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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031573125
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 129 p. 31 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1157
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Review of the Two Existing Artificial Neural Network Models – Multilayer Perceptron and Probabilistic Neural Networks -- Beyond the Original PNN Model – Kernel Memory for Modeling Various Neural Pattern Processing Mechanism -- Modules within the Artificial Mind System and Their Interactions Relevant to Language Pattern Processing -- Concept Formation.
    Abstract: This book proposes a novel connectionist approach to a challenging topic of language modeling within the context of kernel memory and artificial mind system, both proposed previously by the author in the very first volume of the series, Artificial Mind System—Kernel Memory Approach: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 1. The present volume focuses on how syntactic structures of language are modeled in terms of the respective composite connectionist architectures, each embracing both the nonsymbolic and symbolic parts. These two parts are developed via inter-module processes within the artificial mind system and eventually integrated under a unified framework of kernel memory. The data representation by the networks embodied within the kernel memory principle is essentially local, unlike conventional artificial neural network models such as the pervasive multilayer perceptron-based neural networks. With this locality principle, kernel memory inherently bears many attractive features, such as topologically unconstrained network formation, straightforward network growing, shrinking, and reconfiguration, no requirement of arduous iterative parameter tuning, construction of transparent and hierarchical data structures, and multimodal and temporal data processing via the network representation. Exploiting these multifacet properties of kernel memory with interweaving the notion of inter-module processing within the artificial mind system provides coherent accounts for concept formation and how various linguistic phenomena, viz. word compoundings, morphologies, and multiword constructions, are modeled. The description is then extended to more intricate network models of context-dependent lexical network and syntactic-oriented processing, the latter being the central theme of the present study, and further to those representing a hybrid of nonverbal and verbal thinking, and semantic and pragmatic aspects of sentential meaning. The book is intended for general readers engaging in various areas of study in cognitive science, computer science, engineering, linguistics, philosophy, psycholinguistics, and psychology.
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    ISBN: 9783031544279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(Approx. 270 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Anglican Communion. ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. ‘That Woman that Shall Succeed Her’: Formal Pew-Renting up to 1818 -- 3. ‘Free from Tractarian Error’; Formal Pew-Renting Churches after 1818 -- 4. ‘Drive-A-Good-Bargain’: The Mechanics of Formal Pew-Renting Since 1818 -- 5. ‘Cobblers and Rat-Catchers’: Formal Pew-Renters -- 6. ‘Pew-Opener’s Muscle’: Informal Pew-renting and Pew-Openers -- 7. ‘The Morphine Velvet, Lavender-Kid-Glove School of Theology’: Private Pew-letting -- 8. ‘To Hinder Such Abomination’: Supporters and Opponents -- 9. ‘Seats We So Seldom Use’: Formal Pew-Renting’s Demise. 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system’s collapse in the twentieth. The book’s significance is partly its originality; no book and very few articles or portions of books have appeared solely on pew-renting since the nineteenth century, and even those of that time were not histories – they were polemical works that generally attacked pew-renting on religious grounds. This work encompasses the distinction between formal letting of seats – which involved the methodical letting of sittings by church authorities with set rents – and informal pew-letting, in which congregants tipped pew-openers and sidesmen for favourable seats for one service. It also details the concomitant difficulties and hindrances encountered by churches and renters, the means of setting the rents and collecting the proceeds, the types of congregants who rented pews, the controversy the practice provoked, and the deception and bending – and sometimes outright breaking – of the applicable law. J.C. Bennett received his PhD in History from the University of Birmingham in 2011. He has currently an appellate attorney in Texas, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031520266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 374 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Aesthetics. ; Political science ; Literature
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility -- Part I. Relations Between Literary and Political Writing -- 2. J. M. Coetzee’s Fictional Ethics, Christian Howard-Sukhil -- 3. Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy, Charlie van Veen and Catherine M. Robb -- 4. The Transpolitical Role of Poetry according to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, Lewis Fallis -- 5. The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle’s Romanticism and John Rawls’s Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice, Brian Wolfel -- II. Political Psychology Depicted -- 6. Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel, Eliza Starbuck Little -- 7. Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Dustin Gish -- 8. Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Sina Movaghati.-III. Power, Violence, Resistance: Overt and Subtle, Physical and Symbolic -- 9. “Command me, Confessor": Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth Series, Benjamin Carpenter -- 10. Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr’s Dispatches, Luke Sayers -- 11. African Scarification and Slavery: from Anthropology to Allegory, Michael Janis -- 12.Flaubert and Marx on 1848, Divya Menon -- IV. Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption -- 13. Platonic Corruption in The Handmaid’s Tale, Andy Lamey -- 14. Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist: The Godfather II as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe, Garry L. Hagberg -- 15. Retheorizing the Aristotelians’ Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions, Shilpi Saxena and Diksha Sharma -- 16. The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil’s Transformative Literature, Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson.
    Abstract: There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature. This volume offers analytically acute and culturally rich ways of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about political literature and what kind of distinctive conceptual progress we can make by doing so. Given the extremely widespread interest in political issues, this volume will strike resonant chords far and wide, while offering something that has not been done quite in this way and for which the time certainly seems right. Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. Author of four books and editor of nine volumes, he is presently completing a new book, Consciousness Portrayed: Seven Case Studies in Philosophical Literature.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9783031522314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 316 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 60
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    Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: Part 1: Chapter 1. An Exposition of Reformed Empiricism -- Chapter 2. Discussion of Gupta’s “An Exposition of Reformed Empiricism -- Part 2: Chapter 3. "Perceiving that p" - Capacities, Opportunities and Hindrances -- Chapter 4. Discussion of Kern’s “’Perceiving that p’ - Capacities, Opportunities and Hindrances” -- Part 3: Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6. Discussion of Peacocke’s -- Part 4: Chapter 7. Capacities First: Epistemic Externalism without Epistemic Disjunctivism -- Chapter 8. Discussion of Susanna Schellenberg’s “Capacities First: Epistemic Externalism without Epistemic Disjunctivism”. Part 5: Chapter 9. Two Conceptions of Perceptual Justification: Do their Differences matter? -- Chapter 10. Discussion of Wright’s “Two Conceptions of Perceptual Justification: Do their Differences matter?”.
    Abstract: The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents. The volume is centered around five cutting-edge essays by leading authors in these areas—Anil Gupta, Andrea Kern, Christopher Peacocke, Susanna Schellenberg and Crispin Wright—along with no less than thirty contributions scrutinizing and critically discussing the essays, prompting detailed rejoinders from the lead authors. The volume closes with an extensive debate between Annalisa Coliva, Gupta and Wright. Taken as a whole, the volume covers much ground in epistemology of perception and displays a variety of approaches and perspectives through fruitful and accessible exchanges. It will be of interest not only to researchers working in perceptual epistemology but also to students new to the subject.
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9783031539275
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(Approx. 240 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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    Keywords: Islam ; Islam ; Islam and culture. ; Islam and the social sciences. ; Islamic sociology. ; Peace.
    Abstract: 1. Studies on Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking -- 2. Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Arabian Society Before The Advent Of Islam -- 3. Conceptual and Theoretical Framework Of Islamic Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking -- 4. The Role of Sunnah In Conflict Resolution And Peacemaking -- 5. Formation of Collective Moral Conscience and Building A Moral Community -- 6. Historical Insights into Conflict Resolution: Lessons From Early Islamic Era -- 7. Revisiting the Tapestry of Islamic Conflict Resolution and Contemporary Relevance.
    Abstract: The book explores Islamic perspectives on conflict resolution and peacemaking, catering to both scholars and general readers interested in understanding the role of Islam in promoting harmony and resolving disputes. It delves into key topics such as the principles of Islamic conflict resolution, historical examples of peaceful resolutions, and contemporary challenges faced by Muslim societies. By addressing these topics, the book aims to provide insight into Islamic teachings and practices that can contribute to building bridges and fostering peace in diverse contexts. The book is important and relevant due to the increasing need for understanding and promoting peaceful resolutions in today's world, particularly in regions influenced by Islam. It offers a comprehensive examination of the principles and methods of conflict resolution within an Islamic framework, shedding light on the rich history of peacemaking within Muslim societies. By highlighting Islamic perspectives on peace, the book aims to bridge cultural divides and foster dialogue, promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions Islam can make to conflict resolution. The book seeks to address the prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes surrounding Islam's approach to conflict resolution. It aims to challenge the notion that Islam is inherently associated with violence or lack of peaceful solutions. By presenting authentic Islamic teachings and historical examples of peaceful resolutions, the book endeavours to contribute to a more nuanced and accurate understanding of Islam's role in promoting conflict resolution and peacemaking. It offers readers an opportunity to explore Islamic perspectives on resolving conflicts, encouraging dialogue, and cultivating a more peaceful world. H. Sadik Kirazli holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research spans broadly Islamic politics and conflict resolution, Muslim societies, and the issues related to Muslims in other socio-political contexts. both in thought and practice.
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    ISBN: 9783031556845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 434 p. 153 illus., 114 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1149
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: This book contains a collection of papers focused on hybrid intelligent systems based on soft computing techniques. In this book, new horizons on the theoretical developments of fuzzy logic, neural networks and optimization algorithms are envisioned. In addition, the abovementioned methods are discussed in application areas such as control and robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, decision-making, prediction and optimization of complex problems. There are a group of papers with the main theme of type-1, type-2 and type-3 fuzzy systems, which basically consists of papers that propose new concepts and algorithms based on type-1, type-2 and type-3 fuzzy logic and their applications. There is also a group of papers that offer theoretical concepts and applications of meta-heuristics in different areas. Another group of papers outlines diverse applications of hybrid intelligent systems in real problems. There are also a group papers that present theory and practice of neural networks in different applications. Finally, there are papers that offer theory and practice of optimization and evolutionary algorithms in different application areas.
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    ISBN: 9783031563881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(Approx. 215 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1153
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Software engineering. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Develop a System to Analyze Logs of a Given System Using Machine Learning -- Study on Locality, Fairness, and Optimal Resource Allocation in Cluster Scheduling -- Digital word-of-mouth and purchase intention. An empirical study in millennial female and consumers -- Alignment of Business Process and Information System Models through Explicit Traceability -- An Assessment of Fintech for Open Banking: Data Security and Privacy Strategies from the Perspective of Fintech Users.
    Abstract: This book reports state-of-the-art results in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing. This edited book presents original papers on both theory and practice. It addresses foundations, state-of-the-art problems and solutions, and crucial challenges.
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    ISBN: 9783031543142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 171 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Business ethics. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1. Introduction and Methodological Framework -- 2. Corporate Social Responsibility: Locating Contention and Scepticism -- 3. Socially Responsible Investment: New Challenges or Same Old Mindset? -- 4. The Fiduciary: The Overarching Contentious Concept.
    Abstract: This book offers a unique exploration and analysis of social responsibility and associated ethical concepts used by business and financial organizations. Mussell lays out the argument that a realist analysis of social responsibility reveals caring relations underpinning this ethical behavior. The combination of a realist social ontology with contemporary relational care ethics provides the theoretical framework needed to successfully explore the ethics of social responsibility. She then applies this realist caring relations argument to three specific contexts in which social responsibility is explicitly evident - including corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investment, and the legal concept of the fiduciary. By tracing the historical development of each concept – including how economic methodology has influenced interpretations and practice – a complex picture emerges, showing how ethics, economic theory, and political theory intersect. This is an insightful work of philosophically informed contemporary political economy, analyzing the evolution and connection of key ethical concepts widely used by organizations. Helen Mussell is a Lecturer in Organizational Studies at Cardiff University, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9783031559600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 968 p. 595 illus., 66 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; System theory. ; Control theory. ; Electric power production. ; Industrial engineering. ; Production engineering.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Linear ordinary differential equations -- Basic tools for arbitrary order systems -- Time response-based design -- Frequency response-based design -- The state variables approach -- Advanced topics in control -- Discrete-time systems -- Control of PM brushed DC-motor -- Control of a ball and beam system -- Control of a magnetic levitation system -- Control of Pendubot -- Tilt angle estimation -- Control of wheeled pendulum -- Control of mechanical systems with flexibility -- Control of DC/DC power electronic converters.
    Abstract: This book offers an enhanced and comprehensive understanding of control theory and its practical applications. The theoretical chapters on control tools have been meticulously revised and improved to provide a clearer and more insightful exploration of the fundamental concepts and ideas. The explanations have been refined, and new examples have been added to aid comprehension. Additionally, a new chapter on discrete-time systems has been included, delving into an important aspect of control theory. Advanced topics in control are also covered in greater detail, ensuring a comprehensive treatment of the subject matter. The section on experimental applications has been revamped to showcase the application of control ideas in various scenarios. Several chapters have been replaced with fresh content that focuses on controlling new and different experimental prototypes. These examples illustrate how control concepts can be effectively applied in real-world situations. Furthermore, this book introduces a new approach for control of non-minimum phase systems and explores the concept of differential flatness for multiple-input multiple-output systems. Additionally, a fascinating application involving a wheeled pendulum mobile robot has been included. While some chapters have been replaced, the second edition retains the chapters on the control of DC motors and the control of a magnetic levitation system. However, the material in the former chapter is mostly new, and the latter chapter is entirely supported by new control concepts and ideas.
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    ISBN: 9783031511165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 148 p. 84 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Anticipation Science 8
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    Keywords: Biology ; Mathematical logic. ; Biological models. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Category Theory -- 3. The Modeling Relation in Science -- 4. Relational Models -- 5. Simple Systems and Complex Systems -- 6. Anticipatory Systems -- 7. (M, R) – Systems -- 8. The Realization Problem -- Appendix: J. S. Hofmeyr’s (F, A) – Systems -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book focuses on Robert Rosen’s contributions to relational system theory, which is the science of organization and function. This science was originally developed by Nicolas Rashevsky, and further developed by Rashevsky’s student Robert Rosen, and continues to be developed by Rosen’s student A. H. Louie amongst others. Due to its revolutionary character, it is often misunderstood, and to some, controversial. The formal and conceptual setting for Rosen’s relational system theory is category theory. Rosen was the first to apply category theory to scientific problems, outside of pure mathematics, and the first to think about science from the point of view of category theory. To better understand the work of Rosen, this book provides an overview of his theory of modeling, complexity, anticipation, and organism. It presents the foundations of this science and the philosophical motivations behind it along with conceptual clarification and historical context in order to present Rosen’s ideas to a wider audience.
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    ISBN: 9783031566301
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 290 p. 50 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress 27
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    Keywords: Semiotics. ; Music. ; Translating and interpreting.
    Abstract: Translation in literary and academic discourse -- Between texts, languages, cultures, semiotic systems: Key concepts and methods in translation studies -- Towards a definition of the term ‘Musical Translation’ – Musical arrangement, cover version, and performance in the light of musicological research -- Applying translation theories in musicological research -- Concluding remarks.
    Abstract: This monograph lays the foundation for new methodologies of research between music and translation. It is the first such holistic attempt—from the perspective of a musicologist—based on the adaptation of translation theories. Until now, these fields have remained underexplored together. Only recently have the tools developed by translation theory permeated into musical scholarship. Such tools should prove as a promising alternative to those offered by classic musicological studies, particularly in reference to musical arrangement, pop music covers and performance. Theoretical discussion on topics are supported by case studies. This text appeals to musicologists and musicians as well as experts in the field of translation theory who are interested in expanding their field of inquiry.
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    ISBN: 9783031581243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 483 p. 16 illus., 15 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Business enterprises ; Business tax ; Management. ; Finance, Public. ; Taxation ; Management ; Natural Resources ; Sustainable Development ; Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa ; Policy Reforms in Africa ; Fiscal Policy ; resource rent ; Capital Gains Taxes ; Environmental taxation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: PART I: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- 1. Introduction: An overview of management and tax policy of natural resources -- 2. Natural resources tax administration and reforms in Africa -- 3. Assessing the impact of socio-political risk on natural resources in Africa -- 4. Natural resources revenue management strategies in African countries -- 5. The ethical dilemma of natural resources in African countries -- PART II: FISCAL STRATEGIES OF NATURAL RESOURCES EXTRACTION -- 6. Accountability and transparency of management of natural resources in Africa: Is the information sharing the solution? -- 7. Resource rent and capital gains taxes in Africa -- 8. Taxation of oil and gas revenue in African countries -- 9. Effective and sustainable management of natural resources in Africa: The roles of environmental tax and public participation -- 10. Globalization, institutional quality and management of natural resources in Africa -- PART III: IMPLICATIONS: STABILITY, CREDITABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 11. How does taxation of natural resources promote inclusive development in Africa? -- 12. Foreign direct investment and tax incentives in the extractives sector: the good, the bad and the ugly -- 13. Economics of peace: Can extraction of oil and gas lead to sustainable peace? -- 14. How does taxation of oil and gas hold up in commodity price volatility? -- 15. Can extractive and financial sector development help build sustainable infrastructure in Africa? -- 16. Corruption, taxation of natural resources and sustainable development in Africa -- 17. The impact of natural resource depletion on climate change vulnerability and income inequalities in Africa -- 18. The future of natural resource management and policy in Africa.
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive examination of the fundamental concepts and principles crucial to the taxation and management of natural resources, specifically tailored to the unique challenges faced by developing African countries. It delves into the key instruments that comprise a resource tax policy, providing invaluable insights into the tax reforms necessary to maximize economic rent for African nations. Written by experts in the field, this book explores the potential application of effective revenue management principles by African governments to achieve desired developmental outcomes. It covers a wide range of topics, including socio-political risks, ethical dilemmas, accountability and transparency, resource rent and capital gains taxes, tax administration and reforms, taxation of oil and gas revenue, environmental taxation, globalization's impact, and the promotion of inclusive development. Designed for scholars, tax professionals, and individuals interested in natural resources management and revenue mobilization strategy in Africa, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice, providing valuable insights and recommendations for sustainable and responsible management of Africa's rich natural resources.
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    ISBN: 9783031560347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 365 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Econometrics. ; Finance, Public. ; Labor economics. ; Population ; Dynamic General Equilibrium ; DSGE models ; Stochastic dynamic models ; Real Business Cycle ; New Keynesian Macroeconomics ; Blanchard-Kahn method ; DYNARE ; Macroeconomic theories ; Economic policy interventions ; Mathematical methods in economics ; Rational expectations ; Numerical solution methods ; Difference equations ; Representative agents ; Micro-founded Neo-Keynesian model ; Real wages ; Real stickiness
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Finite Difference Equations and Systems of Difference Equations in Rational Expectations -- Chapter 3. Models of Representative Agents and Real Business Cycle Models -- Chapter 4. A Simplified Illustration of Numerical Solution Methods of DSGE Models With DYNARE Software -- Chapter 5. A Basic Version of the Micro-founded Neo-keynesian Model -- Chapter 6. More Complex NKE Models: Stickiness in Money Wages, Real Stickiness and Extensions to a Medium-size Model.
