -- Chapter 8: The Causes of Inflation -- Chapter 9: Some After Thoughts and the Question of Economic Polices.
    Abstract: The book goes beyond the usual understanding of money—physically, electronically or virtually expressed in term of monetary units like dollars, pounds, gold coins, or bitcoins—and discusses how money is best conceptualised as the ability of a person/party to obtain goods and services from another person/party. This ability may originate from the access of a person/party to money in usual sense (e.g. dollars, pounds) but also via force, social norms, mutual negotiation, altruism, trust or due to human biological characteristics. As the ability to obtain goods and services from others depends on the context — what functions as money in a time and place may not function as money in another time and place — as such money has no universal type or representation. The book explains inflation as the increased need to acquire money, that is the need to employ more physical and mental labour to create the ability to obtain a wide range of goods and services. This book provides an explanation of the post covid price hike and the cost of living crisis by taking this new theory into consideration, which will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy makers and students studying finance, monetary economics and inflation. Mehdi Chowdhury is the Deputy Head of Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, at the Business School at Bournemouth University, UK. He has PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has researched on international migration and refuge crisis. His current research focuses on the economics of money following the post-covid changes to the world economic order.
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9783031518850
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 161 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Non-State Actors in International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Regionalism.
    Abstract: Hybrid Governance and Non-State Actors in Singapore Foreign Policy: Sovereign Wealth Funds, Think Tanks and Para-Political Institutions in Foreign Policy Processes -- On the Pillars of Pan-Africanism: An emerging AU foreign policy -- Non-State Actors’ Role in Foreign Policy: The Case of the EU Enlargement Policy in Western Balkans -- Institutionalising Foreign Policy-making between Non-State Actors: From Reactive to Proactive Relations between the EU and the KRI -- The Syrian Opposition Ups and Downs and Its Participative Potential in Formulating Syrian Foreign Policy -- The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as Foreign Policy (Non-State) Actor in Iraq -- The World Uyghur Congress as an Actor of Foreign Policy -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This edited volume discusses non-state actors as agents of foreign policy. It questions whether non-state actors can act as foreign policy makers and if the contemporary role of non-state actors constitutes a theoretical challenge to foreign policy. Chapters demonstrate the impact of non-state entities through the lenses of their direct role as decision-makers, with examples drawn from the African continent, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Arguing for the necessity of approaching foreign policy in a broader frame, beyond the scope of the state and the individual, the book fills a gap in the literature and creates a closer nexus between area studies and foreign policy. This volume will be of interest to both academics and practitioners across the fields of international relations, foreign policy analysis, and area studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031526770
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 633 p. 99 illus., 87 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Applied ethics. ; Economics. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Energy Regulation ; Energy Policy ; Energy Transition ; Africa's Energy ; Power Sector Reform ; Energy and Gender ; Energy Institutions ; Regulatory Institutions ; Renewable Energy ; Energy Access ; Energy Stakeholder management ; Performance of utilities ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I. Political Economy of Energy Regulation in Africa -- Chapter 1. The dynamics of energy regulation in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 2. Africa’s Transition to Cleaner Energy: Regulatory imperatives and Governance Dynamics (Sidique Gawusu) -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Electricity Sector Regulation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 4. The political economy of the next wave of power sector reforms in Africa: evidence from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Namibia (Christine Juta) -- Chapter 5. Legal and Regulatory Pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa’s Energy Access and Energy Transition Agenda (Ivie Ehanmo) -- Chapter 6. Policy framework and regulations to promote clean energy and energy transition in ECOWAS countries (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 7. Effective regulation and the energy transition in Zambia (Naa Adjekai Adjei) -- Chapter 8. The rationale of Economic Regulations: Theoretical Review (Haliru Dikko) -- Chapter 9. Power Sector Regulation in Africa in an Energy Transition Era (Pauline Anaman) -- Chapter 10. Role and Challenges of The African Energy Regulator in The Midst of Global Economic Storm (Benjamin Ashitey Armah) -- Chapter 11. Regulating Public utilities within a crisis’s situation in Africa (Etutu Mawondo Shalman) -- Chapter 12. The Electricity Tariff and Utility Performance: Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and Namibia Electricity Market (Jeffrey Baiden) -- Part II. Regional Electricity Markets Development -- Chapter 13. Major challenges in Africa in the development of competitive electricity markets. An analysis of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 14. Regional Power Trade in Africa: The Different Institutional and Regulatory Models of African Power Pools (Mohamed A. Eltahir Elabbas) -- Chapter 15. An outlook on a Future-Proof Regulated Cross-Border Electricity Market in Africa (Oghosa Erhahon) -- Chapter 16. Cross-border power trading model for SSA; Challenges andopportunities of operationalizing power pools in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 