    Abstract: This textbook introduces graduate and upper undergraduate students to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. As DSGE models become integral in advanced coursework, this book serves as an invaluable guide, explaining the complexities with a methodological red thread across its five chapters. Starting with the stochastic dynamic models of the Real Business Cycle (RBC) and progressing through the field of New Keynesian Macroeconomics (NKE), it employs DSGE models to shed light on the dynamic nature of economic systems. The book presents the Blanchard-Kahn methodology for theoretical solutions, discussing its usefulness and limitations as models evolve in complexity. The book goes on to explain the shift from analytical to numerical solutions, showcasing the DYNARE software and providing coding insights. Unique to this volume is a chapter on difference equations, equipping students with essential mathematical tools, and a concluding exploration of a medium-sized New Keynesian Economics model. This book will equip students to navigate the theoretical complexities of the topic and to independently replicate and comprehend the presented results. It bridges the gap between classical and Keynesian paradigms, reviving the debate in today's "RBC vs NKE" landscape. It will enable students to master the essence of macroeconomic theories and methodologies, paving the way for their scholarly pursuits.
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    ISBN: 9783031490149
    Language: English
    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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    ISBN: 9783031473395
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 384 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Military history. ; Religion ; Social history.
    Abstract: Introduction Mike Carr and Nikolaos G. Chrissis -- Part 1. Crusades in Southern Europe and the Balkans -- 1. Crusades against Cathars, c.1207-1229 Rebecca Rist (University of Reading) -- 2. Holy War and Crusade in Southern Italy: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries Francesco Migliazzo (University of Edinburgh) -- 3. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century Gianluca Raccagni (University of Edinburgh) -- 4. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century Leardo Mascanzoni (University of Bologna) -- 5. Crusades against the Byzantines in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Nikolaos G. Chrissis (Democritus University of Thrace) -- 6. The Crusade against “Schismatic” Bulgaria (1238) and its Antecedents Francesco Dall’Aglio (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) -- 7. Crusading against Bosnian Christians, c.1234-1241 Kirsty Day (University of Edinburgh) -- 8. Crusades against the Catalans of Athens, c.1311-1334 Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh) -- Part 2. Crusades in Northern and Central Europe -- 9. Crusades in the Holy Roman Empire (late 1220s to the early 1250s) Giuseppe Cusa (University of Siegen) -- 10. Rus’ as a Target of the Crusades: History and Historical Memory Anti Selart (University of Tartu) -- 11. Crusade against Christian neighbours in the Baltic. Boniface IX’s Crusading Bull of 1401 to Queen Margaret I of the Kalmar Union Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) -- 12. The Crusade of Henry Despenser (1383) Mark Whelan (University of Surrey) -- 13. The Crusades against the Hussites in Bohemia (1419-1436) Alexandra Kaar (University of Vienna) -- 14. Conclusion Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Gianluca Raccagni.
    Abstract: This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic. Whilst the crusades are an immensely popular topic, those launched against Christian rulers and communities have been comparatively overlooked in the past, with existing studies typically focusing on a particular area, period, or campaign. This volume brings together the expertise of thirteen scholars on a variety of primary and secondary sources not often accessible to Anglophone readership, as well as their knowledge of national discourses which have often shaped historiography. It aims to serve as the first port of call for anyone who wishes to approach crusades against Christians within and without the specialism of crusader studies, and to provide the basis for a thorough comparative analysis of this phenomenon, covering its variety as comprehensively as possible. Mike Carr is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. His work focuses on the interactions between Latins, Byzantines and Muslims in the Mediterranean, especially the role of merchants and religious institutions in cross-cultural trade and religious conflict. He is the author of Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352 (2015), and co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (2014), The Military Orders Volume 6.1-6.2: Culture and Contact (2016), and Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE) (2022). Nikolaos G. Chrissis is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests and publications revolve around the crusades, Latin presence in Greek lands, Byzantine-Western relations, papal policy in the Levant, and generally intercultural contacts in the medieval Mediterranean. He is the author of Crusading in Frankish Greece: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282 (2012), and co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (2014) and Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality, 11th-15th c. (2019). Gianluca Raccagni is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests focus on political culture in the central Middle Ages, especially within Communal Italy but also its relations with the rest of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the crusades. Most recently he has been exploring contacts between the Mediterranean and the Nordic World in the eleventh century. He is author of The Lombard League (1167-1225) (2010) and of several journal articles.
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    ISBN: 9783031478239
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 268 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
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    Keywords: Civilization ; History, Modern. ; Oral history. ; Collective memory. ; Music
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Rejecting and Resisting Ageism: Female Perspectives of Ageing with Punk -- 3. Lifestyle and Memory: Profiling Two Generations of Ageing Czech Male Punks -- 4.‘… And Out Come the Comps’: Punk-O-Rama, Pro Skater, and Their Roles as Peak Music Experiences in a Current Punk Identity -- 5. Young Punk, Old Punk, Running Punk: Keeping the Old Ones Cool and the Young Ones Fresh -- 6. Live Fast, Die Old. Experiences of Ageing in Portuguese Punk DIY Scenes since the Late 1970s -- 7. “I’m Not Someone Who Calls Himself an Anarchist, I am an Anarchist”: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Later Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk -- 8. Memories of the Past, Inequalities of the Present: The Temporality of Subcultural Violence, Gender, and Authenticity -- 9. Punk, Literature and Midlife Creativity: Ordinary Stories, Ordinary Men -- 10. Exploring Older Punk Women’s Conceptualisation of ‘Punk’ through Participant-Created Zine Pages -- 11. Working With/In: An Exploration of Queer Punk Time and Space in Collaborative Archival Workshops -- 12. Enduring Attachments: On the Temporalities of Punk -- 13. Generation Lost: Resignation, Rupture, and the Infinite Realities of Post-Future Punk.
    Abstract: To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’, yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, ‘punk history’, and archiving and punk. Punk, Ageing and Time is therefore a timely (pun intended) book. What this edited collection does for the first time is bring together contemporary investigations and discussions specifically around punk and ageing and/or time, covering areas such as: punk and ageing; the relationship between temporality and particular concepts relevant to punk (such as authenticity, DIY, identity, resistance, spatiality, style); and punk memory, remembering and/or forgetting. Multidisciplinary in nature, this book considers areas which have received very little to no academic attention previously. Laura Way is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is currently engaged in research projects with young fathers and local Travellers, and ongoing research concerning marginalised identities and punk. Laura’s monograph – Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls (2020) – was the first to focus solely on the experiences of older punk women. She is a qualified teacher in lifelong learning and an experienced qualitative researcher, particularly in the areas of creative and participatory methods, and collaborative, community-based work. Laura is an editor of Sociological Research Online and sits on the editorial board for Punk & Post-Punk journal. Matt Grimes is Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio at Birmingham City University, UK. Matt’s doctorate explored ageing, identity and the ideological significance of anarchism in the life courses of ageing adherents of anarcho-punk. He is currently writing up this research for his forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, Ageing, Identity, Memory and British Anarcho-Punk: 'Life We Make' (Palgrave Macmillan). He has published on the subjects of anarcho-punk, anarcho-punk ‘zines, punk pedagogy, popular music and spirituality, DIY/Underground music cultures/subcultures, counter-cultural movements, and radio for social change. He is the Punk Scholars Network’s general secretary and associate editor for Punk & Post-Punk journal. Matt is also a lifelong supporter of Millwall FC.
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    ISBN: 9783031485619
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 500 p. 45 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Europe ; Europe ; Cities and towns
    Abstract: Chapter 1.The Medieval City: Stones, Communities, Concepts -- Chapter 2. Civic Commitment in the Post-Roman West: The Visigothic Case Study -- Chapter 3. Water Provision in Early Islamic Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Urban Peter.-Chapter 4. Places of Love and Honour: Cities and Almost-Cities in the Carolingian World -- Chapter 5. Expressing Civic Pride in Stone. Church Towers and Town Halls in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries -- Chapter 6. The Saint and the Citizens: Scripting Civic Behaviour in Early Medieval Hagiography -- Chapter 7. Pleasing God, Serving the Citizens: Charity and Water Supply in Cairo and Baghdad -- Chapter 8. Thinking about Urbanity, Urban Settlements, Literacy, and Exclusion. The Case of Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 9. Doing the Dirty Work: Ribalds, Armies and Public Health in the Southern Low Countries, 1100-1500,- Chapter 10. Civic Cohesion in Turbulent Times: Galbert of Bruges, the Urban Community and the Murder of the Count of Flanders in 1127 -- Chapter 11. Creating Communities and Discussing Citizenship through Juridical Parody (France and Burgundy, Fifteenth Century). Chapter 12. Protecting the civitas, Warning the civis: Spiritual Defences in Two Sermons by Maximus of Turin -- Chapter 13. All Manner of Precious Stones: Civic Discourse and the Construction of the Early Medieval City -- Chapter 14. Imagining Rome: Reading a Ninth-Century Carolingian Manuscript in its Monastic Context -- Chapter 15. The Way to Rome in the Medieval Welsh Imagination -- Chapter 16. Citizenship as Performance.
    Abstract: Els Rose holds the Chair of Late and Medieval Latin at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and guided the NWO VICI project ‘Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400–1100’ (2017-2023). She has published widely on Latin liturgical traditions in the early medieval West, and on the Latin rewritings of early Christian apocryphal literature. Robert Flierman is Assistant Professor of Medieval Latin at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a postdoc in the NWO VICI project ‘Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400–1100’. He currently leads the NWO VIDI project ‘Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Early Medieval Europe’ (2023-2027). Merel de Bruin-van de Beek was a PhD candidate in the NWO VICI project ‘Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400–1100’. Her research focuses on the employment and function of citizenship terminology in the late antique sermons of Maximus of Turin, Augustine of Hippo and Peter Chrysologus of Ravenna. This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the early, high, and later Middle Ages, covering both the medieval East and West, and representing a wide variety of disciplinary angles and sources. The volume is first and foremost about medieval perceptions and their articulation in text, image and material form. The principal focus is not on cities or citizenship per se, but on those who used such concepts, wrote about them, and visualized and depicted them. At the same time, the book seeks to address why the city remained such a salient concept also in non-urban contexts – the periphery, the desert, the monastery – and how medieval thinking on the ideal city and civic community could involve denunciation of the earthly city and its institutional trappings. It thus pushes scholarly boundaries, but also seeks to escape deeply entrenched notions of citizenship as either a form of political participation or legal status. .
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    ISBN: 9783031319907
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 381 p. 14 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Economic development. ; Sustainability. ; International organization.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing Power, Agents, Structures, and Aid Relationships -- 3. Sustainability of Health Assistance -- 4. The role of structural factors in selected health programs -- 5. The “Community Action for Health”: the Project Life Cycle -- 6. Sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” project -- 7. Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the “Community Action for Health” Project -- 8. The Global Fund Grants: Project Life Cycle -- 9. Sustainability of Global Fund grants -- 10. Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the Global Fund Grants -- 11. “Missing Link” -- 12. Conclusion and general implications of this study.
    Abstract: This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis of development projects to identify the factors that are also applicable to similar initiatives in comparable contexts. Empirically, it focuses on two health initiatives, both implemented in the Kyrgyz Republic, a country pursuing a sector-wide approach to health aid. Unique primary material provides insights into a geographic region that is mostly neglected, and will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, development studies, international health and those focusing on the post-Soviet region and Central Asia. Gulnaz Isabekova is a Researcher at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining the CRC 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy,” she participated in the MSCA ITN “Around the Caspian.” Gulnaz received her Ph.D. from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.
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    ISBN: 9783031420894
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 90 p.)
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    Series Statement: Sociology Transformed
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    Keywords: Sociology ; Educational sociology. ; Knowledge, Sociology of. ; Latin America
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociology Precursors: From Scientific Positivism to the “mexican Renaissance” (1856-1930) -- 3. The Institutionalization of the Social Sciences in Mexico -- 4. The Expansion of Sociology in Mexico (1959-1980) -- 5. From Particular Sociologies to Interdisciplinary Studies. .
    Abstract: This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and Latin America, and the participation of women, who have often remained invisible in the history of sociology. The book explores how sociological discourse played a fundamental role in the separation of secular and public education and the search for a ‘national project’ from 1868 onwards, despite the lack of an institute of social research until 1930; how sociology became an autonomous social science, led by a few intellectuals and public figures, as it became institutionalized in universities, and the effect this had on the development of the discipline; the influence of Marxism during the 1970s; and the progression from a process of specialization after the fall of the Berlin Wall to a new trend of working in collective projects with an increasing interdisciplinary perspective in the first decades of the 21st century. Gina Zabludovky is a tenured Professor and Researcher at UNAM, Mexico. She is the author and editor of numerous books, scientific articles, and book chapters on various topics including social and political theory, the history of sociology in Mexico, business organizations and women in decision-making positions. She has received several awards in recognition of her academic achievements.
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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: 9783031482915
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 254 p. 35 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Africa ; Africa, Sub-Saharan
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Managing Resilience in Pastoralism: An Introduction -- Part I Regional Memories of Disasters -- Chapter 2. Historical Research Methods: Regional and Local Cases -- Chapter 3. Social Memory on a Historical Scale: Configuring Cyclic Disasters, 1500–the 1900s -- Chapter 4. Colonial Trans-frontier Grazing Controls: Responses to Political and Climatic Shocks, 1908–1962 -- Part II Reorganization and Adaptive Diversities -- Chapter 5. Collapse and Transformation of Pastoralism: Pathways of Land-use Change, the 1960s–2000 -- Chapter 6. The Individual in Drought Livestock Management Strategies: Mobility as a Proxy for Pastoral Resilience, the 1980s–2011 -- Chapter 7. Impacts of Decadal Droughts on Cattle Populations: Tracking Household Wealth Dynamics, 1982–2011 -- Part III Collapse and Transformation of Social Capital Networks -- Chapter 8. Resilience of Social Capital Networks: Collapse and Transformation, 1991–2012 -- Chapter 9. Resilient Neighborhood Household Food Security: Women’s Social Capital Networks, 1987–1996 -- Chapter 10. Innovating Pastoral Resilience in the Future: A Synthesis./.
    Abstract: This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it uses social memory to reconstruct an 'event history calendar', thus combining social memory and written historical records to reconstruct the adaptive strategies of pastoralists. It explores the climate history of the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier, considering, in particular, the impact of the colonial period and independence thereafter, providing a significant contribution to debates in African environmental history. Gufu Oba is Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. .
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    ISBN: 9783031433979
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 149 p. 2 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Asia ; Imperialism. ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: 1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia. -- 5.Collecting Memory -- 6.Preserving Memory -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The book presents a rich and multi-layered look at the 1947 partition of India, asking whether, how, and why the disruption and atrocities that partition imparted should be remembered. It is an eloquently written, deeply felt, and nuanced account of partition and its sequalae, not focused primarily on historical facts, but on the meaning of lived experiences at the personal, community, and cultural levels.”– Michelle D. Leichtman, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, USA This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive. Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 1113 p. 553 illus., 507 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 55
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    Keywords: History. ; Science ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: The Papers -- Chapter 1. A new Cycloid Narrative centered on Torricelli and Roberval to Understand the Diverse Ways of the Mathematical Revolution (Jean Dhombres) -- Chapter 2. Historical and Methodological Details on the De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium in Torricelli’s Opera Gometrica (1644) (Raffaele Pisano and Paolo Bussotti) -- Chapter 3. Torricelli’s proof of Galileo’s Assumption on the Velocity Acquired at the End of a Free Fall (Patricia Radelet–de Grave) -- Chapter 4. Why Publish a Book of Geometry in Seventeenth-Century Europe? Science, Status, and Print Culture in Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica (1644) (John B. Shank) -- Chapter 5. Encounters with the Infinite: From Torricelli to Gödel (Martin Davis) -- Part II: A Critical Transcription & Translation of The Opera Geometrica, 1644 -- Chapter 6. Introduction to a Critical Transcription -- Chapter 7. Image-Text & Transcription -- Part III: Epilogue -- Chapter 8. Epilogue [by…………] Chapter 9. Torricelli: Historical Source Introductory -- Index. .
    Abstract: Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 380 years since its publication (1644-2024). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean–and–Galilean scientist to modern readers. Opera geometrica deals with Motion & Mechanics and Geometry & Infinitesimals. In quibus Archimedis doctrina Torricelli also presents his mechanical principle of equilibrium – the foundation of the modern Principle of Virtual Work/Static. This outstanding source and research book spotlights the relevance and originality of Torricelli’s Mechanics, and is the first and most profound analysis of the Opera geometrica to date. The historical study is achieved in extensive Introduction, 5 Essays and an accurate Transcription of Opera geometrica with parallel side–by–side text, including substantive explicative notes. The book is an accessible avenue to understanding this work by leading authorities who offer much-needed insights into the relationship Physics–Mathematics, Mechanics and Fundamentals. It appeals to historians, epistemologists and scientists.
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    ISBN: 9783031465611
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 340 p.)
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    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: “This is a stunning book about Scandinavianism, based on huge archival work, demonstrating that a unification nationalism was close to the success enjoyed by Italy and Germany. Another consideration deserves stark highlighting: this is the most exciting book in nationalism studies to have appeared for many years, offering a novel realist theory of nationalism that destroys many taken for granted assumptions, about the nineteenth century for sure—but with implications quite as much for present circumstances as well.” -John A. Hall, Professor emeritus, McGill This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter of size. Whereas their union of 1814 offered Sweden-Norway geostrategic security tempered by fear of Russia, Denmark was the biggest territorial loser of the Napoleonic Wars and faced separatism connected to German nationalism in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This evolved into a national conflict that threatened Denmark’s survival as a nation. Meanwhile, a new generation of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians had come to regard kindred language, culture and religion as a case for Scandinavian union that could offer protection against Russia and Germany. When the European revolutions of 1848 unleashed the First Schleswig War, the influence of Scandinavianism was such that it nearly turned into a Scandinavian war of unification. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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    ISBN: 9783031545733
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 167 p. 2 illus.)
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Technological innovations. ; Economic development ; Development economics ; Policy for digital transformation ; Economics of innovation ; Economic Policy ; Nagy Hanna
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Aims and motivations -- Chapter 3: A first integrated transformation project: e-Sri Lanka -- Chapter 4: Transforming government -- Chapter 5: Transforming sectors: The health case -- Chapter 6: Transforming cities: Smart cities -- Chapter 7: Learning from pioneering country experiences -- Chapter 8: Impactful transformation and digital dividends -- Chapter 9: Diagnosing and managing digital ecosystems -- Chapter 10: A learning journey for countries and practitioners.
    Abstract: "If an author were to attempt combining a love story of development practice and a scholarly text on digital transformation, this would be it.” —Luci Abrahams, Director, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand “Nagy Hanna had to build the infrastructure within the World Bank and in Sri Lanka to realize the goal of digitally-enabled development. He helped us fashion the vision for e-Sri Lanka, build a new national ICT Agency, get Bank financing and facilitate implementation of a pioneering digital transformation program. As a dedicated internationalist, Hanna ably argued the case of his client in the context of a difficult environment. A tightrope walk act between client and donor, which he balanced admirably.” —Eran Wickramaratne, MP. Founding Chair ICT Agency & Former Minister of Finance, Sri Lanka This book provides detailed insight into what governments and institutions can do to drive digital transformation in a nation pursuing economic development. Drawing on real-world case studies and practical advice, the book breaks down digital transformation of public services, healthcare, and the move toward smart cities. Synthesizing publicly available information, the book captures how the World Bank transformed its response to the digital revolution in several nations. Nagy K. Hanna takes readers through the pioneering export strategy of software services in India’s and Sri Lanka’s first integrated digital transformation program. The resulting book is a guide for policymakers, development economists, and change-makers seeking new ways to harness the power of digital technologies to promote inclusive and sustainable development. Nagy K. Hanna advises countries and aid agencies on economic development and digital transformation programs. For more than three decades, he held senior positions in operations and strategic functions at the World Bank. Hanna was the World Bank's first senior advisor focused on digital economy. He was Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, as well as Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. He is Cofounder of People-Centered Internet, a global forum for inclusive digital transformation. He teaches and advises on digital leadership. Hanna has published extensively on digital leadership and national digital strategies.
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    ISBN: 9783031570575
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 197 p. 67 illus., 66 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Management Science
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    Keywords: Econometrics. ; Operations research. ; Business ethics. ; Economic sociology. ; Agent-based Modelling and Simulation ; Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems ; Managerial Cognition ; Scenario Simulation ; Strategic Management ; System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Socio-Economic Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Prism -- Chapter 3. Methodological Framework -- Chapter 4. Resource Agent Mapping of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Systems -- Chapter 5. Hybrid SD and AB Simulation Experimentation for Policy Decision Making -- Chapter 6. Managerial Dynamic Cognitive Capabilities in a Complex Market Environment -- Chapter 7. Financial Markets and Price Bubbles -- Chapter 8. Art and Culture and Ideological Systems -- Chapter 9. Education Systems Efficiency and Social Networks.
    Abstract: This book illustrates effective decision-making in complex socio-economic systems utilising system dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches. It provides practical guidance on the application of conceptual and numerical modelling and simulation for analysing economic, strategic, regulatory, sociological and ethical questions from a complex systems perspective. Its theoretical, methodological and practical illustrations will enhance readers’ understanding of the application of simulation modelling for effective systems management. By virtually experimenting with alternative management scenarios, it will help them improve decision-making and control mechanisms. The book explores practical examples from the fields of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, finance, sociology, education and culture from a strategic, regulatory and ethics perspective. As such, it offers a valuable resource for managers, both at for-profit corporations and non-profit organisations, public policymakers and regulators alike. .
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    ISBN: 9783031466229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 138 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Human body ; Sex. ; Criminal behavior. ; Victims of crimes. ; Critical criminology.
    Abstract: 1 What is Sexual Consent? -- 2 Consent and Relationships -- 3 Consent and Vulnerable Communities -- 4 Consent and Reproduction -- 5 Consent, Education and Communication -- 6 The Way Forward.
    Abstract: This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the ways meaningful consent is difficult, if not impossible, in relationships that involve intimate partner violence or family violence. It considers the way vulnerable communities need access to information on consent. It highlights the difficulties of consent and reproductive rights, including the use (and abuse) of contraception and abortion. Finally, it considers the ways that young women are reshaping narratives of sexual assault and consent, as active agents both online and offline. Though this work considers victimisation, it also pays careful attention to the ways vulnerable groups take up their rights and understand and practice consent in meaningful ways. Lisa Featherstone is Professor and Head of School of the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. Cassandra Byrnes is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Jenny Maturi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Kiara Minto is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Renée Mickelburgh is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Paige Donaghy is Associate Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031530326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 225 p. 99 illus., 58 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: History. ; Archaeology. ; Digital humanities. ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Editors: 3D-Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Where are we today? -- Chapter 2. Technological developments -- Chapter 3. 1 Tobias Schreck, Stephan Karl, Elisabeth Trinkl (Graz): Exploring the virtual. Crossmodal search and visual exploration of 3D Cultural Heritage -- Chapter 4. Thomas Reuter (Dresden): Standardization, Data-Management and Scientific Usage of 3D-Data. 15 Years of 3D-Archaeology in the Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony -- Part 2. Case Studies in Cultural Heritage and Archaeology -- Chapter 5. François Fouriaux (École Française de Rome): Defrag memories: 3D spatial analysis of remains of commemorative gestures in the necropolis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii -- Chapter 6. Vasiliy Kovalev (Novosibirsk): A 3D-approach to Siberian Rock Art Documentation.-Part 3. Current Challenges -- Chapter 7. Marco Hostettler, Anja Buhlke, Clara Drummer, Lea Emmenegger, Johannes Reich, Corinne Stäheli(Bern, Kiel, Berlin): The current application of image-based 3D technologies in archaeology. Results of an online survey -- Chapter 8. Kate Fernie (CARARE/Europeana): 3D content in EUROPEANA: The challenges of providing access -- Chapter 9. Jill Hilditch (Amsterdam): Balancing storage and user functionality: The 3D and archaeological data strategy of the tracing the potter’s wheel project -- Part 4. Data Management -- Chapter 10. Jugoslav Pendic (Novi Sad): Data management and handling of 3D-objects in the post-collection phase -- Chapter 11. Christoph Rummel and Clemens Brünenberg: Bathing in the Pompeian Light - Integrating SFM technology in excavation and standing remains assessment -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Editors: Conclusion: Where is 3D-Archaeology going?.
    Abstract: This Open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice approaches, workflows, and first attempts to establish sustainable solutions to pressing problems, this book offers readers current practical advice on how to approach 3D archaeology and cultural heritage. Divided into five parts, this book begins with an overview of 3D archaeology in its present state. It goes on to give insights into the development of the technology and recent cutting-edge applications. The next section identifies current challenges in 3D archaeology and then presents approaches and solutions for data management of a large number of 3D objects and ways to ensure sustainable solutions for the archiving of the produced data. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of archaeology, heritage management, and digital humanities in general.
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    ISBN: 9783031427633
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 349 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Translation History
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    Keywords: Translating and interpreting. ; Intercultural communication. ; Sociology ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Women
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: A Biographical Case Study of Transnational Practices of Transfer -- Chapter 2: To Become a Translator -- Chapter 3: 'Men, Women and Progress' -- Chapter 4: To America! -- Chapter 5: Letters from Paris: Letters from Germany -- Chapter 6: Trans/national Encounters: Winter Travels Through Europe -- Chapter 7: 'The Modern Women’s Rights Movement’ -- Chapter 8: 'As Interpreter for This Convention, I Feel That I Must Not Continue My Office': London 1909 -- Chapter 9: 'Suffragettes in Germany': Translating Militancy -- Chapter 10: When Translation Ends.
    Abstract: “How did feminist ideas travel in an age of growing nationalism, imperial powerplay and entrenched inequalities? Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation brilliantly foregrounds the work done by translation, focusing on the first generation of university-educated women. Käthe Schirmacher’s life illustrates the promise and the painful fragility of early feminism. Gehmacher shows the active role translation played in liberal, revolutionary and ultranationalist movements, shaping the new public spheres of this historical moment." –Lucy Delap, Professor of Modern British and Gender History, University of Cambridge, UK "This groundbreaking study examines the transfer of ideas, mediation, and translation as transnational practices of the international women's movement around 1900. The differing expectations of translations and translators as well as Western dominance in transnational communication are convincingly brought out. Gehmacher, the best connoisseur of Käthe Schirmacher's estate, introduces with this book a fresh perspective on the history of the international women's movement." –Angelika Schaser, Professor of Modern History, Universität Hamburg, Germany This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. It discusses practices such as translating, interpreting, and excerpting from journals and books that spawned and supported transnational civic spaces and develops a theoretical framework to analyse these practices. It examines translations of literary, scholarly and political texts and their contexts. The book will be of interest to academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of modern history, women’s and gender history, cultural studies, transnational and transfer history, translation studies, history and theory of biography. Johanna Gehmacher is Professor of Modern and Gender History at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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    ISBN: 9783031483677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 160 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Islam ; Cultural property. ; Archaeology.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The Manuscript Sources -- 3 Texts and Intellectual Interests -- 4 Scribes, Patrons and Readers -- 5 Locations of Manuscript Production -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Appendices.
    Abstract: “This important study of Mevlevi manuscripts is an outstanding piece of scholarship, based on a close examination of numerous often neglected manuscript sources. It sheds new light not just on the manuscripts themselves, but also the early Mevlevi community – its artists, artisans, and patrons, and their intellectual interests. It makes a significant contribution both to art historical scholarship and to the growing field of Islamic manuscript studies, and will be required reading for anyone interested in medieval Anatolia or Sufism.” —Professor A. C. S. Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It also offers an in-depth and rigorous analysis of the manuscript material, which reveals much about the role of manuscripts in early Mevlevi life, the identity of disciples who were scribes and manuscript owners, and the geographical spread of the Sufi group. The Mevlevi Sufis were one of the most important and prominent socio-religious groups to emerge in late medieval Anatolia, following the Mongol conquests of the 1240s. Sometimes known colloquially as the ‘whirling dervishes,’ the Mevlevis became particularly powerful under Ottoman rule in the early modern period, even counting some sultans as their disciples. However, there is still much to learn about their earliest days, following the death of their ‘patron saint’ Jalal al-Din Rumi in 1273. Rumi is of course also notable as the author of the Masnavi, an extensive work of Sufi poetry written in rhyming couplets that is the core of Mevlevi ritual and learning. Beyond Mevlevi circles, Rumi remains very popular today as a ‘mystic’ poet. This study sheds new light on the intellectual culture of his time. Cailah Jackson is a Research Associate of the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and former Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031465574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 480 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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    Keywords: Europe ; France ; Military history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1. Scandinavia Before 1814 -- 2. Politics in Scandinavia and Europe, 1814-1830 -- 3.Politics, Culture and Nationhood -- 4. Nations and Nationalism -- 5. Years of Revolution, 1848-1849 -- 6. First Schleswig War and the Constitutional Danish Unitary State -- 7. Scandinavia and the Crimean War -- 8. Scandinavia and the Dano-German Conflict, 1858-1863 -- 9. Second Schleswig War, 1864 -- 10. Scandinavism in the Aftermath of War, 1865-1871 -- 11. Perspectives and Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of 1848-1849 and the Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed both the international political system and nationalism into more ‘realist’ types. The First Schleswig War (1848-1851) having nearly turned into one of Scandinavian unification, the influence of Scandinavianism extended into the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian courts, cabinets and parliaments, attracting interest from the great powers. The Crimean War offered another window of opportunity for Scandinavian unification, before the Danish-German conflict over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein nearly united Scandinavia upon the outbreak of the Second Schleswig War in 1864. The ultimate failure of Scandinavianism in its unification efforts was not predetermined, although historiography has made it appear as such. Napoleon III, Cavour and Bismarck all actively contributed to plans for Scandinavian unification, the latter even declaring himself as “very strongly Scandinavian”. Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
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    ISBN: 9783031454226
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 207 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Social history. ; Emigration and immigration ; Race. ; Europe ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Scottishness and Foreignness: The Developing Structures, Powers and Capacity of the Scottish ‘Machinery of Government’ before 1939 -- Chapter 3: The ‘Alien’ Concept: The ‘Scottish’ State and Foreignness, 1885-1914 -- Chapter 4: The ‘Alien’ Concept: Foreignness and Scottish State Institutions, 1914-39 -- Chapter 5: Scotland’s Foreigners: Making Identities in Scotland -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the period between 1885 and 1914, the book explores how the Scottish machinery of government handled the administration of ‘foreigners.’ The author uses a comparative, thematic approach to analyse migrant experiences, identities, and relationships with state institutions. Drawing from state records held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, the book argues that Scottish officials in semi-autonomous boards began to recognise, describe and enumerate the presence of the ‘foreigner’ in the early twentieth century, framing their handling of foreignness in accordance with the Aliens Act of 1905. The author goes on to explain that institutions operating in Scotland developed a distinctly Scottish approach to alien matters, which continued up until the Second Word War. Therefore, an increasing number of important decisions affecting migrants were taken by a distinctly Scottish machinery of government, impacting on how Scottish officials understood foreignness, and how those identified as foreigners understood their identity in relation to Scottishness. Contributing significantly to current heated debates on migration and identity amongst researchers and the general public in Europe and beyond, this book provides essential insights into the ways in which a ‘sub-state’ began to develop practices, processes and attitudes towards migration which were not always in line with that of the central government. Terence McBride is an Honorary Associate in History at the Open University in Scotland. He has published widely on the migrant experience in Scotland, including articles in Immigrants and Minorities and Historical Research.
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    ISBN: 9783031188923
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 311 p. 35 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; History.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The ‘long, long story’ -- Chapter 2: ‘Keep an eye on Hitler’: 1923 - 1932 -- Chapter 3: ‘The Nazis are Coming, Hurrah, Hurrah’: 1933 – 1935 -- Chapter 4: In Plain Sight: 1936 - 1939 -- Chapter 5: Looking into the Abyss: 1939 - 1941 -- Chapter 6: ‘They are killing all of us Jews’: 1941 –1944 -- Chapter 7: ‘One More Horror Camp’: 1944 – 1945 -- Chapter 8: War Trials, Refugees and Holocaust Awareness: 1945-1949 -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Reckoning.
    Abstract: This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of Hitler’s political ascent in the 1920s through to the Nazis’ extermination campaign, it culminates in the accounts of the trials of Nazi war criminals and the post-war transnational migration to Australia of Holocaust survivors, to a country far from universally welcoming in its reception of them. The book also tells the story of the journalists who reported on these tragic events and the editors who published them, along with the political, social and cultural context in which they worked, in an environment influenced by exclusionary ideas about race and nationality that did not necessarily inspire sympathy for Jews and their trauma. This book sheds light on the ethics of reporting human suffering, violence and genocide and – centrally – on the role of the press in shaping Australia’s collective memory of the Holocaust. It encourages readers to think critically about media power, public apathy, advocacy, and the importance of truth. Disturbing evidence of increasing anti-Semitism in Australia as elsewhere, along with continuing Holocaust denial, provide an additional urgency to this study. Fay Anderson is Associate Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She has published widely on media history, war journalism, genocide, press photography, trauma, memory and crime. Fay has authored and edited four books, including An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom (MUP, 2005); her co-authored book with Richard Trembath Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting (MUP, 2011); and Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia, co-authored with Sally Young (MUP, 2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031494994
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 325 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Military history. ; Great Britain ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Britain, the Middle East, and Oman -- Chapter 3: The Course of the War -- Chapter 4: Coalition Warfare and the International Dimension -- Chapter 5: 'Hearts and Minds' -- Chapter 6: Intelligence and Covert Operations -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour governments in office during this time provided military and security assistance to Oman’s rulers without parliamentary or press scrutiny. Based on archival material and witness accounts, as well as existing secondary source literature and memoirs, this study provides new insights into Britain’s clandestine embroilment in the Dhofar War, an often overlooked but historically significant intervention in the Middle East. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the complex and often controversial history of Britain’s involvement in Middle Eastern politics in the post-colonial period. Geraint Hughes is Reader in Diplomatic and Military History at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK. He is the author of Harold Wilson’s Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970 (2009) and My Enemy’s Enemy: Proxy Warfare in International Politics (2012).
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    ISBN: 9783031519475
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 242 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Africa ; Great Britain ; Finance. ; History. ; Economic history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance -- 2.From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa -- 3.From Market to Exchange: The JSE’s Early Rules, Regulations And Organisation -- 4. Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber Of Mines -- 5.Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance -- 6.Finance and Imperialism at The Exchange: The JSE and the Jameson Raid -- 7.A Modernising Exchange and the South African War -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Lukasiewicz’s book is a deeply researched study of a financial organisation and its intimate links with British imperialism and South Africa’s settler colonialism." —Stephanie Decker, Professor in Strategy, Birmingham Business School “Lukasiewicz deserves commendation for producing this illuminating study of actors and institutions at the intersection of trans-imperial and global finance and politics.” —Ayodeji Olukoju, Professor of History, University of Lagos This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state. Mariusz Lukasiewicz is a Lecturer in African History at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, in Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031465338
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 259 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Intellectual life ; Civilization ; Education
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: An alleged crisis of the humanities -- Chapter 2. The division between the different sciences on the singularly and emphatically human and new branches of science -- Chapter 3. New overlaps and reciprocities between the faculties -- Chapter 4. The contemporary turn -- Chapter 5. Whither goest thou? The present predicament.
    Abstract: This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline. Rather than hearkening to the widespread, reactive call for a last-ditch defense of the humanities under attack from an ungracious world, this book fundamentally reverses the perspective and makes a plea for a different, affirmative approach. It contends that the humanities have incessantly arrived at critical turning points since they were first constituted in a form that remains recognizable today and assumed a leading role in knowledge organization with the establishment of the modern university around 1800. Assuming a historical perspective, the monograph takes the human sciences back to their rightful place in the family tree of sciences and gives due recognition to their continuously decisive role in the production of new knowledge and the creation of new fields of knowledge. Situating the ongoing gemmation of the humanities in a broader context, this monograph also offers an encompassing introduction to the over-all development of knowledge in the last two hundred years. Sverre Raffnsøe is Professor of Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School and Editor-in-Chief of Foucault Studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031517808
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 204 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; Indigenous peoples ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Leonard and Harriet’s Backgrounds Prepare them to Respect the Ojibwe -- Chapter 3. The Wheelers Adjust to the Ojibwe and Each Other -- Chapter 4. Settling in with the Ojibwe at Bad River -- Chpater 5. Trying to Convince the Government to Honor the 1854 Treaty Destroys Leonard Wheeler’s Health -- Chapter 6. The Wheelers Leave Bad River, but Do Not Forget It -- Chapter 7. William Wheeler Synthesizes Ojibwe and Gilded Age Values -- Chpater 8. Hattie Wheeler’s Writing Succeeds when Loyal to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 9. Wheelers Return to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 10. Mary Warren English Tries to Preserve Ojibwe Culture.