17. Competitiveness and sustainability of electricity markets in the ECOWAS region: evolution of reforms, regulations challenges and markets integration (Charly Gatete) -- Part III. Emerging Technologies and the Energy Transition -- Chapter 18. Energy-Related Climate Change Reportage in Africa: Has the Media Gotten It Right? (Maame Esi Eshun) -- Chapter 19. Effect of fossil fuel subsidies on renewable energy transition in sub-Saharan African countries (Souleymane Diallo) -- Chapter 20. The Gains and Pains of the Energy Transition. A perspective on Sub Saharan Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 21. Willingness to Change to Electric Cars: Is the Ghanaian Consumer Ready? (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 22. Economic power and the transition to renewables in South Africa (Sumayya Goga) -- Chapter 23. An analysis of imported clean cooking technologies. Implications for policy development in Ghana (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 24. Natural Gas as a Transition Fuel; Domestic Natural Gas Production and Energy Security in Ghana (Paul Minsung Gyeng) -- Part IV. Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Sector -- Chapter 25. Putting Gender on the Corporate Agenda in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry (Phil Faanu) -- Chapter 26. The impact of gender, culture and other African traits in cooperating with energy regulators (Dominic Kwesi Eduah) -- Chapter 27. Imperatives for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Sector Regulation In Africa (Ifeyinwa Ikeonu) -- Part V. Concluding Chapter -- Chapter 28. The future of energy regulation in Africa (Charly Gatete).
    Abstract: This book analyzes the political economy governing energy regulation across the African continent. Presenting case studies that span diverse energy sectors and countries, it provides an overview of their complex political and regulatory frameworks. The book explores emerging technologies and energy markets, highlighting Africa’s preparedness for the energy transition, and sheds light on the pivotal role of cross-border energy trade with regard to energy access. Further, it examines regulators’ influence within regional power pools, as well as their contribution to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector, addressing vital social issues. This book is divided into five parts, the first of which focuses on the political economy of energy regulation. The second part discusses emerging technologies and climate change issues, while the third examines regional energy markets, and regional institutional collaboration. The fourth part features contributions on gender mainstreaming, while part five rounds up the coverage. The book will be of interest to policymakers and investors in Africa, as well as scholars interested in energy regulation and economics.
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    ISBN: 9783031533495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 217 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Studies of masculinities: an introduction -- 3 Poststructuralism and the «dissolution» of masculine identity -- 4 Masculinity as representation -- 5 Boys don’t cry? Masculinity and the politics of emotion -- 6 Dangerous liaisons? Friendships between men in Western history and culture -- 7 Masculinity as violence? Cultural and literary re-visions -- 8 Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence. Josep M. Armengol is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His recent (co-)edited collections include Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017) and Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031531842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 214 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Crime Files
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Mass media and crime.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper -- Chapter 2. Enter Holmes and Jack -- Chapter 3. Parallel Culture-Texts -- Chapter 4. The Versus Storyworld -- Chapter 5. Palimpsestuous Holmes -- Chapter 6. Polymorphous Jack -- Chapter 7. (Mis)Remembering Secondary Characters -- Chapter 8. Neo-Casting or Decentring the Great Detective -- Chapter 9. Detective Doyle.
    Abstract: "Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko’s ambitious study pursues the endlessly intriguing parallel textual lives of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. The strange case that she sets out to solve is the extensive but neglected corpus of versus narratives: texts in which the great detective sets out to defeat the Whitechapel murderer. Krawczyk-Żywko convincingly reads these works as part of a rich textual constellation influenced by the overlapping Sherlockian and Ripperological culture texts. Her book’s focus will inevitably intrigue aficionados of Holmes and its insights into aspects of adaptation, neo-Victorianism and biofiction mean it will also appeal strongly to scholars in these areas." —Dr Chris Louttit, Radboud University, The Netherlands In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archetypal serial killer using established formulas as well as new narrative and generic features, a combination that results in their mass appeal among authors and audiences alike. The list of primary sources includes 120 titles – novels, short stories, plays, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – which are treated as a dialogic network of transfictional and transmedial texts. This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as serial figures and culture-texts emphasising the increasing palimpsestousness of the former and the multidirectional polymorphousness of the latter, and tracing the overlapping Doylean culture-text. It also addresses the way character constellations are represented, negotiated, and fed back into the versus network, contextualising them within the coalescence of fact and fiction, Gothic and crime fiction frames, cultural memory, neo-Victorianism, and biofiction. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She coordinates the research group 'From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria' and initiated the Changing Narratives conference series. Her research combines neo-Victorian, crime fiction, and adaptation studies and focuses on the rewritings of Victorian villains and detectives.