    Abstract: This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with the indigenous Ojibwe. When Leonard and Harriet Wheeler arrived at La Pointe, Wisconsin in July of 1841, hoping to help the Ojibwe understand and accept the value of Christian civility, they did not expect such a profound transformation of their own lives. The Wheelers’ empathy for the Ojibwe not only grew during their twenty-five years of mission work in Northern Wisconsin, much of it spent trying to protect the Ojibwe from predatory whites, it also influenced the lives of their children. Nancy Bunge, a Professor Emerita at Michigan State University, also served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Ghent, and the University of Siegen. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School.
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    ISBN: 9783031498817
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 307 p. 73 illus., 43 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 70
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    Keywords: Science ; Robotics. ; Automotive engineering. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Computer vision.
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. History of the research on vehicle automation in the United States -- Chapter 3. History of the research on vehicle automation in Japan -- Chapter 4. History of the research on vehicle automation in Europe -- Chapter 5. Findings of the inquiry -- Chapter 6. Timeline with firsts, milestones and shifts -- Index.
    Abstract: This book presents the most important milestones of the research on automated and autonomous driving in the United States, Japan and Europe throughout five decades (1950-2000). Drawing on sources from the automotive industry, electrical engineering, the robotics and AI-domain and military institutions, it retraces the transition from the guidance-cable approach to vehicle-based sensor and vision systems. Giving a detailed overview of the technical concepts, artefacts, research vehicles and robots, the book presents the transnational engineering efforts that started long before Silicon Valley entered the field. In addition, the book also uniquely details the role of the military in the domain of vehicle automation. This all ensures the book is of great interest to historians of technology, practitioners in engineering disciplines, scholars working in mobility studies, journalists, and political decision makers.
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    ISBN: 9783031544156
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 344 p. 24 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; World politics. ; Social history. ; Collective memory.
    Abstract: “Through a rich account of the conflictual process of naming Nicosia’s streets during the 20th century, this book illuminates the establishment and consolidation of opposing nationalisms in Cyprus from a different angle. Theocharous’ research contributes new, significant empirical knowledge on the symbolic practices within the politics of the ethnic conflict in Cyprus and constitutes a valuable addition to the literatures of ethnic conflict and urban space, the politics of identity, and Cyprus’ studies.” — Dr. Gregoris Ioannou, Reader in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK This book is the first to explore street names and street-naming in the formation of a Greek-Cypriot identity in the cityscape of Nicosia between 1878 and 1975. Rather than treating toponymy as a direct linguistic act of spatial orientation, the book approaches street-naming as a contested practice involving those shared symbols and representations used to depict official history and collective identity as part of a political process. It considers how street names are part of the symbolic politics of space, and how authorities transformed the streets of Nicosia into arenas of struggle for the control of symbolic and material space. It documents historical efforts over the course of a century to impose a ‘geography of forgetting’ to buttress national identity and to cast out the ‘other’ from space — both literally and symbolically — so as to achieve territorial dominance and political legitimacy. The book is another step towards the development of a global perspective on the critical study of street-naming, thereby refining and expanding our knowledge of the political dynamics involved in the process. In their commemorative capacity, street names belong to the politics of public memory and identity. Stella Theocharous is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heraclitus Research Centre, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. .
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    ISBN: 9783031434648
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 148 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Urban policy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Community question: classical debates -- Chapter 3. Urban scenes as community practices -- Chapter 4. Applying urban-scenes-as-community-practices approach: voices from the field -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: scenes approach in community building.
    Abstract: This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes. Marta Klekotko, PhD is sociologist, researcher, university teacher as well as practitioner dedicated to community empowerment and urban development. Her interests cover community studies, urban studies and development studies. She is particularly interested in cultural mechanisms of community empowerment, social cohesion and development - both in theory as well as in practice. In her work, she always takes cultural perspective, fosters theoretical eclectism, and triangulates research methods. She was visiting scholar, among others, at the University of Chicago, State University of New York in Buffalo, and University of Barcelona. She is the president of the Research Committee on Community Research (RC03) of the International Sociological Association.
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    ISBN: 9783031507472
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 439 p. 25 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rahman, Andaleeb The future of India's social safety nets
    Keywords: Social policy. ; Agriculture ; Development economics. ; Economic history. ; Economics. ; Social Safety Nets ; Indian Welfare Safe ; Food Policy in India ; Political Economy ; Governance ; Development Economics ; Health Care ; Poverty ; Public Distribution System (PDS) ; Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
    Abstract: 1. India’s Safety Net System, Development and Challenges -- 2. Evolution of Social Safety Nets -- 3. Hunger to Nutrition Nexus -- 4. Poverty and Livelihoods -- 5. Intergenerational Growth -- 6. Health Care -- 7. Filling Gaps in Safety Net Design: Targeting, Modality and Technology -- 8. Political Economy Considerations and Effective Governance -- 9. Way Forward.
    Abstract: “An invaluable springboard for further research and action in this field.” —Jean Drèze, Ranchi University “A vision of the potential for social policy to move beyond palliative measures towards a resilient and inclusive social contract.” —Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute “A must read for those that want to understand the past, present, and future of social protection in the country and beyond.” —Ugo Gentilini, World Bank “It will become a standard reference in the literature.” —Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. COVID-19 unified the international response to human suffering, and the world has a lot to learn about the initiatives implemented in India since its independence. This open-access book covers the conceptualization, design, and impact of notable social welfare programs in India. The Future of India's Social Safety Nets combines insights from social protection, economic development, and social policy. It covers India’s social development in terms of three essential aspects of policy design: focus (intended beneficiaries), form (transfer modalities), and scope (developmental objectives). Highlighting developmental achievements and shortcomings, this book proposes a framework to foster human resilience through social protection. Andaleeb Rahman is an economist at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University. Prabhu Pingali is Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 244 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
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    Keywords: Archaeology. ; Cultural property. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Building Networks: An Introduction to the Exchange of Knowledge, Ideas and Material for Building in the Medieval and Post-Medieval World (Bouwmeester et al) -- Chapter 2. Tools and Masons: Regional Building Networks in Norway (1152/3–1537) (Reinfjord) -- Chapter 3. Church Roofs in a Frontier Region. Historic Timber Structures in Western Sweden Reflect Changing Influences and Resources (Gullbrandsson et al) -- Chapter 4. Across the Sea: Urban Formation and New House Building Horizons in the South Baltic Realm (c. 1100–1500) (Thomasson) -- Chapter 5. Influences and Networking in Danish Brick Architecture During the Twelfth and Sixteenth Centuries (Gardelin) -- Chapter 6. An Exceptional Twelfth-Century Tile Floor, Its Origins and the Network Behind It. Compositional Analysis of Tiles from St. Lawrence Church in Roskilde, Denmark (Langkilde) -- Chapter 7. Changing Origins and Trade Routes of Scottish Window Glass (Spencer) -- Chapter 8. Brought From Near and Far: Trade Networks for Building Materials in Later Medieval England (Berryman) -- Chapter 9. Networked Control: Tower Houses in Ireland (Kerr) -- Chapter 10. Patterns in Brick: The Spread of Brick Use Between 1150 and 1550 in the Netherlands (Bouwmeester) -- Chapter 11. Trade and the Recycling of Stones in Medieval Cologne (Höltken) -- Chapter 12. The Transmission of New Construction Techniques and Urbanisation Concepts During the Teutonic Crusade. Cities and Castles in Chełmno Land (Poland) in the Early Thirteenth Century (Wiewióra) -- Chapter 13. Prague and Prague Castle Under the First Habsburgs (Blažková) -- Chapter 14. Architectural Traditions of Pre-Romanesque Central Plan Churches in Bohemia Within Central European Context (Tomanová) -- Chapter 15. Building Networks: Circulation of Workforces, Techniques, and Architectural Models: Roma and the Lazio Region in Italian and European Context.
    Abstract: This book aims to explore different aspects of networks in relation to the archaeology of buildings. It is divided into three major themes: the trade in materials, the exchange of knowledge (of techniques and/or materials), and the exchange of style. Within each of these themes, two primary aspects are addressed—notably, who were the actors and how did the network function? In medieval and post-medieval Europe, the development of buildings, of style and the use of material, cannot be understood from a local, regional or even national perspective. Not only were the borders different than in modern-day Europe, but the contacts of inhabitants also transcended local and regional boundaries. This volume describes the continuous exchange of aesthetic ideals, technological developments and building materials during this period. This volume is a culmination of four years of sessions held at the European Archaeology Association (EAA) conference between 2016-2020 on the topic. It is of interest to archaeologists, architects, and scholars of built heritage.
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    ISBN: 9783031414718
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 266 p. 15 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Italy ; Social history. ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Giacomo Matteotti -- 2. Oil and the Contract with Sinclair -- 3. That June of 1924 -- 4. La Fascist Ceka -- 5. The Responsibilities of the Fascist Regime -- 6. Doubts Regarding the Motive -- 7. The Perpetrators during the Fascist Period -- 8. Carlo Silvestri -- 9. Financial Aid to the Matteotti Family.
    Abstract: This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a wealth of previously unavailable judicial and archival material, it sheds light on how fascism exercised power through violence and corruption from the very beginning. The book reveals the motives that led Mussolini to order the kidnapping and murder of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, a turning point in Mussolini’s grasp of total power in Italy. Canali further explores the corrupt dealings between the Mussolini family and the American Sinclair Oil Company that Matteotti had intended to denounce in the Italian parliament the day after his death. Mauro Canali is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Camerino, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9783031536779
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 107 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; World politics. ; America ; International relations ; Civilization ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: 1984 -- Chapter 3: Conclusion.
    Abstract: ‘A very fine, insightful and original analysis that uses Ronald Reagan's landslide re-election year as the lens through which to explore American politics, society and culture in the 1980s. This very engaging, accessible, and well written volume is highly recommended for students of US History and American Studies.’ — Iwan Morgan, Emeritus professor of US Studies at University College London and author of Reagan: American Icon Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s presidential record and the shaping of his legacy. The authors examine the broader context of how Reagan impacted the nature of the US presidency and international relations during the Cold War, and how this in turn interacted with American popular culture. Serving as an introduction to academics, students and the interested public into what is a rapidly increasingly Reagan scholarship, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in US elections, the evolving nature of the US presidency, and American culture more generally. James Cooper is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at York St John University, in the UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and the twentieth Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Missouri, USA. In May 2016, James was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. R. J. Richardson is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University in the UK. Her thesis explores the concept of authenticity in historically-set, long-form drama, through the creation and analysis of the opening season of a series set in New York City in 1945 Bailey Schwab is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University, in the UK, undertaking a thesis in presidential history between 1981 and 2009. His research explores the concept of foreign policy doctrine and how it is utilised in the critique of presidential leadership in foreign policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031545696
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 156 p. 5 illus.)
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Technological innovations. ; Economic development ; Development economics ; Economics of innovation ; Economic of technology and innovation ; Nagy Hanna ; Economic policy
    Abstract: Introduction -- the global, technological and institutional contexts -- Motivation -- Early Engagements -- Responding to the Digital Revolutions -- Examining World Bank Digital Strategies -- Advocacy for Digital Transformation -- Digital Strategy for Aid Agencies.
    Abstract: “Nagy Hanna exposes the challenges of making technology an effective tool for development, while confronting vested interests that seek to sustain the status quo, both in client governments and internally within the Bank. At the heart of the book is a powerful commitment to learning and using technology to change lives for the better.” —Tim Kelly, Lead Digital Development Specialist, World Bank “As a thought leader, Hanna has accumulated decades of on-the-ground experience pioneering digital transformation projects in economies around the world, the subject of several of his important books. In this culminating and highly-readable volume, he pulls those experiences together, sets them in the context of his life-long career with the Bank, and raises vital questions for every aid agency as we move deeper into the 21st century.” —Nigel Cameron, President Emeritus, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies In this book, Nagy K. Hanna offers a holistic framework that economists and policymakers can use to examine and drive digital transformation. The book offers detailed analyses into development policies, and organizational processes governing digital transformation learning and practice and highlights the reforms needed in countries and aid agencies to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The author offers insight to help reform major aid agencies within the economic development space. The resulting text reimagines the future of development economics. Nagy K. Hanna advises countries and aid agencies on development economics and digital transformation programs. For more than three decades, he held senior positions in operations and strategic functions at the World Bank. Hanna was the World Bank's first senior advisor focused on digital economy. He was Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. He is Cofounder of People-Centered Internet, a global forum for inclusive digital transformation. Hanna has published extensively on digital leadership and national digital strategies.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(Approx. 400 p. 20 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: The Holocaust and its Contexts
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    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945. ; Europe, Central ; Collective memory. ; Civilization
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Public Engagement with Holocaust memory sites in Poland -- 2. POLIN’s Museum on Wheels in rural Poland: travelling museum and localised interests of visitors -- 3. Say it with a Flower? POLIN’s Daffodils Campaign -- 4. Performative Engagements with Loss: Healing Rituals at the Borderland Foundation in Senjy, and the Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre Centre in Lublin -- 5. IDF soldiers’ visits to World War II extermination camps in Poland – the experience and its effects on soldiers’ attitudes -- 6. Block 27 and the Possibilities of Sound: Affect, History, and the Creating the Space “In-Between” -- 7. Commemoration Boundaries, Holocaust Memory Limits:Experiences of Proximity, Absence, and Anachrony in the Chełmno on Ner Museum -- 8. The KL Plaszow Site and Its Visitors: Shaping Attitudes towards the Commemoration of the Site -- 9. Familial Memory Activism and Transgenerational Experiences of Visiting Sobibór Death Camp: A Case Study.
    Abstract: This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visitors of different national and generational background, especially those of Polish and Jewish descent, experience and reflect on their visits, or on living in the proximity of different sites of memory across Poland, including former concentration and death camps, ghetto sites, and other physical sites such as museums with a connection to the Holocaust. Diana I. Popescu is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031422355
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 293 p.)
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    Keywords: Comparative literature. ; Literature ; Science ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur -- Chapter 2. Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene -- Chapter 3. Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 4. Settler Colonial Solutions to Settler Colonial Problems: Settler Cinemas and the Crisis of Colonization of Outer Space -- Chapter 5. The Weirdness of White Strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition -- Chapter 6. How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and the Future -- Chapter 7. “I get to exist as a Black person in the world”: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen -- Chapter 8. Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy -- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager -- Chapter 10. The Wild Boar Never Strikes without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu -- Chapter 11. Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People -- Chapter 12. Shadowing the Brutality and Cruelty of Nature: On History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke -- Chapter 13. Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future -- Chapter 14. Building a Kinship Society (short story).
    Abstract: “Proposing a symbiosis between history and speculative fi ction, this wide-ranging collection of essays asks how critical visions of alternative possibility can help us confront the dire legacies of colonialism, the specter of ecological catastrophe, and the burdens of systemic injustice. Historians and literary scholars alike should welcome this intervention.” —John Rieder, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa “This volume makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on speculative fi ction by illuminating how the concept of ‘concurrences,’ as articulated and theorized by Gunlög Fur, can serve as a valuable methodological tool in the study of speculative fi ction. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural and historical sources, the essays in this volume offer useful case studies that render the concept of concurrences more comprehensible through concrete application.” —Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future. John L. Hennessey is a research fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University. He has published on global colonial history and the history of science in journals including Science in Context, History and Anthropology, French Colonial History, Settler Colonial Studies and Japan Review. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 221 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Community development. ; Social service. ; Juvenile delinquents. ; Social psychiatry. ; International law. ; Family policy. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Familie ; Elterliche Sorge ; Recht ; Familiengericht
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Matching legal proceedings to the problem in custody disputes -- Chapter 2. Children’s health matters in custody conflicts – What do we know? -- Chapter 3. Nordic family mediation: towards a system of differentiated services? -- Chapter 4. Custody disputes from a socio-legal perspective -- Chapter 5. Children’s participation and perspectives in family disputes -- Chapter 6. Mapping paths to family justice: Resolving family disputes involving children in neoliberal times -- Chapter 7. Out-of-court Custody Dispute Resolution in Sweden – A Journey without Destination -- Chapter 8. Children’s health matters in custody conflicts: Best interest of the child and decisions on health matters -- Chapter 9. Challenges when family conflicts meet the law – A proactive approach -- 10. Beyond the Horizon: Matching Legal Proceedings to the Problem in Custody Disputes.
    Abstract: This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular on Nordic experiences of in and out-of-court mechanisms as means of resolving custody disputes. The contributors are internationally renowned and experienced researchers from the legal, psychological, and sociological fields who provide empirical as well as legal perspectives. They examine central legal, ethical and knowledge-based dilemmas in custody dispute proceedings. The findings speak to an international audience and suggest ways how to best realize the interests of the child. It transcends disciplinary, institutional, and jurisdictional boundaries in search of new knowledge. Anna Kaldal is a professor of procedural law and head of subject at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm university, Sweden. Her main field of research is evidential law and children in legal proceedings, especially children in custody cases, criminal cases and child protection cases. She is one of the founders of the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child. Agnes Hellner is a senior lecturer in procedural law at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on access to justice, comparative procedural law and constitutional law dimensions of procedural law, such as the relationship between the courts and the legislature. Titti Mattsson is a professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on legal, ethical and human rights issues within national social welfare systems, including children's rights. Mattsson is heading the Health Law Research Centre at Lund University.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eleonorasdotter, Emma Women s Drug Use in Everyday Life
    Keywords: Drug abuse. ; Criminology. ; Crime ; Critical criminology. ; Culture. ; Criminal behavior. ; Social psychology. ; Cultural studies ; Drogen und Alkohol: soziale Aspekte ; Drogenhandel ; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects ; Drugs trade / drug trafficking ; Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen ; Gender studies: women ; Kulturwissenschaften ; LAW118000 ; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; SOC057000 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies ; Social, group or collective psychology ; Sozialpsychologie ; Schweden ; Sweden
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Drugs in historical and contemporary contexts: Legal, cultural, scientific, and geographical -- Drugs and medications -- 4. Meeting points -- 5. Possessing drugs -- 6. Avoiding The Junkie -- 7. Staying appropriate -- 8. Behaving with children -- 8. Behaving with children -- 10. Appropriate drugs -- 11. Negotiating addiction -- 12. Happy using drugs? -- 13. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This book offers a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of women who use drugs in Sweden. Adopting a queer phenomenological perspective, Dr Eleonorasdotter brings a fresh perspective to debates about drug use and notions of ‘harm’. Well-researched and written, the book engages with gendered, classed and stigmatising constructions of women who use drugs represented in policy and practice. We are encouraged to think about what it means to be a woman who uses drugs living and working in Sweden today. An excellent addition to the literature.” -Michelle Addison, Associate Professor of Criminology, Durham University, UK "This is a thought-provoking and intelligent book, brushing aside the negativity which is continually connected with women who use any kind of mind altering substances. Eleonorasdotter is successful in challenging the one-dimensional view of using women as well as in offering a feminist account of the lives of her respondents in the Swedish context. This is a must-read for everyone in the addiction field – users, treaters, researchers, and policymakers." -Elizabeth Ettorre, Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK. This open access book explores the everyday use of psychoactive substances in contemporary Sweden, focusing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study, it uses critical theory such as queer phenomenology to analyse twelve women’s narratives of their use of drugs. The book also draws attention to the social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered background of drugs and drug use in the contemporary global North, and how the meanings of drug use have shifted over time, with a specific focus on Sweden. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health by directing attention to the women’s orientations towards objects and people, and how the women align or do not align with social and cultural norms. It discusses how drug-related spaces and directions can be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Anthropology, Gender studies, Law and History. Emma Eleonorasdotter is a researcher and lecturer in Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden. She is an ethnologist and a cultural analyst interested in inequality and everyday lives, and has been part of the editorial team of the Swedish anti-racist cultural magazine Mana since 2008. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 749 p. 35 illus., 29 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Human geography. ; Political science. ; Social sciences. ; Global South ; colonisation ; decolonisation ; forced migration ; food insecurity ; climate change ; gender inequality ; Open Access ; transnational borders ; asylum ; refugees ; diaspora ; colonialism ; displacement ; discrimination ; intersectional inequalities ; Indigenous Peoples ; postcolonialism ; racism ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 1. South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An Introduction -- PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2. The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- 3. Recentering the South in Studies of Migration. 4. Writing the Camp -- 5. Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice -- 6. Rethinking Power and Reciprocity in the “Field” -- 7. What does it mean to move? Humanising Cultural Work in South-South Migration -- PART II Unpacking “the South” in South-South Migration -- 8. Trends in South-South Migration -- 9. The Dynamics of South-South Migration in Africa -- 10. Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: a Case Study of Hadiya Migration to South Africa -- 11. Migration and Inequality in the Burkina Faso- Côte d’Ivoire Corridor -- 12. Unequal Origins to Unequal Destinations: Trends and Characteristics of Migrants' Social and Economic Inclusion in South America -- 13. The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move -- 14. Migrant Labour and Inequalities in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor (and Beyond) -- 15. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana -- 16. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America -- PART III Inequalities and South-South Migration -- 17. Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South -- 18. Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality -- 19. Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil -- 20. Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South -- 21. Why, When and How? The Role of Inequality in Migration Decision-making -- 22. Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South” -- 23. The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South-South Migration -- 24. Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South -- 25. South-South Migration and Children’s Education: Expanded Challenges and Increased Opportunities -- 26. Mapping the Linkages between Food Security, Inequality, Migration and Development in the Global South -- PART IV Responses to South-South Migration - 27. The Governance of South-South migration: Same or Different? - 28. Policies towards Migration in Africa -- 29. Migration Governance in South America: Change and Continuity in Times of “Crisis” -- 30. Perú and Migration from Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment -- 31. The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance -- 32. Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice -- 33. Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South.
    Abstract: “Across thirty three dazzling chapters, this groundbreaking collection from some of the world’s leading migration scholars makes a major contribution to the field of migration studies. Centring south-south migration raises vital theoretical, methodological, and empirical questions for research on mobility globally which go far beyond geographical movements within the symbolic geography of the ‘Global South’. Situated at the cutting edge of these debates, the contributors to this volume offer food for thought for scholars and students from a range of disciplines and locations.” --Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield. Author of Asylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017) and Migration Studies and Colonialism (with Joe Turner, 2020) This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners. Heaven Crawley is Head of Equitable Development and Migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), New York, USA, and Visiting Professor of International Migration at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), UK. She was previously Head of Asylum and Migration Research at the UK Home Office and Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, UK. Joseph Kofi Teye is Director of Research at the Office of Research Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana and Associate Professor of Migration and Development in the Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031367533
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 308 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
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    Keywords: Middle East ; History, Modern. ; Historiography. ; History
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Women and Girls -- The Victims of “Safety”: The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon -- Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women’s Section of Istanbul’s Central Prison (1915-1918) -- Reenacting Testimony: The Armenian Genocide, Early Cinema, and Humanitarianism -- Part II: Agency and Assistance -- “Special Kind of Refugees”: Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum -- On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian’s diary -- Categories and their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation -- Part III: Genocide and Society -- The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians -- Refocusing on – Crimes Against – Humanity -- Taner Akcam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations -- Part IV: Consensus and Debate -- The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology -- The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894-1924 -- Since the Centennial: New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015-2021.
    Abstract: “This book of essays by leading scholars on the Armenian Genocide is a fitting tribute to Taner Akçam and a major contribution to the field he has helped to define. Embodying the virtues of his pathbreaking work, they present both micro- and macro-perspectives on one of the twentieth-century’s defining events.” —A. Dirk Moses, City College of New York, USA “This book is a major contribution to the field of Armenian Genocide Studies. The interdisciplinary aspect of the book - that ranges from gender violence, humanitarianism, the role of cinema, and memoirs, to the economic dimension of the genocide, activism in genocide studies, and historiographic analysis - provides new perspectives on the Armenian Genocide and its repercussions. The book is a must read to all those interested in understanding the different facets of the Armenian Genocide.” —Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, Armenian, German, or other languages, thus immeasurably expanding and deepening the scholarly project of documenting and analyzing the Armenian Genocide. Thomas Kühne is Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA. Mary Jane Rein is Executive Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA. Marc A. Mamigonian is Director of Academic Affairs at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031509858
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 308 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Cities and towns ; Great Britain ; World War, 1939-1945. ; History, Modern. ; Human ecology
    Abstract: 1 Introduction and Historiography -- Preamble -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Tip and Run Raids: 1943 -- Little Blitz: 1944 -- V-Weapons: 1944–1945 -- Historiography Review -- Critique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality -- Historiographical Themes: Home Front Studies -- Historiographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz -- Shaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials -- Class -- Gender -- Race -- Shaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality -- Local Area Analysis -- The Six London Boroughs -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- Applying a Thematic Approach -- 2 Planning for War: London and the Localities -- Pre-War Fears -- Planning for War: Central Government -- Planning for War: Regional and County Level -- Planning for War: Local Authorities -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- 3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response -- Tip and Run Raids 1943 -- Little Blitz 1944 -- V-Weapons 1944–1945 -- 6 Local Response: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Darren Bryant convincingly shows how Londoners' prospects during the Blitz were defined by just where in the capital they were living. Using case studies to point up surprising differences between one local district and another, he transforms our understanding of the experience of The Bombing War. Remarkable.” —Jerry White, Emeritus Professor of Modern London History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK “This book will change how you think about Londoners and the Blitz. In a fascinating and deeply researched study, Darren Bryant shows how local circumstances created very different experiences of bombing. I richly recommend the book not just to those interested in the Blitz, but to anyone interested in London's past and the wider history of civilians under fire in the Second World War.” —Daniel Todman, Professor of Modern History and Head of the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ‘London Blitz’ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever in the capital one happened to be, despite some areas being hit more than others. This book illustrates how there were many London blitzes, not one, influenced by a myriad of metropolitan localities, and giving rise to an agency of locality that helped to shape the lived blitz experience. By walking through the streets of London, this book conducts a local area analysis, witnessing the blitz through six London localities, representative of the assorted administrative, economic, and socio-political variables prevalent in wartime London. Covering air raids alongside topics like the provision of shelters, homelessness, and communal feeding, it shows how any history of the London Blitz must acknowledge that it was an experience reflective of a varied metropolis. Darren Bryant was awarded his PhD in History from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031519710
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 307 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Library 9
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; Logic. ; Physicists ; Astronomers
    Abstract: PART I: AT HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY -- 1. At high school -- 1.1. High school extraordinary -- 1.2. The activity of the human mind -- 1.3. Molecular theory -- 1.4. G¨odel’s esoteric side -- At university: from physics to mathematics -- 2.1. The physics student -- 2.2. Mathematics and philosophy -- PART II: FIRST STEPS IN LOGIC -- 1. First encounters with foundational problems -- 2. The Weber-Heft -- 3. The U¨ bungsheft Logik -- 3.1. Exercise in constitutional analysis -- 3.2. Formal derivations in second-order arithmetic and set theory -- 3.3. Beautiful syntax trees and other diversions -- 3.4. Summary overview of the U¨ bungsheft -- 4. Punktmengenlehre -- 4.1. Hilbert’s geometry -- 4.2. Hausdorff’s point set topology -- PART III: THE PROBLEM OF COMPLETENESS -- 1. From Carnap’s exercises to the problem of completeness -- 2. Dissertation draft -- 2.1. Generality -- 2.2. First-order logic -- 2.3. The proof of completeness -- 3. Completeness of the axioms of the narrower function calculus -- 4. Lectures and seminars on completeness. -- 5. Anticipations of incompleteness -- PART IV: THE SHORTHAND NOTEBOOKS -- 1. The Weber-Heft -- 2. U¨ bungsheft Logik: formal derivations -- 3. Punktmengenlehre: Hilbert’s geometry -- 4. Punktmengenlehre and U¨ bungsheft: set theory and topology -- 6. Completeness of the axioms of the narrower function calculus -- PART V: LECTURES AND SEMINARS ON COMPLETENESS -- 1. On the completeness of the axioms of the logical function calculus -- 2. Lecture in K¨onigsberg -- 3. Lecture in Vienna (plan of contents) -- 4. Report on G¨odel’s work -- 5. Completeness of the function calculus.
    Abstract: In the summer of 1928, Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) embarked on his logical journey that would bring him world fame in a mere three years. By early 1929, he had solved an outstanding problem in logic, namely the question of the completeness of the axioms and rules of quantificational logic. He then went on to extend the result to the axiom system of arithmetic but found, instead of completeness, his famous incompleteness theorem that got published in 1931. It belongs to the most iconic achievements of 20th century science and has been instrumental in the development of theories of formal languages and algorithmic computability – two essential components in the birth of the information society. This book explores Gödel’s way from an exceptional high-school student to a firmly established young logician. Essays in Gödel’s hand from the high school show that his central philosophical and scientific convictions were formed early on, before his university studies. Particular emphasis is laid on the course that made Gödel one of the foremost logicians of all times. The scientific biography of young Gödel is followed by English translations from Gödel’s German Gabelsberger shorthand of all his early preserved notebooks on logic and related topics.
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    ISBN: 9783031469589
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 246 p.)
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    Keywords: Europe ; Social history. ; Civilization ; Europe
    Abstract: This book argues for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics during the last four decades. Values play a pivotal role in structuring political views and policy preferences. They influence citizens’ attitudes and behaviors as well as reflect long-lasting political cultures and cleavages. After presenting the data collected within the European values studies, on which the six contributions included in this book build, we explain how these contributions highlight some major French political dynamics by scrutinizing key driving forces such as the individualization process, generational replacement or ideological consistency in economic and cultural beliefs, and by re-assessing how attitudes toward democracy, religiosity and nationalism shape political attitudes. Challenging dominant narratives of value crisis, this book sets up an agenda for future research on French politics through the lens of value change. Previously published in French Politics Volume 19, issue 2-3, September 2021. Céline Belot is Researcher at the University of Grenoble, France. Pierre Bréchon is Professor at the University of Grenoble, France. Frédéric Gonthier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Grenoble, France.
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    ISBN: 9783031496776
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 294 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; History, Modern. ; International relations.
    Abstract: I1. Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations -- 2. Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations -- 3. Isolationism/Internationalism: Concepts of American Global Power -- 4. U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization after World War II -- 5. Bread not Bullets: Mobilizing American Farmers for the Postwar World -- 6. Slow March to Jerusalem: Domestic Politics and the History of the U.S. Embassy in Israel -- 7. Too Sweet a Deal: American “Candy Men” and International Cocoa Negotiations in the 1960s -- 8. The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics -- 9. Framing the Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations -- 10. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Originsof Globalization -- 10. Squandering the “Peace Dividend”: Domestic Politics and the Political Economy of Defense Conversion, 1989-2000.
    Abstract: Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign relations and world affairs. In so doing, the collection underlines that, even in a global age, domestic politics and phenomena were crucial to the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations more broadly. Daniel Bessner is the Annett H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA. Michael Brenes is Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031497957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 293 p. 26 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Social choice. ; Welfare economics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methods -- Chapter 3. Framework -- Chapter 4. Institutions -- Chapter 5. Employment -- Chapter 6. Protection -- Chapter 7. Incorporation -- Chapter 8. Clusters -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement savings, and social assistance. The middle chapters study social protection’s main stratification effects, focussing on stratification effects on employment, protection, and worker incorporation. The later chapters then assess social protection outcomes and identify country groupings including their evolution over time. The book, and its approach and findings, contributes to the advancement of a theory of social protection amongst late industrialisers. Armando Barrientos is Professor Emeritus of Poverty and Social Justice at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He was Research Director at the World Poverty Institute. .
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    ISBN: 9783031529542
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 307 p. 26 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 71
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    Keywords: Science ; Philosophy ; Analytical chemistry. ; Mathematics. ; History.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective (Jutta Schickore) -- Chapter 2. Christoph Scheiner’s The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics (Tawrin Baker) -- Chapter 3. One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments (Caterina Schürch) -- Chapter 4. Controlling Induction: Practices and Reflections in Brewster’s Optical Studies (Friedrich Steinle) -- Chapter 5. Carl Stumpf and Control Groups (Julia Kursell) -- Chapter 6. A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Claudia Cristalli) -- Chapter 7. Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany (Kärin Nickelsen) -- Chapter 8. Controlling the Unobservable: Experimental Strategies and Hypotheses in Discovering the Causal Origin of Brownian Movement (Klodian Coko) -- Chapter 9. From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh's Strategies of Experimental Control (Vasiliki Christopoulou and Theodore Arabatzis) -- Chapter 10. Controlling Away the Phenomenon: Maze Research and the Nature of Learning (Evan Arnet) -- Chapter 11. Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch and the Study of Color Vision in Fish (Christoph Hoffmann).
    Abstract: This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and the history of the term “control”. Each chapter brings these distinctions to bear on specific historical episodes. The focus is on experiments with complex, elusive phenomena such as perception and learning, irregular movements, and unobservable elements. Such experiments bring control issues to the fore because they are difficult to design and stabilize and often controversial. Together, the chapters show that the local context shapes what exactly is controlled, how control can be accomplished, and how controls are justified. They also show that control strategies and methodological ideas often remain stable for a long time and change only gradually. This book, as well as the volume on analysis and synthesis in experimentation by the same editors, contains contributions by an array of experts from multiple disciplines, making it suitable for historians and philosophers of science and students alike.
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    Series Statement: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; Europe ; Intellectual life ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Framing the Ottoman nation -- Ottomanism between ideology and realpolitik -- Revolution and disillusion -- Identity policies in action -- Claiming the homeland? -- Reframing the nation -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic cleansing, genocide, the empire's disintegration, territorial and demographic changes, and the emergence of new states. In the face of these events, a multitude of old and new formulations and imaginings of nation and national identity took shape and interacted with each other. This book focuses on highlighting the diversity of concepts and trajectories that existed during the period and how these played out within a complex web of inclusionary and exclusionary processes, and the various ways in which the nation was constituted and conceptualized.
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; World politics. ; Sports
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sport from above -- Chapter 3. A Swedish invention that conquered the world -- Chapter 4: The development of Swedish sport until the 1930s -- Chapter 5: The development of Swedish sport politics until the 1930s -- Chapter 6. The Social Democrats conquer sport -- Chapter 7: The golden age of sport respectability – the post-war period -- Chapter 8: The golden age of the Swedish sport model -- Chapter 9. The polarisation of sport in the post-industrial era -- Chapter 10: Sport – a political exception?
    Abstract: This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and people’s different approaches to sport in everyday life. By investigating how different ways of pursuing and conceptualizing sport have progressed and interacted, and how they have influenced as well been influenced by sport politics, this book discerns the role of both governmental and municipal politics in the development of sport in Sweden. Jens Ljunggren is Professor of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 232 p. 5 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Journalism.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Why study news? The democratic role of news -- 3. Understanding influences on the production of news -- 4. Routines and practices: studying the making of news -- 5. Journalism norms, values, and role perceptions -- 6. Journalism ethics -- 7. The news organisation -- 8. News audiences -- 9. News sources -- 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book provides readers with the understanding required to analyse the range of key factors that shape the production of news, and to assess their implications for the role of news and journalism in democracy. It brings existing research together under the umbrella of a central organising framework to explore how news and its production is shaped by a multiplicity of factors including the norms, values, role perceptions and ethics associated with journalism as a profession, the role of news sources, the changing character and significance of news audiences, the aims and objectives of news organisations, and the political, economic and social contexts within which news is produced. Exploring these factors in depth, using examples, and considering the changing conditions of news production, the chapters chart significant changes, challenges, and responses to provide the essential background for understanding the consequences of current transformations for the democratic qualities of news. Julie Firmstone is Professor of Journalism and Political Communication at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. Her teaching and research explore a range of issues in the intersection between journalism, the news media, politics, and democratic engagement. She has published widely on the role of news and journalism in local democracy; journalism standards, press ethics and regulation; editorial journalism at newspapers; and communication about the European Union. .
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    ISBN: 9783031401107
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 154 p.)
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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: 9783031398964
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 214 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Medicine and the humanities.
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility -- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House -- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure -- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.