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9783031548727
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 193 p. 18 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
    Uniform Title: Climate stress test
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Financial risk management. ; Climatology. ; Sustainability. ; ESG ; Climate & environmental risk ; Financial institutions ; Transmission channels ; Regulatory framework ; Governance ; Business model ; Climate risk ; Sustainability ; Sustainable finance ; ESG and finance
    Abstract: 1 Climate Risk Scenario -- 2 Regulatory Framework, Standards And Best Practices For The Financial Sector -- 3 Transmission Channels Of Climate Risk -- 4 Integrating Climate Risk Into Commercial Banks Operations -- 5 Insurance Companies -- 6 Governance Implications: The Challenge Of Disclosure.
    Abstract: Climate change is defining structural modifications that affect the economy and the financial system. Within Europe, supervisors and supervised entities are increasingly focusing on the consequences of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks as they impact the soundness and stability of the financial system or interfere with the transmission channels of monetary policy and price stability as well as raising sustainability financing issues. Focusing on climate-related risks within the broader theme of ESG risks, this book analyzes the evolving overall regulatory framework, the climate risk transmission channels, the peculiarities of climate risk transmission channels with reference to specific business models of financial intermediaries, and the governance and disclosure implications of climate risks. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of banking, financial services, sustainability, ESG, and climate risk. Elisabetta Gualandri is a Full Professor of Banking and Finance in the Marco Biagi Department of Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she is a member of the Center for Studies in Banking and Finance (CEFIN). She is also a Director of the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance – Wolpertinger. Paola Bongini is a Full Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is also the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Business for Society. Her research interests are in empirical banking, financial regulation and financial literacy and education. Maurizio Pierigè is Senior Partner at Prometeia responsible for the Risk Integration activities within the Enterprise Risk Management Practice. As Head of Risk Integration, Advanced Analytics, Climate Change & ESG Risks, he is in charge of the development of Prometeia offerings (scenarios, advisory, models, methodologies, software solutions) on balance sheet forecasting and risk integration topics. Marina Di Janni is a Principal, Risk Integration, Advanced Analytics, Climate Change & ESG Risks at Prometeia. She is in charge of planning, controlling, and risk integration for institutions.
    Note: Translation from the Italian language edition: "Climate stress test. Un primo passo verso una gestione integrate dei rischi climatici e ambientali" by Elisabetta Gualandri et al., © AIFIRM (Associazione Italiana Financial Industry Managers) 2022. - The Book is based on selected Chapters (1, 2, and 8) of the AIFIRM's Position Paper n. 39 “Climate Stress Test - Un primo passo verso una gestione integrata dei rischi climatici ed ambientali”. The Editors of the Book took care of all updates, additions, revisions, and translations of the AIFIRM's Position Paper n. 39 selected chapters
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    ISBN: 9783031465536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 257 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Culture and Religion in International Relations
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    Keywords: Religion and politics. ; Africa ; Economic development. ; Human rights. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Reading Humanitarianism Critically -- Chapter 2. The Humanitarian Misunderstanding in the Postcolonial Humanitarian African Imagination -- Chapter 3. Extractive Salvation: Zoe’s Ark and the Ethic of Humanitarianism in Africa -- Chapter 4: Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa” -- Chapter 5. Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, and Military Humanitarianism in the Northern Uganda Conflict -- Chapter 6: Engendering Care Revisited: Decolonizing Global Health and Dismantling Gender Stereotypes in HIV Care in Africa -- Chapter 7: How West African Women “Save” the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda -- Chapter 8: ‘Trust no one’: The logics of microfinance, depending on whom you ask -- Chapter 9. Toxic Scavenging in the Digital Divide -- Chapter 10. COVID-19 and the African Disaster that Wasn’t -- Chapter 11: Taking, Giving, Repairing and Reversing -- Chapter 12. The Last Word: Funtumfunafu, Denkyemfunafu: The Individual, the Community Reciprocity and Grace.
    Abstract: In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse. Humanitarian assumptions are challenged by unpacking critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to today’s global networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Who Gives to Whom: Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary is a decolonial gesture that builds onNgūgī’s work as well as that of pan-Africanist and intersectional feminist scholars. Contributions range from assessing the impact of historical legacies of colonialism on gender, religious/secular attempts at “saving” Africans to (South) African unrealized project to reconfigure foreign policy frameworks shaped by apartheid. Case studies of “silver bullet” solutions focus on the incorporation of women in peacebuilding, microfinance, and e-waste disposal, to argue that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being while shortchanging intersectional African forms of agency. Cilas Kemedjio is Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean literary and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, USA. Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
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