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    ISBN: 9783031390241
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 104 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Sociology ; Ethnology. ; Asia
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Central Asian Research Setting. An Introduction (Jasmin Dall’Agnola) -- Part I. Epistemic and Methodological Uncertainty -- Chapter 2. Making Sense of Central Asia: Sources of Epistemic Uncertainty (Aziz Elmuradov) -- Chapter 3. Pitfalls and Promise for Public Opinion Research in Central Asia (Kasiet Ysmanova) -- Chapter 4. ‘Swiping Right’ – The Ethics of Using Tinder as a Recruitment Tool in the Field (Paolo Sorbello) -- Part II. Beyond ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Locals’ -- Chapter 5. The Power of a Multi-layered Identity in Central Asian Research (Gulzhanat Gafu) -- Chapter 6. Being Afghani, French and not Soviet, Along the Border Between Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Mélanie Sadozaï) -- Chapter 7. A Stranger in the Village: Anti-Blackness in the Field (Alexa Kurmanov) -- Part III. Doing Research in Closed Contexts -- Chapter 8. Safety, Security, and Self-Censorship as Survival Strategies (Aijan Sharshenova) -- Chapter 9. Navigating Academic Repression in Central Asia (Ruslan Norov) -- Chapter 10. Performative Heterosexuality: A Gay Researcher Doing Fieldwork in Central Asia (Marius Honig) -- Chapter 11. From Romantic Advances to Cyberstalking in the Field (Jasmin Dall’Agnola).
    Abstract: This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers’ subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.
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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: 9783031366369
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 215 p.)
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    Series Statement: African Histories and Modernities
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    Keywords: Creative nonfiction. ; African literature. ; Literature.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood -- Chapter 3. Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home -- Chapter 4 - Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey -- Chapter 5- Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -- Chapter 6- Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria -- Chapter 7- Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8 - Place and Trauma in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil -- Chapter 9 - From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writing -- Chapter 10- Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing.
    Abstract: This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna’s autobiographical writing – to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ‘African’ writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ‘Africa’, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation. Lena Englund currently works as senior researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. She is the author of South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (Palgrave, 2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031402166
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 228 p. 4 illus.)
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    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Creative nonfiction. ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Literature ; Ethics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction: Contesting Equilibria: Nussbaum versus Rawls -- Chapter 2 Kantian Dignity -- Chapter 3 Philosophical Literature -- Chapter 4 Trolley Problems -- Chapter 5 Lifeboats -- Chapter 6 Richard Wright’s Travails of Mann -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Be Reasonable.
    Abstract: This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature. In presenting this argument, the volume defends trolley problems from the criticism that some philosophers level against them by promoting their use as an interpretive tool for literary scholars. Starting with Martha C. Nussbaum’s interventions in literary theory concerning Henry James and perceptive equilibrium, this book draws on the philosophical thoughts of her contemporaries—Philippa Foot, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Derek Parfit—to analyze Uncle Tom’s Children, especially “Down by the Riverside,” alongside other works by Wright. This approach emphasizes Wright’s recognition of the importance and integrity of Kant’s concept of dignity. Michael Wainwright is Honorary Research Associate at the University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Faulkner’s Ethics: An Intense Struggle (2021), The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship (2018), and Game Theory and Postwar American Literature (2016), all published by Palgrave.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 242 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Emigration and immigration ; Environmental Law. ; America ; Social justice.
    Abstract: Part I: Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice -- Chapter 1: Pulling at the Thread -- Chapter 2: Property Law and Its Contradictions -- Part II: Proof of Harm -- Chapter 3: Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities -- Chapter 4: Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action -- Chapter 5: Displacing a Right to Act Communally within Community Relocation -- Chapter 6: Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (rebuilding) the City” -- Chapter 7: Interrogating “Just Compensation” and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska -- Part III: The Legal Framework -- Chapter 8: A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools that Structure Relocation -- Chapter 9: Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law -- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts.
    Abstract: This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change. Alessandra Jerolleman is Associate Professor of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, USA. Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA. Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA. Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA. Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator. Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA. Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031418549
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 350 p. 4 illus.)
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction and Background -- 2: Zimdancehall's Pre-History and Roots -- 3: Zimdancehall and Youth Culture -- 4: The Zimdancehall Underground and Youth Resistance from the Margins -- 5: Zimdancehall Music and the Voices of Zimbabwean Youth -- 6: Say Their Name: Zimdancehall Chanters & the Politics of Representation -- 7: Zimdancehall and The State -- 8: Zimdancehall and Everyday Urbanism -- 9. Zimdancehall's Elite Capture -- 10: Soul Jah Love's Necropolitianism -- 11: Soul Jah Love and Representations of Orphanhood and Motherhood in Zimdancehall -- 12: Soul Jah Love and the Ambivalent Representation of Women in Zimdancehall -- 13: Feminist Zimdancehall's Subversion of Women's Objectification -- 14: Religion and Spirituality in Zimdancehall -- 15: Zimdancehall and Afrofuturism -- 16: Zimdancehall's Future.
    Abstract: Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown significantly since 2010. The Zimdancehall Revolution brings together critical essays on various aspects of Zimdancehall culture by scholars from diverse disciplines. Traditionally, music critics and senior academics have not taken Zimdancehall seriously, regarding it as vulgar, transient, bubble gum, lacking depth, and in short, a fad. There were also allegations that the lyrics influenced factionalism, incited violence and glorified drug use and unbridled promiscuity among the youth. This book affords this movement the protracted intellectual engagement that it deserves and argues that Zimdancehall is more than just a musical genre but an everyday culture, a way of life. The genre’s close association with the ghetto is telling and enables critics to look at it as a social movement, a revolution, or a raw, petulant and raging disturbance of peace by those who live their lives on the margins. It is, thus, a violent irruption onto the public space by marginalised young people whose presence as artistes creating art from the margins, simultaneously as victims and agents, circulating in a geography that escapes the limits of nationalist ideological and physical territory, in a way subverts communitarian prescriptions and allows young people entry into the world, albeit in a painful, tumultuous and violent way. The essays range from the mapping of the genre’s historical development to theoretical interventions in understanding the genre and its relationship with various aspects of the Zimbabwean society like politics, gender, religion, language, dance, cultural values and other genres.
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    ISBN: 9783031395703
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 230 p. 3 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Ecocriticism. ; Literature ; Animal welfare ; Science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: honey, wax, pollination Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University -- Chapter 2. “Science and the Sacred Honeybee in the Nineteenth Century” Diane M. Rodgers, Northern Illinois University -- Chapter 3. “Housewives and Old Wives: sex and superstition in English Beekeeping” Adam Ebert, Mount Mercy University -- Chapter 4. “Unsettling Homes”: Honeybees, Georgiana Molloy and Colonial Beekeeping in Australia Jessica White, University of Adelaide -- Chapter 5. “The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper”: Bee Poetry in the Oracle and World Claire Knowles, La Trobe University -- Chapter 6. “A Nineteenth-Century Beeography: Lucy Peacock’s The Life of a Bee Related by Herself (1800)” Samantha George, University of Hertfordshire -- Chapter 7. “Keats’s Honeybees: Sound, Passion, and Natural Prophecy” Hermione de Almeida, University of Tulsa.-Chapter 8. “Bumblebees and Emily Dickinson” Camilla Chen, Oxford University -- Chapter 9. A Hive Turned Upside Down: Drone Bees and the Chartist Imaginary Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University -- Chapter 10. “Through the Agency of Bees”: Charles Darwin, John Lubbock, and the Secret Lives of Plants and People” Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan -- Chapter 11. “Queens and Drones in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex” Alexis Harley, La Trobe University -- Chapter 12. “The Experimental Eminence of Darwin’s Bees” John Clark, St Andrews University.
    Abstract: "For centuries, humans have invested enormous weight in the symbol of the honey bee. The authors of the meticulously-researched Bees, Science, Sex and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century show how the symbol changes radically in the literature and culture of the nineteenth-century, as emerging technologies and new biological discoveries clash with long-held agrarian and poetic traditions." —Tammy Horn Potter, author of Bees and America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature. It was the period in which the ecological and agronomic values that are still attributed to bees by modern industrial society were first established, and it was the period in which one bee species (the European honeybee) completed its dispersal to every habitable continent on Earth. At the same time, literature – which would enable, represent and in some cases repress or disavow this radical transformation of bees’ fortunes ­– was undergoing its own set of transformations. Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century navigates the various developments that occurred in the scientific study of bees and in beekeeping during this period of remarkable change, focusing on the bees themselves, those with whom they lived, and how old and new ideas about bees found expression in an ever-diversifying range of literary media. Ranging across literary forms and genres, the studies in this volume show the ubiquity of bees in nineteenth-century culture, demonstrate the queer specificity of writing about and with bees, and foreground new avenues for research into an animal profoundly implicated in the political, economic, ecological, emotional and aesthetic conditions of the modern world. Alexis Harley lectures in literary studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of Autobiologies: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self. She has kept honeybees since 2012. Christopher Harrington teaches literary studies at Victoria University in Melbourne. He has published numerous articles on the representation of bees and insects in literature.
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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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 264 p.)
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    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: America ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Race. ; Globalization. ; Emigration and immigration.
    Abstract: Introduction: Beyond Borders. Inclusion and Exclusion in American Culture -- Isamu: Becoming Nisei -- Part I. Perpetuating Otherness. Relocation to the Outside Within -- “Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps -- The Resonance of the Hostage Crisis in Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2004) and the Limits of Hospitality -- Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina -- Part II. Beyond Sovereign Frames: Contesting Imaginaries and National Myths -- Foreigners in their Own Land: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Creation of Tolerated Strangers -- E Pluribus Unum?: Disintegrating the Melting Pot Myth in American Science Fiction Narratives of National Fragmentation -- Inhospitable Homelands: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in African American War Narratives -- Monsters or Men?: Guillermo del Toro’s Allegories of American Othering in The Shape of Water -- Part III. Welcoming the Stranger Inside?: Exclusive Inclusion in the Age of Neoliberalism -- Strangers in the Homeland: Dystopic (in)Hospitality in McCarthy’s The Road -- Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017) -- Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020) -- Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies -- The Ugly Guy (Novel Excerpt).
    Abstract: American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of the nation to the age of globalization and neoliberalism, in order to understand the diverse literary landscapes of the United States from a twenty-first century perspective. The authors confront American exceptionalism, discourses on freedom and democracy, and US foundational narratives by reassessing the literary canon and exploring ethnic literature, culture, and film with a focus on identity and exclusion. Their contributions envision different manifestations of conviviality and estrangement and deconstruct neoliberal slogans, analyzing hospitable inclusion in relation to national history and ideologies. By looking at representations of foreignness and conditional belonging in literature and film from different ethnic traditions, the volume fleshes out a new border dialectic that conveys the heterogeneity of American boundaries beyond the opposition inside/outside. Paula Barba Guerrero is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include African American literature, space studies, memory, nostalgia, and speculative fiction. Mónica Fernández Jiménez holds a PhD in English from the University of Valladolid, Spain, and currently works as a translator in England. Her research interests include Caribbean literature, Postcolonial Studies, American imperialism, and ecocriticism.
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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    Keywords: European literature ; Drama. ; Literature
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power -- 3 “The Bloody Proclamation to Escape”: Edgar and Romantic Outlawry -- 4 Dividing Between Daughters -- 5 Lear’s Redemption -- 6 Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today -- Index.
    Abstract: This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear’s encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben’s models. Goneril’s treason shows the sovereign’s consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear’s crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book’s conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear’s persistent association with the Holocaust. Dr Alexander Thom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His postdoctoral research focuses on the displaced in English Renaissance drama. This book is based on his Midlands3Cities AHRC doctorate, which was awarded in 2020 by the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031445460
    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: 9783031451980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 287 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Motion pictures. ; Television broadcasting. ; Motion picture acting. ; Cultural policy. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: Introduction:Anglophone Drama in a Post-Democratic, Post-Truth World -- Chapter 1. Western Theatre as Sociopolitical Forum—A Short History -- Chapter 2. Progressive Western Cinema -- Chapter 3. Case-study Films and Plays from the First Decade -- Chapter 4. Case-study Films and Plays from the First Decade -- Chapter 5. Case-study Films and Plays from the Second Decade.-Chapter 6. Case-study Films and Plays from the Second Decade -- Conclusion: Progressive Drama and its Potentialities .
    Abstract: Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama analyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive thinking in an increasingly polarised geopolitical world. The book addresses the cultural politics of socially engaged 21st century stage plays and films, and makes the case for drama as a sociopolitical forum, in which the complex and contentious issues that confront society can be explored and debated. It conceives of Anglophone political drama as a significant intervention in today’s culture wars, representing the latter as a convenient distraction from the ongoing depredations of neoliberalism. In the main part of the book selected case-study plays and films from each of the first two decades illustrate drama’s capacity to influence critical debate on social justice issues. All of the case-study texts under discussion express a powerful aesthetics of resistance to right-wing ideology, and promote inclusive and enlightened values. This broader orientation underlines drama’s role as a channel for critical agency in today’s putative post-socialist, post-democratic climate. Mike Ingham is Adjunct Professor of English Studies in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a dedicated tertiary teacher and former teacher-trainer. His research interests include stage and screen drama, Shakespeare studies, Hong Kong literature in English, and drama in education. Mike is also a founder member of Theatre Action, a Hong Kong-based drama group specialising in action research on literary dramatic texts. Previous monograph publications include Staging Fictions - The Prose Fiction Stage Adaptation as Social Allegory (2004), Hong Kong - A Cultural and Literary History (2007), Stage-play and Screen-play: The Intermediality of Theatre and Cinema (2017) and The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song (2022). He has also produced journal articles and book chapters on adaptation for stage and screen, early modern drama, documentary and feature film in Asian and Western contexts, and drama pedagogy.
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    ISBN: 9783031430671
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 233 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater ; Actors. ; Classical literature. ; Literature, Ancient. ; Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introducing The Burnt City and beyond -- Chapter 2: Punchdrunk on the Classics: A History -- Chapter 3: The Burnt City in Development: Rehearsal as Mythopoiesis -- Chapter 4: The Burnt City in Development: Abstracting Ancient Literature -- Chapter 5: The Burnt City in Performance: Place, Space, and Experience -- Chapter 6: The Burnt City’s Legacy: Immersivity, Mimesis, and Enargeia -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk’s use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre. The book documents and analyses the effects of utilising Greek tragedy within both Punchdrunk’s creative development windows, and the company’s final staged productions. It features material stretching from The House of Oedipus (2000) right through to The Burnt City (2022-23), on which the author worked as dramaturg. Chapters include rehearsal studies, explorations of how Greek literature can shape an audience’s experience in immersive theatre, and considerations of how The Burnt City might change our understanding of the poetics of immersion in antiquity. Overall, Punchdrunk on the Classics provides an unparalleled depth of insight into an individual Punchdrunk production, and highlights the until-now overlooked significance of antiquity within Punchdrunk’s practice. Emma Cole is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia; previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol. She is a classicist and a theatre historian and is an expert on Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre. Her previous book, Postdramatic Tragedies, was published in 2019.
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    ISBN: 9783031393181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 279 p. 19 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater. ; Theater ; World politics. ; World War, 1939-1945.
    Abstract: Chapter-1: Introduction -- Part One: Dramaturgical Contexts: Institutionalised Ideologies -- Chapter 2 - Institutional Dramaturgy at Deutsches Theater Berlin - Ann-Christine Simke -- Chapter 3 - National Dramaturg Rainer Schlösser and German Theatre after 1933 - Gerwin Strobl -- Chapter 4 - Implementing Germanic Repertoires – Institutional Dramaturgy during WWII - Anselm Heinrich -- Chapter 5 - Brecht’s Performance Theories in Post- war Germany - Ramona Mosse -- Chapter 6 - Cold War Dramaturgies: Institution and Ideology in 1950s German Theatre - Michael Bachmann -- Part Two: Institutional Infrastructures: Theatres of Oppression -- Chapter 7 - Theatre Poznań/Posen (Poland) - Alexander Weigel -- Chapter 8 - Theatre Maribor/Marburg (Slovenia) - Matjaz Birk -- Chapter 9 - Theatre in Prague - Volker Mohn -- Chapter 10 - Theatre in Oslo - Anselm Heinrich -- Part Three: Performance Practice: Dramaturgy and the Aesthetics of War- Chapter 11 - In the Open Air: Shell Shock Theatre - Evelyn Annuss -- Chapter 12 - Berlin – Amsterdam – Westerbork: Revue and the Aesthetics of War: Veronika Zangl -- Chapter 13 - Theatre under the NS regime in Austria: Theatrical activities in Crisis Situations - Brigitte Dalinger -- Chapter 14 - Spanish classical theatre during Third Reich - John London. .
    Abstract: This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks and an established profession have shaped dramaturgical practice and thus links to current debates around the “institutional turn” in theatre and performance studies. German theatre represents a rich and well-chosen field as it is here where the role of the dramaturg was first created and where dramaturgy played a significantly politicised role in the changing political systems of the 20th century. The volume represents an important addition to a growing field of work on dramaturgy by contributing to a historical contextualisation of current practice. In doing so, it understands dramaturgy not only as a process which occurs in rehearsal rooms and writers’ studies, but one that has far wider institutional and political implications. Anselm Heinrich is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include Entertainment, Education, Propaganda (2007), Theater in der Region (2012), Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation (2017), and a volume on Ruskin, The Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). He is currently under contract for a monograph on theatre in Britain during WWII. He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Oxford and Marburg. Ann-Christine Simke is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. She recently published the article “Forensic Architecture in the Theatre and the Gallery: A Reflection on Counter hegemonic Potentials and Pitfalls of Art Institutions” (with Anika Marschall, 2022) and is currently under contract for a co-authored (with Anika Marschall) book on intersectional theatre practices.
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    ISBN: 9783031239229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 423 p. 100 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Music ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Communication and traffic. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The 'Post-Feminist' Moment in Contemporary Classical Music; Lina Kouvaras -- Part 1: Activist Musical Projects and Intersectional C ollaborations -- 2. Borrowing from the Bard: Ruler of the Hive; Melody Eotvos -- 3. Letters to Clara: A Contemporary Composer's Homage to a Women Pioneer; Natalie Williams -- 4. Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: Music from Text in Works of Andree Greenwell; Andree Greenwell -- 5. Holding, Handling, Moulding and Setting the Inner Thoughts of Another in Hidden Thoughts; Katy Abbott -- 6. Walking the Line: Emancipating the Complex Female Voice in Recent Operas; Missy Mazzoli -- 7. Democracy and Collective Composition; Cathy Milliken -- 8.Harmonia Mundi: Creating a New Work of Music Theatre to speak to the Current World Chaos; Judith Clingan -- 9. Blocking Out Noise: Metamorphosis and Identity in the Recent Chamber Music of Vivian Fung; Vivian Fung -- 10. An overview of My Compositional Practice and Collaborations into China; Rachel Walker -- 11. Luck, Grief, Hospitality: Re-Routing Power Relationships in Music; Liza Lim -- 12. In Search of the Artistic Moment: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and 'The Space Between' from an Australian Screen -- Composer's Perspective; Yantra De Vilder -- Part 2: Philosophical and Phenomenological Dimensions of Time -- 13. Finding Time, Finding Space: An Autoethnography of Compositional Praxis; Christine mcCombe -- 14. A Compositional Life in Time: The Recent Operas of Elena Kats-Chernin; Elena Kats-Chernin -- 15. Einstein's Dream: At the Threshold between Science and Art; Cindy McTee -- 16. The Pendulum Process: Point of Balance; Mary Finsterer -- 17. Gravity and Gravitas: Time, Passion, and Inevitability in the Music of Shulamit Ran; Shulamit Ran -- 18. Low Frequency as Concept in the Music of Cat Hope; Cat Hope -- 19. A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise; Susan Frykberg -- Part 3: Music Awakenings: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward -- 20: Composing the Rolls-Royce: A Composer's Adventures in Orchestral Composition; Maria Grenfell -- 21.Finding a Reason: A Composer's Pathway Forged through Social Justice Advocacy; Kathleen McGuire -- 22.'I'm A Type Triple-A Composer!' Augusta Read Thomas -- 23. How My Music is Made: 'Tantot Libre, Tantot Recherche'; Nicola LeFanu -- 25. The Mirror: A Novel in Reflections; Lera Auerbach -- 26.Sometimes Dreams do Come True: Thea Musgrave's Exploration of Dramatic-Abstract Forms in her Instrumental Music; -- 27. My Awakening as a Composer: No Adjective; Judith Lang, Zaimont -- 28. Epilogue.
    Abstract: This edited volume presents 27 original essays by living composers from all around the globe, reflecting on the creation of their music. Coterminous to the recent worldwide resurgence in feminist focus, the distinctive feature of this collection is the “snapshots” of creative processes and conceptualizing on the part of women who write music, writing in the present day, from prominent early-career composers to major figures, from a range of ethnic backgrounds in the contemporary music field. The chapters step into the juncture point at which feminism finds itself: as binary conceptions of gender are being dissolved, with critiques of the attendant gender-based historical generalizations of composers, and with the growing awareness of the rightful place of First Nations' cultural voices, the contributors explore what, actually, is being composed by women, and what they think about their world. The needs that this book serves are acutely felt: despite recent social gains, and sector initiatives and programs encouraging and presenting the work of women who compose music, their works are yet to receive commensurate exposure with that of their male counterparts. In its multi-pronged, direct response to this dire situation, this vibrant volume highlights established as well as emerging women composers on the international stage; reveals myriad issues around feminism, as broadly conceived; and gives insights, from the composers' own voices, on the inner workings of their composition process. The volume thus presents a contemporary moment in time across the generations and within developments in musical composition. With its unique insights, this book is essential for academics and practitioners interested in the illuminations of the current working landscape for creative women. Linda Kouvaras is a professor at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Natalie Williams’ most recent academic posting was as Interim Dean at the School of Music, Art and Theatre, North Park University, Chicago, United States of America. Maria Grenfell is an associate professor at the School of Creative Arts and Media at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031415708
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 294 p. 16 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Hermeneutics 12
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    Keywords: Hermeneutics. ; Aesthetics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Serious Play: Towards a philosophical understanding of interpretative musical performance -- The Participant Belongs to the Play: The Ethical Dimensions of Improvised Music -- The Dance That Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and Religion -- Tarrying with John Cage's plant pieces -- Horizons of Fusion: Arabic Maqām, Improvisation and Gadamerian Hermeneutics -- Living Tradition: Jazz Improvisation in the light of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics -- The Drastic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Vladimir Jankélévitch -- The musical work of art and its interpretations: Gadamer's critique of Ingarden -- Gadamer's horizons as interfaces for knowing musical worlds -- Can Music Speak? The Language of Art and the Communicability of Aesthetic Experience -- The Experience of Music in the Digital Age: From Auditory Ereignis to Episodic Insignificance and Back -- Re-sounding: Towards an ontological hermeneutics of being-musically -- Gadamer, Beauty, and Musical Improvisation -- Music's Aesthetic Untology: Understanding's InMaterial Improvisations -- The Hermeneutics of Performance and the Performance of Hermeneutics -- Approaching Hermeneutics through Music.
    Abstract: This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from a variety of backgrounds, and sheds light on both the hermeneutic nature of music and the musicality of hermeneutics. Contributors to this volume hermeneutically think with music to uncover its fundamentally hermeneutic character, and by thinking with Gadamer in a musical context, explore ways in which hermeneutics may be understood to possess an inherent musicality. Gadamer's thought is taken up in a variety of musical contexts including improvisation, musical performance, classical music, jazz, and music criticism. This first volume to explore Gadamer's hermeneutics in a musical context breaks new ground by challenging musical concepts and by pushing Gadamer's thought in new directions. It appeals to philosophers engaged with Gadamer's thought (and philosophical hermeneutics more broadly), as well as philosophers of music, musicologists, and musicians interested in critically engaging with the practice of performing and listening to music.
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    ISBN: 9783031414015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 287 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; Sustainability. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Communication for Development and Sustainable Social Change in Africa -- Chapter 2: Anchoring Participatory Communication in South Africa’s Municipal Citizen Participation During Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Processes -- Chapter 3: Participatory communication for sustainable development: A study of the Access project in Ghana -- Chapter 4: A theoretical framework towards mutual sustainability communication -- Part 2: Strategic Communication in Governance, Planning and Policy Reforms -- Chapter 5: Exploration of the accentuated value of Strategic Communication Management for Inclusive Citizenry Engagement through governance and sustainability -- Chapter 6: Network Governance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development on the African Continent -- Chapter 7: Communication Strategies for Community Development: A Study of World Bank SEEFOR-CDDS projects in Ukwa East communities, Abia State, Nigeria -- Part 3: Communication for Social Change, Bottom-up Development and Social Movements in Africa -- Chapter 8: The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change -- Chapter 9: Invited and Invented Spaces of Public Participation in South African Local Government: The study of community engagement practices and service delivery protests -- Chapter 10: Movement communication practices of students & the poor: The political economy of communication -- Part 4: Cases Studies in applied Strategic Communication, Development, Social Change and Electoral Reform -- Chapter 11: Public health Communication and Growth -- Chapter 12: Using Digital Technologies in Community Radio to Promote Social Change in Kenya -- Chapter 13: Dwindling Voters’ Turnout and Citizenship Participation: A Political Market Orientation Analysis of Nigeria’s 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections -- Chapter 14: The Arena Model as a basis for communication strategy formulation for the National Development Plan -- Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nature of scholarship between the two fields, through the lens of prevailing governance and sustainability challenges facing African countries, today. This edited volume covers issues that have adversely affected the achievement of goals related to humanitarian upliftment, development and social change for all African nations. Consequently, citizen participation, which lies at the heart of these challenges when considering the question of sustainable governance and policy development for social change in an African context is addressed. To this end, a reflection is also made on various case studies that exist where local citizens do not inform sustainable development programmes, while the promotion of bottom-up development and social change is largely replaced by top-down instrumental action approaches and hemispheric communication instead of strategic communication. Themes explored include: ● Communication for social change, bottom-up development and social movements in the local government sphere ● Strategic communication in governance, planning and policy reforms ● The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in achieving development of objectives geared towards good governance in Africa ● Public participation, protests, and resistance from 'below' ● Public sector health communications and development ● Media relations, accountability and contested development narratives with the Fourth Estate ● Social media and eParticipation in government development programs. Tsietsi Mmutle is Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the department of Business Management, he teaches Strategic Communication Management modules at honours and Masters level in the Communication Management unit. Tshepang B. Molale is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, specializing in communication for development and social change. Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola lectures in the Mass Communication department of the Olabisi Onbanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigera. Olebogeng Selebi completed her PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. She was the host of the first Nobel Prize Dialogue event ever to take place on African soil.
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    ISBN: 9781137584625
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 248 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Archaeology of Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 2: The Multinational World of Ships -- Chapter 3: Nostromo: The Nation, Nation Formation, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism -- Chapter 4: The Secret Agent: Transnationalism and Internationalism -- Chapter 5: Under Western Eyes: Internationalism and Nations -- Chapter 6: 'The Polish Problem' and Transnational Activism -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Note on the National Question. .
    Abstract: In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the product of a ‘cosmopolitan’ vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings of the term ‘cosmopolitan’. It then considers the multinational world of Conrad’s ships – and of the Merchant Marine more generally – to differentiate multinationalism from cosmopolitanism. Subsequent chapters then address nationalism, nation-formation and the concept of the nation through a reading of Nostromo; cosmopolitanism and internationalism in The Secret Agent; nationalism, internationalism and transnational activism in relation to Under Westen Eyes; and Conrad’s own transnational activism in his later essays. While drawing distinctions between cosmopolitanism, internationalism and transnationalism as the appropriate conceptual framings for Conrad’s works, this book traces Conrad’s own engagement with nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnational activism in relation to the political events of his time. Robert Hampson is Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London; Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London; and Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction, and Conrad’s Secrets.
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    ISBN: 9783031444821
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 189 p.)
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    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: 9783031388941
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 239 p. 6 illus.)
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Political science. ; Human rights. ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Friedenssicherung ; Friede ; Konflikt ; Transformation ; Fortschrittsglaube ; Entwicklung ; Tendenz
    Abstract: 1 PeaceTech World -- Part I What Is PeaceTech? -- 2 PeaceTech: What Is It? -- 3 PeaceTech Technologies -- 4 PeaceTech Drivers -- 5 Double Disruption -- Part II Doing PeaceTech -- 6 PeaceTech Ecosystem -- 7 Doing One Thing -- 8 PeaceTech as Hack -- 9 Conflict Early Warning Systems -- 10 Peace and Space -- 11 Peace Analytics -- Part III PeaceTech Challenges -- 12 Doing PeaceTech -- 13 Ethics and Morals -- 14 PeaceTech Futures.
    Abstract: Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and transition processes. Through an interwoven narrative of personal stories that capture the complexity of real-time peace negotiation, Bell maps the fast-paced developments of PeaceTech, and the ethical and practical challenges involved. Bell locates PeaceTech within the wider digital revolution that is also transforming the conduct of war. She lays bare the ‘double disruption’ of peace processes, through digital transformation, and through changing conflict patterns that make processes more difficult to mount. Against this backdrop – can digital peacebuilding be a force for good? Or do the risks outweigh the benefits? PeaceTech provides a 12-Step Manifesto laying out the types of practice and commitment needed for successful use of digital tools to support peace processes. This open access book will be invaluable primer for business tech entrepreneurs, peacebuilders, the tech community, and students of international relations, informatics, comparative politics, ethics and law; and indeed for those simply curious about peace process innovation in the contemporary world. Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law. Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Executive Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), based at the School of Law, at the University of Edinburgh. A long-time expert and practitioner in the field of peace processes and constitution-making, she manages digital and PeaceTech innovation.
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    ISBN: 9783031463457
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 203 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Prose literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Comparative literature.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: Mourning as a Resistance Trope: Trauma, History and Memory in Indian Ocean Life Writing - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer & Felicity Hand -- Part I: Mourning Memoirs -- 2 The Ectopic Insider: Exploring the Interstices of Travel Writing, Memory and History in M.G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- 3 Of Father and Son: The Configuration of the Trauma of Return in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- Part II: Female Resilience -- 4 Rhizomatic Perennials: Resilience and Survival in Kenyan Asian Memoirs - Felicity Hand -- 5 ‘Learning to wear a sari is a rite of passage’: Shailja Patel’s Inventory of the Migrant Body in Migritude - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- Part III: Indian Ocean Crossing -- 6 Transoceanic Connections, Past and Present. Lindsey Collen’s The Indian Ocean as a Unifying Force: A Memoir - Felicity Hand -- 7 Banyans Behind Bars: Three South African Indian Memoirs - Felicity Hand.
    Abstract: This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities. Esther Pujolràs-Noguer is a Serra-Húnter Fellow in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Lleida, Spain. She teaches postcolonial literature and culture, gender studies and poetry in English. She is a poet and uses creative writing as a therapeutic tool to help people overcome traumas related to gender violence and forced displacements. She is the co-director with Felicity Hand of the research group Ratnakara, which explores the literatures and cultures of the South West Indian Ocean. Felicity Hand is Honorary Professor in the English Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
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    ISBN: 9783031439650
    Language: English
    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: 9783031505393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Indigenous peoples ; Cultural property. ; Indians of South America Legal status, laws, etc ; Indians of South America Government relations
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The legal framework of consultation with indigenous peoples -- 3 Assessing consultation with indigenous peoples in the Inter-American System of Human Rights -- 4 Assessing consultation with indigenous peoples in Brazil -- 5 Assessing the application of consultation and indigenous peoples’ Protocols -- 6 Towards efficacy: Between the legal uncertainty of the requirement of consultation and its most adequate application for Brazil -- 7 Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation. Engaging with current debates in international law, the study introduces a multi-dimensional perspective on consultation understood to include self-determination and cultural rights. It analyzes evidence from several countries across the Americas and Africa and presents an original and in-depth case study of Brazil. The book assesses judicial and legislative cases, drawing on relevant literature, international treaties and supplementary information gained from expert interviews. This supports the work’s broader objective to explore legal facts as well as to evaluate the empirical evidence in light of theoretical considerations. It thereby expands the understanding of consultation as a right under national legal systems and considers practical ways on how to enforce domestic redress for avoiding legal indeterminacy. The conclusions of the analysis contribute to not only a better understanding of the subject matter but also showcase ways of how to improve the realities on the ground. The book puts forward a range of recommendations directed at national authorities, international organizations, development lenders and civil society to help improve the unsatisfactory present circumstances. The intended audience encompasses legal scholars, students, practitioners and journalists, as well as anyone interested in research on the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights and the role of international law in the 21st century. .
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    ISBN: 9783031508189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 459 p. 225 illus., 199 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 848
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering mathematics. ; Engineering
    Abstract: A combination of Active Learning and Deep Learning for improving breast cancer prediction -- A Novel Arm Bone Fracture Detection Using Deep Learning -- A systematic review of Artificial Intelligence in Geographic Information Systems -- Build an effective system for container code recognition -- Building an Efficient Retriever System with Limited Resources -- Deep Learning based Coconut Fruit Maturity Classification -- Enhanced prediction of mRNA subcellular localization using a novel ensemble learning and hybrid approach.
    Abstract: This book contains four keynote abstracts and 83 best peer-reviewed papers selected from the 179 submissions at the 2nd International Conference on Advances in ICT (ICTA 2023), which share research results and practical applications in ICT research and education. Technological changes and digital transformation that have taken place over the past decade have had significant impacts on all economic and social sectors. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular have driven socio-economic growth. The topics cover all ICT-related areas and their contributions to socio-economic development, focusing on the most advanced technologies, such as AI. Researchers and practitioners in academia and industry use the books as a valuable reference for their research activities, teaching, learning, and advancing current technologies. The Conference is hosted by Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology (ICTU).
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    ISBN: 9783031437335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 396 p. 69 illus., 50 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 774
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Engineering
    Abstract: Impact of Logistics Training on Freight Transportation Companies in Bogotá -- Acceptance Sampling of Vegetables and Legumes in Units based on the Military Standard (MIL-STD 105E) -- Assessing the Impact of Dry Ports to the Supply Chain Safety and Security -- Factors that influence the quality of customer service in telecommunications companies -- After the hiking tour: walkers' behaviour -- Analysis of citizen satisfaction in municipal services -- The Ecotourism Landscape of Qatar -- Natural Parks image: an analysis of Tripadvisor reviews.
    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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    ISBN: 9783031249983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 317 p. 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Comparative literature. ; Collective memory.
    Abstract: Introduction (Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura and Shinya Morikawa) -- Part I Early Japanese Influences -- 1 Blithe Spirit: Young Ishiguro’s Contact with Japanese Children’s Culture through Shogakukan’s Graded Educational Magazines (Motoko Sugano) -- 2 Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Ria Taketomi) -- Part II Ghosts and Stereotypes -- 3 Constructing Japan with Stereotypes: An Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Family Supper’ (Yoshiki Tajiri) -- 4 Envisioned ‘Ghosts Project’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Imaginary Nagasaki (Megumi Kato) -- 5 The Hidden Ghost Story: Ishiguro, Ugetsu, and Troubled English Belief (Anni Shen) -- Part III War and Responsibilities -- 6 ‘The Shame of Being on the Wrong Side of History’: Defeat and the Failures of Masculinities in An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day (Kunio Shin) -- 7 Between the A-bombing and Responsibilities for World War II: Changes in the Themes of Ishiguro’s Early Novels (Masako Matsuda) -- 8 The Representation of the Sino-Japanese War and Cosmopolitanism in Empire of the Sun, When We Were Orphans, and My Shanghai, 1942-1946 (Erica Aso) -- Part IV Creative Development -- 9 Tracing the Origin of Kazuo Ishiguro through His Early Song Lyrics (Takayuki Shonaka) -- 10 ‘The Remains’ of Charlotte Brontë in the Early Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Hiromi Nagara) -- 11 The Evolution of Stevens towards The Remains of the Day (Shinya Morikawa) -- Part V Past and Future -- 12 Monumental Moments: Narrative Complicity in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Takahiro Mimura) -- 13 Nonhuman/Posthuman Aspects in Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Millennium Novels (Hiroshi Ikezono). .
    Abstract: This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and sensibilities. The influence of Japanese literature and film is evident in Ishiguro’s early novels as he deals with the problem of the atomic bomb and Japan’s war responsibility, yet his later works also engage with folk tales and the modern popular culture of Japan. The chapters consider a range of Japanese influences on Ishiguro and adaptations of Ishiguro’s work, including literary, cinematic and animated representations. The book makes use of newly archived drafts of Ishiguro’s manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas to explore the origins of his oeuvre. It also offers sharp, new examinations of Ishiguro’s work in relation to memory studies, especially in relation to Japan. Takayuki Shonaka is Professor in English Literature at Kyoto Women’s University, Japan. His research and teaching expertise are in British and American Culture, Language, and Literature. He is the author of Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Nihon’ to ‘Igirisu’ no Hazama kara [Kazuo Ishiguro: From Between ‘Japan’ and ‘England’] (2011). Takahiro Mimura is Professor in English at Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan. He studies contemporary English novels especially from the perspective of memory. He is the author of Kazuo Ishiguro Wo Yomu [Reading Kazuo Ishiguro] (2022) and Kioku To Zinbungaku [Memory and the Humanities] (2021). Shinya Morikawa is Professor in English Literature at Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan. His research interests include contemporary British fiction, international migration novels, and literary stylistics. He is a co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro No Shisen: Kioku, Souzou, Kyoushu [Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gaze: Memory, Imagination, Nostalgia] (2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783031429101
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 343 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Early Modern Literature in History
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    Keywords: European literature ; Literature ; Europe
    Abstract: Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity -- Chapter One: Rescuing the Widow Belge: Chivalry in the Construction of Elizabethan Englishness -- Chapter Two: Wooing in English: Staging the Dutch in English Comedy -- Chapter Three: These Factions and Schisms: Countering Absolutist Thought in Church and State -- Chapter Four: England’s Thirst for News: Dutch News and the English Public Sphere -- Chapter Five: Rome and Carthage: Figuring the Anglo-Dutch Wars -- Chapter Six: The New Black Legend: England’s Violent Colonial Competition with the Dutch -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship, in which the Dutch and the English wrote about each other and themselves. This interdisciplinary study brings to light the key affinities of these two nations: their embrace of liberty, turn toward Protestantism, and pursuit of commerce. It shows that as Catholic, colonial powers worked to prevent the rise of early modern Europe’s two great Protestant states, those similarities—as well as a combination of English admiration, envy, and distrust of the Dutch—produced an emulous rivalry that remade the two nations and their literature. Andrew Fleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas in El Paso, USA, where he specializes in Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture. Andrew has published a variety of articles on the literary prose of this period, from Mandeville’s Travels to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Publications on the early modern English and Dutch include an essay on performing foreign tongues on the English stage (in MaRDiE), syphilis in The Dutch Courtesan (in Early Theatre), the 1603 plague epidemic (forthcoming in JMMLA), Thomas Scott and the English community in the Low Countries (in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History), and several shorter notes (in Notes and Queries and ANQ).
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    ISBN: 9783031500084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 536 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Understanding Governance
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    Keywords: Public administration. ; Political planning. ; Political leadership.
    Abstract: Part I: Theorizing Ministerial Leadership -- Chapter 1. Introduction – why a book on ministerial leadership? -- Chapter 2. Ministering – ministerial leadership in practice -- Chapter 3. The Ministerial Role – activism and agency -- Part II: The Ministerial Identity and Mindset -- Chapter 4. Becoming a Minister -- Chapter 5. Shaping the ministerial mindset.-Chapter 6. Time Control -- Part III: Performing Ministerial Leadership -- Chapter 7. Leading the Department -- Chapter 8. The orchestrated collective leadership of government -- Chapter 9. Ministers Decide? -- Chapter 10. Gender and Ministering? -- Chapter.11. On the circuit: the system leadership of ministers -- Chapter 12. Ministerial Performance -- Chapter 13. The emergence of the delivery focused minister -- Part IV: After Ministerial Leadership -- Chapter 14. Losing Ministerial Office – Political Natality, Political Mortality and the ministerial life-cycle -- Chapter 15. The political is also personal -- Chapter 16. Conclusion - Learning about Ministerial Leadership.
    Abstract: “If you want to understand ministerial leadership and performance, you can do no better than reading this book. Combining a unique multi-disciplinary approach with personal experience, Leighton Andrews has written a real Tour de Force on how ministers’ roles have developed. Highly recommended.” - Alistair Clark, Professor of Political Science, Newcastle University, UK. “This book is a very considerable intellectual achievement. It combines a wide-ranging grasp of key theoretical concepts in the study of government and leadership with invaluable insights gleaned from interviews with Ministers. This extremely valuable approach offers huge insight into the everyday life of ministers in our system of government.” - Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary College University of London, UK. Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces of activity. Drawing on the unique Ministers Reflect archive of the Institute for Government, which is an open and growing resource of over 140 ministerial interviews at UK and devolved government levels, as well as other ministerial reflections, the book addresses the literature on ministerial life and political leadership, and develops new concepts for examining ministerial leadership in different spheres. It argues that the relationship between ministers and civil servants has changed significantly in recent decades, as ministers place greater emphasis on delivery and implementation. The book adopts a theoretically pluralist approach with the intention of offering a valuable teaching aid for existing and new courses. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance. Leighton Andrews is Professor of Practice in Public Service Leadership and Innovation at Cardiff Business School, UK. A former Welsh Government Minister, he teaches, researches and writes in the fields of government, public leadership and innovation, regulation and governance of media and social media. .
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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: 9783031507847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 133 p. 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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    Keywords: Comparative government. ; Political science. ; Elections. ; Europe ; Public administration.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Decidim: A Brief Overview -- Chapter 2. The Political Plane: Decidim and the Vision of a Radically Democratic Society -- Chapter 3. The Technopolitical Plane: Decidim as a Democratic Software Paradigm -- Chapter 4. The Technical Plane: the Fabric of an Infrastructure -- Chapter 5. A Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: The Future of a Collective Platform.
    Abstract: This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, and used by more than 500 institutions with over three million users worldwide. The platform allows any organization (government, association, university, NGO, neighbourhood, or cooperative) to support multitudinous processes of participatory democracy. In a context dominated by corporate-owned digital platforms, in the era of increasing social structuring via Artificial Intelligence, Decidim stands as a public or community owned platform for collective human intelligence. Yet, the project is much more than its technological features. Decidim is in itself a crossroad of the various dimensions of the networked society, a detailed practical map of its complexities and conflicts. The authors distinguish three general dimensions of the project: (1) the political - shedding light on the democratic model that Decidim promotes and its impact on public policies and organizations, (2) the technopolitical - explaining how this technology is democratically designed and managed to produce and protect certain political effects, and (3) the technical - presenting the conditions of production, operation, and success of the project. This book systematically covers those three levels in an academically sound, technologically consistent, and politically innovative manner. Serving as a useful resource and handbook for the use of Decidim, it will not only appeal to students and scholars interested in participatory and digital democracy but also to professionals, policy-makers, and a wider audience interested in learning more about the Decidim platform. This is an open access book.
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    ISBN: 9783031515217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 402 p. 118 illus., 67 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 718
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Industrial engineering. ; Production engineering.
    Abstract: This book presents the first volume of 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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    ISBN: 9783031474323
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 208 p. 27 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Introduction to housing -- Lagos metropiltan area: Physical, historical and housing development -- Residential quality and housing preference theories -- Empirical perspectives on housing quality and preference -- Heuristic methods for assessing residential quality and housing preference -- Lagos households’ socio-demographic and residential characteristics -- Residential quality and revealed housing preference -- Residential quality and stated housing preference -- Discussion and implications of findings on residential quality and housing preferences -- Recommendations and conclusions on residential quality and housing preferences.
    Abstract: This book explains the variation and determinants of residential quality and housing preferences in urban private housing markets. It describes the residential characteristics and housing preference dynamics of Lagos urban residents who are majorly sheltered in the city’s private housing markets. Lagos Metropolitan Area (LMA) is a wide region with differentiated informal housing markets. The city private housing markets vary in quantity, quality, and prices which conjointly influence residents housing preferences and choices. Based on positivist philosophical stance, this book addresses the peculiarities of each residential market in Low Residential Density (LRD), Medium Residential Density (MRD), and High Residential Density (HRD) areas in terms of residential quality and housing preferences. With heuristic methods including predictive model and conjoint choice experimentation, this book unravels the level and variability of residential quality (neighborhood and structural) and housing preference (revealed and stated) decisions in Metropolitan Lagos. In addition, the residential quality and housing preferences are mapped to give their spatial patterns across Lagos megacity neighborhoods as segmented residential submarkets. Applying the positivist philosophical stance, the book provides evidence to support residential quality and housing preference variability across the city private housing submarkets. The book is both a guide and reference for students in the built environment, urban planners, urban policy decision makers, housing researchers, property managers, and real estate professionals who are interested in understanding the residential quality and preference dynamics within polarized cities.
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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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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031452222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 285 p. 37 illus., 30 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Business enterprises ; Macroeconomics. ; Industrial policy. ; ESG performance ; sustainable finance ; ESG ; banking ; sustainable bonds ; gender gap in finance ; financial regulation ; sustainable development goals ; social impact ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction.-Part 1. Debating ESG Financial Topics. Chapter 2. Sustainability literature orientation: Evidence from finance academic research -- Chapter 3. First assessment of EU Taxonomy regulation for Italian banks -- Chapter 4. Sustainable finance: A Quest for Value from ICO -- Part 2 - ESG Instruments and Sectors. Chapter 5.A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Finance -- Chapter 6. Exploring the Shades of Green Premium: A Matching Approach -- Chapter 7. Sustainable finance for maritime development. a critical analysis of green bonds in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan -- Part 3 – Governance and the Role of Women. Chapter 8. Are women the panacea? Exploring the Direction of Socially Responsible Commitment -- Chapter 9. Social Sustainability in Equity Crowdfunding: the role of women in the platforms' Boards.
    Abstract: This book showcases cutting-edge research on a variety of themes related to sustainable and impact investments. It sheds light, theoretically and empirically, on three particular contemporary challenges for sustainable finance: shifts in banking toward prioritizing sustainable growth, the rapid evolution of sustainable bonds, and the growing role of women in sustainable finance. The first section of the book explores the benefits for banks and the financial industry from integrating sustainable finance into their business processes, as well as the role banks play in allocating resources toward a decarbonized economy. Chapters discuss risk reduction and the reputational boost for banks, as well as assessing the impact of new regulation frameworks targeted at sustainable growth. The second part examines sustainable financial products, with a focus on green bonds, and discusses how they can be used for long-term financing for sustainable projects, encourage accountability and transparency, stimulate market growth, manage risk, and benefit the environment and society more broadly. The final section of the book takes an internal look at sustainable finance and addresses the significant role that women play, helping to develop more creative and practical solutions, serving as role models, and increasing involvement in the financial sector. Combining academic analysis with practical examples from the industry, this book is useful to students and researchers working in sustainable finance, banking, and financial regulation. Mario La Torre is Full Professor of Sustainable Finance and Impact Banking at the Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome. Mario carries out research in banking, financial intermediaries and financial markets, impact finance and ethical finance, and finance for the culture and media industry. He is Author and Co-author of many international books and papers. He is Editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Sabrina Leo is Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is Lecturer in Bank Account Strategies and Performance and Digital Banking and Economics of Financial Intermediaries. Her recent research has been focusing on innovation in the payment system and the impact of technologies in the financial system.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031321344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 277 p. 46 illus., 36 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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    Keywords: Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). ; Arts. ; Culture
    Abstract: INTRODUCTION.-PART 1: INTERACTIONS AND EXPANDED FIELDS -- CHAPTER 1 Dave McKean: “One plus one equals three” -- CHAPTER 2 Kate Newell: “Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)” -- CHAPTER 3 Kamilla Elliott, “Ad-app-tive illustration: Alice for the iPad”.-PART 2: AFTERLIVES -- CHAPTER 4 Nathalie Collé, “‘[T]o mix colours for painters’ and illustrate and adapt Gulliver’s Travels worldwide: street murals, adaptability and transmediality” -- CHAPTER 5Ann Lewis, “Adapting Novel Illustration for the Almanac: Text/Image Relations in Chodowiecki’s Illustrations for Rousseau’s Julie” -- CHAPTER 6 Chris Louttit, “‘Alternative Dickens’: The Graphic Adaptation of the Inimitable in The New Yorker”.-PART 3: BEYOND ILLUSTRATION -- CHAPTER 7David Pinho Barros, “Drawing from Ozu: An intermedial consideration on clear line illustrations based on clear line film frames” -- CHAPTER 8 Julie LeBlanc, “Ekphrasis, illustration and adaptation: Annie Ernaux’s intermedial autobiographic and photographic production” -- CHAPTER 9Hélène Martinelli, “The ‘Great Image-Maker’ or the animation of illustrations in Karel Zeman’s Deadly Invention”.-PART 4: ILLUSTRATION AND TRANSCULTURAL ADAPTATION -- CHAPTER 10 Carol Adlam, “The Bobrov Affair: Creating a Graphic Novel Adaptation of a ‘Lost’ Russian-Empire Crime Novel” -- CHAPTER 11 Xavier Giudicelli, “Adapting, Translating, Illustrating: French Ballads of Reading Gaol in Word and Image” -- CHAPTER 12 Miriam Vieira, “What if the Grimms had been born in Brazil? The case of (illustrated) adaptations” -- CHAPTER 13 Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo: “The transcultural adaptation of The Little Prince to Brazilian cordel literature”.
    Abstract: This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural perspective. It aims to foster a dialogue between two fields that co-exist without necessarily acknowledging advances in each other’s domains, providing an argument for defining illustration as a form of adaptation, as well as an intermedial practice that redefines what we mean by adaptation. The volume embraces both a specific and an extended definition of illustration that accounts for its inclusion among the web of adaptive practices that developed with the rise of new media and intermediality. The contributors explore how crossovers may contribute to reappraise their objects, and rely on a transmedial and interdisciplinary corpus exploring the boundaries between illustration and other media such as texts, graphic novels, comics, theatre, film and mobile applications. Arguably adaptation, like intermediality, is an umbrella term that covers a variety of practices and products, and both of them have been shaped by intense debates over their boundaries and internal definitions. Illustration belongs to each of these areas, and this volume proposes insight into how illustration not only relates to adaptation and intermediality but how each field is redefined, enriched and also challenged by such interactions. Shannon Wells-Lassagne has worked extensively on film and television adaptation. She is the author of Television and Serial Adaptation, and the editor of Adapting Margaret Atwood (Palgrave), Adapting Endings, as well as of special issues of The Journal of Screenwriting, Interfaces, and TV/Series, Screen and Series. Sophie Aymes works on intermediality, modernist book history and illustration in 20th-century Britain. She has co-edited several word-and-image journal issues (inInterfaces and Image [&] Narrative), volumes on illustration (series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries), and a collection on Art and Science in Word and Image.
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    ISBN: 9783031507557
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 527 p. 209 illus., 163 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 872
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Software engineering. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Part I: ICT for Health, Well-being and Sport -- Prediction of coronary plaque progression using data mining and artificial neural networks -- Rule-Based System For Pregnancy Monitoring -- Finite element analysis of myocardial work in cardiomyopathy -- Saccade Identification During Driving Simulation from Eye Tracker Data with Low-sampling Frequency -- Digital Technologies to support the Decision-Making Process for Dental Implants Treatment Planning -- SGABU Computational Platform as a Tool for Improved Education and Research in Multiscale Modelling -- The Importance of Genetic and Clinical Data features in Risk Stratification of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- Haptic user interface for biomechanical feedback in aquatic sports: usability study -- Overview of Deep Learning Retinal Vessel Segmentation Methods from Fundus Images -- Convolutional Neural Network for Atherosclerotic Plaque Multiclass Image Segmentation in Transverse Ultrasound Images of Carotid Artery -- Part II: Applied Artificial Intelligence -- Using AutoML for AI service deployment -- Comparison of Deep Learning Algorithms for Facial Keypoints Detection -- Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration and Business Sector: A Bibliometric Review in Comparative Perspective -- Machine Learning Model as a Service in Smart Agriculture Systems -- A semi-supervised framework for anomaly detection and data labeling for industrial control systems -- Multilingual transformer and BERTopic for short text topic modeling: the case of Serbian -- Evaluation of head-up display for conditionally automated vehicles -- Visual programming support for the explainable artificial intelligence -- Multi-criteria decision making in turning operations using AHP, TOPSIS and WASPAS methods -- CNN-Based Object Detection for Robot Grasping in Cluttered Environment -- Performance Prediction of bio-inspired Compliant Grippers using Machine Learning Algorithms -- Part III:Digital Water -- HPC-based decision support system for remediation works on a dam -- Analysis of seepage through an embankment dam within the framework of hydropower system resilience assessment -- Statistical method for the DDF curves estimation under changing climate -- Technology platform for hydroinformatics systems -- Part IV:Computer Based Learning -- Novel approach for education in biomedical engineering based on atomic learning -- Ontology development approach adopting analogy and competency questions -- Educational system for demonstrating Remote attacks on Android Devices -- CRETE – Code REview Tool for Education -- The architecture of citizen science open data repository based on version control platforms -- Automatic Population of Educational Ontology from Course Materials -- Visual Question Answering - VizWiz challenge -- Part V:Digitalization in Energy sector -- Hybrid Approach in Thermal Demand Forecasting of a Building -- Digital solution to estimate solar power potential of rooftops in city of Belgrade -- Platform for efficient building operation and Demand Response flexibility provision -- Framework for optimizing neural network hyper parameters for accurate wind production forecasting -- Demand-side optimization of hybrid energy systems with heat pumps -- Scalable real-time simulation of electrical power system models in the cloud -- Part VI:Advanced Information Systems -- Relying on E-Contracting and Smart Contracts to Facilitate Legally Enforceable Conformance Checking in Collaborative Production -- Can memes beat the market? A roadmap to forecasting financial asset returns by using social media data and Machine Learning -- Access control in a distributed micro-cloud environment -- E-Government Requirements Specification Based on BPMN -- Towards a Formal Specification and Automatic Execution of ETLs in Cross-Organizational Business Processes -- Task queue implementation for edge computing platform -- Authentication and identity management based on zero trust security model in micro-cloud environment -- Supporting Integrative Code Generation with Traceability Links and Code Fragment Integrity Checks -- Model for Evaluating Points-to Analysis in GraalVM Native Image Using Instrumentation-based Profiling -- A Reference Architecture for Secure IoT.
    Abstract: This book aims at meeting the challenge of getting along with today’s unprecedented rate of innovation supported by disruptive digital technologies, which changed the perception of the productivity and effectiveness and opened a gateway to more than ever dynamic advances in solving the important societal challenges. "Disruptive Information Technologies for a Smart Society" is the proceedings book of the 13th International conference for information society and technologies that brings together experts from various fields to discuss the latest advancements in software engineering, machine learning, digital water, and ICT for health and sport. The book and the conference serve as a platform for researchers of all career stages in technical sciences, especially Ph.D. students, practitioners, and industry experts in health care, energy, Fintech, AI, and other areas to share and learn on the cutting-edge technologies and stay at the forefront of these rapidly evolving fields.
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    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
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    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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    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
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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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